The Dispatch from Moline, Illinois • 29

DAILY DISPATCH, MOLINE, ILLINOIS: SATURDAY EVENING, 31, 1938: 13 WW EMI Q(7 1 MOLINE BASKETBALL IS IN 10! Ilk FOOTBALL TEAM Plows Look to 1939 After Rallying to Finish Third In 1938; Lou Novikoff Wins Threc-I Batting Honors SPARKLE IN 1938 SETS PACE WITH Defeat of Evansville Champs in Playoff Is Highlight of Moline Season. RIUMPHS MANYT Two Grid Teams Outstanding; Moline, 50; Monmouth, 20. Moltae, 43; Kewanee, 28. Moline, 36; Fulton. 16.

Moline, 24; Davenport. 42. Moline, 35; Rock Island, 32. Moline, 30; Rockford, 42. Moline, 34; East Moline.

27. Moline, 24; Galesburg, 22. Moline, 41; Orion. 29. Moline, 34; Monmoutfa.

24 (overtime), Moline, 38; Qulncy, 22. Moline, 51; Kewanee, 11. Moline, 40; Rode Island. 23. Moline, 40; Davenport, 30.

-Moline. 40: East Moline, 13. Moline, 28; Qulncy. 32. Moline.

30; Galesburg, 20. Regional Tournament. Moline, 51; Erie, 26. Moline, 19; East Moline, 29. Moline, 44; Orion, 20.

Basketball Tournament Furnishes Thrills. twenty-one of their last twenty-eight games and climbing from fifth place in the standing to third, only one game back of the second place Decatur Commies. In the ShanghneMy playoffs, the Plows defeated the Evansville champions, three out of four games to reach the final playoff which was lost to Decatur, one game to four. Decatur previously had taken three out of five from Springfield, the fourth place club. Other highlights of the 1938 season included a perfect 7-inning no-hit, no-run game against Waterloo by Clare Bertram, who retired' twenty-one straight hitters in-a two-light contest, two 1-run victories over Evansville pitched by Leonard Karjalaln, and the great batting splurge of Jim Steiner, veteran catcher, who was the most valuable man to his team in the closing month of the campaign.

Betram, a right-hander, and Joe Cavosie, outfielder, were recalled by the Chicago Cubs at the end of the season and Los Angeles recalled Novikoff and Chick StefanL youthful right-handed pitcher. By IKE SKELLEY. Des Moines (IP) Mark down 1938 Cubs' organization, selected for ability to develop players for future major league use. Mike is a good diamond teacher, but there has been some talk of a different; job; for him next year and there is a chance that he will not be returned to the PlOWS. w- These Things Stand Out.

'V When one talks of 1938 in Moline baseball, several things stand out, headed of course by the memory of the batting feats of Lou Novikoff, husky left-fielder, who plastered the ball all over every lot in the league to win the batting championship, drive in the most runs, smack the most triples and finish high in home runs with nineteen. Novikoff was recalled by the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast league and is being groomed to fill a regular position on that Double-A club In the, forthcoming campaign. It is understood that Novi while on the hospital list because Manager Gazella feared the Wisconsin man's hands would not stand up a whole season. That turned out to be the worst break of the year, for Mike was hunting a second baseman the entire season. He finally settled on Clarence Levan an outfielder, and Moline managed to stagger through the season with a crippled inner defense which was woefully weak on double plays until Tommy Nelson was transferred to shortstop.

During the season, Nelson, Dutch Zimmerman at first and Barney Olson at short and third all were out or handcapped at one time or another with sore arms or definite Injuries. Great Stretch Drive. But the Plows shook off all of their troubles to stage the best stretch drive in the 'league, winning koff was -sought In numerous deals at the winter meetings of the major and minor leagues by I several big league club owners. The big Plow outfielder might have set up a record for all time but, for the tremendous extent of the outer gardens at Browning field. Particularly -was left field rough on the Russian boy from Los Angeles.

