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11 he American league In batting for ! the ninth time, while In the National ; loaguo Lorry Doyle, the second base-I mail and captain of tlio ClantB, won the honors from Captain Jake Dati-bert, of the National league with a percentage of .340. Cobb hod the line average of .375 and atolo over a hundred bane*, establishing a new record 1 for thefts.The best pitchers in the two big leagues were “Smokey Joe Wood, of the Red Sox and Alexander of the Pblllies. Wood boat Walter Johnson of the Senators, for the American league honors. Alexnuder was far su-! crior to the pitchers In tho National league and held the lead inrougbout the season.Boxing.No year slnco 1910 has been so fraught with Interest among the botf-ern as the year 1915. For it was in 1 this year, now in Its sere and yellow leaf, that Josh Wllllard. the big cowboy of Kansas City, won the heavyweight championship of the world from Jack Johnson, who had clinched all right and tite to it by defeating Janies J. Joffrlea at Reno on July 1, 1910. Willard knocked out Johnson ! In the twenty-sixth round of a sched-1 tiled forty-five round bout at Havana.■ Cuba, on April 5. 1915.That was not the only championship that changed hands. But It was the one of great Importance, and as a result It boomed boxing as 110 other 1 thing was able to do In the United I States. The other title that changed handn was whan Johnny Ertli*. tho ! midget hatter or St. Paul, won tho 'title on a foul blow delivered to himwhen he met Kid Williams on Sep-1 tembor 1« in si. Paul. The blow that j« lost Williams the championship landed i In tho flftb roundBilliards.William F. Hoppe, of New York,;. Alfredo IX* Oro. of New York, and • Rennie Allen, of Kunaas City, are i again the hcadllncra In tho cue world. 1 as they were a year ago. Hoppe re- 1 : talned tho 14-1, 18-1 and IR-2 balk line . titles. Ho won tRo last nomwl cm- 1 iblem outright last year and lu the only match for tho 14-1 tltlo this year I he defeated Kojl Yarnuda, 1,500 to J,:' 231.Although Hoppe has held one or moro of the titles continuously since 1910, his supremacy never has been ^ so firmly established as this year. ' This led to the holding of a handicap 18-2 tournament at New York In No- • vombor. In which the champion was ' at scratch. He won live stmight games and on the llnni night ngalnst ' Welker Cochran of Chicago made a ' world's record ruu of 308 In tournn-(J ment competition, beating the mark. made by himeclf at Chicago In 100p| by one point. 1Speed nay Racing. *The year 1915 was a year of speed- jl way racing. Road events hold their t own and dirt track hlppodromlngj r showed no unusual results after be- 1 Ing wrestled from the control of the f American Automobile Association. There were a few successfully pro- « inoted hill climbs of Importsnce only lt;to the comnmulUrs In which they11 were held, and perhaps a dor.en re- lt;liability contests, nil of purely local 1 interest.
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Sun, Jan 02, 1916
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