Show Sport light by grantland rice every sport claims number of magnificent midgets fidgets Mid gets obrien gets geta rices laurel laurel wreith wreath award for durability NANA MANA service T 0 OS 3 ANGELES who were wee the LJ 1 ittle giants of sport the smaller fellows who have outmatched brawn and bulk with brains and speed la in football the first of the little slants giants was wag frank hinkey of yale the disembodied spirit who at rounds pounds was tearing and pound tacks apart with his cyclonic tackles ask any survivor of har virdi fara faraway wiy and long ago team eam around the early nineties hinkey practically exploded when he hit you and so did the party of the se second 1 cond part the ball carrier the hardiest handiest Har diest in one way young dave obrien 0 of f T C U and the philadelphia eagles ge gets is the main sprig ol of laurel I 1 talked with texas davey just before the pa packers kers all star game short hort in stature and no none n e too stocky weighing around or pounds he looked even sn smaller laner outlined against the two sets of masto mast AIRA 4 aa z 1 I 1 TEXAS DAVEY DAVET OBRIEN dons and mammoths mam moths on each side musso at baby ray bay at and others at or perhaps he Is a needle to in footballs haystack yet fet dave obrien has never had time taken out in three hard years at T 0 V U and this last year his first as a pro with the eagles As a forward passer they have bounced his head and slender bod body y off the ground more than times but he has always bounded back with a grin he has beep been the rubber ball of the gridiron and dont forget he can split a line as well lyell as throw a pass baseballs share baseball has also known Us its share of these magn magnificent if cent midgets fidgets mid gets what about johnny evers the human splinter evers was a stout in his bis early cub days but johnny was a pound thorn in the side of john mcgraw and his giants and there was rabbit maranville of the cubs and braves another chunk of guncotton who was about the size of a baseball bat and there was dicky kerr of the white sox one of the few small pitchers who could make the grade to keep from being waylaid and assaulted ill also give you wee willie keeler from a lost decade who was smart enough to hit lem em where they aint I 1 saw keeler i play 40 years a ago 0 and I 1 still think he stands out as the most scientific hitter f of all time an old V timer by the name i of denton tecumseh cy acy young agrees with me willie keeler was one you tool cy says and cy fooled most of them in boxing who was the all time top of the little fellows in boxing there was jimmy wilde the great reat atom a pound fly by weight who for years whipped men who were 15 to 25 pounds heavier I 1 saw wilde wild e acanthe ne arthe sunset of his hb career when he be bob edgren jack wheeler and I 1 played golf together before his fatal battle with pancho villa the pounding who nailed him after the bell had bad rang auda g trail frail system vi was loaded with iab disaster for far his opponents until villa caught him on the downward trall trail and id like to io give you harry greb who at was whipping gene tunney and tom gibbons and who hauled mauled jack dempsey all ov erthe ring in a workout he almost wrecked pound jack dillon the killer greb thought nothing of giving away 20 30 and ana ic pounds and he would still win in a common canter going away they began to beat greb when he be was blind in one eye and half blind in the other the all time top iop in tennis tor for the little men was little BW bill johnston ol of california now living quietly along the pacific little once told me Us his normal weight was around pounds yet in 1919 he beat big bill tilden three out of tour four sets for the championship pion ship and always carried BI big i BRI bill head and head tuto teto the stretch johnston had bad a forehand drive worthy of someone who weighed over pounds it was jerr terrific smoking hot and that from a man whose normal weight was considerably less than pounds |