25 Years Ago Today
25 Years Ago Today
25 Years Ago Today. Then as now, people were turning out en masse for the big events. Among the crowd-pulling sports highlights of 1933, on the turf, Equipoise, winning the Hawthorn gold cup (horse racing), spectators with binoculars; the Boston Marathon with a newcomer scoring an upset victory over Clarence Demar, even then a veteran! Denny Shute and John Goodman, battled on the greens for the mythical 'world's championship of golfdom'; baseball's most valuable player was Carl Hubbell, who pitched the N.Y. Giants to the World Series; in the Rose Bowl, a Howard Jones-coached USC power-house with Aaron Rosenberg (?) mauled the Pitt Panthers 35-0. Football players run at camera, low angle. Louis Meyer roared to victory in the Indianapolis 500-mile auto racing classic, at a sizzling 104 mph. Dramatic car crash. Man waves checkered flag. And in the prize ring, heavyweight champ Primo Carnera mixed it up with Jo-Jo, king of Australia's fighting kangaroos. Boxing.