Evening star., 1930-06-15

the equal of the French Womans.
Both Mrs. Mallory and Mrs Moody, modest
TO a fault. possess competitive confidence
similar to that of Walter Hagen They have
proved themselves to be lion-hearted and coldly
courageous when misfortune has assaulted them.
Because, beneath their unruffed countenances,
they too possess cocky hearts which never
render.
Bill Tilden, generally recognized as the king
of the courts for almost decade, possessed
q different kind of confidence and which
was dependent upon the inspiration of people
for its best results. 1t did not matter very
much to Big Bill whether the tennis rooters
were for or against him, just so long as they
were there to watch him. The more spectators
there were the better he was, and the more they
doubted his ability to make impossible recov-
cries the more often he came through
Several years ago, in Santa Barbara, Maurry
Mclaughlin, for many years known as the
California Comet" and world champion for
several years before the war, and watched
Tilden in am exhibition match against Little
Bill Johnston, at that time his greatest oppo-
nent Throughout the entire match Tilden kept
up a running conversation with McLoughln,
even turning his head to look at the former
champion while stroking the ball. Yet he won
as ne pleased and his superb confidence helped
q great deal IN breaking OOWn HlS CoWaSSouS
little opponents morale.
DTTTING ones own confidence against that
Of an opponent has often proved the de-
siding factor in both individual and team
battles There never was mere striking ex-
ample of this than in the 1922 East-West loot
ball game played at Pasadena on New Year
day between California University and wash
ington and Jefferson. The Golden Bears were
at the peak of their foot ball fame. The year
previously they had beaten great OHIO state
University team by a 28-to-9 score on that
same field and had kept an unbroken record
Of victories for a long time. Aside from having
a powerful line and a wonderful back neld,
together with "a clever field general In Charne
Erb they possessed in Harold (Brick) Muller
the greatest end who ever played foot Dali on
the Pacific Coast. Muller not only could get
down under punts like no one else, but he
was the best pasSer and receiver of passes that
the game has known. Besides all this, he had
the reputation Of never having been taken out
Of a play around his side of the line.
At the beginning of the washington and
jefferson California game Muller had remained
On the sidelines and it was not until the frst
uuarter was far advanced that he came on the
field The crowd rose as one man to greet the
great all-American he took his place Op-
posite Stein of Washington and Jefferson.
well we'll" murmuTed Stein, so this Is tne
great Muller of whom we have heard so much.
I guess we boys had just well call 1t day,
now that he has consented to play. The pan
was snapped and Stein tore through the line,
checking Mcmillan, the California tackle, as
he passed and burying Muller'S face in the
mud Of that sogey field Time after time Stein
repeated the performance, while Cahfornn
failed to gain. And on each occasion that
Stein stopped Muller he would yell to ms
teammates: when are they going to put
Muller in? This red-headed guy they've got
salbbing for him at end certainly can't be the
great Muller we've heard so much about"
So Stein continued to kid the all-American
until the final whistle, and the Callfornla
team, as well Muller himself, became so be-
yildered that they never did get organized ana
would have lost the game had it not been for
the educated toe of Archie Nesbt, who punted
out of danger time and again until the night
mare ended at last with to score.
Foot ball has known many cocky champions
but probably there never was one who unoer-
stood the term so thoroughly or lived up to 1t
with such earnestness Dick Hyland, the
great Rugby and American player OF 1ew
years ago. Back in 1924, when the American
Rugby team on its way to the PARIS
Olympic games the players got the impression
that young MI Hyland Of Stanford University
was entirely too sure of himself. Only they
described his mental frame OF mind In mucn
more expressive phraSeology. Finally they mao
a meeting aboard ship, and one OF their numDer
had the courage to say to Dick: "It's the feel
ing of this team painful as it is to me 10 De
forced to tell you, that you seem to think you
are better player than the rest of us"
why of course ] ami" replied the astonished
young Mr. Hyland. II thought you fellows al
ready knew that" And what he did at Paris
convinced all and sundry that Dick had spoken
the truth He had the confidence which does
not admit the possibility of defeat. For he mad
already proved to himself, through his long
and eventful career IN Rugby, just what ne
could do There is no confidence more diff
flcult to shatter than the kind which Is based
upon successful experience.
1t was in those same Olympic games that 8
1.-The Englishnan, Harold Abrahams, startled
the athletic world by his astonishing victory