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Sports Late Ea 2747 ally Tops Giant gleg i FOOTBALL LOCAL GAMES Baylor 19 villanova 2 Birds Score 20 In Last 2 Periods teiate, People MORNING. SEPTEMBER Of NFL Opener By GENE COURTNEY Blue Victor at The Eagles rallied for 10 points In the final period to defeat the New York Giants, 27-17, in the opening game of the National FootbfUl League season last night at Connie Mack Stadium before 29,597 but it was a costly victory. The Birds may have lost the services of middle puard Frank Beats Chevation An lndepenlm SUNDAY Choir 0P Delaware NTC 6 Holy Cross 42 Temple 7 Kutxtown 21 Nat Aggies 13 Princeton 41 Rutgers 7 Virginia Tech 33 Penn 0 STATE Rail State 13 Indiana STC 7 P.acknell 25 Albright 14 Cornell 14 Lehigh 8 Delaware St. 37 Cheyney STC Denison 27 13 Edinbore STC 27.. Clarion STC 12 Oneva II Baldwin-Wallace Lafayette 7 Muhlenberg Lock Haren 2ft.

Shippcnsburg Pena State 35 Boston V. Pitt 22. Syracuse W. Maryland 31 Dickinson Wooster 33 Allegheny 13 EAST Army 11 Furmaa Boston C. 27 Brandeis Colby ii Colgate 21 Dartmouth 20 Columbia 14 Brown 12 Cortland STC 28 Buffalo llobart 14 Wagner Mass.

(cancelled) American Int. Morgan State 19 Central State Navy 7 New Hampshire 39. Northeastern 7 Springfield Norwich 19 Bates 0 Rhode Island 7 Maine 0 Trinity 2 Williams Tufts 19 Bowdoin 2 Vermont 33 Union 6 Wesleyan 14 Middlebury 0 Ya'o 14.. Connecticut 0 SOLTH Alabama AAM (cancelled) Lane Allen 33 Morris Coll. 0 Auburn 15 Chattanooga 6 Bethone-Cookman 43 2 Savannah St.

Bridgewater Coll. 7 W. Va. Wesleyan Carson-Newman Citadel 26 Elon 18 Clemson 20.. Virginia 7 Duke 33 N.

Carolina St. 7 Emory fc Henry 32. Wes. Fairmont 12 Davis-Elkins G. Washington 25 VMI Georgia 14 Vanderbilt 13 0 1 i i i (.

as head coach was ushered in on. the same dreary note that marked all of 1954. It was the 10th straight defeat for the Red and Blue, which lost every game last year, and the! 14th consecutive contest in which the Quakers have failed to come out on top. ueorgia lecn tionaa i weather to witness the main event Georgia Tech. 19 Florida St.

14jof $200,000 Triple Turf se- Xentucky 21 Mississippi Blue choir, hero of the Knoxvllle 24 Livingstone Foreign Bred prelude last Satur- Maryland 7 UCLA Ojday, rolled into the lead on turn- Virginia Tech's Leo Burke crashes across Perm's back "keep" play for the second of three straight goal from two-yard line in third quarter on quarter- touchdowns he scored yesterday at Franklin Field. Va. Tech Ruins Penn Opener, 33-0 Sports Section i -4 itself with its own errors on one hand and didn't have the weapons to move Tech's rock-ribbed defenses on the other. In lost 65 very valuable yards by committing seven infrac- tions. Failure of the backs to stop jmove against the visitors on wide Til 11 II I jU JUOJ 1 a UWU right off the fingers of end Charlie Qm) paved the way to one Tech touchdown, inability to get o3 a fourth-down punt led to another and a third set up by a re- Continued on Page 6, Column I COLLEGE PARK.

Sept. 24 (AP). Halfback Ed Vereb's 17-yard run over the goal on a fourth-down pitchout at the outset of the second-half was the only break in a terrific defensive battle won, 7-0, today by the University of Maryland over UCLA, the na tion's top-ranked college football team. Vereb's dash around right end on one of the rare pitchouts pulled by quarterback Frank Tamburello topped off a 72-yard drive wnicn as started by MaryUnd with the second-half kickoff on a muddy turf before 46,000 steamingly hot fans. MARYLAND'S FIRST MOVE It was the first time that Maryland got moving as Ronnie Knox, UCLA's great tailback, kicked and passed them to the wall through all of the first half and a lot of the i second.

