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International Fclo, Tennis and Golf, With the Historic
Dempsey-Carpentier Fight, Helped Make 1921 a
Bsnncr Year Many New Champions Crowned.
BY JACK VEIOCR
International News Service Snorting Editor!
New York, Dec. 24. The sand in the year-glass of sport has!
almost dwindled to the last grain once more.
Old Father Time will soon turn the glass over, and with its
turning 1021 wi1! pass into the vistas of history while sportdom
sits back expectantly awaiting a "new deal."
The year just ebbing has been one of the most brilliant
the sport .world has ever seen. Like 1920, it was highly flavored
by international competition, and th? increase in intersectional
contests in the United States added to its lustre.
Where 1920 had its Olympic games and its international
yacht race, 1921 boasted its "Battle of the Century" and interna
tional tennis and golf events of unusual brilliancy.
Down the twelve-month stretch just
fading- out recorders of sporting: events
listed many a performance th'- like of
which was not deemed possible a few
years ago. Records of all sorts vent
crashing into the discards and attend
ance at bis 'events reached proportions
that stand as an undeniable proof that
sport is constantly growing in populari
ty. Amerio.i'? international sporting re
lations are becoming more cordial year
by year, while litre, at home, good-natured
rivalry has never been warmer and
the ability displayed by athletics in all
sections of the. country indicates that
sport is makig rapid and progressive
steps in a'l of it? branches.
DEMPSEY-CARPENTIER FIGHT
BIGGEST EVENT OF THE YEAR
No sporting event within the mem
ory of anyone living to-day attracted
the world-wide interest 'commanded by
the big international heavyweight box
ing championship between Jack Demp
sey and Georges Carpentier. And this
means that it stands alone as the great
est single sporting event up to this time,
Nearly 100,000 spectators corwded Tex
HIckard's monster Jersey City arena on
July 2, and while that vast throng of
humanity watched Dempsey knock his
opponent out in four rounds, followers
of sport throughout the world waited
eagerly for returns from the ringside.
No sport event now in prospect can ap
proach the Dempsey-Carpentier fight,
which was the best advertised, most
highly financed and colorful "event ev
er staged.
The world's series, won by the Giants
from the Yankees, attracted 269,976
spectators for a total gate of $900,233
for eight games, whereas the big fight
drew around one million cold dollar.
Unprecedented crowds attended the
big football games throughout the coun
try, and it is unofficially estimated that
football activities called for an outlay
of something like $6,500,000 on the part
of the public that supports the game
The Davis Cup matches and national
tennis championship drew fine crowds.
The galleries that followed the big j
championship golf matches were greater i
than ever before, and horse and auto j
racing- flourished.
Every branch of sport, in fact, irom
track and field athletics on down the
in was well patronized and took well
defined steps ahead during the year.
California's athletics keDt in the lime
light throughout a brilliant season en
track and field games.
The sharp-spiked boys i.f th Univer
sity of California captur?d the inter
collegiate team championship games at
Cambridge, Mass.; and the sons of the.
Golden State in general did themseivs
proud, especially Charley Paddock, who
knocked world's records
galley west.
The Penn Relays, the
between Yale-Harvard
Princeton teams against
Oxford-Cambridge team
and the annual A. A. U,
in th3 clashes
special games
and Cornell
the combined
from England
indoor and out
door meets were great successes. Yale
and Harvard defeated the invading Ox-ford-Cambrige
aggregation, but theEng
lishmen found some balm for their feel
ings by holding Princeton and Cornell
to a tie in a dual meet at Travers Is
land. College rowing had another good year.
The return of the classic inter -collegiate
regatta to Poughkeepsie. the conr-ng
East of the California crew for a special
race with Princeton prior to the Pough
keepsie event, and the staging of all of
the regular fixtures on the water boost
ed interest in the sweepmen sky high.
