The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-25

succeeded in clinging to their
crowns, though Wilson holds an un-
certain position in that Ohio does
not recognize him as champion. pre-
terring to look upon Bryan Downey
as the legitimate title holder. The
| Downey-Wilson bout In Cleveland
was a very unsatisfactory affair. and
their later meeting in Jersey City
was a farce.
Extra! Giants Beat Yanks.
For the first time in the history of
modernized baseball New York
monopolized the worlds series.
John McGraw piloted his Giants
to the National league champion
ship. and the New York Yankees
captured the first American league
pennant the metropolis has ever
he'd,
What happened in the worlds Sc
| ries occurred too recently for re-
counting here except to record once
more that McGraw's team took the
Yanks into camp in five out of eight
games and annexed their second
| worlds title under the guidance of
the scrappy little manager who has
| governed the destinies of the team
since 1908.
In the little worlds series between
Baltimore and Louisville, champions
respectively OF the international
league and the American associa
ton. the Kentucky Colonies came
off victorious.
Babe Ruth, though he failed to
star in the worlds series, got his
share of glory out of the season by
smashing his own home run record
of 54 circuit swats The big slugger
hammered out a total of SO homers
during the regular American league
season and added one in the worlds
series.
Rogers Hornsby OF the st. Louis
| Cardinals grabbed the batting
championship of the National league
for the second time. and Harry He'll
| man OF Detroit nosed out Ty Cobb
for the American league batting
crown.
The interest shown in baseball in
1920 was upheld during the recent
season in both major and minor
leagues, and the magnates for the
most part had something on the
right side of the ledger when sched-
ules came to close. The tendency
on the part OF some minor league
magnates to spend more money than
they could well afford, however, ate
up funds that should have gone
down as profits, and President Mich
ael Sexton OF the National associa-
tion of Professional Baseball leagues
has recommended a policy OF re-
trenchment for 1922 as a result.
The Buffalo meeting of the minor
leagues brought forth some aston
ishing deals, and while the much
talked-of $150,000 Groh-Burns-Go
zales deal between the Giants and
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the purchase OF First Baseman
O'Connell from San Francisco by
New York for $4,000 cash and 1929
delivery, and other deals with coast
league clubs by the majors set some
thing of a record. These deals In
volved s16O,000 and some players,
as follows:
Some Record Deals.
O'Connell, first baseman
and outfielder, sold by
San Francisco 10 New
York Nationals. ......,..$ $4,000
Caveney, shortstop, sold by
San Francisco to Cincin-
ana Geary ...........,. $4,000
Pinelli, third baseman, sold
for % players and ...".., 10000
Johnson and Pillette, pitch
ers, sold by Portland to
DetroIt for ............ 10000
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Jock Hutchison Bright Star I'm Golf
Jock Hutchison, the Chicago pro
, fessional. was the outstanding fig
ure in the links game during the
year.
Jock the Hutch went to England
and captured the British open cham
pionship at ST. Andrews, being the
first player from the United states
10 accomplish the trick. As re-
suit he took place at the head of
the list OF the worlds best golfers
Jim Barnes, who won the Ameri-
: can open title at Chevy Chase. took
J rank next TO Hutchison in profes'
, sional circles. and Jesse Guilford
J the Boston player, who captured the
; American amateur title al St. Louis
shared the honor OF being regarded
as the years best amateur player
with Willie Hunter. who won the
British amateur tourney.
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