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Show Btfitl Speaking of Sports : . recent Good- jjje midst of the Sherman Was Right, but Soldiers Still Take Fun as They Find It Texas Clou ter Reminiscent of Benny Leonard By ROBERT McSIIANE g (Released by Western struggle for Newspaper Union.) 15 of the worlds best T EW JENKINS, the tough little iti1 "'era we began thinking again of hombre from Sweetwater, Texart that the mental side or as, is the hardest-hittinchampion 'Hal attitude plays in this baffling the lightweight division has known ' of golf. since the days when Benny Leonard ; i5 contestants in this tourney was belting em over with remarkaon the physical ble regularity. M 3a fine golfers on Je Most of them can hit the ball Not long ago Lew was an unu orM Ion?, loiS way and keeP known. The cowboy clouter got his censubt, most of them are fine iron title chance when he scored decisive and at least wins over ountovers, keen pitchers, The Larkin. Billy Marquard and Tippy consistent re putters. few a ia, Marquard lasted several issesliia answer is ones mental rounds, looking even better than his tourna-1 the or for the day But Lew rallied long opponent. ability to concentrate enough to draw the curtain over ap.Sfjt-b- is ' Bndjrt the right lines. Marquard. is an old story. There wasnt much to the Larkin ijn of course, ' bow does one locate this fight. Tippy was considered one of the best boxers and fastest men in the lightweight ranks. But Jenkins been watching Jimmy D.had of seven big touma-It- s, jabbed a few times with bis left and one of the main favorites at then let loose with a right early in lb Meadow. I had seen him the first round. That brought the j Je and laugh and appear care- -' end. ttl 1 coming up to the ball then sud-- !i Even with these victories behind perfectly on the next him Jenkins was considered the un$obe. focus So I talked to Demaret, derdog when he signed up to meet Texas Tarantula of the ancient Champion Lou Ambers. The thin then man of Texas just wasnt scheduled sii to offer Ambers much competition. X Imarets Angle The experts had seen him fight. 1 drew a fine break in the art of knew he had a heart as big as They when 1 was a young himself, and a lethal punch, but were There 'jp Demaret said. couldnt visualize how he they There was al-- g would just in our family. stack up against Ambers. so ts a turmoil around. I had to Jenkins crossed them up. He uni- - u how to study and concentrate walked out at the bell and rocked ava a football game or some other Ambers with a wicked right cross ian-- -- e going on all around me. There from which Lou never recovered. In I j j always a din and a racket the second round Jenkins floored i to force myself to think of what or working over in him with a short right book, and had rp lasofreading him down twice before the fight was these outside distractions. ;te baited in the third round. So I had to of develop the habit ,s ms net concentration from an early No Adonis of the Ring at- - .'f, when all lasting habits are usu-j- y Jenkins isnt an artists ideal formed I mean the ones that champion. Hell never pose for the gaily stick with you. of Pugilism. He resembles Heres a funny angle. I am sup-- S Spirit an animated rake handle and is far ed to be free from any nervous from a picture of power. His lean, rit, juble. Yet I am one of the most look comes naturally. or- - evous men you ever knew. I mean hungry even JUT;j1 a tournament starts. Im J ,Tous in practice. But when the L. jnament gets under way I turn to my kid days, forget T,ick else, all the outside distrac-- t .ms. I think of only one shot at a jne and I think of a round after Refashion of one shot at a time. roUnd-robi- mas-amon- n 'O IF ar is cruelty and you cannot refine it said General William Tecumseh Sherman. Few people disagree with that statement, but there is a lighter side to war. Soldiers of every nation know that all work and no play make a dull war , and in seeking to amuse themselves, their humor takes a lusty turn. g atti-al,jtl- or Cant-be-copie- FLAVOR d STftGESCREEN RADIO -- By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) UTTOLLYWOOD lA was never like this! Jean Arthur was talking. Dressed in faded jeans, a leaky sombrero and a blouse that most women would use for a dusting rag, she stood in front of the adobe hut which is her dressing room at Old Tucson. Old Tucson is just what it means, a reproduction of the original walled city of the sixties, where Wesley Ruggles is currently filming Clarence Budington KeUands Arizona. Situated 16 miles north of present-da- y Tucson, it is a monument to movie ingenuity, a village of 125 buildings, by Columbia studios' technicians from the original plans of early Tucson. Running water is a luxury out here, Miss Arthur said, wiping the To perspiration from her face. speak of hot water is heresy. There just Isnt