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Show MSportlight (Copyright, 1922. New Y'ork Tribune. Inc. ; III Rl SHE "Ml S Ys, here she comes the grand old gan.e, The old Hip', hip and the the rest. Where peacefb.1 eyes are now aflame 'And frenzy grips the bulging breast Where soon epistles score b our hide, Complaining in these bitter tonei "Why all this boost tor Tackle liyd ? j He isn't in the class with Jones." Yes, here she 'comes the Grand !d Stuff "Some instil jtion." in the phrase. The essence of all hectic tlufr. And yVt tlic dream of autumn days, In re Owen plows his way to fame-. hen Jordan makes a rush-like trip. We've eounted seconds till It came. So now go to it let 'er rip: )l 1 M1T. Kli K v One of the greatest features of the ( 'Muing football season is the fact thai ,tho Yale-Harvard and Army-.a games come on the same Saturday This splits the ticket rush 6u-fo, there-iby there-iby relieving more pressure than you ! might think existed. Many a back tollects his fame by plunging through an opening made by bome unheralded tackle or guaro. ' tin h is no great v ariation from llle I'l.W M WINNERS St. Louis made Its last bold bid for an American league pennant fourteen years ago. wh?n Cleveland, Detroit and St. .Louis Were all tangled up in a I knot up to the final day j The browns today, with fourten '(! jlegians aboard, te-ituriug Oeorge Sls-jler, Sls-jler, of Michigan, have their chancu again. They unish most of the Reu-bon Reu-bon at home against such clubs as the I Red Sox Athletics and senators, wlicii jthe Yanks are not around, and this i I break in tortune should .give them at least an even chance One more gooa pitcher would have yanked them safely through, but onb 'one more good pitcher Isn't always hanging around, waiting to be picked! I As It is. the presence of Blsler has ;been a big factor in their upward scramble!, since no other individual of the vc-ar has contributed more to a ! ball club. 1 In fan gossip here and there, yo I hear very little about Rommell of thr . lAihletlca Fame, more than often, la I a matter of location rather than a Imatte.- of merit. It so happens that !tvvo umpires have told us they consla- j red Rommell the greatest pitcher In the league a pitcher good enough with the Browns or the Yanks to win oi er So bk.il games. It may be that by tho time the . I Dempsey-Wlllard fight takes placi j that neither will be allowed to! 'strike the other with one of the I crutches that both will be using by that date THi: FOOTBALL SI RAIN Modern football Isn't as hard upon the player physlcaly as tho old driving, driv-ing, hilting mass play order was. But! 'the new game now sixteen years along. 1 is fur more of a mental strain. There I was keen strategy in old football arid there was use fOr brain as well as1 brawn. There was more use for weight and power But In the old game there were only two main threat the kick and tho rush. To this has been added the rorward paso Which adds something like 33 per cent more to the worries of tho defense which now may bo assaulted in any one of three ways. The modern player on defense must be constantly on his guard, more Bo than his male of the more ancient order. When an r.j.pnslng player falls back who has the ability to kick, run jor pass the baW th defensive side is .under no ordinary strain. Prepara lloQS must bi complete i handle ait (three situations, and before th-- ar-ternoon ar-ternoon is over the Strain begins to tell upOn the nervous system, which Is giv en little repose. It is ror this reason (that football machines grow stab- mof( quickly than they used to before Rm.'i. It Is easier to crow stale mentally men-tally than It Is physically. The men- tal system Isn't quite scTlieavily ar-moreid ar-moreid And When one grows stale menially, there Is an Immediate break in the physical side uf things. The football machine today that lan'.t mentally men-tally anvl physically alen will be up against it A well known college star on his way back to early training was discussing dis-cussing this side of tne case a day or tvi ago. "1 suppose," he said, "tho oldtlmers must have been pretty well battered up at the end of a hard game. They ini"U have In-en physically pretty well used Up. But J doh't DellOVe they felt the nervous strain that vv do riuw. In the old iiays when a runner starv-ed starv-ed around your end, yuu nailed him : with all you had. Now ir you dlv roi him ho may toss the bail on ahead to some one else, and there you are, out of the play This explains a lot of the poor tackling they talk about, let isn't so much poor tarullng as It is the mental uncertainly that arises! You don't know whether to leave youi ! feet or look to block a forward puss And by tho time the game is oyer, "n may be close to a bervoui wreck u i yu are up against a Shrewd, well-ooached well-ooached team than can puss, run and kick." |