Show THE I Copyright 1925 1926 New YorK rk TrIbune ins Int In Tr Trademark sem i U. U U 3 I. I I Patent Office I By GRANTLAND RIOE RICE J j TIlE THE BALL DALL AND AVD TilE THE BATTING DATTING Anyone who cares enough about it to get a true mathematical line on ho tho modern modem batter and the modern sail ball in comparison with the hatter witter r and the boll ball might be beable beable beable able to work out a formula For example fifteen years ago ao f esaf af Frank Fr fc Baker led both leagues es in home runs with eleven en smashes that left the bounded territory of the play play- playing lag ing In field fideL This season Cason there will probably be behalf behalf behalf half a dozen batsmen who will get more than then twenty home runs the runs the list including Ruth Gehrig Williams Hornsby and Ind others There will be at least two who will tap out more than forty home runs Possibly more than fifty home runs ruru You may have heard their names Also Alro fifteen years ago the general batting average in major league cir cir- circles circles cir cir- cles cies was Today the average a has hIlS grown to something around A hitter was once a mark of distinction Now Nov it means little Once such pitchers as Johnson and held rival teams to 15 IS or 18 earned runs per game through the season Now 11 it- I. I takes a miracle pitcher to choke the earned run out- out outlay outlay lay ay under 3 The frenzied fanatic apparently likes Ikes the livelier ball bail as he is flock- flock In log ng to the parks In larger shoals than ever er in the winning towns t But the extra base records of 1927 and the extra base records of 1910 are aro built upon entirely different foundations NO PARTICULAR PJ SECRET Just what asks a bystander is the true secret of Bobby Jones Jones' suc sue success success cess eras at golf There is no particular secret ecret in sight Bobby Dobby Jones hap hap- happened happened to be born bom with the knack of greatness a and he happened e efine fv ceh aan to o give this knack k a chance h under a afine afine fine Instructor at an early age If Jones had not taken up golf un un- until until Until til he was 16 18 or 17 years old he would still have ha been a fine golfer but not what he Is ii I today It Ii was in the earlier stages stases of his career back bad in the true imitative age that he laid the foundations of a golf swing not only entirely correct e but almost entirely Intuitive e and sub gub- gub conscious By Dy the age aee of 13 or 14 U before most youths are arc getting start start- started started started ed he had a flawless swing working almost mechanically To this might be added on the mental side unusual ability at con con- concentration concentration and Imd unusual determine determine- determination tion He happened hl also to have hue the artistic soul He Re w was s never satisfied with mediocrity Even at the age of 14 a ft mashie shot that struck fifteen feet from Irons the pin called for Improvement The pin was wa-s the target he was shooting at and there could b be no resting place outside of the cup that he could look upon with any satisfaction THE MAIN INGREDIENTS These then might be listed as the main answers to Bobby Jones' Jones sue sue- sueI I cess S 1 A fine mechanical swing that at the age aie of fourteen had become grooved into fixed habit 2 Unusual determination 3 Unusual concentration on the main Job 4 Physical power In hands wrists and legs 5 The IM artistic side that was satis- satis fled lied with nothing short of perfection There are no particular secrets here expect possibly p the Ule possession of body rhythm and the ordination co-ordination of mind nerve and muscle that Isn't given ghen to all In a game where form varies as much as M It U does docs In golf goU his record of finishing either first or second In seven successive op open n championships against the best professionals and the tho best amateurs In the world may never be equaled again not again not at least le t until the generation that lives today has long turned Into dust It will be a a. long time before any such combination of natural skill a start at 7 years old a a. fine Instructor and the same mental attitude will fall to the lot of anyone else It often requires the combination of many lucky turns tunu to t produce an out out- outstanding outstanding outstanding standing master but above all else this genius must be born In him and that development is nearly always short of true greatness |