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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, December 3, 1933 PAGE TWELVE ': vr. A Eastern Eleven for Rose 7 Bowl Practicail Picked; Just Say I'Army" and; the Irish Will Fight one r RdirnM d-l-. VWCJ 11 V :JJs UZ Z. vsv ' CLIUHED BOUT IS LISTED FOR POLK TOLD V ? -" ' ' -tehy. Experts Anv V ) Gain Two-Touchdown Lead, Then Permit Inspired ' Irish to Go Ahead '? V Crf By ALAN GOULD , - - -NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (J?) Turn-. Ing an apparent rout lata an astounding victory, Notre Dame's hitherto battered . and battled . 'Green Shirts pulled themselves V-back fronv the. depths of a disas trous campaign today to overcome - Army's twortouchdown lead, Jn a 'daxtlihg fourth-period rally and ' ' smash the winning streak of the . ' Cadets in the biggest upset of the tv 1933 college football season. - The final score was 13 to 12 a, V the fighting" Irish. In the space of 1 less than fire miputes, wiped out, -West Point's hi? lead and pulled - . the game o,ut of. the Jire with a - r comeback that was as swift as. U was startling' to a near-capacUj; . crowd of 76,000. i " " The breaks were a Ions time coming to the underdogs from South Bend, harassed and o.ut played for three periods bv an un-'- beaten Soldier team, but when they came they exploded witlj bombshell effect in one of the wildest gridiron finishes New York has ever witnessed. 14 was a marvelous triumph for a team that had tasted little pre v viously this season except football bitterness, especially as it came In the last period of the last gam against their mojt cherished rival, but It was a shattering climax for an Army team that had whipped everything else all pee son and which looked to be headed-toward West Point's first clean slate in - 17 years. The blow was hardly roftened by the fact that Army's tactics, in s defense of its, 12-point lead, ap peared questionable and that a substitute for all-America Jack Buckler, Maurice S'monswas the j victim of the play that decided - the game.' Buckler was on the tt sidelines, preparatory to being rushed back Into the game, when ' Simons' attempted punt from be ? -hind the Cadet goal-line was. F . blocked by a wall of green from i the left side of the Notre Dai" ; line and recovered for the second ? Irish touchdown by Wayne Mill 'l ner. Salem, Mass. ' t Millner, followed by big Ed " V Krause. star tackle, swarmed over . the substitute Array halfback as 'i be dropped the ball to his toe. It ? looked like questionable strategy VV by the Cadets, who might have pulled themselves ut of the hole ' . with an intentional safety, but ': they elected to take the chaiwe , V , and suffered Its disastrous effects. 1 When the pile was untangled just over the goal line. Millner was ? found to have the ball firmly in r his grasp for the six points that put, Notre Dame ', in front and f clinched the ball game. "This was the climax of a come ;baek that was wildly thrilling and almost berserk in Its intensity, as L '".the Irish fought for a victory that : goes a long way" toward making - them forget their previous string of i reverses, but looming big in , the background was the dropkick i -, for extra point, made by Reyman p. Bonar, quarterback from Bellaire. '4 O., f after- Nick Lukats of Perth . -'Amboy.N. J., had lugged the bail jv over .Army's goal line for Notre i Dame's first touchdown. The. Cadets were having some trouble holding ; their opponents . running attack ' bat . they were playing smarter ' football, taking " advantage of the breaks and seem ingly so confident, .'once they got Into the lead, that ''Beany" John- , son disdained completely the risk of returning any of the long punts booted by Lukats, Banas or other Irish kickers. Ab It turned out. this' doubtful strategy helped put Army finally into-a hole that it failed to escape from, as Lukats' punt in the fourth period rolled .dead on Army's 8 and put Simons on the spot. After this debacle. Buckler and other Army regulars were rushed back Into the game but it was too late. The Cadets never; were able Moving - Storing - Crating ; Larmer Transfer & Storage f 5 r PHONE 3131 We Also Handle Fuel Oil, Coal and Briquets and High Grade Diesel Oil for Tractor Engines and Oil Burners lAfimi-M'- i n-'vr - n i i V t . - t ; 4 r v. - ...... -Blannfacttirers of- BOND LEDGER GLASSINE GREASEPROOF f Sapport Oregon Products Specify "Salem Made Paper for Your 0 ; vL Office Stationery ;" W MM li W ' MWtal. 