Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1923, Page 58

Base Ball Suffe’r—s—F rom an Artistic STANDARD OF TALENT |- " BELOW USUAL MARK)| Conditions Are Result of War---Pro- fessional Leagues Generally Have Profitable Campaigns. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. ASE ball in 1923 was less of a success artistically than it was finan- cially. The standard of the players was as high as they could make it individually, but not as high as the standard had been in other years. ® That would seem to indicate that the players of 1923 in general were not so good as they were in other years, and they were not. Perhaps this statement will not be resented anywhere, and it may be. Whether it is, or not, the fact exists. The one who must judge that players of a recent year are not so good as the players of an earlier year'is that person whé has seen players of many seasons. More than one who'has had the chance to observe the ball players of 1923 andl contrast them with the players of previous seasons has voiced the opinion that the players are not up to physical skill of their predecessors. . The reason for this is the varying skill'of the human in athletics and the added fact that the men who are beginning on their base ball careérs are grown-ups’of the war period. While the war was on base,ball candi- dates did not play as much as they had in prior years. Many who had a probable base ball career before them, if they chose that as a source of employment after they were twenty years of age, made no effort to go on with base ball. They were too busy It has yet to be proved that the base ball enthusiast is as eritical of individual effort and artistic skill as the enthusiast in some other form of popular diversion. Most of the spec- tators’ of ball games have learned their game well.and know good from very bad. but if there can be created by the team in which they are in- terested some rivalry with a localit: which naturally should be “licked" in some way on general principles, the fan will not stick out at exhi- Ditions of ordinary merit if the other fellow is thrashed. It is this qualit of local pride, as It is called, whic holds base ball when the actual merit of the game is not particularly high class, Applies to All Leagues. This applies to the major league as well as to the smaller league. If in 2 close race, which varled day by day by a game or 8o, the city of St. Louis could defeat thb city of New York for the champlonship of either major league it is doubtful if there would be an end for a year to the celebra- tion of the performance by St. Louls. 1f either of the St. Louls clubs could win a champlonship over any club in either league the extent to which St Louls would celebrate would be limited only by the capacity of man's endurance in St. Louis, for they have been walting for the coming of the dawn for a long time. Thus the falling off of the stand- ard of base ball, in such an instance, woud make little difference If the team were successful. In 1923 the St. Louis teams were not succesful and they did not play well in common with other teams and St. Louis did not stand up well under such treat- ment. Nor did some other cities, which bears out what base ball ex- perience teaches, that with a de- terlorating standard and inability to win, there is little to hope for from those who are asked to rally to the support of the team. Sometimes when the standard of se ball Is not very good but there s a very great attraction which ap- peals to the human interest side of the game there is much enthusiasm for some of it. That happened with the American League in 1923. It had @ top-heavy race, but it also had Ruth of the New York club to furnish his share of the spectacular, and it had the novelty of a tremendous new stand and a new playing fleld in New York city. Those were attractions much_better than the ordinary for base ball. Success of Yanks a Factor. Had the New York club played a less conspicuous part in the race for the American League championship it {s very doubtful whether the sea- son would have been the success that it was unless, perahance, the Detroit team had won. With a winning club Detroit would have been prominent with another wonderful personality as leader in Cobb. Pray do not over- look the fact that Cobb still has his day on the ball fleld so far as the American League is concerned. You have put to go to a game in Wwhich he is taking part to ascertain that. That both New York. clubs were in the thick of the fight from the start was not unacceptable to either league, but when it became evident that both New York clubs would win the championship for the third year in succession the enthusiasm of the western section of both leagues evaporated. It seemed to subside more quickly in the American League than in the National League. De- troit dropped out of the fight too auickly, and while Cleveland held on.in second place until near .the finish, it was only too apparent that Cleveland could not overcome the Yankees for the lead, hence & second place fight had nothln" to it other than the fact that Cleveland was second. When a team is second with a chance to get into first