Show 1 E present year may not be t the golden age of sport as far as outstanding ability goes I 1 can see little chance that it if will produce masterpieces even close to babe ruth jack dempsey 13 bobby 0 b b y jones tommy Ilitch hitchcock cock rogers 11 hornsby ornsby bill til A red orange grange den 7 IN and man 0 war not to overlook earl sande but the year on ahead will outclass M the postwar period arlod R 11 hornsby ornsby of the first si world conflict when it comes to the matter of attendance and the actual amount of gold or it s equivalent taken in at the turn stiles lt this 1016 1946 season reason will malio make nil all other past years look like tho the tag end of a depression tie BO far as crowds and cash are concerned the recent basketball season flattened all past attendance records we have had over people clamoring to pay 20 a seat scat for ft a non title tide fight meaning graziano Graz lano and servo california and Florl florida darace race tracks have left the post past far behind in this some respect two alabama football squads made up from alabama players recently fought it out wore before spectators in birmingham racing at jamaica has pl pi ready taken long leaps beyond last iasi years earlier marks the super brIlliant stars who followed the last world war may be missing but there are still enough good ones to keep the human mass rolling in the general direction 0 of f the next show whatever game it might happen to be only warming up but these matters are only in the warm up division the real harvest from the golden crop is still on beyond us baseball expects to shatter all past crowd records by a wide margin the yankees hope to play before something approximating two million at home the dodgers would be right alongside it there w was only enough parking room for the human frame the giants wont be far away it if their ball club holds up the million dollar bet at new york tracks last season is likely to reach or pass million dollars this year we have seen crowded derby and Pre preakness akness years before but nothing to what this next may will offer in these two bitter better than thousand dollar tests the no yankee stadium the attendance space to equal the crowds that saw the two tunney dempsey shows buethe but the louis conn meeting will outdraw both financially in the way of extra carloads of cash they are already talking about graal one ano being in an alillion jollon dollar gate and the rock alsted entry even a title the united states golf association to Is dead sure that the ope open at canterbury cleveland in june juna and the amateur at baltusrol Baltus rol iri in september will run up far higher figures than either cither has overdrawn ever drawn in the past the crowds who want to see a contest have already far outgrown the limited spaces through spring and summer and fall on a recent tour of the southeast wo we were otten often asked how bow long the money would hold out Ap apparently parenty it Is going to hold out for at least another year no 0 one can say ye yet in just what fighting shape either louis or conn will be but the rush to contribute at least three million dollars Is still under way with with me the contest coming late in june apparently it the entry list but the game that Is drawing them out As far as one can see neither the derby nor the Pre preakness akness nor the belmont has any count fleet or any WhIr laway or ailsab running no outstanding star has yet shown for these events but this wont affect the size of the populace on hand baseball comes nearer approaching th the first golden age in playing c class ass for or baseball ase a x egtill hag as the le car ar donals glo ted williams bob feller and many others with a III high b standard of excellence including and wakefield of the algera so some one recently asked how large the crowds would be jf f ruth dempsey jones tilden fl hornsby arnsby were back in their prime the answer is they be any larger tor for the simple reason there any more room today rush to see anything at any price apparently everything is worth 50 except 50 genius in sports what is this know how Us this genius or instinct for superlative play in sport ty cobbs father was wait a georgia judge who had no particular interest in any game ty cobbs children had no interest in baseball yet bill tilden once told me that young ty cobb might have been a tennis champion old man dimaggio DiMagg lo never had the slightest idea of what whai baseball meant yet he produced joe dom and vince dimaggio DiMagg lo |