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SPORTS pSj ROUNDUP fell By HUGH FUL*LERTON, JR. HMUlH NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—(JP)—If Bob Montgomery had fought all of last night’s bout the way he did the 14th round, he still would be world lightweight champion in New York and Pennsylvania . . . But Beau Jack still is the guy we’d rather have on our side in an alley fight . . . He’s not a great champion, or even a good boxer, but he’s able to _ 1 1 . 1 w _ maxvc suing pretty guuu unco look bad . . . Anyway, the Beau gave Marine Private Jimmy Wergeles, whose col lection of service ribbons is more colorful than his pop’s adjectives, something to talk about when he goes back on duty , . . Jimmy’s dad, Chick, is Beau’s manager. ONE-MINUTE SPORTS PAGE Prexy Brick Laws of the Oak land Pacific Coast league plans a confab with Babe Ruth during the minor league meetings about a job managing the Oaks—but the No. 1 candidate still is Dolph Camilli . . . Jim Yeager. Colorado grid coach, recently recommended a player for the university librarian ihip and a faculty committee gave a unanimous okay. . . That must either disprove the theorj that foot ball players can't lead or prove that Jim is quite a convincing guy . , . When Boston enters the Na tional Football league, the team will be called the “Yanks'’. . . And Beantown scribes say it will take only a couple of defeats to change the Yanks to “jerks.” WHAT’S IN A NAME? Maurie Waxman, w h o claims credit for such colorful nicknames as “Two Ton Tony ' Galento, the “Belting Brakeman" for Harry Balsamo and the "Sweetwater Swatter” for Lew Jenkins, has re vived an oid one by calling his current meal ticket, Bobby Ruf fin, “Ruby Robert”. . . But Bobby tails to fulfill Maurie's pre dictions about what he’ll do to Sammy Angott, it will be the Wax man face that's ruby colored. SERVICE DEPT. Georgia Abrams, ex - middle weight champion, is heading for somewhere in the Pacific before long. . . According to Sgt. Hy Hurwitz, the Japs are against the Yanks, even in baseball. Report ing from a marine base in the South Pacific, Hurwitz said radio reception of the Cardinals’ efforts was good, but “every time the Yankees were at bat, a Jap broad caster would burst in and drown out the reception”. . . Lieut. Al bert A. Domingue, former Louisi ana State U. lightweight boxer, re ally can show the soldiers at Otis Field (Mass.), where he is physi cal training officer, what he ex pects of them. In a recent physi cal fitness test he scored 212 points to finish ahead of every officer and enlisted man at the base. . . After 20 months of service with the army ski troops — including three months in the Aleutians— Larry Martin, former Wisconsin ’ - ski champ, drew a furlough and immediately headed for Iron Moun tain, Mich., to do a little skiing. -V Minnesota Registers Victory Over Wisconsin MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 20.—<^P)— Minnesota defeated Wisconsin to day, 25 to 13 to wind up its big ten season with a record of two wins and three losses. Minnesota scored first on Av ery’s 61-yard run after taking a lateral, but Wisconsin came back With John Kuenzler dashing 27 yards to score. Kuenzler also kick ed the extra point and the Badgers ' led 7 to 6. That margin lasted only 30 sec onds, however, as Wayne Williams unloosed a long forward pass which Avery took on the dead run for a 67-yard touchdown gain. -V Texas Tech Ekes Ont Victory Over Mustangs DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 20.