Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1928, Page 60

2 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 30, 1928—SPORTS SECTION. But One Ring Crown Changes Hands in 1928 : Yanks Show Supremacyin Base Ball TUNNEY'S QUITTING 5 FISTIC FEATURE Dempsey’s Absence, Scarcity | of Title Contests, Also retirement of Gene Tunney ESPITE the absence of Jack | Dempsey, most colorful draw- ing card in ring history, the KINGS OF THE RESIN Heavyweight, Gene Tunney (retired) Light-heavyweight, Tommy Loughran “Mickey Walker Welterweight. ... ..Jone Dundee Junior welterweight, Mushy Callahan Lightweight. ....Sammy Mandell Junior lightweight..Tod Morgan Featherweight. ... Andre Routis Bantamweight Open Flyweight Open MILTNERS TRIUMPH IN BOWLING TESTS Middleweight . Hurt Campaign. and the reluctance of mcst champions to defend their titles, Cauli- | flower, Pfd., did fairly well for itself during 1928. | Only on2 champion, Tony Canzoner, | lost his crown in the battles that ragad | through the land. Joe Dundee, despite | the pressure of both the National| Boxing Association and the New York | State Athletic Commission, failed to defend his title at all. But the l(‘sscr‘ lights in all divisions, struggling fiercely | to gain the limelight, furnished enough action to take the curse off one of the poorest outdoor seasons in ring history and keep the ncw indoor arenas in Chi- | cago, Detroit, Boston and New York | well filled. ‘ Tunney Crushes Heeney. | The high light of the scason fur-| nished its low light as well. Defending | the heavyweight championship for the | last time before his retirement and | marriage, Gene Tunney crushed Tom | Heency, rugged rock from down under | and the officlal winner of Tex Rick-| ard’s_elimination tournament. When | all efforts to convince Dempsey that a | third try might succeed where two | others had failed, Heeney went to a | slaughter that lasted all but eight sec- | onds of 11 rounds before the referee intervened. | The bout was the worst financial failure in Rickard’s history and fol- lowed the debacle of the only other out- door battle he staged all Summer. ‘Three postponements due to rain cost $100,000 when Sammy Mandell, light-|J weight king from Chicago, (trounced | Baby Face Jimmy McLarnin at the | Polo Grounds. Then, despite a thor- | ough and powerful ballyhoo, Tunney’s | swan song failed.to catch the public fancy. clear skies in the Yankee Stadium July | 26 to watch the big Marine score a technical knockout. Flat guarantees of $575,000 to Tun-| ney and $100,000 to Heeney brought the losses that night to $300,000. For the quarter of the year, including this | failure, Garden Corporation reporied a | loss of about $350,000, a stariling com- | parison to the same quarter of the pre- vious year, when Dempscy's magnetic appeal brought that much profit through his knockout of Jack Sharka; Heavies Lack Class. | With titles vacant in both the hnn-[ temweight and flyweight division and | only Tommy Loughran, the 175-pound ruler, disposed to fight any cne and every one, the mediocre band of heavy- weights battling to challenge Tunney |- monopolized the Winter season. They furnished skirmishes almost devoid of thrills, with only one knockout and |M few surprises. | Totals ..... 194572 542—1,124 The biggest disappointment was the | =-ank Mischou 92 :lhowinz l‘;e Jack Shnrl{gy, tou{cdh until | Mrs. Mischou 83 e met Dempsey, as_the next heavy- . T o weight champion. The Boston €ob | w creene .. ST fought a poor 12-round draw with| vrs Greene ...° 102 Heeney and was punched from the S, Bicture by Jolnny R e eren ot - e Y- ocked out Jack | W. H, Delaney in one round, but the sole re- | * Miltner ... 116 101 8 | sult of that struggle was an investiga- | Totals .. . 240 210 184—634 658—1,202 | tion by the State Athletic Commission, (L. F._Shinn .... 76 74 73 Sharkey wrenched his knee later and (s Shinn . 19690 was out of action six months. Totals ... 