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Show j i ho roptball heio ?Bt upon j: The walnut tete-a-tete; 11c hart a macaroon or two I I pon a Sevres plate He i;eia teacup in one miu i And it was fine to r " Hlrn hold hla llitle finger out So verv properly. The orcheatr8 becan to piav A lively little tune. With funny little jhzzy Jump.-. Played by the hie bajsoor Thfi fullback put his cup as,.,. nd caught a co'ed's ere. TA he real she hustled to ht-r feet In manner rather sprj And jb he was about to place His arm about fci waist. The coach came hustling in the room And to the t-ouute haed Get out of here ht rudely cried. You great, big wooden-fore. Go to your room, it's 1 o'clock, I II dance this in your plare." The toolball player is like the boxer he mus-f haie his mind on the game. Studies must be connidered of course, but the fooiball athlete, take him bv and large, does not worry about hio class work. Some have been eliminated from the game by poor mark. but one rareh hears of a grid-Iron grid-Iron ifir becoming unnerved b wor Ir;. ing over his standing in classes. When a boier begins to think of the. vhtle lights and the luxuries that come with big purses he starts to hp The successful boxer roust ha c ienor.gn oi me uuuoot; u '"".' so that his mind is altogether on beat 1 ing; tho other fellow. So It is with football, more than anv other college game The grldiroo demands top condition and full dt tion. It uoes noi help a haltbacU U h. km agmes he can hear, above ihe shouts of the rooters and the signals of the! Quarterback, the sweot vocalization or his beloved. If be tries to pick out hit sweetheart's pennant from tbe sea pi flags In the stands, he Ik even worse) otf. Along this Hue Dean Flickingei. of Northwestern unnerBity, recent! asked the students to abandon therr icars and dances until after the foot-' ball season Tbe football men who are in train ,ng apd cannot dance. " he said, do nof like to see ihc'.r besr girls danctnc w ith other men i Fair enoug,L II is not hard Lo Imaging Imag-ing a jealous twinge affecting some j star's playing Fraternity aciiv itles and college par j ties are fine, but thev should not be! allowed to Interfere with football. i Football ha- considerable power as I an advertising medium A good team I helps a college recruit freshmen The champion now bides In urn I 'When he can fight once more 1 But Juat ih same he's boxing And he'a training a before t Hs loya with ham.l bAtten V And he doean t have to flgh The alapa Intended f.jr hia chin, ( They don't can y d namlte. I The critics are aaking what efft ihe bsblt of pulling pimehea will have I on Jack Dempsey'a copyrighted wal lop since ne Ueepa on ttalninc an . I boxing with no business in sight I Dempsey la training aa dillgenii' o-, day ay. be Wsia in those memorable tveeka befoi 9 he crow ned tht: Kansas giant. . , At his l.onc Island Lrainc ou&rtera. .lack Is doing road work anil evcrv , thing. He ducsn't take 'those long -O-niileJ jogs as. the old-timc:s used to do and; lose all his speed on the road. Demp- ! pey Is of the modern school Ills dls- j iapce la about m;ji?s. bui he does, i by dashes and walks His trainer applies the rubbing pro- i ceyx following fh read Jog After lunch Tiempsey motors over, into the big town where his bovlnsr ! quarteps are lo'cated at the Van Ivel-J ton Stadium, Flfty-Sev ehth ?t and Eighth Ave. Admirers by the score flock there j dally to chat with the champ and s-. 1 i htm don the pnds for a f-w rounds. I Jack is so goo.i-nntmed that he' , boxe with anv bodv- who comes along i and asks the honor. Many Stage fblkeH seek nptoiietj by getting in the rJng Iwlth him. The show consists of no real Truin-! ling fo;- Dempaey. He lets them httj him because lhe enjoy It and their j I taps carry no sting. He lets Big Bill Tate wallop him j to keep In condition for absorbing sips she But Jack never has a chanoei to let himself out. It's all pulling' punches with him The habit of restraining his wallops, njay not burl his hitting powers Again gu ii .i practice may. But what Is! ; he gcing to do0 If h, knocked over! his spriirins partner.' his work would' soon be confined to ngei shadow-boxing, shadow-boxing, Meanwh.lc. the Mine click licks on and. the greatest hitting champion i.in t gt any business And we wonder rf DemVsey has 1 passed the peak In his hitting powi i a and If he'll ever he quite the wame i sockei he was the time be put Toledo, cn the map and ruined Willard'sl The English Bible for the horse Has filk-d us all vkith keen re-, morse It ws tiiui Man o Warn proud name Can't be put In the book of fame. The little kink of controversy between be-tween EjhgllSh and American-bred librses rops up in the f-a.se of Man o' America's wonder hoSe. British authorities will not K've the sou of l'air Play a place in their oi-fielai oi-fielai turf registry because of the Lexington Lex-ington cross in his pedum c English ciltlcs onlv dream horses Worthy Of registry In their records thai show n clear title from the English to the American stud book. Spendthrift, ihe great grand sire of Man o' War, cannot be proved to I"-a I"-a thoroughbred owing to loss of pedigree pedi-gree records Early records of several famous families of American horses were not carefully compiled, and ueudemically It detracts from their standard Iroquois, a horse bred In America, won the British derby. But for all that. If America's wonder won-der horse vvere to be entered In h- KiiKlish derbies, most of the ra Ing and breeding enthusiasts of the U. S.l A would stiakd tbe Kalr Play coll to win the buttons. American-bred horses pave won p fair percentage of their races in the British derbies in the past thOrOUgh- bri d or not. And Man o' War. though barred from the "40Q family" of English horses bya slip In the records, Would be the next if given a chance, most everyone bciu-ves. Man o' War should worry: Hesj wop i place In American hlstorv ( That's "nuff. no |
