New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
England Showing Great
Interest i'm Golf, Tennis
and Other Athletics
By Arthur S. Draper

LONDON, Feb. 10. - All the frat
pages feature the extent Of unemploy-
ment, the drastic need for economy in
national and individual expenditures
and various other pessimistic subjects.
put there is different atmosphere
around the sporting pages. Perhaps
tAe. whole world is. going to smash and
perhaps we are about to bow to M. Le-
nine, but the gentlemen in the editorial
chairs of the sporting departments
think otherwise
They are fairly wise lot Of ex-
perts except when they attempt TO
forecast an Anglo-Amercan boxing
scrap. All of which means that there
ls a bit of interest over here Just now
IN international sports.
The future offers promise Of lively
year in sports, but it must be admitted
at the outset that the English have not
got off toa particularly good start
Australians and English may be own
brothers. but the cricketers Of the An
tfpodes slightly Jared the family's good
will when they proceeded to take three
straight games in the first interna-
tional series since the war.
ssThe English team went away last
2all SO brimful of confidence it seemed
Sswaste of time to make this $4,000
nile trip, but the Australians We're not
in the least impressed or even re-
spectful. That was hard blow; the
chance for revenge comes this sum-
mer when the Australians visit Eng
band.
81 Respect American Tennis
ssTilden and Johnston's handling of the
Veteran Brooks and the youthful Pat
aereon IN the courts at Auckland was
neither surprising nor depressing to
English lawn tennis players, who have
avery real respect for American ten
mis-. There will be tremendous interest
III the tournament at Wimbledon this
sammer, proof of which is found in
che fact that all the seats around the
championship court were sold six
months in advance. -
1T is difficult to see where England
s5 going to find candidate capable of
recovering the grass court champion
sbip now held by Tilden and formerly
IN the possession of Gerald Patterson.
The essential point is that England
is on TIE hunt.
Pete Herman played the part Of d
young Caesar and left Jimmy Wilde
sprawled out in the ring. 1t WAS an
Unsatisfactory fight from whatever an
gle it was viewed. There is nothing
much in the way OF championship ma
terial here though the crop Of amateur
pugilists is we'll above the average.
The British are hopeful that Demp-
sey and Carpenter will eventually
come to action in London, but that is
another story. Almost any kind of q
light draws good crowd here and the
promoters arc now busy arranging a
keries of Anglo-American and Anglo
French battles for the spring and sum
naer months.
b Frank Moran king-Pin
As indication of the calibre Of the
heavy weight division IL is only neces-
sary TO state that Frank, Moran is
fing-pin. Joe Beckett has all the ear
marks of champion and nothing else.
III The other day French Rugby team
made record. For the first time in
the history of the game French team
Won game on British soil, Scotland
being the victim. They are. coming
along in sports in France. what with
NJ. Carpenter, Mile. Lenglen and this
Rugby outfit. Their track athletes are
now ranked in the first division and
many of them are scheduled to COM
i&te many Of the English meets this
sfar.
y Track athletics are booming here
and in fact ali over Europe Germany
iLcluded. The visit of the Cornell
eross-country team inspired the Brit
ish followers Of this form OF sport.
An Oxford Cambridge team Of picked
athletes will go to Ithaca this spring
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