Judge — October 6, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUD GE Eddator, Norman Antbosy Avesciate Editors, Ricbard J. Walsh, Phil Sport Superlative ie most transplendent day that American sport has known in many a long year occurred on Sat- September 15th. We can still feel its just by reviewing the mighty events of that day: Futurity. the richest race on the American + Was won by a nostril by High Strung, a great nd a fifteen-to- shot, while forty thousand people cheered. And a few minutes later, Earl Sande, the finest of all jockeys, rode his last race, leaving behind him an cleven-year record of races, of which he had won 942. Bobby Jones took his fourth amateur chs ship in five years. heating Phil Perkins, of F by 10 and It was his twenty-third victory out of his last twenty-four matches. Frank Hu the veteran of thirty-four, whom the experts had counted out, ¢ from behind to de feat the youngster, George Lott, and went into the finals of the tennis championship. Andy Cohen, of the Giants, celebrated the Jewish New Year by a home run with the bases full in the thirteenth inni and won the grandest ball the year. Babe Ruth hit his fiftieth home run, but it wasn't to win, and the Yanks remained only half a game ahead of the Athletics. Myrtle Huddleston broke the world’s swimming record, having stayed in the wa than sixty hours. thoroughbre ne me of ndurance ter more Fourteen-year-old | Eleanor Holm swam the yard medley in the fastest time for new world's re Yalter Spence swam the 220-yard breast-stro! 2:561 A colored girl, Elisabeth Grobes, set & new Amer- an record in the running broad-jump. In the same lium at Kearny, N. J., four girls of the Millrose . broke the record for the 220-yard re woman, a new American record, bout a hundred strong, re- Football squads, each ported for the first practic rd and Yale; all other colleges except Princeton having been on the gridiron from one to three weeks earlier, the sea Bob Zuppke coyly admitted that he was preparing to show the world some new strategy known as the multilateral offense. And—this happened the day before, but the news son was considered officially begun. Rosa, Jack Shuttleworth Dramatic Editor, George Jean Nathaa bre gre ting; late—Mr. D. Rothschild drove the last at Hillerest while Mr. S, Goldman was put his ball struck Mr. Goldman's ball, which was and bounced into the cup for a hole in one. a day for you! Possibly the whe gorgeous panorama of it, as spread across the pages of the Sunday papers, escaped your attention because you, yourself, were busy swimming, boating, hiking. playing golf or tennis. “We hope you were. For ay John ‘Tunis argues in the new book which he point edly calls “Sport,” the biggest thrills are not in the sinlized that watch, however unt they may be, but in the game you play your- self, however rotten you are. contests you The Slavery of the Moron ¢ extraordinary statement was recently made by Professor C. E. A. Winslow f il hygiene. He said, “We nize that the high-grade moron is perhaps a necessary able clement a civilization that the perfortnance of many routine tasks repulsive to the intellectually alert.” What a civilization it is that must have unfortunate people with weak minds and dulled instincts in order to carry on! We should not charge Professor Wins low with a callous cynicism, for what he says is un- doubtedly true; and furthermore, we know that he and many fellow workers duce the causes of mental ills and to devise better education for defectives. But with all our strength we should indict a social system which is not only re- sponsible for producing morons, but is actually so zed that it finds them “necessary and desir- This will not be a good world so long as it tolerates that or any other form of slavery. L me in a discussion > coming to rec and desi involves ire striving nobly to. re- Younger Generation Notes. No. 37 O -rininp of the freshmen at Yale this year are trying to carn part or all of their expenses. Be sides those who want to do the usual things, such as le and tutoring, there are many appli- nts for jobs as chauffeurs, mechanics, surveyors, and shop clerks and other undeniably hard work, And we'd like to bet that the re nd neighbors of about half of these boys are still going round their home towns crabbing about this 1 light-hearted and practically worthless generation. ROIW, atives comicbooks.com