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Old 12-19-2012, 06:38 AM
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two completely different issues. The champions set has only a few athletes from the 'popular' sports: Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Gene Sarazen [golf], Bill Tilden [tennis], Johnny Weissmuller [Tarzan]. The rest not so much. Here is a partial checklist:

Blouin, Jimmy
Cronos, Signor
Dempsey, Jack
Gaudin, Lucien
Gilmore, W.E.G.
Gourdin, Edw. O.
Haugen, Anders
Hoff
Hoppe, Willie
Jewtraw, Charles
Kish, Albert
Lewis, Ed Strangler
Long, Asa
Lundin, Frank
McQuade, Frank
Milton, Tommy
Paddock, Charlie
Palmer, Wm. H.
Ritola, Willie
Ruth, Babe
Sarazen, Gene X.
Spencer, Willie
Stine, Elizabeth
Stinson, Al
Stoddard, Louis E.
Thompson, Earl
Tilden
Wainwright, Helen
Weissmuller, Johnny
Wood, Gar







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