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SPORTS Financial Auto Newsc PUBLIC t2i LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1937 a mm: ran nn UTS Ul Villanom Vic 1 Yale Conquers Cornell; Dartmouth Wins SPORTS Football Racing Mm Pi Ifect Placement Wasted as Penn Ties Georgetown Eleven DUAKEfi WILDCATS BEAT IHLUH; STDVItK SHINES ON FED EOflL Fielden's Kick Good, But Sub on Grid Wipes Out Score in Last Minute If Uniontown Halfback Tallies Twice as Main Line Eleven Wins Decisively Br STAV BAUMGARTNER Vlllanova was caked with mud, but happy last, night. Striking with the viclousness of a By PERRY LEWIS When Penn's football players are not losing games by Inadequate gridiron technique, Coach Harvey Har-man throws a wrench Into their chances of stepping back into tha winning column by hair-trigger mas wildcat whenever opportunity offer Clipper Smith's undefeated Main Line eleven romped over a plucky, but weak Bucknell team to score a jl to 0 triumph at Shlbe Park yesterday before 3500 fans. The VUlanova team tallied its first touchdown three minutes after the battle opened and then after going icoreless for two periods, crashed through for two additional six-pointers in the final 15 minutes. Wildcat kickers made good on all three tries lor the extra point with perfect placements. STOVIAK TALLIES TWICE Rjy Stoviak, brilliant Wildcat tailback from Uniontown, tcorfd the first two touchdowns, crossing the Bison goal line In the first period by taking a short for-ward pass over the goal that climaxed 1 59-yard advance.

The youngster irom Western Pennsylvania then crossed the Bison final chalk mark rj i ter-minding on the bench that fails to click. Although the Quakers showed little or no Improvement over their sad exhibition against Columbia a week before, Penn should have beaten Georgetown on Franklin Field yesterday afternoon, 3 to 0, before 25,000 spectators. Instead they had to ba content with a scoreless tie because of a singular development In tha last 30 seconds of play. Please pay attention: Penn had possession on Georgetown's 17, third down, seven to gain, and a half minute to play. Ed Fielden drops back to attempt a field goal with Don Dresher holding the Dull on the 25-yard fme.

PLACING MASTERPIECE VOID The kick must be from about a degree angle and must travel 35 yards before looping over the crossbara tough kick for any modern booter. But Fielden makes It, and aa 5v J5 seconds after the fourth quarter got under way when he took a lat vKVots. I eral pass from Nowak on the Buck' lidUJttU JSt'' nell 25-yard line and shook on lour Lewisburg tacklers and galloped over the oval sails between the upright there comes a Niagara of acclaim I than i miniit. nf remained when Ed Fielden. Penn end.

from 25,000 throats. to whom arrow at left pf J'1- "nd- with Dresher holding the ball, booted a perfect pi ield against Georgetown. uprights. But Fielden's effort was wasted at Bill Miller, rushing in at a substitute, became the twelfth Penn man on the field; so officials ruled the field goal void and penalized the Quakers five yards. Fielden, on fourth down, tried for another goal on the subsequent play, but hia second effort fell short.

So Penn had to be content with a 0-0 tie as a result of the biggest "boner" of the current football season. Twenty-five thousand spectators who saw the Franklin Field blunder were tunned by the play. the final ribbon. Dashing Art Raimo from Pitt burgh tallied the third and final Vil But the officials are wildly waving i bi its graceful flight between the Second arrow, at right, i their arms and pointing to BUI Mil -Mm-I ler, Penn bade, wno starts in as a replacement and becomes the litli linova six pointer seven minutes later on short buck through centre that brought to a successful conclusion a Quaker on the field, as Fielden De CLINT FRANK ST): HUTCISOIl rs 1 CONQUERS livers a kick that would win tha 32-yard Wildcat march on the ground. Cadets Rout Washington Middies Beaten Ky Irish game with Miller on the bench In John wysocki, John Melius and Art stead of on the gridiron.

