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Molla Mallory, former champion, won the event. America defended the Davis Cup, international team supremacy of racquets, from France in the challenge round at Philadelphia. Johnston and Tilden played singles and Richards and Williams doubles. The only defeat the' United States suffered was when Tilden lost to LaCoste. The following singles were held at Forest Hills and 4 in the finals Jean Borotra and Rene LaCoste, two Frenchmen, met.

Vincent Richards and Norris Williams defended their doubles cham-pionship at Boston. Marathon Clarence LeMar, of the- Melrose Club, finished first' in the national marathon held in Baltimore. Albert Michelson finished second. Charles Mellor, 1925 winner, did not compete. Football There was no outstanding football team.

This year there were more upsets than in any previous fall. For awhile Notre Dame looked to be in line for the honors as In 1924, but fell before Carnegie Tech in what was supposed to be an e'asy game. 1 1 1 1 4i twenty seven promises to outdo mark, that of the Army-Navy Harry Greb died. Pete Latzo succeeded to the throne of the welterweight title by defeating Mickey Walker. Joe Dundee, of Baltimore, also defeated Walker, but could not induce Latzo to meet him this 'year.

Sammy Mandell completed the list of upsets when he ascended to the heights of the lightweight championship which was held in 1925 by Fidel LaBara, after Pancho Villa died. Baseball The St. Louis Cardinals, under the leadership of Rodgers Hornsby, startled the baseball world by winning the National League race and then defeating the Yankees in the world series. The National League race was close all season between t. Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, defending champion.

Internal trouble ruined the Pirates chances of repeating and ended with three players, being released. At the close of the season Dill McKenknie, manager, was let out. The Yankees won out in the American League, leading the field all season. The world series went seven full games before the Cardinals won and the veteran Grover Alexander was the star. TIM'1 54 1 it I The world has never known a year in sports to equal 1926.

Champions fell with regularity throughout the 12 months of bitter competition. Whenever one of the crown wearers risked his title, down it went. Yet throughout the entire year interest grew and grew. JLt reached a climax for the year this fall, but the end is not yet in TBs. i sight.

Nineteen hundred and MIR i 1 GO.y pyyyprpp tional amateur crown, losing in the final to George Von Elm, of California. Previously Jones invaded England and won the British open. He" came home and won the American open at Columbus, Ohio, giving him the two major championships. Jess Sweetser, former Yale star, won the British amateur tourney, being the first American to ever win it. Mrs.

Henry Stetson won the women's national golf championship over the Merion Cricket course at Philadelphia. Glenna Collett held the title previously. The Walker Cup team defended the cup in England against the British amateurs, but the American professional team was defeated. Tennis-Bill Tilden, for six years, the national singles tennis champion, was defeated and the championship went to Reive LaCoste, of France. Helen Wills invaded Europe last spring and met Suzanne Lenglen, considered the world's greatest woman player.

The French girl won two straight sets. The California girl was later stricken with appendicitis and was unable to defend her national championship. ail tne otners. Million dollar gates at sports events became the custom this year rather than the exception. The world series for the third straight year collected a million.

Football reached that pcint in the Army-Navy game at Chicago. The heavyweight championship fight at the Sesqui stadium in Philadelphia reached the unbelievable total of two million dollars. Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Billie McFarlane, Peter DePaola, Helen Wills and Rodgers Hornsby were among the champions to fall during this hectic year. -Gene Tunney is the new heavyweight boxing champion. The St.

Louis Cardinals, under the management of Rodgers Hornsby, won their first National League pennant and world series. Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim the English Channel. Football enjoyed by far its biggest year with intense inter- pit. nil nvpr t.Vip pnnntrv. The total attendance records were 0M 1 78W Alabama, Lafayette and Stanford looked to be the best undefeated teams in the South, East and West.

Navy had a great team, but was tied by Army in the contest at Chicago which set a record for attendance at a college game. It was 110,000. There was no outstanding player like Red Grange. Michigan tied with Northwestern for the Western Conference title, but the former played a much harder schedule. It lost one to Navy in Baltimore, 10-0.

