Show Its It's Patrick You Yon Fans Can Thank Thant s Lester tester Patrick coach of the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Rangers started the custom i of numbering players so that the fans might recognize them more readily rC That I was during the sea tea teason season son of 1911 12 when he operated the Pacific Coast Hockey league A few months later Eater the first college team was waa adorned with numbers Old Man Stagg doing the job for tor his University of Chicago eleven football eleven City college college- M U Y foot b ball players bruise easily and no wonder The Tho ground upon which they must practice and play Is le so bare of grass and packed so hard that If one of them was to be tossed upon a concrete floor he probably would think he w was s land ing landing In a feather bed Shrewd horsemen are arc whIspering that heroin wont won't show In a U saliva test no nn matter what track doctors may say sav about It They It-They They also are that but perhaps It would lie he a 8 shame to disturb the hard working racing commissioners with such news so let It It go Although his ankles will not hold up holdup under steady work Eng lish of the Is rated as the best besl utility Infielder In the leu league ue Lloyd Greenamyre who sells for u a Broth ers era stile v al also acts acta as for golf pro L the tin circus performers lie He I 75 i pupils Although h has hns ant ent ent present scoring I cco-I system the pres pres- II tins hns nas been be In lI ue use e for fur centuries url's no nu one of the t S 'S historians h has n a s ever er I beible able to discover how It been Because the lights tights make thing everything seem teem faster baseball alJ scouts every cout I claim that It Is 1 Impossible line fine alirio on a player to get a 1 by watching him himin In a 9 night game asay Ithe the veteran Cub Cubs he scout Ys that he must mut I see a player I three time day games before In at least for wArding a recommendation niNCE It has been pretty well established es- es established SINCE by sob lob ob sisters people who pay for 30 20 cents wort worth of cardboard entitling the t them h e m to perch In the row and by other kindred boxing ig experts that Joe Louis la is the greatest fight fighter er of all time perhaps the subject could very sensibly be ducked t to today day Yet since the same wellIn well In formed of p gospel seek to prove their omnipotence tence by advancing the contention that Max Baer quit cold at Yankee stadium It Is le that some mature consideration wll wil do the whole business no harm Obviously Oh Louis Is one of the most gifted youn young D men n ever to re- re re receive calve cehe a 00 OO H In t hI h 1 a racket that sometimes Is known DS as sport Also he has liis been nm I trained lUll and anil I the Irs I who handle Ills his affairs have tone fone w so w with Ith rare skill He Is a talented boxer perhaps as superior In this line today as Jack Johnson was 25 years ago He hits hard and accurately with either hand That the Baers Car Car- Car Browns Drowns and he has battered were not laid out cold as were various stal stal- stalwarts stalwarts warts upon whom Sam Longford and Peter Jackson pr practiced Is 18 not nota nota a matter of particular moment Al- Al Although AI Although though LouIs Louts seems to have more love of and Instinct for fighting than did the marine ex-marine his ring tactics more closely resemble those of Gene Tunney than of any other modern champion And for all his eminence Tunney also was a fight fight- fighter er who bruised and dazed his opponents opponents opponents when a man of les lesser er skill but greater power might have tin fin finIshed shed them with o 0 one n e blow that needed no referees referee's count to prove Its worth and efficiency Such are the facts that have Q been I made plain about him hint while he has hasIn In in sue such h a short space n and n d wit with h hsuch such r ease ease ense been triumph Ing over hoer Bacr Carnera Cir Car and I Levin nera p pw w 81 sky That the thre three ri I S of of them two for for- forAmer Amer mer champions and anil anda i ia a man who once t was ns the t h e sturdiest j of also rans could not land a total of oC six six punches on hint him Joe Louis Is another pre I previously previously fact that may very ery well be acclaimed |