Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-21 | Page 13 | Sports 'Gate Comeback' Year's Outstanding Trend

Sports Gate Comeback Years Year's Outstanding Trend Note This is the sixth of or a series analyzing the results of the annual Associated Press sports poll By ALAN GOULD I Associated Press Sports Editor NEW NEWYORK YORK Dec 21 Attendance 21 comparable to pre-depres- pre sion days and a a. continued box office comeback in all branches ot or American sport topped by the thc return of the million-dollar million gate to pugilism are proclaimed the principal trends o of 1935 by the coun coun- try's press box observers Prosperity which set in during 1934 has now removed nearly all the red ink from the athletic ledgers ers era comments one sports editor in invoicing invoicing invoicing voicing what appears to be bc a majority majority majority ma ma- view Professional lonal boxing has ha one man mall to thank thank Joe Joe Louis Louis for for its sudden return to big profits bu buthe buthe bui the e causes ules of rl rising interest In sports are arc more general otherwise other other- wise The They must be when capacity crowds will turn out for the world series in freezing weather and when the he Rose Roso bowl football match is a sellout more than two weeks in ad ad- vance There are arc always plenty of customers cus- cus omers if the promoters have any any- thin thing hing to show cm remarks another er observer The colleges notes note an pattern eastern sports editor ha e been redIn red re In lug ing famous time old rivalries in football and seeking to build up more moro attractive schedules schedule generally gen Jen- emily with a VIC to box office receipts as well as increasing I prestige I Another welcome manifestation is the heavier spend spending ins by persons taking in athletic events for lor entertainment entertainment entertainment en en- as well as for tickets Conspicuous trends noted otherwise otherwise other other- wise vise during 1935 on the basis of f views expressed by more than sports editors and writers in the fifth annual Associated Press poll include the success of the first major major major ma ma- jor league experiment with night baseball at Cincinnati the widespread widespread wide vide spread movement to bring the subsidizing subsidizing subsidizing sub sub- of ot college e football players out into the open the rapidly increasing in In Increasing creasing popularity of oC softball and the spread of gambling in all branches of sport There f Is Ii no longer longcr no so much hypocrisy in handling the tho college football situation says Bays a sports sportswriter sportswriter writer whose opinions are widely aha shared red Everyone knows there thero Is plenty of recruiting and sub sub- Its It's a health healthy sign to have it brought out into the open and if U possible regulated by reasonable rea rca standards I Anyone who considers college football strictly amateur ur doesn't know the facts There wont won't be much fault to find cither either if colleges colleges colleges col col- leges play in their own own class of competition Sports observers were agreed that tha the he years year's trend on college gridirons was vas toward more wide open style of play but disagreed on the effect of at the lateral pass r Some con consider the latter laUer a flop and predict Uc it will be less widely videly us used cd b by the tho time another season cason rolls around Others pointed to tho the rise of the tho southwest conference confer confer- once ence teams teRms to power paced by Southern Methodist as a sample of the aerial attacks attack's successful development Professional sports with the possible possible possible pos pos- sible exception of wrestling enjoyed enjoyed en- en joyed big seasons On the amateur side ide college basketball took a big jump ump in popularity