Evening star., 1939-01-01

saw Pitt. run the kickoff back for a
touchdown. That was enough to
discourage any underdog, but the
Scots rallied strongly to whip the
Panthers, 20-10. Carnegie was re-
warded with a Sugar Bowl invita-
ton.
Here is a day-by day summary of
the high lights of the year:
I1ruor, 1-252,628 attend six
post season football
games; California tops Alabama,
1870, for Tides first defeat in five
Rose Bowl games; Santa Clara beats
Louisiana State, 60, in Sugar Bowl;
Rice routs Colorado and Whizzer
White, 28-14, in Cotton Bowl; Au-
burn downs Michigan State, 60. in
Orange Bowl; West Virginia shades
Texas Tech, rs, in Sun Bowl, and
East and West All Stars battle to
90 tie in San Francisco Shriners'
game. 2-Hank Luisetti scores so
points as Stanford basket ball team
wallops Duquesne, 92-27. 8-Unitcd
States Golf Association decides on
one-year test of modified Stymie
rule. elects Archie M. Reid presi-
dent; Jimmy Thomson posts 66-65-
131 for first half of $500 Los An
geles open, one of lowest medal play
scores on record. 18-Grover Cleve-
land Alexander named to baseball's
Hall of Fame: great right t-hander
was with Philadelphia, Chicago and
st. Louis of National League from
1911 to 1890 19-Larry MacPhail,
former general manager of Cincin-
natl Reds, given three-year contract
as executive vice president of Brook
lyn Dodgers.
February 1-San Angelo (Tex)
'eO'ou'y Junior College basket
ball team beats John Tarleton. 81
26, to end PloWboys' winning streak
at 86. 20-Sixto Escobar outpoints
Harry Jeffra to regain world ban
tamweight boxing title. 23- Joe
Louis knocks out Nathan Mann in
156 of third round 26-Glenn Cum
ningham, Jim Herbert and Allan
Tolmich set world records of 3:484
for 1,500 meters, 1908 for 900 me-
ters and 0:O8.5 for 65-meter hurdles
in National A. A. U. indoor track
championships. 28-I. A. A. F. Ger
titles Sydney Wooderson's 406.4 for
mile and Jesse Owens 0:10.2 for 100
motors ac world racor5c
kAnr~h 3-Glenn Cunningham
surpasses all records for
mile with 4:O44 time in Dartmouth
College gymnasium at Hanover. N.
H. 4EHank LuiSetti, Stanford bas-
ket ball star. registered % points
against California to set national
collegiate record with four-year to-
tai of 1850 points. 5-Maxwell How
ards Stagehand, paying 1920, beats
Charles S. HoWards 1910 favorite,
Seabiscuit. in photo finish in $780,
900 Santa Anita Handicap; War
Admiral, 7-20, wins $4,000 Widener
Cup; Columbia retains I. C. 4-A in
door team track title; Don McNeill
and Virginia Hollinger win national
indoor tennis championships. =
Baron Gottfried Won Cramm, Ger
man Davis Cup star and No. 2 in
the world tennis rankings, arrested
on morals charge 12-Glenn Cum
ningham sets Madison Square Gar
den record with 4:O74 mile, then
runs third to Jim Herbert's world
record I'LL in 600-yard run; Lou
Gehrig signs for $4,000, his highest
salary. 19-Kansas City CKans)
Healeys win National A. A. U. bas-
ket ball championship, defeating de-
Tending Denver Sideways, 40-38. 20
Tiny Thompson, Boston Bruins,
wins Vezina Trophy as National
Hockey Leagues outstanding goalie
of season. 22-Commissioner Ken
esaw Mountain Lands raps Branch
Rickey's methods and "undercover'
working agreements of st. Louis
Cardinals in freeing all players on
two minor league clubs and filming
three others for violation of baseball
law. 25-Battleship II, son of Man
O. War, wins Grand National Stee-
! plechase; first United States-bred-