The Washington herald., 1922-11-02

tons. but they have no delegations J
ready for tennis. eoIf, polo and the
rest cf ii.
francs bizarre.
I France has been an unusual prop-
osition. Frenchuen havan,t gone IN
FOR sport upon anything approach
Ing the scale OF America or orea,
| Britain.
1 Yet France has had her Massey In
golf. her Carpenter and criaui in
the ring. her Lengien at tennis, with
other tennis players OF top rank;
her Guillimot and one or two other
notables.
France has The dash and the
spirit. the nervous energy. to go far
| IL she ever went In for sport on a
big scale
Racial Qualities.
Lack Of competitive sstardom in
various countries has not been dae
to any racial deficits in sport or
| contest.
America has shown this In her
development OF Hans Wagner. once
| German, Lajoie. the Frenchman;
coyeleskie, the Pole; Hagen, Of Hoi-
land descent; Sarazen, the italian;
Mrs. Mallory, of Norway.
And some day only look over a
few football line-ups. Here you
wi see every known nationality
marked down, including the Scandi-
navian.
Among the Heavy-weights.
Yet among the heavyweight
champions. the severest test known
to sport. the hardest height to
climb. you will run into no names
outside of the Angio-Saxon-Celt
cult-Suilivan, corbett. Fitzsim-
mons. Jeffries, johnson. Willard
and Dempsey.
Here the Latin and the Teuton
and the Slav are al eliminated.
They have never figured. Carpen-
| tier came closer than anyone else.
| but at that he never came very
| close.
Football Names.
We thought once we had the best
named men In football well segre-
gated In Starbuck, Cornell full
back. and Cragwe,l, a Vanderbilt
guard
But now enters a Chicago kicker.
known as Proudfoot. who at least
deserves to move up on even terms
! with the. two named before him
A backfield with Stagg, Starbuch
and Proudfoot ought to go some-
where. Yet one of the greatest of
all football players was Coy.
Football Limerick.
| A fullback who hammered at guard
And gained something less than n yard
Quite moodily said
| As he .lamped the guards head:
And I used TO think concrete was hard. '
There may be better battles
within Uncle Sans chalk marked
domains than Navy and Penn State
can offer at Washington on Friday
but we doubt il very much. The
! Navy can match her stuff against
any machine In the game without
| getting the worst of II in the ad-
vance dope And Penn States great
! three-year record Is complete evil
| dence for the other side of the
case. Penn State alone stopped the
Navy last fall. and there is consid
cradle doubt that even Penn State
can interpose barrier this ap-
preaching autumn day. When you
get a combination of Navy forwards
| and navy Dacks, extremely Wen
coached. you get. something to
beat.
The Duffer Speaks.
II II should freeze. IL Il should snow.
II winter brings its bitter woe.
I'll have no two-foot puts to blow.
II ice and sleet are on the grounds
Or some wild winter gale resounds.
I'll hear no caddie's ''outer bounds!'
As between. umpiring a baseball
game or refereeing a football game,
we'd rather go IN for lion tanning
or politics.
If Battling" Sikh ever decides to
visit America he will be almost as
popular over here as the Crown
Prince. In fact, the two might max e
joint tour of 1t. just to see how
things might work out.