Show Brain Vs Brawn Is it better to be bigger or orbe orbe be bc smarter Is it better to have brawn or orca ca carry rry brains Would you rather be a wrestler wrest wrest- I ler r or be bc Einstein Who draws the bigger money for his pains Would you ou rather be a Plato or a fighter Which quality will help you best to thrive Would you ou rather be a a. muscle or a thinker Well Im I'm satisfied to be almost almost almost al al- al- al most alive Can it be that brain at last has supplanted brawn in sport That while the race is is' to the swift the battle is no longer to the strong In checking over midwinter disbursements disbursements disburse disburse- ments of the the laurel rW Wi and the olive the I l awards of crowns WI and coronets by byr r ri various c clubs 1 u b s sID ID l f b bo boards 0 a r d s associations m lions chambers of oj com commerce mer c e etc we discovered the startling fact that i we weight i g h t power Grantland Rice strength and displacement displacement displacement dis dis- dis- dis placement had been rather rudely shoved aside Brain at last returned to its ruling place in the eyrie and the big hulk I la is stranded on the beach For example we might as aswell aswell aswell well start with football Who drew tho the big bulk of tho the wards awards The answer is quite simple simple simple-Doak Doak Walker Charley Chancy Ju Justice Uee and Frankie Albert Walker of weighs pounds Justice of North Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- lina Una weighs the same Albert of ot be he San Francisco Is around This is on the light side of a game that has been taking on weight year after year We read now about lines that average pounds from tackle to tackle tackle tackle-or or pounds from end to end We read of backfields that average or pounds But most of the season post-season glory was awarded to athletes below clow This meant they had to be intelligent and mentally alert Ive I've seen more than a Tew or pound guards And tackles who were fast but not overburdened with any mental mental mental men men- tal weight Some of them were swell linemen just the same It was an amazing thing for Frankie Albert a wolverine among the mastodons and mammoths to get so many votes In addition to his smartness and his skill Albert has always had from his Stanford days another qualification so often missing This is stamina You can also add ruggedness S In Other Fields Too Football isn't the thc only game that enters this consideration of brawn versus brain Baseball hands most mos of its laurels to Lou Boudreau another another another an an- other pound entry In the past weve we've had Cobb Cobb pounds Wagner Wagner pounds Babe Ruth Ruth p po pounds 0 u n d s Lajoie pounds Hornsby Hornsby pounds and Joe DiMaggio DiMaggIo pounds Stan Mu- Mu sial running close to Boudreau is in at pounds and Cat Brecheen wont won't pass Track follows the same ideas Two highly crowned and laurel-embossed laurel last car were Harrison Dillard and del Id Patton Dillard is on the smaller side Patton is slender Neither goes In for surplus weight Young Bob Mathias a well built weil kid is one of the few bra brawny ones to make the trade What about boxing Last year not one heavyweight got within ten kilometers kilo meters of having a purple toga thrown across his shoulders Louis Walcott Charles Nothing doing Most of the awards went to Ike Williams a lightweight Sandy Saddler Saddler Sad Sad- dier a featherweight and Marcel Cerdan a middleweight Cerdan the Frenchman led the pack and drew most of the decorations decora decora- lions for stopping Tony Zale a tough guy to stop Nothing above a mIddleweight middleweight middle mIddle- middleweight weight was even mentioned mentioned no no light heavyweights no no heavy heavy- weights And in the latter dIvision di division division dI- dI vision it may be several years before anyone comes along alon to act as a standout What about golf goll Prior to his automobile accident pound Ben Hogan was the acknowledged champ one champ one of ot the best that ever played Mangrum who has been clo close e and still is is another light lightweight lightweight weight weIcht in the pound class Hagen Hag Hag- en weighed pounds Bobby Jones and Gene were short but powerfully built In the pound bracket Nelson is a and Snead Is close to this mark Jimmy Is solidly built But Hogan and Mangrum are arc two rare fare exceptions They take you back to the days of Bill Johnson In tennis a tennis a remarkable competitor at pounds |