Show J THE 1 SPORT LIGHT j S B By O D RICE Copyright 0 p Nw New York TrIbune Inc Trademark Registered u 8 Patent Of Ot- Ot fic c 1111 filE CR IG ion conoM rs I Suppose suggests T I Fi H q i that ou were ere called upon to name the three greatest from earl each sport without regard to an ani order c der ranking ranking Who bo would ILy Ley be Here Is a rathel hUI selection selection selection tion Sprinters Paddock fluffy Duffy Donaldson long among the pros Long distance runners urmi runn rs Tennis Tennis Tilden L 1 Doherty Brooks Lamed Larned Cobb Baseball Baseball Cobb Ruth Vt Wagner er aI Golf Vardon Golf Vardon Tailor Talor Braid prOs Ball Golf Golt Ball I Hillon Jones ama ama- amateurs amateurs amateurs Polo Hitchcock Cheape Football Too man many evenly matched Dempsey Boing Boxing Jeffries Sul- Sul Sul Sullivan livan lIun hea weights eIghts THI SS CI CI DIMMON 10 1 The question has bein brought up as ae to which 1 weight wight ht elg-ht develops the largest output ot or There Is 11 no great question left lell The light heavyweight leads 1 by a number of fathoms leagues league or marathons Here are just a few tew who aho ho can battle In that class clas Tom Tons Gibbons Gene Geno Gen Tunnel Tunney Tiger Flower Harry Greb Mike Young Strib- Strib lUng Paul Berlenbach Tomm II Loughran ou ou can pick almost any two from this collection arid and put ona on ona ona a regular party And by n o a queer turn one of ot the weakest members is the champion At least IMSt there would a 1 be bl few tew to take the th end of ot the tho bet het betat betat at even en mone against Gibbons Flowers ers or Gri-b Gri Mc- Mc TIgue Me-TIgue TIgue would be a to 4 shot against Gibbons Gibbon or Flowers Which shows sho at times now I unimportant a cro crown cron n may be beYALE'S YALE'S MARK MAlti AlU Yale ralo through 1924 left lett l ft a target to shoot at Leadership in nIne sports spora Is one ot or the th most re- re re of or all collegiate m ments nt In this day of keen and rabid competition among so o many rivals It I Is quite quit ent from supremacy In the th old days 1 when hen only a few tew colleges counted And Yale has about as good a chance as anyone any one else to tie this mark through 1925 There Th r is no DO college coll In the th east that has a n better outlook for tor rowing and uld football Probably no college In th the country countr Ed d Leader is sure toa to a ae e another tine fine crew and Tad Jones can look forward to another great football season The baseball and track Is above the tho normal There Is enough talent left under the Blue lag flag to raise rals Quite quit a stir sUr tir before 0 stumble over oter 1926 1 I Only a few tew years ago George GeorgeI I Owens of Harvard had w a on ele eleen en major contests against a Yale Yalo before he h met defeat These were ere In football hockey and baseball The change has ha been a 0 trifle starting tint til-tint since One On Owen Can make a a whale of ot a difference Before voil OU can throw a couple ol ot bricks brickWell Well We'll come to Twenty NIneteen T enty- enty six Firpo 1 willing to meet Gib- Gib Gibbons Gib Gibbons bons boos Renault or Wills Wilis In order to tight fight his way back to la ir 10 top Firpo apparently is willing Wiling to do almost anything except to go Into hard e training to 0 work oft off 12 or If 16 pounds pound to build up his speed peed and stamina lamina to tc learn all all he ho can He H h hA sit a meteoric rise and a II meteoric fall The Th e next ascent will have to como through I slower more mor laborious us ways ays I Firpo has haa ha always alwa s hated the drudgery and the tho dl of correct training And it so ao o hap hap- happens happens happen pens that these are the foundation tion of or skill and condition In place of ot Paris he h horld hate ha a Canadian lumber camp put In about 10 mlle miles ashes II a aday day day on the th road and then ro- ro to place himself under Jimmy Do De Forest At whIch v poInt a lot hot of ot excitement m ht base ha ha taken place Bill Ropers Roper's Roper main Job at Prince Prince- Princeton Princeton ton next fall tall 1 will 1111 be bo to build UP upa upa a line He H has his as a tIne fine tin backfield talent as anyone any one on could want ant Slagle Williams William Weekes Pren- Pren Prendergast Dignan and others with Ith the experience they have drawn should hould round out on ono one of ot the tho but best backfield of ot the th year And a good fast backfield Is somethIng to start a with Ith ith Knute is Ie I the th coach coath who faces the th hardest test To Joso iose 18 out of or the th first 23 22 stung men Including the lh 11 regulars regular Ij is a blo ablo blow bless that few Instructors would woul care to face tace At the lh best he ha can hardly hope hop to have hav a n l team am close to the th form torm ot or his hi UH 1924 1 24 array Harry Wills riles write IC K K- KH II H F couldn t knock out BarTley I arTl Mad Mad- den Madden and Luls Lul Firpo In 27 IT rounds round ot of boxing How jan gao he h expect to have OlIt a chance chanc with Dempsey Dempey Or it IC lee ha h he h has haa ha a II chance whY not not prose pro 0 It by heating Gibbons or opinIon George Godfrey In ry ory Ion by b next n I j hod- hod AndI AmI trey fray would take tak Wills wire Ire And I have hav I a a hunch that Hairy feels te the tha th same samo am way WILY about It In any an event he h hasn't proved hI his place at th the top ot of the tha challengers challenner And I he shouldn't ute w te ni more ore time Ume depending depending on words II or of |