ATHLETICS.
1 In an article in the London "Evening ' News" recently M. Rene Lacoste, who defeated M. Jean Borotra in the final of the men' 3 lawn tennis championship i at Wimbledon, and who assisted Borotra to win the Davis Cup match against Australia, says that, the reason why the young Englishman of to-day, while probably a better all-round athlete than the men of other nations, doee not excel is any one sport is because he likes to ' play them all. "He will not specialise. I do not criticise him for this. Perhaps it ie ■ a matter for admiration rather . than criticism that he likes to play cricket, golf, tennis, hockey, Rugby and Association football, giving them all a turn at his sweet will. "You will not win back your lawn tennis laurels unless your young players give up their other games— ' and specialise. . ! "It is perhaps a question of national temperament. There are many who will say the young Englishman is right in switching over from lawn ! tennis to Rugby, like your Mr. Spence, and from tennis to Soccer, like your Mr. Woosnam. You do all things well, \ but not one thing supremely well that is your post-war mood. • "In France we take up a game and , we Bay, 'This is our game. There > shall be no other.""
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 216, 12 September 1925, Page 25
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