Show nrzi o f© If® WHdH (Q)w(g j Tennessee Struts to Pasadena — and How! Paces Thundering Herd V U Tennessee's Solid Man USC SUPERIOR TO TENNESSEE Iz f - v ---y -:' A f Southern California Aim - ' - o y V - ur XX X r y jf x& A y - Xr 7) ' J GRENVILLE LANSDELL v ' A Nrrx Iy r Southern California's biggest vfe-ft'a- threat -'- - X U-r X- - - Arturo Godoy Will Test Joe Louis In N Y In January Contest By GEORGE ZIELKE Dec 23— (AP) — M I LWAUK EE With Al Warden Remember Capers Of Nurmi? To the American fan the "Finn in Sports" is synonymous with Paavo Nurmi And the "Flying Finn" certainly rates it He contributed perhaps more than any other runner of the '20s to'awakening wide public interest in track in the United ' States Nurmi's triumphant visit to the X f still apoken of with year-en- d quarterly rankings beari- awe whenever devotees of the cinder path get together He came ng: Christmas smiles for such Scal-z- o here direct from his as Petey triumphs in fighters and Lew Jenkins produced few the 1924 Olympic games when he surprises today except that the dominated the field as the greatchampionship committee survived est individual hero Comparable its headache caused by the incon- - to his standout position prior to his in of appearance was only the immortal Osistency Jim Thorpe Since Nurmi's time Sealzo the New Yorker who flat- only Jesse Owens who gave Hittened Joey Archibald last winter ler the shudders by stealing the won the nod as No 1 challenger 1936 games at Berlin has matchfor Joey's featherweight crown by ed him in individual achievewhipping Simon Chavez rugged ments Venezuelan in New York Friday Nurmi's biggest year in the night was in 1924 but he was in games SweeJenkins youngster from i there running in 1920 and in 1928 twater Tex heretofore unranked and his records are still on in the first 10 moved up to No 4 books In '24 Nurmi's year the among lightweights by consistent had Willie Ritola Finns also the climbing second the best known of The heavyweight situation gave perhaps the committee its worst moments Finland's sports heroes eating up for them That was p the cinders Tony Galento the battling again was ranked as No 1 the year that Nurmi knocked off challenger for Joe Louis" title Ar- the 1500 meter the 10000 meter turo Godoy Chilean who is next and the 5000 meter runs and on Joe's list was given "honorable romped home in the 10000 meter cross country That year also he mention" The N B A Chairman Fred J teamed with Willie Ritola in the Saddy declared would have been 3000 meter team race for a rectoo to hand a Christmas still standing SOXIA HEME Uonly ofglada high ranking to such ordNurmi continued to hang up recQueen of ice Lou as Nova young heavyweights in 1925 when he visited 'the ords and Pat Comiskey if the boys had U S shattering the marks for shown results 2000 3000 and 4000 meter team at Pennsylvania's Western the And Saddy disclosed that Comiskey in six weeks and setting records Penitentiary Sherry e had been ranked tentatively as No that Smith Cleveland Indian still stand 8 until he was turned back by trial-hors- e a a is at Southern pitcher guard But although Nurmi is still the Steve Dudas Whereupon American Take no camp Georgia prison a of idea Finnish releEdward was young Patrick also-ranin rumors stock Jess that Neeley sportsman athlete there has been will leave Clemson s gated to the of list his a achievements long by Galento's ranking is based on his California frosh Clint Evans own brief moment of glory when countrymen in the Olympic games coach moment an in unguarded in and other and track skating he had the Brown Bomber on the over went Jim into ecstasies canvas and on the beating he later skiing event-1-' halfback a threat tri Jurkovich First recorded victory of a Finn save Nova Bob Pastor is ranked remwho he claims is the cure-al- l as No 2 challenger followed by at the modern Olympics dates varsity Nova Tommy Farr and Max Baer back to 1906 when Werner Jarvin-e- n edy for any ailing former shortstop Woody English in a on farmer Finn these dropped The committee designated for the Cubs has opened a cockat No 1 challengers in the other the games at Athens and walked tail lounge on the Windy City Gus Lesnevich of New off with the discus throw Legend division side north Jersey for the light heavyweight has it that he never even saw a Cincinnati Won't Let Lombardi crown of Billy Conn Ceferino Gar- dLscus until reaching Athens Hos-tak- 's Al success for Jarvinen's of the Philippines cia Forget Snooze legendary or Finwas the Fritzie factual title a start of middleweight Willard Hersherger Cincinnati of Pennslyvania for Henry nish rennaisance of sport In 1907 Reds catcher second - string Lauri Pihkala father of modern hopes to become a police chief welterweight OZivic Davy Day of Chicago for sports