I The Terrapins, going Into the 'rrami mnkprf fifth, made one other to the UCLA 5 after inter I cepting a pass in the last three minutes. A fierce Maryland defense led by Continued on Page 2, Column 5 Sh i Klairon Gets 3d Charts, Results on Page By JOHN WEBSTER Inquirer Reporter MAYS LANDING, N. Sept. 24. Breaking nimbly irom a horrendous walkup start that eliminated one of his more ormid able rivals, Mrs.

Harry L. Nathen son' Irish-bred Blue Choir fol lowed an unhurried course under O.Willie Hartack, and bounded over ifV enffc tnrf an tirtPTtpnrfpH IfA.W UVA Ut4 WW vwmw victory today in the third running of the $104,600 United Nations Handicap at the Atlantic City Race Course. TTvpn mrrnpfl rhnlrp tf thp 18,213 who braved drizzling for home nd finished three and half lengths before Fox- catcher Farms' homebred Cheva tion, who led into the stretch. CHEVATION STUMBLES Chevation, recovering quickly after stumbling in the start which found him unprepared, was four lengths in advance of Martin Fabiani'a 3-year-old French-bred Klairon. Mrs.

Ben Cohen's Boy d'Amour, who was forwardly placed early, finished fourth, a half length off the Gallic runner. Truly unfortunate was enrist-lopher T. Chenery's Prince Hill. winner of the American Bred and secon! choice in the major event. Prince Hill stumbled and lost jockey Joe Culmone, who fell off his mount's hind quarters.

Rider- less, Hill Prince's full brother preceded the pack into the far side and then straggled to the finish. mnir i ran 1 BLLE CUOIK "ORJ Behind the American runner Boy d'Amour at the finish were Mrs. John W. Hanes' English-bred filly. Queens Eeecnes; Mrs.

ogden Phipps French-bred Fox II and C. Mahlon Kline's Kaster, a domestic bred. Blue Choir, making it three for three at the shore course, paid $4, and $2.20. Chevation, who closed third choice, returned $4.60 and $3.40. Show tickets on lor wnora tne unlovely waiKup start was instituted, were worth $3.40.

Picking up a co-topweight (with Prince Hill) of 126 pounds. Blue Choir, a 4-year-old son of Menet-rier-Fleur Bleue, moved over the mile and three sixteenths in a leisurely two minutes flat. VICTORY WORTH $73,600 The track record, 1:55 4-5, was set by the Chilean-bred Iceberg II; under 120 pounds in winning the initi running of the United Na tions ln 1953. But that clocking was good enough to earn a net $73,600 for the Irish colt's Chicago owner, who also accepted the trophy in the winner's circle from John B. Kelly, president at the shore course.

There also was a blanket of chry (Bucko) Kilroy who was in jured in a pile-up In the second period. Kilroy, playing in his 101st consecutive game, was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, where his Injury was diagnosed as torn ligaments of the right knee. He may undergo an operation today and at his age, 34, it is doubtful that the oldest NFL player will be able to continue. BREAK FOR EAGLES A break in the fourth period, with the score tied 17-17, started the Eagles on the road to their seventh victory this year six in SCHEDULES EGI.ES 14 Drfrmtrd Nrw 17-17.

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pre-season games. The Giants' Emlen Tunnell, from Radnor, usually very sure fingered, signalled for a fair catch of Adrian Burk's goal-line punt. He let it slip from his fingers and guard Ken Hux-hold recovered for the Eagles on their 48. On the second play, Bobby Thomason, who completed 10 of 17 passes for 209 yards, threw a beauty to end Bill Stribling. who caught it on his fingertips on the 10, and outraced Giant defender Dick Nolan to the goal.

Bobby Walston then converted the third of his three extra points and the Eagles led for the first time, 24-17. A few minutes later, the Easles, considered the top contender for the Eastern Division championship, added three insurance points. NOBTOjf RUXS 96 YARDS T.V!n nn thai. tVo Birds gained four via Dick off tackle. Then Thomason threw a clothes-line pass 46 yards to Walston and three plays later Bobby booted a 13-yard field goal.

