Show THE SPORT LIGHT SPORT SPORT- LIGHT HT By RICE Copyright 1120 1920 New York Tribune Inc lac Trademark Registered U 53 S S Of or Office I lice fice ice CONCERNING COl A VISIT TO Dear Deor Mr Rice This story tory Is only two or OC three years year old so 10 lets let's get let It 0 cr er with It seems there was WIlS a ball bait player named Babe Ruth rUed and lie he h hiva waa W iva laid up In Ina ina Ina a room In St Han Hall St Vincents Vincent's hospital Everybody In town lown knew It and nd the hospital had bad to have hav police protection n to fight oft tho the young visitors Lots of them managed to sneak In how how- however however ever er and ona day Sister ClaudIa the captain of ot th the Hall observed sIx ala of ot th the most kids she II had ad ever seen g on a bench benchIn benchin benchIn In the tho main corridor What do you OU want want boys boya she he asked We Ye want to see ace tho the Babe Dabe rc- rc re replied plied ono one In la a rich Brooklyn brogue Well Weli she sho said Mr Irr Ruth wont won't want to see seo yoa you unless you are a little bit bil cleaner You Tou go goIn goIn COIn In that washroom and let Miss Mis Lechner scrub you oft off and then hell boll take tako you to Mr lr Ruth TIle Tho Else tl submitted without a whimper to the ho hardest scrubbIng of their lives and were escorted Into the th Presence Bubo Babe told them he was glad clad they had come that ho bo would soon soon be well and that he ha wished he had some somo base base- baseballs baseballs baseballs balls to for them In conclusion Good by boys bos Ill I'll see sea you ou again The boys boy with ex- ex excitement ex excitement left leCt him Halt half an hour later Sister SI ler Claudia again walked along the tho main cor cor- cor ant anci observed the th same me sIx kids on tho the same bench Why what's what the matter maller boys bos she h asked you you sea seo him Sure replied the tho spokesman but he said hed he'd see sec us agaIn MR Mn LARDNER MAXIMS lIL FROM TIlE THE FIELD Ability ty to take tak Is I 1 no DO asset to overplay From Front any game came you OU may play you get tet just about what you give civo One On of ot the th main arts orIs ort of ot self self- defense Is An n Instinctive ability to remove th the tha chin In bucking an In Inevitable the surest system Is a d detour tour The Th rest re t Is usually unimportant unimportant ant as long lont us ns you get by with It it Tho The difference between crook crook- crookedness crook edness and smartness ma Is usually located by the Ulc point The rho between a fIsh and a II sucker Is that once In a awhile awhile while tho fish gets ets oft off the hook book AFTER A GRAND SLAM SL The Tho French now have five young stars most of them backed up with all 11 the iho needed exper exper- experience experIence lence to hand handle handlo th the busiest cam plim cam cam- tennis ha ho has probably ever known It will be b extra bu busy because Tilden will nake inake hs stand at both Paris PuIs and Wimbledon before returning homo borne for th the tho Davis cup ond enS the tho national Yet with Borotra Cochet Landry and rance 1 Is I batter riDged rl out for TennIs Tennie materiel material than Ihan any nation nallon ever was waa Inc since Tilden Johnston John Richards and William were at their best The Tho French have tavo e a set ret theIr dream at cleaning UI up tho the menu meau from St Clou I and W Wimbledon to Germantown ant nd Forest hills HillsAnd And tho the lone Ion barrier In the th road is 13 n a a tall and angular veteran who still hopes hope for one bIg ble year ear before the tho Old Doc Doe chucks eucks In the la sponge Tennis now has more possibilities possibilities possibilities ties for drama than It baa haa ha known sInce and WildIng made their final Invasion about the time lime German guns rIppIng up tip th the turf tit Mons Mon THE lUE SLICE AND TIrE THE nOOK HOOK Some Somo brooding mom member bel of the flock wants want to know kno which Is harder to o a a slice file or a hook In the tho golf colt swing The Tho answer 1 ts-a ts Is a slice silco Where the average golfer Is concerned the tho slice Is harder to ta euro cure cancer or tin the sable sabi The star golfer goiter Is rarely bothered with witha a slice HIs HI chief trouble Is keep keep- keepIng lag Ing a hook book or ur pull under control About th the only golf colt shot shots Bobby Jones ever misses outside out of t foot 20 20 20 foot putla putt aro are hooked hook d efforts that once In a while get awa away The Tue a v rago golfers golfer's oters oter's chief fault or ono one on of ot them anyway Is I start start- startIng start lag Ing the tile body ahead of the tho th hands an ant l getting tao tho bo hands In before the club head arrive arrives There may maybo maybe maybe bo be a b better belter wry way to perfect a loop loop- loopIng loop lag Ing slice but buc no one has ha yet thought of ot th tha answer This helps to draw the tir club head across the ball and hav have hava It tt operating after aCler the Iho manner of ot a bushman bushman's boom boom erang Tb The slice has ha cu cause d ten duck fit IThe In this unIverse to one on for forthe forthe I the hook book Having du dug due back to 1917 1911 the next move will Iii probably be b to check up on the th of Pop Anson King Kins Kelly K lIy lly and Duck Buck EwinG Some Somo one on should stand up and sing tho the only war song sons that counts It I Isn't nt what you used to be Its be It what you sr are today JUdging from fron th the schedule mapped out for Cor leading gore gers Gene Geno Tunney Septem Septem- September bet ber will bo be b confronted with a battered hulk that may have havo to tobo tobe tobe bo be propped up to answer the opening gong eons no nn EASTERN DAILIES BOOST BASEBALL NEW YORK Jan By 16 It By The Associated Iresa Advertising of metropolitan dailies served an unu unusual ual role rol today S as athe the medium of ot an expression or of In baseball as a clean and I I splendid sport port and In Tris Tria Speaker I and T Ty Cobb as good tood men lio served It long End and well Referring to tho the two great out tl out out- outfielders fielders Id r who recently withdrew from Crom publisher th the game ram Paul Block pub pub- usher lisher of the th Newark Star Eagle of Newark N J expressed the th vIew In his advertisement that no men who have hav done dono don for baseball these m men n have havo done dono can ever In Injustice injustice justice bo be b driven from frum ruin the tho genie game I condemned and ruined for lor any careless JUdgment or thoughtless Indiscretion Nobody who ho knows them be- be believes behove be believes hove th they y are aro ar dishonest men or that they ever threw any ball games reads the tho advertisement I In referring to charges charees of ot Dutch Leonard that Cobb and Speaker conspired to slough Blough a I contest In laHl 1910 |