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PAUL JUNIORS CONQUERORS OF F SALT gC LAKE KE REACH REACH FI HANSEN BEST IN SIGHT AT PRESENT TIME Size as Well as Ruggedness Rugged Rugged- ness Speed Punch Is Necessary Requisite By Rob Robert rt The next heavyweight champion ot of the world will be a a. big fellow Its It's all right for a pound man gian manto to get Into the championship class It if he has exceptional skill and a a. knockout punch or just extreme speed and a slaughterIng wallop such as Dempsey had nine years ago when ho he whipped the gigantic Willard In either case the other quality needed by a champion Is the ability to take punches and go the route rout Just now there Is no heavyweight In sight who has all those require require- ments The Tho David and Goliath stuff doesn't go In the tho heavyweight class No David is going to be champion this year Bulk will count too much It isn't impossible that Knute Knuta Hansen Hansen Han Han- sen the big blond from Racine Wis Vis may qualify y Hansen Is G 6 feet 4 and weighs pounds He Is only 24 years ot of age lIe Is perfectly built for fighting has very wide shoulders and a long longreach reach Is a first class puncher and anda a very ery clever boxer He has speed He has everything with one possible possible pos pos- sible e exception In one or two tights fights where his opponents took a a. few of his heavy wallops without going down Hansen has bas either become weary or discouraged and has resorted resorted re- re sorted to stalling when he might have won easily and quickly by keeping up his attack That may have been Inexperience in w case hell he'll be different when he fights a little more Theres There's one thing that makes maltes me think Hansen must have the stuff OTHER On-fER FIGHTERS SHUN HANSEN Sharkey and the rest ot of the gang who were figured to class among possible for Tunney last year refused to accept a a. Hansen match after after Hansen knocked out Scott In the first round He showed so much skill and punch In his few fights hat they all the welcome wel- wel conic come oft off the doormat and he found himself out of work worl It If not Hansen It will be some other big clever fellow with a punch One may pop up any day dar Bu But t no David Goliath is going to get into the tho big money It wont won't be Godfrey lIes lIe's too slow and placid Is in and out sometimes good id d sometimes I Ia a dub Roberti Isn't very fast and isn't much ot of a boxer but he has a fighting heart and can punch a bit He Is big enough and may go to the top with more experience Paolino is rugged and willing and can punch but knows no boxing TOMMY LOUGHRAN cJ NOT HEAVY ENOUGH Phil S ott is' is big and clever and anda a fab hitter lie He learned something something some some- thing after being knocked out by Hansen and may be better this year H has beaten Heeney Monte Munn and a few other fairly good heavy heavy- weights Heeney might beat most of the present crop although he was vas such an easy mark for Tun- Tun ney Harold Mays Is clever and a good sparring partner Tommy Loughran is a very clever lIght lIght- heavyweight champion but doesn't belong in the heavyweight class for just one reason He has no punch He might outpoint most mosi ot of them but he couldn't do anything anything any any- thing startling against Armand Emanuel a few weeks ago and Emanuel Is a a. light man and can fight under pounds It seems silly to expect Loughran to compete corn com cornS pete against a man like for S Instance who can match him In boxing and outclass him him In bitting and has a pound forty advantage in n weight Lomski knocked Loughran Lough- Lough ran down twice What bat would any S fast tast and clever heavyweight do No that David and Goliath hasn't carried on to this genera genera- tion It takes a big mass man to fight abig a abig big man when boxing ability speed and skill are at all comparable CARPENTIER HAD PUNCH BUT LACKED SIZE Carpentier was a great lIght lIght- i heavyweight when he be fought Demp- Demp sey lIe He h had d a tremendous right hand punch and the speed to put It over Nobody could stand ur up I r against it lIe He landed It iton on Dempse Demp- Demp se s chin and shook him a a. little I for a moment Then Jacks Jack's twenty pounds advantage of weight his natural strength and stamina and greater power enabled him to beat Carpentier down with no more trou trou- S ble Tommy Tommy Burns ot of the S heavyweight champions who I trained himself down to pounds In his anxiety to be right for the 1 Johnson fight in Australia was ar an I easy mark for the much taller and heavier negro Burns was a better better bet bet- ter aggressive fighter than Johnson but lie he was too small The David Davidr stuff doesn't go unless yoU carra carr r a sling and a rock Into the rIng NO OTHER GENE TUNNEY IN SIGHT There are more examples outside the heavyweight class For a good gooc Instance take Luther McCarthy claimant of at the big title Luther Luthes was brought to New York an and I matched with Jess Willard then re regarded re- re as a joke cowboy r slammed Jess all over the ring Jr In the first round and got him mad From then on the cowboy giant gian t jabbed and upper upperCut ut steadily RbI ills Rb e blows chipped Luthers Luther's teeth anc and I Luther was tired and dizzy at th the 0 finish Then there was pound SoldIer Kearns Either McCarthy or Kearns could clean up the present present pres- pres ent crop of at heavyweights In one working day of eight hours Kearns had an awful wallop In the se round ho he plunged his right fist wrist deep into the big VIllards VIl lards lard's stomach and Jess got mad and knocked Kearns out so hard with the next blow that the Soldier never nevel was anything but a plugged nickel hi the ring ring- afterward Gene Tunney weighing only p pounds peat beat Dempsey fox f X iiO r I championship and weighing littlemore little muo more took another decision and then stopped Heeney But Tunnel Tunney had several years of fighting his belt knew how to fight trained for tor years ears especially to beat Dempsey Demp- Demp s sey y and waited for his chance until he knew Jack had slipped back 50 per cent from his championship form Nobody else is going to dU duplicate plicate pUcate Tunney's teat feat Th There re Isn't another Tunney In Cop Copyright 1928 by the Bell Syndicate Syndi- Syndi cate Inc S I th they y say cay I IY went nt and told doe Ioe Shake Shake- about It and ancS Moe he was much 4 and th that t I should call at the box bez office att after r the tIght fight Sad and g get t the money monet m You aln aint going to have any manager manager man man- ager aCt after 1 the tight he said WI CS S J I Well Vell as X I say y I plastered this Tutty Tuffy arrigan to the floor In the fourth but this Jim Lynch did set flot get put pact the first round toe foe tipped oft off Tuffy's seconds end and the minute Jimmy begin hollering to Tuffy to sock cock me In Inthe inthe the jaW they begin with their rights on en hIs chin and th then n run him as astar 3 tar far as a. City where he lost them tacos In the tho dark J I told my wife that he had taken a atrain atrain train for tor Canada and she Is UP th there r. r seeking for tor ht him On her own dough So between you OU In Ia use me I 1 am setting getting along tine fine and I thInk I 1 will stick Uck around h here re for tor a while Yours Tours truly I. I K 0 O. O FRO t TIlE MANAGER Dear That's right be happy while you TOU can but I 1 know just juat going to happen happeD Your wife and h her r brother will viii be back soon and he Is going to hand yoU a expense account which would wreck a a. couple o of railroads All Mi that trav traveling lIn that he and your wife wHo Is doing Is going to cost you mon money yoU better do the traveling Tn In tact fact Il t wont won't bo be long long- b before ore YOU will take a train for tor about two hundred miles further than the last Jut station I been married three times an and It took three railroads to fix me up an and after alel Ih they y ran out of Stations I took a a. boa boat t and I am still nervous even It that did happen happen hap hap- pen twenty y years ars ago aro Yours trul truly PATSY Copyright 1925 by the D hell 11 Syn- Syn Ift l |
