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Show THE MIDVALE France Retains the Davis Cup Sportsmanship Is Myth in Heat of Competition AL r......................... ARE National' Rifle Matches Now On Grafted Gland Makes a Race Horse Big Winrter + "Sportsmanship Is a myth," writelt W. 0. McGeehan In College Humor. "After a quarter of a century of peer· Here Is the historic Davis cup, which will be retained another year by France whose tennis stars defeated the American team In the final matches. Henri Cochet (shown In the Inset) cinched the victory for the Frenchmen when he defeated Bill Tilden In straight sets In the third day's singles. Big League Not Easy DIAMDNDX XPICK·UPS Pitcher Deberry with the Louisville Colonels, plays golf left-banded and carries two sets ot clubs. lng Intently at yarious sports, amateur and professional, I am unable to recall one Instance of what we would call 'sportsmanship.' By that, I ruean an exhibition of chivalry or genero~lty In the heat of competition. "In football, for example, an in,ter· collegiate sport which should be fille•l with the spirit ot friendliness and f!POrtsmanship, it has come to be t~at victory Is just as essential as the victory In professional basebalL There Is no cblvalt·~ to the Injured lu -a football game. If a coach ha9 a play· er with an injured left shoulder he will send him into the game with his right shoulder very . ostentatiously bandaged. By this subterfuge he hopes to have the men who are Interested In putting this athlete out of business for the afternoon concentrate on the shoulder that is not hurt. "Ot a game like football you would expect the developm?.nt ot a supersportsmanship; yet a dozen sets ol universities In the United States have severed athletic relations because of football results.'' Great Britain's Guard Has Definitely Passed Great Britain's old guard has detl· n!tely passed. Taylor, Braid ar1d Vardon, who won Baseball Isn't so bad otr In Kansas 16 British Open championships be· City. A record of more than 5,000 tween them and are now behind 60 saw a recent week-day game. summers, have been pulled baek Into There are baseball writers who still the field by age. It was more than 30 years ago when refer to the Americau league race, Vardon won his first British Open. when they know It Is a walk-away. Bra!<] and Taylor won soon after. For W!nston·Salem of the Piedmont nearly 20 years they dominated golf. Vardon made three attempts to win league has sold Arthur Reinholz, third the United States Open. Be sncceede<l baseman, to the Cleveland Indians. In 1900 when TaYlor finished second, Speaker hit .300 for ten seasons, one stroke behin1 him. Twenty years dropped out of the .300 class and later Vardon had the title In his grasp then returned for n string o1 eight when n wind storm came along an~ wrecked his chances on the last nine. in a row. In his three tries at the United States Ray Schalk Is himself authority for Open he never finished lower than the statement that he did not resign second. Vardon won seven national Open Ills job with the White Sox, bt.t was championships. !lobby Jones has won given the air. four, !Jere and abroad. But Jones still Awidst the other wonders that Lena has a few decades of competition left Blackburne has accomplished Is In his system. getting Bib Falk to hustle. The Texan Is also hitting. Miss Van Wie Wins • • • • • • • • • • • • ••• • •• IInck Redfern of the Chicago White Sox Is one rookie who doesn't think the big league Is as easy as the bru~h. "I could burn 'em up down in the Southern and Texas leagues," he says, "but It's different up here. It's touglt, up here. That's all there Is to lt." · Hedfern doesn't care so much for the big town. Bobby Jones still remains above par with the golfing world. • • • A decathlon Is any combination of ten athletic events. Such as putting up a screen door. • • • Members of the Kew York boxln~; commission have to attend every fight That Isn't a job-it's a punishtllPnt. •• • 1\Ir. Heeney did not win the fight, but he certainly· came as near to earnIng his money as any one could come and live. ••• A Philadelphia !Joxer bas taken the name of l!'irpo. He Is Joe (Kid) Firpo a junior lightweight who has been quite a sensation. • • • "Fifteen minutes after pulling on a puir