63456 493— 049 Heeney won the Tunney “shot” by knocking out Jimmy Maloney, defeat- ing Jack Delaney and Johnny Risko. Although Risko defeated George God- frey, the current “Black Menace,” the body beating he took in that match ap- parently impaired his effectiveness. He dropped a decision recently to Jimmy Maloney in Boston. Canzoneri Loses Crown. ‘The battles of the year failed to clear the varied claims to the flyweight and bantamweight titles, although Tony Canzoneri, former New Orleans boot- biaek, whipped Benny Bass of Phila- delphia to win clear claim to the featherweight crown in February. ‘Tony, cne of th: busy utle holders, dropped an over-weight decision to| Harry Blitmen, Philadelphia southpaw, whom Bass later knocked out, and in September lost the championship to Andre Routis of France. In the bantamweight division, minus a champion since Charley Phil Rosen- berg forfeited the title, Al Brown, ne- gro slugger from Panama, fought his the top of the National Boxing ham of Utica, N. Y, did things in the realm of the New York State Athletic Commission. They never met, Similarly, New York recognized Izzy Schwartz as the flyweight ittle holder. while the N. B. A. put the stamp of approval on Frankie Genaro. No bout could be arranged between them and Schwartz’s claim was duiled by defeat | at the hands of Spider Pladner, the French champion. | Loughran in Limeclight. Loughran steamed through the light- | heavyweights and disposed of Joe Sckyra of Denver, Jimmy Slattery of Buffalo, Leo Lomski, the Aberdeen as- | gassin, who floored him twice in the first round, and Pete Latzo, former wel- terweight title holder. Tommy cam- paigned lightly among the heavy- ‘weights, but the New York commission refused him recognition in that class while holding the lighter championship. Prodded into the ring by threats of suspension, Mickey Walker, the Jersey toy bulldog, put the middleweight | crown on the block for Ace Hudkin: and barely eked out a victory in a sav age 10-round battle in Chicago Junc 21. Although sterling challengers | abounded in George Courtney, Dave Shade and Rene De Vos, Walker took | on more weight and knocked out Ar- mand Emanuel and Mike McTigue | among the light-heavyweights. | Reinstated to good grace through- | out the boxing world after being frezd | on court charges that grew out of his | failure to go through with a match | with Ace Hudkins in Los Angeles in| 1927, Joe Dundee failed to reach his old form. He knccked out Hilario Martinez in Spain, but was whipped himself in two rounds of a non-title bout with Young | Jack Thompson, Pacific Coast negro, in | Chicago September 30. The sensation | of the divsion was Jackie Fields, an- other Californian, who knocked out Sammy Baker,! the New York chal- lenger, in two rounds, and whipped Young Corbett and Thompson. Morgan Wins Twice. Twice during the Spring and Summer Tod Morgan, junior lightweight cham- plon, whipped Canncnball Eddie Mar- | tin in 15-round title matches. Two other sensations of the year, Tuffy Griffiths, Sioux City light heavy- weight, and Jimmy McLarnin, blew up in the final stages of the campaign. Griffiths came East and was knocked out by James J. Braddock after 55 straight victories in the Midwest. McLarnin, punching terror of the lightweights, lost on a technical knock- out to Ray Miller of Chicago during his campaign to force another title tilt with | Mandell. NO. 13 IS AVOIDED. Not a single player in the National Hockey League bears the number 13, h' is,gupposed to be a token ‘of ill Only 53,000 gathered under ¢ Ir. and Mrs. W. H. Miltner rolled a 58 set in the final block of the John Blick man-and-wife bowling tourna- ment last night at the Arcadia and won the tournament. They turned in a count cf 634 in the first set rolled December 22, giving them a grand total for the six games of 1,292. Mg and Mrs. Miltner were awarded a large cup offered to the winners by Blick. ‘The Miltners won out bv 11 pins over Mr. and Mrs. Phil Goodall, whose total . Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Fisher were third, with 1.248. The scores follow: W. E_Hnves.. Mrs. Haves Totals e Mrs First set. a1 g9 100 94 200 110 3 108 6 218 0 72 193—602 562—1,164 18 o1 215639 581—1,220 81 81 fertz. ertz Totals Mack Mrs. Mey Totals 163498 523—1.021 M. H. Jensen 3 97 Mrs. Jensen 100 Totals ... 1737197 186561 555 1,116 C. L. Dodson 82 08 T4 Mrs. Dodson 74 65 83 Totals ..... 163 157476 459— . 935 E. E._Federline.. 97 Mrs. Pederline... 92 Totals 133614 603—1,217 W. J. Sneliings 104 Mrs. Snellings. 84 Totals 550—1.105 Totals 576—1.133 W. C. Good Mrs. Good. . Totals 565—1.161 | L. Fr Mrs. Totals ... 96574 586—1,160 R. N. Butler. 23 Mrs. Butler. 92 Totals 185—603 607—1,210 G. H. Lan Ars. Totals ... 0 101 159—520 567—1,087 E. Amidon....... 90 103 104 Mrs. Amicon...] 87 80 112 Totals 183 216—576 546—1.122 A. E._Pisher . Fis 108 Fisher. 