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2 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 29, 1929—PART FIVE. Year Now Nearing End Proves Rather Uneventful for Both Base Ball and Boxing PUNCH 15 LACKING INPENNANT RACES Ball Park Attendance, How-‘ ever, Well Up to Average of Other Years. ASE ball in the year now draw- ing to a close produced littls trouble and no scandal, but it also was without any -out- standing events or achieve- | ments—a rather drab season. | There was no lack of interest, how- | ever. The National League at its annual| meeting reported a total attendance at the turnstiles of eight clubs of 4.- | 975,000, which is only slightly short of | a record yea: and the American | League, with no figures made public, | did about as well. | The attendance figures might have | been better had the leagues been able | 1o keep the races closer. But there were | two runaways. Before the first of Au. | g:t it was a foregone conclusion that Philadelphia Athletics would win the ‘American League pennant. y September 1 it was a certainty that t' Chicago Cubs would carry off the Na- tional flag. Both Triumph Easily. Both clubs won as they pleased, the | Athletics finishing 18 games ahead of the New York Yankees, champions of 1926, 1927 and 1928. . The Cubs had slightly more competition, but finally won by 101 games from the Pitts- burgh Pirates. But as both pennants ‘were “clinched” around the midd!z of September, the last three weeks of the season saw the fans simply goin to the ball parks for fresh air. There was nothing to draw them there ex- cept the languid interest in a race for second place in the American League between the Yankees and the Cieve- land Indians, and in the National League in the hope that the New York Gl:nu would beat the Pirates for sec- on The National League's pennant re- sult was not a great surprise. ‘The Cubs had been spending money lavishly for some time and with a clever mana- fisrt' Joe McCarthy, had climbed from place in 1925 to a contending niche both in 1927 and 1928. When McCarthy, at the expenditure of some $200,000 and five players tossed in, ob- tained Rogers Hornsby, the batting king of the National League over many a season, the fans sensed that the Cubs would have too much batting power for the other clubs. So it proved. Assisted by a clever pitching staff built up in his four years at the helm and with the driv- ing power of Hornsby to aid Hack Wil- son, Cuyler and other hard hitfers, the Cubs slowly but surely rose to the top. The collapse of the pitching ace of the New York Giants, Larry Benton, made that club's chances slim, while the in- Jury to Burleigh Grimes, the Pittsburgh pitcher, after he had won 14 games, Wwrecked the hopes of the Pirates. The Cardinals, champions of the previous Jear, were never in the hunt and changed managers in midseason. A team which made a remarkable showing was the Phillies. Almost chronic tailenders, they flashed a fine batting streak, led by O'Doul, who won the National League batting champion- £hip, and Kiein, a young outfielder, who hit 43 homers for a new National League record. The Phillies closed the season in fifth place. A’s Displace Yankees. The American League race was more of a surprise. When the teams came up from the Southern training camps the Yankees of New York, with almost the same team which had flattened the St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pi- rates without allowing the National League a single game in two years of play, seemed the overwhelming choice. The Philadelphia Athletics, the con- tending club of the two previous years, had a dismal training season with many stars injured and their chances were not considered at all good. Yankees made a good start, Early in May they put on a spurt and won eight straight g:mes to take the lead. But then they began to suffer from in- and-out pm:hn:g‘. Behind deadly work by Bob Grove, the champion pitcher of the dy;rur; Rube Walberg, another left- hander, and George Earnshaw, one of the new right-handers, the Athlctics batted and fielded steadily. They took | first place on May 14 and never lost it. | They had a five-game lead on June 1 and a 10-game lead on August 1. | The year was notable for the great | crease in home runs, the two big | leagues making 1,350 betieen them, the | National League leading with 755. The | home-run leader of the year in both | leagues was Babe Ruth of the New | York Yankees, who batted out 46, lead- ing Klein of the National by three, but he was not as successful as in past cam- paigns, when he has run over 50 on geveral occasions and has reached the 60 mark once. Thrills in World Series. A really thrilling finish of an inter- esting world series proved a high spot. in the drab playing year. The Athletics and the Cubs went into the test on even terms. Both clubs had been well Tested after the grind of the season, and while the American Leaguers ap- peared to enjoy a shade in pitching strength on paper, this seemed evened by the prowess of the Chicago right- | handed batsmen as long hitters, By a bold stroke at the outset the veteran Connle Mack, manager of the Athletics, secured an advantage which | his club never relinquished. He, gam- bled on Howard Ehmke, one of his right-hand pitchers, who had received very little consideration from the fans, and the latter almost blanked the Cubs in the first game and tied the world series record for strike-outs. Timely | Athletics, and timid | base running spoiled the Cubs’ chances. | In the second game the Athletics upset the “dope” by showing that they could drive out long hits, and they ‘won again on home runs by Foxx and | Simmons. The Cubs won the third | contest, a well pitched effort by Guy Bush. Then came a day which brought al most every sort of world series record crashing down from the dusty shelves of time. The Cubs started the fourth | game by hammering two Philadelphia | Pitchers and ran up an-8-to-0 lead. | The series appeared to have been tied | up, when the Cubs’ pitching staff, led | by Charlie Root, who had pitched un- | beatable ball for six innings, suddenly | collapsed. The Athletics sent 15 men | to bat, who hammered the unheard-of | total of 10 runs from five Chicngo‘ pitchers and made their total of games | won three. A drive by George Haas, | which Wilson, the Cubs’ center fielder, | lost in the sun and which became a | home run,- was a damaging break | against the Cubs. 5 Finale Is a Stunner. ; Almest 25 stunning was the final| game of the series. For eight innings, | and with one man out in the ninth, Pzt Malone, Chicago pitcher, held the Athletics scoreless. The Cubs had made two runs. With President Hoover lmk~| ing on and every one convinced that | the clubs would be forced to go back | to Chicago Yor the ending of the series, | Haas repeated his_home-run trick of | the day before. Bishop mede a hit| and then Haas knocked the ball over | the fence to tie the score. Malcne | was shaken so badly by the blow that | the Athletics' “heavy artillery.” Coch-{ rane, Foxx, Simmons and Miller, bat- | ted over ancther run with two cut end | the Athletics the victors in the | eeries. | The triumph, thought a hard blow | BASE BALL LEADERS American League Batting — Lou Fonseca, Indians Runs — Charles Gehringer, Athletics ..... Doubl:s — Heinle Browns Triples—Charles Gehringer, Tigers . 5 Home runs——Babe Ruth, Yankees . Base Stealing — Gehringer, Tigers .. *Leading pitcher — Robert Grove, Athletics . B *Won 21 games; lost 6. National League. Batting — Frank O'Doul, * Phillies Runs—Rogers Hornsby, Cubs Hits—Frank O'Doul, Phillies Runs batted in—L. Wilson, Base stealing—Hazen Cuyler, Cubs .... *Leading Pitche: Cubs veee. 160 *Won 19 games; lost 6. to Chicago and to the National League sympathizers, who have now lost three world championships and have won but one game in three vears of play, was immensely popular throughout the rest of the country because of the ad- miration of the publjc for Connie Mack, the 65-year-old leader of the cham- pions. He had not won a pennant since 1914, but had always worked to rebuild his team with the utmost persistence. By winning, he leads the list of man- agers capturing world championships with four—1910, 1911, 1813 and 1929. There was a damper on the joy in Philadelphia, however, for after an ex- hausting season spent in attempting to force his disappointing club to catch the flying Athletics, Miller Huggins, for 12 years manager of the New York Yankees, suddenly became critically ill late in Sentember and died on Septem- ber 26. He had won three straight championships twice—in 1921, 1922 and 1923 and in 1926, 1927 and 1928. He had won three world championships also. A sane, fair and able leader, he had worked to the heights against | many obstacles and his funeral