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Show m chsi III HISTORY OF SPORTS Nation Gains Greatest Honors; Hon-ors; Prospects Better for 1921 By HENRY L. FARHELL Unitfd Praaa &taff Corraapondant NEW YOKK. Jan. 1. Tall Hill TiUhMi ami Tiny Hill Johnston John-ston have hroupht to a plorions cml the (rreatest year of Amer-iran Amer-iran Hei'ompliHlimriit in sport in history. A year fillrcl with brilliant pip)wi Ma hnaaa mmi fnnilan flalrtaj wna irafilriff itH IunI, Amenra'a now fa- nmua pair f ti nnia Hilla TIMen and I Johnston iwit hark he ioly tho I j vm- c up nest to the world's aporl trophy thiit tit now realins on AniTkan vh"leM. if ip II th world ' emhlema f auperlorlty In aport. only one la not In Amerli-a--th ltilerntimal mIo cup. and tli American team aota nut for Kngbind after It thl rmlna; aprma;. U. 8. BUftRIMI, Krotn ihf; frrat of th ar to the stns;-Idk stns;-Idk of swan aona, y-mnUy, Anirrlo cjiiia havo owept almost auprerae down Mouth th field of HHrl. World a aupremacy on the wat"r was accepted hy a ht. by a fishlns; achonn-er achonn-er and hy a moiorboat. World' aupremacy on land was won hv a team of riflemen, hy a track and field W-uni, hy ininfrn, by oarsmen and hy trnnls players. I'erhaiia t he mot "Mue-Moodrd' victory vic-tory vmn t''oiit'a auccenafut defence of the luatori' America's cup over the ItrltlHh yacht Shamrock IV. OLYMPIC GAMES. Next In rlaea waa America's sweep! its; victory on tratk and field at the vlaaaic Olympic itiimca. Tennis Jotnd the llwt of conquests when Willi mi T Ttlden won the Hrlttnh na-tional na-tional championship nnd later with tha help of Uillium Johnaton hrousjlit the. cinn(c Ihtvia cup hack to America, after an aliariM-f of right years. Jaek K.-llv. Ihiladelphit. brought the mrlrl aruUiiif; chnmpimudilp home from th t dympli- same, the navy won the eight - our champion whip a nd set a new world's reere-d h ftil the American riflemen nrouahl. home the championship from Belgiiiiii. BOAT FtACCf. The American flbhinKT Schooner Kler-anlo. Kler-anlo. Joiner) the lit with a championship, cham-pionship, the American swimmers vanished van-ished the heat In I he world and Princeton Prince-ton track team heal Oxford and Cambridge. Cam-bridge. America must bow. wowever, to Panada Pan-ada In hockev; to Crest Britain In cross muntrv running and golf the verv few International contest in which American colors did not wave from the top of the pole. In pugilism and wrestling America Is a I mo i m.prenie. International iorts reached thlr greatest great-est crest In 190 sod the benefits resulting result-ing cannot lie estimated. li renter vet in ihe propet for 1f?1. With the etceotion of the OI nipic games, the sjin-e events with some notable adrti- J . turns will be on the -nrd fie- the n-w ' .. 1 |