Show I 1 SPORT R LIGHT when tunney ey and corbett sparred I 1 by GRANTLAND GRANT LAND RICE I 1 HEY WERE TALKING about the THEY T rings best boxers they were a tb bunch inch of old time fight writers and old time fighters they had listed joe gans sam longford langford tack jack blackburn gene tunney joe louis tommy loughran packy mcfarland benny leonard and a few ew others they rhey also naturally n napped jim corbett as one of the best ill take a 1 chance and pi pick ck I 1 I 1 corbett as THE best boxer of all time heres 0 one no of I 1 I 1 many other reasons 1 just a short I 1 while W 11 A A e before G gene e n e tunney met jack demp grantland itice sey gey for the title jim corbett had written a book called the tha roar of the crowd jim was looking for some publicity for or the book tunney at the time was wag looking for publicity that hat would help him nail i d down own the dempsey tight fight gene was just finishing a long ion cam balg n for the championship so I 1 jack E eaton mon and your correspondent got the lie idea of cf using corbet and tunney in xene a one faour in our movie sport reel series I 1 both agreed promptly the meeting was to be only two rounds at two mingues each the only outsider permitted to see the boxing duel was frank craven the late and always brilliant brillian actor jim corbett was then ca years old tunney was around 25 or 28 tunney was dressed in full fighting I 1 costume but corbett asked to be allowed to wear long white trousers I 1 maylegs my legs are not what they used to be he said the they y have thinned out a lot I 1 don dont twant want the old gang around the club in san francisco to note noce the change in addition to Ms his 63 years corbett also had a cold gene tunney later admitted that he had never faced a boxer with that much boxing skill corbett I 1 would feint with his left and then lead with his teft eft or lie he would feln feint t w with ith his left two or three times before calling on an his right old jim had an amazing repertoire 1 I used the feint he said both on attack and defense most boxers now use it only in defense to make you miss iss the feint Is a wonderful attacking device it was not only ta trie e various uses corbett had for his feinting but also the speed of his hands at 63 naturally ura I 1 y gone gene tunney was wag not out to to show corbett up orto or to make it too rough but corbett kept tun ney busy enough through those tour four minutes and tunney that afternoon was at at his peak beak as a boxer one of the best in the gamp game corbetts Cor belts choice they always said I 1 was a boxer who punch gentleman jim said onedas one day 1 I could punch more than hard enough but there were two lights that I 1 won by knockouts in bothi both I 1 hurt my hands so I 1 got to thinking I 1 knew I 1 could anyone then around by a wide margin so I 1 decided c to save my hands and win decisions A good boxer can last m much u I 1 h longer than PL a good slugger in the first place he can save himself from punishment especially to his hands in the tha second place he can concentrate on one detail in place of two that was some soma 24 years ago but even then corlett corbett was se sc verly critical of the baj way all fighters that far back trained all except gene tunney who studied the game intelligently who worked studied the effect of many punches and who also kept himself in marvelous condition for the live five years needed to reach and hold hla his goal dempsey dempsay cant relax corbett corbeit said at that time jack goes out tor for the quick kill ile ho puts everything he ha has into his earlier assaults assault dempsey has the finest competitive peti tive spirit ive ever seen tun ney Is the coolest man in the ring ive ever seen here are two great fighters who are almost opposite in everything they do dempsey is 89 99 per cent attack Tunney at least 80 60 per cent defense deafen se but dont think tunney cant hurt you when you think ot fighters me like corbett dempsey and tunney at and d louis in his prime and then look at the morbid heavyweights heavy weights you see today you wonder how such a change could take place 0 0 0 I 1 future of cardinals Is the once great cardinal machino machine on its way out at least it faces stormy days dayo when bob han and fred took over the star team of the older league both know knew tho the handicap they faced our farm system Is far behind what li it should be hannegan told mo me one day lust just before he died branch rickey Is with brooklyn building up that organization now and S sam am breadon has been too sick 16 plan anything fred Is one of the smartest operators baseball has sigh Is a keen hardworking hard working owner but neither owners nor managers bat hit rua run or throw I 1 no one ona could ask for a better manager than eddie dyer the texan but dyer cant replace old tiring arms and legs with the sin ewa of youth 4 today the cardinals have stan gujial almost half a ball club and hed another star |