Show T F YOU core care to intermingle in sporting p arting arguments tod today ny and who in esporti can lend lead you to any croup geopp of soldiers sni sailors lors marines airmen and merchant donmen and take your ears off it has been my privilege to be with many of these men lately north and south east and west We stand nd they ill all want answers direct answers klco this Is happens to bo be tho the greatest sporting country tills this spinning planet has ever known so you yott can understand tile the interest these kids have in almost anything connected with sports they like to argue about anything at the last gathering they put out a tough one wio who are tile he best straight power men all our games have ever known just power football and baseball boxing especially also golf and tennis on tile the side aide it if you are wrong they come back at you in a rush for they know their sports A day or two ago they laid down a salvo a fusillade end and a barrage that had me dizzy even looking back over 40 years just power raw power never mind the rest of it heading the list you dont get much time to think these things over they come at you like a flock of wolves here are the answers I 1 gave them tho the eager cage r and healthy tho the crippled and the burned football bronko who as steve owen once said Is the only back who could run his own interference even von h his blockers got out of the way pounds of fast moving dynamite power means speed and bulk had both bronko Is the man behnle bierman alerman of 0 minnesota and lo 10 iowa a navy picked as his bronko top man in football largely power in his fading years I 1 caught bronko in a shower after some tough game slapped him on the back and almost broke my hand I 1 might as well have been socking seeking a hydrant the all time top baseball babe ruth the babe hit over homo home runs in big league play on tile the side ho he also hit more than another batch of home runs in exhibitions and world series the babe Is so far ahead of all the power hitters there is no one even close lou gehrig was a great power man pound for pound so Is mel ott ted williams Is no punk boxing there are only two men to consider in this field jack demp scy y and joe louis round for pound they were no better belter than ruby rob ro ert fitzsimmons and sam langford but ill still string with dempsey and louis jim jeffries Jeff rles was a punishing fight er but not a direct killer gene tunney was a boxer harry grob greb was a whirlwind minus any killing wallop but when demp sey bey and louis lev i aled off something always happened in a hurry burry dempsey had 9 greater grea ter speed than louis had when the old mauler was at jack dempsey his lap peak at toledo and before louis had more power in both hands for power ill give you dempsey and louis or louis and dempsey to my mind the power man of golf has been jimmy thomson with sam snead close ive seen thomson carry over yards too many times I 1 hear about other phenous who can thomson maybe once in a while ask the pros the power tennis play player erIll ill go with bill tilden service or forehand big bill was the top matt man ive seen him knock the racquet from the hands of stars blasting them off the courts when he felt in that mood m maurice mcloughlin had a high power service but the californian never had Til dens allaround all around power nothing like it so here are our power men of sport ruth dempsey louis thomson tilden BRIEFS iff fl the chicago cubs have eliminated their famous sleeveless shirts and will return to standard stan daid type baseball ball uniforms the standard jandard tan dard garb costs only half as much fl L john jerome white exhibition ice skater recently celebrated his birthday on the west coast al C 41 bill carpenter supervisor of umpires for the international league draws up tip the playing schedule for his own circuit as well as for four others 11 Hs 19 been doing it tor for 25 years t W |