Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27

News.
In an interview just before Lea
Hagen related what he thinks is thu
i'll view OF the sweep which America
championships.
Hagen, as quoted by the newsp
for American golfers to stay at HON
own championships for a few year
play.
The Evening News quotes Hagen
as follows:
when people ask me why it is you
Britishers get licked at golf I've only
got one answer and that is a uues-
tiOn-Why don't the young golfers of
this country go to work at golf and
why don't they treat 1t the same as
work? They're too gosh darned lazy,
It seems to me.
I'm only saying this because l
think II is true and it will do good. A
lazy man cannot win championships
at anything in the world today. He's
got TO work at golf and then he's got
to train himself to be a match player;
to cut out the nerves stuff and tell
himself there's a hole ahead down
which he is sure he Is going in the
minimum number of strokes They
want to get some pep and fight in
them.
sportsman Stuff" Irkes Hagen.
1T aggravateS me sometimes when
] happen to beat some British golfer
over here and then some friend of
his comes to me and says, But, STILL
he is an awfully good sportsman.
Sure he is Il pretty good sportsman,
but so are most golfers. What he
should be is darn good golfer. Never
mind about the sportsman stuff. That
follows if he iS typnd U0Ifar
Now, / don't believe we Americans
will come over here for the champion
ships for few years. What's the
good of coming over here if all we
are going to do is beat one another?
That doesn't do US any good. We
could do that at home. l think the
best thing would be to let the British.
ers win their own championships for
a few years. and then we can come
over and try to beat them at it.
You see you have only got few
old-timers who are wonderfully good
golfers but pooi'ish match players, who
often don't play really well in cham
pionshipS. There are very few young
ones coming along who even play
golf at home as well as the old
timers. I'd like to see some of them
take off their shirts and get to work
with kick and pep. The English peo-
pie are too inclined to let themselves
be consoled by the sportsman dope"
Amusement or Science.
The American victories on the golf
links have revived in lively manner
the discussions which have arisen from
time to time ever since American
sportsmer began to come to the Old
Country and carry off sporting lau-
rels over the question of whether
sport should be amusement or sci
ence. Hagen's remarks on the meth.
DDS of British golfers only serve to
put more pointedly what has been in
the minds of most British sport lovers
whenever they sorrowfully watched
the national sports trophies crossing
the Atlantic.
Mary *. Browne, captain of the
victorious American Wightman Cup
team, has said much the same thing,
though not quite so robuStly as Ha-
gen, about British lawn tennis-that
the British player thinks more of EN-.
1oying himself than winning the game.
1t is too early yet for comment on
Hagen's views. but the newspapers
were already airing the subject be-
fore he spoke. The Evening Stand
ard, for instance, asks whether, after
all, the British method is not the best,
and says that even if Miss Browne
has made the right diagnosis, posi-
bly, II would be better to continue be.
ing wrong in our own way rather
than start being right in America 8
way"
Grim Efficiency" Decried.
Suggesting that it is ironic to speak
of such grimly efficient persons as
Suzanne Lenglen and Vincent Rich
ards as players" the Standard says:
Let man play with his heart and
soul, but not give up the whole of
his life to what should be no more
than part of it. England will never
in the spirit which is native to US
playing them because we enjoy
them"
The Star, commenting on Bobby
Jones triumph, says that Americans
have shone on the putting green
where the Englishman is weakest.
THE difference" 1t adds, 'is per-
haps one of mentality. The English.
man is out in the main for sport and
exercise, a desire which is more
gratitied by spectacular play in long
shots than in patient attention to the
less strenuous business of holing the
ball.
The Star also makes reference to
1.-The far greater material encourage
ment American players receive than
English
British golf writer's are devoting
unusual attention to Bobby Jones
prowess; his methods are infinitely
analysed. Their word is that he is
lust a genius"
Life and Death Business"
The Sunday Observers expert,
commenting on the Americans un-
questioned superiority on the putting
green, remarks: "One reason is that
they cultivate a much fiercer out
look on golf than we do here; to
them 1T Is a life and death business
Editorially the Observer says:
There can be no blinking Of the fact
that golf professionals as body have
been outciassed, and the moral Is one
to be digested at leisure. AS for
Jones. he is beyond doubt the most
proficient player yet seen in any
country"
The debated question of applying
science and sacrifice to games also Is
discussed in connection with tennis.
The Weekly Dispatch has collected
some prominent views on this SUBJ
ject. Mile. Lenglen laughed at the
idea that she was q martyr to the
game. Suzanne declared she had
loved the game from a child and that
she followed the ordinary normal life,
with no special diet, and enjoyed the
aters, dancing and movies. =
Helen Wills. likewise. said there
was no reason why a tennis player
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