Show V 0 O 0 t YOUTH foUTH fc w UTH CONTINUES MARCH TO TOP OF DURING PAST 12 MONTHS 4 MANY TITLE TITLEHOLDERS TITLEHOLDERS HOLDERS ARE ARE LEFT BEHIND Olympic Games at Which 45 Nations Gather Gathe Feature Feature Feature Fea Fea- ture Year The year car 1928 witnessed ed tw two I. I major changes in the world ot of t sport the passing passing- of or many former champions and nd the challenge t youth to the old order on diamond field and track It was a year crowl crowded e 1 wIth sp sporting sportIng sport sport- rt Ing features reaching a climax cIlma with the gathering of athletic representatives representatives representatives of forty-five forty nations and anft the Olympic games at Amsterdam where the United States once more was victorious but by a margin de decidedly decidedly decidedly de- de decreased from that of previous previous previous pre pre- Olympiads In nearly every line of endeavor the trend was in favor of ot youngsters who advanced with bat batand batand and racquet and spiked shoe hoe to claim the fame tame too long confined to the veterans Youth found a footing o on the b ball ll fields of America on the cinder r path at Amsterdam and on the te teS teb nis courts of France ousting old timers in the most pronounced re revolt revolt revolt re- re volt the world of sport has known know since cessation of hostilities in Europe Europe Eu Eu- Europe rope make possible a return to normal normal normal nor nor- mal Interest in athletics The Cobbs and Speakers of baseball base bas ball the and Johnsons Johnson of tennis the Paddocks and of tho track hung up their athletic armor and yielded to the relentless drive of youth ROOKIES MAKE GOOD IN BASEBALL A few of tho the veterans of ot sport still cling tenaciously to their places but the approach of tho the new year finds the star of youth definitely definitely definitely in the ascendancy Not in a a. decade have first year men in major league baseball made mado good as they did during the past season A score IScore of rookies in each league won their spurs and will take their places as regulars In 1929 On tho the tennis courts there Is an uphill battle to be fought If American Amen Ameri can supremacy is to be restored and the fight must be carried on by youngsters such as Johnny Hennessey Hennes Hennes- sey Georgia Lott and little Junior Coen who will soon reach the ripe age of 17 In the big red brick stadium at Amsterdam last summer the efforts of the heroes of past Olympiads were overshadowed by the swift rush of Percy Williams the tho Canadian Canadian Cana Can addan a- a dian boy a double Olympic winner Inner while still in his teens by the measured measured measured mea mea- drive of ot of Finland 19 year-old year successor to the great Paavo NurmI and by the agility of young Bob King of Stanford who was not old enough to vote for his university's distinguished alumnus last November EL WINS IN OLYMPIAD The march of youth past the halt haltof haltof of ot age in the years year's campaign of ot sport was not confined to baseball tennis and track but these are sports where the competition Is most open and physical maturity y less a bar to success No one who was present will forget that devastating devastating devas devas- tating day during the amateur golf gott championship at Brae Burn Durn when no fewer than five former champions oham- oham were beaten by young youn- opponents opponents opponents in a It single round of match play The Tho Olympic games games- as far tar as astrack astrack track and field went found the traditional supremacy of the United States challenged as never before and while our boys bos won handily the balance of athletic power ol ob- ob is shifting The outstanding outstanding feature of every Olympiad Is the marathon run which was won at Amsterdam by Abdel El EI a a year old Algerian now running In the tIle United States as a professional Next to the marathon run the most spectacular and dramatic single lo episode of 01 the ninth Olympiad plad was as the tho rush of ot California's youthful crew to victory on the placid waters of the Sloten leaving leaving leav leav- ing InK behind n i a i star all-star eight made up of veteran British oarsmen N GENE TUNNEY GETS MA MARRIED RIED Gene Oene Tunney after atter his 11 heavyweight championship of or the tho y world vacated the title and went honeymooning abroad so that boxing boxing box box- ing lost its one ono outstanding champion champion champion cham cham- pion and enters the new year in a It state of pronounced uncertainty Others who have been champions for so long that their names have come to be associated with invincibility invincibility yet who abdicated in 1928 are Big Bill Bm Tilden and Walter The former was fleet first t beaten beaten and then barred while Sir Walt Walter lost the tho professional golf champlon cham- cham plon ht he had held for many years cars I Tho The victory of the French on th the tennis courts of Europe and America AmerI America Amer Amer- ica leA was wag wasa a repetition of the previous year Defending the Davis cup for forthe forthe I the first time Frances France's brilliant Continued d on p page S. 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