Show 4 - T V5& f : - ' v y:-- j s ‘l?i 5 - - ?r Is EMdii "grand dam" champlona of 1950 Ken- aa well at playcra from tucky Bradley ‘ IV Y U Long bland U and Manhattan had been charged with accepting money from gamblers for going under or over betting point spreads In games fostered a e campus movement back-to-th- V United breaking the barrier In the mile run That wai the verdict announced today in a poll of United Preis International aports write ra on the top 10 sporta atoriea of the decade Just drawing to a cloae Crowding Bannister's miracle 1950-59- ' : Roger Bannister breaks four minute mile barrier (1954) 2 Don Larsen’s perfect pitching in World Series (1956) 3 Major league baseball expansion to West Coast (1957) 4 College basketball scandals 1 Unites Injury Rumor Gives Doolundkers A Dad Scare - :By Jack Cuddy United Press International would murder us — with us hold- (1952-53- ) 5 Russia beats US for Suming all that Giant money We knew we could never squirm out mer Olympic team title (1956) BroadNEW YORK (UPI) So — the game was taken off the 6 Bobby Thomson’s homer way bookmakers still pallid and board at three o'clock and "no wins pennant playoff for Giants millloa-doUdisheveled after their more beta were accepted Then (1951) T- - JfnemT-JknacKaro expected to put the wo walled for foe rumors to be ka - ar i pro 'football classic confirmed meanwhile wondering "back on the board" today with about the price of a nice favorite to the Colts a three-poiexecution kit" win the year's biggest betting The injury rumor were flatly event —even jokingly denied Wednes-db- y The Dec 27 Nationabl Football night by Dr Erwin Mayer of League championship at Balti- Baltimore the Colts' physician more was "taken off the board" Biggest Betting Event at 3 pi m est Tuesday by dislie said "I talked to Johnny traught bookies because of wild Just a few minutes ago and the rumors that quarterback Johnny only thing that can be construed Unites of the Baltimore Colts had as an Injury in the Unitai family ' been injured Is that Johnny's wile Is going to "You never saw anything like have a baby" it" said one prominent sports- So the game goes back on the man "All of us In the business board today and the bookie were loaded with Giant money spokesman says “it will be the that had come In so fast it hadn't biggest betting event of the year been covered yet 1 myself was --h'cer than the World Series bljwef tfiaii iany Tight and as a foiMmgnrnwarnidhafjsr grand in Giant bets and you can matter of fact perhaps bigger estimate conservatively that the than any belting event we've had other active men in New York in any year It’s stupendous” were holding between a million The panic along gamblers' gul-le- y and 91500000 It looked aa if we accentuates the Importance were all dutched for sure” of qucherback Unitas’ presence Odds Drop Fast in the Col s’ lineup The Giant money had come fr And it provides a clue to the ao fast he aald ft had hammered flood of money from Giant supdown the Coils' odds from 3'i porters' who apparently believe three that the Giants' improved ‘‘red-dog- " points to an "And we knew if the rumoro tactics will ruin Johnny's were true” continued the bookie passing this time although those "there'd be an Immediate switch tactics failed last year when the Colts beat the Giants 7 in making the Giants a seven-poifavorite — with Unltas out of the overtime for the league switch game We knew such out Floyd s Colta-Giant- nd nt 23-1- Brown Conerly Named Top Professional Rusher Passer PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -Ji- mmy Brown the bundle of muscle of the Cleveland Browns and Charley Conerly the bundle years from the New York Giants won the National Football League rushing and passing championships for 1959 Brown Carrying the ball for' a single' season record1 290 times won the rushing title for the third straight year with 1329 yards His total carries broke the former mark of 271 set by Eddie Price of New York in 1951 Conerly once hooted by New York fans during the Giants' lean years of not too long ago took over first place last week and then won his first passing championship In 12 years In the league with an average of 979 yards gained for every pass thrown BRUNSWICK UPIJ—Uewsyne N (Dewey) J -- 1 average for the St Lopls Cardinals this year will receive foe J G Taylor Spink award eftte year Jan II at foe St Louis Baseball Writers’ annual dinner Conerl) completed 113 of 194 tosses for a 582 percentage mark He gained 1706 yards threw 14 fouchdown passes and had only four Intercepted Brown battling 1000 with three rushing championships In three NFL seasons finished 293 yards ahead of J D Smith ’of San Francisco Ollle Matson (863) of Los Angeles was third snd Tom Tracy (794) of Pittsburgh was fourth and Bob Mitchell 743 of Cleveland was fifth Conerly a venerable 38 led some distinguished company In annexing the passing title Earl Morrell of Detroit wes second Johnny Unltas of Baltimore third Nofm Van Brocklin of Phlladel-phl- o fourth and' Billy Wade of Los Angeles fifth contract today as backfield coach for the Rutgers football team King was back-fiel- d coach at the University of Pennsylvania for the last four years 19 A ft §)!Q' sail A WEIL BE OPEN NEXT FRIDAY AND MONDAY NIGHTS UNTIL US MO PNL ft PS Santa will be here from 6 to 9 pm Friday and Monday Dec f 18 and 21 Free Candy! ' T w Open1 crash! 9 West Point “cribbing scan oust 90 wreck football dals" team (1951) 10 Rocky - Marciano retired undefeated after 49 fights (1956) Olmedo's Feat Rated Highly Other stories prominently mentioned in the balloting were Alex O'medo’s feat in leading the United States to its 1958 Davis Cup win over Australia the Baltimore Colts' overtime playoff victory over the New York Giants in 1958 Ray Robinson’s recapture of the middleweight title from Randy Turpm Crippled Ed Furgol's victory in the 1954 U S Open golf championship and Nashua's victory over Swaps in a match race at Chicago In 1955 But Bsnnister's historic mile run was a snorts shot heard round the world Competing for the British Amateur Athletic Association in a dual meet against Oxford the b'ond British mediral student Climaxed a long secret' training campaign by flashing across the finish line In tore minutes 594 seconds for th " mile run The miracle mile was a feat that had eluded the world's athletes so long that many wondered if It were humanly possible In the six years since Bannister’s feat 20 other athletes havs taken heart and followed his example with the- amazing Herb Elliott lowering the mark all the way to 3:541 But Bannister was the trailMazer and his race In 1954 was the athletic sensation of the decade Larsen Close Behind The husky Larsen's perfect game polled 64 points In the balloting onlv two lens than Bannister's mile The Yankee righthander faced only 27 Brooklyn Dodgers in the fifth gsme of the ’56 Series and retired all of them for the only "perfect” game In World Series history Oddly the closing days of the decade saw Larsen traded from the Yankees to Kansas City The college basketball scandals broke on Jan 17 1951 and Ita effects still are felt The shock occasioned bv disclosures s that all starters on the way ouf fhere for value PENNEY'S PETTIFLOATS GIVE HER SEAMLESS GAYMODE SHEERSI TWIN-THREAD- ED ' goodl If They’re twice one thread snags the other remains Intact to check runs Beautiful sheers in neutrals or fash ion tints Sizes 84 to 11 400-need- RIBBON AND LACE TRIMMED TRIPLE TIERS JjOTjE le NYLON 595 so little to pay for so much petticoat! 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