The Coolidge examiner., 1939-01-05
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Jan: l-California beat Alabama in
Pasadena Rose Bowl game.
Jan. 21-Jim Braddock whipped Tom
my Farr in New York
Jan. 30-Max Schmeling whipped Ben
Foord of South Africa in Hamburg.
York.
Feb. 26-Glenn Cunningham set indoor
| record for metric mile" at 3:48.4.
March 3-Glenn Cunningham ran mile
in 4:04.4. world record.
March 11-Max Baer whipped Tommy
Farr in New York.
March 81 - Chicago. area Golden
Gloves boxers defeated New York team.
April Heavyweight Champion Joe
Louis whipped Harry Thomas in Chicago.
April 4-Henry Picard won the Mas
ters, golf touTname9t r9aI tat, at Augusta, d1I Ga;
Steve Dudas in Berlin.
May 7-Lawrin. owned by H. G. Woolf
OF Kansas City. won the Kentucky
Derby.
boxers defeated European team, to 3.
May 28-Charles Yates of Atlanta. Ga.
won British amateur golf title.
June 4-British golfers defeated Amer
ican team for Walker cup.
June 11-Ralph Guldahl retained ma
tional open golf title.
American Wightman cup tennis team
defeated British team.
June 16-Ralph Guldahl won Western
Open golf championship.
June 22-Heavyweight Champion Joe
Louis whipped Max Schmeling of Ger
many. challenger, in one round:
June 27-Navy won the Poughkeepsie
July 2-Helen Wills Moody won VIM
bledon tennis tourney.
July IA = Japan Cancelled Olympic
games of 1910.
July 16-Paul Runyan won Profession
a Golf oh am 1iOn shin
July 26-Al Hostak knocked out Fred
die. Steele at Seattle. winning middle
weight title.
Aug. 2-Sammy Baugh, all-time out
| standing paSser, signs three-year con-
tract with Washington Redskins pro foot
! ball team.
Aug. 6-Mickey Cochrane. manager of
Detroit Tigers, dismissed.
Aug 17-Henry Armstrong becomes
| first fighter in ring history to hold three
ring titles at same time.
Aug. 27-Capt. G. E. T. Eyston drives
racing car 345 40 mph, for world record.
Aug. 31-College All-Stars defeat Wash.
ington Redskins, professional football
! champions % to, 16.
| Sept. 3-Jacqueline Cochran wins Ben.
dix trophy race at Cleveland. flying 25O
Sept. 4-Tony LEVER wins Greve tro-
ply race at Cleveland, flying $50 mph
Sept. 5-RoScoe Turner wins Thomp-
son trophy race at Cleveland. flying
203. Al mpn.
U. S. Davis cup tennis team retains
cup by defeating Australians at Phila-
Sept 11-Frank Frisch fred as Car
| dinal manager.
mph to set new auto record.
Sept. 16-Capt. c.. E. T. Eyston sets
new auto speed record of 357.5 mph.
Sept 18-Yankees win pennant in
SEPT, 24NPattv Berg wins women's
championship of United States Golf as
Sept. 26-J. Donald Bulge successful
ly defended title as tennis champion:
Alice Marble regained championship
crown in United States tennis tourna-
Gabby Street fred as manager of the
Oct. 1-Chicago Cubs win National
league pennant.
Oct. 3-Perry defeats Barnes to win
national pro tennis title.
manager of the Philadelphia National
league baseball team to succeed Jimmy
Oct s-New York Yankees win worlds
baseball series from Chicago Cubs IN
four straight games.
Oct. 1OEBurleigh Grimes fired as man.
ager of the Brooklyn baseball team.
Oct. 12-Leo Durocher named manag-
er of Brooklyn baseball team.
Oct. 26-Bluenose retained information
al fshermen's sailing trophy by defeat.
ing the Gertrude L. Thebaud.
Oct 31-Ernie lombard, Cincinnati
catcher, voted most valuable player IN
the National league.
Nov. 2-Jimmy Foxx, Boston Red Sox.
chosen most valuable player in the
American league.
Nov. Gray Blades named manager
of the ST. Louis Cardinals.
Nov. FIRED Haney named manager
of the st. Louis Browns.
Nov. 10-Don Bulge, tennis cham
pion, turned professional.
Nov. 19-Minnesota won Big Ten foot
ball championship.
Nov. 27-Dr. Eddie Anderson, football
coach at Holy Cross, appointed to sue
ceed Irl Tubbs as head coach at the
University of Iowa.
Nov. 28-Monty Stratton. White Sox
pitcher, loses leg as result of hunting
accident
Nov. 29-Trustees of the University of
Illinois defeated plan to oust Bob Zuppke
as football coach.
Nov. 3O-Tony Music knocked out San
dy Mcdonald in the sixth round in
Dec. I-Gabby Hartnett signs to man.
age the Chicago Cubs in 1920
Dec. 6-Chicago Cubs trade Demaree,
JurgeS and O'Dea to Giants 1or l5aI teII.
| Mancuso and Leiber.
Dec. 21-Luke Sewell. White Sox catch
| er, sold to Brooklyn.
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