Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1926, Page 38

88 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1926. Americans Now Possess All of the Leading British Athletic Champzonsths JESS SWEETSER’S VICTORY ON LINKS IS * IS “LAST STRAW” Yankees Also Have Cap!ured Titles in Tennis and Rowing, and Shown Superiority in Polo, Yachting, Fencing and Track. By the Associated Pross. N W YORK, All the ki TJune 3. particularly in the last few vears. T ing's horses and all the king's men, it scems, cannot keep the Yankees from galloping off with the time- honored trophies of his majesty’s athletic kingdom. The rising tide of American supremac; been rapidly breaking down Great Britain's in all branches of sports has defenses all along the line, t has reached somewhat of a climax in the triumph of the first native-born American, Jess Sweetser, in the historic British amateur golf championship. With this victory added to the list, Americanbred American talent tan hoast of having lifted virtually all of Britain's prized cups and trophies in such major branches of international | competition as tennis, golf and row- ing, hesides demonstrating superiority | in polo. fencing. vachting, track and | feld—sports in which there hus hean | a common hond of rivalry and which | have steadily watched the shifting of | supremacy from the homeland to this | side of the Atlantic. | The roval and ancient strongholds | of British golf have been battered | bhadly since the war. Jock Hutchin- son broke through the British open champlonship citadel in 1921. In the succeeding three years, Walter Hagen, | American home-hred pro. carried the | heights twice and missed out by only a stroke the third time. Last year Jim Barnes brought the open title trophy back to the United States for the fourth time, and this month | Hagen is leading a formilible Yankee | team into battle | France has with Amerlea | the effort to deprive Britain of her |) tennis laurels since the war. “Big | Rill” Tilden broke down the harriers | #t Wimbledon to carry off the’world's | championship in 1 England’s historic Bill" Johnston turned the tric 1922, Since then Jean Borotra and Rene Lacoste recently have won the all-England trophy, while Mlle. Leng- len has been queen among the woman players since 1919, except for one season. With Helen Wills as well as Mile. Lenglen on the ground at Wimbledon this year, there seems scant hope of keeping the title from making another trip, across either the channel or the Atlantic. Until the dawn of the twentieth century Britain’s polo supremacy was not menaced to much extent, but since | 1912 the international challenge cup. classic trophy cup in this sport, has been won only once by his majesty horsemen. American polo beaten British -ride ors in 1923 and 19 The diamond sculls, historic em- blem of rowing supremacy, was brought back to the United States in 1923 by Walter Hoover of Duluth. Minn., but he met defeat in 1923 and 1925 in efforts to repeat his victory. players also have s for military hon- | There have been other triumphs also | and a few setbdcks. HARVARD ROWING COACH BLAM ING OARSMEN BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, came to a head today in the Edward A. Stevens as head coach of bert H. Haines, the freshman coach, Stevens, who came to Cambridge coached_without pay and with con Portland Boat Club, in August, 1923, June 3—Reports the lack of co-operation on the part of the crew. With the four-mile regatta against Yale on the Thames at London three weeks off, it is problematical what the fortunes of the Crimson will be. Haines, who is a nephew of William Haines, now coach at M. I. T., and who preceded Stevens as coach at Harvard, has done good work with the freshmen and it remains to be seen | whether a change in methods at this | season of the vear will work out | advantageously. The position of rowing coach at | Harvard has not been an easy one in“ mome vears, especially since Yale un- der Edward Leader has been winning sequential victories on the Thames. But it seemed last June as though Stevens had taken hold in the proper way and Yale had to row for her life to distance the Crimson eight in the four-mile event But_this y turned from a r, after the crew re- eek of practice at Princeton in April, there have been rumors that all was not well. In her first regatta of the season, that against Princeton, however, the Cambridge crew rowed an exceptionally engaging | race and defeated the Tigers in a nip and-tuck dash over a mile and seven- eighths course. Thereafter misfortune was always evident. On May 22 Penn won a three-cornered regatta against Har- vard and M. I. T., and to fill Har vard’s cup of woe lowly M. I. T. finished second. Last Saturday the Navy cleaned up in a guadrangular regafta in which Harvard participated. Thef a storm which had been gathering broke. There were reports that Harvard oarsmen were not satisfied with the conduct of affalrs and other reports that the dear old grad at Cambridge was making trouble. Interference Claimed. the As to this, current Harvard alumni bulletin ““There have heen many explanations of the race for uni- versity crews (the regatta of May 22). For one thing the old bugbear has heen handed out again: Interference by the graduate rowing committee. This accusation is ill-timed, to say the least. It has been the effort of the rowing committee in the past three years not to direct the policies of Har- vard, but to prevent any outside in- fluences from directing them and to give the coach an unfettered oppor- tunity for working out his own salva- tlon. We vouch that the present coach has had such an opportunity.” Edward Stevens i a member of 1908-1909, when the late Charles IS. Courtney was in his prime. Inf1911 he was named as assistant to Vourtney. Later he went to Oregon, where he rowed in the Portland Boat Club crew and twice acted as captail Later he served as coach without pay and turned out some excellent eights. At Harvard, in his first year, he did of trouble in the Harvard rowing which at various times have been denied at Cambridge, announcement of the resignation of the crew and the invitation to Her- to succeed him. from