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Helen Stephens Outstanding Woman Athlete
ATHENS HIGH CAGERS TO BATTLE STATHAM AND LAVONIA THIS WEEK
Mias MARBLE GETS
StGOND PLAGE FOR
TAKING NET CROWN
Eleanor Holm )arrett Vot
ed Sixth Despite Being
Barred From Games
(Note: This is the second of
a series of stories analyzing re
sults of the sixth annual As
sociated Press sport poll. It
covers replies of the country’s
sports editors to the query;
“Who was the year’s outstand
ing performer, among women,
in any sports?)”
BY ALAN GOULD
NEW YORK — (#) — For her
track and field achievements, in
cluding national championship as
well az Olympic conquests, Helen
Stephens, 20-year-old Fulton (Mo.)
girl, has been selected as the out
standing feminine athlete of 1936.
Results in the gixth annual As
sociated Press sports poll, tabulat
ed today, revealed Miss Stephens
the choice of the nation’s experts
over two main rivals, Alice Marble
of San Francisco, new American
tennis . queen, and Pamela Barton,
English girl who captured both
American and British golf cham
pionship.
The long-striding Missouri girl,
although picked No. 1 by only 2¢
among 62 observers (2 .e: n win
ning total of 97 prints Mivs Mar
ble and M's; Barten, eaco with i
first pla.es otiled 78 and BG
points, respectively.
Miss Stephens, like Babe Did
rikson in 1932, topped the poll
mainly because of her record-smash
ing Olympic victories. Heen prov
ed herself the world’'s fastest fem
inine runner by capturing the 100-
meter dash at Berlin, dethroning
Poland’'s Stella Walsh ana lower
ing the record to 11.4 seconds. She
also anchored the Amersican wum-‘
en's 400 meter relay team which
won the Olympic final after the
Germans, while leading, dropped
the baton.
Before going abroad for the first
time Miss Stephens cuptured three
national A.A.U, championships, the
100 meter dash, discus throw and
ghotput. She holds numerous in
door as well as outdoor records.
Although barred from Olympic
competition, for violating train
ing rules during the trip to Ger
many, Eleanor Holm Jarett polled
enough votes to finish sixth, with
15 points. It was pointed out Mrs.|
Jarrett, victor in national cham
pionship as well as Olympic try
outs competition, has not been beat-}
en in her speciality, backstrokvi
swimming, in seven years and still
holdg most records. ’
‘Pabulation of the poll follows,|
with votes tallied on a 3-2-1 basis: |
Performer Pts.|
1-—~Helen Stephens, U. 8. and ‘
Qlympic track and field winner 97
2—Alice Marble, U. 8. Tennis ’
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3—Pamela Barton, British and l
U, 8. golf champion .. .. .. 66
4—Helen Jacobs, Wimbledon i
temnis champion .. .. .. .. 3}
b—Patty Berg, youthful Amer- |
Jonp ROl Btar ... s e '.’::!
¢—Bleanor Holm Jarrett, back- |
stroke swimming champion.. 15,
T—Marjovie Gestring, Olympic '
springboard diving champion 13°
S——Bowja Henie, world figure- ‘
skating champion .. .. .. .. 13!
9—Helen Wills foody, former |
Beauoen . o . o T
10—Leénore Kight Wimngard, U, ‘
8. swimming champion .. .. 6/
Scattered votes: Dorothy Poynton!
Hill, Olympic platform diving|
champion §; Rita Mastenbreek of |
Holland, Olympic swimming chunl-%
pion, 4; two points each for Kath-|
erine Rawls, national swimming|
¢hampion; Mary Hoerger. former!
springboard diving champion and |
Kay Stammers, British tennis star; |
one point each for Stella Walsh, |
runner-up for Olympic sprint ti(lv;i
and Glenna Collett Vare, former |
golf champion, |
Former poll winners: 1931, Hel—i
ene Madison, swimming champion;
1982, Mildred Babe Didrickson, Oly
mpic track and field champion;
1933, Eelen Jacobs, tennis cham
pion; 1934, Virginia Van Wie, gnll’]
Champion; 1935, Helen Wilis |
Moody, tennis charspion, ‘
Athens Authorities Have
Not Yet Received N. C.
