Show speaking of sports champs are youngsters tn survey y shows by r GEORGE A BARCLAY yov want to be a champion IF corn husker busker a star baseball player or an ace prize fighter you had letter better get around to it by or before the he age of party thirty otherwise you are in the old man class and your chances for athletic eminence are practically nil nii at least that is the conclusion va of professor ro fessor harvey C lehman lebman of unto ohio state university who has made a survey of age in relation to sports sporting championships belong to youth says professor lehman and he proceeds to lu support his contention with impressive statistics old timers might contradict him by pointing out th that at bob fitzsimmons won the heavyweight championship the age of thirty five and that k na J ok X N w N MR A JOHNNY VANDER MEER IR stanislaus zbyszko was heavyweight wrestling champion at sixty they might add that big bill tilden at the age of forty could beat any kid to in tennis that cy young was pitching star baseball in his forties and babe ruth was still cracking out home runs in his late thirties but the professor could answer that these were isolated exceptions baseball players reach stardom in the upper twenties the lehman survey shows the best single year of 0 the average baseball player be he pitcher infielder or outfielder is twenty enty eight some arrive earlier FO for instance bob feller amazed the baseball world a year or two ago go with his pitching at the age of eighteen and johnny vander meer pitched two consecutive noh no hit h it noran games recently at the age of twenty three prize fighters reach their pea peak k a fe few w years earlier than base baseball ball players pl ayer s most of the championships in the various divisions being won regularly by boxers from twenty four to twenty seven according to professor lehman the possible exception is the heavyweight division where twenty nine seems to be the magic baij year joe louis reached the heights heigh s a good deal earlier the lehman f figures agures show that the average age of boxing champions decreases steadily from twenty nine lor for heavyweights heavy weights to twenty eight for light heavyweights heavy weights twenty seven for a A ax 7 V m rau W JOE LOUIS twenty six for wel ter weights nv eights light lightweights weights and feath ta gats tt and t wenty twenty four for ban weights tak I 1 if your sporting orting BP inclinations curve eur different t d directions the age you have may rise slightly Y S suppose appose cion e ambitions to be a cham wh abc h corn 00 1 husker T then hen the year in in cess s the m greate greatest erea test t chances chances of sue suc oller off themselves is is thirty season of upsets PUT the season ot of 1938 do down in in your the notebook as one of 0 upsets baseball world heroes who have made the headlines steadily for years have tailed failed to click this year new heroes have risen t to 0 stardom out of nowhere new team have challenged or bested the lea leaders in both leagues other teams regarded as sure contenders have slumped badly an example of the changing baseball world is the failure of lou gehrig of the yankees to sparkle this year and the disappointing of joe showing di maggio so far joe hits hita his homers regularly and still boast a stout batting average but he the wonder boy he was a year ago moreover the yankees have failed to be a standout up to now the sporting world marveled a year ago at the feats of the boston bees it graybeard rookies jim turner and lou fette neither has hag been a world beater in the 1938 season joe medwick of the cardinals has been hitting solidly this year but nis his nis abling average is nowhere near apar the clip he enjoyed most of the 1937 season johnny mize a sensation of the cards last year is something of a bust now carl hubbel of the giants used to be a rock of gibraltar in time of trouble but hes had more shaky moments on the pitching mound thus far than probably ever before in his great career the chicago white sox and the I 1 washington senators are bewildered over the inability of joe kuhel and zeke bonura the first basemen they swapped to get going this year frank demaree and bill herman of the chicago cubs have developed a chronic batting slump on the bright side of course is the advent of flashy newcomers into the baseball headlines probably the most sensational is no hit johnny vander meer of the cincinnati reds among standouts stan douts this year including frank mccormick the rookie first baseman and ernie lombardi lombard and ival goodman who are enjoying their best years this season hostile hostak A A crowded with more ri topnotch fighters than any other pugilistic class the middleweight division now comes up with a new punching al hostak who 4 AL HOSTAK won the championship from freddie steele recently hostak has never fought outside his native state of washington there is plenty ot of classy opposition for the new king of the middleweights to meet when he gets around to it right out on the coast he be can fight fred apostoli who holds a decision over steele and has been called the uncrowned champion and young toung corbett half a dozen other standouts stan douts in the middleweight division could probably give hostak an argument here and there A UNIQUE golt golf performance in arx england recently is that of leonard G crawley english ex champion and walker cup player who won t two wo competitions in one day the st georges hill trophy at weybridge Wey bridge and the gold medal at sunningdale Sunning dale this involved him in three rounds of 18 19 holes each and he averaged even fours to tommy M loughran former light heavy weight boxing champion famous as a boxer rather than a slugger remarked recently in philadelphia many of 0 these modern fighters know nothing about keeping a man off balance or feinting him into position for a blow what a snap it would be now sammy gray former american league pitcher is managing and doing relief duty for texarkana Tex arkana in the east texas league there have been no shutouts shu touts in the AU all star baseball series cries joe boley shortstop for the athletics former has been dropped as manager or of the pa pocomoke Poco comore moke city team in i the eastern shore league anlou newspaper a western |