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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-31
GREATER HEIGHTS REACHED
BY AMERICAN ATHLETES IN
DEFENDING Their LAURELS

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following international competition reach
than
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was nipped at the semi-fnal. Hun
ter went that far, being defeated by
Robert A. Gardner of Onwentsia on
the second last day of the cham
pionship play at the st. Louis Coun-
try club. The following day Gard
ner lost the 35-hole final to Jesse
Guilford of the Woodland Golf club,
Boston, the margin in favor of the
Siege Gun" being up and 6 to
play.
Equally successful were the
women in repelling the invasion of
their domain by Miss Cecil Leitsch.
In the British championship which
she won, and again in Canada, Miss
Leitsch had beaten Miss Alexa
Stirling, holder from 1915 until last
October of the American women's
championship The British cham
pion had also beaten Miss Marion
Hollins at Turnberry, Scotland, but
on the links of the Hollywood Golf
club at Deal, N. j., Miss Leitsch
was turned back by Mrs. F. c..
Let's, Jr., of Chicago, Miss Hollins
going through the meeting to de-
feat Miss Stirling in the 36-hole
final and thereby to annex her first
national crown. The margin in ia
vor Of Miss Hollins in the final was
5 up and to play.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-31

after that, though their pennant
wasn't clinched until the day be-
fore the sea son ended.
The worlds series, therefore, was
played in New York, the second
time in modern history for the
teams of the same city to grapple
in the classic The other time was
in 1906 when Chicago had a mo-
nopoly of the series. The Yankees
won the first two games of the 1921
series. The Giants won the next
two and made it even. The Yanks
won the fift& and that was their
last victory, for the Giants then
took three straight and became
worlds champions.
There was no talk of a lively ball
in this series The pitching was
extraordinarily good. Mays and
Hoyt of the Yankees and Douglas,
Nehf and Barnes of the Giants
pitched brilliantly. The Giants won
because they had three good pitch
ers to the Yankees two. An I'M
looked for hero developed in the
person of John Rawlings, the
Giants second baseman and just an
ordinary player. Babe Ruth, suf-
fering from a severe injury to his
arm, did not play the full series
and his absence handicapped the
Yankees materially.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-31
BASKETBALL

The passing year has witnessed
a remarkable progress in the field
of basketball In the search for a
sport to bridge over the hard win
ter months between the football
and baseball seasons, schools, col
leges, Y. NJ. c. AS and athletic
clubs have been attracted in I'M
usual numbers to the popular in
door game. Basketball, with its
tendency to combine the team work
of football, the strategy of baseball
and the speed and fascination of
hockey. has within 12-month
reached that stage of popularity
where a single game in New York
attracted 10000 spectators.
In the eastern colleges during
the last year basketball was gen
orally conceded to have had the
best year in its history. The Uni
versity of Pennsylvania quintet re-
peated it's triumphs in the Intercol-
legiate league, winning the cham
pionship for the third consecutive
season and established an undis-
puted title to the premier honors
in basketball circles. Its clear-cut
victory over the New York univer-
sity team, winners of the 1920 ma
tfonaI A. A. u championship, dis
PEELED all doubt as to the superior
calibre of the Red and Blue five.
AS in the higher institutions of
learning, the indoor cage game has
found an increasing number of dew
otees among the thousands OF prep
school athletes With so many col
leges adopting basketball as ma
jor sport, the youngsters in the sec
ondary schools have given more of
their time to the game, with the re-
suit that better and more expert
enced players are entering the col
leges and greater competition has
developed in che schools.
Outside OF tie educational insti-
tutions and athletic clubs, basket
ball has WITHIN the last year taken
an abnormal hold upon the sport
loving public. Professional basket
ball games have been patronized
by vast numbers of fans enthusiast
tic over the fascinating game, and
hundreds of athletes have banded
into teams travelling long distances
for competition. The public is
about ready to grant basketball
recognition as major sport.
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bouts in the heavyweight class is
not promising, Is there is not a
man in the world with enough
class to meet the present champion.
The light heavyweight class is
dormant, Harry Greb and Battling
Levinsky both claiming title. Greb
is eager for a match with Levin
sky, but the latter is backward.
Johnny Wilson's hold on the
middleweight title is precarious,
and yet he will probably be recog-
nized as the holder till he meets
some good man.
Benny Leonard's disinclination to
box has put a damper on light
weight competition, although the
best men in the class, including
Kansas, Tender, Friedman and
others are eager for action.
Johnny Kilbane has, no intention
of risking his title outside of his
native state, and there is no chance
OF any activity in that class till he
voluntarily retires.
The bantam title has changed
hands with great frequency. Lynch
won the honors from Pete Herman,
but the New Orleans boy regained
the honors in a return bout. Then
Johnny Buff, who had gained the
fyweight title of America by de-
feating all the best men in the
class, fought Herman for the ban
tam honors and won in 15-round
bout to a decision.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-31
TRAP SHOOTING

