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Show i-Speaking of Sports- LongCampaign Tests Greatness Of Armstrong By ROBERT McSHANE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) IN YOUR next argument as to the greatest fighter of' all time, pound for pound, take a quick look at the record of Hammering Henry Armstrong, Arm-strong, one of the most tireless fighting fight-ing machines of boxing history. At one time Henry held three world boxing titles. It's a bit involved, in-volved, even now, but this is the general idea. Holder of the featherweight, feather-weight, lightweight and welterweight welter-weight titles, Armstrong won the first crown when he knocked out Pe-tey Pe-tey Sarron. To fight as a featherweight feather-weight a man must weigh 127 pounds or under. He made the weight all right, and after the laurels laur-els were his, he tore into a few additional addi-tional steaks to put on weight. Then he proceeded to whip Barney Ross for the welterweight title. These matters taken care of, he bought himself a new robe to wear In the ring. On the back was emblazoned, em-blazoned, "Henry Armstrong-featherweight Armstrong-featherweight champion, welter- HENRY ARMSTRONG weight champion." Between the two he left space for the lightweight part of it, a seemingly premature prognostication. But Henry proved to be an admirable forecaster, for not long afterwards he licked Lou Ambers and won the lightweight crown. Heart of a Heavyweight Armstrong throws more leather than any other puncher in the ring. Often he sacrifices quality for quantity, quan-tity, which means that he tosses at least three punches to his opponent's one. He has moved at that windmill wind-mill pace for the past 10 years, and according to doctors, his heart is as big, in actual physical dimensions, di-mensions, as that of a heavyweight. Unquestionably Henry is one of the ring marvels of ail time. "Superhuman" "Su-perhuman" is one of the words used most often to describe the great Negro fighter. "Tireless" and "terrific" "ter-rific" are others. But the legend of superman was flattened long ago. No fighter is impervious to punishment. punish-ment. Nor can Henry go on forever for-ever at the pace he set for himself long ago. The long years of campaigning have taken quite a lot out of Armstrong. Arm-strong. His recent fight with Lew Jenkins, the Cinderella man, proved that. Though he administered a terrible beating to the lanky, hungry-looking Texan, Henry was more sluggish than usual, and his punches lacked some of their old-time snap. But never forget that Henry Is still king of the welterweights. The fighter who removes that crown from his brow will have earned It. He has fought the cream of the crop in fact, the cream of three crops and has proved Just a little lit-tle better than the best of his corn- peuuon. The Same Old Finish Lew Jenkins wasn't expected to be a set-up for the dusky mitt thrower. And for the first two rounds it looked like the fight was going against Henry, who never was a particularly fast starter. But the end was the same or even a little more definite than usual Completely Complete-ly dazed, Jenkins wasn't able to answer an-swer the bell for the seventh round. Interesting were the comments made by boxine authorities the nrt day. One of the leading press association asso-ciation writers stated that "Armstrong "Arm-strong took everything Jenkina dished out and waded in with a two-handed two-handed attack that would have broken bro-ken through a stone wall. Henry is one of the greatest of all time." Most experts agree that Armstrong Arm-strong is quite a ways past bis peak, but all of them agree that his name belongs on any list of all-time truly great battlers. A few old timers might claim that he d be easy for the great fighters of the past, but at any reasonable we.ght-say 135 pounds-Hammer-ing Henry deserves a unanimous vote for top ranking. Sport Shorts While Jack Dcmpsey was busting up that wrestler in Atlanta one night recently. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Tun-ney Tun-ney were among the social lights applauding ap-plauding Lily Pons in Ne yorPk I 6 C0lhns of the Philadel phia Athletics stole six bases In one formL ?6VOre holds rk for most stolen bases during one nning hjch hfi framp J haPPd in the ninth frame a game played way back |