Show no one ofie can label rocky a punk by GRANTLAND RICE sphere HERE ARE SEVERAL things T you can say about rocky grazi grasl an ano 0 0 after his fusari party 0 one n e is that having a 12 pound advantage he was running behind before the tenth round but the main point is that graziano ring rusty wilder than a timber wolf apparently patently ly b badly a d I 1 y beaten came back to win against long odds it must bo be ad emitted t that h a t charley fus F u s arl physically looks less like grantland rice a fighter than punch and judy lie ile Is a pale carbon copy of complete futility but he can box he can mo move vc around he can take bake a punch fusara is dead game but he Is not a champion graziano Graz lano threw enough punches to knock out dempsey tunney jeffries jeffrees Jeff rles johnson and louis but 99 per cent of them merely cut the balmy september air some of them ahem missed by two feet some by only a foot but after all graziano Graz lano had a light fight a real tight fight since tony zale nailed himeback him himl back in the early summer of 1948 in the me meanwhile an while rocky had suffered any number of cerebral hemorrhages or explosions of the conning tower considering all this rocky diani do a bid bad job ills victory do down the stretch a as a cheap as it jas was in spots cant be ignored it was a good lighting jo job when yott jot ha have veleen b een baal badly y out pointed to in seven of nine rounds with only one i round to go boand and stin still diio move v e an in swinging with all you have no one can label you a punk there Is much disagreement about the margin fusari had after the ath round no one can question the fact that fusari was far in front as the final round arrived fusari must musi have nailed bocky rocky with right hand punches fusari also I 1 might just as well have used a feather duster rocky Graz ianos victory Is worth at least to the I 1 B C which jim norris deserves dese ryes but need i aily dont let rocky wander fik inythe ahe same inclosure with or any good middleweight E rocky is still dangerous but he wt the rocky of old but as dizzy dean once sald said Who inel is the calumet cleanup clean glean up it Is a september custom to begin malting the annual award to calumet in the way of racing honors first calumet has the horse of the year in coaltown Coal town maybe the horse of many years second calumet has the top three year old of 1949 in ponder the unknown two weeks before the derby third calumet has now pass ed the total earning mark for 1919 1949 and the year has 0 more than three months of 0 racing left including autumn and early winter this means well over a million dollars will drop into the calumet coffers there Is one hornet in the honey hu however wever citation run since last december and is still a pretty fair chunk of cash in back of stymie the hirsch jacobs aco s family am y steed citation at this time last fall was supposed to move far beyond the million mark but the popped proved to be more damaging dam aging than an exploding bomb the horse rated beyond all rivals since man blan ol 01 0 war possibly better than man 0 war has been as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean for the he last eight months just about this time lost last year the two best two year olds were young peter and mr busher mr busher was practically wrecked in a chicago race and then young peter had to step aside and leave the field open to ponder capot etc I 1 happened to be at the track the afternoon maxie hirsch sent a two year old known as middle ground against a good field mid dle ground ran away from the same and practically disappeared ile he did the same thing at saratoga then it was discovered he tho the soundest colt in the world so 0 he wont run again until 1950 the king ranch horse is probably the fastest two beir year old alive alev e today but that mean he will be the fastest seven or eight months from now serious contention may come from christopher T chemerys Che nerys hill prince which set a new record for six and a half furlongs in the cowdin stakes this mean Middle grou d or hill prince will win the derby or the triple crown next year under the direction of a trainer such as max hirsch it would be a wonderful thing to see middleground Middle ground in n top shape to run |