Show S kp 5 6 0 nw new york pot post WW service many sports folks share ruths hazy memory for names dest TOURING 7 the seasons of his great est glory the newspaper boys boy were 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 er otherwise commune with him they always eways were discovering that the first 15 or 20 meetings were the hardest after that the stout citizen would give up guessing as to whether this was bill or dan or joe from then on their live alvea q could be made more inure beautiful by knowledge that habe babe ruth would know them collectively and individually as kid of course from time to time gentlemen from whit whatever ever estate the newspaper business happens to be in resented tills diere 11 gar d for co their undo abt tel ed worth and baptis ed eis mal most v of t them though merely 4 took it as new evidence of the pressure that besets a great babe ruth man an or smirked complacently at mirrors which persisted in giving bald evidence that tills this kid stuff was all wrong recently a reporter made mention of this at one of those vast public gatherings 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 being one of those who are reluctant to share the miseries and the secrets of his bis profession sIon with the th e 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 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 determined not to let memory slip a fast one over the corner ali ah uh say I 1 know your face you use to play the piano at cut but the curtain must be drawn over this deplorable scene carpentier know joe beckett socially it can be lifted upon the fact that athletes also fall to know one another by this I 1 do not refer to the helen Will willies ses the helen Jacob ses or those others who probably have very good reason for not nodding as they pass by instead we can turn to the more elystan 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 i what kind of a fellow Is this joe becket beckell Beck etl 1 he was asked 1 I dont know was the quick con COB fluent 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 yes year I 1 know georges Car carpentier continued 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 not in the box score i 1 both the cubs and the dodgers dodger hlf his old and his new playmates are using the freddy lindstrom sliding pad this year it is a pad sewed inside the left trouser leg nat fleischer the magazine editor shortly will publish an encyclopedia of boxing it will contain the history and bout by bout records of fighters since 1703 IT T FEI inAS was no mere coincidence that one of the warmest days daya ot of the year arrived along alone with wax max naturally the ballyhoo for his flight fight with louis will continue to set the pace for other temperatures temperature until the dark uhlan sits down in front of the cream colored somber bomber on june 18 As mr arthur brisbane probably quite often has advised the world a million bobs Is a lot of doughnuts therefore even such specialists in charitable promotion as the athletic club directors in 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 attar altar just as naturally though all tills good clean tun fun lias has brought new wrinkles into the otherwise bland countenance of uncle michael strauss jacobs while wandering hither and yon now peeping in anxiously to see that nerr has been properly tucked into ills his retty pretty white 1100 p in bed now peeping out fretfully to inquire whether bolanos russell jacobs has been yanked out of ills his pretty white 1100 a ci 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 tile the boys who have done the best dally daily compositions the haunted gleam ever Is present this Is because first of all uncle mike has no illusions as to where charity lines up for the gun flun then again he Is a business man as well as the most eminent promoter since the days of the late lamented rickard so because 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 never 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 c before their gold embroidered audience lie 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 and narrow way to success in ment mentioning loning this there Is no desire to cast hints or make promises instead because the way of a promoter Is tough and because no fight Is a success a flop or even a sure 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 direr fate in spite atthe abe best of skill and intentions 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 with all parties concerned high up in this sorting of lights fights which never came off there can be mentioned the sharkey campolo affair which ilitch was scheduled for yankee stadium just as the woefully small crowd was wending its way into the arena the skies wept la 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 tile the press thought favorably about the glorious possibilities of that one and indeed the tickets already had been ordered tor for it what happened need not be gone into here some say that tex rickard begged tunney to lay oft off and promised him a shot at dempsey 0 0 things I 1 believe that the sign on connie macks door should read wrecking done bere terms strictly cash that folks who predict that tory tony canzoneri Canzon erl will be massacred at madison square gardens in may forget the first ross unfair just as is the case now vancouver jimmy had been idle tor for too long before training tor for that one so ills his legs were shaky y and ills 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 that if brooklyn really Is the best of all baseball cities it Is very poor judgment to keep shooting the most incompetent arbiters into the dodgers games that the A A U may be shocked to discover a commercial league digging deeply into that sunday afternoon hockey gold mine next season that a man with a bag of gold also will come into the lives of tile the luoie eminent winners at the Olymp olympics les this summer and that professional trul and field k events will be a success ss |