Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
BY MYRON r. HUFF.

~ HRONICLERS OF boxing in the years
to come will look back upon 1890 as
distinguished primarily for two things
injury in the public eye because Of
too many Disappointing bouts, too
many fouls and introduction to heavyweight
ranks Of perhaps the largest troop of ultra
giants the game has witnessed In single 12-
month since its beginning.
When James Joseph Tunney, winner of a for
tune in the squared circle as conqueror of the
redoubtable Jack Dempsey and Of the heart Of
Polly Lauder, society girl, bowed his withdrawal
undefeated he left boxing in chaos, because no
man doomed on the immediate horizon as logical
successor to his crown
Enterprising managers. on the alert to be at
the helm when new monarch's fistic ship Of
state dropped anchor in Championship Bay
looked around and, disappointed by the view.
scrambled into the boxing woods to search for
green and unpublished talent. That most of them
possessed the showman's urge rather than that
OF the f1stic impresario is evident from the re-
suits. They sounded the bugle for Fisitiana,s
Big Parade
Heading the procession of Goliaths is Primo
Camera of Sequala, Italy, who stands feet
inches tall, has a reach of "a inches and tips the
beam at 270. A bit earlier had arrived Vittorio
Campolo of the Argentine, feet inches tall.
with reach Of SO inches and scaling 23a
pounds. Before him had come Knute Hansen
OF Denmark, feet inches and weighing BOT.
Elzear Rioux of Canada towering feet inches
and tipping the beam at 220: Otto Won Porat
OF Norway, who met the giant specifications in
height feet inches, but fell down slightly
IN weight. scaling only 195; Buck Weaver of
medicine Lodge, Kans, the crown of whose head
Is feet 512 inches above the ground and vbo
weighs 2O5, and Roberto Roberts of Italy. 6 feet
Ia inches and weighing comfortably above 2oo
pounds.
WHAT chance have these Brobdinenaeian
boxers of climbing the heights to the
heavyweight throne? Not nearly SO bright a
chance as one might suppose.
The physical statistics Of men wearing the
ermine since the Marquis Of Queensbury rules
supplanted the London prize ring code and men
donned gloves In preference to fighting with
bare knuckles is both surprising and lIumi-
mating.
John L. Sullivan, first of the modern heavy
weight champions, was an inch and a half un-
der the 6-foot mark and never scaled above 1876.
Pompadour Jim Corbett surpassed feet by
single inch, but weighed only 1877. Ruby Rob-
ert Fitzsimmons was quarter inch under
feet and never scaled more than 1852.
James J. Jeffries lacked half inch of the
arbitrary feet 2 inches that places boxer in
the giant class, but weighed 220, 20 pounds
above the equally arbitrary 200 that lifts man
into the Herculean group Tommy Burns, the
Canadian, stood only feet inches and never
weighed above $50. Jack Johnson, at go, was
one OF the ultra-gants in weight, but was only
half inch over feet in height.
jess Willard was the outstanding Goliath
Of fstiana to attain the heights The Potto-
watomie Founder lowered feet inches and
weighed $50 pounds His successor, the never
to-be-forgotten Jack Dempsey, weighed not
more than 1876 pounds and was a half inch
below the giant class. Gene Tunney stood
feet inch and scaled 1872 Max Schmeling
champion by grace of his victory on a foul
over Jack Sharkey, Is 6 feet inches and
weighs around 1888.
Briefly. then, 10 heavyweight kings have
reigned during the last 20 years, but only
three fought at a weight exceeding 200 pounds
and only one, Willard, exceeded feet inches
in height
That boxing managers have long recognized
the ring colossus as more Of q liability than
When the big Kansan arrived In New York
some IL years ago ON the hunt for o big-time
manager who knew the ROPES. Jimmy Johnston
Dan Morgan and ehe rest a them weren't in
terested- Tom JoneA manages, and Jack
Curiey. promotes. took O flyer On the be-
hemoth from shs Southwest. They made him
champion a the world and earned approxi-
mately half . million dollars by their astute-
ness. but even today Il Is admitted they took
IN awesornely long chance.
Since the beginning Of time the little men
Of the world have envied the big fellows their
stature and weight. It Is Q common belief the
giant has nothing to fear In Q street brawl
or riot. Why. then. does the giant show such
piOnship heights?