| Show 0 new york tork pott post service sen let many sports folks share ruths hazy memory memo for names TOURING the seasons of his great dest ett glory the newspaper boys were ever uncovering one flaw in the perfection of that stout citizen who now devotes his declining golf no matter how often they might dine or otherwise commune with him they always were discovering that the first 18 15 or 20 meetings were the hardest alter after that the stout citizen would give up guessing as to whether this was rill kill or dan or joe from then on their lives could be made more beautiful by knowledge that babe ruth would know them collectively and individually as kid of course from time to time gentlemen from whatever estate the newspaper business happens liap pens to be in resented this disregard for their undoubted worth and baptismal mo most of them though merely took it as new evidence of the pressure that besets a great babe ruth man or smirked complacently at mirrors which persisted in giving bald evidence that this kid stuff was all wrong recently a reporter made mention of this at one ot of those vast tast public gatherings at which he Is such a popular favorite immediately some busybody in the audience inquired it if inability to remember names of eminent commentators menta tors upon sports and wresting was confined entirely to the babe how billy South memory was stymied sadly being one of those who are reluctant to share abe th e miseries and the secrets of his profession with the world the reporter was forced to admit thi the truth there was for instance the st louis baseball scrivener who devoted several seasons to giving his best aid advice and comfort to billy southworth perhaps the reporter and the cardinal manager were not as close as park and tilford but to all outward appearances they seemed two hearts that beat as one then fate along with the failure to win a pennant decreed that southworth should try his baseball fortunes elsewhere scant months later the two were reunited in a hotel lobby how are you bill caroled cajoled the baseball writer rushing forward ahue ah uh it was not that mr south worth Is a snob a ribber or a guy who devotes his life to dealing out the ice his brow was wrinkled in earnest concentration cent ration for a full minute you could see that he was bearing down determined not to let memory slip a fast one over the corner ali ah uh say I 1 know your face you use to play the plano piano at but the curtain must be drawn over this deplorable scene carpentier know joe beckett socially it can be lifted upon the fact that athletes athle tei also fall to know one another by this I 1 do not refer to the helen Will willies ses the helen jacobse s or those others who bo probably have very good reason for not nodding as they pass by instead we can turn to the more elysian spheres there we can consider an episode in the life of a gentleman once admiringly hailed by b the press as the orchid man although he certainly was wag not 1 in n the florist racket what kind of a fellow Is this joe becket Eeck ett he was asked 1 I dont know was the quick confident and sailing su illing reply ive never met him sure you have persisted the interviewer shifting to english so that the waiter might get in on the laugh too dont you remember he was in the ring with you twice and you knocked him out both times yes I 1 know georges carpentier Car continued affable and willing to oblige but that was in the ring I 1 was only only getting paid to fight him there was no sense in talking to him then was there 0 0 0 not in the box score both the cubs and the dodgers his old and his new playmates are using the freddy lindstrom sliding pad this year it Is a pad sewed inside the left trouser leg nat fleischer the magazine editor shortly will vil publish an encyclopedia of boxing it will contain the history and bout by bout record orda of fighters since 1703 was no mere coincidence IT P that one of the warmest days day of the year arrived along with mal schmelling ng naturally the ballyhoo for his fight with louis will continue to set act the pace paca for other temperatures temperature i until the dark uhlan sits down in front of the cream colored somber bomber on june 18 As A mr arthur brisbane probably quite often has advised the world a million bobs Is a lot of doughnuts therefore even such specialists in charitable promotion as the athletic club directors must shower down their spars spares of imagery so that ail citizens with money to burn will have no trouble finding their way to the festal attar altar just as naturally though nit all this rood good clean fun has brought new wrinkles into the otherwise bland countenance of uncle michael chael strauss jacobs while wandering hither nail and yon now peeping in anxiously to see that herr has fins been properly tucker tucked into ills his pretty white 11 1100 00 p m bed now peeping out fretfully to inquire whether bolanos cussell jacobs has been yanked out of ills his pretty white 1100 a in crib uncle mike like ever faces the future with suspicious eye even while engaged in such elevating work as handing out As or some other letter of the broadway Broadw ny alphabet to the boys who have done the best dally compositions tile the haunted gleam earn ever Is present this Is because first of all uncle mike has no illusions as to where charity lines up for the gun then again he Is a business man as well as the most eminent promoter since the days of the late lamented rickard so because it Is his own dollars which must back the ballyhoo