of your socks," wrote the sarcns· tic golfer to the prominent knitting ('Oncern, "I made my first hole !u one." • • • Our ancestors were a queer lot, paying sometimes as much us eight dollars ro hear Jenny Lind sing, in· stead of forty to watch heavyweights waltz. • • • To Clarence De Mar, marathoner, goes the honor of being the veteran of America's 1928 Olympic team. lie Is tbe only sun·h·or of tbe 1912 brig· a de. • • • Due to the excitement of making a bole-In-one on the golf course at E!ge· mont, N. J., Paul T. Bloodsworth, aged twenty-eight, of Hornell, N. Y., tell over dead. ••• Vogt, expert angler and William 0. champion caster, can snap a pipe from the mouth of a pen.-on fifty feet away wit11 a bassfiy attached to a lly llne and rod. ••• Oh! East Is East and West Is West, and It Is noted In Helen Wills' new book that the word "nut,'' as applied to a tennis player !u England, mean~ she Is good at it. •• • .Members of the Indianapolis Gun club have an unwritten tradition that a contest of rome kind be held every Saturday at the traps, regardless of weather conditions. • • • Chnimcr Cisesel of, the White Sox comes from a family that once had eight members playing baseball with various teams. • • • • • • • • • Fans In Pittsburgh think the Pirates will not have a catching burden as long as Charley Hargreaves Is able to don mask and· mit. Give the Xew York Yankees a little more time and th!'y will dt·i,·e all the "If" tables out of baseball. • • • • • • Outfielder Charley Dorman has been purchased by the Cleveland Americans from the 'fyler club In the West Texas league. Ty Cobb. Jr., like.~ football and ten· nis ut preparatory school, but shows little Inclination toward baseball. llig league scouts say It Is a tough job in the minors this year finding w()rth·while mater'ial which Is not al· ready owned by some major league club. • • • John J. O'Shea, left-hander of the Boston College team, signed with the Boston Red Sox, less than 24 hours after graduating und joined the team at once. • • • It Jake Flowers, the ex-Curdinal, maintains his pre£ent batting and fielding pace for the Robins, Manng~r Robinson's sec'lnd base problem will be ~>olved. •• • Joe Hornung, one-time star out· fieli!et of the National Jp·•gue, h.u, an old baseball on which Is Inscribed, July 16, 1878. Forest City, 8; Tecumseh, 0." • • • Dazzy Vance, the Brooklyn star, has' no rival as n strike-out <t.rtist. He has led the National league In this department for the last six years and probably will lend nr.aln this year. • • • Playing second base, Margaret Glsolo led her team, the Blanford Cubs, to victory In the Vermilion county (Indiana) division of the Amer· lean national baseball tournament. • • • In UJ23 Rube Parnbam of the Halt!· more club won 33 games end 20 of them came In a row. Socks Se!bodl, veteran with Reading, Is trying to run up a big total this year with 15 al· ready ln. • •• While still young In years, Billy AI· -r. welterwci;:ht hOX('r, has partie!· pated In 408 fights. He met fifty· eight foes In ~ixty weeks. Babe nuth, J.ardest hitter of all time, has eight con~erutln'! .300 sea· sons to hf~ crf'<lit. And thNe are three besides the eight. • • • • • • ~ • .. •• Frank McGowan, Kansas City American n~soriatlon outfil'lrlrr, ha~ hecn lrade!l to the St. Louis Bmwnq for Fran!> Wilson, outfielder, who wall with Milwaukee last year. ~+ For the th!t·d straight year, ~!iss Virginia Van Wfe Is the <"hnmpion woman golfer of Chicago. Shooting a remarkable game over the soggy fairways o~ the difficult No. 1 course at the Olympia [<'iel<ls Country club, Miss Van Wle easily defentrd her rival, Mrs. Melvin Jones, 6 and 4, in the 18·hole final of the city touma· ment. First Sacker Jim Bottomle~· I~ not the only star on the St. Louis Cnrd· Innis, nor the t<O'run's particular pre· mier in any !lepartnH•nt, hut tll('re are those who fl« say I hat as Bottom ley goes, so go the Cards. It may be tme, but Jim Is ha1·ing a· big year-and so ure the Cards. They are smiliug tht·ough with "Smiling Jim." Bottomlry mny not be the cleverest first sacker In baseball, hut oh, the power or his puncl whrn l1is bat swings true! And the h.spira· tlon of his ch!'er lending of a hnn<'h tl.at Is a hnppy, cheering gang of go· after·'em bail !)layers. A new golf tee has two anow guides The prince of Wales has revealed set at right angles to guide the bail's that he once had boxing aspirations, tlight. but got i!cked so often that he deHelen Wills, the noted tennis cham· cided he would make a better prince pion, used about forty rackets In the than pugl!lst. It was not generally known that his course of a year. royal highness tried once to become 0\"erhenrd on the links: "Do you an amateur boxer. Why he didn't succeed was-explained put any personal mark on your golf by himself at a rally or Boy Scouts. balls?" "Yes. 