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Show J GAAMTLAND 8 AFTER the collapse of Prime Camera at the hands of Max Baer, right and left, it was generally conceded that the day of the mam- moths and the mastodons mas-todons was about over. Joe Louis, ranging from 201 to 205 pounds, was figured fig-ured to be thp ideal heavyweight makeup. make-up. Then Billy Conn at 174 almost over- i took Louis. This was another crack i at the pachyderms 1 - j 1 in favor of faster. BiIIy Conn moving animals. But apparently you can't keep these dinosaurs out of the picture. The troglodytes keep beating back. A few days ago I took this matter up with Damon Runyon, then recuperating re-cuperating swiftly in his hotel suite, when who should drop in but Eddie Walker? And who should Eddie Walker be talking about except Big Ben Moroz. It seems that Big Ben Moroz is a Ukranian, bom in Philadelphia 23 years ago. Big Ben is seven feet, two inches tall and he happens to weigh 293 pounds. He is over six inches taller than Camera and some 25 pounds heavier. Eddie Walker says that Moroz looks good in a gymnasium, that he moves around neatly and punches very well. He also admits there is some room for improvement and that Big Ben won't be rushed until he seems to be ready, which probably prob-ably won't be tomorrow or the day after. A day later we ran across Good Time Charlie Friedman who had a Chinaman in tow, also seven feet in height, also weighing close to 300 pounds. Good Time Charlie is the prospector pros-pector who dug up Camera, using a derrick for this purpose. It might not be a bad idea to match Good Time Charlie's Chinaman against Big Ben Moroz and let nature take its course. A Feiv Ring Giants The two heavyweight giants who reached the top were Jess Willard and Primo Camera. Willard, around 6 feet 6 in height, weighed in the general neighborhood of 260 pounds the day he met Demp-sey, Demp-sey, 25 years ago this July Fourth. But the most mastodonio of all heavyweights was an Ottawa Negro by the name of Henry Johnson who scrambled around from 1898 to 1900 who was well over 7 feet tall and something over 300 pounds in weight. Weight, however, can be an overplayed over-played proposition. One of the worst fights I ever saw came about in the meeting of Jess Willard and Carl Morris. Their total displacement ran a trifle over 500 pounds and on that night neither could have beaten a good welterweight. Fitzsimmons, weighing at the time around 165 pounds, came close to killing Ed Dunkhorst at 300 pounds, almost tearing his face away with a single punch. The most active big man I've ever seen in the ring was Jim Jeffries. This was around 1903. At that time Jeff weighed 215 pounds. He could run the 100 yards in the immediate neighborhood of 10 seconds and he could high jump nearly 6 feet. Corbett and Tunney Jim Corbett and Gene Tunney, at their best, were about the same weight and height slightly over 6 feet, weighing close to 185 pounds. Billy Conn at the same weight with the speed and skill he always carried car-ried along would have been one of the best. Even as it was, Conn packed his full share of poison. It was the general verdict among the old timers that Jess Willard at his peak was the best of all the mastodons, mas-todons, who weighed above 250 pounds. Willard could have been one of the best of all the heavyweights heavy-weights if he bad made any attempt to keep in condition after the Jack Johnson fight, where he worked himself him-self down to 245 pounds. But Willard Wil-lard would take no advice from any one, and he was never smart enough to handle himself. And strange as it may seem, I'd rather hate to think what would have happened to Willard and Car-nera. Car-nera. both heavyweight champions, if either had ever run across Harry Greb at 160 or 165 pounds. It is my belief that Harry Greb, outweighed by more than 100 pounds, would have wrecked both Willard and Car-nera Car-nera in less than five rounds. By that round the fast-hitting Greb would have had both fighters blinded, blind-ed, their faces a sight. Football or Boxing Question: "Which is the toughest or the hardest game, football or boxing? box-ing? Sergeant L.D.H., England." The toughest game in the world is the ring game, especially among the heavyweights. Few football players 1 have ever gotten anywhere as ring fighters. In the list ten years, foot-I foot-I ball has known many hundreds of j stars. But in the last 40 years the j ring has known only 10 or 12 star heavyweights. You are on your own . in the ring. In football you have I 10 other husky mates, to help you. i |