The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-11-08
MAKING PLANS
FOR BIG SERIES
1914CONTESTS
ATHLETES ARE GOING
AFTER ALL RECORDS DESPITE
WONDERFUL SUCCESS IN WIN
MING MANY MATCHES IN THE
PAST.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

| plans are being made for a still greater
series of contests in 1914. Not salts
fed with the winning or retention of
] the tennis, polo, golf, sender yacht,
balloon and rife trophies, the Ameri-
can athlete and sportsman is prepar-
ling to broaden the list before another
twelve months shall have rolled
around. Out of nine competitions OF
international character or entry the
United States representatives won six,
lost two, and did not enter the ninth.
The two defeats came in the motor
boat race and the woman's golf tourn-
ament both of which were won py
English entrants
Looking forward to 1914 the sport
ing calendar already contains tenta-
tive dates for another round Of Davis
cup tennis and international polo.
Sir Thomas Liptons fourth attempt
to lift the Americas cup will be
feature of the year in sport. The Eng
lish amateur and professional golfers
will again invade the States and
American entries are assured for the
English championships. The winning
of the balloon race trophy assures
renewal of the air classic here next
autumn The Amateur Athletic Union
will send team of athletes to Athens
for the local cycle Olympic games to
be held there next spring and other
minor international competitions. such
as canoeing, archery and cricket, are
assured.
In fact, the spirit of international
competition can be said to continue
without interruption, since several
American teams are preparing to leave
for foreign shores this month. The
two professional baseball teams, rep
fnr lna
round the world tour will undoubtedly
attract wide attention, but the Giants
and White Sox will not be the only
American athletic representatives to
depart for foreign competition during
the next few weeks. While the pro-
fessional baseball players will have
greater numeral strength when they
depart from Vancouver on November
10, the Amateur Athletic Union track
and field team and several American
tennis players will also be followed
with interest in their invasion Of
Oriental and AustFalasian fields. The
athletes are scheduled to sail for Mel
bourne on November IL, and William
Johnston, Ella FottrelI and possibly
one or two other California tennis
experts will leave for the Orient about
the same time.
The chief object of Johnstons and
FottrelTs trip is to play in both the
doubles and singles matches of the
tennis Championship of the Orient
tournament to be held at Manila, jan
uary 8 to IL. This tournament is of
more than usual Importance this sea-
son because of the high class entry
list expected. The leading players of
Australia, Japan, China and the Pa
ciffc coast have been invited to com
pete and to date the percentage of ac-
ceptances has been most encouraging. |
Johnston and Fottrell will also visit |
Honolulu, Yokohama, Shanghai, Kobe |
and Nagasaki during their tour, play |
ing practice and exhibition matches |
wherever possible.
The camera is rapidly earning a |
place of Importance in athletics and |
sport competition both in America and |
abroad. No contest or match of real
interest goes unphotographed, and the |
readers of newspaper and magazines |
are daily brought face to face with |
the heroes of the diamond, football |
field. tennis court and Aquatic sports. |
During the past few seasons, how
ever, the lens has been found capable |
of filling a more useful field in the |
realms of amateur pastimes and rec
reations. The wielder of racquet,
mashie, or oar can see himself as
form clearly illustrated.
This ability to depict the strong and |
weak points OF individuals and teams
in sports and games has been discov-
cred to be of much help to coaches
and instructors Consequently the |
is being constantly called in
action by those who direct the activi-
ties of the college, club and unattached
athlete. Photographs of the crews in
at Cornell and Columbia are
taken each season and thrown on the
canvas in enlarged form while the
Goa ches point out faults in waterman
ship The same system is used in the
of several of the big var
sity football teams.
Even the moving picture machine is
found of assistance. The German |,
olympic commission. which recently
spent a month investigating the
American athletic system, took back
reels of films showing some of our
leading athletes in action. Pictures of
one of the leading United States ten
prove to England that he did not find
fault in serving. Perhaps in years
TO come it will be possible for COM
cetitor to rise to the pinnacle of
sporting fame uncoached except by
he films which will show him his
faults as compared to those of the
competitor who is considered the final
word in perfect playing form.
When Yale alumni gather at New
Haven a week from today for the an ,
1ual Princeton Yale football game,
he former students will almost to a
nan devote a portion of their time to
IN inspection of the mammoth Yale
stadium now under construction, al
most directly across the street from
he scene of the gridiron battle be-
.ween the Eli and Tiger eIevens.
Rapid progress has been made N the
of the blue Bowl as the