The champion oarsmen of the United
States Navv carried off a major share
of the honors again this year, and
thT.gh ("created at Princeton, the Mid
dies came back to win the Poughkeepsie
event, whieh, with a victory in the
American Henley, gave the Annapolis
OUTSTANDING FEATURES OF
BRILLIANT YEAR IN SPORTS
Jersey City Jack Dempsey knock
ed out Georges Carpentier in the
fourth round.
London American polo team de
feated the British for the Inter
national Polo Cup.
New York Babe Ruth establish
ed a new record . of 59 home runs.
Chicago Jake Schaefer, Jr., won
the world's 18.2 balkline billiard
ttile from Willie Hoppe.
St. Andrews. Scotland Jock 'Hut
chison won the British open golf
championship.
Baltimore Morvitch. champion 2-year-old
colt, won his eleventh
straight race for a total winning
on the season of $115,234.
Forest Hills, L. I. America's Da
vis Cup team successfully defended
famous tennis trophy against Japan.
Pasadena California University
won the inter-collegiate track and
field championship.
Chicago Illinois University won
the National College Athletic Asso
ciation championship on track and
field.
Indianapolis Tom Milton won the
annual 500-mile automobile sweep
stakes. . .
New York The Giants and Yan
kees, winners of the major league
pennants, played a record-breaking
world's series, which the 'Jiants
won, 5 games to 3.
Cambridge Yale-Harvard athletes
defeated Oxford-Cambridge team in
international track and field games.
Travers ; Island Oxford-Cambridge
athletes tied Cornell-Princeton ath
letic team in track, and field games.
Poughkeepsie Navy's champion
rowing crew won annual inter colle
giate rowing regatta
New York Johnny Buff won the
world bantamweight championship
from Pete Herman.
Wimbledon William T. . Tilden II.
successfully defended " the interna
tional lawn tennis singles champion
ship. Philadelphia WilHam T. Tilden,
II. successfully defended the nation
al lawn tennis singl?s champion
ship. Forest Hills, L. I. Mrs. Franklin
I. Mallory defeated Mile. Suzanne
Lenglen, of France, and successful
ly defended the national women's
lawn tennis singles championship.
New York Stanislaus Zbyszko. of
Poland, won the world catch-as-catch-can
wrestling championship by
defeating Strangler Lewis.
Deal, N. J. Miss Marion Hollins
won the women's national golf
championship from a field including
Miss Alexa Sterling and Miss Cecil
Leitch.
St. Louis Jesse Guilford won the
national amateur golf championship.
Washington Jim Barnes captured
the national open golf championship
from the classiest nld of profes
sionals over gotten together in this
country.
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XMAS STOCWAlSS
With preparations made for an -
star clash,, the big football game 7?
AVearn Field Monday afternoon at s
o'clock between the Carolina Ram
. . 1 j.1 I S .3 4 .- alJ'"
Diers unu me wavmsun Aii-star?
be by far the greatest feature of
on the day set aside for the Crr'at.
mas holiday.
Heroes of the gridiron who
won almost national iamc w:n i.
win
ea-
the field at all points, and as Ui,
ball season has just cor,u i,
close, these stars will be in ).riw,,
dition to show the public
rare in the way of football, it j.
ised. Scarcely will there It
on 'either team who has no:
guished himself at one time i r ,.:
in the sport.
Witn tne Carolina i;anii)icr:
several of Rich's Reds, the (
University boys, who displays
tional skill during the recent
season. These boys will
ed by some of Carolina's
'rata
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football
be augment,
best olnvft-a
it has gained
ever before, it
Jersey City vet-
country was held in New A'ork for the
purpose of forming a national organi
zation. The body was formed as
planned, but has not functioned with
any great degree of success.
Promoters in various cities have
been going along much the same as
they always have done, and despite
the efforts of professional reformers
to nut the came in ill repute in cer
tain sections where
firmer foothold than
flourishing.
