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Show BC5y Grantlmd Rice ft 1922, New York Tribune. PKsde Mark Registered, 0 S. jOfflc ) IK CREST OF SPORT. some who, like the glow of Hng, where after snow swept feril dances down the world Mk and mashie leave their ftths before the call of Bpd near the grandstands jKf against the rooters' roar li something In their claim. ylKwhsn rtll'v said and done. chip 'hot to the pin, the HlCg hit and run, keen putt curling down, le the pitcher s balk. HHoe In the ri'it'inm glow and Bbe football talk HtfS Borne, who fauc;. Jnn Be the glint or spring, kles and women's eyes, and Hbat sort of thing; piB, golf and baseball hold regal summer 5way He world iuriir ' : doors ptel and 10 play H-have something on iheii B, but take it up and down, Hlt tny greatest Lbrill when WO are turning brown, Blt corner to golden days Hg the aportivo walk Hid in the autumn glow and the football talk. fd the star of stadium takes The Ohio Htadium, which Aid Ohio State will formal Jl on Saturday, Is sport's structure, the game's moat Itt coloaaeum. The greatest t ever saw a western game tend the field when Jack jMtn makes a bid to check tho OJh In the direction of a t;; championship, for Yost. J has one of the best ma-jifcas ma-jifcas steered in many years. hig factor in arranging or lilg football dope is the run t). A certain machine may 3jf BBbeatable. on Tuesday and jprongh accidents or injur-or injur-or two atara. There is no fc lace great atara, since they ijinf too scarce. A twisted knee tjBhed BJiklR can easily ae-nd to convulsione. jl, INQ CONVULSIVE DOPE. upS terms th of the world's aer-' aer-' jd' thls letter: "Now that it and some time afterward. Bind telling me Juat why so' ball writers picked the Yan-rJ Yan-rJ '"ben the Giant undoubt batter club"' Vptod them by the dope which, on Its face value, favored the Yankee?. We can prove it. Last fall the Yankees, with only Mays and Hoyt In shape, with Ruth crippled, with Dugan at third or Witt j in center, won three out of the first 1 five games from the Giants, who then jhad Phil Douglas at bis top form. This fall the Yankee had Bush. Shawkey and Jones on hand to eld Mays and Hoyt; they had Ruth in shape; tbey had Dugan at third and Scott at short, two of the stars of baseball. Against this the GlanL had lost Douglas, who won two of their games a year ago, and neither Nehf nor Barnes had been pitching as well in as they pitched in 1921. Just figure out the details A much weaker-looking Yankee team in 1921 bad won three out of tbe first live games from a Giant team that looked stronger for world's series purposes than the 1J22 flock. Yet in place of improving, in place of winning three out of the first five, the strengthened Yankees won 0 out of the first 5 This was merely another of ihose convulsions to which the dope is eu'o-iject. eu'o-iject. But. judging tlie incidents and (episodes of the two seasons, 'he dope f favored iho Yankees. . The human tendency is to emit a hoarse guffaw when ihe dope blows up. This is only natura'. If the. dope always worked out there would bo no Interest left In sport And the human race can get more merriment out of raizing a mistake than It can out of cheering true prophecy. And besideo, It la never In the province) of any expert ex-pert to underwrite the dope He can only assemble It and then puih It out upon a cold, critical world. If It thereafter there-after refuRes to carry on, why shower Invectives upon thoao who merely showed how things onght to be, not bow they would be? There la no enterprise in tho world where the normal and the expected can turn upside down so quickly as they do In competitive sport. As a rule, tonnis, billiards and boxing are fairly simple to handle. Golf, baseball and foofftffll may tarn at any moment and bite the hand that tries to write down tholr results. Oolf Is the uaTdest game of all to dope with baseball and football almost on a par, baseball, if anything, being the trickier. And, as related above, certain sudden sud-den accidonts and injuries are the main things that so frequently throw football out of gear. Princeton a year ! ago was doped to have her greatest year. But who could tell that Lourlo, Garrity, Keck and Wlttmr would be injured and unfit for Important con-testa? |