place, there is a battle, but when it is second and quite hopelessly. so, there is a procession. In the National League Cincinnati was enough of a flurry to give the fans of that city a little hope. Pos- sibly they were more confident, orf the whole, than the fans of other cities because the people of Cincin- nat{ naturally overlooked faults in thelr players which to others seemed quite conspicuous. There came a time when Cincinnati had its chance, exactly as Pittsburgh had it against New York in 1921, and St. Louis may have been said to have had it in 1923, but Cincinnatl with a series of five the Cincinnati grounds lost all- of them in succession, and in the par- lance of the day—blew. They blew high and far. Reds Only Real Opposition. Outside of Cincinnati there was no real opposition to New York, Pitt: burgh worried along, perhaps, think- ing now and then that it was a rival 10 the Giants, but it was not.” It Jacked the coheslon In games and the aggressiveness that are absolutely esgential if the New York club is to be_beaten. While base ball fans may have ad- mired the viotories of the New York clubs because of the akill and the energy of the players, it is not un- recognized that both victories were in a sense unpopular outside of New York. . This s nothing to do with the players or the teama. It is simply the sentiment of the base ball fan making itself heard as he takes the ground that both clubs have had enough distinction and prize money and that it is time some other or- ganization had a chance, A continu- ation of successes by ome man or team In any sport is not conducive to its welfare. Foot ball has found that to be true and foot ball is a game of amateur motives. ‘ In the south and in the middle west it was hoped thst some team other than New York, in either league, would, be the champlonship winner. No doubt existed as to the tremd of mind on the part of the base ball enthuslasts away from the metropo- lis, because it was pubdlic opinion spoken time and again that sny_club would be preferable to New - York. Yet there was no chance for any- thing but New York in either league as the teams played. When the champlonships were won all sections accepted the result very gracefully and responded with good wishes for one team or the other as they pre« pared to play for the third successive :lma in the world: series, the first ime that such a condition had since base ball began to absorb so much of public attention. The winner of the world serles in 3 was the New .York club of the with other things. American League. They won four of six games, The first game was played on their ground before the largest crowd that had ever seen & ball game in the world serles to that time and one of the largest crowds that had ever seen a ball game at any time. Thke only crowd which might have exceeded it was one on the same ground during the regular season of the American League. The New York Americans lost the first game by poor play both mechani- cally and .mentally. They won_the next, which was played on the Polo Grounds, and returned to their own ground to lose the second game, the third game of the series. In both of their defeats they were beaten by a home run by “Casey” Stengel of the New York Natlonals. He won the first game of the series in the ninth inning with two out after two strikes had been called against him by bat- ting the ball to the farthest fence in centerfield for a home run. He won the third game of the serles and the last that his team won by batting a home run over the fence of the rightfleld seats in the seventh inning, the only run that was made in the garfe. "This pair of home rums, by their nature and timeliness, probably will go into history as the two most famous long-distance hits of their kind in world seriss base ball. The fourth game of the series played on the Polo Grounds was wan by the New York Americans. They returned to their own ground and won agaimn. Needing the fourth game to capture the serles they played again on the Rolo Grounds and with the score entirely in his favor, Arthur Nehtf, the Glant's pitcher, broke down completely in the eighth Inning and,the Yankees, by reason of his wildness and that of Ryan who succeeded him, scored enough Yuns to give them a winning lead. Result Satisfactory to Faus, For the first time In the three times that the teams had played together in a world series the New York Americans proved that they were skillful enough and strong enough to defeat their National League rivals. The victory gave satisfaction to the thousands of enthusiasts who had stood by the New York Americans all of the season and was received with good grace by the supporters of the National League who recog- nized that a high-class base ball nine had won. In this series Ruth batted three home runs and in every way played smarter and better base ball than he had played in any pre- Vlous world series in which he had en part as a memb. N York club. e The flelding in the series of 1923 by both nines engaged in the games was excellent as a rule and there were some plays thgt will stand con- spicuous for years. YOne of them was a stop made by Kelly of the Giants at first base of a hard hit ball by Ruth and & subsequent throw to the plate by which a run was prevented. This was one of the star plays of the series and the best play by a right- hand first baseman that ever was made in any series. The attendance at the world series of 1923 was larger than any attend ance of other years. There was noth.