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Patent Office By GRANTLAND RICE RICE- MY CHOICE Ill I'll choose the life In the op op-n op n With its glorious terrible fight tight And the spell of ot the whispering I forest With its magic of shadow and light Give me the th joy jo ot or the mountain And the tho charm of the deepening glade And the warmth of the mellowing sunshine And tho th welcoming cool coot of the thes shade s ade Ill I'll choose the life te In the Ole open open With Its r treasure ure of health and ot cheer And the force of the bellowing tempest With Its hai harrowing rowing echo of ot fear Then for the calm of the evening And the peace of the rivers that flow Silent through slumbering mead mead- Whispering soft son as they go And the feel of the campfire glowing With tho the lure of Its mystery m depp deep And a a. friend to sit silently by me While I doze g Into n weary dog sleep t gs-t Give metho day of struggle c Up tho the long rocky trail to the end Then Rive give Ive me the rest In the twi twi- twilight light t O 0 lord Thou only can send I Smith A PAIR P. OF BOAT nOAT RACES nACES Two great crews from Yale and Washington rowed away with the main honors at New London and Poughkeepsie last June but con con- conditions conditions conditions have changed slightly since For the next two boat races In Insight insight insight sight Harvard lIar has moved up on even terms with Yale and the tho Navy NaY has supplanted Washington as the crew favored to win Harvard Hanard has followed In the tho wake of Yale along the water for five lve years now and with the best Crimson crew In nearly a a. a decade Harvard will row her ears off to win In this next meeting Yale will have to Improve over her past showing but there Is always alwa's Ed Leader to reckon with Harvard has a n. great chance to start a win win- winning winning ning streak of her own with a aj ayoung j young oung crew that has a lot of stuff A few days das later on Poughkeepsie sie ale will put on another star show where the main Idea will be to beat the Navy Nav since the Navy Y looks to have the best crew on the river Washington and California will make a fight for it and Co Co- Columbia's lumbia's sophomore outfit wont won't be far away Penn Syracuse and Cornell have all improved so there will be no runaway sprint such as Washington and the Navy Y put on last June OUTSIDE OF THE TIlE DOPE Id Just like to know two things writes Old Time Fan One Is how many home runs Sam Crawford and Frank Schulte would have hit with this modern mo ern ball The other Is what batting average Cobb would have had around 1911 with tho the 1927 s i 1111 HI ill they are ham ham- mering Crawford and Schulte both hit about two long flies files to deep right or right center every game with the old ball that would have cleared fences today with the modern make I believe either Crawford or Schulte would have been good for something between 55 and 65 home runs They could not hit quite as hard as Ruth but they didn't strike out as much and they nailed more drives In cleaner fashion As for Cobb I believe with I the new ball around lull 1111 he ha would nave batted over He reached IO as It was In many games they never ne would I have got got- gotten gotten gotten ten him out On the other side of the argument argUment argument ment no ono one has ever been as far tar ahead of his field year ater atter year Car as Ruth has been at the home run business Ruth undoubtedly would have hate been well weli ahead back in the earlier days of the less leu lively ball The whole answer is there has never been a ball player before who crowded quite as ns much power into In to a a. wallop If some of these collegians L. L J. J knew what the tho West WestPoint WestPoint WestPoint Point cadet had to to face In the way iway of work ork of every kind mental and physical thero there would be bo no fur tur- further further ther squawking about Army pros pros- I have ha been to college and andI I have been to West Vest Point and I happen to know work at the aver aver- average average age college or university is easy stuff compared to the West Point test teat No o man ever liked football enough to go through four years of We West t Point just to play football West Vest Point and Annapolis will dis dis- discourage discourage dis- dis discourage courage the tramp athlete quicker than any two places In the world Floter Sanfords Sanford's son was a pret pret- pretty pretty pretty ty good end at Pennsylvania but us s s a IL baseball pitcher he Is some some- something something something thing else again where pretty good doesn't cover enough ground by several acres Young Sanford Isn't far from being the star col- col legion of the year rear in a a. year where the colleges are replete with good pitchers y i. J every major league club needs about three thre more good pitchers there are more than a afew afew few ew yearning eyes ces turned toward various arious campuses where a a hop on the fast ast one ono has been one of the most successful of all the university university sity any courses One of the stars at Oakmont who vho was 2 under par at the time and up around the top had just missed a three-foot three putt as two ex CX excited cited spectators rushed up No Xo use fooling with those bums any longer one of ot them remarked as they dashed off to catch an an- another another other pair |