here on September 23 saw a representative throng from all classes of soclety come to pay respect to his memory. The year was harsh to base ball still further, for George Stallings, who had also been a manager of the Yankees and later a winner of a world cham- pionship with the Boston Braves, was claimed by death, as was Harry H. Frazee, who had been the president of the Boston Red Sox for several years, One of the most famous of the old- time Dpitchers, the indomitable “Iron Man" Joe McGinnity, famous as a win- ner with Baltimore, Brooklyn and the New York Giants, died late in the year. GEORGETTI IS 1929 STAR OF CYCLISTS Franco Georgetti, the sturdy little Italian star who, coupled with Gerard Debaets, won the recent six-day race at Madison Square Garden, was the outstanding performer of 1020—by far the most active season in the history of this sport. Georgetti not only won the motor- paced championship of America but in addition hung up three six-day victories as well. Last March at the Garden, teamed with the same Dabaets, he scored & sensational triumph at the finish. _Afterward in Chicago, with Franz Deulberg as a partner, he tri- umphed again within a fortnight. His title effort in the strenuous motor- paced game was the third straight in® as many seasons. Cecil Walker of Australia won the all-around championship of America for the sixth successive time. He also won more races than any- other rider in America. Freddie Spencer, of Plainfield, N. J., won the American sprint cham- pionship for the second successive sea- son, he having won first time in 1925. Little Lucien Richard, of France won the world sprint championship for the third time in a row. George Paillard of the same country won the motor- paced title. Anton Mazairac of Hol- land took the amateur championship of the world. Sergio Matteini of New York won | the amateur road championship as well as the amateur track title. Outdoor racing enjoyed its most suc- cessful season of history on the saucers of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, De- troit, Providence and Newark. PHILS BOOK 21 TILTS FOR TRAINING JAUNT PHILADELPHIA, December 28 (#).— The Philadelphia National League team, | which will have its Spring training camp at Winter Haven, Fla., will play 21 exhibition games before the major league season opens in April. Pitchers and catchers are to report at Winter Haven on February 26, and the infield- ers and outfielders on March 7. The team will remain at Winter Haven until April 2. . The schedule of exhibition games is as follows: March 15—Detroit at Tampa. March 16—St. Louis Nationals at Winter A ven March 13—Detroit at Winter Haven. March 24— Af March 26—Athletics March 27—Brooklyn r Haven tional at Bradenton Lakelan: pril T April 9—Athletics Apri] 10—Athletics April 12—Athletics April 13—Newark Philadelphia. t Philadelphia. t Philadelphi Newark West Is Leading East In Rose Bowl Clashes By the Associated Press. ‘The eleventh college foot ball in- vader, Pittsburgh, to play at the Tournament of Roses at Pasadena, Calif., will enter the huddle with the knowledge that all but four of the Eastern outfits have returned de- feated or tled. ‘Three times mighty machines of Eactern gridirons have returned to their campus tled. Two service games resulted in an intersectional or_interservice victory each. The shifty, Yushlng Trojans of the University of Southern California will meet the Easterners this time. ‘The record to dat 1916—Washington State, 14; Brown, 0. 1917—Oregon, 14; Pennsylvania, 0. 1018—Marines, 19; Camp Lewis, 6. 1919—Great Lakes Naval Station, 17; Marines, 0. 1920—Harvard, 7; Oregon, 6. 1921—California, 28; Ohio State, 0. 1922—California, Washington & Jefferson, 0. xszz—goulhem California, 14; Penn tate, 3. 1924—Washington, 14; Navy, 14. 1925—Notre Dame, 27; Stanford, 10. 1926—Alabama, 20; Washington, 19. 1927—Alabama, 7; Stanford, 7. 1928—Stanford, 7; Pittsburgh, 6. 