- ing that could prevent it as the stage was set for it. A new stand for the Yankees and a larger stand for the WiLLIE. HOPPE Wite World | - g 4 JORNNY WEISSMULLER cessful did not lose on the season in Smaller Leagues Successful. The leagues that were below class Glants with the games being played [AA were mostly successful and the in the largest city in States established conditions w could not be found anywhere els the world. The champlonship in e in he race of the American League was won with [the battle. the United | championship races were carried out hich | through all of the schedule dates. The little leagues made a fine fight in 1923 and none of them gave up In that respect base ball opposition and without opposition. |had a better season than ln other Beven clubs tried to take it away | years. ‘When the minors can g0 from the Yankees. That was the op- | through without succumbing to the position. Yet no club was as good as | sdverse knocks which they recelve the Yankees and they had a runaway |in the progress of summer they are of it. That was “without opposition.” Had the Yankees finished ap(pl!:q pas making history in the national game. pace [ Even in Florida, where base ball has with which they started and had they | taken hold with a fervor that has continued to play ball all of the year, [never been surpassed in the south, forced under spurs, they might have | they conducted the campaign of their won_ more than, 10 surely should hive won at least 100. If they had been crowded above 100 | ici they might have established 2 new | D record for their league. The New York Nationals 0 games and they | state league to a successful finish. ‘The leading batsman of the Ama an league was Harry Heilmsnn of etroit, a really great player who fought all the season through with Were [ Babe Ruth for the honors and beat pushed to the wall by the first of |the latter in the last fortnight. The August and from that time until the | best batter of the National League ond of the season had a to hang on, yet so puny was the op- position against them that no club could take hold of them and down grim fight | was Rogers Hornsby, & batte some- what of the type of Hellmann, but not so_good. Hornsby did not play ball all of the year because of illne: hem. After the first of August until|but there was no batter in the Na- games to play against the Giants on|the end of the season they won litle|tlonal League who could take the more than 500 per cent of their games, and even with that showing there was not team in the National League that could take them by the collar and set them down. Good Races in the Miners. the year snd Kansas City put on a through handsomely. cleverly h ball. The success of the leagne was excellent. erally good. 80 successful, and Indianapolls, & bad all b Toledo was unfortunate enough not to get its team going until too late in the race. The champignship of the Pacific Coast League was won by San Fran- cisco with a good club and in a fine fight for the pennant. San Francisco has been turning out excellgnt base ball teams and playing splendid base ball for the coast league and the team work of the champlons was one ofy the high-class features of play during the season. i i The victory of the Baltimore club|Dbatting was streaky. in the International League for the fif*th year in succession was no small achievement for Jack Dunn. He the leading manager of the mino; in winning championshl; are many who believe that he would be quite sudcessful Jeagu d pennants in those ‘circuits. There real flght at the finish and came | ¢T. Was anather who came alon, The team rapldly. dled and played good |Of, his cireuit s ‘The playin, dard jcan League high and the work of the teams guat | They weré Summa of Cleveland and In the second division|Manush of Detroit. of the association the clubs were not ! Played in most of the games of the if he would undertake to win | course, felt the lo: honor away from him even with his absence from the game. The Na- tional League developed two very good players. Frisch of New York came on very fast and by his clever- ness proved himself to be perhaps In the American Association there|the best player of his league and one Wwas a capital race. Kansas City and |of the greatest of al 8t. Paul had it out together all- of |Of the present time. 1_ball players Bottomley of green play- very atter t. Louls, comparatively a He may 'be the best jome day. layers of the Amer- Two_youhg id” remarkably well Both of them year and both of them rated very usually very far up In the race, had ) high as batters. Both appear to be ear, the luck which befalls |able to continue another year as they ball clubs once in awhile. | carried on in 1923. ‘Where Contenders Were Weak. In team work both New York clubs weré superior. The weakness of the Cleveland club in the pitching box was the