Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-01
English Golfers
Prepare to Repel
Yankee Invaders

London. Jan. 1.-THE thrill that
comes from international sports con-
tests ought to be rather n common
experience next summer to both tho
EnSllsh and the Americans. English
sport organizations are making prem
uIatiohs TO receive invasions of Yam
MS III several sports, especially golf,
'e,iii.S anu NachtlnS, ana perhaps a
combined Yale Harvard track lean,
In recent years the English have
got much the worst of it in almost an
thelf athletic meetings. with Amer
leans. but they are ever hopeful that
the tide will turn. Just at present
tncy are most concerned over thcir
chances in golf. The open golf cham
plonsnlps, captured by Americans in
noth WI and 1922. are to be held in
June and 1t Is understood that the
iahkee competitors will be led by
pion, Gene Sarazon. and Waller
Hagen, who Won the British title ar
Sandwich last summer.
Since for two years running tho
British. once predominant on tho
falrWays and the greens, have
watched visitor from across the
Atlantic take away their national
tllle. they arc beginning to feel that
something has to he done to improve
me play ON this side. Golf critics are
almost as numerous as golfers, and
most or them are shouting that the
lllh% TINS country's golfers need is
the will to practice. Most of them
tell amazing stories of the hours
Hagen. Hutchinson, Sarazen and
other American top notchers spend
perfcctlng their shots, curing their
slices and hooks. and particularly in
| becoming accurate long distance
puttcrs. These critics ask the Eng
!, llsh golfers not to be satisfied here
after with beating DOGGY or making
par-they must, like the Americans,
ever strive TO beat par. always de
trying for brides. even eagles. Nor
must they any longer be content to
get the ball down with the regulation
two puts The way to win is to try
TO sink 1t with one tap on the green.
However much more Industrious
the American professional may be in
practiclnG. the British amateur GER
talniy takes his golf more seriously
than the ordinary player on the other
side. Neither rain nor cold nor even
darkness stays him from swinging his
driver right through the winter. Re
Gently practice ground was opened
IN Il London park. and under search
lights after office hours scores of
sides. blaze away at the ball. driving
II into huge nets. The game of tar
get golf has been established, and
the nets are marked with huge bulls
eyes to test the accuracy of shots
with woods and irons.
In tennis, too. England hopes to
make Il harder fight than usual this
summer. She will, of course, enter
the Davis Cup matches, although
I In IL
the players on the defending Amer
lean team lose more than one finger
! of their hands.
The outlook for the women players
of England is more hopeful. even
though both Nile. Suzanne Lenelen
and Mrs. Molla Mallory take part in
the Wimbledon championships. Most
British tennis enthusiasts seem to
! feel that suzanne is Incompatible
l but one an never tell they explain
when the French wizard will have
: what some call heart trouble. and
others diagnose as palptations of the
emotions. which would make an open
| ing for some Enclishwomun to rise TO
glory. 50 far Mrs. Mallory. and Miss
McNane. the Californian who has
lived here several years. have both
beaten Mrs. Mallory at times.
In Yachting at least one inter-
national contest is assured. 1t will
he sailed next August on the Clyde
With the Royal Northern Yacht
Club, of Scotland, as defender of the
ScaWankaka Cup. and the Seawan-
kaka Corinthian Yacht Club of New
York as challenger.
Even il Hoover. tn Toledo scullinS
star. sticks to his decision not to come
back to England an" defend the Di-
Almonds trophy he captured last year,
his influence Is sure to be felt among
the boatsmen here. Already j. Beres-
ford, Junior. whom Hoover beat in
last years finals. has adopted the
lighter type of craft Hoover intro
duced. He began practice with his
new boat recently.
In track and field sports, interest
centers in the invitation oxford and
Cambridge extended to Harvard and
| Yale not long ago for a joint meet in
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