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S Patent Office By GRANTLAND RICE RICE- TO UKE LYN YH H DROWN BROWN 04 OJ Died April 1927 In 1903 he shut out Harvard Yale Princeton Ienn and against Columbia struck out 22 men Two decades decade and a half halt ago ago Why h It seems Be ms only yesterday That you jou were In your jour our rarest skill King of o the college baseball fray tray With stout heart and enduring arm You mowed opposing batters down And Princeton Harvard Penn and Yale Tale All looked alike to Lynch of at Brown It mattered not you hurled At home or In some somo foreign park The TIlt foemen never had When hen Brown Drown presented pres Lynch and Clarke Tom Barry Darry Pattee Belding Gray Stood back oJ of o you jou a solid wall But there was naught for tor them to todo todo todo do Since you jou ou let no one ono hit the the ball And now the final call has come The Tho League Eternal claims a astar astar astar star And you jou 1 0 who lo loved baseball so sowell sowell sowell wellMay well May lay plead Its It cause at heavens heaven's bar Now far tar above elms Beyond the tho peaks peak of o earthly earth taint fame In the calm twilight of oC tho the gods You lou rest rest rest-a a credit to the game John John II JI McClough LEADING RIVAL If H Babo Babe Ruth nuth Is to have llave any ay pressing rival this season in the thelong th thelong long distance art the answer may maybo maybe maybe be bo Columbia Lou Gehrig who has his already alrea thumped a a. number of or fairly new balls over o various arlous fences Gehrig who wont won't be 24 2 until June ran up sixteen home runs last season as a he turned in an average of Ruth scored runs leading the league Lague l but Geh Geh- Gehrig Gehrig rig rIb rIbas was as only four tour runs shy at He happens Jo Io be a young joung man to who baseball is about as much fun as he can find it It is his pro profession pr fe slon and recreation combine com And he can hit one as far as IlS you ou ha e to walk for any of the cigar cigar- ets eta Gehrig has a good chance to homo home runs this season and this is enough to make mako cn even the Babe step along TILL HIE NEW XE SPEED KING hING Amos Rusle and one or two others oth oth- others others ers had about as much smoke as ns a burning oil well ell but Rube Rubo Wad Wad- Waddell Waddell dell deli was tho the speed king among pitchers until Walter Johnson came along to lead him by an ounce or two of oC lightning Yet It is something omet of oC a guess as to whether even evon Johnson had hall any more speed than Grove Groc of or the Athletics carried for tor a few innings at a clip Grovo Grove has been burn- burn burnIng burnIng burning Ing himself out before tho the seventh or eighth but ho he will soon learn to adjust hit his rapid tire salvos for tor certain moments Johnson could continue breezing them through faster taster and longer than any other pitcher Tho The answer Is that h hhas he has moro more outs strike and more shut outs than any an ono else But when Grove Grovo decides decidE's to turn on the tho Juice he has as much speed as any anyone anyone anyone one that ever cut a a. corner cor er Grove last season struck out about 40 more than Uhle in second place But attempting to crowd your our entire repertoire Into every pitch is more moro than any sin sin- single single gle glo system can stand Johnson could stand It because he has the easiest and smoothing pitching mo mo- motion motion motion tion in the game Grovo o hasn't that motion Ho lie won thirteen games last season season and lost thir thir- thirteen thirteen teen but he has the stuff to lift un this mark marl a a. number of ot notches TILDEN IN IX TRANCE Whatever happens to Bill Tilden in his French invasion no one can accuse him hint oC of sidestepping the county seat scat of trouble After dropping his title last fall fal hs he h might have decided decide 1 to concen concen- concentrate concentrate tate everything thing on a Forest Hills Ellis counter charge at home but In place of oC that he left for tor the camp camp- camping camping ing ground of Lacoste Borotra and antI Cochet He will have havo a n. whack at them around Paris and later he ho will have another whack at Wimbledon He may be whacked out by any of ot th th- three but It will be one ono of the interesting moments of the new now season when he begins mixing 1 It with ono one of oC the three leading who have havo youth skin skill experience and home grounds to work with And falls there is always another ready to fill tin the gap GENE TUNNEY'S lIx L RETURN From September 1926 through September 1927 Gene Tunney's total receipts will be bo just about a a. nillion He lIe was paid for forthe to forthe the Dempsey match Ills His stage earnings have e been around aroun 1 OCO oeo more The Tunney fountain pen has been rood good 1 for tor another 25 2 And he will rake rale in close to for tor his next fight He He- has Ilas had to split this many man ways for tor It ft wasn't all velvet elvet by byman many man a n shining doubloon But Lut he should have ha about left for the years ears work by hy bytho bythe the tho end of September win or lose And An 1 that will do vcr very nicely when compared om pared to the tho wage he drew In ht ranee Frane I If Ie Tunney wins his next fight he will mo move Into the millionaire class cla s without any question quest for tor there will willbo bu bo more to collect from the stage the motion pictures and from lit literature lIt lIt- And there will be another up pick-up for tor still another fight There will be no long Tunney de delays de- de delas dela's delays lays las such as Dempsey practices practiced The present champion can bo be I counted on to make male at least one one appearance each year That Is h about all the ballyhooing a cham chain champion pion can stand But whatever hap hap- happens happens pens pc-ns to him now there will be enough in the till to meet all the tho rainy ramy days dars an average a lifetime can know PITTSBURG'S CHANCE A year or so ego o Pittsburg with witha a jo yo o a r hitting hard hustling ball cl ch b. b h looked 1 to be on her way to about three pennants Accidents Acel illness and an Internal explosion checked the club last year ear But Pittsburg seems to have havea a It better club than she had two years ears ago and with all her hold hold- holdings holdIngs holdings ings in the way of youth speed and ability It will take lake a pitching pitch In collapse to break down clown her march Nc other club in either cither league has hIlS anything like as many good fast fasl young ball players between 23 and 28 If It you jou ou dont don't think so so match another set of oC youngsters against Cuyler Wright ht Traynor the two and one or two more |