Numerous 400-foot drives (sure homers in most normal parks) were turned Into ordinary fly balls by outfielders who backed up "a mile'' when Lou was up. Injuries and Inexperience. Two things handicapped the Plows from the very start of the season in 1938. Injuries bobbed up In spring training and continued most of the summer. Too many of the athletes were Inexperienced and playing in too fast company.

First injury was to Art Cuislnier, veteran infielder, who was released as a year crammed with sparkling team and individual performances in Iowa sports panorama. Manly Graflund and Clarence Warren Outstanding on 1 Cage, Grid Clubs. ANDERS KEEPS 220 TITLE Defeats in Regional Basket Meet and on Quad-City Gridiron Noted. The Iowa State and St. Ambrose football teams, Diagonal's state on the 1938 Maroon cage team.

Davenport, Rockford, Quincy and East Moline in 'that order. All four of championship high school basket' those setbacks came on out of town MOLINE baseball fans are more interested in what 1939 will bring the Plows than in what happened last summer when Mike Gazella's handicapped athletes staged a splendid-late-season rally to finish third in the final Three-I league standings. Plow followers are asking about the manager for the coming season and wanting to know if the Chicago Cubs are going to farm out any outstanding talent in this Class center next spring. Some of the Moline questions are to be answered on January 15, when the Three-I will hold its annual winter meeting in Lou Harvey's Le-Claire hotel. At least, by that time, Business Manager Frank J.

Hearn anticipates being able to announce the name of the 1939 manager. Will it be Mike Gazella again? Or will it be someone else from the ball team and the 2-mile relay team of Roosevelt high of Des Moines ran off with the leading floors. The East Moline game was played in the regional tourney at Rock Island. prizes for outsanding team accom plishments In the last twelve In the case of Rockford, it was the only meeting- of the season, a months. Iowa State, under Jim Yeager and his assistants, stayed in the game which will be returned by the Rabs shortly next month.

In all other cases, Moline either reversed the decision later, or had beaten the team previously. race for the Big Six footbaH championship until the final game, and then went down, 10 to 0, before an Oklahoma team which rated with All in all, the Maroons chalked Dillon Graham Edits Sports News of 1938, and Selects Twelve Outstanding Episodes in of Great Thrills the country's beet. Spectacular Show. up 16 triumphs in 20 games. Along the route to the finale, the Highlights of the season included a 34-26 overtime triumph over Mon Cyclones put on a spectacular show mouth's last place team which near as they knocked off Nebraska.

Missouri and Kansas and' tied Kansas State with one of the most sensa MOUNE HAS TV0 NATIONAL CHAMPS By DILLON GRAHAM, AP Feature Service Writer. tional rallies, in football history. Iowa State defeated Denver if" VTW YORK For sparkling exploits, astonishing rupsets and frequent Luther, Marquette and Drake out side the conference. I XI flashes of melodrama, 1938 produced a sports show that compared favorably with any in history. J.

Donald Budge again authored perhaps the greatest individual per St, Ambrose completed another season undefeated to run its string to thirty-one games without a set formance, just as he did a year ago. Yet there was no drama or suspense associated with his becoming the first player ever to win the four major back. The Bees were tied by St Knute Anderson Wins A. B. C.

Singles; Eddie Dempsey Cops Boxing Crown. Benedict's, but pushed aside all tennis singles crowns. It was never a matter of whether he would win. The only doubt lay in whether any rival would take a set from him. other threats.

For the second straight year class team won the state high Not far behind as Johnny Vander Meer, the Cincinnati rookie twirler who pitched two consecutive no-hit, no-run baseball games. Then Floyd school basketball championship. Di agonal duplicating Melrose's 1937 Roberts with his surprising, record-smashing 500-mile Indianapolis speed stunt. The southwest Iowa club, coached by "Pop" Warner, defeated muiui inmTfi i ii uubmuW'mi- 'i i uuWji 4. I.

