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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH Speaking of Sports All-St- ar Jinx A STRANGE jinx has overtaken Wood Entitled each of the five college football coaches who, in past years, were named to coach the graduated colteam which annually lege meets the National Football league professional champs ih the grid classic. The head coach of the college allstars is selected by millions of fans, ' voting in a nation-wid- e poll. It is a signal honor for any coach to win that election. The jinx has already overtaken Noble Kizer of Purdue, who coached Die first team in 1934, Frank Thomas of Alabama, Bernie Bier-ma- n of Minnesota, Gus Dorais of Detroit and Bo McMil-li- n of Indiana. To Golfdoms Roll of Honor all-st- ar pre-seas- on By ROBERT McSHANE U ES one of the greatest golf- A ers Ive ever seen and not because be beat me. It took a lot of courage for the speaker to say that, for he was none other than Craig Wood, who recently completed his reverse grand slam by losing to young Byron Nelson in the second playoff for the National Open title. Wood has found only one competitor harder to beat than Old Man Par. And thats Mr. Hard Luck, who has finished regularly in first place since 1931. When golfs last chapter is written, Craig will be remembered as the man who came closer to winning more major championships than any divot digger who ever lived. Opportunity has knocked more than once for him. In fact, it has rapped a steady tattoo on his door. His golfing career has been a succession of tough breaks, lost chances and marvelous opposition. His amazing career got underway back in 1931 when the tall, blondhaired youngster tied John Golden for the North and South title at Pine- - all-st- 18-ho- le Kizers , ar all-sta-rs met the Chicago Bears in a scoreless tie. But his Purdue team, while finishing high in the Western conference the previous year, experienced a disastrous 1934 season, losing three games. The Boilermakers lost to Rice, Notre Dame, and their traditional rival, Indiana. In 1935, the following year, Frank Thomas, coach of the Alabama Rose Bowl champions of the previous season, suffered a similar unsuccessful season. Bernie Bierman, coach of Minnesotas mighty Golden Gophers, was head mentor of the 1936 allstars, when they tied the Detroit Lions 7 to 7. He wasnt quite as unlucky as Kizer or Thomas, but the jinx tripped him up when the Gophers, undefeated in 32 previous starts, were whipped 6 to 0 by Northwestern in pne of the seasons most startling upsets an upset that kept the Gophers from annexing another Big Ten title. Dorais suffered the same luck in 1937, as did McMillin in 1938. collegiate crew did a fine job in beating the worlds champion Washington Redskins 39 to 14, but his own Indiana lads scored one victory, and that over ineffectual Mc-Milli- ns Iowa. Should the jinx continue, football fans may need more than an election to name an coach. will It probably call for a manhurst. It wasnt one of golfdoms date. major titles, but it was his first big tournament. He didnt win the title Golden beat him in the playoff. Gag Backfires From then on his luck would have TOE JACOBS, manager of Blub-- J spelled disaster to anyone but a Champion Tony berweight 1933 In he tied Denny fighter. struck a new high or rather, Shute for the British Open chama new low recently when he pionship in his first overseas effort. charged that Joe Louis had a metal He was .beaten in the playoff. slug in his hand the night he knocked out Max Schmeling. Student vs. Teacher Joe cant be blamed for trying In 1934 he reached the final of the Professional Golfers association to build up interest in his fat boy. tournament at Buffalo. Paul Run- Something had to be done. A public made apathetic by past heavyyan beat him on the thirty-eightthe second extra hole. An interest- weight performances certainly ing sidelight to Runyans victory wouldnt rush the turnstiles to see was the fact that he had served his Galento in action, even against the apprenticeship under Wood at the Brown Bomber.. club in Deal, N. J. Jacobs took it all back when Gen. During tbe 1934 season he finished John J. Phelan, chairman of the second in five winter circuit tour- state athletic commission, threatnaments, losing three times to Hor- ened to revoke his license in New ton Smith. York. Wood has been plagued by the But the damage has been done. phenomenol long shots his oppo- Prize fighting has never been held nents have holed to beat him. in the same high repute as other Opportunity had stepped inside the sports, with the exception of an aldoor at the near-en- d of the Masters most obsolete contest called wresat Augusta in 1935. Wood had re- tling. Millions of people look upon tired to the locker room to cele- prize fighting with a raised eyebrate and there received everyones brow or' with compressed nostrils, congratulations. It isnt over yet, thinking only of the sports seamhe told his There ier side. are still a lot of scores to be posted. It is all too true that boxing has But Wood, along with the milling plenty of unwashed linen in ' its spectators, figured his lead was se- hampers. It is equally true that the cure. Then the miracle happened. fight game includes some of sport-doGene Sarazen scored a double eagle squarest shooters in its ranks. on the fifteenth, holeing out a Unfounded accusations, such as wood shot. Sarazen played Jacobs bombast, magnify the evils the next three holes in par and tied of thie ring. Granted that the averWood for the championship. Wood age fan is too smart to be taken in lost in the playoffs. by such hokum, nevertheless, repeTo keep the record straight, he tition of such baseless charges have finished second in the Metropolitan an unhappy effect. A few crackpots can' do untold Open in 1936. And the sad part of it damage. Reversal Completed is, they dont suffer the conseWood has now lost playoffs for quences. The entire pugilistic prothe four greatest titles in reach of fession is the loser. a professional the British Open, the P. G. A. crown, the Masters and the National Open. Despite these breaks, Wood has A RT SHIRES, former White Sox never carped. He has always first baseman, says he finds played his best game, and is the refereeing wrestling matches in the first to give credit to the winner. ' Southwest more profitable than Wood had two breaks in the first managing a minor league team playoff round of the National Open. Ray Arcel is emphatic in saying The first was when his second shot Joe Louis is dynamite. He has acthit a spectator, and was thereby ed as a second for six fighters who saved from hooking out into the have opposed Louis, and only Jimrough. The second, break of a to- my Braddock was able to go beyond tally different nature was when he the third round. He fell in the sevfailed to hole a putt which enth. Others handled by Arcel were would have won the championship Paulind Uzcudun, Jack Sharkey, for him. " Nathan Mann, John Henry Lewis One person remarked: and Jorge Brescia . . . Only 17 games It was only justice, I think, that have gone more than 18 innings in the putt missed,, for it evened up the history of the National .. the break that came before. and the Cubs have played in league, The speaker, agaixij was Craig nine of them. CRAIG WOOD all-st- ar Ga-lent- o, h, well-wisher- s. ms 200-ya- rd Sport Shorts ... six-fo- ot 63-ye- ar . Wood. , 'Released bv Western Newanaoer U son I AINT SO GALLANT AS WHEN I WAS A GAL BILL, YOU |