The Washington herald., 1922-03-16
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The Returning vagabend.

The Returning vagabend.
Here comes the wanderer over the plain.
The vagabond spring;
With a song in the sunlight, q smile through
the rain,
Where the dim echoes ring;
With the red Of the rose on the green of his
coat,
A necklace OF vioIets cro~ning his throat.
And the fields leap to life at the first thrill
ing note
Which his trouba dours bring.
On the red road to Nay;
From low land and to upland, from hillside
with the wild storms at bay:
And over the crest Of the'dsrk night Of fears,
Here comes 4 vision to shine through life's
tears,
And here comes a dream from the wrath Of
the years
That shall lead rs away.
The Champion OF All Chanpiens.
Thee is always a tendency to
look back and lift ancient heroes
above the best of the present crop.
To many Mike Kelly was better
than Cobb. Delehanty beyond Ruth,
Sullivan greater than Dempsey.
In the same way many still be-
lieve that all the great animals of
forgotten ages were far past any
thing known today.
The report that a live plesiosau-
rus was still frolicking in Pata-
gonisn lakes started vast excite
ment.
Yet the world still holds the
largest creation ever known.
The brontosaurus was only ninety
feet in length. weighing something
less than fifty tons.
The plesiosaurus averaged eighty
feet. ?,
But only a short time ago a whale
was tossed up in the Panama Zone
and this particular pet measured
125 feet in length with a displace-
ment of eighty-five tons.
Prehistoric ages will be forced to
step a trifie to beat these measure
ments. The mammoth was no kit
ten, but he never came close to
weighing any 10000 pounds. COM
pared to the whale. the mammoth
was a bantamweight and the dino
saurus hardly more than a respect
able weller.
The Slaughter House.
Since the world at large is but
little better than a vast slaughter
house, II is only a matter of alb
breviatsd time before the whale,
with all wild life, will be as extinct
as the dinosaurs
The only breathing spell for wild
life now is when men begin killing
of one another to break the monot-
ony.
The human hunt is, CT course. the
most thrilling. But one of the main
ideas Is to kill.
The buffers Revision.
Half swing. half a swing. half a swing
onward,
Into the valley of traps each one has blund-
cred:
Theirs not to reason why.
Theirs but to try and try.
Watching the strokes 80 by,
Over q hundred. '.e.
Bunkers to the left Of them.
Bunkers to the right of them,
Bunkers In front Of them, q.
An hope is sundered.
That's all bunk about Carpenter
meeting Dempsey again." writes a
fight fan. "A platoon couldn't drag
him into the ring again with the
champion" How. come and where
fore? whaddya mean couldn't
drag" With the losers end estab-
lished at 10000 /. noncounterfeit
berries, a platoon couldn't keep him
out. And since boxing Is his pro-
fession, why should It?
1T is necessary" says one writer,
for the public to know that the
challenger has close to an even
chance" Fair enough. But what
chance was Corbett supposed to
have against Sullivan Young Cor
bett against Terry McGovern? JET
fries against Fitzsinmons? At the
price charged today, for a heavy
weight engagement the public is
entitled to number of things that
1t very likely won't get. Dempsey
was one of the few challengers to
step into the ring with even money
ruling thefboards. e. 80 =
Eddie Collins is now on his way
to pass the game records of Pop
Arson and Hans Wagner, two emf
nelt sons of swat, who4partfcipated
in something like 5000 contests.
Eddie is now In his sixteenth season
and is still moving swiftly. He
rarely misses a contest, hayinx
celebrated one straight run OF
something more than 500 consecu-
tive engagements. He should stfil
have three or four good seasons
left and by the closing date will be
up to or beyond the old leaders.
Most ofithose who stood the hike
for twenty years were big in bulk.
Wagner. Arson and Lajoie were all
members ofsthc husky tribe. Collins
Is much slighter hut he has GER