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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Herald, 1952-05-15, Page 6AO' e a�� 1 THE(:alVtd SPORTS COLUMN er# Eemee 57e1,944614 • Another Kentucky Derby passes into history to be recorded into the colorless exactitude of mathematical equine annals, another winner is being glamorized as the most remarkable animal of the era, which is the custom and the routine procedure. But how long will the glamor last? How soon will it be rubbed off? When, if ever, will the practical— and none in sport more so—horse folk remark scornfully: "How did THAT thing ever come to win the Derby?" Never, perhaps, This winner may move on to equal the greatness of some others who triumphed in the Run for the Roses, But we recall a Derby winner who never had greatness before, and never afterward. His brief moment of glory came that May afternoon of 1933, when in the final 100 yards of the Churchill Downs stretch, two horses thundered towards the wire urged by their two frantic jockeys. One—and his glory too later faded off into sheer disgrace—was Donald Meade, riding Broker's Tip, next to the rail, executing one of the tricks that led to his disbarment. He had a grip on the saddle cloth of the other horse, Head Play, ridden by Herbie Fisher. As the horses neared the finish, spectators saw Fisher strike Meade with his bat as he sought to shake Meade loose from the clinging grip on his saddle -cloth. They were still almost inseparable as they tore past the post. The judges saw Broker's Tip's nose in front. There was a tremendous roar from the 35,000 Kentuckians present, for a Bradley horse had won the fourth Derby for his owner, and the winner's share of $48,925, It was one of the most thrilling finishes in Derby history and one of the most talked about. The winner was a great horse that day as thousands sang his praises, and columns of print glorified his quality. But the sudden glory faded fast. When Broker's Tip won that Derby, he was a "maiden." He had never won a race. He was the second maiden in history to have won the classic, the Canadian -owned Sir Barton having preceded him. Sir Barton, racing for the late Commander J. K. L. Ross, went on to become a famous racer; but Broker's Tip went on to become a flop. One week after the Derby he raced Head Play and others in the Preakness, another $550,000 stake. Head Play won; but Broker's Tip, the great horse of the week before, ran absolutely last. In. fact, he never won a race again. When retired to the breeding farm, he apparently was a failure there, And a few years later, the horse that won $48,000 that May afternoon, was sold for a ]Here $1,400 and completely disappeared from view. Sic transit gloria. Perhaps we're laying too much stress on the glories of a Derby which really isn't a Derby at all, in the truest sense of the word. It's a weak imitation of the daddy of all derbies, the English race, which is at a mile and a half, a quarter -mile longer than the American race. The Belmont Stakes is the nearest replica on this side of the Atlantic to the Epsom Downs race, being also at a mile and a half, for three -year-olds. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. .Wert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHER5TBURG, ONTARIO StORT A SlYBITC't 1C We can't quite remember which coluninist it was—maybe Grant - land Rice or Ring Lardner—who, once upon a time, worked out a neat little scheme for escaping, or at least lightening, the Curse of Adam, namely, work. • * Whoever it was had a poem which just neatly filled his allotted space in the paper. So, when he felt a yen to take a day off in order to belt a few golf balls, or maybe high ones, he would shove said poem down to the linotype machines with the notation "RE- PRINTED BY REQUEST." * * * This worked out O.K. for the first three or four times; but when he did it again, he got a note from the Managing Editor saying, "Next time let the requests be a little more unanimous." * * * Well, believe it or not, within the past fortnight or so we have received no less than two requests that we reprint some reminiscences we published a couple of years ago, of the famous Dempsey-Firpo fight. And while we wouldn't say that two requests represents a complete- Iy unanimous desire among our readers, still—as Hamlet said—it will serve. So—omitting a few pre-. liminary paragraphs, here it is. * * * For' sad to relate, in spite of all that has been said and written about the desirability of clean play and strict abidance of the rules, there's no doubt that the average fan likes a trifle of mayhem and threatened manslaughter nixed up with the sport. It's deplorable, but true; and it's probably the chief reason why attendances at boxing _bouts show a tendency to become slimmer and slimmer. * * * There are a few exceptions, of Gc; :; -A smiling Joon Penny typ:f':es passenger reaction to the new short form inter -line ticket being introduced by the Canadian National Railways. The new booklet replaces the former unwieldy strip of coupons, like the seven -foot one draped around her neck, which has been in use over the past years for travel on two or more rail lines. The new ticket is compact; is easily read and refunds on unused portions are speeded because the ticket .