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D j I Our ur idea of nothing to do do-be- do be being ing ung a telephone operator in jn Mur Mur- ray I Iray Every ball bail player has a dual personality One day he is he-is is a hero a boob th the next Freddie Welsh scouts the idea that boxing is P is-P a brutal sport i 1 never hurt anyone Freddie con co- cop Little tip to Cliff Blankenship Blankenship- If som someone someone one is is paying Willie Powell 21 21 a month to keep him away I from the ball bali park better pay him I 22 to get him back I How the Bees could use those and homers Joe homers Joe e has I been leaning against in the South South- cm training ca ca ps With Willard in retirement so far as is concerned the baseball fans will be able to read something occasionally about the national Hardy Downing brought Kid Irish back out of retirement to r r make a card out of him He wasl successful but now there is no one who wants to meet him Even the Mysterious s Jimmy Brown pers person n of Ogden cannot see the Tooele m miners miner's ners ner's game Barring a I a few et backs the bowling ling season to close July 4 Frank Moran is a glutton fo foT o punishment Having knocked down dawn in return for a lacing spread over 30 minutes' minutes time the Pitts burger all allows ws he could be induced to battle Willard again I have no inclination on or intention intention tion of making any more alibis for Mike Yokel Mil Mike e is is s well eve ove oye the year twenty mark and has I. I been in in the game gamo long Jong enough to know something about it ut Mike Muke has been a great little wrestle wrestler one of the very best little luttie fellow who ever stepped on a mat mat and and now that he is is s really taking things seriously h he ho deserves another chance to show us whether or OP not he can come back Pet Brown Brown the middle weight who started Mike on the downward slide is us back in inthe in inthe inthe the city to give him the desired chance to try fry once more for his hue former title If confidence counts for anything in this next meeting between the two Mike may win He put pLit up a better petter ette showing than he did in the previous match at least Yokel was in the worst possible shape physically ano and men mentally mentally men mentally tally when he wrestled Brown before before be before fore and ho he was in no better fetU fetHe to wrestle when defeated by Ketonen shortly after I I personally person ally know this because I learned and saw after the Brown match Of course Yokel had no one to blame for his condition but himself and he had no one but Mike Yokel to blame for going on the mat in such a condition or lack of con condition Yokel has been working hard ever since the and acts as if he might really be b serious for the first time in a year or more An athlete who has trained continually as a bicycle bicycle- rider and then as a a wrestler fo for thirteen years cannot permit him himself him him-f self to get out of condition as aa Yokel did before the Brown match and then retire to a farm to forget all about training for seven or eight months Yokel will have hav to learn over again that in order to be in shape he must keep himself himself himself him him- self right and that it will take fake him longer to get fit than it did five years ago when he trained every everyday day of his life Following a plow or herding ct cattle cuttle le on a farm is not the kind of training that will permit per per- mit him to cope with such men as asPet asPet asPet Pet Brown or Jack Harbertson who do at least a little training every day of their lives Mike j ably has learned something He will have his chance next Friday at any rate so well we'll wait and see It would not surprise me at all t tsee to see Yokel boot beet P Pet t Brown Be careful now Dont Don't start rapping rapping rap rap- ping and playing the part of a a grandstand manager the minute your Bees lose a couple of ball games You know the tho old season has twenty-nine twenty more series to run Remember what happened last year The anvil chorus did not make that finish finis which took Salt Lake into second position and close onto the heels of the cham cham- The fellows who made that thai finish were not of the weak-kneed weak kind Boost darn it BOOST Cliff Bl Blankenship is going to toa wi a few more games before the sea season season season son is over He wants to win as badly as you do but above all things stay with him and his boys and save your hammers until th the season closes at least So much has been written abo about t the big boxing bout in New York City recently that I j am afraid I can cari can t throw little new light on the subject subject sub sub- 1 and yet of the tho many impressions i I received of that encounter Continued on page 3 3 SPORT GOSSIP GOSSI GOSSIPy S I y Continued from page 2 one stands out a little more promInently prominently prom prom- perhaps than any other and that that that-is is the attitude of Willard toward the public and the game generally Almost all of the commentators com corn unite on on the statement the that that champion is isa a very modest modest mod mod- est retiring good natured sort of fellow that he does not obtrude his personality upon them or ring followers and that he shows no evidence of swell head This I take it must appeal to those who wIo see and know him as somewhat refreshing for while we have had champions of that sort they have been few and far between It is isis isis isis is something of a novelty for champions champions cham cham- to be modest And yet there seems seems to be a side to this latest champion that does not evince modesty altogether and I refer to the manifest completeness with which Willard controls his hold on the financial aspect of his work Without doubt he Is one of the merriest little coin getters this country has ever seen and certainly certain certain- ly Iy here his modesty ends I do not say this in the spirit of adverse criticism however On the contrary contrary con con- I rather admire the nerv nerve of ofa a man who having talents which the he public seems to want has the temerity to hang on to his figure in selling them Too few prize fighters fight fight- ers or boxers know now how to get the most out of their ability in dollars and cents Willard seems to be past master in th the art |