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Show SPORT OF TODAY BETTER THAN THAT OF THE PAST . Although old-timers may jet -together occaaionaly and mourn over the decadence de-cadence of sport to this country there is little doubt that the leaders of the different sports are far ahead of the heroes of the olden time. This Is explained ex-plained somewhat by the improvement In appliances now used, but the. main explanation Is the ". fact that .more thought and science Is devoted to training train-ing in these days than has ever been the case before. Take the leaders- In all branches of cport for the present year as examples. It Is unlikely that any baseball team of olden days could have defeated the aggregations ag-gregations representing New Tork and Boston In the National and American leagues respectively. The old-timers undoubtedly had a. great team work and as fine Individual players, but the Improvement in the pitching department depart-ment would have played havpc .with the old batsmen. The same can be said of football. - The jockeys, however, are compelled to take a back seat by the old-timers. No Jock of the present year, not even Hildebrand, can compare with Tod Sloan, Jimmy McLaughlin. Snapper Garrison. Fred Taral and others of the old school when It comes to handling nervous colts and Judgment of pace. The old-time prize-fighter would stand no show In the world If confronted confront-ed with modern methods, and Jeffries is without doubt the best man with his hands that ever stepped into a ring. Golf has not Improved particularly since the old days when Tom Morris learned the game, but th clubs and balls .have improved to such an extent that there is an appreciable difference In the old scores and the new. . If anything any-thing the present players are 'a notch behind the Did heroes of the game in England and Scotland. . In the cycle racing game, Bobby Walthour and Lawson, McFarland and Kramer in their own specialties outclass out-class any riders ever seen before and the limit of perfection and speed has not yet been reached. - It is in track athletics- that the improvement im-provement Is greatly shown. In the weight events Ralph Rose, John Flan-nigan Flan-nigan and Horgan have brought the form of these events to such perfection that they have all competitors beaten to a pulp. Arthur Duffy of George town has put a crimp in all sprinting records, although Luther M. Carey of Princeton was credited with doing 100 yards in 9 3-5 In the intercollegiate meet years ago. The Quarter-milers have improved, but the palm for the half and mile still belongs to Charlie Kllpatrlck, Tommy Conneff, Tommy Lyons and George Orton, who as far as speed, style and Judgment of pace go far outclass the modern runners. In the Jumps there has been none for ten years who could approach Mike Sweeny's Swee-ny's record of 6 feet 6 inches in the high Jump, and no one has brought the form of broad Jumping to such perfec-I perfec-I tlon fts Alvln C. Krantcllne of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, who was also marvelous over the low hurdles. The harness horses have without doubt shown improvement aside from mechanical contrivances, but the runners run-ners have apparently about reached their limit. j |