1929—Georgia, Tech, 8; California, 7. JOSEPHINE MEKIM- CLARENCE CRABBE- Yank Athletes Still Lead World| In Record-Setting Track Feats pic year a slight decline in track and field achievements is expect- ed. Outstanding athletes retire from competition and there is a general tendency to let down from the tense pitch of the big international year. 3\'53 an_exception. Star athletes did retire, yet others came up to outdo their predecessors in the quality of their achievements and the year was replete with throbbing incidents on the cinder path and in the field. The United States, which had triumphed again in the 1928 Olympics, continued to lead the world in the quality and quantity of its high-grade, record- breaking performances, As usual, the sport was confined to the three months of indoor competi- tion, from January to March, and the three months of “outdoor competition, from late April to early July. Nothing of national interest transpires after the National A. A. U. championships the first week of July until the cross-coun- try runners take to the hills in the Fall. Many Highlights Recorded. Sprinters, middle distance runners and milers in track and discus throwers. shot putters and pole vaulters in the field contributed to the activities of a great year. There were many high- lights indoors and outdoors, too many in fact to select one achievement above all the others, is was a year of sprinters, despite America’s failure to accomplish any- thing of note in the Olympic sprints of 1928. Half a dozen speed kings raced 100 yards in 935 seconds, that time- honored criterion of real greatness, and George Simpson of Ohlo State was clocked in 925 seconds with the aid of starting blocks. This mechanical de- vice was the subject of considerable discussion and Simpson’s record was accepted officially ‘with the bracketed explanation that he used the device. It still remains for a speed merchant of the day to run 100 yards faster than “nine-three” under the same conditions that obtained in the days of Arthur Duffey, Bernie Wefers, Howard Drew and_ others, that is, without starting blocks and with fifth-second watches. Simpson also set a new record of 2035 seconds (with blocks) in the furlong. Simpson, Eddie Tolan, Michigan Ne- gro; Claude Bracey of Rice Institute, { Charley Borah of Southern California, Frank Wykoff of Glendale, Calif, all touched 93-5 seconds or 9.5 seconds. They were closely matched, too well matched to name one as the best of the year, but Simpson probably de- served this honor. He beat Tolan and Tolan beal him. Simpson pulled a tendon on the eve of the National A. A. U. championships at Denver, and Tolan gave a remarkable exhibition against a wind in winning both the 100 and 220 yard titles against a flock of fiyers. The East had no one to com- pare with the men beyond the Alle- ghenies. At the Penn relays Simpson turned in the first “nine-three” in the history of the games. Conger Defeats Lermond. Ray Conger of the Tllinois A, C., ran a mile indoors in 4:13 2-5, beating Leo Lermond, Wide of Sweden, and Purje of Finland. But Lermond, developing amazingly at the mile distance, became the year's champion, He raced the eight furlongs at the Yankee Stadium in 4:13, the second fastest performance ever recorded outdcors in this country, and dethroned Conger as national out- door mile lon. b N the 12 months following an Olym-" | A A, Ninteen twenty-nine, however, | Phil Edwards of New York Univer- sity, featured sparkling middle-distance running. He wiped out Ted Meredith's fine intercoliegiate half-mile record of 1.:53 and set a new mark at 1:521-5 in an epic race in the Intercollegiate A. A. games. He stood unchallenged as the king of half-milers in 1929. In- doors at 600 yards a handful of stars beat 1:10. Edwards won the national title n 1:12; Johnny Gibson turned in 1:12 1-5, and Eddle Blake and Bernie McCafferty also were under 1:13. Regi- nald Bowen of the University of Pitts- burgh, winning the intercollegiate and National A. A. U. 440-yard champion- ships in 0:48 2-5, was a versatile run- ner who stood out. ‘The 52-foot mark in shot putting, reached for the first time in lQZg. wasn't touched again, but Ralph Rose's magic mark of 51 feet that stood for S0 many years was beaten again, and the 50-foot mark was crossed by sev- eral. Herman Brix, 1928 Olymplc runner-up, was America's best shot putter in 1929, turning in a new Ameri- can record of 51 feet 1153 inches. For tory two men, Harlow Rothert and Eric Krenz, both passed 50 feet in the event, The year was notable for discus throwing, and Krenz of Stanford, gained the greatest renown with a new world record toss of 163 feet 8%, inches. He also won the national champlion- ship and intercolleglate championship. In the N. C. A. A. games all six finalists beat 150 feet, Fred Sturdy of Yale grasped the crown of pole-vaulting worn by Sabin Carr of Yale