Show I THE LIGHT 1 s SPORT SPORT- t LIGHT 1 tl BT By O RICE BICE HM 1924 New N w York Tork Copyright Ine Trademark Tribune S 'S Of- Of ll U if S Patent floe ici L I ill OPPOSITE WINDS Into the tise face ot of o the wind Ind that blowing You know thero therea theros a II a tight fight ahead But the mind s set on the rougher going That calls for tor a firmer tread And there Isn't much time to gel swellheaded swell swell To stop and to look about For or you hustle along till the trail trait is threaded When theres there's a favoring wind Ind 10 to you Look for tor a darker day For the roads road's too easy that fate fata has made you Over the softer sotter way You get no training tor for coming trouble Nothing to make you tight fight A And nit then theres there's a shift shirt as the tha blows double I Anti nothing Is a ever er right i I c A-c A tain goiter just ai i h a beet been assigned his caddie The The players I caddy tor for al a i get good scores said aid the tho boy That s tine line said the hats hat's your hour our name I I Lie Bad said the caddie A western hii h ii I started an argument as to Is I s the more morO a painful painful a slice in golf golor or n II toothache It If there ate ale out of ot bounds on tho course a bad slice i Is at least 6 5 up on a 0 tooth tooth- tooth ache a ache or or he-or or an anything else Col Ring W Lardner the ale t Sound Mew lew golfer is Iq at least 4 UP UPon upon on par In his hh latest round liow to Write Short Stories ii I Iby by In addition to 1 1 II I Champion the best prizefight tory story ever eser er written there Is la only th highest form torm of ot class the thorest rest of ot the book which takes take it several ot of the national pastimes 9 II 14 Hmay may miss a a putt now no and then w iIi hit the tho putter but putter but never with r at t all SER I IV I lO h Who holds the record for tor sel v- v vIce Ice In the more strenuous ot of o the competitive jousts Mr A 1 F r Hard Hardwick sends us u uthe u uthe the record ot of Billy Meredith of ot 1 n Ti T-Ti AA i his soccer career on the Manches Manches- Manchester Manchester ter team 30 years earS ago 1 now nosy 47 41 years ears old is stIlla still a sta And It if iou ou think the soc soccer er ot of two periods at 45 minutes each Is a resting party you ou might tao take a fling at the game some somo quiet aft aCt afternoon aft afternoon To play on the forward line In first class clas association toot foot football toot ball ball for 30 years Is at least enough to the record to stand up until challenged Home Iome run hitting seems to bo boone b boone one of ot the conservative e Elbe Ruth had been around se- se so se-cral se eral years ears before he finally out with Ith the long distance rash but heas he was as a ft quick starter corn com compared com compared pared to Jack Fournier and Cy Williams who had been around moro more than a decade bet before re adjust adjust- adjustIng adjust Ing Ing their range be beyond ond the out outIng tag Ing fences Fournier broke Int late into 11 violent home run rash last year and and now he hI is Ruths Ruth's most anno- anno anno- anno inc annoy Ing rival Yet Tot it Is 13 generally taken for granted that tho home run belongs to the ambitions ambition an the dash of ot youth THE TUC C SE tSE 01 Of M S ILLS For the last two years y Wills has done little fighting fighting the thelong thelong long lapses being due to lack ot of opponents nd I and nd to bad hands Lack of ot practice In the profession profession profession sion of ot punching has slowed Wilts down a lot He his h looked to ho hit much slower er in his bis last two fights Including the Madden affair anti an anthis this slowing do down don n has taken away aV awaya aaVa a lot of ot his old effectiveness The Wills Vilis that met Madden was not the Wills that knocked out Fulton and this Is taking nothIng ay a horn flom Madden who ho has o as much gameness and durability ii D Battling Nelson ever eser had Wills can still pound with Ith his punches but they no longer come cometh with th the old snap and crash crach p re haps a long training spell ml hung him hint back again but not a l kid He is still a good defensive bo boer er bo er and his weight h height re and g eat strength make mako him dat dal dar but ho is sho showing Ing nothing approaching the Dempsey upon attack And speed Is one of the most moat Important of ot all the ml mix mix- mixtures mix mixtures tures that make mako up a winning dS- dS as assault sault It took toole WILls Wills 12 rounds to hi Madden with his first clean punch to the face dell cled at any tango lange be ond a chop chOI This punch oi 01 wallop had a lot back balk of ot It it l but ut It was as a long time coming II h might knockout Abe e that no one can knock out Bartley Madden In 15 16 round for Bartley Is tough rough ganto gamo and hard to hurt lurt He lIe is about aboul as easy to dent as a hydrant ct t hen Wills 1118 landed the short Chop chor 1 and Jolt time and again the sans sam blow tint th Kid Kid Norfolk l two 0 years ago they had I no effel effect t er upon the scrappy Irish Irishman Irlan nan man an Either Irl Madden 1 Is five 01 ot sl e times tougher than Kid Kid Norfolk t 01 Wills ha has lost much of ot the old snap that once ones accompanied hi 11 shorter blo blows s Lack ot of competition which Isas ed do down don n Wills illS will Ill also ha hau haI I the tho iia same sante effect upon Dempsey 11 I a year ear or two No one lay care ort off too long and keep the tho vital spar spark I still flaming Especially one i has passed 30 reached ttA- ttA Dempsey hasa l t 30 yet but he Isn't man miln strides away The Madden ma do Wills 1115 a lot of ot good and It will be bo Interesting to see him against a faster taster biget man as George Godfrey the v A Wills Wills-Godfrey pal patI t would be something to Inthe look at lit In the way ay of ot competition designed 0 o bing about a test iest |