severest factor against them. Detriot had & weak spot on the in- fleld. There was & hole around sec- ond base that never was stopped and which was largely due te the injuries that befell so many Detroit players. The Chicago Americans could not get their pitchers, going well and their The Chicago Cubs played better ball than they ever had played before under Killifer and had the most successful year financially under ‘their new owner- and there | Ship. Both of the St. Louis clubs were in the bigger|uncertain quantities. The Browns, of of George Sisler, which was a body blow to them, and no necessity for him to do so as he|there was too much in cwns the Baltimore club and engages |the team with the manager. in base ball because it is his pastime. | Cardinals were unsettied In every He - has developed - ome _excellent | way. The Pittsburghs lacked aggres: oung players and the fact must not |siveness and were handicapped by Do ‘overlooked . that Ruth got his|injuries to players. Cincinnat! play- schooling with Dunn who started that | ed in streaks, but'fell when the most much lauded young man in base ball. | was needed. had a §00d that The International fair season. It was not so it could not have been better, but the | though Washington at the cities in the league that were suc- season came on With e p ‘The second-dividion teams in both leagues never got into the :ti :I..l; THE: SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 30, 1923—SPORTS SECTION. Standpoint : Boxing Has Torex MuRCHISON JACK, DEMPSEY s World FDWARD MCGUIRE. Undovwood b yncerwood Earl Sande up Wede World GRID PLAY IS MARKED BY MORE OPEN WORK T sports, a review calls up the detail of the play in a marked degree. . In the east Yale and Cornell were both undefeated and divided the honors, although they did not meet. In the Middle West Conference Michigan and Illinois also were un- -defeated and tied for first place. In the Missouri Valley Conference Nebraska and Kansas came through in the same fashion. Out on the Pacific coast the University of California was undefeated, although tied, but won the championship. In the south there was some question arising between Vanderbilt and Washington and Lee, but the former was voted the champion. 4 . 3 . The service championship was undecided, the Army and Navy play- HE foot ball season is still so fresh in mind that, unlike the other ing a tie game in New York. The marked characteristic of the sSeason was the widening out of the base of attack, either by original formation or by “heppin” one or more backfield men, a further development a Prosperous Year BIG BOUTS OUTDOORS DRAW HUGE THRONGS Dempsey-Firpo Battle Is Feature. ! Championships Change Hands ‘ in Many Divisions. BY FAIR PLAY. 3 OXING in 1923 attained undreamed-of significance from a financial viewpoint because of the growth of the outdoor idea. This was the principal development in the boxing game in the past twelve months. Promoters, as well as fighters and managers, were brought to real- ization t}_xat the number of fans who were willing to pay goodly prices to see top line fighters in action vastly exceeded any space under roof, and s0 ball parks were employed for exhibition purposes, with finasicial results almost beyond the dreams of avarice. Such is the condition, as a result, that the present winter seazon promises to lack luster so far as champions and near-champions are con- i cerned, because the battlers realize that by waiting until the climate is gg&'eeable they can fight before tens of thousands more spectators than indoors. . . Always when a heavyweight champion is active the ring ceives a distinct tonic influence, and such an impulse was note as a result of the two battles fou, me re- in 192 ght by Jack Dempsey, the world heavy weight title holder. Dempsey's first fight occurred July 4 in Shelby, Mont., the battle being pro- moted by local boosters who wished to advertise thelr community. Throush mishandling in the promotion end the battle proved a financfal frost, and the battle itself did not produce the knock- out for which those bloodthirsty fans who traveled to the far west to see the fight were looking. Tommy Gibbons, Dempsey’s opponent, put up a fine de- fensive “battle and 1asted the fifteen rounds, aithough Dempsey won by a bigl margin of points. Firpo Furnishes Thrills, As a result of this fight talk arose that Dempsey, had lost his punch and, in- deed, it 80 seemed until he met Luis Firpo at the Polo Grounds in New York on the night of September 14 before one of the largest crowds that ever wit- nessed a ring battle. Dempsey walked Into Firpo from the sound of the bell, knocked him down several times and then in turn was knocked out of the ring by the indomitable Luis. Return- ing to the scene of operations Dempsey finished the first round gaining poise and strength and in the second speedily put Firpo down for the count. Firpo showed no skill at all, but he did show a willingness to trade punches and a rugged stamina and 4n ability to hit, which Insures an jmmense throng when the two meet again next summer. In the light heavy division—the cruiser welght, as the British call jt—Battling Siki surprised the