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Show gtSPOmilGHT 'teo' Gnanf land Rice (Copyrlffhl Xew ITork Tribune, Inc. ) THE COitil-BAOK L-ong have had tho "ChicUs" and Jocks, Th! Tlni.s ih. JeaiN and the Bills. '.ilt"-s and Boris ;md Johns In flocks. Conducting eonortfl o'ar the liiits On which, they dribble their magic pills f Anglo-Savons and "Dlrna kens." liut new blood now the kinship fills. Hail. Uene the conquering Saracens! I ' Too long these warriors bore the knocks in nations effete, beheld the thrills nce theirs enjoyed by other stocks; Cantankerous grew between the thrills ' And pale with anger In the gills; Then up. and in these hostile fens Threw off the yoke, redressed their ins I Hall, Gene the conquering Saracens!! That strain which once administer- d shocks To Europe now its offspring grills. With hurtling divots, hard as rocks Pelts their proud heads, and grinning, spills .Modern Crusaders' blood for kills; Then In Its deep sequestered dens From the filched cup potations swills. Hail. Gene the conquering Saracens!! L t nti Hark, the weird cry of triumph that shrills' Scribble, ye historypeatln- pen This blurb on the slowly grinding mills Hail. Gene the conquering Saracens! STANLEY K. WTLSON. It's said, erroneously we cannot dOUQt, that he is of Italian descent I and 1ms been knowuto syell his name J with a "z." The United Slates, being one vast melting pot, has shown weii enough j that supremacy In sport belong to no one nation or tribe, Almost even known nationality, once removed from Its Starting point, has risen to championship cham-pionship heights Where a chance was 01 f . red lo suink' lut i the game Th r- Is Gene Baraseh, of Italian descent, now open golf champion, champion of a game that was BUppOSjSd to belong to the Scots. There 1,3 Walter Hugen. British open champion, whoso father was born In Holland nd that Is only a brief starter. Take baseball. Lajols and Parent of French descent, wen among the greatest great-est In the game. The Gorman nation has gone In lightly for sport oi ever) BnrL yet in this country we have, had i Hans Wagner. Heinie Peltz. Brelten-Stein, Brelten-Stein, Schmidt, Hoffman and dozens ! Of others who were stars. There are-also are-also Coveleskle and Konetchy among the Polish del. gates, and more than a few stitr Italians, not forgetting the i immortal "lng" Bodle. If you want a general eonglomoca- , tlon of nationalities some day look over a series ! football line-ups. Here you will find nam. .s lhat you can't hurdle with R running Htart. These youngsters have all been given the, competitive chance In the Unwed j States which their f&ihert 'ind grand-fathers grand-fathers never had back at the starting start-ing place And It ha taken tho shltt of onlv one generation to lift them up to stardom TKMil.l.K W I M I I There was some slight whispering I to tho effect that Benny Leonard had misplaced his once formidable punch S ben he met Tendler I Perhaps. And then perhaps again I Tendler was merely a much tougher I product than many believed him to he. Tho Philly nidi trheeter la no fragile piece or hrle-a-broe He can tuku his spare of it, amt a fr pounds tnora I 1 eonard nailed him with more than lone or two lusty crui, but he was I not able ev en to check bin aggressive Charges at any tage Tendler continued con-tinued to eome on, mid If he was hurt. I" kepi the news to himself It was not visible to Die non-partisan eye only a few feet away Tendler Isn't the cleverest boxer that ever llvud. But he has two of the vital gifts he can give and ho can take. And he showed ne wasn't afraid 1o carry the fight to the champion and keep It there a,r moat of the route. As many as eight or ten "lierles nave eome in lately, asking whether the. owners of the Sow York clubs also ownerf the hi adelphla Nationals the 4Mston Kd Sox and the Boston Braves 'There seisms to be a general belief that this condition exists under cover, due, of course, to a long lb..- .if startling trades and sales. Wo have no information infor-mation on the subject, but It Is easy to see how such a belie! could attain I widespread growth. The blow that Harry Frazee has delivered In Boston j has done baseball more harm than any other five things combined. He has proved that any mention of the I word sport In baseball, so far as he Is concerned is the leading joke of the day. TlIK FIRST SIGN The first sign of a waning summer i is on. We started In to discuss some 1 sporting topic with a b-adlng camp fol- i lower a day or two ago and he promptly promp-tly switched the discussion to football. "Yale looks great"' he said, "but J don't underestimate that Harvard I team, with the seasoning It got last year. Don't underestimate any team that has an Owen and a Buell aboard. They are a pretty fair team, with no one else on deck." it hadn't occurred to us that the I dull boom of the first punt was only i four or five weeks av.nv . And not evi n the golf championship at Brook- lin.-, th- tennis championship at Oer- j mantown, the Davis Cup and the world series can lay a complete stymie. oo |