The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 11, 1938, Page 5

> 4 v e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 11, 1938. Alan Gould Presents His List of 1 9.‘%7 By ALAN GOULD nding a few jars and jolts, along with the a boom-time rush of cash customers, NEW YORK.—Notwith; custom allotment of thrills fo the sporting whirl of 1937 was notably free from headaches for the form- Pl mpetition, favorites performed with a consis- to the harassed experts as it was distressing to the long-shot players. Or crnational fronts, it was a big year for Uncle Sam’s operatives, who handed their Br itish cousins a series of setbacks at golt, tennis ar \:l(‘h‘mg The caliber or class of performances, on the whole, average in nearly all big branches of competition The prize for consistency as vidual exploits, in any sport, be to California’s Don Budge, man team who had most to do with bringing the Davis cup back o ihe United States after an absence of 10 harrowing tennis years In spheres of major ¢ tency that was as welcom was strikin, above U 11 as for the year's outstanding ‘ndi- the one- The “limb-sit h, eir moments, such as on the occasions when Joe Leuis failed to ]m»fl a s'ngl nockdown punch against either Bob Pastor or Britain's Farr. but Bomber Joe came through with an expected knoc ! r Jim Braddock for the heavyweight championship. The o'hing in the pugilistic year to match the shocking impact of Schrazlirg™ kucekout of Louis in 1936, Upsets to form or ex, such as those sprung by and the Washington Reds professional football the Giants with their late-season come-back to win the nant rmia’s Dorothy Bundy a 1 tennis, were merely ns in by National league pen Anits the d Chile’s diminutive that proved or in wor en’s the ex general rule They were overshadowed, on the whole such favorites as the world mashing performances w York Yankees in by the registered b; ! 'WAY BACK CUMING BUDGE-ING THE CUP | 1.—John Donald Budge's thrill- 2.—~Ralph Guldahl's victery in ing uphill triumph over Ger- the United States open golf many’s Baron Gotifried ven champicnship at Oakland Hills, (left) in the deciding because it was a record-smash- of the inter-zone Davis | ing climax te one of the greatest comeacks the sport ever has known. Down and aimost out the previous year, so financially cup series—not only because it was as great a tennis match as Wimbledon ever has seen but because the 1937 destination of ssed that he borrowed “eat- the classic team trophy hinged 2g money” on his clubs, Gul- s outceme. Budge fought dahl began an amazing uphill way te vietory after trailing fight. One of the stars of the winter, the Texan gambled with everything on winning the open and came through in one of the in sets and then 1-4 in games the fifth set. Thereafter, in America's rout of England in the Davis cup challenge round was | greatest finishes. He overtook an anti-climax. The 22-year-old Sam Snead and won by a 2- California red head whipped stroke margin with 281, seven ven Cramm in the singles finals under par and a world record fer cpen championship play. He also led the American forces in their Ryder cup rout of the at Wimbledon as well as at Forest Hiils, where he won the American crown for the first time. Brilish ieam at Southport, Eng- land. RALLY | 2 5—The New York uiants' rally | SHAW'S SHOW to tie the Chicago Cubs with a | S—Wilbur Shaw's victory over 5-run flareup in the ninth in- | Veteran Ralph Hepburn by the ning at the Polo Grounds Au- | ::::::glyind%:hemn::idnia:;p‘i“: — because it saved a | Srucia game that looked irre- | 00-mile auto race on Memorial trievably lost, propelled the | Day, because it was a record- Giants {0 a double victory and | ‘masher in every particular. turned the tide of the National | "ll{“';‘g vh's fas!