Show T IS only fitting that the P heavy eavy A weight championship of the world was decided between two negroes since most of the better fighters lighters in the last few years have belonged to the negro race I 1 might mention joe louis joe walcott ray kobin robin son ike williams ezzard charles beau jack and a few others the only two white entries I 1 can think of now who belong around the top are tony zale and gus lesnevich V why is this I 1 asked a well j known trainer heres the trouble he said most of the white fighters are lazy or yellow they wont won t tram train and they can cant t take it this is a minor detail that the white section might consider re S member this they won t tram and they can cant t take it 3 good white whit fighters have become about as scarce as the extinct dodo zale and lesnevich are exceptions so is willie pep outside of zale pep and lesnevich most of the white fighters that I 1 know are crude lazy and incompetent they dislike the train ing routine or like rocky graziano they wont learn their trade tride how to bot box A right hand will do it was rocky s answer only it didn t zale is a professional graziana graziano ism t he lie never will be except on the financial side graziano will win never be the pro that zale ts is strictly a pro francis Alber tanti says of zale graziano maybe a semipro but never a a pro S 0 citations Citation 9 s goals unless something ot of a harsh phy nature happens to calumet s citation he is almost certain to reach two coveted goals 1 to finish the high money win ner of all time above one million dollars in total purses 2 to be ranked as the top horse of all time rated definitely above man ci war there is little doubt of his pass ing the one million dollar mark un less he breaks a leg or Is badly in cured the calumet star already has slipped by the mark and he is just warming up with such stakes as the arlington classic class I 1 c in chicago and the international gold cup race at belmont on his list there is more than in big stake purses left on the 48 schedule and citation is still a young three year old there will be much baying and braying among many members of the old guard in placing any horse above man alan 0 war but dont don t torget forget two things that man alan 0 war ceased firing as a three year old and that man 0 war never won a handicap race ile never ran against older horses except sir barton who atthe at the time was badly crippled man ci war was a great race horse but the big test comes in the hand handi cap division where you might give away weight where you must carry from to pounds to prove your place there is no reason to believe man ci war couldn t have carried this weight citation already has run against older horses and beaten them thern two of these were armed and in the seminole handicap citation can finish his three year old career on even terms with man 0 war getting none the best of things but if he goes on from there into the handicap division to meet older horses he is almost sure to finish as the greatest race horse this country ever has known it is always just as well to wait until a competitor has at leant reached the stretch of his career be tore fore he is finally judged and placed twenty game pitchers pitcher s how many 20 game pitchers on the winning side will there be this season the crop will be extremely thin when the 1948 1943 season opened the leading probabilities included black well feller lemon reynolds dobson munger marchil don trout sain spahn jansen and branca I 1 could mention one or two others how many of these will make it blackwell and feller two of the favored sons certainly two of the best are out of it unless they tin in ish like a brace of citations blackwell with a bad arm has three victories out of eight starts at this time last year ewell the lone pine was on his way to 16 straight feller has been battling to break even it might also be noted that feller has been driven from the field of glory seven times at least in less than two months hal drew the roughest start of the bunch losing tour four of his ills first fl five e games but the scrappy and skillful tiger put on a hot rally and proceeded to win seven in a row I 1 he ie still has an outside chance to reach the olive crowned circle red munger of the ca danals ha has been one of the seasons major dis app ointa rr ants picked as a 25 game winner big strong and fast the ex a army officer has been below par most of the year |