Evening star., 1940-12-29
unng Upsets Startling Exploits and Wealth Of Thrills Mark 1910 Sports

Curt Davis to Brooklyn for four
players and cash. 13-Boh Feller
and other Cleveland baseball play
ers petitioned club owner for re-
moval of Oscar Vitt>as manager. Is
Betty Jameson beat Patty Berg
to win Trans-Mississippi golf tour
nament. 16-Bill Watson won ma
tional decathlon title. 1S-Washing-
ton won Poughkeepsie Regatta. Joe
Medwick suffered brain conclusion
when hit by ball pitched by former
teammate Bob Bowman of Car
dinals. 20-Joe Louis scored 8-round
technical knockout over Arturo Co
doy. 22-Southern California won
N. c. A. A. track championship for
sixth straight year as AL Blozis set
new American shotput record of Sc
feet u inch. 24-Don McNeill beat
Bob Riggs to win national clay court
tennis championship as Alice Marble
took woman's title. 29-F. Dixon
Brooke of Virginia won national in
tercollegiate golf championship. Cor
nelius Warmerdam cleared Is feet
Ia inches to win national A. A. U.
pole vault championship and break
all records.
UIIY don McNeill, Kenyon
College, defeated Joe Hunt,
Navy, in national intercollegiate
tennis singles championship. r
Max Baer stopped Tony Galento in
eighth round. 9-National League
won All-Star baseball game from
American Leaguers, 40. 1o-Patty
Berg, women's golf star, turned pro-
fessional. 14-Bud Ward won West
ern Amateur golf title. 17-Welter-
weight Champion Henry Armstrong
stopped Lightweight Champion Lew
jenkins after six rounds of non-title
match. Detroit's Buck New
som suffered broken thumb in game
with Boston after pitching 10
straight victories. 1S-New York
Yankees, rallying after disappoint-
ing season, beat Cleveland third
straight game and pulled within four
games of first place 19-Tony Zale
stopped Champion Al Hostak and
won N. B. A. middleweight boxing
title. 20-Sirocco won Arlington
classic, Gallahadion second, Bime-
lech third. 21-Joe Burk won ma
tional singles scull crown for fourth
straight year. 24-Billy Soose out
pointed Champion Ken Overlin in
non-title middleweight fight. 27-
Robert Clark, ST. Paul, won national
public links golf championship.
AIIEIIST 3-Willard Hershber-
ger. Cincinnati Reds
catcher, committed suicide in Bos-
ton. sJoe Burk, world champion
Sculler, announced retirement. IA
Spencer Scot won Hambletonian
trotting classic. ItPeewee Reese.
Brooklyn rookie shortstop. broke
bone in heel and was lost for season.
17-Hotsy Totsy won Gold Cup mo-
tor boat race at Northport. Long
Island. 20-Mrs. Leila Hall and For
rest McNeir won North American
clay target trapshooting titles. Is
Jack Kramer and Ted Schroeder
won mems national doubles tennis
championship and Alice Marble and
Sarah Palfrey won women's title
. Jackie Cooper won national
Speedboat sweepstakes. 26-Jim Fer
rier, Australian champion, declared
ineligible for United States amateur
tournament because of golf book he
wrote. 2S-Chicago Cubs recalled
Dizzy Dean from Tulsa. 29-Fritzie
zivic beat Sammy Angott, N. B. A.
lightweight champion, in overweight
fight. -. Green Bay Packers beat
college football All-StarS, 45-2S, at
Chicago. 3l-Whirlaway won Hope
full race at Saratoga.
SEPTEMBER Byron Nelson
beat Slammin'
Sam Snead for Professional Golfers
Association championship. EAST
ern College All-Stars upset New
York professional football Giants,
1877. 6-Billy Conn stopped Heavy
weight Bob Pastor. 9-Don Mcneil
beat Bobby Riggs for national singles
tennis championship as Alice Marble
defeated Helen Jacobs to retain wo-
mems title. 12-Steve Belloise out
pointed former Middleweight Cham
pion Ceferino Garcia in 10 rounds.
14-Dick Chapman beat w. B. Nc
Cullough, IL and 9, to win National
Amateur golf championship. =
Betty Jameson won Western Wom-
ans Amateur golf title. 15-New
York Yankees, whose late rally had
carried them to within two games
of first place in the American
League, dropped a double-header to
st. Louis and began fading as pen
nant contenders. Aknusti polo
team won national open champion
ship. lS-Cincinnati Reds clinched
National League nennant 2I-Hash