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Baseball Thril

By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer A NEW YORK, Dec. 29—As long} as baseball is played and as longs as old-timers gather to talk abou it, the 1951 major league season will be an unforgettable. high spot G in the game's history. ! Never have there been any more - exciting pennant races. Never before was there such a finish as the Giants provided by winning thre National League flag in a three-game playoff with the Dodgers.

Leo Durocher Casey Stengel |across the plate and there were 2 {two men’ on base.

By Pennant Drive

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led

when the teams generally hit the stretch. Ld

» .

and began a 16-game winning|

| | seemed no possibility that it ever| would be completely liquidated.

After the

opener of the playoffs,

Giants won the the |p Dodgers rebounded to win the |§ |second game, but New York was |

;

. THE GRAND climax came; : followi Rs in the ninth inning of the third tunity to be a hero—but the fates|triumph occured the following SNES

It was Branca's great oppor-

‘not to be denied and the climactic)

. game-of the playoffs in the his-/decreed that it should be Thom-| day.

toric Polo Grounds. The Dodgers son instead, who was to come|

Riding their momentum as they

led, 4 to 2, there was one, man through. He blasted a home run moved into the series, they also

dger Manager Charley Dressen! brought in Ralph Branca for a relief pitching emergency. One

domitable Leo Durocher,

came a 13); game lead the

«out irr the last of the ninth when|into the lower deck for three runs won the opener behind the tricky! “Bobby Thomson came to bat.and the game and the pennant. pitching of Dave Koslo and held “ho Ke: The Giants, sparked by the in- the upper hand until a Sunday] : over-'rain caused a postponement and|

gave the tired New York

Tennessee

Grid Team in Nation

By STEVE SNYDER

United Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 20—Tennessee, the pre-season pick,

rode majestically through a

and emerged as the nation’s No. 1 team in a year of interON AUG. 12 they caught fire collegiate football beset by many off-the-field tribulations.

The 1951 campaign opened on

streak, longest in the majors ina note of scandal resulting from {1951. The Dodger lead gradually %i|lwas reduced, even though there

the cribbings at West Point that

rr W decimated Army’s potential champions and closed with college . presidents i demanding deemphasis the Big® 10 hir-| jing a former, FBI agent to en-| force its code. But in be- " tween the footees hall was sensazmaier tional, with freshmen mingling on an even

‘basis on varsity squads in most

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Giant run already had come Dodgers held as late as Aug. 11 Yankee pitching staff, a much areas, and new conference cham-

By JACK CUDDY United Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Dec. 29—Startling . upsets and title ‘changes featured

boxing during 1951. In one of the upsets, ex-heavy-weight champion Joe Louis was knocked. out of the ring and into probable retirement by Rocky

Marciano, the Brockton slugger, § at Madison Square Garden, Oct.

26. ya American interest was stimu-| lated by lively competition, by the

. by the introduction of network theater-television.

a. THERE WERE seven i

changes in four divisions. following champs kept their

Maxim, light heavyweight. =

Twelve amateurs and professionals died from ring injuries throughout the world. That was| one more than the 11 world-wide | fatalities of 1950. One American| professional and three amateurs) were on this year’s list. Jersey .Joe Walcott; 37-year-old father of six children, wrested! the heavyweight crown from Ez-| ‘gard Charles on ‘a sensational “upset seventh-round knockout at «Pittsburgh, July 18. A = = = SUGAR RAY Robinson was, «very active. He gave up the wel"terweight title Feb. 14, when he “won the middleweight champion-| ship from Jake LaMotta on a| *13th-round TKO at ‘Chicago. | As new 160-pound champion! “Robinson toured Europe and was| forced beneath the ring by a “bottle . barrage in Berlin, Gersmany, June 24. He lost the middie-| yeight title to Randy Turpin of ‘England on a 15-round decision] at London, July 10, in the year's) ‘biggest . upset. i

Robinson recaptured the crown| from Turpin ona 10th-round TKO at the Polo Grounds, Sept. 12. With the welterweight title vacant, Johnny Bratton of Chicago ‘received National Boxing recoginition for his decision victory ‘over Charlie Fusari. But Bratton ‘was outpointed by Kid Gavilan of Cuba at New York, May 18.) Gavilan was recognized as 147-| pound champion by the NBA and! New York State. But not by| European organizations, = which| are waiting. for him to fight] Charles Humez of France, Euro-| pean champ.

