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Show Much Discussion Is Had by Britishers Brit-ishers in Connection With Professionalism. INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER OF ANNUAL ENGLISH DERBY Governors of National Sporting; Cluh Decline to Permit Johnson's John-son's Appearance. BY "RICHARD DAHLGEEN. By "Leased "Wire to The Tribune. "LONDON. Aug. fi. Professionalism In tennis has the athletic world In England bv the cars just now. .Tho question of amateurism In the lawn tennis world has been n subject for discussion ever since the question was first raised by Sporting Sport-ing TJfc two months uco. P. A. Vallc. a well-known authority on the snort and author of "Modern Lawn Tennis, In u striking statement declares that profes- siouaiism is running- me spon ui iuw tennis in Great Britain. S'ays, "Mr. Vuile: "Now. there Is no mawkish sentiment about mc In connection connec-tion with these matters. If these persons, per-sons, who have practically spent their lives In the not very noble pastime or lawn tennis I mean where it Is pursued ns the sole end and aim of life havo bv their distinction in that sport acquired ac-quired power to charge for the uso of their names and influence in pushing tho goods of several tradesmen, I do not know that J should object lo thorn doing so, provided it were done in an open, manly manner. "What I do object to is that these men. who, as I have already paid, aro in tho front rank, pose as llly-whilo llly-whilo amateurs when they arc in truth nothing1 more or less than tradesmen s touts. "Sonic things they do are. in my opinion, opin-ion, despicable in the extreme. Or coitnjn. It Is well known that when Ihcy visit foreign tournaments they got their train fares and expenses on a generous scale. But what Is not so generally known Is the fact that, the generous scale 1ms been known to include an excess over actual expenses, which represents during that lime a very comfortable living wage. "Thcso samo amateurs have been i known to refuse to nppcnr at the tournament tour-nament unless Urn hall of (ho llrni that was running them, and whoso poods thoy were engaged in pushing, was used at the tournament." Mr. Vnilc also suggests that tournament tourna-ment HoiMfturlcs arc not frcf from blame, and. Indeed, hints at faulty In higher quarters.. His startling statements can srnrooly be "passed over by thoso who rontrol the spurt, and something oucnt to bo done, and done soon, to put an end In the strong belief amounting almost to i corlnlnty hi the public mind that all is not well In tho lawn tennis world. That northern union football is well supported In Sydney Is apparent from tho fnrt thiil 'ho five games have brought In nxactlv S35.000. If England makes an effort noxt sum-miM- to win hack tho interim tionnl polo cim. now held In America, the contest will present the Interesting spectacle nt Knellsli nlnyers combating American players with the uso of American tae-tcs. tae-tcs. Jn brief. Brlllsh polo playors have decided that thev play the game bettor neress the Atlantic than wo do In England. Eng-land. With this In mind the Hurllncame committee has decided thai certain innovation in-novation of tho American shall ho copied In tho rules ovej- here. The Black Darby. "When some on'o in the future- comes to write tho English l"''f hllory of 1010 Ik will bead one chapter or It, 'The Black Uerbv." While: turfmen are ready lo look to nol year's derby by this time, it is Interesting to look bni-k upon a very extraordinary liuldeut In turf history. The raco showed International character char-acter clearlv. for an English horso, owned bv n .Scottish carl and ridden by an American Jockey, fought out tho issuo nnd lost to a. colt owned by an Australian and ridden by a jockey who came from the mountains of Kerry. In Ireland. But how different from tho raco of hist year, when. Into the midst of an assemblage gathered from all nations and nil lands. King Edward stepped from the Inclostiro (o lead his Milium, IiIh third and last Herby winner. Sweeping rhe anxious police to ono side, tens or thousands of grateful, humble hum-ble folks pressed round him hi their midst and thanked lilm with homely words. Tho quivering on his face told that he understood. Courtiers ondcavorod to restrain him. but ho knew his people better than they . It waa a sight to sec that genial; happy, beaming face amid that great crowd, a Icing", yet an Intensely In-tensely human man among: his