'Stolen'." After watching se1·eral boxing bouts 1 Ted Payseur, assistant basket ball by the boys, the prince said to them: conch at Northwestern, spends his "I tried boxing myself several years summers as n golf pro at Dubuque, ago, but I was beaten several times and got discouraged. I think It must Iowa. have been that I started fighting too Princeton and Yale, both with good early.'' prospects from last year's freshman I>'<)Uad, expect to have strong elevens Baseball Clubhouse Idea this fall. • • • ••• • • • • • • Brought Out by Martin Ulke Martin, trainer of the Wash· lngtons, Is the man who put over the clubhouse idea In ..mseball. When he was with Clark Griffith at Cincinnati In HlO!l he com•inced Pres· !dent Garry Hermann of the Reds that the clubhouse was preferable to the old system of dressing at the hotel_ and running the gauntlet of fans on the way to and from the rorl\. Herr· mann, as a member of the national commission, succeeded In ha1·ing the clubhouse adopted throughout the league, and later the American league, recogulzlng the advantages, also put in dressing rooms at the ball fields. •• • The most thrilling sport In England Is motor cycle racing on dirt tracks with skids and falls in abun· dance. Tyson s Hard Luck 1 AI Tyson, Broo~lyn center fielder, 1\ bo received a compound fracture ot t.i;; leg when he collided with "ltube" Bre"sler at the Polo grounds, w!Jl be lost to baseball for the re· J!lllJIJclcr of the seas.m, but the mjury \\ill not terminate his ba8eball career. 'l'he ph~·sician·s report ro~·s ho,1J bones in his legs were broken but tlte fracture was clean and promtlt action in removing it!m lo tbe ho>J if,JI preventNI -a11)' itlfPctinn or other co:npll· cations Cbrlst Dalt:n. • a:ateur athletic union officlnl and timer, uses three watches valued at $5,200 when check· ing track events. • 0 0 Sammy . Mandell, world lightweight champion, has agreed to defend his title In Chicago this September. He has left selection of his opponent to Promoter Jim 1\Iullen . • • • VIrginia's amateur golf champion ls Billy Howell of tile Hermll nge club, Richmond, and be Is sixteen years old. He beat the older golfet·s In the state amateur tournament at Bot Springs. • •• Fulry Story: ''He was an executive high In the councils of amateur ath· letics and seemed to have a very well developed sense of humor." I • • • A public g-olf course In the infield of the De1·onshire race truek at Wind sor, Ont., is in op0rntiou <luring the morning!:i on racing er the iu~t da~·s and nlso aft· e,·ent t•as bePn run. :•) By FRANK ELLIS, JR. + + ~ • ..-. ~ $ + ~~~~~+~+++++++++++++++~~~+ .. Bird• B tnDS seem to have played an lm· portaut part In the superstitions of all countries and ages. Because they were continually on the wlng, they were supposed to observe nod know the most h!ddl.'n action of men, and all their secrets. As the old adage runs: "No one knows e::tcept perhaps some bird." Some of the singular superstitions In regard to birds nre : It anyone cut out the tongue ut a goose alive and lay It upon the breast of a man or woman asleep, they wut confess all their sins, If a man carry the heart of 11 male crow, and his wife the beart of a fe· male, they will agree between themselves all their lifethne. The eyes and heart of a nightingale laid about men In bed will keep them awake. If anyone dl~solve them and • ... •• • Storms and the Moon I N DOimMIA the peasants holtl it unlucky to walk under a rainbow, and they say that the ratn which de· scenrls through the bow blights all lt fails upon. Among t11e anci<O'nts good and Ill luck were derived from thunder and lightning; If these occurred on the left, the omen was favorable. Thunder in reports even In number !nflirntes good luck; lightning from north to west, evil, if accompunied by haiL The moon exercises a great lnflu- Judge Landis was a charter mem ber of the Baseball Spil"it of St. Louis organization launched a few days ago. • • • Oklaoma City, leaders in the West· em league, is the youngest ciui.J in class A bas<:>bali today, the team's a' eruge being 23. .. nrp on • • • ~nnrl nr ill luf'}{: to ~Pe • n new t..:mpire Tumm,v Connolly . loves old Ireland so dearly th:H he has the lawn of his hom<' ~o<!