Show THE I SPORT a LIGHT By J On ND niCIE Copyright ills ills- l New Tribune Tort York York- Tribune Inc loc Trademark ne U tJ S S f la tto t ai 0 Of f rIce fLee SPORT AND ANU it true Irue pens I H ii that the value or use ot o brains in sport sport- Inc InS Ing success Is 1 pretty prelly tech well oval ovel- played Isn't It true Irue that moat mo t ot Of othe the champions ia la sport lind Und little littlen need ed for any great brain power powel if they to tu have th the knack lit or tho the physical ability The place that brains brals may hold holdIn holdIn In sport Is la of ot course overplayed as most other things thines are ar in this I overplaying o age ase ot of prolonged cheering Ability In sport on the th mental side 1 Is a 0 matter mailer o ot of the knack ot of concentration or the knack of the quick reaction A smart ball player may be somewhat dumb In other oilier lines or like Ty ry Cobb and Eddio Collins Colllns lie he may bo be smart in other lines There arc are several Intellectual pygmies who are Bre smart enough when they walk on the field I TilE MENTAL J SIDE A smart mal man may have slow mental reactions and he may lack physical and mental menIal co ordination And a nearly dumb-bell dumb may have almost the reactions of oC a 0 leo leo- leopard leo leopard pard Quickness ot of o thought In action doesn't indicate any ally great creat brain brainpower brainpower brainpower power It is usually u II natural quality which is even more pro pro- pronounced flounced in untamed animal lire I One of or the greatest ball b ll players In the game came once admitted that he hOver nl thought about a 11 play I lay In his life With him it 11 was w s Instinct It IL Isn't so 50 much a matter of oC brain capacity as It 11 Is of ot brain con con- control control control The competitor who can con con- concentrate con concentrate all the way through his job has a big bie advantage Ho lie may have ha a simple mind and yet be beable beable beable able to think through the main thing he has lias to do without becom- becom becoming Inc In ing enmeshed in any cluttering do- do delaUs de details tails laUs Concentration and determination are I two wo of tIme the th great creat foundations to for competitive success A smart fighter or a 0 smart ball baIl ballplayer player may be tar far from smart at anything else A smart quarterback may have havethe havethe the toughest sort ot of o plugging to 1 piles pats his classroom work with any success And a dumb entry at the same job might be a brilliant stu student tu stu- student dent THE ALUE OF OP KNACK There comes to mind a 0 certain young oung athlete who kas as a star foot foot- football toot ball ball bali player a star baseball player and I a u first class tracK man He used his head well at all three sports But Dut he had a rough time making a living llvine later on for tor or his general intelligence was none too pronounced He lie had the athletic knack and knack this Is i a II mighty factor in athletic success It was WILS the one ono thing he le cared about and amid most ot of it was a matter of ot Instinct SMART S CHAMPIONS There have been some smart ring champions and probably the smartest of the lot in and out ot of the ring was Jim Corbett Cor Cor- Cor Corbett belt bett had athletic brains and theother the theother other brand as well weli But the majority tide ere never In Intellectual Iii In- I slants giants In or out of the ring rine They had good ordination co-ordination good team tem play between mind and muscle and above all they could coult absorb more than their share sharo or of punishment Its It's a great help to have hav a abrain abrain abrain brain that Isn't too easily jarred y by a punch on the chin A game rame i J in an might be ibe knocked unconscious where a dull one would hardly feel There is the case of ot on ona fighter who fought all the th way through to toa toa toa a knockout with a knuckle on his right hand swollen to the tho size of on an n apple It II had turned purple How did you ever hit with that hand some one asked Why not he said It didn't hurt Cobb Mathewson Collins Colllns and others would have been successes at something else Their Th lr brain brainpower brainpower brainpower power was a great help at base base- baseball baseball baseball ball But Dut Rube nube e was s hard to hit as and In the lie box he lie Ina made few mistakes Sev- Sev Several Sev Several eral of oC o the smartest ball players off of the th field were never classed with the quick natural thinkers on the field They were not mentally o adjusted l to Instant and correct thought under fire tire They lacked this Instinctive adjunct The of oC brains at large may be overplayed In sport but butth the tho value o of oC athletic brains stIll tUI remains On the tho mental side it Isa Is Isa isa a combination of concentration conc mental poise and andI Quick reactions All these factorS I may not come omo under the trie head h ad of brains but they at least nr are sep separated from the physical sid sIde |