people, hts heart and theirs all boating- in timo from one common Joy. Like lord Gow, whoso TCell Gow was defeated In this year's Derby, tho king- had won hlu third Derby. It was an event in tho history of the raco, a story which few In the vast throngs who assemble on tho Downs every year know much about. Although the Derby was not Instituted Insti-tuted till the close of the eighteenth century, cen-tury, the downs at Epsom, formerly called Bnnstend Downs, have been associated asso-ciated with horse racing for three centuries. cen-turies. It was King "Jamio." whjlc residing re-siding Jj.t Nonsuch, who held the first horse race. The meetings of those early days combined horse races with other sports, notably pcdestrianlsm. The running run-ning "footmen" were kept In active training train-ing by their employers and used as instruments in-struments of gaming. So recently as the reign of George IV. prize fights took placo on tho course, and "the first gentleman in Europe" collected his hat coins for the combatants. Every year, doubtless, the downs at Epsom attract a. certain, number of visitors vis-itors to whom tho world of horse i-aclng Is entirely alien. Of "this type, certainly, was Herbert Spencer, who was once taken to tho derby by his frlond, Francis Gallon. Don't Want Johnson.-Followers Johnson.-Followers of lighting aro wondering what the chances are for seeing: either Tommy Burns or Sam Langford In action In London. Hugh Mcintosh has been trying try-ing to arrango a bout between. Tommy Burns and Jack Johnson, to be fought before the National Sporting club some timo next year, Tho governors of the National Sporting club have mnde it plain to the Australian promoter that Johnson will not be allowed al-lowed to fight there. Eugene CorrI, in speaking of this, said: "The light between Jeffries and Johnson John-son created such a big stir that the governors gov-ernors have decided that they will not allow Johnson to fight before tho club. if it had not been for the world wide agitation ngalnst the Jeffries-Johnson moving pictures the case might have .been different, but now If Mcintosh wants to stage a fight in England between Burns and Champion Johnson he will have to take It some place on the out-skirls out-skirls of London. The chances are ho would havo to erect a new arena for It." A feature of nthlotics so far this year has been the number of new champions, some of whom arc youthful, notably J, M. IIIH, "half;" A. G. J If 11. "four miles." and B. 11. Baker, high Jump, all of whom give promise of doing big things. Hill made nil the pace In tho four miles and broko the lapo In -0 minutes. 3-fi seconds sec-onds real good running. Another promising- performance at the Stamford bridge championship meet last month was G. L. and EJ. Volght nnd A. Anderson's lf seconds for hurdles on tho sodden turf. Mo is cultivating tho straight-front log style and will Improve. The "mile" produced pro-duced the hc3t raco of the meot. and E. Volght owed his win to splendid judgment judg-ment F- J. Baker of Cambridge university uni-versity was probably tho best "miler" of the field, but he displayed poor Judgment. Judg-ment. Volght dolaycd his cfTort until 200 yards from homo, and overhauled tho tiring Baker on the straight, whllo Owen Holder was balked when trying to come through and was hcalon three yards. The lime was 1 minutes 2fi G-5 seconds, prob-ablv prob-ablv equal to I minutes 22 seconds. Some wag started the report that Ihe English prlzo fighters woro going to form a union. This news was .cabled to the United Stales, whore It causod a groat deal of comment nnd doubtless a few smiles. Tho committee of sporting writers heading the weekly journal, tho Sporting Sport-ing Life, Is still trying with undiminished vigor to have tho International boxing board of control established. Somo timo ago wo Intlniatod to those sportsmen who had favored us with their opinions of tho proposal to create n board to control International boxing that we had presented thct whole ovldonco collected col-lected by us to the National Sporting club, that wo had asked Mr. Bcttlnson to kindly bring the matter boforo his committee, and that the committee would considor tho matter. Mr. Bettlnson now informs ua that a vory representative committee, with the .Earl of Lonsdale In the chair, discussed tho proposal. Mr. Bettlnson further tells un tho whole com-milloo com-milloo were In entire accord with tho princlplo of tho hoard. (Copyright, 1010.) |