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PAGE 2B FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1942 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, Over-Tense Missouri Team Es Defeated by 73, OOfli In Rain-Drenched 1 Sugav Bowl Game Before Ice In the Sugar Bowl UNDERRATED OREGON STAT HANDS DUKE 20-16 DEFEAIb. cf DURHAM, N.

Jan. 2 (AP). They laughed when Coach rj BLOCKED KICK IN OPENING PERIOD RESULTS IN SAFETY FOR BATTLE'S ONLY POINTS Santilla and Ritinski Collaborate on Winning Break Stiner of Oregon State sat down hard on the football dopesters been they had "underrated my team." But when Lon's boys started to m.i lit folks, the laughter changed to I Lon proved convincingly yester-1 Lineups nd Summary It Rugged New York Eleven Stops Repeated Touchdown Thrusts and Proves Superior on Muddy Terrain. -'rV A dPV yTnTZCERAlD 1 (Ten i -w i-r iij; i-br- 1 OREGON S. (20).

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B. Scare bj periods 1 Oreroa State 7 Duke (I 7 lEjitar Tories "Ussr-ori By J. Roy Stockton Of the Post-Dispatch Sports Staff. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2 4 Iv-ef! Some New Year's day, perhaps, the conscientious young men who 3 13 HE, 1 Oregon tttate seoriac '1 IJf V9Ti snake up University of Missouri football teams, will learn to take bowl games in stride.

They'll go out on the field with muscles finely tuned and yet relaxed, with the poise that an athlete needs to make brain and muscle co-ordinate in the doing of a job. Lineups and Summary day in the Hose Bowl game here that his Beavers, who entered the contest on the long end of 3 to 1 odds, were the most underrated Individuals since David slung his sling. The youthful coach maneuvered his team to "a 20-to-16 triumph over a Duke club which had gone through a nine-game season without a defeat, a tie or a close Thus ended what probably will go into the record books as one of the most unusual games in the Rose Bowl saga. Duke made 15 first downs to 14 for the visitors. But the Beavers were out front most of the way, and Duke never forged into the lead.

The first payoff play was a 15-yard romp by left-handed Don Dur-dan, the Mr. Dependable of the Westerners' squad, on a fake pass in the opening quarter. Warren Simas kicked the placement. Duke knotted the count in the second stanza, on a four-yard reverse by the brilliant Steve Lach, with Bob Gantt making the placement. The tally was set up by long runs by Lach and Tom Davis.

Then came the third quarter, and one of the wildest chapters in the history of Dixie football. Oregon State went into the lead when Bob Dethman shot a beautiful 31-yard touchdown pass to George Zellick. Simas' kick was good. Winston Siegfried scored for Duke from the one-yard line, in a touchdown set" up by a great run by Lach and a penalty 'against the Westerners for unnecessary roughness. Tom Prothro's kick tied the score again.

But Oregon State again took the lead, this time on a 68-yard pass and run play from Dethman to Gene Gray. FORDHAM. Pos. MISSOURI. Ritinski L.

B. Lister Hadank T. Brenton Bennct I- G. Jeffries v. Jenkins Sartorl (C) K.

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Ekera Pieculewirs Q. it. Adams Blnmeastock H. Ice Associated Press Wire photo. Stepping high, HARRY ICE (4) of Missouri dodges Fordham tackier as he returns the kickoff in the first period from his four-yard line to the 25.

heverko R. H. 7 Rrere Scores and Crowds points after toeebdowa: ttlnuts (tsklf -li. Peters). 2 (ptaee kirks).

tl Inke scoring: Touchdowns Lack a fried; points after tourhdow- (215 (sab for Piaserky), Prothra I plae4kr el safetys burdaa. (tackled la Burns and Lipscomb, sub for GtLt (L Orrgoa Ktate substitution: Penrma. Gnstafsoa; tackles Sslsr7 Zech; guards Parker, Zielaskswiu. kdd ter Clement; backs Simas, Crar wf Libbee, Sheifam. cr, Duke snbstitBtloas: F.adt Den eeUC Gantt; tackles.

Kaani. Reddles; iSSL-. Pnnle, I ipscemb. awrett; tentw Beatty; backs Long, Bokiatky. sTwa Storer.

