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'A 20 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JAiNUAlU 2, lyai. Review Every Branch of Athletics Was More Popular Than Ever Before; Whole World Hungry for Play By JACK VEIOCK. New Yor, Jan. 1. The tide of time hassweptNiue-teen-Twenty, into the misty realm of things that have been. Years gone before have been rich in sport history. Years still to come will be studded with scintillating deeds by the world's athletes. Brilliant feats that are now fresh in "the minds of sport devotes will no doubt be ex celled. But Nineteen-Twenty will always stand out as the greatest twelve -month sport has seen up to this time. It took just a year following the close of the great World war for sport to find its for mer level. That was , 1919. Then along came 1920 to find the whole world hungry for play and reaction, and, every game or pastime in the sport ing calendar was lifted to a higher level of popularity than ever before. World's records were sent crashing into the discard in many lines of sport during the i ear that is closing. The enor mous interest of the sport-loving public in every competi tive pastime Was evinced by unprecedented crowds. Mil lions of people attended sports events all over the world. No red-blooded, sport went beg ging for popularity. The United States strengthened her position as the greatest ration in the world in athletics. The rank and file of her athletes was not no ticeably thinned out by the vicious clogs of war, as was the case in many other countries. ; As a result 1920 goes down as a year that saw new, victories won and new glory ac cumulated by athletic America. i Sport events . that were dropped during the war were resurrected and brought back with new life and vigor tis year. The Vesumption of the Olympic games and of interna tional jacht racing were red letter events of the year and in both events America covered herself, with glory. Perhaps the most impressive proof of the country's great and unswerv able passion for sport was found in the fact that base ball lived through the expose of the 1919 world's series scandal and that the season was wound up in a blaze of gtory by the pennant-winning teams of th Na tional and American leagues'. In Sport Spotlight. The winning punch of this coun-J .. L.:.Li..t .LI..: ..-. tirq.l try s brightest athletic stars was never more potent than this year. Take a look at a few ot our 1920. heroes. What names to conjure withf " Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Man O'War, Stanley Coveleskie. William T. Tilden. II, Jack Kelly, Chick Evans, Don Lourie, Duke Kahana moku, Frank Foss, Frank Loomis, George Sisler, Alexa Stirling, Mrs, V. I. Mallory (Molla Bjurstedt), Charley Paddock, Ethelda Bleibtrey, George Gipp, Rogers Hornsby. Here we have named a few of the many stars who performed on ATHLETICS OLYMPIC GAMES (World's Champions) . 100 Meters Paddock, United States, 10 4-5 seconds. A?i,'200 Meters Woodring, United States, 22 seconds. .- '? ' 400 ,Mctetrs Rudd, South Africa, 49 3-5 seconds. i, 800 Meters Hill, England, 1 minute 53 2-5 seconds, i 1,500 Meters Hill, England, 4 minutes 1 4-5 seconds. v 5,000 Meters Guillemot, France, 14 minutes 55 seconds. - 10,000 .Meters Nurmi, Finland, 31 minutes 45 2-5 seconds. Marathon Kolehmainen, Finland, inducer Hurdles Ihomson, Canada, 14 4-5 seconds. t Hurdles F. Loomis, United States, 54 seconds 3.0flivMeter Steeplechase Hodge, England, 10 minutes 2 2-5 seconds. 3.000-Meter Walk Frigerio, Italyl 13 minutes 14 1-5 seconds. 10,000-Meter Wlk Frigerio, Italy, 48 minutes 6 1-5 seconds. Running High j imp Landon, United States, 6 feet 4 1-5 inches. Running Broad Jump Peterson, Sweden, 23 feet 6 inches. . ' Hop, Step and Junp Timlos, Finland, 47 feet 7 inches. Pole Vault Foss, United States, 13 feet 5 3-16 inches. , ' Javelin Throw Myra, Finland, 215 feet 9 inches. Discus Throw Niklander,Tinland, 146 feet 7 7-16 inches. Hammer Throw Ran, United States, 173 feet 5 11-16 inches. - Shot Put Porkola, t innd, 48 feet 9 inches. 56-Pound Weight Vcponald, United States, 36 feet 11 inches. 400-Meter Relay United States (Paddock, Kirksey, Scholz, Murchi son) 42 1-5 seconds. - V?; , 1,600-Meter Relay England. $ minutes 22 1-5 seconds, t 3,000-Meter Team Race United States team, 8 ninutes 51 1-5 seconds. Tug-o'-War England. -. i , Decathlon Loveland, Norway, 6,804.355 points. Pentathlon Lehtonen, Finland, 14 points. " - 10,000-Meter Cross Country Team Finland, 10 points. 10,000-Meter Cross Country Individual Nurmi, Finland, 27 min. 15 sec. Olympic record. 