Show U Th Ir These sports Sports Leaders Will Be Missed in 1932 I r. r L I t ff f f t q 41 I I- I fr If SW f r rf TT f f tv f ci i 1 I 1 J i tf re I 4 I I 1 I 7 1 JOHNSON BARNARD Death IDeath U ath Takes Fig Big g Toll 4 Loss of Rockne Universally Mourned I t. i Spots Ranks H Hit t Hard Had B By William Braucher NEA Service Sports Editor NEW YORK Jan 5 Familiar 5 faces are arc missing from the thc sports world as ashe the he new year begins Death has wrought a swath in the ranks Of or the score or more who passed along the death of Knute Rockne was felt perhaps most keenly and universally The Notre Dame coach at the peak of his career was killed when an airplane caught fire ire and whirled to the earth carth in Kansas BASEBALL I LEADERS PASS The scythe of or the Reaper ended an anold anold anold old feud between two famous baseball baseball base base- ball characters characters Ban Ban Johnson former president of the American league and the hc man who ho was most instrumental tal talin in the founding of the great baseball organization and Charles Comiskey Comiske president of the Chicago Wl White te Sox Bans Ban's old friend After the two had fought their way together to the top they parted over trivial differences Friends of both men asked Comiskey to patch up his quarrel with Ban a few weeks before Johnson died He refused Shortly alter after Johnson died Comiskey suc sue GREAT CHALLENGER Death took one of the most beloved characters in sports when Sir Thomas Lipton at 81 slept awa away his life after suffering from a day 10 cold He was born in a Glasgow tenement He arose to become tea king of the world Five times he challenged for forthe forthe forthe the dearest prize in international the the Americas America's cup cup and and lost each time lIe He built worth of Shamrocks as he called his yachts in the effort to bring brim back to Britain the sailing prize Though he failed he remained a true sportsman sportsman sports sports- man taking his losses with a smile For 32 years j he planned and schemed vainly to capture the cup Sport never has seen more courageous persistence SCRIBE ON LIST TOO Baseball was hit by death harder probably than any other sport Besides Be sides Comiskey and Johnson there were the deaths of or E. 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S Barnard kindly president of the American league Johnsons Johnson's successor to that post Garry Herrmann mann former president president dent of the Cincinnati Reds and former former for for- mer chairman of the national commission commission com com- mission and Sam Drej son of Barney Dreyfuss of the Pirates The witty and colorful Charles Dr Dryden Dryden Dry Dry- den 73 who started his baseball writing writ wi-it- ing career in the early died at Biloxi Miss from paralysis It was Dryden who dubbed Frank Chance the Peerless Leader He coined the name of or Big Moose for Ed Walsh famous spitball hurler of the White Sox He lie had worked in San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco New York Chicago and Phila delphia Jack Lustig cartoonist whose sketches of ot many baseball and boxing boxing box box- ing figures had won national praise died at nt Cleveland Sam Hall former sports writer and editor in Chicago was among the years year's toll Another chronicler of baseball and sports af at- fairs whose death was recorded was Jim Harrison TAKES RACE TRAINER Jimmy Rowe Jr trainer of the champion old year Twenty Grand went unexpectedly to 10 his death after nUe an attack of acute Indi indigestion estion Rowe 42 and au ati an alumnus of Fordham and Cornell followed his father across the border The rue elder Rowe died in iii 1929 1029 after which young Jimmy took carof care car of the Whitney string Several old familiar faces in boxing passed out of the picture during the year Jem Smith 68 idol of or the British Brit Brit- ish ring in the days das of oC John L. L Sullivan Sulli Sulli- van died Septem September er 11 ii in an En English lIsh hospital Smith fought Jack Kilrain lOG rounds in tho old knuckle bare 1 days on an aR island in the River Seine I in France in 1887 Smith Sinith boxed with John L. L Sullivan for the edification i of the then Prince of Wales King Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward VII I Another former who died was Marvin Hart 55 who ho was world heavyweight champion in 1905 by virtue virtue vir vir- tue of an award from Jim Jeffries after Hart had knocked out Jack Root in Chicago Hart held the title but eight months losing to Tommy Burns BONESETTER ENDS CAREER I A veteran of an earlier baseball day succumbed when James W. W Spalding ing lag former famous pitcher and partner part part- ner ncr in the Spalding Sports Goods com compan company pan pany died at the age of at 75 Barney Dempsey brother of ot Jack Dempsey and former manager of or the champion ex-champion died at Los Angeles from bronchial asthma Bonesetter Reese 76 70 who healed the injuries and mended the torn muscles or of many athletic heroes died in Youngstown Ohio In his day Reese had personally handled 80 cases a n day Among the hundreds of sports participants participants par par- who called on the bonesetter for physical repairs were Hans Wagner Wag ner ncr Gene Tunney Ty Cobb and Battling Bat Bat- Nelson I Stanley Steamer powerful powerful power power- ful wrestler died at Belleville Ont from blood poisoning which set in after he suffered a broken arm in a match with Don George Tom Boucher 60 famous and father of the hockey stars George Frank and Bill Billy died from heart disease as he pursued his work I in the composing room of the Ottawa Ont Journal Football claimed 40 lives during one of the most tragic seasons the sport has known Richard Sheridan Army end Connie Murphy Murph Fordham player play play- er Cr and Jim Nichols University of oi Alabama freshman center led the list of those whose lives Jives were claimed by accidents while playing the game Among the college sports heroes who died durin during the year were Eric Krenz of Stanford discus champion and Jimmy Moore who played at end for Alabama in the Rose bowl last New Years Year's day 1 |