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Show &SPOBTLIGHT X6y Gran f land Rice Copyright. 15iL'2. v York. Tribune. Inc ) A TROPIC VI. REVISION There's a new thrill In the air, Dolly Gray. ou can (eel it everywhere Dolly Gray. When ou hoar the whistle call As tbe halfback takes the ball. Can't you feel the iroos-flesh crawl Dolly Graj ' Her' the anclcot cry and hue. Dolly Gray, tereln s.anK rears old Purdue, Dolly Grsjy. And there comes tbe same old wail. Cur ol Harvard. Pitt and Yale, Where the outlooks wan and lale, Dolly Gray. ULLrAROl ND Jil i.r "You can name your tootb&ii ali-tlmo ali-tlmo stars tor eacit position," susfe'''3t a football star of QIPTO thin purf..uj-' note "but if 1 were coaching a Lean) and could pick any olio piaycr irom ine entire lot for all-around valu;. 1 Kiiuw a man I'd no to U a. nurry. No, his name isn't Heston. TliOipo, Mahan. or Coy .ly pick would bQ "Tack'' tiardwlok L'hore a- a football player play-er In every sense- of the word, a slur with every physical quality and a tunning Hplnt, fhat OOUlU provide mora:, mo-ra:, tor via ntlrt team RardwUk, a great end. a great blocker, a great ln-terferer, ln-terferer, could also have been on. 01 tne greatest baltbackn U he hadn ' bi .i needed more in another placs. Hi would have made a greut tackie. a great quarterback, a great oentetr, He bud everything, and that's generally gen-erally enough." HOW T) WATCH POOTHAIiL There are a number ol p- cj):,' who Know football, and there are a number num-ber of poople who can write. It so happens that lu Pcny l'. Hauirhton, the mam mandarin ol Harvard's Har-vard's winning system, the gam-- finds a man who combines both qualities lu I, is now book, "Football, and How to v ., ., f (Marshall Jonai company f beston). P D. H makes a not wortbv contribution to the literature ut autumn's premier spor, There no ono who knows more of tbe pn.-.-ca! an mental training and the psy-. psy-. hoiogy ol the game and no one who , a u. n r knack of making all tins Inti n sting to the reader at large. h, new football book also Is featured fea-tured with an introduction by hey-wood hey-wood Uroun and thirty action snapshots snap-shots that make you think FPU n the side lines of a championship contest. OPEN SPACES There are any number of open spaces in the ranks for ambitious tal- L'nThf newcomer can hardly complain that every niche in the hnii of fame U taken. KlUmger. , Aldrich. D evtoe. Slater, Lourle, Garrlty. Mohardt. Mc-MUlln, Mc-MUlln, Stein. Davtes and of others who seized their full shars of headlines last fall, have Appeared Appear-ed over the hill. Most of those who made the all -American roster v.hl. 1 h now runs Into reg m.nta BlhronJh-have BlhronJh-have completed their day In the bar-i.f-KS But It doesn't take over two orhree lung runs by some debutant to elo-e out post history and start a am, of chatter The s orm v .11 break shortly now, but wlU hardly roach its full force .until tb world series tymlfl is out of the way. And ., bVthe Mme you turn around twice the big debate Is on as to bow n the well known dickens you are -lntr to pick a champion where everj team that put on an ambitious schedule sched-ule got licked. Why not cut out all the side-show . JSn ZJSm n l F "and toss Dornp-stuff Dornp-stuff asks 13. !- , v., ,ii Bey and Wills into the main bull pen together? Every one knows Uisy are out by themselves when " comes to olaaa There Is no one wise even close Why then, all this fUgtSS lug them with others who don belong to the same neighborhood? hasn't fought in over S Jj I . an vet all the hard training he new s w i th two months' preparation. Why all the wasted effort on minor targets tar-gets "" "Speaking of nerve,' suggests L. H i. "isn t it the greatest test, after all. tor one to I ontlnu- giving 100 per Ci nt of his best In the face of a hope-Lesfl hope-Lesfl s rap" To know you haven't tho slightest chance to win, and yet to p your head and heart Kolng In the i-lht way to the finish .' This at lear Is my idea of the last word in the .way of raw nere " Those looking for a demonstration of sheer power might try to face one of Tllden sere. Not oven one of ."Babe" Ruth's lustiest blows gives out any more smoke WV would almost as soon have Hagen driv a golf ball at us. standlnr twenty vards away. When you can knock a racquet out or ; raid Patterson s hand you are hitting hit-ting a tennis ball on the nose. |