Show THE I By GRANTLAND RICE I m OTHER hen I nag nas lounger than I am amAnd amAnd amAnd And odds seemed greater than they were Before I took the final slam Where everything wa was In a blur I either cither tried too hard to win Or sadly whispered the use I And It if the tho chance was somewhat ome thin I I looked around for tor some ome excuse I told the story tat tar and near neer And poured It In each open ear I But I e found since Ince how few lew the thee des es e That shed tears tormy for my alibi alibis When timings broke harshly now and then And I was WIlS cornered tor for a spell I often otten brooded In my den About the bitter bluer luck that denI fell fellAnd I And so I felt Impelled or bound To reason reon out each losing pIsy phy fully tully ench each dull dull round That didn t matter anyway I felt the alibi nas as dUt du And so 0 o I promptly shot It through And then I found how few tew were truck With woe woo because I d rotten luck The moral Is that all iou ou know Who stop to hear lour our anguished cries criesI I Have had their share ot of bumps bump and so 0 Are Arc rather pleased than other other- otherwise wise Ise Senior Adolfo Luque the Red mainstay last lat season cason will be 33 ears old In March It hn has haa been beem argued argued by some Rome that he ho has passed 1 hi his prime and Is hardly likely to repeat with nith another great ear Ye We cin find no reason In this reasoning If Ie Luque Lucius was vas a star alar at atthe atthe atthe the age of ot 32 there I la is no worthY argument as to why he t be bo a star at 33 or 34 He had hod his greatest year ear at 32 92 And Jt Jl gaso ga no sign of being a fluke year He had th the stuff sturt and he be w what chat to do with sith It We can think et t no surer method for tor success INI G 80 G G Dear Der Sir Why doesn't Casey Stengel go BO In vaudeville and end recite Casey at t tho the Bat Dat 7 It ought to tobe he a u clenn-u clean up I Probably because In ot of striking out the modern Cose Casey In- In Insists ingists In Insists gist s upon hitting home runs In the pinches He Ho could put no real spirit Into The very vory air was shattered by the force of ot Carsey's Careys blow With C Stencel Stengel It Is usually the ball that thatis thatIs I is shattered With Bobby Jones JonM open golf golt champion and young bounding forward Georgia I Is now lookIng for T 1 R It Cobb to produce an Am American league champion at DetroIt o as a fitting climax Cobb and Detroit are both bolh said to be willing Last lAt season Detroit s TI- TI Ti Tigers gore gers mod made more hits and mor more run runs than the yank Yankees and stole tole more be bases This Is quite enough to prove a It stronger attack But Cobb had hod no Pennock Jones Jones Bush Shawkey combination to call on to help suppress the enemy comy Whether or not he lie will come corne upon the tho prop prop- prope prop prop-ci e em til tills timis spring and sum suin- sum mer III be sho shown shoun n almost exclusively exclusively In the standing ot of the clubs club one of ot the finest little arbiters that er er eer came como along Cobb has hItS finished well for tor Us t 0 seasons caon But t he ha has been up against ag a sl ong combination with an at- at attach attack at attack tack tach led by Babe Ruth hooked to a defense with tour four our star pitchers RET RE RENDERING BERING DERING A VERDICT Bartley Madden can cen hardly be listed among the star tar boxers ot of o all time But Bartley ho has a 0 dome anda and alii Il a torso orso enough to help prove t the he real condition of ot Harry Wills s shand 1 hands hand and thu this Is an important feature In the Wills case coe It If the Brown Panther I Is In pos pos- possession pos possession session of ot two non fragile pew paws he ill be dangerous for tor any man ho he meets There Thore hive have been whispers boc back and forth that Wills hands are none too robust This mayor may or ormay ormay may not be true The affair with Madden will help to render a ver- ver verdict ver verdict dict diet worth h Into consideration consideration consideration tion RDO TALES Oft have I said Now keep your ey eye Upon the pill pili and ond let It Only to find my hoisted bean benn Was gazing on n a wretched scene cene Oft Ott hate haie I sal said Bald Old Old Vagabond Dont Don't think a II bit of ot yonder pond Only to find amid the crash crash My lifted dome brought on the tho splash I I have hoe got so a accustomed to toun un In II listeners at nt golf gait writes Jules that that I don t believe bellee I d S bo be interested In describing all my strokes to the other kind Watch Watch- Watching ing log listener suffer sutter Is no small mall part of the run fun j Thoro are times time when It Is jut just justas justas 0 as well weli to quit and save ave up part ot of the remains tor for another start Joe Jackson In suing for back salary alary should at least leat be bo willing to deduct the tho amount discovered un- un un under tier der the pillow It Is Iq at 1 least something to know that Jess Jens Willard I la Is planning no comeback for tor this season seMon That to give 1924 a a 0 regular start |