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Show YANKS CAPTURE 1921 TITLES IN SPORTING Po!o and Tennis Were Outstanding Outstand-ing Features. Time and Space Saved by Enumerating Enumerat-ing Events In Which United State Met Defeat Tilden and Hutchison Hutchi-son Victorious. International sport had its climax during the year which is drawing to its close. If a person touches only the high spots the list Is a long one. The coming season of 1922 may surpass sur-pass the present one in the multitude of Important events, but It'll have to step lively. The two surpassing Items, the competition com-petition for the Davis tennis trophy and the International polo cup, were both won by the American teams. This Is highly gratifying, writes Malcoltn MacL'ean ln the Chicago Post. Notably In the case of the Davis event was the United States' triumph one of surpassing surpass-ing Interest. More nations entered the play than ever before ln the history of the famous emblem, and this country coun-try fought it out in the challenge round with the representatives of Old Nippon. After a spell of resting ln England, the International polo cup was brought back home. This series produced pro-duced a brand new star in the ranks of champion polo stars, yoting Mr. Hitchcock, who is little more than a lad. William Tilden, the world's greatest tennis player, not only made things hum in the Davis cup competition, but also captured the British title, the New Zealand crown and the international hard court championship. This country has reason to feel proud of the victory of Jock Hutchison in the British open golf championship. In fact, so many victories were captured cap-tured by the United States that it wilt save time and space to record the fett in which they were defeated. Willie Hunter kept a swarm of Yankees from wresting away the British amateur golf title, Miss Cecil Leitch guarded the British women's tennis singles title successfully, Great Britain won the international 6-meter boat series, Canada swatted the United States In trap shooting and the girls' teams in hockey and soccer from the British Isles were triumphant. Outside of that the Americans gobbled gob-bled about everything ln sight. , i |