in Finland began his work criminologist or some such when Lou Ambers' lightweight title K by visiting America to study his baseball days are over O Morgan of Michigan for Georgie training methods He went back Rhode Island State claims biggest Pace's new bantamweight cham- - and started building up Finnish man in collegiate basketball ranks pioaship and Enrico Nrbantini © athletics Since that time Finns in Warner Keaney Italy for little Dado's flyweight have carried off 69 gold medals zuard and son of Coach Frank crown at the Olympic games to say noth Keanev And the way he can ing of 57 silver and 58 bronze tro- pop the apple through the hoop is the Finns a caution phies Throughout ranked high in track scoring 37 Bookings for the Dempsey-Wil-lar- d tie-uof their firsts in this division p fight films may run into D Of late years with the develop is because Dempscy ment or skung as an American said litigation to be demanding royalties sport and the coming of Sonja And a Cincinnati radio anSAN JOSE Calif Dec 23 Henie to stir interest in of plans for a "Tour new r mnish names are skating nouncer tired of playing one reentering cording after another broke the 1st Bowl" football game New Year's American newspapers monotony thusly: "Special bullewas Denver at Satannounced day wasemus earned off first Birger place tin: Ernie Lombardi just got up SitAav bv f!nrh Dud d Cmnt nf for Finland last in the February home plate and has gone from h San Jose college football squad world speed skating championthe winter" for home of funds from Den at Helsinki Jassi Kurikkala Tidbits Sports ver promoters to cover his team's snips and Erkki Makinen copped top and Glen Lee Garcia Caferina expenses for a game with St Mary's skiing honors before 30000 punches exchanged University of San Antonio Texas AlManila Saturday at fans was said by de Groot to have caus I loonier Los More Than were the money figures though ed plans to fall through They Win On Court not tcleased the gate undoubtedly de Groot explained that the dead Hoosierland claims its passed the $75000 mark The line for receipt of funds extended brand of basketball la that the- - best Associated Press had this to say hours was for many fixed there Ls but how do finally they account in part about the bout: y o'clock Friday night lor tne ract that Indiana for has lost ' "Both boxers opened cautiously When no money arrived he notified more gam than they've but Garcia soon found the range his players the game was off won in Big Ten competition? with his right Then $1000 arrived Saturday Uill Nicholson Chicago Cubs "In the third round the Filipino from Denver the promotmorning outfielder once was all set for an d Groot said the money staggered Lee with a hard right but appointment to Annapolis then Another to the jaw dropped too late they discovered he was color- Lee for right a count in the short blind Harland Gustafson fourth FRISCII SACRIFICES Pennsylvania captain and star Lee landed a blow in the fifth PITTSBURGH Dec end this June but that Frisch took a J 10000 salary cut Quakergraduates staggered the champion have an Idea hLs Dempsey was kept busy pulling to become a major league mana- - place willcoaches be well-fille- d kid his by again He received $25000 for brother Gordon who did wel the Atwo out of clinches gr flurry of blows to the head doing baseball broadcasts in Bos- enough with the frosh this fall Lee in the eighth and In ton and will get 515000 for lead' dropped George Delich Pitt tackle in 1933-36-ing the Pirate thii season (Continued on Page 6A) coaches the football The National Boxing association's U S in 1925 is mitt-swinge- rs H bar-kee- one-tim- 270-pou- San Jose Passes Up enver Baffle pt ten-thirt- 20-so- Cri 23-Fra- Notre Dame that George Cafego the fine tailback isn't likely to be of much good to the Orange Coats after being out with a bad knee for the best part of the campaign Cafego may start but injuries of his type usually result in a football player going out the first time he is hit hard which is what happened in the West Virginian' case against both Kentucky and Auburn Cafego's absence will not necessarily be fatal to Tennesece for four splendid backs back him up Buist Warren Johnny Butler O'Neil and Van ThompBernard ' H nk-le 37 - vx? c XX IX l jr II M i - ? v i son BOB FOXX perfect athlete and Tennessee's top scorer (Deceit StanOard'iffxamine v Sports — BOUT T xxx 's v' nd SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 24 1939 Editor AL WARDEN CROWNED IN is Still a©ps © US GOLFTOURNEY Jameson and Ward Break Into Charmed Circle For First Time By HENRY SUPER NEW YORK Dele 2- 3- (UP)— The accent was on youth in the major golf tests of 1939 as defending champions passed their titles to newcomers on the fairway roll of honor The four new champions who came roaring