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Show Spobtlight P'Vy Gmnf land Wee I (Copyright, 1?22. Now Tork Tribune) LO( ll I V ttEVKR&ALfi If It so happens that Donpsey and Carpentler r- to meet again In Enc-lani Enc-lani there Is always a chance thai one of those climatic reversals frill at least give the letter a better chance than he over had over here. Ther have been some remarkable upsets In thlx respect. Take the case of Mrs. Mallory over there and Mile. Lrnglcn over here. Take the case, of the American golf team in" ESngland, with Tolley. Hope and Wethered over here. Or one might recall what has hap-l" hap-l" ned ro Evan, Travers and .ulmet nn various visits acrops. Upsetfl develop much more quickly, mentally and physically, when one is oast in strange surroundings and a dlffcrmt dlmate. "Our athletes will never rea. h their top form In your country and your athletes will never be at their best ov- er here," Lord Xorthcllife remarked la.-t Maj while the British omatecr championship was under way with Jonc.. Ouimet, Kvans, etc. skidding quickly from the field. THE CAU8K OF B l (iOLF There have been various causes as-I as-I signed to the ragged brand of golt thai Is playe.i by the average- Amerl- can apart from the few ranking stars. Various p.sychi- reasons have been off it ii that have to lo uitli too much self-con iciousness and with lack of mental poise. Then reasons play their parts. ; But the main cause of ragged golf minnir the multitudes at largo is due to th. far that BUch a large perl eeni failed to take up the game in' I the pliunt days of youth. Golf has come "with iU big rush over here through the last ten years. I and in coming has called the thousands thous-ands who were twenty-five or over. How versatile would the average I'ltlzi n br- it bav. ball If he failed to take up the gaim- until arter Iwentj-rive Iwentj-rive or thirty ? In Guar. Britain the gnoral aver-is aver-is hlirher bocauMo most of them -lard-.! youiiv, a-, kids take to baseball over here. Good golfers can he developed among those who have taken up the same after thirty but the number Is comparatively small From those ho started young we draw Travers Evans, Ouimet, Jones, Gardner, Guilford, Wweetser, Knepper, Klrkby. Hunter. Fownes. Wright. Marsday, Manlon Bockencamp In fact, most of the stars, with Walter J. Travis the rnose notable exception. MY OLD KF.NTL'CKY HOME (As sung by Man o' War) Oh, the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home. But Morvlch Is now the country's bpst; And I miss each day the bridle flecked with foam Ami the big field waiting at the post Oh, i long to hear the thud upon the track As T ramble by the judges' lofty nook; Just to feel ence more old Kummer on my baefr With the odds one to eighty In the book. Getting Russia and Johnny Kllbane to sign on the dotted lino are among th( toil achievements in diplomacy. In training for Harry Greb, we suggest sug-gest that Gene Tunney spar three rounds each day with a v. Indmill and then wind up with an electric fan with twenty boxing gloves attached. The Plttshurger can start a punch from more directions than a cross betw en a centipede and a mule. In ducking, one you flop into three more. J Another cause of bad golf is this. There are onl one or two right ways to make a stroke and forty or fifty wrong ways The law of average is more than the normal duffer can face without being totally wrecked If Carpentler knocks out Lewis abruptly, after stbwlhg away Beckett and Wells, England's last hope seems to be Lloyd Qoorge, who has weathered weather-ed more storms than the Frenchman ever thought of Stirling up If "Babe" Ruth leads the home run contingent again this season it might be Just as well to keep him in the stall until July Fourth for the campaign cam-paign of 1 y 23. t'r make him bat an Iron ball with a rubber bat. |