The Washington herald., 1922-02-13
Around the Corner.

depicting the final stages of the
long watch, with the Filbert Grena-
diers on guard).
Dull leaf by leaf with eager hand
He rips the calendar apart;
Dull leaf by leaf the days are canned
That lay, dead weights. upon his heart.
Gray day by day he holds his stride
Across Doe Winters barren fen,
Until Eay-hearted, wonder-eyed
He comes to Aprirs dream again.
He hasn't read the Irish news
About new treaties, not a word.
And stranger still, BRAND and Hughes,
Are names he's never even heard
He only trails with Ruth and Cobb,
Art Nehf or Hornsby out the glen
Until once more upon the job
He comes to Aprirs dream again.
He spurns all food and cannot sleep.
With deep set eyes that blink in woe.
How sluggishly the dull days creep,
How drearily the long weeks 20!
lost soul. hopeless. out Of gear
He trails Doc Winters barren fen,
Until. headlong and with cheer.
He comes to Aprirs dream again.
Having carefully sorted out the
last two weeks mail. appertaining
to the heavyweight situation. we
are confronted with the $3.50 as
Feet of these two lines of thought
l. Dempsey should meet Willis
in his next fight, as Willis is the
only halfway logical contender
left.
.. Dempsey should not meet
Willis for several reasons. One is
that attempting to arrange any
such fight might blot out boxing.
i0 T@l
heavyweight champion. came near
wrecking the game.
The pro and con, with the ac-
cent mainly on the con, seems to
be surging back and forth over the
Dempsey Willis debate. The ora
tory among fight fans has grown
volatile in spots. but in the case
of Dempsey it seems to be a matter
of. Willis or vaudeville. Barring
such time as he may take off to
shadow box with himself.
Dnrtmsuth's Carnival.
Dartmouth may have refrained
from turning out a championship
football team this last fall, but the
Hanoverian citadel has proved
again its ability to put on a win
ter sporting carnival that is be.
yond all competition.
There Is all the color here. all
the call for skill. nerve and STAN
ina that any football game might
offer. Sport, in fact, has few
spectacles that can go beyond this
carnival from whatsoever angle
you may care to peer.
There is no truth, however, in
the rumor that there will be .any
dual home-and-home ski-jumping
meet between Dartmouth and the
University of Florida. Not until
the glaciers come out of the North
again to resume where they lef,
off 10000 years ago.
Concerning Georges Again.
Dear Sir: I saw Carpenter meet
Cook in London recently, and II he
showed any effects of the Demp-
sey battle, it wasn't in evidence
He looked heavier and stronger
than he looked in New Jersey. and
to me he seemed to be in bette,
shape. He was not even breathing
hard when he knocked Cook out
He'll never beat Dempsey. but he'll:
certainly carry my money IL he
ever tackles Tunney, Gibbons or
Greb. He knows too much and he
can hit too hard for any of these
1t wouldn't surprise me, IL Demp.
sey comes over, to see them
matched. Carpenter was meeting
tough ones and taking his beatings
when he was a kid, and I don't be-
lieve he is afraid to risk another
although the best he could hope to
do would be to stretch the fight
from four rounds to seven or eight
And you can take 1t from me, this
pair would pack any house on this
side OF the water, outside of Rus
sia, where a fight is no longer a
treat. F. L. C.
Limerick Of the Links.
duIer, whose club was no wand,
Put seventeen balls In the pond,
At dollar apiece
He then called the police
And had the course put under bond.
L. D. J.-There would be no dis
grace in a college football player
who needed the money to pay his
UNIV fhrouoh colle0a. opep1y sion.