Show I Hungry Hungry Prizefighters sAre Are too Few By GRANTLAND RICE RICE- p JACK TACK DEMPSEY was talking about the fight game which he be benow now figures is fa rapidly going to seed iced and weed weedIn weedIn weedIn In the first place Dempsey said uld the game so far tar as the con con- contestants contestants contestants are concerned is only for roughnecks for tor tough young fel fel- lows It has no place for tor nice peo pea people pIe The real fight fight- fighter f er is a street fight fight- fighter er because he likes to fight He likes f t 4 brawls From the thes the's mer s 's 1 t r street he moves to some small boxing l t club and if it he Is IsI I good he begins to move up Grantland Rice RI ce They T hey h have a v e killed off oU the small small- smaller er clubs today There Is no place for the street fighter to go so since he be ready for the bigger clubs I I dont don't think Jack Jac said that you and I arc are going to ace another good heavyweight It will be many years before another good one comes along They seem to be getting worse In place of getting better When I came up there were a alot alot alot I lot of ot little clubs where you could tight fight for tor 10 or less But you y u kept learning something There were a alot alot alot lot of ot fellows around then who could either cither box or punch In one tight fight I was knocked down nine times limes before I won There are not enough fellows who are hungry today Most 1 of ot them can pick up 80 to 90 a week You cant can't go hungry on I tell ten you how many times r I never had a dol dollar ol- ol or tar lar or even a half hall dollar And there were no good jobs fobs around A hungry fighter will fight twice as hard as one well fed The middleweight crop Is good Jaek Ja k continued They should get some action from LaMotta Graziano Robinson and several others This Is a pretty fair division But when you talk about heavy heavy- heavyweights heavyweights weights you are arc seemingly talk talk- talkIng talkIng Ing about an entirely differ durer- different ent group of fighters lighters They wont Tont train tran and they wont won't learn They get punch drunk before they learn how to fight right Its It's a funny situation There are ire supposed to be people leople In the world If there were just one good heavy heavy- heavyweight heavyweight weight In this bunch of or people ne he could make easy But there Isn't a heavyweight lighter tighter not not a good one one one-In in the lot Joe Louis Is too old and Ezzard Euard Charles Is ls too small and too careful The old Manassa Mauler is still stil in fine health He isn't so old at that He moves along aloni with a free- free swinging stride and usually looks to be in a hurry He Is still ref ref- refereeing wrestling and a n d boxing matches and keeping busy one way or another What a harvest a 22 year-old year Dempsey could reap to to- today day day day-as as much as he be wanted to car car- carry carry carry ry away Looking Back at Some Bowls Taking a fairly long look forward for lor- forward ward it was Bud Dud Wilkinsons Wilkinson's Okla Okla- Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma homa who proved to be the top of ot all aU bowl entries Oklahoma deserved equal rating with Notre Dame and Army this last fall and crushing L S U. U 35 to 0 confirmed Its high ranking promotion For after all had whipped North Carolina Rice and Tulane three conference champions Oklahoma starts 1950 with 21 1 straight But the lose more than a few stars Including IncludIng including ing some high grade backs and star linemen so Wilkinson can hardly expect to keep hIs bis 1919 pace Just when the West coast is go- go goIng goIng going Ing to break up Midwest domination Is anybody's hazy guess It will be interesting to see whether the Big Ten and the Far West will renew the fading year five contract on the same basis It Js well known that the Far West wants only the two champions to meet every year The Big Ten still wants the three three- year clause lause inserted The e contract has another year to run One of ot the Ida ideas ot of the Big Ten T entry ent Into to the th wl fl 1 list was to prevent the South from cleaning up at the Rose Bowl year after atter year This idea failed to work on New Years Year's day when North Carolina Rice and Ken Ken- Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky tucky all took away large bags packed with gold North Carolina carried home over Ohio State and California got little mon mon- money money money ey comparatively The Giants of 1950 Being a smart baseball man Leo Durocher is indulging himself in n no idle dreams about his pitch- pitch pitchIng pitchIng pitching Ing selection for the next world series Not with the Dodgers Cardinals Phillies and Braves bar bar- barring barring barring ring the road Weve lost a little of ot our punch Leo says but after all the Giants were not so hot when they were breaking all past home borne run rec rec- Well We'll have bave a much stronger defense |