Show i I i Ii I THE SPORT SPORT- I LIGHTB SPORT LIGHT LIGHT HT Dy Dl B GRANTLAND RICE nICE Copyright 1028 1026 New v York TrIbune Inc nc U V S 8 S Patent Of- Of Of Office flee fice I IN 1926 1 20 IN PASSING P A few to the more pinnacle more to tho the pit Romance and glory scandal caudal and shame The losing the error error th winning hit hit- hit Tho The jibe and jeer and tho the call to tame fame Up and down n through a a scrambled test Where luck ro so often rules knock or cheer Here Her Is the tha the record record the worst and best best- best But Dut tell me me where where do we go BO from here h re One year ear closer to some dim port That waits walts for tor us with the drifting tide And no one knows when the winds of ot sport Will VIII blow our craft to the other side Its It's now too late for the alibi As the score Core is set and the record clar clear clearOn clearOn On the chart of ot time for the low and hIgh I But But Dut tell where me-where me where do we e go so from here CELEBRATING AN AX EXIT You Tou may observe a large lareo group cheering the exit of 1326 1926 tonight wIth unusual fervor They arc aro much obliged to see It pass before another ton of ot bricks tails falls across their collective necks In this group you will find Demp Demp- Dempsey soy sey Berlenbach Flowers Walker Valker RockY Kansas Kaneas Pittsburg and Wash Wash- Washington Washington ash In ington ton ball clubs Dartmouth Yale harvard Tilden n Misses lIsses Wills and Collett and a a few tew dozen the more more largest larget collection that ever cheered the death of ot any sin sin-Ie le year I LOSING JO NO O TIME TJ Football doesn't lose any time getting under steam team tor for 1327 Ala Alabama Ala Arl- bama banut and Stanford will put on the biggest sporting party of oC the day Just as Alabama and Washington a year ear ago aeo opened the new calendar with one of ot the tho double starred double turns of ot the season eason Washington and Stanford are arnolg the extreme few for Cor whom 1926 had flowers in place of ot bricks brick Among other details It will be Interesting to see seo how Winslett and com corns conic out In their end pia play south nominated Winslett as asan asan asan an America ail and the far Car west lIest slipped the same mine sain nomination to through the tho illness of oC Holmes Alabama center and the lon long Involved for tor the southern louthern tem team th the odds should be slightly In Stan Stan- Stanford's Stanford's fords ford's favor tavor but hardly enough to take the game came out of ot the toss toss- toss up order NOT Or SPORE ALONE The The T he squawks and the charge professional sport and ama ama- I sport hardly belong belone belon against alone They might as us e lodged against every overy form of ot na nil life lICe There Ther happens to be a s good rood bl bi money around than the na ever knew sw before and this ex cx wealth while always alwa's holding pleasant Bido sido can also do more moru I its share of ot damage i iOne IOne One of ot the tho worlds world's oldest slogans s that the pore More one has the tho more wants and this works out for tor and I t ther her things as ns well Cell ell all as works out the way of ot sporting When hen Dempsey can haul down tor for the he sort of ot 30 SO minutes put in at Philadelphia the of ot foolish money scattered is 18 easy enough h to under under- BASEBALL SEB AND 1927 There is no to figure that 1 an episode which which took place In 1919 1 1 will hurt ba ball to any extent for forI I Nineteen hundred and nIneteen following l the war found baseball at t its worst It was the th yc eal p of oC othe I the tho world series scandal It was the year found Hal Chase witched twitched to the Giants Glints in spite o of Mathewson's testimony It was as the year yeI r that brought broucht Judge Judee Landis later to the guardianship of ot the Ule game Baseballs Baseball's record since that date has been on as high hith an aver aver- ago ajo o g-o as any other department of national life which doesn't mean that it has haa been perfect It will probably always alwa's have uLVe a certain amount of ot cheating but ItIs It ItIs itis Is at least something to know those In charge charce have no Intention of ot erinc cov-erinc coy cov cnn up UI any fresh scandal or pro pro pro pro- t anyone POINT WIER Dear ICar Sir The Th duly constituted c chairman of ot sour our board of ot strate strate- strategy gy PY and Information tor for 1927 1921 author author- authorizes izes the following statement The Th point after aCter touchdown must be k kept pt Collegiate football I Is not ostensibly n a a thing thine for tor victory for tor victory's sake but at the same time I 1 am m not unmindful that any con con- contest contest con contest test which observes a II score when played at all must hold a a decisIon logically as liS at I least ast something t more morn than a k mere re product by-product Per Per- Personally Personally Personally I 1 would w uld support collegIate football If it there t herc were no score kept at all but Binco we do keep a score why should we tolerate a II menacing Inroad that will directly result In moro tie tic games cames B D B D B Those Tho golfers goiters who expected to find 1326 1926 winding up with a much better scorIng average are ar now turning their dream toward 1927 1920 And a year from now they will be turning the th same fantastic dreams toward US Hope springs sprints tornal In the gOlfing breast but It ft Is al always al- al always ways as hurdling the present status returns In summing up p the returns for tor 1926 you can write this down down In any given Elven average cas case it could easily have havo been 30 iO per cent worse |