| Show r new naw york post WOT service theres no harm asking questions vor nor answering An swerin siverin eni em T THERES HERES no harm in asking who held the featherweight championship of the world for eleven years what celebrated american sportsman was expelled from france when only sixteen years old who were the two men who persuaded the football rules committee to adopt the forward pass when what major eleven first made the best publicized use of 0 the pass what wrestling match created one of the most enduring of all international sports controversies what was the youngest combination of golfer and caddy ever to win a national championship can you name the infield combination that had the greatest success for the world famous old baltimore orioles who was the american who won an olympic championship in an event in which he be never bad competed previously what tennis player was ranked among the first ten during nineteen of the twenty years which elapsed between his first ranking and his retirement from major tournament play and probably theres even less harm in answering johnny kilbane ile he won the title from abe attell on february 22 1913 1912 and lost it to eugene criqui on an june 2 1933 1923 willie hoppe the billiard champion who then was makin making g the first of his very successful foreign appearances the french government decided there was too much betting on billiard exhibitions hibit ions when the court ruled that such affairs were games of skill rather than of chance the govern in e n t nevertheless advised all foreign J willie hoppe players to take quick I leave of the country 1 naturally this was merely a bureaucratic display of red taped petulance and hoppe has many times been frances honored guest C john C bell of pennsylvania and it paul J dashiell of the naval academy in january 1908 1906 in the harvard i game that year a yale aal e pass re suited in a 30 yard gain which Jie reached ached the crimson three yard ij i nark mark from this point a most im bev touchdown soon ws vas achieved in 1907 two long forward passes largely contributed to ja a yale victory after the ells elis had trailed princeton by ten points the gotch match d in chicago in 1908 after two hours hour walked out of the 0 dringo 1 ring thus relinquishing his world championship he claimed that gotch I 1 had almost gouged out his iti ayes eyes and that the american was ito well covered with oil that it was th the e same as trying to graple with a well buttered eel ewhen en francis ouimet won the F IS S open after the playoff play off with pardon adon and ray in 1913 he was wenty enty years old his caddy edae k lowery was ten years old W doyle ib reitz ab jennings mcgraw ab obert garrett of baltimore H he e a 3 captain of the princeton track im and decided to go to the first mitic games in athens shortly ore re sailing he heard beard that discus ling then unknown to american ick ek and field enthusiasts was to included on the program since was a weight thrower he be had lend friend fashion him a discus which resembled the one to be d in the games garrett ype d with it tor for a week geelt or so and eidd le ip athens far outclassed the greek I 1 nepion Paraskev in his a country and at his own game illiam A larned lamed he was ranked i in 1892 from then on until wilred in 1912 he was ranked pa I 1 eight years second five years i four our years and fifth one year 0 0 only gearhe year he missed out was 0 98 8 during that season he be was bof the rough riders rider it C |
