Show Copyright 1927 New York Vork Tribune Inc Trademark Registered U. U S. S Patent Office By Grantland Rice TO A BRACE DRACE OF OI SETTERS on your leashes close coupled together by the crowd croud you come shouldering through To carry our hearts with you straight to the heather And out to the crag eras tops that edge on the blue There sounds in the station a hill hUl torrent falling failing And birch stem s and bowlder arc are wet with Its spray Ben Lomond's awake end and ion lon calling The peaks are all purple from Orchy to Sprey Theres There's a hill hm track climb by tile the side of the keepers Before the first dewdrops have dried on the ling hing While out of the blackberries rles flutter lutter the And over the ridge go 0 the strong on the wing You'll sniff the clean wind as it crosses the corrie comic With scent of or the moor on the breath of It blown And you'll stand on the theline theline theline line of your quarry As still as the work of some sculptor in stone So waves wac the green flag and fare fare- farewell farewell farewell well to you setters What heart but must envy your path to the hills In gloom we return to our work- work workaday workaday workaday day a-day fetters Our drabs desks and our duty our ink and our quills But night shall bring dreams of your heads In the heather That surges and swings as you quarter it through Then a gunshot an echo a float float- floatIng Ing log brown feather And so shall we know that your dreams have ha come true W W. H II 0 O in Punch A FEW rEW TRAGEDIES One of the greatest tragedies in life comes to a football star who is hurt and out cf c It 11 before some big game The miser who has let lest his hI gold the strong man who has lost his health the workman who lost his Isis job have ha nothing on the tue foot foot- football football ball bal athlete who is Js sent to the hospital as his team goes to the field It may sound ridiculous but most things In life are arc ridiculous I know of one college star with a n broken bone in his neck who vho raved like a madman because they wouldn't let him play I know of at least half halt a dozen who have played all through hard games with broken bones refusing to tell their coaches It is 15 the spirit back of football that makes It the game that it is The cynical may offer ofer their hoarse guffaws but the same spirit would help the human race about per cent There is 13 more true sen service ice and self-sacrifice self in a football season than there is in any other four walks or canters can of ot existence The winning of a 0 game Rame isn't important but the spirit back of the play Is about as Important as an anything j thing we happen to have Including have including our for forone forone forone one prizefight NOT PERFECT Rut nut Football isn't a perfect game It has Its I weaknesses It has its I faults faul But there is practically no one or orno orno orno no thing in this spotty existence that thatIs Is third one-third perfect This includes our politics polities and our financial structure structure structure ture our art and our literature our what you will The importance of ot victory is over over- overplayed overplayed overplayed played and there is 13 an overemphasis upon plays and players pI Byers who may happen to lose games But most of the coaches are able and out for and most of the players are arc idealists in a world that runs to about one-half one of 1 per cent to idealism Men such as Tad Jones Alonzo AlonzoS S gg Fielding Yost Jess Jeas Hawley Bill Roper Doc Doe Spears Arnold Amold Dan Horween e G Jack k and Wilce fifty Bob o or r Z eighty fh others are not only capable coaches coach but something more They are arc not perfect pert t but life Is a matter of com com- comparative comparative averages not of ot perfection THREE ARE FAVORED Dear Sir Sir- While the Western con con- conference ference football warriors are preparing preparIng preparing ing for what will be the greatest season the big Ten ever has known Ohio Minnesota and Northwestern are aro conceded the best chance for the championship I Glenn Wisconsin coach believes that the Gophers will go through the season unbeaten Minnesota has hns the most powerful array of talent to fall to one eleven In many years and most of the players are Bre veterans The schedule also favors Minnesota for Michigan is the only formidable conference foe it will face tace and Wisconsin Iowa and Indiana should not even press the Gophers The fate of Northwestern and Ohio will be decided in its the second week of the season when the two meet In Columbus left Dick Hanley a veteran team at Northwest- Northwest Northwestern cm ern but the new Purple coach Is swinging his men over oyer to the Warner style of play and that takes some some- something thing thin from them However the back back- backfield backfIeld field of Lewis Levison Gustafson and Holmer will rank among the best in the country and may do surprising things under any system Ohio sends a veteran team into the battle Jack Wilce WHee has a great I collection of or backs and no team in the land can equal Kriss Grime Eby and md Kruskamp for sheer speed d. d I If can land a good center and one guard he will ride heavily ov over er all foes toes Michigan also aIso will be strong but Yost must replace Friedman and that thai is La no easy task The passing corn con combination of Friedman to was for two years yea the key to the Wolverines Wolverines' success will wll willbe be Just as strong this year r if Yost I sg finds 1 him l a a. partner on the throwing o end But it is doubtful of the Old Man can locate another Friedman F. F J. J P. P TO-DAY'S TO GOLF LESSON There are several sevel marvelous mar ways to slice a ball One Ole is Js to take the club head back on a line outside ou the ball and then cut across It Another Is to get hands and body body in ahead of the club head on the way through It is 13 hard to beat beal either of these slicing systems They are nearly perfect Hitting with the hands and body in place of the club Is almost an unbeatable slicing method It is Js hard h d to Im- Im |