The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-31
NEW ATHLETIC YEAR WILL BE
EVENTFUL DESPITE LACK OF
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Boxing Is overheated Through
Richards Plans for Heavy
weight Tourney; Yankees
May Be Dethroned; Davis
Cup Play Will Be Head|iner.

New York, Dec. 3l.-(H)-NO WOTlu
series Of amateur golf, polo or general
athletics such as the Olympics will be
available for Americans to conquer,
but 1929 should be far from an UNI
eventful year in far flung sportdonl.
What with boxing overheated with
talk of a Dempsey comeback and
baseball buzzing over preparations OF
rival clubs to dethrone the Yankees.
it very likely will turn out to be
right exciting season for Uncle
Sans big sports family.
Little opportunity will be afforded
American sports men and women to
participate in international COMPETE
ton so in the main they will have to
concentrate on the rivalrieS for re-
gional and national honors.
The Olympic games are shelved un-
til 1882. Walker cup play, symbolic OF
international championship in anna
teur golf, is closed for the year with
the United States again In possession
of the trophy. And there is little
likelihood that Americas polo SUI
premacy will be disputed for at least
another year, following the victory OF
the United States in series with Ar
gentina.
International Flavor Provided
However, a strong international
flavor will be provided by the Davis
Cup play with France again defend
ing the trophy and with the United
States a good prospect to again reach
the challenge round Undoubtedly the
Stars and Stripes will be represented
at the Wimbledon tournament and
the French hard court championship
meet.
AS for golf, America again will de-
fend the Ryder cup with her best pro-
fessionals meeting the pick Of Great
Britain, and the British Open un-
doubtedly will draw heavily from the
American ranks. The annual Oper
Amateur and Professional tourna-
ments will provide the high lights o.
play at home.
Leading interest for the year natur'
ally centers around the attempts K
push the Yankees from the pinnacle
of baseball. With six American
league pennants to their credit in 81
eight-year period, the last two Q
which found them easily driving bacl
National league opposition III tn
; world series, the world champions ap
pear just as formidable as ever.
Yet their dominancy may strike
tartar in such home-league clubs q
Philadelphia. st. Louis. Detroit an
5 Cleveland. The Athletics and Browns
which finished second and third, re
B spectively, in 1923, will have all
8 their last years strength and mor'
Z too, for the 1929 campaign, while DIG
4 troit and Cleveland have thrown va
sums into q determined effort to de
S velop powerful teams.
The Chicago Cubs, foremost OF ne
8 tional league pennant contenders b
2 virtue Of their acquisition OF Roge
2 Hornsby, may sweep through to tight
8 en- up what has been a decidedly VI
even race for premier major leagl
\ honors.
Football, Just closing one OF
! greatest years, promises to produ'
another season packed full OF excite
N ment. InterSectional play which spice
n torrid period OF regional play aga
will be stressed. Prominent amor
the tlrusts OF teams from one sectit
r into another will be those OF Il
= Army. which calls on the 1llint 81
!" Stanford, and. Of California. whi'
il comes east to play Penn.
Is Boxing Year Ordinary
y Boxing. which had an ordinary We
= because Of the iraction Of Demps
and the retirement Of Champs
y Gene Tunney. faces another listls
g year so far as the million-dollar sho
- are concerned, unless Dempsey d
the expected and makes another st
- at his lost heavyweight crown.
{. Just as boxing looks to Dempsey
~ bring 1t out Of the doldrun1s. so d
- tennis depend on Big Bill Tilden
g bring it back into popular intere
= Tilden. barred by the United sta
= Lawn Tennis Association tor 1ntr.
lions Of the player writer rule, Is vi
Ing enough but is still an outcast 9
will continue as such unless his pc
relent.
- Rowing, like golf and the oil
81. major sports, ever-expanding IN
sportswtse country. is assured Of
usual full season Of action. ]
Olympic trials will be missing IF
the schedule. but there will be
PQughkeepsie regatta. headline
traction of many year. to whip
myriad followers into ecstasy. :