the year before. Sturdy was invincible through the vear, win- ning the intercollegiate indoor title, | the national indoor title, then national -outdoor title and tying for the inter- colleglate outdoor title. He cleared the grand height of 14 feet indoors and was always threatening to go higher as he won one event after another. There were excellent performances in other vents, too, and some beautiful hurdling Steve Anderson, to win both high and low hurdles titles at the Denver nationals. Dick Rockaway of Ohio State, using starting blocks, received credit for a record of 22 4-5 seconds | for the 220-yard low hurdles, though records will ever receive universal rec- Athletic Federation. Athletes of Stanford for the third year dominated the intercollegiate in- door champlonship. The East, on t accomplishment of Edwards, Lermond, Sturdy and Bowen earned its share of laurels in competition with the rest of the country. BLIZZARD OF TULANE U. REALLY TAKES TO AIR By the Associated Press. Now that the foot ball season is over the Blond Blizzard of Tulane can take to the air as often as he wants to, Billy Banker, Tulane’s rampaging half- badk, is an aviator and has his own B}nne, He was a_constant visitor at enefee aviation fleld before the foot ball clumm started, but during the deason his aerial adventures were con- fined to throwing foot balls and an oLc.cnslonul fiight home to Lake Charles, The Blizzard's teachers declare him be the most ready and nonchalant to m\pu they ever have seen. Banker plans make aviation his life work. the second time in intercollegiate his- | | it is doubtful that these starting-block | ognition by the International Amateur | ALEXANDER -2 ALEKHINE- EAGLE FIVE OPENS HOME PLAY TODAY East Arlingtons, Baltimore, Meet Birds at Silver Spring Armory. KINKER EAGLES, formerly the Anacostia Eagles, and for the past several seasons outstanding in basket ball circles hereabout, will open their home campaign this afternoon at the Silver Spring, Md., National Guard Armory, which will be the scene of all their home games this ‘Winter. Formerly the Eagies held forth in the Congress Heights Auditorium. East Arlington quint of Baltimore will be the Birds' opponent this afternoon. The game will start at 3 o'clock and will be preceded by a preliminary be- tween the fast Stewart Photographers and French A. C. teams at 2 o'clock. Familiar faces predominate on the Eagles team this season. Joe Sweeney, Dick Streets, Bert Thompson, Jack Faber, Ralph Bennie and Morris Clark, mainstays of the team in the past, are again on the job while Jim Birthright, former American University stalwart, and Allen, are newcomers to the team. Bo far this season the Eagles have engaged in only one game. They took the measure of the Baltimore Pro team on_the latter's floor. Bernie Peacock again is serving as business manager of the Birds. He is lining up a highly attractive schedule. Brisk battling should be in order in the Stewart-French game. Neither of these teams has been beaten to date this season. The Stewart outfit has won all its 16 games and the French quint also has shown class. Last sea- son the French team trimmed the Isvewarn boys in the A. A. U. elimina- tions Potomac Boat Club basketers will here. | face the Tank Corps five at Fort George Meade, Md,, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Boatmen are to gather at First and B streets southwest at 1:30 o'clock. Besketers making up the De Luxe team are fo gather today at 12:45 o'clock at 622 Ninth street northeast for a trip to Fort Humphreys, Va. where they will engage the post five this afternoon. De Luxe has scheduled a game with the high school team at Rockville, Wednesday night. Jewell Athletic Club passers are seek- ing games with quints in the 130-140 und classes. Call Mnnn{er John % usick at Falls Church 834.p. Ty Batinea pound fies sre may be reached at Adams 4555 1928-1920. ying sport g the year ¥ lRvING JAFFEE NAVY 1S SATISFIED WITH GRID SYSTEM To Adhere to Present Ideas Despite Departure of Comdr. Ingram. ANNAFOLIS, Md., December 28— The system of foot ball put into effect during the past four years at the Naval Academy by Comdr. Jonas H. Ingram, director of physical training, and his brother,’ William A. Ingram, head coach, will be tinued at the Naval Acad. emy, though the former will be detacl ed from the Academy within a few eel Rear Admiral Samuel S. Robison, su- perintendent