The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-02
By ALAN GOULD

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-The cam paign along the sports trails ot 1883, one of the most astonishing of modern times, may best be re- memhared in years to come by the clarion call. The winner and NEW champ.on"
 Little or no respect for the gr-aJ or the near great, for the title holders or cup-bearers of sport, was manifest in any sphere of com petition The axe was wielded among the crowned heads with as much abandon as the tomahawks of an Indian tribe on the war path. Favorites and tradition were given the old heavs-ho separately and collectively in one of the most 1evr ionary years on athletic rec ord.
 It was of with the old and on vit.l h, new from one end Of the yaar so the other. Old man Stagg went west after two score years at Chicago and Hunk Anderson yield ed the traditions of Rockne to FL mer Layden aftsr the most disas- trcus football campaign in the hls- tory of Notre Dame. New York kept the baseball championship on Broadway but the title passed from the Yankees to the Giants in one |. of the most dramatic shifts the na- tional pastine has ever witnessed featured by the superb southpaW pitching of Carl Hubbell-the man of the year in sports.
 Pro Tennis Looks Up
 Davis Cup tennis supremacy passed from France to England marking the end of a slx-year raion for the tri-color and the col 1anse of the American challenge ID E,,rope. Subsequently the twin aces of the beaten clans, Henri Cochel and Ellsworth Vines, turned proles- sional and will join Big Bill Illoen in the biggest attempt so lar u break the old barrier between am afeur and pro in tennis.
 polo prestige passed from Vi1 o,d Fast to the Southwest in one of the most thrilling American pa.- +1ae of the year, with Cecil Smltll and Elmer Boeseke Jr. cnalleiieiiis +1,e dominant Tommy Hltcncock s,,ccessfully All four of the ma ior mems golf titles of Britain sad America changed hands, in ao- dition to which the Ryoer oup ,,rofessional team trophy, passeo fron, inc U. s. A. to the old couh- t,v because Denny Shute, the new , Rritish Open title-holder, mlSseo three-foot putt on the nome green. e.;oro,
 Fo,lr of the major professlonai r;,,o championships changed own arsbin enc of them twice a' lack sharkey lost the world heavy- Tueiobt crown to the gargantuaii Primo Camera of Italy, one-time c;rc,,s freak and biggest titleholo- er since Jess Willard. Even wresl- 1ino,s heavyweight actors caugh' tbs nonIlar fever as the ex-Notre name fullback. Jumping Joe sa- voldi. tossed Jim Londos at o4ii- caoo and gained a part-claim to the championship"
 Mrs. Needy Dethroned
 Strange as it may seem, Woineii
 o+itorc wore most of the rare jewels of consistency for 1s33. one of the most dramatic surprises Q, the wear came swiftly in the finai round of tennis play at Forest Hills where HelenWills Moody, unoe- feated in the tournament Tor decade. defau1ted to her Call1or- nia rival, Helen Jacobs, for the American championship. Yet thls enabled Miss Jacobs to be amon' the few successful defending cnam- nions of the year, besides havin5 th.a distinction of starring in Am erica's defense of the Wightmaa Cup against the challenge of tn9 British team.
 Equally noteworthy on the feml- nine side of the years log IS tn9 fact that the only national cham pions to repeat were Virginia van Wie of the U. s. A. and Enid VII son of England. Miss Van WIG celebrated her second straight year of victory by conquering flela including Miss wilson in the na . tional womens golf champlonsnl at Chicago. Among the mermalds' Leonore Right and little Rather inc Rawls continued their consist ently successful exploits in tha swimming campaign marked by the passing of the great Helepo Madison from amateur competi- tion.
 There was no diminution of the human pace as man reeled off the fastest time on foot, in land or air machines.
 LcveIcck's Amazing Race
 All things considered, probably