Show FEW CHAMPIONS SURVIVE S 1933 CROWNS TOPPLE GENEROUSLY IN IN HECTIC SEASON Feminine Titleholders More Successful Than Masculine Masculine Masculine Mas Mas- culine Stars By fly FRANK K BAKER BAKERT T Telegram Sports Editor Crowned heads of ot were guillotined right and l left rt ft in a crusade crusade crusade cru cru- sade on ro royalty during 1933 Few of the rulers who were on the thrones a year ago are there today Little or no respect for the great or near great for the titleholders or cup bearers of or sport was manifest in any realm of competition Favorites and tradition suffered humiliation separately and collectively as upsets upsets up up- sets became the rule rather than the exception in one of ot the most mot revolutionary revolutionary years ears on athletic record New York kept the baseball championship cham cham- on Broadway but the title passed massed from the House of 01 Ruppert and md his Yankee gendarmes to the Giants in one of ot the most dramatic shifts the national pastime has ever witness witnessed d. d The Giants weren't even expected to finish h out of the second e-cond division in the National league much le less ess gain the throne but the combination Ion tion of Bill Terrys Terry's leadership and Carl Hubbells Hubbell's whip like left arm surmised sur the world in general and the Washington Senators in particular English Netters Triumph Davis cup tennis supremacy passed from rom France to England marking the end of ot a year six reign for the tricolor tricolor tri tri- color and the collapse of ot the American Ameri Amen can challenge in Europe Subsequently Subsequent Subsequent- ly y the twin aces of the beaten clans clan Henri Cochet Cachet and Ellsworth Vines turned professional and will join Bill BIU Tilden in the biggest attempt so 00 far faro farto farto to o break the old barrier between amateur ama ama- eur and pr professional tennis Four of the major professional ring crowns changed heads one of ot them twice wice as Jack Sharkey lost the world heavyweight title to the gigantic Primo Camera Carnera of ot Ital Italy biggest titleholder title title- holder since Jess Willard Ma-cle Ma Nearly Upset M Maxie xie remains on the light Ight heavyweight throne tirone but Bob Godwin came within an ace of or ing ng him In fact Godwin satisfied the he the customers at West Palm Beach recently he had whipped the champion champion cham cham- pion but the referee ga e the d dec ci sion ion to Maxie Barney Ross ascended the he lightweight throne Vince Dunce Dundee Dundee Dun Dun- dee ce donned the middleweight crown and nd Jimmy took the welter wel- wel ter cr title from Young C Corbett wel I No quarter quarter- was shown the queens of sports for their thrones were h heavily besieged ed from one end of the year lo the other Still the feminine competitors did a better bettu job of clinging to their jewels of consistency than the masculine athletes did In 1933 One of at the most dramatic surprises of at f the year car came swiftly in the final fIna round of t play at Forest Hills Hilk where Helen Wills Moody undefeated ed d in the tournament for a d decade ade had ad the moral cour courage ge or timidity to default to Helen Jacobs her California Califor Califor- nia ia rival for the American champion champion- ship hip Miss Jacobs was Wa leading in the deciding deciding de- de iding set when Mrs Moody default default- ed d. d Aside from the much debated principles the occurrence enabled Mw Mis iss Jacobs to be among the few successful defending champions of ofle the le year Miss ns Van Wie Repeats Equally noteworthy on the feminine femi femi- nine inc side of the years year's log is 13 the thc fact that hat the only national champions to repeat were Virginia Van Wie Vile of the U. 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A and Enid Wils Wilson n of ot England Miss VIlss Van Wie celebrated her second straight year ear of triumph by conquer ing ng a field including Miss Wilson Inthe in inic Inthe the ic national women's golf championship championship champion- champion ship lip at Chicago Among the the mermaids Lenore KIght Sight and little Katherine Rawls continued coh- coh their consistently successful exploits in a swimming campaign marked by the passing of at the great Helene from amateur com com- petition Football permitted the champions to o be booted around round nearly as much muchas as the pigskin usually pigskin usually is in a game same it it- sell self Southern California fell feU from the ic national c championship throne throne- a aped ped pedestal tal that remains strangely Vacant va va- cant ant now that no team has made a alear clear lear cut claim claIn to the crown There was In fact lut a general downfall of sectional champions The Trojans not only celia relin relinquished their tbd na national lonal laurels but their Pacific coast cout crown u a as aswell well eU to Oregon Oreon and Stanford who rule role the Ule domain Jointly Utah for example lost its Ite rank as ac complete complete com corn com sovereign In the Booklet HockiN with Denver DenTer and Colorado Aules squeezing Into the council rooms room for a share In the titular glory after five straight