The Giants, considered the dark borses of the division, ttarted as though they intended to live up to the name. They drove B0 yards for their first touchdown in the first period completing the surge on three straight passes by Charley Conerly three yards to Kyle Rote, 15 to Bob Schnelker and 31 to Frank Gi3ord for the tally at 10 :28. The toeless Ben Agajanian con verted the first of two extra points. But nineteen Feconds later, the Eagles tied at 7-7. Jerry, Norton, a defensive halfback last season, took Agajanian's kickoff on his own four and dodged and scooted 96 yards to score.

BIBBLES BAWEL BOBBLES The Giants then got the first of two breaks both on Tom Landry's punts. The New Yorkers were bogged down on their own 35 and Landry punted. Norton and Bib-bles Bawel collided trying to make the catch and the ball slipped out of Bawles grasp. Ray Eeck re covered for the Giants and three plays later Agajanian booted a 37- yard field goal and the quarter! ended with the New Yorkers lead ing 10-7. Neither team could muster a drive in the early part of the second quarter and the Eagles were especially stymied by 260-pound, 6-5 Rosy Grier, the former Penn Stater, who was dropping them all over the field.

With five minutes left Landry punted a grounder to Bawel, whose name was changed to "Eobbles in the press box, and the halfback ju gled it and it rolled into thelp0 on a Penn grads haven't had a chance, Their 0ther solid chance oc-'the second on shifts probably to celebrate a since Navy curre(i when they gained posses-! caused by over-eagerness three fell before Ed Gramigna's dra-sion on Gobblers' 27 on an ex-i times cost the Quakers 15 yards matic last-minute field goal in the i cha 0f nunts with "the wind at' eary ln tne same when it still! middle of the 1953 campaign. andithpjrh.pk in th moments locked as if they might be able to 25. 1955 Jf 24 yards through the air even1 though they completed 50 percent of their passes three of six. -jg ciosest they came to scoring wag wnen Neil Hyland. veteran halfhark.

raced 22 vards lonsest gain of contest to Tech's oi nn ppnnNt third srrimm.ifP nlav.l jof toe half 1 A 15-yard penalty ruined the' first threat and on the second op- portunity the Quakers lost the ball on downs four yards further back in their own territory. Those two instances just about summed up the game. Ponn hurt Mighty Nashua stepped into time today and failed as the in the final strides to nip Jet IBaseiball Fads (September 23, 1955) AMERICAN LEAGUE Yesterday's Results New York at Boston, postponed, rain. Cleveland, Detroit, 2, 1st. Cleveland, Detroit, 0, 2nd.

Baltimore, Washington, 5, 1st twilight. Baltimore, Washington, 0, 2d nisrht. Chicago, Kansas City, 0. Standings W. L.

Pet. .625 .608 .410 .316 G.B. New York 95 Chicago DO Boston 83 78 12 Detroit 17 li 42 Kansas City 63 Baltimore 56 Washington 53 100 G.B.-Gamcs Behind. Today's Schedule (Probable Pitchers and Their Records) New York at Boston (2) Sturdivant (1-3) and Grim (6-5) vs. Sullivan (18-12) and Susce (8-7).

Cleveland at Detroit Daley (0-0) vs. Miller (1-1). Kansas City at Chicago Cox (0-1) vs. Pierce (14-10). Baltimore at Washington Palica (5-11) vs.

Stobbs (4-11). NATIONAL LEAGUE PIIILiJES at New York, postponed, rain. Chicago, Cincinnati, 2. Pittsburgh, Brooklyn, 3, 1st, twilight. Pittsburgh, Brooklyn, 1, 2nd, night.

St. Loni. 4: Miiwaufcr. s. ni-hi judging from Penn's inept per frttvianai it'll run intra a hile before they have another op portunity.

