2 THE' SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. t). C.. PECEMBER 26, 192ft-SPORTS SECTION. Acquisition ofRanking Tennis Stars Is Feature of Year in Professional Sports FAIL OUTSTANDING FIGURES IN PROFESSIONAL SHORTS IN YEAR NOW NEARING END BLUDGEONS GIVE YANKS PAID RACKETERS * "I J AS BIG DRAWING CARD AMERICAN LEAGUE TITLE
In she American League race of and the pitchers turned out to b* an Commercialised Foot Ball Has an Even 1326 the New York Yankee* won be- good a# they should l>e, Judging by cause they had n smashing drive that their make-up. Suc- carried them along iif first place from Cleveland was helped « ]nt by th" Smaller Amount of Financial May 1 to the end Os Ih# schedule. good pitching of I’hlo and the good This is ona of the hardest of *ll things batting of Burns. to Th* Athletics proved early thst . do in hase ball. Th# team in front cess—Horse Racing Prosperous that can remain in from practically they were not dependable. Tne old without interruption l* the target of players from whom Connie Mack had all the other clubs in the league. expected moat failed to com# through cause of amateur sport re Angeles open, and Bill Mehlhorn won The Yankees were knocked back to Lamar was not strong enough for t.b« reived a jolt and the profes- the $2,506 open golf tournament at second place on the week end of team and Oallnway lagged frightfully branch of athletics was Long Beach, Calif. Macdonald Smith April only Cochrane did not begin to hat as h» sional 24. and that was the time before, correspondingly flattered in won the Dallas open and Johnny Fgr- they were lower thgn first place on had batted the year and first THE1926 when the greatest woman sell the Central Florida open. Mehl- any week end of the year. base never was handled as well a* lawn tennis player in the world and a horn won the South Central open at At times the New York team was it had h#*n in 1925. few of the leading American lawn Hot Springs, Ark. Compston won the so far ahead that the owners of other Old-Timers Sink Griffs. tennis specialists accepted offers from Florida West Coast open medal play clubs on* American League feared a Washington tried an experiment in C. C. Pyle to play tennis for money. tourney. F'arrell wort the Florida sided race that would extinguish in- Americans who to open. won South Flor- pitching with top many old-timer* Os the decided Mehihurn the terest. That did not happen, because The fooling Joe their genius for the ida open. Walter Hagen took the get settled every around with Bush commercialize the Athletics would cost team enough in the each game. Vincent Richards stood out as F'lorida West Coast open. then, the now' and and Washington would part, year identified with the little group of The North .and South open at Pine- of the to coat it th© pen occasionally stage a hurst of the speed nant. It would have been vastly bet woiild leaders. Tilden, Lacoste, Cochet. hurst was won by Bobby Cruickshank. w'ith which the players had been Johnston. His Bobby Jones the national ter for Washington if it never had Boikrtra and won open equipped when they w'on pennants. Williamthe ranks will and British and Walter Hagen traded Zachary and Ballou for Joe defection from amateur open Bush, be found to have been no slight blow' repeated for the third time in Cleveland (4te in Fight. although the trade was made to-eunateur tennis, in that interest in the Professional Golfers’ Association figuring that experiencad pitching wan Toward the latter part of the season what Washington should depend upon tourneys will be affected by the loss match. settled into a steady con- of one of the few players who could Claveland to help it to win again. But the pitch of tender against New York, because the ers who were enlisted for their ex take the court with even chances Cleveland pitcher* began to pitch beating any star in the wetrld. bet- perience had more experience than MAT GAME IN’ and hotter. But Cleveland wa* arms, Miss Mary K. Browne, another of ter they had of success left in their pros, a former national CONFUSION too late in entering warmly into the and the experiment was the worst the new is fight, and the team had been so badly Bucky Harria women's champion, hut she passed that ever attempted if peak of her several years worsted by Chicago early-in the race ha is the one guilty of trying it. Ihe game Wrestling, unlike the flourishing quite thay usually although ranking top that it never overcame the set- Detroit and Chicago, as ago. still in the prize ring, is in a state of