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Most Flourishing Season Sports Have Ever Experienced Will Come to Oose This Week Americans Maintain Athletic Supremacy in International Champions of Year 1921 Competition During Past Year In the Sporting World BASEBALL W«M*| ehainpions.New Vork Giants. Nation»! Learn*. I". S. Sport King* Successful in American i-engne.New York Y linkers. Manner, MiTTer ¦fnggtas. Against Foreigners National League.New York Giants. Manager, Joliu MfCnw. Tennis, Co\L Polo, on Boving and Track; Demp- BOXINC World's Professional Champion* iey-Carpentier Fight Greatest Spectacle of All Time Heavyweight.Jock Dempsey, Hananvi. Cnllf. Light Heavy-weight.George.» Carpcnl ier, France. W.-dUwrrig.t.Johnny Wilson. New York. Welterweight.Jark Britton. New York. New By W. J. Macbeth Lightweight.Benny ljnntn.ru. York, . Junior Lightweight.Johnny Bunt)ee, New York. Internst in sports and recreations of all sorts no Featherweight.Johnny Kilbane. Cleveland. developed, doubt. Bantamweight.Johnny IJufT, Jersey City. in the reaction from the World War. reached the boiling point of fervor jnyweight.Jimmy Wilde, England. in the year thai is'fast drawing to a close. 1Ö21 the National Amateur Champions During high-water 108-Pannd Claim John Hamm. Pittsburgh. mark waa reached in practically every branch of popular athletic en¬ 113-Pound Ci«M.George Paly, New York. lSft-Poand Class.Dan Garten, Philadelphia» deavor, amateur and professional 385-Pottnd CI»«».Ben Pontean, New York. Tho 30 14S-Poantt Clan«.«liarlo» tlenltxcn, los Angele« A C. Olympic year. far as America was concerned the IBA-Ponnd Class.Ham ¡.agonia. New fork. geason was one which provided a wealth of international 175-Pound Class.Magnn» Larsen. New York. competition. In Heavyweight C'lasts.(iordon Muncç, New York. Banner was mngled in no manner subjugated or furled. FOOTBALL _ar!y in the season our splendid tennis players journeyed to the far-off reading Eastern team».Penn Mate. Cornell. Wash, and Jeff, Lafayette. à Western conference rhampmn*.Iowa. H&podea reclaimed the Davis Cap, emblematic of the world's Leading team» in Middle Went.Iowa, Notre Dame. at the net f .end i ni; Southern team.Georgia Tech. cbampionship game. These honors later were successfully Pacific Coust champions.University of California. defended at Forest Hills against, the best of twelve nations. RACING Evo because it was not so Biggest money winner of year.Morvirh, owned by Ben Black, SSS.3M. confidently expected the Champion two-year-old colt.Morvich. jgguc would prove so flattering to American prowess, was the victory in Champion two-year-old filly.Mis» Joy. June of Devereux Milburn'a great polo four. Mr. Milburn and his GOUT American open champion.Jame» Barne*. Pelham Country flvfc. doughty comrades wrestsd from England the coveted Polo Cup and with National amateur champion.Jesse Gnilford, Boston. ease as to National women'« champion.Mi*« .Marion Hollow. Went brook. 1* I. such ridiculous prove cur polo quite equal, if not superior, to National professional champion.Walter Hagen. New York. vincible British Intercollegiate champion.I. Simpson Dean, Princeton. the sur brand, whatever credit they insist upo» Intercollegiate team champions.Dartmouth. jiving: our ponies for the achievement. 8UIA.SH TENNIS National senior champion.Fill m ore Van S. Hyde. Harvard CInb. "Pro" National Junior champion.Thomas < oward, Y ai«« CInb. Golfers Avenged Amateurs World'» professional champion.Walter Kmsclln, New York. It ia "" amateur golfers who invaded the. British Isles in COI RT TENNIS great; Open champion.Jay Gould. Columbia Club. numbers last spring met a sad fate at the hands of their cousins across) Professional champion.Jock Son.tr, Philadelphia. UN sea. But in turn our professionals, led by Jock Hutchison, took fitting TENNIS and walked off with the Men revenge open championship of Great Britain. National «Ingles.William T. Tilden 2d. Pbilad.:ph_- Later in America our in turn National elay court.Walter T. Hayes. Chicago. golfers successfully withstood the combined National indoor.Frank T. Anderson, Brooklyn. onslaught of Britain's best amateurs and professionals, though it must National intercollegiate.Phil St-er. CjjJifornia. National doubles.W. T. Tilden 2d and Vincent Richards. Philadelphia __¦ be conceded that Miss Aiexa Stirling, our woman champion, was no match New York. for Miss Cecil Leitch, far the most Junior undoubtedly by wonderful woman National Junior.Vincent Richard«, New York City. golfer of all time. National indoor.Vincent Richards. New York City. Women But if Miss and others of our fair sex Stirling failed after giving National single«.Mr». Molla BJarctedt Mallory, New York City. of their best with wood and iron, not so Mrs. Molla National elay court.Mm. Benjamin E. Cole. Bonton, Maas. Bjurstedt Mallory, National indoor.Mr». Molla Bjarstedt