of the academy, has tak- en the necessary official action to make this certain. The appointment of William A. In- gram as foot ball coach has been ap- proved and Lieut. Comdr. Frederick G. Reinicke has, upon the recommendation of Comdr. Ingram, been appointed di- | rector of foot ball for next seasop. Comdr. Reinicke has been graduate | manager of athletics at the Naval Acad- emy for some months and has been in close touch with the Ingrams during the past scason. He was a varsity foot ball | Player when a midshipman, as well as | a crew man and boxer. ‘The general feeling among naval of- | ficers is that athletics at the Naval | Academy, particularly foot ball, has suf- fered through frequent changes in coaches and methods, and it is belleved that the best results are promised by the retention of the Ereaem system and as much of the coaching staff as prac- ticable. It is pointed out that during the four seasons foot ball has been directed by ‘he Ingrams, a Naval Academy team has never been beaten by an overwhelming score and that in one of these seasons, thet of 1926, the Naval Academy team was generally rated as the strongest in the country. HOW EHMKE SET SERIES MARK FOR STRIKE-OUTS Opening game of world series, played at Wrigley Field, Chicago, October 8. First Inning—None. Second inning—Cuyler, Ste- phenson. inning—Root, Hornsby, Third ‘Wilson. Fourth inning—Cuyler. Fifth inning—Root, McMillan. Sixth inning—English, Horns- by, Wilson. Seventh inning—Hartnett, Eighth inning—Nore, Ninth inning—Tolson, ‘Total—13. CHAMPIONS IN BOXING AS 1929 COMES TO END Heavyweight ...... Light-heavyweight . Open Middleweight. -Mickey Walker Welterweight. .Jackle Fields Lightweight.....Sammy Mandell Junior Lightweight..Benny Bass Featherweight . Battling Battalino Bantamweight. Brown Flyweight SCHOOL ATHLETES .Open Rifle Competition Is on Schedule. N comparison with the past week the coming week will be a busy one for District schoolboy athletes, but ac- tivity will not get under way in earnest until next week, when the public high school basket ball chams pionship series starts. Eight court games, a swimming and a rifle match are listed this week. Though they will not engage in many games the public high teams will get in plenty of hard licks in preparation for the title battles. Alumni contests will be the feature of the week. There will be something doing in the way of formal competition every day except Friday. ‘Two basket ball games are listed to- morrow. Western is down to face its alumni in the annual contest in the Western gvm and St. John's and Mount 8t, Joseph's All-Stars are to have it out on the St. John's floor. Tech, defending public high court champion, is to entertain its alumni in their yearly struggle Tuesday in the McKinley gym. » Wednesday will he Central's day. Undergraduates and alumni combina- tions are listed to clash in basket ball, swimming and on the rifle range at the Columbia Heights School. Western's court men are carded for a tilt with the George Washington Freshmen Thursday. ‘Three basket ball games are listed Saturday, one here and two away. Strayer and St. John's will try con- clusions in the latter's gym. Western will travel to Annapolis to engage the St. John's College Junior Varsity and Central will invade Philadelphia for a battle with the Penn Freshmen. The week’s program: BASKET BALL, Tomorrow. Western vs. Alumni at Western. St. John's vs. Mount St. Joseph's All- Stars at St. John's. Tuesday. Alumni vs. Tech at Tech. ‘Wednesday. Central vs. Alumni at Central. Thursday. vs. George Saturday. Strayer vs. St. John's at St. John's. ‘Western vs. St. John’s College Junior Varsity at Annapolis. ‘Western ‘Washington Freshmen. delphia. SWIMMING. ‘Wednesday. Central vs. Alumni at Central RIFLE. Wednesday. Central vs. Alumni at Central INSIGNIA AWARDED TO NAVY ATHLETES ANNAPOLIS, Md., December 28— Three members of the Naval Academy foot ball, soccer and cross country teams and crew have been awarded the Navy during their last seasons. The “N" is the highest award for athletics at the Naval Academy except the “N star” given only to those who take part in a victorious contest in any branch against the Military Academy. Members of the foot ball squad who recelved the “N” are: W, Bauer, R. C. Bau 4. C. Cliton, 1’ C. Eddy, T. Hughes, L. L. Koepke. A C. T. Mauo, Ir.; | . Swan, | (manager),, strom, J. W, g, J Gray,’ O E._ Hagbers, J. 