Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-08
A Sporting Week.

Beginning Sunday and lasting almost
throughout the week. sport deVoteeS
will have their cup of excitement fuil
and running over in three OF the major
athletic competitions. On Sunday the
staggering New York American League
team will engage in two games with the
Philadelphia Athletics who, after gal
liant fight, have brought themselves up
to even terms with the worlds cham
eions. A crowd of eighty-five thousand
persons is expected to witness these
dramatic battles On Monday at Forest
Hills. Long Island, the national singles
tennis championship will begin, with
the best players of France. England and
America fighting for supremacy. Rene
Lacoste. winner of last years honors,
will not participate in the forthcoming
matches, but France, the likely victor,
will be well represented in young Henri
Cochet and Jean Borotra. Likewise on
Monday at the historic Brae Burn,
Mass, course. the pick of the worlds
amateur golfers will start out over bum
kered terrain in a desperate attempt to
wrest from the head of Bobby Jones
the golfing crown that he has so de-
seemingly and becomingly worn for the
past few years.
The ball games between New York
and Philadelphia may well decide the
American League pennant. The Yankees
rated as sure winners even up to the
first weeks of July, have tossed away a
thirteen game lead, and yesterday, meet
ing double defeat at the hands OF the
Washington team while the Athletics
were winning twice in Boston, found
themselves on even terms with Connie
Mack's fighters from the City of Broth
erly Love. The Yanks are slipping, and
the las" are full of the vigor that be-
longs to the victor, and New York S
supremacy is seriously threatened.
France, during the past few years,
has come rapidly to the front in tennis,
and appears to be ready to annex the
singles championship again to add to a
long list of triumphs In Hennessey and
Lott America possesses two fine young
players, but it is doubtful whether they
will be able to Withstand the assault of
the French invaders, Cochet and Boro-
ira Victory to the French is not yet
conceded, but all signs point that way.
At Brae Burn Bobby Jones, the great
est golfing machine ever developed, will
strive to keep his golfing crown perched
firmly on his head. 1t is Jones agains:
the field and Jones, master that he is,
is capable of repelling all attacks. A
golfer who beats his greatest opponent,
old man par, day after day has little
to fear from human opposition. Bobby
may be beaten, of course, but the per-
son who beats him will have to be
hot" and the Jones swing will have
to lose some of its rhythm and accuracy.
1t is stolid person. indeed, who does
not thrill to one or all of the struggles
about to begin. Base ball, tennis and
golf make great triumvirate, and the
fact that base ball alone of the three is
professional sport does not detract
from its appeal. From East to West
and North to South, America will be fol-
lowing the progress of the titanic con-
tests on diamond, court and green. 1t is
healthy sign, this Nationwide interest
in sports. 1t makes for clean minds
clean living and wholesome outlook upon
the problems of life. The crack of the
bat, the twang of the racket and the
click of the well hit golf shot, there
fore, are indications of a Nation of up
and-doing people, alert to the problems
OF the day whether in business or in
! play.