Show Strength y Pro es toBe the Greatest Asset to an in Any Branch Li of ti VALUE iH lONG DRIVES ORiVES LINKS i r Tennis Tennis Ten Ten- McLaughlins McLaughlin's Sock in Teni nis Made Him King D of the Courts j i A f- f By Ey Robert Edgren knock knock- Paul Berlenbach's t n spite of or will w vent by Jack Delaney Berlenbach fights attention wh when n be he hold bold public Knows he he Is everyone n v. v lignin because hitters in his class hardest one ac of ot the has bas Is limited and he His His- exp experience theres there's no not but ng to learn it If shouldn't shouldn't- learn arn t reason Ron why he Berlenbach hid Md only shifty cleverness cle drop out and be f forgotten I h ht he nIght might I Jut nt ho has ia the punch He Hell He'll 11 and come comei a The man with gameness 30 J i JJ ck 1 pinch may be down but he d t ti i stay sa down own People know him hm as a out knocker to see him hii to get the thc Io and they'd go a. out of ot o waiting for tor the heart to flash Hash ove over and rf with the dull dun thud thuda that comes cornes UW T the floor A A. hunared hun hun- victim hits Lag the a il ofT red ared i d fast tast and fancy ranc ta tap artists might a thousand rounds In 1 the cleverest hun I manner imaginable and they ther wouldn't wouldn t amIe and amI produce e a shadow of or the Interest e excitement In the Polo Ground last year ear when Firpo b knocked Dempsey Dempse I i out lout of ot the ring and Dempsey came back ack knocked Firpo out out all all in 4 and ack-and and seconds one ono oDe round and aad three fifty Berlenbach's s 's first ten professional ts went a total of or tw twenty nine o a rounds some rounds some record Ills Its It's the punch that makes anything anything any- any thing Babe M Interesting i Ruth hs Is n a gerat ball hall player He know Jt-know th the game and plays it in maSTerly masterly mas mas- terly terly- style But people dont don't go to see o Ruth play clever baseball They go to see him clout the old horsehide over over the fence Anybody who takes ap an afternoon off ort to see Ruth play is disappointed ithe if doesn't knock out t ast home run Babe Ruth is at t l least one 5 aid d to be the highest paid pla player er and the biggest money maker ever known 8 the In the game That's because people f l EO to see him make home runs and long longA A nits swelling the gate ate receipts wherever I There was vas some talk cr ever Ruth plays last 1 year ear of or using a ball that couldn't f l the right field bleachers i Ke lilt JIlt over oer to t to curb R Ruth th and other home run hit hit- S It was It-was was only a a. bluff Ban Ball club t know the value of ot a home iome run ord at the gate Professional golfers goIters are supposed to toi toJ I i J f I alu Value perfect form onn above all aU other things things' in golf goU That's bunk What pros really strive for Is distance The The match with tim long tong drivers Jn In It always carries the biggest est gallery tr vw t t. t a a. golf goU tournament The r. r nals know it Their matches are art driving contests and partly would rather Valter Hagen fI a. a long one form the tee than foot forty fO t putt V w eurs a a. long Is as i zeil as a's a low score Mr t of Honolulu now visiting this I will probably be one ono of or tho the 11 of the coming golf gol season I t long ago I I saw sw w him drive the i een at the fifth hole bole at Annandale Annandale- distance of three hundred and fir iI e yards There is a slight Mj slope and the breeze was wasn r n ble But his carry must have i en t 2 O yards ards and he hit equally galIs from other tees alc t pla playing ing with him n agreed reed that I. I s is U be longest driver in the country Way a Incidentally Mr Brown t takes kes kesis is swore ort swing swing something something like Jack I ys eys Jack can hit bit a golf golt ball tf with a I swing that looks like r of his famous right hooks I tb shots in golf goU are even more I Ii i wo than the lon long straight drive 1 majority of golfers would pre- pre drive e mashie approach riv to a sIx inches of the cup V GHUN'S SOCK SAME ia arl i Ice McLaughlin once known L over as The California II aik i played sensational champlong champion champion- i if fennis for several seasons before g pace paco of his game slowed I f r t don There Thero have been