Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-20 | Page 18 | American Gives John Bull Severe Whipping

America Gives John Bull Severe Whipping don courts, winning the singles and playing a major part in winning mm'i ind mixed douoles. That weep at Wimbledon forecast the outcome of the Davie cup challenge round. Budge at Co. (the company in thu instance meaning Gene Mako and Frankie Parker) took the Davie Da-vie cup by defeating the British, 4-1. The most humiliating defeat came In T. O. M. Sopwith'e unsuccessful challenge for the America's cup. Hi Endeavour IT proved nomatch for the Ranger, skippered by Harold Vanderbiit. So convincing waa the four-straight lacing meted out by the Ranger that there Is little likelihood like-lihood of any other brave aoul ven turing out of England with a challenge chal-lenge for long time to come. Or at least not until condition of the race r changed to give challenger more of a chance. England did score a couple of minor mi-nor triumphs when the combined Oxford-Cambridge track and field teams scored over picked teams from Tale-Harvard and Princeton-r Princeton-r Cornell, but these were offset by i the victory of Robert Sweeney, an r American residing in London, in the British amateur golf champion-- champion-- ship. I There Is a possibility that Britain I may recoup a bit of ner athletic i prestige when the British and American Amer-ican lassies meet on the tennis i courts to decide the Wightman cup matches. But without their ace, Dorothy Round, in the lineup, the British can hardly hope to cope with the strong American team that will defend the trophy. Br Aanoetaled rreas Maybe Tommy Farr will save Ljohn Bull's face by .whipping Jo Louis and taking the world heavyweight heavy-weight title to Great Britain. He moet probably won't In recent international contests J. B. has fared poor.y indeed against your Uncle Samuel. The Ryder cuppers suited it all when they invaded England, upeet a highly touted British turn headed by Henry Cotton, and scored the first victory on foreign soil recorded by either golf temra in the series. Wimbledon Victory Then along cam red-headed Don Budge and his tennis troupe. Don made a clean sweep of the Wimble- Lion's Share By Pap' SJ W' i -TUB Lours eour, 1 O o wc.ro fsy ju the-o the-o wkshtmam 'rJL I r fJ; TrN yrrxj2MTcjAL- severs COP MATCHES )fl.) I It tV- CRUSHES WfKJ KfeT ' a. 1 All awfcU lUasjrMd) W TW Aaocklt) Tm