DECISIVELY OUTPLAYED The Penns trailed by 16-4 in first; downs and were decisively out played in every phase. They gained) only 59 yards net rushing and only! High Gun Captures UCLA Upset Sysonby; NashuaThirclBy Maryland 63,409 Fans See Baylor Defeat By JOHN DELL Villanova University's football team found the "Grocery 'Bowl" devoid of goodies aga.n last night. The Wildcats lost to Baylor University, 19-2, to take their fourth defeat in as many of Villanova Athletic Director Eud Dudley's promotional ventures Still, in doing so they gave 63 409 onlookers at Municipal Stadium a better show than in any of the previous tie-in presentations with a super market chain. The rain-soaked field wasr.t the one for Baylor's swift backs i nd the team from the pass-conscious Southwest Conference passed sparingly. It was a night for an uptet.

But Villanova couldn't take advantage of it. The Wildcats displayed a throwing team. And it wasn't a night- for passing, either. COMPLETE 12 PASSES At least not for Villanova. A dozen of the Cats' 27 passes ere completed, mostly for short yardage.

Baylor socked out its vard- sge mostly on the gro md, and took advantage of the "way the ball bounces" for its three touchdowns. Halfback Weldon Holley scored a one-yard plunge- after Villanova fumbled away ti ball; quarterback Bobby Jones tallied on a six-yard run at the e.id of a drive started after taking a five-yard Villanova punt. nd Henry Grem-minger, a 6-1 end. weded through, took a wild stab and knocked the bnll out of Villanova passer John Ferruolo's hand as he tried to throw out of the en i zone. The came down in hi-, hands for a touchdown.

Villanova escaped a shutout aner all this occurred. Tom Rogers. mcuw ias. 0I.ner lor's All-America cardidate. after ne juggled and gninec a high snap on an attempted pui.t out of the end zone.

McCOMB A STANDOUT The two points were all the Wildcats could give their guests by courtesy of the Acme Super Markets, who now total 31 1 638 for four parties. The chain ha 1 bought and distributed 92,000 for tie latest outing, but pre-game rain discouraged number of fans. Those who came found Villanova Continued on Page 8, Column 4 'Greaiesi of Era' UCLA Coach Praises Md. COLLEGE PARK. Sept.

24 (AP). Red Sander coach of UCLA's beaten national football champions, today tag- ed victorious Maryland "the grea est team of the era." Jim Tatum, Maryland coach, returned the compliment: "They've got a great football team." Maryland defeated UCLA, 7-0, today. Last year UCLA licked Maryland, 12-7, at Los Angeles. Asked what about Maryland he thought was best. Sanders declared soberly: "The way they all played." Sanders said also tliat his passing star, Rannie Knox, played much of the second half with a slight shoulder seperstion.

At that. yards. Durocher to Enter Private Business NEW YORK, Sep'. 24 (AP). Leo Durocher quit iseball today to go into private business and was Immediately replaced as manager of the New York Giants by Bill Rigney.

The double announcement was made by Horace Stoi.eham. owner of the Giants, who sa he accepted Durocher's resignatkn with "deep personal regret," bui was glad to have a suitable lejlacement in Ricrney, currently piloting the Minneapolis Millers the American Association. NO GREAT SURPRISE "Leo Durocher hat been a fine manager for tne New York Giants," Stoneham "and he has done some cf is best work during the previous season, when injuries and some pi lying failure imposed many hand caps." The retirement of the explosive manager after 17 yet ri as a major league pilot, the last seven and a half with the Giant. came as no surprise to followers ot the Giants. As far back as last May, he confided to several clo friends he planned to quit aftet this season.

"My dectMon to letire is not a I Continued on Page Column 1 imssissippi si lennessee 7 Tennessee 7 Morris iiarvey lampa N. Car. Coll. 18.. St.

Augustine Oklahoma) 13 N. Carolina Philander Smith 7 Miles Coll. St. Paul's Poly 6 Virginia St Shaw 21 Howard Shepard 26 Glenville Southeastern IS Sewanee Watford 22 Stetson Wake Forest 34 S. Carolina 19 Waters Coll.

18 Claflin 6 W. Liberty 12 Waynesburg 6 Wes Virginia 33. 12; Xavier (La.) 25 Tuskegee Inst. 6 MIDWEST Ashland 14 Kenyon Augsburg 13 Hamline Beloit 34 Lake Forest Bradley 18 Illinois Normal 7 1 Capital 27 Ohio Northern 7. Carleton 26 Knox 7 Concordia 20 St.

