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Show familiar wHh the rules sad hew ts la tipret tksm tmpsritsiiy. ToNua tt tMpK Arrgo JOHNSTON. Just learned the real reason ef lohn-ten's lohn-ten's p'r ' showing as a mot Bill Ttlften la tbe finals ef the national singles that Big BUI woa Is straight eie. J ok a aloe only weighed 111 at the Urn f tbe tea-sis tea-sis elaeeie. i At eorly Jalr UttU Hill uletly coHiplamed to a few Intimate frlende that eamethlag waa wreng with his hratliB,aj. H. loot valuable wsliht rapidly and the trestle failed te yield to treatment. Opecialtete wer called ta. Aa eaamlaattea dleoled the fact that one of Johaetos'e tonsils wa badly In-f In-f acted, Boverol dee tore advleed an 1m-Miediete 1m-Miediete eseratles. The pleoky Cailfor-aiaa Cailfor-aiaa promptly vetoed the Idea, knew tog he could sot roeover ta ttm te kelp defead the lateraattonal Tala cue. Is ethsr years Johnetoo played at Newport sad ether tournaments In srder to t uno up his strokes for tbs cup matckae and the national championship Liscovsrlng the nature ef hie allmant laet month the former national title-holder title-holder quickly withdrew fxem all en-gagataenie en-gagataenie and sought the qulM sod reet of a mountain resort ntr New York. The plan wasn't aueeeeeful. Jehaetea failed ta gala weight and he grew Impatient Im-patient te rotura to eeniseiltkea. fo ST r MOTH rim MATCH Kg, Far from hla beet form Johaatea made hie first appearance ta the casllenge round of the Pavl p agauwt Ander-eo Ander-eo ef Auetralla.' It was a gruelling match. Andsrena wea becauee his small1 opponent s strength had bees sapped. It waa the flret desat J oh net on ever suffered Ja a ifevle sup tournament. tourna-ment. ' Johnston had a tough time getting through the national rhamptonahip the week following at Oermantewn. Opsonin Op-sonin Tlldsa ta th final round. Lltll Bill e spirit wea aa Wrong aa ever, but hie strength balkod. Tha California made a gallant but Ineffective attempt to eseok th national champ tea. Hla eat wae only a crushing detest. It Is to be hop Johnston fully re-eevera re-eevera hie strength and will available na the courts In ltlt. Thia country can 111 afford to Inee the eervlse ef Little BIU la laternattoael eompotitiea. tCepyrtght. ItlJ, by the Bell gyadleat. 1M. ) With el moet unlimited reenwree. tbe Olante and Yankee naturally outbid other leee fortunate efvale whoa a promising prom-ising atar appoaraTho prlro of players play-ers had Jumped e high that only the rt cheat rlube caaf sow afford te enter the market for he boot proapocta. This Je manlfoetly unfair for the usual soeend dlvtaioa stubsthat can not ad venae becauee be-cauee ef lac ef fund to oeeut for new laleat. if prefeeeleaal baeeball to to retain tta vide appeal aome rule must soon he worked' aut that will glva tbe weaker teamemoro ef a chance to Improve This would result In etrooger eompotitiea. Th must a obvious te th beet salads is baaoball. The popularity of any eport Is Jeopardised Jeopard-ised when tha eupportera begin to believe be-lieve tbe winner can be the eae that'a financially able te buy up the strangest plaer a OFTtrTAijt anotXD LMAftN klLaa. Notice that the Princeton foot ball quad this season le be lit g drilled la every aaslo or tbe rulea No player can make tbe teem who baen't thoroughly learned the code of rulea and how te apply them m the couatleea pusallng situations sit-uations that or op up durlag the game. Thio la, a, good Idea. H might bo carried a little further and ttteiude all officials who handle games There a rnnetderablo ronm for Improvemeat In football elfieletlag. Aa laooan potent f-Uuiel f-Uuiel oan xuln a game. The big game draw, the best off I rials nd consequently ere efficiently handled Contest between smsller eollegea are not so twrtunste. Many sffU-lala aoalgned to theoo gain go do net thorough I r understand under-stand the rules and hepoe can sol wake th proper decision a Now that football I becoming well standardised and only trivial rhangaa ere made each eeeeoa there' little ra- tor 0u't1oot making themeelvee By Robert EJgrcn For tha third eoneerutive time the ftianta and lanaeea will mlagt m the world eeriea tt'e unfortgnat the llnep youldn't be different thie eeeon oay a team from the Kaet and Weet. A4t all New Torh aerlee doesn't tnd to priitnote base-bell base-bell Intereet In ether par's ef he eoun-tiy. eoun-tiy. There must bo Intercity rlvelry to make the annual baeeball claeetfl entirely en-tirely euci-oosfuL Intareat la tha Ittlssrlee wasn't keen. There was porfunctwry oulburete ef ea-thueiaam ea-thueiaam ever Bale Ruth or some other Individual, but the fana didn't warm up as they should simply so aocosnt of the a bee nee of Intercity eoaipetitien. It sur-riet sur-riet me to- eee epectatore even read magaslr.ee djurlitg eepeclally dull period w( iha Itll berlea The meeting of both New Tsr.ll elobe let the grand finale la not ealy likely to keep mn cuatwmere from Ihe aeries but will tend to dlerourage Interest In profooslonal baeeball la other ritloe from the fens' getting the idea that poanants c a be purrbaaed la th, lavish outlay for star pla vera. |