New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-06-24
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NEWS AND VIEWS OF SPORTS
A NICE POINT IN LAWN TENNIS Ell
QUETTE-GOLF AND THOSE Avn
Full SHIRT SLEEVES.

,a,,n ,o,n,s tournament at the West Side Tennis
Club last week disappointing, and the acuoh
OF Atkins" and johnson" whose real names, 10y
the way, are both very well known among lawn
tennis players in defaulting to Little and Alex
ander in the finals Of the doubles has raised nice
point in the etiquette Of the sport. The question
g whether a player in a lawn tennis tournament
tba, he Taf1st default in the next match. Should
he nut out another man who might have chance
self? on the face of ii this might lead to almost
indefinite jockeying If allowed to continue lar'
Only two weeks ago Larned defaulted TO Stevens
In order 10 let the baseline veteran win the New
Jersey State Championship Challenge Cup. Now
Atkins and johnson" have followed suit with
much less excuse. a year ago Wright and Grant
were drawn against Alexander and Glazebrook In
the semi-fnal round Of the Metropolitan champion
ship doubles and when il became known that
and must default If he won the committee blocked
the game by postponing the match until the next
day and then awarded il to Alexander and Glaze
brook when Grant did not appear 10 play. This
season the committee did not know OF me com
INC default and so could not stop it, and, in con-
sequence, they had no final match in this event
1t appears that the unceremonousness Of Amer
tcans is giving concern TO their English cousins In
stiu another way. The Editor Of Golf Illus
trated' has this to say in condemnation Of our
concessions TO hot weather on the links;
devoutly hope that the American custom Of
playing golf in shirt sleeves VIII ht oo bop for
sSol Sacket or thin tweed coat is hot for
eolf II is absurd one may argue TO drag your
5ersnf-nr limbs round an unduating course on an
August day IN a coat. when by taxing II on Tr S
NAV play in comparative comfort Not al an. ne
absurdity lies IN playing the game at an anaf1
days in the cricket season Wheh tie P13 - e ~,
ehivering in striped blazers or white sweaters; APP
nropriate but Intellectual cricketing attire Why
not apply the shirt sleeve argument 90 It =; a
saw that they would look more sensiple IN sLSat
nTiafe season and an appropriate costume for every
game. and when spell Of weather comes sr
~ ~ man who has due regard for the fitness OF
hs laws aside his driver and takes up his bat
bcv iti or fishing rod if he be Of maturer age
n,ov. v-hv il should be worse TO roll UP ones
sleeves 10 play golf than 10 appear IN sheh c'au
only in single garment and in nothing at an
above the waist or TO appear on the cinder pain
arrsved in the inlsiest possible attire is too hard
S,r rs 10 see Probably il pains the Editor OF
Golf Illustrated" &c observe the lamentable ten
dency OF lawn tennis players 10 leave OF thelr
collars roll up their sleeves. There Is an ap-
rropriate season." he says. and an appropriate
costume Ger every game Quite and the ap-
prorriate costume appears 10 US TO be that "hch
ccirtiaes rL'chritude and comfort What the sen
Site edtor says IS practieal.y; gu niuSTb i
rre &c.; lot leave as much OF golhng season.
We seer re English editor Will nave 10 avert ms
tercer gaze.
According TO THE London Post which prints
6is-a,ch from this city the day Eolodyov--
sli ocn the Derby Lester Reiff, who rode the
winner fGr Mr Whitney. is now regarded as the
greatest 5ockey the United States has ever known
This VIII he news TO most turfmen hereabouts.
Notody doubts that the elder Ref is able boy.
b,t up 70 this year he never ranked on this
side with Sloan or Spencer Turner, and II is
doubtful II he is the superior OF Shaw. At any
rate he must come back and ride against these
able Jockeys before he lay claim 10 the palm
The same London paper says Of recent American
turf victories in England:
has the boom has probably reached its climax. for
our 3crkeys. If slow in the beginning have realized
thai there advantages in their style. and
tine progresses will the invasion be repealed
TIE sht.iry and strength Of the English jockeys
are Iict superior 10 the American.
Another English journal apropos OF the victory
Of ~. Keenes Cap and Bells H. the Oaks, sounds
the alarm in this wise:
Is England going 10 the dogs? Has the dawn Of
tie twentieth century given the signal for eX-
oGghbred and made these isles an appanage Of
the United States Of America? Pessimists and
short sighted sportsmen-those conservative NOR
tails who cannot endure the victory the stranger
melancholy strain upon EPSON Downs yesterday.
5-;ke MltheTngtor IN the ballad they were in
ooleInl dumps The Derby went across the se1s
on wednesday. and the oaks has followed suit.
49, naoar - 49, sS,,c W. lSalI caIu-
Jockeys occupied the foremost positions a rider
carried off classic race almost Immediately on
ms arrival Altogeiher, the insular minded fol-
il Is useless TO offer consolation. Even the refec-
comfort. on the other hand all enlightened be-
ings rejoice when plucky transatlantic patrons of
and enterprise 40 sooner were out-and-out Brit
ons pluming themselves that the sun of American
equestrians make a remarkable show on EPSON
Downs ~ aa american representatves carry off
our souls in patience. and endeavor TO learn les
SG dsa from the staggering object lesson here pro-
II seems that there severe critics Of the turf
IN England well in America for the Derby
itself was recently described by the Rev. Hugh
Price Hughes as a carnival Of rascality" To this
The London Sportsman" rejoins that although
over one hundred thousand persons the Derby
run, ony thirty OF them so miseonducted them
serves mat the police were forced to notice them.
The ease with which expert lawn tennis plavers
4earn golf is worthy Of note. Among the able
wielders OF The racquet who have learned 10 swing
the driver and the ceek with deadly accuracy are
quincy a Shaw. jr. w. a. Larned the most
Truman, ana me most cratic Of all American lawn
champion OF the United States and William
Waller, once the Northwestern lawn tennis cham
pion and now the Western golf champion the
t"o games however are as diverse possible
The Indianapolis Sun" thus comments in verse
on the sufrerings OF poor pup at the hands OF a
hre-year-old boy. and the result OF the torture as
observed in the subsequent attitude of the nun
toward the boy:
The bre sa3' k RSs l shfii thaf fe0 oTD
He climbs upon the kitchen roof
1,s ana s1s pulls Is. THAI poor pup
and Wells cut clear sweet:
And Iighi rtshi on his his feet feet pup drop
iN s Satehea then roll around and play
Fsii 9 square sssl n npop time sSs, again 5al 80.
That poor pup howled with paini
Ths zen nun mn, m Sisk I that pup and make
Now. why is ii thsf N poor %1r9 p ssSh stick.
To him through thin and thick?