Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 4 | Record Throngs Attend Athletic Events during Past 12 Months

n n RECORD THRONGS ATTEND ATHLETIC EVENTS DURING PAST J 12 2 MONTHS DAVIS CUP LOSS YEARS YEAR'S HIGH HIGHPOINT POINT Few FeY 1926 1 Champions Suc Successful in Attempts to toI to I Regain Titles 1 Tile Tie T e loss of ot r the tho Davis Dayis' cup iu to 0 Ir France Franc nce a a- dramatic d am tIe but but unsuccessful ful tUl attempt by Jack y to re regain legain regain re- re gain the the hea the heavyweight championship Babe Ruths Ruth's h home e run hitting an and Bobby B Jones Jones' s' s amazing golf goU were we're were sonic some om of bf the th outstanding events of the sports ports world in jn 1927 This w was a ye year in wh which an m unprecedented un un- 1 r ced number of former champions dethroned in Iii the preceding pr preceding pre pre- ceding eding tw twelve le months sou sought t ht-t win back their titles A few v fc s suc- suc suc- suc c cc c ed pore re of them Interest rest in sport sp in the th United States States' never never nen r vas was greater than in i l 1927 as 35 ne new attendance and ari gate receipt records in baseball football and n boxing attest Chicago 6 played ed 1 host ost during n the thc fall to o the largest crowds which ever witnessed ed a a. prize fight and a football football football foot foot- ball game r respectively Yore More r re than men men an and women women wo wo- men millionaires and and racketeers governors governors' an and gate crashers watched the spectacular cular battle in Soldier field stadium In which Gene Tunney g got t up from tho the canvas canYaS atthe atthe at atthe the end nd of f the long count an and soundly dl thras thrashed lerl Jack Dempsey In their second fight for the worl worlds world's s 's championship Tw Two months later in that same stadium a record football crow crowd of watched the exciting Notre Southern So thern California game which like the fight ight had its aftermath aftermath after after- math of protest DAVIS CUP CUP DEPARTS DE ARTS ARTS' But Bait it will wili be be b by the loss hiss of the theDas Davis Das cup emblematic c of the tennis supremacy rem ry of or the the- thC world that Ithe year ar 1927 will ill be longest remembered bere Possessor pf Pt the the trophy for fOl s ev ji l successive years years the United States Elates watched with breathless ss interest two diminutive U Frenchmen hen Rene Ilene Lacoste r-acost an and Henri T G Cochet wrested cup the from Willlim William T. T 1 Tilden a and William M M. Johnston on fhe Elie velvet V f green gre n battleground battle of or Germantown Lacoste moreover retained his title as singles n of or the United Unfed States St tes Big Bill Tilden six times titleholder beaten in 1926 tried in V vain fn this thise v year e r to tonne cottle back acl G Greater reater Success U access ess es's In hi thiS direction r attended the return of ot Helen Wills vms to the cc courts Stricken with appendicitis apPendicitis appen apPen- eighteen n months agog agton g on the theve eve ve yc of to race tace Suzanne Suzanne Su Su- zanne zanne L Lenglen n at at Paris Parisi Mss Miss ViUs Wills was forced to relinquish her wo women's women's wo- wo mens men's singles chamIl championship n r. r Our OUI Helen Hel n got It back tills year year ar succeeding ing where n re failed JONES BEST GOLFER The greatest st Individual tue of the y year measured by the th most exact standards was that of Bobby one 3 j Vin the of Great B t I lIn ri t e Jn r d Status States In winning the British open championship cham charn- ham ham- as ak well weil its regaining the An American amateur crown crow lost cost ost to George Georgo Von Elm in 1925 1926 Bobby played buch such golf as as nev never r h hats has s been equaled Glenna Collect Collett t df of Providence R. R I. I who lost the women's national golf championship the preceding year W was among the he former titleholders ers who aho tried to come back in 1927 1127 and tl-nd failed tailed Aside from the suc successful return e r s 's s this wa was not a parr par liar striking year yea as s far as women's participation in sport was wast t r. concerned r e A year eal ago o the talk was gall all of oe Gertrude Gertrud channel I swim shim This year the th business 4 o of I channel swimming deteriorated tt to toa toa toa a a point p where wh where r an English woman oman went went out an and faked and faked rakeda a er crossing In order older so she said to demonstrate f how v easily ly such a thing athing could be done i GEORGE YOUNG 1 v BEATS CHANNEL CHANEL NEL v vj j. j tr t deorge Young of