Show Crawford Upsets Theory Aussie Ace Does Well Vell With Big Stomach Bambino Fat FatMan's Mans Man's I Ideal d e a 1 By JOE WILLIAMS IS Special to The Telegram NEW V YORK June Junc 3 When 3 When Mr Jack Crawford of Australia defeated our Mr Whiner Wilm r Allison in a vital Davis Cup match the theother theother theother other afternoon on the grass courts of Germantown he hc scored something more than a mere tennis triumph As you may have heard Mr Crawford Is always alwa's preceded in his court activities by a large stomach and for tor some reason the notion exists that gentlemen with large stomachs stomachs stomachs achs have no busIness business bus bus- iness mess in athletics They dont don't look like athletes and because they dont don't their right to perform perform per per- form torm in public is questioned The theory that thata 4 f fa a middle and high athletic skill do not go together probably ly Iy dates datos back to Crawford the Spartan code or at least to the common belief beliet that champions are molded out of ot self-denial self and physical physical physical cal drudgery Supposedly this is the price the champion must pay for tor his place on Mt ML Olympus To tho the lean and hungry apostles of ot sport the billow billowy girth bespeaks easy living indolence and a frivolous frivolous riv- riv olous regard for training and to them n none ne of these things is Js consistent consistent consistent con con- with the sterner purposes and the tho loftier ideals of the body beautiful Blow for Society So when Mr Crawford sucked in his turn-turn turn to get room enough to swing his racquet around without risking self-imposed self injury and went on to blast our No 1 ranking tennis player right off the tho court he struck a tremendous blow for society Against an obbligato of deep searching drives from the base line Mr Crawford demonstrated it was possible for tor a man to live a reasonably reasonably reasonably reason reason- ably comfortable life lite in the matter of ot social pleasures and still be bo a great champion that there is a compromise zone where it is possible possible possible pos pos- sible for tor both sharp discipline and buoyant spirits to dwell on neighborly neighborly neigh neigh- borly bony terms If the physical culturists are correct correct correct cor cor- it should be no great trick for fora a man to abstain to-abstain abstain and labor himself into championship timber All that thatis is needed is a willingness to submit submit submit sub sub- mit to dull trying sacrifices It seems to me then that when a portly portly portly port port- ly gentleman like Mr Crawford comes along and takes a championship champion champion- ship in a casual informal manner he ho has done dono the exceptional and is Js entitled to high commendation Great Performer As a matter of ot fact tact the most popular popular popular pop pop- ular sports character of ot our time was a fat man I refer to George Herman Ruth And it is significant that the tho bulk of at his popularity stemmed from his rare achieve achieve- ments I mean to say that despite the heavy cargo of lard he toted around with him he he- was a magnificent cent performer For the better part of ot his baseball career Mr Ruth ate whatever he wanted with no restrictions as to to quantity went to bed when there was no place else to go and laughed his way through life from one year to another This was very shocking to tho the moralists but there was nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing they could do about it no Immediate immediate immediate im im- Im- Im mediate point they could stress be because because be- be cause causo all the while Mr Ruth kept kepton on breaking old records and setting new ones and getting fatter I Of course in the end the moralists scored They had said that sooner or later this loose living would overtake overtake over over- over over-I take Mr Ruth And sure enough it I did After 22 years years which which is twice I the span of the average ball players player's life the life the old fat guy hung up his spikes and admitted he was through It was a great pity If It the man had only had more iron in his soul what a ball player he might have havo been |