Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
BANNER YEAR IN SPORTS.

In the field of sports 1904 has been a
particularly successful year. The cham
pionship race in the American Base Ball
League was as close as any in the history
of 1.-The great American game Boston and
New York fighting for first place up to the
ninth inning of the last game, when Bos-
ton won out. In the National League New
York won, locing to Boston, however, on
the day following, when the championship
of the country was played off. One game
during the American League series was
particularly noteworthy. The Athletics of
Philadelphia, while playing Boston on the
Boston grounds, were shut out for neither
hit nor run, not one man reaching first.
Young, in the box for Boston, pitched an
errorless game, striking out fifteen of
tWenty-Seven batSmen
The foot ball season closes in not
wholly satisfactory way. Yale, having de-
feated Harvard and Princeton, stands NOM
inally as the eastern champion, but earlier
in the season she had herself lost to West
Point. On the other hand, the eleven of
the University of Pennsylvania which did
not meet Yale, has not lost a game, and
has been scored upon only once, through
goal from field in her contest with Swarth-
more. West Point won her annual game
with the middies. Michigan beat Wisconsin,
and on the Pacific coast, the University of
California lost to Leland Stanford.
The automobile records which have
been broken since the season opened have
been almost innumerable. The three most
notable achievements are: W. X. Wander
bits fast mile on Florida Beach in thirty
nine seconds, G. A. KeSsler's run from
Biarritz to Madrid GOO miles) in eleven
hours, ten minutes, and the nonstop rec
ord established by f. f. La Roache of
New York, who in fifteen days, two hours
covered $3.50 miles, 1,437 better than the
best earlier total. The year also saw the
greatest of the automobile races yet held
in this country, when, on October Z, the
first contest for the w. K. Vanderbilt cup
run over a 302-mile course on Long
Island. An American, George Heath, won
in five hours, twenty-six minutes and
forty-fVe seconds, one man being killed
and three injured during the race.
Other records have been lowered during
the year the track, both by men and
horses. Major Delmar and Lou Dillon
have each trotted mile in 2.O1A, Prince
Alert has paced a mile in 1.59k, and, just
as October was going out Dan Patch, at
Memphis, established figures which stand
as the fastest mile ever travelled by a
horse hitched to suIky, finishing in 1.56.
In the intercollegiate games held at the
University of Pennsylvania in June, and
in the Olympic games held at st. Louis
in August, the event was the exception
in which a record was not broken. In
connection with track sports it is to be
recalled that the Yale-Harvard team de-
feated the Oxford Cambridge men at Lon
don in July, winning six first places in
nine events.
The athletic surprises of the year seem
to have been confined to golf and tennis
Coming east from California, Miss May
Sutton captured all the tennis honors in
the Atlantic and middle states; Miss Char
lotte bod of England took the golf cham
pionship away from Miss Roma Adair, only
to lose it as promptly to Miss Pauline
Mackey; while the American, W. j. Travis
playing in England, easily conquered the
best of the amateurs in that home of the
ancient and royal game.