world by knocking out Georges Carpentier in Paris. But In turn he lost the title on a decision to Mike McTigue when the two met in Dublin on 8t. Patrick's day. The American title was taken from Gene Tunney by Harry Greb on a de- cision and later the two thet again and Tunney won his title back from Greb on a decision that did not merit_the approval of all who saw the fight. Then on the night of December 10, Tunney retained his title against the assault of the Plttgburgh windmill. Wilson Loses His Crown. . In the middleweight dlvision Johnny Wilson, who for so long had held the- world titie without fighting to defend it —chiefly because he was debarred by the New York Athletic Commission and other state boxing commissions—re- turned ta activity and lost his title to Harry Greb on a decision. son was inactive the New York com- mission handed the middlewaight title around to Dave Rosenberg, Jock Ma- lone and others. But in the end Wil- son’s clalm to the crown was recognized and when Greb beat him he ascended the throne where he now sits. Mickey Walker, who won the welter- weight championship from Jack Brit- ton in 1922, founght only one real battle in the past twelve months. ‘This being against Pete Latzo, a no-decision affair in Newark in which the champion displayed undoubted class. Benny Leonard retained his light- While Wil- | A. A. U. TAKEN TO TASK AS TO OLYMPIC PLANS ATLANTA, December 20.—Ad tion of a resolution stating that the A. A. U. has not “announced a definite list of ceaches, tralmers and managers” and also has mot furnished “a well planned program and field” events in Olympic try- uts, and calling this “seri tuation” to the merican Olymple one of the closing acts of the ) tional Collegiate Athletic Associa- tion meeting here, it beeame known today. The resolution also provided that the president of the American Olymplc Association be asked to institute the necessary reforms in order that the participation of the United States may be really na- tional in character. fight earned a big purse, and those who came to root for Benny were amp rewarded for anything their seats co: them, the champion literally out- classed his opponent. This was the only important battle in which Leonard indulged last year. The year was marked by the do |fall of"a champion who had held h | title for years—principally as it turned out because he had met no worth | opponents. ‘The displaced titlehold |was Johnny Kilbane, featherwelght | king, Who was knocked out by Eugen: Criqui, the game little French war hero, in New York city. Then, hero that he s, Criqul agreed 1o meet Johnny Dundee before salling for France. Dundee, in turn, knocked Criqui out and thus won the feather title which he now holds. Jack Bernstein of Yonkers won tocal title from -Johnny Dundee on decision, said title being the junic lightweight championship, = class_de- vised by the New York Athletic Com- mission and rot generally recognized Joe Lynch won ghe bantamweight title from Johnny Buff, and Buff als lost his American flywelght title to Pancho Villa, the Filipino. Villa an Frankie Genaro met and Genaro won the bout on a decislon. This made him American flyweight champion. Jimmy Wilde of England, the world fiyweight champion, came to this country signed |to meet Villa. There was some objec- tion to this match by Genaro's backers, who claimed Wilde should meet not Villa but the existing American cham- plon. The boxing commissioners de- cided, however, that Wilde must fulfill his engagement with Villa and he did. Villa won by a knockout and there the welght_title in an_open-air bout_in New York against Lew Tendler. The AMONG ADVANCE FOR ROWING | IS WITNESSED IN 1923 I development of rowing in: this country than even in the days when a dozen colleges were tepresented by crews once a year at Saratoga Lake. There were dual races galore, and from the time the ice was off the water to the end of June the sweep swingers were well to the fore in public in- terest. ¢ Yale won the annual race with Harvard at New London, and the University of Washington won the Poughkeepsie regatta, defeating the Navy in a close finish. This was particularly interesting, because Leader, the Yale coach, was a graduate of the University of Was! ington, a product of ils rowing methods and rowed on the same crew with Callow, who coached the Wash- — HE rowing season was by all odds the most interesting and pro- ington crew for its victory at Pough- keepsie. Both were pupils of Hiram Conibear. The Poughkeepsie regatta was a three-mile race and ‘the New London, the old standard four mile. Columbia which won the Child’'s cup race. Edwi McGuire, a Buffalo police- ed Paul Costello. the 1922 n single scull champion, in the National Amateur Association regatta at Baltimore. W. B. Garrett Gilmore won the Philadeiphia gold challenge cup at Duluth, defeating Walter Hoover, the man who two years be- fore had won the diamond sculls at Henley, but who lost there last year. Development is Marker, Now, as to the development in the rowing game, it has been most marked. _And the strange part of it is -that the_victories in the two big regattas at Yale and Washington have :' ally introduced & new