'C. Toth.. second ¢lass! J.'A."Binns, L. A Bryan, L. 3. Kirn, | third’ class. The recipients of the “N” for rowing are: S. C. Btrong. W. 8. Butts, C. L. Fitz- gerald (manager), graduates: C. L. West- hofen, J. G. Burgess, first class: K. E. Jung, A.D.'Gray, R. P. Hunter, J. V. Kiehibauch, F. D. Crinkley, snccnd class. The “ANF,” highest award for that \sport, was awarded to the following members of the soccer squad: J. Hulme, M. H. Gluntz (manager),‘A. J. i E' R Sanders, W. W. Gubbins, . Biackburn, Sr.; A.'E. Grove, class South, ir.; J. Gilhert, S retond class: B3, Shavarea, 3 . 3. second class: P. J. Shuy ! 5. Bell, third riass, b These cross country runners received the t“CNC." highest award for that sport: H. O_Hansen. J. A. E. Hunti (man- seen). FOE CHighler, sr o VH. Hille | frst class: 1. M. Rose, L. C. Hudson, ru | second class:"S. K. Gibson, third class. J. C o Basketer Pivots ‘ In Air to Shoot Idaho had a fast team in break- ing from the backboard last season. Its two forwards and center would 80 At top speed down the two sides | and center of the court when a | guard took the rebound from an op- ponent’s try for basket. Of course, their opponents would go tearing along with them, To make certain these three men were not being hampered in their speed efforts, the two Idaho guards WHEN FORWARDS ARE GUARDED, CENTER TURNG IN AR, ALIGHTS AND SHOOTS would pass the ball back and forth to each other while the defense was rushing to break up this sudden at- tack. Then the play was pulled in a flash. As the center neared the foul line he would reverse and leap to catch a High pass from the guard. Alighting, he would ain reverse and take an underhand chest shot for the basket. Such an offense is a thriller. In no time at all your team switches the play from a try for basket by opponents to a try for basket on their part. When such an attack works, scores mount high. 10 HAVE BIG WEEK Basket Ball, Swimming and 199 BRINGS FOUR NEW RING CHAMPS Fields, Battalino, Bass and Brown Attain Crowns. 3 Titles Vacant. OUR new world boxing championd were crowned in 1929, the heavy- weight title remained empty and the light - heavyweight cham- plonship was ated. So was the flyweight title. Al Brown was gen- erally recognized as the new bantam- weight cmmglon. but aside from the winning of the welterweight crown by Jackie Fields and the capturing of the featherweight title by Battling Batta lino, most of the other titles were pretty much in a fog. Sammy Mandell defended his light- weight title successfully, as did Mickey Walker his middleweight crown. Fields defeated Joe Dundee in two rounds in Detroit on July 25, and Chris- topher “Battling” Battalino dethroned Andre Routis in 15 rounds in Hartford, Conn., on September 23. Benny Bass scored a knockout over Tod Morgan in the second round in their recent Madison Square Garden battle, and thus the junior lightweight crown changed hands. There seems to be some cloud over the victory, for Bass was a 5-to-1 favorite to win just be- fore the men entered the ring, and the boxing commission even now is inves- tigating this angle of the fight. Never- theless, the crown passed. Sammy Mandell held off Tony Can- zoneri in the latter's bid for the light- weight championship in Chicago on August 2, and Walker trounced Ace Hudkins in Los Angeles on October 29, after the National Boxing Association had declared the middleweight titl> “vacant.” Muddle Among Heavies. The retirement of Gene Tunney last year left the heavyweight situation in a muddle, and this was not cleared by the influx of foreign battlers, inclua- ing Victorio Campolo, Phil Scott and Max Schmeling. The last named showed great promise by knocking out Johnny Risko and defeating Paulino Uzcudun, but then he refused to fight Scott and drew suspension and revoca- tion of his license therefor. So Max sailed back to Germany. Early in the {en boxing lost one cf its most colorful and important figures when Tex Rickard, greatest of all %ht promoters, died at Miami Beach, Fla., on January 6, following an operation for appendicitis, performed on New Year day. With the %Iusln: of Rickard, Jack Dempsey, with Willlam F. Carey, presi- dent of the Madison Square rden Corporation, stepped into the breach and helped put over the fight between Jack Sharkey and W. L. (Young) Stribling on February 27. The fight surprised by drawing about $400,000, but it