Rolfe, 31 to 29, in a sizzling cham way triumph. And Capt. George Eyston, the Briton who drove his "Thunderbolt" faster than man had ever before traveled on the ground. Then there were Joe Louis' quick knockout of Max Schmeling; Henry pionship final which had the 8000 Joe Louis' knockout of Max Schmeling in the first round at spectators limp at the finish. Armstrong's victories over Barney Ross and Lou Ambers to become box ing's first triple-champion and Glenn Cunningham's 4:04.4 mile, the fastest ever run.

"And Bill Lee's feat of hurling four successive shutouts OThe New York Yankee sweep because the Yankee again dominated baseball, made another runaway of the American league race, walloped the Chicago Cubs four straight In the fall Inter-league competitions and became the first team ever to win three successive world championships. Their steady drive, as supposedly vital cogs faltered, stamped them as one of the best-balanced and strongest teams in baseball history. in the National league stretch. Golf offered RalDh Guldahl's great scoring performance to retain Yankee stadium because Louis, With all the savageness, speed and cunning of a jungle beast, destroyed the German in two minutes, four seconds for the quickest heavyweight championship "defense on record. It was a smashing comeback for the negro, who suffered a knockout at 'Schmeling's hands in 1936.

Louis also kayoed Nathan Mann and Harry Thomas in other defenses of his crown. the National open championship; Patty Berg's marvelous string of tri umphs capped by a national'champlonship; Charles Yates' British ama teur triumph in his first bid and Sammy Snead's victories that made him ly scored the biggest upset of the season on the Monmouth armory floor, and the first Men's night game in the field house In which the Maroons trounced Davenport, 40-30. to win a share of the quad-city title. Double victories were scored over Rock Island, East Mine, Kewanee, Monmouth, Galesburg and Orion. Warren Sets Record.

Althcogh the Moline team included such notables as Flip Anders and Ed Lindley, the real star of the season was a tall, slender boy by the name of Clarence Warren, who fired in 102 baskets and 52 free throws in 20 games to establish a new Moline scoring record 256 points. Warren had been a disappointment the season before and probably few fans looked for him to become the key scorer of last year's machine. But Clarence came through in grand fashion after a slow start, being held to 4 points on two occasions and finally hitting a season high of 19 points in three separate contests Moline's track record is unimpressive beyond the individual efforts of Anders, Lindley and a few others. The Maroons finished second to Galesburg in the Northwest conference meet with 52 points, 19 behind the Silver streaks. They were fourth In the district which went to Sterling after the relay disqualification.

Moline had by far the fastest relay team in this sector, but Its baton passing was clumsy all season. Two School Records. Two school track records were established last spring, both of them in the quad-city meet. Dave Bras-mer, a long-legged sophomore from John Deere junior high, ran the fastest quarter-mile in Maroon history, stepping the 440 yards in 52.9 seconds. Ed Lindley, senior point-maker who had been plugging along with second and third places most of his track career, finally cracked the school pole vault mark with a height of 11 feet, 10 inches Anders' records of 9.8 for the century and 21.5 for the furlong withstood the 1938 cannonnading, as did his broad jump mark of 22 feet.

3 inches. The Maroons finished in a tie for fifth place In the state meet with 10 points, 9 of them made By LYNN CALLAWAY, Dispatch Sports Editor. NINETEEN Thirty-Eight might be recorded as the year in which. Moline supremacy in footbaH and basketball came to an end after four seasons of victorious icliieTement on almost every front. also might be written into history as the year in which the reign of that group of athletes headed by cliff Peterson and nip Anders teased to exist.

However you choose to remember it, 1938 saw the Maroons win tie Northwest conference basketball title with ten straight victories; tie for the quad-city cage crown; Flip Anders retain one of his state sprint championships and two new Moline track records set up; Moline retain the Northwest football title with lour wins and a tie and Manly GraGund become one of the most prominent all-state football heroes in history. Surprising- Success. As a matter of fact, the 1938 ichievements of Moline high school lihletes were more or less of a mrprise to both friend and foe alike. The 1938 basketball team hardly tss espected to score a clean sweep hi the conference or to be able to stand off Davenport in one of a pair of games. That it failed to jonrive the regional tournament was i disappointment, but only because the team prior to that meet had tang up the best record ever established by a Maroon quintet.

