Evening star., 1921-06-30
By IRWIN $. COBB.

NEW YORK. June 29.-Your best
expert. your most dependable expert
is the one who carries on his exper-
tationings at long distance. Then his
deductions may rove wild and free
like the Indian maid. Sweet Alfalfa =
Fetta; they may twine like the wood
bine. hither and yon, at random. Stub
born facts do not come buttinG in to
interfere with his pet theories.
1t is an exploded idea-at least it
should be an exploded idea-that Il
proper expert must compile his opin-
ions on the basis of firSt-hand obser-
vationS. An egScandler cannot lay
an egg. but. as has been noted. he is
q better judge of an egg than any
hen that ever lived. Have any of
those astrologers who tell US about
Mars ever been there? Our most
scholarly reviewers rarely write
books of their own. Our leading
themselves.
Real Expert Stands AlOof.
The SureSt appraiser of the merits
OF a race horse l ever saw was neither
jockey nor trainer nor Il book
maker. He had Il pair of withered legs
and spent most of his waking hours
in a wheel chair. No sir, the expert
calm and collected. stands aloof and
afar from the actual operation and
delivers his dictum without running
the risk that occurrences on the spot
may upset the apple cart of his de-
ductive processes.
Your correspondent has chosen to
borrow page from the book of these
gifted men. l have not lately been to
Atlantic City. nor yet to Manhasset-
by-the-Sound. l have not witnessed
the hippodroming stunts of Jack nor
fingered outside the barn where
Georges conducts his secret prepara-
tory rites. 1 have not applauded the
ballyhoo staged by lmpreSario Kearns.
nor hearkened with an attentive and
f1attered ear to the mysterious, whis-
pered sibilations of imported Gallo
managers l find myself unmoved by
the tidings, as exclusively reported
q few days ago by reporter for one
of our leading dailies. that Jack will
enter the ring wearing the American
nag for belt.
Helps Flag Except in War.
II my memory serves me Alright. Jack
has always been ready to do a little some
thing for the flag. except when there was
q war going on. have not been greatly
stirred by the discovery. already made
by upward of fifteen hundred men,
bers of the writing profession. that
Georges resembles Greek god. l
have never seen Greek god. Most of
the Greeks 1 know are engaged in
the shoeshining. the fruit-purveying
or the quick-lunching business. They
are worthy and well meaning persons.
but none of them in the least full
nils my conception of what is god
like But. even as the dependable ex-
pert waits for others to scramble
about in the turmoil and gather up
the sordid details and then, taking
their theories over. rejects some. ap-
propriateS the rest. and finally
launches forth the last word on the
subject. backed with the hallmark of
his superior judgment, 1 carefully
have considered the statements of
those who lately made the pilgrim
ages to the training camps. and have
reached the following conclusions, to
wit:
Carpenter is a perfect gentleman
and probable loser. Dempsey is
neither.
Gentlemanliness Not Wanted.
In advancing this double-barreled
statement 1 do not mean to reflect
upon either of these distinguished
personages. When you come right
down to cases. the chief patrons of
heavyweight championship contests
the old days in England they called
"the fancy"-do not care deeply for
fighters who display gentlemanly
qualities in the ring or out of it,
"ndt they ike is WO-nanQeQ
mauler with just enough intelligence
under his thatch to make him wary.
and amply enough of the brute in
his soul to make him ferocious and
mercileSS. They do not crave to be-
hold an exhibition of culture and in
nate refinement; they clamor not for
three-Quarters of an hour of foot
work. headwork and falsework. The
gentry are not putting up $50 head
gentry are not putting up $50 head
using the word head" in its CONNER
cial and not in it's intellectual sense
i'm the hope of beholding dainty
exposition o fthe so-called manly art
of self-defense over yonder at Joisey
City this week end. They want to see
somebody knocked for a vista of
marble mausoleums.
Yearn for Championship Here.
The sporting writers, taken as a
class. share with them. I think. this
blood thirsty, but, perhaps. natural
attitude of anticipation. That. l am
sure. is why majority of them.
probably without conscious bias on
their part. appear personally to de-