Show flUE By GRANTLAND RICE Copyright 1924 1 34 hew l leYork ew York Trib Trib- Trib Tribune Tribune unto une Inc Ine k Rt Register Register- Registered cd ed d U IY S b Patent Office SPRIG JALI tL OPIl G Like Uhe a a alid lid rl rl cr er cracking its dam danl Here comes come Sweeping the nith Its iti slash lash and slam slamA As the echoes ring With the tao base hit and the pounding bludgeon The squawk suak squa k o of the blighter b from Rooters Rooter s Ron RO The finny tinny ripple of crawl cra and The clean clear click of the blow The putt putt-putt-putt 0 Ot Of the battled baffled mutt And the e curse as the th ball slips lip by Back to the th sport Of the ra et and nd court Once more under the op open n sky Come Corn on Big Ble Rube Rubo youre you're oure oure the th candy candy- candy Come on come como on ride on-ride ride him And once more mor 0 over oer er the th flae nide Ide green heather There Is I the clatter of ot Milburn's TOO Don Hitchock riding hell for for hll Fast as a a flash fla h of ot old Marconi StrikIng trout Paddocks Paddocks Paddock's test test- testAs testAs test As An the sun un Is 1 growing stronger You know all nil the bally r rest st So wh why snake make mak It tt any longer STAGG'S GREAT RECORD Here I Is li a record that Is 1 a record When hm sprint spring football practice starts III In a a few days day A A Stagg Chicago university's famous amoul coach nUt be starting his hi thirty fifth so- so CA- CA CAon son on ILS S a director of ot gridiron des des- de his hit thirty-third thirty se season e son on WIth 33 Chicago 33 years year of ot character ch bUilding In addition to a remark remark- remarkable able record on the tho Jack n began b ian coaching In 1 1592 SU 2 so o Stagg In 18 the th veteran of the lot by a year two-year martin margin And AndIn Andin Anin In spite pite of ot many fancy rancy otter offers else- else elsewhere where here Stagg ha has refused reu d to leave leav th th- th Maroon standard and has al also refuted refused to accept a saIry Ury larger lai than a head protestor professor spa a pay STAGG'S ST RT Att After r lea Yale Stagg Stait In 1890 lt organized coached without po pay and on th- th th first football tellIn which represented the th Springfield Y M C A cOllege where he wa was then a 0 student Stagg's tn Springfield team made mad a 8 great rat record fi oin the th start start beat beat- beating Ing mo t of ot the smaller mailer colleges and giving Yale and HArvard hard bard close battles battle On the Yale Yalo team that icar Oar r were Hart Hart- Hartwell Hartwell well Williams and Morri Morn Morrison son on Two years later laler ho he h star started led at Chicago go There Thero he lIe has ha coached co ch d 32 2 football teams team 28 21 track teams team and an 21 1 baseball ba ball teams team Stagg t In his hi day da has given riven inspiration and Ideals to 1000 oung men men-a men a contribution tion to his hi good that few can match It as ia at Springfield that basketball ba first started wh where r the first rules rule an unlimited number of contestants contestant for tor any n game camo In the first games eames played the had to sit lt at the th top ot of ofa on a 11 stepladder to retrieve the ball bail bailI flom I om the th basket ba k t Today a battle baUle batti bet bet betTi ten eon the th Passaic high school chool team and some somo or rival rival or bet between een Chicago rind and would Cornell Cornel would pack Madson Square Garden to the tho lat last square quare Inch Innumerable thousand are d Iu turned sway away a ay each sea through of or sating s or spa space pac Ohio State Stale pia pl Ing to ad misSIons could hn hae ha e t ph ned pl-ned d to toI I twice that I with c Ith sufficient i space to park all aU spectators B Basketball and nd soccer r football with the th right richt ballyhoo ou d thaw up close to bat b A SOC SOC- soc soc ct r drew a feda ten feM da das s sago ago nith Ith only a two to t 0 or three line Une notice announcing the game tarn I There re ha has been no goIter colter who can an outpace Wlter Hacen In the stretch In the last 14 month ho hoI hohas hohas hohas I has had two final rounds rounda of ot 66 three at 66 and many more under 70 Not forgetting one finish at 62 hen hen it comes to the lat la t 18 holes of ot a tournament he be 5 stems ems lifted beyond m nit re re mortal skill I turning out 2 and Is as a farmer might turn up potatoes with a plow Which Is to say say-In ay In groups croup Johnny employed ed the best system In stopping slopping Hagen b by lead lead- leading lead Ing him 14 strokes up to o that final dash being belne a master I should kid 1101 himself 1 believing that every round played is th the final march lis RC RU ING NI G Front running In sport port draws drawn no gT groat at credit Yet It requires as a fine fino a n type of nerve as aa coming from behind We Ve know of game game came finishers hearted stout hearted when n closing up u caps gaps who are arc nell ell below belo their best bc lat at the head of ot the pack Hagen for one example Is rarely at his I best after taking an early lead I There are aro others other who feeL 01 the th same lain way tay ay about It Yet It takes nerve to hold a brief lead with the th I patter palter of ot the p pack dost by I Suggestion for tor an Interesting party Jimmy victor over ove I Young Stribling vu vs v Jack Delaney I elan y conqueror of Paul Here are the ingredients for tor a a first first- class dish Bobby Jones has Invented ac a thick faced d driver Why doesn't doesn eon Invent a shoehorn niblick for or playing out of o Now I Is the time tim to pu In lour our order for tor a Welling Listener to open the th new colt golt season ea on prOperly Wh iy wait until u the largest ears have all been bc n chosen |