Show j Rex Layne May Be A Dempsey By GRANTLAND RICE IT HAS BEEN A NUMBER of hunter's moons since a young fellow by the name of Jack Dempsey came out of Utah and Colorado to let the boxing game on Dempsey was 24 years old when he won the heavyweight championship from Jess Wil- lard at Toledo In That was a trifle over 31 years Dempsey lifted the ring game out of the morass at that He served notice on his arrival by out Fred Kloe a leading In some IT And Fulton was rated one of the best fighters of that close to the He was around 6 feet 4 or 5 with deadly left He could and he could But weighing In like a western tornado and one punch was Fulton could whip most of the heavyweights around Now another young fighter by the name of Rex Layne comes out of Utah with a good chance to give the ring game a big Big Jess was heavyweight champion when Jack Dempsey Ezzard weighing is champion as young Layne arrives on the I don't believe Ezzard Charles could have beaten the of 1919 and I am fairly sure that Layne couldn't have gone more than a round or two with Dempsey of that Which nothing as far as 1951 la i Layne is a fine young He is on the hungry as Dempsey He is dead game and he can take a He til supposed to be a hard which he had no chance to prove against the slippery One point is dead Layne shouldn't be He isn't ready He needs more hard work more road more The one thing that can ruin young Layne is the game It Can Happen As the football campaign of 1950 progressed the usual number of odd happenings and offside incidents took Unexplainable things happen each fall In and 1950 has been no For example there is Jim Tatum's experienced team goes to Georgia and gets wrecked 27 to Two weeks later Maryland rambles to State and smashes that powerful outfit 34 to It was Michigan State's only Then State beats Maryland 18 to That's a dizzy ferris wheel to Then there's the western beaded by beata Stanford 31 to California wrecks to Then and California gives California an even game and la unlucky to California beata 35 to Then beata U.S.C. 39 to In the Vanderbilt beats Alabama 27 to Alabama beats Tulane 26 to So Tulane turns around and murders Vanderbilt 35 to Columbia whips Pennsylvania runs over Columbia 34 to So Cornell beats Pennsylvania 13 to This Is quite enough to prove that you can't take comparative scores in trying to pick or It doesn't work a The oddest turn of the season came on the final day of the Big Nine Michigan at that time was well behind Ohio State and Illinois for the Big Nine Michigan end Wisconsin were tied for third and fourth Yet Michigan not only won the but won without completing a single first You can say this Is the first time any such thing ever happened in the of 9 a Tunney and Louis Gene Tunney was a heavyweight champion who quit well before his The two meaning Tunney and are quite Gene had picked up over in the second Dempsey fight and over against Tom Taxes were thin in those days and Tunney carried home most of what he'd Taxes have hurt In addition to Tunney was sick of at least a good many angles of the fight game that were the then as they are and will be a hundred years from It would have been interesting to see how far Gene Tunney could have Those who followed him were Max Jack Max Baer and Jim He could have walked through this collection without picking up a half-dozen beads of Gene would have been in much better physical shape and would also have boxed their collective ears And it so happens that Tunney was a pretty fair Jimmy who whipped Baer and is one of the would have been outclassed by Tunney the night he beat the tired and tottering Tunney could have moved through this list and retired |