Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-30
UPSETS FEATURE
| OPENING OUTDOOR
SPORT SEASON

New York, April 29.-(By the
Associated Press).-The outdoor
sport season has clustered into the
Northland with furry of startling
upsets to what fandoms interest in
an unusually promising summer
campaign.
Starting in Florida with tennis
reversals for William 7. Tilden and
routs of both National amateur links
champions. Bobby Jones and Glenna
Collett, the wave has pushed out up
on the diamond and the cinder path
to shatter forecasts of the critics
after an indoor season of many ma
jor disturbances.
Two youth from the north have
Jared forth to stir the interest of
track and field followers with rec
ord breaking Recommendations
Miles, 20 year old Nova Scotia lad
who won the Boston Marathon, and
Roland Locke, University of Ne
braSka Splinter.
Their rise to fame brought bal
. ancing of the scales in the fall of
other kings. Miles raced home to
capture the Boston grind at the ex-
pense of such veteran favorites as
Clarence DeMar and 4Albi:. Stenroos
| of Finland, the latter Olympic
champion. Locke, aided by wind,
sprinted the century in the sensa-
| tional time of $40 seconds. at Des
| Moines, as Frank Hussey, national
| 100 yard champion, went down to
| unexpected defeat in the Penn re-
| lays at Philadelphia, trailing Hester
of Michigan and two others.
| The overwhelming defeat of the
amateur goff champion, Jones, by
the professional, Walter Hagen, in
/ a special match on Florida courses
and the repeated setbacks expert
! enced by Miss Collett at the hands
of youthful rivals from the Middle
! West and East, have had their coun-
terpart in the downfall of the tennis
| king, Tilden. Beaten during the in
door season by Jean Borotra and
| Rene Lacoste of France, Tilden
moved southwark to regain his
| championship stride only to be eX-
| tended by Alfred H. Chaplin, Jr., of
| Springfield, Mass, in two five set
| battles and then to bow twice to his
! perennial rival, Vincent Richards.
| But tennis followers have learned
not to accept Tildens spring defeats
too seriously. A year ago he sue
combed to Richards net attack in
| the early season, only to come back
i later and storm through a great
| international field to win the nation
al crown for the sixth successive
year.
Baseball has kept pace. with its
share of upsets. Cleveland in the
American League, and Chicago and
Philadelphia in the National, count
ed out of the running in preseason
predictions, have spilled the dope
bucket with impressive getaways.
The Pittsburgh Pirates, world cham-
pions, on the other hand, have wall
lowed in the second division, partly
as a result of injuries, while Wash
ington, st. Louis and Philadelphia,
rated outstanding American con-
tenders, have had difficulty follow
ing the pace of the Yankees and In
dians.
Probably no sport enters upon the
open air campaign with as remark
able string of upsets as pugilism.
Outstanding surprises thus far have
| been the dethroning of Harry Greb
as middleweight king by Tiger Flow
ers, the defeat of Paul Berlenbach
by Johnny Risko and the victory of
George Levine over Tommy Mill
gan, British welterweight titleholder.
These reversals top a general up
heaval during which Dick Honey
Boy" Finnegan was beaten by Joe
Click, Bud German knocked out by
Carl Carter, Babe Herman defeated
by Red Chapman, Mike McTigue
stopped by Jack Delaney and George
Ward f1oored for the ten-count in
two rounds by Harry Martone.