Show M far aks ely by ELMO SCOTT WATSON V RN Is in an all ask ank me lite another I 1 ab quiz in which nearly ovary every lh ouo buo call grude crude per critt 1 who in 1 g babo or the tha 1 1 liam bino alm who wh la Is little poker y who fit j a the Callo pinic T who tl if tl the flying pinn L J win who im 1 trudy if ile he cant then lie 1811 t biblo to tn rend read the ile newspapers for in wash ast portland maine melne hibbing or baton rouge ln those ril lilles lit in print hive have met hta his eyo constantly and lie ho rarely fails to rec 1 ac til gliem etil george ler Ifer ninn juarl ianth tut may baay have an sound iut hut not 1111 nn tile he ile he of tiro the hoino runs harold orange la Is not nn an kisir name dinine in itself but tran late to 10 f P IR sl VA 4 VA V V dabs abe it into red fled orange the galloping ghost of football find it becomes an other matter entirely inaho burnil might inight be ba just another of those for signil rs but the flying plan finn bcd sped across the printed lingo too often hot to bo be pretty well known by this tinie time to the university of california where silo she was a student silo alio was ana known fis is aless helen wills but b lit the whole aholo world it has a 8 followed the fortunes fort unea of little bokor race face not so BO long alio ego gertrude Bd aderle erle meant no more than olin tile the naino of tiny other girl swim riser who find a few records to her credit hut bilt sho elio Piner oin erRed ged frons from n tints in tho the channel clinn nel dittli the name of trady Tr and tile the namo by which 00 per vent cent of us ils know lir her ns as tic of america ns as Is ig pr liot hot dog sandwiches or tho the movies haps tile tho filet that anve vo are it sports mod for the lie fact that we to are given to thinking in terms of nicknames or there surly may be a more historic reason mr webster dennes a nickname ns na n naino given in derision or familiarity but losiff clotil ago wil wi dropped that derision part of it and retained tile tha familiarity to wt wo added fondness perhaps it was one of tho natural developments of tile tho growth of a deni democracy we declared that nil all men tire are born freo free and equal and have the inalienable right to freo free and easy methods of addressing cacti other of course during tho the early years ot of tho the republic while tho the aristocratic still pre wo we so ao free and enay it we used nicknames at nil all it was for some revolutionary military hero such as swamp rox fox marlon or giitl An anthony diony wayne but not la in speaking about the president of 0 the united states who would havo U X V tile the flying finn been so no bold as to refer to george tirton with a shorter even though it were a more varne what headline writer it if they had had headline writers in those doye would have lave had tile the temerity to call president adams john or even toresor to tore refer for to that first democrat thomas jefferson na as tom or jeff but when the virginia and mussid assa chu aristocrats were by a Tenn elleo backWoods backwoodsman misia and the new ii w jacksonian democracy caknip into rower power it grated on no ones iner finer bans to refer to td president derit andrew jackson nn as old Ilic hickory kory a title albect tirl affectionate one won in aundry with the indians und and lie british hut jackson was wab not tile tho only dinall ahorn it a military nickname was to carry into tilt the white house thero wits was willinda will Wil lam linta henry murrison who even tough lie ho wits tile tho scion of 0 it flin annilly illy of Virg hila aristocrats wits better known ns its old tippecanoe than by hla real name there was waa zachary taylor tile old rough hough all und of il clann war fame and as alto ats tho the last quarter century the stough rider of the american wr war litcy have helped put theodore roo lit in tile executive manalon us ny lillich us did tho the affection iltis budds Tf Tu diH ddS or tit tho historic initial T it lie ho hail no tary record to commend mill to the electorate tho the wan nuin who canio out of tile the III 1111 nois iola backwoods its in 1800 needed nono nonn to win for hills tile the hull splitter aind nd 1111 honest onest abo abe were two wll calculated to catch tile tho public fancy until tho the simple linsue of abri abra linni hata lincoln made him film immortal hut but kemt it ile 1 thought that a good IlIck nattle ta is a miro asset in winning tile presidency Ireat dency consider tile the list of mca ilion whose havi appealed to the llie imagination of tile nil and should have halved them on tile tho road to to tile tho white house hut thoro thero were lienay clay known variously ns its 1111 lurry arrY of the west the koy boy of tile the slashes and the ort clant at com coin stephen A douglas tile the little john 0 fremont the pathfinder daniel webster illick van and tha expounder 1 of the tha constitution ution il scott old yua and feathers george it little nile and tho the younie nano leon icon winfield scott hancock the tho superb james 0 