The evening world., 1913-07-29
Motorboat Trophy Practically
Only Thing England Has Won
From America In Recent
sI0dIV. L

Years.
a. Nsw Yosi WessdI.
Nnp .viasing Of the Davis Cup b
Americas tennis players yester
- Day w. almost the last act In IN
ststpping away Of vh EnsiAnds ath
teetc supremacy. Not many years agt
Unelish athletes led the world. The mrs.
~ crash came when England sent 4
tAis country Q team composed OF hes
heUt track and hsh athletes. u was
the London A. c. team. The N. 7. A. c.
ssAm met the British. and when the
smohe Of battle had cleared away the
visitors had not scored . win. The
American athletes. won every event In
tes meet. Naturally there were alibls.
ADese returning to England the Enslish
dpoeversd that. quite by accident. don't
yea know. they he'd left their really
best athletes At homo.
But that upset British supremacy.
European nations. which had not gone
II Tor athletics because England vas %
vastly superior. took heart and began
10 train men.
Ameeica swept the track at the fret
sswvai Of ths Olympic Games At Athens
y repealed at TArs. 81. Louis,
Aeheos again. London and Stock holm.
AZ every meet England competed with
, Sargs team OF we'll trained men, bat
ssead not stem the tide Of defeat Many
wsss the abba II was even claimed
saoe Amsr3ca's stars were oil Irish.
eAeeffers British.Amsrican COLLEGE mon
epeet that excuse at Stockholm.
New some OF the European nations
have followed Americas lead ana have
0eas ahead Of Great Britain on trait
~ 0slA. A Swedish team has Iuat
oe0Dstsd In the British chsmp,onships
80 IN england. winning ave frsts and
bsating England out with a larre nun.
~ Of ssconA and third place..
U~>een has taken W American ,,a,,.
~ msthoAA" say the nn~i,sn ..sssa.
q ,ase Sepanay a1uittinr ths1 Ass.o ).
soSeAlag food IN Amcrios.
1ooeAnd must do the same or r,v.
% world composition" adds an Ensii.h
eeurt1nG 2uthority. s"s"
A9SAo0 surely neOds q etirrin, ~, 40
S@e sort About the only thins EnS.
- been able to win m rsc.n,
- the motor boat trophy. vhIch
earraed back across the ocean ~
eseon. In that race America had ths
o0Ats, out they broke down when
S9e'nse ran steadily, and e r,iisbiiitv ~
surely more to be desired than rrss,
~ snchetain spssd. the trophy vas veli
~ r
WYD o>sd a No. ,,2,. A..
w AcLoushlin. Why not cali rim
ehs LION TANEhf
CM FRANCISCO supervisory have
come In for some hight criticism
tor refusing 70 lst Sam Langford
~ eour rounds with "0rpman" Ml1er
so,th ground that Langford ''has IN
111essetsonal rsputa&soa.''
=. ewevsr. the important point y Dsins
sywsooksd. TNss sapsrvtsors we're asksd
ire esruait 70 hold - four.round ANA.
S0 bout Stretching the Imagination
- ,tAs extent Of regarding sam - an
tnAteur' y . little too much 70 sx.
- a even . Frisco supsrvislor. II
LAASford had been bnIsd In q profes.
ooo0 bout Of twenty rounds or lees
opss would have been no objection.
v0-DAY Leach Croas has hi,
III second tryout in California, this
time aEainst that crafty master,
&ssty Baldwin.
s1Ss some time II he's seemed that
MsNy y about due for Q Mop. He has
eeen hghting all the best Of them for
Veofa and no championship runnsr.up
- boast Of such . record a. his. HI
~ never had crack at the big title
4thoush hs has often deserved reooG
nitloa. They all preferred easier game
Tar 0akty 10 clever and Q scrapper. II,
~ mover been knocked out-some claim
- has never been knocked down. HI
~ beaten such famous nghters a. KID
Goodman. Grover Hayes. Tommy Muir
pAy. Leach Cross. While Ritchie
frankie Burns and owen Moran. ant
nee drawn with WolEsst AttsiL Bron
von and other crack men,
BALDWIN II = wonderfully strong utti,
Yellow. He never loses his smile wher
ths going 10 hard. He doesn't seem I,
ntAA . punch at any time The oni,
hing that counts against him - q bet
taaG proposition In to-night's hght In III,
0oet he had here In New York q coupl,
se months ago win Jack Britton. ThL
time Baldwin failed to show his oil,
spss1 and clevsrness and punch,n,
powr. But he was there with the en-
drrancs. Brttton cut him up badly, an,
Aafty grinnsd and bored In again an,
asoin, sven when he knew there wa
iittle ahsncs to land glove ON IN
shaAowy entry from the Morgan stable
Dress y IN the best condition OF hi
NE and full OF confidence He insists
upea nsking the match with Bsidw,
N site OF his brothsr-manager Sam
objections lie thinks he can beat Bad
win, AAb that this will lead to q matt
vita 8tnhis because Of Baldw,n's rspu
tstbea v California
Ntohis VIII bs In Los Angeles an
. r1nesIds esat He y . careful youn
man. and has no Intention Of iettin
any tmpostsnt knowledge about any ma
he saAy meet set sway from him.
4A0nz3x Sq.pAy. ssinei NJ ans ID
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