Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-01-08 | Page 16 | "No True Sports Found in America"

NO TRUE SPORTS fOUND IN AMERICA LOl LONDON OX Jan S.- S. S. Eu S. English l sh fair fairplay play was never more moro clearly c exem em fie than by the appended excerpt from f the current number of ono one of the most widely circulated of British week week- lies ues Americans will smile at the references ref ref- to Mace Dunraven Hacken schmidt chmidt and the It sneer The paper paper says say recent r. r That was hissed J durin during his I race with Hayes Haves in New eW York I was TrU only oaly what was Tras to to have bac been ex ox ted while for the correspondents there to c cable bl over o hero here tho information that the Italians Italian's 8 victory was an unpopular un- un popular one ono was as quite unnecessary Of course it was V unpopular The ff la it that it-that t that and is-and the Yanks there is ls no DO are alO use not in sportsmen blinking as s 5 we understand nd the term They are arc sporting mon men men which h is a different thing It It has bas been so all alon along rem Jem Mace the first Mf En English lu pu pugilist to 2 gu u over there here had to quit quit uit the country for fear of losing his bis life fife How Gotch treated the other day ciar is is matter of at common knowledge Lord d en Dunraven n was s forced to decline de- de cline to race any moro more with them be r. r of f cause the fraud wel and chicanery with which bich he be beas as confronted At If Henley on enley-on on several federal occasions when they have havo soot sent crews to compete comp a against ainet our crews S aim wm- f liar 14 unfair tactics have e been resorted to And And these aro are but a few fen instances out oat nt- nt ot of if many Dy mi might bt bo be cited Why U H. t. t is The Tho answer is not cas easy bub but It ft teems seems to bo be due to the overmastering pae passion on displayed by Americans for or getting there thero at any cost U 44 Win Win by fair means if you ou can but in in any case win win is their motto Of honor or chivalry in in sport they know I nothing Does anybody suppose for i instance that if any but an American competitor bad had won wo tho thc by a t fluke from po poor f T plucky lucky little Dorando at the London Olympic games be would have havo been decided to claim the award 1 Of course ho he Yet the Americans Ameri- Ameri cans aw saw nothing out fc of Place in it The ani only thing that can be ui said in extenuation is is that they show tho the same ame spirit when hen competing among themselves as they do o in lions contests contests' witness s the tho dis t at the Chica Chicago b baseball final the tho other dB day II