Omaha daily bee., 1922-01-01

branches.
Dempssy-Carpsntier Fight
Biggest Event of the Year.
No sporting evcut within tn
memory Of anyone living today at
tracted the worldwide interest com
manded by the big internationa
heavyweight boxing championship
between Jack Des-psey ard George
Carpenter. And this means that j
stands alone as the greatest singl,
sporting event.up TO this time.
Nearly 100000 spectators crowded
Tex Richards monster Jersey CITY
arena on July 2, and while that vas
throng Of humanity watched Demp
scy knock his opponent out in ioui
rounds, followers Of sport throughou
the world waited eagesly for return:
from the ringside. No sport event
now in prospect can approach the
Dempsey Carpenter fight, which
was the best advertised, most high
ly financed and colorful event ever
staged '@'
The worlds series, won by the
Giants from the Yankees, attracted
269,o76 spectators for total gate OF
S900,233. for, eight games, whereas the
big fight drew around one million
cold dollars. .Z; ...-.
Unprecedented Crowds 20. '.
Attend Football Games.
Unprecedented crowds attended the
big football games throughout the
country. and it is unefficially:.: esti-
nnated that football activities called
for an outlay of something like
S6.sO0,000 on the part OF the public
that supports the game.
The Davis cup matches and ma
tional tennis championships drew
crowds. The galleries that followed
the big championship. golf.lnatches
were greater tfanSeXer before and
horse and auto racing fiourished.
Every branch of sport, III fact, from
track and field athletics on down the
line was we'll patronized and took
well-dehned steps ahead during the
year.
CALIFORNIA; athletes kept i'll the
limelight throughout brilliant sea-
son of track and field games. -
The sharp-spiked boys of the Uni
versity OF California captured the in
tercollegiate team championship
games at Cambridge, Mass; and the
sons of the Golden state in general
did themselves proud, especially Char
ley Paddock, who knocked worlds
records in the dashes galley west.
The Penn relays, the special games
between Yale-Harvard and Cornell7.
princeton teams against the COM
bined Oxford Cambridge team from
England. and the annual A. A. y.
indoor and outdoor meets were great
successes. Yale and Harvard. de-
feated the invading Oxford CAM
bridge aggregation, but the English.
men found some balm for their feel
ings by holding Princeton and Cor
nell to tie in dual meet at Trav-
ers Island. II
College rowing had another good
year. The return of the classic in
tercollegiate regatta to Poughkeep- |
sic, the coming east of the California !
crew for a speeial@race with Prince
ton prior to the Poughkeepsie event,
and the staging OF all of the regular
fixtures on the water boosted interest
in the sweepmen sky high.
The champion oarsren of the
United States navy carried off ma
ior share OF the honors again this
year, and though defeated at Prince
ton, the Middies came back to win
the Poughkeepsie event, which. with
a victory in the American Henley,
gave the Annapolis outfit the top
rung on the rowing ladder.
Boxing Advanced to -
Still Higher Plane.
Boxing, which advanced to high
plane during the world war; was
more popular than ever. The Demp-
bout lent impetus To
the mitt game, and in every state
where it is legalized boxing was ex-
:remely popular
The tendency on the part of some
promoters to offer purses OF unpreoe-
tented size for title bouts resulted
n initiating the game, from a finan
:ial standpoint, beyond all proper
ions, end early in the year con-
yress of boxing men from all parts
# the country was held IN New
ork for the purpose OF forming q
rational organization. The body was
ormed as planned, but has not func-
ioned with any great degree OF Sue
,ess.
Promoters in various cities have
,een going along much the same as
hey have always done, and despite
he efforts OF professional reformers
o put the game in i'll repute in GER
ain sections where it has gained
irmer foothold than ever before it is
lourishing3
Johnny Buff. the Jersey City vet /
ram is the only new holder OF a
championship. Buff won the bantam
weight title from Pete Herman in
Madison Square Garden after Her
nan had regained it from Joe Lynch
Turing the summer. Buff. by the
way, holds two titles, for he is also
he American flyweight champion.
seven Champs Successfully
Defend Fistic Crowns. /:
Jack Dempsey, Johnny Wilson.
5eortSs Carpenter Jack Britton, .
Benny Leonard, Johnny Kilbane and
immy Wilde. who were champions I
f their various divisions in 1920, sue
eeded in clinging to their crowns, !
hough Wilson holds an uncertain !
iosr<rfr. in that Ohio does not rec /
,snize' him as champion, preierring I