The Detroit times., 1913-12-18
BRITONS Will
MAKE A BRAVE
ASSAULT in IA
Are After HOnOrs in Polo, Ten
mis- and Yachting, Which Amer
leans Now Hold
POLO TEAMS WILL BE
ENTIRELY REORGANIZED
Mclaughlin is Expected to Keep
Tennis Title Here-America's
Cup Doubtful

Up boys and at EN-. will be the
cry Tor next year. as We are facing
one OF the most determined English
invasions in sporting history In
fact, Uncle Sam is to be attacked
from three different quarters by the
Britishers, and II he comes through
without having bis coat tails at least
somewhat frayed, 1t will be time to
stick another national holiday on the
calendar.
We are to be attacked by land and
water, foot and horseback. The chal-
lens& recently sent over by the Hurl-
inghame poloists for another tussel
for the international cup made it GER
tain that our esteemed uncle during
the coming summer months is to be
one OF the busiest little defenders
that ever defended. In addition TO
the polo cup which must be nursed
over another assault, there Is the
Dwight +. Davis tennis trophy and
the Americas cup to keep under lock
and key.
England has high hopes of taking
the polo cup back where the crack
four, headed by Foxhall Keene. found
II many years ago. Sir Thomas Lip
ton Is building challenger which he
says will ''startle the world And
"a for tennis. those Englishmen are
thinking of drafting Wilding and a
few other crack Australian players to
send after the Davis cup which was
won by Maurice Mclaughlin and his
associates last summer.
It's deep laid plot 1t isn't chubby
to be hammering away at SO many
points at once. A. least plans may
be laid along that line for an alibi
should there be a slip anywhere. The
English learned much during the year
of 1913 as to American methods in
sports and they may be expected to
profit by what they saw. AS for polo,
the Meadowbrook four may have to
get up and dust some II they repel
the attack The English were picked
to win this year, and might have
turned the trick. had not Harry
Whitney's aggregation fairly tore up
all the turf at MeadowbrUOK in car
rying the fight to the cracks from the
other side. The Britishers were not
accustomed to having the game taken
SO blamed seriously, but when they
found 1t had to be dune, they did n
fair little job Of ripping up consider.
able sod themselves.
Whitney has announced his retire
ment from the game, so that the
American four will have a new leader
next year. 1t might fall to the veteran
Foxhall to go to the front again, but
Whitney said he believed some OF the
WI cl,n
chance, and IL the ideas Of the retir-
Ing leader are followed Keene is
more or less let out
The English are going at this polo
business in dead earnest this trip.
The ponies and candidates for the
team are to be sent to Spain for their
training. The weather isn't to be
given chance to interfere and under
the skies of the south. J. Bulls men
will keep in mind the charging Monte
Waterbury and work up counter at.
tack.
There are likely to be several
changes in the English team, just as
the American lineup is to be switched.
So long as Maurice Mclaughlin Is
able TO shoot 'em over the net, there
will not be any need of great concern
as 10 tennis. Norris Williams proved
to be almost as good as the California
comet and with other stars rapidly
rising the chances appear good for a
successful defense of the Davis
trophy. Harold Hackett. the third
member OF the American team which
lifted the cup. stands good chance
OF being supplanted I'm next years
tournaments.
| The English quickly discovered that
Hackett was the weak member OF
the American team and fired as many
OF the shots as they could in his di.
rection. But for the wonderful work
OF Mclaughlin the cup would prob
ably have remained on the other
side, and the Americans would have
been gloriously drubbed in the double.