out of nowhere ranged in age from 20 to 31 — with their average a mere 26 Turn back the minutes on old 1939 and you'll find 'em-B- etty Jameson 20 San Antonio Tex national women's champion Marvin (Bud) Ward 26 Spokane Wash national amateur champion Byron Nelson 27 Texan who op erates out of Toledo winner of the national open title and Lanky Henry Picard of Hershey Pa at 31 the granddaddy of the champions but holder at long last of a major title — king of America's professionals With defending Champion Patty Berg out of the women's championship because of an appendectomy Miss Jameson waded through a classy field and bagged the title with a 3 and 2 victory over Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta in the finals Ward won the amateur crown by defeating Ray Billows of Pough-keepsi- e N Y 7 and 5 in the finals Before that Ward almost got national mixed up in that red-hopen finish at Philadelphia — the greatest tournament of the year if not the century The latter tourney was won by Nelson in a playoff after a triple tie between Nelson Craig Wood and Denny Shute While all this was going on a fellow named Picard was getting set to win one Henry had been one of those golfers who always came close but never quite made it During the winter he suffered an attack of arthritis and it was doubtful whether he would be in form for the summer campaign But along came the national P G A championship and Henry played like a machine to reach the finals There he beat Nelson in an extra half match The five leading money winners of the year: Picard $10303 Sam Snead Ralph Guldahl $8477 Nelson $9444 Dick Metz $8675 Tye Ryder cup matches held every two years between professionals of the United States and Great Britain were scheduled for Florida in November but the war forced cancellation ot $9-7- 12 Myers Will Perform In Shrine Contest SAN FRANCISCO Dec 23 (AP) —Park Myers a giant from Austin played tackle during his University of Texas football all-stcareer but in the East-WeYear's New here charity game day his talents will be combined in a running guard position Coaches "Biff Jones of Nebraska and Orin Hollingbery of Washington State college sized up Myers Saturday in the second day of practice at the Palo Alto training camp and agreed the big fellow was the answer to one of their problems in building the western team "Myers is fast a good blocker and rugged enough for the job" Hollingbery said 226-pou- nd st ar 5-- A 11© wS NEW CHAMPIONS Southern California is thisobserver's Choice over Tennessee in what promises to be one of the greatest Rose Bowl games in Pasadena Jan 1 - JO IIl'TCIIINSON Volunteers' ultra ultra drum majorette epitomizes spirit of Tennessee team and followers headed for scrap with Southern California before 90000 people in Pasadena Rose bowl January 1 BEST CANDIDATE Non-recei- i' j JrA ' DatrolUng GALENTO RULES TITLE f ' Y : -- FOR By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Service Sports Editor X liiii " O "S" The Trojans are numerically superior and will be higher than a kite for the Volunteers of whom they have read and been told so much I agree with Elmer Layden of i 4 X Is Expected to Keep Slate Clean X - 11 V f o X ' - IN GRID PLAY - —— '? I ' iV ) -- ©rid BUCKY WALTERS RATED TOPSIN NATIONAL LOOP F with the civic association in Pasadena getting less and less as proceeds rise beyond $100000 This has been acceptable because the bowl is nearly paid for now and not so much money is needed to keep the calendar going The tournament of Roses will take something like $65000 from this season's game From a modest beginning the New Orleans Sugar Bowl show has grown in mammoth fashion until its sixth renewal is certain to attract the largest crowd ever to see a football game in the deep south The first Sugar Bowl game attracted 23000' The fifth was The sixth played before 55000 out Tulane and Texbringing as A and M will tax the 28-- 0 in 1921 seating capacity of the Tulane Navy appeared on the scene to stadium The Dallas Cotton Bowl offered tie Washington in 1924 but soon both service schools cited diffi-cutli- Texas A and M and Tennessee involving academy regu- $85000 each but wound up with Boston college and Clemson also lations which stood in the way Notre Dame's famous Four an outstanding attraction The Miami Orange J3owl has Horsemen reached the end of the trail in repelling Ernie Nevers Missouri and Georgia Tech which 0 in 1925 but isn't at all bad and Stanford Where many college authorities the good padres about that time became more interested in the said:- there wasn't room for one atom - smasher than the line bowl game New Orleans Dallas and Miami have proved there is smasher room for four acThe Pacific coast conference and Jefferson cepted Washington as California's opponent in 1922 only because