. C. Invitation
By JACK REID
B. M. Grier, superiniendent of
Athens public schools, and How
ell Hollis, Athens High football
cpach, both said today that they
had received no invitation for the
local school to enter the North
Georgia Interscholastie Confer
ence.
A siory printed in the Atlanta
Copstitution this morning said
Athens, Rome and LaGrange had
been extended invitations to en
ter,the N G. 1. C. It is probable
that the Athens invitation will
arrive here late today or some
time tomorow,
The Constitution stery reads in
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Bill Hartman will captain the
1937 Georgia footbazl team, 26 let
termen voted at a banquet last
night,
Hartman, a junior this year, is
from Milledgeville, and one of the
outstanding ball earriers in the
south., In fact, some experts have
said there is no player in the south
who can bhe rated above the Mill
edgeville boy.
He is a fullback. During the
geason just passed, Hartman played
in only five of the ten Georgia gam
es, being forced to watch from the
sidelines all during the Furman,
I. 8. U, Rice, Auburn and Tenn
essee games.
After Hartman returned to the
lineup, Georgia did not lose a
game,
- Otis Maffett, lanky Atlanta end
was named alternate captain, and
he' and Hartman are expected to
méake two of the greatest leaders
a QGeorgia team bhag ever had.
Harold Hirsch, prominent Atlanta
attorney, was the principal speak
er last night. He praised the spirit
the Georgia team has shown dur
ing the year, and said he thought
the 1936 Cleorgia ileam was one of
the best in history.
Wallace Miller, the third-string
quarterback who rushed in to play
center during the Tulane game be
cause of a serious predicament,
wag praised by Coach Mehre for
his spirit, and was awarded a let
ter. Georgia playerg are not given
letters according to the length of
time they play, as is the rule in
many colleges, Miller played cen
ter after Lumpkin and Milner had
been taken out in the same quarter
and Law was hurt, <oach Mehre
didn’t have a center eligible to go
back in the game until after the
quarter was over, so he used Millen,
Conch Mehre announced spring
training wauld start Janvary 25,
and would last for sig weeks,
Lettermen announced are as fol
lows: : ; ]
Lumpkin, Law, centers; Harman,
Hall, Tinsley, Troutmanh, Leedern
guards; Davis, Fadgett, Haygood,
tacklex; Candler, Maffett, Gillespie.
Townsg, ends: Young, Hoddenberry,
Miller, quarterbacks: Anderson
Stevens, Causey, Yert halfbacks;
Vandiver, Cavan, Johnson, right
halfhacks: Green, Hartman, .Jones,
fullbacks and Hayden and Wright,
managers,
LEWIS WANTS BRADDOCK
HOT SPRINGS, ark. — # —
John Henry Lewis, negro light
heavyweight champion, wants a
shot at James J. DBraddock before
the heavyweight title holder clash
es with Max Schmeling of Ger
many,
Gus Greenlee of Pittsburgh, Lew
is’ manager, wired Jece Gould.
Braddock's manager, yesterday a
proposal that the negro meet
Braddock in a “warm up” figth.
He added that if the bout js ar
ranged, Lewis will “warm up’
Braddock to the fullest extent.
| part: .
‘ “Athens High school, through
its athletic director and ecoach,
Howell Hollis, wrote the confer
ence . (N, G. .I. C.) suggesting
formation of a North Georgia
la!hletic asociation. but since the
North Georgia Interscholastic
l(“onfemn(‘e has been in successful
‘opm‘aliun for many years, no ac
‘tion was taken on the letter.”
i Neither Superintendent Grier
‘or Coach Hollis had any state
rment to make for publication this
'morning. If sueh an invitation is
| received, & meeting of school au
!thorities will be called to vote on
E'the question. ,
i It is considered doubtful, how
jever, if +he Maroons would par
jticipate in the N. G. 1. C., al
. though -two of the teams of that
| conference, Gainesville and Deca
gtur. were on the Athens schedule
~during the past season. It is un
_derstooq, that local authorities are
!etm hopeful of forming the new
North Georgia league,
Louis Knocks Out Simms In
First Round Of Charity Bout
| Detroit's Brown Bomber!
l Scores KO in 18 Seconds
|Of Cleveland Fight |
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[ BY CHARLES DUNKLEY
| CLEVELAND —() — Joe Louis, |
|lO-year-ago an Alabama cotton!