Toronto wis' wis tho winner of the years year's mos most t spectacular ular swimming event an and was the tho only contestant tant to finish the long lung cold cola col journey from Ca Catalina island to the m mainland In quest of William No women swimmers swim swim- swimmers swimmers swim swim- mers succeeded d In l main mainland land in this contest nor In the Lake George Ceorge swim It was a a. banner year yeal for tor baseball Our most successful said sl d Ires 1 f John Jonn Heydler of the National league Gate receipts exceeded lc those of any any previous year ear and while the w world series in which the y Ne York fork Yankees trounced the Pittsburg Pittsburg Pitts- Pitts i. i burg Pirates went only four games attendance records for these were w were re rei i shattered and trod the players received r more money than ever b before ore e. e There were a number of ot things of Continued on page 8 f t I I DAVIS CUP S LOSS YEARS YEAR S HIGH POINT Continued nUnu- nUnu from page age 1 interest even to tho wh who may not be he rabid baseball fans tans In the 1927 season I BABE HITS BABE HITS HOMERS Fi First st an aria foremost com combs s TIn tabe be beRuth's Ruths Ruth's home run hitting Sp rrell on by competition supplied by y his teammate Lou GehrIg the Yankee slugger ac accomplished d What nhat he he among others had thought impossible sible lie came through h with 11 spec spec- e clouting in the closing week reek eel of ot the season to break his previous home run home run record of nine fifty which had stood for fOl- years six sob years ears and anI went wenton on to pass the sixty markAs mark As for foi th the pennant laces races that inthe inthe in- in the American league laue was a a walkover walk over ovel for the tha Yankees wh set et a n anew anew new record for tor games gameson won on And anil hll h had d the pennant pocket d b by mid season In Jn the National len league ue the race was bitterly contested down to the thelast thelast last 1st day The PIttsburg Pirates Pirat s. s disorganized in July and the services of Kiki Cuyler whose c ease case se be came the cause of ot the sea season on finally out the St. St Louis Cardinals Cardinals- champions In In 1926 1026 S. S WEIRD FOOTBALL V SEA SEASON SEASON- ON i For those like Ulce their their- hall football logical the 1927 s which just closed was as a t nightmare po powerful pow pow- v erful eleven after after- another went down to unexpected defeat and not nota a first-class first eleven in the country kept ept its slate clan cisan of or d defeats feats and tics ties P Tufts college S near Meda e ford Mass where Coach Arthur Sampson amp on introduced radical trainIng trainIng train Ing methods which involved h helping ling the boys to enjoy the g game me rather r thEr than driving hig them then to io wort vor at t it won ev every r game oh on a a. w nell balan well ll ed schedule which did not unfortunately nat l ly include any really outstanding out tand ing elevens 0 S Georgia having defeated Yale gale the best beat in the cast went down to defeat deleat in the big game ganie of oC- the Southern conference at Atlanta losing to Georgia Tech 13 to 0 O. i 1 Notre Dame looked for a II time tim like hike a national a and hen heu was kicked b by the Army Arny mule mula Princeton went through its Its s season ason without a a- trimming until Yale took tool the Tiger into camp Southern California was unbeaten until t Uie te te much nuch discussed Notre Notre- Dame triumph tri ui- at Soldier field Like baseball in 19 7 10 had its cause celebre Three days before the Yale-Princeton Yale game a Providence newspaper announced Its discovery of the fact that Bruce C Caldwell Yale halfback and ana one one of the jIm greatest who ev cv ever r carried kicked or tossed a pigskin was in ineligible ineligible in- in eligible under the transfer rul rule adopted by bythe the erstwhile erstwhile Big Big T Three rM This neat piece o of of- journalism tet et ettl tl the e co college lIege world afire and lna shade e Caldwell the tho t interesting fig fig- ure bre e. albeit a sad Ead one one in In r intercollegiate intercol t l glate The rhe newspaper had its little tittle beat and Bruc Bruce sat on the sidelines sidelines' while his hrs teammates licked ed Princeton and Harv Harvard rd without without without with with- out him S YEAR OF TIE SQUAWK QUAWK While of or the principal football gapes s of ot the pie lie ye teAr r were wele welem m marred by sq squawking squawking- on on n th the tha theart part art of ot the los was in in boxing that the of business business' of raising raisins an aftermath af at- af- af