Johnny Buff, the
eran, is the only new holder of a
championship. Buff won the bantam
weight title from Pete Herman in
Madison . Square Garden after Her-
man had regained it rrom joe -Liyncn
! during the Summer. Buff, by the way,
j holds two titles, for he is also the
American flyweight champion.
Jack Dempsey. Johnny AVilson,
j Georges Carpentier, Jack Britton,
j Benny Leonard, Johnny Kilbane and
'. Jimmy ATilde, who were champions of
I their various divisions in 1920, suc
ceeded in clinging to their crowns,
! though AVilson holds an uncertain po
i sition in that Ohio does not recognize
. r tA..." iw;, sport an influence that might almost to
i title-holdei-. The Downey -AVilson bout
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DEMPSEY SPOILING
FOR A GOOD SCRAP
Jack Dempsey
bad he's gettin'
New York, Dec. 24
is; wantin' a fight so
the nerves.
The heavyweight, champion, who. has
br-en doin' his stuff on the stage out
AVest, is fighting now to get out from
under a contract.
The hcr.vywoight champion is on the
verge of a nervous breakdown and
has to get away from the footlights.
Jack Kearns wired to Now York
friends today.
Which might indicated that ano;h3r
JnllT.I r n IT I S m 1 I A ll 1 li il n ' It , T "
sity's well known halfback. Johnson
in splendid condition to display ?ome
of his skill as an end runntr ami
ground gainer. George Murray. f0N
mer State star, who will be villi thg
New A'ork Yankees in the ha soball
world this Summer, will also he n the
Carolina line-up. Marvin Ri: !-,. for.
mer Carolina and Georgetown star
will play center. In addition u i lies!
players there will be Rube Eakni-, of
State: Dick Kirkpatrick, of state;
Chuck Pharr, of Carolina; Joe Meehan
and Charlie Miller, two prev school
stars: Spratt Moore, who commanded
unusual attention with David s.m th's
l-,il; '-Wildfire Brown," of Ri;ch's
Reds: Schenck, Davidson quartf-rbark;
Christenbury Booe and Spearman, the
latter a well-known Clemson star.
Among the officials will be "l)rde"
Phillips, crack player of Erskinc Col
lege, who will referee. John Pint it w?i
umpire. The linesmen will b-- Carr
and Faul.
All in all. the game is export. , to
afford a splendid exhibition nf eal
i football. The contest is pnirniruv to
benefit the athletic condition f the
Charlotte University School, anl all
proceeds win go tor mat. purpose
I bout for the crown of the big feilows
in the making.
Other evidence points that way.
Walter J. Travis bears to golf the
same relation that his fellow Austral
ian, Bob Fitzsimmons, bears to the
squarred circle and the padded mit.
Travis has won from the game some
very remarkable distinctions and at
the same
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time he contributed to the
the top rung on the rowing lad-
outfit
der.
Boxing, which advanced to a high
Plane during the AA'orld war. v.-as more
popular than ever. The. Dempsey-Carpentier
bout lent impetus to the mitt
game, and in every State where it is
legalized boxing was extremely popu-
The tendency on the part of some
promoters to offer purses of unprece
dented size for title bouts resulted in
inflating the game, from a financial
standpoint, beyond all proportions,
and early in the year a congress of
boxing men from all parts 'of the
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I in Cleveland was a very unsatisfac
tory affair, and their later meeting in
j Jersey City was a farce,
j For the first time in the history of
I modernized baseball. New A'ork mo-
nopolized the world's series,
j John McGraw piloted his Giants to
the National League championship,
and the New York Yankees captured
the first American League pennant
the metropolis has ever had.
AVhat happened in the world's se
ries occurred too recently for recount
ing here except to record once more
i that "McGraw's team took the 'Yanks
j into camp in five out of eight gamea
' and annexed their second world's title
! under the guidance of the scrappy lit
! tie manager who has governed the
i destinies of the team since 1903.
j In the little world's series between
! Baltimore and Louisville, champions
i respectively of the International
; League and the American Association,
j the Kentucky Colonels came off vic
i torious.