confusion. do, She was a vivid personality on back. slid all over the American Laagsie fijgbt. There are claims and counter claims The Yankees lost their aeries with map. /Every now and then both of the courts, and when the United with respect to the championship title Association Philadelphia, the Athletics winning them aeemed to b« close enough to States Lawn Tennis sent a which cannot by any process of ellm 13 games of 22. This becguae the to England and was make the race more interesting and team of woman stars instion be accurately settled. But Naw' York could not win from would falter. When year Miss Browne was team than both Eddie France his Joe Stecher generally is regarded as Lefty Drove. The Yankees won from Collins hurt again, and found selected as the captain. was having the best claim to the title. The all other teams except Cleveland, that that he was unable to play, the The other star amateur to listen to leading wrestlers w-ho face the new the siren voice of the professional team breaking even with them. White Sox were In had luck, aa they to year are Stecher, Strangler Lewis. Joe percentage by which manager promoter was Howard Kinsey. The the had been in 1125 when the (Tootsi Mondt and the East Indian, Yankeea won their pennant was .611, was forced to retire. These players, with Suzanne Len- Garawenko. The champions in the defeats. attraction, been with 31 victories and 63 It St.. Louis and Boston ware hopeless gien as the chief have other classes are less clearly defined was a better record than made touring the country, and reports of that ly nut. Boston had no playara and B*. than even in the heavyweight division.. by St. Louis in tha National League. Louis no manager. Staler had lost con the success of the venture have been Johnny Meyers, however, stands out In cities crowds It was not the loweet record made in trel of his players, and while ha stuck conflicting. some in the middleweight class. League, out places the American as Detroit won it out to the end of the season he have turned and in other not, comparatively small gatherings have a pennant with .618. It was how- might, aa well have saved himself that ever. a .600 victory, and the Yankeea trouble because he could not bring his reflected lack of interest in the pro- be game. cannot called a great team on the team through. fessional POLO CREDITED strength of their triumph, they did It probable, though, that when as It was a good season for the Amer i 6 not win from great teams. lean League financially and in regard the barn storming is finished the. pro- in moter’s end will have amounted to WITH BIG YEAR Cleveland, the Spring season, had to attendance. The sueetss of the been rated as likely to finish about New York club helped considerably. enough to pay expenses, with perhaps if it a profit for him. In any event, it is sixth had good luck. It finished The crowds at Yankee Stadium were by Polo had its greatest season, with second. It loomed in the Spring as a large when the weather was good, and certain that professional tennis has before country and two crack British fours and the great team that might turn the league bot- the season was over thay no means set the on Are side up if it together mounted from largo to huge. present indications make it doubt- Argentina outfit playing on Amer- tom aver got ful that great interest w ill ever arise. ican fields in several important tourneys. Had the Argentines cleaned up In PRO FOOT BALL DIS* their prime objective and won the CARDS PRESSED TO COP ' national senior title it is probable APPOINTS that the famous American big four, international cup winners, would have pitted them, but NATIONAL LEAGUE RACE ball did not live been against Professional foot as it turned out the South Amer- up to expectations. the Considering icans in the final were beaten by the number of•gridiron stars of various Hurricanes, composed of Sanford, The for National League ful enough for the National Leaguer*. colleges who were lured onto the race the mer- this . more The Cube immediately would that if Pedley and Strawbridge, Americans, championship year was Chicago start- cenary grjdjyon. It seem British player. closely contested than that in the ed to enlarge their stand at the end •ver game was to get over it and Roark, a the The United States Army team wnn American League and developed of the schedule. Bt. Louis was more tikwild have been this year. title, thereby more queer results and seeming prosperous than any'St. Louis team A better showing probably would the national junior adding