Princeton scored victories over Yale and Harvard in what is to be the last Big Three series. Princeton and Harvard severed relations at the close of the season. Auto Racing Harry Hartz had a fine year in the auto racing game and' piled up an early lead for national honors. He raced in nearly every event and held the same place of Peter DePaola, the leader of 1925. Swimming Gertrude Ederlo was in the spotlight most of the summer.

She was the first woman to swim the English channel and hef time beat that of the best man swimmer, by two hours. Later another New. York woman swam the channel and Ederle's time was beaten by a man, Imt Gertrude received a tremendous reception on her return to New Y.ork. Johnny Weismuller and Miss Helen Wainwrigh't continued to dominate the swimming events in this country. Polo The United States still remains su challenge during the year.

It was in 1924 that the last international matches were staged in which the United States won. Rowing The University of Washington was the leading crew of the year. It won the inter-collegiate championship on the Hudson. It won the race also in 1924 and finished second to Navy last year. Horfee Racing Tlfe two-year-old field Included four horses who stood out above the others.

They were Scapa Flow, Osmond, Valorous and Fair Star. One of the most regrettable events of the year was when Bubbling Over was forced- from the. track. It won the Kentucky Derby but did not race at all after that. Bubbling Over went broken three times, with the last pp.

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By PAUIi MEXTOV lb jryrpAyrppp Goes lame and is not lik-ely to ever race again. Scapa Flow -won the Belmont Futurity, one 'of the richest stakes of the year. The Eastern Shore at Havre de Grace was won by Osmond, while Valorous came through in Kentucky. Fair Star won the FimliQO Futurity, which is one. of the best races of the season.

The leading three-year-old was Crusader, who won the Rigg's Pimlico and the Belmont Stakes. There were no international racts tills year. Track Nothing to equal the appearance of Nurmi featured the 1926 season. Charley. Hoff, the Norwegian pole vaulter, came to tjiis country and toured, setting several new records.

Later he in trouble with the Amateur Athletic Union and turned professional. Roland Locke, of Nebraska University, was the leading collegiate sprinter, while Charley Paddock continued to dominate the A. A. U. field.

There was talk of a race between them, but it did not materialize. Billiards Eric of -Germany closes the year as 18.2 billiard champion. The. fight continued among the leaders as of other years with Edouard Horemans, of Belgium, the defeated champion. i 9 CUE defeat of Jack Dempsey by Gene Tunney in the great Sesqui stadium in Philadelphia before close to 130,000 spectators for the world's heavyweight boxing championship was the big thrill of the 1926 sport world.

The champion entered the ring a heavy favorite, but at the end of 10 rounds was almost torn to pieces from jabs from Tunney, the fighting marine. There was not a voice of disapproval as the decision was given to Tunney, which made the first time in the history of heavyweight boxing that the championship changed hands by a decision. The fight was promoted by Tex Rickard and originally scheduled for New York, but he took it to Philadelphia. in the new stadium when the Taw Vrt.l wnnlrl tint ri Toronto nnally stopped Baltimore in the International League, after the latter won the pennant for seven straight years. Louisville won the American Association championship and in the little world series.

Toronto won five straight games. No series was played with the win-. ner on the Pacific Coast this season. Babe Ruth, baseball's idol, who collapsed in 1925, returned- a hero this year and performed in wonderful fashion. His playing was largely responsible for the Yankees taking a big lead in the American League race and the club staying there throughout the year.

George Burns, the veteran first sacker, of Cleveland, was voted the most valuable player in the American League, while O'FarrelJ, St, Louis Cardinal catcher, received the same honors in the National League. Rodgers Hornsby, while leading his team to the world's championship, slumped in his batting and relinquished the league honors for the first time in six years, Golf Bobby Jones was once more the outstanding golfer of the vear, although he could not retain his na 14 nrove of Dempsey fighting Tunney ahead of Harry Wills. The fight drew a gate, or After a process of elimination Jack Delaney was declared the light heavyweight champion and a leading prospect for the heavyweight title. Tiger Flowers won the middleweight championship from Harry Greb and this month lost it to Mickey Walker, former welterweight champion. Jn the early part the fall.