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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 28, 1930—PART FIVE. Base Ball Prospers Despite Business Slump, But Financial Drought Hiis Boxing BOTH BIG LEAGUES “SET NEW RECORDS Griffmen and Robins Prove Surprises—Phillies and Indians Disappoint. L bright spots stand out, but the most amazing happen- mg is to be found in the sv.atls-‘ tics. In a year when almost every | other industry was in deep de- pression base ball did the bigges&‘ business in history. | The attendance in the National| League, where the race for the pennant was ablaze up to the final few days of the campaign, exceeded 5,500,000 ad- mission, shattering to bits the former mark made in 1926. And even in the American League, where the Athletics staged a parade to the pennant, the record of 1927 was broken with a total sttendance of 5,300.000. Again the old axiom that base ball s when general prosperity is ab- sent came into being, and it is fairly ‘well established that base ball is a poor man’s game. Griffs Supply Interest. ‘The Washington club supplied the American League season with some of the interest Philadelphia took out of it by upsetting all the dope to finish second. They were rated originally as & seventh place club. ‘The National League fight for the flag was one of the most thrilling ever staged, with six clubs in the running up to the final drive down the stretch, and four, the Cubs, Cards, Robins and Giants, all having the championship within their grasp during the last month, the Cardinals staging the greatest rush any team has put on since the Braves bobbed up from the bottom in 1914, capturing the pennant. Brooklyn, after getting off to a poor start, took the lead soon after Decora- tion day and held the heights almost constantly for three months. Then ey dropped behind the Cubs. How- ever, the Giants were putting on a late rally and came within a game or two of taking the lead away from the 1929 champions, only to drop back in| ® series in Chicago. Cards Finally Win Out. Meanwhile, the Cards, hardly counted among the possible winners as late as Aueun were making miraculous mo- tions and were thundering slong at a h‘fll -taking plc! Onward they came a string of victories until they muy reached the top and held it. However, they couldn't turn back the Athletics in the world series, which the Philadelphians captured rather handily through the individual efforts of five men. The pitching of Grove and Earnshaw baffied the Cardinal hit. ters, while Foxx, Simmons and Coch- rane blasted out home runs and extra base hits in the pinches to win the 'ofld title for the second successive Bmokly'n was the big surprise of the Ill Lhe National League. The Phil- to make a real flght lor um Nlumsl League flag, and the Indians of the American League were disappointments. ‘Wiison Eclipses Ruth. Hack Wilson of the Cubs led Babe Ruth in the home run derby, mighty mauler of the Yankees relin- ing his title to a rival for almost first time since he became a mem- *ber of the New York club back in 1920. However, Wilson had to break the Na- tional League home run record to do #. He hit 56 circuit clouts. - Wilson was voted, unofficially, the most valuable player to his team in the senfor circuit, while Joe Cronin, Washington's young shortstop, received the -me recognition in the American slmmom of the Athletics barely nosed out Lou Gehrig of the Yanks for the American e batti cham- ip. In fact, it was so close that was believed for a few days that Genrig had gained the honors. Bill Terry of the Giants captured the Na-| OOKING back on the base ball season of 1930, several tional League crown with a mark of | 401, giving the Glants their first bat- | ting champion since Larry Doyle led the league almost two decades ago. The Giants also set a new record for team | hitting with an average of .319. Grove and Vance Best. Grove led the American League pitch- ers both in effectiveness and in games won and lost, while the National League Bonors were shared by Dazzy Vance and Fred Fitzsimmons. The Brooklyn star was the most effective, simmons' winning average topped the Hst. One of the high iights of the sea- son came at the finish when Babe Ruth Teturned to the box lnld Diflleaalo‘z‘l;ll nlm-mn game against the n ngeluns them rather handily IHA demonstrating that he still