Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-05
|WALTER CAMPS COLUMN
IOF SPORTING COMMENT
BY Walter Camp.

vHEN this column stated that
w jay Could was tho tennis
wonder OF the world IL was
not without Justification AS play
er he is a product OF the most care
rul, systematic teaching begun on
definite plan, and gradually brought
10 us fun perfection. Tho game he
PLAYED In defeating Convey the pro
fessional champion, AT the Philadel-
mia RACQUET club. was convincing
not only % his opponent and 70 the
spectators. but 10 the Engllshman
who brought CoVey over. ana added
only more triumph to American am
Jetic skill COvey succeeded M get
ing but one set out Of eight ana
Ehat by almost superhuman WORK,
NJ hich left him practically exhausted.
Thus another international issue
has been decided, TEN porarily at
least. for II IS said that Gould WIN
give Covey satisfaction over on the
other side
Covey. after his defeat. had no ex-
euse to make He said ~ was
beaten by a better man think MI
Gould is The greatest tennis player
the world has ever seen" The Hon
orable Neville Lyttou who employs
Covev as a professional, said u do
rot think there has ever been, on
ever win be, greater court tennis
player than Mr. Gould
Jay Gould Is now 20 years old, hut
since he was a Voungster In knickef-
bockers he has been PLAYING court
tennis 4 competent tutor was en-
gagged for the Young man, and when
t.I flRfAntgI
Latham in 1905. who was one OF the
leading PLAYERS i'm the world The
year following he defeated Joshua
Crane for the United states national
amateur championship. He thon be
gan taking on the stars Of England
and France In 1906 Gould Travelled
over to England and played EustaCe
Il Miles. Mt that time the most prom
trent English amateur. Miles, Ike
those who went before him couldn't
check the drives Of the hard hitting
youngster Writing Of his defeat
Miles said that his backhand strokes
against Gould's terrific serving were
l,ke a bobbing straw hat.
Young Gould returned TO this coun-
4ry and defended his title against ali
comeTs In later years he took the
measure Of George Standing. one Of
ahe greatest players the court game
ever produced To make hts record
complete. jay Could challenged
George + Covey for the worlds title,
ard now stands on the highest PIN
nacle Of the court tennis world
EVERYBODY will be much inter
IL ested in the work of the Indian
Thorpe under Manager McGraw. OF
dhe Giants, this year 1t is reported
that MCGraW Is working him ms q
regular in center field down in Texas.
This is the man who won the all-
round championship iu the Olympic
games, called the decathlon, and was
the hero and idol of the American
world for some months Then devel-
oped rumors, followed finally 10y the
explosion Of the scandal I'm which IL
was discovered and admitted by
Thorpe that he had received money
Tor playing baseball I mention this
NOT without due reason. and that rea b
son is to show in what spirit The
public. both here and abroad, still re-
gard Thorpe
Everyone here realizes that so far
from being professional In those
contests for the olympic champion
shin. Thorpe had done nothing for
money that bore any relation to his
prowess in the event Tor Whlth ne
was competing That is, had he been
a man who made his living by en-
Eaging in the kind OF athletic con
tests which determined this cham
ponship. II would have been entirely
different. but still, having at an ear
lier period taken some money for
paving baseball this did literally and
properly dehar him from the contest
BY the rules
member or the olympic com
nittee is the authority Tor the state
ment that "a certain foreign nation
was SO sympathetic for Thorpe that
after the deuouemeut they proposed
60 take up a subscription, and had
started one. to present him with "A
trophy. when they We're asked To drop
the natter II Is safe to say that the
Incident far from having developed
bad feeling among the nations, has
owing to the promptuess. dispatch
and decision W the American repre-
Bentatives tn making restitution been
means OF CCmentiug friendship.
Everyone hopes that Thorpe win