” ” ” - "JAMES CARTER of New York| took the lightweight title from, Ike Williams on an upset 14thround TKO at New York, May 25, and defended against Art Ara"gon at Los Angeles, Nov. 14. + George Flores, only American firofessional fatality, died Sept. 3| after having been knocked out by! Roger Donoghue. His death indi-| ctly caused the resignation of die Eagan as’chairman of the a ew wk Boxing . the appointmen Christenberry as widow filed an un Sgainat Jono d suit ® promoters, the Madi4 Bquare Garden And the commission. %

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‘Startling Upsets Featured Fight Game

; Walcott Ray Robinson

The U. 8. Department of Jus-

tional Boxing Club's far-flung operations constituted a monopoly. The 1951 upsets included Rocky

The Marciano -over Rex Layne, Joe dispense with A. B. Maxim over Bob Murphy, Eddie Chandler as their commissioner, ton Bowl, and Compo over Chico Vejar, Clarence|they installed National League Miami vs. Clemcrowns: Dado Marino, flyweight; Henry over Bob Baker, Paddy| President Ford Frick as his suc- son in the ‘Gator Vic Toweel, bantamweight; Sandy DeMarco over Sandy Saddler at cessor. Warren Giles, head of the Bowl. Saddler, featherweight, and Joey Milwaukee, Yolande Pompee over Cincinnati Reds succeeded Frick |

Dave Sands, and Jimmy Slade over Don Cockell.

The eight world champions: Heavyweight—Jersey Joe Walcott, Camden, N, J.

Light Heavywelght—Joey Max- |

im, Cleveland. Middleweight — Sugar Robinson, New York.

Ray

xWelterwelght—Kid Gavilan, |

Cuba. Lightweight — James Carter, New York. | Featherweight — Sandy Saddler, New York. - Bantamweight — Vie Toweel, Seuth Africa. Flyweight—Dado Marino, Hawail. xKid Gavilan is recognized as world champion by the National Boxing Association and the New York Commission but not by the

British Boxing Board of Control |

nor the European Boxing Union. Union.

Fix ‘Sca

: United P Ss NEW YORK, Dec. 20 Ken-

tucky’s sharpshooting Wildcats won the National Collegiate basketball championship in 1951. That fact was nearly obscured by the chain-reaction explosions of the worst scandal ever to strike college sports -— the. “fixing” scandal. : Beginning in mid-January with the arrest of two former Manhattan College players on bribery charges, the sports public was repesdtedly stunned by the revelation of new and greater corruption as arrest followed arrest.

- » ” BY THE end of the year, amid persistent reports that even more shocking surprises were to come, a total of 32 players had been

holding down their team’s score

{in exchange for bribe money from! |New York's Madison Square Garschools den were involved, then it was reCommission | were involved—City College of vealed that games played even on t of Robert New York, Long Island Univer-| college campuses were “dumped” berry as his successor. sity, Kentucky, Bradley, Toledo, | by the Bradley and Kentucky prece- New York University, and Man-| players.

gamblers.

Players from seven

hattan. : oF them were some of the

needed extra day of rest. The Giants led two games to one at the time but the Yankees came through after that and won the next three games. E » ”

| IT WAS the third pennant and third World Series triumph in a

i Stengel, manager of the Yankees,

a record never before equalled in baseball. :

the Pennant by winning a double {header from the Red Sox on the {final Friday of the year as Allie Reynolds pitched his second no{hitter of the campaign in the

. |opener.

| Reynolds got his first no-hitter {in a 1 to 0 duel with Bobby Feller in Cleveland on July 7. Fel-

(tice began an investigation in Oc-|ler also pitched a no-hitter, the »first coast-to-coast television and: eo; 5 getermine if the Inter|third of his great career, against Bow), Georgias

| Detroit; while Cliff Chambers {who started with, the Pirates, nohitted the Braves.

