Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 27 | High Spots of Year in Sports

High Spots of Year iI in Sports BASEBALL Overwhelming BASEBALL Overwhelming victory of New York Yankees In American n le league gue pennant race and over Pitts Pittsburg burg Pirates in lour hour straight games in worlds series Babe Ruths Ruth's new home run record 60 iO award of most valuable player prizes to Lou Gehrig and Pa Paul l Vl Waner ner National league league- Ef batting king passing or trading of famous famous hamous fa ha- figures as Walter Walter- Johnston JOhnston Ty Ty Cobb George Kiki Cuyler and Ien Williams BOXING BOXING Gen Gene Tunney's successful defense of title against Jack Dempsey in s spite of taking long count in seventh round in record- record king breaking battle battle- at Chicago attracting fans and gate three new champions crowned crowned Bud Bud Taylor among mong bantams Joe Dundee in welter ranks and Tommy Loughran Loughan an as light hea- hea heavyweight heavy heavy- weight titleholder S FOOTBALL FOOTBALL Record Record crowd of at Southern California California- Notre Dame game in Chicago ago general upset of champions Inel Ity of ot Yale backfield ace Bruce Caldwell rift in relations between Army AMnY and Navy I S GOLF GOLF Bobby Bobby Jones' Jones triumph in British open for the second straight time with record score of and victory in American amateur amateur amateur ama ama- tournament for tor third time in four hour years Walter Valter Hagens Hagen's triumph for tor fourth fouth straight year In P. P G. G A. A tourney Tommy Armours Armour's winning winning win win- inning in- in ning of or both American and Canadian open titles POLO Triumph POLO Triumph of American big four with Tommy Jommy Hitchcock as star over ver British challengers to for fog classic international cup ROWING ROWING ROWING-Columbia's Columbia's a victory over Washington C California and Navy In Poughkeepsie b blue ue ribbon race Harvard's Harvard first victory over Yale in seven years Joe Wright sculling triumphs SWIMMING SWIMMING Johnny Johnny supremacy in short distan distance e events for tor seventh straight year clean sweep of fre freestyle tyle events by Martha 1 who won five national titles and broke 29 records during year George Youngs Young's victory in Catalina channel marathon TENNIS TENNIS End End of Americas America's s seven year Davis Davia CU cup reign as French overthrew Tilden and Johnston Rene Itene Lacoste wins ins American singles title for tor second straight year pal and earns crown as ns worlds world's No 1 player comeback of t lichen Helen Wills Vilis to women's singles winning both Wimbledon and American titles s. s TRACK AN AND D FIELD FIELD Sabin S ELD-S bin Carrs Carr's r shing d C pole vault nult feats including outdoor worlds world's mar marks marks of sot of 14 14 feet Lloyd Hahn's Hahns un- un l record Indoors Indoor I including Y er f p yin Wid f Stanford's j in c championships t v J. J j l 1 tAi cJ t ff S I j Si i H I v z i sJ fJ I 5 4 I 1 1 tl fJ rr 4 1 tt h r 1 If of ei rY ii f l i 1 f L. L mif mi a it j I Jt J f yf 1 i l 0 k I r II f