I believe the answer must be insincerity, else how could Vines place Perry second on his list, when Perry is a man he beats half the time? And what else could prompt Perry to name Vines second, when Ellsworth is a man he holds his own with?
The one consolation in such behaviour by the Messrs. Vines and Perry is that they are holding fast to one of sports' silliest traditions, Ask Babe Ruth to name an all-time baskall team and the fat one will reel you off a nine that does not have the name of Ruth in right field, I would hate to hang by my thumbs until Ruth, in his heart, was convinced that he did not belong on any and all all-star baseball teams.
Certainly there was nothing modest about Ruth when he was haggling with Colonel Jacob Rupert over the matter of salary. I don't remember his denying his true worth in those days, He shouted it from the housetops, and was always looking for a newer and higher housetop, Even Bobby Jones But they all do it. Bobby Jones must have selected three gross of all-time golf teams in his day, and yet his riaing never was on one of them, Which, of course, is just as absurd as it would have been for Napoleon to leave himself off an all-star military team, or Mickey Mouse to modestly omit his name in an all-rodent list.
I feel I can criticize the sports heroes for false modesty, because I never was guilty of the charge my self, When I was bean bag and squat champion I was never one to hide ght under a bushel, Every all-r bean bag or squat tag team I ever named was headed by the name Henry McLemore. I even refused to place the name of Abou Ben Adhem ahead of mine, and as everyone know Abou always like to get is name first—United Press,
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