Show Hungry gry Lp T Are too Few I By GRANTLAND RICE RICE- TACK JACK TACK DEMPSEY was talking J about the fight game which he now figures is rapidly going to seed and weedIn weedIn weedIn weed In the first place Dempsey said the tithe game so far as the contestants contestants contestants con con- are concerned is only for tor roughnecks for tor tough young tel tel- lows It has no place for nice peo peo- pie The real tighter fighter fight tight II 4 er is a street fighter fight er because he likes to fight He likes brawls From the street t he moves to some small boxing club and if he is 1 good he begins to move up Grantland RI Rice e tiT They hey have h a v e killed of off the smaller small small- er clubs today There is no place for the street fighter to go since he isn't ready for the bigger clubs I 1 dont don't think Jack said that you and I are going to see ee another good heavyweight It WI will be many years before another good one comes along They seem to be getting worse worse in place of getting better When I came up there were a aI I Jot ot of little clubs where you could tight fight for 10 or less But you kept learning earning something There were a alot alot alot lot of ot fellows around then who could either box or punch In one fight tight I was knocked down nine times before I won There are not enough fellows who are arc hungry today Most of them can pick up 80 80 to 90 a week You cant can't go hungry on that I c couldn't tell you how many time I never had a dollar dol F- F lar or Jar or even a half dollar And there were no good jobs around A hungry fighter will fight twice as hard as one well fed The middleweight crop Is good Jack continued They should get some action from LaMotta Graziano Robinson and several others This Is a pretty fair division But when you talk about heavyweights heavyweights heavy heavy- weights you are ire seemingly talkIng talk talk- Ing tug about an entirely different differ dUfer ent group of fighters They wont won't train and they wont won't learn They get punch drunk drank before they learn how to fight 1 Its It's a funny situation There are supposed to be people in the world If there were Just one good heavyweight heavy weight in this bunch of people he could make easy But there Isn't a heavyweight fighter not fighter not a good rood one one one-In In the lot Joe Louis Is too old and Ezzard Charles Ls b too small and too careful The old Manassa Mauler is still in fine health He Isn't so old at that He moves along with a free free- swinging stride and usually looks to be in a hurry He is still refereeing refereeing ref ref- wrestling a and n d boxing matches and keeping busy one way or another What a harvest a 22 year old Dempsey could reap today to to- day day day-as as much as he wanted to carry carry carry car car- ry away S S Looking Back at Some Bowls Taking a fairly long look forward forward for for- ward it was Bud Wilkinsons Wilkinson's Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa who proved to be the top of all bowl entries Oklahoma deserved equal rating with Notre Dame and Army this last fall and crushing LS U. U 35 to 0 confirmed its high ranking promotion For after all all L S U had whipped North Carolina Rice and Tulane three conference champions Oklahoma starts 1950 1050 with 21 1 straight ht But Dut the Soon rs lose more than a few stars Including Including In ing some high grade bac backs s and star linemen so Wilkinson can hardly expect to keep his 1949 pace Just when the thc West coast is going going going go go- ing to break up Midwest domination is anybody's hazy guess It will be Interesting to see whether the Big Ten and the Far West will renew the fading year five contract on the same basis It is well known that the Far West wants only the two champions to meet every year The Big Ten still wants the three three- year clause inserted The contract has another year to run One of the original ideas of the Big Ten entry into the bowl list was to prevent the South from cleaning up at the Rose Bowl year after year This idea failed to work on New Years Year's day when North Carolina L S U. U Rice and Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tucky all took away large bags packed with gold North Carolina carried home over Ohio State and California got little money mon mono ey comparatively The Giants of 1950 Being a smart baseball man Leo Durocher is indulging himself in no idle dreams about his pitchIng pitching pitching pitch pitch- ing selection for the next world series Not with the Dodgers Cardinals Phillies and Braves barring barring barring bar bar- ring the road Weve lost a little of ou our punch Leo says but after all the Giants were not so hot when they were wore breaking all past home run rec rec- Well We'll have a much stronger defense |