The Detroit times., 1913-07-03

NEW YORK, July 3.--Thls pelhs
- : A.x before the Great and Glorious
Wourth we are going TO beat iouEs
America to II and celebrate today we
Rnr.hv dust off the eagle of our zone
.s,vAr dollar and let him scream TWO
,A~HIfhv veins. One Is out OF Joy tha'
his nest Is In our POCKET .ne 49,. .hav
FOR American athletic methous do W.
have been demonstrated durare .nu
! pAst month. To put 1t oriehS ,heS
have shown themselves 10 De 'neie'
Possibly these methods have not oeen
exActly according to Hoyie, OF VIM
war invented technique but they ma &c
resulted In several recent interna,ioh.
4 ~ victories and one natioal VICTORY
lof the boys who stuck TO them-ahu
}lat n the object. II may not De goou
1Koker to stick and draw TO three
\ i1unh when someone stands pat. but IL
3sou All that flush and II happens that
me standpatter merely had a straight,
ne another story again Mawruss. And
THAT rule stands good SO far as Amer
y ican methods In sports go.
The Persians invented polo. posi-
BIB having nothing more to do besides
*building Babylon, We haven't inter
viewed them as to this. But 10 go
hack to the main question, the Per
y inns invtnted polo, and the English
u kookx IL up and perfected 1t, and the
y mericans showed them how TO play
Il R6askf the international matches
~ II eadowbrook last month II was not
I tluat the big Four played better polo
Man the English. but they played
more of It. II was the dash. the tear
ing and fighting from start 10 finish
\ that swept the English aside.
~ Hnglish papers still believe that
the defeated cup challengers played
hotter polo than did the Americans.
they passed the ball perfectly. were
tttirod In correct outfits for policing,
carried their mallets at the approved
angle, and went through the games In
lust the way the book Of rules declared
should be used. But the Americans
vent on the theory that straight
Nine is the shortest distance between
tWo points. and the quickest way that
&as In sight toward making goal
Ros the one picked n the way did not
Nod through a violation OF the rules
or ethics Of the gae. There was no
49, 8Au uoOf cdhouic pidn vi
NE ball The English evidently did
znuch Of their brain work previous TO
tho game and had their plan Of battle
mapped out. But the Americans were
x6o deucedly uncertain In what they
zn3ght do next that the English laid
D1ons did not work at all, old chap.
IN the second game the English came
po4rer adopting American tactics.
rAey insisted II wasn't good polo.
18th all the technique, but 1t nearly
non for them. They were only quar-
~ Of point shy when time was call
- on that memorable second game.
Va. IN the recent tennis matches in the
y GDliminaries for the coveted Davis
10, Maurice Mclaughlin proved most
Z Ioooncerting TO the Australian play
-. He would jump In the air and
n1rly smash the hide of the ball when
Z ~ might have been expected to play
1fe In making a difficult return. The
australians played good tennis, but
10y employed a little pecking style
serving as well az In the heat OF the
NE that was simply killed by the
nshing tactics OF Mclaughlin and
Norris Williams. the other Ameri
- to win In the singles.
- The American methods triumphed
Mn when Harvard defeated Yale IN
" three boat races on the Thames
Friday, June 81. There II was a
Dostion of equipment as well as style
rowing. Whether the tea-drinkins
1eemony Of the coaches every after
<on affected the sturdy young Amer
ms under the colors Of Ell is an oper
5ootion, but the tales In the wake o.
~ race are all OF the deliberate
Dethodical tactics OF h,
Dochos during the training season
Eole may have had the superb form
4 ID technique. but the kick was miss
- They may have had the strength
~ heart for the task. but the real
1obving power, that something which
~ one attempts TO explain. but whicl
<okes away the machine erect and dc
<)lvers the winning punch. Is not dc
sSeloped by English methods IL event
~ the past month mean anything.
"a At all events, we'll put our none
4 III the good old American way ST
<1oys In the week, and II there's an,
'tnjng doing on Sunday, we'lI repea
HE oRense.