Sport: Briefs

Twenty persons were killed playing football this autumn and 32 so far have been shot dead by hunters in New York State.

While despatches went round the world telling of the pleurisy which had prostrated the King of England, one of his humblest Subjects, Prizefighter Tom Heeney, was informed by a Manhattan physician that he had been walking around for a week with a case of pneumonia.

In Del Monte, Calif., Glenna Collett and Marion Rollins beat Johnny Farrell and Walter Hagen playing golf. Their handicap was six strokes.

A six-day bicycle race started in Manhattan last week and Milton C. Crandall arrived there with plans for a marathon talking contest which he will hold in January hoping that someone will beat the record of German Herr Parlatus who recently spoke in Berlin.

Three of the prizefighters most publicized since the Tunney-Heeney fight are: Jimmy McLarnin, Gerald Ambrose (“Tuffy”) Griffiths and Eligio Sardinias (“Kid Chocolate”). Fighting his first fight in Manhattan last week, “Tuffy” Griffiths was knocked out in the second round by James J. Braddock. On the same night “Kid Chocolate” was cuffed around by Joe Scalfaro and in Detroit Jimmy McLarnin was knocked out by Ray Miller.

In Chicago, the Chicago Bears beat the Chicago Cardinals 34-0 in a professional football game. Playing for the Cardinals was Jim Thorpe, famed Indian of Carlisle, once the “greatest all-around athlete and the greatest football player who ever lived,” who played baseball for the Giants, won the Olympic pentathlon in 1912, and is now 44. He played badly and was removed from the game.

Jim Bottomley, first baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, was last week awarded $1,000 and a diploma by the Baseball Writers Assn. of America for being the most valuable player in the National League.