Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-12-20 | Page 12 | Card Hurler Biggest Flop during 1937

Card Hurler Biggest Flop I)uringl937 (Editor's note: Thii is tht sev-tnth sev-tnth of series nalyunc the sev-nth sev-nth annual Associated Press sports poll. It coven the query on the year's major disappointments.) Br ai.an r.oi i n NEW YORK. Dec. JO (jW This Is Christmas week, so Jerome Herman (Diuy) Dean might as well get the Yuletide news il that he's been voted the disappointment disap-pointment of the 1937 sports show. N o (withstanding (withstand-ing the Cardinal pitcher's misfortunes misfor-tunes were traced chiefly to the combination of an sore i h o ul d t r, sports editors labeled la-beled him the "flop of the year" by a margin that easily beat off the Dean challenge of other porting disappointments. Dean won only 13 games and lost 20 for the gashouse gang this year, as compared with an average of 27 for the previous three seasons. He was hurt In the all star game at Washington! early in July and saw little service thereafter In the box Of the M sports writers participating participat-ing in the Associated Press year end poll, 20 voted Dean's showing the biggest disappointment of many that developed during the big league baseball aeaaon. The collapse of the Cincinnati Reds, after raising the spring hopes of their followers, and the loss of the National league pennant race by the Chicago Cubs, after gaining a commanding lead, came next on the list of disappointments disappoint-ments to the experts. Colgate's team was rated the main disappointment on college gridirons, more so than the failure of Pittsburgh's Pitts-burgh's No. 1 ranking eleven to be receptive to a Rose bowl invitation. ' On the high seas, the rout of T. O. M. Sopwlth'a Endeavour II in the America's cup races was the biggest big-gest source of regret to critical observers. ob-servers. Here's the tabulation of sports disappointments : Firsts. Pts. Diuy Dean, 8t Louis Cardinal Car-dinal pitcher 20 M Cincinnati Reds 27 Chicago Cuba 4 It Endeavour II, unsuccessful yacht challenger 4 14 Rout of New York Giant in world aeries I IS Bob Feller, Cleveland Indians' In-dians' pitcher 1 10 Six point St. Louis Cardinals. Boston Red Box and Colgate football foot-ball team. Four point Chicago university football team, for loas to Michigan; Joe Louia, for showing against Tommy Tom-my Farr, and Helen Jacobs, In women's wo-men's tennis. Three points Bitsy Grant. In Davis cup tennis; Pitt' vote against accepting any "foot bowl" bids'; Jim Braddock, Minnesota football team, Jtmmie Foxx, Red Bos first baseman; Pompoon, in -year-old racing, and Van Mungo, Brooklyn pitcher.