The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-30
SPORT KINGS REMAIN
CROWNED DURING 1892

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NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-With the ex-
ception of golf and boxing, leaders in
most sport remained in possession of
their honors through 1922.
There was practically new list of
champions in football, but that is such
an unstable game that many annual
changes are forced by natural condi-
/ tions.
Professional baseball retained most
kof its leading clubs and tennis 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
remnants by New York clubs on sue
cessive years established new record
| for baseball. The Giants, in winning
their second successive worlds cham
| pionship, also accomplished a feat that
hadn't been equalled in several years
| Baltimore ran away with the Inter
national league pennant and won the
little worlds series" from st. Paul
the pennant winners of the American
! Association.
| Football had its greatest year and
| the outstanding sectional teams, if they
are disputed as champions, were:
! East-Princeton
! Middlewest-Iowa and Michigan.
! South-Vanderbilt
Missouri Valley-Nebraska
Pacific Coast-California.
] Tennis Successful.
4 Familiar faces were all found in IA
/ miliar places after most successful
I year of tennis. The list OF champions
below found only one change and that
was because William T. Tilden did not
defend his British title:
Davis Cup Champion-United States.
Worlds Singles Champion-William
T. Tilden.
Worlds Woman Champion-Mlle.
i Suzanne Lenglen.
American Woman's Championships.
MolIa Mallory.
British Singles Champion-Gerald L.
Patterson.
All the golf crowns changed hands
during a spectacular and most inter
esting season which saw the rapid rise
of young players and the decline of
j the "oId guard" The close of the sea
son found:
i Worlds Champion-Gene Sarazen.
British Open Champion = Walter
Hagen.
American Open Champion = Gene
Sarazen.
P. G. A Champion-Gene Sarazen.
Amateur Champion-Jess Sweetser.
Amateur Woman Champion-Miss
elena Collett.
California won the national and the
eastern intercollegiate track and field
championship for the second time and
the rowing eight of the United States
naval academy won its third title.
Rings Champs Vary.
Passage of Georges Carpenter. John
my Buff and Gene Tuney as ring
champions were unusual developments
of the year in puglism. Carpenter
dropped all his title when he was
knocked out by Battling Sikh; Johnny
Buff lost his flyweight title to Pancho
Villa an Harry Greb beat Gene Tunney
for the light heavyweight title.
: The present champions are:
Worlds Heavyweight-Jack Demp.
sey.
European Heavyweight = Battling
Sikh
American Light Heavyweight-Har-
ry Greb.
Worlds Middleweight-J Johnny Will
son.
New York's Worlds Middleweight-
! Mike ODowd.
Worlds Welterweight- Mickey Wal
ker.
Worlds Junior Welterweight-Pin
key Mitchell.
Worlds Benny Leon
: ard.
world's Junior MISUNDERSTANDING
/. Dundee.
Worlds Featherweight-Joh Johnny Kill
:. bane.
Worlds Bantamweight-Joe Lynch
Worlds F1yweight-Jimmy Wide.
: American Flyweight-Pancho Villa
. The titles bestowed on Mike O'Dowd
: and Johnny Dundee are trick gifts Of
2 the New York Boxing commission and
a Mitchell was elected to his crown BIZ
J a public vote.