Evening star., 1940-12-16
Given Heavy Margin
By Sports Editors
In A. P. Review
Have Difficulty Settling
On Runner-Up Freak;
Score Are Cited
BY BILL BONI,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK. Dec. 16.-Dart-
mouths delayed football victory
over Cornell. already chosen the
No. l upset of the year, was singled
out again for special notice today
as l940's prize sports oddity.
The country's sports editors, while
deeming some 20 other screwball
episodes worthy of mention, were
strong for the fifth down" game
with its manifold angles as the
piece de resistance. Sixty of them
had it somewhere on their list,
and most of them put it right on top.
1t was, of course, distinctive from
the rest of a three-day wonder.
The first day the boys wondered how
Dartmouth could have held Cornell
to 7-3 score, the second day they
wondered how college education
could have missed teaching Referee
Red Frlesell how to count beyond
four, and the third day they won-
dered how Dartmouth could have
managed to beat Cornell by 80.
Second Difficult Choice.
From fine supplementary selec-
ton of freak incidents, it was diff
ticult to determine definite second.
The honorS appeared divided fairly
evenly among Ed divers disquali-
ficatlon from the United States
Open golf championship for being
too early, rather than too late, off
the tee; Jimmy Wilson'S theft of
second base in the World Series,
and the attempted tackle of Tommy
Harmon made in the California
Michigan game by misguided
celebrant who, like many more
sober and athletic citizens, missed
his mark
The Cleveland cry babies and
their petition to Alva Bradley;
Bunny Davis below the-belt at
tack on Fritzie zivic, which resulted
in his suspension from the ring. and
Purdues loss of three Western Con-
ference football games in 38 seconds
lncluding defeat by Ohio State
on a field goal kicked by an ineli-
gible player)-all came in for their
share of notice.
One oddity that might have won
more support with more publicity
was the 5-under-par performance
by a ladies threesome playing the
l30-yard fifteenth hole at the Mil
burn c. c. in Kansas City. Mrs.
II. H Silverford shot first and scored
a hole-in-one; Mrs E. F. Devilbiss
followed with another. and Mrs. j. c.
Fry hit a tee shot that stopped
inches from the cup for an easy
deuce and combined score of four
shots where par was nine
Some Other Queer Ones.
Surveying the rest of the sports
year, the editors recalled:
The Poughkeepsie junior varsity
crew race, rowed in total darkness
after the crowd had gone home and
not seen even by the reporters; the
attack on Umpire Magerkurth by an
overheated Dodger fan; Joe Hunts
"sitdoWn strike in his national
singles tennis match with Frank
Kovacs: Ohio States charge that
Coach Carl Snavely signaled plays
to his Cornell team with colored
cylinders; the unsolved theft of
the Washburn College squads tao
king dummies; the deliberate safety
taken by Boston Colleges Charley
ORourke in the Georgetown game:
Paul Christman's completed for
ward pass against Oklahoma on
which Missouri lost % yards.
There also were several votes for
Max Vests home run for the Ma
tional League in the all-star game
not merely because Max hit it, but
because Manager Bill McKechnie
named the Nationals lineup 48
hours before the game, made the
only change, substituting West for
Mel OFT 20 minutes before game
time, and then saw his last-minute
starter hit a ur-bagger his first
time up.