Show I Why Not Give Frenchmen By GRANTLAND RICE 1 A SMART YOUNG MAN ONLY with the expanding energy of Jim International Boxing Club would even tackle the fight game tangle as it is It happens to be twisted into greater number of knots than a weight who can division I Saddler who want 1 two mints for what Is now getting to to be doubtful Here is just one In the middleweight set the worst two fighters are the ones elected to meet for the title LaMotta and I doubt very much that either could handle Ray welterweight Robert Villemain or Laurent Robinson and Villemain are both much above the LaMotta-Graziano LaMotta who is the middleweight has slipped a long way downhill since be was fighting Robinson years ago and Rocky Graziano has dipped just as This was the division that was supposed to feature all boxing programs for Or at least feature most of them since the middle-weights had more stuff to Philadelphia has grabbed off the best show of the lot in Robinson and Villemain so far as actual ring skill is but there is no title It is an odd angle that a fighter of the LaMotta type should be able to tie up the one good division left to a game that seems to be reeling in the The two Frenchmen have been tossed around and yet either Is a better fighter than LaMotta is today The Philadelphia show is about as good as the game can offer right now but what it means In the way of dissolving Jake LaMotta is another Both LaMotta and Graziano were much higher in the scale some years Neither could ever be accused of being another Benny Leonard or r But in their own rough and rowdy way they knew how to be Both have lost the reflexes and resiliency of younger years and appear to be waiting for the a 0 The Television Angle Back around the hazy year known as 1893 in Baltimore there was a move on the part of the ball club to keep baseball writers out of the The idea was that people had to come to the park to find out who This suggestion was quickly thrown Who would go to ball game when he could sit at home and hear every play for no Larry waa one of the first to provo this theory was Radio waa a big baseball Now television cornea under heavy When you are able both to see and hear the game It Is something I have never heard as many different opinions expressed on one The grouping is about as follow 1 Television will wreck starting with the minor 2 Television will hurt the weaker It won't affect the stronger 3 Television will make little difference one way or another after good weather and better baseball 4 Television will help baseball in the long It brings the gomes to thousands of new It will be even more help than radio As Larry was the first to give radio a real I asked the former Yankee or one of how he felt about don't think it will make much he doesn't televise I'd rather hear a gome called over The 1950 Miracle Man From the extensive domain of his broad estate in Maryland It seems that Larry MacPhail still keeps an eye on the general scene He is now raising Angus cattle and thoroughbreds and also watching the standing of the clubs in the two especially the do you he a fellow by the name of Bucky If he isn't the miracle so of who The raw facts in the case are that for the first five or ti weeks of the new season Bucky Harris has come through with the finest Job In He had a team that was expected by practically everyone to dive for the cellar on opening day and stay there until October's leaves But here after close to 30 a pretty sound Bucky and his bunch have spent most of the time hobnobbing with the Red Sox and the aristocrats of their |