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fjpes Ruined By Preflight M-iMG Rrnnr Siwl ilftB By' Art Gohn Ul VI IV tMPil I jylrYvCSv Sperta Editor BHfc--'- vjj- Willi a iHjKafon for this one that watt Jurkoyichfase wide open. BXBCtment lor piaying a boy physically unfit lor was never coramete "Wltoout a motive, knew, or at I pwught I knew the motive, but I lacked proof. Mind- VOLCOTCV1X- NO. 146 OAlOAmJCAlIFORNIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1942 12 lS. DO? yet accented evidence.

Bottari's Air Shots Bring 13-6 Victory Coast Guard Drops 44-6 Game to Dons In Twin Bill Opener the proof at laat it qni the record, put there astonish- 1, fhrea tiMm TCMftGHOOWN? IT TUB TOUOHWl (MR. JUDML As JOB murt have hand by, now, Jim JurkovJch, wu knocked un- on the nrst play of the second quarter Saturday and saw tact at tba Big Gama from the bench. It was the umpty-umptb tebaabmlutyoaddTnblstrtctenratCalUonti according to ttw team Dr. James one Wattbay AM. Mats yesterday.

Jurkovieb eould hare into the game in the third quarter, after be bad rested up a little. Allison satt lie kept Jurkovleh out after the third Stanford touch- beeauat there was no reason to take unnecessary chances." confession was so incredible I could not believe even Allison had it The man must have been misquoted, I told myself, but- on By ALAN WARD fJ Sometimes the better team lose aacnmf Vattn vu rmA- football game, and there were urkovich was ready to go again at and I thought of fa at the cad of the third quaver eafrCOa0i Allison, "but 1 seared I decided not.toMUtfce many observers among the 25,000 persons at Kezar Stadium yesterday who remained unconvinced that the abort, if Stanford had not scored again and California still would a chance to win, Dr. Allison wtuid have taken "unnecessary it is, black on white. Jurkovkh's cdndiMon, after being knocked is, nan notarag to do with bis betas: keot on the bench. Hit determined by the scoreboard, Air Devils of the United Statee Naval Pre-Flight School at St Mary's had a playing edge on the Santa Clara Broncos.

There were any number of observers, including quite a few bona fide experts in the press box, who after the Pre-Flighters had defeated the Broncos 13-6 vigorously expressed the opinion Santa Clara still is the best football team on the Pacific Coast despite its two defeats this season. These insurgents who zealously ignored the visual evidence of the Sin to Kick Mori in Htfld 3W 1 was amusing to note the kid-glove handling of the Jurkovich K.O. swanu. Art JMsennguai, quoted cnuck Taylor, the guard, who first hit Jurkovicm I glad I tackled Jim around the ankles. I guess be must navel I lus head the turi nm erm nee, raueneo: score board at the end of an excit i -was eoolad by a hard, clean tackle ing contest pointed out that while the Broncos were outplayed for one mm ttt bumped Us head ea-e turf, and an in-rushing Stanford i us eaeet" quarter they outplayed their opposition for three quarters.

abase, that neither Stanford. man is i paper had to designate that "inusnias Stanford man" FR ETTAS TO BEALS They emphasized the spectacular wtgy eye ooqnecco of Jurkovlch't ko: caption reads, In part: Mftob carna rearing into AAaartea Chuck Taylor, who Mm to the. turf with a spectacular ankle tackle. Buck ifiQia front of the Jolter, but never touched him." passing of Jess Freitas and the remarkable receiving of Al Beals and the tough breaks which caused the Broncos to fumble at vital moments or interceptions made when they could do the most possible lleh, particularly since the No. frame shows Tawcett cominc left knee pointed for Jurk's head, already en the around.

