Show i 1 I BACKSEAT t DRIVING Heckler Punches Hard Lacks Boxing Finesse Spartans vindicate Vindicate Clark By FRANK K It BAKER Telegram Sports Editor Fighting Bob Due for Some Boxing Lessons Fighting Bob Heckler the former Rio Grande machinist and A. A A. A U. U boxing champion is due for some same painful boxing lessons If it he sticks ticks to his professional ambitions George Brazelton the sturdy Cali Call proved that to the Salt Laker er I Ito here this week when he held Heckler to a draw in their six round engagement engage ment at McCullough's McCulloughs arena No one will ever speak of Hecklers Heckler's fighting heart nor will they make light of at his punch Perhaps a n boxing boxing box box- no gamer garner fighter ever pulled ing glove clove aver over his fist and the power in those arms has wreaked havoc on dozens of stalwart amateurs in the years cars that Bob fought faught for far the fu fun and glory of the sport That same power would stow slow lots of professionals into the resin resin-if if it ever struck them Therein is 15 Hecklers Heckler's problem His ills professional foes roes dout dont propose propose pro pro- pose to stand up and take it on the he chin d n like his 1115 amateur opposition opposition tion did Brazelton Is far from a I. I himself but he had fic Heckler c kler kier missing from start to the finish In their bo bout t here At first Bob nob seemed to be surprised when hi his hardest punches missed their mark muk Then he was perplexed and tore In all the harder in an effort to beat his foe down by the sheer force of his attack He lie flung his overhand right hooked booked with his left and even pumped both fists like the pistons in a locomotive as he drove f forward orward with lowered head Ho lie occasionally connected Brazelton Brazelton Brazel Braze of course but generally ton was rolling sideways or bobbing bobbing bob bob- bing backward just far enough to escape their full force A Throws Self Open To Counter-Attack Counter Heckler is a victim of his amateur training wherein he has b been en compelled corn com to g go out and get his foe by sheer aggressiveness in three rounds It worked there because his foes were up tip against the same problem and Heckler stands a good chance in a il slugfest n It if has been this whirlwind attack that has made him so sa popular in his amateur bouts It is spectacular to betrue betrue be betrue true to see a fighter lower lawer his head and wade into his foe with both fists lists flying It is the style that made Demp se sey such a favorite a but it puts a heavy burden on th the aggressor In the first place he must put his foe away in a hurry or that individual can bide his time with a counter attack attack at at- tack and dip cUp the attacker unmercifully unmercifully fully about the face lace and head as he hc bores in And quite naturally if he is isto isto isto to put his foe oe away in a hurry he must be able to hit his opponent in a vulnerable spot spat Heckler could d do neither Monday Monda We Vie would not nat have Heckler abandon abandon aban aban- don his aggressive style of fighting That is all right We would however have him devise some form of defense to use against a n counter attack Once he gets that then he e must learn to stalk his foe more mare craftily craftily to craftily to attack without telegraphing that overhand right so definitely Even in his amateur bouts Heckler Heckl r took a 1 lot of punishment Ills His more skillful professional l foes roes will mete out still more P painful and onel bruising punishment if he con continues to throw himself wide open with his pun plunging lri attack Frankie Wine of Butte Eutte Mont 1 is a veteran example of what wha Heckler Beckler will wilt be unless he ho changes chanu his Ityl style Wine VIne a heavyweight has fought all over the south middle west and east Just a plodder he figured hed he'd have to win by ag This writer has his seen him I fight ht Christner W W. L. L Strib Strib- ling Chuck Wiggins and a few of the others Hed He'd box any of them Always he be was bor boring In plodding plodding and plodding and zid and always he had hd to withstand terrible punishment He lie had bad severe severe severe se se- se- se vere cuts culs over the eyes eyu terrific gashes in his lips Ups one taking a amu half mu dozen stitches stitches- at Chicago go and bruises for his trouble Heckler Heckler Heck Heck- ler with his fine prospects ii deserving deserving de de- de serving of ot a far better fate Former Jayhawker Coach Leads Spartans Earl Dutch Clark former Colorado Colo Cob rado college ace Is not the only Clark to rise to distinction in the sudden recognition of the Portsmouth professional football team although the theother theother theother t other Clark has baa not shared in ln the gla glories ries of the team so prominently He is Potsy Clark Clarka a former farmer footbAll football foot foot- b ball U coach at Kans Kansas s university Potsy Patsy generally accepted as as the greatest quarterback Bob at Illinois ran into inta evil times at the Jayhawker institution after a somewhat illustrious beginning and was finally sent on his way the statement that he outlived had had outlived his usefulness at K U. U Now he bobs as up-as up coach of one of the best gridiron n aggregations in the nation proving he has found faund a place where he really is useful The Spartans and Chicago Bears tied for first place will play off aU the tic tie Sunday but will be without the services of Dutch who is busy 1 coaching the cage team at his alma mater |