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Show This quiet game which Mister Ray Plays o'er the pasture links. Doesn't get as far as first With shouting baseball ginks. hen Ray is putting fcr a hole, Breathless awaits the crowd Just fancy Babe. Ruth at the plate With shouting not allowed Baseball depends on yelping packs, m Jeers, and Jingling Joys, But golf, it Is so different This game for quiet boys Whm Te,i R.i y made his sensational finish at the 72nd hole In the National '"'pen the 7000 people in the galler' were so quiet you could have heard a pin utop. The golfer says his game depends upon thinking golf and golf only. What do vou reckon Babe Ruth la thinking about when he is sending the ball over the barriers and far away I Temperament as seen on the links Is a different sort than that shown in the ball parks. Yes rather. The reason a golfer likes his quiet! la because he has learned his gaim j while chasing over lonely meadows hour after hour alone and anon. The baseball star has wised up to j his game amid a raving howling, yip-, ping mass Ho thinks just as much' about his game as the golfer, but nolso is as neecssury a background to him as foliage to a landscape. How often have you heard Bam-j blno sav. "Yeah. I like to hear fans; roar." Babe Ruth plays golf He gets a lot of enjoyment out of It, he says. But he's still 'he home-run hitter on the links. He pays more attention to slamming the gutta percha over fho hill than be does to easing It up to the green. Roger Peckinpaugh of the Yankees Is said to play a nice ghme with a set of golf sticks. Many other big leaguers chase a ball around the greens during, the off season, but they aren't thinking think-ing golf, ten chances to one Say what you win about the tre-l mendous crowds that attend ball game, but at the National pen In Toledo there was standing room only. That's the only way you can see the darn game, ny standing round. SOFTER TENNIS. Sports are like our politics. Th fashions and the moon ' The styles go round in cycle. Set to a different tune. The new stars who are shining And copplnp modern fame, Hard cut the flashing tenn To play a softer game. The newest style of tennis, as demonstrated dem-onstrated by Peck Griffin in rccen eastern tournaments, would indicate that tho softer strokes are more effective effec-tive than the plashing drives. While Griffin is a Californian. where the slam-bang tennla originated, he is an example of a veteran who depends de-pends upon the well rounded game to win instead of the sensational shots Back In 1902 and 1903 the celebrated Doherty brothers ruled with jhei'-style jhei'-style of careful strategy and the soft ctroking of the ball The Doherty brothers were content to let ihelr opponents take all the haz nrds in attempting ac1 shots. The percentages favored the Dohertys. Maurice E McLoughlin of California, followed the Dohertys. ne Introduced the amazing slashing stvlcs of tennis McLoughlin was a sensational player. His methods were In vogue for a time Both William T. Tilden. 2nd., and William M Johnston resort to the Pacific Pa-cific coast style at times, but they hav.-greatly hav.-greatly modified it They have soft ened the game as has Griffin. Griffin's recent triumph over John: ston, the national champion, came as a surprise He Is playing the best tennis ten-nis of his life and is succeeding with the softer style of stroking the ball The Japanese stars. Zenso Shimldzu and Ichiya Kumagae, are showing a peculiar "hook drive" In tennis now They say tho ball used in Japan is softer than the pellet used in Anicr Ion and England and requires more power to drive if. The Japanese tennis ball Is flatten ed momentarily when hit. which makes it take a peculalr hook or eharp bend. With the Davis cup team home from Europe, interest in tennis is reaching a high' pitch. 9 |