The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-01
1920 Is Banner
 Year for Sport
Every Kind of Athletics Has Had Greatest Success
 of Years
Fly JAMES J. CoRBETT

The year 1920 will thunder dowr
 through history as the greatest sportive year of all time--a season when just about everything that could happen did transpire.
 And the public responded to the re- markable workings in the reaml ol sport in way that has enriched prac- tically- every man identified with the professional end of the games All receipt records for major league 1 ball games were fractured in the sea son just gone. Just how much the six teen big league owners amassed in profits is something which they alone can state positively. But it's safe to guess that the total net profits have gone beyond $10,0Oo,0oo which, split sixteen ways. would mean an average of $6OO,000 for each club.
 l But of course that didn't happen l Teams like the Giants, Yankees, Dodg- CTS, White Sox, Indians and Reds made I infinitely more profit than tail-enders ! like the Athletics, Tigers, Phillies and l Red Sox But even the lowly teams gathered in handsome returns on their | investment.
 1 The year 1920 witnessed Man O War 1 the greatest race horse of all time 1 Babe Ruth. the greatest slugger of any | age, and Jack Dempsey, the most ter 1 rifle punching warrior that ever drew on glove, in action at the same time 1 And that in itself is epoch making. OTHER THINGS While Ruth smashed all existing cir
 cult records, and while Bill Wambs- | ganss of the Indians executed an unas- sisted triple play in a world series, l Man O War raced to one worlds mark l after another, there were. other things | to enthrall the sport loving populace. l Olympic games were played in Flu | roe, and those who were there saw al ! most countless records shattered: saw 1 almost unbelievable marks hung UT l for speed and endurance, And as ans 1 other feature of the sportive year, an l international yacht race-the first in nearly a decade-was staged off the Long Island shores.
 Golf and tennis matches throughout | the land provoked some of the most brilliant playing ever witnessed. It seems as if all those who participated in those affairs, sensing that this was the year of years in sportdom, put forth their best efforts, and then went a bit beyond--so as to make those de- partments of athletic America remem- bered for truly great performances in 1920.
 Horse racing, ever popular through out the land. never knew crowds of the sort that patronized the tracks all around the country Day after day. week after week, all through the year that the horses have been whizzing around, the eutpourings have battered one record after another into the dis card.
 And everywhere that boxers fought the multitude was present--in vastly increasing numbers. Every fistic bat tie, no matter who was involved, lured mob greater in size than attended
 championship clashes in the days
 gone by
 FOOTBALL And now that the melancholy days have come. and football grabs the spot lege game. Everywhere throughout the land the attendance at the early and non-important games so far has been greater than it was in the other years when the classic battles were being staged. And all the while the coffers of the athletic associations are bulging more, and yet more. There've been great sporting years in the past; some that were great because of attendance marks that were made; some that are remembered because of records established. But in no one year in the all sporting history has there been so many marvolus happenings, so
 much record smashing. such park ca pacity throngs. as in 1920, the greatest sportive year of them all.
 Copyright, 1920, by King Features Syndicate, Incl