blaine the plumed knight tind william jennings bryan tilt ohp hoy boy orator of the platte nil all ot whom aspired unil find aspired in vain but if the of nicknames in politics hag declined in recent years the increasing popularity of sports ling has more than nindo ui tit for chilt loss logs nut nat trully the pastime tins lina given 11 W I 1 al to 0 1 T S 1 I I 1 ft t 4 U M R li A 11 x D A 1 I AP M M 6 4 A the tha galloping ghost us ua the greatest number of national heroes whose nick nicknames namos are household words christy mathewson 1 Is lend dead but tho the namo name of matty and illig six will last as long a there oro are men living who saw that groat great pitcher in action it Is said that his fonfa was so BO great that one ona morning the tha mall mail man brought to him a letter which had bad traveled across the continent the only mark on it was a big figuro all G on oa the address aado the great baseball pitcher may be the hero of the hour but when ills his arm loses its ita cunning then the crowd soon boon forgets unless he has had a popular nickname to nc fix his personality in the tha mind of the tan fan so christy Ms bills Is almost unique la in tho the his tory nt nf baseball they may soon forget the roan man on tho the mound but tie the I 1 man who pulls them out of their seats seat 9 when aben lie he slama alami one into the bleachers or over the fence for what the sports writers call a circuit clout well a different matter of course theres only one house biome nun king hut but you dort dont have to uso use that name naine in speaking of 0 george herman ruth of tho the new york 1 american longue league tonni just say babe Bani bambino bitio or sultan of of sant and anyone will know thoin you dinean birno was when tyrus cobb hold held somewhat tho sanio same position in public esteem mr itutti does perhaps that was because lie was known as tile the georgia peach and even tile the filet that he Is not now the great baseball player he h one was this veteran of many years fi la Is still itell good enough ellough to hold a position on a major league team and alry ayi jg is a till gm a nicki iame that menna means one annn and only orie one to the fun farl tiana also ling has its long roll of nicks tanies beginning with the grent brent one and only john L sullivan lor for whom john 1 L wits was clent to identify illin hlin at any tinie time al though although ho he wits also known ns its the strong St noy boy 11 has known the following janica J orbett corbett gentleman jim nob bob ruddy bob or tile the jack johnson artha sarn langford the boston tup tar kahy baby battling nelson the tha durable Durn ble dine dane hurry harry greb tho pittsburgh windmill fred fulton tho the plastered plasterer Ila jess jesa wll lard the tha man or the vot rot blant john li arrison 9 t K 74 n I 1 A J X 1 the georgia peach dempsey the A Mu lanassa nassa mauler georges Car carpentier the orchid man and louis angel firpo tile the wild bull of the Ial lipas football hos has furnished some grent great individual stars of course but for foi some reason or other popular nick ufineo nes never clung to them that la Is until brie harold grange streaked across gridiron history and left behind jittu the titles of tile the galloping ghost tho red hover or just lied team kenui nicknames however have been popular and more enduring who will soon forget the four horsemen of notre danse who rode roughshod over ft a great army team to win w in that title or the praying colonels of center college who sprang into sporting fame when they huni humbled bled the mighty calison CA lison of harvard virtually every college has haa its nickname based upon the colors colora of the school or somo some assir animal nal mascot but few enjoy the picturesque descriptive names such buch as aa the olden tornado of georgia tech tile green wave of or the thundering lord herd of the university of southern california california in other sports nicknames are not mt so common there are a few which applied to tile the outstanding exponents of their arts have given them national renown an indian once saw a girl named helen wills play tennis and wits was so eo impressed by the fact that regardless gard less of how the tide of battle ran her countenance remained immobile colled called her little littie poker face those who have seen charlie Ind llad doek run recognize the appropriateness of the fastest F human and american runners who saw only the heels of nural can tell you why he Is called lie he flying finn tennis also has haa its ita we mil bill rill anil I little Ittle bill for W 1 I I 1 A I 1 a V el I 1 4 k 11 1111 lk 1 littlon poker face nes irs tilden stud johnson resper timely and the comet tor for tile the brio botn I 1 11 limit a lit mauric 0 I 1 I 1 cLOugh lill but tor for alluring alliteration in nickname no lias has anyone ever yet in all dIffer different elit realms of sport been able to I 1 conjure up tip the effual of the hounding bounding basque of biarritz Biar ritz for jews jenn borotra Ilor otra the french tennis champion |