Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

IL world, as shown by the results
af the so-styled Olympic games.
From the victory of GORGEOUS in the
foot race at the first Olympic festival
Inc Greeks dated the beginning of
their chronology, as Christendom does
from the birth of Christ, so important
was this victory considered. And now
England is reused because she has no
CorOebus to win the crown for her,
and The London Times publishes an
appeal signed by such patriotic men
of eminence in war and statesman
ship as Lord Grey, Lord Harris, Lord
Robert Lord Rothschild, Lord Strath-
coma and the Duke of Westminster,
demanding that the people of Eng
land raise G100, 000-half a million
dollars-to train and provide for a
band of men fit to represent the
countrys athletic power in the Olym-
pic games at Berlin in 1916. How
England, to quote the Duke of West
Minister has lost her ancient SUI
premacy as the mother of sport" is
shown by the following table of sue
cesses in athletic games, which the
Duke characterizes as "a tale of ma
Honal disaster" for England:
Polo .--..................A America
Rackets -......-.-........A America tIack Soutarl
Yachting ................ America tholders Of the
Lawn Tennis (singles) 49, New Zealand "a. F.
Lawn Tennis Davis Cup) America
Tennis ......-.-..-......-A America tJay Could
Boxing ...................Fr France and America
Billiards ................. Australia
swimming ..............Am America and Australia
Rugby Football .........S. Africa and New Zea-
land
Lacrosse Canada
Cycling ........-...-..... England
Trotting Horse ........... America
Ruuning Horse .......... America
Horse Jumping .......... France and Russia
ssaoiias ckins's prize Canada
S S5etcs 200 ydsi AMERICA nSGfa and s. Africa
90 t22O yds.) ...... America
(44O yds.) ..... America
$3.50 yds.l .....A America
Hurdles tl2O
yds) ........ America
High Jump ...s. America
Pole Jump ...... America
Putting the Weight .....A America
Throwing the Hammer America
TWO important protests have been
raised against this appeal. One
is from Frederic Harrison, Who-says
England ought to enter no names in
the Berlin events of 1916. The whole
affair, to this writer's mind, "stinks
of gate money and professional pot
hunting" The head master of Sher-
borne, one of the great public schools
Of England, says that these pseudo
Olympic games are rot" and the
newspaper advertisement of them
and the 100000 fund for buying vic
tories positively degrading" This dis
tinguished scholar and administrator.
who declares that men in his position
are being constantly lectured by the
press for encouraging excessive ath-
.etics, thus gives his idea of sport"
Have these semi professional mod
ern athletic games and contests any
thing to 90 with the prestige in sport
of which we have been so proud
Surely cur distinction lay in this
that Englishmen in their leisure de-
voted themselves con amore to field
sports of all kinds, and in doing so
developed certain qualities of pluck,
resource, self-control, goodfellow-
ship, and what not, and went about
The world as-with all their faults
corsp'Cuously healthy bodied and
hcGltEy minded men. But what has
tits to Go with these Olympic games
cricket? - 1t is ridiculous, as
Punch has found no difficulty in IL
IIstrating. to pretend that heavily fl
danced efforts to win more events
nan Germany or America are going
10 foster sport throughout the popu-
.1uon. Everyone knows that very
few carefully selected and trained
athletes will recover our prestige or
not (as the case may be- whether
the ordinary British boy or man plays
sames or not. The only question is.
how long the ordinary British boy
and man will think it worth while to
pay. The prestige which we lost at
Stockholm is, after all-indirectly,
grant you, but none the less really-a
question of money; and when it has
gone for good along with our Old
Masters, to the land of the almighty
dollar, perhaps we shall begin to value
again, and recover, our prestige as a
nation of sportsmen.'
7 is charged by IAN Old Rugby
Forward" writing in The London
Standard, that England goes down