Show V 0 0 new york post WW service many sports folks share ruths hazy for names the seasons of his great D est glory the newspaper boys were ere ever uncovering one flaw in the perfection of that stout citizen who now devotes his declining years to golf no matter how often they might dine or otherwise commune with him they always were discovering that the first 15 or 20 meetings were the hardest after that hat the stout citizen would give up guessing as to whether this was bill or dan or joe from then on their lives could be made more beautiful by knowledge that babe ruth would know them collectively aud and individually I 1 as kid of course from time to time gentlemen from whatever estate the newspaper business happens to be in resented this disregard for their undoubted worth and baptismal X mo most of them thou though b h merely took it as new evidence 0 of the pressure that bese besets a great babe ruth man maa 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 of those vast public oath gath brings 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 beang ft abne of those who are re to share the miseries and the secrets of his profession with the world the reporter was forced to admit 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 ah uh 11 it was not that mr southworth 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 ali ah uh say I 1 know your face you use to play the piano at s but the curtain must be drawn over this deplorable scene carpentier know joe beckett socially it can be lifted upon the fact that tha athletes athlete also fall fail to know one another by this I 1 do not dot refer to the uele belei a willies Will ses or the helen Jacob ses 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 the press as the orchid man although he certainly was not in the florist racket what kind of a fellow Is this joe beckett Be cliett he be was asked 1 I 1 dont know was the quick confident and smiling 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 s 64 yes I 1 know georges carpentier Car carp entler continued ca affable and willing to oblige but that was in the ring I 1 was only getting paid to fight him there was no sense in talking to him then was there TT T PERHAPS baij no mere coiner dence that one of the warmest days daya of the year arrived along with W mas Ing naturally the ballyhoo for his fight with louis will continue continua to set the pace for other temperatures until the dark uhlan sits down in front of the cream colored bomber on june 18 As aa mr arthur brisbane probably quite often has advised the world a million bobs Is a lot of doughnuts therefore even such specialists in cha charitable bitable promotion as the athletic club directors must shower down their sparks of imagery so that all citizens with money to burn will have no trouble finding their way to the festal altar just as naturally though all this good clean fun has brought new wrinkles lato into the otherwise bland countenance of uncle michael strauss jacobs while wandering hither and yon now peeping in anxiously to see that herr Ing has been properly tucked into his white 1100 ns bed now peeping out fretfully to inquire whether bolanos bussell jacobs has hag been yanked out of his pretty whits white 1100 a m crib uncle mike 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 alphabet to the boys who have done the best dally daily compositions 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 tha m most ost emilena eminent promoter since the days of the late lamented rickard so be cause it is his own dollars which must back the ballyhoo and because a full Gs worth of them 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 ner never er appear upon the immaculate balance sheets to make sure that no misfortune besets the path of the two athletic young men before they can wrangle before their gold old 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 seemingly on the straight b and narrow way to success in mentioning this there Is no desire to cast bast hints or make promises instead because the way of a promoter Is tough and because no fight is a success a lop flop or even a sure lhing thing until the gong has sounded I 1 merely am sympathizing with uncle mike there have been all too many such affairs which have encountered dire fate for instance there was 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 never did come off sometimes though fate behaves very handsomely in dealing 0 with all parties concerned high up I 1 in n this sorting of fights which never came off there can be mentioned the sharkey campolo affair which was scheduled for yankee stadium just as the woefully small crowd was wending its way into the arena the skies wept in sympathy with the promoters who were about to lose a small fortune so the thing was called off forever there also was the time when gentleman gene tunney was supposed to meet stevedore harry wills A considerable sid erable portion of the press thought favorably about the glorious possibilities bill of that one and indeed the tick tickets ets already had been ordered for it what happened need not be gone into here some say that tex tes begged tunney to lay off and promised him a shot at dempsey things 1 I believe that the sign on connie macks door should read wrecking done here terms strictly cash that folks who predict that tony Canzon canzoneri erl will be massacred at madison square gardens in may alay fore for forget t e t the farst stoss boss affair just jus t as Is the case now vancouver jimmy had been idle for too long before training for that one so his legs were shaky and his timing was off all evening that the national league executives 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 worse than it has been in years |