The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-01-01
SPORTING

Jan. 1-Notre Dame beat Leland STAN
ford at football and University of Cali
fornia defeated University OF Pennsyl-
vania.
jan e-Paavo Nurmi of Finland, rae
ing in New York, set new world records
for 1.5Oo meters. one mile and 5000 meters
heavyweight wrestling championship
from Ed Strangely Lewis.
Jan. 16-Paavo Nurmi, defeated Joie
Ray in Chicago, setting new worlds
Jan. I7-Nurmi made new record for
200o meters in New York
Feb. l2-Alfred Orhn, Chicago, won ma
March 3-Jake Schaefer won 1872 bill
lard championship in Chicago tourney.
April Irrational and American base
ball Leagues opened season.
April 15-Zbyszko defeated Wayne
Mum for heavyweight wrestling title.
May 6-Bob Cannefax again won three
cushion billiard championship.
May 16-F1ying Ebony. Sande up. won
the Kentucky Derby;
May 22-Joyce Wethered retained Brit
ish women's golf title.
May 27-Manna won the English Derby.
May 29-Robert Harris. Dundee, won
British amateur golf title.
May 30-Peter de Paolo won Indian
apolis 500-mile auto race.
Stranger Lewis defeated Wayne
Mum for heavyweight wrestling cham
pionship.
June 5-Willie MacFarlane Scotch pro
of Oak Ridge club. Tuckahoe, n. Y,
won national open golf tournament, ty-
ing Bobbie Jones and defeating him on
play-on
June 6-Michigan won Western Con-
ference track meet.
June 20-Glenna Collett, American
June 22-Navy won Poughkeepsie re-
gatta; Washington university second
June 26-Jim Barnes of America won
Qrifi Sh n a m N Sh
July 3-Suzanne Lenglen won all-Eng-
glsh tennis title
July 5-Harold Osborn won A A. U.
decathlon at San Francisco.
July 11-Yale-Harvard track team de-
feated Oxford-Cambridge.
July 1S-Keefe Carter, Oklahoma. won
western amateur golf title.
OXford-C amb bridge athletes beat Prince
ton-Cornell
Aug. Macdonald Smith won west
ern open golf championship:
Aug. 23-G. G. Chatt Chicago, won
American all-around casting champion
ship for third time
Aug 2AHelen Wills again won ma
tional women's tennis championship.
Aug. 2S-E. C. Starner, Ithaca. Y,
won Grand American trap shooting title.
Aug. 29-Mrs Elaine Rosenthal Rein
hardt won women's western golf title.
Sept. Robert T. Jones, Jr.. again won
national amateur golf title.
Sept. French tennis team defeated
Australians, winning right to play u.
8. team for Davis cup.
Sept. 11-American tennis team de-
feated the French, retaining the Davis
cup.
Sept. 17-Jim Barnes beat Willie Mac
Farlane for unofficial worlds golf cham
pionship.
Sept 1s-william Tilden won national
tennis title.
Sept 23-Pittsburgh Pirates won Ma
tional league pennant.
Sept. 24-Washington Senators won
American league pennant
Sept. 26-Walter Hagen won national
professional golf championship,
Sept. 29-Dempsey and Wills signed for
title fight in September, 1926
Oct. 4-Glenna Collett of Providence,
r. l., won womens national golf title.
Oct. Washington won first game of
worlds series.
Oct. s-Pittsburgh won second game Of
worlds series.
Oct. 10-Washington won third game.
Oct. u-Washington won fourth game.
Oct. 12-Pittsburgh won fifth game.
Oct 13-Pittsburgh won sixth game.
Oct. 15-Pittsburgh won seventh game
and worlds championship
Nov 21-University of Michigan won
Western Conference football champion
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