Judge — January 30, 1932 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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“Tf that guy don’t quit followin’ me I'm gonna call the poleesh!" his is the last time I'll ever try to beat a magic carpet!” The Osteopath Refurnishes His Re- ception Room. Judging the Sports (Continued from page 8) off-te-Buffalo on his chest. wats time when Mr 'S Phi Beta Kappa key did him no good, Just how much good it did him at other times wien he called the play and followed with perfect ex- with victory ccution, hanging in the halance (a new phrase, if you get it), is anybody's guess, not including, of Mrs. Houdini’s, the Great Oom's and Seabury’s. The probability is, if you ean bear rance, that Mr. Wood ath- inside of course, an impious ut would have b lete if he had never seen the t study hall. ‘Too many people, in uttempti to figure the relation of the snappy mind and athletic skill, make the mista n just as fine a of estimating brains from the angle of intelligence. Which is much like finished at tributes of a Cartier craftsman to an ster shucker who happens to find a dazzling pearl. ascribing th The most intelligent student in his class might be a very dumb football player. Indeed, until Mr. Wood came along there widespres tipathy mg coaches to intellig in any Whether this was due to envy or a long series of discour: Was a form, ing experiments I am not sure. I sup- pe it is likewise true that some of the smartest) quarterbacks football has ever known had to be shown how to add up their expense accounts, In sports, quick reflexes are fre- quently confused with quick thinking. Instinct is one thing. Intelligence is inother. So are Amos ‘n' Andy, I will It just so happens that there hlete who is always capable of doing the right thing at the right. tin Ask him why and how, and be prepared scholarly on the intricate processes of agree. is a certain type of natural to listen to a large, dis- course the human mind, consisting verbosely of “Huh?” T hasten to add in double tempo that I do not include Mr. Wood in this classification, He is that nly hope to find in platinum Blondes, transatlantic fliers, retired heavyweight ch and crooners, In short, he appears to be an athlete to whom a del tuned noodle has not proved an: gether vital handicap. Some of the world’s greatest ath letes have not been any too wildly ac claimed for their cerebral poundage. that the last time T heard of Jim Thorpe he was spad- rare exception you vs npions It seems to me ing up street bunkers for a plumbing outfit on the west coast, and it is a tradition that when you speak of great athletes you must lead off with the old Indian half-back. One of the most a players Lever saw Joc (Shoe- less) Jackson. [think it is easily conceivable that if he had n al- lowed to remain in the game he migl been another Ty Cobb. Yet ld neither read nor write. Southerner, he thought the ir was something Emily Post started. The Cleveland club) roomed him ynsiderate, understanding trains and in’ hotel rooms the teammate would or- meals, Jackson would always the after first through the mockery of reading the menu, frequently upside down. Jackson fell in love. Letters came, Reading them, the ball player would surrender to violent seizures of gh ter and then turn the letters over to his roommate. . “Get this—ain't it rich?” » Usually the text) would deal with such boisterous fun as the purchase of a new frock or the mys terious illness of the neighbor's cow. It was about this time that) Jacks hit over £400 and failed to win’ the American League batting champion- ship, only because the resolute Cobb have same, going. stayed in there swingin They tell Babe Ruth is the smartest player in baseball, that) he has yet to commit his first: mental ball field. Ruth has made more than a half m n dollars out of the sport. He is still the high If Rath grammar you blunder on the est paid player in the game. ever got higher than’ the there mpting-looking ladder around the An interesting Berg, the | Fray grades it) was beeause Was it Mow catcher, abril contrast is with a well-rounded, rkground, liant young cultural hs who spe seven langnag about $5,000 the one thing r about |: I imagine he is y It seems that xlected to learn that ear, nguaves in college is money talks The Exception “A good conversati appreciated at table alist is always says a writer Unless the other three are trying to play brid —Boston Traxsenir John Drury. the poet. says he has been writing all his lif that died to make ve for magazines r free. Ten Cook, in the N.Y. American comicbooks.com