Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-26
OLYMPIC GAMES FROM
ENGLISH POINT OF VIEW
Havc Donc Much to Promote Good
Feeling With tho United
States.
DIX Il. G. ID. RUDD,
PRESIDENT Oxford University Athletic
\ Club; Olympic 400 Meters

BY Il. G. ID. RUDD,
PRESIDENT Oxford University Athletic
Club; Olympic 400 Meters
| Champion 1920.
Especial Correspondence. OF Cross
Atlantic Service.)
LONDON, Sept 25.-The games
Dust concluded have hnlped. in no
I'ncorhdernble way to cement tho
entente between Great Britain and
america There have been times
WhenS shadows Gt Suspicion have
fallen across the mutual apprecin-
Zion Of one anothcr's aportsmanship;
unfortunate incidents have been mag
hiiied by the unsporting section OF
thc sporting press. and wide mis-
Understanding has resulted.
TINS tImo. at any rate, the British
athletes have returned from the
games with the feeling that with
4 the American athletes there is much
to admire ami little TO dlsparagc.
Tlean sporting wins were gained by
either side. but Britain was COM
parativcly uurcprcsented in at least
half OF tho official program.
There Is a strange tendency, espe-
s!auy among the athletes themselves,
10 sec to II that fine athletic event =
suan as the hurdles. the high jump.
encouragement they deserve, so that
IN future Olympiads the strenuous
t ry contests that nave already
as vigorously into the ncld events.
Perhaps the most vivid recollection
OF inc Eaines that Britishcr chr
pole yauitins by f'ossy and the bril-
iiancc Of American hurd!!ng. Eng
iish'nen realize that, though 'tcchni-
r Gaaiy. nanadian. Thompson Is In
uItveruity.
Drftasners were not confident about
Inc games. even In those events In
Which they most prided themselves.
siiii was unexpected. but IL has done
inuch TO arouse new xest for ath-
,,e eI,s N Enginnd; that. and tho per-
OF quarter nilers who succeeded in
winning the 1900 meters relay.
ferhaps. too, the Oxford and Cam
mas shown Britain that she has nth-
!etes who will do her honor II there
Is an enthusiastic public support for
athletics.
Some attempt 70 copy the in.t.tu-
tson of the Penn relays will shortly
DO seen in England. In fact, the
ETeat meet orSanized by the Achilles
club Qt Joint Oxford and Cambridg G
concern) In which an American team
has met British empire team In a
series OF relay races. has shown
Tic HIleIipL 10 introduce thiS
splendid form of racing Into Eng
iaAd, where ut present It is com
paratively unknown. 1t Is siEnlfi-
cant, too. that n request was made
Tor an all-AIner3cau exhibition In the
pole vault and the javclin throw.
Tho SwedeS- at the last Olympiad
lacked an indennable something
which Britons and Americans un.
,doubtedly possessed. 1t might be
Iallcd ability. 1t might be called
tiuck: It. wfts something that had in
little OF either. Let us hope
that In the next Olympiad II viii be
the Br.tons who give America the
keen. competition that both under
stand and respect, and tina, the
points trophy will be fought for, and
not be tho foregone conclusion that
il was this time.
We must hope. too, that such
events as British and America n
meet, or an Oxford and Princoto on
meet, or n Harvard and Yale. and
Ono-d and Cambridge, and a British
university representation at the
Penn relays, win become lasting in
stttutioas.
Apart from the mutual help that
comes 10 athletics generally by these
meets, there IL tho more Significant
side. With such competition com cs
understanding. and from understand
INK. friendship. and it Is not too
much to say that sport is helpin e
pore than anything else to bring our
EGO great nations into sympathy
with. and generous appreciation OF.
their honest and national cotsIps N T.,