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Show I Hr " Grantlartd Rice ; Copyright, 1922. Now York Tribune.) It haa remained for St. Ixiuls to present the two greatest bal lplayers anv single city ever offered the fanatical fan-atical horde. No one town has evei H had, in the ame season, two such mlnent contributors to the baset a'.. n : na George, Sisler ami Rogers Ilorns-i Ilorns-i by When It comes to doubling up In way of talent, the senlth eity of the Oaarkian knobs Is elected by a land- slide. Detroit once had Cobb and Crawford Craw-ford Detroit now ha Cobb and Hell-mann Hell-mann Cobb could match eithei Bt. H Louie star, but the Detroit combina- H tion falls shy. I Cleveland once had Lajole and Brad- ley Pittsburg bowed 16 Wagner and , ,aVk, Boston once held Speaker and Ruth, Philadelphia chared for Colline ad Baker, but the Bt uisfii m . sisler and Bornsbj dominates them all Hoth led their leagues In 1H0- Hornsby led again In 1921 Both will likely top rhe field for LDZZ. I Why all this areatness Btsler has r,oven to be a great hitter, a star first baseman, o tine pitcher a fl"eh,Unk; fielder. Hornsby. in addltijn to beinSj .,n or in- BC ha sr.M-n c.i i am has starred at ."von,, ho. and I. .r , Between them they have cov ered position on the team, save the do ed by the cat. her'e mask an "J? p;,;. tecting shin guards. And oth arc . ,Hn and ... from an overflow ot temperamen ON THE WA1 UP. HI Sisler and Hornsby each have played HI seven years. They arc now In the HI throe of their eighth festival HI siier'e lifetime betting averan up HI to this moment la around .'2, Ui 'ns- Hl by'a around .341. HI Both are brilliant inflelders, as well.; I it might be interesting to note that. HI for the last three seasons. Sislsr'a av-H av-H erage is only a half notch under .400. HI And Hornsbv is now slipping along at HI about the same ..lip So b ith are still HI on their way up better ibis season than the- have r been HI more vears to go before they come to. Ty Cobb's length of service and wltli Hi thirteen years left before tru : HI the service of Wagner and LaJ le THK OMIUV TI)V HI Damon and Pythias, Castor and Pollux! HI Tom and Jerry, and all the rest. Ml Hsig and Haig If you want another. ' There with a kick at thi cruel I t , I I Take all the all-star combinations, 1 Ply them all a Ith BUbtle I But at the end. say, when you're fin-I fin-I ished, Sieler and Hornsby rule lhe roost H HI Yet at the finish It is still a quest a HI whether oither, taken separately, will equal Ty Cobb's eighteen-: ' Hi of between 37 0 and 37 !".. That's somethinK for old Bl h " shoot at In one of his mo-t confident, moods. That cool drift of wind thai mo l you shiver for a momen! the other d ly was a breeze that happened to pas between Mrs. Mallory and Mile Lng-len Lng-len as they bowed to each otSier. It m was not as you thought, direct froia- Jf the Arctic H m TTTi : BIG MOMENT. From thirty feet away I see it tart. fl The small white ball, along the sward 'j$ of gr . H The while I watch, with beating, anx-, Hf ious heai t H As forward In m; eagerness I lean HJ "Too short," 1 say. with something like Hj despair. H ' Why haven't I the brain to get one H But still it glides and glory crowns I H the air H As suddenly it fi.lej into the cup H) The Hon Frank Chapman, mau l i In Hj of the American Museum of Natural H History, has left for Ecuador. He 9 has promised to Bend US ba h bush- H master w hich v. expei t to nia-.h H against a rattlesnake at catch weight Hj We will be very glad to match the 9 -winner against bempscy. Leonard or Oreb. permitting them to take the cn-HI cn-HI tire receipts for their contribution to K science R What with a irl killed by a barra- cuda, an aviator attacked by a pan-ther. pan-ther. an attendant overpowered bj n H anthropoidal ape. the waning wilds Hj st,1l keep up their battle against en- H croachlng civilization In a few n- Hl lurles from now about the only wild S thing left upon the rim of the world Hf will be a brldKe player who haa Jus: B been set 400 points and B golfer who has just missed a short putt Thesi u H things that v. Ill not disappear until the Bj last hills have crumbled and the world Is dust H? In reply to the I-engien-Mullorv re frain. Hear the British whisper, "Ho H about McKane' 1 The 'Babe" thinks that Bhakeapean was all wronfr He nhoul.1 havi wrlt-I wrlt-I ten it. "Th summer of discontent 1 oncr i'pon a ti.mv: J Far back in another age called Once Hf Upon a time. I When 