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Show ri " " I My Greatest Thrill in Sport ; By OCTAVUS ROY COHEN I Popular Author As Told to Homer Georj J i. :: Out of many years of watching j fights, baseball games, golf matches. 1 1 -CZ ff IT - va horse races and other kinds of sporting events, I am perfectly safe In picking instantly instant-ly the greatest thrill which sport ever gave me. And that w a s when Luis Firpo knocked Jack Dempsey out of the ring in their famous battle. I l . cannot Imagine Octavus R.Tlohen. . , . any happening or uny event from which the spectator could have had more of n kick than I had at this time. It happened that 1 was in the second sec-ond row, just back of the press stand, and naturally could not miss this tremendous tre-mendous thing. All my life I have been a writer and an associate of writers. I know newspaper men are trained to keep their enthusiasm under un-der a basket; their wits alwuys with them ; their eyes wide open and their minds always calm so that every observation ob-servation can be accurately recorded. Put this night I saw cold, collected newspaper men rise as much "iu the air" us the wildest of partisans and create a scene which surpasses anything any-thing of my sporting knowledge. It was all so sudden, so unexpected and so ii'itughtful of results that madness mad-ness reigned in the press box as well as all over the enormous place. And I was as delirious as any others, despite de-spite my effort to remain under control. con-trol. - What a sight it was! Here a man who was being rapidly beaten down and down; who was utterly lacking In science at a game which demands great science ; and who was apparently appar-ently almost out; a man desperately hanging on to his chance to last a bit longer suddenly coming up from the floor and more suddenly crashing out with a blow which lifted the greatest of all fighters off his feet and through the ropes out of the ring. Such a spectacle as this Is to be found nowhere no-where else In history. And with that blow came a reign of pandemonium. Men trained by years of effort to withhold exhibitions of excitement went mad. With them thousands without such training completely com-pletely lost all thoughts except of that terrific blow and Its effect. So It became be-came a mob house with hats flying in the air; hoarse shouts from every mouth and dizziness in every head. It was stupendous. It was far and away the most unexpected and stirring happening hap-pening In the annals of sportdom. And so I say it was my greatest thrill and it is hard to imagine how any other onlooker can think of any other happening which could have afforded af-forded him a greater thrill. ( by Public Ledger Company.! |