Show I V 0 h O I I H I RICE RACE a aT I X T RILE HILE various promoters still stillY I W Y Y are aro groping in the dark for a n anew new heavyweight champion with Joe Louis in hi possible retirement I there is a chanco chance that the world soon oon will be cluttered up with ex ex- heavyweight stars They make an L Interesting group It was a matter of ot 49 years pears ag ago o that Jim Jeffries knocked out Bo Bob b FItzsimmons Th The Tho e heavyweight champions champions cham chain followed i in inthis inthIs n this order Tommy Tomm y Burns Jack JackI Johnson John a I tr son Jess Willard Jack Dempsey tr Gene Tunney Ma Max x si 4 Jac JackSha Jack k 4 Sha Sharkey Primo Prim 0 Camera Max Baer Jim Braddock an and d finally Louis Loui DEMPSEY From this parade o of 12 men only y J Johnson is missing And he wa was wal e lolled killed In a motor car ear accident Jeffries Jeffries Jef Jet fries frios is still alive hale alive hale and rath rather er hearty heart learty and so are Burns Willard Dempsey Tunney Sharkey Camera Baer Braddock k and Louis The span from Crom Jeffries to LouIs covers almost half U a century een- een tur tart tury and to lo have haTe 11 n out of 1 12 u champions ex-champions still inhabiting this planet is foil fall proof they are aro a ahardy hardy lot Big Camera still is wrestling o or r giving imitations thereof an and d Dempsey still is refereeing now an and c d then hen Jeffries has been running a 8 boxing school and holding fight t nights Louis says he is through but he still sUll hasn't turned fumed In is any formal ormal or official abdication Still in Good Shape Two men still In fine physical shape are Dempsey and nd Tunney Tenney Both are now around pounds which could be a trifle lower but I 1 they still look like ex champions ex-champions ought to look At least leut they look as asi asif i if f they could handle most of at the phony heavyweights Ive I've s seen en around in the last few years It U might also bo be mentioned that outside of Louis the two old rivals arc are better fixed financially finan finan- than any other heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight in history Dempsey has one of the most beautiful hom homIn homes In Los Angeles for his two laughters daughters while Tunney Tenney and his family never sever will Rill have to worry worry wor wor- ry about the next beefsteak and caviar I understand Sharkey Isn't doing doin g too oo badly and I know Camera has been mopping up In the weird an and d wrestling game A Memorable Group Is it possible there could be any group more different than the 1 11 1 heavyweight champions E still living I doubt it Id I'd like to see sea motion n picture shorts made of ot their lives The big burly headed bald-headed Jeffries Jef Jef- now fries fries now over 70 the 70 the toughest st oo at ot them all He was wac an old man physically physically cally when he fought Johnson who was far below Louis In all moral values values but but a great fighter Burns over Burns over 60 hooked SO-hooked hooked In some odd philosophy of life lie Willard a 2 pound giant the least equipped of ot them all aU men menn tally Just a guy who weighed bid pounds Ask Dempsey Dempse- Dempsey and and nd others Dempsey a firebrand In his day an au ex Babe Ruths Ruth's suc suc- cessor Tough and rough In the ring One of the few gentlemen Ive I've known knO outside of the ring The one colorful figure gure left let in hi sport Dempsey the killer is also Dempsey who always thinks of the underdog and has given away wa more mone money to bums and has has-beens than any two men In sports As great a guy as anyone anyone anyone any any- one I ever met I only wish I knew more words to write about him Tunney the man who made himself A man of character and intelligence Not too much inclined towards popularity Dempsey loved people Tunney never did Smart keen a man of indomitable will power A man you must know to like since he makes no effort tomake to tomake tomake make new friends But one who has written a great chapter in sport that will be remembered later on Far up the ladder Ins Fill for or Tun Tunney Sharkey Camera Baer Braddock Here are five dve heavyweights that Just happened to to fill In to after Tunney retired Demp Damp Dempsey Dampsey sey at his peak peale could have stopped them all in two rounds T Tunney nn Y could have chopped them Into mincemeat Camera was a clown cloma Sharkey was another been might have been who was never too smart In th the ring ring- ringI I uI had Dempsey knocked out in the first round he told me rae when hen I stopped to make mike mikean an address to the cro crowd d that had hooted me mo Dempsey Dempse wason was wason wason on the ropes Now Louis Loul A great champion champlon A boxer and a puncher Especially a puncher Game but no Dempsey Dempse at taking a punch They all came along long and knocked Louis I down I I I think Dempsey would have knocked I i I him out I j I i |