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Show gPOiniKHT y Gmnf land Rice fCopyrlght, 1022. New York Tribune. Inc.. Trade M irk Registered, U. S. Patent Office ) THE FIRST HUNDRED IN l.t. V 1 m.r. always think, when I want to laugh. Of a record that once was and now ain't.'. That was blown from the books like a skein of chaff. A. race erased by 'professional taint." They'd have us believe. those who voted to can It That Duffey's tprlnt never startled tho planet Yet the fact remains that Arthur ran It The) wigwagged once, and the thing was a Jest: Cold figures Just oozed beyond recall. And a record ten thousand eyes attest at-test They assure us was never stepped at all! Serene, they stand pat and continue to pan it: "There was no such race," they ln- Bcribe on granite Yet the fact remains that Arthur ran it. STAKLEY K. WILSON. ( LOSING IN I IM GAP. h n Il ns Wagner quit baseball he retired in exclusive possession of P. .130 base hits, e This 11. ark stands as the record collection col-lection of nil time. But Ty Cobb has now passed the 3100 base-hit mark and the Tiger Isn't ready to turn ln his uniform yet. Cobb should finish the season within with-in 200 hits of Wagner's mark and It then becomes a matter of collecting these 200 hits before his spikes wear out and he tosses his bat away Having broken all leadership records. rec-ords. It Is now Cobb's ambition to beat Keeltr's mark of making 200 or more hits a season for eight seasons and to harvest a greater number of There have been soft, i assignments tried before. ASKING ADVH E They tell too to look at tho ball. But how does that help my soul When I have a hunch ut the top of the punch To see where the pill will roll" They tell me lo look at the ball, But how can the look-up stop When I've a desire with my heart on fire To see If the putt will drop'' Some complaint has been made about touring ears knocking peonlo down and then passing, on. "Punch" suggests a new reversible type of car that after knocking a pedestrlin down will whirl about and charge him again. "Do you mean to say," asks R, .. H,. "that a leopard can strike faster and harder than Itempsey can'." Precisely. Pre-cisely. If you don't think so, ask Dempsoy to step Into a leopard's cage some day for the purpose of exchanging exchang-ing a wallop or two. I ill EM R LP T SANDWICH On Monday and Tuesday of the week ahead Barnes, Hagen and Hut- hlson will be busy qualifying for the British open at Sandwich. The qualifying test will be over tho Princess and Royal St. George s links With a one-day rest, the main bat tle will get under way on Thursday for those who made ih grade Some years ago Jart McDcrmott failed to qualify at Hoylake. but there Is llttlo likelihood that any of tho American contingent will fall In Che qualifying stages. They should all get safely through and be ready by Thursday to make an extremely formidable showing. In so far as the effulgent dope Is concerned, It should be a matter of Hutchison, Barnes and Hngcn against Duncan, Mitchell. Klrkwood and Bay. And six of these seven Ray only being be-ing absent, will present their merchandise mer-chandise at Skokle In July for the 0 S ..pen. It has been a long time since an amateur made such threatening gestures ges-tures in the British open as Wethore.i made last year. Both he an! Hunter should do well, but neither is .ikely 10 win THE TBI E SPOBT I,o I R, Some dnys ago we ran across a snapshot of "Tack" Hardwtcl: in a basebnll uniform "Tack" ha-s been in business since lhe hung up his trench mortar 11 n I -1 form after the war, hut he has al-' I ways loved sport too well to give It up entirely. Of all the thousands who have played football, none ever found a deeper appeal in the game than Hard-ulck Hard-ulck did. Even the drudgery of prat -tlce was a frolic to him. And ono might add in passing that 110 garno ras ever known a harder, cleaner player. Considerable Institution, Mr. Hardwick, take him all the ways there are Old grads here and there have como in for their Fhare of panning But who can mention finer sportsmen than Hardwick, of Harvard, Brink Thorne and "Dutch" Carter, of J ill Bill Edwards, of Princeton,; I-ee Maxwell, Max-well, of Chicago; the Hammonds, of Michigan; Terry McCoern, of Cornell, Cor-nell, and well, so many others that space Interposes a stymie not to be hurdled In one gToup. Hitting home runs anions other I things, cut 100 points off Ken Wli-I Wli-I Hams' batting average The resounding resound-ing crash has Its lofty side, but even Ruth will admit that at times it also has its seamy side, after the manner of the ball ltself. OO |