1 j World's record. ' I ' ., New Race Car May Be Entered in 500-Mile ? Event at- Indianapolis Indianapolis, nd., Jan. 1. The autoacing railbirds who soiourn at their various clubs these chilly even ings have a new entry for the ninth international 500-mile race to be held , at the Indianapolis speedway Mon day. May 30, 1921. Thev advan:e the "belief that the Sheridan Motor, company of Cali4 fornia will enter a car. t n& all this because Cliff Durant. "popular race n driver, is president of the company ' and the fact that CaptEddic Ricken- backer, auto race driver and ace of aces of the Yankee air force in the late world war, is vice president and general manager. The dopesters claim, that with this : pair in the organization it is practi cally' assured that a Sheridan racer will scamper around the Indianapolis oval next May when' the crack driv ers of two continents will compete ior glory and gold. " of Year in Sports track and field, the diamond, the gridiron, the water, the-, ring and the racetrack. -They were by no means alone, in making 1920 a glor ious sporting year, but they were "bellcows" among the athletes in their st,ratas and in order to scintil late as they did they were forced to super-efforts to win the positions thev hold in the spotlight. ., To review the valiant sport deeds of the year in detail would require column upon column. The bare list of 1920's champions in sport is as long as a J. Rufus Wallingford dream. So, in passing, we will hit the high spots only before packing a rollicking good year into the moth balls. - Athletics Enjoyed Red Letter Year. Starting with the big annual in door meets in. the early months of the year and carrying along through the brilliant futures to the windup of the Seventh Olympics at Ant werp, athletics boomed as never be fore. America has always had a repu tation for turning out . the most versatile athletes in the' world and she lived up to if this year. Rec ords were sent smashing into ob livion and competition was keener than ever before. Uncle Samuel's Olympic athletes, despite 'the- regrettable- fact that there was1 some , dissatisfaction among them because qf the accom modations provided, covered them selves with glory on track and field in Belgium. , New Olympic Records. Three world's records ; and two Olympic records were broken by the Americans,' who won the Olym pics lor the seventh straight time with a margin of 100 points to spare over their nearest competitors. Frank Foss shattered the pole vault recordhis own with a vault of 13 feet, 5 3-16 inches. Frank Loomis broke the record in the 400 meter hurdles, clearing the timbers in 54 seconds. Paddock, Kirksey, Sholtz and Murchison, who made up America's relay team, shattered the record for the 400-meter relay, running it in 42 ltS seconds. Pat McDonald broke the Olympic rec ord in the 56-pound weight event, tossing tha weight 36 feet 1154 inches. Dick Landon cracked the Olympic high jump mark with a leap of 6 feet, 4 45 inches. Frigerio, the Italian walker; Kolehmainen, the Americanized Finn, and Myra, the Finnish javelin thrower, also hung up new marks; Myra's being a world's record throw of the javelin 215 feet, 9 and a frac tion inches. , Earl Thomson hung up a new world's record in the 120 meter hurdles, competing for Can ada. . ' In collegiate circles the big an nual meets were all brilliant, as were the sectional tryouts, held for the purpose of selecting our Olympic "athletes. The coming to this coun try of the Oxford-Cambridge ath letes for the Penn relays: the breaking of the record for the 120 1 1 1 1 1 T7 t T J yard hurdles by Earl Thomson, of Dartmouth, who later broke his own new record in the Olympic games by scampering over the sticks in 14 4-5 seconds and the getting to gether of such wonderful sprinters as Paddock, Murchison, Kirksey and Sholtz were features the American sport-loving public devoured with interest ' Athletes from the grammar school age to the topnotchers were con stantly in the limelight during the year, and attendance at athletic meets ranging from crowds of 10, 000 to 25,000 proved conclusively 2 hours' 32 minutes 35 4-5 seconds. Periscope Scheduled For Comeback Next Harness Race Season A trotter which is scheduled'for a comeback in 1921 v after being sub jected to the now popular pastime of being given a season's vacation in order to gain time allowance, is the bay maref- Periscope, 2:04 1-2, winner of the Kentucky futurity and others of the important colt stakes in 1919. This yoiing mare, after a vacation in 1920, through the work ings of the time allowance rul$, will be