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hoff, of the Herreshoff family of Bristol, R.I. The first 2 races were won by " Shamrock," the last 3 and the cup by " Resolute." Twice the yachts failed to finish within the 6-hour time limit. Once the wind was deemed too strong to permit a start. It was feared that with lee decks awash there was risk of losing a man overboard. In all but one race " Resolute " was allowed 6 min. 40 sec. handicap, due largely to the challenger's great sail area with Marconi mast and extreme hoist. In the same year was held the first race for the championship of the North Atlantic fishing fleet off Halifax. " Esperanto," United States, defeated " Delawanna," Canadian, in two straight races over a 40-01. course, for $4,000 and a cup.

Golf. In Great Britain, H. Vardon was the champion in 1911 and 1914, E. Ray in 1912, J. H. Taylor in 1913, G. Duncan in 1920, and jock Hutchison in 1921. In the amateur championships H. H. Hilton won in 1911 and 1913, John Ball in 1912, J. L. C. Jenkins in 1914, C. J. H. Tolley in 1920 and VV. I. Hunter in 1921. The ladies' open championship fell to Miss D. Campbell in 1911, to Miss G. Ravenscroft in 1912, to Miss Muriel Dodd in 1913, and in 1914, 1919, 1920 and 1921 to Miss C. Leitch.

In the United States the amateur championship was won by H. Hilton in 1911 and by Jerome Travers in 1912. J. J. McDermott won the open tournament both in 1911 and 1912. Travers defeated Anderson for the amateur title in 1913, and Francis Ouimet won the open title, after a tie with Harry Vardon and Ted Ray of Eng- land. No amateur before had won this title, and Ouimet was only 20 years old. Miss Gladys Ravenscroft, of England, won the American ladies' championship in 1913. In 1914 Ouimet defeated W. C. Fownes for the amateur title, and Walter Hagen won the open from a field of English, French and Scotch prof essionals ; the women's title went to Miss Georgiana Bishop. The amateur title for 1915 went to Robert M. Gardner; and Jerome Travers won the open, the second triumph of an amateur. In 1916 " Chick " Evans took the amateur title from Gardner, and the open from the pro- fessional Jock Hutchison. With the United States at war in the following year golf was abandoned save as exhibitions were given in aid of the Red Cross. The first revival came in 1918 with a match in Canada between American and Canadian amateurs, which was won by the Canadians, 23 to 19. A complete revival followed in 1919; S. Dayisson Herron won the amateur title, though four former champions, Travers, Gardner, Ouimet and Evans, were entered. " Bobby " Jones was the runner-up. The open was won by Walter Hagen, while Miss Alexa Stirling easily took the women's title. Gardner went to England in 1920 for the amateur championship, and was only beaten in the final, after an extra hole, by Cyril J. Tolley, the Oxonian. Ray and Vardon made this year a remarkable invasion of the United States, Ted Ray winning the open championship. The amateur title went to Evans. The U.S. team easily won the Devon- shire Cup from Canada. In 1921 an American invasion of England by the strongest of professional and amateur teams resulted in the winning of a team match by the Americans, and of the open cham- pionship by Jock Hutchison, of St. Andrews, a naturalized American.

Horse Racing. The following is a list of the winners of the Derby in England from 1911 to 1921 :

Winner

1911 Sunstar

1912 Tagalie 1913'Aboyeur 1914 Durbar II.

igiS'Ppmmern l9l6 2 Fifinella 191 7 "Gay

Crusader !9l8 2 Gains-

borough

1919 Grand

Parade

1920 Spion Kop

1921 Humorist

Owner

Mr. J. B. Joel Mr. Raphael Mr. Cunliffe Mr. H. B. Duryea Mr. S. B. Joel Mr. E. Hulton

Mr. Fairie Lady James Douglas

Trainer

C. Morton

D. Waugh Lewis (trained in

France) C. Peck R. C. Dawson

A. Taylor A. Taylor

Lord Glanely Barling Major G. Loder Gilpin Mr. J. B. Joel Morton

1 Craganour, who came in first, was disqualified.

1 " New Derby " run at Newmarket.

Other "classic" races resulted as follows:

Jockey G. Stern I. Reiff Piper MacGee

S. Donoghue J. Childs

S. Donoghue J. Childs

F. Templeman F. O'Neill Donoghue

Oaks

Cherimoya Mirska Jest

Princess Dorrie 'Snow Marten

1916 'Fifinella

1917 'Sunny Jane

1918 ' My Dear

1919 Bayuda

1920 Charlebelle

1911 1912

1913 1914

1915

Doncaster St. Leger

Prince Palatine

Tracery

Night Hawk

Black Jester

Not run Not run

2,ooo-gumeas

Newmarket

Sunstar

Sweeper II.

