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i TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE 10 STATE LED BY Michigan Beaten 18-14 ; Hectic Game, Won .' Last Quarter. Columbus, O., Nov. 25 (U.R) "With the grit and fight born only of a champion, Ohio State came back from near oblivion here today to icore a touch' down in the closing minutes of the same to defeat Michigan ' 18-14, and win the 1944 Big Ten .' football championship with an i unmarred record. , With dusk settling over Ohio ' stadium, Jampacked by 71,958 , fans, Lea Horvath, brilliant four- year veteran, led his valient teammates back from the brink of defeat. Less than four minutes were left when Ohio State smashed ; their way 80 yards in 14 plays I' to send Horvath over from the ; two-yard line with the winning .' touchdown. That was the ball- game, which had been filled with : bruising and Inspirational play, ,'' and gave Ohio State a season jj record of nine straight victories, i their second championship in ' three years, and put them in the ' foreground as a possible Rose '. Bowl selection. - Championship dreams were ' broken, mended and broken WE'LL PAY YOUR PRIQE fot your GAS BUGGY WITHOUT GAS! Fly In. Rid. In, Fall In, Walk In, Writ In oi Phone in . . . ' . h "tO ' 3919 Automobile Market Sixth n&,BartleH McCOY v Sunder. Not. it. 1944 again as Ohio State took the vic tory margin twice, lost It twice and then re-captured It in tne final minutes as Horvath grab bed himself a bit of gridiron im mortality, Michigan defending co-chanv plons along with Purdue was never anything but a great team today, bulwarked by the play of an inspired line. But Ohio btate was not to be denied. Michigan, before sliding off Its throne, seemed to have vic tory twice, especially in the last quarter when it roared back to go 83 yards in 17 plays and send Halfback Billy Culllgan over for a touchdown and a 14-12 lead Ohio State won because It had a forward wall that wouldn't say die and because it had Hor vath. Ohio State gained 225 yards rushing to Michigan's 162, and the 23-year-old dental stu dent gained 104 yards himself, Ohio State opened the scoring In the first quarter by moving 56 yards in 61 plays with Full back Ollie Cline cracking over for the touchdown. Michigan bounced back in second on a 29-yard push and Culligan went over from the two. Quarterback Fonetto converted for a one point lead. Horvath rallied his crew and In the third quarter, the Buck eyes scored after center and Capt. Gordon Appleby recover ed a fumble on Michigan's 23. Horvath smashed his way across the goalline, after seven plays had moved it to the one. TO E Promoter Mack Llllard an nounced yesterday that he hasA signed Gust Johnson, newly crowned Pacific coast Junior heavyweight champion, for the main event of next Thursday night's Medford amtory wrest ling card. Johnson's championship belt Is not to be confused with Jack Riser's light heavyweight title, from 175 pounds' to 190. John son's crown Includes 190 pounds to 200. ' ' Coming from Minneapolis. Johnson entered a tournament on the coast recently and came out undefeated for the title. He Is said to be an exceptionally clever and rugged' wrestler, Llllard announced that Harold (Blood . and Guts) Davidson would be back and Tarzan Tot vln, a flashy-Canadian, will also appear on the program, the com plete card to be announced tomorrow. Mora gum, more ships, mora planet are torely needed RIGHT NOW to assure and hasten Victory, Mora hospitals and hospital ships mut be provided to cara for those who are sacrificing to much to bring a vic torious peace to This Nation of ours. Of course, we must answer this call to duty of courso, everyone must buy at least one extra bond In this critical hour when victory is within sight. . . Published In Cooperation with the 6th War Loan by MACHINERY -COBfiPAHY 111 NORTH FIR STREET MEDFORD