Brown Marches 93 Yards to Beat Columbia NEW YORK, Oct." 23 (A. Raimo made the successful place The kick is not allowed, officials CI If DARTMOUTH T.C.U. IN DRAMATIC call the ball back, penalize Penn five ments for the three extra points. YLLANOVA OFTEN PENALIZED yards for having 12 men on the field, NAVY and there is still 12 seconds to play. Penalties probably deprived Clip Again Penn gambles on Fielden a per Smith's pupils of at least two more touchdowns.

On two occasions TO 20-2 II IrJISH AT NEW YORK kicking ability, but this time Holder Dresher kneels on the 30-yard rib SOUTH BEND, Oct. 23 (U. -Notre Dame's Inspired Irish, beaten for three periods, struck savagely twice In the fourth today and defeated the Navy, 9 to 7, on a snow-swept field. For three disappointing periods, bon. His boot Is short, Georgetown puts the ball In play on Its own 20 and has time to make one futile play before the final whistle.

Thus the ball game ends In a scoreless tie. la the fourth quarter the Wildcats completed forward passes that put them in the shadow of the Bucknell goal posts, only to have the plays called back and punishment inflicted for holding. Smith's men lost 106 yards because of. infractions of the rules. By HENRY SUPER Brown's battered Bears got up off the floor with a fourth-quarter knockout punch today and sprang the biggest surprise of the Eastern football season with a 7 to 8 decision over Columbia's heavily favored Lions.

They stopped brilliant Sid Luck-man except for sporadic moments, ARMY WEST POINT, Oct. 23 (A. Army, trimmed by Yale a week ago, iook revenge of a sort by overwhelming the Washington University Bears of St. Louis, 47 to 7, on a rain-pelted Held here today. It never was a contest, though the boys from the West undoubtedly did their dead-level best.

Coach Gar Davidson of the Cadets sent in all the substitutes he could lay hand on, CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 23 (A. Wild Bill Hutchinson, Dart NEW YORK, Oct. 2J.OJ. By GRANTLANDlir, NEW.

HAVEN, Coniuljt rf Cornell could only keepOUaf bottled up Just so lon' teSwJ Yale triumphed 9 to 0,, QUAKERS THREATEN LATE Wilbur Stanton, a sharp-shooting place-kicker from Maiden, mouth's sensational sophomore fullback, sprinted, splashed and smashed for three touchdowns to provide his Although Penn didn't particularly Bucknell showed practically noth brought Fordham a 7-6 victory over the 45,000 spectators huddled In the pelting snow watched Navy rip through Notre Dame's underpowered line as if it were paper. Once the Indian teammates with a 20-2 vie fought toe-to-toe all the way and came out on top with a 93-yard Texas Christian today after all out ing on the offense except Tomasettl and Punair and a few forward passes that they successfully With Yale leading 6TE2 deserve to win, the Quakers would have put It over by virtue of that rally hi the final 10 minutes had It not been for the faulty Judgment of tory over Harvard today before a 30,000 crowd which sat through a northeast storm that threatened to yet It still wasn't a contest. It was. 4. 4 Middies scored, again tbey threat ened.

become a cloudburst. The 175-pound New Yorker was Coach Harman in dispatching a replacement to the field at this critical juncture of the game. The teams were In formation and the ball ready to be passed when Miller started on Suddenly, In the fourth, the Irish margin of 3 to 0 as a fine field goal by the last period rolled Frank, Yale's brilllan ed running amuck. Frank first broke thfw, nell's defense In this lrtr a 24-yard gallop. He nil gainst the Wildcat second team In the final moments of the game.

Up to the time the Bisons unloosed this aerial attack near the finish they had gained only 23 yards from scrimmage and made only two first downs. On defense the Bucknell line did a a rout from the start and It got worse as it continued. Army started scoring In the first period, when Craig passed 20 yards to Frontczak for a touchdown, and the Kaydets didn't miss scoring In a found their fight and scored a touchdown and safety In the final min touchdown march, with less than ten minutes left to play. "Weak sisters" of the Eastern gridiron battles for the last five years, the Bears thus gained their first major victory slnc 1933, when they topped Syracuse. BRUSH ll'CKMAN ASIDE Even the great Luckman, who completed 16 of 26 passes and did a neat job of kicking with a water and mud- Continued on Page 4, Column 1 a dead run for the point of play, utes.