is something more than just Gruver Cleveland Alexander, the most famous figures of the dia-|A&n! mond, finally passed out of the ma leagues, and after several emotion: episodes in the minors eventuflly ended his career in organized base bal Wiilism F. Baker, owner of Lhe Phil- | lies, and Willlam B. Hanna, one of the game's best known historians, died during the year. The “Draft” Again. The major leagues and five minor eircuits, including the three Class AA Leagues, the American Association, In- ternational and Pacific Coast Leagues. on the subject of the universal dr: enlivened the Winter sessions con-| siderably. The war resulted in a break | between the two groups. It pmmhea to be of short duration, however. Something-of a sensation was created | in National League circles just before | the end of the season, when Joe Mc- | Carthy, who had led the Chicago Cubs | to_the 1920 pennant, was dropped. Rogers Hornsby, second baseman, re- laced him and will pilot the team in 931. Hornsby was out of action most of the season with & heel injury, but expects to be back on the job as player- 0‘8 hy picked the New York Yan- the t prospect of the many mmu-rul jobs offered him for 1931 and took on a big task in rebuilding the team that finis] Shawkey. The Boston Red Sox also produced | & new manager for the coming season when Jobn (Shano) Collins came up| from the Westeni League to take over the reins of that much abused club, BOYS’ CLUB TO CELEBRATE ‘Will Play Court Game on Tenth Anniv-n‘ry Thursday. the tenth anniversary of , which falls on Thurs- Washington will [ game between an mni team ";na one of the club's best | night and another ht. rform in the basket bu?l' me eoll o -Sn be ung: the | Richard Oeorle and Aidan while Pitz- | P. d third under Bob\ 1930 FLAG VICTORS League. American P National St. Louls International .Rochester American Association. Ib\lllvllle Pacific Coast. Eastern ... AAlllnwwn New York-Penn....Wilkes-Barre Southern Auochtlon...Mom Central .... ‘Three-I anue Southeastern .. Team. West'n Assoclation.Independence Pledmont .. Durham Mississippi Vl]l.ey _Cedar Rapids Blue Ridge.. ‘Chambersburg Georgia-Alabama, rtown Arizona State. POLOIN 1330 GAINS NEWPEAKINU. S, America’s Victory Over Eng- land for Westchester Cup Is Highlight. OLO rose to a place of new im- portance in the vast program of amateur sport during the last year, with the United States de- feating England in the tenth re- newal of international matches for the ‘Westchester Cup. The American four, with Eric Pedley, Earle A. 8. Hopping, Thomas Hitchcock, jr., and Winston F. C. Guest, won the series in two straight victories, 10 to 5 and 14 to 9. These international matches at Meadow Brook attracted 90,000 spectators in the two contests, & remarkable response for a sport which is growing in this country with surprising strides. The second match of the series pro- duced the highest type of polo that has ever been played in this country, or perhaps in the world. The British went into the series under unforeseen handicaps. The line-up which had practiced for weeks in England before coming here was unavailable through accidents. The British squad was in a quandary a few days before the first big match and went into the opening contest with a rearranged line-up, with three of the players in positions new to_them. This emergency line-up had Gerald Bald! at No. 1, Lewis Lacey at No. 2, Capt. C. T. I. Roark at No. 3 and Lieut. Humphrey Guinness back. Roark and Lacey rose to great polo heights, and Balding and Guinness did remarkably well, in view of the fact that they were inexperienced in their positions. British Play Inspired Polo. The second match found the British playing inspired polo. They set such a terrific pace that they took the Amer- jcans through five of the eight periods at such a terrific clip that the end of the fifth found the English riders in the lead, 7 to 6. It was the sixth period that showed the tness of the Amerlcnn team. A rally in the sixth, in which ;luely weldnd team phy. dark nflnd tn lm- P mm:llyun. portanf scored four |uul.l uoke mn dle m- lish threat and came through by a margin of 14 to 9. For a team which had lost two of its regulars in Clptd Roark a spare in Barney Balding, the British wnm did remarkably well in an emer- This international affair, of course, was the climax of polo’s