; Babe Ruth, though he failed to star
in the world's series,, got his share of
: glory out. of, the season by smahin
his own liomc-r"" v' -'-;'
circuit swats. The big slugger ham
mered, out a total or nuy- .
ers during the regular American
League season and added one in the
world's series.
Rogers Hornsby, of the St. Louis
Cardinals, grabbed the batting cham
pionship of the National League for
the second time, and Harry Heilman,
of Dtrolt, nosed out Ty Cobb for the
American League batting crown.
The interest shown in baseball in
1920 was upheld during the recent
season in both major and minor
! leagues, and the magnates for the
most part bad something on tne ngnt
side of the ledger when schedules came
to a close. The tendency on the part
of some minor league magnates to
spend more money than they could
well afford, however, ate up funds
that should have gone down as profits,
and President Michael Sexton, of the
National Association of Professional
Baseball Leagues, has recommended
a policy of retrenchment for 1922 as a
result.
The Buffalo meeting of the minor
leagues brought forth some astonish
ing deals, and while the much-talked-of
$150,000 Groh-Burns-Gonzales deal
between the Giants and Reds was the
biggest in a cash way, the purchase
of First Baseman O'Connell from San
Francisco by New York for $75,000
cash and 1923 delivery, and other deals
with Coast League clubs by the ma
jors set something of a record. These
deals involved $150,000 and some play
ers, as follows:
O'Connell, first baseman and
outfielder, sold by San Fran
cisco to New A'ork Nationals $75,000
Caveney, shortstop, sold by San
Francisco to Cincinnati for
See, Brenton and Geary and 25,000
Pinelli, third baseman, sold by
Oakland to Cincinnati for
players and , 20,000
Johnson and Pillette, pitchers,
sold by Portland to Detroit
for 40,000
called a school. AVe have our schools
I of thought, literature and art why
not of golf?
i Travis is so small in stature and his
i manner of dress so picturesque that
! he was at once recognized when he
j appeared on a course in' his tourna
I ment days. His drives were so short
i that he often was facetiously referred
to as ' the kangaroo," partly because
of his Australian birth but mostly,.. I
imagine, because his tee shots were lit
tle pops of the ball that, associated
with the Australian idea, resembled
the jump of the kangaroo. Fortunately,
though, this nickname never, took seri
ously.. But whatever Travis lacked in driv
ing distance, he made up for with an
accuracy that was deadly.. In tribute
to his great skill, I want to go on rec
ord as saying that the game has never
producsd Travis' equal for accuracy.
His almost uncanny control of his
mashie and putter captured for him the
British championship in 1904. , This
achievement stands out as perhaps the
greatest championship ever won be
cause at that time the whole golfing
world was amazed that a member of
an American club should capture such
:i prize.
One of the most remarkable .of all
he unusual factors of Travis' golf ca
reer is the fa:'t that he took up the
trame when he was 35 years old. His
success must always give encourage-!
ment to the "school of accuracy,"
which holds that skill, not distance
with wood or iion, wins champion
ships. I am proud to say that I long
ago modeled my own game after Tra
vis' theory of striving for accuracy
and shtrolification
J Travis was born in Alctoria, Aus
tralia, January 10, 1862. He waded
thi'ough all competition, after . he took
up the game in America, and reached
the; very top, winning the ' National
championship three times, in 1900,
1901, and 1903. He never won the Na
tional open championship, but he tied
for second place one year. Previously
no amateur had ever been within 25
strokes of the champion. - ;
Travi3 reduced the game of golf to
one rule, largely his own deduction,
j It was this: "Straight down the course;
never mind distance." That theory was,
at the time, unusual and simple. I
! think perhaps it was the very begin
ning of simplified golf, in America at
j least. Travis, therefore, never drove '
! his ball very far, but he never . was i
off the- course. He added one thing
; more lo this style of play a. deadly
j putter. I think it is generally con
ceded that Travis was the surest put
ter the game has ever known. His
game, therefore, resolved itself in this
! "If on2 is straight down the course
! and can putt, victory is sure." He
proved that tVus theory will work.