If Oman Stats First downs 14 si tn Tarda gained rushing (net) 154 Jfthe rorwaid passes attempted 15 Forward passes completed Yards gained forward passes 141 Bi-v Yards lost attempted forward passes tksti Fordward passes Intercepted by 4 lZt a Yards gained, runback Intercept- I ed passes 40 3 Panting average (from' scrim- mage) 17.8 M.ior Total yards kirks returned 8S rkul Opponents' fumbles recovered 3 Yarda Inst by penalties 30 Includes pants and kJck-sffs. Cvi In the last quarter, Duke gcoisi 'The a safety when Durdan, standisr a UE1 his end zone, got a bad pass trot IHe center. Ita There were no alibis from Cow: lceni Wallace Wade. "We lost to il mighty fine ball club," said thill 8 Duke mentor. fccon Old Man Noah Would Have Liked Nautical Spectacle Facts and figures on the 1942 football bowl games: ROSE BOWL, at Durham, N.

Oregon State 20, Duke 16. Attendance 66,000. SUGAR BOWL, at New Orleans: Fordham 2, Missouri 0. Attend COACHES PRAISE THEIR OPPONENTS ance 73,000. COTTON BOWL, at Dallas: Ala Fllipowin B.

Steaber core Fordham 2 2 Miiinrt 0 Fordham scoring: Safety, pant blocked by santllli. Substitution! Fordham End, Tepo; tackle. Vaekaoieh: ruard. Pierce: center, Kovacb; backs, Hearn, "obk, Andrejco, OsoskL Missouri: Ends. Greenwood, Snnrnas; tackles.

Ushifreot. Hodges; guards. Abramn. Tarpoff, Keith; center. Davis: backs.

Wade. Pitts, Bouldin, Bo wen, Carter. Statistics; Missouri Ford'm. First downs 7 1 Yards gained rushing (net) 14ft 13S Forward passess attempted A 4 Forward passes completed 2 Yard gained forward passes 21 Yards lost, attempted forward passe 18 Forward passes Intercepted by 2 Yards run back Intercepted passes 8 Punting average (from scrimmage) 36 84 Total yards all kicks returned 10 43 Opponents' fumbles recovered 1 2 Yards lost by penalties JO 30 Decision Was Reached in First Five Minutes But Drenched Crowd Was Not Aware of It. McLemore Reports Tarpon Leaping in End-Zones as the Tigers and Rams Swim It Out.

bama 29, Texas A. St M. 21. Attendance 38,000. ORANGE BOWL, at Miami: Georgia 40, Texas Christian 26.

Attendance 35,505. SUN BOWL, at El Paso, Tulsa 6, Texas Tech 0. Attendance 11,500. jEve VULCAN BOWL, at Birming Racing Results Ired unn tes nut At New Orleans. feeth ham, Langston, 13, Morris Brown.

Attendance 7000. Other New Year's day games: At Mexico' City: Louisiana College 10, University of Mexico 0. Jacksonville, J. C. Smith 13, Lane College 0.

At Birmingham, Southern All Stars 26, Nashville Pros. 13. At Little Rock, Ouachita 6, All Stars When the Missouri Tigers do that, they'll win one of those Bowl games. They went to Miami two years ago with a song in their heart! and so much happiness over being in the Orange Bowl, that they didn't bother to think sufficiently about football. They went to the Sugar Bowl this year and they went seriously, with their hearts and their minds full of football.

They wanted to win and they wanted victory so badly that they must have lost sleep and entertained many nightmares, and at Tulane Stadium, before a bulging Sugar Bowl crowd of more than 70,000 cash customers, they nervously blundered and fumbled and never did get around to playing the football of which they are capable. Credit to Bams. Take no credit away from a rugged Fordham team. Jimmy Crowley's fighting Rams from New York won the game and they deserved the victory. But in defeating the Tigers, 2 to 0, on a blocked punt that was turned into a safety, the Rams beat a Missouri team that seldom during the 60 minutes cf struggling, looked like the team that charged across the gridiron In one victory after another to qualify for competition in the Sugar Bowl.

A combination of circumstances, With no individual alone responsible, resulted in the blocked punt that beat the Tigers, Coach Faurot aid this morning. "The pass was a bit low, but not too low," Faurot explained, "Greenwood did not hurry his step as a punter should do when the pass is a bit off line. Then the right side of the line didn't block as well as it usually does and Fordham broke through on this aide." Faurot said the Rams also played a little smarter game. "And probably behind it air was Yery poor Missouri coaching," Don concluded, with a grin. Not the Same Club.

