Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-30


which he finished second. Joe Myer,
Randolph Granger, Hal Holland and
R. A. McDonough also competed in
the championships. Myer and Granger
failed to score points, but Holland
and McDonough were more fortunate
G.
The U. S. A. has something in an
athletic way that England really adj
mires. In such an event we take it
for granted that Maurice McLough-
lin, the American tennis champion,
must, in the eyes of Englishmen, be
dream of tennis grandeur on the
courts. One of the most noted critics
in England, after seeing Mclaughlin
play stamped him as a marvel, and
the best he had ever seen. The Eng
lishman goes into ecstacies over the
player and refers to his movements
in play as gracefully resembling a
glide. He admonished his country
men to pay close attention to Nc
Loughlin, to study his movements
and learn. above all, what he terms
the Mclaughlin glide.
O.
Mclaughlin has won his way down
to the semi-hnal round and the pre-
dictions are freely expressed that he
will carry off the English title.
Among the semi-fnalists is Stanley
Doust, the Australian. and McLough-
lin, who beat him over here in the
preliminary Davis Cup, may meet
him in the final match Later on
when the Davis Cup competition gets
Under way, the prospects are that the
Yankees, because of McLoughlin's
wonderful play and especially if he
wins the English title, are sure to be
the favorites. Mclaughlin, who will
play in both the singles and the
doubles, will have an able mate II
Norris Williams, who forfeited t.
Mclaughlin in the present tourney
after the men had played three sets
two of which were won by McLough.
lin. So in tennis, as in polo, we may
be able to look upon ourselves as
conquerors of the world, proud dis.
tinction, indeed, for the reason thai
neither tennis nor polo is our game.
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The breaking of the record for 15C
yards in England will not create
much noise because the distance Is
such an unusual one. In accomplish.
ing the feat, however, w. R. Apple.
garth, who took part in the las
Olympic games, followed his time Of
IA rs seconds for the one-fifty by do
ing 40 seconds in the hundred-yart
dash, which equals the English
record. The records of Applegartt
were made Saturday in a big athletic
meet in Cardiff, Wales. The $50
yard record had stood at 144-5 sec.
onds since 1887, and was held by C
w. Wood.
Whiskbroom H., in winning the
Suburban handicap, has done what
no other horse in the turf's history
has accomplished. This great race
horse, which Is owned by Harry
Payne Whitney, by capturing the
urday, added the third classic in tn,
same year to his name. WhiskbrooH
II. has won the Metropolitan, tn,
Brooklyn and the Suburban, all thret
| nof
but the Whitney horse also created {
new worlds record when he did thu
mile and quarter in two minutes
fiat There was considerable discus
there was much disagreement. Tit
official figures, however, were 200
and they will stand. Some of tn
timers caught the horse as slow a
Whiskbroom II. should go unstinte,
praise and all honor. Kinley Macl
was the only horse to win tw,
of the classics. He won the Brook
he didn't win the Metropolitan, al
in the same year. Additional homo
is also due Whiskbroom from tn
fact that the horse shouldered 10
pounds and ran really sensational
race.
j. P. N:
Did Luther Mccarthy die as re
suit of a blow on the neck or a blos
above the heart? S. V.
The autopsy found that Mozart
died from a dislocated neck.
j. P. N:
Are there any surgical suppl
houses located in this city? Is m
penmanship any good? M. S.
. Consult the advertising columns c
the Evening Star. Your penmanshi
} is fair.
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J. P. N:
What is the name of the last son
| sung by the hotel clerk in the last az
of over Night?" M. I.
milo Figlio" in Italian. We woul
say MY Son."
j. p. N:
Is Sunday the first or last day {
Z the week? p. S.
Sunday is the first day of the wee
under the law of the New Testamen
: Under the Old Testament the Sal
bath was the last day of the weel
Sunday is not the Sabbath, though.
II @
II j. P. N:
How long is Joe Fogler profe'
sional? BIKER.