it could land no othIN er school A similar condition existed in 1926 when Alabama and the south obtained its big break nationally and the Crimson Tide shaded 0 to Washington in a thriller demonstrate to the cockeyed NEW YORK Dec 23 (AP) — world that the football played be- Six of the nation's outstanding collow the Mason-Dixo- n line com lege basketball teams will invade pared very favorably with the Madison Square garden the coming best week to make the stretch between South Has Been Lifesaver Christmas and New Year's one of Dixie haa since been a lifesaver the most exciting in New York's for the tournament of roses court history Tennessee will be the eighth Three doubleheaders are on the southern team to appear in the list pitting the half dozen invaders Rose Bowl in the last 14 years against as many Metropolitan And with football material now teams Tuesday Thursday and Satevenly distributed the football end urday nights And each' of these of the Tournament of Roses is bargain bills probably will pack more firmly entrenched than the Garden to capacity ever Heading the invaders are the Southwest and Big Six teams Texas Longhorns Southwest conalso are available so the Pasa- ference champions last season dena and other bowl games can They will face Manhattan Tuesday get along very well without the night with Southern California eninstitutions of the countering Long Island University Atlantic seaboard and the more in the other half of the bill On dignified of the middle western Thursday Oklahoma and Missouri schools 1939 of the Bib Six The Rose Bowl's only problem circuit will play Fordham and New in more recent years has been the York University respectively And distribution of tickets Southern Saturday it will be Colorado the California this season's host has Big Seven champion against St been returning applications for John's of Brooklyn and Santa Clara days Thousands stood 10 abreast against City college in line for blocks trying to get their hands on end zone tickets of which the allotted 15000 were grabbed in an hour Southern California and Tennessee will deploy before more than 90000 persons Receipts will be in the neighborhood of $300000 of PITTSBURGH Dec 23 (AP) — which more than $100000 will go President W E Banswanger anto each seat of learning nounced Saturday night the PittsIt's quite all right for Ivy baseball club has Pirates league institutions to be enooty burgh E (Cy) released Pitcher but schools like Southern Cali- Blanton and Jack Darrel re'serve Juelich fornia and Tennessee can use an- infielder to Syracuse of the Interother $100000 for minor sports national League and intramural athletics The two were part of the purThree Other Bowls Land chase price for Johnny Gee the Outstanding Attractions lefthander who The Rose Bowl scale of profits cost the Pirates $75000 cash and has been increased in the last few four players Two more Pirates years in favor of the participants will go to Syracuse later The annual New Year's day between Rose Bowl game Southern California and Tennes see this trip survived many obstacles to become football's top spectacle While Brown journeyed to Pasadena to take a 14-- 0 shellacking Jan 1 from Washington' State 1916 Pennsylvania lost an identical decision to Oregon the following year and Harvard launched 6 series with a the post-wa- r the over Ivy Oregon victory league thereafter turned thumbs down on the coast proposition The Western conference decided to end its season on the Saturday before Thanksgiving after the and phenomenal Brick Muller California smothered Ohio State 7-- 70-0- 00 es 27-1- SIX TEAMS FEATURE GAMES 20-1- ivy-cluster- ed Pirates Send Two Stars to Syracuse Former Infielder Was dividual Star of Past Campaign In- By JUDSON BAILEY NEW YORK Dec 23 (AP)— The National league pitcher of the year was and is William Henry (Biicky) Walters Jr of the Cincinnati Reds The baseball writers who chose him the most valuable player in his league had the same idea several weeks ago but it took the pitching averages announced today to show what a great slinger the lanky righthander really was during the 1939 season He led all hurlers in his league in earned run rating with an average of 229 a game won the most games 27 pitched the most the most complete innings 319 games 31 faced the most batters 1283 tied with one other for the most strikeouts 137 tied with two others for starting the most games 36 and tied with two others for allowing the most sacrifice hits Viewed from any angle those digits make the former Philadelphia infielder a pretty immense even overshadowing individual his towering teammate Paul Derringer whose slightly better percentage record and heroic but futile feats in the world series served for awhile to confuse the issue Chicago's Bill Lee in topping the league last