Show 10 UNO NO TRUE SPORTS IN THIS COUNTRY English Press Sneers at Ameri Amen American can People There Be Reasons London Jan 9 English fair play plaT was never more clearly clearl exemplified x than thea by the appended excerpt from the current currant curre t number of one of ot the hO tb most widely circulated u hated of British weeklies Americans wW wilt wt smile at the references to Mace Dun Dunraven Dunraven Dunraven raven and th the Yanks YukI sneer The Thc paper says sas That Dorando was hissed during his hiM recent race with Hayes Hares In New York Yerk was only what was to lo have been expected while for the correspondents there to cable cable ca cable ble over hero the Information that the Italians victory was an unpopular one ens Oft was quite unnecessary Of course It was unpopular The fact is in illand inand and there Is no use ule In blinking it that the Yanks arc not sportsmen as we un UR understand understand the term They are sporting men which Is la a different thing It has been so all along Jem Join Mac Mace the first English pugilist to go over there had to quit the country countr for fear of losing heSing his life lite How lIow Gotch treated Hacken schmidt the other day da Is la matter of com corn common common cornmon mon knowledge Lord Dunraven was sas AS forced to decline e eto to race any an more moro with them because of c the fraud and chicanery with which he was confronted At Henley on several oc ee occasions when they have hac sent crews er to compete against our crews Cr s similar unfair onlah tactics have h ve been resorted to And these are but a few Instances out of many man that might be cited Why Wh is if in inThe it The answer ammer is not easy but it seems to tobe tobe tobe be due to the overmastering passion die dw played by b Americans for or getting there thereat at any an cost coat Vin by b fair means If It you ou can but In any case win is their motto Of honor or chivalry in sport they know nothing Does anybody suppose for instance that if It army any an but an American competitor had bed bedOn hadlOn won lOn On the Marathon by a fluke from frem poor r plucky little Dorando at the London Olympic games he would have decided to claim the award Of Ot course he Yet the Americans saw nothing out of ef place in it The only thing that can be bc said in ex tX extenuation is that they show the same un an sportsmanlike spirit when competing among themselves as 88 they do In international International International contests witness the disgraceful exhibition at the Chicago baseball final the other dav |