PHONE 3415 BRUINS TO G! !E BOWL Southern California Expect ed to Invite Ohio State for New Year's Clash. ' Los Angeles, Nov. 25 U.R) A x high-flying University of southern uainornia Trojan gria machine rode Into the Rose Bowl today with a surprisingly easy 40-to-13 triumph over a dazed and outclassed University of California at Los Angeles team before 90,000 fans, the na tion's largest football crowd this season. The statistics showed how badly the Trojans devastated the Bruins The men of U. S. C. out gained the Bruins 335 yards on the ground to 34. Only in the air were the Bruins superior, marking up a 114-to-68 yardage advantage. U. S. C. piled up 21 first downs to U. C. L. A. 7. With the Trojans due to re ceive-an automatic bid from tho Pacific coast conference to night. U. S. C. officials were expected to tender an Invita tion to Ohio State's unbeaten machine if the Big 10 relaxes its long-standing ban on post-season games. The Trojans began their touchdown parade midway in the first period, smashing 47 yards for a touchdown. A few minutes later the Tro jans had crashed across the goal line for their second score. A misfired aerial by Bruin Captain Bob Waterfield led to the third Trojan score. George Callanan and Bob Morris cracked tackle to tho one, and Hardy snuck through center for a touchdown from the one-yard line, and the Tro jans left the field with a 20-to-0 half-time lead. - The Trojans bobbed right back from intermission to score ii. the opening minutes of the period. Seconds later tho Tro jans added another six points to their growing margin. Sub Quar terback Don Murphy culminated a 63-yard fourth period march for U. S. C. to score from one yard out.' The Bruins staged a belated rally in the final minutes of the fourth period that netted two consolation touchdowns, closing ttine for Sunday- Too Lute lo ClniMiry S 80 Saturday afternoon riease romemner 4y y Football Scores (By United Press) Balnbridge Navy 31, Camp Peary 13. Brown 32, Colgate 20. Dartmouth 18, Columbia 0. Notre Dame 21, Georgia Tech 0. . Duke 33, North Carolina 0. ' Pennsylvania 20, Cornell 0. Pittsburgh 14, Penn State 0. Indiana 14, Purdue 6. Rutgers 15, Lehigh 6. Swarthmore 13, Ursinus 0. Yale 6, Virginia 6. Great Lake N. T. S, 28, port Warren 7. Iowa Pre Flight 30, Iowa 6. Tennessee 21, Kentucky 7. Mississippi 13, Mississippi State 8. Nebraska 35, Kansas State 0. Ohio State 18, Michigan 14. Atlantic City Navy 31, Prince ton 6. . Murray State 68, Millsapi 0. Tennessee State 12, Florida A. & M. 0. Southern Methodist University 7, Texas Tech 6. Fort Pierce A. Q. B. 21, Jack sonville Navy 0. -Oklahoma A. & M. 28, Okla homa 6, Texas Christian University 8, Rice 6. , - Minnesota 28, Wisconsin 26. T ASKS LIMIT OF BOIL WIS Washington, Nov. 25 (U.R) Sponsors of the 1945 post-season football howl games have been asked by the Office of Defense Transportation to limit atten dance to local residents, it was disclosed today. Telegrams asking such restric tions were sent to officials of the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.; Sugar Bowl, New Orleans; Cot ton Bowl, Dallas; Orange Bowl. Miami; Sun Bowl, El Paso; Oil Bowl, Houston; Vulcan Bowl. Birmlnhim, Ala.; Flower Bowl, Jacksonville, Fla., and the an nual Shrine East-West all-star game, San Francisco. . loiva Pre-F lighters -' Wcllop Iowa, 30S Iowa City, Nov. 25 (U.R) Checked by the weatherman and a fighting University of Iowa football team for three periods. tho powor-ladened Seahawks of the Iowa Pre-Flight school roll ed into high gear in the final quarter to whip the Hawkeyes here this afternoon, 30 to 6. A crowd of 2,000 mostly cadets, sat in a driving rain to watch tho Seahawks' win' their 10th straight game. 3 l'uii'P"i;("i DEATH COMES TO : BASEBALL CHIEF Day Long Rain at Portland as Rivals Bunched For Finals. . Chicago, Nov. 25 (U.R) Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lan