<led with grass bt·ought from Erin. . .. Fred \Y. Dykes, pitcher for nn army team stationed in Texas, struck out 20 butters In a camp league game and 15 in the next. • • • Otllcials of the Amarillo dub In the Western league were for<'Pd to turn the franchise over to tlte league because of financial troubles. Prince of Wales Could Not Win So Quit Ring ??? • • • Down Ea~t they <;all the St. Paul American association club a Yanlcee farm, a name St. Paul disclaims. But farm or no farm. the Saints have been delivering to the American league pace setters. Four former members of the St. Paul team are New York regulars. Three others, rated as suhstitut('~, h~ve been used frequently because of injuries to first string men. Catcher Collins, Shortstop Koenig and Pitchers Pipgrass and Shealy are the former Saints playing regulat·!y with the Yankees. SO.ortH!Op Duroclter, third baseman Robertson and Cedric Durst, utility, are the otlter old St. Paul players with the Hugmen. ,;i l"e them secretly to anyone in drink, Bob Connery, former Yankee scout, he will never sleep, but will die; there owns the St. Paul cl•Jb. Is no cure. That the soul quits the dead body In the fol"ln of n bird Is a widespread Shines at Golf belief or superstition from the earii· est !.'f time. The Egyptians believed a hird signilled the soul of a man. A song sung by the i.Joatmen of Wlu, Venit-e, declares that the spirit of Dun!!'! ~Ianln, the patriot, Is flying abo1·e the lagoons to this day in the shape of n beautiful white dove. ~1ohammerl is said to have derived oracular Information from a pigeon, which was a representatiYe of the angel Gabriel to appear und whisper in his ear. Another cnrlous belief Is that eertuin birds 110~sessed stones of remarkable talismanic Yirtues. One of these supposed to be found In the brain or a vulture gaYe health and success to its finder. • • • • • • • • • ~ Former Saints Playing Regularly With Yankees Heinie Groll wus given his uncon· ditionai release as manager of the Charlotte club of the Soutb Atlantic league. Bloomington, Ill., has turned over to Moline Outfielder Jay Sigirst and purchased optionally from Indlanap· oils Outfielder John Anderson. Edson Brewster, veteran tete· graph operator at the Polo grounds, has never been known to arrive at the ball field without rubbers and um· brella. ! • • • ••• Nick A! rock claims to ha 1·e made more putouts In one season than any other pitcher. He made 49 with the White Sox In 190·!. • • • BASEBALL~S The attempt of Bal!e Huth to break his home-run record is called the American league llCnnaut race. Johnny Farrell, golf champ, set a mark for the future to shoot at on the ne'l" Hiliendale course In Bait!· more. TI1e score was 60. • Prior to the shooting of the national matches many contests of national im· portanee will be held under the super· vision of the National Rii!e assoclJ· tion. Among these events are the President's match, the \\imbiNlon Cup and Leech Cup matches, some regimental matches, and other events that have been tlred year after. In the past a numi.Jer of youngsters have entered the great marksmanship derby on the shores of Lake Erie, but most of them hu ve been the sons of officers of the army, navy or marine corps. This year, ltowever, boys and girls from ail parts of the country sent In their applications to the h<:>ad· quarters of the N. R. A. In Wash· lngton. NOTES MJ The baseball grounds near the city of Osaka, Japan, covers 15 acres and the grand stand can seat 10,000 spectators. rt I~ a far cry from the old·tlme musical (lcuble·play combination, such as Tinlrer to Evans to Chance, to the Brooklyn trio, Bancroft to Rlcondn to Bissonette, 01 Durocher to Lazzeri to GPhrlg. Captain K. Watanab<:>, ~kipper of Japane~e frehrhter 'J'nlwoku ~faru, an lm·et(•n:te golfer and never tali~ Indulge in n few rouu<ls ut his ship's of call. One of the reasons for the large number Of entries this year Is the pro· gram of entertainment keeps the campers happy. There were demon· strations of all arms hy the army. The pilgrims were also given every opportunity to enjoy bathing, canoeing and other sports . 