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Show Sporting Champs Retain Titles Held in 1927 With all the leading sports from automobile racing to wrestling considered, con-sidered, 1928 turned ont to have been a better year for champions than 1927. Out of a list of 284 champions for 1028, amateur and professional, team and Individual, 81. or 27.03 per cent are "repeaters" champions who retained re-tained their crowns The year before the percentage was smaller, being 25.81 per cent. Professional boxing whose champions cham-pions are loath to risk their titles unless they are pretty likely to retain re-tain them, was a leading standpatter with only one title change In the entire en-tire year, while In such sports as golf and rowing very few of the 1927 champions survived. |