most im tant season in this country, but were other tournaments and mwhu which helped to intensify the season’s play. There was the visit of the all-brother team from Australia, the Ashtons; the mn ’;nd sides the vast program of tournaments throughout the Hurricanes Open Champions. | cific Coast of a team of Argentines, who [took the Coast championship home with them. The open championship was won by the Hurricanes, the same ’t-um which carried off the British open. This team was made up of Stephen Sanford, Eric Pedley, Capt. T. I. Roark and R. E. Strawbridge, Jr ‘The Monty Waterbury Cup was WDfl by the Roslyn four, made up of H. Talbott, jr.; Cecil Smith, H. W. Wfllllms and Gerald Balding. The United States Army team won the junior title wflh Lieut. McDonald Jones, Capt. C. Wilkinson, Capt. P. Rodes and ueut H. M. Kiefer. The Army players for the first time invaded South America and were runners-up in the tournament for the championship of the Argentine. The Eastern title of the intercircuit series was won by Chagrin Valley, while the Western section went to the Fort Sill_team. ‘The tournament for the Hempstead Cup was won by the Great Neck team, the intercollegiate tournament was |won by Yale, with H. Scott, J. P. Mills, Stewart Iglehart and J. C. Rathbone. ‘The national indoor title was won by the Optimist team of New York, and | the indoor intercollegiate championship was won by Princeton. 20 Years Ago (In The Star.) ILLIE HOPPE, world champion billiardist, will give an exhibi- tion at the te House Sat- urday night, with President Taft and members of the cabinet attending. BIG LEAGUE KINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE. Bltun’ Al 8immons, Ath- letics, 381. ug.um—m Simmons, Athletics, Base_hits—Urban Hodapp, In- dians, 225. Hon:; runs—Babe Ruth, Yan- Runs batted in—Lou Gehrig, | | Yankees, 175. emlen2 bases—M. McManus, tching—Lefty Grove, Ath- letics, .848. Ath- 1Pitching—Lefty Grove, Jetics, 3.00. NATIONAL LEAGUE. | “n-mu—lfll Terry, Giants, 'l spuns—Chuck Iein, Phillis, Bno hits—Bill Terry, Giants, llm.o’ runs —Hack Wilson, num hetted in—Mack Wilson, ab':k’n bases — Kikl Ouyler, -memn.—c Mitchell, Giants, ; wr?fi:m—m-y Vance, Rob- . Qrove won 28 mes and lost 8. Mitchell won mmhfll. Also, there was the visit to the Pa- | PERFORMERS WHO DISTINGUISHED THEMSELVES IN ATHLETICS DURING 1930 BOBBY JONES. HENRI COCHET. HERE was a marked trend for- ward in college rowing during the past year, a new interest showing in the number of un- dergraduates participating in the sport and in the development of light- weight and freshmen crews. The year's most lmprunve regatta, the In- tercollegiate Assoclation’s country-wide event at Poughkeepsie, the crews of the country. For several years the Far Western | crews, especially Washington, held forth on the Hudson and this reign of superiority was followed by the tri- umphs of Columbia. Last June Cor- nell, whose oarsmanship had ruled the Hudson for years under Pop Courtney, came back into its own and won the varsity race, with Syracuse second and Massachusetts Institute of Technology third. California was fourth and Co- lumbia fifth. Washington, Pennsyl- VA;I\I, ‘Wisconsin and Navy finished in order. Cornell's victory, with Syracuse and I T. in the battle for first honors over the four-mile course, brought back into prominence the older school |of rowing coaches—Jim Wray, Jim Ten Eyck and Bill Haines. Cornell's junior varsity also was a winner, and in the freshman race Syracuse won, with Cornell second and Columbia third. Yale's crew also was one of the best eights of the year, going through all its middle-distance races without de- feat and winning the annual race at New London from Harvard by a mar- gin of five and a half lengths. Yale's Cornell’s Poughkeepsie Victory Ends Far West’s Rowing Reign resulted in:an entirely new deal among | crew, stroked by Woodruff Tappin, | won the Carnegie Cup in a triangular |race_with Cornell and Princeton and the Blackwell Cup at Derby from Co- lumbia and Pennsylvania. ‘The Childs Cup was won for the third year in | succession by Columbia, with Pennsyl- vania second and Princeton third. At the New London regatta Harvard crews won the junior varsity and | freshmen races from Yale, which |marked an encouraging outlook for Crimson rowing, which was for the first time under the coaching of | Charles Whiteside. It was the best year the lightweight crews have had and at the American Henley, on the Schuylkill, the Prince- ton 150-pounders won a notable vic- tory over Pennsylvania, Harvard and Yale in the climax race of the season for these eights. Lightweight rowing | has become extremely popular among the rowing colleges and attracts a fine | class of competitors whose interest is not taken up by other sports. The Princeton lightweights later went to England to compete, but were not as | successful on foreign waters. At the American Henley the Penn |A. C. crew established a new mark | over the Henley course on the Schuyl- | kill, covering the course in 6:221-5. ‘This crew later met defeat in & re- gatta in Belgium. | At the regatta of the N. A. A. O, | held in Boston, a_new sculling cham- pion, Willilam Miller of Philadelphia, won the title, the former champion, Kenneth Myers, retiring from compe- | tition. The Springfield Rowing Asso- clation crew won the national title for eights. UNITED STATES SCORES | Yankees Defeat Representatives of Canada and England—Lieut. Calnan Wins Title. Fencers representing the United States | fared well during the year of 1930, de- | feating Canada with ease and triumph- | ing over an English team by two bouts. contested and well attended, the com- petition with the Canadians being of a more thrilling nature to fencing enthu- siasts than the bare results might seem to_indicate. Lieut. George C. Calnan, long a promlnem figure in the fencing world, | the national foil champlonship m the long list of honors he won dur- ing the season. Marcel Pasche of the | llllul Club captured the epee title, orman C. Cohn of the New York | Athleuc CIub was the champlon with the saber. There were many team competitions durin® the year, and these reflected the increasing interest in fencing. Nedo Nadi of Italy, world champion swordsman, visited the United States last February and gave two exhibitions which must be included among the h:sh ints of the season. dis- pia d at the Hotel Plaza. mn ‘was much activity in the wom- en’s division during the yesr, two in- vaders from Burope srr{l g off some important honors, Fraulein Mayer of | Germany won the Hutton Cup and Miss P utler of land ladies’ | lo.if'zhnmplmhh. i Night Base Ball Is 1930 Product (GHT base ball made its bow to artificial greatly as to m qmuey of turnal sport and as to the future of the night game, In the minor leagues it found favor in some sections and was re- garded with Inilifference in others. The me jor leaguss did not care for it. Basce ball men now are wondering w.l;:ther the(ln;.:fi il age the de- [¥iopment of u leagues and day leagues, and also whether there will be night records and day and day have been IN FENCING DURING YEAR | | The international matches were keenly | his prowess at the New York {Past Year Brings Grief to Pitchers | A PITCHER'S Ilife was not & happy one in the major leagu=: 1930 campaign. Line drives buzzed past the boxmen's ears with such regularity that a whole flock of new batting records were set up. Both leagues made new records for the season's total of home runs, the National with 892 and the American with 673, Babe Ruth couldn’t quite attain his former home run record of 60 four-ply hits. but Hack Wilson of the Cubs established a new mark for the National League with 56 homers. The Cubs clouted 171 home runs in | the season, a new Natlonal League record, and in one game, on May 12, | they hit four homers in one inning, | tying the record. | "The Brooklyn team made 12 con- secutive hits in a game on June 23, a new Natlonal l‘u%ue record. The New York Yankees batted in a total of 979 runs, & new record for the American League. |BANUET RETAINS THRONE Hand Ball King During Year Re- peats His Victories of 1920. Alfred Banuet, Olympic Club of San Francisco star, again dominated hand vun in 1930, repeating his 1029 vie- tories in the national singles and| doubles four-wall championships. He defeated George Nelson of Baltimore in the singles finals at St. Louls in March and teamed with Woodman Paynter to _conquer Jack Strencho and Herman Dworman of Detroit in the doubles finals. Charles Hahn of the Pastime A. C., New York, captured tha national junior singles tlth AI Dallas, TOL Fred Schmidt wall champion when he defeated lrvmgm- ¢l p n wi Jacobs e final of the tournamen held at l !fld Club 11 New York. smnour Alennfler and Seymour Gold- man gained the one-wall national dou- bles title by downing Mike Schoomkler and Jack STAKES '1‘0 CI.OSE EARLY. NEW YORK, December 27 (#).