Show SPORTS hl L C r I J t Vv J JU ES By Rob Robert en Ed Edgren ren Oh Dempsey 4 Read This Ralph Smith the gigantic amateur boxer boxer whose ambition is s to become king of the tho heavyweights has been put flaton flat fiat flaton on his back But it took look a railroad train to do It Smith was a carpenter at a a. big bl movie studio until the slump hit the tho movie business and closed the where ho worked Then he ho looked around for tor something that would keep him busy be between be- be I I tween bouts and pay the tho rent Because i of ot his bla extraordinary physique he had lit littie lit lit- lit lit-I tie tle trouble getting into the Los Angeles fire department service as a fireman ann and was attached to a hook and ladder com corn pany when Smith had been In the department department depart depart- ment a week he was called out to a fire The huge hook hool and ladder truck was tearIng tearing tear tear- Ing InA along when an electric train running at full speed struck and entirely tear tear-I demolished de- de It It One man sitting beside Smith was killed Another had his skull fractured and was badly smashed Ralph h hI I found himself bin lying in the wreckage fifty I feet from the place of tho the collision He I couldn't move When hen he was taken to I the hospital it was found necessary to plaster a few ew ribs that had been scrambled scram scram- bled bied a bit and amI put him in a cot for tOr a few tew weeks but he ho apparently had bad no permanent permanent perma perma- nent injury Not Even Knocked Senseless The TB funny fun n thing about b u- u usa sa says 5 Smith m is 1 Is that I saw th the crash c coming rn and ana d knew I had to take it it I thou thought ht it was the long Ions count sure But it didn't even knock m mo me senseless for a moment After Aller this I 1 dont don't care what hits me Ralph hopes to recover in time to compete com corn pete in the national amateur boxing championships next month The Tho baseball teams are scattering throughout the South and Southwest This is th first and most cheerful sign Ign r of r spring Its It's a tough h life these baseball I II I babies lead Along late in February or early in March they're forced by the dire necessity of their calling to leave the happy days In slush and snow behind cut out tho the dear old blizzard weather stop hu hugging gln the steam radiators and go down South somewhere I There they are annoyed by the singing of the birds have to smell emell the odors of ot the flower lower covered prairies and cast their eyes over o the green reen grass violets pOppies poppies pop pOp- pOpi i pies ples and other things s that are so eo hard to look at They are deprived of ot the pleasure of bundling up In heavy overcoats and wear we- wearing wear wear- ot In log ing If H they have ha any frozen noses they get et thawed out The bloomIng bloomIng blooming bloom- bloom Ing sun gets them all red and destroys that artistic winter pallor they're so BO fond of And all they can find to do to kill time Is play ball out In the warm sunshine sunshine sunshine sun sun- shine loaf loaf In the lobbies when there isn't a crap game o on and eat at the best hotels at tC the clubs clubs' expense I No wonder so many baseball players leave baseball and go back to the good I old pick and shovel Jimmy Wilde I Isn't Retiring Jimmy Wilde V says he Isn't retiring from the ring and that he expects to I fight tight several years more and then step stev down undefeated So far Jimmy Wilds Wilde hasn't found a man of ot his weight who could give Ive him a real battle The only fighters who have slugged with him on even terms or better were many pounds I heavier The only man who beat him badly was Kid Herman lIerman then bantamweight chamI cham cham- I pion Herman failed to malta make the weight agreed upon upon upon-at at which Wilde tide was giving I him se lal pounds advantage and advantage and came In o Wilde went on with the I match rather than disappoint the crowd but he was Vias giving away too much aid mul nci I was knocked outI out out- out I Billy Dilly Brady seems to be bidding for tor I recognition as premier boxing Impresario impresario impresario impre Impre- I sario according to accounts Well Veil Bill did that a quarter of ot a century century century cen cen- tury ago Back Dack In IOs ilOs Bill managed Jim Jeffries and before that he had todo to todo todo do with other fighters of ot less ability among them Jim Corbett Ho He took a whack at everything from managing to matchmaking and did fairly well at It Then as a successful theatrical producer pro pro- 1 ducer Brady dJ cut t ta out uJ fighting connections o e I for a long r time a and didn't like to be reminded re reminded re- re minded of his ring ln career e I His new In Interest In- In ar terest in boxing n began g with th his hs association c I tion with Mr Cochrane of Engi ind now one of the tile lJ biggest cSt theatrical p p ducci s I but 1 1 promoting boxing and wrestling championships s. s rho I al- al I aI-I always W ways liS li'S associate sport and business and never had a notion that it might be Undignified undignified undignified un un- dignified for tor a theatrical producer to run runa a 3 a ring fight I Copyright 1922 h by the Bell Den Syndicate Inc |