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Show (tSPOKTLIGHT $y GranflandRice "What in the name of Gehenna," writes Old Grad "Im the matter with the Yale and Harvard crews.' Is i in Hie stroke they're using the material, ma-terial, the coaching or what?" One point Is that they both happen to be caught In a season of great crews. With the Navy and Cornell leading. Then again, thc off year b the common com-mon fato of all. li E LEADERS A. L. H. requests an opinion on the five leading American amateur golfers, golf-ers, rated by their records 1. Jerome D. Travera Four tim?s amateur champion; qnte open championship. cham-pionship. 2. Waller j Travcn Three times amateur champion; British Brit-ish amateur champion. 3 Chi, k Evans Twice amateur champion; open champion. (. Francis Oulmet Amateur champion; open cham-I cham-I plon. 5. Robert A. Gardner Twice ! amateur champion; finalist. Br::, h championship. From those five I names the last three will take an active ac-tive part In the reason on ahead, to stand as leading defenders again.-n the international invasion. Mr. Travis retired from active competition competi-tion seven years ago, at tho age of 52, and Travers, with a seat on th New York Ootton Exchange, finds lltllo tlnao for play. There are any number of first -class boxing matches in Bight if the talent weren't so temperamental. Many of them are beginning to make opera stars look meek and lowly, which le no slight achievement. The run of fancy purses has muddled their heads. After seven underground years, I shut off from the sunlight In thc dark l confines of the cellar, there is a rumor ru-mor now current thu' c on Alack will movn iu a higher apartment and sublet the Old Homestead to some ono else Queer things can happen in this sporting whirl, but thc fact that a managerial genius of Mack's type, at the crest of his greatness, could suddenly flop and stick In the muck for ' seven seasons Is ono of the queerest turns of thc lot Tho cellar lease hasn't been officially turned over to any one else yet and October is a long way off, but tho underground victim at least is making mak-ing a struggle to regain the light All of which koc ; to Show that about the only sure way to build up a ball club lr, by spending a hunk of gold. Gold Is the greatest manager mana-ger In the game, the greatest collector col-lector of talent Compared to a lavish lav-ish display of tho kale managerial shrewdness amounts to little. Thc Giants and Yankees have two fine ball club.?, but no vast expert-m expert-m s was required to know that Qroh, Bancroft. Nehf. Barne . Ruth. Maya S. oti. llu.h, Sclians. Jones and other purchased players would bo useful at certain stated lntervuls between ? and a p. m. of ; spring dr summer afternoon. Wi can all gather In a better understanding un-derstanding f the American leacu I race when the Yankees have finish d their tour of the west. This tour. 1 with Ruth be k in the lineup, wttl come close 'to packing every' park. The big crash will come in St. Louis, I where thc Browns now look to be their strongest rival, Unless the Yanks are suppressed to somo extent in the west, there is little in the east ! to hold them at buy for any ex- j tended space I Never having visited the Argen-! Argen-! tine, we boric Mr. Luis Flrpo's upward up-ward progress is swift and sure. He should at least find enough sparring purtners In the Amazon jungle to devoiop tin primal modes needed for 11 Dcmpsey competition. |