The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-30
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"A fighter named csr-poea-tee-sy,
Cor words, at least. to that s6ect)
Came over. dsbonair and gay,
To get Just what you might expect.
He sooksd Jack Dempsey with his tst
As If to say-''Thsre gees the CROWN"
And while he shattered thumb and wrist
He made the Champion almost frowR.
He took. besides the we'll known count,
Two hundred thousand On the hummock.
(rd like to add fer that amount
A mule can kick me in the stummeck).
II
At golf We got q ragged start.
The British took ths right Of way
By trimming US on Hoyiaks's mart,
But Lott was not always Nay!
For later on. with rsbast clutch,
With slsshins swing and valiant cieut,
A Glenviev pro. named Jock Hutch
Turned old St. Andrews inside out.
(And yet they have US trimmed, think,
Their a;nstssnth hsle is net PLAGUE. ~
For When q fellev wants . drink
A Hagen isn't quite Hais).
III
Riding hell for leather" ont for Uncle sam,
Pulling all together. hitting with a slam,
niIburn and his cronies don't forget the
ponies,
None of them were phsniss) tore up Hurting.
ham!
Rompins on to slsry. under Enslish skies.
It's an ancient story minus surprise,
Yet We still remember ~ the fading ember
Of . dead December. where the laurel les!
"
Ruth is stranger far than fiction,
Howsoever Wild the plot.
When 1t comes to quick eviction
Of baseball from the lot.
When he landed on the pellet
On slow enc hop,
Pitchers wondered how the hellit
Ever had chance to drop.
Ffty-nine completes q task You
At the best can never paint.
Is that going seme, ask youi
You can frisk me, II it ain't.
But they had our hero puffing
In . concentrated maze,
When he thought the judge was bluffine,
And the Judge said, Thirty days"
Though I have found few things tina.
rhymed
With Mr.. Tilden's name,
Once more the tall boy went and climbed
The heights Of tennis fams.
He started at the Southern Gross
Beyond the distant foam.
TO throw eight nations for . loss
And then mop up at home.
Worlds tennis king" with title free,
Is what I've nictnamsd Tres jolis-"
W.
California, Penn State. Center. Lowry
Maybe there were other teams that deserved
yell,
Hiybs there were others. but I haven't time
today.
Crowds around the .tadiums stirring up q
Everybody hungry for the autumn feast, :
When the ssaseh opened up the West began
WASH. tina. pretty dish to Sc. befor. tn.
zbyszke. balder than an egg. ~
Proved that . wrestler nearing fifty
Can stiil cave in back or leg
And ethsrwise be strsng and ahifty,
He may Be cid and bald and fat,
But won't useet him on NO mat.
VIII
Just as the old years fading glory
Began to show some signs Of loss,
II. frxxee wrote his annual story
Known as The Yankees Santa Claus"
In Boston. where he sometimes dwells,
They say he Amt no Il. @. Wells.
Through the year 1921. now TAX
ing It's final hurdle. Jack Dempsey
was permitted to battle just eleven
and one-half minutes. net. 1t was
through no fault of his own, but he
hopes to reduce this in 1922 to eight
and one-half minutes IL some one
can only dig up the party of the
second part.
The Scrambled Chase.
One always stumbles into an ex.
ceptfonal risk when he begins out.
lining baseball prospects several
months away.
The old game Is full of uncanny
twists over night, to say nothing of
the gap between December and
October.
But IL the American League race
for 1922 isn't a wild scramble we
have lost all track of the situation.
The Yanks, 1921 winners, lose
Ruth and Meusel for five weeks.
That certainly Is no vast help.
Cleveland, machine that reached
It's crest IN 1890, was slipping last
summer and with many vetersns
and a fading pitching stan may
have an even harder fight to care
for.
With the two leaders astrifie lop-
sided. there is always the chance
for other people to step forth and
reach for the pudding where teams
such as Washington and st. Louis
will have keener opportunities to
start trouble.
As the case looks at this early
juncture the American League
should offer enough excitement to
make up for the two club race Of
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