Judge — March 19, 1932 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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— ORSTOX Judging the Sports (Continued from page 6) T had seen him before At the golf course. When Jones and Hagen were doing their stuff, and doing it supremely well, and before crowds that numbered high into the thousands, underdrawers, in his seanties. [> ns time, I have covered mang golf championships, and I list these ef- forts above all others in the matter of y (no kidding), and salty of service (pleeze, I'm a sol- dier at heart). ‘They were always so trying that it used to be soul-comfort- ing to reflect that when November came I could sit through a pleasant blizzard in the uncovered stands and write how lousy Harvard nst Yale. This, I hasten to add, was B, I, meaning before Horween or Musing. But as a golf reporter, I was per- mitted certain privileges that were de- nied the cash customers. ! loping furiously from one green to an- other, generally about 1500 kilometres in distance, I was allowed the courtesy of stiff-arming my way through cigh- teen layers of humanity. [usually through in time to sce Jones or Hagen pick up his ball. T have always wondered just how much golf old Gus ever saw at the championships. Obviously, at the out- set. he went to see how Jones drove ind Hagen putted. But what could he see? What can anybody see in a limited area with thousands in front of you? At the most, the top of a cap or a seattered view of a pair of male inkles. You ean see much more of Prof. Minsky's for less money. atone burlesque shows, I wrote in an earlier paragraph that SPEAKING OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS TRAIN You'll scot ciate the fame f the “FLYING 9 moment you aboard a, London, and sink into A superb train of mod nt cuisine prepared on. There is no more fas- >y of seeing this England of ours of this famous tral through a country he no extrac’ rain, The “FLYING SC s King’s Cross Stoti COMMUNICATE Then WITH KETCHAM General Agent, 11 West 42nd St., New York LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND I didn't dare pick an All-American team of sports saps. I take that back. I had forgotten the night that Tunney beat Dempsey in Philadelphia when 140,000 people sat throt q ting 0 to $5 for rainstorm, and paid from the mildewed cestasy. Po my mind, that was the most re- markable demonstration of glut- tony on the part of any given number of people in the history of this coun- try—a paid for, and thoroughly satis- 1 personal abuse. Here was an ex- hobo and a product of New York's lower west side, mecting in ize fight that could in now: the affairs of the world, or heighten anybody's individual position in life. And yet, these 140,000 people sat there in the rain, soaki a comic-supplement moc symbols of rnity. In like circumstances an all-star t of Edison, Einstein, Wright, Fulton, Franklin, and Lincoln would have played to empty seats. (That guy Wright, incidental plane. I write this, parenthet because most people seem to belie Lindbergh did.) It wasn't even a good fight, either. I don’t say this because I picked invented the air- 29 hot ma Dempsey. I like that bidy-di stuff in my fights, Tunney never gave me that. Watching him was like watching some- body from Vermont whittle. Dempsey used to take an ax. Maybe I'm just a I still like to go into a d station beanery and douse my n catsup. —And if there is anybody who ke to get a bet out of me that Dempsey wouldn't have spattered ‘Tunney all over Ohio that afternoon in Toledo, V'Il guarantee you I'll sit down and show how wrong you are. This goes for Gentleman Gene himself, In the Rough M's with A Bearno—I want a hair- cut, singe and shampoo, I want my moustache clipped, and beard trimmed, and—er—where can I put this cigar? Barser—Would you mind keeping it in your mouth, sir? It'll be a sort of a landmark, —Streatuam News We're mighty sorry to see Japan and China fighting, but it is interesting to stand by and watch a war that scems to be paying own way. _ HERN LuMpermMan