J Travis has written much about golf
: and his teachings did much to further
the game's popularity in the early
: days. The sport owes him much. In
addition, he was one of the greatest of
' authorities on rule. Ho is one of the
j great figures of the game, and always
i will remain so, I am sure. ,
I Travis played with almost every fa
' mous golfer the world boasted, and at
some time or other he managed to beat
them all. Only one player i know of i
can say that he did not fall victim to
the di ninutive Travis' accuracy, and
that is Robert Gardner, the Chicago
player, former amateur champion and !
finalist at the 1921 National amateur
in St. Louis. Bob met Travis twice
and in both encounters he managed to
beat the tiny star. I played with
Glen Ariew. Chicago,, when I went clown
before the most wonderful mastery of
a putter I have ever beheld, and again
in the National championship at Gar
den City, when I won. I was paired
with Travis in the qualification round
in the National amateur championship
at the Chicago Golf Club in 1909 and
was so nervous in consequence that
I missed my third shot completely.
. This missed shot stands out strikingly-in
my memory and gives me a
peculiar association with Travis. Nev
er since that day with Travis have I
missed the ball, completely, as I did
then, when making a shot.
Travis' career should be an ' inspira
tion to all players, young and old. and
especially to those of what the gamn
pleases to term an "advanced age."
and 35 seems to fall into that classi-
ncation. gravis proved tnat any one i
with , the determination to become a j
good golfer can be one. j
- vvaiier iravis unquestionably wins a
place in Golf's Hall of Fame.
PRITCHARD'S TROOP
DEFEATS TROOP 19
Tom Prichard's troops of Boy Scouts
defeated Troop 19 in a game of basket
ball on the Y floor, which was featured
by the good shooting of Pritchard and
the Houston brothers, by the score of
12 and 9. Todd and Surney were the
bright li.shto for the" lossers.
Troop "S" Position Troop "19"
The following will be the
announced by Marvin Hitch,
of the game.
line-up aj
promoter
C. Pritchard (4)
T." Houston (4).
J. Houston .(4).
Allen
Alexander . . . , .
Todd (2)
.Harrison (51
.Bellinger (2)
; .Surney.
. .-.Thompson-
Carolina Position Davidson
Kirkpatrick .. ..LE .. .. Spearman
F. Austin . . . . LT Booa
Baker . . LG . . . . McMastors
Ritch .. .. ... C MaHonee
Murray .... . . RG T. Browa
Erwin RT . . . . Christenbury
R. Austin RE Black
Meehan QIJ Schenh
Johnston ... .. LHB iloora
Pharr . . RHC . . . . V. Eiwu
Miner FB Poa
Substitutes: For Carolina Ramblers,
Cochran, Porter. Long, Jack Brown;
for Davidson. Black D. Brown.
V. & J. II ISADS WEST.
Chicago) Dec. 24. Washington a.nd
Jefferson football team stopped Li
Chicago a few hours tonight en route
for Pasadena for the Tournament of
Roses battle with California January 2,
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Total $160,000
JOCK HUTCHISON WAS
BRIGHT STAR IN GOLF
Jock Hutchison, the Chicago profes
sional, was the outstanding figure in
the links game during the year.
Jock the Hutch went to England and
captured the British open champion
ship at St. Andrews, being the first
player from the United States to ac
complish the trick. As a result he
took a place at the head of the list of
the world's best golfers.
Jim Barnes, who won the American
open title at Chevy Chase, took rank
next to Hutchison in professional cir
cles, and Jesse Guilford, the Boston
player, who captured the American
amateur title at St. Louis, shared the
honor of being regarded as the year's
best amateur player with Willie Hunt
er, who won the British amateur
tourney.