| picker at 10-cents a day, added|
| another $20,000 to his bankroll to- |
iday to bring his 1936 ring earnings|
[ up to $300,000 for six fights. i
| Twenty thousand dollars for land- |
ing just one devastating left hook_ .
that was the sum the frozen-faced
Detroit negro received for accom
plishing the quickest knockout of
his sensational career—paralyzing
Cleveland’'s Eddie Simms in exactly
18 seconds of a bout scheduled to
go 10 rounds,
] The dramatic finish stunned the
{ 11,000 persong in Cleveland's pub
| lic hall last night. The spectators
| who paid $50,000 to witness the
!'charity fight sponsored by the
| Cleveland News hardly had settled
!back in their seatg to enjoy. the
| battle before it was over.
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!first, driving lefts to Louis’ body
land then shifting to the face. Louis
(danced away with the 195-pound
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yafter him, Simmg suddenly lashed
lout with another left to the face
jand a right to the head.
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stant and then, like a panther,
‘sprung forward. He drove his
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iit landed with a thud and with the
| speed of a bullet.
i Simms went down flat on his
back, hig leggs and arms in the air
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'lfloor of the ring, trying to rise,
! He drew his legs under him and
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‘to hig feet. Finally, he caught the
middle rope and pulled himself up
iat the count of eight, 26 seconds
|after the bout started, He was
' swaying like a drunken man. His
E(-.y(‘s were glagsy. ;
| Quick-thinking Arthur Donovan,
'of New York, the referee, threw
his armg around Simms and wav
ed the Brown Bomber to his corner
us Louis was moving in for ‘the
kill. It was the first time Simms
Lh;.'.d been knocked out in 52 battl.s
over 2 period ‘of flve years, d
j It will go down in the record
book as, a teehmical knockout, for
Donovan stopped it because he bs.
lieved he was justified. |
“Let's take a walk,” Simms
screamed at Donovan while the re
feree was shaking the boxer's‘&ead
trying to get the cocbwebs out of
it. “T'll go any place you say. How
about going up on the roof? Let's
take a run up the aisle.” Donovan‘
said he felt justified in stoppiag |
the fight because “another blow
might have resulted fatally.” |
BETTING INCREASES |
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — (#) —
A 67 per cent increase in open{n«z}
day wagering at {Tropical Park
caused track officials today to fore
«cast the 1936-37 horse racing sea-‘
son would be Florida's biggest in}
pari mutuel play.
The 15,000 persons who swamed
the Gables Racing Association's
‘suburban plant as the state's 6-9
day season began wagered $185,675.
Opening day play in the legalizea
lmutuels last year was $124,000.
- The inaugural feature, the Bou
‘;:uinvilleu purse, went to Proph.
"I‘he J. W. Parrish 2-year-old de
feated six other crack juveniles in
'tho five and one-half furlong race,
and paid sll to $2 to win.
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
HUDGON 15 GHIFTED
10 GENTER; GECREST
15 OUT WITH INJURY
Maroons Play Away From |
Home Both Thursday
And Friday Nights |
3 - By JACK REID i
Athens High's Maroon quinlet!
opened its final week of practice |
prior to the Christmas holidays |
vesterday afternoon, with thni
temrpordary shift of Jimmy Hu?i
son veteran forward, to the cen-l
ter position featuring the day. |
Hudson’s - shift was caused by!
the less of Lee Secrest, who \\‘ill;
he unable to serimmage any !hisl
week and may not he able to play |
in two games late Lthis week. Se-i
cregt is suffering from a finger |
infection suffered against Colbert |
Yesterday’s shift was the seconds
in two weeks Coach Sam Gardner |
has been forced to make in his[
first string line-up. Herschel |
Franklin, regular guard, sustain-|
ed « shoulder injury two weel\:sg
ago agezinst Commerce that will |
keep him out until aiter Christ-|
mas, and Coach Gardner found izl
neccessary to change Harol;i;
Chandler from regular forward Lu‘
guard, and promote John Woods
to Chandler’s old berth. !
That move worked fine. lisp(:-}
cially encouraging has been work |
of Woods at forward. Although ‘
bit small, the blonde forward s |
developed into one of the best per- |
formers on the varsity quim-}t.l
William Flanagan, another small |
forwzrd, was promoted to the var- i
sity vesterday, and turned in a|
good “first day” job. |
BSucrest’s loss, however, will Iw}
greatly felt if he is unable to |
Athletic Heads 0f Seven Large
Eastern Schools In Meeting
Recreation Said to Be Sole!
