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Show Alice Marble Top Feminine Ath I ete I J L - 1 ' V --"wig ,,.. ) o I . - , r :i i t I , - r" ' ( r , I ' j I A -p: .... ... .... A M - ...... , --. , f:A;vv ; . . "''. ' p I First Netter to Lead Annual Star Poll Since 1935 By BID FED EH NEW YORK, Dec 12 W Encountering En-countering no , more opposition than she met on the tennis courts this year, blond Alice Marble was named today the outstanding woman athlete of 1939 by a record landslide of votes of the nation's sports experts. Rolling up the widest margin ever compiled by a winner in the nine-year history of the Associates' Associ-ates' Press annual poll, the queen of the courts was named No. 1 on tile ballots of 54 of the 63 experts who. voted. Her triumph put a tennis player on top for the first time since Helen Wills Moody turned the trick In 1935. There was strictly no competition competi-tion for California Alice. With the experts voting for first, second sec-ond and third place choices, and ballots counting three, two and one points, rcspectively-thc year's Wimbledon and nationaTchamplofi polled a total of 167 points. Far back, in second place, was the U. S. wuiiwii's svlf mtefi aBtty Jameson of San Antonio, Texas, with two first-place selections and ' 55 points. The 1938 winner, little freckle-faced freckle-faced Patty Berg, whose golf hopes for the year were shattered by an appendectomy, was third, with 31 points, although she did not receive a first-place mention. Those were the only three to run their point totals into double figures. fig-ures. Surprise of the balloting was the support shown for Eleanor Holm, star of the World's fair Aquacade, but out of swimming competition, and Elsie Crabtree, the University of Nevada drum majorette, who made the headlines with her "bare knees" controversy with school officials. Miss Holm now Mrs. Billy Rose received one first-place nomination nomina-tion and wound up in a tie for fourth place at nine points. Miss Crabtree also received one first-place first-place selection and was tied for eighth place with six points. All told, 24 athletes figured In the voting, with golf taking the linn'e ihara In mAA i t Inn In Vflu Alice marble . . . Takes crown and scepter as No. 1 feminine athlete of the year by the greatest landslide of votes in the history of the Associated Press poll, beating her nearest competitor, com-petitor, Betty Jameson, by 112 votes. Her total of 167 matched the combined total of all other stars named In this year's poll. Marble, only two other tennis players were named Kay Stammers Stam-mers of England, who had three points, and Helen Jacobs, who received re-ceived one vote for third. In addition to Miss Stammers, the foreign contingent Included Sonja Henie, the Norwegian star; and Hazel Franklin and Belita Jepson Turner, English skaters. The complete voting: Athlete and sport: Firsts. Pti. Alice Marble, San Francisco, tennis 54 167 Betty Jameson, San Antonio, Texas, golf... 2 55 Patty Berg, Minneapolis, Minneap-olis, golf 31 Eleanor Holm, New York, swimming 1 9 Dorothy Klrby, Atlanta, At-lanta, golf .: 1 9 Betty Hicks, Long Beach, Cal., golf 1 8 Katherine Rawls Thompson, Thomp-son, Miami, swim'ng . 8 Elsie Crabtree, Nevada, Ne-vada, band leader 1 6 Marjorie Gestring, Los Angeles, diving 1 6 Esther Williams, Los Angeles, swimming 1 5 Nancy Merki, Portland, Ore., swimming 1 5 Three points each Mrs. William Gilbert, trapahootlng (one first); Sonja Henie, Norway, skating (one first); Marion Miley, Lexington, Ky., golf; Kay Stammers, England, Eng-land, tennis. Two points each Helen Crlen-kovich, Crlen-kovich, San Francisco, diving; El-lamae El-lamae Williams, Chicago, golf; Ida Simmons, bowling; Hazel Franklin. Frank-lin. England, skating. One point each Helen Dettweil-er, Dettweil-er, Washington, golf; Charlotte Glutting, West Orange, N. J., golf; Belita Jepson Turner, England, skating; Mrs. Lela Hall, Stras-burg, Stras-burg, Mo., trapahootlng; Helen Jacobs, Ja-cobs, Berkeley, Cal., tennis. |