Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-02-02 | Page 9 | Quartet Wins Title Honors Fail to Cash In On Efforts

r Quartet Wins Title Honors tZ Fail T To 0 Cash In On Efforts By ByART ART SON CARt CHICAGO Feb 2 2 Four Four unfortunate te Individuals ot or Name them Eugene them Eugene CrIqui Wayne Wayner Munn Jimmy GoodrIch and Edouard Edouard ard ard All MI reached the top heights leading to fame came and andi glory only to find competition too toul tough h to establish S lish anything but ut temporary quarters Obviously all failed Called to cash in to any extent on their titles They were champions for tor too brier brief a at time time- I S It U was back In jn n 1923 1323 Eugene met Johnny a long bolder holder of the featherweight crown croWl po pot only met DIet Kilbane but knocked him Into t positive retirement was the world champ But not for long IonS For less than two months mouths later S he clashed with Johnny Dundee And went back to MUNN France minus the title In III January of ot- ot last year a big collegian from Nebraska rather startled the wrestling world if i such a thinS thing be possible by picking up Strangler Lewis and tossing tossing- the lion hearted one clean out io of the ring The effort won the championship for Cor or Wayne Wayne Munn Muan a football player ot of note during his campus ear career er i inight Shortly afterwards Munn rIsked his newly woo won laurels tn a match with Stanislaus the red middles Pole Before Detore the guests departed that night a new king had been crowned Cir Last summer Jimmy Goodrich Buffalo BuHalo bo boy E W i i came caine Into the lightweight boxing wreath by finish finish- y l Ing ahead of at the field In la a tournament staged to find a successor In name only to D Benny y Leonard CRIQUI yi retired The guffaws were loud and long S GoodrIch alter ater virtually getting the honors ona on S a platter didn't remain with the elite l long ng The TheS S S called so-called grabber gift put Ills his much cherished though 55 rather ather joke jolie in jeopardy by y tackling the theS herf S veteran Rocky Kansas And when ben the Rock got S J through with wilh him Goodrich wa wai vai a title short abort busby'S Last November Edouard Horemans tlc tb-e bushy busby- bush I S 'S haired Belgian st gave Europe its lis first cue cuo crown in la all these many years He lie beat the chain chath cham plon pion Jake Schaefer There was much trumpeting T r and hilarity y across the sea GOODRICH six weeks later Horemans emans was once more justa just a haired busby-haired Belgian though justified lied In ex champion after alter his name It If that i ibe be any added honor For your Information y er er or easily trimmed the foreigner In their return 1 meeting There you OU have tho the tales of the four lour unfortunates nates Our old friend Dame Fortune didn't smile very strongly on this quartet ot of sportive characters They didn't even en get past the cocktail at the titular banQuet table Moreover none Is likely to get another chance to perch with the unless It be Horemans Hore- Hore in mans And even enn Ills s prospects are far tar from from Cram bright HOREMANS