Evening star., 1939-12-16
Snead s b|owup
Voted Second
1899 Freak
Bump Of Wooderson
In Race Also Gets
A. P. Poll Notice
BY SID FEEDER.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-That weird
little snooze Ernie lombard took
on home plate in the last game
OF the World Series was the oddity
of oddities in sport for 1889, sports
editors Of the Nation decided today.
A year ago another World Series
incident-the collision of Billy Jur-
ges and Stan Hack in the Cubs out
field in fielding a dinky little ground
ball-was well up among the freak
occurrences of the year, but was
beaten out in the stretch by Wrong
Down John" Getchell's famous slip
of the tongue in the Carnegie Tech
Notre Dame football game.
This year, however, the sports
editors weren't fooling. Voting in
the Associated Press ninth annual
poll on the "oddest or most freakish
incident of '39, they awarded the
palm to Big Ernie in shoo-in. The
Cincinnati Reds "Schnozzola" was
top choice of 81 of the Ct sports
editors balloting on the question.
Far back in second place was
SWingin' Sam Snead's all-time rec
ord golf -up-the he took on
the last hole to blow the National
Open championship.
Wooderson's Bump Recalled.
The only other incident to receive
more than one mention was the
bump Sidney Woooerson received in
the Princeton mile in the little
English runners unsuccessful one
race invasion of American cinder-
paths.
The sports editors accompanied
their ballots for lombard with sew
eral picturesque descriptions of Big
Ernie's dive into the dust at the
plate while Yankee base runners
came steaming home. You recall.
two men were on base, and Joe Di
Maggie was at bat in the 10th in
ming of the deciding game.
Di Mag lined a single to right and
one runner scored. Ival Goodman,
Reds right fielder, let the ball get
away, retrieved it and winged it to
the infield, for relay home. Just as
Ernie got his hands on it Charley
Keller, the second base-runner,
came charging in. There was
slight contact between the two, and
the next thing you knew the ball
was rolling a few feet away, and
big Ernie was stretched out on the
ground in what the sports editors
described variously as the Lom-
bardi coma" the sleeping beauty
act" and 1.-The dying swan"
Dl Mag. by this time, had reached
third, and the Yankee coach there
yelled, Go ahead if you want to
try it; just watch the ball-you're
on your own" Joe tried and made
it, sliding in over the outstretched
arm of lombard, who by this time
was back in the ball game.
Yes" wrote one sports editor,
and Joe not only stole home. but
ne also could have made away with
Ernles shoes. If the crowd wasn't
around. Ernie sure was catching
up on his Sleep"
Various other ballots were ac-
companied with such phrases as
"Lombardis sit-down strike" and
"Ernie's nightmare"
Football, as usual. came up with a
flock of freaks in the balloting. One
unidentified game was reported in
which the ball split on a place-kick
Tor extra point. The point was
awarded when one half went over
the cross-bar. And there was the
usual one-this time in the Louisiana
College Mississippi College game
in which substitute jumped off the
bench to tackle an opposing ball.
carrier.
Odd Michigan Grid Plays.
One sports editor liked Jack Doyle's
knockout of himself in London; an
other wanted to know, who hit the
homer with the bases loaded when
1owa's footballers beat Purdue 4-0?"
Then there was the bed lamp that
up and attacked Dizzy Dean, slash
ing his arm; a double knockout in
an amateur boxing bout at Ana
mosa, Iowa, and the P. G.. A. strike
which threatened the Professional
Golfers National Tournament; the
shot of Bud Wards which hit a
woman probably causing him to lose
the national open by one stroke;
Johnny Revolta 6-putting a hole in
a winter golf tournament, and the
Michigan football game, in which
Quarterback John Evashevsky, mis-
takenly thinking Tom Harmon had
failed to go over for a touchdown
on a 3-yard buck, called the same
play again, and Harmon repeated
for the extra point.