New Britain herald., 1928-12-31
SPORT TRADITION WILL BE BROKEN
Events in 1929 Aimed at Break.
 ing Sectional Barriers

New York. Dec. S1 No prospec- tive feature of the sports campaign for 1929 is any more significant than events aimed at breaking down the old sectional barriers or removing a number of time-honored traditions.
 Where 1928 has been a. season of remarkable international activity, 1929 will find most of the American athletic activity concentrated at home with fresh opportunities to de- velop intersectional interest on a wider scale than ever before.
 One of the most ancient of all the ancient traditions will be removed when the National Amateur Golf championship is staged for the first time on the Pacific coast at Del Monte, California. and to make it the biggest campaign ever held on far western links the Professional Golfers association tournament also has been booked for Santa Barbara. Cal, as the fore-runner of a round of open competition for the country S leading pros.
 Following the path blazed by Stan ford, California's football team will journey east to meet Pennsylvania. while the Army will send it's eleven to the far west for the first time to play the Cardinals in return en- gagement at Palo Alto.
 To add to the gridiron gayety, Yale will break away from another old tradition and go south to play the University of Georgia. The Ellis are booked to play at Chicago in 1881 and may eventually wind UT some season on the Pacific coast.
 Tex Rickard, after having tested the drawing powers of boxing cen ters in the far west, middle west and east during his colorful career, will promote his first big fight in the south Feb. :7 with Sharkey and Stribling clashing at Miami Beach, About the only main events that the east still has a strangle- hold on are the national tennis champion. ships and the Poughkeepsie regatta But the big fight of the year with Dempsey in a comeback role. is slated for the Yankee stadium. where half of the worlds series also may occur again, providing the Yankees have & good share of their healt. and strength.
 A few of the main questions at is- sue as the new year gets under way are:
 l. Whether or not Jack Dempsey will attempt comeback.
 2. Whether Big Bill Tilden will be restored 10 good standing in anna teur tennis ranks. and, if so, try another comeback.
 3. Whether Paavo Nurmi will re- main the greatest of all amateur foot racers or yield to the siren call of the professional promoter, 4. Whether the Army and Navy will effect q reconciliation and pave the way for a resumption of their gridron classic by 1880, since there is small prospect of any get-together in 1929.
 If a guess has 10 be hazard it is q vote for 'aye' on all of the above counts. if for no other reason than that it would stimulate greater com pettive interest.
 Tex Rickard predicts that new champions will be crowned in most | if not all. of the professional ring classes in 1929. but no such sweep ing forecast can be made in other ranks.
 Such bearers of the laurel wreaths as Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen and Glenna Collett. in golf; Helen Wills and Henri Cochct in tennis, the Yankees in baseball, Rigers Horns by in batting. Babe Ruth in home run hitting, France in Davis cup competition and the California crew