The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-25
Gee;Lookit
What's In
My Sock
By KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

This being Christmas day,
class isn't going to hold long.
Nobody wants to read, any
way, and those Of us who write
keep our tryst with the type
writer just so we won't lose
momentum.
When I was a young gan
Cling kid, a boy who found a
kaleidoscope in his stocking
had just about the tops when
it came to favors from Santa
Claus.
If you don't recall, let me re-
mind you kaleidoscope in those
days was a cylindrical contraption
which you held up to the light
and, turning one end, saw q lot
Of vari-colored pieces of glass
forming an ever-changing pattern.
Still Seeing Things
Now I am grown-Quite-alaS;
but I still find myself at Christ
mas time looking through the
kaleidoscope-of passing sports
events, and I find fascination in
the many designs.
There is conjured up the most
colorful athlete of the year. Joe
Louis, setting aside the boxing am
billions of four foes found ON the
rungS of the pugiliStic ladder he
has started to climb-Primo Car.
nera, King LevinSky, Max Baer,
and Pauline Uzcudun.
There is a fantastic picture OF
Buddy Myer, batting .349 to lead
the American League, and one of
Arky Vaughn going Myer SO
points better to set the batting
pace in the National League at
1888.
There is a mirage Of Mickey
Cochrane standing on second base
with the winning world series run,
and Goose GoSlin, planting his
spikes in the dirt, splitting on his
grimy hands, and swinging the
hit that drove Mickey home.
Americas AIl-America
There is Jay Berwanger, Uni
verSity of Chicago backfield star,
who made practically every ALL
America selected from one end of
the country to the other. He was
what you might call Americas |
All-America.
A twist of the kaleidoscope and
the scene shifts. 1t presents a
tinted vision of girl, no longer
young, who has been out Of the
mad fight for feminine tennis SUI
premacy for two years. Sure |
enough, it is Helen Wills, who |
stages one of the comebackS Of the |
year to win the Wimbledon tennis
title for the seventh time in her
career.
All, who is this next figure who
takes form and shape. Can it be
Lawson Little. Nobody else! He
stands out wildly for having re-
tanned the American and British
amateur golf championship which
he had also won in 1884.
The crazy little pieces of glass
start moving again. Little is gone
and another masculine hero comes
into focus. Is it a prize fighter?
Sure it is! 1t is Jimmy Braddock
who came from the limbo Of for
gotten men to win the worlds
heavyweight championship from
Mad Max Baer.
Omaha Passes in Review
What next! All, it Is a thor
Mana hACscas hA
looking, outstanding Omaha, prop |
erty of William Woodward. which |
duplicated the feat of his sire,
Gallant Fox by winning the Ken
lucky Derby, PreaknesS Stakes,
and Belmont Stakes to become
the champion three-year-old
There seems no end to the de- |
signs in the sports kaleidoscope of |
1885. What a Christmas contrap-
ton it is.
There comes George Refs in his
great little gold cup winner "El
Legarto," and Tony Canzonert,
fighting his way back to light
weight fame. There's Wilmer
Allison, too. beating Fred Perry
to win top American tennis
laurelS.
And gee whiz; what was that
which just flashed by? All, it was
Sir Malcum Campbell in his
famous Bluebird establishing
3O1-mile-per-hour racord near Salt
Lake City.
Another flash-it's Jesse Owens,
Ohio State trackman and the col
lege sprinting sensation Of the
year.
There's Greyhound. the un-
beaten trotter which won the
classic Hambeltonian, and Miss
Glenna Collett Ware whose golf |
comeback gave her her sixth
United States title.
All, man or boy, kaleidoscope,
is a great thing to have at Christ
mas-iSn't it?
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