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Show Jw3 ST Once there was a pugilist -55S? who took an awful licking. jr--- Bat -when tho other pug got tired frPj Tho first pug knocked him kicking. Onco there was a pugilist Who took an awful licking. But when the other pug got tired The first pug knocked him kicking. It's art that keeps such masters As Britton still at the top Ao only means more 'cleverness He beats all the rival crop. The years roll off his shoulders And though titles are passed around, Jack aits square on tho regal throne His master has not been found. Confidence Is the thing that kcops any champion ln tho lead. Go down the line., They aro all the same. To be good you have to know that-you really are. No press agent can put you there. Gold will tell., 1 The secret of Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Willie Hoppc, Walter Hagen, Jack Dempsey, all of them are the same. A slump don't ruin a real champion. He ha3 the atuff ln him to overcome it and get back to his old stride. Cobb knows he has more chances of hitting tho ball than the- pitcher has of striking strik-ing him out. Speaker goes after every ball, believing he will catch It. Hoppc plays billiards, while his rivals try to play Hoppe. Hagen often comes down to the final holes with somoone else leading, but ho attends to his, gamo and is certain of his victory. The same thing made Dempsey a champion cham-pion and it is keeping Britton still at the top in his clas. Tho new stars come up. They are rushed into matches with champions. Rarely do they finish in the lead for their confidence weakens at the last minute. Their game cracks at the critical point, while the champion is oozing with the wLnnlng spirit ami plays his gamo as art he has made of It. To be a champion is to be an artist. A faint heart nover won a fair lady or made a home run or dealt a knockout or lifted a crown. |