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Show GAME BIG FELLOWS SCARCE; NATURAL FIGHTERS SELDOM FOUND, jAYSELOTO Jack Demptey and Jimmy Wilde Only- Boxert of Present Day Who Are Not Factory Products By Otto Floto . KANSAS CITT, - Not. 81. "In (lancing err tJio list of champion. cham-pion. 1 find thai only two ar. ao rallod born or natural flght-ors. flght-ors. All th. other. mu.t com. under h. label of "manufactured product." Thus eollloqutaed an oldtlmor to u. th. other morning MI wl were hav. Iruf WW Uiatf.1 Willi .111 sulfas and ilnkm "Yep." h. continued. -Just civ. th. whol. bunch of them - . th. up and down and then th. double over and mm If you ran .elect th. two?" ho queried earnestly. Th. first nam. that cam. Into our mind u Jack Pmpy'l, at wsren- tared 4 whlener hie moniker. "That. right he came back with emphaela "But whe'e the .tsarf he eaked, "He. member, there', only two of them, ao the second one ahould Dot be hard to elect," We raked ear mind, mentioned many of our pre nt champion., but could not hit on the on. he had Irv mind. Tet, when hie nam. tm isseHed. w. Immediately Im-mediately agreed with our Interrogator. Me looked at ue In a oolnlni manner, then em I led and alowly drawled: "Why, Jimmy Wilde, the Uttl. Britten paperweight paper-weight or flyweight a. they chooee to rail him. 1 the other." And again we acquiesced la hie .election. "Now, mind." he continued, "1 don't want to be understood aa) aajrtnf tha other champion, cham-pion, w. bar. ar. not food, or (.11 to com. up t. proper standards when welched hi the ecal. of peat performances. perform-ances. I don't mean that. I mean they acquired their position, by hard knock and lot. of work .nd tralnlnr. They are maimfactured. whl). to - Bern psey and Wild. .11 thlnff. In th. flrht fame com. aaay. They do thlnaa Intuitively that required Ion. year, of practice for other flahur. t. maater. They act In th. ring-Juet ring-Juet as Jack MeAulirr. and Tung Orlffo did. They are always ready for an amercency and ar. en the alert to tak. adyantaa. of any open) (if which Goffer. Itself. That', alee why this nch war. ereat champion.; I mean . exceptional man of thlr Urn. h ooa-tinued. ooa-tinued. And a. w. dlse.pt th. abatr. and ana. lyae It carefully In our enrumenttve mood we eonclud. th. ddtlmer aald a . treat. hl7 mouthful, wsll worth aonsld arlnff by all who ar. Interested and follow fol-low the lam. of biff and banc from Ita preliminary stare, until It. cllmaxea, when greet heavywelrht championship bout, materialise and upeet the throne of th. IIU. wearer. Juet as th. mad Moloch of Prussia turned .ha whol. world topey.turvy. And particularly 1. tht. true of onr heavyweirhta. Outelde of a vary few aicentlopal eaeea, our blr follows had nothlnr but ala. and hlttlnr power to commend th.ra. Maaalv.nae. and bulk predominated In whatever auooee. they achieved. Her. and there an Isolated deviation from the nil. can be found, but on th. whol. size was reeponaible ( for their rairnlnr position more than any other aasat they may hav. poaee.ssd. |