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Show They ,tv you can't keep a good man down, bul there's been many an athlete ath-lete who possessed lutein great nes.1 that never got to show his stuff be-,iore be-,iore the glare of the footlights Kui Circumstance always has nil , way In such matters Oul on tin Pacltu i'k.isI they arc saying thr.t Lefty U'Doul one of the smartest and most promising pitching machines they ever tuiored went to .im'i- oh the bench of the New York Yankee laift season. .Miller llugins needed pitching tal-eni. tal-eni. bul he couldn't see i'loui us a regular for dust Yet he thought too much of the coaster to either trade him or turn hmi back westward. Consequently O'Doul lost his cunning cun-ning through lack of work and may h-.-iin io pitch cli over again in order to fool bailers. There are do;, sns of oihei aasea aim-ilar aim-ilar t.. Q'DouI's in hasobal.. John (Chauno) Collins has spent the greater pai'l .r ins i;k league career serving the White Sox in B utility role. Mad he been playing regular before last sea-on John might have been n great rtar. .i the saltnt Chicagro tcup Catcher Lynn 'ailed to get a chanca 16 , work because Ray Schalk is such a glutton for punishment he works evei day. Naturally Lynn didn't develop any by warming up pitchers In the bullpen. Now he has been traded back to the minors'. Cood talent oftentimes goes to waste in other sports the winie way, ' Chick" li.ulcv kept I'eie St inch -comb from heing a regular on the Ohio Stote eleven until this year. "Chick" graduated and Pete stepped .Into his .-hoes and won the name of being the smartest player in the west and also became an All-America selection selec-tion by many pickers right off the reel. Stlnchcomb's talent was wasted at the Buckeye school until this year, it would seem- . Latent greatness Is a great thing to have lying around handy, but unless It is given a ohancs to show Itself Whj i: goes backwards and oftentimes Is lost forever. It Is impossible for a champion to believe that a better man than he exists ex-ists until after the referee counts ten. And even then he can generally find an ali l.i lie wants a Second chime to Uv io retrieve what he has losl. Jess yYilJard never had the slightest slight-est doubt but thai he would win at Toledo. The next morning after the figlr. Jess told Rlckard he dldn i remember anything after Pcnipsey hit him on the hen! Maybe that's an alibi, but those who know how hard Dempsey can peg aie inclined to believe that things may have been just as Wtllard doped it 'dher champions have lost their regal re-gal robes In the same way that Will-aid Will-aid did. They thought ;hey were unbeatable un-beatable and did not extend themselves them-selves soon enough after the hell rang Then somebody came along and collected col-lected on their error of thinking The Kansas peasant js conceded an outside chance in his return partv with Dempsey. But there's one thing sure he won t go into this fight brimming with over-confidence over-confidence He did it once. Attendants carried him gwa |