—The closing date for entries for the major stakes of the 1931 Spring meeting of the Metropolitan Jocl Club at Jamaica has been set two weeks, 10 Ly HELENE MADISON. FRANK WYKOFF. \TWO CUE CHAMPS UNTHRONED IN 1930 Rudolph Cops Greenleaf’s Pocket Billiard Crown and Cochran Gets Hoppe's 18.1 Title. ‘Two billlard champions in the pro- fessional ranks lost their titles during | the year 1930, while there were several changes in the amateur realm. The greatest upset might be the overthrow by Erwin Rudolph of Ralph Greenleaf, | the outstanding favcrite in the pocket billiard tournament recently closed. After turning in the tournament high | run of 104 and the best game of six innings, Greenleaf had a tie for the | championship in his hands in the final finme with Rudolph, but he faltered and nally lost, 125 to 120. As & consequence Rudolph went through the tournament with seven victories and no defeats to five victories and two setbacks for Greenleaf, who ‘?revimu!y had been beaten by Frank Taberski, another for- mer champion. The other perennial champion to fall by the wayside was Willie Hoppe, who lost his 18.1 balkline crown to Welker Cochran in & pris vately arranged match. In the course of the week's play Cochran set a cham- plonmlg‘rhigh -tun record of 196, bet- | tering Frank Ives’ mark of 40, which | had stood for nearly 30 years. His grand | average of 3369-107 bettered by far any previous champlonship average, .nu | I ohe block e set_An average of 100 for 300 points. These records have been surpassed in exhibitlons, Lut not in matches where the champlonship was | involved. The 18.2 balkline title, last won by Jake Schaefer in January, 1920, gath- | ered more dusi through the second year without competition. Early in the year Jchnny Layton of Sedalia, Mo., retained his three-cushion professional championship, leading a fleld of eight. Otto Relselt of hlllMl- phia took second place -lter a play-off Wit Allen Hall of St. Percy N. Collins of cmc- 5 won the national amateur Class A 18.2 balkline | tournament in St. Louis after & tie with | Edgar T. Appleby of New York and Ray | V. Fessenden of Madison, Wis. J. Howard Shoemaker "of New York regained the national amateur pocket billiard title, replacing Cy Yellin. Joseph R. Johann was another former cham- plon to come back, regaining the na- tional_Class B amateur 18.3 title. The Class € amateur title was won by Nelson B. Mayo, The 14.2 balkline tiile went to James Henry, and national l'.rllghfi rail ohnmpmnmlp to Frank WELLESLEY GIRL LEADS Wins First Three of Six Events on Winter Sports Card. LAKE PLACID CLUB, N. Y., Decem- bir 27 (2).—A Wellesley student, Louhe Adams of Indlanapolls, was leadin night in the collqe ‘women's m contest here for the hew Taylor the six events counting toward the had 11 points, two more than her near- est competitor, Vera Warbasse of Packer Institute. each are Miss Doteen Canagy of ©Ohio, and Dongan Hall, and Miss Grl Madden of Newton, Mass. Today’s_events were a 2-mile cross country ski race, figure skating and a | quarter-mile sluunz raee, QUINTS PLAY TOHOI!OW Olmsted Grill basket ball team will face Petworth Methodist Junlmhln a {cHEss LAURELS 60 | TO ISAAC KASHDAN | 1930 RING BOSSES Heavyweight—Max Schmel Light - heavyweight — M a ‘:’:‘t Rosenb! Mlddle'eifllt—mclfl ‘Walker. ‘Welterweight—Tommy Free- man. J\mlor vl!terwallht—laek hitt Tlni ‘Oanzoneri. ?&m htwelght —Benny Featherweight—Chris (Bat- tling) Battalino. Bantamweight—Al Brown. Flyweight—Midget Wolgast. HORSE RACING HAS Gallant Fox-Sande Combina- tion Makes Turf History During Season. MERICAN turf history can boast | no more successful season uun; that which is so fast drawing to a close. Records were shat- tered like so many panes of glass in almost every line—interest, attendance and prize money won. From the standpoint of money won, | the greatest horse that ever stood on | racing plates swept up from, over lnd‘ beyond the opposite horizon in Gallant Fox, the 3-year-old son of Sir Gallahad III—Marguerite, that smashed the world record earnings of the illustrious | Zev by amassing a total in two years of racing of more than $341,000, | Coupled