-d“';:dlilnx sup- league race. Bill Terry's club | lfla»‘b" :;* 'hr’m;zh e a:l fe]w went into the double-header | "a':n‘“r;d a‘:he ac:»o\r:s ) rl-_n onirl trailing by four games. They led | g the ace with their ace, Carl Hubbell, Indianapolis history but set a new speed record by averaging 113.58 m.p.h. This displaced Lou Meyer’'s mark of 109.069. Shaw but the southpaw was knocked out of the box and the Cubs seemed fo have everything 4y 10 g under control until the Giants was acolatmed by » crowd ef seized the “breaks” and tallied 177,000, biggest for any sports e ame topped off by the | event in America and an all- Aliroirin hower oL S Mipghe [ tme theowl B fhe heliny (a . she) | Y'S MARCH Johnny Goodman’s triumph over the “Cinderella Man” of golf, Ray Billows, on the home green in the national amateur championship finals because it climaxed an 8-year pursuit and put him in a class with Francis Ouimet, Chick Evans, Jerry Travers and Beb Jones — all hclders of both amateur and epen crowns. Goodman won the national open in 1933 after los- ing in the amateur finals the year before to Canada’s Ross Somerville. These high-spot happenings give only a cross-section of the year's wide sweep of activity. . . . Baseball ran the gamut of emotional episodes. . Mickey Cochrane’s skull was fractured by a pitched ball, thrown hy Bump Hadley, at the Yankee Stadium in May. . . . The Detroit manager made a wonderful recovery but the accident ended his playing days. . . . Lou Gehrig’s homer off Dizzy Dean in the all-star game at Washington, Joe DiMaggio's circuit clout off Bob Feller that broke up a memorabie ball game at Cleveland, and the crackup of the Giants’ defense in the World Series were other outstanding big-league events. . . . triumph over a crack American professional brigade in the British open, Henry Cottou’s . s S porting Highlights baseball, the University of Washington in colleze rowing, Samuel D. Riddle’s War Admiral in 3-year-old horse-racing, Harold S. Vanderbilt's Ranger in America’s cup yacht-racing, the Old Westbury four in open polo, Johnny Goodman in national amateur golf, and Pittsht Rose Bowl ¢ pions in college football The year produced an electrifying succession of record ¢ with or without competitive pressure. England’s Stanley Wooderson ran a paced mile in 4:06.6, to wipe out Glenn Cunningham’s 3-year-old world record, while two Southern California pole vaulters, Earle Meadows and Bill Sefton, jo cleared the dizzy altitude of 14 feet 11 inches, and Michigan's Beb Osgood stepped over the 120- d high hurdles in 14 seconds flat On t t flats at Bonneville, Utah, Captain George E. T. Eyston reared his “Thunderbolt” twice over a m of 311.42 miles per hour to eclipse the record of Sir Malcolm Campbell who meantime turned to speed-boating and set a new world record of mph. on Lake Maggiore. Otherwise 1937 proved. thoroughly dizzy, not only for the dizzy one Jerome Herman Dean, who refired in ter giving most everyone else an earache, but on a wide assortment of counts. There was the false alarm over a lobster pot being picked up by T. O. M. Sopwith’s wour IT during the America’s cup races. Carl Hubbell, ordinarily the of pitching consistency s belted out of the box seven times in a after stretching winning streak over two seasons to 24 To top things off football team itself out e Bowl I pain a his record Pittsburg’s voted of Ros What were the 10 leading episodes or cvents of the sports king unt the elements of drama, excitement of performance, 2 Here they are and why we pick them year, into ac caliber and significanc ADMIRAL S TRIUMPHS LOUIS' FIGHT S.—War Admiral's triumph in 4.—Jee Louis' knockout of James the Be'mont stakes, because il J. Braddock for the heavyweight gave the stont son of Man 0" \\ i champicnship of the world, be- the turf's “triple crown” for 3- cause it completed the Brown year-c!ds and the right to be Bomber's remarkable rise to the called the greatest son of the tep of the fistic heap, only a perhorse. Despite a gash in year after being knocked out by cne fore-foot, War Admiral won the Belmont in record time, 2:28 3'5 for the mile-and-a-half, thereby clipping a fifth of a sec- end off Man O'War's track mark and equalling the American Max Schmeling, 2nd marked the first time a negre held the main crown of pugilism in 22 years. Louis proved his gameness by getting up from a firsi-round kneckdown to subdue Braddock a crd. The wonder cclt, in captur- with a knockout in the eighth. ing the Kentucky Derby and Biggest gate attraction since Preakness, turned in the second Dempsey, Lou thus achieved fastest performances in the his- his life's ambition but he was of eac He came nct otherwise impressive dur- 1ck to the races in the fall and ing 1937. He failed to register a ied the season unbeaten. single knockdow 25 rounds Mrs, C. S. Howard's Sea- with Paster and Farr. The Farr cuit topped War Admiral as his first title defense. a money-winner. fight wa HUSKY SWEEP ~—Washington’: second straight REDSKIN MASSACKES 7.