The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1937, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, BRINGING UP FATHER | WAS THINKIN- U WASHINGTON LOSES CONTEST T0 PITTSBURGH Huskies Are Unable to Put Across One Score in Rose Bowl Game (By Associated Press) College football yesterday passed from the sports scene for a year with gruelling contests on . far- flung gridirons. Pittsburgh triumphed over the University of Washington 21 to 0 in the annual Rose Bowl game. It was the first time win for the Panthers in four tries. Santa Clara downed Louisiana State 21 to 14 in the New Orleans’ Sugar Bowl. East-Wesl The Eastern star to 0 over the Western grid heroes in San Francisco in the annual Shrine game when Bud Sandbach, of Princeton, booted a field goal. Texas Christian routed Marquette 16 to 6 in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, Texas. In Orange Bowl Duquesne nosed out Mississippi State 13 to 12 in Miami’s Orange Bowl. Villanova and Auburn battled to a 7-7 tie in the closing event of the International Sports Week at Havana, Cuba. Hardin Simmons walloped Texas College of Mines 34 to 6 in the EIl Paso, Texas, Sun Bowl. It is estimated that 200,000 spec- tators saw the contests and 87,000 of «¢hem were ocrowded: inte Rose Bowl at Pasaaena. e STEELE WINS TEN ROUNDER, Game triumphed 3 AKRON NEGRD Tacoma Champion Decis- ively Beats Former Mid- dleweight Titlist MILWAUKEE, Wis, Jan. 2 Freddie Steci2, of Tocoma, middle: weight champion of the world, de: cisively whipped William “Gorilla’ Jones, Akron, Ohio, negro, and former holder of the title, in ten rounds. Steele weighed 157 pounds and Jones weighed 153 pounds. Sports 3 Briefs David I. (Red) Barron, Georgia Tech halfback of the early '20s and former big league base- ball star, is president of an agri- cultural and industrial school at Monroe, Ga., and coaches the foot- ball team, known as the Monroe Aggies. Big Six sports writers, who over- looked the second-place University of Missouri eleven at the start of the 1936 season, are already pick- ing the Tigers to lift the confer- ence football crown from Nebraska in '37. Bryan Grant, of tennis fame, ccmes from a family of net stars. His father, in his day, was rated one of the South’s best doubles players. A brother, Berry, won the southern intercollegiate title some years ago. Four years ago Michael Basrak, Duquesne’s all-American center, was refused a tryout with the Uni- | versity of Chattanooga football team because he was too light. Then he scaled 150; now he’s a 214-pounder. Veteran Captain TULSA, Okla, Jan. 2—Bossing basketball teams is old stuff to Capt. Carl Bowen, Tulsa University senior guard. He's leading his third quintet. Carl piloted his junior high school team to a city cham- picnship. He led the Tulsa Cen- tral High Braves to a State title. the{ - great | SATURDAY, JAN. 2, 1937. BY GEORGE McMANUS THEY’LL MEET IN JUNE I'D BE BETTER OFF IF | NEVER OPENED MY MOUTH AT I By ALAN GOULD 5 | Associated Press Sports Editor | NEW YORK, Jan. 2—They |meaning the boys and girls who“ ¢ |romp about the athletic premises scantily clad—rewrote the track and | field records during the Olympic| year of 1936. | The branches of competition call- | ing for speedy footwork, acrobatic agility or the knack of heaving sun- dry implements reached their grand | |climax in Berlin during the first| weck of August. In the wholesale record-smashing by both sexes, the | Olympic Games excelled even the| amazing attack upon time and dis- tance at Los Angeles four years ago. After it was all over, the I.AAF. | stamped its approval upon no fewer than 27 record-smashing or record- equalling performances, most of them of them achieved by Ameri !can boys and girls. \ Before forsaking amsteur ranks, Jesse Owens of the U. S. A. regis tered the biggest batch of new rec ords since Paavo Nurmi was on the| lo: Ohio State’s Brown Bullet captured four first places in his| sprinting, hurdling and broad jump: ing specialties in each of three meets, including