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Show I SPORT SHORTS ' Babe Ruth's refreshing. He doesn't make home runs but he strikes out. And that is almost as exciting. The Razzberry anvil chorus will no h sing "Casey at the Bat." Spring training doesn't mean anything. any-thing. The Reds came back in poor condition and the Giants came back in the pink. Ban Johnson and Col. Houston rode from New York to Philadelphia in a taxlcab. News Item. Mayor Hylan has been made honorary honor-ary member of the New York hrick-layers. hrick-layers. They ought to make Babe Ruth an honorary member of the hod carriers. car-riers. The superintendent of a western insane in-sane asylum says boxing cured a number num-ber of insane patients. "I read in the papers," says Patsy McSuggs. "That boxing's a cure for a man who is bugs. ' s'pose when a fellow goes off in his bean His brains get clogged up like a rusty machine; The wheels that are stationed just back of his ears. Need oil, or perhaps, they are stripped of their gears. When you wind up your watch and it will not tick, You shake it and tap it until it will . stick. But when on the floor in anger you dash The timepiece it starts with a zip and a dash. That's why a stiff punch on the nose or the chin Shakes up the old brain and makes thfc wheels spin. I remember my bout with Mickey Mc- Graw, When he gave me that awful poke on the jaw. Before that encounter, I had little sense, 1 No longer I'm foolhardy, silly or dense. I'm a lot wiser now than I used to be then For I know enough not to meet Mickey again. I'll say that, the old. cuckoo expert is right You gain lots of sense when you're licked in a fight." |