'J&& Xotre Dame's Irish most have called on the spirit of George Gjpp, their outstanding leader of more than a decade ago, once more as they built np fight for the annual game with Army. Rockne told the story of Gypp to his "poorest team," (lets. Something of the sort happened Saturday wlicn Xotce Dame, without an important victory to its credit ail season, upset the unbeaten Cadets, 13 to 12. Above, the "West Point contingent parading prior to a previous Xotre Dame Troy Has Too Much Power For Bulldog; Southerners Hold up Well in First Half By BRIAN BELL LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2. (JP) Southern California unleashed too much power for the lighter Uni versity of Georgia football team here today, and defeated the Bull dogs from Athens, 31 to 0. It was a football game in tne first half when the gallant south erners, fighting .gamely although out-gained by a wide margin, held the western stalwarts to a single touchdown. The weary visitors ber gan- to slip in the third period when another counter was regist ered and practically collapsed in the final chukker when the mighty Trojans pushed over three addi tional touchdowns. Sixty thousand saw the game. The comparatively light Geor gians could not cope with the foot ball equipment of the winners, either in the running or passing game. Georgia completed the long est pass of the day, but it was from deep in its own territory to mid-field vrhile the Trojans cut loose with two sensational passes for touchdowns from the 20-yara line. Southern California ran up a total of 27 first downs to three for Georgia and gained 405 yards in rushing plays, wtie the Bull dogs? best from rushing was 78. The winners attempted only seven passes and made three good while the losers were completing two to get within scoring range again. Army's two touchdowns came close together, a result of smart and aggressive seizure of oppor tunities. Buckler led a 34-yard scoring charge after Stencook re covered a fumble by Lukats early in the second period. An 18-yard pass. Buckler to Burlingame, fea tured -the advance- and Buckler dashed around bis left end to score from the three-yard mark on a lateral from Johnson. The CadeU came right back with another' tally after Bucknam leaped up to seize a pass by Lu kats and return it to Notre Dame's 22. Johnson lunged over the last foot for the touchdown after a series of short gains, plus an off side penalty against the Irish. ENVELOPES the one that lost four games, and the game, and some o f the stars of both out of 12, one for 36 yards and the other for three. "I . Julius Bescos, Southern Calif ornia end, played a great game both on offense and defense, mak ing two spectacular pass catches for touchdowns. Homer Griffith and Cotton Warburton, the Tro jans' running quarterbacks, tore off a series of runs, made more profitable by consistent blocking from their alert team-mates. Cy Grant sparked briefly for the visitors, but was over-whelmed after a brave start. Homer Key could . not get started. Captain Graham Batchelor was the bright est spot in the Bulldog defense. Fists Flash as Boston Defeats Holy CrossrMen NEWTON, Mass., Dec. 2. (JP) Boston College's light but scrap py tagies rought valiantly for an upset 13-9 victory over the Holy Cross Crusaders before 20,000 to day In one of the roughest grid Iron battles waged by these an cient Jesuit rivals ia their 31 years of slam bang football. Feelings ran so high that In the tnira period, with the Crusaders leading 7-6, two opposing play ers were expelled for slugging and the referee had to. stop the action and request Captain Chalie Reis of Holy Cross, and Johnny Freitas, commanding the Eagles in the absence of Frank Maloney, to keep their players on the foot ball code for the remainder of the game. Grid Scores Pacific Coast ' Southern California 31, Georg ia v. East Princeton 27, Tale 2. - - ' Notre 'Dame 13, Army 12. Vlllanova 18. Rutgers 13. Boston College 13, Holy Cross Midwest Dayton 21, Denson 0. Sonth Texas Christian 26. Southern Methodist 6. Kansas 7, George Washington o. . South Carolina 16, Auburn 14 L. 8. U. 7, Tulane 7. Mercer 31, Oglethorpe 0. Florida 19, Maryland 0. Georgia Tech 6, Duke 0. South Mississippi 31, Mississippi State v. . Southwest Baylor 7, R5ce 6. TCI v One Hour OTIS - CLINGL1ATJ ' : VS. r "' ROBIN " r riEED Wi They drew mee; Cling man'a last match here for months. r .. Don Sugai Will Appear Again 85c Downstairs and Ringside 55c Balcony 40e Ladies AH Tax Free , Salem A ' zY Hazzlotte boys went out and licked the Ca teams. CALL1S0M TALKED ORANGE, Tex., Dec. 2. (IF) H. J. Lutcher Stark, member of the board of regents of the Uni versity of Texas, said today that letters and telegrams to various nationa'Iy known football coaches, aproaching them as prospects for the Job as coach at the univer sity, were dispatched with his consent. They were sent from Austin, home of the university, by George McCullough, former Texas foot ball player now connected with a sporting goods house. ' Clyde