Show ak y VOU 01 learn a little as the years 1 not inot much little attle pass by just a one of the few things ive learned this season menn meaning inge 1845 1945 Is that the word greatest belong in sport port there Is no such word there never was and never will be a k greatest football or baseball team a greatest golfer or great greatest est pitcher or greatest anything the word is simply too big for the human race aatland rice to handle the word good Is different even the word great in sport has been overused over used look over the list ty cobb and ba babe be ruth in baseball Jim thorpe pudge bronko bagur ski red grange and 20 others in football among the pitchers pitcher sCy cy young mathewson johnson alexander on and on among the golfers golfer snobby bobby jones walter hagen dyron Dyro nelson nNelson harry vardon among lie fighters or boxers dempsey jeffries louis I 1 can give you 10 more among the he greatest college football teams army 1045 notre dame 1043 1943 notre dame 1930 1030 minnesota southern california pittsburgh alabama 1035 1935 michigan and yale yala in the old days all good maybe great but but pone of them the greatest baseball teams the cubs of 1010 1910 the athletics of the yankees at various stages all good few great n none one the greatest who Is footballs greatest Is doe doc blanchard greater than bronko certainly not not yet in fact minnesota sota and michigan camp followers will tell you that fast pound bill daly is a greater of offensive ostensive back than either or blanchard and they can be right I 1 can name borne you more than a few backs that might be more valuable to a team than either or blanchard the greatest passer or the greatest pass receiver sammy baugh or don on hutson u son maybe but greasy cale says he would rather have ald id luckman than baugh and hutson combined maybe greasy IS wrong maybe he who Is doing to know greasy would rather have van buren than any back he be ever saw bert bell of the would rather have bill dudley for allaround all around value I 1 think clint frank of yale is more valuable than either cither I 1 put this complicated problem up to greasy neale maybe id rather have clint frank he said 1 I 1 mean taken every way As fine as doe doc blanchard and glenn davis are I 1 dont think cither cando can do all the things that clint frank could do we can move move into other fields to probe prove there Is no such word its as greatest t man mano 0 war or exterminator man 0 marquit war quit as a 3 yeat year old man 0 war is the symbol of racing greatness but exterminator ran and won for many years from six furlongs to two miles from pound sto pounds As we move along I 1 still say there Is no greatest there Is neither an individual ll I 1 star a team or a horse hoise that any one caa car put above nil all oth olli 8 ars rs in competition although pudge had on one unchallenged football record at least llenas lie was in an all america in 1889 and just as good 30 years later when he was 63 53 who can say whether bobby jones harry vardon walter hagen or byron nelson was the greater golfer hagen beat jones 12 and 11 in in a 72 hole match but jones beat hagen 10 straight years in the he U S open where the blue chips were down Alo modern derit advantages only yesterday I 1 ran across an old timer who had run the yard dash against arthur duffy and bor ale e vVe fers in the fast time of 90 9 0 dont forget he said this time was over a slow track with bad running shoes under modern conditions either duffy or could have lave beaten jesse owen paddock or any other modern sprinter so again who is tl die e greatest sprinter the answer Is nobody games are played under tinder different condit conditions ioni where the modern bunch have lave all the better of the breaks break in n every way they got get the faster tracks racks the better equipment the letter better groomed and easier golf courses the better coaching and training raining in every form of sport the letter better chance to improve there a man connected with sport for the last 50 years or a team that hat could be called the greatest there has never been a greatest football player a greatest baseball player or a greatest anything else in other words sport has known no superman yas neither has the human race in any other form of existence unknown thousands with the same break could have surpassed famous names tills outburst Is a part answer to those who keep writ ing la in asking about he greatest in various lines it Is still dolth while just to be good |