'l'ime llies. Ou the other band, Bui· let Joe Bush Is again pitching for Connie ~Jack. Jack Caywood, hea1•yweight boxer of Fort Crook, Keb., claims the !eng· est reach of any fighter In his class His reach Is 81 Inches, just an Inc!• 1hort of that of the former bcavy· weight champion, Jess Willard. • • • ranging In age from twelve to nine· teen years. For several years the National Rifle association bas promoted junior rifle clubs In every state. This year the range at times resembled a huge school yard during recess. ••• Federal Retired !our years ago, the thoroughbred half-miter Doctor Kelly, said to be twenty-eight years old, Is 8tlii demonstrating Father Time bas not robbed him of all of his speed. • • • So Go the Cards • • • The Phil 1deiphlu Athletics hold the highest and lowest team batting 1ver· age ever "Ompiied In a world series. They made the former with .317 average In uno and the latter with a .162 average In 1005. • • • The national r!Jle matches, one ol America's great sporting e>ents being held at Camp Perry on Lake Erie, will be continued until September 16. Thousands of civilians as well as army, navy and marine experts are in attendance. One reason for the large gathering Is the fact that tents or sleeping quarters have been supplied free to c!vlllans. Meals are also fur· Dished at rost price. At Its last session congress passed an amendment to the National De· tense net which Insures the holding of these great matches annually. It means that our government officially appro\es of rille and pistol training for the youth of our nation, tor civilians as well as soldiers. The national rifie matches are not, as some believe, a strictly military af· fair. No one Is barred from competing. The bill specifically mentions the army, navy, marine corps, National Guard, or organized militia of the sev· era! states, territories nod llistrlct of Columbia, the lteserve Officers' TrainIng corps and the Citizens' Military Training camps, rifle clubs and lndivid· ual citizens. Special arrangements were made this year for women aud children, for many entrants took their families to the camp. There were also an unusual number of e1·ents for boys and girls, 'fhe spectucie of erstwhile "sawbone nags'' romping home for derby honors may be witnes~ed if race horse own ers <led<le to put a little pep int:. l!wit stoe;ls b) gland-grafting a Ia Vnron· off. '.('he \ oronofficntion of an "oats 11e· stroye•·" has In fact already been ac· COlllJlliSlwd with brilliant re~uitil. TftP l'<JSf In hand Is that of non Zun;gn. His owner, M. Veii·Picnrrl, ~et tJ win the grand hurd!!' ra,·e of Paris, experimented on Don Zunign, where tt.ere was room for in:prove mPnt. enn If the bOt·se h:mself could not ex~ctly be clas~ed as a "~aw· bonPr." 1 be operation was pe• forme!! In a{'<'Ordt:uce with the best rule~ !aiel dcwn by Voronoff The !Jig race was run nt A•tteuil A~ the starter's Eignal, Don Zuni~a. rt>iea~NI by his jockey, went away like a str<;ak of lightning. 'l'he twenty· twr. hurdles were negotiaterl as if tlH',V had nerer been there to obstru•·t the way. llr n Zuniga won as he W•~nted. The 5,000 meters (a little bette.· tha~ three m;Jes) were run in record time, fi1-e mnmtes six seconds. No horse has ever before been able to m::ke that time at Auteull. Horse owners are enthuslaf>tlc, bul race courses with coconut palm;, and other tall timber may see the.se re· moved for fear that monkey-glanded contestants will run up a tree at the critical moment. i YOU SUPERSTITIOUS i+ • • • Joe HaeRier succeeded Joe Bolry with the Athletics when Joe was hurt. The kid short~top surpt·ised everybody by his brilliant work. • • • The Paclllc Coast league played tn 1,106,040 attendance tlte first half of the summer. If these crowds keep U{: the coast will have another big 1 eat lil;e 1024. • •• Edward Shaack, Anwrican As~ocia· tlon plkher. l'ecentiy purct.n~ed bJ· the Omaha club of the Western league, bas wi1·ed he would not l'e· pot·! for 1lut,v and was l'etnrr.ing