eligible to the 2:07 trotting stakes next year and if she improves as expected she is one that should be a star of the first magnitude. Dog Golf Ball Finder London. There is a terrier at Llandudno golf course which has been trained to find golf balls. Every evening he accompanies his master around the course, and in the sum mer season has been known to find from 30 to 40 balls in one round. . ' - ' fl f in WORLD of -JiX 1 :vfeJ ' " that interest was stronger than ever?) before. ' Base ball was in the midst of one of the most prosperous seasons in its history when the bombshell of the 1919 world s series -scandal was exploded in Chicago, casting a pall over the game and creating a sen sation that gave Jhe pastime the hardest jolt it has ever received base ball wars of the past or scan dals of other days notwithstanding. But base ball shook itself, tot? tered on its foundation for a brief space of time and settled '.down solidly again. The indictment of the eight Chicago players Cicotte, Fclsch, Weaver, Jackson, Williams, McMullen, Gandil and Risberg and subsequent confessions made by Ci cotte and others was a hard blow to the fans.' Yet they realized appar ently, that base ball is bigger than any player or any club, and that the game .itself was not unclean. The prompt dropping f the eight players by Owner Charleys Comiskey did much to restore confidence and the pennant races were finished with good attendance at all games. The windup of the season in the annual classic the world's series proved that the game was little the worsefor the blow it had received. The victory of the champion Cleve land Indians over the Brooklyn Dodgers was impressive. The games diew immense crowds, Sthe fans packing the parks in both Brooklyn and the Forest City to their capa cities. Incidentally, Cleveland's victory marked the first ever scored by a Forest City team in a major league pennant race and the first time that a world's championship in base ball ever went to Cleveland. ' ' The expose of the gamblers- awak ened the club owners to -the fact that war, must be declared and waged against the gambling fraternity which bad sought to poison the game. But the magnates came near to a war among themselves in at tempting to settle upon a method for renovating the game and putting it on a new and firmer foundation. The National league, augmented by the owners of the New York, Boston and Chicago American league clubs, handed down an ulti matum to Ban Johnson and his "lpyal five" when they refused to meet with the "stalwart eleven" in Chicago, threatening to organize a new 12-club league if the Johnson ites failed to come in with their scheme for a new government for the game, built around what was known as Ihp "Lasker plan." Future Looks Bright. For a time war clouds hung black and , low on the horizon. Then came a gathering of all the major leaguers at Chicago; a subsequent "Big Ten" Opens Season Monday ' Wisconsin and Northwestern Scheduled for Game Ex , , pect Close Race. , Chicago, Jan. 1. With the open ing of the Western Conference championship basket ball season Monday, the quintet representing the University of Wisconsin looms up tonight as the real "dark horse" of the 1921 race. The Badgers are pinning their championship hopes on W. E. Meanwell, basket badd coach, whose ability to develop fighting teams out of Ordinary material is recognized throughout the "Big Ten." In .six years, from 1911 to 1916, Coach Meanwell turned out four champion ship teams for Wisconsin. There has been a scarcity of seasoned material in the Badger camp, however, Capt. Taylor at forward being ths only outstanding player. The brilliant Purdue five, ' which finished close to Chicago in the race last season, will enter the field with out' its greatest, asset a high powered scoring combination. Till son, Church and Campbell have graduated, leaving Captain White, a brilliant running guard, and Miller, a back guard, as the nucleus for this season's team. In the last five years, no team in the "Big Ten" has won the title two years in succession, and if the race develops into a tight struggle this season, and recent tradition is re peated, the championship won" by Chicago last season wilt fall to an other contender in the 1921 cam paign, i Wisconsin will take the field against Northwestern at Evanston Monday in the only game scheduled. The other teams will not swing intg the race until next Saturday, when two games are to be decided, bring ing together Indiana and Ohio and Wisconsin and Michigan. The sea son will close March 14 with North western meeting Iowa at Iowa