Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 39 | Fans Soon Forget Baseball Players

Fli SOOH FORGET baseball pmes Former Stars of Sporting World Soon Fade Out of j Existence i Faded stars of the -world of sport are soon forgotten . by the fans once they move out of the limelig'ht. New heroes, new faces, new idois, and new conquests claim attention. The sport Trorld demands a constantly changing chang-ing scene. As one by one the heroes of yesterday pass along they are soon forsottsn. The present world conflict is going to work some startling: changes. The snorts; map of nations may change as a result of the war. Stars in many branches of sports are now enlisted under the Stars and Stripes. Some of them never wiil come back, while others who see it through "over there" will return only to find that they have been passed by the constantly changing parade and are too tar behind to catch up" with the bil rows. K. Norris Williams u, rational tennis ten-nis " champion, will have been s'rippec of his title by the time the nations singles events are finished this summer sum-mer Francis Ouimel, though he pla "If constant b" , may pass al on sr f ro it the gokl0" glow of the spotlight a? many other srrest coifers now in tht service will undoubtedly pass. Grover Cleveland Alexander, rated n-the n-the greatest of pitchers, lias an uncertain uncer-tain "future before hfm in basrbnll. nov that he has been called in the draft, an-t an-t h" sa.me roes for any other star hal plaveV who answers the cast to tricolors. tri-colors. REMOVING THE FATTY BANKROLL Tell me not in consternation Baseball dies beneath the knife. It is but an amputation Which m-iy help prolong Its life.