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Show 1 TEe StHT (Copyright. 122, tfe fork Tribune.! inc.) ON KEEPING t (lOL. "Heat, according to leading psycho loglsts. is largely a matter ol 11. lg!n Hon. People think too muoh ot thc( thermometer, in place of focusing their attention on coolinsr subjects " News Item. The genial thermometer w.i- .oi 1 99. But when I started wiltlns like a blos- som on the vine I thought about imagining e bl ' on the blow. "Where I was In tlx- Arctic, with 1 1 " feet of snow. I should hae started freezing ' I heard the north wind roar. But the rippllnc p i ' wkt steady as before The sun stalked like ;i tyrant with a flaming sword Of heat. But when 1 felt St blister. ng my head and ivn k add feet, I thought "it's oni mental, 1 am n v at Baffin's Bay. The Ice is forty Riches Lht k along th; right of way What, ho' it s forty-eight below, a snowstorm sweeps the land" And yet my wllung collar didn t em to understand I've sent myself :o Greenland's na ml and Iceland, with Its snows. I've thought about the polar bean and frozen Eskimos I've said. ' I'm u riving huskies now.. pot-hunting for the Pole. With hands frostbitten by the gales and zero In my soul.'" I've thought of blizzards, ice and lull I've thought of sleet and snowa Put still along my blistered neck the perspiration flows. CONCERNING FORM. What docs form amount to if you get there?" inquires .1 correspondent "Results are all thii coun ' nly in a way. 1 orm, in Us last turnover, i thi easiest way to get the corret t results. it Is thc'cllminatlon of waste, of unnecessary un-necessary effort. It is the short cul to the right wa: . Take the rase of WaUi r Id, 1, on 1 past master of pitching form Johnson John-son began his major leagut caret r sixteen six-teen seasons back. Ills main was blinding speed. " Great whiH hi got It.' was a general verdict, "but how long can he last'."' The answer is that in his sixteenth campaign he Is still presenting Bhu -outs -to the bewildered enemy. Johnson. In pitching, has les-s waste motion than any other one person wo eer saw. His speed comes without any show of effort. There aro no ex-tra ex-tra jerks and twists hooked to his stuff. If you don't think form means anything, any-thing, look the old boy over at your next open chance. AND OTHERS. The first comment that a noted English boxing expert made about Domp.scy was this: "Ho does everything every-thing without any show of effort " Dcmpsee isn't wearing hlmsolf out with waste motion He only knows the shortest route Hans "Wagner was no model of grace. But for all that he made most of his chances look easy. Slsler is one of the easiest playing stars upon the field. Here and there an entry with a crude style will lift himself above the mast, but he rarely rare-ly remains long upon the top plateau If Benn Ionard has been shooting his beat for the last two year he can hardly be rated In the same territory with Frank Erne, Joe Cans and Kid Lavlgnc, Many of his friends have suggested that he wasn't working his heart out in certain fights after taking the lead. Perhaps no, and perhaps c-s But no man can wear two crowns the crown of buslne-s and tho crown of sport at one and the. name moment. mo-ment. Benny's margins of vlcton have been entirely too thin on too many occasions to leave him planted in the field of lightweight greatnc.ss If Kid Gleason only had been able to Interpolate Dick Kerr with Faber, Lorerette, Robortson and othcrp. the White &ox uprising for 1922 woulo have been oven more phenomenal with a stout chance that Gleaaon's club would have been around first place. Tho White Sox, romping along as they have been, with Kerr addled, would be as formidable as tiny le;im In tho league. And if you ask Cobb's Tigers about ii. they arc formidable enough as It Is. Bill Tildcn has made no great effort ef-fort to get away to a running start. With the tough pari of the campaign on ahead, he knows there ia Utile to if gained by leaching top form too mon bul from now on you' might watch his smoke. Tilden. In addition to being a greet tennis player, Is a keen psychologist, and one of the most . ireful of all conditioners. The time to be rig;. is n itlonal championship and I .avis Cupweek. ! The combined shadows of Chick"' as and Bobby Jones, falling across the Skokio course, are not to be overlooked. over-looked. If cither happens to be In a putting mood the brilliant pro contingent con-tingent may, find itself hanging on by a thin edge vhnn the final drive comes net week As shot makers up to the 1 In they are both on a par with any ,n ih field, byi they arc not quite so sure to be finding the bottom of hi" cup from different Ideations around the green. |