—The successive triumphs of sweep of the inter-collegiate re- the Washingten Redskins in gatta on the Hudson river at professional football over the Poughkeepsie, because it added New York Giants and Chicago a record-smashing chapter to Bears, for the National League rowing history and climaxed the championship, because they lift- greatest 8-oared varsily per- ed the pro game to new heights formanee of all. The Huskies of popularity and climaxed the broke regatta records in both unprecedented forward-passing the junior varsity and varsity exploits of Slingin’ Sam Baugh. races. The “big boatlcad” The biggest crowd of the pro stroked by Don Hume, lowered the 4-mile record to 18 minutes, season, over 58,000, saw Baugh (33) combine with Cliff Battles 33 3/5 seconds in a brilliant fare- (20) to rout the Giants, The well to the rowing wars. Un- following Sunday, in freezing beaten for two years, it was the weather, Baugh's spectacular same combination that won passes led directly to three world championship honors in touchdowns in the third period 1936, beating Eurcpe’s best and and clinched the game with the setting a new Olympic record. Bears. SAILING AWAY 10.—Ranger’s sweep of the four America’s cup yacht races with Endeavour II, the British chal- lenger, because it was a tribute to American boat-building craft and a personal triumph for Har- old 8. Vanderbilt, skipper of the defender. Vanderbilt’s third suc- cessive defense of the famous old mug equalled the mark of the old professional sailing mas- ter, Charley Barr. Ranger, fea- turing radical departures in yacht design that produced elec- trifying results, broke many cup records. following the U. S. victory in Ryder cup play, rated among golf’s best achievements. . . . Mike Jacobs assumed the dominant role in pugilistic promotion by taking over the fistic rights at Madison Square Garden Bob Sweeny, American-born, won the British amateur golf efown, and M Opal Hill, Kansas City veteran, shot a 65, the best golf score ever recorded by a woman in competition. . . . Lefty Gomez, the year No. 1 comeback, led American league pitchers aner a 2-season slump, while a rookie, Jim Turner of the Boston Bees, topped National league hurlers in effecti 5., Kentucky. athletic policy, The major feature of the rules provides that no student may per- ticipate in any form of athletics without first being certified as phy ically qualified by the medical ad- visor of the university, team phys- ician or one of the assistant medi- CORNELL HAS HEALTH RULES ITHACA, N. Y. Jan. 11.—Cor-ica] advisers. nell University has. tightened its health regulations for all students, They also provide for a teum participating in any form of ath- physician to take care of all inju ies received im varsity of freshman athleties and ougline the procedure for taking care of injuries in in- tramural athletics. They define the financial responsibility of the de- letics, whether varsity, freshman or intramural, but putting into effect a rigid set of written rules prepared by Dr. D. F. Smiley, medical advis- er, and adopted by the board of partment of physical education and athletics in the care of injuries. This Pair Gounted TUSCALOOSA, Jan. RECTOR HELD, TIPSY DRIVER LONDON, Jan. 11.—0Un a charge alleging that he drove a car while Tut 11 Warren, Alabama end, caught two under the influence of drink, the very important passes this season. Rev. Richard Maitland Henderson, He snared a short heave over the rector of Huntsham, Devon, was goal for the only touchdown in the Georgia Tech game and he took a at Wiveliscombe, Somerset. long throw for ‘Bama’s lone touch- His driving license was suspend- down in the triumph over Vander- ed for five years. bilt | Evidence was given that BURKE HIGH asured mile at an average .