further prestige td the serv- inconsistencies in its progress. ever had been in the National League. have been made had there not been Tho poorer clubs had frequent good in ice game. The Cardinals’ victory was achieved two rival major foot ball leagues the lowest percentage mark days, although the patronage at New centers w'here crowds attend intercol- Vale won the national collegiate with indoor as well as the national out- ever made in the history of pennant York was not what It would have been legiate foot ball struggles. The con- mark was .578, if tho Giants had been in the first flict of games among the professionals door championship in polo and *bis winning. The team’s |9 65 lost. division steadily. divided the support, which, had it been fine team also captured the outdoor with games won and Intercollegiate title. Ninety victories usually is considered concentrated u|>on one eleven in each minimum number neces- City, might have enabled the teams at to be the sary to capture a pennant In the big least to pay expense*. ROWING HONORS As out club* failed vari-' leagues. it turned in The lowest mark prtor to past •us cities and eh her went out of exist- FOALS SHOW GREAT the ence consolidated with other season in the National League was TO COAST CREW or were made by Philadelphia in 1915, with Clubs of the same league. There was Brooklyn, s» absence of big money throughout INCREASE IN A YEAR .591. Next in order comes with .663 in 1906. Brooklyn won in The was attended by the circuit, and when crowds of several .664 and New York in 1922 aquatic season attended games they were 1820 with unprecedented Interest, due not only By the Associated Preg*. also won with .604. None of these to visit to fiaiply of the sfl-eent class. the Poughkeepsie of the Thousand NEW YORK, December 25.—Regis- teams could be called a great ball University of Washington and Wis- There is talk of a merger of the club. In tho American the two leagues next season, and if this is tration of thoroughbred foal* of 1926 League consin crews, but to the increased with the jockey clyb ha* reached the lowest figure for a championship number of preliminary races contested effected one will have Ji fairer basis for » 3.509 mark, an increase of nearly 300 team was that of Detroit in 1968 at by strong crews. judgment as to the present strength .588 and Detroit did not have a great Os the eastern the NaFy and and the future of professional foot ball oyer 1925, and the highest figure in crews . Yale the dominant positions- than now is possible. 20 years. team. held On In making this announcement to- St. Louis £id not lead in batting as the Pacific Coast Washington easily day, the jockey club emphasised the a team in 1926, but it did lead in run- disposed of California in the April steady growth of the blood stock making. Its run-making aMlity com- regatta on Lake Washington. BIG YEAR FOR TURF breeding industry in the United bined with its sturdy pitching, and at At Poughkeepsie, after a thrilling 1913, times pitching that was better than 4-mile thrash in which the Navy made States and Canada since when spurt the foal registration numbered only any of its rivals, helped to bring it a memorable in the lest mile, Contrasted with mercenary tennis through. It was a persistent team, the University of Washington eight and foot ball, the old-established pro- 1.740. That year marked the lowest ebb blood stock production in now and then a brilliant team, an won out, leading tha Midshipmen by fessional sports thrived as never lie- in this had a margin so small that from the shore country, following a period when energetic team and one that the fore. Horse racing flourished through- buoyancy of youth and could (aka a it was impossible to tall which crew country, report- racing was outlawed at nearly every out the most' tracks slap in the face and come back for had finished ahesd. ing record-breaking crowd's and gate track in the country. Yale won the re- The largest year’s fogl registration more. annual Thames receipts. No incidents sufficiently se- gatta over a strong Harvard crew. rious to .cause more than a ripple oc- on record is 4,414, a mark made in Hornsby Lose* Batting Crown. 