and because a full Gs worth of them must must be laid on the line long before june 18 this most celebrated of main stem traders must ever give his best regard to those items of fate which never appear upon the immaculate balance sheets to make sure that no misfortune besets the path of the two athletic young men before they can wran wrangle le before their gold embroidered audience he must carefully scan all angles while doing so he must comport himself with due memory of those other promising prizefights prize fights which were forcibly detoured while all seemingly on the vl ss straight and narrow way to success ng in mentioning this there Is no desire to cast hints or make promises instead because the way of a promoter Is tough and because no fight I 1 Is a success a flop or even a sure thing until the gong has sounded I 1 1 merely am sympathizing with uncle mike there have bare been all too many such affairs which have encountered dire fate in spite of the b best st of skill and intentions for instance there w was as the time when stanley ketchell and sam langford were ready to enter the ring of the old fairmont club up in the bronx perhaps a little bird whispered although the bird for which the bronx Is most famed Is not given to whispering or it may have been that the higher ups conveyed more direct and forcible tidings to billy gibson the promoter anyhow the affair was junked bunked and later conveyed to philadelphia wills battle with tunney y never did come off sometimes though fate beli beliaev aes very tery handsomely in dealing with nith all parties concerned high up in this ford sorting ng ot of fights which never came oil off there can b be mentioned the sharkey campolo nf af fair air which was scheduled for or yankee stadium just as the woefully small crowd was wending its way into the arena the skies wept la in sympathy with the promoters who were ere about to lose a small fortune so the thing was called off forever there also was the time when G gentleman e n gene tunney was supposed to meet stevedore harry wills A considerable sid erable portion of the press thou thought lit favorably about the glorious possibilities blit of that one and indeed the tickets already had been ordered tor for it what happened need not be gone into here some fay eay that tex rick richard ard begged tunney to lay off and promised him a shot at dempsey things I 1 believe that the sign on connie macks door should read wrecking done alere terms strictly cash that folks who predict that tony Canzon canzoneri erl will be massacred at hadj madison square gardens in slay hay forget the first ross affair just as Is the case now vancouver jimmy b had a of been idle for too long iong before training tor for that one so his legs were and ills his timing was off all evening that the national league execute executives ives having proved themselves great big strong business men of sterling character by blackballing the jew who was voted the best umpire in the game should make up with dolly stark that the national league umpiring never on a very high average is w worse orse than it has been in years that it if brooklyn ook really Is the best of all base baseball ball cities it Is very poor judgment to keep shooting the most incompetent arbiters into the dodgers games flames that tile the A A U may be shocked to disco discover er a commercial league dig digging g ing deeply into that sunday afternoon hockey gold mine next season that a man iab a bag of gold also will come coine into the alls of the more eminent winners at the this summer and that track rad bield events will b be a success siberia and in winter Is usually surrounded by glistening white and green sea ice to reach the island was almost an impossibility until a few years ago now its lev few visitors can push northward in summer across long strait in an icebreaker ice breaker sometimes the ship follows cautiously narrow channels of water while on all ail sides stretch milling ice masses that boom grind and crack ominously rescue the stranded in january 1914 1014 the expedition tion ship the karluk was crushed like an eggshell by the opening and closing of the ice and sank rank about go miles from island the sur lived on the island until rescued in september in 1033 the soviet ship Chel luskin set out with supplies and a group of scientists to replace the handful of men and women then hi icing ing on the island ninety miles iles off cape Van karem siberia a wall of lee ice 30 feet high crashed against the ship split spilt and sank it the passengers stranded on the ice were nere all rescued within two months by airplanes from the siberian mainland island Is approximately GO CO miles long and 17 miles wide approached pro ached in winter it would hardly be reassuring appearing then as a bleak white lee ice floe but if one were snug in furs and speeding behind a lively dog team he might find an interesting te drama unfolded on the snow covered island shapes thought to be moving snow drifts would turn out to be polar bears snowy owls would fly silently and one might see tiny white lemmings tunneling tunnell ng in the snow pounced on by arctic foxes with huffy fluffy white bilte fur should transpolar trans polar air routes ever become commercially important island with its position and its natural plateau might be a strategic air base tor for flights connecting northern america with northern asia and northern E europe drope proposed flights from the mouth of the mackenzie Mack euzie aher canada to the mouths of the kollma and |
