The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-12
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- Hill lie -rfusing ysari,ss. pro-
duced many notable achievements
in sports, 1t was more famous for its
developments OF first class ssbusts. .
Favorites had a terrible year and
some of the best slof all the upsets
were reserved for asfinal smack dur
ing the football season. ss ..;s5i
I II would be difficult to classify
the biggest bust Of the year, but
Georges Carpenter was not the least
of them and neither was Babe Ruth.
Perhaps Ruth was the outstanding
failure Of the year, because in his
downfall there was not the element
Of chance and luck that was behind
the list Of Battling Sikh when it
swung against the jaw Of the hand
some Carpenter s u b {,
The Babe was bust and d terrible
one, through faults particularly and
peculiarly sEs - 4 i'll.
The real prise bust Of bsseban 4,
however, were the New York anks
in the world series. Ruth with his
own little reversal of form helped
the AmericanF 1Eaeue, champions to
lose fbur ssieht games to the
!; Giants and. thereby provide IL sur
prise from which many pocketbooks
have not yet recovered. :5ifis;5 fs;5 !;
.sgs Norwich, the champion. stwo-year
old of 1921, was the big bust of the
turf. The 8 Block, Youngster won the
Kentucky Derby, and eonducted him
self in the. early season as if the
deeds OF Man o. Wa. were to be
showed back to second place in the
books. He's in the stud now with
the classic label of a canine. ss
!, The reversal Of form in Norwich
had "a strange effect on the Block
stable, (which won twelve out Of tfir-
teen races inft1921 and lost twelve
out Of thirteen in a s22..%+S is =. VIZ. 's.s
|. sYale's football steam was the big
explosion Of q. sesson 8 Of football
that was sone big upset. The start
ling failure of sthe. Yale team to live
up to expectations, was bne of the
big outstanding evelopments Of the
seas0n4 5f5 4; s I. stttts;ssf 81 {
S Form went Tar vide of. the mark
'in the east; but Iowa, IN; winning a
/ ftie...for the Western Conference
championship, lived mp TO advance
notices and with the exception of the
game with Southern California, the
IJniyersfky 'of California eleven
scored 4 8 many points IS i I, was ex- 's':
peEted: q, ;.s'.-st ~: s.; ,ss ,..si.
On her home courts, Mrs. Molla
Mallory was the tennis queen, hut
she was q prominent failure when
she tried to defeat Mile. Suzanne
Lenglen, the French girl inathe Brit
ishs championship. ~. "a, ss.,.-a,s
IL Bill Tilden,s big rbnstt Was bust
at the critics who predicted and bet
[that little Bill Johnson would take
the schampionship from him. i.
As g. whole the British players
were the fzzles of golf; and Gene
Sarazen wos the. sensation of.sthe
|yeaN, Walter Hagen upset d lot of
|lGna6 pre- Aetions eHhenfs he iwon the
British ppea championship and Sara
zen suIipHsedt esery lone when ehe
won the alAmeriean .opentutitleyisthe
esAionsAschampionship md when
he beat Hagen 9insaanatchs for the
nnofficia worlds championships Il
Yaless snrprisesi, did; not sail COM
sist in being defeated. d The Yale varl
Esity eight produceds ,onea OF thki big
surprises sof the, early summer 4when
| It won a alfibrilliant race from the,
Harvard crew.
The outstanding jolt on the water
was the performance of the Washing
Etons crew which cams from the coast
/ to the Hudson and finished second
behind the Navy, one Of the greatest
combinations that ever sat in Z shell.
Sudbury, Ont There are appro-
ximately 1000 hunters in the bush
in the surrounding district, 5000
being from points outside the dis
trict.