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Show GOLF, DIAMOND DEBATE RAGES' i i Selection of Jonas Over Ruth Aa Decade's Greateat Causes Arguments f ALAN OOl'I.B ' l4MthM Pre Spar Writer) Whan Um sounlry foremost sport-ln( sport-ln( critics loo ukk glsnc bark ever Um ten-year whirl of IIUK at ewr request, and cama up Willi tha result re-sult of a poll pulling Bot Jone a notch above Babe Ruin. In a rankini list al tha eared' heroic performer. Iney apt I led a kuahal of argument. There can be very IHUe difference between Jonea aad Ruth. In the lat analyst, whan the three mala (act oca are taken an to cowlderatlon. via., per-lormanrea. per-lormanrea. affect on a port, and effect on the puklw. Within their rpheree. they were and Ruth ttlll u domloat-mg. domloat-mg. with no uacaaaor In alghk Coll gallerlaa cannot ba compared with baaebell CTowd. In (iaa or In gate receipt, but Una la only a circumstance. cir-cumstance. Jonea draw the biggeat gallerie of all time, at home or abroad. )uat aa Ruth he attracted mora Ian through the turrwUlaa than any other baaebell player In hiatocy. Prom the time he first won a national na-tional golf championship, M lU. Jonea never we without poaseaslon of at least one. up until Um year he retired with all the malar trophies ol this country and England In hla possession. pos-session. Ruth ha had (lump and keen beaten lor home run honor. wUhla Um past decade, but none compares com-pares with him over UM ten-year stretch. Ha stated a remarkable comeback and defied all woo thought ha waa "through." Golf lelt the stimulation of Jonea' I aa It never had Um achievement and Iperaonallty of any other Individual, juat as beieball obtained a new lease on life after the war with Um rise of Ruth as a slugger aad popular IdoL Batea Naraal Heat In Um career of no other hero of American aport ara Um same factors aa dominant aa they were ba Um cases of Ruth and Jones. Nurml, to my mind, coma the do. eat ol any other to being comparable with Jonea and Ruth. Hla achievement achieve-ment a tend without parallel. They ara a monument to Individual Cone en-tratlon en-tratlon snd affected tha entire aport of foot racing aa never before, proportionately, pro-portionately, too, Paava waa a greal a gala attraction. Lempeey popular appeal overshadowed oversha-dowed the fact that within Um last tea year ha waa on the down grade aa a fighter. He reached hla peak In IMS. He missed hi one great opportunity oppor-tunity In Um seventh round at Chicago. Chi-cago. Tunney. a master rrsfkamsn of the ring, never enjoyed Dernpeey 'a popularity popu-larity and would not have profited ao much but for hla rival' mora magnetic mag-netic personslltr Helen Will Moody and Tommy Hitchcock, In tenni and polo, also stand out on all three count. Not even Susanna Lenglen la her prime dominated women tenni a haa the Californlan. but Mr. Moody's Influence Influ-ence on the development of the gam ha never compared to that of William T. Tllrlen II. A Bob Sensenderfer of tha Philadelphia Phila-delphia Bulletin point out: Tllden ha dona much mora to develop tenni ten-ni than he haa actually performed within Um past ten years. He led his field only three of the ySsrs, but hla Influence waa felt throughout tha period. pe-riod. He ha don mora than any other man ever to maka tenni popular." pop-ular." Praia far McCarthy Thar were many mora vote for Connie Mack and Miller Huggln. among tha baseball managers, than for Joseph Vincent McCarthy, but Warren Brown of the Chicago Herald-Easminer Herald-Easminer cast his vote lor "Msree Joe" with these remark: "He proved he Is a great leader, with the Cuba, when ha kept a lot of minor leaguers In the race. He built up the Yankee. He won pennant In both leaguea and ha haa maintained an even keel In spile of the fact he had a problem with one club In the person of H or ruby, nd on on the lothcr In the person of Ruth " |