The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-17
By Ed. Hughes.


 There is an old saying that Youth Will Be Served''-and it generally is so. But not always. At the present writing youth Is being served in goodly share with Jack Benipsey a twenty-four year old ruling the pug ilistic realm, Jewtraw, the nineteen year old amateur skating sensation, Vincent Richards the sixteen-year old marvel of the tennis courts, and Heron and Jones twenty-two and seventeen year old phenomonons, re- Ispectively, of the golf links.
 But once in 8. while advancing years step in and assert a bold and valid claim for the things which are supposed to be youths heritage. Ed. Roush, the National League battin g king is but twenty -six-another tri- umph- of pulsiating youth. But to match him what about the peerless Ty Cobb, still the best batsman in | the American League at thirty three l Walter Johnson, still the worlds greatest boxman~ at the same age, while the great Eddie Cfcotte is thir- | ty-six and Salee, another twirling star Is thfrty-seven. Youth hasn't been served altogether. in baseball |, this year.
 Willard, nearing middle age, sue | cunbed to the youthful Dempsey but l how about Jack Britton and Johnny l Kilbane? Britbn at thirty-four knocked out Ted Lewis, five years his l junior, and won the welterweight l championship. And Britton has put in fourteen strenuous years between l the ropes Johnny Kilbane is 30 an6 1 has been defending his featherweight title against the youth of the lAnd fol seven years. They say he is tattering l and he ought to be. But no one can l topple him over for all that.
 l Bob Fitzsimmons was the wonder l athlete of them all and the mos | dreaded adversary youth ever stum- i b1ed across. Bob was thirty-fivt years old when he whipped that mur, l derous left to the youthful Corbet solar plexus at Carson City nearl! ] twenty-three years ago and won the heavyweight championship of thu world.
 Bob was thirty-eight when he van
 quished Tom Sharkey and Gus, Ruh
 lin, both within the space of a fort
 ight When nearly forty he gave tn
 youthful Jeffries the worst beating
 that ring worthy even encountered
 only the super-human strength of tn
 Grizzly enabling him to weather th
 crushing snites of Ruby Robert, am
 finally down his aged tormentor il
 the eighth round. No sport require
 as much physical stamina or work
 as great a drain on an athletes vital
 ity as the modern prize-ring. There fore Fitzsimmons's exploits at an az
 when most athletes are content t
 view competition from a rockin chair are particularly significant. Next to boxing in point of physica wear and tear comes tennis. Her we have the wizard, Norman E
 Brookes-the Fitzsimmons of tn
 courts. In early middle age Brooke
 is still one of the wonders of tn . game a match for any and the super
 dor of most of them. Hans Wayne was another who stayed the grir !, hand of Time by always maintain ing splendid physical trim. Hans wa
 the greatest batsman of his time a r forty-three when he led the Nationa
 League. To round out the case . age against youth golf submits test1 mony worthy of note, too, in Vardo , Braid and Taylor. Each is past tn
 age of forty-five.
 Copyright, 1920, by the Wheele 1 Syndicate.)