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To: Mark T. Heath who wrote (431)	3/17/1999 12:13:00 AM
From: X Y Zebra	Respond to of 43974

I know what you mean... I guess this discussion is similar in most sports... In Grand Prix Racing, the argument will always exist of who was the greatest driver, ever. After considering all the greatest, such as Tazio Nuvolari, Alberto Ascari, Stirling Moss, Bernd Rosemeyer, Rudolph Caracciola, Graham Hill, etc. etc. etc.... I always arrive at three names, Tazio Nuvolari, Juan Manuel Fangio, and Jim Clark... there are days in which I think the power that one needed to control those dinosaurs of cars of the early days, through the fifties....would make Nuvolari or Fangio the easy winner... to the fine machines they have today... technology that started in the early 60's.... and the speed at which Jim Clark would react, leaving his closest contender a good 4 or 5 car lengths by the end of the first lap.... makes me think that it was Clark, the greatest of them all... In Golf.... what makes me think that Bob Jones, was indeed the greatest is that, without taking anything away from anybody else, in such a short period of time, he was not only successful at winning all those tournaments, but he was an accomplished student, (of three different disciplines). And not forgetting that he suffered from the spinal chord disease, which made it, I am sure, not comfortable at all. I am not feeling "compassionate" nor taking away anything from all the other players. He was simply damned good, that these characteristics made him all that more extraordinary....