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Show -tttf NEW Golden Age of sport, Tfowtag the latest world .war fu 7olv a few months in which wav of attendance, gate est that in 1946 wdl crack all to mer marks if we can settle a t few problems, and someone doesn t get Careless with an atomic bomb. Tut looking through .the .miss and f0ES . ahead we stiU fail to ee Grantland Rice any sign that the performers can compare in crowd appeal with Babe Ruth, Jack Demp-gey, Demp-gey, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Ked Grange, Rogers Hornsby, Tommy Hitchcock, Man o' War, Walter Hagen and a few others of that former period who happened to be blessed with that indefinable flair known as "color. Most of the, star actors we have eft to open or carry on the 1948 urogram go back well before the ast war started. In this list you vill find Joe Louis, Billy Conn, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Joe Di-tfaggio, Di-tfaggio, Hank Greenberg and others vho had reached, or at least had ome to their peak before Pearl iarbor. It is faintly possible, but highly mnrobable. that you and I will see mother Ruth, Dempsey, Jones, litchcock or Tilden in action with is much combined skill and crowd ipjjeal. till Great Fighters No one can say yet just how nuch fighting ability Joe Louis and Silly Conn can bring to the ring text June. Louis has almost certain-y certain-y taken a number of steps over the JUL The odds are that Conn won't e as good as he was in his last ittempt to reach the top. Both may lave enough left to give a record-1 laying crowd an interesting show. Ve'll know about this later on when he two get in better fighting shape. There is no other heavyweight in ight who compares with either, at lis best. Someone may come along ater on, but he is still some dis-ance dis-ance away. High-class heavy-eights heavy-eights arrive at wide intervals. The 4-Fs produced little and neither irmy nor navy has any sensations howing along the horizon. It might be suggested here that vrmy's football team has taken the ead in the new Golden Age. It is letter than any football team that ollowed the first war. Blanchard md Davis have been mentioned nore than any two football Dlayers ne can recall off hand. And both vill be around next fall, with anther an-ther fine Army team that might asily set a three-year record. What about baseball? Most of the tars will be found among such for-ner for-ner stars as Joe DiMaggio, Hank Jreenberg, Joe Gordon, Bobby Joerr, Marty Marion, Terry tfoore, many members of the old ankee and Cardinal casts. But there is still hope for such 'oung entries as Dave Ferrlss of he Red Sox, Wakefield of the Tigers, Stirnweiss of the Yankees, ichoendeinst of the Cardinals and a ew more who may develop rapidly. Old Stars Returning The majority of baseball eyes will ie focused on former stars who hould, in the main, be ready for aseball again next spring. Al New-louser New-louser will again rate high up after i brilliant two-year record. After the First World war, the ill-ated ill-ated White-Black Sox of 1919 and he Giants and Yankees of the early 20s were unusually strong. vvuai aDoui goll? So far, among ie professionals, the top men are till Nelson, Hogan, Snead and Mc-paden, Mc-paden, who have been around quite spell. We have no record of any TS ?eZ pros' crashing pt- ight at this moment. But the ama- uL, th Haas' Stranahan, Middlecofr, Doerlng and Givan wil oe above the 1919-1920 average ThU st will hardly include Jones, but in medal play aaliSt e pick of the pros they have outscoring any set of amateurs we can now recall. Professional golf may h wait a while before giving the garni a young star as good as th v!t still left. veterans Tennis? Not yet. Amateur tennis has n0 chance to match the Big Bm Someofthekfdr"2.5: "P, Dut hardly in -"-"..g 1947 champiotSr011946 Revival of P0l0 -rctis-sst Petmve rolo nasT "UIe cn-last cn-last four yearV P , Played ta th longer road f iu f T need ers who were r burn an(1 oil,. But in 1M0 or nd class from 25 ' lapM 1q f'-m wl" be far more J " "g0 thre and a SST ta Ule I on. Kla crop coming |