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Show UF VJrVl JUJLVJl 1 1 (Copyright. 1922. New York Tribune. Inc i BTIGI1 l IN VSCE "Kearns demands $ SO 0,0 00 for any Dempsey-Wllls meeting" . . . John D.. resting from his toil. Shakes his ancient head Why did I go In for oil"" The magnate sadly said ' Why did I not learn the art To strike with thunder holts1 Or turn my canny i-unl nnd h -art To Standard Jabs and Jolts ' One by one the financier. Sob along the waj Shedding sundry briny tears At their eager pay Thinking of the swollen sack. Full of bullion raw If they'd only learned the Knack Of landing on the Jaw. And the thought occurs to me. Sitting in m den. Why pound on the typist key For the humble yen When I might amid the list. Fill my golden bin B the sweep of artful fist Pounding on the chin? The Giants main enemy Is old "Doc Psychology. " Last fall the won a world championship La.st winter they added strength to a Champlonahlp team This spring tin hopped off to a big lead. The remainder re-mainder of the roadbed appeared entirely en-tirely too smooth to bo bothered with. To become keyed up under these condition, was hardly normal. The pennant looked to be a romp with something like 35 per cent of effort. Which accounts, in 'he main, for 'h number of bumps they took under the left car. THE BAFFLING ELEMENT Ituth's weakness." ran the rumor "is a low ball, inside." Any pitcher v illi good control of a low ball, In-Ide In-Ide has most of them slopped. rli.re Is nothing in the game that I. harder to hit. Some time back, when Bob Shaw key was checking the io-abruptlv. io-abruptlv. he was using this low I .si ball through inning after Inning. With almost perfect control. A few yean ago Cv Palkehberg as dropped It ;n the m'ajors. Back In lh.- minors, he began to dexelop contm. of th.- old knee-cutter, and a year Inter came back to fast company as one of the season's sensations Now and then the slugg-r wil' "60ck" the fast, low ball out Of the enclosure. But he Is never oulto sur- that he will connect as th- low ball angle of fir Is against nil a'curacy. GKBB AND DEMPSKI Harry Creb Is still i step shy of the Dempscv match. K it wasn't for his unique stvlo of battle he would never bo considered. A It Is. having j. 1 r.r r;ltihor.s and Tuntiev. he has onlv Carhentler to heat, and then Dempscv will be the goal In a Greb-Dempsey entanglement It would be merely a question of Dempsey's ability to o".o the whlr.l-glg whlr.l-glg assault The odds, of course. ould be heavily in the champions favor. But unices he got Gr.-b I range early In the bombardment. even Dcmpsev might become bewildered with R flock of gloves tosssd Into his fae. and so fall to break through And If the affair ever la-ted I., rounds Greb would be ',ho next king of the resin and the most remarkable ono In pugilistic history a 16.'-pounder 16.'-pounder without a punch. Dempscv has more stamina than the average heavyweight champloiv hlp has known, but In this rppec he Is still a league or so back or Qreb, who is the only boxer on th scene who can sprint and scramble for 16 rounds without taking an extra ex-tra breath The 'Durable Lane had his Iron Jaw. but at bis heart he wa-never wa-never able to keep top speed throughout through-out a long siege As Greb seenus to like the big ones better than the ! smaller entries, it would be more I than casually Interesting to see Just how ho would fare against the top ! of the game provided, of course, ho i removed the crown of wild apple blossoms which Carpentler now wears In the light heavyweight realm. "I see. " remark the Callfornlan. "that back east they are now saying I that California could only win through weight throwers. If It had been the other way, they would have said iso could only win through our (sprinters, that wo had speed, but lacked bruwn and power The main Idea seems to bo that California, adapting herself to events considered standard tests, won with something to spare. Or 1. tho final result no longer Important?" "Who are the five leading women in sport? asks F. M. C At lent I five worth entries are Mrs MoJIory. I Mile. Lenglen. Miss Wethered Miss I Leltch and Miss Blell.tr Having I no desire to find new fields for impassioned im-passioned arguments, we enter theso as candidates rather than as official i or unofficial selections. Young Luis Angel Flrpo. back home. Is being acclaimed in the Argentine Ar-gentine as the next heavyweight champion of the world. He weighs' 211 pounds, he is fast, he can take it and h- m s.. k " He is big, strong and fast, with the old orash attaehed ; to either paw. Alter all. why not? South America, Amer-ica, in the bushmastor, has the deadliest dead-liest snake on the continent, deadlier than tho rattlesnake, .or the mocca-sin, mocca-sin, the coral snake or the copper- head. The bushmasher, in rank pol- son, Is only a breath back of the king -obra. South America, In the anaconda, ana-conda, has the largest snake In the World In the Jaguar she has a Jungle denizen that can outfight the mountain moun-tain lion In tho middle-weight class, but not tho grizzly In the heavyweight. heavy-weight. And there fs also the man-eating man-eating fish and the spoor of the I pleslosaurua The wilder the animal tho quicker his reactions or co-ordinations. A gorilla or a leopard could strike twice while Detnpsey was getting ntartod. A eobra or a rattlesnake, in lashing out, ran outclass Greb or Carpentler, making mak-ing Hum look cumbersome and slow. Flrpo may have tho Instinct for destruction de-struction inhaled from tho Amazonian Jungle. He still necdu development in boxing skill. There Is something in b nr which seems to indicate that he will be more dangerous in a year or so than many think. It Ktill remains to be seen whether Ruth's weakness is a fast, low curve or a baso on balls. Carpentler has one advantage over Grob's other opponents the Frenchman French-man has faced a flock Of machine guns with a fusillade of several thousand thou-sand shots to the minute. But they were nut fired from as many directions direc-tions as Greb can hit. |