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Show ipfti Uacr and Louis BILL BRADY, whose boxing lore t goes back a matter of 50 years, j ; is one of the few who believes that Ruddy Daer can peddle out a large I ' package of poison to Joe Louis, if trained and handled properly. v j Mr. Brady, who directed the ear-' ear-' lier destinies of Jim Corbett ami Jim Jeffries, has thought for some 1 time that the young P.aer was the most dangerous ehalleng-, ehalleng-, er Louis had to face. He thought that before the first Louis-Raer mix-up mix-up in Washington, and he hasn't changed his mind since. i I "Huddy Raer is a c.rantland Rice I fair boxer, and lie ; Is big and game. Rut, above all, he can punch. And he Is capable of showing more speed than he has turned in so far. Ruddy needs an j extensive training campaign under I smart handling. If this happens even champion Louis will have a I busy afternoon." In the other Louis contest Buddy proved that he could punch, and that he could take a bundle of punches on the side. But he was entirely ' too slow, and if this weakness is corrected in the next six weeks the younger Baer can be built into a threatening challenger. The Popular Call Not all the arguments belong to football, although football brings out the greater heat. There Is another debate on now as to which is the more popular sport basketball or bowline. This argument will have to be restricted re-stricted to the number of players involved, in-volved, since basketball is ahead when it comes to attendance. Bowling Bowl-ing supporters claim something like 20,000,000 players. Basketball back- crs speak of millions, with no set figures. On the playing side, bowling should have the call since it Is a simpler family game to take up and older people can give it a try. Rowling Rowl-ing is now on a new boom, covering the entire map. On the playing side it leads the list. Fifty Years Ago "Dear Grant I saw Harvard and Yale play their annual game in Springfield in 1889, and I was just ' thinking about the changes that have taken place when you move up to 1941. I was a 13-year-old kid when I saw Yale beat Harvard, 6 to 0. that day, with 20.0(10 looking on. Those were two great teams. Among others, Yale had Heffelfin-ger, Heffelfin-ger, Stagg, McClung, McBride, Hartwell, and Morrison. Harvard had Cumnock, Upton, Cranston, Bernie Trafford, Lee and Dean. "We youngsters had never seen this new type of football. When the two teams started warming up we thought they were playing with old footballs knocked out of shape. Also, there were only two substitutions in a hard, rough game. "The big thrill we got was the arrival of Frank Hinkey at Yale. I'd like to say that any one who doesn't put Hinkey on his all-time All-America All-America simply doesn't know his j football. lie weighed only 155 . pounds, but he was the hardest, surest and deadliest tackier I ever . saw. And yet in his four years of i tiy Frank never had time taken ..lit "Hinkey was the star of football's all-time roughest game. This was in If!!! I. I remember how busy the stretcher-bearers were all through the game. The big howl came when Hinkey tackled Wrightington. a l!)0)oid Harvard back, so ter rifically that riglitlngton was ear- j ricd olf with a broken collarbone. Fred' Murphy, a Yale star, was rushed to the hospital in a serious condition. "It was in the 181 game that Harvard introduced the Hying and revolving wedges, which Hinkey, 'the disembodied ghost,' helped to solve. The game has Improved in many, many ways, (irant, hut not in the manner of fighting spirit. How that old guard loved body contact, con-tact, especially Heffelfingcr and Hinkey, two of the game's greatest. "Jack Doyle." No one has looked through a run of 50 years or more with more observing ob-serving eyes than Jack Doyle, the well-known betting commissioner, one of the few left who has seen them come along from Iliflelfniger ; to Kndicott Poabody. '' The Year of llaehs j One of the features of this season I has Lren the number of brilliant backs supplied by the Midwest and South especially. The Midwest offers Bruce Smith, Westfall, Hillenbrand, Graham, L'crtelli, Harder, Steuber, DeCorre-vont, DeCorre-vont, Kuma and many others. The South has Dudley, Jenkins, Lach. Sink'.vich, Hapcs, Hovious, and rrom the Southwest such talent at Mosir. Layden and Crain, |