The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1930, Page 5

Y, By GEORGE McMANUS EE HIM HE \D \DENT AND | Thar 19 THE \ STRONG BANK | N THIS TTowN 1 SEEIN Him g o, NO- HES IN 2 ATLANTA OOIN' A LyTTLE WORK FOR THE GOVERN "M SURE L JUST QOT, A ToUCHIN' LETTER FROM HIM- I ASK YOUL A RATHER PERDONAL, QLESTION” 1D MAGGIE'S BROTHER 'N TOWN? ‘ MR- GGD - MAY | TRANK YO 50 MOCH MAY I ODE “YOOR - CARL LATEF PHONE? { WRING - 1'M T )] DENT OF * You caN PEN THE BANIK: NOW- ALL 1S WELL: ikl f— <7 WELL: THIS 1D was part | he Chi- Iphia National League baseball clubs, and was in- | trumental in the development of | | Scuth: °Xas as president of the | Fulton Pasture c;mp.m,\-,’ known a “Taft ome success into pol wner for sev the he ARATL ‘,, PALFREY| {s developments of 1929. (ablishcd herself as the greatest women’s tennls prospect since Helen Wills “arrived”; Wes Ferrell wos Johnny Goodman eliminated Bobby Jones in the first round of the National amateur golf tournament; Booth, although ‘a sophomore, had few equals as a footl: player DURING YEAR JUST ENDED By ALAN GOULD i (Accociated Press Sports Editor) A flash of lightning and a short | glimpse of the “little brown horse” Clyde Van Dusen, slashing down the muddy stretch of Churchill Downs . . . . the spray flying as Columbia’s gallant eight swept tri-| umphantly down the rampaging| Hudson in the dusk . . . . | Ten thousand breathless and on| tip-toe as Bobby Jones stepped up | to knock in a 12-foot putt for a tie | in the national open golf cham-| pions] Helen Wills (now | Mrs. Moody) grimly fighting off the | rampant thrusts of Betty Nuthall| in an epic tennis match at Forest Dope was the downfall of the New | Hills . his ankles, playing a desperate shot | from Pebble Beach to cut down the | lead of Doc Willing in the amateur from behind with two sensational| rallies in the last two games of the ' Howard Ehmke striking out 13 world's series to beat the Chlcago;uore of thoroughbred rivals. Cubs and Mule Haas hitting a Cubs, the A's put on one of the| ninth inning home run in the last most exciting shows of the year be- | golf tournament. . . . game of the world's series wilh; President Hoover looking on . . . gridiron like a ballet dancer . . .| Tommy Loughran “out on his fee asking the referee for a minute’s! rest before resuming his fight with Jack Sharkey. . . . |braska, The curtain falls on nineteen first round of the national amateur |The Empire outside. the action might naturally be ex- pected to be the hottest—in the ring. Boxing suffered a distinctly off-year, competitively, in a cam- paign notable chiefly for the re- turn of Jack Sharkey to heavy- | weight prominence and the shift of Pall fame in the blue of Yale and the welterweight title from Joe Dundee to Jackie Fields on a foul. The greatest spectacle of the year, from the crowd viewpoint, was the turnout of 123,000 fans, the biggest in American football history, for Notre Dame’s 13 to 12 victory over Southern California at historic Sol- dier Field, Chicago. The biggest shock to Old Man Jimmy Johnson, the York Yankees, w_orld's basebfl”!churchill Downs was accompanied waters of the Pacific lapping around champions, who skidded out of the by & cloudburst but through the picture as the Athletics dashed dra- matically to the top. By coming sides giving the beloved old master, - 67-year-old Connie Mack, his first sweep downstream but Columbia's ' Albie Booth skipping across the world’s championship in 16 years. eight in the middle of the worst ! Individually, the most startling upset of 1929 was the defeat of Bobby Jones, the open golf king, b; a comparative unknown from Ne- Johnny Goodman, in the Gulf Coast of re located on | round. He also of Taft th the manufa and Sinton inal ranch n i ustry e of by-produc ried on and as tt veloped the land was sold ers, | Born in Cincinnat: Mr. Taft was born in Cincinx December 21, ‘1643, the eldest son | of the late Judge Alphonso Taft and his first wife, Fannie Phelps ‘Taft. His father as .\'ncrc-j ,tary of wer and attorney general| in the cabinet of President Grant | curing the latter's second torm. The | raduated from Yale Uni- | ersity in 1860 and from Columbia | iversity Law School two years He then spent three years in further study at Heidelberg and ,at the Sarbonne. | | Returning to Cincinnati, Mr. Taft formed a legal partnership with General Edw F. Noyes. It was terminated ter two years whe General Noyes was elected gover- nor of Ohio and .Mr. Taft to the| House of Representatives. Mr. | Taft also served one term in Con- gress. He was presidential elector at large from Ohio in 1904 and | president of the electoral college | which formally elected Theodore jRoosevelt president and Charles W. Fairbanks, vice-president. As a |delegate at large from Ohio to the W to farm- ODMAN] Al Singer b while he was in good condition. subsequently became enmeshed | the debate over starting blocks. 