The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-09
AMERICA RANKS HIGH IN SPORTS
 ALL KINDS

NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-The close Of another year of keen international competition in the world of sport finds the United States well estab- lished supremacy in large majority of the varied fields of rivalry.
 The records for 1922, were the cali bre of competition has been sufficient 1v high to afford a real test of su- perority, show America triumphant in eleven contests, more than all the rest of the contending nations com
 bined. England, which figured as this country's principal rival has three vic tories to it's credit while Canada, Ar gentina and France each captured one 1 championship.
 Called on in most instances to de- fend it's laurels, the United states maintained it's supremacy in men tennis, women's swimming and pro- fessional billiards; scored five victor ies in six international golf contests, triumphed twice in yachting and once in rowing. England swept to the fore l in mems and women's track and field
 sports and accounted for the other
 golf victory, a meagre showing where | the British Lion in former years ruled
 the royal and ancient heights SUI
 nreme France was victorious in Wo- mems tennis; Argentina's spectacular riders dashed to polo triumphs here and in England, while Canada re-
 tained the fishing schooner champioh-
 ship.
 England came through with flying
 colors in one of the first internatlohal l +os+s of the wear when in April Cam
 bridge University's distance runners
 defeated the University of Pennsyi-
 vania's picked quartet in a four mile
 relay race at London. OXforo Onl
 versitv the thrid entry, finished last
 Rritain's women athletes also UT
 umphed on track and field by decls1'e
 ,v winning the first real lnternatloh"
 oo+ for feminine stars, held at Parf
 io Auoust England scored 50 points
 the United States 31, and Frahce A' ? rbo maet constituted the first organ : ;vod attempt to put women's track ant field sports on an internaclonai i'o' i,r and has been followed by rap'' development and interest espec'a't' .hi. country, where the Amateul Athletic Union has taken direct coi' .,o, of feminine competition ana no,r,v launched National Women Track A. A. has undertaken lh'ei : oono1os+ic and intercollegiate supefVi : sion.
 The United States successfully de fended it's possession of the DaVl' : Chm emblematic of the worlds teail : tennis championship, defeating py lou' : matches to one the Australian cnal 2 1engers, survivors of an original flel' of thirteen nations. Mile Suzahh' . I,englen, sensational French racque : star established without question ne! " eunremacv bv@yanquishing Mrs. Molls Riurstedt Mallory, American cham pion, in straight sets in the ma 3 match of the international women 3 tournament at Wimbledon, England Americas net triumphs during the 5 wear were due mainly to the lndlVldua brilliantly of William T. Tllden ant 2 William M. Johnston. Together they 3 accounted for all of America's DaVlS 3 Chm victories, each defeating Geralc 5 Patterson and James o. Anderson 2 while Tilden and Richards lost to Pat terson and O'Hara Wood in the dou 3 bles.
 5 Tilden, thrice national champion 3 did not defend the worlds title ne 3 won in 1920 and 1921 at Wimblton 3 but in Patterson he conquered the 1922 victor in the English classic, be sides emerging at the top in the na a tiOnal singles at fnllauelplila ioii'
 field which included a formidable
 array of international stars.
 America added to it's triumphs wlth
 close to a clean sweep on the links II
 the traditional struggle with England
 Emulating Jock Hutchison's 1921 VIC
 tory, Walter Hagen, former U. 5.
 open title-holder, captured the British
 open crown, the first time an Ameri
 can homebred turned the trick. Max
 ing the event close to a rout for the
 British clan, Hutchison tied George
 Duncan for second place, while Jim Barnes landed fourth position.
 With Duncan and Abe Mitchell as
 Britain's threat in the American open
 event, at Skokie, Gene Sarazen topped a flashy field to keep the title in this