Organized trapshooting enjoyed
the greatest popularity in the an
nails of this splendid sport during
the season just closed Every sec
ton of the country was represent
ed by the pick OF their performers
when the Grand American tourna-
ment took place at the South Shore
Country club. Chicago.
The outstanding feature of the
1921 season was the great perform
ance of Me Arei of ,Kingman, Ariz,
who won both the single champion
ship and the 1S-yard championship
In winning these classic events he
broke 1913 out of 800 in each event
The new champion has been a well
known figure in the game for sew
eral years. His brother vas also
classed as one OF the greatest anna
teur shots and at the last Olympic
games won the worlds champion
ship. On his return from the 1920
Olympic contests he turned PROBES
sional
Among the women competitors
the performances of Mrs. Z. L.
King stand out as the best ever
turned in by woman. Her finest
performance of the season came in
the Minnesota state handicap.
Standing up on her native soil she
competed against the best made
shots of the state and all were
forced to bow to her proves from
the 1S0-yard mark The Minnesota
champion met her match and d
little more, however, when she fac
ed Mrs. Toots Randall Of New York
in the national womens champion
ship. for the New York woman
broke SO. cut Of the see saExatz.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-31
LAWN TENNIS

Superlatives are often used care
lessly in reviewing a sport period
that has just passed into history
One is often so impressed with the
spectacular and other unusual feat
ures of a current season that its
importance is likely to be exagger-
ated and that of past years forgot
ten. Yet, with that caution in mind
one cannot hesitate to say that the
season of 1921 was by far the great
est in lawn tennis history in this
country.
With more tournaments than
ever before on the list of sanction
ed events, with attendance records
beaten, with a dozen countries, six
more than any previous year, chal-
longing for the international Davis
cup held by the United States, and
with five of those challenging ma
tons sending their teams on to this
country for the Davis cup prelim-
inarieS and finals, with the wom-
ems national championship lifted
out of obscurity into the light of
great interest, with new tennis
courts by the hundreds in munich
pal parks, in schools, colleges and
on factory lots, and with statistics
showing more than a million resi-
dents of the country actually play
ing the game, the use of superla-
tives in describing the season is
CONNIE il faut.
AS to the achievements of the
American tennis stars in 1921 there
were many. Without the loss of a
match the American Davis cup
team of William T. Tilden, William
NJ. Johnston, r. Norris Williams
and Watson NJ Washburn defend
ed the international trophy success
fully just as they had gone the
previous season unbeaten in their
successful challenge for the cup.
In the American national cham
pionship the best of the foreign
players were bowled over and Will
liam T. Tilden, worlds and nation
al champion, retained his title. In
the women's national championship
bur Mrs. Franklin l. Mallory decis-
lively outplayed the hitherto inyinc
ible Mile. Suzanne Lenglen of
France and also retained her title.
Then, too, Tilden won the British
championship for the second time
in succession and added the worlds
hard court title to his list of sue
cesSes.
Ratings of players not only by
but by foreign critics
show clearly that the majority of
the worlds top-notchers are resi-
dents of this country. The United
States not only stands at the top at
present, but apparently has plenty
of tennis reserves and budding in
material available. 1t
has been a great season for the
rise of youthful stars, with Vincent
Richards the notable example
among the men and Miss Helen
Wills of California among the
Not so many years ago a game
for the socially prominent, the
sport has taken hold among the
rank and file and has made aston
ishing strides. Its adaptability to
all ages and all surroundings and
the healthful, vigorous exercise it
affords have combined to furnish a
strong appeal. More and more the
game as played by its leading ex-
ponents has come to be recognized
as a thrill providing spectacle and
the attendance figures for the
prove it.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-31
MOTOR BOATING

With speed records established
for nearly every class of motor boat
and with the international trophy
successfully defended. America cas-
lily led in motor boat racing in 1921.
There was unprecedented activity
throughout the country, with De-
troit as usual the center of the high
speed hydroplanes and New York
and Miami the leading cities for the
runabout and ocean cruiser types.
Records began to fall early in
February when one runabout, the
Orlo II, attained 8 speed of Al miles
and when the express cruiser Gar
Jr. reached q speed OF 41S miles
over mile course and 328 miles
in an ocean race from Miami to
Palm Beach and return. These
marks were further improved at
the Buffalo regatta when in the
runabout class the 0rlo III hung
up a record Of 57.7ss miles per
hour in a one-mile dash, and when
another runabout. the Rainbow.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-31
BASEBALL

