Show speak of sports sports veterans duplicate wins in 1937 events by KOBERT mcshane ANE T CONING COKING back over the past year L L in sports mr average fan is somewhat come what amazed to see so many champions tamp ions stay at the head of the field though there were many upsets equally as many topnotch ers increased the prestige which they had gained in previous years that does not mean that there were no new champions crowned no records broken it does mean that 1938 lacked some of the explosiveness plosive ness of other years for instance joe louis win the heavyweight title in 1938 1933 he merely kept it well in hand and gave a good accounting of himself america merely kept the davis da vis cup again this year and bring it to this country don budge again carona cannonaded ded his way through the opposition repeating his victories of the previous year the yankees certainly did nothing new in blanketing the rest of baseball at least nothing new for them ralph guldahl won the open golf championship for the second consecutive year Sea biscuit and this is a touchy point stayed at the top and leat beat new competition in driving down the track ahead of war admiral two marks which were threatened during the past year but which still stand as a goal are babe ruths 60 home runs in 1927 and the 14 feet 11 inch pole vault record established by sefton and meadows in 1937 hank greenberg of detroit came close to passing the babes total but failed by two clouts clonts in his gallant hank flank assault pole vault greenberg ers els seem to have plenty of trouble in reaching for that additional inch there are new goals to S shoot hoot at however glenn cunningham ran the mile in to establish a world record and joly johnny vander meer electrified the baseball world by pitching two successive no hit games the united states had a banner year in international competition aside from the loss of the walker cup and two or three other scattered reverses it defended the davis cup in easy manner and its track team snowed under the nazis in a dual meet at berlin winning U 14 to 6 first places and losing only one track event the english grand national went to battleship an american bred lumper jumper and flares with no rating in the british stud booko book captured the ascot gold cup charley yates plowed through broons mud to win the british amateur golf championship and the native american in bested chicago black hawks came through rough in the playoffs play ofEs offs to capture hickeys hoc keys stanley cup henry armstrong tough little negro fighter started the year in possession of the featherweight title and then added the welterweight and lightweight crowns arm strong ranked second only to budge in ill the associated press poll to de termine the years M outstanding athlete his fe feats a in the ring far 0 out a va shadowed those of his ries es joe louis max SS Ameling Sch meUng with ith lit little tle effort inus us causing der max to tall fall from herr err hillers Hit lers good graces horse and horseman picked battleship as the best race horse of the year but a majority aJo rity of experts settled on Sea biscuit and a goodly number lumber favored el chico earl ande who trained stagehand real it mind for the horse won t e roost most money sport shorts BILL KLEM veteran national league 36 umpire pa will not retire lintn until i his legs or voice fold up P klem wha be c 65 in february auary harr wn arry J T chank W hardwick former coach a at t the naval abade has 33 been transferred back to se sea ea duty with the asiatic squadron is h an international at ional checker match conri being 1 planned ed in m glasgow and tt anoon for 1941 jan van der jve r OI of the netherlands and mick e ey Y ah the francoise alse of new jersey were eilart only tersa two cycling champs to re inear crowns |