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Show WEE GEE SAYS t SOvJ-( Just a very little while. h For the home team began winning I r r1 j And, Oh Boy! how he did smile. I U Ik Let's havo a sigh of deep relief. And silently give ent I To Joy because we're going to Tiave A checker tournament At Cedar Point In August all The checker stars will meet, A sport eeni where brains will clash, And brawn will not compete And while we're on the subject we Might Just as well set down The fact that one. Doc Iasker, has Just given up his crown. He said to Capablanc.i Who had challenged him to plaj "You're welcome to my title," an. Bo Cap Is champ today Tls funny, with a stunt like that, How people paAs It bl It's really quite unusual, but The world don't bat an eye. Now folks, can you Imagine how Tho world would fume and fuss If Dcmpsoy to Carpenteay Gave up his title thus? Dispatches from London say thatl Dr Lmanuel Iasker has decided to! yield his title of champion chess Player Play-er of the world to Jose R. Capablanca-Therefore Capablanca-Therefore It will not be necessary to j hold tho tournament between the two, wizards, which was to have been held. In Holland. This announcement was published In American newspapers In a couple of paragraphs graced with a snappy one-line head set in eight point black face lower ease, If you know what that means. A few papers went so far as to put a regular split line heading on ihe announcement, thus giving Is regular regu-lar standing as a news Item. Others did not print the story at all- 4 Imiclne the lnvo been hail the announcement dealt BsC with the oedln- of the heavyweight V boxing title by Jack Lompscy to B ' 'Jeorges Carpentier K Brains may win the game but brawn Wd'-frets Wd'-frets the publicity. Chess requires a peculiar and excep- tlonal brain, the highest type of a Vh certain kind of intelligence. It re- ft' i quires long practice, devotion and pa- R Hence which makes athletics look liko E child's play In comparison. Hut chess C Is a brain contest and can never com- K pete for favor with boxing, baseball ft tennis, and all the othor contests which enlist brains plus brawn WlA In fact, it sometimes seems as fBk though popular Interest in a sport in- . creased in proportion as bruto strength W JL predominated 'Keen wits and craft ' A are interesting but tho thrill comes IfJ with the display of muscles, it requires ' tee no muscle to win a chess came Brain Br may not figure in kno.-kout In th squared circle. But one needn t waste Bi time wondering which would arouse fl the most enthusiasm. Bi The highbrow may call this conill- SsV Hon a sad state of affairs, but noth;,,- Rl, Is going to chango it. as far sa wi wB can se BID VitR OLYMPICS " LOS ANGELKS Los Angeles is I ( making a bid for the Olympic nini of 1924. The c.tv ig btnldtng a'hfm! I moth arena nt ExposHhm park 1- Hj Uttes are limitless. |