Evening star., 1944-12-24
St Louis Bosebp Army Football Racing Top Sports in 1914
With All Branches Contributing generously to Wor Fund

M. Jef1ords. The grandson Of Man
TO- War earned $4,000, the years
top figure.
The leading jockey was Ted At
kinson, with Bobby Permane press
ing him closely for time.
Nelson's Golf Feats.
Byron Nelson was golf's big man.
Voted as top male athlete Of the
year, the Toledo, Ohio, pro set a
record by winning approximately
$45 900 In War Bonds. Though beat
en-, l up, by Bob Hamilton of Evans
vile, Ind, in the PGA, Nelson won
two San Francisco opens, Texas
Victory open, Nashville open and the
Red Cross tournament at New Ro-
chelle, N. Y.
Harold (Jug) McSpaden OF Phila-
delphia, when not winning a tour
nament, was right at Nelson's heels.
jug annexed the Chicago Victory
national, and among his others were
opens at Philadelphia, Phoenix,
Ariz., and Gulfport, Miss.
One of the surprises of the links
was Sammy Snead's comeback.
After serving in the Navy for almost
two years, he returned to golf by
taking the Portland, Greg, and
Richmond, Calf, opens.
Gunder Haegg, Swedens long
striding runner, shared the foot
racing spotlight with Boston's Gil
Dodds and Arne Anderson of Swe-
den. Haegg, who will take part in
the indoor campaign here this win
ter, set three world records.
Gunder moved the 2-mile mark to
8:45.4, then shaved it to 8:42.8. He
covered 1900 meters in the world
record time Of 3:43.
Anderson, who beat Haegg for
Sweden's 1,500-meter crown, ran the
worlds fastest mile In 4:016. He
beat Haegg three times during the
year.
Dodds was Americas top miller,
lowering the indoor record to 4:07.3
and later to 1904. He ran five l.
mile races under 4:l0.
Three New Boxing Champs.
With the welterweight, middle
weight, light heavyweight and
heavyweight boxing champions in
the service. the lighter boys had
their inning in flstiana. Three new
champions were crowned.
Juan Zurita deprived Sammy
Angott OF his NBA lightweight belt
Bob Montgomery outpointed Beau
Jack for New Years version Of the
world 135-pound crown, and Sal
Bartolo beat Phil Terranova for the
NBA featherweight laurels. Willie
Pep, beaten once in 81 bouts, re-
turned from the Navy to retain his
New York feather title.
Jack proved the best drawing card
His six bouts in Madison Square
Garden drew l06,433 fans and gross
receipts of $460.6lo plus $35 1854, SOC
in War Bonds. Both Jack and Mont
gomery are Army privates.
Sergt. frankie Parker of the
Army gained No. l tennis ranking
the result Of his first victory in the
Nationals. He turned back Billy
Talbert Of Indianapolis in four sets
Pauline Betz Of Los Angeles re-
tanned No. among the women by
conquering Margaret Osborne OF
San Francisco in straight sets in the
national championship.
Ford Set Swim Marks.
Though unable to defend any O
his three National AAU swimmin,
championships. Alan Ford of Balbo,
paced Yale to the national collegiat.
crown to become the first tripl
champion since 1896. Ford was ,
via naval student, unable to trave
any overnight distance, but tha
didn't limit his speed in the water
Ford twice lowered the 100-yart
freestyle record, first to so seconds
then to 0:49.7 and set the mark fol
100 meters at 0:559 and 75-yare
freestyle at 0:36. He also won tn.
150-yard college backstroke honors