Perhaps the officials were a bit ro- rod Job, but when Wildcats ran the A punt exchange gave them the seven yards more. mlss in not noticing that Miller was period thereafter. They gained ground about as they pleased, ttnd ball on Navy's 29. Nevln (Buddy) the hardy men in muddy Maroon jerreys had given up hope of winning. With less than three minutes of the game remaining, Stanton provided the point that finally brought the Rams victory after they had been stopped five times within the shadows of the Texas goal posts.

A crowd of 25,000 in the Polo Grounds braved a driving intermittent rain to watch one of the wildest games ever played In New York. The Texans struck through the air In the opening minutes and forged into a 6-0 lead that loomed larger and larger with each tick of the clock. Five times Fordham's mighty wall of granite pushed to within a foot to 23 yards of the Texas goal only to be hurled back scoreless. S5-YARD MARCH McCormick lost two yards on the you couldn't tell whether it was their Continued on Page 5, Column I pass was knocked dow, Cornell defense and or er the big play of threatening afternoon first or third team that was performing. The visitors from the West invaded Or A spectators up In a sudln a as dltllcult to catch as a greased pig when the stadium gridiron was dry and was as slippery as an eel when the downpour turned it Into a swamp late in the second period.

Hutchinson's first touchdown came In the first period, after Harvard flubbed the first of its four scoring chances, from a fake kick formation on Dartmouth's 38-yard line. As Don Daughters, Harvard's right end, rushed In to block, Wild Bill side-stepped, raced through the opening and, after slipping away from three Crimson-clad secondaries, completed the remainder of the 62-yard scoring run without seeing a hostile gesture. In the third period, In blinding ends the Bison secondary defense Played touch football. This was par-Continued on Page 3, Column i- Sphas Outpass N. Y.

Whirlwinds Princeton Annexes Army territory only twice. In the first FRANK GET! 34th in Row From Taking the ball on hit 'tJ onV enntntr iinrinr TVonlr switntT iinrinr quarter they reached their opponents' 28-yard line and then folded. In the fourth they went from mid-field for a touchdown, when Leo Picard and Shute In Argentine Final BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 23 (A. Two American golfers Henry Pic through the right line and then swung Rutgers by 6 to 0 first play and Coach Elmer Layden shot In a new quarterback.

Snatching a pass from centre, Jack McCarthy slithered through a quick hole at right tackle, cut back toward the left sidelines and scampered 21 yards for a touchdown. Andy Pupils place-kicked the extra point, tying the score. Still the Irish battled on. Navy was hammered back on the defensive as the Oreen began to function as it never had before this season. Late in the quarter Pupils tucked a long punt under his arm of Notre Dame's 38-yard line, twisted toward the sidelines and swept 81 yards through the entire Navy team the nine-yard Shakofsky registered from four yards out and then booted the extra point.

ffo Win, 39-28 mldfleld he was with JJ ard, Hershey, and Denny Shute a bIHa linos ytri 1U There never was any question of PRINCETON, N. Oct. 23 (A. Boston, will battle It out tomorrow tacklers In his road, fce Mo A fast-breaking attack that kept Js, rain, Hutchinson slipped around his in the final of the professional match play tournament. Both won certain to be forced ca The Rams marched 95 yards to their touchdown, Interrupted briefly by a double fumble Just beyond A single touchdown In the period gave Princeton's foot right end, and after reversing his jthe New York Whirlwinds on the run prom whistle to whistle, enabled the their semi-final matches today.

By another swift the eventual result, the whlte-Jerseyed Oovernmenters had entirely too much fro mthe first kick-off. They scored their seven touchdowns with ease. Their passes clicked and so did their running plays. Washington U. made only two first downs, field, through 45 yards of deep puddles for his second score.

ball forces a 6 to 0 victory over a defensively-powerful eleven today he swung to his right i ppm aeteat the Gotham quintet ped two more CorBfc Picard defeated the young Argentine star, Enrique Bertollno, 9 and 8, while Shute eliminated the Scotch-born Argentine, John Crulck- added the third one in the final quarter, ploughing over from the two- ng ith 1er shank, on the 38th hole. oigni the Broadwood Hotel court, 39-28. The contest was the final exhibt-on fray for the Spas, champions of League, before they rt circuit comncrlt.lnn ti. Rat.nr. Continued on Page 6, Column 6 Continued on Page 6, Column 1 Continued on Page 6, Column 5.

