The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
1916 Champions
In Minor Sports
Events Listed
BY FRANK EcK
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football, basketball, golf, tennis
and racing enjoyed boom year
IN 1916, many minor sports and
feature events, held idle by war
years, returned TO the scene.
Among them were the 5O0-mile
indianapolis auto race, the Ber-
muda yacht race, bob Shedding on
the dangerous one-mile Mount
Van Hoevenberg run at Lake
Placid, international polo, the
National Horse Show and the
Westminster Kennel Club dog
show.
Here's the alphabetical run
down in some of the minor sports,
including a few that are big time:
AUTO RAcING-George Rob-
SON Of Los Angeles won the 500
mile Memorial Day race at In
dianapoliS but three months later
he was killed with George Bar
ringer at Atlanta.
BADMINTON - Carl Lovedav
triumphed in the singles and
paired with Ken Quigley to take
the doubles in the nationals at
Buffalo.
5ILLIARDS-Irving Crane of
Livonia, NJ Y, dethroned Willie
Mosconi as pocket billiards cham
pion, while Welker Cochran re-
tanned. the three cushion and 1872
balkline crowns and the Boy
Wonder, Willie Hoppe, kept the
1871 ballcline.
BOATING - Guy Lombardo
won the national sweepstakes
regatta in his Tempo vi. A. H.
Fuller's 57-foot Sloop Gesture won
the 635mile Newport to Bermuda
yacht race on corrected time. H.
c. Taylor's Baruna was first but
was shunted to third on handicap.
Mrs. 3. w. Henry's Good News
finished second.
BOB SLEDDING-Driver TUT
field Lataur piloted the two-man
Saranac Lake BobSled Club to
victory in the North American
championships at Lake Placid
while William Linney steered the
Republic Miners B. c. to the four
man crown. In the juniors, STAN
ley Benham and Howard Crossett
of Lake Placid won two-nan hon.
ors while Benham piloted the
home club to the four-man title.
BOWLING Leo Rollick of
Santa Monica, Calf, rolled 800
during a doubles match in the
ABC tourney at Buffalo. A week
later he took the singles crown.
Joe Wilman of Chicago won the
all-eVents.
CHESS-Mikhail Botvinnik of
Russia captured the masters IN
vitatioral tourney in Holland. The
us. championships went to Sam
uel ReshevSky and Miss N. May
Karff.
DOGS-Champion Hetherington
Model Rhythm was judged best
In-show at the Westminster.
GYMNASTICS --9tBoth all
around champions retained their
national crowns. Frank Comiskey
of Union City, N. j., was best
among men while Clara Schroth
of Philadelphia led the women.
HANDBALL-Angclo Trulio of
New York regained the national
AAU four-wall singles title ne
last won in 1882 by beating Gus
Lewis, Buffalo steeplejack, in San
Francisco. Frank Coyle and Ed
die Linz of the New York A. c.
scored in doubles.
HOCKEY - The Montreal Ca
nadians won their third straight
National League flag and regain
ed the Stanley Cup, beating the
Boston Bruins, four games out of
five.
HORSESHOE pITcHING-Joe
Latzko of Flint, Mich, was tops
in singles w1iletRafph Laokey and
June Marcum of Middletown, O.,
triumphed in doubles.
ICE SKATING -- Bob Fitzger-
aid, Minneapolis, won the mems
national speed crown at st. Paul.
POLO-U.S. beat Mexico's four
Gracida brothers two straight in
the International series at Mead
OVERLOOK, Westbury, N. Y.
ROWING-Jack Kelly, Jr., OF
Philadelphia lost by three lengths
TO Jean Sepuariades Of France in
the finals of the Diamond SOULS,
Two weeks later Kelly won the
us. single souls title.
SKI JUMPING - Aft Engen
scored in the nationals at Steam
boat Springs, Colo, with a leap
of 259 feet.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT rec
ords were broken, % by women.
Bill Smith, Hawaiian, clipped a
tenth of a second off Johnny
Weissmuller's mark of 0:57.8 for
100 yards freestyle. Adolph kiefer
swan the 150-meter medley IN
1919 and later turned pro. Joseph
Verdeur of Philadelphia nego-
tiated 200 yards in 2;l9.5 and 200
meters in 1856 for two worlds
breaststroke marks.
Miss Ann Curtis, 20-year-old
San Franciscan, set eight Ameri-
can marks in freestyle races from
$50 10 440 yards. Joyce Ma rae