Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-12-20
UP BOYS AND AT THEM
WILL Be CRY OF LAND
English Invasion Is Due and American
Athletes Will Be on Hand to Give
Them Warm Reception.
ATTACK BY LAND, FOOT,
WATER AND HORSEBACK
English to Go After Polo Title in Ear
nest This Time and Shamrock Nv
Is TO Have Big Spread.

Is TO Have Big Spread.
BY HAL SHERIDAN.
written for the United Press.)
New York, Dec. 2O.-Up boys, and at
em, will be the cry for next year, as we
are facing one Of the most determined
English invasiOns in sporting history.
In fact Uncle Sam is to be attacked
from three different quarters by the
Britishers and if he comes through with.
out having his coat tails at least some.
what frayed, it will lie time to stick an.
other national holiday on the calendar
We are to be attacked by land and
water, foot and horseback. The chal.
lenge Recently sent over by the Hurl.
inghame PolOists for another tussle for
the international cup made it certain
that our esteemed Uncle during the com.
ing summer months to be one Of the
busiest little defenders that ever de.
Tended. In addition to the polo cup
which must be nursed over another as.
sault, there is the Dwight f. Davis ten.
mis- trophy and the Americas cup to
keep under lock and key.
England has high hopes of taking the
polo cup back whore tho crack four,
headed by Foxhall Keene, found it
many years ago, Sir Thomas Upton is
building u challenger which he says will
'startle the world" And as for ten.
mis-, those Englishmen arc thinking of
drafting Dilding and a few other Aus.
tralian players to send after the Davis
cup which was won by Maurice Nc,
Laughlin and his associates last sum.
mer.
Looks Like Plot.
It's deep laid plot. 1t ism 7 chubby
to be hammerng away at so many
points at once. At least plans may be
laid along that line for an alibi should
there be a slip anywhere. The English
learned much during the year Of 1913
as TO American methods in sports and
they may be expected to profit by what
they saw As for Polo, the Meadow.
brook Four may have to get up and
dust some Of they repol the attack, The
English were picked to win this year,
and might have turned the trick had
not Harry Whitney 5 aggregation fairly
tore up all the turf at Mcadowbrook in
carrying the fight to the cracks from
the other side. The Britshers wcro not
accustomed to having the game taken
40 blamed seriously but when they
found it had to be done, they did u fair
little job of ripping up considerable sod
themselves,
Whitney has announced his retire.
mont from the game, so that the Amer.
lean four will have new leader next
year II might fall 70 the veteran Fox.
hall to so to the front again, but Whit.
ney said he believed some Of tho young.
er men should be givon chance and If
the ideOs Of the retiring leader are fol.
lowed, Keene is more or less let out.
In Dead Earnest Now
Tho English are going at this polo
business in dead earnest this trip, Tho
ponies and candidates for the team arc
to be sent to Spain for their training.
The weather ism I to bc given chance
to interfere and under the skies Of tho
south j, Bulls mon win keep in mind
tho charging Monte Waterbury and
work up n counter attack,
Thcre are likely 10 be several changes
In the English team, just as tho Amcri
can lineup is to bc switched
no long as Maurice Mclaughlin is
able to shoot en- over the net, there
will not be any need Of great concern
as to tennis Norris Williams proved to
bo almost as good rs tho California
comet and with othor stars rapidly ris.
ing the chances appear good for sue
ccssful defcnec Of the Davis trophy
Harold llackett, the third member Of
the American tcam which lifted the cup
stands a good chance of being supplant,
ed In next years tournaments The
English quickly discovered that Hack.
ott was the weak member Of the Amer.
lean team and fired as many Of the
shots as they could in his direction But
for the wonderful work Of Mclaughlin
the cup would probably have remained
on tho other sidc and the Americans
would have been gloriously drubbcd In
the double,
Designs May Widely Differ,
Thcre is as much iockeying In tho rc
ports coming from the orectou Of tho
two boats which viii meet In The inter.
national race for the America q cup, as
there win be In the race proper. Early