After the club owners voted to (Happy)

as president of the National d 2 lange, n Hype | League. coach, Chuck { ': | 8.8.9 «|Taylor, rode a iw:iiuis % THERE WERE jubilee celebra- series of upsets Chuck Taylor

tions in both leagues. The National League had its 75th anni|versary party at the Broadway {Central Hotel in New York on | Jan. 6.

{th |nual all-star game in Detroit in | July, Gil McDougald of the: Yankees, land Willie Mays of the Giants,

| |

{the green kid who stepped into|

center field for the Giants, were named rookies of the year, | Yogi Berra of the Yankees, and {Roy Campanella of the Dodgers {won the most valuable player

awards. The batting champs were |

| Stan Musial of the Cardinals at |.355 and Ferris Fain of the Athletics at .344. At the year’s end, baseball lost {its brightest star when Joe Di- | Maggio retired.

ndal Ro

Groza of

Kentucky,

pions crowned in the Big 10 (Illinois), Southeastern (Georgia | Tech), Southwest (Texas Chris|tian), Pacific Coast (Stanford), land Southern (Maryland). Georgia Tech, unbeaten but {tied by Duke, won seven Southleastern Conference games while

row for the amazing Casey Tennessee played and won only|

| five. | Princeton, unbeaten and untied {for the second straight year as

The Yankees, moving ‘mag-| Dick Kazmaier roamed virtually) NEW YORK, Dec. 29—Thornificently in the stretch, clinched unchecked, again led the East. gughbred racing boomed in 1951

| Michigan State, also with a per(fect record including a 35 to 0 rout of Notre Dame, was king {among ‘Midwest .independents. | ” 5 ” = | THE LINEUP for the leading | bowl games matched Stanford vs. Illinois in the Rose Bowl, Tennes-

see’ vs. Maryland jn the Sugar

|Tech vs,” Baylor {in the Orange | {Bowl, Kentucky § lvs. Texas Chris{tian in the Cot-

linto the Rose Bowl and earned (for Taylor an -award by the {8cripps-Howard Newspapers: as lcollegiate Coach of the Year. | Stanford's first Rose Bowl team {since Jan. 1, 1941, won its critical

For the second time in a row test against Southern California, | e National League won the an- which previously had downed the the Lawrence Realization, the

defending champion, California. |Although California later feated Stanford, the title race already had been settled.

foe — Wisconsin — early in the campaign and survived a late sea'son offensive letdown that cluded a scoreless tie at Ohio State. ”

” Ed

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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perfect season of 10 victories

[the wild Southwest scramble by {winning its last two against Rice jass Southern Methodist. Oklahoma, although beaten by {Texas and Texas A. & M. outside {the Big Seven, again came {through to win the conference title with a perfect record. Kazmaier, who led the nation in {total offense, was named player-of-the-year as well as back-of-the-year by the United Press. Bill McColl of Stanford, a great end, was heralded as linesman-of-the-year,

Football's 1951 champions: National—Tennessee. Big 10—Illinois. Southern—Maryland. Southeastern—Georgia Tech, Southwest—Texas Christian.

Helped Boost Auto Racing

By BILL EGGERT

THRILLS and spills gave automobile racing one of its biggest years in 1951. The fastest 500-Mile Race ever won by gutty Lee Wallard, whose 126.244 MPH average was worth a record-breaking

Pacific Coast—Stanford. Ivy League—Princeton. Big Seven—Oklahoma.

Horse Racing Enjoyed A Boom Year

y RAY AYRES" United Press Sports Writer

with parimutuel betting totals, attendance figures, purse distribu- |

tion and the cost of. horseflesh & showing

over!

sharp increases

1950 levels.

