Evening star., 1939-01-01
and-owned horse and fifth United
States-oWned to do so.

Anil Joe Louis, 20-1 favorite,
' with no takers, knocks out
Harry Thomas in $50 of fifth round.
4-Henry Picard's 285 wins $1,000
Augusta masters golf tournament.
Adams rides six straight
winners, five of them long shots,
at Bay Meadows, to fall one short
of American record. 9-Ohio State
wins National A. A. u. mems team
swim title. 12-Chicago Black
hawks, managed by baseball umpire
Bill Stewart, and one of the longest
long shots in history. win National
Hockey League Stanley Cup play.
offs by beating Toronto, 3 games
to l.. 16-Surprise deal sends Dizzy
Dean from Cardinals to Cubs for
s185 900 cash and three players, max
ing Cubs 80 favorites in pennant
race to Giants 8-5.
kAnv 3-Lefty Grove of Red Sox
I fans six Detroit Tigers, thus
becoming sixth pitcher in major
league history to pass 2,000-strike-
out mark. 7-Lawrin, paying 1920
for So, wins 64th Kentucky Derby;
favored Stagehand is withdrawn;
Bob Seeds, veteran Newark out
fielder. hits seven home runs in two
days, four consecutively. 13-Two-
Ton Tony Galento improves on Joe
Louis time in stopping Nathan Mann
in 2:04 of second round. 14-Dau-
ber, owned by William du Pont. jr.,
splashes through mud to win $69,-
500 Preakness by seven lengths. %
Supreme Court rules college foot
ball a 'commercialized activity and
therefore subject to Federal tax on
tickets. 28-Charley Yates of At
lanta becomes sixth United States
invader to capture British amateur
golf crown, seating Cecil Ewing of
Ireland, 3 and 2. 30-Floyd Roberts
of Van Nuys, Calf, setting record
average of ll72 miles per hour, wins
500-mile Indianapolis speedway clas-
sic, finishing 5 miles ahead of Will
bur Shaw, previous record-holder;
crowd of 1858 at Yankee Stadium
sets baseball attendance mark. 81
Henry Armstrong adds world well
terweight championship to feather
erWeight crown with decisive tri-
umph over Barney Ross; Lou
Gehrig plays 2,O0Oth consecutive
game.
limo 1-French-b bred POL shot,
Bois Roussel, wins 159th
Derby at EPSON, England. 4-Brit-
ish Walker cuppers, after 9 straight
United States triumphs, win inter-
national amateur golf trophy, Z
matches to 4, with one halved;
Southern California romps to eighth
victory since 1925 in I. C. 4-A out
door track-and-field championships
11-Ralph Guldahl, Madison, N. j.,
retains United States open golf
championship with 72-hole score of
284 at Cherry Hills; Helen Wills
Moody helps United States girls re-
tain Wightman Cup tennis trophy
with So defeat of Great Britain
15-Johnny Wander Nicer, Cincin-
natl Reds 22-year-old southpaw
pitches second straight no-hit game
beating Dodgers, 60, before crowd
of 38,478 in Brooklyn's first night
game; Wander Nicer walks seven
three in ninth with one out. 18-
Babe Ruth, after 3-year retirement
signed as coach by Brooklyn Dodg-
ers at $4,000 salary; Glenn Gun
ningham wins Princeton invitation
mile in 4:07.2; Louis 'Zamperini's
4:083 mile helps Southern Califor-
MIA to fourth straight N. C. A. A
track title. 21-Frank Pinky) Hig-
gins, Red Sox third baseman, gets
eight straight hits in double header
after four straight, day before to
break Iris Speakers major league
record of II consecutive safeties. %
Joe Louis knocks out Max Schmel-
ing in 2:04 of first round, shortest
heavyweight title fight on record
24-Harvard varsity crews one
length victory over Yale gives Grim
son first sweep of regatta since 1916
27-Navy varsity eight ends Vests
(See REVTEW pape A-13)