Show 0 I GG E EN i IN N GETTING ready for tor his next meeting with Bob Montgomery Beau Jack Is concentrating on some plan that will keep his jaw away from Montgomery's right hand It was a fast and unexpected chin In the first round that won for Montgomery In their first meeting meet- meet Ing As Beau Jack Jock was In the middle of a busy fusillade Montgomery suddenly whipped one to the point oi of Beaus Beau's chin ehin and from that point ontI on tI the Augusta whirligig 1 gig was never quite the same Ha j Beau Jack admits I that it hurt him plenty that plenty that it did didn n nt t do me no good For a few seconds Beau had an Idea Bob ob that in hi some way Montgomery he had bad misplaced his dome of ot thought He would just justas as soon not have this action duplicated duplicated duplicated when they meet early carly In No No- vember Another Right Hand Jack Dempsey recently recalled another right hand grenade that did him little good many years ago I 1 had just asked him the hardest punch he ever took There Isn't any argument about that Dempsey said It came from Irom Firpo's right hand at the thc start of the first round Ill I'll never Dever forget that one I knew Firpo was dangerous so soI soI soI I made the mistake of trying to win with the first punch I threw This was a n left hook But In my over- over eagerness I threw the punch before I was set and missed That left me wide open I tried to step backward and actually thought I was out of range But Firpo had a rubber right arm His big fist kept moving and It landed just under my left eye up around the thc cheek bone If U he had connected connect connect- ed with the chin I might be dreaming dreaming dreaming dream dream- ing yet As it was I was knocked to my knees and I 1 honestly thought part of my head had been blown away The guy couldn't box but he could certainly hit I still hadn't recovered when he caught me again and I went through the thc ropes They say ray ay I broke a lot of rules in that fight Maybe I did I was trying to keep from getting killed after that first fast punch I took and if ft there had been an axe around I would have used that I recalled one odd angle of the I Dempsey Firpo roundup the most sensational of all ring battles battIes which I Ithe the old Mauler remembered I hn had talked with Bill BiU Brennan a rough and tough campaigner who had just lost to Firpo That guy Brennan Drennan told me throws rocks Look at my head Bills Bill's head bead was full fall of 01 lumps Before the big fight I went up with Bob Edgren one of the best of all boxing writers to see Dempsey I told Dempsey what Brennan had told me that me-that that Firpo had a rubber right hand that could nail an opponent opponent opponent op op- op- op who thought he was two or three feet out of range I remember that now Jack said but I didn't believe it at the time I know or at least I knew what range Is and I figured that i if I could keep two or three feet away he couldn't hurt me even i if he landed But old Bill Brennan was right After Arter I had bad missed that left eft hook I had enough speed left to swing back out of 01 range Sure I saw it coming but I never Dever figured the bum had bad a brick In his hand It kept on OD oncoming coming And suddenly I thought Id I'd lost part of my head He just happened to hit me too high I hate bate to think what would have happened if it that big fist had landed two Inches lower Yost and Michigan as asA A letter from rom Hurry Up Yost Michigan's famous coach for nearly 40 0 years reports on the Wolverine machine It is also a reminder that a husky young fellow by the name of Yost came to Ann Arbor back in 1901 to start Michigan on her upward football football foot toot ball march that has bas lasted the greater part of four tour decades Yost came to Michigan from rom Stanford that long ago fall bringing along a fellow fellow fellow fel fel- fel- fel low by the name of Willie Heston pounds of speed and high ex ex- ex plosive From 1901 through 1905 Yosts Yost's Michigan teams lost only one game a 2 to 0 defeat from Stagg's Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago Maroons In those five years Michigan's l fast smashing attack ran up something something something some some- thing in the neighborhood of points 6 Through those five years Michigan Michigan Michigan Michi Michi- gan had such stars as Heston Snow Gregory White Curtis McGugin Octy Gr Graham ham Redden Herrnstein Boss Weeks Germany Garrels the Garrels-the the Hammonds Ham monds in fact probably the greatest group any anyone one college team ever drew together together great great runners and kickers working back of a giant line that averaged well above pounds Yost came up from West Virginia When West Virginia met a fine Lafayette Lafayette La La- fayette layette team Yost stayed V with th La LQ I fayette |