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Show MSportlight IV.&y Grant land JUce (Copyright, L9fB, New York Tribune, Inc. Trademark registered, U. S. Patent Office.) Jl ffl A I EW M LKKS TO SHOOT AT 1. John J McGraw Eight pennants and three world's series championships champion-ships '- Ty Cobb League leader twelve times, elgnteen-year uveiage, .375. ;; lii'Di' Saruzen- Jn--year record: open champion, professional hun-plon hun-plon and conquorei of ilagen. liarnes and Hutchinson at match r''Il' 4. Jnck Dempsey An average under un-der four rounds for four years THE BAKL1 Bl OST There is at times a cur?t: upon the advance boost Which predicts un overwhelming over-whelming triumph It has a way all too frequently of leading Into trouble. W-- recall over a year ago this remark re-mark from Bill Roper, of Princeton, before the season starttd- TJie main thing against us is the tat l that every one ia picking us to win. That generally gener-ally Pads to trouble." The Yankees understand how Roper felt about It Every one was picking them, too. Yale has received a lot of advance praise which may not make Tad" Jonee'a task any easier. Pate at times seems to take this rxs challenge. And Fate can do a lot of damage wnen It lands. NO HELP It Is no great help to know that one has been Widely picked to win. Psychology Psy-chology Lheu works In tin- uppesit. Ii-rec Ii-rec tlon. If you win well, you were expected expect-ed to. If you don't It may be anything any-thing from dumb-bell to false alarm. Those picked by the vote of clamor in advance have everything to lose and but little to gain in the way of glory- These are heavy odda to face. Tills handicap o.' tfclng picked in advance ad-vance follows Bobby June9 now ut golf, Just as It followed "Chick" Eans for years. They all said ' Chick" was the best golfer and ought to win but from 19U7 to 1 9 1 G he didn't Then they began to say he nevrfp would win and in 1916 he won both the opeu anil the amateur. In a year or two possibly pos-sibly they will be saying that Jones win never win and be win then pos sibly step out and win both, Including the British. When Harold Hilton, as a youngster, won the British open he was picked year ufter year to win the British am-; am-; ateur, but more than ten years passed before all concerned finally decided that Hilton would never win that classic. Whereupon Hilton then, well I over 30, won the amateur Bcveral i times one- year, winning both the Ani-' Ani-' erican and British amateur crowns . ni: P LRT OF LI I K There is one turn of luck that is I rarely mentioned In sport, and yet it I is all too frequently a conquering part I of the game. I We refer to an Individual or a team ! that Just happens to be at Its best, ; mentally and physically, upon the big I day. It is almost the ruling factor in go'f I among the leaders, the top six or eight who are easily capable of winning under un-der these conditions. It In also easily possible that t n j days before the world's series or ten I days after it "Babe" Ruth might have moved from .US to .420, or Groh and Frlsch. from over .470. might have dropped below .2S0. The same factor follows a football , machine. On certain days a first class t .iiit may be unbeatable. On other days, it will be Just ordinary, Incapable Incap-able of playing Its game, and for no particular reason that any oife can fathom. I III R s,, "Try not the pass," the old man said; "You'd better hit the line instead " The youth replied "We goiter scoro" And threw one forty yards or more Excelsior! "What about 'Babe Ruth's future In baseball?" writes 1. H F. Who can outline fie ways of genius? Ruth by keeping In shape through the winter ! and by giving all he has to baseball ' next spring and summer may easily start another flurry. There is only an outside chance that he will equal hltf two great seasons of l2i and litjl. but It is not an Impossible achievement provided always that he goes after the top again In the right wuy. Yost ranks Kipke as the greatest kicker Michigan has ever had, not barring even the still remembered eley, of old Polnt-a-Mlnute fame. ba k in the dayi when winie iieston I ran wilder and harder than the Da-' Da-' Lota ) org ever did. Michigan has B wonderful chance this season to reach the top. but there Is to much power In the Western conference to announce any ranking around the middle of October. If William J. Bryan Is at the ringside ring-side when "Kid" Norfolk and "Battling" "Bat-tling" Slkl are' brought together In the same ring the earnest N'ebraskan wl'l I r. vise his first as ho exclaims "Dar-I "Dar-I win said It." oo |