-® IThe Texas Tech Red Raiders de feated the Southern Methodist Mus tangs of the southwest conference, 7 to 6, today before a crowd of 3, 000, with Freddie Brown’s poinl conversion bringing the victory. Near the end of the second pe riod, Dave Redman shot a pass over Texas Tech’s defense to Mil ton McClintock, who raced tc Tech’s 23. Then Bob Stewart pass ed to L. B. Cox who fell across th< goal line for the score. C. D. A1 len’s kick was blocked. FLASHLIGHTS WITH BATTERIES PICKARD'S 209 Market St. Football Scores ( By The Associated Press) SOUTH Duke 27: North Carolina 6. Georgia Tech 41; Clemson 6. Camp Davis 41; Daniel Field 0. Howard 42; Sewanee 6. Southwestern (Texas) 7: Arkan sas A. & M. 0. (Ft. Monroe vs Bainbridge Navy cancelled.) South Carolina vs Milligan can celled.) (Curtis Bay Coast Guard vs Camp Somerset cancelled.) (Newberry vs Ft. Benning 176th infantry cancelled.) (Greenville Air Base vs Franklin Marshall cancelled.) (Wake Forest vs Camp Lejeune cancelled.) (Memphis Navy vs Ft. Benning 124th Infantry to be played Sun day.) (Maryland vs Virginia Military scheduled for Nov. 25th.) Tulane 27: Louisiana State U. 0. Alabama 19: Marion Institute 13. Tuskegee Institute 32; Morris Brpwn college 13. Tenth A. D. Tankers 25; 10 A. D. Artillery 0. Charleston Coast Guard 20; Camp Gordon 7. Oberlin 33; Baldwin-Wallace 7. Pittsburgh (Kan) Teachers 34; Missorui School of Mines 14. Miami 32; Presbvterian 13. EAST Army Brown o. Dartmouth 42; Princeton 13. Colgate 41; Columbia 0. Penn State 14; Pittsburg 0. Villanova 34; Temple 7. Lafayette 9- Rutgers 2. Sampson Naval Training Sta tion 28; Muhlenberg 7. Swarthmore 13: Atlantic City Naval Air Cadets 6. (Camp Kilmer vs Brooklyn Col lege to be played tomorrow.) Harvard 6; Boston college 6(tie). MID-WEST Michigan 45: Ohio State 7. Minnesota 25; Wisconsin 13. Notre Dame 14; Iowa Pre-Flight 13. Purdue 7: Indiana 0. Northwestern 53; Illinois 6. Iowa 33; Nebraska 13. Iowa State 48; Kansas State 0. Great Lakes 25: Marquette 6. Ft. Riley 10; Camp Grant 6. Kansas 7; Missouri 6. Pettersburg 'Kansas) teachers 34 Missouri Mines 14. (Drake vs Tulsa cancelled.) Ohio Wesleyan 49; Patterson Field 0. SOUTHWESTERN Rice 13; Texas Christian 6. Texas Tech 7; Southern Metho dist 6. Randolph Field 20; N. Texas Ag gies 13. FAR WEST Alameda Coast Guard 7; Cali fornia 0. Colorado college 6: Colorado 0. U. C. L. A. 19: St. Mary’s 7. • om Bridges Ordered To Report To Army DETROIT. Nov. 20.—W—Pitcher Tommy Bridges, for years a rank ing star of the American League and virtually a “tradition” all by himself with the Detroit Tigers, got his orders today to pull on a uniform for Uncle Sam. The veteran righthander, who spent 13 fuh seasons with the Ti gers, passed his draft physical ex amination and was instructed to re port at Fort Sheridan 111. He will leave for Fort Sheridan Dec. 11. Bridges' induction possibly meant the end of his pitching career. He will be 37 years ola Dec. 28 and has intimated that he expected to pitch for only one cr two more seasons at the most. He is mar ried and has an eight-year-old daughter. -—V-— Rice Rallies To Down Texas Christian, 13-5 FORT WORTH, -ex., Nov. 20. LP)—The Rice Owls rallied in the last half today to humble Texas Christian 13-5 in a game that pro duced the longest runs of the south west conference football campaign A crowd of 3,500 saw Bucky Shef field engineer a passing attacl that produced a touchdown in the third period and tally the winnim score midway in the last period. Jim Lucas raced 53 yards on i punt return in the second quartei to give T. C. U. a 6-0 lead. DUKE OVERWHELMS U. N. C., 27-6 DEVILS WIN PART OF CONFERENCE’S FOOTBALL TITLE Crowd Of 25,000 Watches Duke Score Eighth Win In Nine Starts BY BLOYS BRITT CHAPEL HILL, Nov. 20— UP) — Duke University’s powerful Blue Devils won at least a share of the Southern Conference championship by overwhelming a fighting North Carolina eleven 27-6 today in the 30th renewal of one of the south’s eldest gridiron rivalries. A wartime