of f loud I moans rea reached G d its ts peak peak- J S SS S Friends admirers and backers bacler of Jack Dempsey probably never will willbe be We satisfied with the outcome of the tM heavyweight hea contest at Soldier Sollier field in which Gene Tunney lunne re retained retained re- re his title To To keep the record roe rec ord straight it might be repeated that Dempsey was wag soundly beaten by a better helter man In the oth other there l' l classes classes- were Wele Vereno no championship batu battles battle's sM of bf distinction distinction distinction tion during 1927 1027 v S Several titles but the cash c customers usually were wele detected in well eli bred ed or the other kind l of yawns awns Second in Importance to 10 the Dempsey Dempsey Tunney TunneY fight and re its squawk squa was the Sharkey affair and its resultant squawk It will vili be recalled that Sharkey after battering Dempsey badly Inthe in inthe inthe the opening rounds slowed down under a a. drumfire of body punishment punishment punish punish- ment which he seemed carelessly to l permit without permit erl it without attempting t g a so sound nd defense I In Inthe n th the seventh round Dempsey ripped a low left and to the U bod body and anU when Sharkey Sharley dropped his hands and tried t to protest Dempsey dropped hi him n with witte lt a a. a left eft hook hool to the Jaw s V PROFITABLE DEBATES 1 Loud Lou and lo long g we were U the e cl claims claim of foul roul equally loud and nd d doubtless as de enduring the shrieks of those thos who would have It that the fight was In the bag long and green were the shekels Tex r it away as' as a result A il A A. sad feature of the year iri box boxing ox 1 ing was naS the death ot of oTi TIg rf Flow FI w- w rs c-rs Georgia deacon who r ly l' l IY held the middleweight champion ship shill S d FOUR W r J l 1 a no sp sport apart lt which i is into th the consciousness pf pt the multitude was in enhanced by another serIes serles of ot matches for forthe forthe the international challenge challene pup Devereux De 1 Milburn veteran veteran- of of man many nany internationals led lcd the theAmer Amer- Amer ican kaj team against the challengers from th the British army In hi India ind md th the invaders in were badly badly- beaten Tommy Hitchcock Mal Mai Stevenson Steenson and J. J Watson Vatson Webb were the other members ers of the tile triumphant Four POOR R RACING CING YEAR The horse racing of 1827 1927 hs was mediocre me- me S as far tar as as performances went There were no outstanding equine lne ino champions A large larga nu number ber of tl tle- tle leading stales stakes divided the 1 prin principal cipal purses Now that the thc year ear is Ii at at an neri it seems t tu be remembered most n fl turf circles for the the suspension n u uEArl of ofEarl ot Earl o Sande foremost ore American meri an rider who was vas ruled off oft the turf tUll for COl an alleged rough ip In Maryland Mary land As As' s' s a result Sande Saide may ma bavA- bavA the United States and his liis riding to to English and anti tracks v S i INTERCOLLEGIATE h. h SPORT Champ Champions o were in the COll college ge world during 1927 92 Stanford V well bal bal- bai balanced track ant And andfield field caIne came east Franklin to 1 and deposed d the Trojans of the Univ University of or South Sonth Southern rp California last t winners S Columbia won the the annual annual regatta of th the Intercollegiate giat Rowing taso- taso o elation on on n the Hudson lIndson s 1 supplanting the Huskies of ot the University q of Washington as champions of the thes river Yale Yal unbeaten for fOl fv bowed to Harvard this yeAt tl the tee Crimsons Crimson's red tipped oars o oars s 's s the Than s in h o At Yale polo retained retain d the pl wn c-wn- n however v fl P. P The lie lost the thC 1 c go golf title Va ts tinT of Georgia Tech replacing ing Gr fir G C c. Lamprecht Tulan Tulane ks s s' s J. J champion College t tennis foun found oun l' l 1 r Vt I I lison at the the- top ln hl in of Ed Chandler o of U the e 1926 ha r t l J X of ot Chandler and SCow gays gaye Van flyn and Appel Appel of t t. Billy ec Cox Cor o of te nd J s fellow harriers retained Aal alj cross country honors honors- tho of-tho ea college world f I I With the French en irely s' s c fut ful as far as their t tenni Va JJ h B t t l h t t I ii at lf 1 ri Of df for for- n tI M t viaS vial via via- J thc ed In HI 7 S l cott th vre e l 11 i 1 while t in in Wide the t Swedish r had bJ a ot oi th the r t e wl ls Dr oto r of t Germany German who proba a Jj seeh s een action c f l fJ rt t. in in- the he new year J 4 r I s' s