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Courage, The Keynote To Success In SportBy Nat Fleischer“Oh they’ll crack again. They haven’t the courage.” There was a lot of conversation along that linein New York was not so long backand the subjects of the prediction were the Pittsburgh Pirates. Well the Corsairs refused to crack. They proved that they did have courage to go through the great series withtake a corner lot gamejto “go it into a game recog-lrights, ountry over as the na- In other of a free and strenuthe Giants at the Polo and kill the last vestige of hope for John J. McGraw.‘‘Oh, the Americans will win the Davis Cup again! So and so hasn’t the courage to fight Tilden and Johnston,” said followers of tennis not so long ago, as Australia and France got ready to play their memorable interzone final which resulted in the elimination of the Aussies.Courage and sport are so closeh inter-twined that one is inseparable from the other. But it must be admitted that there are two varieties of courage—out and out gameness, which will carry on in the face of odds as well as in the sunshine of success, and the courage of the front runner, which wil’ function only when things are going right.Sport, as we mark it in these strenuous times, means combative competition. A good many folks think that sports have deteriorated in respect to the personal comba tiveness which participants demon strate toward others but there if abundant proof that this is not so Sports, professional and amateur have merely grown bigger and broader, making it unnecessary tlt; inject so much of pugnacity of oldAnd, as of old, the quality witl which a man has to be imbued now if he would attain the greatest pin nacle, is that old and time honored one of courage. Courage is thr every backbone of competitive struggle. No endeavor in whicl courage is not a requisite is wort! the effort. The greater the amount of courage needed ir any given sportive affair, thr greater that affair becomes, botl to those who take part in it and tlt; those who merely look on.No man he® been successful ir sport if he lacked courage. It wa courage that was o*ie of the greatest factors in building baseball. It was the’strictly persona1 courage with which every survivor of the old days of the national pastime was blessed, that made it■'* 'V \ : , ^ I A “ I • •-i *possible to and mould nized the clt; tional sport eus people.When the National League, the granparent of all organized baseball was in its infancy, the type of men performing upon the diamond was of the rough and readyto the mat.” for theirGrounds stamp. There was no love and little respect for competitor or arbiter, and as a result, fights clashes of bare fist and thigh wen frequent and unavoidable. The weak perished the courageous sur-\ived, and out of this grew a great game.Kid Gleason, manager of th Chicago White Sox. and on*- of tlu old school, tells the sv»ry that when he began breaking y .unsterv into the game the first advice hi gave them was:—“Never lose yi.p nerve. If some one spikes you spike him back.”And those who followed his advice were never forced to use their •pikes a second time.This rough part of baseball h;sports it is the same Many a foot racer there is whc can run against time and beat it but in compeition, is a dismal failure. He has not the courage. When he sees the other men gaining upor him or setting the pace at a whirlwind gait he crumples.His courage is not of the calibre that can stand the milling. In football. courage is the* prime essentia1 Lr success. The football player who fears to bum]) in 200 pounds of onrushing human scrimmage soon finds the side lines.The boxer must have |t:ikt ,b.ic jfer! punch soporific, or perhaps, onl;! waiting to take more and more punishment. If he softens unde the blows, reaches a point when his mind tells him it is time t» quit, he will never be much more than a mere ”would-like-to-be.”1 The jockey perched nigh upon rflesh in a himself oncourage t blow after blow and com k for more, waiting and waitinr the chance to put over th. . , _ , s wildly galloping mount, must Iveen eliminated or pretty much so limbued with great courage, and simust a wrestler, an oarsman, :/et there is always the persona* •lash imminent at every juncture if the game and the winning team s the team with the more courageous players, men who do not fearhockey player in sports.(Copy r* g!il 10.5orany other plaveiBy \i!h iiisTin-Service)Throws Superstition to Winds,Picks Thirteen WinnersBy FULLER DOPElong be remember ed in of upsets. The expert*Saturday, Nov. 7, will of football. It was a dav afternoon, yours truly includedSeven out of 12 was the day’s average, which record 16 out of 24 since the big games started.To prove I’m not superstitious my eludes 13, not 12 games, as in the past.Team*. Place.Yale vs. Princeton -Harvard vs. Brown _____Army vs. Columbia ___Syracuse vs. Colgate ......Dartmouth vs. Chicago_____Pittsburg vs. Pennsylvania _Ohio State vs. Michigant he annals had a hadmakes thebest for this week in-veiha;tootla■5aiImtt ahenuu1mistm\to 1ISOurgfroiIVteaiwor f ]worNew Haven arOvidence New York Syracusewhicago ----Philadelphia Ann HarborOdds 5-4 10-9 10-7 10-9 . 5-4Alabama vs. Florida ........ . Montgomery _Georgia Tech vs. Georgia California vs. WashingtonMinnesota vs. Iowa ........West Va. vs. Penn State Tulane vs. Swanee _ _____Atlanta -----BerkeleyMinneapolis Morgantown New OrleansWinner.Yale Brown Army Colgate _ DartmouthPenn. ___10-9Michigan ... 5-4Alabama ..... 5-4Ga. Tech ...10-9 Washington 1-1Uwa .... ____ 5-4West Va. 5-4 Tulane ____10-7Vjbet| low N1! v ipftI nut j ! .3 \\ i t ion 1192i VFirLfroiear.1hadsen
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Sarasota Daily Times
Sarasota, Florida, US
Tue, Nov 17, 1925
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