ENGLISHMEN AND GAMES
WHY SUPREMACY IS LOST NO SPECULATION. Australian and N 7 f-W; LONDON, July 7. _ Rone Lacoste, who won the men’s singles in the Wimbledon championship tournament, in an article in the “Evening News/’ says: “England lias lost her tennis supremacy because the average young Englishman, whilo probably the best nil-round athlete, in the" world, does not excel in any single sport owing to his liking to play everything. “English sportsmen do all things well but nothing supremely well. It is merely a past-war mood with them.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12185, 9 July 1925, Page 3
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