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Show Look to Your Wrestling Laurels, Bronko Nagurski, ! Because Kingfish Levinsky Is Going to Join Tong Br JERKY BROVDFIEIJJ NBA elenrtea Sparta Writer CHICAGO. Dec- 30 King Lerin-sky. Lerin-sky. woo made his first belligerent mores slapping wet herring onto the scales in Maxwell street, thinks maybe he'U become a raasler and gather together some coin of the realm. By coming up wkh this brainstorm brain-storm the Kingfish just about admits ad-mits he's washed up as a box-fignt-er. so why shouldn't he pick up some change the way football players, play-ers, has been pugs and circus clowns are doing? ( ' And anyway, when it cornea tc clowns, who la there to contest the Kingfish'a qualifications? Let's see now it was Lou Gehrig who murmured something about getting in at least five more years In the National league when his American league playing days were concluded. Without getting into too much difficulty you can draw the( same parallel with rassling and the' other sports. ! Leinslty I ndrntande j All that is required In the heare and haul business nowadays is toj .first make a name for yourself ina 'another line of endeavor. Then I when you're all washed up. you become be-come a heavyweight rassling aspl-; aspl-; rant. That is, provided you're large enough. I Levinsky. despite the state ot whackiness he might be in from stopping so much leather, is quick to see his possibilities. Gus Sonnenberg wss just another football player with the Providence Steam Rollers until one night he cracked he could "throw those two tCmttnu. mm FoUowtef Fecal . 1 Levinsky Threatens To Turn Wrestler f Continued from Preceding Pas) big bums right outa ths arena." It was just six falls and three ahakes later that he found himself world champion, Jim McMlllen, who as a guard blocked the pins from underneath various and sundry people who tried to stop Red Grange at Illinois, took up wrestling on the advice of Bob Zuppke, who told him It would give him more agility on the gridiron. Jim went on to become one of the more successful professionals in both lines of activity. Jumping Joe Savoldl made many a first down for Notre Dame, was bounced for being married secretly, found his nsms in headlines, and capitalized on it In rasallng. A mighty behemoth by the name of Frank Leavltt from Hell's Kitchen Kitch-en in New York was policeman until he found that by growing a luxuriant set of whiskers and changing chang-ing his name to Man Mountain Desn he could coin a barrel of dough making odd noises and many faces. ; So maybe Levinsky hss the right ! idea. He made more than $300,000 during his career as a fighter, but he wasted or spent it as rspidly as he made it. And if it takes a clown to make ! good as a rassler, ths King is a cinch. i Early this yesr Levinsky went to Englsnd to bsttle Jack Doyle. He attended a luncheon in London where the toastmaster raised hisj glass and said: "Gentlemen, the King!" Ths herring slappsr from Maxwell Max-well street stood up and took a bow. When bigger and better clowns corns along. Ringling Brothers and Barnum A Bailey will have them. i |