Littlefield, present coach, issued a statement several days ago in which he said he would not fight to retain the position. "The job Isn't worth the money," he said. The fact that telegrams and letters had been sent out to var ious coaches In the country ask ing them if they would take over tiie position at Texas was disclos ed Thursday when Harry Mehre, University of Georgia coach, an nounced "he had received such a. communication and was consid ering the offer. Telegrams also were sent to D. X. Bible of Nebraska; Prince Cal llson of Oregon; Ike Armstrong of Utahr Lou Little of Columbia; Harry Klpke of Michigan, and Noble Kizer of Purdue. linSBEIT COLONIALS 7 TO 0 GRIFFITH STADIUM. Wash ington Del. 2. (J) A gallant Jayhawker team from Kansas uni versity today snatched victory from the air in the form of an Intercepted George Washington pass and led a favored Colonial outfit, 7 to 0, before nearly 10, 000 homecoming spectators. Battered from their 27 to 0 Thanksgiving day win over Mis souri's Tigers and worn by their almost constant travel since, the Jayhawkers defied handicaps to carry out their "iron man" pro gram against a Colonial team that had rested for two weeks. ' .It was ypung Roy Hafford, 1(1 pound Jayhawker left half from Tulsa, Okla., who led the way to the Kansas victory. After himself operating a pass ing attack that twice placed tho Jayhawkers close to tho Colonial goal, he intercepted a Colonial tOBs midway in the third period and crossed unhampered for the only score -of the game. ' One Hour DORRY DETTON ' . - vs. ROB no y Two well matched hoys; fireworks guaranteed. TEXAS mM Tuesday rmpry Decembers Noted Middleweight Conies Tuesday for Last Time In Several Months Tuesday night's wrestling show at the armory looms as one of more than usual Interest,-for a number of reasons. , The.main at traction brings together Robin Reed, king, of the welterweights but now graduated Into the mid dleweight class, and Otis Cling man, whose friends claim ' he is the outstanding middleweight now operating on the.vwest coast a claim mat nas me wun.uu practical refutation. : Heightening the natural Inter est in such a bout, are two other! aspects; Reed and Clingman bat tied to a draw, in theljf only prev-4 ious.meeting, a et-ta.'."that- port-: land fans : are still - discussing- in; superlatives alter two weeas; and secondly.' It will be Cllng- mah's last appearance-on the Pa-; cific coast for at least three months. AJ1 of the', grapplers who ap peared Htb: two one-hour bouts here. laBt week, are billed again for Tuesday night by the lineup has been reversed. Rob Roy who met Clingman and Dorry Detton who gave Reed a busy" evening, will meet each other this time. Roy Is a rough customer and Det ton affects the fast, clean style, so they are well matched. Don Sugal will be matched In another 30-minute affair but Matchmaker Herb Owen has not announced his opponent. Now for a slight, brief de pression in the sports program. Football is a thing of the past except for a few post-season games in which this section is only indirectly interested. Bas ketball season is here and ia dependent teams are already playing but the school and col lege hoopstcrs arc Just start ing their training season. Wil lamette, Salem high and Par rish will start formal practice Monday, though some of the boys who haven't been playing football have already Umbered np their basket eye and achieved pretty fair condition. Industrial league golfers will wind un their fourth week of com netition today. A number o t scores were turned in Friday and Saturday though the weather was n't of the best Saturday. If rain Is no more copious today they will all get their scores in, but if the dav is really disagreeable a post ponement may be In order. Teams playing are, the first four teams playing each other and likewise the second four: Business Men, Industrial, State Capitol, Statesman. Gasoline, Educational Legal, Packers, Bonus-O. N. G. TTiey used to say that Par rlsh junior high furnished all of the football material fdr Sa lem high. So yesterday . we looked up the pedigrees, as far as we could find them, of the 13 Salem high boys who played against Washington high Toes day. We found the record high ly favorable to Leslie, when you consider that Parrish has al ways beaten Leslie and there fore may be presumed to have had the best material, on the average. The 1930 Leslie team furnished Captain Halvorsen, Grabenhorst and Hastings, whereas the 1930 Parrish team provided only Nich olson and Moody, though Saund ers, who did some playing for Sa lem high this year, also was on that Parrish team. The 1931 Leslie team includ ed Hastings again, and Ander son, Salem high reserve quar terback; Parrish '31 wnt Coons and Salstrom up to the high