stroke, that showed there was strength in the team once it got going. The best second baseman in either league was Frank Frisch of the New York Nationels, and the most im- proved inflelder of either league was Ward of the New York Americans. The excellent work of the latter at second base had no little to do with the perfected teamwork .of the New York Americans and kept them well up_at the top. The relations betweeh the various leagues were harmanious on the sui face and there was little in the un- dercurrent which eavored of host ity. In both leagues the action of the New York clubs in conducting boxing matches on their grounds was deplored. Outside of New York it was the opinion-of the club member: that base ball and fighting were two sports which should not amalgamate even to the extent of holding box- ing matches and not actually pro- moting them, upset the coachin ast that many cl o . The writer predi, uation, and,- at considerable length previous to the opening of the season, {showed how thia atroke which Hirani 1Conibear was working up a doszen Draft Atways Live Tophe. years ago on the Pacific coast and The question of the draft came up | which Leader has signally developed repeatedly, though most of the minor | would win not only short races, but leagues, which were operating with- |four-mile races. out it, managed to do well ron‘h‘ The Navy crew which Washington the season and made a Iittle. money.|defeated ‘at Poughkeepsie was a 1t was agreed that the major leagus {powerful crew, and one.which could clubs were more concerned in the |take a lot of beating, and yet Cal- question than the minors, and it was ! low’ through. At New eneral opinion that the fight which 1 fad been precipitated in the Pacific Coast League simply Was another way of attacking those who favored free trafic in ball players as against s The Natlonal League announced that its year was the best in its his- tory since the league had been furmm& having surpassed the good spason of 1920. The improvement in the Clllel?G club, b{ which a new stand had been added to the previous capacity, was _responsible for this. ‘The American e did even better than the National, due to the big stadium erected by Col. Ruppert in New York city. In the minor es three or four clubs announced t they intended to Improve their flelds, and that upon the completion they. would have ¢ structures aqual to ‘those ‘though 'with situation in_the: have been i ate along tl‘lmfih thsfl'h :1" of lll; Tham s y o tdysncing an drl'l:“ away from Harvard. Not only did the stroke appear to be rowed easily, but the beauty of the recovery and the traveling of the strok oth at New soul-satisfying to rowing. Several other colle not now boating institutions have considered taking up rowing, and were it not for the fact that it is an expensive sport and without any reasongble means of return financially' and a difficult ome to support,.it can be done at wd‘y reasonable expense where a body of satisfactory weter is near at d, and where the rowing men themselves are willing to. extravagance and put up with discomforts. st oy student of new to the east, and have soied of loosening Up the line and getting @ lineman or linemen into the inter- ference on the far eide. This had its effect in making the game much more clearly defined for the spectator, who could see the movement of the ball and the player carrying it. There was a distinct shifting fin the rela- tive welght of the line through the exigencies of this method of play, which required active rather than stationary guards. Heavier Wing Men Used. The answer of the defense to this method of attack produced a demand for heavier wing men, although here, too, activity was the great factor. The center welght, therefore, drifted away from the middle of the line out toward the wings. Teams which did not loosen up the attack in this way and use linemen in interference, but stuck to the old, confined plunging game, went backward, while the others advanced. The forward pass improved in qual- ity, but defense to it also improved rapldly in diagnosing and intercept- ing these passes, so that before mid- season it was evident that the pass must be. well masked in order to be effective, and, more than that, if it were not well masked, there was dan- ger of its proving a boomerang through interception and a long run back. Kicking did not improve as much relatively as the passing, so far as the ordinary punting was con- cerned. The drop-kicking was .en- croached upon b the kick from place- ment, and it is the general opinion that this kick from placement is more accurate than the drop-kick, and will continue to be the popular method. The crowds that attended the games and the crowds that wished to a tohd the games but were disappoint- increased enormously. Stadiums and bowls were taxed to thelr ca- pacity, and even then there were ed this sit- | thousands turned away from the, big More stadiums were built, d _those of recent construction are hundred-thousand game: approaching the mark for capacity. Many Intersectional Games. Intersectional games were ni ous, involving champlonships. 