crowd of 25.000, larg est to fill Picturesque Kenan sta dium” this year, watched the ver satile Blue Devils register their eighth victory in nine starts. Duke won over North Carolina 14-7 in an early season battle. In defeating the Tar Heels, this time with emphasis. Duke ended a near perfect season, a 14-13 loss to Navy was its only setback. At the same time it ran its scoring total to 335 points. Luper Covers Ball Buddy Luper, Duke’s fleet field general, ripped from his 20-yard line through the Carolina line on the third play of the second period and raced to the N. C. 10 where a tackier knocked the ball from his grasp, but the ball bounded over the goal and Luper pounced on it. Gantt converted from place ment. Ben Cittadino converted only this week from end to back, returned the second half opening kickoff 21 yards to midfield. Then broke through the line for 40 more. Luper passed into the end zone to Hag gerty fog a touchdown and Gontt again converted. Luper got away late in that period for 50 yards to teh one, and from there George Balitsaris hammered over for the score and Gantt converted an other. Howard Hartley set up Duke’s final score late in the fourth period with a 21-yard sprint to the eight. Harty passed to Gantt in the end zone for the touchdown, but Gantt missed his first extra point in three games, giving him a season's conversion record of 40 out of 45. Lone Tar Heel Touchdown In the closing minutes Carolina ran and passed tc the Duke 44 and from there Myers passed to Miller on the four. Myers bucked over for the lone Tar Heel touchdown. Ko sinski's attempted conversion was blocked. A rugged, charging North Caro lina line held the fast-stepping Dukes scoreless in the first quar ter, but they couldn’t for long stave cfi the inevitable. Grimes fumbled Carver's long kick late in the sec ond period and Jack Bush recover ed it for the Dukes on the North Carolina 20. thereby setting up the most spectacular touchdown play oi the game. Luper, plugged at the staunch Tar Heel line twice without find ing an opening. Then he broke through the middle, cut back to Elude several Tar Heels and head ed down a sideline for the payoff stripe. At the 10 North Carolina’s soph sensation. Jack Fdch, made a futile drive at Luper's flying heels and managed to release the Kocky Mount youth’s hold on the ball. It bounced out of his hands and forward into the end zone, and the Dukes Luper was there first to cover. Cittadino took Eddie Teague's kickoff opening the third period end returned it to midfield from there he broke through the whole North Carolina defense for a 40 yard gallop before being downed by Rodgers on the 10. After Cliff (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 3) -V CADETS TRAMPLE BROWN, 59 TO 0 — Largest Score Made By Army Since It Defeated Villanova In 1919 WEST POINT, N. Y., Nov. 20.— Wi—It is an OUA regulation that no red ration points are required for bear steak—so Army’s foot ballers had their biggest banquet in 24 years today. Apparently operating on the theory of feasting while the feast ing is good, the well-drilled Cadets warmed up for next week’s Navy brawl by eating their fill of the battered Brown Bruit for a 59 to 0 triumph—the biggest score any Army team has rolled up since the 1919 outfit nosed out Villanova 62-0. A crowd of some 6,000 sat in Michie stadium and watched the bear steak dinner party. The Ca dets hit the scoring coiumn on nine of the 14 occasions they were in possession ol the ball Army Coach Earl Blaik had his bench cleaned off at the finish, and even the fourth stringers scor ed. Meantime, the only real threat Brown was able to cook up came in the fourth period, against the Cadet third-stringers when Jack Cokefair spear-headpd an air raid that reachea the Army five, only to be held for downs. One of Coke fair's pilches was completed out of bounds 'oey.'