the Big Ten and | N.C.C.A championships. He lifted! two National A.A.U. titles, qualified for three individual events in the| Olympics 2nd won them all, the 100, 200 and broad jump, besides an- choring the record-smashing Amer- | ican 400-meter relay team. i | | Yank Negroes Sweep Owens duplicated Nurmi's quadru- I;yle triumph of the 1924 Olympic |Games. When the record books {were brought up to date, the name | e | of Owens was added to the list eight expert feeling is that the UniversiLy | times for his best performances in|of Pittsburgh runner has the half- last two years. Two technical-|mile and mile records at the mercy comprising a track measuring of his space-eating form. |a iraction of an inch short at Chi- The year's outstandinz figures | cago and a bit of tail-wind at Berlin, | stherwise included Colorado’s Glenn | Morris, seif-tutored all-around star who twice smashed the world deca- thlon in his sweep of National and {olympic honors; Forrest (Spec) | Towns, the limber Georgian who proved himself the world’s greatest | WINNER OF THE YEAR—JESSE OWENS Lash Fades Out, Returns The biggest disappointment of the Olympics, to Americans, was the failure of Indiana’'s Don Lash to give the Finnish distance runners more than a passing challenge. Lash finished eighth in the 10,000, in which the Finns were 1-2-3. The American college star ran 14th, next to last, in the 5,000. Prior to going abroad Lash lowered Nurmi’s rec- ord to 8:53.3 at Princeton. Back {robbed Owens of a new world record {cf 10.2 secends for 100 meters. Jesse was unbeaten until Ralph Metcalfe |outran him at Cologne after the | Olympics. | Owens contributed largely to a {sweep by American negro runners|.igh hurdler, posted new standards home again, the Hoosier proved king of all Olympic foot-races, from 100|of 14.1 seconds for the 110-meter Of the cross-country pack, national- through 800 meters. Archie Wil-|and 120-yard distances, and was | ally, for the third straight year. liams, winner of the 400, set a new |clccked in the unbelievable time of Equally surprising was the fail- orld mark of 56.1 at Chicago, dis-|13.7 at Oslo, after the Olympics; ure of George Varoff, Ben East- placing the supposed “perfect rec-|and John Edward Lovelock, the New man, Bill Bonthron and ‘Walter ord” of 462 by Little Bill Carr in|Zealander, who romped off with the| Marty, a quartet of world record the 1932 Games. Long John Wood-|classic Olympic 1,500-meter crown,holders, to make the Olympic team. ruff, winner of the 800, startled ath-|in the new world record* time of| Varoff failed in the pole vault only letic observers with the longest[3:47.8, a full second under Bill'a week after soaring to the new stride ever seen in footracing. The Bonthron's mark. Dail& S };orté Cartoon Pap - T By -FellER- - 7HE QUESTION OF 7/E LEGALITY OF HIS CLEVELAND COWTRACT MADE HM TE MOST DISCUSSED PLAYER, W TE MAJOR \LEAGUES L 4 THE (8YEAR-OLD PITCHER. /S CERTAIN TO 86 ON THE SPOT NEXT SPRING .’ p o — All Rights Reserved by The Associated Press record height of 14 feet 6% inches. URRS 1d Bonthron faded in the tances in blistering hot at Randall's Island. Marty iled to qualify in the high jump and watched his record disappear as two lanky negroes, Cornelius John- son and Dave Albritton, soared over the bar at 6 feet 9% inches. performances, as usual, d an Olympic barometer. Mangan, the Cornelian who up- set Glenn Cunningham and Gene Venzke at indoor mile running, turned up as a pro coach. Another ensation, Syracuse’s Edward O'- Brien, made the team only as a member of the 1,600 meter relay quar.et. Big Jack Torrence, the Loui State holder of world sliol-putting records, never recover- el his best form, indoors or out. He placed fifth in the Olympics and is now a pro fistcuffer. Wykoff Is Comeback King Helen Stephens, No. i feminine athlete of the year, captured na- tional championships in the sprints, discus throw and shotput. The Mis- souri girl lowered the women's world mark for 100 meters to 11.4 seconds in the Olympics, beating Po- nd’s Stella Walsh. She also an- choored the winning U. 8. 