Evening star., 1939-12-11
'60.Minute' Ace
Wins Narrowly
Over Di Maggie
Louis Third Choice
In A. P. POLL; Nelson
Heads Golfers
BY SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.-By a
margin just about as narrow as
1owas football victories over Notre
Dame and Purdue, All-America Nile
Kinnick was named the outstanding
athlete of 1899 by the Nations sports
experts today
In as close a battle of ballots as
the Associated Press annual poll
ever witnessed in its nine-year his
tory, the HaWkeyes' Commute back
field ace won out over Jolting Joe
Di Maggie, the New York Yankees
"Mr. Baseball" by the narrow mar
gin of eight points.
Of the 81 experts who voted the
three outstanding male athletes,
amateur or professional, 81 selected
the Iowa youngster with the pleasing
personality as their top choice; 3
picked him for second place and
10 for third. Votes we're counted on
basis of three points for first, two
for second and one for third.
Bucky Walters Fourth.
Kinnick's total was 70 points. Di
Maggie, first-place choice of II bal
| loters, had II. Joe Louis drew S
first place votes and IS for third
Bucky Walters. pitching workhorse
of the National League Champion
i Cincinnati Reds, finished fourth
with %. although he was top choice
on six ballots Byron Nelson, ma
tional open golf king, was fifth, with
Is points and three first-place selec-
| tions.
Far down the list, with 7 points,
was the king" of 81 and '38. Don
Bulge, CALIFORNIA; S tennis red-head.
Headed by Kinnick and the man.
ner in which he caught on as the
peoples cherce' all over the coun-
try, football made big comeback
in this years poll, with 10 nomi-
nees in the voting, compared with
eight for baseball, the 1888 leader.
Kinnick's coach, Dr. Eddie Ander-
son, who won an award here Sat-
urday night as coach of the year."
was eighth in the balloting, with 10
points. Parker Hall, the ex-Missis-
sippi back, who made good in
professional football this fall, was
ninth.
Football Gets Big Play.
Farther down the list were such
of the years standout backs as Tom
Harmon of Michigan, George Cafe
go of Tennessee, Pitchin' Paul
Christman of Missouri and Lii
Davey OBrien of the Philadelphia
Eagles, as well as trio of fine
ends-Don Hutson of the Green Bay
pro Packers, Ken Kavanaugh of
Louisiana State and Esca Sarkkinen
of Ohio State
Baseball's eight nominees includ-
ed the years two finest rookie out
field sluggers, Charley Keller of the
Yankee and Ted Williams of the
Boston Red Sox. Oddly enough,
while Walters was fourth in the
final tabulation, his Cincinnati
pitching teammate, Paul Derringer,
who was just as responsible for the
Reds pennant triumph, could poll
only six points for 18th place.
Colts quartet in the list, besides
Nelson, included Marvin (Bud)
Ward, Seattle amateur star, and
Ralph Guldahl, former two-time
open king. Boxing also had four
some, headed by Louis and Billy
Conn, the Pittsburgh Irish lad, who
won the world Ight-heavyweight
championship, which, the experts
voted, entitled him to a tie for sixth
place among the years athletes.
One Vote for Challedon.
Racing drew three nominees, in
Guiding one third-place vote for
Challedon, championship horse of
'39. The complete voting:
N;,. lists. Pts
Ni!e n hlnnlck; Iowa. football---- 81 70
Joe pi Magic, Yankees, baseball IL II
Joe Louis. Detroit, boxing-- 3 35
Bucky Walters, Cincinnati, baseball 6 2S
Byron Nelson. golf - ( 25
Billy Conn, Pittsburgh. BOXING 3 is
Marvin Ward. Seattle. golf--- 2 10
| EDDIE Anderson, Iowa, football Q 10