with the fame of Gallant | Fox was the name of Earl Sande, a| Jockey who stands as close to the heart- strings of sentiment among racegoers in America as any that ever booted & winner home. Sande, returned to the saddle after a more or less disastrous venture as owner and trainer of his own the game and exceptional Gallant Fo: He rode this champion of champions 1n all his races and tested the gs of | defeat but once in many stake starts. | Sande rode some few other wl.nntm most important of which ue Wrack in the Suburban Handicap. But Gallant Fox furnished the bulwark of | his rehabilitated fortume. Gallant Fox Beaten Once. Gallant Fox, beaten but once in the | Travers, placed himself on & pedestal of Men o' War's prominence because of | his brilliant accomplishments. In many ways he accomplished more than Man o' War, as a 3-year-old, met only one | older horse and that in the match nce at Windsor against Sir Barton, a eri) that never nhcmld have been allows the track. Travers, of & mlle and a quarter, 0 ant Fox met his old time rival, the crippled Whichone, that | he had beaten in the Belmont. Which- | one broke down in the Travers from & blind quartercrack imperfectly repaired. But he broke down only after Workman and Sande had driven their charges through mud knee deep for more than | a mile at a speed which would have | been called fast on a pasteboard track. Jim Dandy, the rank mmldcr. 2 100-to- | 1 shot, found the champion spent and ran over him in the stretch. | side of Sir Barton that won the Preak- ness, Kentucky Derby and Belmont. Sir Barton won the Withers, in which Gal- lant Fox did not start. Had he done so Whichone was able to win on one of his | bad races. ' The blind quartercrack was evidently bcth!rlhg him. Gallant Fox. which had made his debut by winning the Wood Memorial from Crack Brigade, which he again foiled in the Preakness. took the Dwyer of a mile and & half before he moved to Chicago to nose out Y.uthful New Yorker Earns Place | Gallant Knight in a sensational nnun Alongside Marshall in the International Arena. Of outstanding importance to the devotees of chess during 1930 was the fact that this country developed an- other expert able to take a place along: ide of Frank J. Marshall, United States champlon, in the international arena. Isaac Kashdan, 325.year-old champion of the Manhattan Chess Club, accompanied the United States team sent to Hamburg by the National Chess Federation - and ~ distinguished himself in the tournament of the International Chess Federation and subsequently won first prises in tournae ments at Berlin, Gyor and Stockholm and finished second to Aron Nim2o- witsch of Denmark, at Frankfort. So astol nuhlng was the success of the young New Yorker that he became the talk of European chess circles and was mentioned even as a possible con- tender for the world champlonship in the not far distant future. Next year, under the auspices of the National Chess Federation, chlm!gionsmp match between Marshall and Kashdan is expected to take place. world title was not competed for durlnx the year and was retained by Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris, who defeated Jose R. Capablanca of Havana in 1927, and successfully de- fended his title against E. D. Bog lju- bow of Tribetg in 1029. Although Capablanca challenged for & refurn match, nothing so far has come it, as the Cuban is not able to finance the sum required for a purse under the London conditions of 19232. Dr. Alekhine took part in the great international rnament concluded at San Remo on February 4 and made one of the finest records of his career. Without losing a single game, '.he champion finished ‘with & score 14—1 and easily outranked such rlvlls | as Nimzowitsch, Rubinstein and Bo- goljubow. An_excellent showing was made by the United States team at Hamburg i being placed sixth among 18 coun= tries. Poland was the winner, with Hungary, twice viclcr. a close second. PHILLIES PLAN 27 PRE-SEASON GAMES ny the Associated Press. 'HILADELPHIA, December 27.--The rnnuu will play 27 gamcs next Spring before the opening of the National League base ball season. e schedule announced today calls (or m games ln tm South and 8 In the The usual Spring series with the Phllldelnhh Athleucs will consist of g:; games, all to be played ih Philas m team will make its headquarters at Winter Haven, Fla. Pitchers and catchers will réport theré on February 25 and the remainder of the squadron I t I gt g T ’ !1 Louls Car ton 2‘. CXQIXIII\{IH: :{ f;.