6 108 214610 Totals ... 638—1,248 Arthur_ Urban.... 132 110 123 Mrs. Urban 85 84 17 Totals 221 194 200615 556—1.173 103 103 83 ams. . Williams.. .. Totals . 591—1,139 S H. Bradburn .. 73 93 85 Mrs. Bradburn .. 94 127 97 Totals 167 220 182569 616—1,185 il G 122 121 127 Lirs. Goodall 38 97 62 Totals . . 208 218 219—645 636—1,281 Al Ford . 93 93 93 Mrs. Ford . 97 95 102 Totals ... 190 188 195873 577—1,150 W. J. Quigley .. 109 100 101 Mrs. Quigley 97 105 93 Totals ........ 206 205 104—605 614—1,210 U. S. COACHES TO BOOST FOOT BALL IN MEXICO NZW ORILEANS, December 29 (#).— Mexi®o will be aided in establishing foot ball as a major sport by American ccaches who adopted a resolution at their annual mesting today authorizing that a coach be sent to the University of Mexico for two weeks’ instruction. ‘The Mexican university sent two stu- dents to the meeting here. PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY. Americans, 2; Ottawa Senators, 2. Tulsa, 5; St. Louis, 3. Pittsburgh, 3; Montreal, 2. Toronto, 4; Detroit, 3. Newark, 1; Springfield, 1. Besten, 0; Philadelphia, 0. HEBARD VISITING HERE. | Richard Hebard of White Plains, | N. Y., national junior tennis champion, | Mickey WALKER: § 1928 FLAG WINNERS League. Team. American. . New York National... St. Louis International .Rochester American Ass'n. Pacific Coast League, San Francisco New York-P; Eastern ... New England. ..Lynn Southern Ass'n. irmingham .. Tulsa .Montgomery . McCook Western Association Southeastern . Nebraska State is the week end guest of Maj. E. H. Conger, U. S. M. C,, retired, and Mrs. | Conger, 7317 Alaska avenue, this city. | .Houslon Asheville Texas .. South Atlant; SAMMY ManDELL: - BATTLERS WHO GAINED OR RETAINED RING LAURELS DURING 1928 oD MORGAN- ALEXANDRIA BASKETERS RESUME TOIL WEDNESDAY LEXANDRIA, Va., December 29. —With the re-opening of school Wednesday, after the Christmas holidays, Alexandria and George | Mason High School basket ball teams will resume practice immediately in preparation for the third athletic district of Virginia championship saries. Both teams will play their first series games on January 11, with Alexandria High entertaining Fredericksburg High School of Fredericksburg, Va. in the armory at 8:30 p.m. and George Mason traveling to Ballston, Va., for a game with Washington-Lee High School. George Mason has one game next week, playing Charlotte Hall Academy at Charlotte Hall, Md,, on Friday. Hoffman Clothiers will play three of the strongest basket ball teams in this section next week, the program open- ing tomorrow, when they go to Wash- ington for an. engagement with the Skinker Bros. Eagles in the Congress Heights' gymnasium at 3 o'clock. The Clothiers will play the Young Men's_Christian Association quint in the “Y" gymnasium at Washington Thursday night, while on Saturday the speedy Company F cagers of Hyatts- ville, Md., will bz tackled in tho Alex- andria Armory at 8:30 p.m. Washington Grays, formerly the Woodlothians, South Atlantic A. A. U. unlimited basket ball champions, will make their first appearance here Thurs- day night, when they oppose the St. Mary'’s Celtics in Armory Hall at 8:30 o'clock. St. Mary's Celtic Juniors have the floor for a preliminary game at 7:30 pm. Phone Meanager Dick Carne at Alexendria 1189-J between 6 and 7 p.m. for contests. 0ld Dominion Boat Club passers will meet George Mcson High School Wed- nesday night at the Armory in a prac- with the Petworth Mets in the McFar- land Junior High School at Washington. The next home gama of the Old Do- minjon will be played January 12, which Gallaudet Colicg2 of Washington' is met at the Armory Hal Columbia Engine Company court stars plan to play a hard schedule of road gemes starting next month. The Fire- men have no home court and conse- quently are forced to book their games out of town. Manager Billy Padgett has 11 of the best performers hereabouts in Lecky Nowland, Billy Padgett, Louis Latham, Bob Robertson, Russell Kidwell, Bobby Darley, Larry Kersey, Russell Sutton, Dave Shapiro, Burton Ross and Sammy Berman. Athletic Director W. H. Edmund and Principal Henry T. Moncure will confer next week and make plans for the ban- quet which Alexandria High School pu- pils will give in honor of their foot ball team which won the Class B champion- ship of Virginia by a 31-to-19 victory over South Boston High,School. NORTHWESTERN ELEVEN HAS AN UNUSUAL RECORD| By the Assoclated Press. Northwestern University compiled a most unusual record during the 1928 season. The Purple won 2 conference frays and lost 3. The two victories were by 1-point, margins, Minnesota falling, 10 to 9, and | Purdue, 7 to 6. Two of the defeats were by 6-to-0 counts. JOHNSON FOUGHT OFTEN. Jack Johnson took part in more, tice game, marking the Boatmen's re-|fi-its during his ring career than any turn to the ©Old Dominion has a game Friday night court after the holidays.