The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

~ MEM YORK, July o.--ThiS being
I the day before the great and glorious
Fourth We are going to beat Young
America to it and celebrate today
We hereby dust Off the eagle of our
lone silver dollar and let him scream
two healthy yelps. One is out of
Joy that his nest is in our pocket; the
other is for American athletic meth
| DDS as they have been demonstrated
during the past month. To put it
briefly they have shown themselves
to he there. Possibly these methods
have not been exactly according to
Hoyle, or whoever invented technique
ibut they have resulted in several
recent International victories and one
national victory for the boys who
stuck to them--and that is the object.
/ 1t may not be good poker to stick
land draw to a three flush when some
one stands pat, but if you fill that flush
land 1t happens that the standpatter
merely had straight, it's another
| stands good SO far as American meth
lods in sports go.
1 The Persians invented polo. pos
/ sibly having nothing more to do be-
sides building Babylon, we haven't in
.terviewed them as to this But to go
back to the main question, the Per-
slams invented polo, and the English
took 1t up and perfected it, and the
/ Americans showed them how to play
it. During the International matches
at Meadowbrook last month it was not
that the big Four played better
polo than the English, but they play
led more of it. 1t was the dash, the
tearing and fighting from start to
finish that swept the English aside.
/ The English papers still believe
that the. defeated cup challengers
played better polo than did the Amer
leans. They passed the ball perfect
ilyss were attired in correct outfits for
poIoings carried their mallets at the
approved angle, and went through
4 the games in just the way the book of
rules declared should be used. But
the Americans went on the theory that
a straight line is the shortest distance
between two points, and the quickest
way that was in sight toward making
a goal was the one picked If the way
did not lead through violation of the
rules or ethics of the game. There
was no set and unbreakable plan of
advancing the ball. The English evi-
IDENTIFY did much of their brain work
Eprevious to the game and had their
Americans were SO deucedly uncertain
/ in what they might do next that the
English laid plans did not work at
all, old chap. In the second game the
English came nearer adopting Amer
lean tactics. They insisted 1t WASN'T
good polo with all the technique, but
it nearly won for them They were
only a quarter of a point shy when
time was called on that memorable
second game.
In the recent tennis matches in
the preliminaries for the coveted Davis
cup, Maurice Mclaughlin proved most
disconcerting to the Australian play.
ers. He would jump In the air and
fairly smash the hide off the ball
when he might have been expected to
play safe in making difficult return
The Australians played good tennis.
but they employed little pecking
style in serving as well as in the heat
of the game that was simply killed by
the smashing tactics of Mclaughlin
land R. Norris Williams, the other
American to win in the singles.
The American methods triumphed
lagain when Harvard defeated Yale In
the three boat races on the Thames on
Friday, June 81. There 1t was a uues-
ton OF equipment as we'll as style of
rowing. Whether the tea drinking
ceremony Of the coaches every after
noon affected the sturdy young Amer