It wasn't the Missouri team that did everything right as it swamped the Oklahoma Sooners. Nor was It the Missouri team that romped ever lesser members of the Big Six Conference. It wasn't even the tame team that fumbled but still was good enough to defeat Nebraska. It was a nervous, awkward, over-tense Missouri eleven and before the game was five minutes old a fumble put the team back on its heels, in the shadow of its own goal and the blocked punt and a eafety gave Fordham the two points it needed to register a victory. In other games, the Missouri line was a tremendous power.

Even By a Staff Correspondent. NEW ORLEANS La, Jan. 2 Coach Faurot complimented Fullback Filipowicz in an after-the-game statement in the dressing room. "Although we outran and out-passed them," Faurot said, "they alone scored and deserved to win. The blocked punt that scored the game's only points was just a part of the game.

I would say that the bright spot of the Fordham attack was the defensive play of Filipowicz. Jim Crowley had a good defense out there and the weather conditions prevented us from passing, so we could open it up. "For our club, the running of Ice and Steuber was the best part. Our boys were slow in getting started, but once they got under way, they rolled about as well as could be expected under the playing conditions." Coach Crowley said, "It's hard to talk about a game like that one. On a fclear day both teams might have run up high scores.

Missouri is a grand team and our boys gave their best to win." Track muddy. FIRST RACE Six furlongs: Jack O'Hana (Madden) 4.00 3.40 I Mokablue (Hanauer) S.20 Golden Ford (Deering) 3D Time, 1:14 2-5. Bie; Marco. Minrtm Klsirac. Empire Isle.

Dry Knight, Brf: Honey and Hy Broom also ran. SECOSD RACE Six furlongs: Mandate (Brooks) 11.40 6.20 IK Skipper's Mate (Blanco) 8.40 3 Chance Ann (Grill) 3 Hime, 1:13 4-5. Snarleyow. Br.Mi Best, Quick Tool, Marcharl, Mirroral ran. tt pes Natural Soccer Team Loses to we1 letr SCRATCHES.

First Raca Alafias. Sara Socks. Glsnda, Robert Mc Damas Fia Chicago Sparta Second Race Sparkling Gem. Aiisjs BiOW Bally amett, Memphis. Miss Irene, L.

At Tropical. Track fast. FIRST RACE Six furlongs: Queen eh (ion la let) 11.20 B.40 3.20 Bold Turk Stout) 3.70 2.60 War Declared (Btrlrkler) 4.50 Time, 1:12. Hills Palm. Parfait Amour.

Puro Oro. 8ir Quest, Morning Mail. Wha Hae. Miquelon, Chance Run, Miss High Uat also ran. SECOND RACE Six Kassjr Mate Iemmnns 8.20 4.10 3.70 Silent Host (MacAndrew) 6.10 4.70 Alley (Mehrtens) 7.30 Time 1:11 1-5.

Trimmed, Una's Son. Grand Star, Indian Penny, Pretty Rose, Valevictorian, R. Marquis, CauUvo, Best Quality also ran. THIRD RACE Six furlongs: Brocec Mehrtens) 6.90 3.70 3.60 Strollins; Easy (McCombs) 3.30 2.90 Jacobella (Hanford) 4.90 Time. 1:13 2-5.

Bundling, Call Us Too. Sister Don, Straw Flower also ran. FOL'RTH RACE One mile and 70 yards: HunTrlad (Conlr) 9.80 6.40 4.20 Lovely Dawn (Watson) 5.30 4.10 High Nam (Breen) 5.00 Time, 1:43 3-5. Vesuvius, Bonified. Spalpeen, Port Spin, Purling Light, Miss Westic, Bold Riik, Eleventh Hour, Haut Moad also ran.

in SCRATCHES. First Race Sanstefana, Shadv Town, Liberty Sand, Sea Foam. Ginocchio, Crimson Lancer. Second Race Patrol Flight. Old Book, Bius Tints.

Baby Therese, Tscumseh, Greenski. Fourth Race Old Bmoo'hy, Empaninondus, Aliens Boy. Stuart Illinois, Star. Eighth Race Bogert, Chance Ray, Doug Brashear, Trace Boy, Jumping Jill, Moonlite Bobhv, Perth Am boy, Granduce, Decatur, Cnald-dur. Track, fast.

that it is doubtful if even King Kong would have been able to boot it that far. Steuber's kick was straight, but it fell short by 15 yards. With the ball more slippery than a firehouse pole, the ball-handling was amazingly good. There were only six fumbles, three on each side. Two of them broke up possible touchdown drives.

