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Show Farr's 4Draw' WithBomber BigrSurprise " Editor's Note: This is the fifth of a series analyzing the annual Associated Press sports polL It covers the query on the year's most surprising team or Individual Individ-ual results. By ALAN GOIXD NFV YORK. Dec. 17 UP) For the second straight year Joe Louil snd Minnesota's football team figured fig-ured in the events that caused the biggest surprise among the nation's sports writing experts. Although carrying nothing like the impact of Max Schmeling'a knockout of Louis, which waa rated th biggest surprlne pack- age of 1936, the Brown Boniber'a failure to do better than outpoint British Tommy Farr in their 15-round 15-round heavyweight title match last August waa rated the year'e 'o. 1 upset. Sentiment expressed In the seventh sev-enth annual Associated Press sports poll was divided between surprise over Farr"s good ahowing and the negro's inability to land so much as a knockdown punch. Pooled together, to-gether, however, the expert views combined 18 first place votes and a total of 83 points, tabulated on a 2-2-1 basis, for the bout. Cover Wide Range Football surprises, aa usual, covered cov-ered a wide range, but not even subsequent developments minimized the general view that Minnesota's Big Ten champions were ths victim of the season's biggest upset when beaten early in October by Nebraska. Nebras-ka. Eleven experts put this result, at the top of their list and It took second place in the poll with 62 points. Last year the Gophers' upset up-set at the hands of Northwestern was runner-up. Tabulation of the poll on ths year's sports surprises: Event. Firsts. Pts. Tommy Farr's heavyweight fight with Joe Louis 18 83 Nebraska's football victory over Minnesota 11 52 Newark's "little world series'' se-ries'' comeback 3 13 Late season pennant comeback come-back of New York Giants 1 10 Harvard's football victory over Yale 3 10 Lafayette's unbeaten untied un-tied football season 2 9 Washington's rout of N. Y. Giants in pro football... 2 8 Rout of New York Giants by Yankees in world series 1 T Washington's second rowing row-ing "slam" at Pough- keepsie 3 6 Anita Lizana'a triumph In U. S. championship tennis ten-nis 0 Fivs points each: Sensational work of Boston Bees' veteran rookie pitchers, and Bob Pastor going 10-round 10-round limit with Joe Louis. Four points each: Third straight tie between Pittsburgh and Ford-ham Ford-ham football teams; Lea Meadows and Bill Sefton both vaulting to new world record height of 14 feet 11 inches: Princeton's football victory over Navy, and Cubs' loss of pennant. pen-nant. Three points esch: Cornell's margin mar-gin over Colgate, 40-7, in football; Minnesota's tie for Big Ten basketball basket-ball title; Mel Ott's failure to hit .300; Kansas' football tie with Nebraska; Ne-braska; Ranger's sweep' of America's Amer-ica's cup yacht races; War Admiral's Ad-miral's comeback to races after foot injury; margin of Vlllanova's football foot-ball victory over Temple, 33-0, and Dizzy Dean's pitching decline. |