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Show The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1951 Page SPORTUGHT Dempsey Views Boxing With Sore Eye By GRANTLAND RICE REALTOR, hard at his new profession, was still willing to talk about his old. The name is Jack Dempsey, now a hustling real estate operator up and down the west coast. THE 230-POUN- D The Uanassa Maul er, no pushover for anybody, looks with a rather mor-bid-f eye on the fight game of 1951. still I see where Joe Louis fought much Improved Grantland Rice fight against BeJack said. At 210 shore, pounds Louis was nearer his old weight, but he is still too old and slow to ever reach championship form, in my opinion. It will be a miracle if he can handle those old reflexes, which really wreck you. I mean where you see an opening and are too late In just a punching. Or you see a glove coming and are just a late in ducking. It works bad both ways that reflex action. I don't believe Louis can get back In shape to beat Charles, who is younger, faster and today a better boxer. Yes, I know Louis can hit. He can hit and hurt. But he got Beshore because Beshore waded In and asked for it. nitting a moving target Is something different. Weve got to wait around to see how a lot of things will come out, For example, . they Jack said. seem to me to be hurrying Bob Murphy and Rex Layne. Young Murphy, a good puncher, looked hot In the east. But remember h fighter out here named Stevens outpointed Murphy and later knocked him out. And at the time Stevens didnt look too hot. Rex Layne from Utah is another. He whipped Joe Walcott, which doesn't prove too much. I know he has won 27 out of his 28 pro bouts but the fighters he met were not too good. Im not knocking Murphy, Layne, Stevens or anyone else. Im simply saying they havent proved much so far against any real class. Theres no use building up a young fighter too split-seco- Fighting Back After my second fight with Gene Tunney, the Mauler continued, I decided later to find out just how good I was. I was younger than Louis is today. I first got in condition with road work and rope skipping, bag punching and the other training aids a fighter uses. I took on the softer ones first. Big fellows who were not too fast to keep out of the way who made bigger targets. I really got in shape. But I soon found things were not working too well. I could still punch. I could still hurt you. But I was also getting hit with punches I should have ducked. I was also missing openings I shouldnt have missed. THE When you are in your prime, at your best eye and fist and brain work together. You see an opening and you punch at the same time, the time youve thrown the punch the other guy is out of range or has the punch blocked. It was always g easier to fight a big, fela than faster smaller, fighter low who was so much harder to hit It was much easier to hit Firpo or Willard than it was to hit Gteb, Tunney or Gibbons. It might be recalled that Dempsey fought 35 rounds with Tunney. and Gibbons with only one knockdown recorded. He knocked down Willard and firpo .a total of 16 times in the first round. Quite a difference. slow-movin- THE JACKPOT FICTION CORNER By Ona Freeman Lathrop nd split-seco- nd Ez-za- rd high. If Joe Louis, after the way he looked in two fights against Walcott and the one against Charles can reach the top again, it will be e an record. He was such a fine champion in his prime that he may make it. But I doubt it, knowing how tough it is to fight your way .all-tim- back. r-- fl was a murky one. if a lot depended THE night the stark bulbs sending not she won. upon whether or Bill slid off the stool and went TEARS OF JOY AND FUAR . . . Mrs. Josephine Gonzales their light through the steaming look like No should that. kid over. the relieved weeps tears of both joy and fear after receiving a letter from Diner of windows Joes nickeL out fished his He her son, Cpl. Relnol Gonzalez, Informing her that he Is a prisoner darkness. Bill Owen lounged against Let due. wonabout kid. of the Chinese Communists. After the fear that her son was Its Here, the door dead, learning that he Js alive, though a prisoner, was a joyous dering whether me show you how. He whanged the lever down to go in. He thing. machine a little the and the gave fingered whack at the side. The nickels lone nickel in KATHLEEN NORRIS his pocket. It poured ont. As he filled her hands with them, she gasped, would get him a cup of coffee anyBut theyre yours. way. ! Gwan and take em, You here again? Joe kidded. and then go across the street and Whatll it be porterhouse? yourself a room at Ma John- rqurY WIFE does a lot to make wife and mother she cant see that Bill grinned. Hand me a menu. get us all happy, but shes so sons. Its no night for dames to be she is cutting oxr girls off from all I might want breast of guinea. out alone, he added gruffly. She darned unhappy herself, writes a the Then he noticed the girl. She stood hurried out. pleasures natural to their ages, lusband from a Colorado farm. never can enter that machine watching the pinball by An old softie, eh? Ke could have Daisy is 37, his letter goes on, by rulinghouses they fela as certain and that she doesnt down the metal balls roll a bed himself and a blueplate and she is devoted to me and our had to want them be low played. There was something friendly with this Fool! But I honestly dont think kids. ive special. unabout her that made Bill feel family and that Cup o java, Joe. On the cuff. she has another friend in the world. her had The inside. rain This means