The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-15
WAR WILL UPSET EVENTS IN
 ALL INTERNATIONAL SPORTS
Ouinet Expects To Retain Title Of
 Open Golf Champion In Tourna-a n1ent Next Week

illustration Of the international character Tor aIaateur sport is afford- ed by the situation that has devel-
 oped as q result of the war in Eur
 ope Early in the season there was
 every reason for the belief that ls14 would be the greatest year in the hiE- tory Of competition. With the uraex- pected conflict abroad, international
 contests Of all kinds have been can
 ceNed and may not be resumed for. months or even years.
 On this side of the Atlantic the Americas cup race is the rNost i'm
 portant event to be cancelled, but
 eign entries that were expected. The
 amateur and open golf champion ships and the national tennis tourna-
 nnent will be without foreign entrants since even the Davis cup teams now in this country plan to leave for home
 as ov2n as the challenge round is completed. Abroad the Harnsworth
 motor boat contest and the interna- tionaI aviation races at Rheims are
 off as well as all the various national Championships of the European coun- tries.
 1 The result Of the war from an atl1-
 1etic and sporting standpoint may be I
 scheduled for several years to come.
 The Sonder boat races at Kie1 in I91 53 and the Olympic games at Berlin in 1916 are no longer assured hpturess Athletic authorities both in Aner1ea. and abroad realize that if the present
 war continues for any extended per iod, Germany will not be in position to act as host 10 the Olympic teams. Entries from all the European coun-
 tries will be greatly curtailed if not
 abandoned entirely. and it.. may be
 necessary to postpones the games or
 transfer the meet to some nation not
 involved in the clash of arms.
 1 In commenting on this angle of the present unsettled state of affairs ath- letic, James F. Sullivan. Secretary of the American Olympic Committee, said:
 ahead to attempt to predict the effect lof the war abroad on the Olympic
 games Of 1916. Personally I hope that Europe will be at peace again
 before that time. and that there will 1 be no need of aschange in the pro-
 gram. If however. a shift is neces- ssary, the United States Is the logical
 country in which to hold the games and the American committee will carry out the schedule as planned by lGermany without a hitch of any kind. We have available stadiun1s in many parts of the country, several of which are capable of seating forty to sixty thousand spectators. Should it prove desirable so postpone the Panama Pacific Exposition planned for l San Francisco next year until 1916, l the Olympic games would undol1bt- edly be held there in connection with the fair. If the exposition is held ac- cording to schedule, Chicago. Pitts l burgh. New York and Boston are all l available for the following year. New l Haven and Syracuse with their big co1-
 legs stad at1 irIns might also be consid- Next week professional and anna teur golfers will have an interesting
 competition on the links of the Mid- sIoff1fn Country Club; Blue Island, III. ..
 in the four days open championship I tournament of the United States Golf 1 Association. Last year this event was try Club. Brookline. Mass and it's sensational ending in victory for Francis Ouimet. a young Massachus- etts player over Harry Warden and
 Edward Ray. a pair of Great Brit aims leading professionals. in the play off of a three cornered tie, will al- ] ways be ranked as a star perform ance in American golf annuals. The
 trio had tied with scores of BOA each for -T2 holes, but in the play off. the l following day, over IS holes, Ouimet put up wonderfully strong game, I winning out with a round of 72 strokes while Vardon and Ray finished as named with TT and 78 respectively This year. however, the event will not i have an international flavor as no for
 eign entries have been received and T interest will be centered in Outmet's efforts to retain Fthe "open" title which he so cleverIy won from the l strongest and most representative I field of golfers that was ever gath-
 cred on an American golf links. Although he was unsuccessful in his attempt for British amateur cham I pionship honors, in his recent. trip to Europe, Ouirnet brought the French 1 amateur honor home with him and since his return he has been taking
 excellent care of himself He did not enter the Metropolitan open tourna- 1 nent. as he was anxious to reserve
 all his playing energy to make 6 SUI preme effort in the coming tourney te
 successfully defend his we'll won na- tional 1aurels.
 I Boxing throughout Europe is at 3
 standstil1 owing to the war and the
 knights of the glove have exchanged their Taddad wAa nons for those ol