Mallory. New Y'ork City. the wizard of the racket, who disposed of Mile. Suzanne of National double».Mr». Thomas J. Bundy and Miss Mary K. Lenglen, California. BnWM, France, considered as absolutely invincible before she defaulted at Forest Junior Hills. This default, by the way, was the most pathetic incident of a National single».Mis» Helen Wills. Berkeley, Calif. crowded season of intei-national sports. NATIONAL ATHLETIC ( HAMPIONS 100-yard doah.Charles Paddock. Los Angeles A. C. The Jack Derr.psey-Georges Carpentier fight on July 2 at Boyle's 220-yard dash.Charles Paddock, Los Angele» A. C. 440-yard dash.W. E, Stevenson, New York A. C. Thirty Acres was not only the high light of the international competition, 880-yard run.Allan Helffrich, New York A. C. without doubt One-mile run.Joie W. Ray, Illinois A. C. but the grandest individual sporting spectacle of all time. Five-mile run.R. E. Johnson. Edgnr Thomson Steel A. A. And the needless to remained in Three-mile walk.William Plant, Morningslde A. C. championship, say, America. 120-yard high hnrdles.Earl Thomson, Boston A. A. The greatest surprise not of the year, but of a was the 440-yard low hurdles.August Desch, Notre Dame Cnlvewúty. only decade, Broad jump.E. O. Gourdin, Harvard I. niversity. defeat of Willie Hoppe, for fifteen years king of the balk-line billiard High jump.D. Y. Albert. Chicago A. A. Hop, step and jump.-Kaufman Geist. Ninety-second Street T. M. _L _U game, by "Young Jake" Schaefer, of Chicago. Hoppe had come to be re¬ Pole vault.Ed Anourek. Illinois A. C. Putting sixteen-pound shot.< Iarence .Manser. Lo» Angeles A. C garded as invincible. His overthrow has precipitated a mad rush back to Throwing sixteen-pound hammer.Pat Ryun. Loughlia Lyceum. Breaklym. cue Throwing discus.Gas Pope. Muitnomah A. C, Portland. this particular sport, which for many years had been threatened Throwing javelin.Milton Angler, unattached. with rot. Throwing titfy-six-pound weight.Pat McDonald, New York A. C dry 440-yard relay.New York A. C. iWefers. Lovejoy. Bay, FarrelD. Uncle Sam's marine flag was dampened a bit by our brother Canucks 880-yard relay.New York A. C. (Wefers, Lovejoy, Ray. Farrell). One-mile relay.New York A. C. \ Wefers, Adams, Ray, Stevenson). in the only international yachting event of consequence, when the Blue- Two-mile relay.New York A. C. (Sellers. Courage, Adam». HeUfrteh). Four-mile relay.New York A. C. (Seller». Courage, Irish, Heiffrteh). aose took the measure of the Elsie. International athletics was confined All-around champion.S. Harrison Thompson, Los Angele» A. C. Ten-mile run.R. F. Johnson, Edgar Thomson Steel A. A. to the visit of the Oxford-Cambridge athletic team, which was badly Seven-mile walk.Willie Plunt, Morningslde \. C. Decathlon.Dan Shea, Pastime A. C, Now York. beaten by the combined Harvard-Yale forces, the French relay team, Pentathlon.E. O. Gourdin. Harvard itiiversity. which was as trounced at the Two-mile steeplechase.Mike Devanney, Millrose A. A» soundly Pennsylvania relays. Team champion».Lo» Angeles Athletic Club. Intercollegiate Baseball Enjoyed Successful Year Track and field.Cnlverslty of California. Individual cross-country.R. E. Brown, Cornefl. While this country's athletic sons and daughters were maintaining Metropolitan Senior Team cross-country champion».Cornell Cm versify. the athletic supremacy of the United States in international competition Outdoor SWIMMING abroad and at home, the were in other Champions Men campfires blazing brightly every j 50 yard»).John We_#_ro_er. minois A. C quarter. Financially baseball at least tied, if it did not exceed, the flood- 100 100 yajrds.Pna Keoloba, Hui Makoni, Honol__L yards.Ed Farrell. X. T. A. C. 220 yards.John Weissmuller. Illinois A C. tide of 1320 success. Locally, nothing could be desired, as the Giants 280yards.Bernie Wofern jr., X. Y. A, C. 440 yards.Ludy Langer, Hui N'olu Club, Honorata. 440 yards.H. Kay, X. Y. A. C. 880 vards.Ludy Langer, Hui Nalu Club, Honolulu. and Yankees met in the world's series, and Ruth made a new home- H80 yards.A. HHffrieh, N. Y. A. C. Long distance.J. W. Hall jr., Brooklyn Y. M. C A One mile.Mike Devanney, Mlllrose A. A. breast, stroke.M, J. run record. Five mile.W. Ritolu, 220-yard McDermott. Illinois A, C. 120-yard unattached. 440-yard breast atroke.R. D. Skelton. Illinois A. C The was never and the hurdles.T. Huhn, unattached. 150-yard back stroke.-Warren Keaioha, Hui M.J_H_, fight game better, pugilists waxed rich here- 220-yard hurdles.II. Meyer, N. Y. A, C, Poney dive.A. W. Härtung. Illinois A. C abouts. the 440-yard hurdles.,1. Sellers, N. Y. A.JD. Richard realized wildest dream of promotion in the "gate" 3-mile walk.W. Plant, Morning-side. High diving.Clarence Pinkston, Olympic Club, for the battle. Attendances at Madison 16-pound hammer throw.Pat Ryan, Women Dempsey-Carpentier Square Gar- I.oujrhlin iyreum.