1 was dull enough to dream of H manhood s coming prime, H 1 used to think how very long the B days of summer were, 1 "How long hefore the shadows cam E to bring the twilight blur. B But now almost beioro 1 feel the K aiimmer'a welcome k'ow I I find that I am ankle deep once H more In winter's snow. 1 Far back in another year called Once L"pon a Time, 1 When all th- wealth a kid could ask I was some big oak to climb, I 1 used to think how wide and deep I the little rivers were, 1 How very tall the Utile hills that held I the waving fir. But now I know how small they arc. I the little hills and strt-ums. I And so I find that something's tost K forever from mj dvamx t 1 hear the city rushing by in place J I of old refrains, B Gaunt faces haunt me In the streets I in place of oldtlme lanes I And there is little time for rest amid the endless fray. Where once a kid, all summer long, R could dream his time awav. And I am many, many leagues from. Once Upon a Time I Where I wm dull enough to dream I I of manhood's coming prime. "In what order " rocpuests a by- stander, "do you rank Dempsey's lop-I lop-I leal opponent Wills Wlllard. I Oreb- If Bill Brennan had followed I up his Dempsey melee with better I worV, he might be taken more e- rlously. Wlllard won t be taken se- rlously until ho can first prove that H he on get into shape, and even then the excitement will hardlv be ter- rifle. I THE SIX GREATEST. Hj H. G. Welle has named the six i I greatest men of all history. Who I are the six preatest men In ihr h.--tory of all sport? Some name to wrestle with i e John L. Sullivan. Jim Thorpe John l. ill Norman Brookes. Ty Cohh, Charlie Paddock, Frank Gotch. Hair; VSrdon Many great stars will have to be left out. But Mr. Wells left out Shakespenre, Alexander. Caesar and Napoleon Thorpe Is the greatest all-around stat. Sullivan the most historic of all boxers Tv Cobb the greatest hall player Norman Brookes the great -eal tennis star o-.er a long pcrlo.l . rohn Ball th' outstanding amateur ifolfer With Harry ardon the outstanding out-standing professional There l still room left for a lot of argument. SHIFTING FORM. From all games on the lonv Hal the biggest shlf in form happens to the ball player and the golfer. In boxing nnis. -tc. -you can usually figure the winner In advance. But in golf a star may be Nl tor one round and 69 for the next. And In baseball one club nil! lead the leap. 16 tor one week, and l.ion drop eishi straight games, lh Yankees did. in baseball ihfi lowly tail-endcr might arise at any moment and Peddle Ped-dle the whey out of th leaders. . i RLOOKING mPII I iii(- For '.ha matter; who nro the s'.x greatest women In the history of sport .' rieopatra probably will hae tp be barren. I Bul there Is uulte a selection worth I awarding the chaplet of apple blossoms. blos-soms. Miss Leilch and Ms Weth-ered, Weth-ered, Mile. I.englen and MTa Mul-lory. Mul-lory. May Sutton Bundy, Annie Oakley. Oak-ley. Miss snirlinir quite a line-up. with many others to be named. W onion In x In Benin and play foo'.-I foo'.-I hall In France ftnd England. Bui at this wan moment we have no deep-seated deep-seated yearning to see them enga-.-I In any Buch enterprises A woman s place may not be the lu-mo. hut it isn't in a boxing ring or upon a football field. Not yet. Ii may i.t -iiiiic different 50 years fro mnow. bul by thai time the interest in-terest most of have In the matter mat-ter will be almost entirely academic. IN'OTHER REVISION lae of duffers oft remind us Thai by lifting; up the bran. Those who seek can always find us Anywhere bul on the green DemPsey doesn't want to be ha rassed by Wills. Carpentier doesn'l care Lb be bothorea iy Qrcb, and w-hate w-hate to he annoyed by the tax collector. col-lector. But what of It, so long as i e remains Immutable? Mr Buth desires to announce, nf-ter nf-ter thinking it oyer, that he has no Intention of leading the home-run delegation by lhe Fourth of July, ns :it fir.-: rumored. In fact, he m'ay postpone the r;f:cial i'.::c for taking lha Ir-Til to some time In September. When the heavy strain of the ten-n!-; affair at Wimbledon is over this week we can a'.l get back to the lighter and more casual sportive undertakings un-dertakings of the males, which are not nearly so Intense or so close to ,:n actual .ate of war. "WIHard will soon b In fine shape." And Just three years ago today we recall hearing Mr. Wlllard remark that he Was ncer in better i ondlflon throughout his career. |
