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H SEN' REViEWSSPOBTS CHAMPIONS OP THE YEAR. , . . , . .. . . .,. Boxing. . ... . .'. , . . . . Lightweight Willie Ritchie. Heavyweight Vacant. Bantam Johnny Coulon. Featherweight Johnny Kilbano. Middleweight Disputed. . ;'- Welterweight Disputed. - . Football . ' Wefctirn Champion Chicago, Eastern Champion Harvard, ' Baseball. ' World's Chnmpbns Philadelphia Alhletics. (J mmpions -Natiinal League- Now York Giants. . : ; Vot;ed most valuable player Nation al League Jake Daubert. Voted most valuable player ' Amer ican League Walter Johnson. Golf. ' ..... World's Champion Frincis Ouim- ct, BoBton. : ,. Woman's Champion Miss Gladys Ravenscroft, England. Tennis. . . World's Champion, singles A. F, Wilding, Australia. American Champion,singles Mu ice McLaughlin. Woman's Champion, singles Miss Mary Browne, California. Double Champions Maurice E. Mc' Laughlin and T. C. Bundy. Davis Cup Winners American team composed of Maurice E. - Mc Laughlin, R. Norris Williams and. H II. Hackett. , ' ; Wrestling. World's Champion Frank Gotch. Polo. World's 'Champions Meadow brooke Four. Racing. Champion harness horse Uhlan. Best . runners, three year olds - and up Cook o' the Walk, Flaying Fairy; Buskin and Horren; Best two year olds, Pennant and 'Old Rosebud. Four year olds; Tracery and Prince Palat- ino. All ages, Broomstick II. Rowing. College Champions Syracuse., (By Hal Sheridan.) , NEW YORK, Jan. 1. As the old year dies -and the new spring into be ing "the sporting world stands poised ai.d ready to hail any new champion that may appear. The old ones will be forgotten with the passing of their .star. New champions have flashed across the 'horizon within the past twelve months, but so far as anyone has been able to notice no flashes have come from ithe prize ring. A lot of money has been spent on the game, but . it has .been one of the leanest of years fh-bringig out aything really worth while. . Willie Ritchie has held on. to - his title of lightweight champion without much effort and less ; fighting. Johnny Kilbane has traveled 'about picking up easy money and easy fights and is still featherweight king. Johnny Coulon,, bantamweight,"- has been out of the running because of illness. :. Kid Wpilams, of Baltimore, and Eddie Campi, both claim Johnny's 4, .1 title, but as Coulon is now getting ready to do business he must be dis posed of before any one will be sat isfied; .. .:' The middleweight division is so bad ly crippled that there is little chance of picking up a loose string and tag At as loading to a champion. Jimmy Clabby, of Milwaukee, is probably as good as will be found iri' his class at present,while Bob McAllister of California, is promising. The welter weights are also tangled up with Mike Gibbons and Packey McFarfanu standing out as the best Gunboat Smith is generally considered the best of the heavyweights, but Smith is far away from, being a champion. Two heavyweight fighters were killed' during the year. Luther McCarthy, won the "white heavyweight"' cham pionship belt by defeating Al Palzar at Los Angeles the first of the year, Luther was killed at Calgary May 24 in his fight with Arthur Polky. "Bull" Young died August 23 from the ef fects of a blow delivered by Willard.j McCarthy's death left the way open for a . general scramble for the title which has been righteously stripped from the negro Johnson :by . public opinion. One of the most unexpected rises of a new champion was the dash of Francis Ouimet to the top of the golf heap. , Hjs defeat of Vardon and Ray, the English Cracks, in the open golf tournament was one of the greatest exhibitions in years. Maurice E. McLaughlin again show-' ed that he stands head and shoulders above other tennis players ; of the eountry. To him belongs most of the credit for-vjthe winning of the Davis Cap. The Meadowbrooke team suc cessfully defended th International FranciVOuimet, 20, Is Golfing Sensation of Two Continents Ti Photo by American Praia Association. Pro - " VxS. 7 i s-lj y FRANCIS OUIMET, fcged twenty, was lifted litruriitlvclr ukii the shoul ders of golf enthusiasts the country over when lie accomplished the greatest golfing sensation of lvc-oiit .vuurs. ' llo ilL'featcd A'aidou und .Bay, the crack English profcsKioniilH. who rank with the very best playew In Uo world, and thus won the national -iK'ii i-liai;iloii8lil) or th United State nt Brookllue, Mass. Thut an ununowii aniatc-nr. o young and ao inexpVrieiiccd. without a title to his credit, could Ua will) these two Btitlsb experts for seventy-two boles in medal iIm.v for a core of was most aston Ishlng. But ttuit he could win the play oil' of eighteen holes by Hye stroke over Vardon and six over Roy, the respect!? scores being 77 and 78. wat Imply astounding. Oulmet's clubuiates perched liiui ou l heir shoulders in (Mllty find gave him the ovation of Ida yo.y career..' In the lower pk'tare Ouimet is being congratulated by Vardoiu (on tetti n.l n,iv ion right) - cup against the English during the summer, but again must resist an at tack this year. ROUND THE WORLD Sicily has an urea -of 25.730 square kilometers. Canning periwinkles is a new in dustry In Norway. 