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Ernie's next fight should be with journeyman Doug Jones, the number-two contender who lost a controversial decision to Cassius in Madison Square Garden last Spring. Jones, however, maintains hope for a shot at the champ and will soon fight unranked Alex Koskowits instead, to avoid a further blemish on his record. Jones enthusiasts--and they are scarce--point out that at 185 their boy is no lighter than Marciano or Dempsey when he took the title. But then, Jones is no Marciano. Marciano probably would have lasted no more than ten with Liston, and as for Dempsey...
...were not myself," writes Alec Waugh, "and if I were to pick up the autobiography of Alec Waugh, the first name that I should look for in the index would be Evelyn Waugh." Sadly, he would be right. Alec, 65, is a skilled journeyman writer of novels (Island in the Sun) and travel books (Hot Countries), but he has the misfortune of having a younger brother who is a comic genius. Happily, for most of his autobiography he manages to forget that fact and concentrate on his own story-which often reads like an extension of his fiction...
...look a bit more solid than the Kansas City club, since their hits are coming from reputable ball players and since they have a second good relief pitcher in Jack Lamabe. The A's hitting has been coming from journeyman ball-players named Wayne Causey and Manny Jiminez, and already the hits are becoming fewer. The suspicion is that behind their flashy green and gold uniforms the Athletics are just plain green...
...young Germans in huge wooden tubs full of water. Like most such playful survivals of more leisurely times, this was the celebration of a medieval tradition more honored in modern Germany than anywhere else: the apprentice system. The water-soaked victims were printer apprentices who, having passed their spring journeyman examinations, submitted ritually to ''washing the stupidity away." Young ladies have entered the craft, too, since the war-and they were even more enthusiastically dunked...
...German boys and girls leave school at 14. but nearly all the boys and about half the girls become apprentices. Apprenticeships are offered in 124 trades, ranging from hog raising to organ building, and generally take three years to complete. After passing stiff exams, an apprentice becomes a journeyman -a stage that in medieval times meant that he journeyed about the country to find jobs. Only carpentry retains that ancient practice; on Germany's back roads, the wandering carpenter, dressed in traditional bell-bottom trousers and a widebrimmed felt hat, can still be seen...