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Show j SPEAKING OF I SPORTS I By ROBERT McSHANE ! THEN Minnesota ended the v football season this year, the Golden Gophers left little doubt at to the identity of the nation's best team. Winners of the Western conference confer-ence title, the Gophers established a record unequaled in Big Nine history. his-tory. They won their sixth eham-pionship eham-pionship in eifht seasons. The record book shows conference victories vic-tories over Northwestern, Michigan, Michi-gan, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. Non - conference victories were chalked up over Washington, Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh and Nebraska. The Gophers were the best defensive de-fensive team in the league, and also the most powerful on attack. at-tack. Although they accounted for only 49 points in their first three conference games, the Norsemen finished with 75 in their last two tilts against Iowa and Wisconsin. Their total of 124 points completely complete-ly overshadowed the aggregate of 32 scored by Ave opponents. Captain Bruce Smith, All-America halfback for the Gophers, was injured in-jured in two of the first three con- erence games. With Smith In top form, Minnesota was one of the greatest teams on offense since the Gophers of 1934. Even with Smith out of the lineup a great share of the time, Minnesota played championship football. The mythical national title belongs to the Gophers as certainly as it ever belonged to any team. At least one veteran football writer, following the Wisconsin game, was inclined to rate Minnesota Minne-sota as the best team he ever saw when it was functioning at full strength. Most observers, however, still point to the Notre Dame teams of '29 and "30. In that game with Wisconsin, the boys from the North gave ample demonstration of their real power. They went 73 yards in five plays for one score and 60 in five for another. an-other. Including Smith's 39-yard return of an intercepted pass, they took four plays to go 50 yards and score. From their own 4-yard line they made five successive first downs to cover 99 yards Into the Wisconsin end zone, taking care of a five-yard penalty in short order. Bowling the Right Way By LOWELL JACKSON (Thit if one of stria of legsoas ia bowling by Lowell Jtcksoa. one of the country's outstanding bowlers. Mi. Jackson Jack-son has eighteen 300 games to his credit and has a 12-year league average of 210.) For greater strike percentage. HOW TO DELIVER A HOOK BALL. The hook ball is so called because it hooks while rolling to the pins. It is used by most of the outstanding bowlers because of its greater strike percentage. There are three kinds of hook balls the rolling hook, the spinner and the half-spinner. The rolling hook is delivered with your thumb and index finger forming form-ing a "V." The open part of the "V" points toward the headpin, thus placing the ball in a position for a lift by the finger. When releasing the ball turn your finger and wrist from the right to the left, that is, counter clockwise. The ball rolls on that half of the sphere between the thumb and the finger hole. The thumb is released before the finger and the hook motion is applied ap-plied by the lifting of your fingers and wrist and not by the thumb. This type of hook ball is more effective ef-fective on fast, slick or highly polished pol-ished alleys. When delivering a rolling hook, the ball is placed on the alley from 7 to 10 boards inside the right hand gutter, depending on the run of the alley. It tracks in a straight line toward the No. 6 pin, and when about four feet from the pins, it hooks sharply into the 1-3 pocket and carries on through to knock iown the No. 5 pin. SPORT SHORTS C Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame's sophomore pass thrower, completed complet-ed 70 out of 123 passes this year for a gain of 1,027 yards. 0, Hiram Bithorn, signed by the Chicago Cubs, is the first Puerto Rican to reach big league baseball. D. Pitcher Rube Waddell of the Philadelphia Athletics fanned 343 batters in 1904. 0. George Atkins of California, new rookie center for the Harlem Globetrotters Globe-trotters basketball team, is a mere leven feet in height |