Louvois

Kennymore

Pommern

l,ooc-gumeas Newmarket Atmah Tagalie

I 6 ? 1 Princess

Dorrie Silver Tag

1921 Love in Idleness 'Run at Newmarket.

Keysoe Caligula

Clarissimus Gay Crusader Gainsborough The Panther Tetratema Craig an Enan

Canyon

Diadem

Ferry

Rose way

Cinna

Bettina

In 1914, before the season was half over, came the war. During most of August racing was suspended, partly because of difficulties of transit and also because some courses were occupied by the military. Owing largely to the King's desire that the interests of the many people employed in racing establishments should not be endangered, the remaining fixtures were carried out, so far as regarded the more important ones. For the first time since 1865 the Derby was won by a horse bred and trained in France, Durbar II. On May 1 6 1915 the Jockey Club issued a notice suspending all racing under their jurisdiction, except the Newmarket fixtures, until further notice. Substitute races for the Derby, Oaks and St. Leger were arranged at Newmarket.

In the United States, too, horse-racing was interrupted by the war, but there was a prompt revival afterwards. In 1920 Man-O'- War, a chestnut colt by Fair Play-Mahubah, from the Glen Riddle Farm, and trained by Louis Feustel, started in 21 races, winning 20 and taking one second. Its total winnings amounted to $244,465. Man-O'-War held the American running records for i m. (i min. 35 H sec.), i J m., if m. and if m. The climax of the 1920 season was a match race between Man-O'-War, owned by Samuel Riddle, and Sir Barton, owned by Commodore Ross of Canada, at a mile and a quarter, at the Kenilworth track, Windsor, Ont. The race was for a purse of $75,000 and a $5,000 cup offered by A. M. Orpen. Man-O'-War won by seven lengths in 2 min., 3 sec., three seconds slower than the record made by Whisk Broom II. in 1913.

Rowing. For the professional championship of the world, the following contests took place:

1910 R. Arnst beat E. Barry on Zambesi.

1911 R. Arnst beat H. Pearce on Parramatta.

1912 E. Barry beat R. Arnst on Thames.

1912 E. Barry beat E. Durnan on Thames.

1913 E. Barry beat H. Pearce on Thames.

1914 E. Barry beat J. Paddon on Thames.

1919 A. D. Felton beat E. Barry on Thames.

1920 E. Barry beat A. D. Felton on Parramatta.

In England the winners in the Oxford and Cambridge boat races for 1911-21 were:

191 1 Oxford 1915-9 Not rowed

1912 Oxford 1920 Cambridge

1913 Oxford 1921 Cambridge

1914 Cambridge

In the 1912 races, as originally rowed, both boats became water- logged and Cambridge sank. But the race was rowed again the following Monday, Oxford winning.

American rowing, interrupted by the war, was promptly revived, and assumed an international character when in 1920 the veteran crew of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis defeated a picked English eight over the canal course at Brussels for the Olympic championship. In 1921 the Annapolis crew, with two new men in the boat, was defeated by Princeton University in a race on Carnegie Lake, over a course of a mile and three-quarters. The same Annap- olis crew in the same year won the revival of the Poughkeepsie Regatta over three miles, easily defeating California, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Syracuse and Columbia, the last named up to that time an unbeaten combination. Yale defeated Harvard in 1921, on the Thames river at New London, Conn., at four miles, using English rigging and boat, and being coached in the last two weeks by James Corderry, an English sculler, who had succeeded Guy Nickalls at the eleventh hour as coach at New Haven. In 1920 Harvard beat Yale, but the previous year Yale won under the coaching of Prof. Mather Abbott, an Englishman who had taught rowing for many years at St. Paul's School, Concord. Syracuse in 1916 won the Poughkeepsie Regatta under the coaching of James A. Ten Eyck. In 1920 Charles E. Courtney, Cornell's rowing coach, the foremost of American coaches, died. The winners of the American Inter- collegiate regatta after 1909 were Cornell (1910, 1911 and 1912), Syracuse (1913), Columbia (1914), Cornell (1915), Syracuse (1916 and 1920), Annapolis (1921). The Yale-Harvard races were won as follows: Harvard (1910, 1911, 1912, 1913), Yale (1914 and 1915), Harvard (1916), Yale (1919), Harvard (1920), Yale (1921).

Boxing. The official maximum boxing weights (Great Britain and the United States) are as follows: Flyweight, 8 st. (112 lb.); Bantamweight, 8 st. 6 lb. (118 lb.); Featherweight, 9 st. (126 lb.); Lightweight, 9 st. 6 lb. (132 lb.); Welterweight, 10 st. 7 lb. (147 lb.); Middleweight, II st. 6 lb. (160 lb.); Light-Heavyweight, 12 st. 7 lb. (175 lb.); Heavyweight, no maximum.

In 1920 the official list of the world's champions was: Flyweight, Jimmy Wilde (Gt. Britain); Bantamweight, Peter Hermann (U.S.A.); Featherweight, Johnny Kilbane (U.S.A.); Lightweight, Benny. Leonard (U.S.A.); Welterweight, Jack Britton (U.S.A.); Middle, MikeO'Dowd (U.S.A.); Heavy, Jack Dempsey (U.S.A.).

The results of the Amateur Boxing Association Championships in England were as follows in 1911-4:

Bantamweight Featherweight Lightweight

1911 W. W. Allen H. Bavers A. Spenceley

1912 W. W. Allen G. R. Baker R. Marriott

1913 A. Wye G. R. Baker F. Grace

1914 W. W. Allen G. R. Baker R. Marriott