Show SPORTS British Have Powerful Comeback to Criticisms English Play Games for Sport Oppose Lifetime Lifetime Life Life- time Ambition of Athletes LONDON June 26 G AP The American victories on the golf goIt lInks have revived in lively manner the discussions which have arisen from time to time ever since the American sportsmen began to come cometo cometo to the old country and carry off sporting laurels over the tho question I Of whether sport lort should be amusement amuse amuse- meat ment or science Walter Valter Hagens Hagen's remarks on the methods ot of British golfers only serve to put more pointedly what has been ln in tile the or of most British sport Joy Joy- ers erg whenever they sorrowfully have bave watched the national sports trophies trophies tro- tro crossing the Atlantic Miss Mary K IC Browne captAin of the victorious American Wightman c cup p team has said much the same thing though not quite so robustly as Hagen about British lawn ten ten- that nis-that the British player thinks more ore of enjoYing than wInning winning wIn wIn- ning the game It Is too early Yet for tor comment on Hagens Hagena views but the newspapers news news- papers were already airing the subject sub sub- before he spoke The Evening Standard for instance asks whether er after all the BrItish z method ethod Is not the best and says that even if H Miss Browne has made the right dIagnosis pol possibly it would ie be bet bet- tet tec to contInue being wrong In our own way rath rather r than start being rIght In Americas America's war vay Suggesting that It is Ironic to speak of such grimly efficient persons perSons per per- sons as Suzanne Lenglen and VIncent Vincent VIn- VIn cent Richards as players the Standard says Let a man play with his heart and soul but not give up the whole of his me life to what should be no more than part ot of Jt it England will never be done so 0 long as we play games In the spirit which i is native to us-pl us play us-play- Ing them because we enjoy them The star commenting on Bobby Jones Jones' tri triumph mph says that Americans Amen Ameri- cans have shone on the putting green where the Is w weakest The difference It adds Is perhaps one of oC mentality The Englishman En En- is out In the main for sport and exercise a desire which Is more gratified by spectacular pl play y in hi long Shots hots than In patient attention to tile the less strenuous busIness bus bus- incas Iness of holing the ball The star also make makee reference to to the far greater material encouragement encouragement American players play receive than English British golf writers are devoting unusual attention to Bobby Jonea prowess his methods are minutely analyzed Their word ls Is that he heis heis is lust Just a genius The Observers Observer's erpert pert commenting the Americans Americans' on unquestioned un- un questioned sUperiority on the putting putting put put- ting green remarks One reason is that they cultivate a much fiercer outlook on gol than we do here her tp to them tt t Is a a. life ilfe and death bus bus- mess Editorially the Observer says There can be no blinking of the fact that golf gol professionals as a bOdy have been outclassed and the moral Is one to be digested at lel- lel sure As for tor Jones he Is beyond doubt the thc most proficient player yet seen In any country The debated qu tion ot of applY apply- my Iny science and to games Is also dIscussed In connection with tennis The Weekly has collected some promInent views on this subject Mile l Lenglen laughed at the Idea that she was a martyr to the game Suzanne declared she had loved laved the game ame from rom a child that she followed ed the ordinary nor nor- life with no no specIal diet and enjoyed theatres dancing an and Miss Helen Wills likewise said there was no reason why a tennis player should live c differently than other people She h had d never found severe training necessary and theony the theony ony real hardship came from sl-e sl demands on ones one's time Jean Borotra also complaIned or of orthe the great sacrifice ot of time but asserted asserted as- as that he made no other sacrifices sac Mac Both Borotra and Henri Cochet admitted that they do not smoke but otherwise deprived themselves of no pleasures In life On the other bane hana Jacques Bugi Bug Bzug i non declared he kept fit by amok amok- i Ing heavily and doing everything he ought not to do Mrs 1 L. L A. A Godfree the former McKane winner of many championships said she followed no special diet tut on the contrary led the most normal UC life possIble |