Show Y 4 51 fk LA hC J S e New York Post Service Many Tany Sports Folks Share Ruths Ruth's Hazy I Memory l for Names DURING TOURING the seasons of his great great- greatest est glory the newspaper boy boys were ever uncovering one flaw inthe In Inthe Inthe the perfection of that stout citizen who now devotes his declining years to golf No matter how often they might dine or otherwise commune with him they always were dis discovering covering that the first 15 or 20 meet meetIngs Ings were the hardest After that the stout citizen would glee gl up guessing as to whether this was Bill or Dan or Joe From then thenon thenon thenon on their lives could be made more beautiful by knowledge that Babe abe Ruth Buth would know them collective collectIve- collectIvely collectively ly and individually as Kid Of course fromi fromA from A i S gen s time to time gen y tiemen f fro r o m mA A eY whatever est e s t a ate t e Y I r I the new newspaper s p Do per business happens to be resented In-resented In resented y Y r i this disregard for forthe the their I r undoubted f worth and baptis- baptis baptismal t I baptis-I 1 ji mat mal mOD I eke r s L I lAi I lr rf- rf rs l Most I 0 s tot of the them m though mer merely e I y Babe Ruth took It as ns new evi- evi evidence evi evidence dence of ot the pres pres- pressure pressure pressure sure that besets beseta a great man or smirked complacently at mirrors which persisted In n Riving giving bald hald evi- evi evidence en- en evi evidence dence that this Kid stuff was all wrong Recently a reporter made men men- mention mention tion of this at one of those vast public gatherings s at which he Is such a n popular favorite Immediate Immediate- Immediately l ly some busybody In fn the audience Inquired i If It Inability to remember names of eminent commentators up- up upon upon up upon on sports and wrestling was confined con con- confined confined fined entirely to the Babe How Billy Southworth's Memory l Was Stymied Sadly being one of or those who are reluctant to share the miseries and the secrets of or his profession with the world the reporter was forced to admit the truth truths There was for Instance the St StLouis Louis baseball scrivener who devote devot- devoted devoted ed several seasons to giving his best aid advice and comfort to Billy Southworth Perhaps the reporter and the Cardinal manager were not as close as Park and Tilford but to all outward appearances they seemed two hearts that beat as one Then fate along with the failure to win a pennant decreed that South South- Southworth worth South worth should try his baseball for fortunes tunes elsewhere Scant months later the two were reunited In In a hotel lobby How are you rou Bill Bm caroled the baseball writer rushing forward with eagerly outstretched hand Gee Im I'm glad to- to to Ah uh It was not that Mr Southworth Is a snob a ribber or a aguy aguy aguy guy who devotes his life to dealing out the Ice His brow was wrinkled In earnest concentration for a full minute You could see that he was wa s bearing down determined not to le let t memory slip a fast one over the carner cor car corner ner nero But It was no use He surrendered sur surrendered rendered even though going down gamely Ah Ali Say uh-Say uh Say I know your face Didn't you ou use to play the piano at II But nut the curtain must be draw drawn n over over this thus deplorable seen Carpentier Didn't Know Joe Beckett Socially It can be lifted upon the fact tact that tha t athletes also tall fall to know one an- an another an another other By ny this tills I do not refer to the th Helen the Helen Jacobse s or those others who probably hay hae very cry good reason for not g as they pass by Instead we can turn to the more mot e I elysian spheres There we can con consider I eider alder an episode In the life of a gentleman gen gen- gen gentleman once admiringly hailed by bythe b bythe y the press as t the tt e Orchid Man although al although though he certainly was not In the th e I florist racket What kind of or a n fellow Is this Joe Jo e a Beckett be he was asked I 1 dont don't know was WI the quick k confident and smiling reply TV e never Dever met him Sure you have have persisted the In- In IntervIewer I In Interviewer r n shifting to English so s o that the that the waiter walter might get In on the th e laugh too Dont you remember 7 Hs H was In the ring with you twit e and you knocked him out bot both h times Yes I I know Georges Carper Carpen tier ter continued affable and willingto g to oblige But nut that was In the rIng rin rinI ringI g I was only getting paid pahl to fi tight debt ht bin him There was no sense In talking to him then was there IT Ir ti's was no mere coin oln coin coincidence that one of the warm warm- warmest warmest est cst days s 's of the year arrived alon along with Max Mac ra Naturally the ballyhoo for his fight with Louis will continue to set the pace for other temperatures until the dark Uhlan sits down In front of the cream colored Bomber Domber on June 18 As Mr Arthur Brisbane probably quite often has advised the world a 01 million bobs Is a lot of