Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-27
Olympic Sonatas

olympic S0nataS
When Greek met Greek in ancient ddVs
And old Doc Homer sang their praise,
Each Uictor oioned the bolly foDn
The ,Chiie he ,oore an oliUe orotcn.
Bust since Doc Homer no more fhr0toS
An ode at icinning legs or toes,
Wen nit for him in this one year
Propided Uou tCiH lend an ear.
And net on second thought Ue'H pdit
Until the score is on the slate,
Nor count our chickens IN advance
Until each egg has had chance.
ct DON'T know much about the
Black Hand" writes an enraged
fan. ''but know what the Yellow Hand
is in pitching--it is being afraid to
get one over for a good hitter. How
they love to see the Bambinos OF Swat
Intentionally denied the great privi-
lege Of lifting one out of the yard
II Doesn't Follow
GIVE been taught not to sway my
i body in the golf stroke" L. II; F.
writes. "Yet ! notice that Ted Ray
sways at every tee shot and gets Won
derful results. If he can do it, why
shouldn't I?' =,
1t doesn't always follow that each
can follow copy on the style of cham :
pion or a star performer.
Ray probably started in with body
sway something like twenty five years
ago. It is now his natural way of hit
ting a ball. Twenty five years Of habit
have shown him how to control it.
But It isn't the easiest way to learn
the game. So why take the long road
home when shorter cut is open!
The Ways of Form
THE ways of form are rarely the
l. same. Babe" Ruth and Joe Jack =
son stand exactly alike at bat. But
neither stands like Iris Speaker or
George Sislcr.
Ruth. Cobb and Willie Keller all
adopted widely different grips or ways
of holding a bat.
The golf grips employed by Evans,
Ouimet. Hagen and Travers are all
different. Jack Spratt, you may re-
member. could eat no fat. On the con
trary. his well known wife could eat
no lean. And so it goes. A well known
professional golfer once tried Travers' $
system of hitting a mashie shot with
the tip of his right thumb guiding the
club. The 'prO' nearly lost n valuable
thumb as he missed the shot.
1t never pays to copy any style blind
". As rule the most comfortable
isn't very far wrong. especially if il
gets results.
Crowds
TUST a few years ago any major
o .l,,L al ~
500. 900 paid admissions in the course OF
a season was thought to be doing very
nicely.
The New York Yankees plus Babe
Ruth are in the act of setting a turn
stile mark that will not only break all
records-but that will be fully as much
as the entire league once drew.
For the last few weeks the Yankees
have been averaging around 10000 fans
a game. Possibly more. as they have
had numerous days above 30, 900. They
have drawn as high as $500 in an
eight game stretch. 1t would not be at
all surprising if they played to over
.. 500. 900 people before the odor OF
burning leaves in early October indi
Gates the approaching end of the cam
paign.
For they have not only drawn huge
crowds at the Polo grounds-they have
also drawn amazing crowds in st.
Louis. Cleveland, Chicago and Wash
ington. Also Boston and other points
east and west. They will undoubtedly
be in the thick Of the melee till the
finish. Even if they should slip. the
rcsounding echo of Ruth's bat will sum
mon the elan as he struggles for the
fifty mark.
The YankS are now headed West.
They may not draw quite so heavily in
st. Louis and Detroit, but they will