-other heavyweight champion (90) and Jim JefIries took part in the (gle:t (23). VISITING CRICKETERS DEFEAT U. S. TEAMS Visits by two teams from the West Indies lent an international flavor to the cricket season of 1928 in this coun- try. Both were eminently successful and neither lost a game. The Bermuda team played a series of eight in New York and Philadelphia, winning six games and drawing two. The other team of West Indian crick- eters, from Barbados, Trinidad, Antigua, St. Kitts, Grenada and Demerara, made a somewhat longer stay and fulfilled a total of 26 engagements of which they won 21 and drew five. A team of New York West Indians visited Bermuda, playing 11 games. Of these they won six, lost three and drew two. The Brooklyn Cricket Club finished first both in the New York and New Jersey Cricket Association and the Metropolitan District Cricket League, with the Union County team, of Eliza- beth, N J., second in each case. A TEAM OF “GIRAFFES” PLAYING FOR MISSOURI “Tigers” is the term applied to ath- letes at the University of Missouri, but “Giraffes” would be quite appropriate for the basket ball players. Nine cagers out for the 1929 squad are at least 6 feet tall. Charles Huhn, sophomore center, tops all of them at 6 feet 6.8 inches. He's the biggest “Sixer” in the “Big Six” Conference. Other “Giraffes” throwing the ball into the Tigers' cage are Bohrer, Mc- Kenzie and Roach, guards; Baker and Craig, centers, and Allton, Ruble and ‘Welsh, forwards. PELTZER DEFIANT A_GAIN. BERLIN, December 29 (#).—Dr. Otto Peltzer, German runner who holds four world records in the middle distances, decided today to accept an invitation to compete in Australian athletic events, although the Gggman Athletic Union MusHy C ALLAHAN- RouTis- BIG LEAGUE LEADERS 1928 NATIONAL LEAGUE. Batting— Hornsby, Braves............ .387 Most base hits— Lindstrom, Giants.......... 231 Two-base hits— P. Waner, Pirates..... 51 Three-base hit Bottomley, St. Louis.. 20 Home runs— Bottomley, St. Louis....... 31 Wilson. Cubs..... 3 Most runs— g P. Waner, Pirates.......... 141 Stolen bases— CUYME DR ..o vx snvsi 36 Most runs batted in— Bottomley, St. Louis........ 133 Pitching— *Benton, Giants........... .735 +Vance, Robins. 2.09 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Batting— Goslin, Naticnals........... .379 Most base hits— Manush, Browns.........e. 241 Two-base Manush, Browns. 47 Three-base hits—. Combs, Yankees.... 12 Home runs— Ruth, Yankees. 54 Most_runs— Ruth, Yankees. 163 Stolen bases— Myers, Red Sox. 30 142 142 Crowder, Browns. 808 fBraxton, Nation: 2.52 “Benton led the National League in games won and lost, with 25 victories and 9 defeats and Crow- der led the American League with 21 victories and 5 defeats. ed league in effectiveness. CALNAN U. S. FENCING LEADER DURING YEAR Bright spots indicative of the prog- ress of American fencing appeared in the Olympic games at Amsterdam, where for the first time in the history of the sport American standard bearers won through to the finals of the foils and epee. Lieut. George C. Calnan not only reached the epee finals but advanced further to the epee extra finals and placed third in the ultimate standing. Dr. Paul Milner also advanced to the epee finals, and Joseph Levis, recent M. I. T. graduate, a member of the Fencers' Club, was a finalist in foils. In the national season of the Ama- teur Fencers’' League of America Lieut. Calnan again won the foils champion- ship. Joseph Levis was runner-up, and Dernell Every, Yale captain and twice intercollegiate feils champion, was third. Lieut. Calnan also placed second to Leo Nunes of the New York Athletic Club in epee. Nunes was third in the won by Nicholas Muray of the New York Athletic Club. Harold Van Bus: kirk of the Fencers’ Club was runner- up to Muray. Lieut. Calnan also led the Fencers’ e{;ee and three-weapon team cham- plonships. A. P. Walker, jr., former