Evening star., 1952-12-16

There something in the nature of fascination to turn
back the old pages crisp with the and rejecting the
changes sports taste Who the early dols Remen
less That in the 187Os There day in 1873 at
Creedmoor Long Island when crowd of 100000 attended
national shooting Today only the Indianapolis
$780, the Derby and the Navy football consistently
draw many persons
NEXT POPULARITY to rhemen in those years the
oarsmen sailing the America Cup commanded
international attention Even heelandtoe walkers lion
lied Today movie audiences Sncker when these gotesque
trackmen appear in newSreelS. .-...
Golf? Relatively, they Johnny -Lateys
1t only far 1913 when the slender Boston
amateur Francis Oumet defeated the
Ted Ray and Harry Vardon direct popular attention golf
year when Maurice Red) McLaughlns victory
Norman Brooke of Australia in the Davis Cup matches
did the same for tennis
The contemporary fame of some Of is based
substantially sports Louisville for instance This city
instantly connected with the Kentucky Derby by
patrons Saratoga where surrendered
in what proved be the turning point of the American Revou
ton It's possible that people associate Saratoga with
the TraverS Stakes in which the 10Otol shot, Jim Dandy
prevailed
indianapolis linked to the auto race Poughkeepsie
where the big rowing regatta Many forgotten
telegraph from the old
river and that cough drop
the that brewer founded womens college named
VasSar
PASADENAS APPROXIMATE LOCATION is familiar to
fasteners because of the Rose Bowl and Goshen Y has its
Hambetonan trottng classic How many recall that Noah
Webster teach school there? Atlanta has Bobby Jones
and Shelby Mont, is linked to the JACK Dempsey-Iommy
Gibbons fight which wrecked the economy of the town.
These are random observations intended point up
sports have in short time. Another item in
York Tribune published handbook of sports
citing games effect the Tribune said: eve
are publishing this book because widespread
sport During this year alone have printed 80
columns of sport news"
Today is not for metropolitan newspaper to
devote go to 80 columns athletics single Sunday
sports city, Washington has no great complaint The
its share of heroes and two stand out One was
the other Sammy Baugh Together they
spanned almost 40 years
Johnson in 1907 and remained pitcher for 81
in 1887 decade after Walter hung up
glove retired only Sunday Each the best in
his field, each brought winners to Washington.
COvERAGE OF A PRESENT sports has changed
quite years. although necessarily for the better
the late Rudolph Kaufman when
young for The Star in 1885, not many years
after his graduation from Amherst
There 2Oman sports departments in those days
qualified covered the big athletic event.
which this day. scullng George
Charles Courtney and Edward Han
They pros destined later to become famed
college coaches Following series OF poStponements the
purse grew to $4,000.
Intrepid Reporter Kaufman climbed the stump OF the
Washington only 25 feet high to observe the con-
Dashng off his story in longhand takes he dropped
them ground where copyboy retrieved them and
hustled the pages to the office
This novel of covering sporting event but
perhaps Kaufman spared the worst Today reporter
expect lady, heretofore barred from press boxes to
transmit copy teeype Invariably the lady teegrapher
will say very first football Which team is
often not the provder OF the copy
reading it the print wishes he had been able to
stand 125-oot monument stump and drop his material