Show THE IT 2 By y GRANTLAND RICE c Copyright 19 1834 1924 4 New York Trib Tribune une Inc Trademark Registered U S Patent Office WHO COUI COULD I may clay grow old some coma someday torn day But not In never April April I may grow irrow old when hen hen the sky Sly is gray And the snow Is deep as it bars barsth the th ay And the northwind calls But I III II ne ei grow erow though old old I m two ninety ninety As long as Q an April sk k Is blue I may grow frow old old perhaps I nih- nih Hill But Hut not In April no April no sil l-l l Not when hen the dogwood brings brinen Its And tile the th wild plum blossoms be- be be beneath neath the th hillAnd hillAnd hill hillAnd And tho the first soft sott south winds blow sir Oh I 1 l 1 never grow row though old old the ear careen caren As long as the tho th April turf Is green reen CONCERNING G 0 ST STU LENESS Staleness Is 1 rarely a ph quality It Is lal gely due du to brain brainI I fag Cag or nerve nerv strain train or nerve weariness earl earl- ness nes When Ien the tir brain and the neres get ragged farced the tho th muscular s re- re responds responds re responds I immediately although the muscular s stem may be b fit tit at the time One may start upon an is hol I hOle JOUrne feeling fit lit for tor a ft niara- niara mara thon thon But after he has ha mIssed I abou five short putts and has via vis- visIted vis visited six or seven traps trap with Ith three out of ot bounds that tired feeling lOUt begins to nail hi his frame about the tho eleventh hole I It Isn't the exercise that has haa put on tho the pressure but the mixture ot of VI V rath soreness depres- depres depression slon sign sion anxiety and nervo nerve train strain It ItIs Itis Itis Is r what tour four ts t's golf golC not poker can ean do to the nor ous ItI I outlay I ITHE THE TILE N NERVE STRAP STRAIN Tilden once one made mad the th remark I that a tennis 11 er hO who lio take takes his hi I game CAm homo borne at night Is ie I on the theay th ay ay to sure ini thinking In on one direction tion plus the tho th ner c strain of or con con- contest con contest test leads to sin cin a hurry The Th lien es are arc much more tern tem tern tern-p than the muscles and cave In much sooner under pres pres- pressure pressure sure And TV hen the nen nere nerves os bog boc do donn n the muscles follow Collow suit In brief order orcier HUT THEY TIlEY CA CAT T nir RH Can you enlighten a few tw oCl of oC us u l queries Queries R fi L a as to why It Is from the big bif army of bo boxers ers now in the game tanto so 80 few of oC o them carry carr a punch tho that could break breal a lamp chimney Why iby a ar ale e there no so few tew real hitters bitters ft em the entire lot The Ih a boxer knows knos almo almost nothing of the main prInciples principle ot of timing and balanc balanco bal He lie works work to build up a defense and ond to dt de elop speed and certain parts of ot ring skill lIe Ha I is usually hitting on the themo mo moe e row Few of oC them w ork for tor solid balance and ond the th timing that brings In the th shoulder houlder and ond body su support to a punch They dont don't hit on h through with the supporting eight doing Its It share hare of oC the tho team pla pia The main idea is to Jab b and block Kearns worked for tOI many months months- starting Dempsey on the tho right road and Is Ow the tho greate greatest t example of ot the t tao tao- two handed landed punch the th ring rine has ha o eter because because ho tollo follows follos s the main principles of at timing and hal bal bal ance and kno s just alicie he e the erac Jc i and the th snap should come Into the th blow 2 STROKES ES Chick Evans Eans has figured d out an- an tin othet othel way to play piny good rolf golf The Tho open open ex-open and ex-amateur ex champion ham pion trailing the th bounding statistic to Its lair sas as ho he has 2 2000 2000 OO- OO golf solf strokes In J and In play all as close as possible to the th same am pattern or standard th to t on he h has haa ha hammered hammered away anay aa fot COI nearly t twenty enty sears ears to get the tho stroke croo grOO ed There arc qUIte quit a It tw fan golfers goiters ho cho are aro certain they thy hi e placed ed that many strokes In bunkers bunker and traps I but their only pattern aB MO ne a pas pas- pasI pa eagerness to get out as I quickly as os possible I To play good rood golf tolf or consistent golf one on has tit that flirt st to learn the strike stroke and stroke and then forget foret It IL It It while the swing swine instinct Instinct- Instinctively instinctively ively goes Roe upon Its natural nay oy Those starting out this April who still till b they can hit hita hita hita a golf Colt ball and think about seven even B evenor v nor or nine nin Important details at ot the tho same sarno moment nih Bill spend most moat ot Of theIr summer ummer under ground floG floG- flogging ging away at the sand and TIlE THU RIGHT PATTERN PATTen A good pattern Is I something to start with no matte matterS matter what your our game Afterwards Aft you can de des latto de late to allow room for tor your own indi lad lad- individual vidual methods and manners but butas butas IlS as Eddie Loge LOOd has baa pointed out for tor goiters there thero must be a II pattern from which to cut the th cloth Very Vory ground i Is gained by In three ent at the I same time Babe Bab Ruth picked tIcked Joe Jo Jackson a as his batting pattern but the th Babe later lator his left lect toot foot e osen een c en I enI further back than Jackson did But Buthe Buth fhe he had n a definite idea in mind when swinging at the th ball Bob Bob- Bobby Bobby Bob Bobby I BobI by Jones has hns ha many mony of ot the thO Important important tant tent features of or stewart Stwart Maidens Maiden's s In since Maiden Malden was as his first Instructor Jess Joss made ml up hIs hl first mental patterns from Chick Evans latec varying the In iii many Was Na wa S But he h nas via early In the right direction There is one pattern that few tew learn In sport and and that Is the process of ot thinking of ot the tho right thing at l the tho right tints and time and think think- think Inc lag InS all tho the way through The Tho Th same possibly might bo ho said of ot It n num num- number flum- flum number ber bee of oC other turns turn and shifts in inthis Inthis this brief existence De Dempsey for example le doesn t tT-alk tT v-alk v into the tho ring muddled 0 oter et methods ot of defense e and attack He thinks In terms o of attack alone and lets the th remainder take Lako tak c care cAr re of itself |