.nd the end zone and that was the closest, the Bruin came to getting money. Davis Defeats Daniel For 7th Win Of Year - ---* - ---,*---, Underwater Beauty Queen r.~ .. Leaping gracefully at you with loving look at loving cup is Corinne Smith, who holds unusual title of underwater beauty queen, won in Town Hall pool, Los Angeles. Irish Pushed To Defeat Iowa Seahawks, 14 To 13 Little Fred Earley Place Kicks Two Extra Points To Gain Victory SOUTH BEND, IND.. Nov. 20—M —In the midst of a vibrant calm ness which settled over trie stadium Knute Rockne built, little Fred Earley, an 18-year-old Navy V-12 trainee, today place-kicked two vital extra points after a pair of last half touchdowns to give Notre Dame a 13-13 victory over the pro-powered Iowa Seahawks. A crowd of 45.000 went wild as Notre Dame climaxed a terrific uphill struggle to win its ninth straight game after spotting the Seahawks seven points in the first period. The Irish, with Great Lakes next Saturday standing between them and their first undefeated-United season since 1930. Today were stamped as one of the best, if not the best team in the school’s lush football history. Only four yards short of a touch down. the halftime whistle ended Nc .re Dame’s chances of tying the score. But the Irish forgot that heartbreaking incident and rolled 04 yards to a touchdown in the first four minutes of the third quar ter. gave another marker to the Seahawks at the outset of the fourth, and then paraded 55 yards into the end zone. The Seahawks going down to their first defeat in nine starts used tneir five former pros the greater part of the game. Dick Todd of Texas Aggies and a Washington Redskin star for four years- pro vided the most power, carrying the ball 13 times for 78 yards and completing two passes for 40 yards. He was carried from the field suffering a broken jaw in the last period during Notre Dame's touchdown drive. The Seahawks great line, holding * (Continued on Page Seven; Col, 4) GREAT LAKES CLUB BEATS MARQUETTE Trounce Hard - Fighting Eleven, 25 To 6, In Prep For Irish Game GREAT LAKE'S. 111., Nov. 20.— t.f) —The Great Lakes Bluejackets warmed up for their finale with Notre Dame next week by trounc ing a hard-fighting Marquette team today 25 to 6. Great Lakes took the lead early in the first period and was never headed, putting touchdowns across in each quarter and piling up 432 yards from scrimmage to Mar quette's 293. Juzwik went over from the one foot line for the first Great Lakes score after sparking a drive that began on the Sailor’s six. Great Lakes scored again early in the second quarter when Cecil Pirkey, right end. picked up a blocked punt and ran across from the Mar quette 13. John Rudan registered Mar quette's only score, going over from the Great Lakes five after a sustained drive from the Hilltop pers 42. Less than two minutes later Dewey Proctor ran 33 yards for the third Sailor marker. The last Great Lakes touchdown was scored by Ken Roski after Sitko had brought the ball to the one foot line. IRON SHOT WINS ORANGE, Va.. Nov. 20—(Jt—Iron Shot, six-year-old roan gelding, owned by Miss Ella A. Widener of Philadelphia, favorite to win the Noah Laing steeplechase, fea ture of the Montpelier Hunt races today, romped in four lengths ahead of C. K. Bassett’*, Corrigan, with eight horses in the field. BRIGADE SCORES IN EACH PERIOD FOR 41-0 TOTAL Standlee Enjoys Field Day As He Reels Off 172 Yards In 14 Tries CAMP DAVIS. Nov. 20. — UP! — Scoring in every period via pas ses, plunges and a long run. the C'amp Davis Blue Brigade annexed its seventh triumph cf the season today as it overpowered a visiting Daniel Field. Ga., eleven 41-0 be fore 15,000 