Show rl l ORTS iJ s t I Ey ir Frank Chance has joll Joined d the list of baseball managers who oppose golf 1101 play play- Ing ins by ball bail players during the ball bait sea sea- son lion This Is a a. compliment to golf golt The danger of ot golf to ball bail players Isn't that gif takes too much n out ut of them as l Frank rank suggests Its It's that tile the ban ball players become too much interested In golf golf and and are inclined to to give too little littie attention to learning the fine tine p points of baseball What interest Is 19 there In Inthe inthe the intricacies of a a. a double steal beside the fascinating problem of curing a 0 aslica slice Two years ears ago Babe Ruth was as fairly on the way to being a a. golf golt bug He spent a winter playing golf go every day down where the sun aun shines lie He lel learned ned Wow how to bIt hit a a. tremendous ban ball from rom the thet liked to see t tee e and admitted that he em ride Said Sa there thero was wall more fun In hitting a a. golf golt ball bail than In clouting a baseball because a golf golt ball bali travels avels so i ih h far I with a After hitting out a a. golf drive Ruth do I yard carry which carry which Ive I've seen repeatedly repeatedly hItting hitting a big fat tnt slow I baseball into o the e right field bleachers l I doesn't doesn't- look lI like a anything t at a all Christy Mathewson used to go to Ha Havana vana every winter t to play on the CountrY Country Country Coun Coun- I Ha-I try club course John McGraw goes there his still 1 vacation but theres there's ends no golf golt for tor John after I PINING FINING J IS GOOD WAY TO CLEAN CLEA UP tl BOXING G. G Elfer Hammers Hammer's being fined tined 1000 by bythe bythe bythe the Michigan boxing commissioner oner for holding and butting eug suggests ests a good goodway goodway goodway way to clean up boxing In New York bouts we see boxers offending repeatedly by holding with ono oo hand and hitting with the other b by roughing In clinches heads In Instead Instead Instead In- In of their by using g the tops stead of their hands to have been become bo- bo The The- referees seen to these Infractions come so so time the ruts that half haIr of boxing they dont don't even warn arn the offenders They wont won't stop top a. a a. a about b bout ut because of foulIng fouling foul foul- boxer is hurt beyond any ing unless one box r chance of ot going on on because they're afraid of ot offending the tile crowd that wants all the tho fighting righting it paid for tor Certain CerI to see tam tain rough o l fighters ghi t lat take at advantage of this situation I But l let tile the commission 1 S tine fine fine them heavily for breaking rules and therell there'll be cleaner boxing No scrapper away actual money if is to throw can ha can help heIp it hes he's going to spend JOB Willard says six weeks weeks- climbing lulls hills down in Missouri Mia lolls Mud before e he puts the final touch to his training In New Y York rk Id I'd like to see Jess climb a hill I I OH 1 IS J JUSTER WILLS Where la 3 Wills AU All this talk of matching Firpo po Johnson 1 Willard mard Me- Me and Tunney against Dempsey Dempsey- ps I t st and not a whisper about Wills I Was oon kidding the public when he let Wills post a a. forfeit Vast last yea year and nd noti noti- I fled fied Dempsey that ho he MUST accept Wills Wills' challenge and fight Wills or be barred from boxing or withIn with with- in the of the New York commission commission com corn mission The at attitude at- at suggests It Fight critic says o of the Tunney Greb bout Greb did hold and ond hit throughout through through- out but 83 a long as he was wall not tied fled the referee probably did not think these violations Important If Xe EO so so the tho referee wasn't up to his Job A referees referee's chief business in the ring l is IJ to prevent violations of ot the rules of box box- ing lag One o of the most moat serious Iol violations la i. holding and hitting Greb Grab has the habit So has Harry Wills who has won won fights by holding his man with one hand while he clouts him with the other A man who rho is held Is-held held around the neck cant can't step back tram from a a. blow duck sidestep turn hi his head or pull his body back out of ot t range when he sees a n. punch coming Wills held Fulton's right arm with one hand and pounded him In the Jie body with the tile other Otiler As Fulton couldn't pull back his hIe ribs were vere caved in and he lie- was knocked out Holding and hitting gives the offender a tremendous advantage over a a. fighting clean-fighting opponent No really first class boxer holds and hits A good boxer doesn't need to to depend on fouling to win Fouling always shows lack o of confidence or lack lacle of ability for the boxer who fouls isn't willing to give his opponent an even break He wants an unfair advantage Horace Dodge of the tho DOdie Dodge Dode family hout iv is out with a challenge to Gar Gil Wood He wants Gar to race race- his fastest boat against Dodges Dodge's Baby Polo Dodge is quoted to the effect that he can cart beat Gar Woods Wood's Miss 1 America the international speed champion and I he can build a boat that will mako make miles an hour If it necessary The difference be between Horace and Gar Wood is th that t Horace talks about buildIng buildIng building build- build I Ing record boats and Gar Vo Wood d t them hern |