New Britain herald., 1925-08-14
CHAMPIONS FIND
 1925 A BAD YEAR
Athletic Kings Yet to Defend
 Laurels May Face Disaster

has befallen many of the erstwhile idols of sport.
 It has been a bad year for title holders in most every branch of competition with the not unlikely prospect of a few additional turn overs before the last goal Is kicked or the final putt is holed.
 Here are few of the outstanding casualties among the champions:
 1--Willie Hoppe lost the balkline billiard crown to young Jake schae- | fer
 2-strangler Lewis was tossed off the heavyweight wrestling throne by Wayne Mum, who later yielded to the veteran Stanslaus Zbyszko.
 3-Cannonball Martin dropped the worlds bantamweight boxing championship to Charley Rosenberg
 Alike McTieuc lost the light heavyweight toga to Paul Berlen- bach
 5-Jean Bortotra's Wimbledon tennis sceptre was lifted by his countrynan, Rene LacoSe.
 6-W. F. Garrett Gilmore's na- tIonsl sculling honors went to Wal ter Hoover.
 Cyril Walker lost the Amert can open golf crown 10 Willie Mac Farlane,
 S-Babe Ruth has been dethroned as major league home run king.
 The possibility that this list may ra extended is one of the main points of interest in the closing chapters of tho 1925 season,
 An expert consensus probably would agree that William T. Tilden tennis monarch for Ave years has the hest chance of any to keep at the tor. The same consensus proh- ahIv also would concede that Jack l Dempsey heavyweight crown will ha intact hy January 1, 1928 but whereas nempsey's present policy Involves few. if any risks, Ti'den VII meet all corners in defens" of his title
 ! "Rig Pill" has heater ahout all of his closest rivals thus far end roems stu in class ivy himself hut it is mot an imrossibility that some racquet, In foreign CT native hands. may find his Achilles heel in the championships next month.
 The uuoen of AmeriC2n courts. ihoWeyer, has slightly different prospect. Where q year ago Helen Wills seemed destined for surrem acv of the type of Tildcns, she , faces q serious threat his season from Elizabeth Ryan, the Califor- nian who has come back 10 Ameri, can tournament competition after 13 years in England and Europe, where she was Suzanne INnglen's most consistent rival,
 Miss Ryans defeat of Miss Wills at Srahright has put the champion on the defensive. The fact that Helen also vas forced to thrre sets hy Mrs. Jessup and Mrs. Mallory in recent tournaments also adds 10 the uncertain outlook for the Berkeley girl, though, of the other hand they may also be more}v an indication that she has not yet reached hel hest
 Tn golf. Rohhv Jonta, the amateur f king and Walter Haren. r, C.. A champion, face none too pleasant , prospects, trying to keen their laureI' lr a game which delights in npset' 1 and uncertainties Nevertheless these two famous llrksmen will to- off with close 10 an even chance o 1 coming through again.
 Eaachan fandom, meanwhile. i' IrlearinE it's decks in anticipation o giving three long cheers for q new champion or two, In the hom' yards of tho New York Giants ant the Washington Senators, rulers O f 1924 major laaguo heights, this ma7 soom a hit nremature. but support CTS of fhn Pittsburgh Pirates an I the Philadelphia Athletics were al
 most ready to hoist the pennant! ,aloft and watch their fayorites hat He it ont for the Worl1s champion c shir,
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 Senators have the best chance of re poatin- 1T, their veteran hurlini
 hur'iuc corps is able to stick 70 it
 guns 'o 'ho fniSh. The Giants, hc
 set by manifold difficulties, have
 harder task on their hands in al effort to make it I've straight pen
 nant victories.
 Q Youth is one of thc factors tha
 To seeking to overthrow these base
 h10 leaders as it also i7 endoavorin l .'o sc2u tho peaks in other sphere - or competition The Pirates an r Athletics represent tn' rising hase -, han generation. thc 'torts of th n blood sr1 ambition to overthrow th old d"nastlHs.
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