Show WHO ls Is the top fighter ln in the world pound lor for pound this query covers many years in addition to the present calendar on the human side our selection has always been harry greb a pound whirlwind who in ring contests or training periods P practically wrecked such stars as gene tunney jack demp sey toro tom gibbons and jack dillon I 1 am referring to the greb that had two eyes when he first wrecked tun un ney and gib gibbons ns and when he corn com grantland rice nice plemely bewildered jack dempsey with his speed in a training spot my friend frank buck g goes oes on beyond greb or stan ketchel joe gans cans or the pick of 0 the human lot buck nominates the rinea 35 or 40 pound terror from michigan and a few other northern midwestern states the wolverine pound for pound Is the worlds gamest camest and greatest fighter buck says the badger is tough but not quite that tough you know even a pound bear match any part of the wolverine who is not only last and strong but who likes to fight I 1 cant think of at any animal who wont give the wolverine the right of way what he could do to a pound police dog even be close I 1 cant think of a dog that a 35 pound wolverine wreck in a few minutes our knowledge of wolverines rines had been largely limited to michigan football teams these also ha vent been any too soft but they ha vent quite been able to match their namesakes since a team known as minne botas gophers have annoyed them no little in recent years in animal parlance the gopher is no great killer but he is something different on a football field I 1 asked dr buck lust just why a wolverine Is so tough every part of 0 him Is tough frank said including teeth claws and especially heart worlds best fighter I 1 tried to pin buck down to naming the worlds greatest fighting animal this naturally leaves the human au out t unless you give him a jun gun the human Is a rather puny animal when he armed twenty or thirty animals would outclass him on even terms among the best of the animal breed mr buck includes the elephant the gorilla the tiger the lion n the leopard the grizzly and the big python th the c elephant Is just too big he says ays but bat one of the greatest fights ever known would be between a tiger or a lion thrown against th the c grizzly bear they would be well it matched la in weight the grizzle grizzly ls Is much stronger than either a tiger or a lion he as quick but he has bas a thick protecting coating of lair hair around the throat but either a tiger or a lion would have to get him la in a hurry or lose the decision and I 1 dont think either could get him la in a hurry what about the grizzly lion hon or tiger against a big python I 1 asked buck had brought back a python that measured 29 feet you may remember he said that in the python tiger fight picture I 1 made the python was on the winning side I 1 want to bet on any animal against a big python I 1 saw one kilt kill a leopard in ji just st a few seconds gorillas tough too then we began talking about the big circus gorilla how would he come out against anything except an elephant mr buck admitted that would be something to stop big powerful fast and vicious some pounds of dynamite would be no pushover against tiger figer lion hon or grizzly we are offering these vital statistics to those who keep asking how bow louis and dempsey or how tunney and corbett would come out in a swinging joust our answer Is that louis dempsey tunney and corbett would be ba completely outclassed by any griz lion tiger gorilla python or king cobra in any hand to hand or fang to fang collision gene tunney still thinks that a good fighter can lick a gorilla I 1 dont think greb tunney dempsey and louis together could handle best football teams which section of the country on a general average produces the stronger football teams this Is one of the favorite queries you get from service mail where men from every section are thrown together around the world this in eludes the east the midwest the south the southwest and the far west my guens would be the midwest which in ludes the he big nine and notre dame |