The track team had Anders and Lindley and the fans went out see the colored boy run. He 12ed to better the records set up ie previous year largely because wretched weather conditions, but did dominate the field in his rents. More than that, It required ie disqualification of the Maroon tiay team to keep Moline from tinning; the district championship. The football team last fall was 4e biggest surprise of all with only ace regular left from' the title-win-ling 1937 team. What of 1939 As we move into a new year, one wonders what 1939 will do to the Maroon record book.

Already the basketball team has shown signs of being another strong combination Ed the 1938 sophomore grid team ns so strong that more optimistic followers are predicting that the football squad next fall will surpass 4e most recent one in triumphs. Much of Moline's success is tied ap in a group of nine men, all orking with one purpose in mind. Thty are: -Head Coach George F. Sen- Mff. Asst.

Coach Bill Bean. Asst. Coach Bill Lane. Asst. Coach Roger Potter.

Athletic Manager C. W. Holm-pen. Junior high coaches Roy Con-4 Sam Drake, Archie Swanson Lamont Hultgren. There probably never was a finer Khletlc staff assembled In one high fchool anywhere In the country.

Basketball Season. Only four teams inflicted defeat by Anders' first in the 220 and second In the 220, and the ether point by Llndley's tie for fourth in the pole vault. Anders was defeated In the 100-yard dash when, after, jumping the gun once, he held back in his marks fearful of a disqualification, and then had to run down a water-soaked lane in loose cinders. Recent Football Season. The 1938 football season is recent enough for all to recall that the surprising team swept through six opponents, tied another, and then lost its final game of the season to Davenport, allowing only two touchdowns to be scored against it in eight games.

The outstanding game of the campaign was the Men's night contest with DeVflbiss of Toledo, 0 won by a 13 to 6 margin. It was the first time the Men's game had ever been played under lights and it not only attracted a huge crowd of fans, but also a record turnout of Men. Manly Graflund was the outstanding gridder of the season, but the play of John Kolifitis and Tom Trevor In the backfield and of Bob Orendorff at end was notable. Two national championships were earned by Moline sports figures during pushing this city into the limelight on sports pages all over the country. Knute Anderson, bowling alley proprietor, captured the singles title in the American Bowling Congress tournament in Chicago, while Eddie Dempsey, featherweight boxer, won the national Golden Gloves crown at his weight in New York City.

Andy's feat of scoring 746 in the Chicago classic climaxed one of the biggest years bowling ever enjoyed in the quad-cities. He led the largest group of entries this area ever had sent to the A. B. and helped bring back more money in prizes than quad-city keglers had been able to win in any other year. The unusual part of Anderson's achievement is that he had been having one of his poorest seasons on the alleys up to the night he poured in games of 244, 225 and 277 on the C.

drives. Anderson was honored at a National Champion banquet held in the LeClaire hotel on May 24, at which officials of the American Bowling Congress were guests. The Moline City Bowling association was in charge of the festivities. Eddie Dempsey was one of the guests. Dempsey Turns Pro.

Young Dempsey had been trying repeatedly for several year's before he finally fought his way through the Chicago tournament and earned a shot at the national title in the intercity bouts. Eddie triumphed in New York and was a favorite to enter the international competition until a misunderstanding caused his untimely withdrawal from the team. The popular Moline fighter turned professional last summer and engaged in a number of fights in Chicago and Gary, losing only one close decision during 1938. His most notable achievement as a pro was a draw with Leone Efrati, the Italian champion who recently put up a great fight against Leo Rodak, the nation's No. 1 featherweight the game's biggest money-winner.