1 | Allison and Van Ryan leaped for-| DIES AT HUME | ward as a new doubles sensation n\‘ IN cINclNNATI | tennis, conquering everything in | sight abroad, later losing at home. | | Al Singer contributed some of the Publisher and Philanthro- pist Passes Away—Un- conscious Three Days in few fistic fireworks. Albie Booth zig-zagged to foot- | figured in the most dramatic game |of the year as he helped the Elis |conquer Dartmouth and the great | Al Marsters, | Two of the great conquests of the year, taking all elements into con- | sideration, were the victory of Clyde | Van Dusen in the classic Kentucky |Derby and the triumph of Colum- ;bia’s varsity crew in the blue rib- |bon rowing event at Poughkeepsie. The turf event of the year at (Continued from Page One) Cincinnati the former Columbia Gas and E! {tric Company which introduced n: tural gas to Cincinnati; the r organized Cincinnati Street Rail- way; the Dixie Terminal Building. which provides a terminal for all street car lines from Cincinnati in- to Kentucky, and the suspension bridge, one of the first of its type in the United States and the first structure to be built across the Ohio River linking Ohio and Ken- tucky. mud and rain, Pony McAtee rode |the gelded son of the mighty Man O’ War to a smashing victory over the favorite, Blue Larkspur, and a | The Hudson river was on a ram- page as dusk saw nine crews leave | ithe stake-boats for the four mile | Makes Art Gift A patron of the arts and educa- leading contender for the lightweight crown; Sarah Palfrey 21 ball games, something mighty few rookies every did before; Helen Hicks shot to the front among women golfers and Albie and (Electric Company, | Republican National Convention of 1908 he had the pleasure of voting ito nominate his half-brother, Wil- liam Howard Taft, who became the | 27th president of the United States and later Chief Justice of the | United States. | |tion, this last munificent gift to the| On December 4, 1873, Mr. Taft ‘c;ly, Jmade jointly with Mrs. Taft, married Miss Annie Sinton, daugh- | wag¥heir Pike Street residence, the ter of David Sinton of Cincinnati. | greatest art treasure house of the They celebrated their golden wed- |middle west, with its collection of ding aniversary in 1923, Their el- |paintings and porcelains, now val- der daughter, Jane Taft, was mar- jued at considerably more than its ried to Albert S. Ingalls of Cleve- purchase price which was in excess 1and, and the younger, Anna Louise | of $5,000,000. |Taft, became the wife of William | At the same time Mr. and Mrs. R. Semple, professor of Greek at| Taft gave $1,000000 to endow the the University of Cincinnati. | | Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on % i ; condition that the city raise a fund of $2,000000 to further endow the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts, the orchestra and promote cultural |influences in Cincinnati. COLOR ~ PRINTING EN our experi- emce suggoests the Owned Newspaper As the publisher of the Cincin~ nati Times-Star, Mr. Taft entered the journalistic field in 1879 dur-! ing the revolutionary years of the | news world and contributed to the | “: °:d°::': rw' development of the modern news- | ‘&::d"d“"::,'w g’a;:“ri He was prominent in the | the jobyom submit, s am pifa of the Wg.@terg Asso(jlaied; ald toward incseasing res: ved as first vme-premdont‘ ponsible returns, we of The ASSOCi&?tEd Press from 1892 tell you so. If white to 1893 under its Illinois incorpora- aperand black ink are tion and was a director in 1901 st, we suggest them. |and 1902 of The Associated Press |after .. was chartered under the laws of the State of New York. | Besides his varied interests ,g0ing of all, won like champions as (four of the boats sank. { { ————— | | Send the Christinas edition of gllllllllllllIIIllllllllllllllllllllll LT IHHInnnm twenty-nine as these flashbacks re- ‘championshlp at Pebby Beach. call a few of the dramatic episodes’ Jones had furnished one of the! of one of the most exciting of all main thrills of a big golfing year, competitive years. {by sinking a 12-foot putt to tie Al Nineteen twenty-nine may not Espinosa for the open championshin | —— e have been a great year for sport in cvery respect or in the measure of achievement. There was no thun- dering spectacle such as the “Demp- sey Era” produced. There was no international whirl such as the Olympic Games to focus world at- tention but there were plenty of thrills. It wasn't altogether an ofi-year for the international angle. Walter Hagen bearded the Lion again on his own links to win the British Open fer the fourth time after Joyce Wethered had beaten Glenna Collett in one of the greatest of all women’s matches. France again re- pelled the charge of Big Bill Til- den in the tennis strife for the Davis Cup but Helen Wills-Moody rctained her sway as Quzen of the ceurts. | Otherwise 1929 ends featured principally by domestic strife, with the war raging on almost every. front except the one sector where at Winged Foot and the following day administered an unprecedented 23-stroke beating to the Castillan Spaniard in the playoff. The first tournament ever staged on the Pa- cific coast was picked as a set-up for the great Georgian until he fell suddenly before the youthful Good- man in a reversal that rocked the Pacific coast. The year produced comparative- ly few new figures in the top flight of any sports, with the champions asserting their class again for the most part. The Yankees and the Cardinals, former rulers in baseball, were notable exceptions in a season which saw Bobby Jones, Walter Ha- gen, Bill Tilden, Glenna Collett, Helen Wills, Red Cagle, Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby, Notre Dame's fast eleven, the Columbia crew, French Davis cup team and the Stanford track ‘team all repeating triumphs: of former years. New stars flashed, nevertheless, George Simpson, the Ohio statc J Repossessed Ford Coupe $100.00 McCAUL MOTOR CO. 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