Show WALTER Kt jOSSI fT I IyE Q J y E WE AMERICANS are apt to exalt our prominent charac charade characters vy beyond their just dues and then when the they fall they theyan the S an awful long way to go We are following form in our aUf attitude to Jack Demps heavyweight boxing champion of the world True he is isa a f fLake Lake boy a and d we should feel properly proud of him him him- e Aren Arent Aren't t we going too far though It looks as if we might b bas be 1 as if we might t be be doing Jack Jac more of f an injustice sice than a Not satisfied to rest him on his acquisition of the cli in ship by sheer force of fi fighting ability a c cunning nning system m of ga ganda a is 15 under way to raise his m money ney making availability him as a character He is being depicted in the tc toucH role of dutiful son obsessed by the paramount idea of doin doing evi j ev thing possible for mother and all that sort of thing an and writers are showing him up as an unusual figure a among ong A Amen men gently calling attention to the finer elements that show up up in All AU these nice things may be perfectly true Heaven knows they h ugh be Hundreds of us wish that we might have a a. mother to do the these things for I The point Is his press ag agents are getting Just a little bit sloppy times If 11 you know what's meant We are apt to get this way W We ove Melodrama appeals to us and we like to put our characters up on a p p. p The chances are that Jack Dempsey is Just an ordinary every American boy If properly environed and advised he will develop Int good man He is hunan human human however and could fall Just as hard as aST American youth has ever fallen Dont Don't swell him up until like so nf of ot his predecessors he ho becomes easy prey for those elements in a yo yoman's I I mans man's life which bring him to the brink of 01 downfall and then hand h hi final shove He is big enough and prominent enough as heavyweight cli pion without adding to his reputation and making of him a second If anything has been left unwritten about that July 4 fight it is c b the ingenuity of 01 commentators has been exhausted We Ve have had everything in the category from fake to fairness have heard that Willard was yellow v. and that the fight was a trans fram We Ve have heard Dempsey exalted to the skies as a character and We have had the assurance of 01 experts that the fight was on the iq that t Willard was sensible n to quit that Dempsey is a demon and a J and so on down the line J JH Good And lets let's leave it all at that The truth evin will not notch ch ha things a bit If all the mean things that have been said are true then then- all would feel shaken in our hopes for the future of boxing and It if aU all allgood good things are true so much the better mf It appears to me that there are unusual signs of 01 activity connect d sports this summer Baseball is going very big boxing promoters are busy and some succeeded beyond expectation bowling billiards and pool are attract even more than the usual summer attention amateur baseball sib better developed than ever before tennis has been going nicely fishe fished and hunters have more enthusiasm than ever eyer and golf is having a bin The signs are all good and it looks like a return to form all along line M Bully H HOne One of ot the best bits of ot news that has come to our ears in a long w wis is the quiet tip that some of our very best sportsmen of 01 the state are their wires in the hope of 01 bringing back that great sport of ot horse rat raton on a plane that will assure its permanency in Utah I am not at liberty divulge the plans of 01 these men but like hundreds of ot others cannot from wishing them all the success possible JH Baseball is Just like everything else Just as soon as it gets to wh whit it is sailing along nicely with money rolling in and conditions appear prosperous for everything rosy along come Old Man Ian Trouble and crabs whole thing J 1 Take this Mays case If It hadn't been that it would have been sor thing else Baseball was due It was getting along bully and that can be tolerated Wf Now the courts have gotten hold of 01 the matter Ban Johnson and ana dictation has been defied and the institution looks as if it it might be due duea a lot of ot worry and fuss It was getting along along- too well that's the trouble And while on the subject of ot that Mays case there case there must be else besides Just the players player's suspension behind the controversy Ban Baa Joson Jo Jol Jolson son was right in his action beyond a reasonable doubt and therefore manner In which the American league directors overruled his leads those on the outside to believe that there is a a. colored person under cord cordwood wood somewhere James C. C Isaminger one of 01 the greatest baseball writers and sport cc In the country takes a healthy wallop at a a. new ruling exempt tax on football games while it makes no exemptions on Mr Isaminger's sentiments we feel quite certain are the tho sentiments o of ofir x sport snort followers |