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Show Cy Williams Is One of Philadelphia Mainstays Cy Wllllnms Is nearly thirty-five years of age and Is as hairless as a billiard ball, hut be can still play the game. Ilurrlng, perhaps, Jim Thorpe, there never was a greater all-around athlete In the big Icnguos than the potato po-tato grower from Three Itlvers. While ho was learning biology and sociology In Notre Dame he was crncklng a lot of records In tho hurdles, broad Jump and springs. Cy will be one of Fletcher's mainstays main-stays in l'lilladelphla this season, Just ns he has been the mainstay of every team with which he ever played, a mainstay who has never risen to the complete limit of stardom. The reason lies in his temperament, which Is eiiuable and somewhat phlegmatic. phleg-matic. Had Wllllnms possessed Ty Cobb's flaming spirit and ills own great ntliletlc gift, no player in ths country would have achieved a flnor record. |