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Show ,J-'y Grantand Wee (Copyright, 1922. New York Tiibune, Inc.) THE LUCKY STIFF Out in a vanished byway. Alone in a lonesome sea. Far iram the crowded highwaj And tho numerous things that be. Nn ch-mce to read the story Ol a strangled girl in a trunk, of hold-ups, many and gory; Of murderers, crazy or drunk. And yet has the mad world wondered, J Wondered "how he could do SO," . And year after rar has thundered "POOR old Robinson Crusoe." Out from the sordid rabble, Away from the brainstorm mob; From the line of political dabble Of coves who arc after a j"b Never a word of the tariff. Nor how the nations will tare. Never a moment to can The bootlegger's on the square. And ypt has the mad world woudered. Wondered "how he could do BO,' And age after ace haa thundered "POOR old Robinson Crusoe." Never a ball club dropplnz A bath of games in a row. Never a short putt stoppil Costing a lot ot dough Far from the inhalation Ol the tongue's synthetic blight. Free from the Ruth ovation. Nor caring when Dcmpsey will fight And yet has the mad world wondereJ, Wondered how he could do so " nd year after year has thundered "POOR old Robinson Crusoe." We have been asked by a studlouc fan which travels the faster a ball thrown by one of the Pedlest of pit. hers, or a line drive socked b a hard-hitting slugger. The latter, undoubtedly. un-doubtedly. We have seen JT Lajo. Bam Crawford. 'Babe' Ruth and others crac line drives that sailed sail-ed on a line furthei than any i n-r could equal, faster than any pltcjflei could throw. One proof is that a good long-hitter can soak a baseball a much greater distance than an , ...,c.r nr outfielder can throw it. ANOTHER CANDIDATE. Dear sir Don't forget to enter -Chick" Harley. of Ohio State, as obe of the greatest all-round stars of all times. . , hn,r Harley at football was a great halfback half-back and a heady captain. At track he uas s consistent point winner baseball one of the leading college itars At basketball among the best In America. He wa one of the groat four-letter men of his time and in r irh snort an outstanding star. port DDWIOHT boDGERS The fickleness of mpmon- at times assumes startling propertl one. in naming all-round stars, 'xhick Harley Har-ley should have been registered among the elite, up with two or threo, select. On pteseht form the dope IndleateH that bedrge Slsler will a-ain regain h:s plaro .t Hi" 'op of th- American I. -ague batt'.n? ordi r. a" lie has b'n In tho dizzy throes of one of hla greatest years. But if Hisler weakens anywhere along the route for any expansive ex-pansive period, "Ty" Cobb is Jut as Mkelv to come romping by and lead, the caravan in hia eighteenth major league year. Cobb lsn t quito so fast as he was 10 years ago, but his batting bat-ting eye remains as brVsht. And he is Still faster than the average batter. bat-ter. He has had the base-hit habit for so long and In such virulent form that It still sticks, when by all '.ho regulations of time ho should bo struggling to crack .280. Of late years Carpentler has ben In few long fights. He has whipped Beckett. Wells, Cook. Lewii and others oth-ers in from one to fout rounds. He couldn't stand up four rOundc agalnsl Detnpsey, but If he takes on Harry Greb he might as well be ready to go quite a distance. Greb will hardly knock him out, and If he stops Greb it won't be within three or four all prejudices aside, Great Britain's elghteeh-hole play golf test is not nearly so sound as the thirty-six thirty-six hole route called for over here. Luck especially the luck around the greens, plays too big a part in any short match. In an eighteen-holo match a bad start may easily be fatal, or a tough break or two may deride the issue, where in a thirty-six hole a (fair the stronger golfer almost invariably in-variably comes through. Which calls attention to the fact that most or the finer amateurs in Great Britain are for the thirty-six hole journey, where luck has a better chance to even up and greater skill still has a better chance to show. "Isn't a great star on a ball club a detriment so far as winning pennan's is concerned?" asks F. B. l. "Doesn't he. by attracting most of the atten-iion atten-iion and by too much temperament, help to break up a team's morale and affect team play."' Not necessarily. Mathev. son. Wagner and Collins were not temperamental and they helped build, rather than break, tearn morale mor-ale The star who becomes over-temperamental however. Is more of a detriment than a help He Is inclined to forget that it was baseball that made him and that the game; comparatively, com-paratively, Is much bigger than ho Is. The bail player who doesn't know that the crowd Is about as wiliin-; to jeer as it Is to Cheer has onfy about one-fourth of a baseball education. edu-cation. "If Shocker isn't the best pitcher In the American league," writes .i fun, "who is"" Probably Sboi k But Faher was last year, and 1922 isn't quite over yet. oo |