Show SPORTS it was ans ft a great year for sports in nil all lines there was activity an and prosperity and international c contests were numerous organized sed baseball which had suffered from the white sox sor scandal rehabilitated itself by thie the appointment of judge landals as supreme arbiter the new york giants end and the die new york yankees won the national and american loague league pennants respectively ively and in the series for the world championship the giants were victorious the former members of the chicago white box who were accused of conspiracy to throw the 1010 1019 worlds series were acquitted by a jury though not by public opinion jock hutchinson of america won the british open golf championship in june in this country the titles went ns as follows western amateur ur charles evans jr national open james M barnes western open walter waller hagen national amateur jesse guilford the feature in pugilism was the battle for the worlds heavyweight title between jack dempsey and georges Car carpentier of france on july 0 2 the frenchman was knocked out in the fourth round benny leonard defended the lightweight title litle against mitchell on january 11 14 1 1 jack britton welterweight champion defeated ted lewis of england on february 7 and pete herman won the bantamweight alle title from joe lynch on july 25 23 bavis and johnston the acerit Ain erkan n tennis team won the davis cup in new zealand on january 1 and den won the international championship in parts carls on june 4 and the american championship on september it 10 the americans again won the davis cup on september 3 by defeating the japanese team the university of illinois won the western conference track and field meet and the national collegiate athletic meet in june yale defeated harvard in their annual boat race on june 24 the university of lowa iowa won vron tile western conference football championship and harvard beat yale on november 19 the east was civill two jolts in football for the university of chicago defeated princeton and centre college of kentucky beat harvard I 1 on november 23 young jake er won ion the worlds balki lne chani championship pi 0 long held by willie wlllie hoppe r |