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...Meade Lux Lewis and the late Albert Ammons who made boogie famous, while their teacher Jimmy continued to live in a dark, narrow tenement flat, virtually unknown. In baseball season, he worked as assistant groundskeeper at Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox. In his last years, he scraped along mostly on tiny record royalties, a few concerts and club dates. He did not mind fame passing him by. All he wanted, he told "Mama"-his wife Estella-was a Dixieland band to play at his funeral...
...Boston Red Sox pay Ted Williams about $110,000 a year for being the best hitter in baseball. In the All-Star game at Chicago's Comiskey Park last week, Ted proved that he can also be one of the finest outfielders in uniform. The price of the demonstration came high for both Boston and Ted Williams...
...Washington Park, Calumet Farm's Ponder, with Jockey Steve Brooks up, sizzled a mile and a quarter in 2:oo|-a new track record. The $66,150 he won made Ponder the turf's leading 'moneywinner of the year ($267,525). ¶ At Chicago's Comiskey Park, Red Sox Left-Hander Mel Parnell hurled his team to a victory over the White Sox, 11-4, became the first major-league pitcher to win 20 games this year...
...been labeled a "stinkeroo." Shuffling Jersey Joe Walcott, never a dashing crowd-pleaser, was old (35) and tired. His opponent, thin-mustached Ezzard Charles of Cincinnati, was young enough (27), but he was a second-rater without punch or drive. Just before they squared off in Chicago's Comiskey Park last week, a hanger-on wriggled in to where Joe Louis sat in the fourth row and asked breathlessly: "Champ, have you got a last-minute pick?" Deadpan Joe, the front man for boxing's new promotional monopoly, mumbled forthrightly: "Ain't doin' any pickin...
Ezzard Charles won the heavyweight "championship" of the world minus New York and England last night by a unanimous 15-round decision over Joe Walcott in Comiskey Park, Chicago...