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Show i I Burk Handed '39 Award as Best Amateur NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (UP)-For tha first time since tha Amateur Athletic union began handing out i tha Sullivan award to tha year's ' 8 I outstanding athlete. It Want today J to an oarsman, Joa Burk of tha ' I Penn Athletic club In Philadelphia, i't diamond sculls champion' for the j last two years and winner of; bit last ST races. .'":'.. ' Never before has an oarsman . 'compiled such a record, and tha tj tOO sports leaders -who vote each ; year to determine tha most de-' & serving athlete In tha nation, gave ' tha University of Pennsylvania stu- t dent a clear-cut margin over E Charles Fenake, Wisconsin dlstanoa . . runner, and Alloa Marble, national v and Wimbledon women's tennla M champion. . . ( Faaaka BessM .': , I Tha ballots were computed on a ; j 5-3-1 basis for first, second and f ! third selections. Burk complied ; j 1063 point to 851 for Fenske and 1 KM for Mies Marble. Bud WartL : national amateur golf champion, t was fourth with 255, and Al Pat- nllu. natlonaUow . board divine: ' champion from -Ohio State university, uni-versity, fifth with 243. ! The award, begun In 1930 In J memory of Jamas E. Sullivan, la ; given annually to the athlete "who by kls performance, example and j Influence as an amateur and a . j man, has dona most to advance . the causa of sportsmanship." Six times previously It had gone to track stars, twice to golfers, and ' ) once to a tennla player, Tha win- t nan Include. Bobby Jones, Jim Bausch, Glenn Cunningham, Law-son Law-son Little, Don Budge and Don ' J Lash. , . I Maee Before ' ' ' T. Burk, who ran third to Lash and Katharine Rawlee Thompson for the award last year, became the first American aver to win tha diamond sculls twice at the Royal . Henley regatta when ha took tha title In '38 and '39. Ha cut eight , f seconds off a record that had stood for 33 years when ha won It the first time. Ha la three time winner win-ner of the U. 8. and Canadian singles sculls championship. |