| Show THE SPORT SPORT- SPORT LIGHT LIGHT HT By nT STr SD RICE men Copyright 1026 New ew york tribune Inc Registered U V S S Patent Of- Of Of Office fice Ie Ice I FOOTBALL LL RANKINGS R 0 or Of all tho the competitions football rankings and rew rewards are aro ar worked along tho the most uneven and the tho most unfair lines line Tho The basis ot of any race Is li that all start from scratch cratch with an an- an an equal opportunity to tin finish ish first Yet let If Ifa ifa Ifa a yard dash was run oft off as asa asa II a football campaign Is run there thero be handicaps 9 ot or five tl ten and even twenty yards ards allotted certain entries In the th first t place the entrance e requirements are different In certain universities I know ot of at least two stars alaiS turned down b by two colleges who hio went to another got t-ot In easily and th than n prominent factors In beating the first two The They failed to tocoma come even cven close to pa passing pas ex ex needed for lor the tho first two but were re admitted promptly I b by the third And these were wore only scattered examples ot or many such Incidents that th t take tako place Colleges and unIversities with light entrance requirements hav have havia havea a heavy advantage over those with much higher hither requirements They get a flock ot of football players the tho others are denied OTHER OIlIER INSTANCES Then there Is ts tho ho matter ot of training dates Many universities have not been allowed to start until tho the middle ot of September Others start late In August Others around the tho first ot of o September ThIs extra etra time means snore more than a n trifle In seasoning candi candi- candidates dates and In perfecting funda funda- fundamentals fundamentals fundamentals and team play Yet when these universities meet the early starters and the late lae starters they are rated upon even which terms which they arc are not Few take these the handicaps Into account Only the tho final result counts Anything else elso Is written In tho the sand at the tho edge edro ot of the surf urt BASEBALL AND AND 1027 Baseball has been upon as high a plane ot of o honesty as liS any other professional sport since 1920 1320 It has been upon a II higher hither plane than For one reason It has been closely watched followIng the episodes from 1917 HIT to 1821 1920 And there Is no reason why It shouldn't bo be on its lis best brat behavior In 1927 1 27 the tho campaign ahead where It will take tak an ly careless thinker to start any line juggling While the player has lIas been blamed for most of the trouble In past years year there Is Js no Question but that many magnates have ha been equally Quail guilty not in th throw row Log games but In other acts that were almost as bad Thos These Theae also should have hae seen something ot of the tho light The Tho big bir difference Is that base base- baseball baseball ball bail has run Into a flare Claro of ex- ex exposing ex posing while whilo some ionic of ot the othet pro sports have kept the cover coer on If Ir this cover was lifted as asfar asfar afar far back as a 1919 1910 there thero would he considerable nose noso holding as a the populace r b by r GI IX IN EI ELIMINATIONS X No one has suggested yet et just how Tex Rickard hopes to get all survivor hor his candidates save sae one eliminated by Jun June 15 when he must name Tunney's opponent Or Orby Orby by Jul July 1 It if Delaney and Demp Demp- Dempsey sey ey are to be considered It Is hardly probable that Do- Do Delancy Dolaney Delaney laney lancy and Dempsey will take part partin parlIn in more mor than one eliminating Joust here does docs this leave Sharkey and Maloney Some one ono from this must whip at least challengers and that wont won't leave leae any extra steam for a champion champion- ch championship championship ship fight All ot of which Is something for and his Ills expansive stable to figure out There Is no op else c who needs to tale take alto over oer the worry MACK MACIC I K AND COLLINS The reunion ot of o Eddie Iddle Collins and Connie Mack MacIc after a II 13 yea separation may be the vital Ital spa spark par ri which the Athletics Athletic have needed They have hav needed something ani It might ns as a well be called th the vital spark as a anything else el e The Athletics have havo managed to fade taIo just at the big bir bl moment t of the race and with Collins Colllns around and the tho Improved ed pitching Mak will have the Hie th long and lanky ono onoma onamay ma may entertain another world seris Jarly party for the first time since 1911 1311 Collins Colllns In Philadelphia was wai th the star member of oC one of ot the great great- greatest great great-ett est eat bull ball clubs club that ever broke up III upa upa n a pennant race by August Tie lIe is I stil ill a Rood good second baseman an ani 1 ho can hit And he Is still one ot of the t members ot of o hi his tribe NEXT UPHEAVAL AL It Is better than a 7 to 1 bet that the next set of or charges charge pro pro- pre preferred erred by some ball bali player will wll have to be presented In person with full proof There will bo be nomore no nomore nomore more long lone distance an assaults and the tho proof offered will have hav to be definite Scandal without proof docs most al-most most as much damages damace as scandal proved The Tho toe fog still till remaIns remain In Inthe Inthe the tho air for some Bome time thereafter MAXIMS I OF 01 I A ball player with hi his head bead down and n a a duffer with his heed hend up are two of ot the th mel melancholy sights Bights leht ot of life lite Many a topped drive jumps the bunker just ju t the tho same fame The Tho heel print was wa devised to find out whether a mans mana man souva soul 1 was Inada mad of putty or ONLY pit HEAVYWEIGHTS 1 Judging from the tho spring and an summer ummer program ram ahead any box box- boxer boxer er Cr who weighs less leu than pounds might as well ell hang hane up the leather itha This Is the year set Bet aside a r t-e t the return of or the mastodons N Xo No others other need apply it if lookIng they are ar look look- tag Ing for much cas cash |
