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BUSINESS DEPRESSION KMBLYNOTICED IN BIGGER GATES ATBETTER EXTRAVAGANZASBobby Jones in Golf, Notre Dame In Football, HeleneMadison in Tank and Frank Wyckoff on TrackWrote History Stamping 1930 Unusual.By ALAX GOULD(Associated Press Sports Editor)NEW YORK—(/P)—The most spectacular decade in the whole history of •port, especially as its various and frenzied forms are practiced in the United States, has been brought to a climax with the close of 1930, a year marked by an unparalleled assortment of achievements.Ik The pinch of business depression may have been felt here and there In the region of the box-offices, but not to any conspicuous extent as the year winds up the dash along the dizziest athletic trail of all time.Since the post-war boom era in sport began, bigger spectacles, larger gates” and better extravaganzas have been listed than those featuring the campaign of 1930, but in no other span of 12 months have such sensational accomplishments, record-breaking stunts or bewildering turns marked the competitive whirl.It Is, indeed, the turn of an era, If not the close of an epoch, to find Bobby k Jones In retirement after storming the supposedly Impregnable quadrilateral of golf In perhaps the greatest Individual sporting achievement of all time; to find Big Bill Tilden bowing, at last, to the challenge of American youth to tennis after a decade’s reign; to list the dethroning of Babe Ruth as besball’s home run king, and the unconditional release, by minors as well as majors, of the one-time king of pitchers, Grover Cleveland Alexander.It Is around these stalwarts that the greatest drama of American sport has been enacted. They have been among the ‘‘invincibles*' of the decade that already has witnessed the passing of Dempsey, Tunney, Cobb, Speaker, Mllbum, Johnston. They have been the great drawing cards, the heroes of the country's youth.Though it Is the habit of the mob to look for the “kill,” so far as champions are concerned, it may be a long time before any group of pace-setters turns up to compare with these. So far as a successor to the one and only Bob Jones Is concerned, the quest is likely to last Indefinitely.
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The Montana Standard
Butte, Montana, US
Sun, Dec 28, 1930
Page 16
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