The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-24
BRITISH MAY HIRE
AMERICAN TRAINERS
Olympic Game Candidates
Need to BE Coached in
Strenuous Way.
ANOTHER BOXER COMES
Lomond and White Star Fa-
vorilcS in 1912 Derby at
EPSON Downs.
BY RICHARD pAHLGREN.


b RICHARD DAHBGR6N.
Special Cable 10 The Tribune.
LONDON. Dec. 2S.-Woudn't il J
strange IL American trainers should :
inspired TO toach British sthletes how
win field and track events? The British
or. especially tho athletic Britisher.
prone Ia look upon the tight little island
as The fountain head OF all knowledge
the matter OF sports. but OF recent YEAR
particularly since the inauguration OF ~
Olympic games he has had II knockc
into hin, that there are other cuuntric
which know cnouci about such things I
heat tho best Great Britain has VII
psinfrl regularity, snd OF these the Ian
Of Uncle Sam IS tic worst offender.
England likes above all things io vi
In whatever contest she may engage. an
IS beginning la realize that III order I
win she must be Wiling 10 learn. VII
ness the following significant article
the current number OF Truth:
remember reading an excellent
novel entitled, American Wives and
English Husbands" II showed that
our WAYS were not their ways, nor
their Ways our ways. but there WAS 2
compromise. ! haze been reminded
ot this by The vehement attacks In
the sporting press on the suggestion
that American trainers should be en-
pIoyrd To train English athletes.
These writer's have no sense Of pro-
DBrtlun, unllkc tue npSPllSl-
Employ a Yankee trainer. or for
cienerr they scrcech. ''WhS, Chat
would be To dcbase ourselves in the
eyes of the world, and write ourselves
down as eifeie Perish the thought
Let us give EngliShmeu chance. Let
us employ our own countryInen. Go
10 the foreigner and the Yankee OF
all forcigncrs-ncver!'
And they pun their cheats and fat
ter themselves that they arc ycritable
Is.tr rigl, f..li lrtnf,y IrOr~ hat
they arc beaten. Their love for the
foreigner is such that they will have
no truck with him.
Attitude of British.
And this. mind YOU. gentle reader,
is the attitude OF or sportsmen for
the olympic games. These games
were 10 Join the people of the world
I'm the brotherhood of sport. Their
object is 10 teach the nations TO un-
derstand each other aud 10 encourage
friendly relations. TO drive out war
and 10 promote peace. To onGcnder
friendly rivalry and emasculatc ran
corous hostllities. ] heard Lord Des-
borough ray lot OF nice things ON
this subject four years ago. But 80
nicely and logically balanced Is the
nristocratic British mind that the
same orator Will within twenty-four
hours go and tell the people that IL
is their duty 10 prevent foreign goods
coming In here, and that they must
tax the foreigner. OF course. II YOU
want to make man YOUR real friend
and boon companion, you tax him.
No wonder, then, the bourgcoisie OF
the sportin- press unable To appreci-
ate the subtle distinctions that more
educated men can make. carry their
objection TO the foreigner into the
field OF sport aud roundly declare that
IL money Is TO be spent on teaching
British athletes. British money shall
be spent on British trainers. This
sounds very fine and very imperial
istic. and no doubt the writer's fiatter
themselves that they are full blooded
patriots. But IL does not seem 10
occur 10 them that there Is no class
OF trainers In this country such as
there is in America, and for the SIM
pie reason that there has been no de-
Tnand That we have men who can
he taught and who would teach L
make no doubt But unless there Is
market for their services they will
not go In for the Job, II there were
market the Americans would prob
ably come here. But AS a market will
have 10 be made. the obvious thing
is TO Import the teacher who win
teach other teachers. and who Will be
able 10 demonstrate on the home
material what can be done by inteii-
gent methods. At present our ath-
letes are but little children stumbling
in the dark.
Americans Are Needed,
The reason why look TO the Ameri
cans is that they are up 10 date in
their methods. and know of no Eng
lishman who would turn out a team
10 give the results that the Yale and
Harvard men did last year. The
easiest way TO get into the FIRST line
Of athletics is TO get efficient teach
ers, yet ans suggestion OF tmporta-
ton Is nowled down as unpatriotic.
Let MS give our men chance OF
showing how they can teach. The
pDiy course adOnf is 10 teach the m
to teach.
And then shall be told that I am
advocating The professional teacher in
athletics. Well. so ] am; and I see
no harm in il. II is said that II the
spirit of amateurism Is 10 be bar
OF efficiency. the sooner that evil
spirit Is driven out the better for us.
The schoolboy or undergraduate. in
golf and cricket. has a professional
teacher. When he Is sculling he gets
a well-known professional to train
him and TO teach him Does the en-
ploy1nent OF the trained teacher make
the pupil an inferior amateur OF
q course IL does not. Then IL IL said
in rowing there arc only amateur
coaches. But there YOU are dealing
with u combination OF men and a class
OF capable teachers-a very limited
one, | admit-has been evolved. In
every sport which is Individualistic
except In athletics there are profess
sional teachers. In no other sport Is
IL suggested that the paid teacher
tains the performer.
owing 10 the absence OF proper
training and coaching. young fellows
take years TO acquire incdiocrity.
when. under more sensible circum-
stances. they could attain champion
ship form. TIC schoolboy Is never
taught TO run or jump or hurdle. To
Eet the best results YOU leave no
other sports TO the light OF nature.
Why. then. leave athletics. which re-
duire not onh' physical htness. but
degree OF intelligence and an
amount OF solitary perseverance which
make the kindly sympathy OF an In
telligeEt trainer desirable. II is too
late TO do mucn before Stockholm.
but the sooner we set our house in
order the better.
Jack Ward. tho Gloucester lightweight
who has for some considerable time bee
unavailingly trailing the best men In h
class. saw his last hope OF an impol
isnt match disappear when Matt Wei
was stricken with Illness. Ward hs
looked 10 the return OF the Englls
champion 10 provide him with the oppoi
tunity he has been seeking. and now ths
Wells will be unable 10 box again Il
some months. and as there appears 7
cfnn 10 he trkr xafs >,