1'he're ure-slxteen -cables across the north Atlantic ocean. . , Constantinople - has ' a ncwsimpei that is run by eleven Turkish women. Golf enthusiasts In Massachusetts yearly eiMnd about 1600,000 ou the game. Rubber flowers to be worn on wom en's bathing suits are something novel. y Scotland's population is 10.411 greats er than that of Ireland. She is also twice as rich. ; Chile bus taken np the whaling- In dustry In the southern seas dropped by Americans. , The United States produced more white arsenic1 last year than ever be fore, and the Imports also were the greatest on record. Pittsburgh uow has a branch . or the Drama League of America to cen sor theatrical performances. . A modern Chinese trade union has been formed in ; Shanghai by 3,000 goldsmiths and silversmiths. Edward Nulry of Brooklyn has Just had a needle removed from his leg. where it had lain for fifty years. Liquorice root is a -pest In some parts of Turkey and Russia. Interfer ing with the cultivation of the land. The tallest building in the world. 001 feet high, witf be erected In Greeley square. New Tork city, to house the Pan-American States association. ,, Because of u lack of accessible quar ries from which to obtain paving ma terial Brazil is forced to import cobble stones' for its streets from Portugal. .An African explorer found a very modern American sewing machine be ing operated by a s woman in a native village in the heart of the dark conti nent .;,.. ' 1. -;v -- A car to carry two members of a res cue crew, woo. propel It with bicycle gearing as it runs on the track of a mine railway, has been invented 'n Europe. In an electric fountain for table decoration invented by a Boston man the falling water turns a wheel which change the colors of the lights which illuminate It During the recent salmon nm in British Colombia waters salmon were sold at retail In Vancouver shops for. 15 cents apiece, the fish averaging live pounds dressed. ' IN THE WORLD OF SPORT Mordecai Brown Mentioned For Reds' Manager. Photo by American Press Association. "Three Finger" Brown, former great pitcher of the Chicago National base boll team, vvhs itientloiied recently for manager of the Cincinnati Reds.. : Brown said he believed be could make good In Tinker's place. Konetehy Best First .Sacker. The National, league fielding aver ages for the season of 1913 show a number of changes In the standing ol players as compared with the records of the previous year. Konetcby of St. Louis moved from fourth to first place, his average as a first baseman bo!"" .805, while Jake Daubert of Brooklyn, who led the league in i012. dropped to second place, four points below Ko netcby. Tommy Leach of Chicago lends tb. outfielders with .000 for 129 games, al though Booe of Pittsburgh is the tech nical lender, with 1.000 for 22 games. Leach showed a big Improvement over bis 1012 performance, gaining twe'.re points in percentage, although plo! 82 more games.. (irover Alexander of Philadelphia Is given first place among the fielding pitchers of the league, with a perfect percentage for 47 games. From file, Cincinnati and New York: Rlxey. Philadelphia: Crnndall. New Tork; Mc Qulllnn. Pittsburgh, and Burk, St Louis, are all In the 1,000 class, wVb Alexander, although pitching a num ber of gairs less than be did. la Uut-clob Cfiidtiur. Pulladetobl ranked" 0-it wltb .Otis, it mi .- ' comes second, three imlntx below thein inttmburgb Is third, nlih .!hM. una rtew lors. t:iminnatl iinti Hinokiyn are ul tie'. 1.. loiirtb ;;liu-e 'Kh .utll. Snake Amu Now tn Powsr. ; At the rail meeting of the athletic board of control . at I'rlnreton uulve slty Know Jton Ames, m familiarly knowu us Snako. was elected chair man of the graduate advisory football committee for 101-1, The ivslgnatlous of Ross McChive. 