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The Veterans of Sport.■■ ■(New York World.)With regard to Mr. Wallie Schang, who was forty years old yesterday, and who is thus being described by the sport writers as one of the “grand 'old men of baseball, we wish to file a demurrer. That is. we wish to ask these sports writers on |what authority they classify anybody as a grand old man at the age of forty. According to census figures there,are 22.112.0G9 persons in the country ‘more than forty-four years old. and what is more, i they are probably the ones who really run the j country Instead of the fifty-nine, with five added as an afterthought, nominated the other day by Mr. James W. Gerard. Are these influential citizens, these spry, active and shrewd ornaments to our civilization, to be placed on a shelf because Mr. (Wallie Schang has caught 1.800 games and played in a half-dozen world series?Possibly we give the impression that we are peevish at Mr. Schang in this matter; such is not the jcase. Hi- is merely an illustration of something we have noticed before. Grover Cleveland Alexander. Johnny Dundee. William Tilden 2nd and Walter Johnson have all been called grand old men.” and not one of them fc yet forty-five. Tilden. as a matter of fact, is not yet forty. No. Schang has nothing to do with our complaint; he is merely an illustration of a general trend. We think this trend should be curbed. Men are not old when they turn forty, and sports writers should think of some other way to celebrate birthdays. Youthful Rookie Making Good With Athletics. in our opinion would have been a nice caption for Schang....» i. ■ ■
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The Daily Alaska empire
Juneau, Alaska, US
Thu, Sep 25, 1930
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
Michael W.
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