&,. e e, Selm ‘\fnn. £ cmmnm{u rw' & United States | | April of the Arlington American Classic mile and a quatter. After d m Travers to Jim Dandy he took toga Cup (all ages) of & mileé and thm quarters. He won the Lawrence - igation of a mile and five-eighths, a 3-yrar-old event, at Belmont Park in the Fall and finished out his racing career by taking the Jockey Club Gold Cup of two miles (also weight for age) in hollow fashion. This race gave him his world record in earnings. Jamestown Led Juveniles. The 2-year-old situation was far more cloude Jamestown, son of the fleet St. James, that had been a champion in his juvenile year, but which as & 3- year-old broke down early in the sea- son, after winning the Paumonok Handicap from Zev, is generally con- ceded the 2-year-old title bechuse of his viclory in the $100.000 Puturity at Belmont Park. Jamestown was beaten but once. Top weight in the rich Hopeful at Saratoga, he was nod- ded out by G. A. Cochran's Epithet | after he had shaken off repeated chal- lenges from J. E. Widener's Novelist and Harry Payne Whitney's Equipoise. In the matter of deeds accomplished Equipoise was perhaps the best 2-year- old of the season. He raced from early in Bowle until show fell at Pimlico and during that time he side- stepped nommg His defeats might all be written off at the shrine of hard luck. Twice the unbeaten Vander Pool took the honors from him. In the Aberdeen Equipose threw Sonny Work- man at the post. In the Youthful at Jamaica Equipoise, which ¢ame from far back to lead Vander Pool home | by a half dozen lengths, was disquali- fled for an alleged foul near the quar- pole. Vandet Pool Unbeaten. The 2-year-old situation then was befogged by many possibilities for ar- gument. Vander Pool goes into history as the only unbeaten juvenile that raced with consistency throughout the season. He did not maet the class of horses conquered both Equ t‘” and Jamestown, or !:plthet tha re ful winner, that started in races. And then there was the reen- tree Stable’s Twenty Grand, a colt good enough to set a world record for 2-year-olds in stepping a mile in 1:36 flat to beat Equipoise a head in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. Equi- poise returned the compliment in the Pimlico Futurity. No doubt as to the best handicap | H horse of the year. The honor belongs to Willis Sharpe Kilmet's Sun Beau, which is now being pointed for the Aguascaliente Hmdlc-n. worth $100,00 to the winner, a sum which, if won, wil boost _the lifetime earnings of this son of Sun Briar far beyond the record Muru of Gallent Fox. Sonny Workman, who will ride C. Whitney's hotses in 1931, was the ouc- standing jockey among big time ftiders. From the standpoint of money earned, “Sunny Jim” Fitssimmons was the leading trainer of the metropolitan cireuit. Such. nnunlly. might ex- champion as Gal- tter of win- trainer of 150-POUND ELEVENS MEET Red Birds and Wolverines Clash at Silver Spring. Northern Red Birds, unlimited class s;ldtrnners. will tackle the 150-pound o]verlnes YH, ernoon At Silver P olseies expm to B a line-up by several pliliers who with schoolboy eléVens here SUCCESSFUL YEAR stable, made a small fortune thmulh | lands Gallant Fox was the only horse out- | undoubtedly he would have won, as| George D. Wideners | DI FOULS AND FLOPS MARK FISTIC YEAR Five New Champs Crowned, but Purses Are Slim and Crowds Skimpy. N exasperating crop of A heavyweights and a bunch of free-swinging welter- weights and lightweights managed to produce what little excitement was generated in box- ing in 1930—a year that will go down in fistic annals, until a more severe one comes along, as the time of the great financial drought. It was a year for crowning of new champions, although four of the eight major divisions all but died in the process. But for all this it was a year of slim purses and disappointing turnouts. The business depression that swept the country seemed to strike straight at the pockets of the fight faithful. The big arenas of St. Louls, Chicago, Boston and Detrolt struggled to make both ends meet. Even Madison Square Garden, wealthiest of the fight organizations, failed to do better than break even for