The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-08-13
HEFTY PUNCH
is BIG THING,
GOULD AYERS
Wall0p Wins In all Lines OF
Sport; Champions Prove
Sayings Truth
b. ALLAN J. GOULD

(ASS0clated PfeSS sports EdltOr)
New York, Aug. l3-4P)-It's a
habit among the wise ones" Of the
ring to string with the fighter who
has the hefsier punch.
It's the wallop that wins, as, a
rule, and it's the sock" that APP
pcals nowadays to the crowd. whether
1T is delivered with a fist, IA tennis
racquet. golf, club. baseball bat or
polo mallct.
Look over this list of "heavy hit
ters" and you will realize why they
are at or near the top, drawing the
bulk of popular interest and figur-
ing in the main melees Of 1927:
Helen Wills. the hardest hitter
among all women tennis stars.
Big Bill Tilden of the cannon
ball service and Little Bill" John
ston of the booming forehand drive.
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. twin
battering- rams Of the diamond. the
mightiest hitting combination the
game has ever known.
Devereux Milburn and Tommy
Hitchcock, polo's heaviest hitters, the
p-rankng players at the game.
Jack Dempsey, aiming at heavy
weight comeback with fists that pack
much of their old dynamite.
Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, the pres
ent national tennis champion, won
the title seven times on sheer power
alone until Helen Wills came along
to dethrone her in 1923. The Calf
ornia girl had developed even greater
power of stroke than Mrs. Mallory.
Miss Wills comeback this year, after
a period of illness, has been marked
by the most sensational stroking
"punch" any woman tennis player
has ever shown,
Similarly, Tiden and Johnston,
although they have passed the peaks
Of their greatness, ruled internation-
al heights chiefly on the tremendous
power IN their games. Both are
versatile, but in pinch it has been
Tilden's booming service and streak
| ing backhand shots or JOhnston's
blazing fOre-handers that have proved
! the main weapons,
The lively ball has put premium
| on the wallop in baseball. The
crowd prefers the home run to the
| squeeze play" or 'inside stuff
Ruth's tremendous hitting opened
up new era in game in which the
resounding smack of the circuit blow
now echoes from one end of the
baseball front to the other. Gehr,g
has come along this year to give the
Babe spectacular race for long.
rang honors, tussle of titans that
is furnishing even greater interest
| than the pennant chases.
On the polo field. Milburn and
Hitchcock are the twin ling-hittine
| aces upon whose prowess Americs
| is banking heavily for the Interna-
tional Cup matches with Britain in
September. Milburn, 46-year- old
veteran, is the hardest hitter this
thrilling game has ever known. His
long, looping wallops at the willow
/ ball have turned the tide of many
a game. hitchcock, Younger, and j
brilliant forward, isn't far hehind
the '.old master at getting range
to his shots.
Jack Sharkey probably will ties.
tify that Dempsey still packs 1
mighty wallop with either fist, re.
gardless Of how much speed Of
finesse the veteran Manassas Maulel
may lack. The comeback Of thu
heaviest hitter the modern ring hal
known Is one Of the high spots p1
the year. The former heavyweiktt1
champion nay not turn the tablei
on Gene Tunney, who beat him 81
badly last September, but his wal
lop will be dangerous - long 81
ne = upriSht End charging IN.