In the first quarter, after Fordham had scored, Missouri executed a dazzling lateral, Adams to lee, that sent the swift Harry 33 yards. The Tigers seemed on the march when Ice passed to Shurnas on the Rams' 30, but Steuber fumbled on the next play and Fordham recovered. Fordham lost a scoring chance on a fumble, too. Steve Filipowicz, a tremendous defensive back against Missouri, opened the second quarter by breaking bff right tackle and sprinting 24 yards through the mire to Missouri's 21-yard line. But he was hit by five Tiger mudpies and the ball plopped from his arms and Boul-din of Missouri recovered.

Ah, the Sun. The sun made one of its rare appearances at the start of the second half and Missouri started a drive that saw Steuber go 37 yards and then 13 to Fordham's 33-yard stripe. But this march went for naught when Hearn intercepted Steuber's pass. The fourth quarter was nothing more than an outdoor mud bath, with the spectators bored by the proceedings, until late in the quarter when Missouri put on its dying challenge. This game will be remembered for the weather, not the football.

KER-CHOO. (Copyrifht, 1942.) against Nebraska, when the ball carriers and the punters and the passers were butter fingered, the Missouri forward wall was superb. But something happened to the great defensive combination in the Sugar Bowl. Perhaps it was the power and skill and superiority of the Fordham forwards. Or more likely, the Tigers were trying too hard to turn in a good job.

Later in the game the Tigers looked better. They fumbled three times in the first half and not at ajl in the second. And the line was good enough to stop all Fordham threats on the touchdown trail. But the old spark that made the Tiger line a great offensive weapon, in other games, was not in evidence against the Rams. The opening plays of the game told a sad story of what was in store for the Tigers.

After Harry Ice took the game-opening kick-off and returned 20 yards from his four-yard line, the same ballcarrier fell and lost four yards, trying to carry a lateral. Harold Adams was thrown for a five-yard loss on the next play and Ice kicked out on the Fordham line. Disaster Arrives. Missouri held and the Rams had to punt in return, but disaster was just around the corner for the Tigers. With the ball on the 20-yard line after the Fordham kick went into the end zone, Maurice Red Wade replaced Ice in the 11 1 1111 I.

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SixU ha UKieville. Uncle Peter, Lady Jeaa, Sadies Hero. Kitche Manitou. DotwiR If enth Race Pomplit. Knee Deep.

Road, Phoebus, Prospect Boy, HigS ent. Track, muddy. By Henry McLemore NEW ORLEANS, La. In a rainstorm that would have caused the roof of the Ark to spring a leak and driven Donald Duck to overshoes and umbrella, Ford-ham's Rams slogged to a 2 to 0 victory over the Missouri Tigers here in the eighth annual Sugar Bowl game. The rain, riding the wings of a hustling wind, fell in sheets in the first period, in counterpanes in the second, and in blankets in the third and fourth.

By the end of the game the field was ready for stocking with trout and bream. and tarpon were reported to "be leaping in the end zones. Under such conditions the playing of football was practically impossible. Backs would have had to swim under water to make consistent' gains and the linemen were shackled by the rich clay of the delta country. But the players took no worse beating than did the 73,000 spectators, most of whom stuck it out to the end.

There'll be a head cold for every praline in New Orleans tomorrow, and the dry cleaning bill will top the rich prizes taken away by the teams. Quick Victory. Fordham won the game before it was five minutes old on a blocked kick that give them two points on a safety. Under normal conditions those two points would have been as nothing, because Fordham and Missouri are two of the highest scoring teams in the country, but with the field lashed by a Creole version of a monsoon, they were as good as a million. Don Greenwood, an end, and Missouri's best kicker, was the victim of the blocked kick.

Punting from' almost on his own goal line, and with a ball that was heavy and slippery, he got his foot into the ball just as Alex Santilli, Fordham's big 200- Is foi Spscial to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Jan. 2. Although they played surprisingly good football considering the very unsatisfactory weather, the Natural Set Up club of St. Louis lost a 2-0 exhibition soccer game to Sparta of Chicago here yesterday.

