The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-26

Waae0 aNWAA8 e@AeN 04aSa et.AAeoeA out Co be too nervous at first base, Eddle Dyer brought In the talented stan Nfislai from left field, and the ponora Dandy played the position as though he had been stationed there all his life. Muslal also went on Co acquire his second National League batting championship ln topping both major leagues with .S6S.
 Mickey vernon of the Senators was the surprise winner of the American League batting chamis plonship with .SbS.
 The Yankees, SO promising in the Spring. collapsed to such an extent that Joe Mccarthy resigned.
 After Ed Head of the Dodgers turned in one, Bob Teller of the The dlans pitched another no-hlt, noe run game, this one at Yankee Sta- alum. went on to break the modern major league seasonal strikeout record with Sle, which erased the SaS hung up by Rube waddell of the Athletics in 1908.
 Robert Murphy of Boston ore ganlsed the American Baseball Guild, but was dropped by the play CTS when the owners made conces- sions- Representation, a S5000 mini- mum salary and e pension plan.
 Army and Notre Dame tow-roped the college football field, dernon- strated how evenly matched they were by playing to Q savagely- fought scofeless tie. Georgia easily could have been in the same class. UCLA was all-conquering. Michi- gan was rolling nightly at the wire.
 Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis closed their extraordinary reign by spinning West Points three-year unbeaten skein to 28, yet the cadets were on the run when time ran out on seven-times-beaten Navy.
 The National League won the first round of the professional foot bah war going away, but wound up in the business first betting scandal in the wee small hours, preceding the Chicago Bears victory over the New York Giants in the playof at the Polo Grounds.
 While National League clubs played to 3,5O0,O00 paid admissions in exhibitions and games, the new All America Conference outfits dropped $2,O00.0OO before the Cleve- land Browns and New York Yam kees hooked up in their piayoff on the shore of Lake Erie.
 When the final gun was fired, the two organizations were still mad ct each other.
 More than l7.eO0,0Oo players bet upwards of $l,750, 100000 on the horses. with the handle up every- where except New York, where al, added five percent city and county bite obviously put some of the suck CTS next to themselves.
 Yearlings brought record prices.
 Assault ran Lord Boswell into the ground to win the Triple Crown and s424, ,io5, the largest sum ever accounted for by Q horse in one season. The chestnut son of Bold venture-Igual with the deformeo forehoof clinched Horse of the Year honors beating Stymie by si1 lengths at weight-for-age in tne Pimlico Special.
 Eddie Arcaro was once mort Jockey of the Year.
 Two-minute miles, harness rac- inr's equivalent of basebalrs no. hit game, footballs perfect play and bowling's 300. were recorded eight times as the standardbreds won public approval as never before.
 Boxing played to record gates too. the Lotlis-Conn fandango bringing an unprecedented $l0O maximum. Louis also belted out Tami Mauriello. and found him self without a single worth op- ponent. 4.
 It remained for Tony zale to more or less save the boxing situa- ton by flattening Rocky Graziano in the sixth round after being on the brink of disaster several times.
 College basketball did so well at Madison Square Garden, the Chi cago Stadium and elsewhere that the Madison Square Garden Cor uoration announced plans for new and more spacious Garden.
 Winning 3l of 8. Oklahoma A. and M. repeated as top college Kick with it's seven-foot Foothills Kur- land stirring up more agitation re- parding the skyscraper under the basket. Kentucky, winner of the Gardens National Invitation Tour nament, was the only outfit with the slightest right to dispute the Aggies' claim to the crown. As was to be expected with all this bucks offlce appeal, a new pro- fessional league was organized.
 HOGAN GETS THE MONEY
 Tn golf, Ben Hogan won the PGA and replaced Byron Nelson as the leading money winner. Purple Heart winner Lloyd Mangrum cap