In keeping with the bullish great comeback. Art Cross piled a

Bettenhausen

Wallard

$63,612.12. But Wallard in his next race was burned over 57 per|

cent of his body in a June 4 mis-|

hap at Reading, Pa. His buddy, Tony (The Tinley Express) Bettenhausen went on

to drive the little No. 99 Belanger

Tony's 8 Wins Cleanup Is ‘Due College

Sports

d Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 2 1951 with mixed emotions.

teur sports, with college bas

for some time to come.

” 2 » FOR 1952, the future for professional sports was bfight, but for college sports the outlook was anything but rosy. ° It appeared certain that college basketball and football was in for a thorough house cleaning. It| drastic action was essential to keep college sports in line. A big problem for both amateur and professional sports still was | unsolved—television. The matter of television was {reaching a crisis—Just like col|lege football and basketball.

= ” o |Special to eight victories in AAA THE DEPARTMENT of Justic

pion. » . ” . WALLARD’S burns cost the nervy driver $100,000 gross take in appearance money, race purses nd endorsements. Midget autos, highpowered by Offenhauser engines, returned to the racing scenes and made a

‘ment in an informal opinion held that the 1951 telecasting program |of the National Collegiate Ath|letic Association also was illegal. | Under the NCAA program, | there was limited telecasting of | college football Saturday after{noons in an effort to (determine |the effect of television an attendnce.

trend in the sport, it was the year up 1229 points for the national] The NCAA findings will not be’

equine millionaire. Citation sur-| passed that astronomical total in jearnings when he won the Hollywood Gold Cup and- $100,000 July 14. Victory lifted his lifetime {earnings to an unprecedented $1,-

085,760.

| : | {

8 = » | ©. V. WHITNEY’'S Counter|point, 1951's “American Cham-| pion” and the season's leading! imoney winner with $250,525, did|

{

He was far up the track when {Count Turf won the Kentucky { Derby. He was a soundly trounced | 'second to Bold in the Preakness| Stakes. But the son of Count Fleet, the triple crown winner of 1943, finally got his one-third of| {the golden diadem by winning the| | Belmont Stakes. | In the fall Counterpoint won

Jockey Club Gold Cup, the Em-

de-|pire Gold Cup and the Empire | yo i MeOTAth cozseivnsee

City Handicap. races against

Counterpoint’s Hill Prince, the

races, produced the year's best spectacles. | Principal stake winners: American Derby — Hall | Fame. | Belmont

Stakes — Counter-

TENNESSEE PRESERVED its point.

perfect record by smashing Ken-| tucky’s challenge 28 to 0 in what

had been regarded as its severest

test.. Texas Christian came through

| White of LIU, and Gene Mel- examination of the scandal ahd

chiorre of Bradley. » - »

THE PUBLIC learned widespread corruption was made possible by a system of betting wherein one team was favored over another by a certain number of points. win their wagers by bribing players, not to lose, but to win by less than the predicted point spread. The sordid mess began to come

“shave points” in a game a, DePaul.

Hogan pressed his inquiry. At first, only games played in

" DEMAND!

their peak » ~ > a

Gamblers thus cofild

to light on Jan. 11 when Center Junius Kellogg of Manhattan told his coach that ex-player Henry Poppe had offered him $1000 to

» } S FOR a general corporation greatest players of the post-war “cleanup” of the sport reached

era —~- Ralph ‘Beard and Alex when Judge Saul 8.

k- \ Crit

of college sports in general at the time he sentenced White and four other players to jail. The judge declared athletic over-commer-cialization had given rise to the scandals. And this evil started in fobtball and spread to basketball. It was against this background Kentucky's high-powered team won its third NCAA championship in the last four years. “The Wildcats, coached by wily Adolph Rupp and paced by sevenfoot Center Bill Spivey, suffered an awful blow to their pride When they were upset by Vander-

gainst pit, 61-57, in the finals’ of the Within five days the Southeastern Conference first arrests were made and

{others followed steadily as New charged with “shaving points,”| York District Attorney Frank

aA ment, probably the biggest upset of the year. ; . ~ ” BUT RUPP’S Wildcats came back red-hot for the NCAA tourney. They defeated St. John's, the nation’s top-ranked independent team, in the eastern regional semifinals and downed Illinois, 76-74, in a thriller in the eastern finals. At Minneapolis, Minn., they met Kansas State, surprise winner of the western