1 Since Yale and the Navy did not meet, curred on any of the important tracks, 1905. On the basis of present growth, it is possible say which the of the race for not to eras and the sport of racing thoroughbreds turfmen predict this mark will he Hornsby fell out stronger combination. enters upon the year of 1927 with the eclipsedj in 1928. continuous leadership as individual Whiter Hoover agaiq asserted his batsman of his circuit, but there was impetus of a brilliant 12 months dying j .7 supremacy as a single sculler and immediately behind. reason for It. He was badly hurt in other Philadelphia oarsmen esptured (f Harry \\ V 1 . < roidseason and played on, despite his of the championship Curiously enough, the great center his most national of interest in the 1926 season related GOOD YEAR EXPERIENCED injury, although he never was at regatta honors. horse years ago, best. to a retired several (( St, the great Man O’ War. HARTZ-j] Uj The best pitcher of the Louis of success When this greatest racer of all time team ffom the standpoint of BY MOST MINOR LOOPS was Flint Rhem, a young man from was sent to the stud at the height best of CHANNEL SWIMS his career, having no more rivals to South Carolina. He was th* beat, regarded his league In everything except ex- the action w-as as an a experiment. For rarely do ergek Claw? AA base ball during file recent club in five game ifi succession. perience- He managed to enjoy YEAR’S FEATURE racers reproduce themselves in such Louisville never got a game. It was successful year without experience, season was gwd, its races were inter- but he was a failure in the world manner as to excite special interest. leagues the biggest triumph for the Inter- Ederle, sturdy Oerman- But Man O’ War has done just esting in two and its financial national League in the history of series for lack of It. Gertrude returns were fair. In the Interna- Records and Champions on Track and Field The player who helped most to American mermaid of New York, was that. In 1924 seven of the his the dual series. * first.of tinal league, the returns were very • unify the team was Thevenow, the hailed as the heroine of one of the drop won a total of $29,865. Next year, The Dixie series was won by' OUTDOOR RECORDS —MEN. with 21 good in spots. In the .American As- shortstop. He has had a queer his- greatest athletic feats of the age when descendents in training, the they Dallas. The teams competing were Name and Club. Date. Mark. negotiated English sociation continued to be fine. In Event. . tory. Branch Rickey, former man- she the Channel in total winnings were $213,833. This New Orleans and Dallas and again r Paddock, Lop Angeles A. C... May 15 the Pacific Coast league they might 100-yard dash Charles ager of the team, took him on and a turbulent sea—the flrat womitn to year the winnings of Man O’ War’s the staunch Texas League, where 22&-yard dash...... Roland Locke. Nebraska university.... May 22 0:205-10 have been better, and when the Ma- away perform tho feat. progeny attained a total of over of minor base ball 2-mfle relay Boston A. A. (Martin, Hahn, Sansone It was Rickey who sent him to son was over there were some who the best league and Welsh)- July 6 7:414-10 because he did not. think Subsequently tho weight of her ac- $350,000. t played, won from the Southern • A. C Feb. 27 13 ft. in. Syracuse began to agitate a divided season for is Pole vault.. Lee Barnes. Loa Anseles 6% Thevenow was qualified for major complishment was lessened by the Games were played In Two Sons Are Champions. their league In 1927, a very doubtful Association. INDOOR —MEN. league baae ball. The first thing that rapidity with which others success- Orleans and Dallas and the de- RECORDS fully spanned tho treacherous stretch And of his sons have hon- experiment. New 60-yard *A.«Francisco. Moosehart. 11l Mar. 0 0:06 1-5 Hornsby manager was to wire ttvo w&n supremacy ciding game was captured by Dallas dash did as only previous- ors this the champion two The of Baltimore was C. Bowman. Newark A. C .....Mar. ft 0:06 1-6 Syracuse to return Thevenow at once. of sea. Where five men season as overthrown in the away from 100-meter dash L. Murchison, imjioia A. C .fan. 23 0:11 y ly had ths Channel in 50 and three-yea r-olds. International home. Clark, C That was in 1925. In 1926 Thevenow swum years, pennant the quality of base ball Louis Newark A. Feb. 22 0:11 say conquered Crusader, of the three-year-old divi- League. Toronto won the PerhaUS 1,000-meter dash ..Georgetown University (McClain, Asch- started regularly with the team. Both the season of 1926 it as after Buffalo had made a very good Southern Association and the er. Swinebuine. Burgees) Mar. Ift 3:22 3-o and fans were slow to notice many times again/ sion, was easily the outstanding star the League never was higher than Broad jump ...... De Hart Hubbard. Cincinnati Mar. 20 24 ft. 7*4 in. experts of his