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Show iSPOmiGHT jjV Grsnf land Rice (Copyright. H'22 by the New York Tribune) . I MWlMs ni TJH BUNKERED MOORS , Ther ' nany 0 slip 'twixt the putt and the lip. Of the well-known cup, when the other oth-er cove's up. The early dub catches the early worm. On the putting green where his short putts squirm. Rvery cloud has a silver lining. But the slicing dub can't see it shining He who swings and lifts his dome I I Will take few ras of sunshine home. When it semed as If Mile. Lenglen was about to lose a set to Miss McKane at Brussels, we read where she "repeatedly "re-peatedly placed her hand over her heart as if to ease tho pain, looking up appeallngly to her rather In the stands." It Is evldc.it that fhe dashing dash-ing mademoiselle still refuses to be annoyed by any standard ethics supposed sup-posed to govern Competitions. You can imagine the feelings of a player w hen the opponent signals the advance sllbi (even though a worthy one) for pos-Bible pos-Bible defeat. It would seem with r.llle. Lenglen that spOrt Is entirely a , natter, of winning where merely plain the uame has little to do With the case. "SPLIT SECONDS" i mc inor.- the Intercollegiate games. 1 And tho range of picked athletes ex- j j tends again from Berkeley to Cam- j bridge, with one of the greatest flelua that ever frolicked over field and California, winning by half a pclt:t 'last spring from Harvard, will again be a vital factor, with the isiio .n doubt to the final event. Few records may fall, but the general gen-eral average Is remarkably high. And j there arc at least four universities strong enough to win it tno ijreak happens hap-pens to be a trifle pleasant. Princeton and Cornell have been unusually un-usually strong, but tho dope from dual meets doesn't always carry over into the intercolleglatea Another California victory, or a Stanford conquest would be a shining I accomplishment for those who como ' from the I'aclfic to the Atlantic, sev-I sev-I erai thousand kilometers north of the Panama canal. There must be some flamiiiK' spark of unusual iiuality In i California sunshine, after all. THE ADDED PEP Just how much livelier the modern baseball is than the missile of 10 years ago, is still the subject for much burn-ling burn-ling oratory. We know that ten years I ago any ball club w ith u team batting around 280 stood well In the lead. Yet. toward the close of May, we j find no less than five clubs at .300 or over, far bcond the batting power of j thoso who starred in the last decade. Jack Dempsey today is where Jim Jeffries was seventeen years ago. Jeff then stood upon a lonely hill, scanning I .he valleys with no challenger in sight. 'No promoter seems willing to risk a ; Dempsey-Willsm fitch, and when the I names of WUiard and v..arpeiUler are j mentioned the cheering Is extremely I I light. The hullabaloo wouldn't be so great If the size of the parse were not so bulky But when the public Is expected ex-pected to check in a million dollars for the shmv, there is a genTal feeling that it sh uld be drama and not farco. Charlie Chaplin can make millions out of a comedy, where a heavyweight champion can't. rill. DOUBL1 ROW Pi St. Louis expects to regain her double dou-ble crown In batting this season, through the prevalence of Sisler am Horn.sby, who led their leagues in i 1920. Sisler fell back a bit last season, but1 ho is now In the throes of one of his greatest campaigns, with Hornsby moving serenely along. The Missouri citadel still has the best chance to BUP tress the Giants and Yankees, but if this dream Is shattered, there will be some consolation In the hoped for triumphs of her two batting stars. If Sider and Hornsby come through again, St, Louis can boast of five hatting hat-ting coronets for the last three years, a record never approached In baseball history. Why can't some one run 100 yards In 9 2-5 seconds?" asks an exchange Possibly because bill collectors aro burn d from the track and so th' ultimate ulti-mate inemthe for speed Is never quite reached. Forse of habit Ishard to check. Navy ! and Cornell will again be the feature crews nt Poughkeepsle unless Washington Wash-ington enters galaxy of near supermen. super-men. Even the N'aby's fine crew will face all the opposition It wants from Cornell, where they seem to Inhnle I rowing skill and stamina from the Ithaca Ith-aca n air. Wonder how Man o' War feels cbout the Morvlch acclaim as ho listens In at some radio station? "Fighters and promote s must be made to realise there is still sport, as! well as the commercial side, left in boxing," announces the New York boxing commission. Possibly. But we are not looking for the Job of start- j er In any such Realisation Stake It Is believed the eight months' truce ; In Europe will work out. as they have no baseball umpires over there to be I j figured on. |