Show t r RICE WHILE X T various promoters still VV are groping in the dark for tor a anew anew anew new heavyweight champion with Joe Louis in possible retirement there Is la a chance that the world soon will be cluttered up with ex ex- fht stars stara They make an interesting group It was waa a matter of ot 49 years yean ago that Jim Jeffries knocked out Bob Fitzsimmons The heavyweight champions cham followed in UI order Tommy Bums Burns Jack Johnson John za son Jess Willard Jack Dempsey rz Gene Tunney TuMey Max Jack Sharkey Primo v y Camera Max Baer I Jim Braddock and s finally Louis DEMPSEY DEl From this parade of ot 12 men only Johnson is missing And he was killed in a motor car accident Jeffries Jeffries Jef fries is still alive hale alive hale and rather hearty hearty and and so are Burns Bums Willard Dempsey Tunney Sharkey Camera Baer Braddock and Louis Loul The span from Jeffries to Louis covers almost half a century century century cen cen- cen- cen tury and to have 11 out ont of 12 ex champions still Inhabiting this pl planet net Is full proof they are a ahardy ahardy ahardy hardy lot Big Camera still is II wrestling or giving imitations thereof and Dempsey still till is refereeing now and then J Jeffries has been running a boxing school chool and holding fight light nights Louis says saYI he is II through but he still hasn't turned in to any formal or or official abdication Still in Good Shape Two men menn men still in fine tine ph physical shape are Dempsey and Tunney Both are now around pounds which could be a trifle lower but they still sWI look like ex-champions ex ought to look At least they look as 81 asif asif if they could handle most of the phony heavyweights Ive I've seen around in the last few years It n might also be mentioned that outside of Louis the two old rivals are better fix fixed d financially financially finan Oman daily than any other heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight in his history tor Dempsey basone has bas one of the most mod beautiful homes In 10 Los Angeles for his two laughters while Tunney and his bin family never will have to wory worry wor wor- worry ry about the next beefsteak and caviar I understand Sharkey isn't doing too badly and I know Camera Carnera has been mopping up In the weird and Incredible wrestling game A Memorable Group Is it possible there could be an any group more different than the 11 heavyweight champions still living I doubt it Id I'd like to see motion picture shorts made of their lives The big ble burly headed bald-headed Jeffries Jef fries now fries now over 70 the 70 70 toughest of ot i them all He was an old man physically physically cally when he fought Johnson who was far below Louis in all aU moral values values but but a great fighter Burns over Burns over 60 hooked 50 hooked hi In n some lome odd philosophy of life lUe Willard a pound giant glan the least equipped of them all men tally Just a guy who weighed pounds Ask Dempsey Dempsey and and others Otherl Dempsey a firebrand in his day an ex Babe Ruths Ruth's successor suc suc- cessor Tough and rough roub in the th ring One of the few tew gentlemen em en Ive I've known outside of the ring The one colorful figure left In sport Dempsey the killer kUler Is also Dempsey who always thinks of the underdog and has bas given riven wa away more money to bums and has beens than any two men In sports sport As AI great a guy 1117 as anyone anyone any any- one ODe I ever met I only enly wish I knew more words word to write about him Tunney the man who made himself A man of character and I I intelligence Not too much Inclined I towards popularity Dempsey Dempler loved people Tunney never did Smart I keen a man of indomitable will willpower willpower power A man you must know to like Uke since he be makes no effort to tomake tomake tomake make new friends friend But one who has haa written a great greet chapter In sport that will wUl be remembered later on I Far up the ladder Ins Fill for lor Tunney I Sharkey Camera Baer Braddock Here Hero are five heavyweights that Just happened to fill All in n after Tunney retired Dem Dempsey Demp Demp- p. p ae sey at his bli peak could have stopped topped them them all aU in two rounds round Tunney could have chopped them into mincemeat Camera was a a clown Sharkey was al aD another titer might have I who b. b was al sever too loo smart mart In la the ring I had Dempsey Dempley knocked out In to the tb first round send he be told old me when I stopped to 0 make an address addrel to the crowd that had bad hooted booted me Dempsey was wason OB on the ropes rope Now Louis A great creat champion champton A boar baker and a puncher Especially a puncher Game alme but no Dempsey at taking a punch They aU all U came along alone and knocked Louis Louts down I think D Dempsey would have knocked him Wm out a |