The Mrams shows Ta wcett already past Jurkevich. The sequence of damage. 'etween tnose two snots would be interesting. Well, there usually is this type of Stanfotirs house organ in the Westbay did a helluva job of controversy at the end of football games which are passably close and aunxerd of au blame, It nearly succeeded in proving kicked himself is the bead. in which statistics indicate the team rffte apologies? It is no sin to kick a man in the head in football.

which lost made greater yardage on foot and in the air than the winners. is impossible to avoid it Football is a rough body-contact Still and all, many of the observ ten are constantly being hurt. i is why so boy who is physically "unfit to take such a beatins ers who spoke so favorably for tha Broncos at the finish of the contest. IM exposed to tts dangers. why, Jurkovich should not have been allowed to play.

Im during IK9 tuuiac iw Y. tic "Mmm prejudiced. If anything, their gjxn psthies were with the Navy ladsTk fottCohn' from the hills of Moraga. LAST OF THE SEASON I bust have bean quite a balcony scene Saturday. For the Broncos yesterday's ses i when Dr.

AUiaoa stepped forth to address the students who (under the window of the Bears' dressing room after the game. good man opened his mouth 'to speak, according to our Mr. sion was the last game of the 1942 season, and the defeat quite probably ousted Santa Clara from a bowl game. chant was taken up by hundreds, which could be hrard for For the Air Devils it was second IsWaatOohn We.Want Cohn! WoWantCohnt" Dunbar tailed to make it clear whether they wanted Cohn ail from the last. Next Saturday the Pre-Flighters will tackle the Stanford Indians at Palo Alto.

or strung from the highest tree en the campus. they wanted to present Cohn with the axV Mr. Dunbar As pretty a pitching duel as one would want to see was unreeled yesterday by Freitas of the Broncos and Vic Bottari of the Air Devils. ne suspicion 1 was wanted' so 'badly, naturally, or I would! there. I like California students, they' have a greet- sense of While Bottari passed directly te me year they invited me to the Big Oame bonfire.

How should I the Navy's two touchdowns. Jess my feared running abort of fnelt didn't bring the lone Bronco score across the line via the air. The aWT be suspected, Allison's relations with the press are slightly these days. And Harry Hayward, a Westbay hack, didn't lm- Santa Clara halfback himself toted gaturday when he walked up to Stub in the dressing room the pelota over for the six points, BAD AT THE START game, looked him squarely in the eye and asked him: it tot you're "going to quit?" Candor compels the admission the irasBt Hayward's idea, he was under orders to lire that question. hi bcesea, a professional Californlahater, put him up to It.

The I a macabre sense otf humor. He ordered another of his hirelings Broncos in the opening quarter looked like a bush league team. Slow, lethargic and apparently un 'Hp identical question of Bill Ingram a few years ago when times mindful of the issue at stake, Santa Clara was caught flatfooted for two lean scneiey. may or may not be significant, but a week or so later, Ingram touchdowns and the game before it untracked itself. But thereafter the picture gnodk $he power of suggestion, jio doubt.

Stanford If) Pools Thtto Mortalf Bt changed. The Broncos came to life and but for some tough breaks tt vital points they at least might have tied the score. And quite possibly won a victory. ilSxy.and large, to coin a phrase, football hacks know less of the -ait they pretend to oever than the reportara of any other sport. Only four minutes and a few sec any man who has seen California this season could conscienti- WSaMLa.

onds remained in the opening quarter when Bottari. operating from the ick the Bears over Stanford shall forever remain a mystery. Gaels Drub Mather, 33-0 Podesto Throws Three Touchdown Posses In Sacramento Game Bronco 26-yard line, flipped a pass at these peerless pre-Blg Oame picks reeoott Sullivan: California Stanford 7. FvfrGuttor Grieve: California 13, Stanford 12. Meet Cadets 'Big Gome' Winners End Slate Saturday; Bears Ffoish Dec.

