The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-30

nlrelingS or Connie Mack. StalllnES ana his team clearly demonstrated a su- periority in every department of the game over the Athletics.
 Football Reyerses
 In football there perhaps has never been a season of greater reverses. One week a fresh-water college would beat star team and the next week vice versa. At the end of the season experts went wild over picking a championship team until it whs declared that there was no such animal
 However. 1t seems the consensus of opinion of the experts that in the east Harvard by it's overwhelming victory over Yale reserves premier honors. all though Dartmouth must also he con sidered a worthy contender. In the west the University of Illinois went through the season undefeated and was easily the class of the western teams. Auburn for the second consecutive season won the championship of the south.
 Maurice E. Mclaughlin won the ten- his crown. although he was defeated in the Davis cup trials last August Francis Ouimet won the French oper golf championship as well as the anna teur championship of America. How ever, his colors were lowered by the spectacular Walter Hagen in .hs na- tiona1 open golf tournament at the Midlothian Country club.
 Jay Gould, the worlds amateur court tennis champion, maintained with con sistency his form of the past three years by decisively defeating George F. Covey of England for the open title Young Gould is now the undisputed court tennis champion of the world.
 Prior to the outbreak of the European war England sent over the Hurlingamt Polo club, which succeeded with ridicu- lous ease in regaining the internationa polo cup. Another English sport sue cess was the winning of the college re lay title when the English runners de. feated the quartet of the University oi Pennsylvania.
 Horse racing "came back in the past year. Clever lawyers were able to find loop-holes in the anti-racing laws ol many states and the sport of kings prom ised to regain it's former supremacy. II the Grand circuit races Directum I out paced all the other entries. With the speeders in the automobile game. new daredevil driver came te public notice in Eddie Pullen, wh' | cleaned up in the Santa Monica races il l California However, Ralph De Palma Barney Oldfield and other intrepid driv | CTS maintained their regulations of pas years.
 Lengthy Reports 1 The records of the varied sports ar, l lengthy, but it suffices to state publi | opinion now is firmly entrenched behind amateur sports. Amateur baseball is re ceiving more and more attention and thu developing of the playground ides | throughout the cities of the United State is bringing other sports into the clear amateur ranks and with it public sup | port.
 | Boxing long a strictly professona sport, is meeting amateur competition | Wrestling is also finding the inroads O amateurs irxsome. Basketball five year ago was a profitable professional sport and many athletes made large salaries ] playing the game. However, high school and playgrounds have started turnin' | out amateur basketball quintets that hal | quickly dispelled the popularity of tn professionals In other words the pas year has shown that the public will sup | port with greater alacrity amateur spor | in preference to the professionals witl Kits necessary taint of commercialism l The various record-makers in thu sporting world-amateur and profes sional--in the past year follows:
 Baseball | Worlds Champions-Boston Braves. 1 National League Champions-Bostoi l Braves.
 | American League Champions--Phila | delphia Athletics.
 l Champion Eastman, National Leagu Jake Daubert.
 Champion Batsman. American Leagu Try Cobb.
 1 Football l Harvard of east; Illinois of west; Au | burn of south.
 Tennis l Worlds hampion-Maurice E. Nc Loughlin
 National Singles Champion-R. Nor ris Williams II.
 | National Doubles Champion-Mauric E. OLoughlin and T. c. Bundy National Womens Champions--N. r Brookes and A. F. Wilding.
 Golf National Amateur Champion-F'ran cis Ouimet.
 National Women's Champion-Mrs Arnold H. Jackson.
 l National Open Champion-Walte