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Show E mm p0,' Golf' Tennis and Yacnt jilt f -tJ$ ing Divide Interest Among J Ijfefc English Sport Lovers. IRK (By International News Service.) f8fn LONDON, May 17. While such IkEI fighters as McGoorty, Moran. Tod !j3i!j' Lewis and Phil Bloom arc treating J&Mll England to a tasto of International Sml sport' contests that havo failed to Wl arouse any keen excitement, a differ- $5 ! ent section of tho sport world Is bc- jyt ginning to talk revival of tho old pre- tj J I I war contests. i1, Tho dismal failure of Joe Beckett, i:,nim Britain's heavyweight champion has Fjf acted as a damper on sport cnthusl- H' asm in so fur a3 international boxing matches are concerned. But there is beginning to be a glimmer glim-mer .of tho old time keenness of ln-, ln-, tcrest In other lines. ' The departure of Sir Thomas Lip- I ton'o cup challenger to meet the I Rcaoluto held groat Interest, but t among tho ranks of tho polo players "1 and the golf and tennis fans plans I and prospects are being weighed In c! tho balance and schedules of trial M ' contests arranged. m I Most of Britain's polo players and 9 nearly all the ponlc3 were fed Into , V the madness of war. Lord Wimbornc, H one of tho fow leaders left, and the H man who did so much of the work of " organizing the mounting, the 1914 International Team, 13 already working work-ing toward a successful polo revival. New ponies are In training for the early summer English championships, and July will bo the big polo month, as many clubs will be competing In tho trial matches which determines tho make-up of the international team ' which will defend the cup against America here In 1921. Thd first lawn tennis of the season was the April S opening at Queen's club, West Kensington, of the annual covered courts championship. Prom the first "servo" the talk of the clubs was the Davis cup ties and the world's championships, which will bo decided at Wimbledon in June. At this meeting meet-ing thcro will bo competitors from Auptrla, America, South Africa Canada, Cana-da, Japan, China and the Contlnont, Interest centers in the Amcrlcn conti-gont conti-gont which will be headed by W. M. Johnston. It is taken for granted here that he will go through the prc-j prc-j ,.-?s .limlnaries and, win his right to meet ' G. L. Patterson In the All-England meeting. Captain F. J. ,C. Ganzoni, M. P., .-mcs to tho front with a warning tc Britain that the tennis futUro may bo endangered. "As we a country aro losing our prestige and our champlnoahlps to foreigners because wo havo been turning turn-ing the old stock over and over again," he writes in tho Dally Sketch. "New blood Is the only means by which we can regain our laurels and retain them." He advocates wider development of playing facilities, so that youngsters may be found and doveloped to the standard of tho young California phenoms who recently made te'nnls history In America. Captain Ganzoni might also havo been writing to the golfing world, for tho Journalistic experts who are following' the golf stars como around again and again to tho international match possibilities of such veterans as Vardon. Braid, Taylor, and Herd, Each Is found to bo as good as over by the writers who' follow thorn dally, and it seems likely that they will be In the front rank for Britain when .the American golfers arrive ncxl month. |