1959: 1959 SPORTS IN REVIEW: Highlights of the year in the world of sports. The famous ARLBERG-KANDAHAR SKI MEET at Garmisch is a disaster for some of the world's top downhill racers who come to grief on the treacherous slope. In the NCAA BASKETBALL finals at Louisville, California edges the West Virginia Mountaineers by one point. A new RECORD HIGH JUMP by 17-year-old John Curtis Thomas, who leaps 7'1 1/4" in New York. Dead-eye putting by Billy Casper brings him honors on the links as he wins the OPEN GOLF crown at the New York Winged Foot Club. Aussie tennis ace Newale Fraster twice defeats Alex Olmedo to help send the DAVIS CUP down under and to win the U.S. SINGLES championship. In the WOLRD SERIES, the Los Angeles Dodgers out-hit, out-run, and out-play the White Sox to leap from last season's cellar position to the pinnacle of diamond success. A superb series of performances in the most eye-appealing of all sports in the A.A.U. PLATFORM DIVING championships in San Francisco.