d's, who saved baseball when its existence was threatened by the "Black Sox" scandal, died in St. Luke's hospital where he had been confined since Oct. 2. ' His wife, who is a patient In the hospital convalescing from a fractured wrist; his son, Col. Reed G. Landis and his daugh ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Phillips, were at his bedside when he died in his sleep at 5:35 a. m. CWT. He was 78. ..' Leslie O'Connor, his secre tary, announced that "In com pliance with his wish, no fu neral service Will be held. Also in accordance with his desires, cremation will take place pri vately and friends are asked not to send flowers." . Landis had entered the hos pital with a bad cold for a "rest cure" and was well on the road to recovery until early this week when he suffered a heart attack. He rallied later, but suffered another relapse yester day and last night the hospital aescrioea mm as "a very sick man." Speculation on his probable successor centered on an un official proposal to have a com mittee of three named to take his place. The committee would be made up of President Har ridge of the American league, President Ford Frick of the Na tional league and probably u Connor. .. - Evanston, Hl.,r Nov. 25-r(U.R) Claude "Buddy" Young, Il linois sprint star who likes to play football, made a grand exit from the 1944 grid season today by typing Red Grange's 20-year-old scoring , record in a game with Northwestern In which the Illlni romped over the hapless Wildcats 25 to 6. . Young, the sparkplug of Illinois' "stop-watch" backfield, scored two touchdowns to boost his season total to 13, equaling the mark set by Grange when he played in the Illinois back field in 1924. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 28 (U.R) Indiana University returned the "Old Oaken Bucket" to its campus at Bloomlngton today by stopping Purdue 14-6. Thrills were a dime a dozen for the capacity crowd of 29, 000 that packed Ross-Ade sta dium In freezing gray weather. It was Indiana's 17th triumph against 25 losses and five ties with Purdue. ; Madison, Wis., Nov, 25 (U.R) By scoring each point after touchdown, Minnesota nosed out Wisconsin 28 to 26 In its final game of conference competition today before 30,000 fans. Texas Christians Southwest Champs Houston, Tex., Nov.. 25 (U.R) Texas Christian university won the 1944 southwest conference football championship today Its first circuit crown since 1938 with a 0 to 6 victory pver Rice Institute in a hammer-and-tongs battle before 12,000 drenched spectators, and earned the right to meet Oklahoma A. & M. in the Cotton Bowl January 1 at Dallas. . (The Slllwater, Okla., team was invited, and .accepted, at Oklahoma City this afternoon af ter its 28-6 victory over Okla homa.) 0 Mall mount Want Ada, Speed Victory Buy an extra WAR BOND TODAY! FIGHTING IRISH BLAST TECHMEN BY 21-0 SCORE Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 25 U.R) The ever-fightin' football Irish regained a measure of the grid iron glory that once was Notre Dame's todav. throwing nn barrier of denial before Georgia Techs touchdown-minded engi neers to win the day's top inter sectional feature 21 to 0. The Georgia Tech defeat took a lot of the luster off the Orange Bowl football game on New Year rfflv hpfupnn fha Fnd- neers and the Tulsa Golden Hur ricane. Freshman Jimmy Brennan, a naval trainee frnm- MllunulrPA who arrived at Notre Dame too late to get his name printed on the team's roster, provided the offensive spark for the second week-end in a row. Striking with force and fury from the 11- Vard line he urpnt ihrntitfh n gaping hole In the Georgia Tech line tor an au-important first period touchdown. -Their second touchrinwn Hrlvo came in the third period, when long passes from the arm of Frank Dancewicz netted 71 yards. The iiavoff nlav was, nn a toss by