Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-01-28
SPORTS

Jan. stamford beat Southern Methodlst
in Rose Bowl football game at Pasadena.
Jan. 11-Willie Hoppe won three-cushion
billiards championship from Cochran.
Jan. 17--Joe Louis Knocked out Charley
Retzlaf in one round in Chicago.
Feb 6-Olympic winter games opened at
Garmisch. Partenkirchen, Germany.
Feb l6-Norway won oa.,, Olympic winter
March Purdue and Indiana tied for Big
Ten basketball title.
March 14-University of Michigan won
Big Ten indoor track championship.
April 4-CambriGge beat Oxford in annual
April 6--Horton Smith won the Masters
golf tournament at Augusta, Ga.
April 14-Major league baseball season
May BOLD Venture won Kentucky
May 6-American women's golf team tied
British team retaining Curtis cup.
May 8--Canzoneri defeated MeLarnin in
New York
May 1I-Petey Sarron of Birmingham
won featherweight title from Freddie Mil.
Ter.
May 17-Bold Venture won the Freak
May 23-University of Indiana won Big
Ten outdoor track championship.
May 30-Louis Meyer won Indianapolis 500
June 1-Australian tennis team eliminated
United States from Davis cup play.
June 3-UniverSity of Michigan won Big
Ten baseball championship.
June 6-Tony Mareno won national open
golf tourney.
June 13.Mrs. Opal Hill won women's
Don Lash broke worlds record for two
miles.
American women's tennis team won
Wlghtman cup from British.
June l9-Louis knocked out in twelfth
round by Schmeling.
July 4-Helen Jacobs won Wimbledon ii.
tie.
Varoff set world record for pole vault at
July 7-National league all-stars defeat
ed Americans Z to g. -
teur golf title.
July 23-Eleanor Holm Jarrett, swimming
champion, dropped from American Olympic
team for breaking training.
July 29-TWo men ouSted from American
Olympic boxing team for breaking training.
csmss sHly 81 sl i94o M japan awarded 'he olympic
Aug. l-olympic Games a. Berlin Off
Jesse Owens, America, broke world rec
ord for 100 meters at Berlin.
Aug. 5--Owens won his third Olympic
championship.
Aug s-Morris of America won Olympic
decathlon.
Aug 9-American track team won Olym.
pic championship with 209 points.
Japanese won Olympic marathon.
Aug 16-Clympic games at Berlin ended
with Germany in first place and United
States second.
Aug. 18-Joe Louis knocked out Jack
Sharkey at New York.
Aug. 31-Mako and Bulge won the ma.
tional doubles tennis title.
Sept. 2-NeW York Yankees won Amer1-
can league championship.
Sept. 3-American Walker cup golf team
defeated British team.
Lou Ambers won lightweight title from
Tony CanZoneri.
Sept 12-Perry of England and Alice
Marble of California won national tennis
championships. :.
Lawson Little won Canadian open golf
title.
Sept. 10-Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati
won national amateur golf title.
Sept. 24-NeW York Giants won National
league championship.
Sept. 26-Argentine polo players defeated
American team for the title:
Oct. 3-Pamela Barton OF England won
American women's golf championship ;.
Oct 6-New York Yankees won World
Series from New York Giants.
Oct IL - TaZio Nuvolari, Italy, won
George Vanderbilt 300 mile automobile road
race.
Nov. 2-Johnny Goodman of Omaha won
Mexican amateur golf title.
Nov. Northwestern university won Big
Ten football championship:
Nov. 21-YaIe defeated Harvard at foot
Nov. 22-Denny shute won United States
pro golf championship.
Nov 27-Barney Ross retained welter-
weight title by beating Izzy Jannazzo,
Nov 28-Navy beat Army at football.
Dec l2-Welker Cochran won three-cush.
ion billiards championship in Chicago.
Dec. 13-Green Bay won professional toot'
ball title.