intercollegiate foils champion at Yale, was a member cf the winning epee and three-weapon teams. The New York Athletic Club won the other senior team title in sabers. Intercollegiate honors were divided among Yale, Columbia, Army and Princeton. With Capt. Every again suc- cessful in foils the serond year in suc- cession, Yale won the “Little Iron Man" Trophy, emblematic cf foils team su- premacy. Norman C. Cohn won the sabers championship for Columbia and Cohn and John G. Ely brought the sabers team title to Columbia as well. Tracy Jacckel of Princeton dethroned Cadet Thomas Sands of West Point in @ ferice-off for the epee crown, but Sands and John Hinrichs retained the epee team title for Army. Miss Marion Lloyd, youthful repre- sentative of the Fencers’ Club, won the women's foils championship. GIRLS ADOPT POLO. Students at Beaver College, in Jen- kintown, Pa., have adopted polo as a sport. This is believed to be the only girls’ college in the East to take up the game. sabers compeMtion, where the title was | Club- to victory in the national foil, | EASLY BEST CLUB IN MAJOR LEAGUES Race in National Is Hotter Than in American—Ruth Again Prominent. l won the year's pennant after a close and bitter fight in superior campaigning and sup: itaying powers told the tale, but it wo the world series from the Cardinals of 3t. Louis in four straight games. The Yankees made a grand finale of it. They went through thz Cardinals like a bareback rider through a paper hoop, and for the second year in suc- cession won the series in four straight. A team couldn't do better than that. The National League pennant was won by the Cardinals and after a splendidly fought, close and exciting race which lasted for weeks. The clubs in this league were better matched | than in the American League, but there { was no team in either league save the Yankees themselves, as strong as the Yenkees. They, with their driving and hitting power, supporting excellent | pitching, survived a stern challenge | from the Philadelphia Athletics, and considering the many injuries the team’s players sustained, including the dis- abling of Herbert Pennock, crack south- paw, proved as game as they were great. They proved themselves one of the greatest teams of all time. No doubt about that. Stages a Close Race. In the stubbornly fought National | League race four clubs took turns at promising to win the pennant—St. Louis, the Giants, the Chicago Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates, and for a time the Cincinnati Reds were in the running. It wasn't until the last week that the pennant winner in each league was a fact finally accomplished. The order at the finish in the two leagues was as follows: National—1, St. Louis; 2 New York; 3, Chicago; 4 Pittsburgh; 5, Cincin- nati; 6, Brooklyn; 7, Boston; 8, Phila- delphia. American—1, New York; 2, Philadel- phia; 3, St. Louis; 4, Washington; 5 Chicago; 6, Detroit; 7, Cleveland; 8, Boston. In the middle of the season the Giants caught and passed the Cardinals on the Ilatter's own ground, but couldn’t hold the lead. The Yankees tock a big slump after holding & long lead. A wonderful spurt by the Ati- letics took it away from them; then, in a memorable series in New York, where the attendances were large, th- Yankees won their way back to first place and stayed there to the finish. | _ Babe Ruth again led both leagues In | home run hitiing. The big slugge made 54 this time, seven short of hi | record of the year before. He also re peated his feat of blasting St. Lou: pitching for three home runs in a sing game of the world series. The hittin of Ruth and Gehrig and the pitching ¢ Waite Hoyt stood out as the most fir portant individual factors of the wor | series. Leads Minor Series. The chief minor league series, b tween Indianapolis, of the Ameries Association, and Rochester, of the In ternational League, was won by Ir dianapolis. Houston beat Birmingha: fer the Dixie championship in an intz: lcague series. Larry Benton, cf the Giants, was th National League’s leading pitcher, an Alvin Crowder, of the Sf. Louis Brown: who made an unexpectedly fine show- ing and finished third, led the Ameri- can League pitchers in winning per- centage. Goose Goslin of Washington won the American League batting champlonship, and Rogers Hornsby, of the Boston Braves, since traded to the Cubs, led the National League