Los Angeles, Mar. 11 It was Babe Ruth, that great Bronx philosopher, I believe, who said that the life of an important athlete wa just a series of being a hero one day and a goat the next.
"You either hit one over the wall and get the cheers," the Babe said, "or you miss the third one and get the razz. What the hell."
Henry Armstrong today was enjoying (?) the business of being a goat. Hailed for the past year as the greatest fighter in the world, and rated on even terms with the best of all times by the critics, Henry recently had trouble winning a decision over Baby Arizmendi in a ten-round fight for the welterweight championship here in the Olympic Auditorium.
Henry, a fighter who has been favourably compared with Gans, Walcott, and all the other Negro prize ring greats, looked little better than any six or seven boys you could pick up ina gymnasium. The only things he had that were like the Armstrong of the fights with Lou Ambers and Barney Ross were heart and hustle. From bell to bell, from start to finish, he moved in, always in, carrying the fight, making the pace, and trying for a finishing punch. He never took a backwards step, never clinched, but was always eternally on the move after the smart and shifty Mexican.
At the finish there were two schools of thought along this city's cauld flower row. One school insisted that Armstrong had gone over the crest, and that from now on his fights will be poorer and poorer. It was this school that argued that the tremendous pace Henry has always set finally has caught up with him, robbing his legs of speed, and his fists of punch. In other words, there were against Arizmendi as the first signs of the H.M.S. Dorsetshire Tests Skottowe Cup Finalists On Race Course; No Display of Power N a "legstretche match in preparation for their struggle in the final of the Skottowe Cup nex t week-end, the Shanghai Municipal Police yesterday afternoon o pposed the first Soccer eleven'of H.M.S. Dorsetshire in a friendly match at the Race Course. The result was a draw, each side scoring two goal If this match is any criterion the Police cleve n will have to improve quite a lot before next Saturday.
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