The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-17
INDIAN VICTORY
IS NO. | ODDlTY
Shorts Writers Vote Friesell
Ruling Tops For 1910; Golf
Incident Gets Vote il.
BY Y TALBOT

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-REThree
Kansas City matrons required only
four strokes between them to hole
out on a 130-yard hole at the Mil
burn country club, and the junior
varsity crew race at Poughkeepsle
was rowed in total darkness, much
to the confusion of press and pub
lie.
But the country's sports editors,
canvassed by the Associated Press,
still insist that referee Red Erie
sells mental lapse in the Cornell
Dartmouth football game provided
the prize oddly on 1940's far flung
sports front.
That was the one, of course,
where Friesell allowed Cornell the
fifth down" that enabled the Big
victory over Dartmouth. Two days
later, after all concerned had seen
movies of the game, the verdict
was changed to 80 in the Indians
favor, and that's what the record
book will show.
Sixty writers at least mentioned
the incident in their reports, and
a big majority of them voted it
No. / among the scores OF silly
things that happened, such as Joe
Hunts "sit-down'' strike in the Ma
tional tennis championships at For
est Hills.
There was no clean-cut second
choice, the boys dividing their sup
port between such classics as Jim
my Wilson's theft of second base
in the World series, when it looked
like each leap might be his last;
Ed divers disqualifica tion in the
open golf championship for teeing
off too early, and the hero who
left the stands to try to tackle
Tommy Harmon in the Michigan
California struggle.
The incident of the three women
golfers undoubtedly would h a v e
placed much higher in the ballot
ing if it had been fresh in mind. 1t
was a beauty. Mrs. H. H. Silver
ford shot first, and she scored a
h%ole-in-one. So did Mrs. E. F. De-
Vilbiss who followed her. The best
Mrs. J. C. Fry could do was a
deuce, her ball stopping some four
inches short of the cup, and it is
assumed that she apologized to her
companions for having spoiled a
perfect score.
The Cleveland b%aseballers re-
ceived a bundle of "oddity" votes
for their unprecedented petition to
President Alva Bradley to fire
Manager Oscar Witt, though "od-
dity'' scarcely is the word applied
by Oscar to the incident.
Bunny Davis, the prizefight-
er, came in for considerable men
ton for his below-the-belt attack
on welterweight champic, Fritzie
Zivic. and the Purdue football elev-
en- for losing three conference
games in the last few seconds of
play.
The junior varsity "blackout''
race, witnessed by none except a
few homing fireflies, was well sup
ported, as was the attack on UNI
pire George Magerkurth by an ex-
cited Brooklyn fan and the charge
by Ohio State that Coach Carl
Snavely of Cornell gossiped with
his quarterback during the game
by waving a colored cylinder
about.
Other incidents recalled either
with pleasure or anguish included
a forward pass completed by Paul
Christman Of Missouri that lost %
yards; the unsolved theft of Wash
burn colleges tackling dummies;
and the intentional safety taken by
Charley O'Rourke of Boston col
lege against Georgetown, where he
lodged about in the end zone for
perhaps 80 precious seconds before
he was cornered. l