The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-02
PRESENT CHAMPIONS
IN MANY lines MAY
GET HOOKS IN 1922
by FRANK G. MENKE

It's going TO be Happy New Year
sportive game it won't be quite so
!! joyous
The incoming year finds lot of
| champions on one branch of athletic
endeavor or another, who are quite
likely to have ex hooked onto their
names before 1928 buzzes along.
Consider fisticuffing:
1t wouldn't be at all surprising if
new kings came into power in the fly
weight, bantamweight, featherweisht,
welterweight. middleweight and light
heavyweight ranks within IL months
| Only Leonard and Dempsey seem
! fairly secure-and there is a chance
! that Leonard may be bumped off his
! throne if he gets bit reckless AMI
takes on tough baby or two
| Buff boss of the fIyweights ard
! bantanls. is good fighter. but beat
able, especially when opposition must
come from Abe Goldstein. Eddie
ODowd, MIDGET Smith. Pete Herman.
Joe Lynch. Jack Sharkey and few
others of their ilk
Ki]bane is old and gray haired
still brainy. still good fighter. but
no longer unbeatable if he elects to
take on all corners.
Britton's case is ditto.
Wilson About Through.
Wilson will be through the first time
he meets a fast. clever middleweight
who has real punching power
Levinsky is still acclaimed cham
pion of the light heavies-largely be-
cause no one seems to want to grab
the title.
Leonard may survive 1922-and he
may not. He is not so good as he
once was-and there is bit of op-
position here and there which may
force Leonard out of his kingling JOB
if he ever decides to give battle to
one or another of the group which
ranks Tender and White as outstand.
ers.
| Dempsey seems safe-but that does
not mean he is a positive cinch.
The wrestling game knows STAINS
laus Zybszko as its champ. But the
way they work it in wrestling-undel
domination of Jack Curley-is to have
n champ endure one season So it is
quite reasonable to expect that some
one else will be champion of the
l grapplers before the end of the pres
: ent year.
: The Giants possess the champion
, ship of the baseball world and likewise
. that of the National league. The
! Yanks are bosses of the Johnson cir
cult But its something of copper
( rivited cinch that they won't repeat
5 in the same roles in 1922.
The Indians and Browns are certain
r to furnish sitter opposition to the
Yanks than they knew a season age
: One or the other-or perhaps a darl
t horse-will nose out the New Workers
Even the trade with the Red So2
5 hasn't made the Yankees certainties
t as repeaters.
The Giants will be bit stronger il
1922 than they were year ago. Tho
Cardinals, on the other hand, will b.
r infinitely stronger. The Pirates will
2 have a better team than last year
: Either-or both-may beat out ths
Giants
Golf and tennis champions general!
e are short-lived. One year seems tt
q be the lengthiest reigning life of mos
t of them. 1t is likely that of all tn,
: present day rulers on the links ant
! on the courts, not more than one o.
t two-perhaps none at all-will sur
d vive the gruelling battles of the sea
son to come.
So, all in all, it looks as if 1922 viii
J. be a year productive of more dethron
J., ing than any that has gone before
d a year which gets under way with
i score Of champions rocsing upol
i tottering thrones which are quit
J. likely to collapse completely befor
6 the sportive world tunes up its voca
O chords and wishes again the old, oil,
G wish:
, "A Happy New Year"
Copyright 1921 ny King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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