New Britain herald., 1915-07-06
The Vanished Road.

| To where a fellow held the laurelled Of fame and name and fortune in tho fight;
 A kid who heard Life ealing and who turned &# To catch the echo of far-marching
 feet
 Where crimson fires of glory flashed
 and burned
 Along the borders Of the swarming
 street.
 I know a fellow now
 Who looks across gray years with
 weary eyes
 Beyond the laurel and the olive
 bough,
 To rose-sweet dreams beneath re-
 naembered skies: siTc fields of golden harvest and the
 glow
 or Gods lost sunshine waning to the
 gleam
 of atar-lit dusk back home, so long
 ago.
 It inly seems the phantom of dream. I know a fellow who
 Would give Life's motely fame again
 to be Tn orchard drifts where lost winds
 wander through
 And whisper signing from the bend-
 ing tree;
 Who dreams at each gray dusk within
 his den
 or old-time honor and old-fashioned
 @ truth,
 And cries to God to lead him back
 again
 And leave him with the clean. brave
 faith of youth.
 This is a fitting tme to remember that the club which celebrated the Glorious Fourth in last place a year ago today wound up in October as the champions of the world.
 The tip is inserted to show the l weakness of summer values. It may te that White Sox or Red Sox will meet Cubs or Phillies, but the championship test Is still on beyond under the scorching, nerve-melting heat of July and August. where only the fit sur ~ive
 Write Your Own Guess. Dear Sir: Was or was not this years Harvard crew overrated !? I have heard so much gossip on both sides of the question that I would like $hink Harvard had the best crew in years. Can that sort or crew be beaten by seven or eight lengths?
 w. J. H,
 Offhand we should say no first class crew could ever be beaten by seven lengths not matter what the other crew had to show in the way of stroke and power. But this is no part of an expert viewpoint We'll Have Him Paged. Sir: What has become of that Harvard man who once wrote the Sportlight that "in the bright lexicon of victory there is no such word as , Yale2" Could you get him on the phone?
 ELI, '1s. Mamaux, Mayer and Faber.
 At the start of this present hectic campaign large. bales of verbiage were tossed about regarding the prowess of certain pitchers. Johnson. Alexander. Mathewson. Tesreau, Leonard and others were pushed into the Mael- strom of dope for extended discus sion
 But how much March or April gos- sip do you remember concerning the promised worth of Mamaux, Faber or Mayer as compared to many otherso Possibly two mouthfuls. Yet Faber las been the big White Sox winner; l Mamaux has been the main Pirate factor. and Scissors Mayer has been only a half step back of Alexander l the Eminent. Morton, of Cleveland, with a better l ball club, would have been up with l the three mentioned. put it requires l something more than ability and genius to organize winning margin with this ill-fated club. Worlds Shirt Record. Stanford's crew, losing to Cornell. gave the victors their shirts, as it 1 happened to be a Californian custom. If this same custom were intro- duced in the big leagues how many ] shirt factories would be needed to 1 supply Cleveland, Philadelphia and St l Louis in the Am merican league The Shot Ahead. A day or two ago we put this query ] ,1p to Jerry Travers. open golf cham pion After you had sliced one out 1 Of bounds at the tenth hole in the af- 1 ternoon and had hooked the second l to the rough grass, how did you feel l about the two missed shotts at such l critical point ?" 1T wasn't thinking about them,' he replied After I had missed them the only thought I had was about the next shot ahead---not the ones behind I knew I had to get that ball on the | green on my third shot or fade out of the fight There was no place to ,.nrrxr ahout something that had al-