doughnuts Therefore even such cuch specialists In charitable promotion as the athletic club directors must shower down their sparks of Imag Imagery ery cry so that all citizens with money to burn will have no trouble finding their way to the festal altar Just as naturally though all nil thIs good clean fun has brought new wrinkles Into the otherwise bland countenance of or Uncle Michael Strauss Jacobs While wandering hither and yon now V peeping In anxIously anxiously to see that Herr has has been properly tucked Into his pretty white 1100 p m bed now peeping out fretfully to Inquire whether Jacobs has been yanked out of his pretty white 1100 a n m crib Uncle Mike Ilke ever faces the future with suspicious eye ee Even while cna engaged ell In such elevatIng elevating elevating ing work as handing banding out As A's or orsome orsome orsome some other letter of the lie Broadway alphabet to the boys who have ha done the best dally compositions the haunted gleam ever er Is present This Is because first of all Uncle Mike has no Illusions as to where charity lines up for the gun Then again he is a business man as well as the most eminent promoter since the days of the late lamented Rick Rick- Rickard Rickard ard So because it Is his own dol dollars lars which must back the ballyhoo and because a full Gs G's worth of them must be laid on the line long before June Juno 18 this most celebrated celebrated ed of Main Stem traders must ever give his best regard to those Items of fate fata which never appear upon the Immaculate balance sheets To make sure that no misfortune besets the path of the two athletic youn young men before they c can caD a a wrangle A Aa a before their gold f embroidered audience audience audi audi- ence ence he must must carefully care care- carefully carefully fully scan all an- an angles angles an angles While doing SO he be must comport Y- Y himself with d due u e tw memory of or tho t h o s eo e eo o other the t h e r promising prizefights which SS we r forcibly de- de detoured toured de-toured toured T v Idle seem seem- seem on the straight II a and n D d nar nar- narrow narrow narrow row way to success In ID mentioning this there Is no de- de desire de de- desire desire sire to cast hints or make promises Instead because the way of a pro pro- promoter promoter moter rooter Is tough and because no fight Is a success flop or even en a sure thing until the gong has sounded I merely merel am sympathizing with Uncle Mike Ilke There have bae been all too many such affairs which have en- en encountered encountered en encountered countered dire fate In to spite of ot the best of skill and Intentions For Instance there was the time when Stanley Ketchell and Sam Langford were ready to enter the ring of the old club up In Inthe inthe Inthe the Bronx Perhaps a little bird whispered although the tho bird for which the Bronx Is most famed Is not given to whispering Or It may have been that the ups higher con con- conveyed conveyed conveyed more direct and forcible tid tidIngs ings to Billy Gibson the promoter Anyhow the affair was Junked and later conveyed to Philadelphia hla Wills Battle With Tunney Never Did Come Off Sometimes though fate behaves es very ery handsomely In dealing with all parties concerned up In this sorting of fights which never came off there can be mentioned the Shar- Shar Sharkey Sharkey key Shar-key key Campolo affair alTair which was i wasi scheduled for Yankee stadium Justas Just Justas Justas as the woefully small crowd was wending Its way Into the arena the fibs stiles skies wept In sympathy with fife promoters who were about to loses lose a small fortune So the thing was called oft off forever There also was the time when Gentleman Gene n was as sup sup- supposed supposed posed to meet Stevedore Ste Harry Wills A considerable portion of the press thought favorably about the glorious possibilities of or that one and Indeed the tickets already had been ordered for tor It It What happened need Deed not be hone Ione Into here Some say sap that Tex HIck flick ard ard begged Tunney to lay by off orT and promised him a shot a Dempsey Things I believe That the sign on Connie Macks Mack's door should read Wrecking Dune Done Here lIere Terms Strictly Cash That folks who predict that Tony Canzoneri will be massacred at nt Mad Madison ison son Square Gardens In May forget the first Ross noss- Ross affair Just Justas Justas Justas as Is the case now Vancouver Jim Jimmy my had bad been Idle for too long before traIning for that one So his bis legs were shaky and his timing was oft off all evening That the National League executives fives tives having proved themselves great big bla strong business men of sterling character by blackballing the Jew who waa was voted the best um um- um pits In the game should make up with Dolly Stark That the Nation National al League umpiring never on a 1 very high average Is s worse than It ft has been In years That If Brooklyn really Is the best of all OIl baseball cit cities ies It Is very poor Judgment to keep shooting the most incompetent arbiters Into the Dodgers games carner |