constant arguments pelted easy be in the 'chips again soon. She suspects everyone, distrusts Ill d wisps hair Into thin Joe grinned. Yeah? Not if you everyone, and criticizes everyone. and disappointments for the girls. around her small face. She hugged mother tells them that they play Sandy Claus to all the dames She has bad quarrels with prac- Their will her old polo coat about her. There That have plenty of friends and good ones been hanging about all tically every woman in our town. was a searching look in her grey as the years go on, but that guy that came This one said something mean times every giving evening face. each she scanned They in the will not forgive - old eyes as Looking for some one, about her when theywere in high she simply eye. think of somebody. and prejudices. One of my made him she said. school; that one didnt come to see slights has sisters him reminded boys a few years older That was it! She door slammed and Bill looked her when she had her first baby, THE reof the way his kid sister, Kathy Here she was back and the third rented the house she than my girls; she is generous, might have looked. Kathy had that again. She was coming straight to- and I looked at when we wanted sents nothing and forgives everysame kind of hair and that same ex- ward him. Well, he was through to live in town one winter. Some- thing, and she wants our Sheila pectant look on her face, even at She neednt try any more tricks. one else borrowed a book and nev- and Donna to join their cousins for sorts of good times. My wife twelve when he left home. Kathy She slid onto the stool beside him. er returned it, and still another all It We could have fine parwas probably quite a girl by now! It whats yo u r criticized Daisy for giving our girls forbids mister, Listen, of our own out here on the made him wince to think of home. name? she asked breathlessly. permanents while they were in ties for ours is a grand old house He watched this one fingering the J. Pierpont Morgan. Whats grade school. One of her oldest farm, a is there and good deal to amuse friends hasnt spoken to Daisy for change in her cheap purse. It was your s Barbara Hutton? the same reasons hold but but she selected No, only chicken-feed- , seriously. You remind years because she sent Daisy a kids,' too. a nickel carefully and put it in the me of some one. I didnt notice Christmas present, and Daisy found here, Can you suggest some argument slot Somehow her eyes were too at first I was so set on winning at a card sent to this friend from anbright as she followed the dancing the pinbalL Could you be Bill other woman, inside. Daisy never or course that will solve this problem and give my girls a chance " balls down the incline. It looked as Owen? forgave her. Her family and mine would be to live somewhat freer lives? They Yeah, I couldr Why? He eyed who her curlosly. glad to make much of our children, are both loving, natural girls worries laugh off their mothers Because Ive been hunting you and suspicions. But they naturally Ive covered every joint like this cant accept invitations against her hoping I wouldnt find you in such will And gradually it has been a place, but knowing I would. You dawning on them that it is not in always had the crazy Idci you one case or two, but that her discould get rich the easy way, ever likes embrace practically our ensince you hit the jackpot the firs tire social group. What can I do? time you flayed when you were a Your wife, George, didnt have kid. Well,, where did it get you? the right moral training when she She was out of breath now.. was young. She may have had Hey, how jo you know so schooling, dancing, riding, tennis, much? he demanded. ' languages. But she hasnt been Im Kathy, yonr sister taught to forgive. She hasnt been Kathy. Oh, Bill, Mons sick told to be humble, to put herself and shes been asking for yon. and her little petty pride and vanity Youve got to come home with sensitiveness aside; to wipe the and me. ", . . bat bad quarrelt . . " slate gloriously clean of old hurts Yeah? You are Kathy then! And little while and they'd want me to come home even especially the girls, who are now and grudges every ! Fe flicked at his 16 and 14. But my wife has never start fresh. this way? No, she has nursed her precious forgiven my mother for something ragged cuff. was first little grudges, injuries, her slights Sure. They knew you werent Ma said to a friend when I she and snubs, the forgetfulness of her to that the effect or been have married, making good, youd back. They just want you to come didnt believe Daisy wanted chil- friends, their innocent mistakes or dren. With my sisters Daisy says hasty comments. If your mother home to make Mom better. Her big grey eyes were welling she has nothing in common. And said Daisy didnt want children, 16 with tears and her hair hung down with her own only relative, a mar- years ago, the mere fact of having wispier than ever, but she was ried brother, she has not been on five lovely children doesnt heal the Kathy and his kid days and home speaking terms since his wife gave hurt in Daisys pitiful little vnarrow all rolled into one. He slipped off a party on the night we were giving heart. She has reveled in her "inefthe stool and took her arm. Hed a party. fectual little revenges, which have been playing out of luck, but at last George hurt only herself, and you and her Now, the tragedy is, the hit hed that children, and never have reached jackpot. letter continues, Ingalls Come on, then, he said. 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