-ontains all pertinent information as to routing and fare paid. itek Deserved Kiss—Patty Berg plants a kiss on the putter she used to set a new world records for women golfers in the $3,000 open. She shot a 30.34-64 for the first 18 -hole round of the tourney, scoring ten birdies and two bogies. course, but your average modern fighter acts as though his chief interest was in the size of his cut, and how little work he must do in order to get that cut—and if you want real excitement from an average modern fight, listen to it over the air. Those sports . an- nouncers can make it sound about ten times as thrilling as it actually it. * r * They didn't need anybody to in- ject false pep or enthusiasm into a fight which carne off just a little over a quarter-century ago, which was fought without reference to the rules laid down by the Mar- quess of Queensberry—or by any- body else, for that matter. In the brief time it lasted there was pro- bably more fouling, more savagery, than ever occurred before or since. But for all that anybody who saw the brawl between one John Har- rison Dempsey and one Luis Angel Firpo will remember same, , we'll bet a cookie, long after .recollections of more polished and scientific .ex- hibitions of the "manly art". have faded into nothingness. It occurred just over a quarter-century ago— Sept. 14, 1923, at,the Polo Grounds —and it might be interesting, we hope, to try and recall just a little of what happened. * a * Firpo—a huge, scowling, hairy giant of a man --weighed 216 pounds; Dempsey, 24 pounds less or thereabouts. But few of the 82 thousand present — remembering what Jack had done to the even bigger Jess Willard—gave the big Argentinian even a ghost of a chance. * * * One of those few was NOT John Harrison Dempsey. Even today Jack will tell you, "How wrong I was about that guy. I thought he was nothing but a big boob I could .flatten 1i ith the first punch." How wrong he was, indeed! * # * At the gong, Dempsey leaped at Firpo, aimed a wicked left, which missed. Firpo pulled a ponderous right from the floor which didn't miss. It exploded on Dempsey's jaw, and Jack was down, five sec- onds after the light had started. * * ,t Without waiting for a count, Jack was up and busting in with that bone -crushing left hook. Firpo took it Without even blinking, and fired a pile-driver right to Demp- sey's jaw. Again Jack's left crashed hone, and down flopped Firpo for the first time. He bounced right to his feet again, eyes blazing with rage. Again he swung that right, and Dempsey reeled backward. But Firpo left himsel{ wide open and the champion's honk floored him for the second time, lrp again at the count of two, the Wild Bull was immediately toppled for a three - count. * * * 7:he1•e was uu such thing as the champion going back to a neutral corner. --or any other corner—on the knockdown,. l.Ie stood right Over Firpo, crashing him to the resin again every time the South American's knee came off the can- vas. Seven times in that first round Luis went floerward. As he stood there after the seventh toppling, you could ste that he was all in Ingrown Toenails :Gail 1;}x relieves pain Instantly and removes ingrown rnrtion of nal,] in a. Low epidieationa. $1,611, WART FIX auarram.ail remedy, nn a, id. �.. t«, far -teldree. 77r . CORN FIX I1er,n v ,,av and eau,,,a1; ,n 1 i ,n. firs f a1,4lii01,d 'ftanie.iv, 'lea, A. rHn• :144,isi or Pent netts i 4 by ..... P. THOMPSON 7 ORCHARD CRESCENT TORONTO 18, ONTARIO —not a thing left but that fighting spirit. * * * • Dempsey, wild with rage, rushed in for the kill. Then, jack must have thought, the sky fell in. _Firpo's ponderous right crashed home on the incoming Dempsey's jaw, sending the champion flying through the ropes, right out of the ring onto the press table. Friendly newspaper men helped push him back. Officially Dempsey was back inside the ropes in less than ten seconds. Actually it was nearer twenty, but that's what the man said. If there had ,been any right or justice Luis Angel Firpo would have been crowned champion then and there. But there was too much action to bother with trifling things like right or justice. * * * The champion was so groggy that he couldn't even defend him- self, but Firpo, instead of standing off and trying to measure him, kept flinging wild punch after wild punch. - Somehow or other Jack managed to hang on till the bell signalledthe end of the. round. Round One—although it seemed as though they had: been battling for at least ten. , 15y>, * * Came- round two and Dempsey —his head cleared—took charge in his own tigerish fashion. Down -went Luis for a count of two. Down went Luis for a count of four. •Down ~hent Luis for a count of TEN. "The winnah—and STILL the champion of the world—" Yes, it was indubitably unfair and utterly brutal and thoroughly deplorable, taken all around. Still, in spite of that, quite a battle, with as much action in the 3 minutes 57 seconds it lasted as you're liable to see in a year of box -fighting these days. 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