400- meter delay team but it was a hol- low triumph because the German girls dropped their baton while away out in front. Frank Wykoff, Southern California cne-time “fastest human” and co- holder of the world 100-yard record of 94 seconds, pulled the year's finest comeback. He qualified for the Olympic 100, placed fourth in the final, and anchored the win- ning U. 8. sprint relay team which set a new record of 39.8 seconds. Speaking or relay records, the picked American and British Em- pire teams blasted them apart in the post-Olympic meet at London. U. 8. A. quartets lowered the two- mile mark to 7:35.8 and the four- mile record to 17:17.2. British mile relayers cut the world record to 3:106. Cunningham, beaien by Lovelock in the Olympics despite running under world record time himself, topped off his European trip by reducing the 800-meter mark to 1:497 in a meet at Stockholm. Glenn figured in the most freakish event of the year, outsmarting and outsprinted his two indoor rivals, Mangan and Venzke, in the “world’s slowest mile,” clocked in 4:46.8, on the Madison Square Garden track. Southern California’s Trojans were the No. 1 college team, win- ning the National Collegiate A.A. title easily. Indiana, led by Lash, captured Big Ten honors. Cornell, | for the first time since 1919, won the Eastern I.C.A.A.A. champion- ship with Hubert Cornell one of the victorious heroes. The New York AC. ‘retained National A.AU. su- premacy. counting on Luke Hamlin to take a regular turn as a starting pitch- er next season. Al Sothorn gives Burleigh advice on how to handle Hamlin. “Whatever you do — don't ride him,” Sothorn counsels. “If you do he is likely to start packing to head back to the farm. A pat on the, back means a lot to Luke. Encour- age him and he’ll pitch his heart out for you.” You hear conflicting reports on | Joe Marty, the young outfielder the Chicago Cubs obtained from San Francisco. Lefty O'Doul insists that Marty has the makings of a great star. O'Doul should know whereof he speaks—he had Marty under his wing last season. If he has any weakness in the field, Lefty must have overlooked it for he beams as he tells how Marty can come in for short flies, go backwards and to either side to kill off potential er Champion James J. Braddock (left) and Max Schmeling. shown at thi New York boxing commission office, seemed well pleased with t terms of the agreement by which the champ and ex-champ will me: in a title bout in Madison Square Garden Bow! June 3. (Assoclate Press Photo) {: Joe as that score, fo., In his day, O'Doul held the National League batting title and was considered a rare student of batting form. But Dutch Reuther , the one-time Brooklyn left-hander, cannot see any such bright future for Marty. Dutch is willing to grant that Marty is a | fair ballplayer—but no more. He“ may make good in the majors, but he will have to show more than | extra-base hits. In addition, he'he did in the coast league to get | says, Marty has the knack of|far in the big show, according to starting with the crack of the bat.|Reuther. | “Marty will do all right at the| plate,” says Lefty. “He hit coast, % sl g ' for RS0 varbe Tmatt The most sedate and quict rian- jnered of all -leagu> - n and that should indicate o i Buck'y"”f,:],]:i:"" AT,‘,“O’; that he can hit in any comapny.”|guave. But ever willing to stop - Reuther Objects |and chat. Harris is tops with the X | Permanent Waves $2.50 up. You can't argue with Lefty on |baseball scribes. ‘668 . Use “Aladdin’s Lamp” TO GREATER VALUES! Pittsburgh 21; Washington 0. East 3; West 0. Duquesne 1; Mussissippi State 12. Marquette 6; Texas Christian 13. Hardin Simmons 34; Texas Col- lege of Mines 16, Santa Clara 21; Louisiana State Villanova Auburn 7. .. DAILY EMPIRE WANT-ADS! BUY YOURSELF A BUSINESS Be independent! The business you've always It’s in every home, every day ready to work for you! 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