proved something of a disappointment, even though Sharkey managed to win the decision on points. It was not a very satisfactory battle. Later in the year Dempsey joined forces with’ Humbert J. azy and signed Max Schmeling for a fight with Phil Scott in Ebbets Field. This never :ame off and resulted in the battle be- | tween the New York State Athletic Central vs. Penn Freshmen at Phila- | Commission and the German heavy- weight and his various “piece men.” Dempsey then withdrew from the combination with Fugazy and later be- gan operations as a promoter in Chi- cago. Here he met with various finan- clal reverses in promoting his fights, but is still gamely carrying on. With the passing of Tex Rickard it seems as if the million-dollar gates have gone, too. Dempsey, apparently, is compfflnly out of the picture, so far as competing for the heavyweight crown again is | | | dearth of champions, | Arenas already built in Boston and | troit were joined by ths $7,000,000,000 “N” and other insignia for work done | | Notre Dame most concerned, New Arenas Erected. Despite the death of Rickard and the boxing had a pretty good year, all things nonsideged. Stadium in Chicago, the New York Coli- seum was developed by Jess McMahon and the Auditorium in Atlantfc City was increased in size and seating ca- pacity. St. Louls, too, has & huge arena, ”‘lzm ’Mz’l,ouo. adison Square Garden set a new high for its indoor season, 26 shows through the 1928-1920 period drawing total receipts of $1,265,712. As the vear comes to a close it Jooks as if Black Bill of Cuba would bscome the flyweight champion, he having come through pretty well thus far in ths &“‘emht‘mul’numentd andhmoat of the ore serious contenders having been kull)ed lofl lfi"‘ defrats. ¥ uring the year Al Singer and Kid Chocolate reached new hel‘;hu in box- ing. The Havana Keed fought many brilliant battles and earned more than $100,000 during the season. Singer defeated some good _men, among them knocking out Andre Routls in jig time in a non-title bout. Al suf- t:re’d a ;:vcnednc the hands of one Ig- nacio rnandez, but he res himself in his later battles, S VETS ATTAIN CHIEF HONORS DURING 29 (Continued Frcm First Page.) Year if injuries had not c hlAC;lI! llreg:h. bty Ong the beaten the Harvard that met Yale, the Army team 'ffl?i piled into Notre' Dame and the Stanford | team that cut down California finished Wwith as much strength as any of the leaders showed at any stage. Ff;tsbuuh ruled the East, Purdue the Conference, of the country, Ne- braska the Missouri Valley circuit, Utah the Rocky Mountain sector, T, C. U. the Southwest, Tulane the South, with Tennessee also unbeaten. Pittsburgh, named to meet the powerful Southern California team in the annual Tourna- ment of Roses at Pasadena, has a chance to show its true place against the team that beat Stan ford, crushed Carnegle Tech and lost to Notre Dame by a single point. The finishing stretch of foot ball on the West Coast, piled up more general interest than any Mid- winter games have ever known. Cole gate and Fordham both had fine records and unusually strong teams. Yale came back to a much better yeasy while Princeton faded far below her old place among the elect. Just hovs Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Purduy would have fared in any three-corner- ed contest is still a debate without ani answes. No answer is needed. Thei: records were enough without furths adornment. Foot ball through 1920 wi more a case of team strength than 1i was_individual stardom. The year 1029 sct & new record f<* attendance. Estimates have run as high as 100,000,000, Base ball came close to its top figures in spite of a cold, wet Spring and two one-sided races, Foot ball broke the best record of any other year by at least 2,000,000. Eigh# teams played to an average of 500,00C, Where only two or three years ago 400,~ 000 was a new mark. Interest in some variety of Tt ranged from youngsters of 7 and 8 to those bordering on 90 years. There was also another boom in women's sport, especially in swimming, golf and tennis. Such vital statistics as we can gst for | estimates show that over 75,000, of the population were interested in some form of competition or play throughout ihe year, and this estimate is on the short side, since sport more than ever through the closing year has become a blg :&m engrossing part of the na- e. tional (Copyright, 1029.)