in his path. Here Heae a perfect block on I and Frank was onf the goal line for 68 It was the type a With the Christians on their 14-yard line late in the final quarter, Fordham began to roll. Joe Gran-ski, burly Fordham halfback, Intercepted one of Dave O'Brien's long passes on his own five-yard line and was dropped dead his tracks. Fordham went through the air and over Continued on Page 4, Column if Notre Dame Ball Carrier Gains in Snow Storm Fy- A crowd of 3000 turned out for fray. as these oldest of all gridiron rivals waged one of their finest battles before a throng of about 35,000 In Palmer Stadium.

The thirty-fifth meeting between New Jersey's major colleges resulted in Princeton's thirty-fourth successive triumph. Only in the first game of the classic series, back In 1869, when there were 25 players on a side, was Rutgers the winner. The Tiger's march of superiority Continued nn 5, Column 8 Whirlwinds, composed of some outstandlng collegiate talent pveioped arnimH No vml, a big crowd waits ai but seldom does. Cornell tackier slow but in some way tt Yale captain kept rV picked his openings tl- change of pace, f'ftj So Yale Peat a ha -t- ling Cornell fn" SYRACUSE JOLTED weak on the attack, but their 12 ale system-play could not fc? the "Peedy brand -pyeoby the Hebrews. The fast play ByiMO.15-0 Ntinue on Page 8, Column Continued on Paget FOOTBALL SCO.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 23 (A. TODAY with fVllX ti st vo. TV7AT. Lincoln Mansfield Teaclw i- Syracuse University's undefeated and untied football team was torn from Its unblemished pedestal today by a flashy University of Maryland eleven that played the Orange off its feet to the tune of a 13 to 6 defeat.

lers- The Inquire vuie i eacners, u. Muhlenberg. Vrf -p, )' 12: Juniata. 0. mnklin Marshall, 12; P.

M. 0. hn Hopkins, 13; Haverford, 12. nn, Georgetown, 0. W.

JoseDh'n. t- ir.ii... presents the most sen Tl About 9000 shivering fans cheered nit, tl. yvisiuf Washington CoJ flTi' the thrilling, If muddy, contest play ed on a muddy field. Swarthmore, l3; Oberlin, 13.

Vfflanova, 21; BuckneU, 0. West Liberty TC sationai oner ever made by any newspaper anywhere. Tor Marty Qlickman, Olympic sprint fornia Teachers, Westminster, 8 STATE riht, Moravian. 0. eny Grove City, 0.

West Virginia. er and top backfield threat for Syracuse, was bottled tightly by a Maryland defense which refused him a single gain of any consequence. The Terps took a whiphand in the early periods and never relinquished It. 10. ichers 0 Aeacners' Edinboro Both touchdowns came to Mary ton.

0. Alfred, 13; Kef X(T Amherst, 12; Army. 47; Was' 1 land by air. In the first few minutes leacners, o. full details of this star fling announcement SEE PAGES 22 and 23 of Another Section NOW of the second quarter, Charlie Weld-inger, ace passer and quarterback, inson, 18; Delaware, 0.

Uaudet, 19; Wilson Teachers, 6. tossed a 30 yard aerial to big Jim Ir.Z:"urs' la: "high, 6. Teachers, Slippery Trey Bates. Mairij Bowdoin. 30; Cu.r- Brown, Cohir Brooklyn Colle Meade, who raced over the goal untouched from the 20.

Kk ovn Montclair 'rs, o. OUTPLAYS ORANGE After outplaying the Orange during the third period and most of the Jwtte, 13; N. Y. 0. Buffalo, 13; Ktot Wired Photo -Inquirer-Wide World driving snow storm, but McCormick, above, can be seen skirting; Navy's end for a slight gain in, the first period.

Vi Haven Teachers, 14; Blooms- Notre Dame pulled out a great victory over Navy at South Bend yesterday by winning in the final period. The fame wai played, in Continued on Page 5,. Column a Continued on Page 8, Column -t.

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