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Show I VI 1 Graritland Micerirl I (Copyright. 10:': by New Vork Tribune, Trib-une, Inc.) the wav i champions Sooner or Inter down the field The echo conies that all must km...-Where km...-Where rust is on the battle c.lei-1 And twilight cnd.; the mornl Where Leonard passes from thj b" And Dorapscv loses his acclaini, Where Cobb no 1 n?er hold - hie 1 Among the star- who rule the game. i Time yields each star his llttli space. His day or two amid ii" 1 -To hold tho thron Knd find In- thrill Time lets each carve his little notch Whore each looks tc an i idh But where are Iioppe. Jeffries, Gotch All super-men or yesterday I The Old Doc doesn't bother mucb When some one start s to sit Id For when he sees tin dip He merely yawns am tags 'cni ou1 He's seen too many come a ad go Amid the whirligigs "i strife, And when some leader Btarrs tn blow it's less than nothing in his lit'- The Australia. i Davis Cup team with " Patterson. Anb -'n and 0 Hara W ood is a stronKer combination than the Kumagae-ShimUu line-up of a year, ago- This combination bardl looksj strong enough to stop Tilden and Johnston, but the American team I must be at its best to win Patterson was a trifle crude looking when hej first appeared at Forest Bills, but ven then he gave Johnston a terrific ter-rific fiv-set battle with Johnston nt. the top of his stride Anderson was poou enough to hent TlldeD in a II n - sationai match last fail and while Tilden Was then a trlfl" stale aftt i n long siege of tennis, no man is beating Tlklcn who Isn t one of the top rank "I can name eight British amat- UN iho are not on the team shUm1c.1i .strong enough to :,t the British "ir team picked for the International match at Brooklim , a non-combatant I writes In. "At least four of the stnui,-rst stnui,-rst amateurs In Great Briudn are not I on. and four that am on don't rank, with the first twelve or fifteen." Bull vWiat has the 1'nllcd States to do with picking the British team? THE Bit; IV LIT. j Dear Sir. Here 4fe my nominations for the six greatest In .sport Dent p-'Mf p-'Mf for the ring; Sisler for baseball; Hagc-n for golt; Tilden for tennis, ruddock rud-dock for the track and Weisruuller for the water Which one of these could he displaced by a greater star? L. K H They will do verv nlcel But whn; about Jake Schaefer for billiards and legenure for the present all-around star? After hearing so many unlimited dis- uRslons about tho evils of college atn-letics atn-letics tho Innocent bystander might easily get the Idea that It was all aome type of crime It might bo recalled that the Rood so far outclasses tho few existent evils and that tho latter are after all but minor defects that moroly need corroding before they begin to spread. Eighty oer cent of thoce most benefited by ath'.ctlcs In colleges never come into Ihe limelight lime-light at all. At West Point for example, ex-ample, at least 800 cadots play foot-hall foot-hall In the fall, but only fifteen or eighteen of theso are even mentioned Vou hear of the leading athletes of Pcnn State. Tct tho greater good goes to the soveral thousand who have never nev-er etalked beneath the great u hlto flpotllftht of fame. Yet general Interest for the entire student body is always built up by tho few who lead the way There is now . a greater variety of college a'.bletlcs than any age haa ever approached. Publicity decried In some quarters, haa dono its share toward building up all sport. If the entire limelight was withdrawn from any one xpen Its following fol-lowing would soon fado away The veterans might stick, but there would be no youngsters coming on with any desire to pick It up and give it a whirl The saddest sound by sea or land Is the niblick grinding in the sand But what brlnR.s even more despond Is the now ball splashing .in the pondl ' Many nun.- reforms would go through it wasn't for the fact thai so inon of :h reformers seem to he 'worse lhan 'he evil thev are trying to !cure.( i There may be no world scries championships in Boston and Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, hut thegn two big sporting Citadels refuse, to he rhecked They get the narlonal ?olf and tennis championships which to a good many I millions are several degrees more important im-portant than tho other thing. There Is one cheering thought about the possible xvurld series jump frum Xew York to St. Louis- It might have been from Boston to St. Loui |
