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Show f vSpomight v j ' 6' GranflandRice (Copyright, 922. by the New York Tribune. Inc.') SI M.Mi... buAJdTS On a.duy Hke this I wish that 1 Could go agalti where the wind drifts by. And sings its song through the maple trees Thai bend tthd sway lu the summer breeze. Where I could look from the sod again To the wide, blue heaven of God again. And. half asleep in the grass below. Could meet the dreams thai I used to know. Gray ;;hcts of dreams from the old, lost ways That coiiie irum the vanuhed yesterdays. yester-days. Of peace once more In th" quiet sun, Far off from the race that's lont or won. And the breath of the fields and the fragrant loam Were sweet with the old incense of home, Where the world moved by. but 1 only know That the sun was gold and the sky w::s blue. oonijoiras can Dy me summer streams In the q::let country of rest and dreams And. t3. away from the lolling town. Back of the hills, the sun goes down. Where drowsy dusk steals down tho lane As shadows beckon to one in vain. And whisper still of a world we knew, Where the aun was gold and the sky was blue. For the second y ar in succession the British Open Golf Cup has come to America. The two cups are now-even. now-even. Vardon took ours back in l y o 0 . Ray came within a stroke of taking it home again, but Francis Ouimct interposed in-terposed a barrier that was not to be taken by storm In 1900 Vardon finished first in the United States open, with J. H. Taylor In second place ln 1920 Hay finished first, with Vardon In a tie for second place. So when Hagen finished first at Sandwich, with Barnes tied for second, the ancient count was even up. The two nations over a long Htr-ti-h of years are now almost exactly ex-actly even. "The trouble about most peaplo who live upon applause." writes y L, T.. froferrlr.g to "Babe" Ruth and others) "is this- they a cepl I lie applause and the acclaim as their natural due. They take it all for granted. But when a little erltielHii, creeps in they are offended. Insulted and outraged , They are to be pitied, in one way. for the applause rarely j..sts any great length of lime and its natural sequence Is. criticism And few of them have nough hackgronnd of philosophy lo take It all In ami bo ready for the turn of tho tide." AjfonnsR i n i ;cs Dear Sir: Here's another contribution contribu-tion to your list of all around athletes Trimble of Princeton Although slightly built, compared with the oihii-, his record .shows hl.r worth I Selected as a 11-A merb-u n halfback i b v Walter Camo. a tine runner, passer, .ind kicker, and one ,,r the headiest (' It hem all. AU-Amorican catcher of the baseball team, as well as a great shortstop Called one of the greatest basketball pi i era the Intercollegiate League ever produced. A urooci swimmer, a ;ood tennis player play-er and a good goller Ami th best billiard player in college. col-lege. EL G W. P. I 1 1 1 ILDJ N M AKI , IT? It has been MUlte a span since any turf tennis star won three national championships in a row McLoughlin, Williams and Johnston, Johns-ton, with all their greatness, coulcn t put it over. Xow Bill Tillen has his chance, with victories in lOi'o and. mil linked to- r, and the third teoi not so far away. Tilden's two main rivals will be Johnston and Richards, both of whom already beaten him this season. The three now :.mm lo be more closely close-ly bunched than ever, but on the sea-un'.i sea-un'.i how, m,', Johnston leads and will Champion'i main rival at Gor-inantown Gor-inantown when the next title is at stake. This has been rather a seamy sea-gon sea-gon for champions, ns Morvich, "Babe" Ruth and a few ether (.an testify But dethroning Tllden, lighting In defense Of his crown, will be no easy --golmr a ignment CONFESSIONS OF DUFFER Th. ball that lies deep ln some rut ft brings a curse. And yet I think the down-hill putt Is even worse. Reports that D-.mpsey will never he as good as he w is against Willard and Carpentler, should not be taken too se-riousiy se-riousiy The champion is now just 27 years old. around the crest of his atn-etlc atn-etlc prime. H- la 8U1, closo Ul h, I best fighting weight, and. while tho I lay-off will hardly help him. u "-"'onths tramlim seg, uin ,p ve He will still be favored to beat any field, no matter who this The story of Morvich Ii simple enough--it Is merely the story ,,f tho : ,' 100 and 220 sprinter who can't quite hold the winning pace for a 440 " "" '' There is no ftgS any opiS? that he Is another San |