Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-03
AMERICAN CHAMPIONS OF 1909.
TopIiners Produced in Every Glass of
 Sports.

A resume of the athletic field for the past year shows the following list of champions:
 Ring Events.
 Boxing-Heavyweigh Jack Johnson. Chicago; lightweight, Battling Nelson, Hegeswich, H.; featherweight. Abe Attell. St. Louis, Mo.
 Wrestling-Frank Gotch, Humboldt, Iowa.
 Field and Track.
 All Around Athletics-Martin J. Sheridan, sh-American A. c.
 legiate-Harvard.
 Horse Racing-Colt, Fitzherbert; lilly, Maskette.
 Trotting-Hamburg Belle.
 Pacing-Minor Heir. Kramer. East Orange. N. J.; Six Day, Walter Rutt and Jack Clark; Amateur, Percy Lawrence, San Francisco.
 Professional Paced Cycling-E1mer
 Motorcycling - Jacob Desrosier. Springfield. Mass.
 MotorcycIing Huyck, Chicago.
 Cross Country-Amateur w. J. Kra- mer, Acorn A. A; Intercollegiate. T. Irish American; Intercollegiate Team, Cornell.
 o-Meadowbrook.
 FootbalI-Ya1e
 Marathon Racing-Henrf St. Yves, France.
 Automobile Racing-George Robert son, New York.
 Tennis, Racquets, Golf.
 Golf-Amateur, Robert Gardner Yale; open. George Sargent. Hyde Manor, vt.;' Miss Dorothy Campbell North Berwick, Scotland.
 Tennis-Singles, William A. Larned Orange, N. J.; doubles, H. H. Hackett and F. B. Alexander, Brooklyn; wo- mems singles, Miss Hazel Hotchkiss Par-1-n -nIn (NS1 aBe r1< RT Hazel Hotchkiss and Miss Rotch Bos- ton; mixed doubles, Miss Hotchkiss and W. F. Johnson, university of Pennsylvania. York; Miss Marie Wagner New York; doubles W. c. Grant and T. R. PelI, New York.
 Racquets-H. F. Mccormick, chica- go university.
 Water Sports. .Rowiing-singles, John W. O'Neil, St. Mary's A. A. and A. club, Halifax, N. s.; eights, New York Athletic club; intercollegiate, Cornell Motor Boat-Dixie III.. E. J. Schroe- der Jersey City
 Yacht-Joyette (sonderk1asse), W. H. Childs. Bensonhurst Yacht club.
 Water Polo-Chicago A. A.
 High Diving-A. Mccormack, Chi cago A. A.
 Swimming M. Daniels. New York A. C..
 Miscellaneous.
 Basebal1-Ty Cobb, Detroit, Ameri- can league: Pittsburg.
 Roque-H. Bosworth, New London, Conn.
 Lacrosse-Crescent A. c.
 Archery-George L. Bryant, Boston. Miss Harriet Case. New York.
 Trap Shooting-Amateur, G. s. Me- Carthy. Philadelphia; professional, Fred Gilbert, Spirit Lake, Iowa; inter collegiate team. Yale university. asketball-Columbia. Chess-EmanueI Lasker, New York Court Tennis-Jay Gould, Lakewood. N. J.
 Skat-Charles F. Gruner, Chicago. Whist-C. A. Gilman and N. S. Kelly, American Whist club, Boston; wo- mems club pairs, Omaha Whist club Gymnastics-Frank Jirasek, Rohe- milan Gym Sokol; intercollegiate, H. $. Schoonmaker, Columbia. Hockey-Amateur. New York A. C.; intercollegiate, Harvard. Skating-Speed, Edmund Lamy Saranac Lake, ". T.; figure, Arthur Williams, Newark. N J.; women's Miss Robina Leonard, Cleveland Pool-Thomas Hueston. St. Louis Mo. Billiards-1s1, George Sutton. Chi cago; 1S.2, Calvin Demarest, Chicago; three-cushion. Alfred De Orc. New York. Fencing-o. A. Dickinson. West Point; intercollegiate team, West 1 Point Revolver Shoeting-Lieut. R. H. Sayre, New York.
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