The year 1921 was another of
marked baseball prosperity. Times
were none too good and the attend
ance, in the major leagues at least,
was not as large as in 1920, the
biggest year in the games history.
Yet 1921 was an exceptionally pros
porous year. Exciting races IN Ooth
the National and American bodies
helped to make it so, and the nat
ural and healthy growth of base
ball interest as a national pastime
and institution has reached 'such
large and fixed proportions that
patronage can be, with certain vac
illations, counted on as permanent
ly large.
The 1921 season in the big
leagues was featured by the hard,
plucky and successful pennant
fights made by the two New York
clubs, clubs which later met in the
world series; by the presence of an
alleged lively ball and by such ex-
traordinarily long distance hitting
that that hitting was attributed to
the resiliency OF the bali.
The season also was marked for
a considerable part of it by pitch
ing of a distinctly mediocre quail
ity, which had as much to do with
the harder hitting as any addition
al liveliness the baseball may have
acquired incidental to its manufac-
ture. The season turned out more
heavy hitters and more base hits
than any predecessor.
The National league race was
won by the Giants, who wiped out
a long and seemingly insurmount-
able lead held by the Pittsburgh
Pirates and made a wonderfully
strong finish. 1t was a stern chase,
however, and it wasn't until week
before the season was over that the
Giants had their championship won.
The Yankees in the American
league were equally game and won
their pennant after a nerve strain
ing race With the Cleveland Indians
all season. First one team then
the other was in the lead. and in
their last series with the then
champions the Yankees outgamed
them and fixed themselves il first
place. They were not dislodged
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-31
BOXING

The events Of the roped square
during the last year were sensa-
tional The chief event was the
contest between Jack Dempsey,
worlds heavyweight champion, and
Georges Carpenter, heavyweight
champion of Europe, which Demp-
sey won by a knockout sin the
fourth round. The battle took
place in Tex Richards arena,
Boyles' Thirty Acres, Jersey City,
and was witnessed by 10000 per-
sons, the largest crowd that ever
attended a boxing match or any
other sporting event in America.
The result OF the bout showed
conclusively that the Frenchman
was completely outciassed by
Dempsey. and while Carpenter
made a courageous fight. he never
had a chance.
The outlook for future title
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-31
GOLF

For the United States this has
been a banner year in golf, a year
which has seen the American col
ors hoisted to the peak not oily at
home but abroad as well. Away
back in 1904 Walter J. Travis scor-
ed a miraculous victory in theBrit-
ish amateur mpionship-l1irac-
ulous for the fact that the success
never has been duplicated by one
of the unpaid" and not until this
year had been in any way ap-
preached in any other of the Brit
ish championships by a player rep
resenting the United States. But
this time, through Jock Hutchinson,
professional at the Glen View club
of Chicago, American golf was made
supreme
Hutchinson had to play off tie
with Roger Wethered, the Oxford
amateur, but the main thing is that
he won, and by his victory he
brought the British open champion
ship to the American continent for
the first time in history. This,
moreover, marked the second occa-
sion on which the trophy had been
S1l L leu OuI VI bIAldIl1, Mas
sy of France being the first to &C
complish this feat several years
ago.
Tom Kerrigan of Siwanoy was
third, and, therefore, winner Of the
second prize, while Walter Hagen
and Jim Barnes also finished in the
money, while the majority Of the
American-entrants did we'll.
And while America was so singu-
larly successful in the open cham
pionship abroad she also saw to it
that the British invaders when they
arrived to play in the open cham
pionship at Columbia Country club
were not allowed to become dan
gerous. Jim Barnes won the title
with a grand total of 2S9 and with
nine strokes to spare. Walter Ha-
gen and Fred Mcleod tying. for sec
ond place.
Although in the prize list George
Duncan, the 1920 British open title
holder, was nowhere when it came
to challenging the title, while Abe
Mitchell was forced to pick up in
the second round. Joe Kirkwood,
the Australian champion, also fin
ished far down.
A place in the last eight was the
best that fell to the American ANA
teurs in their attack on the British
title at Hoylake, but in the inter
national contest which preceded
the championship the team from
the United States smothered the
British side.
At home an invasion by at least
two of the prominent British anna
tours, Willie Hunter, victor in the
tournament at Hoylake, and T. D.
Armour OF Edinburgh, Scotland,
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CROSS COUNTRY