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NCAA regionals, trailed by six points in the early going and two Soin mw ¥

Kentucky Derby—Count Turf. Preakness Stakes—Bold. Santa Anita Derby—Rough N'Tumble. Widener Handicap—Sunglow.

cks Basketball

Sherman | Streit of New York issued a long

points at the half, but then got Irolling as Spivey started hitting [the cords and won handily, 68-58. Spivey, as usual, was high scorer with 22 points. Here, in order, were the nation’s top 10 teams, as ranked by {the United Press Board of Coaches: Kentucky, Okrahoma A. {& M., Kansas, Illinois, Columbia, | Bradley, North Carolina State, Indiana, 8t. John's and Brigham (Young. |" Bill Mikvy of Temple was the {highest individual scorer in the nation with an average of 29.2 points per game. The basketball champions: NCAA—Kentucky

National Invitation Tourna-ment-—Brigham’ Young NAIB Tournament—Hamline | Conference Champions | Eastern—Columbia { Southern—N. C. State Big Seven—Kansas State Skyline—Brigham Young Border—Arizona Southeastern—Kentucky Big Ten—-Illinois

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A&M (tie)

Pacific Coas t—Washington. y ;

jin which the turf got its first championship. George Tichenor

was second. . s ” 8 CECIL GREEN and Bil Mackey were killed within 30 minutes of each other in surprisingly similar accidents at Funk's Speedway in Winchester, Ind. Both were killed while quali-

both cars slipped on an oil slick and darted off the track at the south turn. . Walt Brown was killed the same day at Williams Grove, Pa. All three drivers were starters in the 1951 “500”; Mackey placing 19th, Green 22d and Brown 26th.

» » ”

THE 1951 AAA final championship point standing for big cars was:

Points Tony Pattenhausen ...... 2556. Henry Banks ............ 1856.68

1513.6 1460.4 1143. 1012.

Walt Faulkner ......cee0

Mike Nazaruk ..

Johnnie Parsons ........

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Illinois disposed of its leading 1950 champion, in the Gold Cup y. "xwaniard ...00veuses.. 1000

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Manuel Ayulo ...eveeveee Andy Linden .......v0000 911, Paul Russo ...ocenvvoesss 100.

Pole Vaulters Steal Spotlight

In Track, Field

By EARL WRIGHT United Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Dec. 29 — Bob Richards, Don Cooper and Don Laz made the 1951 track and field

as they stole the headlines from the dash and distance runners. Richards first moved vaulting from the sidelines to the center of the track stage at the Millrose indoor games in New York last January when he soared over the bar at 15 feet, 1 inch to become the second man in history to bet: ter 15 feet.

RICHARDS, Cooper and Laz didn’t budge Cornelius Warmer-

{dam's world record of 15 feet, 7% (inches.

Richards went on to post the best mark of his career when he did 15 feet, 4% inches at the Chicago relays in March. The former Illinois star then proved him-

self the finest all-around track]

and field performer of the season by winning the gruelling national decathlon championship with a total of 7834 points. !

Fred Wilt snapped Don Gehr-

Missouri Valley—Okla, A&M |mann's string of mile triumphs chosen starts, Southwest—Texas, TCU, Tex. (at

39. He beat the slim Milwaukee Tukner by six yards in the Columbian mile.

made known until early in January, but unless the 1951 program is found illegal, the chances are ft will be continued in 1952, despite numerous protests from alumni groups, colleges and universities, television networks and other groups.

