They Said It...

•Jack Dempsey, in an interview with Sports Editor Al Warden of the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner: "The fistic sport needs an overhauling, a cleanup, and the sooner the better. Present-day TV fighters wouldn't have made good four-round preliminary boys a few years ago. The monopoly is one of the reasons... ."

•Frank McGuire, North Carolina's basketball coach: "My team is like sputnik. We've been up there awfully high. Like sputnik, we've got to come down."

•Harry G. Davis, executive secretary to Kentucky Governor Happy Chandler, explaining why the state hired the father of 6-foot 9-inch University of Kentucky freshman basketball player Ned Jennings as a highway investigator: "Mr. Jennings needed work. The university needed his son. It was a worthy case."

•George M. Trautman, president of the minor leagues, on the problem of reorganizing the minors: "I have sat with clubs and leagues for 12 years on realignment, and as a result nothing has been realigned."

•Frank Ryan, Rice quarterback and nuclear physics major, after being told that he had been drafted by the L.A. Rams: "I considered it, but then decided against it. My professors advised me not to try to mix my education and pro football."