Show or ay A YC GA how many states B BARTOW have turned out more stars especially ally in the way of quality than the SO sovereign commonwealth of georgia this angle occurred to us in roaming the red clay hills and the stubble in the pursuit of quail georgias record is phenomenal for her top man in baseball she gives you ay tyrus raymond cobb once known as the t royston for mens golf A she offers one robert 7 T bjones jones jr and for her women golfers alexa stirling her two best fighting menbere young stribling and tiger flowers they were ty cobb not world beaters but close to the top when in their prime for track and field there is spec towns who set a new worlds hurdling record in the last olympic games the last for a long time georgia tech and georgia university have both played their share of winning football through the years bryan bitsy grant has been her main contribution to tennis never a champion but the man handler of tennis giants in addition to bobby jones georgia also produced big ed dudley one of the best of all the swingers one of the star stylists sty lists of the game and looking a long lone way back we still recall bobby who for years had the cycling championship and the six day races at his mercy her list of star ball players is a long ion one including nap rucker brooklynn Brook lyns star left bander and sherrod smith another southpaw the race track it was from atlanta ga that charles S howard owner of sea biscuit kayak II 11 and midland came along to racing fame and it was also from georgia hills that tom smith howards famous trainer came to the money winning top in the last three years smith trained thoroughbreds have won a million dollars georgia can offer a stout challenge in the way of quality to any other state I 1 doubt that any other state can offer two such headliners head liners as bobby jones and ty cobb in baseball maryland far away this busy sporting center can present babe ruth jimmy foxx and home run baker whose busy bludgeons produced more home run thunder than any other trio although new york Y is close up with lou gehrig and hank greenberg and for boxing 4 what about mary lands joe gans I 1 Z what about pennsylvania with chris jimmy foxx ty mathewson eddie plank chief bender big bill tilden ted meredith texas presents texas would also like to take the stand with tris speaker rogers hornsby ted lyons sammy baugh davey obrien jack johnson byron nelson ralph guldahl ben hogan jimmy demaret wilmer allison cetty betty jameson these and many more new yorks list is tremendous gene tunney walter hagen lou gehrig hank greenberg eddie collins john mcgraw benny leonard and many others what about colorado with jack dempsey W er white and dutch dark clark or massachusetts with john lawrence benny leonard sullivan the gran grand d old tub from boston mike murphy keene fitzpatrick eddie mahan and francis ouimet Cali fornias claims california is dead certain to en enter ter her claim joe dimaggio for baseball jim corbett and willie ritchie for boxing little bill johnston don budge ellsworth vines helen wills may sutton bundy and alice marble tor for tennis lawson little for golf an amazing football average piled up by southern california stanford santa clara and california an amazing track record headed by charley paddock prank frank wyckoff and several pole vaulters valters who keep breaking records here wre are most of our main head liners for the last 30 years baseball cobb georgia ruth maryland boxing dempsey colorado tunney new york johnson texas texa s jo joe e louis alabama football best allaround all around back jim thorpe oklahoma best allaround lineman pudge minnesota golfers bobby jones georgia Geo igia I 1 walter hagen new york track jesse owens ohio tennis bill tilden pennsylvania |