Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-24
Athletes Kept America
on Top in Sport Record
by Edgren

later in the national tournament at
BrookIine, Mass, won by Jesse Sweet
ser. Cyril J. Ii. Tolley, former British
champion. was the last survivor among
his %countrymen in this event. losing in
the semi-finals to r. E. knepper of
Princeton and Sioux City, Ia, who
previously also had put out w. b.
Terrence, another English star. Roger
Wethered and John Caven were other
prominent invaders who fell by the
wayside.
Women's golf produced W keen
contests, with Mrs. William A. Gavin,
formerly of New York. carrying Eng
lands eolors on both occasions to the
final round. Mrs. Gavin defeated Miss
Alexa Stirling. former American queen
of the links. by two and one, for the
Canadian championship. but in the
American title event at White Sulphur
Springs. W. Va, was conquered by
Miss Gienna Collett by q margin of
five and four.
Hoover Took Seulling Honors
Walter Hoover. Duluth oarsman,
achieved a notable triumph for Ameri-
ca when he captured the historic Dia-
mond Souls trophy in the English
Henley regatta on the Thames. Hoover
advanced easily through preliminary
contests and in the final race decis-
lively defeated J. Beresferd. Jr.. Eng
lands crack s~culler, who was beaten
in the Olympic championship in 1920
by Jack Kelly. American champion,
who has since retired from active COM
petition. Hoover's victory abroad fol-
lowed his success in the Gold Chal-
lenge cup singles at Philadelphia,
where he defeated the pick of Ameri-
cas- amateur oarsmen. besides Hilton
Belyea, Canadian champion.
In Watching, American six-metre
craft won the British-American cup in
a series of six team races with Eng
lish rivals in Long Island sound by the
close score of III to 10 points. The
model yatch championship also went to
this country when the miniature craft,
Polkadot, owend by d. A. Bull of
Brooklyn won three straight races
from the English Endeavor. owned by
W. ]. Daniels of London in a series
off Bayside, Long Island
The Canadian fishing schooner
trophy, defeating the American chal-
lenger. the Henry Ford, in two out of
B~luenose retained the international
three races off Gloucester. Mass. aft
err an initial contest, won by the Amer
lean boat, had been thrown out by of
ficials because of a false start.
England's challenge for long dis
lance swimming honors among wom-
en- failed of victory when Miss Hilda
James finished third to Miss Gertrude
Ederle and Miss Helen Wainwright,
American stars, in a three-mile en-
durance test in New York bay, Miss
T,,,aS a1cn n,nf 1afaat nj cbnrfcr die
tances in competition with this coun-
try's mermaids.
Argentine In Polo
Argentina's brilliant polo team,
fresh from victory in the British open
championship, triumphed in the Ameri-
can open title event at Rumson. \. J.,
where one Anglo-American one Irish
and four American teams also con-
tested for honors. Later in the sea-
son the South Americans met defeat
twice Ia a row at the hands of the
Meadow Brook big Four" a combin-
alton which represented this country's
best and had captured the year before
the international Nottingham cup from
England.
Willie Hoppe scored another victory
for America in professional billiards,
defeating a picked field composed of
two other American and three Euro
pean stars in an international tourna-
ment in November and regaining the
title he lost the year before to Jake
Schaeffer. Roger Cont. of France:
Edouard Heremans of Belgium: and
Erich Hagenlacher of Germany. rep
resented the best of Europe's cue
stars in the tourney.