anti-aircraft soldier fans. With T-formation finesse, the Davis gridd#rs accumulated an im pressive 395 yards along the ground in the process ol routing the fliers. Once again the gifted Norm Standlee enjoyed a field day as he rambled ana rumb’ed 172 yards in 14 ball-carrying efforts. The for mer Stanford and Chicago Bear fullback tallied twice and made good on four of five attempts at nnntrorciitn Fumble Stalls Drive The opening kickoff had no soon er got the game underway than Standlee and Frank Waugh col laborated in lugging the ball from midfield to the Daniei Field five, where a fumble stalled the drive. But after 1he ensuing return back, Glass heaved from the Fliers’ 40 to Stoeckel on the 25, and the ex Springfield college Isa hustled the remaining distance for the counter. Standlee converted. Moments later Breeding Davis, end, recovered a fumble on the Fliers’ 35. Standlee was the big gun behind two bursts of 19 yards and then six more for a touch down following a penalty against Daniel Field. Midway of the second stanza Stoeckel passed to Nessing for the third touchdown of the half after Standlee thundered through center for 50 yards only to be stopped on the Airmen’s five. Three successive first downs set up an immediate touchdown after the intermission. Waugh and Bezemes abetting and Standlee making the tally ana the extra point, and the Blue Brigade led 27-0. The two final touchdowns were chalked up in the final quarter, one Stoeckel's pass to Krumtingar cov ering 30 yards and then a spark ling 63-yard gallop by Bezemes as Standlee cut down the last de fended. Pos. Daniel Field Camp Davis LE—Holmes_ Nessing LT—Ciummo. Montgomery LG—Hail.—.Primavera C—Baliard ......__Vannoy RG—Anderson.-...Gowar RT—Berryman . Melius RE—Davis_ Barton QB—Ditomo.. Glass LH—Sylvester .— Stoeckel RH—Roan.—. Waugh FB—Duval . Standlee Camp Davis ___ 13 7 7 14—41 Camp Davis scoring: Touch downs, Stoeckel, Standlee, 2; Nes sing, Krum'.ingar (sub), Bezemes (sub). Point after touchdown, Standlee, 4; Yoder. Substitutes: Camp Davis, backs, Yoder. San tone, Nerelecki, Poletti, Bezemes, Mooney, Ostergren; ends, Goldberg, Krumtingar, Breeding; tackles, S h u b e r t, Schmidt. Southward, W eeks; guards, Mandarino, Frichofer; cen ter, Khote. Daniel Field, backs, Grace, Mazitis: ends. Lombc-rger, Jack-! son; guards. Hebson, Copple, Sed lewicz; tackles, Cianchette, Busby, Cale. Doren.us; center, Nelson. - j -_—v LAFAYETTE WINS EASTON, Pa.. Nov. 20—IJ’)—Joe Marhefka, Jr., son of a former I Lafayette football ace, starred as Lafayette trounced Rutgers, 9 to 2, before 10,000 today. Marhefka grabbed a bouncing ball on the opening kickoff and ran 94 yards for a touchdown, then kicked a field goal in the fourth to account for all Lafayette scoring. Mack Says Baseball Will Boom In 1944 BUFFALO. N. Y.. Nov. 20— —UP)—Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, pre dicted today that baseball would flourish in 1944 and there would be more instead of .Jess leagues In operation. “There is no reason to be discouraged,” Mack said in an interview. “The outlook is brighter than it was a year ago at this time. You will see more class D leagues in o,p eration. We have no right to be concerned with the quality of baseball, the game is the thing we must keep going.” Mack, accompanied by Mrs. Mack, was in Buffalo as a guest of Joe McCarthy, man ager of the world champion New York Yankees, and Mrs. McCarthy. —-V UCLA’s Bruins Score First Win Of Season LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20. —(TP)— UCLA’s Bruins, Pacific Coast con ference champions last year but beaten seven successive times, won their first football game of the season today as St. Mary’s hobbled Gaels bowed by a 19 to 7 score. St. Mary’s all-around halfback, Honolulu