Arkansas State press., 1942-01-16
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En- Out
BY Emory Q. Jackson
Ena5 s,aI Fiction

Putting these little items into
sentences we get a whole column
on a number Of interesting topics.
BY the Diekerson rating system,
as worked by SNS's Lueius Jones
SlACs Florida Is the statistical
or mythical national champion. By
that figuring, Mr.. Jones reminds
us, Morris Brown won the ma
tional championship in 1910. Fig
ures never fake the facts, as you
know.
When Morris Brown won the
Peach CLASSIC at Columbus, Ga,
SlAC-partial seribes rushed out
with the claim that the Wolverine
victory gave the Atlanta Wolves
the national title, and that the
outcome OF the Vulcan Classic
would have no bearing,
While the daily press in the Vul
can City built up the publicity
that the Vulcan Classic in Biz
mingham was a championship
match, this column swung along
with sNS's established authority
On sports, taking for granted that
the Wonderful Wolves had sewed
up the Big Title.
Another situation developed.
The pre-release discussion of the
SNS All American myth, pointed
out that a player failing to make
Lis own conference myth, could
not be given place on the first
team of the All-American selee.
tion.
Evidently that rule for naming
players to the annual myth team
does not hold for qualifying {
team for the legend Of nationa
champion, Fla. by no means tht
STAG champion by both the vote
Of STAG representatives and Dick
inson mathematics, comes out ma
tional football king by the calcu-
lations of the scientific rating
system which does not allow for
| human judgment. A rating sys-
tenn at best is but an aid in the
search for truth.
Langston whipped both the
champion of the STAG which team
was the conqueror of the CIAA
king, and Slaughtered Kentucky
Of the Midwest, but is not wallop-
cd by the Dickinson formula.
Joe's Record
Joe Louis, the Great Finisher,
has broken nearly every fistic re-
cord, except that wax record,
King joe" with the words writ
ten by Richard Wright, author Of
"Native Son. which was set to
music by Count Basic and sung
by Paul Robson.
He is the only one of the three
champions knocked through the
ropes to give to his adversary a
return match. Benny Leonard was
slugged out the ring by Charlie
White, Dempsey by Louis Firpo
Joe Louis by Jacob Buddy Baer.
Louis has established three of
the four quickest k, o. records in
the bulkweight division, 1t took
him, Louis, 204 to put Nazi Max
Schmeling to sleep in 1883 (linci-
dentally the only Big Belt fight
this column has ever witnessed).
Tommy Burns turned back Bill
Squires in 2:09 in 1908; the Brown
Bomber chilled Roper in 2:29 n
few years back, land flattened
Buddy Baer in So Jan. 9 after
putting him on the carpet twice
for the count nine.
Louis. the Alabama born slug
ger, will be % May 13, 1912. Since
winning the championship from
Braddock in 1887 he has success
fully defended it 20 times. All the
10 champions before Louis only
defended their title combined 20
times. Louis mlde 7 successful
defenses Of his title in 1871.
Loui. the first cartwright to
lay his title on the line for moth
ing--or for the love Of his coun-
try. Or, speaking in terms of mon
ey, to put q million dollars up
against naught.
When he was beaten by Hitler's
Schmeling, Louis had won n
straight bouts. When he met Bud
dy Baer in the rematch he again
had won q straights since losing
to the Nazi mauler. Louis purch-
ased $1,000 worth Of tickets to the
fight.
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