The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-01-13
SPORTS
High Popularity For All Sports
Forecast For the Present Year
By Leaders of Various Branches

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popularity during 1922 never touched
in the past. according to the express
ed opinions OF athletic leaders on the
V of the Lew year. Regardless of
the outpouring of millions of specta-
tors and contestants in the games of
the past II months it is the unanim-
Gus belief of those best qualified to
guage the development OF sport. that
the coming season will witness new
records in interest. participation and
attendance.
That these opinions are based upon
substantial ground is shown by the
rapidly increasing list OF important
contests, both intersectional, national
and international, which are being
added to the 1922 sport schedules. In
ternational tennis, golf yachting and
tract meets are already in the max
ing; numerous i"nterseCtional football
games have been carded and there
will be a wider increase in entries
for various national championships,
both numerically and geographically.
than and in the past.
From all sections OF the nation
comes the report that interest in sport
is steadily growing; the formation of
new interscholastic and intercollegi-
ate associations; wider participation
in games; the development, physical
ly, of the youth of the land and the
belief that sport in The broadcast APP
%plication of the word will be a grow
ing factor in the history of America
for decades 10 come. These reports
are borne out in the following fore
casts and analyses prepared by promi-
nent sport authorities for The Associ-
ated Press:
Tennis
In considering the prospects for an
exceptionally active year in tennis
during 1922 Julian S. Myrick, presi-
dent of the United States Lawn Ten
mis- Association, states:
Il attribute the unprecedented popu
larity of tennis and sport in general
during 1921 to the increasing r~ealiza-
ton by the public that physical eX-
ercise means improved health, more
pleasure in living and a chance to
live longer. From every source where
statistics are available it is being
pointed out that during the last de-
cade the average span of life has con-
stantly heightened. Another underly-
ing reason may be that it was a
shock to the nation during the wal to
find many young men disqualified for
military service because of poor
physical condition. The natural re-
action has been to seek to remedy this
weakness and participation in sports
helps to accomplish that result.
$50 far as tennis is concerned the
widespread interest in the game is de-
monstrated by the fact that during
1921 the junior champion was Vim
cent Richards of New York; Julias
Sagalowsky, the boys champion, who
is a lad under Is years, comes from
Indianapolis the intercollegiate cham
pion, Philip Neer lives in Portland,
Ore, and the semi-finalists in the in
tercollegiate tournament came from
Boston, Dallas, Indianapolis and San
Francisco.
with the increased interest in ten.
his being shown in cities, schools, and
colleges, it is only a question of time
when the calibre of play and conse-
quently the resultant popularity of the
sport, will increase proportionately
throughout the land. You will then
see on a country wide basis the inter
est and skill in tennis which Tor years
have been localized mainly in the
East and On the Pacific coast.
81 also attribute a large part of this
growth to the increased publicity Civ
en- to amateur sport, thus being to
persuade the public to take more ex-
ercise and become interested in some
sport.
1t is my opinion that this popular
ity of tennis will continue to increase
not only during 1922 but for many
years to come. Interest in sport, in
GLIDING tennis, has advanced beyond
lo;,- rol n-I ~ will nnptinnn m
grow as a part of the progress of our
great country.
The International competitions of
tennis next year should be among the
best which have ever been held. We
are informed that Australia expects
to send on a great team; South Afri-
ca has a team of young men who
have been improving decidedly since
1919 and they expect to be among the
~challengers this year; the Japanese
are also Strengthening their team, to
say nothing of the European teams,
so it looks as though the Davis Cup
will again have a great year n at
tract tremendous interest, which will
react for the good of the game mo-
only nationally but internationally,
Our own championships should be VI
to the high standard which they have
always maintained. Altogether the
year 1922 looks now as being one OF
the best years that tennis in this coun
try will ever have enjoyed"
Mr.. Myrick also expressed the opln
ion that an increased attention given
to amateur sport in the form OF con
~structive articles as applied to the
physical health of the individual, and
articles dealing with the technlcal
side of the various games, how 10
improve ones game, etc, would be
a decided step in the right direction
Also, if municipalities put in more
public Fairgrounds, tennis courts, goll
courses, etc, the saving in health
would come back to such a communi
ty many fold.
Football
1.-THE unprecedent popularity o.
football in 1921 and the overwhelm
ing evidence that the coming season