Portland, Oreg., where he had siderable success the crews of the gave as reasons for his resignation | Inside Golf By Chester Horton. What is called the stiff-arm stroke is frequently used with the irons. With long irons this stroke makes a push shot. In short iron shots it is the ideal stroke because it re- moves many of the factors that cause these shots s0o often to b missed. In the stiff-arm mashie pitch, for instance, you take the club back with the left arm firm and the grip of the right hand loose. The whole action is with the left arm. Keep the club- head as low to the ground, goiag back aslong as you can. There " is this im- portant detail always to be complied with: Take such a. position at the ball that the ball is well to the left of the center of the body. In this one stroke the right elbow is allowed to go out away from the side. In the stiff-arm stroke the clubhead comes in contact with the ball just after the clubhead has passed the bottom arc {of the swing, so that the ball gets overspin and will run considerably. (Copyright, 1026.) D. C. RACKETERS BEATEN ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 3.—A double victory scored by A. O. White and Paul Harding over Shamon and Simard, 2—6, 6—3, 7—5, gave the Dumbarton Club tennis team its only win here yesterday in an encounter with the Navy Leech Cup racketers. Navy took six out of seven matches. The Olympic games of 1928 will open in Amsterdam, Holland, June 20. The formal ceremonies will start on e 18 and continue through June little but experiment, and there were indications that when he became Orfented he would restore in consider- able degree Harvard's old prestige. Tast vear, as said, the Crimson was represented by a superb four-mile crew, but this year things have broken badly and no one who knows Stevens and his abllity to coach will ascribe all the fault to him. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 3 (#).— Edward A. Stevens, head coach of Harvard rowing, has resigned because of “lack of co-operation on the part of the crew.” His resignation, effective at once, has been accepted by Willlam J. Bingham, director of athletics. Immediate steps will be taken to obtain another coach to bring the varsity crew to its main objective, the Yale race at New London, now little more than three weeks off. TRAPSHOTS PRIMING FOR TITLE TOURNEY Trapshots of Maryland and the Dis- trict are trying out their guns today at the Benninz range of the Wash- ington Gun Club preparing for the start of the sixteenth annual cham- plonship shoot of the Maryland State Sportsmen’s Association, starting to- morrow at 9:30. The first 100 targets of the singles event and the doubles championship will be run off on the opening day. ‘The singles wHll be concluded on Sat- urday. along with’ a handicap shoot and an syeut.for Pain Toothache S PADDOCK NOT TO RUN INTHE A. A. U. GAMES By the Associated Press. PASADENA, Calif., a June 3.—Be- he has passed the peak of his m, Charles Paddock, the sprinter, not compete in the amateur will athletic unfon track championships to be held in Philadelphia in July. Expressing a regret that he would be unable to take part in the meet, Paddock says that he had gone stale through over-training and that it would be useless to try to get into form again this season. Explaining that he had been pre- vented from competing in the A. A. championships last year by a seven months tour he took through the Orient and Furope, the sprinter said that with a definite view of participating this _year, he started vigorous tralning last January. To his surprise, he found himself in good condition in a few weeks and at the peak of his form May 15, when he was clocked for the 100-vard dash at 9.5 during the annual Southern Cali- fornia A. A. U. meet. The sprinter concluded that next vear he proposes to profit by his ex- perience and start training later in the season. SUZANNE AND HELEN TAKING REST TODAY | By the Ass PARIS, June 3.—Bad weather con tinues to hinder play in the interna- tional hard court tennis champlon- ships. The two central attractions in the tournament, Suzanne Lenglen .nm Helen Wills, will have a rest to- - under the existing program. Suzanne, 1t is said, does not need al Ilay-off, but M Wills is declared (IH | weleome it The California girl is | suffering from a .md nd this, added | overtrained condi- pped her during the last few days. She seems to be com- {ing back, however, and yesterday. in defeating Mme. Golding., 63, 7—5, she displayed more speed and driving power than previously during the tournament. Moreover, Helen was eager to play and insisted on finishing the match after the first set had been completed, and she was leading, one game to love, in the second when rain for a time halted the battle. Three dark horses from Argentina will _come into the play weather permitting. They are | Cattaruza, W. Robson and R. Boyd. | “cCattaruza_is ma against_ the | American, Howard Kinsey, and Bovd |against Henrl Cochet, France's fifth ranking player. The three American women, Miss Ryan, Mrs. Jessup and Miss Browne, whose _first singles matches were | stopped by rain yvesterday, were | scheduled today to meet respectively Mme. Danet, Mme. Le Besnerais and Mme. S. Dehlanvea, GRATITUDE IS FIRST IN PIGEON CONTEST Gratitude, an old pigeon out of the Ioft of ¥. J. Voith, won the sixth ‘old bird race of the National Capital Concourse Association, a_flight of 500 miles from Gainesville, Ga. Clear weather, with southwest | winds, prevailed on the day of liber- |ation.” The starting hour was 5:15 a.m. and the winner was clocked in {at 4:44:54 p.m. | Good returns were reported on the | dax of the toss, the loft of John H | Holmead leading with 14 out of 18 birds, and the Greenyard loft report- ling 5 out of 7. A total of 242 birds, representing 20 lofts, took part in the race. Results, with speed in yards per minute made by first returns, follow: to her seemingly tion, has handi vard “Loft. |H o Bremmert | Betworth Lot . - Wehatsen mbe @hemng Qtar COAST NETMEN SURPRISES. | HLIPINO NETMEN ARRIVE. MATSUDA WINS ON MAT. EL PASO, Tex., June 3 (®).—Matty | PHILADELIPHIA, June 3 (A, } NCISCO. 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