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Show . r MANY 1 922 CHAPiPIONS LOSE TITLES o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o GENE SARAZEN IS SUPREME AT GOLF 4 . k Top Row. Left to Right: Marlon Hollfns, Morvlch, Mrs. Mallory Bottom Row: Walter Hagen, Georges Car- pentier, Johnny Buff, Babe Ruth. By BILLY EVANS. I Tho yc-ar 1922 will go down in the innnals of sport as a Jinx season for champions. Although two months of the current year remain, champions In practically every lino of sport have lost their titles. Perhaps the biggest upset In sport-In? sport-In? circles was the absolute failure of that great race horse. Morvlch. As a two-year-old Morvlch was tin-beat) tin-beat) n In 12 starts. Ho was placed Mr the same el isfl with Man o' War. No lone disputed his right to the two-ycai -Old championship of tho turf, i What would Morvlch do as a threo-I threo-I year-old? It has been the history of the turf that many a great two-year-1 Old falls to perform consistently as a, J three-year-old. MORVICH BIG DISAPPOINTMENT. I Morvlch won his first start. the jKeptuclcy derby. In impressive style. The Kentucky derby is generally re-jgarded re-jgarded as the classic of the running game True. Morvlch didn't face a Strong field In the derby, but he ran 'a great race . Tne critics Were ready to hall Morvlch as the peer of all three-year-olds. Then something went wrong. In every other start during 1922 Morvlch was badly beaten. Favored to win .'every race he started he failed dls- - mally each time out. I Unquestionably the absolute col- ; lapse of Morvlch as a champion was - the outstanding feature of 1922 from a sport angle. , MXiLE. ! I VGLKN ( OMl s v, u K. ; Another derided reversal of form .was the defeat of Mrs Mallory American Amer-ican woman tennis champion, by ' Mademoiselle Lenglen In their previous prev-ious meeting Mademoiselle Lenglen I had defaulted early in the match after af-ter being apparently outclassed. She gave as the reason, illness, but American Amer-ican tennis critics accused her of qult-,tnig qult-,tnig cold. I j The result of the clash caused much ill-feeling in French and American tennis circles. Mrs Mallory Invaded Europe to prove that her victory was not a mere fluke as claimed by Mademoiselle Made-moiselle Lenglen. The outcome was a decisive victory for Mademoiselle Lenglen, and a terrible ter-rible jolt for Mrs. Mallory and Amor-lean Amor-lean tennis. GOLF Il)ORs lo SARAZEN, Gene Sarazcn. by his defeat of Wal-,ter Wal-,ter Hagen, must "be regarded as su-l prome In golfdom. Hagen won the British open. Sara- 'n the American title. Recently tho .two mot in a little golf world series .and Saroscn emerged the victor. While no actual tltlo passed, still Hagen for the time being lost his right to be classed as the greatest I money player in golfing circles. Marion Hollins, who held the wora-lan's wora-lan's golf title In America, was suc- pdde to the throne by Glenna Colli Col-li tt, i hi sensational Providence, R. Li I player. BUFF LOSES TWO TITLES in boxing circles the defeat of 'Georges Carpentier. world's llght-I llght-I heavyweight tltleholdcr. was a decided decid-ed shock. The fact that Carpcntlor wtta beaten by a comparative unknown. un-known. Battling Sikl, made the recult all the men startling. Johnny Buff, by the way. was the heaviest loser of titles Buff held the flyweight and bantamweight titles at the start of the year. Joe Lynch Is now the bantam champ and Pancho Villa the flyweight title holder. In baseball the fall of Babo Ruth was a tragedy. Home-run king for three years, monarch of all he surveyed sur-veyed in swatdbnL nuth was jolted from bis throne by Rogers Hornsby All of which merely proves you can nw. r tell what's going to happen in Bportdom, |