Thomas 7 Concordia (111.) 13.. Tech 7 Dayton 15 Cincinnati 14 Farlham 21 Manchester 13 E. Illinois STC 15 Kalamazoo 0 Ivansville 45 Butler 14 1 Hanover S5 Anderson 6 Hillside 20 Mich. Normal 6 Indiana Central 20 Franklin 13 Iowa 28 St 7 Kansas 13 Washington St. 0 Miami (O.) 25.

14 Michigan 42 Missouri 7 Michigan St. 20 Indiana 13 Millikan 23 Carroll CoU. 7 Mo. Mines 29 Wash'ton (Mo.) 13, North Dakota 32 Augustan 19 Notre Dame 17 SMU 0 Ohio U. 13 MarshaU 6 Ohio State 28 Nebraska 20 Ohio Wesleyan 26 Rochester 19 Omaha 34 Morning-side 0 Purdue 14 COP 7 St.

John's 14 McAlester 9 St Joseph's 27 Depauw 13 St. Cloud STC 20. Dakota 7 S. Dakota State 34.. Iowa STC 21 Southern STC 19.

14 Taylor 32 r. Rose Poly Wabash 13 Albion 7 Washington 30. 0 Wichita 19 Utah State 0 Wisconsin 23 Marquette 14 Xavier (O.) 49 Louisville 20 Youngstown 25 Great Lakes 0 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 21 Oklahoma AtM 0 N. Texas St. Texas Western 0 Pile V.

AIM 31. Coll. 6 Rice 29 Alabama 0 Texas 35 Tulane 21 Texas A4M 28 LSU 6 TCU 32 Texas Tech 0 Tulsa 41 Hardin-Simmons 19 FAR WEST Colorado 14 Arizona 0 Idaho State '7 Colorado Coll. 0 Hlinois 20.. 13 Lewis Clark 34 Coll.

of Idaho 14 Montana 35 Wyoming 6 Pnget Sound 14 Pacific Lutheran 12 Utah 20 Idaho 13 Whitman ColL 20. 7 I Professional FOOTBALL NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, aVAULts 27 New York CANADIAN Hamilton 22 BIG FOUR Montreal 13 Continued on Page 8, Column 3 I i in "I si oj 7 1 6 7 17 santhemums for Blue Choir, whoor three piays one a punt-they NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (AP). handicap company for the first King Ranch's High Gun flew up Action by a head in the $106,700 Sysonby stakes at Belmont Park. A screaming crowd of 28,685 sent Nashua, the 3-year-old king from William Woodward's Belair stud, off as the 3-5 favorite, but the best he could do was third place, a length and three-quarters behind the Maine Chance farm's Jet Action.

RACE OF CHAMPIONS' This was the "race of the champions," one of the classiest fields ever to step on a race track, and High Gun proved he was back in the glittering form that brought him the 3-year-old title in 1954. Fourth in the field of five start ers on a track swimming with water and mud after an overnight and all-riav rain T-a William Helis, Helioscope. This 4-4 year-old star was three and a half lengths behind Nashua, while Jack Amiel's Mr. Turf trailed the field 22 lengths behind Helioscope. Jockey Ted Atkinson said a bandage came loose late in the race on one of Mr.

Turf's legs. HIGH GUN REPEATS It was a great and thrilling vic tory for High Gun. and his jockey, Bill Boland. A year ago. High Gun won the Sysonby with Eddie Ar- Continued on Page 9, Column 3 By HERB GOOD Rain and a hard-hitting Virginia Tech eleven made the opening of University of Pennsylvania's 79th football season a most dismal event at Franklin Field yesterday.

The Southern Conference team, 1 undefeated last season, rebounded from its first-game defeat by Wake Forest to pound the Red and Blue into submission, 33-0. A gathering of only 12,751 smallest opening-day turnout in modern Penn history sat in numbed silence as the Gobblers punched over five touchdowns, three by second-string quarterback Leo Burke. They took a 7-0 halftime lead with a six-pointer early in the second and turned it into a rout with two scores in each of the last two periods. Thus Steve Sebo's second season Holy Cross Routs Temple, 42-7 By ART MORROW Inquirer Reporter WORCESTER, Sept. 24 Rain converted the emerald sward of Fitton Field into a big pistachio today, and Holy Cross College ground Temple University, into hamburger with a fourth -quarter deluge that produced a 42-7 finale to their mutual football opener.