Comebacks? Helen Wills Moody arid Jimmy Foxx authored the greatest drives back to the heights. Coming out of retirement Mrs. Moody banged her way to her eighth Wimbledon tennis championship, a record in itself. She won over her arch-rival, Helen Jacobs, in a match clouded with tragic drama. Foxx, who flopped as a hitter last year, won the American league batting championship and the.

loop's most-valuable-player award. Another surprising personal accomplishment was Gene Mako's march through the national singles ranks to a final round duel with Budge. Then there was Hank Greenberg's nearly successful assault on Babe Ruth's home run record and the fine first-year playing of Joe Gordon, Frank McCormick, Geoffrey Heath and Ken Keltner. Perhaps the two outstanding teams were the New York Yankees, who won their third world championship, and Duke's football cldb, which went through a major-college schedule unbeaten, untied and unscored on. Football also offered the smashing victorious drives of Texas Christian, Tennessee and Oklahoma, and the New York Giants in the professional division.

Great Britain's Walker cup team stands high because it scored the first victory John Bull's representatives ever won in the international golfing competition. Upsets? There were Navy's triumph over California and Washington in the Poughkeepsie regatta, the fall of the Pittsburgh Pirates before the rushing Chicago Cubs, Seabiscuit's defeat of War Admiral, Carnegie Tech's win over Pittsburgh, Southern California's triumph over Notre Dame and the elimination in the national singles championships of Helen Jacobs and Bobby Riggs, the youngster whose string of successes brought him nomination to the Davis cup team. What were the dozen leading episodes or events of the sports year, taking into account the elements of drama excitement, caliber of performance, and significance? Here they are and why we pick them: I A Donald Budge's "Grand Slum because he was" the first ever to win the four major singles tennis titles Australian, British, French and American in the same year. He was so far superior that the only question was whether any rival would take a set. His two singles triumphs enabled the United States to keep the Davis cup.

Paired with Gene Mako, he won the United States and Wimbledon doubles. Later, he turned pro, with a first-year guarantee of $75,000. 2- Seabiscutt's victory over War Admiral (left) because the onetime selling plater upset the favored son of Man War by three lengths in the greatest match race of modern times and established himself as the horse of the year. Seabiscuit's triumph in track record time for the mile and 3-16 at Pimlico brought him $15,000 and made him the second largest money-winner of all time with $340.480 some $40,000 behind Sun Beau's earnings. Davenport High Regains Titles In Prep Sports ifij i 1 MOLINE FOOTBALL, 1938 Davenport high school athletic teams returned to the top in virtually all prep sports during 1938, breaking a 4-year reign of Moline in football and maintaining a time-worn hold on the quad-city track crown.

The Blue Devils managed to tie Moline for the basketball crown after breaking even in two contests. The Iowans romped off with the track title again, scoring another one-sided Victory in the annual quad-city meet. The football team recaptured the quad-city crown by upsetting the Maroons last Thanksgiving day in the final game of the season. Cagers Are Stopped. Coach Paul Moon's cagers were eliminated in the state hn.slrpt.ha 11 Moline.

20; Clinton. Moline, 18; Monmouth, 0. Moline, 33; Galesburg. Moline, 13; DeVilblss (Toledo, 0 Moline, 20; Rock Island, 0. Moline, East Moline, 0.

Moline, 12: Kewanee, 0. Moline, Davenport, 7. series by Dubuque high in the dis- 1 x. j. Helen Wills Moody's Wimble- Play Leading Roles in 1938 Moline Sports uricu tournament.

Coach Jess Day's gridders were beaten by Iowa City and tied by East Moline and Clinton prior to the Moline game on Turkey day. Outstanding Blue Devil athlete in 1938 was Bob Bender, a guard In basketball and a brilliant halfback In football. II atty Berg's golfing feats je- cause she dominated women's golf from early spring, when she triumphed in one southern tournament after another with a succession of low medal scores, through the summer, during which she collected several major midwestern titles and, climaxed her remarkable year by giving Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page, defending champion, a good lacing in the National. She was the nation's No.

