The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08

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Decade Standout
If one wished to pick any single
PLAYER as the standout performer
on the baseball diamond through
the sensational 3C's-a decade am
DIV studded with sports stars from
every corner of the maple Would
find all the qualifications neces-
sary in Lou Gehrig. He was the
cog around which the Yankees
who have become the perennial
champions, revolved. And even
though his brilliance was somewhat
oyershadowed by the great Babe
Ruth in the early parts OF the dec
ade, Gehrig carried through 1or
the greater part of the years 10
earn him the distinction.
Until that tragic day last May
when paralysis had slowed his
mighty legs down to a walk, had
dimmed his batting eye, Gehrlg
had carried the Yankees to three
remnants and the world series IN
his last three years with the team.
There were numerous other great
players in the 1905, but the bril-
lance of Columbia Lou surpassed
all of these. He set new RECORDS
right and left, was voted the
leagues most valuable player and
so endeared himself to the hearts
of baseball fandon- that many nave
ACCLAIMED him as the greatest
baseball player the game has ever
seen.
. We hope, as many others do, that
his new venture will prove as sue
cessful as his diamond career-one
of the greatest of all times in
sportsdom.
Big Ten Enthusiast
Most mid-westerners will take
ND the cudgel at any time to argue
that Big Ten football is the best
in the country, and Teenus Cheney,
who writes from Salisbury and
signs himself EAR Illinois dam
yank'' is no exception.
Brother Cheney misinterpreted a
slight statement in this column on
January 2, when we gave a resume
of the various bowl games and re-
ferred to Georgia Tech defeating
Missouri, the Big Six champions.
He thought we said Big Ten and
came back with a great defense
for Western football.
There is no football team in
the country who could have won
all it's games of a ten-game sched-
ule if that schedule consisted only
of the ten Big Ten teams. You
may have noticed that year in and
year out the loss percentage out
side the conference is much less
than against VIC competition. This
was notably true this year."
And in that statement we agree.
For if you consider football over
a period of years, year in and year
out, as he says, Western confer
ence football probably leads them
all.
Sorry the mistake occurred,
Brother Cheney. Let us hear from
you again.
Monday Pickings
We note in a dispatch from
Chapel Hill that Harry Dunkle and
Bob S~toinoff, who were laid up
with leg injuries for several weeks
after Carolina's last gridiron bat
tie, are both back OF the Tar Heel
campus, and although using canes
are looking forward to athletic
competition in a few weeks . .
Governor Burnet r. Maybank and
j. D. Harcombe, Clemson's mess
officer, received ten-gallon Texas
cowpuncher hats, each autographed
by every Tiger football pla yer, aft
'er the victory yer Boston college
in the Cotton Bowl Whining
tons Golden Gloves fighters are
taking their training more serious
this year than ever before .
they realize that they
must be in good condition to meet
the stiff competition coming up in
the tournament Clayton Heat
ner, North Cardinals leading pro
golfer, is at last breaking into the
front line trenches of the major
golf tournaments over the country
-. If he can hold out today he
practically has the Los Angeles
open sewed up.
Sixty per cent of Canada's rich
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