years of dictatorship dicta dicta- from the Vies Utes Michigan In the Big Ten pen and Nebraska Ne Ne- braska in the Big Six retained their crowns and the Chicago Bears in the professional league held to th their ir tottering tot- tot ering throne but elsewhere new grIdiron rid Iron rulers rose to sit on the seat from rom which the defenders had fallen The virtual collapse of Notre Dames Dame's football fortunes fortunes softened only by a sensational victory over Army was Army was of ot course a noted product product product prod prod- of ot the hectic season Trojan Lose I Southern California's setbacks in track rack sports as well as on the gridiron grid grid- iron ron shared hared the spotlight The Thc Tro Tro- S jails jans ans after hanging up their fourth S consecutive victory in I. I C. C A. A A. A A A. A. A competition Jell before the Bur aur- S rising Louisiana State track team in n the national Old Man Stagg went west vet as coach at t the College of the Pacific after two wo score years at Chicago and Hunk Anderson yielded the traditions of at Rockne to Elmer Layden after the most disastrous football campaign Inthe Inthe in inthe the history of ot Notre Noire Dame am Perhaps the greatest individual achievement the victory of Oxfords Oxfords Oxford's Ox Ox- I fords ford's Jack Lovelock over Princeton's Bill Jill Bonthron Ir in Iq a one mile foot toot race racen in n which both smashed all worlds world's records to to bits Americas America's greatest col cal I. I lege ege runner since John Paul Jones of Continued on Following Peg Fat t I Crowns Topple in Hectic Year F For or Royalty of Sports World Continued from froni Pre Preceding Pate Pace Cornell Bonthron had not been defeated defeated defeated de de- de- de and was well nigh invincible until that hot July afternoon after noon under the elms of old Nassau Bonthron set the pace most of the tho way but he ho was passed and beaten by seven yards in the as Lovelock broke the tape in the unprecedented time of or 4 minutes 76 seconds seconds seconds-a. a per per- f that set the tho world to talking g of the time when the mile will be run In four tour minutes flat Bonthron's time of also aiso surpassed surpassed sur passed anything previously recorded record record- ed in foot racing history Yet two others proved by their performance that they are real challengers to this illustrious pair They are the barrel boy from Ka Kansas Glenn Kanas-Glenn Glenn as-Glenn Glenn Cunningham who was voted the Sullivan Sullivan Sul Sul- livan award by one vote over Bonthron Bon Boa thron as the nations nation's outstanding amateur athlete athlete and and Luigi Beccali of Italy world champion at 1500 me me- Lovelock Hubbell Johnny Goodman Goodman Good Good- man and Fred Perry achieved the four greatest personal triumphs of the year considering the pressure and the circumstances under which each rose to the top with his best performances Goodman JInxed Too Hubbells Hubbell's stardom was the bright spot of the baseball season Goodman Goodman Good Good- man best of the amateur golfers since Bobby Jones retired stroked through an star all field for tor the United States open championship He was caught in the whirlpool of the season season season sea sea- son though and sucked down to de defeat defeat defeat de- de feat in the first round of the na national national naJ na- na lional amateur tournament Chan Egan beating him Perry a a. bundle of tennis energy energy ener enN- gy IY overthrew Cochet as Great Britain lifted the Davis cup and routed Wilmer Allison and aud Vines Subsequently the haired black Briton galloped through the field at Forest Hills lUlls to win tho the American Ameri Ames can singles championship taking the measure of Australia's great stylist stylist Jack Jack Crawford in In the second all foreign final in United States tennis history The years year's baseball was brought toa to toa a climax in December when Connie Mack broke up his great Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia Athletics machine for the second second sec see ond time with a It wholesale bartering of at material for tor Ernie Counted Out Tragedy stalked through the scenes scene of ot strife The mob was on its feet feel roaring fake ake as blond Ernie Schaal sank to the floor loor of the Madison Square Garden ring In February from a left Jab delivered by Camera Carnera But Ernie never regained consciousness and died four days later from the combined effects of the beating he absorbed and a 3 basic brain ailment William Lawrence Stribling heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight pride of the south and youthful youth youth- ful veteran of fights died from injuries suffered in a traffic acci dent Others too like George Saling Olympic hurdle champion fatally fatal ly injured in an auto crash rash during a rainstorm William Muldoon l Kid and Mike Donlin who answered the call caU of or the tho Grim Reaper passed from the sports picture but all these other assaults were not as deadly as was the Guillotine of or tion tron It spread wholesale terror among the crowned heads and whistled close by the cars rs of several sev eral Individuals who saved their necks Decks |