Miss Alexa Stirling and Miss Marion
Hollins, the latter the new American
woman champion, invaded England
during the early Summer, but bowed
to Miss Cecile Leitch in the British,
women's and later the French wom
en's championships. Miss Hollins suc
ceeded Miss Stirling to the American
title at Deal, N. J., however, and had
the satisfaction of winning the tourna
ment from a classy field that included
Miss Leitch. - ..
The wonderful playing of William
T. Tilden II, international and nation
al tennis sinerles champion at Wimbie
Millin, of Centre: and Kiley and Cast
ner of Notre Dame, not to mention
others all too numrous for individual
notation here, made the 1921 season a
red-letter year in the history of tho
gridiron game.
Eastern football developed so many
fine teams that it was impossible at
the close of the season to award the
championship to any. one of them.
Iowa, in the Eig Ten; California, on
the Pacific; Nebraska, in the Missouri
A'alley, and Centre College, in the
South, were recognized as the best
don and Philadelphia, enabled him to ! elevens in their respective sections
hold his titles safely asainst the stron;
est kind of opposition. Mrs. Molla
Bjujdstedt Mallory, likewise, held her
American title, though she was defeat
ed abroad by Mile. Suzanne Lenglen,
who later bowed to the Norse girl at
Forest Hills in a match that was far
from satisfactory, going to the Ameri
can champion by default after the first
set had been played. Mile. Lenglen,
claiming illness, simply retired from
the competition. In the eyes of Am
erican sport followers, her action was
considered in very poor taste, but de
spite the general belief that she quit
she found supporters among those who
saw the match, the result of which led
to quite a tangled situation in French
tennis circles.
FOOTBALL DEVELOPED
MANY GREAT PLAYERS.
Few football seasons have 6een the
turning out of such brilliant players
as the stars who only recently hung
up their moleskins to await the coming
of another Fall.
Dozens of players from coast to coast
stood out boldly in the spotlight, earn
ing fame for individual feats on the
gridiron that amazed the spectators.
Such men as Glen Killinger, the
country's outstanding star; Aubrey De
vine, of Iowa; Mai-Aldrich, of Yale;
George Owen, of Harvard; McMillan
and Stephens, of California; Bo Mc-
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in iae norse racing woria, Aiorvicn
came along with eleven brilliant vic
tories for a total winning of more than
$.tl5j000 to take the place in two-year-old
circles once held by the great Man
o AVar, while Gray Lag stood at the
head of the three-year-olds, and Nancy
Lee and Bit o' AVhite shared honors
among the fillies.
The world's heavyweight wrestling
title changed hands early in the year
when the veteran Stanislaus Zbyszko
tossed Ed. (Strangler) Lewis in a cham
pionship bout in New York.
, The . international polo cup, one ol
sportdom's most noted trophies, was
lifted by the Amercian team that in
vaded England to play the British at
Hurlingham.
The billiard world got a shaking up
when youthful Jake Shaefer, Jr., de
throned the erstwhile invincible AVillie
Hoppe, at ' Chicago, and won the
world's 18.2 balkline title.
The chess championship of the world
passed from the hands of Dr. Emanuel
Lasker the German, to Jose Capa
bianca, at Havana, and Gar AVood, the
wizard motorboat builder and pilot, of
Detroi,t annexed the classic Harms
worth trophy, with Miss America II,
shattering all speed records on the
wEter.
All in all, Americans held tight to
their place at the head of international
sports, for no foreign invader lifted an
American title.
Luke 2:7 "And she brought
forth her first born son and
wrapped him in swaddling
clothes, and laid him in a
manger, because there was no
room for them in the Inn."
CHRIST CAME IN AN HUMBLE HOME.
HE IS WORTHY OF EVERY HOME.
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