The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-31
GREAT SPORT YEAR
Baseball. Track and Scandal
Records Broken.
Football Comes Back Into
Former Glory.

Champions for 1912.
Amateur athletics jim Thorpe.
AerOplane, Jules Vedrines.
AUtonObii:nG, Ralph DePalma.
Billiards, amateur. J. f. PogSenburS.
Billiards, professional, 1872 ". Hoppe.
Billiards, pro- I31, o. Morningstar.
Billiards, thTee-cushicn, John Horgan.
Billiards, pocket, Arthur Il. Hyman.
Bicycle. Frank Kramer.
Bowling. Larry Sutton
Boxing, lightweight, Willie Richie
Boxing. featherWeight, J. Kilbane
Boxing, bantamweight. ]. Coulon.
Golf, amateur, Jerome j. Travers.
Golf. open. J. J. McDermott.
Golf. western, Charles e. Evans.
Murphy.
Jockey, Peter Hin.
Motorcycle. Ray Seymour
Bowling, professional Ernest Barry.
Rowing, amateur, r. b Butler.
Shooting, rifle, Corporal s. Long.
Shooting, revolver, George armstrong.
Swimming. Duke Kahanamoku
Tennis. men, Maurice Mclaughlin.
Tennis, women. national Mary Browne.
Wrestling, Frank Gotch.
Sensation. scandal and runaway races
featured the baseball season of 1912, viii n
would have bOrdered On the monotonOus
II unusual events had not enliVened Ii.
Bostons Red Sox and New Yorils Giants
supplied the TunawayS, the White SoT.
Cubs, Cincinnati and Detroit furnishe
the leading sensations and r.. FogeI pro-
vided the scandal
The year was also notable for several
uncommon performances by players ia
the way of pitching and base stealing,
for the frequent changing of managers
INDUCED in by club owners, and for the
organization of new players union
along fraternaI lines as a result of the
one day strike engineered by the Tigers
The Red Sox We're the continuous sur
pclse OF the season With few changes.
except in the ownership and management
of the team, it was converted from sec
0nd division into Il worlds championship
outfit. Under the leadership of Jake I
wi III II, Loo no
the Bost0uians started the season at u |
merry clip and kept Increasing their speed |
until they had the pennant cinched. Tney |
crowned their performance by coping d /
worlds series which required eight games |
10 decide il. The previous limit had been
seven combats.
Stahls mon ran second from the start |
until June 10, then grabbed the lead ard !
were never knocked out of it. They
cinched their American League title S~I:
TENDER Is and followed it by beating tie
Giants four out OF eight games, ore ii
which resulted in q draw. The deciding
combat went ten innings before S1od-
grass made himself notorious by dropping
that S2O.OG0 fly ball.
Tie Giants were no surprise They were I,
expected to repeat. with some opposition
from Pittsburg and Chicago and they
did. .dcGraws men started out to repeat
hard they nearly broke up the league |
in the middle OF the season
Football Again Successful.
TIE football season of 1912 win go down
in history as the most successful and sat
isfactory since the rules were changed
in the winter of 1906. The caliber u
football played by the leading eleveGs
old regime since the forward pass ana
ten-yard rule were inaugurated.
Most of the attacks were directed on ,
and off the tackles with four downs al
lowed to make the required distance, ten
yards. Few Of the teams took chances
OF losing the ball with chance plays in
which the forward pass was the priIi-
c:pal factor.
concentrated attacks of the tackles
were used for gains in all of the big
games. and although the man with the ;
ball could not be pushed or pulled. most
Of the backs had enough drive in their
attacks to make ground even when o2-
position was met.
In the central west. Wisconsin won the y
undisputed championship of the confer 8
ence colleges. The Badgers went through /
the season without a defeat, winning by I
Although Wisconsin can lay claims to $
the western title. Michigan and Notre |
Dame hardly can be overlooked. The L
wolverines did not play any of the Big Q
Nine elevens and it is hard to compare i
them with the Badgers. Not-e Dame was a
by a strong and powerful ag-
sregation, one which would have been
a worthy opponent for any team in the e
\
Nebraska took the laurels in tie Mis- s
souri, Valley conference. The Cornhuskels $
played consistent football all season and | II
theiT right to the title was not disputed. q
except by Ames. South Dakota. althoug'. Z
not a member of the organiza ton, hal
me of the strongest eIevens west of the a
Mississippi river. South Dakota won from c.
and held Michigan to a Z to d
score. p
Vanderbilt ruled supreme in the south.
The Comm odores met and defeated the
aggregations south of the Ma
son and Dixon line and gave Harvard Z
one OF its hardest games of the season.
aTEansas and Mississippi were represent
ID by strong elevens which played Gocd
'ootball all year. r
In the east. Harvard captured the titl' n
With one of the best teams developed at \
Cambridge in years. The Crimson team D
Won from Yale and Princeton in the big IL
James. while other elevens were defeated ! w
" decisive scores te
3S Track Records Broken. o.
Thirty-eight track and field records sc
we're broken or equaled during 1912. OF | rs
his number tEirty-Cne marks were shat
cred and seven tied. In track events ret ! -
rds in seventeen events went by the -,
loards. and on the field fourteen marks a
we're hung up. The total number exceeds a
hal OF 1911 by seven. pl
Competition in the Olympic games re &C
ulted in eight new worlds records the &;
cSts- Only seven of these are regarded III
: Olympic marks. The eighth was in the
s0-yaTd run, in which James Meridi,h
Tipped the time after lowering the rec
RI in the S39-meter event.
America for the fifth time succeeded in III
resting the world honors from the othe: NJ
stfons, scoring seven less points than il
II the other countries combined. On tC- CT
II scores. which included all conpeti- CT
ons, Sweden won first place. beating the al
-nited States by four points. America | oy