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Show IXV.VIHXG TIDES. - correspondent points out the fact that the so-called "British deficit' in International sport han been "Lnglish not British." The Knglish wont send over a Davis Cup team, but Pat-on, Pat-on, Anderson and O'Hara Wood are Brltlfa entrleaVind they will be on hand with considerable elan not to say eclat. The British golf team Is coming o.r shortly, and, while ireat Britain's Brit-ain's strongest match player Willie I Hunter, a Scot, will not be on tho I team, ho will glvr battle in our chum-r'l"n"hip chum-r'l"n"hip at Brookllne Duncan another an-other scot, tie.j r,,r second In the recent re-cent British open and finished sixth in the r. s. open. The depressing slump seems to ap- Ply far more to England than it does 1 still carrying on. Just what forces have struck Enc-'ish Enc-'ish sport so harshly are not known England Suffered heavily from thi war, but so did Scotland and Australia Austral-ia Yet both countries are taUlnr th. ir place in the International battle: , lines with first-class talent. 1 Once more we ask for the door to! ipeak a few words in behalf of Karl wesl spon Washington University! sends Us coach to Yale. He hud a' ' n W that almost whipped the match- less Navy eight John Black of California Cali-fornia conies within one of winning i the open golf championship. A pa"; 4 a't the seventy-first hole would have left him on top Bill Johnston comes as Til. lens most determined rival at turf tennis. The Culifornla football team fought a draw with W. and J unbeaten in the East and one of tho most powerful machines of the year And yon still may recall what the ' a'ifornla track team accomplished in , the Intercollegiate? All this doesn't ; Include Charlie Paddock, the greatest sprinter of track history And young California ball plaers are drawing piiucB iu me open marKet that are astonishing, even in this age of kale- scattering splendor. Branch Rickey whispered softly to : us soma time ago that If h could : hae his ball club fairly close to the , front by the first of August his team would have enough power to drive its j Way through to a pennant. Aff r .June, lust summer, he won more games and had a better winning aver- agi than the Giants. That early I spring smash-up warped his hopes. , Today ho is in a tldv place for a' late summer and September dne, and if bis prophe. y doesn't skid too badly St. Louis may celebrate the long for-I for-I ty-year drouth with a double wed-1 ding ; With two St LouiS ball clubs flght-, flght-, ing for ; post-season championship tn. Mississippi River will begin t . I emit molten lava as Its purly flow bolls over under the heavy strain Wills may -, indulging his profession profes-sion in set-ups, but the main point ; is that Wilis Is getting a lot of aclho training in actual competition, which is worth all the bag punching you can rowd Into ;i continent. Dempsey us champion, can't pick his opponents with the same fluent ease md laci; Of active competition will be the main barrier in his way when the big day OTO.I S I In re are tunes when the en- i'-ii grown presses as rough!) "gainst one's forehead as a circlet of dried j thorns. |