The Washington herald., 1922-02-28
To sport and Spring.

When winters snow is on my head,
And all the golden dreams I've reasured
Lake winter leaves, are brown and dead !;
Though I am lost to nimble dancing
Where light-toed, feet still hold their fling,
Old age can't whittier all romancing
Where ! can turn 10 sport-and spring.
With eyes. perhaps. that see but dimly
The younger generations leap,
That may not see at dusk how grimly
The long, gray twilight shadows creep,
Though gray and bent still will follow
The flight Of youth on silver wing;
BY track and field, by hill and hollow,
Ill know the lure of sport and spring.
when one is close to youth and play time
The passing years may take no toll,
And one can find that dreams Of Maytime
Shut out Iife's winter from the soul.
What IL old age from on the byway
Paints shadows on Defenders chart?
Where sport and spring call ont the high
Eternal April holds the heart.
The old oaken winter. the iron
bound winter the moss covered
winter is now limping along with
a broken back While still making
the threatening gestures. it has
little show against the earnest ath-
lete leading his charley horse out
of the stable or subduing the kinks
in his elbow further South.
The Three-Year Test.
When any active oombatant can
leave a wide margin between him
self and the remainder Of the
struggling pack painter in pursuit
for three consecutive seasons, the
argument may be considered as ef-
6ectively closed.
For at that moment his name is
chiseled in the book.
In 1920 Hornsby, of st. Louis.
led Ross Young in second place by
nineteen points
In 1921 he led Eddie Roush in
seco..d place by forty-six points.
For two seasons he has left the
the gray rear mists that the strug-
gle was held to be owe. by late
July. He increased his margin
from nineteen points in 1920 to
forty-six points in 1921. And now
here. he is again on the young
rim OF 1922 with the three-year
test on, a season away.
AS a rule it takes time to break
into the high places and stir up
the dust. Hornsby's performance
in the stirring role known as THE
Shoes of Wagner will be one OF
the high spots of the year.
The Real Iron Man.
York. $ the real iron man of his
10 fol a IN al he
held the trademark for a.spell.
This citizen from the Republic OF
Bling has played so many consecu-
tive ball games without an inter-
mission that the leading mathema-
tfcians haze Deen forced into in
tegral calculus to compute the
exact figures.
He slipped by the 500 mark at
top speed and the rumor is now
out that his new slogan Is 1000
or bust"
Baseball isn't a bone cracking
scrimmage. but the wear and tear
of the sport have cut down many q
stslwart soul and dismantled many
lineup. ..r
Only a few ever complete the
menu for a single season. But
Scott. minus rust of breakage
slogs along as steadily as time. His
present record Is almost as mir
aculous as the majestic cannonad-
ing of Babe" Ruth.
Adding a Few Queries.
One of the main queries of the
day seems to be fashioned in these
words: What is the matter with
college sport?",
To which we annex these few
additional missionaries:
What Is the matter with Con-
gress?
What is the matter with our
lawmakers?
What is the matter with modern
society. old and young?
What is the matter with human
nature?
What is the matter with the
world?
How many have ever figured just
what element of college sport is
clean. fair. decent and all for the
game?
One can view with alarm" more
than one or two spots in college
sport beyond all question. But-one
can also point with pride" at a
far greater array Of COLLEGIATE en-
deavor until his arm drops of
Wen take our gamble on the aver
age college sport against the aver
age of any other national institu-
ton including hur7an nature Uhe n