Show I ITHE I THE S i SPORT SPORT- i iI I LIGHT I By Bl D RICE I Copl 1925 1825 New York I Tribune Inc Trademark Rt J l U S Patent Of Ot Of- Of Office I lice flee l r AM t SON ON o IN Ji SPORT The Tho connecting link lIuk between father and son eon In sport aport has h been much closer drawn of ot lat late o than It used to be In the old days the old man played what game ho lIe had left len It If any aid the kid played all he could crowd In heI I Now things are more specialized Numerous umero fathers fathera are seeing to It that young sons eons arc are getting good ItI I football education even at the ages of ten and twelve I And fathers are ara doing all they I can to get young oung sons nud young daughters well started t it either golf golt or tennis I Numerous fathers now are arc look look- lookIng looking looking ing after the tho tennis or golf edu- edu education education edu education cation bf 6 t their sons eons just as the brought up young Wil Wil- William William liam to meet all corners or nt at least n nearly all nil r I PATERNAL L COMPLICATION TIO We Ve know of ot more than one I father who certainly has done his hisson's hisson's hisson's sons son's golf game or mils nl sons son's tennis t game no vast ut amount o good Bernard Dernard Darwin In The rho Lon Lou London Loudon London I don Times expresses the situa- situa situation lion tion quite ably In these ensuing lines u I The average English boy boys on the other hand may po vou sibly have o very poor models and ond moat fatal ot of all may be bo reduced t to imitating I his own lathe lather r There once was wasa wasa wasa a very Cry small boy 1 vh who heon on seem g his hla parent defeated In the he final of ofa ofa ota a a handicap tournament by a harm harm- harmless harmless harmless I less Is and virtuous clergyman scowled furiously at nt the victim and exclaimed I will pra pray for tor his On That remark ren shows a a proper spirit toward fathers It a most Improper ono one toward the clergy but so pious n a I child Is I only too likely to think that his father tather has a It perfect swing The Tho rather father himself may be bo the most modest of o men and tree free from any an such much delusion but either cither ho he has never thought about his swing awing at atall atall ill all or he has studied It only In Inthe Inthe n nhe the he looking glass It t looks what It does doesn oh ih so different from In n real life Consequently he may maysee maylee maysee see lee his eon son going down the road to o golfing and be bo quite unaware ot of f the tho reason wh why It If lIe to only knew he might kill two birds with ono one stone at once checkIng hecking the tho tons eons vices vicea cell and en endeavoring to reform his own whIch he lie has hu thus seen see portrayed him In all their hIdeous hideousness teas ness But of ot all the people In the world he Is the one p person least to and his frIends may well feel some toma In telling him There Thero are some sons sona whose hose ed- ed education ed education would b b m much ch safer eater if IC ift It t were In female hAnds hAn s as was that hat of the Immortal Little Tom element Clement at 1 Tom bowls boIs and oats bats his grandmother tic his great great grandmother grandmother watches I out ut But Dut to Imitate a mothers mother's well swing well hang It all A AND D YET YET- YETAs YETAs YET As true as this Is is s more than one crafty male has haa made mado a a close studY of ot the tho mode and method employed by a Glenna Collett a Joce Wethered a a Helen Wilts Wills a aMary Mary I K Browne a a Cecil L Leitch or DC a Suzanne Lenglen There are few tew men who have havea II a style tyle to match an any of this con con- contingent contingent con contingent There are te few men at either tennis or golt golf whoso whose swings are as well worth I watching The advance women have ave made In sport In the last few tew year years baa haa been one of the most mOlt astonishing of all the developments THE OpE OPEN ARGUMENT The next American l league ague race face should be the most moat open struggle ot of the last few years yean Washington will be a a factor and even may win again But Walter alter Johnson and other veterans may not be quite as spry as they were during a season where John John eon son Eon and traveled like lUcaa a prairie tire fire Ire Washington Detroit and Phila Philadelphia delphia are well matched New NewYork's NewYork's Yorks Yorke Yankees will ba bot fOore nore dangerous dan dan- dan erous and so 80 will I St lit Louis There Thore Is la no wide ide gap anywhere along the American league line Une The main maln trouble In tn the Nation at al league will w be keeping Pittsburg In sight l Only a pitching collapse can bring that club to the pack A pItching collapse le or going easy easy overconfidence o I I tarry rry Greb Grab expects expect to finish hIs hie career with over boo 60 tIght fights Five ve hundred We thought be had that many last year er CH UIO S A AND D CHANCES No o b 6 6 y Walker What t between boxing I commis stone sore loro toes getting In bad etc Mickey lIckey Walkers Walker's Walker outlook 1 II too shrouded Il In hasam haz hu m fog fol and doubt to be subjected to any ver- ver verdict ver verdict dict or autopsy at t thin early euly date data Mickey I Is la a a good Welt but not the greatest that ever er lived ed by thoms t He Ue still till Is II the but best welterweight It if Dave Shade moves n into a a higher Glace caes But he be wasn't any better than Dave Shade when l they fought |