The Archive · 1938

Nature Takes Care

Hence we see a chap like Jack Dempsey, who scaled only about 183 at Toledo, almost murdering huge Jess Willard, and normal-weighted heavies like Maxie Baer, Joe Louis and Leroy Ha beating "Man Mountain" Prime Camera into unconsciousness, and a 190-pounder like Walter Neusel, a mediocre fighter, chasing big Ray Impelletthere about the ring for 10 rounds, No—I do not believe we need a ninth division 1o protect normal heavies from giants, Nature takes care of that, The law of compensation works out, and usually at the expense of the pachyderms,—United Press,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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