The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-26
BRITISH FEEL LOSS,
NATIONAL DISGRACE,
IN POPULAR SPORTS

England feels that she has rcachea
a point of national disgrace in sports
The loss of the British tennis cham
pionship, the British open golf tltie'
the rowing classics and the interna-
tional polo matches were CONSIDERED
terrible blows to national prestige.
The greatest howl has been maoe
against the governing bodies " ten
mis-, golf, and polo. Particular dis
tress was felt over the decline IN
polo made evident when the Argentine
team. cleaned up all over England.
Criticisms was voiced that the game
had been nursed too long by men
grown obsolete who were maintalneo
because they owned the best ponies.
Major Vivian Lockett, the "Dever-
eux Milburn" of the British polo, taxes
Vigorous exceptions to the criticism
Our present lack of polo quality Is
the result of the war;" he said in an
interview with the United Press y
takes five to ten years to make {. POLO
PLAYER and all the men who won ny
rights would be our best -players today,
were killed in the war Further, cav
airy officers, who form large percent
age of polo players. have pen on
service in Ireland. Young men nave
not re-established their financial conal-
ton enough after the war to BUY the
expensive ponies necessary to get
skilled at the game.
Sports Obsolete
Everyone admits that England SUI
fered terribly from the war, but the
critics point ont that in most u the
major sports, English style is follow
ing obsolete form and is making no
effort to modernize their methods OF
training.
British golf critics declare that the
American game is becoming more ana
more superior because the Americans
pay more attention TO developing 2
good putting game while the Gngllsh
persist at the long driving game.
British tennis also is falling into thE
cellar, because the English players de
not pay more attention to serving, &C
cording 10 George Agutter, the Forest
Hills instructor.
The American court game is or
top because the young American play
ers excel at serving" he says. This
is the direct result of baseball Al
the young players learn the powerful
overhead style of service by pitch
ing a baseball The rymthm ard per
lection of the overhead stroke come:
naturally. Many young British play
ers start at cricket where the un
derhand delivery is used and wheI
they come to trying the overhead
service they develop an awkward STYLE
that fails to get the drive or the &C
curacy that the American game car
RES"
British amateurs also fail to TAX
their sports seriously like the youni
Americans do When the Pennsy
vania university relay team was IL
England last spring for race agains
the Oxford-Cambridge team the Brit
ish invited the Americans out to sew
eral parties and expressed the great
est surprise when the American
would not drink beer and smoke
They considered such consideration
training to be almost professional
Charges of professionalism we're
so made by the British against tn
Naval Academy crew at the Olympi
games because too much attention an
instruction were devoted to rowin
at Annapolis They figured that me
being educated to the profession C
Sailors" should not be allowed to ROY
against gentlement oarsmen VIII
were in the game for sport alone.