Arizona republican., 1916-01-16
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 NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Americans interested in sport, returning from Ja pan, report that the Japanese are rap idly assimiiating Occidental sports in general, just ts they did baseball fol- lowing it's introduction into the Land of Nippon, golf, tennis and motoring are all gaining devotees by the hun dreds and some of the Japanese play CTS are showing a proficiency on the court and links that promises to make them formidable opponents in the course of a few years.
 In recent discussion anent sport in general, and golf in particular, prom inent Japanese, who was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania not so many years ago, said:
 You know, We really have no game perhaps excepting tennis which man may continue as his years pile up and we know that exercise is necessary to keep fit. Golf fills the bill for us As a nation we are fond of games. Wrest- ling and fencing have for centuries been compulsory in the education of all Japanese gentlemen and recent years have seen our schools taking up baseball, tennis, hockey and football with very considerable success" MT. George w. Guthrie the Ameri- can ambassador, who is an thusi- astic golfer has presented the Tokio club with a beautiful challenge cup | which will probably be selected as the l club championship cup always to re- main the property of the club, the win l ner receiving a replica. In honor of l the donator and the country he repre- sents the final round will always be l played off annually on the Fourth of I July.
 1 Several of the other principal cities | have established golf clubs, notably 1 Yokohama and Kobe, while in other l sections organizations of similar | character are in progress of formation. 1 The turf in Japan lends itself req lily to ideal fairways and greens and the l courses have sufficient natural and ar | tifioial bunkers and hazards to test the | skill of the best players. Another in 1 licatiOn of strides golf is making in l Japan is the fact that a publication. devoted entirely to the game and bo.'r.- ing the title The Bunker. is now l published monthly in Tokio.
 That the game will be a success in | Japan returning tourists say is cer- tain They point out that the younger | Japanese generation, which was chiefly ] educated in the United States and | Freiand and is now mostly engaged in 1 successful commerce at home, means l to establish there the same healthful l sport and games which they found in | Occ dental countries Horse racing. has l taken on new interest and successful I automobile and motorcycle race meets are being held at frequent intervals. The selection of Robert C. FolWell as football coach for the University of | Pennsylvania has cleared the gridiron | situation at one eastern institution and | the names of the coaches at Syracuse l Yale, and several other of the larger l colleges of this section are expected to | De announced within the next few weeks. Pennsylvania alumni and un- | dergraduates are of the opinion that tolwell will prove to be the gridiror l Moses to lead the Quakers out of the football wilderness and his record l would appear to indicate his ability in this direction.
 His coaching has passed the experi- mental stage and he has shown that he thoroughly understands both the olG and new game. With splendid . n d dXkn G1c ola,
 l mastery Of the modern overhead game, I Folwell is in a position to develop hlen class teams at Pennsylvania | What he has done at Lafayette and 1 Washington and Jefferson. since he was graduated from Pennsylvania. | with the smaller squads of these ckl-
 eges he should be able to duplicate for his Alma Mater In his eight years of coaching his teams have made the fol-
 lowing records; Played 7G games of which 57 were won, 13 lost and tied
 while the total points scored amounted
 'O 1888. In the same period Pennsyl-
 vania teams played S4 games, winning
 I6 losing 20 and tying s with a total
 point score of 1,260.
 l In the governing circles of tennis il
 is accepted as a certainty that George
 T. AGee will succeed Robert D Wrenn
 IS president of the National Lawn Ten
 his Association. Wrenn has announced
 that the pressure of business will not
 rermit him to devote, in the future, the
 tune necessary to the proper discharge | of the duties of the office
 Indoor rowing practice will be re-
 Snmed at the eastern universities SUD-
 porting crews, with the next few days
 and until the shift to lake or river is 1 possible the tank machines will be
 used to prepare the Oarsmen for the
 races of May and June. The work and
 development of the Yale crews will be
 watched with particular interest since