Show THE THESPO SPORT SPORT- T- T LIGHT SPORT LIGHT By GRANTLAND SD RiCE CopyrIght 1926 1026 New Xe York Tribune Inc lk k Registered U V S Of OC Of fl C TUNNEY AND THE TITLE Jack Dempsey held the tho heavy heary heavyweight weight Ur We for Cor seven seren years and about three hie months lie won It at 21 end and lost It at 31 It Is hardly possible that Tun Tun-ney Tun nay ney would remain seven years 1011 longer gel In the tile game tarn even enn It If ho be could wear tho ho crown that long which is hardly probable with v n a astal stall stal t from Crom 28 years Except as s a 1 ring performer Tunney never has his seemed to bl be- be belong lons bp-lons long to the seamy profession of oC pugilism Ism lie Ite II has always alwa's been IL a different type more type more like some big tackle on a II college go football team He lie already has been In Inthe the tho business for tor seven years ears and now that ho has the fame Came tarn and the gold together any ay glamour clamour he be may have known will soon Boon begin beela mayI to I fade tade NOT EASY TO BEAT AT I Tunney will wilt b be no easy man to beat who believe he h will willbe be crowded out b by the tho first good goodman goodman I man who comes along will have another el guess coming He lie Isn't I flashy ashy or dashing But Dut be he Is a good boxer with a world of ot cour- cour courage cour age coolness and competitive brains who can also take it It There will be no question about aboul his physical condition No man manIn manIn manin In any sport amateur or pro ever I strict training regula retula any allY ny closer He TIe will hardly mako the th money I that Dempsey Demp cy made but he h willi will make plenty Dempsey was a II ring show man Even those thosa who hoped to 10 see so him beaten aid their I money to see sei him slug slue He gave the crowd up melodrama melodrama up to his i last lart fight But Tunney will VIlli have to worry orry no more about his Ills personal es cx estate I tate The Th of ot his ring earnings will Kill III be better known after acter his next fight It he h ends It in a knockout the tire crowd will In larger quantities It If he be doesn't the tir crowd crowl wont won't The d crowd happens to be that way It I always will make mak a II better show to match him with a II heavy hitter rather r than with another good boxer Two good boxers boxer may mean art but rarely gate eat receipts SHARKEY AND WILLS It If Ja Jack k Sharkey of ot Boston can beat Harry Hal Wills there will be belittle belittle little time wasted In the Immedi immedi- immediato Immediate ato ate ballyhoo for tor a II Tunney fight Sharkey only recently won the decision over George Geore Godfrey who ho was rated some seine here up un the theline tholine lint line Not lot n It wonder vonder r but hardly a bum In sable I I Sharkey may not be bo able to beat Wills but the Boston entry has a chance He lie Is a good box box- boxer boxer er or with a II good left leCt and there have been beca worra worEe rights Something quite quit a lot will also upon what the th referee does I abou holding and hitting I DEMPSEY'S RETURN Dempsey may be uncertain about hIs future but the bIg gamble is that ho will be bo back for another shot Sullivan stopped after Corbett whipped him but John L was through None o of the hi rest retired belt Cor-belt Cor- Cor Corbett Corbett bett came camo hack bade to meet J twice Johnson Johnton and WIl VIl lard Wll-lard VIllard lard all took another shot or or- two was through In 1906 but he hi was WILS back In Ia the ring rine tn In 1910 Willard had no idea of ot reo re- returning rc turning to action after 1919 but buth lie be was wInging away away in 1922 Pugilism has been a much big big- bigger bis-Ber bis sec ger part ii In Dempsey's life liCe than It will bo be of ot Gene who has other things thines IIi Iri view Dempsey will wll find that It was easier casler to remain Idle while bile he wore the tir crown than it will be with a bare and crownless brow bro broThe The Tb heavyweight championship was the th one on big bie thing thine in his bis hl life lICe litand and bo ho will ill be b after It again be- be be before fore tore many months have passed At Atthe Atthe the age ac of ot 31 one on cant can't dally daily around too long lone Jim Corbett wax was 33 r 34 when ho be traveled 23 rounds against Jim Jeffries tray tray- trav-ellne trav cling at a pretty fast fact clip There Is 13 stilt still too much loose loos gold told lying around for tor Dempsey to let It get getaway away 11 at tho ho only trade be he knows THE SHORT ENDI END It Is always the best bet to take the short end In any heavy heay- weight heavy weight championship says an exchange as the tho challenger er must mustI i be good to get ret that tar far along alone 1 Not always The odds were about 10 to 1 on Dempsey against 4 to 1 on Dempsey Dempse against a Brennan 4 to 1 i ou on Dempsey agaInst Carpentier 5 6 to ou on Dempsey against Gibbons and 4 to 1 on Dempsey Dempse against Firpo They were from 2 to 3 to 1 on Dempsey against Tunney Tha The short here would have haB dropped five lv bets nn arid anil won wo woith the last This Thin Isn't a winning percentage by about three thre jumps day ere nothing as compared to the outburst that greeted when strucK him him out In the sixth a with ith two Yanks on base Tha Th lh l Bambino BambinI swung mightily at two slow 3 00 |