Show THE 1 Copyright 1827 1927 New York Tribune Inc Trademark Registered U. U S. S I Patent Office 0 By y Grantland Rice j A MARKET 1 TIP In connection with the trade in Chicago dont don't know what Cotton is doing I 1 dont don't know where Can ought to sell haven't haven spent ent any time stewing On General Electric as well m not certain Steel will swing awing up up- upward upward ward In n spite of the Inside report And you may face a cropper in purchasing Copper But Bu dont don't sell the Leather Trade rade short VARIOUS OPINIONS Mr Muldoon takes the result of Dempsey Tunney-Dempsey case as al- al settled in Tunney's favor lavor leading experts say that Tunney Tunny should be a to 1 to 1 or 5 to But in spite of all this the odds re not swinging that way by several jumps A number of people can no reason for Dempsey being hollow shell decrepit old man old relic leg spent wreck weck t the age of thirty thirty two Old Man Flu Fitz never had legs quite P to the Dempsey Dem ey standard stardard and Old Fits Fitz was wu spry enough at thirty thirty- to win the heavyweight cham cham- in spite of his spindle If It Dempsey Is as bad now as many to think he is he could never e rated among the great at his best two is no ancient vintage Dempsey Is eight years younger than han Ty Cobb Alexander and Walter and he is 13 t more than eight younger than Milburn He is than Tilden and Johnston and Evans and Hagen He lie had good 1 legs when he fought Willard and Firpo Why they should would be e so 50 brittle now as they are sup sup- to be isn't clearly outlined in any of the verdicts presented TWO YEARS TEARS OF LEG WORK Dempsey began a long boxing tour a II year before he ho met Tunney In the first squabble He has haa been hard at it since last ast April Not many pairs of ot legs have had more work in the last two years ears And ten rounds is no great dis- dis distance Lance tance ance to test even an ordinary pair of underpinnings It is 15 hardly more than han a II set at tennis If Dempsey Is s on the aide side now he is 15 far from rom ever having been the athlete he e was supposed to be some years ago Real athletes dont don't flop and fade fadeout fadeout fadeout out at two thirty-two when they have h had two years In which to get right Tight again These may be some of the reasons why so many will persist in backing Dempsey at much shorter odds than Mr Muldoon and others otherl believe e should exist There was nothing par- par particularly particularly the matter with Dempsey's legs in Philadelphia a year ago He lie took a terrific thumping without going back upon his hu heels He did no fighting that might be worth writing a II Presidential message about but it wasn't the fault of his legs ICES THE TIfE NEXT STEP In reading Mr Alexander John John- Johnston's Johnstons atoms ston's Interesting fight history Ten Out and and Out one figures fI s on the great difference between the old days and the new nn They have come from finish fights fI lasting hours and from fron sixty to eighty rounds down to ten rounds and thirty minutes Perhaps it is all aU for the best besl Tex RIckard says that ten rounds are quite enough whether it Is 11 a good fight or a bad one Ten rounds are too many for most fights one looks at now But the test teat Is ts a kindergarten affair compared to the old days having Ing la come down D to to ten stanzas n the th next move may be e to t five The battler battier may decide that five rounds are quite enough for a paltry million half or so It will hardly do doto doto doto to give ve the taxpayers too much of a break THE GIANT INFIELD JoFIELD McGraw banked on a great In In- In Infield field when he won his four pen- pen pennants rants nants some come years yean e ars ago a o. o He had one of the great treat time all all time combinations in Kelly Frisch FrUch Bancroft and Groh He has hu another great combination in Terry Hornsby Jackson and Lind- Lind strom This infield has hu been the main foundation in the Giants Giants' re remarkable re- re remarkable remarkable late summer rally one of or orthe the finest uphill fights ever seen uen in baseball Terry and LIndstrom are high class clus but the middle combination com com- that carries Hornsby Moresby and Jackson U is one of the strongest t the game has seen uen worthy to be matched with Tinker and Evera or Barry and Collins Jackson is 15 a greater ball ballplayer ballplayer player than the fan public public has hu given ghen him credit for being When big things are to be done dODe in baseball there thue U nothing like hav- hav havIn having inc ing In a great reat infield around to carry arry carryon on the main burden TilE THE BADE BABE ADE AND TILE THE STRETCH Babe Dabe Ruth had to chase chue Lou Oe Oe- Oe brig over or o r mot meet of the route but bu when it came to the stretch he had enough left in his widespread system system system tem to set a pace almost impossible to follow No one figured he would ever come close to his nine fifty mark but even this isn't beyond him now Gehris will take most of his records but the main crown Jewel viz vito the home run Is another matter matur Quite another matter He Is no longer a kid or a debutante but there is no dust in his batting eye when it comes to adjusting his sights on the right field wall and keeping In in- in intact intact tact the smooth rhythm of the ear ear- earlIer lier Iler years jears |