Show F Backseat Driving I Americans American slipping Slipping 0 rL l I Must l Watch Laurels By FRANK FRANKE K BAKER Telegram Sports Editor Yankees Have Fight on Hand to ETa Hang Onto Championships The e United States long accustomed to ro enjoying the spotlight o of world supremacy in sport faces a hard fight light now to ro hang onto its fast Upping sUpping P laurels A number of international titles hitherto looked upon as the special property of at the Americans have already been relinquished It is 15 but a n short while ago when America held hela the he heavyweight boxing championship of the world when their famous golfers swept through all the important tournaments and when their lawn tennis players layers were ere regarded as certain t to carry cany of oil off the prizes pose Those were the aa days s 's when Dempsey Tunney Bobby Jones Hagen Tilden and Helen Wills were everyday words known t to everybody e But today the hea heavyweight champion is an Italian Primo Camera Carnera with the exception of at Helen Wills Moody American tennis stars figured little In the England all-England championships and andi although an American American- Denny Shute won Shute-won won the British open golf col c championship Britain won the Ryder cup America remains steadfast in one field though hough and that is in track and field where there seems no diminishing in ila ILi supremacy Boxing tennis and golf jrolf are arc probably the only three sports which can be classed as genuinely international anti and during dunn the last year ear Europeans and the rest rut of the world have begun un to iose lose the feeling that Americans are ue bound to win their chief diadems Americans Not So Dominating In Eu International Golfing Picture In lawn tennis the United States State was given a n good chance to win the Davis cup this year The Americans were beaten bearen by Britain however however how how- ever eyer In the final in Jul July three matches to one with one abandoned At Wimbledon Mrs frs Moodys Moody's victory was a foregone conclusion eon eon- elusIon but she lost a set in the final against the British girl Miss girl Miss Dorothy Round the Round the first one she has lost in seven years That handwriting on the wall was only half balt as serious as ns what happened happened happened hap hap- to the chief thief American hope in mens men's tennis Ellsworth Vines failed tailed to retain his Wimbledon singles title tide being beaten ten by the Australian Aus Ails Jack Crawford The United States golfers continued to show them themselves l es the better players but there also were signs that victory was harder won than Inthe Inthe in inthe the past There is real reason to feel that Americas America's sequence of nine victories ris ri's in the British open may be in Jeopardy next season seMOn Great Britain won Iwon the Ryder cup between teams of British and American professionals by the narrow margin of a a. yard two-yard putt It is generally conceded that the Americans were unfortunate to lose the event although if the question of at luck is being discussed Britain should mould have led perhaps on the foursomes instead of breaking even In the amateur championship the two favorites were cre George Dunap Dunlap Dun- Dun lap Jap ap Jr of the American Walker cup player and the Canadian Ross Canadian Ross Somerville who Somerville who took the American open amateur title out of the United States stares for the first time in many a year car last lost September Both Dunlap and Somerville however fell in the semifinal round and the final was an British all affair It is natural that this years year's results will form a solid foundation upon which other nations will build great hopes for the international encounters next year With their hopes stronger than ever these rival foes are going to be inspired to still stronger competition It is high time then for the Americans to gird themselves with more care than ever for the 1934 season This is no time timeto to regard our rivals from other nations too lightly They have proved themselves plenty dangerous |