The ep38 The Man Who Hates To Lose

This is Jimmy Powers coming your way with another Grantland Rice story. This is Jimmy Powers transcribed with another chapter from Grantland Rice's autobiography, The Tumalt and the Shouting.

Today's story has to do with the man who hates to lose, and once again, I'll narrate it in first person. In my travels, I've perhaps covered more miles than those herds of nomadic rumors the American buffalo.

And I've been asked the same question a thousand times in a hundred different places. Who is the most versatile player of all types of games you've ever known? Right off the cuff there are four standouts. I've already covered Jim Thorpe and Babes Aharias who could play most any physical game unbelievably well. Then there was a tall dark and handsome

Collegian named Harry Fisher who played all sports in season with Williams College back in the middle 1920s Bless with uncanny coordination plus the competitive fire and body to back it up. Fisher was from football to fly fishing unquestionably a stick out. And finally we come to my old pal and racetrack companion that bloodhound of the Daily

Double, Arthur Earl Neal known to the world as greasy. The raw-boned leathery hillbilly from Parkersburg West Virginia today a park avenue cliff dweller in New York City gets my vote for the mostest at the most games.

Greasy is equally at home coaching a professional football team or at a bridge table. He's the only man I know who was actively associated with World Championship Baseball and football teams. He played left field for the 1919 Cincinnati Reds and he coached the Philadelphia Eagles to the National Pro Football title in 1948 and 1949.