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Show MI THE NEW Golden At f irt, f&uOwlr.g the liteit world wr, s hid only a few months in which y jet ur.dtrwsy. So fir It has te-fjn te-fjn to outcLiii L so-ca! Golden Gold-en Af that fa'.lovked the Kirit World ar in Co ay of attendance. gat receipti ar.d Increasing public Inter-rtt Inter-rtt that In It5 H1 crack all for-rr.fr for-rr.fr marks If we can icttle a few crcLlerr.s. arvl aomcor.e don't set carelrit r.h an atomic tomb. Hat lklcc lhrub th" mliti and foj oa ahead p itill fall to are ao kljn that the 1S j Perfrmeri c A compare In crowd f U appr.l with nab I $ Kuth, Jack Drmp- ir'' 11 w). nobby Jonrt. s. .y A mil Tllden, Red '1 flranre, Rogera , , Ilornaby, Tommy -.'X'?. Hitchcock, Man o r .i i War, Walter Haren . V '.wJt 'rw thcri of C t that former prrlod GrantlandRlce "h happened to , be b!ccd with that Indrdnable flair known a "color." Mojt of the tar actora we have left to open or carry on the 1341 program go tack well before the la it war started. In this list you will f.-i'i Joe Louis. Hilly Ccr.n. Ityrcn Nelson. Hen Hogan. Joe Di-M-tggio, llarJi Grecr.Lerg and others wr.o had reacr.ed, or at least ha a corre to their peak before Pearl Harbor. It ti fair.tly possible, but highly Improbable, that you and I will see another Ruth. Demjiey. Jor.es, Hitchcock or Tilden In action with I rr.urh rnmhlnH aVill mn.4 rrrnivl appeal. Still Great Fi flitters No one can say yet Just how much fighting ability Joe Louis and Hilly Conn can bring to the ring next June. Louis has almost certainly certain-ly taken a number of steps over the hKL The odds are that Conn won't be as good as he was in his last attempt lo reach the top. Both may have enough left to give a record-paying record-paying crowd an Interesting show. We'll know about this later on when the two get In better fighting shape. I There Is no other heavyweight In sight who compares with either, at his best. Someone may corne along later on, but he Is still some distance dis-tance away. High-class heavyweights heavy-weights arrive at wide Intervals. jThe 4-Ka produced little and neither army nor navy has any sensations showing along the horizon. ! It might be suggested here that ! Army's football team has taken the jlead In the new Golden Age. It is better than any football team that followed the first war. Dlanchard and Davis have been mentioned more than any two football players one can recall off hand. And both will be around next falL with an- I ether fine Army team that might eaiily set a three-year record. What about baseball? Most of the stars will be found among such for- (mer stars as Joe DiMagglo, Hank Greenberg. Joe Gordon, Bobby Doerr. Marty Marlon, Terry Moore, many members cf the old Yankee and Cardinal casts. But there Is still hope for such 'young entries as Dave Ferrlss of the Red Sox. Wakefield of the j Tigers, Stlrnweiss cf the Yankees. Schoendelnst of the Cardinals and a I few more who may develop rapidly. Old Stars Returning j The majority of baseball eyes will .be focused on former stars who should, in the main, be ready for baseball again next spring. Al New-houser New-houser will again rate high up after, a brilliant two-year record. After the First World war. the Ill-fated Ill-fated White-Black Sox of 1 91 9 and the Giants and Yankees of the early I '20s were unusually strong. What about golf? So far, amcng the professionals, the top men are still Nelson, Hogan. Sr.ead and Mc-Spaden, Mc-Spaden, who have been around quite a spell We have no record of any jour.g new pros crashing the spotlight spot-light at this moment But the amateur ama-teur side w:th Haas. Stranahan. MlddleecS. Doert-.g and Givan will be above the XB19-1920 average. This list will hardly Include a Bobby Jcr.es. but In medal play against the pick of tv.e pros they have been ouUeormg ar.y set of amateurs we can now reca'J. Professional gclf may have to wait a while befcre fivtag the game a yoc-.g star as goc-d as the veterans tn left Tr-.!s? Not yet Amateur terjila has m chance to match the Big B.U TJen a-.d the Little Bill Johrvstcn : cf HIS arj lira, on through lia. Seme of the kids may start moving w?. but hardly In tr.e fr any lfril or IH? tharr.j.cr-.shjpa, Revival 0 Polo IV-o '.il be. tn fr an even tougher te-ch. Moit of the tetter plo pozles are now mining Tclo wer.t almost 1-0 per cert to war atd little com-r-et.Mre polo has been pliyed t- the tt focr rars Tela :3 teetl a '. ofcr road far Ita ecmeback Vs the djjs cf H t-.Vtxk. M.ivj-n ar,d c'Ji-ers c'Ji-ers who ere orc--rd la or I:;, r.t In ip;te cf a lapie La form ' ard elan frem li year og tiere 'Jl t far rrcrt ccmpt!crs tn the f.:d acd a greater kid crcp coming l |
