Show I ITHE SPORT THE LIGHT Hy By RICE Copyright 1924 1824 N Nw New w York TrIbune Inc Trademark Registered U 8 S Patent Of- Of tic Ot-tic flee DAZZI D VAS VA'S A cn THE BROOK BROOK- Ix G I Year after fter year fate tate held him back Year after alter year he got gol no nowhere hero Skidding along an offside olde trac track HangIng on ott with Ith nothing to spare Ic I-Ic never nought thought that the world orld was as as wrong Or looked on Luck as a blighting jade He took his trimming and came back hack strong And now he s a leading the main parade IIII JitU I HE UPHILL MIlCI 1 M He appeared first In Des Ds Moines Moine 10 Iowa a March 4 1893 under th the name of or Arthur C Vance Vanee one T yeas yeats later be he broke out with Ith Hastings in ins the Nebraska Nebraska ka State League starting starling one of thc most mot unusual records record in th of baseball The career of anle once n s g at pitcher might be used a as a i beacon light for tor thu dl dIn dIn- who ho are still trying to find an exit through the shadows s lor l'or eight ears ears ance once ance tried to 10 work his way nay Into the Big Tent fent without being able to make the grade In 1516 is 16 both New York Ameri Macri- Americans cats cans and Pittsburgh g gave gave ve him hint t shot abot ai al at a i H Job only to turn hint him adrift From 1914 to 1922 Vance work work- worked worked ed Id tor for hastings Neb eb St Joseph Memphis Rochester ster Sac Sac- Sac Sac-lamento lamento and New l sew Orleans Orlean It wait not until 19 1 that ho lie hit hilt lii his stride for tor New ew Orleans Orlean winning Inning t tent tacoS ent- ent one genies games and losing but eleven was hI his first lift Os 0 over er the bar bar- barrier barnor bar barrier nor rier after arter seven tears ears eara of failure And just ten 3 car cars after his first game he becomes the star pitch 11 of ot the major leagues league with Hh witha witha Il a out d that will ill not note e eten een en be ap approached 5 nen an earnest earnst athlete is tos- tos tossed tos tossed sed sod from on ons to town ton n to for seven or eight cais without utah malt making ing an head lI headway h In lie Is Inclined to get may hate ha known no a t number of ot sinking spells but he never quit aiming at it the th main goil l No 0 other great I his hs c ever eser er kno known knon n such a long and aging period of Uphill slog slog- slogging slogging slogging ging rhe rho n i has earned corned all the applause now no In hIs direction He de- de de deserves serves senes to wave state in triumph triumph HY sOT NOT h t I the UnIted States Stales win In every set act of ot Ol Oi games asks KG K G with with Ith over people and the tha cool enOI- enoi mou inous interest aho shown n In sport and athletic training Wh Vh t I there thero be a re- re reward re reward ward ard for tor this Slits Interest and this traIning which Is la adding both bOlh to the health and happiness of ot sO n me-n million millions The argument Is ii ad In the above query that the U S deserves no 10 to credit for I an any 01 Oi showing Thol Thoe e Is Ismore ismore more inure than one nation around with IsI I oset OHl OUO people a hers her training i is ne never neer er encouraged encouraged encouraged aged WIt Vh t this countr receIve credit for the earnestness and the tho t thoroughness It has shown In building up the race No one has begrudged any praise tor for Finland s athletic glor with a meagre population corn com com el to pick from Inland Finland s a I sho showing Ing his has been a remarkable I thing thing-an an example toi tot Europe to follow tollo It has hu been said here and there that athletics and sport In general are badly overdone In ChIna and Russia have had almost no athletic pi through all their centuries of ot existence Ate Ale they so much In front of the world u as a result ot of this policy TIlE TIJI TO SKID A As they thy are all about the same age Ie who ho will wiil be the first of the DIg Big Three to dip below the hori hori- horizon hori hori- horizon horizon zon and fade tade out out- out Den 7 Ruth The They are all three parked pared around thirty If It Cy Williams and Jack Fournier well over thirty andI I can an continue hammering home runs rune Ruth should be a 11 star for tor three or tour four ears more Tilden may not win In the cham cham- championship four tour ears longer but buthe buthe buthe he will be playing one ot of the loading leading roles I Dempsey still looks unbeatable but ho he isn iso t practicing his art as the other two are However he hehu hu has less leu grade highs competition I and this makes a difference Dempsey Dempey with two tights fights In three years perhaps years perhaps In tour four years yean can can hardly remain on the up- up upgrade upgrade up upgrade grade But Dut he t the talent to taco race that Ruth and Tilden must move up against at constant and stated Intervals Beaten b by Yale Yalo at football I irack rac baseball and crew Harvard has no Ide ld i of ot subsiding gently wIthout further struggle There Is 1 already much earnest thou thought ht upon the part port of ot Harvard men inert that they ma may lead to much stiffer slitter reo i-c- re resistance next with season season with much attention to 10 football Harvo rot loses most mot ot of o her line but r a better backfield with 0 herke on hand as Yale loses lose Steens Stat Slav ens Richeson N Mallor Mallor Neale and 0 Hearn THE BUFFER DUFFEn HEM U IRKS IRKS It I could only keep from traps trap I 1 might Improve my uny score score per per per- perhaps perhaps hap haps It If I could hole each mash mashi I shot It ought tto help my toy game a II lot Outfielders might play for Babe Ruth It IC airplanes were wem al allowed aI- aI 10 lowed cd or larger exits were cut In Inthe inthe Inthe the right field tl ld walls ails |