class. His winnings fight with Toronto to defeat Texas what a difference Thevenow had Mrs. Clemlngton Corson of New .amounted Newark, too, was in the season of 1926, and children, to $141,583, which exceeded the former champions. it was on OUTDOOR RECORDS —WOMEN. made in the club until St. Louis was York, a mother of two put 1925 good the fine patrons of games in sections alongside figures of Pompey, $121,630. a base.hall team, and those Event. Name and Club. Date. Mark. on the verge of winning a pennant. her name Miss Ederle's in game that city, United States very swimming Crusader was unplaced in only 2 support fog'the in of the \yere 50-.vard dash Katherine Meark. Boston fune 13 0:06 the hall of fame. Vler- which experts had argued for years highly favored by the which 100-yard dash .Helen Ftlkey. Chicago .....July 20 0:11 2-5 Two Pittsburgh Faults. kottenjpf Germany, Michel of France out of 13 starts, and in these 2 de- contests 60-yard Filjcey, Chicago July existed, if brought out properly, made they saw. \ hurdle* Helm 20 0:08 3-10 way to and Dereham of also turned feats weight conditions rather than '220-yara relay Pasadena A. C. (K. Moore. E. Grasse. When Pittsburgh made its England a factor for jjrosperUy in the Inter- E. Nichols. N. Dornshlag) Mar. 27 0 :26 6-10 In August the champions the trick. Michel set tho record at racing form were responsible. * first place national. 300-yard relay Pasadena A. C. iK. Moore, E. Grasse, had their flight exactly right. 11 hours 5 minutes, as compared with Among the two-year olds, Scapa H. Cooley. N. Dornshlag) .June 12 0:35 2-10 timed Miss Ederle's mark of 14:81. relay Pasadena A (K. E. Grasse. They were on about at the mo- Flow', another Man O' War product, I/Oiiisville Surprises Many. EDDIE COLLINS IS SEEN 300-meter C. Froore. top With Miss well wound up the season as the biggest E. Nichols, N. Dornshlag) June 27 0:38 ment when it is well to assume the Ederle. as as Allsen In the American Association the 600-yard relay Pasadena A. C. (K. Moore. E. Grasse, Joe.Stecher until the end Biggin and Helen Wainwrlght In pro-* winner and therefore champion of his championship, AS SUCCESSOR OF MACK E. Nichols. K. Peterson, B. Palmer. lead. From that time Louisville club won the A. Ryden. Copeland. V. Hedner, they had won a few fessional ranks, women’s swimming 'class. His w innings amounted to $Bl,- except L. H. of the season, if to the, surprise of everybody By the Associated Press. Cooley. N. Dornshlag) June 12 0:58 5-10 than 50 per cent pf their re- championships were divided principal- 465. This colt won the Futurity as an 440-yard relay Pasadena A. (E. Nichols. more the Louisville club. There was Base ball men predict that Eddie C. Grasse. E. they have won ly among Agnes Geraghty, Ethel did his father before him. In six Louisville A. Ryden. N. Dornshlag) Feb. 27. 0:52 1-10 maining games would idea before the race that Collins will Connie Mack as 8-lb. shotput Lillian Copeland. Los Angeles A. C.. . .June 22 40 ft .4 V 4 in. pennant. Lackie. Eleanor Garrattl. Sybil Bauer, starts Scapa Flow was unplaced but after Joe Mc- succeed May 15 in. the could not do so well Discus throw Lillian Copeland. Los Angeles A. C.... 103 ft. 55 HUGGINS BACKS RUTH Pittsburgh possessed of two Betty Becker Pinksjfcm. Helen Meany once. Carthy to manager of the Athletics next year. Broad jump ...Helm r'ilke.v. Chicago June 20 17 ft. was had left that tearh be man- Copeland. 110 ft. in. them was and Carln Nilsson. The Invasion of The juveniles in 1926 M ere on a pret- a Javelin throw Lillian Los Angeles A. C....Ju1.v 7 serious faults. The .first of ager of the Chicago Nationals. But The 64-year-old Philadelphia leader IN MUCH MOOTED PLAY pitchers. second was too Arno Borg, Swedish star, presented a ty even level of ability. No horse Meyer, INDOOR RECORDS—WOMEN. lack of The new manager, William A. win one more team in years threat to the supremacy of Johnny stood out as greatly superior to his aspires to championship 60-yard Prudent Feb. 13 0:083-5 By the Associated Pres*. much conversation. No proved to be quite as diplomatic and hurdles Hazel Kirk. A. A.. Newark.... burdan of talk to Weissmuller, who retained his Ameri- rivals, 220-yard Ellen Brough. ~.. Dec. 9 4-5 had a larger and this is indicated by the as successful in matching up his before he retires, but whether he dash..... Paterson . 0:28 Settling a long debated had can short distance titles but relay Egg. „ pen- way in which the best of them de- achieves his purpose next Suirfmer or 440-yard If. S. A. team