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Show .a WEE GEE SAYS J j The band Jaixed loud and lpLV merry, Jri-v Three times he Jatied hla bat c; 5?s around An1 tben got tlie raspberry The diplomats labor ! And fret like the deuo I To weld all the nations In some sort of truce I They try pacts and treaties. Agreements and such. But somehow or other Thev don't avail much. For the het contrived plan Of diplomats must Go to siiVTish when It's met By some land's distrust, j The hand of the statesman 1 May be full of guile. The douhl entendre May lurk In his smile. ! But the sportsman's greetink; I frank as can he t And the athlotes extend Real hands 'cross the sea. Or to turn from faltering rhymes to Illuminating proso, It Is to say that J our International sport contests are doing more than diplomacy to encourage encour-age good feeling between nations. in politics we are engaged In & lot of -anfl" feeling. inu group hates the I English because It may help the Irish Another group doesn't care for the i French, ajid a lot of folks have it In I for most everybody Vho lives tor die ' the ocean Rut Anglophobia and the other pho-' bias don'' worr- the cheerful athletes.1 I They engaK With men and women of: 1 rival nations without III feeling I Perhaps it Is because the American :-.thlete knows h has a real chance to win against foreigners a better 'chance than 1 American diplomacy has against the foreign brand. "I'enny rate, we see our sportsmen contending aerOM the sea with the best of (toon feeling, winning and losing without , discord. Bob Gardner loses a game hattle for the British golf championship and j wins a host of friends. ijur tennis s'ars even the balance hy wlnnlnp In Eondon. The real hands across the sea arc the mitts of the athletes. The next big international event is the track and field meet between teams representing ( 'xford and Princeton, which is to take place in England July S. A aijuad of IS Princeton athletes Is over there training. train-ing. Keene Pltzpa'rlck, the veteran Tiger eoAch. is In charge of the Yankee S'jtiad They are not the picked college col-lege stars of the nation, but they re good eno.igh to make a showing In any meet that might be arranged P la Interesting to note that one of the Princeton athletes Is Richard Fol-SOm Fol-SOm Cleveland, son of the formeri 1 irrnocratle president. The youth Is going to try to wrest honors from the! British, and the faet that his father gave the lion's tall a vigorous twist onre upon a time will not be held aKinst him on the athletic field. i S |