batters The committee on award for the most valuable player in the Natlonat Loague decided on Jim Bottomley, firsl basiman, of the Cardinals, and & sim= lar committee in the American Leagus chose Gordon Cochrane, catcher, of tho lecucs. as th2 one desrving of tha' | horer. HE 1928 mayor league base ba was featured by the Yankeos The New York club not only By the Associated Press. With the Olympics as a stimulus, track and fleld performers put on a dazzling show at home and abroad this year. Over twoscore records, indoors and out, were toppled, with the heaviest assaults being made in_ the shotput, javelin throw, pole vault and broad Jjump. The downfall of Yankee sprint- ers in the Olympics along with that of Lloyd Hahn, after showing sensational form at home, shared major interest in since 1920 and the rise of new German athletic stars. Hahn was the big star of the Amer- CALIFORNIA CREW RULES ROWING WORLD IN 1928 HE 1928 rowing season had its climax on the Sloten Canal in Holland when the American flag flew from the bows of two victorious shells, but many weeks before this August event things were happening right in this country on the Thamcs, Hudson and Schuylkill that made for the season’s most event- ful season in rowing. Never has the drama of the cedar- wood shell been so full of breathless situations as during those three months in the early part of last Sum- mer. It was melodrama, wild Western stuff featuring the hardest coxswain in the country lashing and exhorting the strongest crew in the country, the Uni- versity of California eight, to victory after victory in the East, then to glori- ous triumph in the Olympics. Don Blessing, the coxswain in ques- tion, made more noise from his little seat aft than the combined coxswains of all the other crews. The stolid Dutch, 10 deep along the banks of the Sloten Canal, never saw so strange a sight as this yelping, gesticulating midget, whippihg a towel in his right hand as his California crew beat out Great Britain's crew in the final heat by a half length. In the semi-final heat two days before the margin was, Just as close in California’s victory over the Canadian Argonauts. Dick Glendon’s Tribute. “That is a great crew,” said Richard J. Glendon, the Columbia coach, the first time he saw the Bears in action, going up the Hudson off Poughkeepsie cn a twilight spin. It was an expert's opinion of the world champion, Olym- pic champlon eight-carcd crew, voiced two weeks before that crew rowed to its first Eastern victory and two months befors it rcwed to its world-famous victory in Holland. The Olympic distance of 2,000 me- ters, 13 yards less than a mile and one quarter, was only a run down to the next block for the Californians. They were very good, also, at the Poughkeep= sle distance of 4 miles, and the point that should be made now is that Cali- fornia for the first time won the Poughkeepsle, beating out Columbia by three-quarters of a length, and won the semi-final Olympic try-out race (at 2,000 meters, of course) on the Schuyl- kill, also beating out Columbia by less than three-quariers of a length. Yale just about lost track of Harvard on the Thames, finishing the 4 miles 10 lengths ahead of the hitherto unde- feated Crimson. This was one of the biggest surprises of the rowing season. Harvard had its heaviest crew in his- tory and was more than a slight favor- ite before the race. Yet after the first mile the Crimson oarsmen were show- ing wretched form, and at the end of.3 miles their shell had shipped 2 inches of water. Yale instantly became a world-beat- "ing crew, and nothing could have been more fitting for an American climax than the California-Yale meeting in the Olympic try-out final at Philadelphia. The final was close the whole way, with the Golden Bears setting the pace. Abroad California rowed five Olympic races within a period of eight days, from August 2 to August 10, beating Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Canada and Great Byitain. The United States won two out of the seven rowing championships in the Olympics. No other nation captured more than one first place. The other victory _was in the double sculls by Paul Costello and Charles McIlvaine of | the Penn A. C. of Philadelphia. ‘The classic English rowing event, the Oxford-Cambridge race down approxi- mately 412 miles of the Thames, ended like Harvard-Yale race—with the Can- tabs 