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Show SPORT LIGHT . Irish Sprinter is Worth Vattj By GRANTLAND RICE All-Over Champion A baseball world series is in reality the championship of the United Unit-ed States. Few other nations play baseball, Japan being an exception. Football, soccer and rugby are entirely different games, with the United States pointing largely at American football. i?""1 --w" Qoif and tennis I are international, i" with Uncle Sam fJfZr 1 dominating golf and Australia ruling the J J tennis empire. - H Boxing is another V , international sport. I j Champions in each I f 1 class should be list- "' mwi niiu e(j or ranked on per- r .i.- si,, formance, regard-brantland regard-brantland Kite less of nationality. What about thoroughbred racing? Is there any international standout? There may be before this next spring is over. That standout might be Windy City II. He is a three-year-old. He can run fast. He can also run far. Windy City II is not a Kentucky, Midwest, Eastern, Southern or California Cali-fornia horse. He is a fine-looking Irish horse. A horseman known as Rex Bell picked him op for $2,000 in Ireland. Then as a two-year-old, Windy City n proceeded to break loose with a rnsh over European Eu-ropean tracks. He won his crown as the best two-year-old in Ireland, England and France. He was the champion over there while Tom Fool, pressed by Oh Leo, Primate, Hill Gail and one or two more took the lead over here. But Windy City II had the jump on Tom Fool. He cleaned up more nations. Bell then proceeded to sell his $2,000 horse to Mrs. Petite Luell-witz, Luell-witz, for $150,000. The horse that had run badly in its first American start two weeks ago was another horse in the San Gabriel Stakes. About Windy City II A few minutes before the Irish runner's wild gallop I had asked Ben Jones about Hill Gail. "In fine shape," Ben and Jimmy said . . . "He is a different horse now." But Windy City n. with Arcaro up, came on a wild march down the stretch to beat A Gleam by three lengths and Hill Gail by six lengths in terrific time over a track none too fast. He ran the seven furlongs in a shade over 1.22. It was the way Windy City II turned the trick that counted. He was running away from the field when he passed the wire. s wi make the Irish horse a healthy favorite for the SitJ Anita Derby to be run shirih It will also make him sometfc, to handle in the $100,000 Haii : cap later on where he'll m, Counterpoint, Hill Prince, Bti, Roses and Next Move 0 tremely light weights. Fourteen years ago, Stage-: ; won both the Santa Anita Derbjl the Handicap. This Irish sprisi-first sprisi-first to challenge that recoti Counterpoint and Hill Princes ' two heavy packages-arouii pounds. This may be too i weight to spot Vandebilt's two k .' and Windy City II. Windy City II was badlj ctfc in his first race at Santa Aniu ; "No wonder," some horn: : said. "Here's an Irish horse covered by an American Scot to a Dutch-bred family, bat' W. F. Alvarado, ridden by u: ian, groomed by a negro." Anyway, there was nt J:: : around. So there is now a verj ; chance that this Irish flyer rl peat in Kentucky before Unci-Corum's Unci-Corum's astonished eyes, It j happen. Don't forget the mi Ail-Around Athletes Mr. Don Iddon of the Londir." Mail insists that American it are single-track specialists. ' : don't even play out one game,:i -: sists. It must be admitte ; platoon system in football isn't: ;.-for ;.-for stamina and fibre. It is c better for the coach and tfc ambitious player. But on fc : around stuff Mr. Iddon is t ; 1 ;; listening to funny noises in ha:: ; The United States is packK ; athletes who have starred is ,; than one sport. For example, what about!!: :;; Cochrane, all-time catcher Ir Athletics? Cochrane at Bos!' was a great -football playe: was a fine passer, runner, fe; He was undoubtedly AU-k: .... as far as playing worth if-was if-was a fine ballplayer. He i ; excellent boxer. He was a fc golfer. That's four sports. many sports does one have" in? How many combined g tennis players, who could r- ' both games, has England . that anyone ever heard i ' about Ellsworth Vines, bete the best of the English at ; . ; sport? What about a kid fc' ; Mathias of Stanford wh : Olympic all-around chant and then a fullback star. What about Al Dark of the1-- v Merriman of the Reds, Ste" of the Yankees and Bro Robinson of the Dodgers, K ski of the Reds, Chapman -, Indians and many others? J |