Show years catch the fastest athlete by GRANTLAND RICE raw haw speed you speak of the edof coal town or the speed citation knows you s speak peak of the speed of the western gale when the young tornado blows but theres only one speed that matters wherever the tha simooms rage and that Is the speed of the flying years that turns youth into age what are reflexes just what writes L M P are the reflexes you and other porting morting experts thanks write about are t they h ey physical or menial alphy why should they affect on an old imer ilmer more than ahan i a younger fel elow low why wicy are they so important I 1 would think that a veteran would lave better reflexes than it a young ir r fellow reflexes are merely team play between mind and muscle for example years ago 1 was talking with jack J ac k dempsey jack was 4 jh hen e n about through 1 I know im as strong asi as I 1 used to be he said 1 I know I 1 can hit as hard bar d I 1 know astill I 1 still can take a p punch bunch as W well ell but ill tell what makes me ae sore I 1 see a punch starting I 1 mow enow where its headed for six r seven years agamy chin or my lead would be out of the way in but today too many of hese punches hit bit me even the tucker punches theres another angle jack laid six or seven years ago when spotted an opening my fist wung swung in that split second T today day when I 1 see an opening it disappears ears bythe by the time my fist gets in notion it is either blocked or it ft las moved out of the way I 1 dont relieve many people know what Ns his means to a fighter HAS it is only i matter of a split second maybe i fifth of a second but it ft happens hat way as you get older the lessage Ties sage from your eye or your mind travels slower to the muscle lot ot much slower but a fifth of i second means a lot there probably never was a beter instinctive puncher or tighter fighter han dempsey when he was at his leak or during those days when dempsey was wad hungry you might think that as you got older the ines message sage from eyo eye or mind to muscle would trivel travel faster it As you get older nothing travels taster faster except the beirs years the only detail an athlete picks up as he grows rows older Is experience fience when louis was working affet a fashion against joe walcott he would stalk the jersey and catch up with him then do nothing ten years ago he be would have knocked out walcott in the first round for louis was a fast hard puncher but after his 10 ot 11 years in the ring louis reflexes were shot he fie could see his opening but by the tha time he had the blow under way wale walcott ott would be out of reach the same thing happens to ballplayers the hitters can no longer follow the pitch and get the bat working in time notice how many veterans are called out on that third strike ted williams has the best set ol of reflexes in baseball ted can swing a bat on a fifth of a seconds notice when the pitch Is only 20 or 30 feet away you dont believe this is true ask bill dickey who caught back of williams for some years on being hungry for several weeks inhabitants of various wayside inns around the wor world id have been telling me this story it bontems concerns walter good time charlie friedman ledman Fr car I 1 gerals original importer good time charlies dream Is now to locate a seven loot foot china man or a seven foot zulu one ol oi those who can high jump eight or nine feet we questioned him about it recently and discovered G good time charlie feels that he has th the an answer abr to the next heavyweight champion id keep it hi I 1 TO hungry charlie says bays id getham get him a and nd starve him the trouble with fighters today they are too well fed they have been able to 0 o make a good living outside of the sing ring they eat too much jack dempsey de apsey iwas was hungry when he was at his best tunney needed money when he forced himself to train for or dempsey joe louis was hungry when he be broke in willard wallard was hungry when he started after jack johnson hun gry guys are aro hard to ta uck ilick the matter with white fighters today good time charlie continued they are fat and overfed so they hav havo 3 no ambi tion most efthem of them c can an make good money without fighting A well fed man seems to b have ave nothing to fight tor |