Notable in the St. Louis team's fine performance was Ollie Bohlman, center halfback. Sparta's first goal, scored 10 minutes after the second half started, found Goaltender Joe Dumas of the St. Louis team knocked out by Forward Jimmy Wolf of Chicago. Dumas, Injured on the play, was.

handicapped in his handling of a later shot, which gave Sparta a second goal. Sparta told the Natural club manager, Ben Fernandez, that they would visit St. Louis at the earliest available date. pas Butler Defeats Beavers, 35-2! INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 2 (API-Oregon State won in the Bowi but lost in the Butler Fie house, Butler University's BuUdop" toppling the Beavers, 35 to 29, a a basketball game last night The iulldogs speed enabled them to win despite the height the Beavers.

Butler held fr to-18 halftime advance. Joan Ki die, Oregon State's six-foct inch senior center, got 12 point pound tackle, broke through the Missouri defense and charged him. The ball bounded off SantiUi's chest and rolled in Missouri's end zone. Stan Ritinski, Ram end, dove on it and to most of those in the press box it appeared as if he had snared it 'for a touchdown before it rolled out of the end zone. But the officials saw it as a safety.

That was the ball game. During the remaining 55 minutes neither team penetrated the other's 20-yard mark. Fordham came as close as the 21 and Missouri reached the Rams' 24, but no one in the crowd ever really felt that touchdown would be driven across. Missouri made a bid f6r a field goal and victory in the closing minutes of the game, after having waded from its own 34-yard line to within 24 yards of the Rams' goaL On fourth down, Bob Steuber, a brilliant back whose Slue DAILY DOUBLE to: laii Continued on Next Page. PB'l AT TROPICAL, Queen Echo and Sassy Slate paid $60.80 for $2.

lb Men of the Hour Battering Ram From Fordham fob: flying feet were shackled all after noon by the treacherous footing, tried a place-kick from the 35-yard V-'; 1 line. But the ball was so heavy '4 -r" i If V- hs Eddleman Adds 19 Points to His Basket Record is i i A- ST joi and Wood River battle in another. Four teams Piano, Earlville, Newark and Somonauk passed second round hurdles in the York-vine meet. Gerieso, New Boston end Mineral were second round winners in the tournament at Geneseo, having defeated Atkinson, Cambridge and Galva respectively. The quarterfinals at the University of Chicago tourney ended with Marshall, Von Steuben, Austin and Dusable surviving to see another round of play tonight Outside tournament play, Decatur, -which on Wednesday night won the Pana meet, came back last night to defeat Thornton of Harvey, 49 to 46, in overtime.

By the Associated Press. 4 i 5 9 itch fete, fa. fciri irs La1 Jai -A SPRINGFIELD. 111., Jan. 2.

Centralia and Dwight Eddleman again are going to have a lot to say about the Illinois prep high school basketball championship. They gave a convincing demonstration of this last night in winning their third straight Pontiac holiday tournament. Peoria Woodruff pushed the defending champions all the way, but the team from the southern half of the state was ahead at the finish, 45 to 4L Eddleman bagged 19 points in the title game and wound up the tournament with a total of 68 points for the four contests. His total in 12 games this season reads 238. In the big tournament in the southern half of the state, at Mount Vernon, favorites continued to advance.

Granite City, Mount Vernon, Salem and Flora all won last night. Today Granite City and Mount Vernon will clash in one headliner while Champaign la 4 ii rT. Williston, Exeter Wins In Hockey Invitational LAKE PLACID. N. Jan.

2 (AF). Williston Academy of East Hampton, and Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. won their opening games yesterday in the North-wood School invitation prep school hockey tournament. Williston pucksters scored in each period to defeat the University School or Cleveland, 3-1. Exeter scored all its points in the third period to beat Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, N.

3-0. fee fat. if ak.v,. jr. '-iiiW A' -Associated Press Wlrephoto.

Head coach JIM CROWLEY of Fordham (left) hugs his rain-soaked star, big ALEX SANTILLI, in the dressing room after the Rams defeated Missouri. Santilli blocked the kick that led to the safety and Fordham's triumph. pi xsmmr i i nhiii Through the rain and mud of TuUne Field, JOE OSOSKI (arrow) played a part in Fordham's 2-0 triumph over Missouri in Sugar Bowl game yesterday. Here. Ososki gained nine yards over right tackle in the second quarter..