City. All of the team's have' scheduled twelve games, the limit set by the conference. India Wants Davis Cup Delhij India. The . committee of All-India Lawn Tennis association has decided to enter a team for the Davis cup contest in 1921,' The team must consist of British subjects or subjects of native states. : ! ' n trip to Kansas. City where the sup port of the minor leagues was sought and the happy contusion of the trouble when; Judge . K. M. Landis was offered and accepted the position as the ,iiew head of base ball. 1 . f The future of, the game is bright now, and with Judge Landis leading the organized forces in war on the gamblers and the magnates harmon izing, prosperity and a long term of peace loom ahead. ' ' -I Base ball had another great sen sation this year. Babe Ruth, is the answer.. , - I The home run king set up a jec- ord that ho ball player, no matter what his hitting ability, had dreamed of, in slamming the 54 home runs during the. 1920 season and break ing his own record of ,29 made the year before. ', r Ruth Drew Records. , Ruth, as an attraction, drew more paid 'admissions to the turnstile wherever the Yankees played than any. other player who ever wore ma jor league livery before. The Yankees paid a record price of $135,000 for Ruth, purchasing him from the Bos ton club, and hie proved that he was worth it. Early in the season the Yankees broke the attendance record at the Polo Grounds twice in succes sion, when 38,800 odd fans' crowded into the big park, chiefly to see Ruth in action. The batting championships in the two majors passed from the -hands of Eddie Roush, of the Reds, and Tyrus Cobb, of Detroit. Roush was supplanted by Rogers Hornsby, bril liant and hard-hitting shortstop of the St. Louis Cardinals. Ty Cobb, was hauled from the king row by George Sisler, star .first baseman and all-around utility player of tjje St. Louis Browns. Both of the 1 new champions set the pace for rival bats-' men early all season long. Stanley Covelskie and- Burleigh Grimes, stars of the rival Cleveland and Brooklyn pitching staffs, were the best day-in-and-day-out pitchers in their respective leagues, .regardless of anything figures may show. Boxing More Popular Than Ever. Boxing gained ground. in two di rections during the year.'' It gained in popularity and it gained in legalized territory, for the comeback of fisticuff in New York State -was a decdied' victory for 'the 1920 State Amateur Champions Athletics Juluis Festner, Y. M. C. A., all-round !chamnon. Base Ball League 4 champions, Class A, City league, Bowen Furni ture Co. i Commercial League Swift & Co. Class B, Church league, Pearl Me morials; Greater! Omaha, Byrne Hammer Co.; Bankers' league, Oma ha National banks; American league, Paulson's Fords; Booster league, Maney Milling Co. Class C, Gate City league, McKenncy Dentists; North Omaha league, Commerce Calvert Star Basket ' -Cager of Year in "Y" Loop; Graham Second John Calvert, jr., crack forward of tle Benson Methodist Episcopal quintet, known as the "Babe Ruth" of .basket .ball, for the second con secutive year leads the Church league in basket shooting, according to statistics released last night by N. J. "Weston, physical director of the"Y." 1 Calvert broke his last season s rec ord of 116 points the first half of the present schedule which closed last week, when he shot 52 field goals and 22 free throws for a total of 126 points, 50 points more than his near est competitor. Following are the averages of the players in the Church league: PIa.ver Team m rreo rum Goal Throw tal r.tvarf TlAnnnn 12G 71 67 r 44 43 43 43 40 40 3S 36 - 3r 32 32 23 11 27 2'1 2 'I J. Graham, UnL Pres. t). Moore, Pearls I. Graham, Unl. Pres.. :Burrkert, Pearls "Borkle, lowe Walker, tiraoa Swenson, Lowe Slmmonda, BeUevue... Nasle, B'lrst M. Et ... Burnham, Wop Parnelea. Flrt M. E. ....3S ....24 ....21 .....22 17 ,....1S ....19 ,....ia Ms 0 0 12 0 9 17 4 16 4 n 0 1 11 ...is 4 13 3 55 10 13 3 hancros, Bellevue 17 Heckendorf, Benson 15 0 Pital.i. Wnnl ....15 Bunnell, I.owe '. 14 1 Ptauffer, Flrnf M. E 1 19 Duti-her. Cllfto Hill T 13 niitw. ftrmson 13 0 Smith.- Clifton Hill 'T BrosHmnn. Bellovue i I.elBe, Clifton Hill H Hitch, Bcnacn Hahor . '?? frhanntlan. Pearls .....11 Orr. Pearls McFariand, Grace 9 ft. Montague, Grace '. S Vol!!. Wopg I Ptulllt, Grace ...A.. & 0 jIS If 11 3 7 t 9 6 e l 8 7 4 3 13 3 2 6 3 19 10 I 24 24 23 19 IS 17 15 15 15 S 13 13 11 10 10 10 10 10 Taylor, Kops t Tlnhn. Knns 6 Zerzan, Wops 0 Peterson Grace.. ,. 6 Kuncl, Kopn 6 Holmes, Wops: 6 Prehssco Bllevue S II. Moore. Hollevue.. 