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Show Jock Resigns T"HOUGH the resignation of Dr. John Bain (Jock) Sutherland as head football coach at the University Univer-sity of Pittsburgh came at a time when attention centered on baseball spring training camps, it nevertheless neverthe-less was in the sports limelight Builder of great football teams and maker of all-Americans, Sutherland Suth-erland had coached at Pitt for 15 years. Most of bis friends stated that the turbulent history of athletics athlet-ics at the school during the past two years was the cause of his resignation. James Hagan's appointment as Pitt athletic director in 1937 was followed by a series of reforms to purify Athletics. Later followed Chancellor John G. Bowman's code which cut athletic scholarships, pushing Pitt toward athletic mediocrity. medi-ocrity. Unquestionably constant bickering with officials and players alike hastened Sutherland's decision. In 1927, 1929, 1932 and 1937 his Pitt teams nlaved In the Rose Bowl , Speaking of Sports Mack, 76, Still Cagiest Pilot in Major Leagues By ROBERT McSIIANE THOUGH every sport boasts of at least a baker's dozen "Grand Old Men," baseball's one and only dean of managers Is Connie Mack, 76-year-old Irishman who began his colorful diamond career back In 1886. i Connie Mack abbreviation of Cor ncllus McGillicuddy started catching catch-ing for Washington more than a half century ago. Ills first Job as manager came In 1894 when he took charge of the Pirates. After three years he Joined Milwaukee. In 1901 he went to Philadelphia as part owner own-er and manager of the Athletics, and Is the only manager that team has ever had. The brainiest, most articulate manager of today, Connie has picked an all-time all-star baseball team, with the statement: "There have been many great ball at Pasadena, Calif. He won the last game, defeating Washington 21 to 0. In 1927 Stanford won 7 to 6. The second game saw Southern California Cal-ifornia win 47 to 14, and in 1932 Southern California defeated the Panthers 35 to 0. f v t, His coaching ability Is reflected by his record. His teams won the eastern championship eight times, once at Lafayette, where be formerly for-merly coached, and seven times at Pitt. His aU-tlme record at Lafayette Lafay-ette was 33 victories, eight defeats and two ties, and 111 victories, 20 defeats and 12 ties at Pitt Of the 186 games played, his teams have won 144, lost 28 and tied 14. Sutherland has made no secret ol prospects for a mediocre team in 1939. Freshman squad ranks were depleted through ineligibility, and 11 regulars were lost to this year's team. Sport Shorts lVf OlNT HOOD. ORE., is the scene of America's longest skiing ski-ing season. An annual tournament Is held there In November and an international down- CONNIE MACK players and the team I pick may not necessarily be the best team of alL It is merely my idea of the best team." His Infield Includes Jimmy Foxx, first base; Eddie Collins, second base; Honus Wagner, shortstop, and Jimmy Collins, third base. Connie's choice of outfielders: Trls hill race late in June . . . Johnny Weiss-muller Weiss-muller won a "favorite "fa-vorite athletes" poll of Northwestern's swimming team . . . Gabby Hartnett, manager of the Cubs, is in his best physical shape in 10 years, weighing only 208 pounds .... in Vi mi r if tfcfcsl Lucky Larson, Gabby Hartnett Navy's new football coach, is a stamp collector . . . The University of Nebraska's baseball base-ball team is preparing to make a playing tour of California . . . Tony Musto, Chicago's heavyweight fighter, fight-er, quit a job as grocery clerk to enter the ring . . . Freddy Hutchinson, Hutchin-son, Detroit's recruit hurler from Seattle, is another Pacific coast idol . . . Charles Bowen, business manager man-ager of University of Illinois athletics, athlet-ics, has been elected president of the Champaign chamber of commerce com-merce . . . Purdue has won or divided the Western conference basketball bas-ketball championship 12 times since the spot was adopted on a conference confer-ence wide basis in 1912 . . . Jack Dempsey's horse, Dr. Wilson, won $10,000 on a side bet for his owner In a New Year's race at Tia Juana, Mexico, in 1928 . . . Drake university's univer-sity's football team will do a lot of traveling next fall. Its schedule includes games with Miami university univer-sity at Coral Gables, Fla., Tulsa, U. at Tulsa, Creighton at Omaha, St. Louis U. at St Louis, and San Jose State at San