Show I THE TIlE SPORT SPORT- LIGHT PORT LIGHT HT Rj 5 I GRANTLAND RICE t 1920 96 New C 9 or York 1 I Inc no d V U S Of- Of U l ee THE JlE RETORT RY GI In In Any Golf Club Sir tor for the information youve you've impal ted The prompt outspokenness of your OUI reply Ranging irom that fine tine drive e with which you ou started To the long putt by which you ou won the bye With details detail of ot the bunkers sand and banks blinks surmounted ac- ac accept accept ac accept Which you OU pray my thanks Ive I've no excuse now with the fads facts before me For Ignorance no reasonable ground For doubt as to the tho hole that saw dorm Or heru your victim finally was downed kind confidence to give a so free freeTo ro fo a mere mero casual liste listener er like me inC m Youve You've told me of the pair In front that beckoned For you to pass then found the ball bali and played At the fourth hole which made you ou ml miss your our second Youve You've told inc 1110 of ot tho st yells you yell youw oJ ll w s ri li laid And nd Indicated just exactly where You lifted lilted from the tho ground under repair That chip that got got a n bad kick at atthe atthe atthe the seventh The ninth the tho short hole where when you ou hit tho the pin That up run-up shot that you ou you ou I the eleventh The Tho thirteenth where the ball just trickled In- In In Youve You've mad made it all quite clear and It was vaa nice niceTo To io know lenow youve you've cured that tendency cy to slice I Im I'm quite convinced youve you've ou e done the best you can sir Ungrudgingly youve you've given me Ikno I kno know A comp comprehensive o answer Io 10 my brief question of an hour ago go But Dut It Its ws s mere politeness all the same flame That made me say Well Jones how goes the game Iame THINGS SOMETIMES so CHANGE GC Jim Corbett wade made the remark hOl alter arter the tho ho Firpo affair that thal In Iii his hl opinion Jack Dempsey haJ ha the greatest ring spirit be ho had ever seen That remark was in good order at the time lime A A few tew days ago ore one of tho best known sporting author author- authorIties authorities authorities the ten leaders In sport along the lines of competitive competitive tive spirit Dempsey was not Je- Je Included Jn In the list And there was wasA wasa wasa A very cry good reason on the same be- be beIng being be being ing Dempsey's ten rounds against Gene Tunney with his title in the balance In that tight fight along the lines of competitive spirit no one could have e rated Dempsey knee high to tou toa u a beetle It takes no competitive no will to win to hang round and get punched for ten rounds without making malting any con con- continued con continued effort toward retaliation On the basis of his showing In his last championship he could not b be berated rated with the first 50 or the I first In the tho matter of ot com coin com spirit Din ERENT FORMS lS I There Thero are of ot course dIfferent tn's of great competitive spirit ry ly Cobb ind McGraw belong com corn completely In the tho aggressive zone Walter Valter Hagen Is just about as determined but lt he Is along alone moro more an and l carefree lines lie can laugh In the thick of rough going where the other two an ar scowling Hagen never gets keyed up to anything the pitch or tension Cobb and McGraw have e known That type of ot tens tens- tension tension ion would bring on a general wreck In golf golt My lily entry along the line linc of o com corn competitive spirit In tennis would lie hc l c Bill Johnston Johnton He lIe weighed only pounds but for six years ru I n was the only man the world who could beat him by a II hal lial eyelash Tilden TUllen a great tennis player and anda a great grat competitor with a killing advantage antage In speed reach stam slam stamIna stamina ina ma and power yet needed every ounce of everything ho lao had to keep kep the little Californian from from through MCLoughlin was another and dont don't overlook Mrs Molly lolly Mallory No two tool football ball players ever had greater com competitive spirit than Frank linkey 1 and Tom Toni She and still pother another was George Prann pann o of Cornell made every remarked one coach as If each pia play was to be his finaL smash lIe He was on tire fire all the time There Is all the tIme competitive spirit you want In a golf goH match I Ian an any lime timo Hagen and meet Delaney and Maloney will have ha nothing on this pair pall that Is visible to the unassisted orb SlUE On-SlUE MAXIMS Refusing to lo quit Is I at times limes more morea a matter of ot dumbness than cour- cour cour courage I IThe age ago The square shooter gets no kick out of at beating the G rules The Thc only good reason for ap an cx- cx cx-cuso cx cuso has lies never yet et been located Football writes Student Is only overemphasized by the news news- newspapers newspapers papers It Isn't overemphasized by coaches or students in lu any way ay It Is only overemphasized In a mild way by the average alumnus hen hen the newspapers come COniC back to lo normality in their treatment thero will be no other trouble trouble- Yet judging from tram most of the let let- letters letters let letters received we were ero under the tho Impression that no football team In the tho country had received Its it Just share sharo of publicity They were all being blanketed by the tho press preES nn |