5 Hsykln, Orare F 0 Eltzeo, First JI, E. S . 0 0 mitt game. In New Jersey, where the game has flourished for several years, the law was amended to per mit the staging of twelve-round bouts and in other sections of the country boxing made progress. , No law ever in force in New York has been sd successful, generally speaking, as the Walker law,, legal izing 15-round bouts to decisions. This law assures the boxing fan of his money's worth and brings boxers to realize that their profession is work as well as play if they are go ing to ply it in lil' ole New York. Several things contributed toward the stimulation boxing enjoyed, The clearing of Jack Dempsey, world's heavyweight champion, of slacker charges in. San Francisco and the 'invasion of Georges Carpentier and Jimmy Wilde helped boom, the game. , . j Dempsey Againat Carpentier. The matching of Carpentier and( Dempsey for the heavyweight cham- pionship the match of the century has kept fistic bugs agog with excite ment and the fact that the cham pions, in tie various divisions are be ginning to' find more worthy oppo nents has done its share. One championship changed hands during the year and another was def initely determined. Mike O'Dowd St. Paul lost the middleweight title to Johnny Wilson in Boston via the decision route in a 12-round bout last May. Referee Mclnnis rendered the decision that caused the title to change hands. Since winning the title Wilson has been wary about defending it and has so far refused to give O'Dowd a re turn match. He is an unpopular champion. The title of world's light-heayy-weight champion, claimed by both Georges Carpentier and Battling Le vinsky, was cleared up when Carpen tier knocked Levinsky out in New ark, dropping the New York boxer for the count in the fourth round. Carpentier also holds the heavy weight championship of Europe. Jimmy Wilde's invasion of this country and the neat manner in ; which he defended his title against American boxers of his weight con clusively proved his class. Fred Fulton's knockout at the hands of Harry Wills, appears to have removed him definitely from luniors. Xity champions, Class A, Bowen Furniture Co. (also state amateur champions). Class B, Pearl Memorials. Class C, McKenney Dentists. Basket Ball Class A, Greater Omaha league, Omaha National banks. Class B, Commercial league, University of Omaha; Church league, Pearl Memorials. Cross Country Run J II. Kretz Icr, University of Nebraska Medical college. , Team: University of Ne braska Medical college. ' Gymnastics Julius Festner, all round champion, Y. M. C A. State gymnastic team, Omaha Y. M. C. A. Hand. Ball Singles, Eddy Lawlcr; doubles, Eddy Lawler'and Eddy Dygert. Y. M. C. A. v Hexanthlon C. E. Drew, .cham pion; boys' champion, Wilmur Beer kle, Y. M. C. A. x . Foot Ball Class A, city and state amateur and semi-pro champions. Nonpareils. Class B, undecided Thorpian Athletic club and C. Y. M. A. reserves. Ice Skating Men's 75-yard dash, Earl Perkins; half-mile, Frank Gal lagher. Half Mile Relay Team Anderson, Pafson,' Perkins, Ronneau. Pentathlon D. L. Dimond, Y. M. C. A. Swimming D. L. Dimond, Y. M. C. A. J . : Volley Ball Team, Lincoln Y. M. C. A. Wrestling 108-pound class, Fred Parshall, Lincoln; 115-pound class, Maurice Del.ay, Norfolk; 125-pound class, Robert Inman, Columbus; 135 pound class, Fred King, Y. M. C A.; 145-pound class, Marion Mcrryman, Kearney; 158-pound class, Ray Zobcl, Council Bluffs; 175-pound class, Rufus Dewitz, Stanton. State Wrestling Team Omaha Y. M. C'A Reject Yale Offer for Game - Pittsburgh. The Carnegie Tech athletic council has notified the Yale foot ball officials that the local insti tute, will be unable to accept the gridiron date offered by the Elis for 1921. The date set, pctober 1, was too early for Tech. ' Second Round of Volley Ball Tourney This WeVk The second round of the three round series to determine the vol ley ball championship of the Omaha Athletic club, Y. M. C. A. and the Lincoln Y. M, C. A. will be staged next Saturday, Another the ranks of challengers for "heavy weight honors. , ' Leonard Was Busy. ' Benny Leonard, the popular 'and active lightweight champion, kept pretty busy during the yeaV, defend ing his crown against Johnrfy Dun dee and other good lightweights. His two most notable bouts for the title were fought against Charley White and Joe Welling, both .of whom were disposed of via the kayo route. Jack Britton has' been one of the most active champions. The welter weight king has met and defended his laurels against all of the best welters of the country. Pete Herman, the bantamweight title