2 s ” THE CRISIS in college basket-

{fying for the feature event and p.i; was caused by the ever-

|widening bribery scandal and revlelations that classroom records were falsified to keep athletes eligible and even to gain them en{trance to colleges and universities. 2 5 | A cribbing scandal wiped out |what was expected to be one of |Army’s best football teams. | Al in all, it was the most dis{crediting seasons college basket{ball and football ever have been ‘through.

| n ” . | THESE DEVELOPMENTS seemed in the offing for 1952: ONE: Control of college athletics would be returned to the |presidents, rather than the ath{letic directors. TWO: Definite restrictions will (be placed upon recruiting, finanlcial aid to athletes, academic courses for athletes, etc. THREE: Sports be confined to their - seasons—perhaps eliminating post-season competition such as bowl games and spring footpractice. cir? | FOUR: A general de-emphasis of collegiate athletic ‘programs be put into motion. But all that was for fhe future |—with 1952 the big year.

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seemed generally agreed that|

e championship racing. He ed challenged in the courts the right second twice and totale |of the National Professional footpoints for the season to become ,,); yeague to ban telecasts of its the national auto racing cham-|oamas And the Justice Depart-|

in 52

By LEO H. PETERSEN’

Sports closed out the year

It was one of the blackest years in the history of ama-

ketball and football drawing

notoriety which is likely to haunt colleges and universities

On the other hand, professional sports generally had another successful and profitable year.

Playoffs in Hockey Were Spectacular

By FRED DOWN United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec. 20—The National Hockey League inauguIrated its silver anniversary season with a record 70-game schedwi ule and climaxed it with a spectacular Stanley Cup playoff series in which every game was decided in overtime. The Toronto Maple Leafs, who finished six points behind the ‘Detroit Red Wings at the end of the regular schedule, won the Stanley Cup by beating the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens, each in five games. The Canadiens had eliminated the Red Wings in series ‘A,’ four games to two. = . o \ THE MAPLE LEAFS and Red. , Wings dominated the league for almost the entire schedule, They were the only teams to finish over the .500-mark. Hockey's highest award-——the Hart trophy—was voted to Milt Schmidt, veteran center of the Bruins, “For the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team.” Gordie Howe, Red Wing's star right winger, set a national league scoring record of 86 points to win the Art Ross trophy.

Ml ” o » AL ‘ROLLINS of the Maple Leafs won the Vezina Trophy, allowing an average of only 1.75 goals a game; Goalie Terry Sawchuk of the Red Wings won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the League's best rookie. Center Edgar Laprade of the Rangers won {the Lady Byng trophy awarded

Sawchuck

|annually “To the player adjudged

{to have exhibited the best type of

| sportsmanship and gentlemanly

{conduct combined with a high {standard of playing ability during the season.” The Cleveland Barons, cham{pions of the western division, won {the American Hockey League's {playoff series, four games to |three, over the Pittsburgh Hornets. New Westminster, which | finished sécond in the regular season, beat first-place Victoria, three games to two, in the Pacific Coast League playoff series.

Bantam Be

By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 29—Although he was in virtual retirement, it still was little Ben Hogan as golf's man of the year again in 1951. The mechanical Texan retained his laurels as, picking his spots, he won the coveted Masters for i} the first time, , successfully ‘dé- : fended the U. 8. i Open Champion« ship with a blaz- . ing. stretch run and copped the

Fir

Hogan His comeback (to win the 1950 Open after nearly /losing his’ life in an automobile ‘accident was sensational. And he was just as startling this year when, despite his few carefully he bested the

tournament toughened fairway|

clan for his amazing triple. The United States also retained

Tos

n Hogan Is

‘Mr. Golf’ Once Again

season a pole vaulter's paradise .

|Interriational lauréls by winning {the Ryder Cup matches with Great | Britain for the seventh time in nine meetings. " » .

BRITAIN REGAINED its big one when burly Max Faulkner, long-hitting former commando in~ structor, captured the British Open. Babe Didrickson Zaharias again was “Mrs. Golf” even though she carried off no major titles on the basis of her more than $15,000 in professional winings. The U. 8. Women’s Open went to Betsy Rawls. The golf champions: U. 8. Open—Ben Hogan U. 8. PGA—Sam Snead Masters—Ben Hogan Ryder Cup—United Stores Women's Open—Betsy Rawls Women’s Amateur — Dorothy ‘Kirby ;

U. §. Amateur—Billy __ British Am

Mrs. P, G.