any. "Not that a tub of water wouldnt reach the boiling point if placed in the sun, but there are so many horses, cows, dogs and pigs -- BEFORE YOU SAY CORN FLAKES! Swifcb f0 something you II like I tun Coof. 1940 by Kcllocs Cocnpigf' mwniri iG)GHlD(3aUI Rather Why Not I had rather it should be asked can know nothing of mankind without knowing some- why I had not a statue, than why I had one. Cato. thing of himself. Disraeli. A man 1 j A (DHHREDCEHES giEQuasre f -- J j fhat to t least A 1C& Contented is the word for this French Poilu who carries on with his peacetime occupation even though he is now on the battlefields of the west ern front. French woman warm-hearte- d her customary cup of tea to members of the Welsh guard JEAN ARTHUR somewhere in France. The men stand amid ruins of World War I. around here that a tub serves warm. She has turned her back on glamour these days. She is bent only on making Phoebe Titus," who sold pies for a dollar apiece, believable and real. She is starred in Ariwith William Holden and zona, Warren William backing her up, and shes going to give us a picture worth seeing and remembering, though the thermometer does register 126 degrees. ; I that he thought of three things before playing once told me, I cy shot. Se "What were e First, the they? Jimmy asked. pace of his backswing J - be sure it wasnt hurried. Next, I full body or the needed body m, and, last, cocking his left rst at the top of the swing. ; 1 also think of about three things playing a shot, the Texan First, I want to be sure I m a firm, comfortable and corLEW JENKINS 'd grip. Next, 1 want U, feel that lure an easy, comfortable stance. t, I also want to be sure I dont Manys the day he has gone hungry, and though recent success has any my backswing and that I also bc the needed amount of body put money in the bank for him, he wont forget those thin days of his ' i Golf, Demaret said, is a game past. He has legs of pipe stem propori play largely with your hands, bis knees lock like the sts and forearms. They swing tions, and clubhead. The body should work weak spot of an inflated inner tube. His arms are long and thin, his face 'ether with the hands, but in most Bis hair is wiry es the body works against the is hatchet shaped. ds. The average golfer lets the and unruly, standing like the quills 'ulders and body, or maybe the of an annoyed porcupine. st and But he can fight and his oppolegs, tie up the hands. nents will never forget it His Now, the average golfer has a rd time concentrating because he punches are as fast as a radio coto think of too many things, medians comeback, and they conHis force cant be done. He merely gets a tain a crushing power. and comes erred timing perfect through is be of what trying picture remAccomplish. 1 believe in making leverage. His fighting style is df as iniscent of the Dempsey of old. He simple as possible. courtesy outside the ring, What should the average golfer parks ready to give and take as long as he ? to think about? I asked. can stand up. He hit Ambers once while Lous head was bobbing outmfort and Ease and he cuffed him He or she should try to think side the ropes, bell had ended the the after twice it in terms of being comfortable second round. ,j easy, and not to get all tight 'cd up. After this, he should think the Hard Way W letting the hands and fore-- s Champ He Jenkins' story is the old, old Cindswing the clubhead. didnt start locking his feet and erella-like tale. Two years ago he Pi or stiffening his body. He was a cavalry recruit In the army, tould have a picture of hands, of serving as blacksmith. In need of a hands, taking that clubhead bit of change while on furlough in a smoothly as possible, letting Fort Worth, Texas, Lew offered to 4 tody turn naturally, and from fight for coffee money. He won the His next top of the swing he should be bout and quit the army. too victories werent as simple. In fact, hurry to start any down-swin- g ed, Thats where so much trou-- ( he was ready to quit a year ago comes from hustling or hurry-- i when his wife persuaded him to go the downswing, which will usu-- ? to New York for one more chance. take care of itself if you just Starting in the small clubs, Lew m to leave it alone. won a couple of fights for a starter. Golf Isnt a game nor That gave him heart and he congame. It Is a game tinued his string of victories. Finalhich both bands swing the club-4- ly his name became known and he It isnt nearly as difficult as was brought to Madison Square Gai-derst where he accounted for Marplayers make it, If they would think of the few necessary quard, Larkin, and eventually AmOgs one must do. bers, the champ. "Waterloo Bridge d. n, PI 1 ourself Go Jikh any of these dus Here are two German soldiers installing a loud speaker on the Nazi defenses east of the Rhine river. 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