holder, appeared in but few bouts of consequence. Foot ball was never more popular than during the year just closing. The great college sport saw the development of some of the most brilliant players uncovered in years and the big classics of the season drew 4he greatest , crowds in ' the history of the game. The biggest crowd to witness a game attended tha Yale-Harvard battle in Yale's treat bowl when 80,600 people watched the Crimson defeat the Bulldogs in a game that was full of thrills. Other big east ern games - drew immens throngs of fans and feature contests in other sections of the '. country brought out crowds thai filled the coffers of college athletic associa tions with thousands of dollars. No championship was determined in the east. The season closed with Princeton, Harvard,' Pitt, Penn State and Boston college ranking as the outstanding tearns. None of these elevens was defeated and while Princeton was generally ac knowledged to have had the best balanced tem, no -title' could be awarded,,' ' In the western conference Ohio State won the championship in the last game of the season by defeating Illinois at Urbana. Notre Dame, also undefeated,, was credited with having the best eleven outside of the western conference in that section of the country. " In the south Georgia Tech went through the season undefeated and was recognized as the champion, while on the far-off Pacific coast Cal ifornia took the honors. The Navy defeated the Army before a record crowd in New York. No season in recent yeVs has de veloped the large number of star backfield , players who cropped out last fall. Quarterbacks, halfbacks and fullbacks galore, who. played with a dash and brilliancy that thrilled the great crowds, .flashed across the horizon. In the estima--tion of the writer no stronger eleven Tennis Enjoyed Big Year in 1920 Interest and Class of Play in Last Season s Tourneys Fea ture of Sport in State. By GVY WILLIAMS. President Nebraska Htte Tennis Association. 1920 CHAMPS. Singles Ralph Powell, Omaha. Doubles Ralph Powell and Will Adam. Omaha. Ijtdles Singles Miss Anita Carrey, Omaha. , Mixed Doubles Miss Anita Carrey and George Stocking-, Omaha. One of the most successful seasons in the annals of tennis in Nebraska was, the contribution of 1920. From its inception interest began to fall, and day after day' eclipsed corre sponding days of other years. This remarkable support was reflected in the brand of tennis displayed by Ne braskans on the courts and the year established a class of play that will be hard to beat. The playing of Ralph Powell, the 1920 title winner, was the feature of the season's play in this state. He not only won the state championship, but also the Omaha city laurels. The Omaha racquet wielder battled for his city title against a hard field and during his matches displayed a class of tennis superior to that of any other local player. Powell's showing at Sioux City, where he lost in the semifinals to Richards, a player of national rank, was particularly bril liant. However, in winning the doubles title in the state tourney, he was compelled to rely considerably on the steady and heady play of his teammate, Will Adams, who repeat edly turned a possible defeat into victory. While all the titles in the state meet were won by Omahans, yet the playing of the out-state contenders was of a high order. The playing of "Scotty" McKillupp and , Eddie Giescn, the Seward pair, was one of the features of the tournament. These men lost in the singles only after hard atches. The principal tournaments held during the past year in the state were: The Southwest Nebraska, at Or leans; the Northwest Nebraska, at Norfolk; the Lincoln city, at Lin coln; the Omaha city, at Omaha, and the Nebraska state meet, at Omaha, the last comprising the gentlemen's, ladies', and muted doubles events, f . . , j Upward Climb, 1920 Was Rich in Sport History; World's Athletes Shattered Many Records in could have been recruited from this crop- of players than the one which lollows: c- Stars of Gridiron. Ends: Legendre, Princeton, and Kiley, Notre Dame. .Tackles: Keck, Princeton, and. Gulick, Syracuse. Guards: Callahan, Yale, and (jiif fiths, Penn State. Center: Alexan der, Syracuse. Quarterback; Lourie, Princeton. Halfbacks: Gipp, Notre Dame, and Way, Penn State. Full back: Horween, Harvard. Tilden Bright Star in Tennis. . Tennis lived up to its rank as major sport during the year. Thousands of new players took up the racquet in this country; tourna ments' galore were played before en thusiastic crowds and all of the big title fixtures, both here