'OK. and I'hll King, 03, were accepted. Donald 0. Uer ring. '07. and Hurt-lay Tan-, '12. were re-elected to serve with Aiutm. The vacancies caused by the resigna tion of McUlnve and King were not filled. Both UeiTlng und 1'urr are ad vocates of the open style game, while Ames Is the upholder of the kicking gume In open work. Should the two other members who will be elected in the future be for the open game the Tigers doubtless will resort to that tyle of football I u place of the ton servatlve old stylo game to which they have belt) 'so tenaciously and which has been the cause of much adverse. criticism. .' . Clabby Wins Frisnds, - Jimiuy Clabby Intreuched himself more solidly still with the Sun I'ran clsco sports by his workmaullke han dling of Frank Uigau ut Daly City, Cul. .After seeing Clubby lu all his variety the western fight followers have about couclmled that be Is the most versatile young fist (linger that ever, appeared in u Sun Francisco ring. lu the engagement with Logan Clab by acted like a fellow who Is subject to whims. The first few rounds show ed thut he had his opponent sized up to u dot. lie 'made Logan miss by snapping bis head back a very few inches. . When ' be felt like ringing the changes lu his system of defense be used bis shoulder as a barricade, and if by any chance Logan's right wan dered too close to the) Clabby Jaw Jimmy permitted bis head to roll with the punch and robbed it of its sting. Continental Europe Alive. . The Americanization of athletic training methods abroad continues apace. Sweden, Germany, Austria and Italy have already engaged American trainers to coacu tbelr athletes, for Berlin, and at the moment the Norwe gians are negotiating with Mike Ryan with the Idea of getting the winner of the 1012 Boston Marathon to go to Cbristlanln. - .-: ;.-' ' ''.'," 'V .-;.iiyj U. 8. Athletes at Athsns Meet. The Irish American Athletic club has decided to send at least ten ''men. beaded by Melvln W. Sheppard, . the hero of several Olympic series, to rep resent it in the- Athenian Olymplt Karnes to be held In Athens during May of next year. Fashion Frills. , If the tailors wish to do something unusual why do they not give the men knickerbockers and thus start a fash Ion worth while? Chicago News. vjomes uow tue tur unsiet as a ne-( cessity" of the slit sklst, the slit skirt being a necessity of the tight skirt and the tight skirt being perhaps the neces slty that knows no law. New York Sun. , . . ' It was inevitable. It has been dis covered In Paris that stockings are an Incumbrance in the modern female ap parel. A. Tahiti belle soon will bo in the extreme of Parisian fashion. Chi cago Tribune. The Writers. Marie Corclll has, taken to writing moving picture plays. MAnntole. France, at the age of sov-enty-two, has returned to Paris to re sume his 'literary labors and is about to write in a new vein stories fcr young persons. Theodore Watts-Duuton, poet, essay ist author of many books and noted for his contributions to the Encyclo paedia Britanniea, is working away al most as bard as ever, though he is now eighty-one years old.' At present he is engaged on a volume of collected es says. Industrial Items. A single workman can cnt by hand 6,000 watch glasses a duy. Labor organizations in the United States have an aggregate of 1,952,131 members. Thirtyrtwo per cent of the 7,000,000 working women In this country are under age. .. . In Chrlstlnnlo, Norway, there are nearly twice as many male factory workers as female, but the number of both sexes under the age of eighteen is equal, which shows that women and girls seek work eniij. but also leave It early. . Electric Sparks. Electric illumination is now a fea ture of nearly every c-idehratinn or ex position. ! Any electric current of sufficient vol ume to be used commercially is capa ble of causing death under very fa vorable circumstances, according to re cent conclusions, j, ;..'-...; , As it sometimes is difficult to find blown out electric fuse among the bank of fuses, an Englishman has In vented a fuse resembling a rifle tur -ct, the bullseyo dropping out when II iIowm nut. j the The Farmer and the Bank One would be impossible without the other. ' This bank therefore specializes in helping the farmer at all seasons. v : If you have any trouble or financial ambitions come in and let us talk it over. Several heads are better than one, and we can j probably help you. . Every accommodation is afforded farmers and you are cordi ally invited to make this bank your headquarters when you come to town, j United States National Bank Capital $100,000.00; Surplus, $I2.M0.M; Deposits ,$400,000.00. OFFICERS. N. K. West, Pres. Wm. Miller, Vice Pres., T. J Scroggin, Cashier, C. R. Harding, Asst. 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