THE 1930s: SPORTS: DEATHS

Heywood Broun, 51, sportswriter and noted critic and columnist. Spent most-fruitful years covering sports for the New York Herald Tribune, 1911-1921, 18 December 1939.

Dennis "Dan" Brouthers, 74, great Hall of Fame first baseman of the 1880s, 2 August 1932.

Joe Carr, 58, National Football League president since its inception, 20 May 1939.

Frank Cavanaugh, 57, "The Iron Major," football player and coach, most prominently at Fordham, 29 August 1933.

Jack Chesboro, 57, Hall of Fame pitcher, won forty-one games in 1904, 6 November 1931.

Charles Comiskey, 72, the "Old Roman," onetime ballplayer and first owner of the Chicago White Sox, 28 November 1939.

James J. Corbett, 67, "Gentleman Jim," the first man to win the heavyweight crown under the Marquis of Queensberry rules; he beat John L. Sullivan in a famous fight in 1892, 18 February 1933.

Edward H. "Ted" Coy, 47, all-American Yale fullback, who was one of the early power runners and an all-around player, 8 September 1935.

Charles Dryden, 74, one of the most famous and influential sportswriters of the twentieth century; his stories ran on the front page of such newspapers as the Philadelphia North American and the Chicago Tribune, 11 February 1931.

Amelia Earhart, 40, pioneer aviator, presumed dead after disappearing during flight over Howland Island in the Pacific, 2 July 1937.

Andrew "Rube" Foster, 51, the father of black baseball; founder and president of the Negro National League, owner of the Chicago American Giants, and onetime pitcher, 9 December 1930.

Charlie Gardiner, 29, Chicago Black Hawk goalie and two-time Vezina Trophy winner, 13 June 1934.

William "Kid" Gleason, 67, manager of the 1919 Chicago Black Sox who never overcame the hurt and betrayal of his players, 2 January 1933.

Ned Hanlon, 80, manager of the old Baltimore Orioles, the most exciting and provocative team of the 1890s, 14 April 1937.

John W. Heisman, 67, football star at Brown and Penn and later coach who built Georgia Tech into a national power. Award to the nation's most outstanding football player named for him, 3 October 1936.

Nathaniel G. Herreshoff, 90, shipbuilder, credited with designing every America's Cup defending yacht for twenty-seven years, 2 June 1938.

Ring Lardner, 48, well-known American short-story writer, as well as noted Chicago sportswriter in the early 1910s and author of the epistolary baseball novel You Know Me Al as well as other baseball stories, 25 September 1933.

Suzanne Lenglen, 39, French tennis star and six-time Wimbledon champion; one of the greatest women ever to play the game, 4 July 1938

Sir Thomas Lipton, 81, British tea merchant who unsuccessfully tried five times to wrest America's Cup from the United States, 2 October 1931.

John McGraw, 61, "Little Napoleon," the fiesty New York Giants manager who won ten pennants, 25 February 1934.

William A. Muldoon, 88, noted health enthusiast, trainer, and wrestling champion; he set many standards and guidelines as chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, 3 June 1933.

Knute Rockne, 43, Notre Dame football coach and the player who, as an end receiver, revolutionized the forward pass; he was killed in a plane crash in a desolate Kansas wheat field, 31 March 1931.

Wilbert "Uncle Robbie" Robinson, 70, manager of the National League Brooklyn team, called the Robins for him, 1914-1931, which won pennants in 1916 and 1920, 8 August 1934.

Alber "Babe" Siebert, outstanding left-winger turned superb defenseman, killed in a drowning accident in the prime of his career, 25 August 1939.

Matthias Sindelar, considered the finest Austrian soccer player of his day; he disappeared fleeing the Nazis and was presumed dead, 1939.

Edward Stratemeyer, 68, founder of syndicate producing popular children's books, including the Baseball Joe and Buck and Larry series, 10 May 1930,

Henry L. Williams, 61, Yale football and track star and later coach at Army and Minnesota, who compiled a .788 winning percentage, 14 June 1931.