the year. Most of the outdoor shows in New York either failed heavily financially or just managed to pay expenses, although the Sharkey-Schmeling bout drew $749.934. This was the biggest heavy- weight “gate” since the Tunney-Heeney title bout in 1928. A Counterirritant. The rise and fall of Scott, usually moaning and claiming foul, furnished a counterirritant to -the barnstorming tour of Primo Carnera, Italian Goliath, who pushed his way through the hinter- amid great excitement, g over the crippled and aged until halted temporarily in Oakland, if., by the scandal that enveloped his match there with Bombo Chevalier, & Negro who re- fused to listen to reason. ‘The Carnera bubble burst when Jim- my Maloney outpointed him in Boston and Paulino Uzcudun lost a close de- cision ta him in Barcelona, Scott won on a foul from Otto Von Porat, of Chicago, in the of 1920, and lost on a technical knock- oul to Jack Sharkey in the Garden’s annual outdoor flesta in Midmi, Fla., February 27. Scott again claimed foul, but Referee Lou Magnolia, after ordering a min- ute’s rest, sent the Englishman out to be whipped in three rounds. Later young Stribling, the Georgia aviator, making his annual comeback, bowled over Von Porat in a round in Chicago June 20 and went to London to wind up Scott’s career with a two-round l.nock out July 28. Max a Synthetic Champ. Sharkey and Schmeling collided In the Yankee Stadium June 12, with the heavyweight championship, vacant | since the retirement of Gene Tunney in 1928, at stake. in the hea weluht habit asserted itself and !chme ng won on a foul in four rounds. Officially Schmeling be- came the titleholder and hustled back l: ?Emlrg‘ “ttl:l.l his "lznl“m but the oxing public still questi his right to e Jight. he h ght heavyweights acquired a | Ch.mpwgc when Jlmmy sumry «(ut- | ed Lou in their | Buffalo, but Rosenbloom 1ifted the m.le June 15. Since then Maxey has been searching fcr opponents. welterwe title to Young Jack Thompson | and u’l‘reemn' . Ho ;et.- . prom; outpoin! | & Hitie el Bepiemper o in Clev o The lightweights were more spectac- ular. Al.l(nlc‘l!. Bronx m{k" Jml 'nmf\:f 1 oy um July utly s August 11. Singer was battered from the ing from shell-shock when he defended champlonship against Tony Can- vember 14 in the Garden. Canzoneri snuffed the youngster out Midget Wolgast of Philadelphia won the flyweight cham hip ml:n elimi- the class died. Walker kept the mmd.l - weight division from n&f ¥ htr’t. Al Brown recognised as got nowhere throtigh lack otamhx.t:’mum- i il Polo Grounds—Chicago Train- ing Opens February 21. by decision in a 15-round match there Jackie FPields lost the | cision in 15 rounds in D!h‘olt Singer Rises u-l l'nlh. out the defending ehnmvlon. m Jimmy McLarnin in & in three rounds and seemed .m . zoner, former featherweight king, No- in two punches. nation tournament, but interest in and the blnumwel[hu, | ing contenders. Two Pre-Season Games Will Be at By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Deceémber 27.—The White Sox will hook up with the New York Giants in another nm&e trln' ot l - ‘r:l'mlan games during their 1931 train Alxwen or more es will be between the two clubs during the prhu drills, Two wili be at the Polo Grounds, New York Oity, on April 11 and 12. The firgt contingent of White Sox wfll leave Ohlcngo for_their camp at Antonio Februaty 21, md will be Jolneu there March 1 by 'l The training grou wul be I‘Mle.;‘llom. adjoining Breckenridge High School. JThe Spring exhibition schedule: March 7 patarch 7 And §-White Sox vs. Houston at t8 AL 7 n;huuo.na 18—White Sox vs. QI Teélltil If7~?,h"a Sox vs. University of and 22—White Sox vs. Giants &t - nicfi 28 and 35-White Sox ve. Giants 4t Wlarh B white Sox va. Glants st Sort X‘P, P o Rl 4—White Sox vs. Giants at Little i3 Ed 5--White Sox va. Little Rogk Aprll 2 ZWhite Sox vs. Glants at Atianta, %pril 8 white 8ox vs. Qiants at Green- TR o White Sox vs. Giants at Ohat- el ‘10--White Sox vs. Glants st Nor- 11 and 12—White Sox vi. Giants at O‘mm T white ox v, Toledo it Teledo, TURF TOPNOTCHERS The leading thoroughbreds their earnings at the end of 1930 season, wlth their 3-ym-nu| year period indicated, follow! anmm Fox ....(1930)-$328,165 (1033) —$313,360 flllfle uflnpur . ( l“l )=$272,070 0 64, ‘l’ lxtermln-lm- ' Wi

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