The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-06-21
AMERICANS lead THE
WORLD IN ATHLETICS
WHICH BRAINS AND Drawn ARE A REQUIREMENT
A GAUGE SHOW HOW FAR AHEAD OF
AMERICAN ATHLETES ARE

before set new marks He was second
i'm throwing the stone, i'm the standing
high and brod jumps scoring three
points for each of these events, and
five for his two victories.
The highest total scored by any other
American athlete in the games was ten,
made by Ray c. Ewry and Paul II.
Pilgrim But these two men won
through skill in one particular line of
activity. Ewry i'm jumping winning
both the standing high and broad jumps
and Pilgrim in running, taking the 400
and 500 meter.
Even should the male Americans who
are after the Davis Tennis Cup, now
held in England, fail completely-the
quartette of challengers consists of
Beals c. Wright, the American Cham
pion; Holcombe Ward who with Wright
won the doubles championship at New
port; Raymond d. Little, one time in
tercollegiate champion, and Kreigh Col
Inns, the Western champion-there is
still balm
These four men represent the best
strength obtainable and there is great
hope of their winning, but it must be
remembered that in going against the
Dohertys, they are tackllng the best
pair of tennis players in the world, two
BritOns who have been able to keep
British tennis to the fore in spite Of
the great players who have gone to the
other side in an effort to lift the Davis
cup.
Should they fail in their effort TO
down the Doherty pair, it would not
leave the United States without a ten
mis- title, for in Miss May Sutton, the
woman premier of the world the cause
Of American sport has a champion as
far ahead of her class as Jeffries is in
advance of his
1t may seem odd to mention the
bOiler-maker and Miss Sutton in the
same breath, yet Miss Sutton would
probably be the last to resent it, for
both she and the heavyweight cham
pion are Californians, and above all
things in the world, Californian
likes to be a winner or to be able to
boast of the prowess of one of his own
state.
After winning the national champion
ship in Philadelphia last spring, Miss
Sutton went aboard and simply out
classed everything on the other side.
Against the champion of the British
Isles she won by the hollow score of
CO. 60. 60. The tennis experts of the
old country admitted their utter ina
bility to cope with the young American
girl, with wrist of iron and unlimited
speed and endurance
Miss sutton is not the only young
American girl to win titles In fact
Uncle Sans experts come to their
titles earlier than the masters of the
old world.
Willie Hoppe has only been out of his
knickerbockers for a few years. yet he
was able to beat Vignaux. of France
year-old Jay Gould did not
win the court tennis championship of
Great Britain, but he went through all
the preliminary rounds, only being
finally downed by the veteran, Eustace
Miles.
The American jockeys, such as Tod
Sloan, Danny Maher, Johnny Reiff, who
went over to the other side were merest
boys, yet they beat the pick of jockeys
in the old country and forced the ac-
ceptance of their style of riding far
forward on the horses ears.
Even now American jockeys are still
proving their premiership in England.
Only a few days ago, Danny Maher, on
Donnetta, won the great Jubilee Handi-
cap.
Americans have always been to the
fore in cycling, although the sport has
the gamh first obtained its vogue,
Arthur Zimmerman. known as the Jer-
sey Skeeter, went to the other side and
cleaned up the best they had. A few
weeks ago Frank Kramer, another Jer-
seyman, did the same trick.
This means something when it is
borne in mind that cycle racing holds
it's popularity over there, and new
champions are constantly being turned
out
Kramer took all three races, defeating
Thorwald Ellegaard, the Danish rider
and J. $. Kenyon, the British eX-ama-
teur champion, in the order named.
Time minutes 2-5 seconds.
In the half-mie bicycle race Kramer
was first, Ellegaard second and Ben
Nbn lullu. inc, minute SttOllu'
The quarter-mile bicycle race was
won by Kramer, EHegaard was second
and Richard Heller the Austrian cham
pion, was third Time "a 2-5 seconds.
What has been regularly done to Lip
ton, Dunraven and other American cup
challengers shows that American SUI
premacy is maintained all the way from
the popular sports to those only posi-
BILE to the very wealthy