Show SPORT LIGHT how about a charles maxim bout by GRANTLAND RICE TOE OE BENJAMIN former light J weight boxing star a pal of jack Demp and man about the world has a good mea idea th this Is present day if 11 I 1 g h t game lie said Is pretty terrible it Is even worse than that why not mot take taho a chance and go back to at least part of the big biff years I 1 mean the years when dempsey and kearns K c a r n s came ame along we vie clint cant use old jack now but wo we can call am kearns at that I 1 think J daok a a k grantland n 1 l rice I 1 do so bad today but doe has a fight or er named maxim who can give alvo ezzard charles all the th he be Is looking tor for it would bea be A good tight fight what chance do you think maxim would have I 1 asked the wanderer and why did you once toss aside a title and a million dollars when you had the chance 1 I care to be bothered with that much responsibility risibility ne benjamin njamin replied if 1 I had won the title id have lost it later it if I 1 made a million dollars id have spent it im doing all right about charles and maxim he resumed ned it would be a good fight they have met three times already and it was wag all nip and tuck no big difference I 1 know charles has improved but so has maxim maxim had a bad arm when he met charles and this choked down his punching the arm is OK and maxim is a far ar better puncher now besides joe rambled on it help things put out to have doo doe kearns back you remember what he was waa when lie he handled dempsey back in the lost past doo doc might have lost ost a little of the old zip but not too much ile he could help helep stir things up anyway anil and im not kidding you about maxim lie ho can really fight lie ile la Is a fine boxer and a much harder puncher than he used to be this might miguil not make one of the greatest heavyweight fights of all time but li it would be bet ter than anything we have in sight eight and I 1 think it would pick up a louder ballyhoo 11 dempsey louis angle being a professional fighter it has always struck me that it was strictly joe louis business when he decided to keep on fighting many a professional writer keeps on writing when he be is well aver the hill maybe its a matter of habit but dempsey and louis are well apart in this respect dempsey tried one comeback after losing to tunney he ha started training again beat jack sharkey wh when enSharkey sharkey had two brainstorms and then moved on to the tha famous long count with tunney dempsey lost that one ile he took quite a beat ing around tho the eyes theres something that few know after the long count tight fight jack was offered for a third meeting demp sey turned the offer down what good would be to me lie he said it if I 1 lost my eyesight in the wake of the lorg long count argument a third dempsey tunney fight might have drawn close to in 1929 the big boom year before the bubble was punctured anyway dempsey turned down ho he might have held out tor for a million in a time when taxes were extremely low at that time would be the same today at tunney kept over of the million he collected in the second dempsey tight fight today he would be allowed to carry away the point is that dempsey turned down in 1923 while louis was still willing to fight for in 1850 1950 and possibly for foi 30 his next time out still who can laugh oft off or oven even for or a nights work then and now back in 1889 snake ames of princeton played through every game his substitute shop shep homans never had a chance to get into a tiger contest the next year shep Hoi homans nans Prince tons pound fullback played placed in emery every ga me 13 all told and shops sheps substitute never had a chance to play later on we had the iron men from brown where it 11 men played every second of several games in those days a good football player had to work on both offense and defense A back had to run and pass he also had to block and tackle A lineman had to stay in and take it this old game game lacked the speed of the modern game but at least it built the endur endurance anc which modem play build it was with something lofa ofa shock that we looked at the columbia charts on the columbia football program program last week these charts showed how much football had changed liere here were the different teams or line be watched boffen 1 offensive teams 2 defensive teams 3 punting teams 4 punt receiving teams 5 bickoff teams 4 0 kickoff receiving teams at 7 point pint after r touchdown teams you believe this could happen but there it was football Is no longer a two platoon system it Is now a seven platoon system |