The Washington herald., 1922-07-22

As july Sips ldly along into
August there are now four prob
lens that confront those interested
in sport.
l. Who will win the Leonard
Tender fight?
2. The next national turf tennis
champion and the Davis Cup.
3. The next national amateur golf
champion and the international test
T. The location of the next world
series.
These four fields of sport carry
an appeal to several million citi-
zens. more millions than the aver
age non-combatant might guess
without stopping to think II over
For August and September form the
stretch where the big thrills begin
to break and the pulse begins to
quiver day by day. We have had
our share of thrills already. but the
main ones are still one beyond.
Those who saw Benny Leonard
stop Rocky Kansas out West a
short while ago are confident the
champion will either badly outpoint
or dismantle Tender within ten
rounds. But Tender Is tougher
challenger than he is given credit
He will be no part Of public
choice. but he has enough stun 10
give Leonard more worry than the
canny Benny has encountered in
some years. Tender IL experienced.
strong, fairly fast. and he can hit.
This combination Is never to be
treated lightly. Not by wise
champion who is inclined to keen
his crown intact
The main job that confronts the
field at Germantown some few
weeks further on will be trimming
Bill Tilden. When Tilden was over
turned by Johnston on the Coast
earlier in the year there were vague
whispers to the effect that he had
about come to the end of his march.
but hard courts in the spring and
turf courts in late summer offer no
basis of comparison. Tilden has
been working his way to top form
1t an even, steady pace He was
too wise a tennis player to over
develop the pink in April and MAY
and then try to keep il from fading
out for two or three months His
easy victory over Vincent Richards
is proof enough he is near enough
to his best standard to remain as
first choice over the field. in no way
disregarding the fine skill and great
courage of Bill Johnston, the Cali
fornian.
The most intricate problem Of the
lot will come in trying to pick the
winner of the next amateur cham
pionship at Brookline. When one
looks over such names as Jones,
Evans, Ouimet. Guilford and Gard
ner. from the United States, with
such challengers as Wethered Hun
ter. Tolley and others from Great
Britain, the various complications
merely leave an added bowknot in
the brain. We should say the four
top names at Brookline for match
play will be Ouimet, Jones, Guilford
and Evans. Jones has been play
ing the finest combination match
and medal play golf of any anna
teur in the world this summer, but
any slight one-day lapse of form in
a championship of this type may be
as fatal as the black plague. Only
miracle golf will stop Ouimet at
Brookline. where he won his first
crown. unless he wears out physi-
cally after the first three days.
As for naming the location for
the next world series. at least one
broadcasting station should be set
up in New York. The Giants finish
at home. with their main rivals on
the road through no small part OF
the stretch. But where the Browns
are firmly entrenched in their own
dugout through part of August and
nearly all September, the Yankees
will be giving battle on hostile sod
where so far they have been none
too robust. The Browns have the
greatest chance any st. Louis team
has known in forty years to enter
the promised land and take a run
ming start at the big world series
split. They will be facing softer
competition through most of the
stretch. while the Yanks are en-
broiled with such hustling teams as
the Tigers. White Sox and Indians,
and ensconsed at home. The sched-
ule is well in favor of the Browns,
who. in addition. have a irst-class
ball club.
At first there was no question
that Babe" Ruth. after he once got
going would, again lead the home
run hitters with something to spare.
But in Rogers Hornsby, Walker.
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