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Show K ARE now moving Into a ' strange field, the fourth dimension. dimen-sion. For us it is- the sixth dimension. dimen-sion. It is Mr. EinsU'in's flt'ld of "rela-I "rela-I tivity," as applied to sport. It isn''. complex at all. It is quite simple. It simply sim-ply means that all things are relative, for the time being. Meaning comparison. compari-son. For example, Mike Jacobs had no Louis, Lou-is, Cona, Gans, Leonard, Nelson, Greb, etc, this last winter and spring, yet Mike had his best season. Grantland Rice Last fall, football had lost many of its leading stars to army and navy, yet had one of Its big years, college col-lege and pro. It was a relative matter of "what was left against what was left." The same thing will happen to baseball and racing this spring and summer. Suppose baseball has lost DIMag-glo. DIMag-glo. Feller, Dickey, Cochrane, Gordon, Gor-don, Keller, Ted Williams, Mise, etc. etc.T The game Is still left and the game Is greater. than jany star. I remember the time they used to ask me what was going to happen to baseball when Wagner, Mathew-son, Mathew-son, Lajole, Cy. Young and Rube Waddell were through. What was going to happen when Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker turned in their uniforms? Who would take ' their placesT r There is always someone ready to step into the vacant spot It may be a relative spot, but sport works in the same way the universe works, where all things are relative. The Main Point The main point is that all games worth while are far greater than any individual star. For example, baseball, as a game, is far greater than Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Joe Jackson, Christy Mathewson, Joe DiMaggio, Bill Dickey, Hans Wagner, Frank Frisch, Bob Feller or anyone else you can name. Football would have been a great game minus Jim Thorpe, Bronko Nagurskl, Sammy Baugb, Sid Luck-man, Luck-man, Pudge Heffelfinger, the Chicago Chi-cago Bears, Notre Dame, and all the high spots you can remember. - No Cobbs or Ruths made baseball. base-ball. No Notre Damet nor Chicago Bears made football. No Bobby Jones or Walter Hagen or Harry Vardon made golf. I happen to be a great believer in the game above any individual. When any individual is more important impor-tant than the game, then it isn't the right game. Action, Thrills Still Left This, again, is where relativity comes in. In other words, class it only relative with class. There can still be action, entertainment and a leal contest where top class is missing. miss-ing. I agree with my old friend, now dead, one of the greatest competitors competi-tors and one of the greatest sports- -men I have ever known. The nam is Devereaux Milburn, the polo-playing star. "It is the contest and the . hard close competition that makes every game worthwhile," Dev said. "I get more of a thrill in being beaten In a tough, hard, close scrap than I ever get in winning a walkover walk-over or a runaway. To me it Is the game, the contest, that counts and i not so much the final score. I know this sounds like hokum., I like th sort of scrap where you have U give everything you have in ordei to win. I still say It is more fun W lose in that type of contest than It li to win against out-classed opposition!" opposi-tion!" Milburn was exactly 100 per cent right, as he usually was. Winning, of course, is an important'' factor, But it isn t everything in sport. We have planted too much Impor tance on individual stars, too muck Importance on winning, over thr greater values thai come directly' from the game itself. Who, after all, could ever compar Louis and Dempsey, Corbett and Tuisney, Grange and Thorpe, Rutfc and Cobb, Vardon, and Jones? II can't be done. For there is a relative rela-tive angle that most people overlook. over-look. Time, equipment, training and many other details. Decades and conditions are all relative. Baseball, minus its many stars, can still have a more interesting inter-esting season than it has known foi a long time. Those Setvell Boys Those Sewell boys from Alabama have done all right, one way and another. First there was Joseph Wheejer Sewell and his kid brothel Luke Sewell, from Titus, Ala. Ther there was Rip Sewell from Decatur, Ala. Joe Sewell stepped from a few months in the minors to help Cleveland Cleve-land win a world series and then gc . along to set a new record for con secutive games played, up to the Loi Gehrig era. -' |