10 lengths ahead of Oxford. Ken Myers, railroad fireman, estab- lished himself as the leading single sculler in the country by winning every race in which he competed here. In the Olympics he got to the finals, where Bob Pearce, Australian superman, gave the American the first backwash he had seen. in & year, NEW YORK RANGERS 28 HOCKEY CHAMPS The game of hockey during the year fastened itself still more tightly about the affections of the sport-loving public, as it promises to do right along until the peak is reached, if ever. Although- it is only three years since the National Hockey™ League was ex- tended to include clubs in the United States, the Stanley cup, emblematic of the world championship, was this year won by a team in this country. The New York Rangers were the victors, and this despite the fact that this was only the second season for that team in the league. Divided as they are into two groups, the American and International, the teams were led in the former division by the Boston Bruins and in the other by the Canadiens of Montreal. Neither of these aggregations gained the coveted honor of competing in the Stanley cup finals, however. In the deciding play-offs the Montreal Maroons defeated the Ottawa Senators, and the Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, with the Rangers subsequently vtm;ishing the Maroons in sensational style. PLENTY OF TALL TIMBER FOR HUSKY FROSH CREW By the Assoclated Press. Of 150 freshmen turning out for crew at the University of Washington, 81 are 6 feet or more tall. And 38 of them are 6 feet 3 inches or more. Freshman Coach Tom Bolles is inclined to worry about the height of his ma- terial, not because his aspiring oarsmen lack power, rhythm or stamina, but be- cause some of them carry thelr heads so high up in the sky that they might make the boat topheavy. Three of the youths, Karl Reese, James Donahue and Bob Hutchinso: are 6 feet 7 inches tall, while Ed John. son is only an inch shorter. ‘Withal, Bolles expects to have one of the most‘m ful “baby"” shells ever to row for rer Huskles. J o Ny ; Paa7vo Nurmi's first Olympic defeat | OVER 20 TRACK AND FIELD MARKS BETTERED IN 1928 ican indoor season, cracking the world half-mile record, but the Boston Ex- press was side-tracked as Douglas Lowe, the British ace, went by at Amsterdam. The sprinters, led by Flying Frank Wykoff, looked unbeatable as they burned up the tracks in the Olympic trials, but all took the dust of Percy Willlams, unheralded Canadian, at Amsterdam, just as Jole Ray, Conger, Lermond. MacSmith and the rest found Nurmi, Ritola, Larva, El Ouafi and others too swift for them at the longer distances. Ray, although beaten at Amsterdam after setting the pace a good share of the way, finished third, first and fourth in his three big marathons to show there still was a lot of running left in his system. Jofe turned pro at the end of the year to barnstorm with El Ouafl. ‘The shotput marks took a pouncing from the Yankee big four, Brix, Rothert, Krenz and Kuck, as well as from Emil Hirschfeld, the German sensation. Kuck finally got off the best heave of the year | at Amsterdam to win the Olympic title |dnd set a new world record of 52 feet % inch. Sabin Carr and Lee Barnes flirted with 14 feet or better all year in the pole vault, a mark no other athlete has touched. Carr won the intercollegiate and Olympic crowns besides holding the indoor record of 14.1 and the outdoor record of 14 even. Barnes won the national title, after clearing 14 1% on the coast, but it wasn’t approved. Ed Hamm of Arkansas and Georgia Tech, blazed a new broad jumping trail, winning all national and Olympic titles in record-breaking fashion. Morgan Taylor in the 400-meter hur- dles, Bud Spencer in the 400-meter dash, Penttila of Finland and Yrjola, his countryman, in the decathlon were other world record-breakers for 1928. Dink Templeton's great Stanford team won the intercollegiates for the second straight year by a one-sided margin, while the Hollywood A. C. took the national A. A. U. team title back tc the Pacific Coast. In Memoriam BASE BALL. Hughie Jennings, Jack Dunn, Frank Wuaon.m‘;un' Phillips, Claude Rossman, Tom Lovett. RACING. Thomas F. Ryan, Maxie Blu- menthal, Nick Forsley. BOXING. Kid Lavixrf. Fred Bobzin. TRACK AND FIELD, Alvin Kraegalin. BILLIARDS. Bob Cannefax. AUTOMOBILING. Prank Lockhart, Earl Norman Batten, Dave Lewla,