Show Fans Prefer Parlor to Bleachers By GRANTLAND RICE Here's just a dream for Horn in a land still A dream that u ill still come tr Whatever the dream may Vor a gift the- grip of your That is enough for Into the Fogs amateur and is coming through the deepest fog it has ever The larger part of this fog Is due to the ever-extending spread of the mk Another heavy v There Is Ing any genius can fL L J i do about the Bk Lj Us encircling arms them in between true athletic Grantland Rice day by But television can be Television can afford to pay large sums but It Is a question as to whether any sum can make up for half-filled Even games televised far away the home scene can still cut in on other type of game can handle one of the leading athletic director said who can tell In advance Just when a sellout game will I think the Nine handled the situation better than any other And their crowds were the largest In the has hit Los Angeles and vicinity harder than any other This city has taken quite a both in its pro and amateur You apparently can't make their football people see that thousands of followers would rather have the game brought to them for nothing than pay to travel to the Each year there will be more and more television which won't be any It Is only on rare such as the Army-Navy that you'll have both television and a complete These occasions will come along rarely in the The of the draft any form of prediction the rankest sort of Predictions are usually But with so many stars In navy or air force the prophet will be a blind man peering into deep Fighters In the Black How many boxers or fighters save their money and have a few rupees for a rainy This query came up again when a traveler from the Argentine ran into an old-timer remembered as Luis Angel the Wild BuU of the was smart financially when he was up here meeting Bill Jack and he saved most of his I recall In the training period for the Firpo-Dempsey fight that Dempsey spent a week for sparring partners and Firpo spent about Firpo saved almost every quarter he picked recall the admiration he drew from Bill McGeehan for his careful The Argentine fighter had the ring hangers on They never picked a dime from As a result Firpo today has a big farm of many thousands of acres outside of Buenos stocked with He is a wealthy He has a healthy bank account on the He weighs only today against the he weighed against He has token good care of himself these last The fighters around time were a careful Dempsey fought for more than during hla ring He drew much bigger gates than Joe Louis or anyone else has ever drawn except Gene Tunney who fought Dempsey Dempsey made spent money and saved There will be no collection taken up for I've called him twice in the last two weeks only to find that he was on his way west or on his way to Canada to referee some wrestling Dempsey gets a kick out of handling these now and then exchanging punches where he never gets the worst of A wrestler can't Even Frank Gotch was a third-rate The old meaning the guy from has a fine home In Los Angeles for his two daughters and his restaurant here has always done Tunney and Others Gene Tunney made a lot of married Tunney certainly has no financial worries and never will He Is a careful administrator of his He Is also a smart Among the modern group of fighters both Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta won't need any Both have done extremely well financially and haven't thrown too much coin would surprise Eddie Kagan know how much money a number of boxers are putting away each Somi of them are not too well You don't read much about their But they do all |