school. Salstrom is the only 19.32 player from either junior high who has so far made the grade in high school competi tion. That makes it Just about even for the junior high teams of those years. Then there is Wiatermnte, who, went to Parrish though we don't find him in the football line ups; and. Sherrill who attended Leslie and also fails to appear in the old lists. - Drager, Yada and Knight are 6thers who didn't play, at least Tegularly so as to get their names in the paper, on Jun ior high teams. When you get down to counting noses on the Salem high team, five " o f the aforesaid 13 clayed football at Parrish and three at Leslie. We do. However, know of half a doxen or so Leslie play ers who could without doubt , have made -the grade in-, high ; school bat either didn't enter or didn't tarn out. It seems the boys at Parrish have their minds made wp to graduate into , high school sports whereas i there la apparently no sach ge : eral objective of Leslie. . Tne .Parrish boys, of course, prac ' tlce right on the same field with the high school teams and movv tne over closer to the grand stand doesn't look like such big jamp to them. - LIBERTY IS WINNER LIBERTY, Dec 2. The local school basketball first team play ed a game -with the Trojans ' of the Parrish junior high school In Salem Friday forenoon, winning ( to 11. -" - ""(rniPY'i COACH CQiENTSi 1 cjTis PALO ALTO, CaU Dec. 2. (APThname of the team selected By?gtanfQt5i ioiversfty;iriejet It'ln the.RoseBowl game at PasaderiaV New. Year's day,4 to determine tbe nation's mythical football championship, will wt; be announced until Monday, Alfred Masters; graduate manager of Stanfordsaid hferetoriteht ' "! - v: - :r r- v; r Masters, who has been author-O lied by Ine board' of athletic con trol to-lnvlte the eleven from the eastern half of the country, dis closed . he had - already - been in communication with a team ' but had not deceived a rep.lyi He said he intended' to m a k e the ' an nouncement from' Pasadena-Mon- day.": l -' V -' ' '- ' Speculation ; as' to the-team to be' Invited Reentered around Duke untverslty1 and" Prince ton", the lat ter despite an -earlier stand taken against a" post-season contest. -It is believed .Array, had. the. Inside uwb. Haul its uueai wusjr uj Nofre- Dame. Alumni of Nebraska have deluged Masters with claims the 'Corah' uekefs squad should be given consideration. The Stanford graduate manager had nothing to say on this' subject, which was ta ken to indicate Nebraska also is on the eligible list. (By the Associated Press) Army and Duke toppled from the football heights yesterday, but Princeton's rampant Tigers surg ed through the defenses of Yale to wind up the campaign as the nation's only major undefeated and untied eleven. While the Tigers were routing Yale much as had been expected, 27-2, Army's flashing cadets went down to stunning defeat before Notre Dame's spectacular fourth period rally, 13-12, and Duke, an other outfit previously unbeaten and untied, surrendered to Geor gia Tech, 6-0. Duke, hoping for a perfect sea son and a possible Rose Bowl in vitation, found Georgia Tech's battling engineers more than a handful and bowed by the mar gin of the touchdown the Atlan- tans scored on a 5 6 -yard drive in the second period. Harvard Gets in Some Propaganda At Rivals' Game NEW HAVEN. Conn.. Dec 2. (JP) Princeton and Yale drew the cheers and applause today a s their football stalwartsbattled in the Yale bowl, but their "Big Three" rival Harvard nearly FATHER TIME, that most re lentless of pursuers, is hot on the trait of ' the New York Rangers, champion sextet of the National Hockey League. . The plight of the lUngers is sim ilar to that of the 1933 Yankee base ball team. Lester Patrick's. Blue Shirts are" a team of stars that are growing old.'- . . - The famous forward line of Bill Cook, Bun. " Cook and ' F rankle Boncner has been the greatest scor ing aggregation in hockey for the past accede;-but no matter how brilliant a player may be when in his prune, the time finally comes when be begins to slip. And when a great star starts to hit the tobog gan, "be finds out taatneant get by en his-past-reputation. SlSSBBSBBBBWSBBBBBBwMaeBBBBB The principal obstacle j n t 14 THE MY RANGERS' PATH T" vS rrWk i f ro aajother hockey title I 0 TfO Ufa. I T IS THE ftENA&HG FIGURE OF j I r?J p UUtL-S ;f FATHER TIME"- W RAH6RS' JO. stole' the shbwr' .' : While 'thr Tigers' were busy bat tering out a 27 to 0; victory over the El!sr an autoglro soared high over the bowl "with, a 'huge .crim son 'banner 'trailing behind.- It read: - .. ; Send.ybur son'W.HarYtfrd." There weVe: some veho vald the brains behfnd the 'unscheduled act was' th Harvard Lampoon, Crim son humorous-publication. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 2. (JP) Glory such as the Tigers of Princeton haven't known in ten long years, revenge sweeter than anything old Nassau ever has known, rode today through the huge Yale bowl on the backs of a mighty band of sophomores as the Tigers whipped the Bulldogs, 27 to 2. With perfect precision and stunning power the .youngsters who picked up Princeton's hapless cause two years ago with their new head coach, Herbert Orrin, "Fritz" Crisler, smashed down Yale's battered eleven, piled up more points than any Princeton team ever before has scor s" on the Elis and completed the 1933 season unbeaten and untied. Thus they wiped away the memory of the most humiliting defeat of the classic sixty - year - old series, the 51 to 14 slaughter Yale Inflicted two years ago. Not since 1922 when huge Stan Keck and his mates were on the loose, has Princeton raged through a season without defeat or tie. Not since 1928, when Princeton won 12 to 2 had the Tigers con quered Yale. And only In 1925 when they counted 25 points to the Elis 12, in 1924 when they won 20 to 0 and in 1S96, when the score was 24 to 6, have the men pf Nassau gone on such a scoring spree as a scant but hilar ious crowd of forty thousand little more than half filling the great cement bowl saw today. Menaced by Father By BURNLEY But Lester Patrick genial and brainy leader of the ice champions, scoffs at the idea that the Rangers' great front line is slipping. "I've been rather amused about the reported "passing of the Cooks and Boucher as a forward line," says i Lester. "Everybody, seems: to be picking on Prankie as the one to fade out of the picture. I guess that' because bis brother's legs went bad at an early age, ! v "But Boucher hasnt shown any signs of cracking, as far as I can see, and he's only 81, the age when most hockey players are at their best. Bun Cook is a year younger, and if are means. anything Bill Cook is"the one on the way out. Fortunately Bill looks better than ever; so you can say I'm not worry Four-Teams in A League and ; Six jn-B Division; Game : .'Dates are Announced DALLAS. Dec. 2. Con n t y S e h o o I Superintendent Josiah Wills received the basketball sche dules for Polk, county. 4his ; week from. Paul E. Robinson, of Inde pendence, president of the Polk county .athletic' association, this week and made theta public o 4ay. ,The plan Jor lhe games this year, is (he same as has neen loi Jowed for the past Jew years with the county divided, into two. lea gues. . . . .-' r. ; Dallas. Monmouth a.ndlnde- penden0 a r e handed together again, in the. A league aid Bethel. Bickreall, Fails City.; Grand Rondej-Perrydale. and Airlie make MP the B -. league. iuicn .aivision will carry out its own schedule for the season and the winner and runner-up in each, league aWJH meet In the county tournament to decide the county championship. The schedule for the A divi sion, is as follows: January 12. Independence at Monmouth; Jan uary 19. Dallas at Independence: January 26, Monmouth at Dallas; Febraury 2, Monnio ith at Inde pendence; February 9, Indepen dence at Dallas; February 16, Dal las at Monmouth. Max Allen will referee all A league games. The B league schedule follows: December S: Grand Ronde at Airlie, Perrydale at Rickreall, Be thel at Falls City. December 1-5: Falls City at Grand Ronde, Bethel at Perrydale, Rickreall at Airlie. January 12: Bethel at Rick reall, Airlie at Grand Ronde, Falls City at Perrydale. January 19: Rickreall at Be thel, Perrydale at Airlie, Grand Ronde at Falls City. January 23: Grand Ronde fit Bethel, Airlie at Rickreall, Perry dale at Falls City. .January 26: Airlie at Bethel, Grand Ronde at Perrydale, Falls City at Rickreall. February 2: Rickreall at Perry dale, Falls City at Airlie, Bethel at Grand Ronde. February 6: Falls City at Be thel, Rickreall at Grand Ronde, Airlie at Perrydale. . February1 9i Airlie at Falls City, Perrydale at Bethel, Grand Ronde at Rickreall. February 16: Rickreall at Falls City, Perrydale at Grand Ronde, Bethel at Alrlio. Referees for the B league will be Christensen, Foster and Beach. Time ing much over the greatest forward line in hockey." 1 In spite of Patrick's rebuttal, the facts seem to indicate that the Rangers' veteran stars are fading. The team got off to a miserable start in the current National Hockey . League race, and while they, have been doing better ef lai. thv r- tainly havent been . playing , like cosmpions. - , , . If the Blue Shirts from tbo Me- tropolis come through with another Stanler Cup triumph this season, they will have to be acclaimed as a real miracle team. -But there is the menacing figure of Father Time barring their path, and. the old boy with the scythe is a tough baby to shove out of the way. ' v - s CwrricM. HM. Kiac f t 1