and in Eu rope, were brilliant succeses. William T. Tilden II.. of Phila delphia, acknowledged as the world's champion and winner of the Amen. can championship in the annual tournament at Forest Hill, L. I., was the bright star of the year, Tilden won the international championship at Wimbledon, Er.g land, defeating the world's best olav ers. He then came here to dethrone William M. Johnston by winning his way through the ranks to the final round, from which he emerged brilliant victor. Johnston, the 1919 champion, and Clarence J. uriflin, his townsman from . San Francisco, annexed th national doubles title. . Vincent Richards, Yonkers star, won the junior title and Roland Roberts took the clay courts championship. In addition to annexing the out door title Tilden also won the in door singles championship and -with Kichards as .his partner took the in door doubles title as well. Women in Tennis. Mrs. Franklin I. Mailory, former ly Molla Bjurstedt, came back this year, winning the national women's singles title for the fourth time. Miss Helene Pollack of New York an nexed the women's indoor singles championship crown. In the national doubles1 Miss Zinderstein and Miss Eleanor Goss emerged the victors. Miss Pollock'and Mrs. L. G. Morris captured the national indoor doubles' championship. Briton Takes Home Coveted Golf Title. Golf returned to the high popu lar piane it enjoyed Detore the war. ' Tpe visits of the British golfers to this country and various American golfers to England and France aroused great interest. . v Edward ("Ted")' Ray, one of Eng land's i great profssionals, invaded our ranks and carried away one' of our coveted titles when he won the national open championship from the classiest field of players who ever entered an open tourney on this side of the Atlantic. With Ray carrte' the great Harry Vardon, who was the r.unner-up for the open title. The wonderful playing of these two Britons resulted in the final round for the title being fought out be tween Englishmen, while our best talent stood by and looked Tn. Charles ("Chick") , Evans came back in national amateur competi tion, winning the championship from a great field in which were Cyril Tolley, English amateur champion and Hope and Wetherel, invading Britons. Evans' victory was scored over a field that in cluded Francis Outmet. Bobby Jones, S. D. Herron, 1919 champien; Kob Uardner, former champion and runner-up in the British amateur tourney. ' Miss Alexa Stirling, the brilliant Atlanta player, again won the na- , BASE World's . Champions Cleveland Indians (American Leagut) " American League Cleveland. 77 National League Brooklyn. ! t American Association St. Paul. . 7 International League Baltimore. Pacific Coast League Vernon. Southern 'Association Little Rock. Z Westetrn League Tulsa. v Eastern Leagues New Haven. , Central League Grand Rapids. 7.7, Three-I League Bloomington. South Atlantic League Columbia, Piedmont League (first half) Greensboro. TJS Piedmont League (second half) Raleigh. Western Association - (final) Enid. ' I Hw "Xf ichigan-Ontario League London. Pacific International League Victoria, n f Virginia League (final) Portsmouth. . West Texas League (final) Ranger. , sw .Texas League Fort Worth. 77 - South Dakota League Mitchell. Blue Ridge League Hagerstown. ' Western Canada League (final) Calgary. 77 Florida State League Tampa. 1 Champion Batsman (American League) George Sisler, St. Louis.Ji ChimDion Batsman (National League) Rogers Hornsby. St. Louis.L: Champion Home Run Hitter Babe broke his own world s record wnen ne No African Golf for New York Yankees Crap shooting and other games of chance which are likely to keep ball players interested at night to the detriment of their playing on the fol lowing day are prohibited on the New York American league team, and Miller Huggins is going to put his foot down on them harder than ever next year. He says: ' "Crap snooting has done more harm to professional base ball than any other agency and I'll not permit it for a second while I'm in charge of the New York team," the midget manager said. "I remember dis tinctly a game which we lost in Washington last year, which, no doubt, was due solely to careless ness. After the game I learned that many of the players had pissed most of the night before rolling the Ala bama marbles and were not fit to give their best on the ball field. And it was surprising the way they -acted when I called them. It was for their own good and yet they felt quite put out about it. rtlll Barron naraded forth with new shining sphere Tuesday nlitht nd col lected 10 