Dancewicz to Bob K.euy for 40 yards. It was the irrespressible Bren nan. Star of Nntrn T)nmpfQ xtin. tory over Northwestern last wees, wno came up- with the final Irish touchdown. Gaining the ball on the Tech 20 on a pass interception by Martin Wendall the Irish smashed quickly for the scored A Dan cewicz pass to Skoglund was good for six and Brennan smash ed four more to the 10. Kelly moved to within one foot on three plunges and on fourth aown uancewlcz lateralled to Brennan, who went over. . The statistics oavn . Vntfa Dame a wide edge. The Irish scorea 18 first downs to Tech's eight, gained 269 yards on the ground to Tech's 47 and made 122 yards on passes against Tech's 73. ST.M L BY 33-6 SCORE Berkeley, Calif., Nov. 25 (U.R) Beaten and battered, Univer sity of California's Golden Bears ended a dismal .poenn kaM v.,M afternoon as they absorbed a sound 33-8 beating from the strong St. Mary's Pre-Flight Air aevns Before 20,000 fans. The lOSS Was the sixth mtlnmll,,. defeat for Coach Stub Allison's club. Snarked hv ' Davis, 18-year-old prep star from Clarksdale, Miss., the Airdevils turned loose thpip tnm,i.,,n ia. tent power in the second quar- ler to run three touchdowns across after the surprising Bears had scored on a nasi inrproon. tlon for a 6-0 lead at the end of the first! period. ; That lone counter for the Bear's came when slippery Joe Stuart intercepted one of Par ker Hall's passes on the Pre Flight 35 and side-stannpH Mo way through the Alrdevil eleven' 10 pay-airt. Hank Borghi's at tempted place kick was blocked and California's scnrlnp nnnnr. tun I ties were over for the day. The heralded' Pre-Flight line was as strong as clnlmprl anri while holding the California backs at bay on the defensive side, it also opened big gaps for young Davis to scamper through. The wiry back went for 113 yards during the afternoon and was tne major thorn in the Bear defense. Providence, R. I., Nov. 25 (U.R) A stalwart Brown eleven combined 15-years of denial into 15 .minutes of vengance today to defeat Andy Kerr's Red Raid ers of Colgate 32 to 20 for the first time since 1928. FARMERS ATTENTION! That items which you will need In your farm operations are now available a Leevcr'st DIETZ LANTERNS WHEELBARROWS VISES TOOL GRINDERS LEVELS "C" CLAMPS TOOL BOXES STEEL TRAPS WEATHER Striping PAINTS of all kinds MEDFORD LEAVES WEDNESDAY FOR TITLE CLASH Medford's Black Tornado gridiron machine will entrain Wednesday night for Portland to meet LaGrande at Multnomah Stadium Saturday afternoon for the state high school football championship. LaGrande has played 10 games this season and has scored 268 points Against their oppon ents' 44 points. LaGrande has an average of 26,8 points per game to 4.4 for their opponents. Their undefeated record shows wins over The Dalles 18 to 0, Baker 26 to 6 and 37 to 0. Mac-High 19 to 12 and 26 to 0, Pendleton 37 to 7 and 27 to 6, Enterprise 32 to 6, Nampa, Idaho, 13 to 0 and Roosevelt 33 to 7. Medford - has played nine games for a total of 279 points to their opponents' .52 points Medford averaged 31 points per game to their opponents' 5.8 points. The Tornado's unbeaten record shows victories over Weed 42 to 6, Coos Bay 33 to 0, Eureka 28 to 6, Klamath Falls 21 to 0, Grants Pass' 41 to 0, Bend 34 to 13, Ashland 42 to 13, Coquille 32 to 14 and Gre sham 6 to 0. - Coach Lester Harris of Med ford high school said yesterday there will be no reserved seats Suits That Meet for PUBLIC APPEARANCE 0? Any Time Any Place fN" - f Yes, sir! These fine Hart, Schaffner & Marx and Curlee Suits certainly put on a grand front in public . . . and give that long dependable wear, too, that you've come to expect from these two famous makes. They're 100 virgin wool and the smart winter-season fabrics and shades appeal to men who like good looks along with long wear! 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