80 succe: edly. . The action of the rules committee few years in avolding any legislation that would materi- itself proved for the last ally alter the me thoroughly Jjustified, not only from the playing results but from the fact that the public now understands the game thoroughly and is not obliged to learn a new manual of rules gn- nually. Murray Hand Badll King. Joe (Red) Murray of San Francisco ‘won the National A. A. U. hand ball champlonship at 8t. Paul, Mina., by ddt:‘fln‘l::hynlrd l‘.“:fll oot‘ &l e8. o and Serenberg - doubles title by Al it captured th Gola and er- but not those of the character Southern foot ball developed largely at insti- tutions not before so prominent on the foot ball map, and while south- ern visitors to the north were not ful as in former years, the general quality of the play In ‘the smaller institutions developed mark- N swimming the greatest figure about all the dash records. smashed the- world record for | Henry Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., swam the English channel last Au- gust in 27 hours and 25 minutes, the third time in history a swimmer had ever made this journey. Later in the month Enrique Tirabocchi of Argen- tina made the trip in the amazing time of 16 hours 33 minutes. Ethel McGray, fifteen-year-old prodigy, won the national A. A. U. ‘women's long distance swim at Rock- away, doing the three miles in rough water in 1 hour 56 minutes 43 sec- onds. Illinois A. C. swimmers shattered the world record for 880-vard relay and also beat the Olympic stapdard Gertrude Ederle led the women. situation now stands, Villa world | champion and Genaro's status not quite | clear. WEISSMULLER STAR SWIMMERS was Johnny Weismuller, who holds She the 880-yard free style for women doing the distance in the amazing time of 13.11. Miss Ederle also captured the record in the 200-meter swim and the National A. A. U. free stylc 440-yard senion championship swim. for 800 meters In winning *he na tional A. A. U. four-man team chan pionship at Newark last September. Leo Giebel of Rutgers won tho tit in the sixteenth gnnual individu: swimming championships, held at Princeton in March. In yachting the North American motor boat championship was again won by the Swift Packard Chriecraft This event, which was held at De- troit, carried with it the famous Gold cup, in competition for the twenty first time. British six-meter slychs defeated our fleet of American six- meter single stickers on the Sol:nt, England. |OLD MARKS BROKEN HE American blue ribbon for T held at Stagg Field, Chicago, U. records, all in the field events, the N. Y. A. C. did the high jump, ter than the former record; Richard L. Myers, Chicago Athletic Associa- tion, added an inch to the pole vault record, doing 13 fest 1 inch. Hoffman of the University of Tilinois, in the javelin throw, beat the former record, 133 feet 2% inches, by 1 foot 5% inches. National Semfor Champs. The champlons crowned at this na- tional senior meeting follow: TRACK. 100-YARD DASH—Murohison, Newark A. C. —Murchison,' Newark A. C. I0.YARD RUN—Murchison, Newark | —Ra; 120-YARD HIGH HUEb: . o0 °YARD LOW HURDLES—Brookins, Tows Unlversitz, 440-Y HURDLES—Riley, Illinois A. O, 3 FIELD. SHOT-PUT—Wanzer, N. Y. A. C, JUMP—Brown, N. ¥. A. C. BR0AD | TOMP—Hubbard, Uiiversity of o HOP, STEP AND JUMP—Hubbard, Univer- sity of Michigan. LE VAULT. DISOUS THROW-—Leib, Liinois 4. O. mow m«lxx-rom ‘WEIGHT JAVELIN THEOW—Hoffman, Tlineis A. 0. Illinois Athletic Ciub athletes also won_the national indoor meet held at Buffalo last: February, with 46 points. The Chicago Athletic Asso- ciation «was second, with 23 points. The New York Athletic Club did not’’ Tom Lieb, Illinois A. C. threw the discus 151 feet and beating the former record of 146 feet 5 inches. IN TRACK ATHLETICS track and field competition during the year was won at the National A. A. U. senior championships last August by the Illinois Athletic Club, whose picked men led the New York athletic specialists 53 to 37 when the points were added up at the end of the meet, Four new A. A were established. Leroy Brown oi 6 feet 554 inches, half an inch bet Landon of the N. Y. A. C. was second 3% of an inch, enter. In this meet Joio Ray won the two-mile title in $ minutes 102-5 seconds, shattering the previous rec- ord of 9 minutes 18 seconds. Ray also ran as anchor man on the Iilinols Athletic Club ome-mile-and-seven- ¢ighths medley relay team, which dld 7 minutes 32 3-5 seconds, thereby de- molishing the record held by George- town University, 7 ‘minutes 43 sec- onds. All other records for this event also were beaten; that is to say, records made at meets other than this annual fixture. National Indoor Leaders, Championships awarded at this na- tional indoor meet follow: Runn| high jump—Harold M. Osberme, Tllinois, A, O. 300-yard run—Leren Murchisqn, Newark A, C. y D los—X. W. Andersen oTB7ard high Burdl w. o One-mie walk—" . omemde ‘Willism Plaat, Morning. A 800-yard run—Early Eby, C Bizteen-pou P A ol “Two-mile run—Jols Ray, Tlioels A. C. Rl dnsh—Loren " Murehison, Newark rd_run—Ray Watson, Hlinois 4. C. high jump—T. T. Hoskins, Ohi A, % 2 82"0a4 seved-sightha mile relay—Tlinos --.- broad jump—W. Irving Beid, California, with & team of field spe- )