~|u~ml} 12941 The great Greyhound trotted to a new mile record of 1:56 at Lexington, | -|United states Attorney for the | Western District of Oregon an[l also an officer in the Grand Lodge of Elks of that State. Both of the | deceased’s brothers are reported to| \have passed away. | Mr. Donaugh was a member of | ithe Anchorage lodge of Elks. | | ‘slrlklng a stationary mail van, Mr [ fined $25 and ordered to pay costs | BOWLER LAST . NIGHT; ELKS Best game rolled last night on the (Elks alleys was Art Burke’s 588, ‘which led the Firemen squad to win over the Brakemen in the Railroad- |er's League. The Dispatchers beat the Tele-| graphers and the Supers beat the| Mail Clerks. Tonight is Big Four night with| Pennsylvania vs. B. and O., Reading vs, Santa Fe and Union Pacitic vs {Canadian Pacifie. "HAS BEEN . DOING: HIS PART' To KEER THE | FIREMEN ! {Burke 186 183 588 | {Riendeau 183 195 556 | IC-HLI 1mel 173 119 167 3_1‘ Totals 52 497 4841589 BRAKEMEN | Iversen 169 169 169—°507| Darnell 158 158 158474 :u«»rmu 147 147 147—°441 ! Totals 474 474 4741422 | TELEGRAPHERS \Hutchings 158 135 158— 451 | Walmer 159 159 159—°477 Sterling 167 156 455 | SEeieRe | Totals 484 450 4491383 DISPATCHERS Thibodeau 486 Wilson 524 Hermann 188 I Totals 496 1447 RUSKENY ! MAIL CLERKS Wile 140 129 133— 402 Rupe 155 151 175— 481 Whitehead *155 155 155—°465 § | Totals 450 435 4631 i | SLUGGERS FOR JAPAN GOODS Brown 162 162 162—°486 Delebecque 157 157 157—"471 5 S WTH BIG TOTAL NATL. LEAGUE IS URGED Y58 e £ i [] Totals 498 496 4731467 vtk ""‘”:2"' net bowt Three Wood Choppers last mul'L\ YORK, Jan Already | NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—A nation- TS rattled the floorboards at the EIKS|y as the batting champion |Wide > o boy- REA I Club to the tune of 1644 pins, to|s valuable yer in the |COtt hanc e goods, down the Rainier squad in defeat. | u cason, Joeto banking interests to refuse fo Quinto, Rainier pinster, led the Louls Cardinals’ out- | 1D e trade actions 7 PLAY !EM ALL field with a 593 piniall | n180 credit 1 ral pu stop i the 1 of even- | sit title in official av produ made i ing, the tio beat the| The fly-cha who Patriot Guard of Am | ~ icen Meat two games out of|batted »d for a 641 per- Firmer Attitude |' NEW YORK Jan. 11 Seven and in total pin centage, led in total bases with | An 0 zation of Velevass: American League players took part n.gous s ioilow 406 and in runs batted in with 154,/ With C lward Page Gastore as in cvery game contested by their WOOr SR | Next to him in the slugg national ¢ommander, the Patriot Clubs during the 1037 season. Lou 180 553)partment came his teammate, Guard i itemen ough z, of course, tops the list Maticn 1 523) Johnny M to give the Gas House C2pt. Gast a stiffening of 57 games, running bis total Carnegic 05-- 563/8ang an attack which is not re- America’s at NG TNRa ccessive games to 1965, The flected by the final standin Capt. Gaston declared ore Roy Bell of the Browns Totals 551 5731644 | the club: Cards barely made ! “America must either humble Ja- 6, Luke Appling and Fred fi i with a fourth- ban or fighit her. The lcng over- Walker of the White Sox with 154, Fulquencia 180. 131 157— 4e8iplace finish due reinforcement - of Hawall“whd i1 Averiiiand! Lyn Tacry of e mectcs PRI BT G ? ' 119 rune (o the fortification of the Alaskan Indians were repeaters, each having Quinto 08 188 201— 503/ 1and amons ouly three plavers in |Alcutian Islands should now be pio- played every game in 1 - the circuit who were able to SR, Wi AT That Fred Walker was able to Totals 28—1588|n hun i s l‘_ our pampered criminals could be play every game was a big surprise COLL 3 |)|‘1U~ with Bis 154 Tansported from chelr proscat Py as many thought, a vear ago, that Rands 17 ot Demaree of 100 life of loafing to work in Aleutian his playing days were over because Do 1 2 & St 118 s, CoRWCE cments; or unemployed of an injury to his collar bone and fiyim 146— 492 another Bl i WG CO i g shoulder. He had himself fixed up BRI L SR R B Aisnce VEIth Great Bricti with an operation, however, and Totals 38 4 433—1421 Ny 3 % He added that America Shouls demonstrated himself to be an iron AMERICAN MEAT | The best of tne cnampion New ally itself with Brifain in the Far man. Then, too, there is Wally Hermle 164, 174 116~ 4BEIE RE T it (0 S8 MBI CERREE THnsts Su CEUIIIEE S Moses. Wally met with a serious poe 147 162 151— 480 HphE, were Wally Berger, brought he time to crush Japan's arv accident late in 1935 yet missed only Koski 166 149 188 43|00 from Boston. whose average gant military ambitions is now end a few games in '36 and none at all 2 ”~ fru. ;mrll !1\:‘"'. ()H1 \\Hh’ a thorough international boycott is 11937 4 = .