year had a 266 rating and no hurler had equalled Walters' mark since Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants' came up with his sensational 166 in 1933 Hubbell incidentally confounded some of the casual observers who believed him fading by Compiling a 275 average to rank second in earned runs and in addition finished tenth in won-lopercentage The ten leaders rated on earned runs with their average: Walters 229 Hubbell 275 Derringer 2930 Hugh Casey Brooklyn 2933 Lou Fette Boston 296 Claude Passeau Philadelphia-Chicag- o C Spoiled Duke's Record But as well fixed as Major Robert Reese Neyland is for replace- ments Howard Harding Jones has more and better men Tennessee has won 23 consecutive games and hasn't been scored but a remarkably on this fall strong Duke club went to the Tournament of Roses unscored on a year ago The Blue Devils thanks to the brilliant punting of Eric Tipton kept their record clear until the last 10 seconds of play It was not until then that Doyle Nave completed a fifth consecutive pass to Al Kreuger to win for the home guards That's the story of the Trojans When they can't beat you on the ground they -- take to the air with passing by Grenville Lansdell and Nave as superlative as you could hope to see Vols May Be Going to Bowl A Year Too Late I repeat that the young men of Knoxville may be going to the far west one year too late As good as they are now critics who have followed them closely assert that they were much more in 1938 when they formidable climaxed a smashing campaign by pasting a big and strong Okla homa outfit in the Orange Bowl The crashing Cafego was in full ' stride then and the club misses the end play of Wyatt the 1938 captain and Hunter and the former's leadership They lost a splendid tackle in Woodruff and not a few considered the graduated Babe Wood superior to Cafego The latter softened up the enemy' and then Wood ran through Now the Vols are without a W sound Cafego and there Is no Wood Tennessee Signal-CallFaces His Own Backfield Tennessee employs a single formation shifting to wingback right or left with a balanced line the blocking Sam Bartholomew is unique back and signal-calle- r in that about a yard in back of the strong side guard he faces his own backfield instead of the defensive team most of the time The advantage of this formation it is pointed out is that it enables Bartholomew and another blocking back to crack a defensive end at the same time Southern California shifts an line into a vaoriginal nine-ma- n of such as single formations riety or left kick with short wing right backs strong to right or left and a 1 line with the short side end in the backfield Southern Cal Excels In Individual Brilliance Southern California and Tennessee are the soundest of football teams coached by masters of the drill But Troy appears to have a little too much of everything not the least of which is individual brilliance George Cafego was an amazing 328 Lafry French Chi- football player a year ago but as as he was I doubt that cago 329 Bill Lee Chicago 345 capable the Tennessee players have ever Curt Davis St Louis 3625 and seen a back with the Luke Hamlin Brooklyn 3633 of the Grenville ability great The ten leaders rated on perLansdell with games won and centage But everybody concerned will lost: know that they have been In a 1 Walters Derringer 25-- 7 football game before the last shot French 15-- 8 Harry Gumbert is fired In the Arroy Seco on New New York 1 3 Hamlin Year's day afternoon 0 6 Davis Casey Forrest Pressnell Lee 5 Brooklyn 7 and Hubbell 11-- 9 er 5-- st all-rou- nd 27-1- 18-1- 15-1- 20-1- 22-1- 9-- 19-1- College Courtiers To Meet for Title Idaho Wants Ruling COLUMBUS O Dec (AP) On Hunt Problem America's two outstanding college — 23 BOISE Dec 23 (AP) — Director Owen W Morris of the Idaho fish and game department described as "too bad" a ruling preventing a Wyoming-Idah- o reciprocal hunting and fishing license agreement Morris said he had discussed the proposal with Lester Bagley Wyoming game warden at a recent game conference in Denver with the idea of eliminating penalties on hunters who might stray from one state into the other along the unmarked state line J W Taylor Idaho attorney general has been asked for a ruling on the pact basketball teams will clash March at Kansas City Mo for the second annual National Collegiate athletic association championship now held by Oregon H G Olsen of Ohio State university said Sat- 30 urday Olsen originator of the National Tourney idea and chairman of the general committee set March 3 for the district playoffs by four teams east of the Mississippi and four from the west each district to select one representative Last season at Evanston 111 Oregon defeated Ohio State the Big Ten champion for the National title 22-2- |