splits In his three Karnes, which made It touch for the Bowen Furniture team In their aririimont with the Omaha Towel Supply team. America and Abroad! liotfal women's tiile, defeating the. country's best playcrsv Miss Stir--- ., ling had previously captured the't southern and Canadian women's ti" ties. : Jessie Swectster of Yale captured, the intercollegiate title over the:X course of the Nassau Country club h and Princeton's golfers won thelj, team title over the same course. Walter 'llagen, erstwhile Ameri-! can open champion, won the French open championship. The British open title went to George Duncan. !?t Man o' War Proves Homself Great-tTi est Horse. Samuel D. Riddle's great Man o War, 2-year-old champion of 191V, ; proved himself even better as a" 3-year-old and took rank as the-;"" vyorld's greatest race horse. Throughout the racing season Man o' War stood in a class distinctly by himself and he wound-up the season T in a blaze of glory when he raced home ahead of Sir Barton, otfncd by Commander J. K. L. Ross, in their . , , great match race at Windsor, Can ada, for a purse of $75,000. The Preakness, the Withers, the Belmont and the Dwyer stakes were among Man o' War's most rotable -IT victories during the year. In his,l match race with Sir Barton Man o' Waf was backed to the extent of .7-, $150,000 on the mutucls alone. As a''T result of his wonderful victories .this ! year Man o' War takes rank with 7 the largest money winners in the his-: tory of the turf, ranking (fourth to'- Isinglass, Donovan and Rock SanA " with total winnings of $244,465. . r has started in 21 races and lost but., one, the Sanford Memorial at Sara toga in 1919. The big racing classics of th year- , were witnessed ty crowds of un- precedented size. Something over'ss 1,000,000 people witnessed the run-." ning" of the famous English Derby at?j Epsom Downs, won by Spion KopC No official count was ever taken oJJ this great crowd. Thirty thousandty people saw Man o War break the . world's record in the Belmont stakes at Belmont Park last June and 58,4if!. 000 watched Paul Jones win the". Kentucky Derby. Ed "S.trangler" Lewis,' of Louis-;'wv yillc, Kj, made wrestling history in New York on the night of Dc- cember 13, when - he pinned Joe- Stecher's shoulders to the mat after . one hour, 41 minutes and six sec-" onds of wrestling. Stecher "Tiad. previously won the title from Earl Caddock, defeating the Iowan at"- Madison Square Garden in January" of this year. Willie Hoppe, 18.2 balk-line h'xUm liard champion for 15 years, kept his seat at. the top of the billiard"' ladder. His foremost rivals, WclkcilJJ Cochran and Jake Stfhaefer, jr., were defeated this month in the finaL round of the annual national tourna-"- ment at the Hotel Astor, Hoppe. 7 winning with the same, easy graced that has cAiscd billiard devotees fthe world over to marvel. " The title of speed king for 192 was won by the late Gaston ChevftT--., rolet, who captured the champion- ship at Indianapplis on Decoration 3f day. Chevrolet was killed in a racj at Los Angeles on November 25, but"; even death could not rob him of the laurels he won at Indianapolis, when he captured the tamous 5UU. mile derby. Bob Spears took the world bike"'- tirie in Europe during the year anifC" Arthur Spencer won the national cycling title for the second time. '? lhe basket ball championship olm, the A. -A. , U. was won by New? York university. Pennsylvania uni-r -ersity won the national college;T. title. ' ' , BALL Ruth, New York Americans, who " Knocked out 54 home runs. Tryster Tops List I For Earning Money On American Tracks Racing; on the American ancj Canadian running turf during th season of 1920, was not .alone means of producing the greatest 3-ycar-old of the cetury but it wa .Dv,iaujr jjiuuuciivc in inc.. odd thing about this feature of th, sport was mat tor once an almost, equal number of championlike fillic" and colts were developed. Seventeen "baby" racers earner $10,000 or more in purse money las year. The unbeaten Tryster, ol course, topped the list with nearlv $50,000 'to his credit. Next to hintt came Leonardo II, followed in turn by Grey Lad, Careful, Step LightlyX and Prudery. Only three westernf; owned juveniles succeeded ia break ing into the charmed circle. namelvflT! Behave Yourself. Centimeter and re at I lieve Idle Hour. . fc, A To Harry Payne Whitney fell thff 4 honor of having bred, reared antiw owner! th 2-vpar.nlfl rlnmninn 7 1920. Trvstcr. son of Peter -Pn. ' Tryst, reigned supreme. HeiaceC the barrier six times during hi"? "baby." career, and was never. batt.-' i- j V (A