1 sportswoman of the year. 5 Glenn Cunningham's 4:04.4 mile because it was the fastest mile ever run by a footracer. Circling the board track saucer at Dartmouth last spring Cunningham cracked his own indoor record by four full seconds and bettered by two seconds the 4:06.4 outdoor mark set by Syd Woodersoa of England In 1937. This feat capped a great indoor season for the Kansas veteran, long America's greatest runner, who did a dozen -mile races in under 4:10. 7 Ralph Guldahl's triumph in the National open championship because he was the fourth in golf's history to win the open, two successive years, the first since Bob Jones turned the trick in 1929-30.

In winning he produced the fourth lowest score in tournament records and was only three strokes astern of his own open record of 281. Gul-dahl also won the Western open for the third straight season but was eliminated in the P. G. A. tourney.

Vi don tennis triumph because it was the top comeback of the year. The former queen came out of retirement to win her 8th Wimbledon championship Her final match with Helen Jacobs was steeped with tragic drama as Miss Jacobs, La Moody's long-time rival, suffered an ankle Injury that blasted her chances of victory. Mrs. Moody's failure to suggest a rest for her disabled opponent caused universal comment. MARQUETTE COACH NAMES CATHOLIC ALL-AMERICANS "3 Milwaukee, Wis.

Coach Paddy Driscoll of the Marquette university football team, selecting the 1938 all-Catholic all-America eleven for an eastern syndicate, has named: Earl Brown, Notre Dame, and John Wy- socki, Villanova, ends; Joe Beinor, Notre Dame, and Al Wolff, Santa Clara, tackles; Jim Turner, Holy 2 cross, and Ray Apoiskis, Marquette. ri vac guards; John SchiechL Santa Clara, center; Dom Principe, Fordham, quarterback; Joe Melendeck, Georgetown, and Mike Klotovich, Vs! St. Mary's halfbacks, and Bill Osmanski, Holy Cross, fullback. Eft A frf ijjJWi WtMiwhjw.VdVlkV. juUUUUWBUBSBSSSaUUUUBSSSSSSSWBW 'ifrnTi'fi iYita ssssi wl-J j- kAtitMWMmrXiMwj MISSES BUT 31 OF 3050 TARGETS DURING SEASON Dayton, CSV-Here's a record! Phil Miller of French Lick, North America's highest average Johnny VanderMeerV double no-hit performances because it was the first time in the game's long history that this achievement had been accomplished.

No rookie had ever tossed a no-hlt, no-run game, so the baseball world was startled when the Cincinnati recruit pitched two In a row, one at night. His feat brought him the nomination, never before tendered a first-yearman, to start the all-star game which the Nationals won, 4-L 0 Henry Armstrong's triple-cham- pionship because it was the first time a fighter had simultaneously held three world titles. Armstrong, aggressive Los Angeles negro, took the welterweight crown from Barney Ross and beat Lou, Ambers for the lightweight laurels to go with the weatberwelght diadem he won in 1937 Armstrong later relinquished the featherweight title and twice defended his welterweight title against Garcia and Manfredo. 4 Cubs' rally to win National league pennant because it was an inspired stretch drive to overhaul the faltering Pittsburgh Pirates in the tightest National league race In 17 years. As the' Pirates' lead gradually vanished, the Cubs came along with a rush behind Hartnett (right), to win 21 and tie two of their last 27 games.

They capped their march and virtually clinched the flag by sweeping a 3-game series with Pie Traynor's Pirates. I Carnegie Tech's gridiron vie-I tory over a heralded Pittsburg club because it was possibly the big upset of the year. A week after losing a heart-breaker to Notre Dame, partly through a referee's "missing-down' error, the Tartans saw Pitt run the klckoff back for a touchdown. That was enough to discourage any underdog, but the Scots rallied strongly to whip the Panthers, 20-10. Carnegie was rewarded with a Sugar Bowl Invitation.

trapshooter during 1938, missed only thirty-one targets of the 3050 he shot at from the 16-yard line during the year. That gave him the almost unbelievable average of 898, the highest ever recorded on that CLARENCE WARREN cage scoring record. Is man at Western Teacher, Macomb, EL MANLY GRAFLUND Maroon tackle who made every all-state selection. number of targets..