The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-26
Present Year Sets Pace
 For All Others In Sports
Baseball More Popular Than Ever With Babe Ruth the Spectacular Star-Man o O'War Astonishes Turf
 Big Revival In Boxing

New York, Oct. 2e-what year in sport.
 With the football season half over this country is witnessing the last long gasp of the most remarkable sporting year in it's history.
 Events that have occurred on the diamond, on track and field. on the turf, on tennis courts and golf links, and on the water have made sport hls- tory of other years pale by compari- son.
 The fact that this is a Presidential year and that the country is still in the midst of the reconstruction period following the World War has not de- tracted one iota from public interest another such events have been staged amid scenes and under conditions that outshine anything in the past
 The homage paid to such stars of sport as Babe Ruth, Iris Speaker and his Cleeland Indians, Georges War and others has been astonlsh- ing.
 While it is impossible to begin to estimate correctly the number of millions who have, witnessed sports throughout the great land of ours or the millions of dollars that have been taken in at the box offices and turnstiles, it is altogether safe to say
 
 previous records have been shattered.
 Baseball The Rage.
 Baseball. the rage of the nation. enjoyed one of its best years The worlds series was staged in a blaze of glory, and that with the cloud of the 1919 worlds series scandal hang ing over the game. But the Indians and Dodgers played the 1920 series on it's merits, and the game itself S too big to be mortally hurt by the tra work of 3 few hlaT5S and small group of weak-caar- acter players who listened to the voice of the. tempter. The races in both major leagues were followed final outcome was not known in either league until the Dodgers and Indians were practically under the shadow of the pennant pole. Like leagues throughout the country were followed by the fans in the various sections with keenest interest. The minors had a great year. Babe Ruth.
 The one big individual feat in base ball was Babe Ruth's shattering of the world s-his own-home-run record with a grand total of fifty four circuit clouts.
 The race for the batting champion ships, won by George Sisler and Rogers Hornsby, of the rival St. Louis clubs, was another feature. Man O. War. In much the same manner as Ruth holds the center of the stage in the realm of baseball as an individual star, Man O. War, Samuel D. Rid dle's great racing stallion, looms uI as a flashing comet of .unequalled champion after winning every classic in which he was entered, defeated Commander J. K. l.. Ross's great horse, Sir Barton, at Windsor, Can. on Columbus Day, in the greates1 match race that has ever been TUT | in this country.
 Horse racing, both on the tur1 and in the harness division enjoyed i tory in America. Many thousands of racing fans have watched the bis blue ribbon events of the year in the East, West. South and in Cuba. | Boxing Revival 1 Boxing, although it had it's req comeback last year and was revived 1 to noticeable degree through tht | winning Of the worlds champoinshil by Jack Dempsey, has enjoyed { most wonderful year. The invasion O MislSe fight and the. Carpentier-Le whisky fight have been the higl lights of the year in boxing up t' | this writing. The comeback of thu game in New York State, with law permitting fifteen-round bout to a decision, added stimulus to box | ing, also.
 Il Olympic Games.
 The Olympic games at Antwerp ant | the winning of the track and 1elt
 championship of the world by tn | American team was a feature of tn l year. But for the fact that the fore
 most nations of the world outside o | the United States were unable to com pete against the Yankees with tn
 same strength they showed in othe
 years. thanks to the fact that man.
 of them lost star athletes on the bat II tlefields, there would have been ever
 greater interest in the Seventh Olym
 piad. The American team was su preme. It had it's trials, of course
 but it also had it's victories and il !, victory many things can be over | looked.
 Yacht Races. . The international yacht races of Sandy Hook, which saw the ReSolut safely defend the Americas Gu against Shamrock ", Sir ThoH1a l LiPson's entrant, created worId-wid
 interest.
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