Jose, Calif. . . . Italy's boxing talent is by far the best in Europe this year. The Fascist fighters have fought eight matches with representatives of other countries and were victorious by one-sided scores on each occasion. occa-sion. Victories include wins over Sweden twice, Poland twice, Hungary Hun-gary twice, Germany and France. speaker, uabe Kuin and ly lobb. Christy Mathewson heads the list of his pitching staff, supplemented by Rube WaddelL Walter Johnson, Jack Coombs, Lefty Grove and Chief Bender. To Connie Mack, Mickey Cochrane Coch-rane was the greatest catcher of all time, followed by Bill Dickey. Others Oth-ers meriting a place on his dream team were Lou Gehrig, AI Simmons, Sim-mons, Ed Delehanty, Amos Strunk Stuffy Mclnnis, and Joe Cronin. The old master is credited as being be-ing the greatest developer of talent in baseball's history. His name brings to mind such players as Jimmy Jim-my Dykes, Foxx, Eddie Plank, Chief Bender and the extremely eccentric Rube WaddelL On more than one occasion Mack has built up championship teams, only to tear them apart after a few years of success and start a rebuilding rebuild-ing process. He did it after the world series of 1914, and a generation genera-tion later came tnrough with three successive pennant winners. He isn't ready to retire. Despite his 76 years, he has his heart set on winning onemore pennant. That would write finis to a long and successful suc-cessful career. His Last Year? (T DOESN'T take a particularly close observer to note that Lou Gehrig, one of the greatest first basemen of all time and iron man of baseball, will probably wind up his big league career this season. Larruping Lou Is now 36 years old, and even the toughest of men must ultimately bow to time. He has been circling the bases for the past 18 years, 14 of them with the Yankees. He bad run his string or consecutive season games to 2,123 when the Yankees finished last season, before their third straight world series triumph. tri-umph. It Is one of the greatest records rec-ords In baseball history, and may stand forever, as physical hazards have Increased with a faster game. Sure signs that the veteran was Lasting ropulanty On September 23, 1926, Jack Dempsey lost the heavyweight championship of the world to Gene Tunney. Though it has been 13 years since he held pugilism's top ranking, Dempsey continues to capitalize on his boxing reputation. Appearing as a non-combatant, Dempsey still packs in the crowds. The Manassa Mauler today is more of a drawing card than most heavyweight contenders. con-tenders. Ring followers attribute his popu- batting average dropped to .295, the lowest it has ever been since 1925, his first season with the Yanks. Never had it gone below .300 since his rookie year. It was then Outfielder Tommy Henrich started getting a bit of first base practice, though not enough to alarm Lou. Things are different this season. Manager McCarthy is openly looking for a first base successor suc-cessor to Loa, and is in possession of five such candidates. They are Tommy Henrich, Ed Levy, Fred Collis, Ken Sears and Babe DahJ-gren. DahJ-gren. Henrich probably will replace Gehrig for a time, but bis lack of lugging ability will be against him. The others will play with farm teams, and In ail likelihood a top-notch top-notch first sacker will emerge from their ranks. It won't be a happy day when Iron Man Lou misses his first complete game. And it's not an easy task to find a man who can take the place of the great Gehrig. iarity to two reasons: First, the "long count" at Chicago. Numerous fans thought that Dempsey won the fight, thus it established him as a martyr. Second, Dempsey actually enjoys mixing with fans who want his autograph, who want to shake hands with him, and who demand so much of his time. The former champ is always available for an interview, and his colorful personality have made him newsworthy copy for a generation. He is smart in giving out interviews. inter-views. He refuses to talk on matters mat-ters of which he is not familiar. Though his ring prognostications art often in error, he doesn't make the customary mistake of furnishing alibis ali-bis for his prophetic mistakes. He merely keeps silent, and by keeping silent escapes the criticism which often befalls the expert As an ambassador of good will, Dempsey was recognized by the New York Boxing Writers' association, associa-tion, which voted him the outstanding outstand-ing figure in the sport in 11'38. 6 Wtslern Newspaper Union. |