Purpose of Georgia Gath-!
ering This Week
CEEERT— "(
NEW YOREK — #) — Athletic|
leaders from seven eastern colleges
bound by tradition into what has
come to be called the “Ivy League” }
are meeting this week at the Geor
gia plantation of Jim Lynah, Cor-[
participate in the fwo games this
week. He was listed as a doub:-
ful merk prior to the orening o?
‘Wractize, but had been showing
fine form since reporting to cage
drills. AU he appears to need is a
little confidence.
Both of the team's games this
week are away from home., Thurs
day night the Maroon quintet will
invade Statham, while Friday it
will ‘perform at Lavonia. The girls
teams will play in preliminary
contests each night.
Despite = sdries of injuries, the
lecal five has been showing up a
good bit better than expected.
Yesterdiy’'s scrimmage was none
too impressive, and Coach Gard
ner has another’ on schedule today.
Harold Chandler and Jack Mc-
Donald regular guard, are still
to start elicking in the manner in
which they are capable. Their
play has been far below par both
offensively and defensively to date,
but the Maroon mentor is hopeful
that they will spap back into
form this week.
ki) ecially encouraging has been
the work of Hudson and Woods.
In thig pair Athens High boasls
two outstanding forwards. . Se
credt, ‘at center, had also been
looking good prior to his injury
The reserves are woefully lack
ing.
e e et ettt
nell's athletic director, to do a 'lit-l
tle hunting and fishing. |
According to the announcements,
the sole purpose is recreation, but
unless all signs point in the wrong
direction the. ties that.bind the in
formal college organization to
gether may be drawn tighter be=
fore the week is up, ft séems only
natural that the men who carry the
athletic burdens should talk a bit
about their common problems,
Already the seven colleges, Col
umbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harv
ard, 'Pennsylvania, Princeton and.
Yale, have much in common. They
form the membership of the east-‘
ern intercollegiate basketball and}
baseball leagues; their track and
field athletes have met annually for
the past few years in the Kepta
gonal meet; their relations in min
or sportg are friendly and theirl
football schedules interlock as
much as those of most leagues do. |
In football, the sport that counts‘
most in the formation of such a
league, they have been steadily
drawing closer together in recent
seasons,
Interest in the suggestion of an
organized league was revived rec
enutly by editorials in the student
newspapers of the seven collegesj
advocating the plan. Alumni pub
lications also have taken it up. ‘
The offcials down at Savannah
may see it in another light, how-{
ever. They know how many dif
ficulties they face independently
and how many might be added.
Though the colleges may be as
alike as seven peas in a pod so
far as scholastic standings, eligibi
lity requirements, respect for tra
ditions, and the like, organization
of a league would bring up some
new questions,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1936.
Maroon Cridders Will Be
Feted Here Tomorrow
By Rotary Club
A gwell treat is in store for mem
bers of the Athens High football
squad, winner of the Tenth dis
trict championship for the second
straight season this past season,
‘Wednesday afternoon at the Geor
gian hotel. For it is that particu
lar date, beginning at 1:30 o'clock,
the annual Athens Rotary club's
luncheon, held in honor of the local
gridders, will be staged.
Forty-five playerg of this year's
roster have been issued invitations,
Others of Athens High's staff who
will be present are: Head Coach
Howell Hollis, Assistant Mentor
Clayton Bowers, Basketball Coach
Sam Gardiner, Sergeant D. 1.,
Turpin, Superintendent B. M. Grier,
Principal E. B. Mell, and Managers
O. L. Gentry and James Bridges.
The girl cheer leaders, Lillitn Acree,
Catherine Davis, Georgianna Rain
ey and Marion Moore also have
been invited,
D. Weaver Bridges, president of
the lpcal Rotary organization, sent
invitations to Ole Timer, of The
Journal sports staff, and Ralph
McGill, sports editor of The Con=-
stitution, inviting them as speak
ers but each replied that they had
engagementg that day.
John Martin, prep school sports
editor of The Journal and a gra
duate of the University of Georgia
several years ago has been sent a
wire by Mr. Bridges asxking him to
be principal speaker.