The outstanding feature of the
1921 hill and dale season was the
sensational performances of the
Cornell university barriers. For
many years the pupils of John
Moakley have cleaned up in the
cross country game, but this sea
son saw the Ithacans sweep all be-
fore them in such a decisive man
ner that leaves no room for doubt
OF their clean cut superiority over
all opponents.
After winning all their dual
meets the Comedians met every
representative barrier combination
OF note in the intercollegiates,
which were held over the Van
Cortlandt course. In this event the
rugged hill and dalera turned in
the most remarkable core ever
made in the annual q dsic,
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covered II miles at the rate of 1873
miles. Then came another series
of records at the Detroit regatta
that eliminated in the Miss Amer
lea II. defender of the information
al trophy. reaching the phenomenal
speed of S0567 miles per hour.
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The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-05-02
Cleanup Should Take
70 In Cemeteries, Also,
Is Good Suggestion

With nthe next couple OF weeks
klamath Falls is to have n cleanup
OF streets. alleys and back yards. a
general riddancce OF the winters col
lection OF rubbish. Plans are now be-
ing considered that Will make the
cleanup actually amount to some
thing. Similar occasions in the past
have often been ignored. except by
the minority OF householders.
II has been suggested that while
all take part In the crusade against
filth and flies in order to make the
town more sanitary and attractive.
safeguarding the health and welfare
Of the living. that klamath Falls peo-
pie should also give some attention to
the resting places OF the dead In To-
cal cemeteries, cleaning the plots OF
weeds and rubbish and erecting suit
able markers and monuments.
Not n bad idea. either.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-05-02
Weather Probabilities

As forecast In the Herald. q.
last Saturday, the continued
low" registered by the Cy-
clo-Stormagraph at Under
woods Pharmacy, indicated the
the storm which descended
upon US Saturday night and
ragged during Sunday morning.
The barometer fell steadily
from Friday noon until noon
yesterday. since when there has
been a rapid rise and indica-
tions favor a continuation OF
present weather conditions.
Forecast for next "a hours.
Cloudy unsettled weather. con-
tihued cool.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-05-02
Personal Mention

Word has been received here OF
the death Of Dale Brown OF Ash
land who formerly lived here. Mr.
Brown was hurt In an automobile
accident last Tuesday when he was
thrown out OF the car. He has
many friends here and was en-
ployed by the Southern Pacific
company.
A suit has been filed in which
Lois Irene Bradshaw is suing VIM.
Baxter Bradshaw for a divorce.
Mrs. Bradshaw charges cruel and
inhuman treatment and personal In
dignities.
W. L. Wright OF the Standard Oil
company was passenger for San
Francisco Sunday morning. Mr..
Wright will drive II. A. Haliwell's 5
new Buick roadster back.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Doe return
ed Friday night from Alameda, ac-
companied by Mr.. Does sister. Mrs.
Cushman. who will visit here for
several weeks. The trip was. made
by automobile. =
+. Zumpfe and family and Frank
Payer and family of Malin were
in town today to attend the cir
Gus and attend to business matters.
Among those who are down from
Fort Klamath to the circus today
are Jack Auliffe, Frank Burns, r.
Il. Gordon, Mrs. l.. c. Sisemore,
Orth Sisemore. Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
Pelton, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Hick-
man and daughter, j. II. Hessig and
family, Mrs. Richard Melhase,
Frank Brady. Mrs. Walter Dixon
and daughter. J. T. Dixon, and E.
NJ. Leever and family.
Eldon Dennis. Tom O'Connor,
Mrs. J. S. Watts. Frank obenchain
and family, Jas Bell and family and
Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Givan OF BLY,
are In town for the day to take In
the circus and attend TO business
matters.
Mr., and Mrs. Merle Kilgore are
in from Lsngell valley for the day.
c. v. Loosely arrived here from
Ashland yesterday from which city
he made the trip by automobile.
Mr.. Loosely will leave today for
his home at Fort klamath.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. G. Wilson are
down from the agency.
Arlene Coats of Merrill was a
passenger for Grants Pass this
morning where she was called by
the illness of her father.
Miss Ina Hughes was a passen-
ger for Worden this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Cardwell were
down from Fort klamath Saturday.
Mrs. Cardwell left by automobile
stage Sunday morning for a visit
10 Rogue River valley.
The Misses M. Butler and M.
Hightower who have been nursing
at the Blackburn hospital for the