Show 0 S X T RILE HILE various promoters still V V are lire groping in the dark for lor anew a anew new heavyweight champion with Joe Louis in possible retirement there thore is fa a chance that tb the world soon will be bo cluttered up with ex ex- stars tars They make an Interesting group It was waa a matter of 49 years ago aco that Jim Jeffries knocked out Bob Fitzsimmons The hoa heavyweight cham charn- champions pioU followed in inthis A Athis this thi order Tommy Burns Jack Jo Johnson Johnson John John- n- n son J Jess Willa Willard rd Jack Dempsey Gene Geno Tunney Max Jack Jacky y Sharkey Primo Prime Camera Max Boor Baor Jim B raddock and finally Louis DEMPSEY From this parade of 12 men only Johnson Is La missing And he was killed in hi a motor racier car ear accident Jeffries Jeffries Jef Jet fries is still WI alive hale bale halo and rather rathe r hearty end hearty and so 0 are ara Burns Willard Dempsey Tunney Sharkey Camera Baer Braddock k and Louis The Tho span from Jeffries t to Louis Leafs covers almost half haU a cen cem- century tury and aDd to have ban 11 out oat of 14 U ex champions sUB still inhabiting this planet is taU full proof they thoy are ara a hardy lot tot Bi Big Camera still is S. wrestling sq o or r Jv giving imitations there thereof and Dempsey still stUl Is b refereeing now DOW and then J has hu been running a boxing school and ho holding fight nights night Louis says UTa he ho is Sa through but he ho still hasn't turned informal fax in any formal or official abdication Still in Good Shape Two mea men still tiU fa a fine ADo physical oal shape hape are Dempsey and Tunney Both are now around pounds which could be b. a trifle lower but they still sUD look ilk lIk champions ex-champions ought to look At least leut they look leek asif as asIf f. f If the they could handle most of the phony heavyweights Iv rye seen Boen around in the tha last lart few fow years Tears It D might M aI also abo o be mon mentioned that out outside id of Louis the tb tw tw old rivals are ara bettor fixed finan baa financially than any other heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight In history Dempsey has ono one of the most beautiful homes in Los Angeles Angelea for tor his two while Tunney and his family never will wW have haye to worry worry worry wor wor- ry about th the next b beefsteak and caviar I understand Sharkey isn Isn't doing too badly and I know Camera Carnera has been mopping up In the weird and Incredible wrestling game A Memorable Group Is it possible there GOuld could be an any anT y group more moro different than th the 1 11 heavyweight champions still living I doubt It Pd rd like to s see e motion picture shorts made of at their lives The big bit burly headed bald-headed Jeffries Jet Jef fr fries now ies-now now over oyer the 70 7 the tou toughest bet o them all Ha Hs was wa an old man physically cally catly when he h. fought to Johnson Johnon who was far below Louis In all aU mora values but values but a great groat rat fighter Burns over Burns over 60 hooked GO-hooked hooked In sumo some odd philosophy of ot Jit life Willard a pound giant giant- the tho least equipped ped of ot them all aU men tally Just a guy who weighed 50 po pounds Ask Aak Dempsey Dempsey and and others Dempsey a firebrand ia Ja his day an aD ox ex Babe Ruths Ruth's successor suc suc- cessor cenar Tough and rough in is the ring rInt One Ono of at tine tile few gentlemen Ive I've known outside of ot the The ring one CK left ion m is sport aport Dem Dempsey aT the ze killer Is e also Dempsey who Always thinks of the ho underdog and has given away more money to bum bam and aDd has has-beens than any anT two men IB in sports sport As great a guy y as a. anyone anyone anyone any any- one I ever mot met I only wish I knew more words worda to write about him Tunney the man who made himself A men meu of character and intelligence Not too much Inclined I towards popularity Dempsey loved people Tunney never did Smart keen a man of Indomitable will power A man you must know to like since sinco ho he m makes no effort tomake to tomake tomake make new now friends friend But one who has written a great areat chapter In sport that will wW be remembered later on Far up the ladder Ins Fill for or Tun Tunney Sharkey Camera Baer Braddock Here Hera are five heavyweights heavyWeight that just happened to fill ou in iD after ater Tunney retired Dempsey Demp Damp sey sty at his bia pe peak pak could have stopped them all aU In two rounds Tunney could have chopped them Into mincemeat Camera was a down Sharkey was waa another anither might have who Rho was wa never nave too smart la the ring I HI had laad Dempsey knocked out oat in to the first r t round rood he told me when I stopped to 0 make an AD address to the crowd that bad had hooted me Dempsey was wu wason on oa the tho ropes rope Now Louis A great champion A boxer and a puncher Especially a puncher Game but no Dempsey at taking a punch They all an came cume along and knocked Louis down I think Dempsey would have knocked him out J |