Herman Wedemeyer gave the crowd of 11,000 several thrills with his punts and punt runbacks, but the Bruins watched him close ?y. , ■ TULANE DEFEATS LOUISIANA STATE ELEVEN, 27 TO I Inspired Wave Strikes For Three Touchdowns In Third Period NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 20—r_ An inspired Tulane Green \va™ struck with lightning suddeness fa three touchdowns in the third qua ter here today to .vhip Louis's",’ State 27 to 0 before an estimated 40.000 fans. It was the first Green e victory over the Tigers in f0l' years. The Greenies were superior b every phase of play and had to ex' ert themselves only twice durir the warm afternoon to halt Lon! siana StaLe threats. Tulane's first touchdown earn* ■„ the first three minutes of the tit id quarter after one Greenie ' score had been nullified by a clipp— penalty. Billy Jones flipped a shod pass to blocking back Leonard Fin! ley who sprinted 62 yards to cross the Tiger goal. Officials ruled that a would-be Tiger tackier was clip, ped on the 24-yard line and the Greenies were penalized back n the 39. Veteran Joe Renfroe whipped around left end for 14 yards a d Jones passed to end Ken Tara' ! who caught the ball and fell w the Tiger 4-yard line. Jim ladsm! Tulane fullback, scored through (Continued on Page Seven: Col. 51 Louisiana State Selected For Tenth Annual Orange Bowl Tilt January 1 MIAMI. Fla., Nov. 20.—<-T>—Loui- I siana State University’s all-civilian football team will play in the 10th annual orange bowl game here new year’s day. The announcement oi the selee tion was timed by the orange bowl committee to come at the end of Louisiana’s traditional game to day with Tulane. LSU’s athletic director T. P. Heard said at New Orleans that the Tigers would accept. The news, given to the team in the dressing room immediately after the 27-0 defeat at the hands of Tulane, cheered the players but coach Ber nie Moore said he had rather have had a victory over the GreenieS than a bid to any bowl. , Committeemen would not name the teams being considered to op t q tt but said the choice probably will'be another ele Pwhich does not have, be aid^se. ; vice cadets, so ,, the training program. , , , H The list was believed ton^^i , ’enn State, Franklin and Marshall, Wake Forest, Holy Cross, Tulsa and Arkansas. Until today, L. S. U. had won five and lost two games, both of the de feats coming at the hands of V-12 ;eams. The scoring punch of coach Bei’ lie Moore’s team counted heavily n the selection, since the commit ;ee were anxious to come back with another orange bowl thriller :o match the spectacular play in Uabama’s 37 to 21 victory over 3oston College this year and Geor aia’s 40 to 266 decision over Texas Christian in 1942. Louisiana trounced Georgia 34 to 1 !7, in the season’s opener, then de- t feated Rice, 20 tc 7. Beaten by Texas Aggies, 28 to 13, the Tigers snapped back with a 28 to 7 victory aver army students at the univer sity, then whipped Georgia again, 27 to 6. A 14 to 0 edge was earned oyer Texas Christian, but Geor gia Tech’s V-12 eleven won a wTal oping 42 to 7 victory. Steve Van Buren, the pile-driving ->■ S. U. back, is one of the na ;ion’s top offensive stars. Up until ;oday he had carried the ball 147 times and gained 834 yards. -V ^The roller canary, acording to ractographs, sing’s with its beak ightly shut. That’s no canary— hat’s a ventroloquist. £ lourseit To The Best Joe Cook $ I Dixie Barber Shop “Pop” Canady tj £ Princess Street AMen Morton + tT 111 Phone 9323 Edwin Clark * SHIRT QUALITY??/*^/fflST COLORS/ i Thanksgiving Is A Good Time For A ! You may not lave whipped cream on your pumpkin pie this Thanks giving, but you can still buy the cream of casual cloth ing. 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