Show T i Copyright 1927 New York Tribune Inc Trademark Registered U. U S. S S I Patent Office Olce I IL L Grantland Gran Rice ce J THE WAR VAIt WA OF THE TIn BIG nG TOWNS New York and Chicago have put on more than one baseball war with a fringe of flame fame The big rivalry be became be- be became came caine worked up in the days dys of Chance and McGraw Miner Brown and Mat Mat- ty The Cubs had all al the better of that carnage Later Lter the Giants GIts took on the White Sox in the world series of 1917 and again Chicago had the winning mar mar- gin There seems seem to be quite quie a chance now that conditions will wl be slightly reversed wherein the Yankees face the Cubs for the first firt time The Yan Yan- Yankees Yankees Yankees kees have hae been safely in since May Mayor or June but there thee is still much scrim scrimmaging maging magIng left to the the N. N L. L L race Three or four clubs still have a chance but no one has a better chance than Joe McCarthys McCarthy's buoyant Cubs riding along with wih the pitching of Root Rot Carlson Blake and others Pittsburg the favorite fa did better with its ls cripples than it i did when the hospital list was disbanded Pittsburg still sti looks the stronger on copy paper but McCarthy has proved that ball bal games are won wen wenand and lost on the field feld not on copy pa pa- per A meeting between the Yankees and Cubs offense Cuba offense against defense would would defense would be b one of the tall peaks peal of world se series se- se series ries ties drama the most colorful of all the season post sea post on combats The rush of the Giants has been one of the tho late summer features Bet Bet- Better Better Bettee ter tee pitching plus the big punch hauled hawed the club back bad Into the race where its destiny will wi be decided through the eastern Invasion of the western wester clubs But there isn't any too WO much time t me left In which to wipe out early summer gap MIDDLE AT ll I AIDA The middle west vest once the strong strong- stronghold stronghold stronghold hold of golf gol hasn't hant sent a champion through since Evans Eans won von at the En En- Engineers Engineers' Engineers Engineers' Engineers Engineers' seven years cars ago Guilford Gulford of Boston Bost n won In 1921 Sweetser of New York in 1922 Mars- Mars Marston Marston Marston ton of Philadelphia in 1923 Jones of Atlanta in 1924 and 1925 and Von Elm of Los Angeles in 1926 Naturally the middle west will 11 use all aU al the powder it carries to break brcak breakthrough breakthrough through again but the odds are heavy No one has stepped forward to pick pickup pickup pIckup up where there here Evans and Gardner Garder left lef off of Evans Johnston Johnton Knepper Held and Manion Manlon are all good golfers golfers but but even een this array arry of talent is none too bril bell brilliant brillant lant when sent against Jones Von Elm Gunn Ouimet Guilford Stein Dolp MacKenzie Voight and Ind others NO EXPLAINING A number of puzzled non combat noncombatants ants wish to know the underlying causes cause for all this fervor over the Tunney Dempsey meeting m at Chicago Remembering Philadelphia one writes who can explain all al the new or excitement In that rather dull dul uninteresting con con- contest contest contest test where no knockdowns were re recorded re- re recorded recorded corded and no really damaging blows were struck Tunney won something like lie nine out of ten rounds without being crowded Dempsey is a year ear older than he was as then with wih no par par- particular particular reason for any better beter show show- ing Ten rounds make only a com com- comfortable warm warm-up up am not a championship distance and md yet the fight is out out- outdrawing outdrawing drawing anything yet et known on this continent Even those who have said openly that the Philadelphia meet meet- meeting meetIng meeting ing was not on the up and up are Just as anxious to take this one In Dempsey Is the best advertised fighter in history Tunney Isn't far behind Advertising still pays Then there Is the comeback Idea Ide still sUl being played ed to a finish with all al the differ differ- different different different ent and even opposite reasons ad ad- advanced advanced advanced for Dempsey's showing howIng at Phil Phil- Phi Phi- adelphia More than all al there Is the Big Party touch It I is like a convention Pary of Joy riders Banks are taking thou thou- thousands thousands thousands sands of tickets to entertain their cli cli- clients cl- cl clients and customers Yet even this doesn't quite explain the excitement where here as a a contest It is almost certain tain tam to be outclassed by eight or ten other competitions now on the calen cairn dar PICKING TICKING WINNERS Here are a 0 few puzzles and problems problems problems lems for forecasters and soothsayers to tackle from fron now on 1 Who I.-Who Who wins at 2 Who 2 Who wins win at Merion Merlon In the Da D- Davis Dis Da- Da is vis cup matches 3 3 Also 3 Also the polo contests cont at Mead Mead- Meadowbrook Med Med- 4 The 4 The tennis tens championship at For For- Forest Forest est eat Hills Hils 5 The 5 The Tunney-Dempsey Tunney scramble race 6 The 6 The National league pennant I Which is the toughest one to pick Probably the first where It Is 4 to 1 against any starter Up to 1926 the tennis championship was a private duel due between Tilden and Johnston Last fall fal it i was a private French en- en entertainment This time with wih Tilden Johnston Lecost Cochet and Boro- Boro Borotra Borotra Borotra tra it is about 3 to 1 against any starter where once it was even money Tilden and Johnston would reach the final final The U. U S. S walkover in the last polo test is now cut to a closer margin The American Big Four still sti has ha the edge edge but but it is no no longer a dominating dominating ing sided one-sided margin There Is I every element clement of the nip and tuck From Prom now on the spectator or the bystander will ill bump from one display to another another gol golf another golf tennis polo box box- boxing boxing ing and baseball where baseball where the picking is harder than it has been bern In many years The next six weeks will wl carry carr more action acton and a greater geater number numb r of head- head headliners headliners liners than any six weeks week yet record record- recorded ed Helen ed-Helen Helen Wills Wis Tilden Johnston Cachet Cochet Bobby Jones Von Elm Milburn Miburn Hitchcock Dempsey Tunney Ruth Gehrig Mile l e. e de la Ia la Chaume Glenna Glenn Collett Colett Armour and Hagen and Farrell Farell in n the P. P G. G A. A There seems to be no one missing from the big parade |