home. • • • Bill O'Ilarn, manager of the To· ronto Leafs, In the lead of the Inter· national league nearly all season, graduated to his post from the job of road secretary when Lee Fo!tle quit a yenr ago. · Hornsby's Main Aim Is to Beat Out the Giants rt will be interesting to observe what kind of fight the Boston Braves can make against 1\ew York in the games remaining to be played against that team. Boston's showing hasn't heen so good to <late. It may liJe ex· pected to improve. Manager [togers Hornsby wants to win against the Giants or he \\"ill dislodge a lot or deadwood on the Boston team. If Hornsby is to be boss of the Braves, the owners of the club must come to him to consult him about pla~·ers. It is not veFy likely thut uny mot·e swaps will be made by whkn Boston puts Its ~trength into the :\ew York organization. Simmons' Batting Form Appears to Be Awkward • • • AI Simmons' batting stance Is wrong -all wrong. The £'olish outfielder or the Athletics swings at the last second with his rigltl foot "in the buck<'t," and his form ap11ears more awlnvard than that of a fat man taking his first swing at a golf ball. For man~· weary months Connie Mack tried to persuade Simmons to swing in the orthodox manner, but to no avail. AI persisted In his bad habits. The other day the be~t he could do was three home runs and three singles In eight times at bat. The Buffalo Baseball club. champions of 1927, Is haYing Its tough· est sear. 1'he attendance tu dat<.. Is 70,000 less than it was for the same period last year, according to Pres!· dent Sam Rol~ertson. • • • Eppa Jeph:ha RixPy, reterun Na· tional league pitcher, is baseball's most learned man. He earned n pro· fessors!Jip of chemistry at the Uni· versity of Virginia and holds the de· grees of B. S. and M. A. • • • Garland Bucktye, the 240-pound Chicago bank clerk who signed with the Giants as a southpaw pitcher after losing his job In Cleveland for beIng m·erweight, was sold outright to tbe Toledo Mud llens of the American Gets No Pitching as~oclntion. • • • Piaying for Birmingham In th~ Southern association in 191G, Burleigh Grimes set what Is probably a ret•ord for organized baseball when he plki<Pd slx consecutive games in whirh he yteifl<·d 11 total of only 18 ltitJI, an an:rage of three a game. Ulenna Collett, former national women's golf champion, as she rc· tumed from Europe, which she toured after competing in the Bt·itlRh 1vom· en's golf chnmpion~hips. Miss Collett wu~ eliminated In the third rouni] but bet· goorl pia~·ing won her the appian"" of the EugliRh galleries. j: l\Ianag('r Rogers Uornsby of tlte Braves complains with plenty of reason that he ean't get any pitclilug for Ills team. Other managers sny the very same thing. AI Demaree suggested that the re..son was that there llt'e so mun.J "angles to pitthittg." "I can't see It," cnme bn•·k Born• by. ''There's ouly one an~Ie, as 1 S1'41 it..·get the bali over the plate with ;;onwthlttg on It, but mo;;t of them can't do e\"en that." moon tbe tirst thne after change, on the right hand or directly before one, Indicates good lurk. 'l'he Africans believe you should never begin a journey In the last quar· ter of the moon. It is bad lurk to look at the new moon for the first tlllle through the window. A new moon seen on?r your right shoulder is lueky: over the left shouWer Is unlucky; and straight before you promises good lurk 1o the end or the so:>nRon. (@). 1928. Western Newspaper Unlon.) llrllll1iliCitill~ "I undet·stand that Gertrude Gada lotte married a mnn who made a sud den fortune In oil." "Yes. and he disgraced her while thPy were on their honeymoon." "How was that~·· ''Ger· trude wanted the other passengers to think an ocean voyage was an old story to them, when 11er IJU<lJand I right of!' pointed to a row of life rre· servers and a~ked the curttnln 1vhat was the idea of all the extra tires.'' . ' The Glue Buaineaa? "Select a trade o.- profession," sayo our favorite sermonizing eflltorlailst, "that makes for perseverance.'' There's the glue business, for Instance; that'll teach you to stlck.-Farm and Fireside. Uncle Eben "Dar Is a big demand for r!'al work,'' said Uncle Eben. "De ukeiele boy ain near so popular as de one dat's able to put on de spare tire In rase of B t>l<tll"'l\11."- Wnshington Star. .. |