South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-27
TITLES RETAINED
BY MAJORITY OF
CHAMPS IN 1922
Golf and Boxing Only Sports
in Which Leaders Are
Greatly Changed.

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NEW YORK. Dec. 2s-wth the
exception OF golf and boxing. lead
ers in most sport remained in pos
ssession OF their honors through
s1s22.
There was practically a new list OF
champions in football. but that IS
such an unstable game that many
annual changes are forced by natur-
al conditions.
Professional baseball retained
emoSt OF It's leading clubs and ten
mis- had no important changes.
In the college field. rowing and
track and field. two major sports
found the same powers in command
Winning OF the two major league
@pennants BY New York clubs on sue
.ecessive years established new rec
ord for baseball The Giants. in
winning their second successive
worlds championship. also accomp-
lished a feat that hadn't been equal
Jed in several years
Baltimore ran away with the In
ternational League pennant and wor
the 'little worlds series from St
Paul. the pennant winners of the
american Association.
Great Football Year
Football had its greatest year:
and the outstanding sectional teams
If they are disputed as champions
were:
East-Princeton Middlewest-
Iowa and Michigan; South-Van-
tsderDilt; Missouri Valley-Nebraska
Pacific Coast-Ca1ifornia.
Familiar faces were all found In
Familiar places after a most sue.
tscessful year of tennis. The list oil
schampions below found only one
nchaDge and that was because vii
s1iam T. Tilden did not defend his
British title:
: Davis Cup Champions - United
States.
Worlds Singles Champion-wil
liam T. Tiden.
Worlds Woman Championship
Suzanne Lenglen.
American Woman's Champion
Mrs. Mona Mallory.
= British Singles Champion-Ger-
bid L. Patterson.
Golf Crowns Change
- All the golf crowns changed hands
during a spectacular and most in
..aeresting season which saw the rap
Id rise OF young players and the de
feline OF the "old guard" The close
sssof the season found:
Worlds Champion-Gene Sarazen
British open Champion-Waltei
Hagen.
American open Champion-Gen,
Sarazen.
p c. A. Champion-Gene Sarazen
Amateur ChampiOn-Jesse Sweet
ser.
= Amateur Woman Champion -
Miss elena Collett.
= California won the national and
the eastern intercollegiate track and
field championship for the secorf
lime and the rowing eight of the
United States Naval Academy wor
It's third title.
Boxing Champs Pass
Passing of Georges Carpenter
aJohnny Buff and Gene Tunney a!
ring champions were unusual de
9velopments of the year in pugilism
carpenter dropped all his title wher
he was knocked out by Battling
Sikh; Johnny Buff lost his flyweigh
title 10 Pancho Villa and HARRY
+ Greb beat Gene Tunney for the ligh
heavyweight title.
The present champions are:
Worlds lie av Wv = j & n t-Jacl
Dempsey.
= European Heavyweight-Ba
siki
Worlds Light Heavyweight-Bat
-~tling Silk.
American Light Heavyweight
Harry Greb.
Worlds Middleweight-J h n n!
Wilson.
New York worlds Middleweigh
Mike O'Dowd.
Worlds welterweight - NJ ckel
Walker
Pinkey Mitchell.
Worlds Lightweight - Benn!
Leonard.
Johnny Dundee.
Worlds Featherweight -Johnnl
Kilbane.
New York Worlds Featherweigh
Johnny Dundee.
Worlds Ban a M W 6 n ito,
Lynch.
Worlds weiEht-Jimmy Wilde
American FlyweIght-- Z "a n C n
nNilla
The titles bestowed ON Mix
ODowd and Johnny Dundee ar
trick gifts of the New York BoXint
Commission and Mitchell was elect
ed 20 his crown by a public vote.
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