The Owls fought the good fight. Outmanned and outgunned in every department, they had the heavily favored Crusaders locked in a stalemate at halftime, and notwithstanding the fact that the Philadelphians held the ball just long enough in the third quarter were a mere touchdown behind after five minutes of the last quar ter. OWLS GAMBLE And then the orld crashed right over their heads. Holy Cress scored four times within a span of six minutes and six seconds. A highly, respectable game up to this point far closer than anyone had expected thus wound up in a rout.

Even so, it was closer than either the score or the statistics might indicate. If the Owls had been content to concentrate on defense, they could have held down the margin against them. But after Holy Cross had pulled out a 21-7 Continued on Page 8, Column 5 iTJn.nrr -y-r- t-itimM' i mi' i ii ft did very well. Sanders said. hitting on nine of 14 passes for 96 Leo Quits, Rigney to Pilot Giants; Phillies Reappoint Smith for 1958 probably would havo preferred hay.

There were boos for Hartack, America's leading horsebacker, when en route to the post he was introduced to the thousands: he had only a single winner in the previous six races! But Willie only grinned. WILLIE'S 2d IN ROW Then he came skylarking home on the outlander. That made it a double for the day and two United Nations decisions in a row. He brought Closed Door, flying the silks of Dr. Leon Levy's Jaclyn Sta ble.

to a stirrins score in the stake last September. This one was easier. From the Continued on Page 9, Column 4 it, it-- rr i ri mi 'FA Continued on Page 8, Column 5 Wirnhoto Bill Rigney, newly appointed manager of New York Giants geh 'better connection yesterday at hi hotel in Roc heifer, N. where his Minneapolis (AA) club Is playing in Little World Seriet. St.

KA i 'j- i i I Standings W. L. C. G.B. Brooklyn 97 55 .638 I Milwaukee 85 68 .555 12' I New York 79 73 0 18 PHILLIES 76 76 00 21 74 79 .484 23'i I Chicago 72 80 .174 25 I St.

Louis 67 86 30 'i Pittsburgh 60 93 .393 37 $25,000 for Mayo; All Coaches Back By ART MORROW H. Roy Kamey and Edward Mayo Smith both had far-reaching announcements to make New York last night after the Phils-Giants afternoon game was called off on I as a doubleheader today. v. er v. has been appointed manager of the Phillies for 1955 at more' money.

Terms were not but it is believed he'll receive in the neighborhood of $25,000. I As soon as he caught his breath, 1 Smith announced that all of his coaches Benny Bengough, Wally Moses and Whit Wyatt will be back with him next year. EVERYBODY'S HAPPY The warmth of their smiles must have been felt even in Philadelphia, for the grins were wide enough to cover the 90-odd mile between the Polo Grounds and Connie Mack Stadium. The players, at the end of a campaign singularly free of disciplinary squabbles and bench recriminations by contrast with developments of recent seasons, Joined in the rejoicing. "Everyone connected with the organization agrees that Smith has on Pag 2, Column G.B.

Games Behind. Today's Schedule (Probable Pitchers and Their Records) PHILLIES at New York (2). 2 P. Roberts (23-13) and Weh- meier (10-12) vs. Ilearn (14-15) and Antonelli (14-16).

Milwaukee at St. Louis Buhl (13-11) ts. Flowers (1-0). Chicago at Cincinnati Rash (13-10) vs. Klippstein (9-10).

Brooklyn at Pittsburgh Loes (10-4) vs. Law (10-10). Continued on Tage 2, Column 2 I Joe Culmone falls off and Prince Hill scampers away riderless at start of $104,600 United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City yesterday. Boy d'Amour, (right), John Choquette up, nished fourth as Blue Choir, Willie Hartack aboard, romped to victory by Vi lengths, followed by Chevation and Klairon..