New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-10
International Competition Feature Ca pa
United States
And England
In Close Fight
France Rounds Out s'Big
8" in Numerous Worlds
Championship Matches
t;y Grantland Rice

To suggest that the coming iuterna-
sional campaign will leave all past in
Sensational years fat and stale is 70
xreaK the news with lnwonted gentle
ness.
Sport. in an international way. has
!. never known such al astounding sea-
son as the one just ahead offers to the
multitude at large. I. is more like a
competitive conglomerxtion of all the
nations lighting out another World
War. with America, Great Britain and
France far in the leao. For after all.
they arc the three big factors in the
dizzy whirl that is waiting just around
the corner Of spring.
While there will be no Olympic games.
this International carnival will embrace
boxing. polo, tennis. golf. track and
esid, rowing. and number OF minor
sports One brief look at a partial
list of events will be enough to sill:
YOU en- linking OF what you have in
store:
Boxing Dempsey. of the United
States. VS.. Carpenter, OF France, July >,
Golf British amateur championship.
Hoylake. May 20)-Evans, Jones, Fownes
and others entered from United States.
British open championship. St. An
d.ews--Barnes, Hagen, Hutchinson and
others entered from United States.
American open champi onship. Columbia
Country Club. Maryland-Duncan. Nit
ehell and Ray entered from Great
Britain. intercollegiate, in June, with
oxford and Cambridge teams entered,
opposing Yale. Harvard. Princeton, CO.
umbia. etc.
Tennis--Davis Cup, with something
ike twelve nations entered in the
tcr~iS Snn~la--e Nf ~
British championship at Wimbledon in
June. with Tilden defending his title;
British championship for women, with
Nile. Lenglen and Mrs. Mallory en-
tered; American championship, with
leading foreign stars on hand.
Polo-America's battle to recover cup
on June IS, % and 20 at Hurlingham.
To this must be added the wonen's
golf championship of Great Britain.
where Alexs Stirling and Cecil Leitch.
. the two greatest women golfers of all
time, will lead the cast.
Brief Survey of the Menu
This is only brief survey of the
International menu, for after mid May
each passing week will bring some
clash Of widespread interest. Between
May 20 and June %. a period Of five
weeks, the United States will engage
Great Britain in FIVE contests, embrac-
ing golf, tennis and polo. This in
itself is record that has never been
approached.
Leading this invasion your Uncle
Samuel will dispatch such stars abroad
as "Chick" Evans, Bobby Jones. Alexa
Stirling. Bill Tilden, Mrs. Mallory.
Devereux Milburn, Walter Hagen. Jim
Barnes and Jock Hutchison. You can
examine that list briefly and get a
line on the amazing strength of the
American entries who will give battle
in the annual duel between the Eagle
and the Lion. 1t is extremely fortu-
nate that this country has so many
stars on hand, Cor Great Britain has
made miraculous recovery after a
VA, that cost her million men and
such great international stars as Cap
tain Cheape, Captain Graham, Anthony
Wilding and many others.
We look to be safe enough at tennis.
as Tilden is the greatest tennis star
OF the time, with the possible exception
Of William NJ. Johnston.
But we have more rugged fight to
face in golf and polo. Our polo chances
are low considered about even, and
with Evans, Jones and other stars we
have at least an even chance at bring
ing home the British amateur golf
crown. But even such a star as Miss
Stirling may find the assignment q
triale too difficult when it comes to
lighting her way through field that is
led by such an expert as Cecil Leitch.
Odds Against Z. 8. Team
The odds against US are even more
pronounced in the open championship
at St. Andrews, where Great Britain
will put such talent into the field as
George Duncan, Abe Mitchell, Fad Ray
Harry Vardon, j. H. Taylor, James
Braid and J. II. Kirkwood.
We may regain our own lost cham
ploAship this summer at Washington,
but even that will call for the best golf
we have to show. Duncan. Mitchell and
Ray are all coming over in early July,
and this trio is even more dangerous
year ago--and the latter combination
was strong enough to finish 1-2.
1t is yet trifie too early to obtain
any accurate line on our polo possibili-
ties as compared to British chances.
With Milburn, Stoddard. Rumsey,
Hitchcock, Webb and one or two more
to round out the complete cast from
which the American four will be
chosen, all indications point to first
class team. But it is also known that
Great Britain has made extreme efforts
TO- be we'll prepared for this invasion,
that her polo ponies have been care
FULLY selected and that she has several
veterans ready for the test.
France will offer Carpenter and
suzanne Lenglen as her two prize en-
tries, but the bulk of the battle will be
between Uncle Sam and John Bull
They have scrapped away merrily be.
fore on many a field, but there has
never been quite such a program as
1877 offers between the two nations
who lead the world BY wide margins in