more Mac rae players than Red fled tut ut none that could put such tre- tre tre p itt bursts burst of ot speed into it He I u t e sock In tennis and was wall a ayT I t j D king in lila his da day McLaughlin I taken aken up golf and plays consist- consist seventies He lie has bas turned i I. I gr that used to break hl his C is into a tremendous 3 both th the driver a long like aug In tennis revolutionized revolutionize Ine n te with l his lUs s fast service an and I l id d I. I kills kIUs EYel Every Star tar since hL his 3 Ji trIeU to develop hitting abil abil- I life we shots now most featured a J Johnston's Johnstons fort forearm arm drive and anc fic 1 service of BI Big Bill Tilden at aid I P Patterson of ot Australia Australla- Fee ee being the chief o on I co What t would Champion Jade Jacl Demp Demp- aw at the gate if his fights wen went t I jr fiVe fi rounds rounds like like the cham cham- contests of of a generation ago f wouldn't t be offering him OOoo purses rhe ring champions whose names 11 remembered Wt were re all men i punch Among the little men tj tr was Vas most famous and hitter A few like Frank are remembered for flashing d' d and and- unusual skill But who Joe Cans Gans Joe had 1 Jr ar r brain and above all ic tn I O. O In either elther hand Bob t wasn't flashy but how sock t. t Jeffries ws s a great her but and unhurried v have been eena a Dempsey for action if he hadn't started his hist 1 as sp partner for Jim t tt at t. t when hen Corbett CorbettI fOUght and lost to Fitzsimmons Jim JimI I always I had an ambition faS fa'S to be a better boxer boer xer t than n Corbett tL Tommy mv Ryan Rvan Kid McCoy cCO Joe Wal Wal- tt I Si Matty Matthews Mysterious 1 Smith m th Peter Maher Tom Sharkey Shar- Shar key eJ C Dixon John L L. L S Sullivan Sullivan- ta l lt t that at great reat bunch of oC old did time c chain cham- J. J and and- championship con contenders contenders- t en d ers an seekers S Some of them had kili but the P punch ma made e then them fa- fa S Sam Ord H was a 1 but Sams Sam's u nunc was boxing th the UtI n they used used- to to talk abo about t. t saz Sam should have ha been champion of oC uie the tle world in his prime He lIe was wasa a better fighter than Jack Johnson who never would give him a chance chanco at the title tiLie Johnson was a master boxer But Buths he hs was too good a boxer He Me held his I punch back and took few risks CHARLIE PADDOCKS PADDOCK'S S LEAP FAMOUS In athletics athletics Charlie Paddocks Paddock's leap at the tape has made him famous It was that tremendous leap that often beat Morris Kirksey his closest rival It was his punch It If Paddock ran smoothly all the way hed he'd be fast tast but he lie wouldn't be the fastest sprinter sprint sprint- I er in the world and holder of or a dozen worlds world's records Two of or the most moat famous football players in American college histo history aro are Eckersall of or Chicago and Sam White of Princeton E Eckersall kersall had a football head hed and andI anda a a. tremendous burst of or sp speed ed and energy energy energy en en- ergy that made him hint the tho greatest I scoring runner of ot his da day He was VIas also the greatest field goal kicker Whatever he did he had the punch Sam White could start quicker than any other man In football and run yards In 10 seconds He could pick up a ball while running at top speed and not fumble it In one year Sam Sam scored the winning touchdowns touch touch- touchdowns downs against both Yale and Harvard by getting away with a great burst of ot speed after snatching up fumbled rUmbled or oz dropped balls and running the J length I I of oC the field Before Sam time Princeton men fell tell on the ball He originated originate a sensational play with the I winning punch In It And will wUl be I famous at Princeton while Princeton Princeton's I walls stand Berlenbach hits Berlenbach-hits hits harder than any an i other boxer in his class just as Dempsey Demp Demp- sey hits harder than any other heavy weight But in any line Une of sport the athlete with the punch or the sock is the bird who can put EO so much energy en en- en ergy Into doing his stuff that he h does It better than anyone anone else can d do oit o- o it lt or 01 ever has done It before Copyright 1924 by Bell BeIl Syndicate Inc |