Show SP OR T S January 1 Bowl I-Bowl Bowl football scores score Rose Bowl Illinois 45 U. U C C. L L. L A. A 14 Sugar Bowl Georgia 20 North Carolina 10 Cotton Bowl Arkansas 0 0 Louisiana State 0 Orange Bowl Rice 8 Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- 0 0 O. Shrine game West Nest All Stars All Stars 13 East 9 17 Charles 17 Charles Tripp U U. U of Georgia football I star signs with Chicago Cardinals professional pro pro- I football club He will receive I for four years of play 21 Bob 21 Bob Feller Cleveland Indians pitcher pilcher I signs contract calling for plus bonus for 1947 season leason 25 25 Gil Gil Dodds runs Knights of Columbus mile in Boston in record February 2 National 2 Collegiate Athletic association bans running shift shirt among football rule changes Charles 12 12 Charles Tripp pro football star signs to play baseball with Uh Atlanta club 21 Hank 21 Hank e signs with Pittsburgh Pirates for 28 Gus 28 Gus light heavyweight champion knocks out Billy Fox In title bout in New York March larch 12 12 Martin Martin Ortiz takes lakes bantamweight title from Harold Dade In Los Angeles 15 15 Wlllie Willie Hoppe retains world three three cushion billiards championship Ted Edwards and William Lingelbach win U U. S S. S court tennis doubles 22 Joseph 22 Joseph sets new record for I yard yard breaststroke 2 2164 in Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming league 25 Utah 25 Utah defeats Kentucky 49 to 45 to toI i I I win National Collegiate basketball title titre I 29 29 Gil Gil Dodds runs fastest Indoor mile ix LQ in Chicago I April I I 9 Commissioner 9 Happy Chandler suspends Leo Durocher Brooklyn baseball club I manager for 1947 season I I 15 Joe 15 Joe Baski American heavyweight fighter fight fight- er or defeats Bruce Woodcock British champion In London Baseball season opens Brooklyn Is managed managed man man- aged by Burton Shotton 26 Texas 26 Texas U U. U takes top lop honors In n Drake rela relays relays re re- re- re la lays s 's in Des Moines Iowa Illinois leads in Penn relays In Philadelphia 27 27 Babe Babe Ruth Da Day observed at nt all ball ballparks ballparks ballparks parks In U. U S. S and Japan May l 3 Jet 3 Jet Pilot wins Kentucky Derby In fn 5 2064 5 4 second Faultless third 4 National 4 women's senior A A. A A. A U U. U championship swimmer meet in Seattle won by Cr Crystal stal Plunge club of San Francisco Ahn Ann Curtis takes individual honors 17 U. 17 U S S. S golf gait team regains Walker cup at St. St Andrew Scotland 30 Mauri 30 Mauri Rose wins annual mile auto race at Indianapolis with average speed of 1163 miles June 3 Honeymoon 3 sets new world record for seven furlong race of 5 1214 5 4 minutes at nt Hollywood Park Calif Lloyd Marshall Marshan of Cleveland knocks out British light heavyweight champion In London 15 15 Lew 15 Lew w Worsham wins national open golf title by on one stroke at St. St Louis 18 Harvard 18 Harvard rowing crew defeats Yale In historic race at New London Conn Ewell Blackwell of Cincinnati Reds pitches first hit no-hit game of season against Boston Braves In Cincinnati 21 U. 21 U of Illinois retains National Collegiate Athletic association championship In meet at nt Salt Stilt Lake City 29 Betty 29 Betty Jameson wins U. U S. S women's open golf gall title in Greensboro N N. N C. C July 8 American 8 League wins All Star All Star baseball base ball game In Chicago 21 2 16 Rocky 16 Rocky Graziano defeats Tony Zale to win worlds world's middleweight ht boxing title 21 Schooner 21 Schooner Dolphin II III wins wms Ca California to Hawaii yacht race in 11 days 1 1 0 minutes Sloop Cara Mia Mla captures Chica Chicago to o to Mackinac race In 39 hours hours minutes minutes 29 Gus 29 Gus Lesnevich light heavyweight boxIng box box- Ing champion Tami Mauriello Mauriel Mauriel- lo 10 Ia heavyweight in title non bout in New York August 4 4 Ike Ike Williams knocks out Bob Montgomery ery cry In Philadelphia to become lightweight light weight champion of world 13 13 Victory Victory Song sets new world record for trotters by running m mile lie In 1 5 1573 57 5 3 minutes in Springfield field Ill 21 D. 21 D. D Lee Lec Braun of Dallas Tex wins professional pro I North American clay target championship In Vandalla Vandalia Ohio 22 Willie 22 Pep retains featherweight title by bv defeating Jock Leslie In Flint Mich 1 College c All Stars All Stars beat Chicago Bears DIO ma football squad In Chicago 16 0 |