Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-19

| Concerning the midsummer lapse In
baseball attendance with reason or
Where are the rabtd clients
| Who cheered In serried ranks
The Pirates and the Giants,
The Indians and the Yanksf
Who croDded ball parks daily
And stood in endless line
To see Ruth hit one daily
Across some toelI knot1n signf
Are they fed up on crashes
From Senators or RedsY
OF seeing endless smdshes
Sail oper felders' ,hedd8f
Or, tocdry noto Of sitting
While endless runs cdreen,
While euery bioke is hitting
Around .417f
But 1cdit-above the collar
send this thought aloft,
A dollar Is q dollar,
And times arc none too soft.
So as sit and ponder
The often empty rop,
toonder, oh, 'oonder,
If they have got the dough!
Hail. Columbia, Trappy Land
CHORTLY after the egg and bacon
- hour today, the crack of the driver,
the whirr Of the niblick and the NUT
tered curse attached to the missed putt
indicated that Columbia's trapped
course, within q few mashie shots OF
the White House, had started a new
drive for the open golf championship
of the United States.
Since 1910 McDermott and Hagen,
home -breds, have won four of the eight
crowns. Ouimet, Travers and Evans,
all amateurs, have won three. Ray,
the Englishman. won the other. -.
[ So home bred talent has triumphed
since Jack McDermott first broke
through.
The Four Divisions
THERE are four divisions to be con-
i sidered in this championship, listed
in order:
First. Home bred professionals. led
by Hagen, Kerrigan, Deigel, French,
Brady, Loos, Mclean, Frank and Tom
Mcnamara, etc.
Second. Foreign born Americans,
such as Hutchison, Marnes, Smith. Nc
Leod, Ross, Hampton. etc.
Third. Home; bred amateurs, fea-
turing Evans, Jones, Guilford, Marston
and others. :,
Fourth. British invaders-Mitchen,
Duncan, Kirkwood and Murray, Cana
dian champion.
You may observe from this briefly
sketched roster. IL you happen to be
acquainted with the Who's Who of
Pardon. that each division is topped by
an extreme amount Of class-and that
each division has at least two or more
entries capable Of winning champion.
ship. Considering the uncertainties Oh
the three foot putt, the main idea now
should be to SIT back and permit the
actual scoring 10 tell the story.
The Renewed Braves
A FTER rising to impressive heights
"A in 1914. Boston's embattled Braves
began to disappear rapidly over the
hill until they came again 70 the 1901.
Now, under Fred Mitchells guiding
hand and brain, they have come back
n much greater distance than any one
figured they could come this season;
AS a steady turn they have looked
third best In the league, with a fair
chance Of moving to still higher crags.
Boston. one Of the best Of all base
ball citadels, is about ready to welcome
contender after the last two years
of drought. And the Braves are break
ing up the drought.
ULIOW many home runs would Frank
II Schultz at his best have struck
off with the modern ball?" bystander
queries. Schultz ran up over twenty
one year with the old missile. Attached
to this output were numerous wallops
that struck the tops of many fences
or that barely failed TO carry the
palings. Schultz with the modern high
explosive missile would have been good
for at least forty, for the old Cub had
a wicked flick that carried high and
far. He was getting we'll over twenty