The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-29
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 Sports Parade
By HENRY McLEMoRE


 United Press Stan Correspondent) Miami, Fla, Jan. 2o.--tUP)-In which Q few private opinions are made public:
 Two and two add up, and SO does three and three, but Mrs. Helen Wills Moody's present attitude to- ward tennis and the views on the game which she has given in Q thousand interviews, do not add up. Not once, but Q hundred times In the past, she has declared her love for tennis, called 1t the grandest game in the world, and told how she loved to play 1t just for the sake of playing 1t. If she was sin- cere, one wonders why she doesn't play it. Why ell this talk of whether she's as great Q player as she was several years agoe If she's in good health and feels it, which I under- stand is true, then what does 1t matter if she wins or loses? She'd have grand, grand fun, even if she loses in straight sets to Miss Round and Miss Jacobs. Why doesn't she go ahead and nominate herself for Wimbledon and tho American championships?
 Wen never know exactly why Mrs. Moody is so uncertain as to tournament competition, but our guess is that Mrs. Moody is kidding us (and perhaps herselO when she minimizes her pride in winning vaA mean more to her than the exer- else and the sheer joy of trapsing about Q court. We believe her com plete return to competition will come the day she is firmly convinc- ed her game is good enough to lick all competition. And not before. We doubt if she wants another of those afternoons like she had ct Wimbledon last year. When she es- capped defeat by Miss Jacobs only by the occurrence of one of those things which happen in Q thousand years.
 It's . Habit
 We believe that your average race horse bettor, which includes millions of citizens who wager money they can't afford to lose, would be cured of the habit if he could spend an afternoon in the press box ct track. For he would sec the handi- cappers he follows in the paper los- ing money just as effortlessly as the girl six rows up in the grandstand who bets on the prettiest horse or the jockey with the incest colors. If the men who study horses 365 days In the year can't win money on them, what chance has the outsider to beat 'em? We've been in dozens of track press boxes, and have yet to find e professional handicaper who wouldn't 90 for "hot" tip just as quickly as Mrs. Jones from Bel laire, Ohio, out for her first race. We believe that two years from now. when he should be nearing his peak, Joe Louis will be easier to lick than he is right now. Why? Simply because easy living is a big ger handicap to fighter than in- experience. Tn short, we believe boxing fans who watched him against Baer, Camera, and the others, have seen the greatest Joe Louis they'll ever see. He doesn't stand to improve.
 We believe the only way to whip the dog races is to bet on little black dogs who bark constantly while in the paddock. We believe this because we followed the sys- tenn the other night and only lost $4, our greatest winning streak of the season.
 We rate trapshootinR next to nothing, from both the competitors and spectators point of view. Noth- ing, of course, being cross country running and college wrestling. Easy, Now.
 We believe those critics who say Bob Jones quit just in time. and that the Atlantan would be just arl- other golfer were he playing today. are in error. A study of the 63's, B4's. and 06s the top line golfers are shooting today reveal that most such scores were accomplished on courses that have about as much championship calibre as one of those dear departed Tom Thumb links. Look up the scores in the British and American opens and see how many of the red-hots broke 70 when the going was tough.
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