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Show (Copyright, 1922. New York Tribune. Inc.) I THE KA(,Ij; THE LION It is a fine thing to see another completed ooason move by with the cordial sporting relrilOM between the 1'nited States and Ureat Britain un-marred un-marred by a protest or an argument of any sort For when you come right down to ultimate cases, these arc tho only two great sporting nations in tho world, the only two who can keep International Interna-tional sport going whore It means anything any-thing at all. France comes next, but even France h;isn't absorbed the spirit or the traditions tra-ditions of the game In any extensive quantities. Oermany has never gone In for International sport. For 40 years her directors were too busy building up another typo of machine, which formally for-mally dispersed on November 11, 1916. Italy has amounted to but little Sweden .. n.j Finland have developed track stars for Olytnplc competltlono. but they have no delegations ready for tennis, golf, polo nd the rest of It FRAITGH HIARRE. Franco has been an unusual propo-I propo-I sltlon. Frenchmeft hnven't gone In I for sport upon anything approaching the Bcale of America or Great Brlt-, Brlt-, aln. I Yet France hats had her Massy In golf, her Carpentler and Crlqui In the ring, her Lenglen st tennlo, with other tennis players of top rank; her Gullllmot and one or two other nota- I bles. France has the dash and the spirit, the nervoui energy, to go far if she ever went In for sport on a big scale. H kCIAX M M l I ms Lack of competitive stardom In various va-rious countrleu hajn not been due to any raolal deficits In sport or contest. con-test. America has shown this In her development de-velopment of Hans Warner, once German; Lajolc, the Frenchman; Coveleskle, the Pole, Hagen, of Holland Hol-land descent, Harazan, the Italian; Mrs. Mallory, of Norway And soma day only look over a few football lineups. Here you will I see cvory known nationality marked i)-wn, including th Scandinavian. AMONG THE HEAVYWEIGHTS. Yet among the heawclght champions, cham-pions, tho severont test known to sport, thw hardest height to climb, you will run Into QO nome outside of the Anglo-Saxon-Celt cult Sullivan. I Corbett, Fltxsimmons. Jeffries, John-; John-; eon. Willard and Ueinp-" Hee tt'o Latin and the Teuton and the Blav are eliminated They have never figured. (Carpentler came closer than any one else, but at that, he never came very olose. FOOTBAJiL NAMES. We thought onco we had the best named men in football well segregated segre-gated In 8tarbuck. a Cornell fullback, and Cragwall, a Vanderbllt guard But now enters a Chicago kicker, ' ' known as Proudfoot. who it lejit de-' Serves to move up on even terms with the two named before him. A back$-l field wdth Stagg, Starbuek and Proud - foot ought to go somewhere Yot one of the greatest of nil football players was Coy. FOOTBALL LIMERICK. I A fullbaak who .hammered at guard And gained something less than a I yard. Quite moodfly said As he lamped the guard's head: "And i used to think concrete was hard." There may he better battles within Uncle Sam's chalk-marked domains than Navy and Ponn State cun offer at Washington on Friday but we doubt it very much. The Navy can match her rXuff against any machine In the game without getting the worst of it in tiie adfante dope. And Penn State's great three-year record Is Complete oldcnce for the other side of too case. Penn Stato alone stopped stop-ped the Navy last fall, and there la considerable doubt that 'ven Penn State can Interpose a barrier this approaching ap-proaching autumn day. When you get a combination of Navy forwards and Navy backs, extremely well coached, I you get something to beat. THE DUFFER SPEAKS. If It should freeze. If It should snow, If winter brings Its bitter woe. I'll have no two-foot putts to blow. If Ice and sleet are on the grounds. Or some wild winter gale reaxiunds. I'll hear uu caddie's 'Outer bounds!" As between umpiring a baseball 1 game and rcfcreelng a football gam-i. we'd rather go in for lion taming or politics. If "Battling" Slkl ever decides to) visit America ho will be almost ss popular over here as the Crown Prince. In fact, tho two might make a Joint tour of It Just to se how thing might work out. OO |