Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
Many international
Sport Clashes Due
Coming Summer

Coming Summer
New York. May 2s-Followers Of
sport both here and abroad face DUR
ing the coming summer, what is des-
tined to be the greatest season of in
ternational competition yet recorded.
Rivalry between nations will be fos-
tered in a half dozen branches of
sport. The Dempsey Carpenter box
ing contest for the worlds heavy
weight championship promises to be
the greatest pugilistic attraction yet
staged, in point of interest Three
American golf teams, the womens
group. the amateurs and the profess
SIGNALS. will compete on British soil.
The best of American teKnis players
are prepared to compete for French
and British titles. The American
polo four is now practising daily in
England in preparation for the Inter-
national Cup series that opens there
Juno Is.
In return, England and France will
send the best of their athletic expo
nents in several branches to this
country, including the Oxford and
Cambridge track. tennis an6TSgolf
teams. The worlds best tennis play
ers will come to the United States for
the Davis Cup matches, the Challenge
round of which is scheduled for For
est Hills, n. Y. Sept. to 5. Stimuli
taneously, play for the Walker Golf
trophy, which it is hoped will assume
the same significance in it's field that
the Davis Cup has in tennis, will take
place at Southampton, n. Y. Unless
unforeseen developments arise, the
year will surpass by far the two ban
ner years of international sport up to
the present, 1914 and 1920.
The American amateur golfers. now
in England, will be the first of the
major groups to get into action. The
British amateur golf championships
began at Hoylake. May %. The team
of professional golfers chosen a short
time ago are abroad in the attempt to
average the victory Of the English
man, Ted Ray, in last summers Y. S.
G. A. open championship.
The British open tourney will start
June 20. The British women's~cham-
pionship, in which Miss Alexa Stirl-
entrant, is scheduled to begin May 80
and will be followed by the French
title play at Fontainebleau, June
8-12; French amateur championship
at Chantilly, June 10-15; the Scottish
Women's championship at Mockrin-
hanish, June 10; the British Open at
st. Andrews, June 20-25 and the
French Open at LIE Tonquet, June ct
%.
After the French event, major golf
interest will swing back to the United
States. Additional significance in the
Inter collegiate championship at
Greenwich, Conn, June % is proba-
BILE. The u. S. G. A. Open Champion
ship at Washington beginning July
Is and the National Amateur Cham
pIonship at st. Louis, Sept. 17-24, as
usual. will absorb most of the inter-
est of American golfers. That will be
increased by the possibilities of the
entry in the open of Abe Mitchell and
George Duncan, English professionals
who will tour this country this sum-
mer.
Competition at the West Side Ten
mis- Club, Forest Hills, N. Y, for the
Davis Cup, will center the tennis in
terest here. Players of several ma
lions will compete. Mrs. Molla NAL
Tory of New York and Miss Edith
Sigourney of Boston are the chief
women players to compete in Eng
land. The preliminary rounds of the
Davis Cup play will see the teams of
several countries in competition in
Guiding Argentina, Denmark, Japan.
the Philippines, Australasia and
France.
Track and field athletes will have an
active season in view of the visit of
the Oxford and Cambridge teams to
this country to meet Harvard and
Yale, Cornell and Princeton The
dual meet btween the Englishmen
and the Harvard Yale team is sched-
uled for the Cambridge Stadium,
July 70 and on July 80, the Oxford
Cambridge athletes plan to meet Cor
nell and Princeton, probably in New
York City.
Another event which may be of
considerable importance te,otrack
sports at large is the meeting, of the !
International Athletic Federation at
Geneva. May 27-28 and of the Inter-
national Olympic committee at Lu-
cerne, June 20.
Other International competitions of |
minor Importance include the trip of !
the Scottish football team, now en- |
route to this country to meet the best |
of American and Canadian teams. |
and of the Waseda University base |
ball nine of Japan, meeting leading
university mines. The British six !
meter yacht races, scheduled for early |
August will maintain international |
interest in that branch of sport. In |
ternational power boat races begin in |
Detroit, August q, to continue until
Sept. s. Rowing is almost the onlv
sport which has in the past figured /
in international competition, which
will not do so this summer. Plans IN |
enter an English college eight in, the
intercollegiate championship reretta
at Poughkeepsie June %, have not !
yet materialized. and are unlikely IN /
do SO, although discussed.