- .| They finished fifth and sixth, re- the ready-made policy to pursug: as omNe Aty Totals ‘17’ 485 435—1397 poctively, behind Medwick, Mize, a prastical ,,,4»‘,‘,{ n,'m:.f.’-,,q_-{L : | Camilli, of the Philadelphia sl J. C. DONAUGH OF lies, and Gabby Hartnett of the 4 2 CORDOVA PASSES ATHLETIC 6LUS > Cubs. Mel Ott apparently was the most AT THE HOTELS > { feaved man in the league, insofur = e | Cordova lost one of its most pop- MEETING TGDAY as the pitchers were concerned. He Gastineau ular railroad employees recently drew 102 bases on balls, while Vince when J. C. Donaugh passed away DiMaggio of the Boston Bees— | W. W. Jalues, Los Angeles: Jadk of uremia, complicated by bron- The Juneau Atieic Club Willlyi00 of the redoubtable Joe Di- Seattle; Mr. and Mis. chfal ‘pneumonia, at the age of 68 Meet tonight at 7 o'clock in its DeW!yageio of the Yankees — led in . Point Retreat; S. Avo- vears. gymnasium headquarters on Second g ivcouts. He futilely fanned the Z0ff, Tulsequah: E. Schmidt, Tulse- Donaugh first came to Cordova Street, next to the Juncau Painti,y g, fewer than 111 times quah F. H. Totten, Tulsequah; Mr. in 1917, and had been in that vi- Store to discu installation, of: The Cubs, barely and Mrs. George Williams; Mr. and cinity ever since that time, his training equipme the G the Mrs, K. E. Togg, Haines; John Ken- farthest trip being to Kennecott, | Recently the club was reorganized g, b slugging aver- har Haines; Kenneth Lathrop, where he was employed for about With Bill Walthers, Presid Don 46 beir 5, and they also drove Haines: C. R. Rubb; George Nelson; a year in the stores department. |Gallagher, Vice-President Har-'in the most runs, 762, and led in Alfle Maltock | Previous to that time he had ©ld Swanson, Secretary-Treast bases no balls, 538, Alaskan Bachelor ,worked for Finkelstein and Sapiro,| The meefing has been called 0|y poston Bees even set a orge Bradford, Haines; Bud the O'Neill Co., and Dinneen’s, in B€t the opinions of club members .4 i lack of punch., They fan- Cummings; Arthur Leaming; Ben- their grocery departments, and had on the placing of the fight ring and j.q 707 times, displacing the record Jamin Hoff; Albert Buffo also been employed by the Pioneer |the various training devi Pre-'or 706 set by the Brooklyn Dodgers Erghai: 3 b Packing Company. . |paratory to getting ungier way for a y, 1919 ; Hannibal rode the best horses. | In November, 1927, he entered the Mixed hoxing and wrestling card to SR ! the finest weapons, but 'stores department of the Copper | be announced in the near future s News Today.—Empire. simply River and Northwestern railway at Cordova, which position he held | ;up until the time of his death. | ; Dcnaugh was born in February ! 1869, at Bellville, Ohio, on a | ‘!m'm and at the u;,'v of 18 c.amc.‘ |west to the State of Oregon ml teach school. About a year ago he was married to his present wife, Mrs. Belle Don- augh, who survives him in Cordova He also has a sister living in the State of Oregon, and a son, who is | |Henderson’s car continued slowly {up the road, and was stopped after a pedestrian had mounted the run- | ning board. | Mr. Henderson told the court that he was twice blown up during the {war, and last March received con- cussion when he was knocked down by a taxicab at Exeter i > Dr. A. J. Cronin, author of | Citadel,” paid tribute to the me fcal profession recently in London and said his novel had been aimed | only at the practice of overchar 8- | after | /g people unable to pay, 1 Stanford’s champion guintet Rated as probably the No. 1 basketball team of the nation, Stanford's stellar quintet is making a coast-10-coast jaunt, meeting the best fives in the country. Last season when they won the west coast championship, the Indians won 25 out of 27 games and their ace forward, Hank Luisetti, scored 410 points, bringing his total to 1,126 for his three years in college. Shown left to right, are Phil Zone, Art Stoeffen, Luisetti, Jack Calderwood and Bob Zone,