5 to Ed Manske, former Northwestern luminary, the latter racing some 15 yards along the sideline to a "inn Connolly: California 13. Stanford 7. Bud Tehaney: California 90, Stanford 13, Nello Falaschi's kick for point missed connections. atpeea Maaaocx: waiuorma la, oianiora e. BnsuV Cal must have been the favorite! mm nam! uicr wu tu mure iuuiMr ior uiu pieuinra By LEE DUNBAR After the tremendous buildup for fcsjsauuiisiH.

irs one ox ine noanesr customs in nonnern caiuornia jour- "tulll lii ttu nM A Mlnln, hna al inil mA the Big Game, followed by yester 'Yen. the boys figure they can sell more neoers in Berkeley than Alto. Naturally. They don't read newspapers in Palo Alto, Just Fhopks. The kind without pictures.

day's encounter at Kezar between Santa Clara and the Moraga Pre-Flighters, football is due for a tremendous let down in this section. wouldn't even dignify the Big Game with a prediction. I just The hysteria that always sur ji aa uagreni ouainewo ana lei go ai uiii. there isn't another sport that hu such sloppy reporting. Picking rounds the annual Stanford-Cali SETS UP TOUCHDOWN Bob de Lauer's interception ef Freitas' pass just' a few seconds later set the scene for the second touchdown.

Working from the Bronco 24, Bottari ripped off five yards on the ground. Roy Engle lost two but Vic passed to Manske on the 13. Bottari picked up one foot and then threw accurately to Manske who was stationed in the end zone and managed to snag the ball while Bill Prentice was trying to knock it down. Frankie Albert, hustled into the game, kkked the point. Only 15 seconds remained In the quarter at Albert's entry.

Freitas really knuckled down to his passing chore in the second frame, but he didn't achieve his proper proficiency in throwing strikes until after a few warmup IS Stanford last week and those six by-liners shove did it was fornia tilt lured 45,000 spectators to logical as licking Tim Heff eman over Joe Louis. Memorial Stadium Saturday to see And. Biven the chance, those essheads would take Heffernan. a very indifferent game. We'll be forced to wait for the Shrine East' West game to see that crowd Ipttt $200 on Smith Ovfr Nordtn or exceeded.

SACRAMENTO. Nw. With Johnny Podesto at his sharp-shooting best, the St. Mary's Gaels riddled the Mather Field Army Air Force barrage balloon 33-0 yesterday at Sacramento Junior College Stadium. A crowd of 7000 saw Podesto throw three touchdown passes and Ray Ahlstrom and Jack Verutti, who shone in the Santa Clara game last week, scoot on land for long gains.

The Flyers had bic name players, too Jim Kissel burh of Oregon State, John Meek of California and Johnny Klumb of Washington State but they apparently no longer have what it takes. SCREEN PASS WORKS The Gaels tallied one touchdown in each of the first three quarters and two in the fourth. The first was the result of 15-yard screen pass. Podesto to Ahlstrom. Roy Guisti booted the extra point.

Anthony Winn nailed Podesto's next touchdoyi pass and latrraleri it in Farrnn nrnmfieM Soma question was raised yesterday at Kesar whether Ed Manske etepped out bounds or atayed in after catching a pass from Vic Bottari and running 26 yards to give Preflight a touchdown against the Broncos. Magic Eye shows Manski's score was legitimate. Harry fine, who runs Duffy's Gym, and a stable of pugs en the tihts Just made what he swears is his first wager since he bet on A swell game is slated for Saturday at Kezar when Stanford, riding high on the crest of its 26 to 7 thumping of California, takes on the Pre-Flighters. The following Satur against Jeffries. 1 took $200 worth of the short end on Bob Smith against Conn it here Wednesday night," said Fine.

"The Sense brothers laid I to 7, 1 couldn't resist it." day California meets the Moraga outfit at Berkeley. Saturday's game ends the season tosses. TWO PASSES INTERCEPTED Norden has lost only one fight in his career, that on a first-round to an unknown Negro, Joe Lee. Bob Smith, another comparatively Redskins Play Bears for Title Some of the throws missed con Zappettini, Vucinich to Miss Finale Lobos Surprise Loyola, 14-14 HOLLYWOOD. Nov.

23.) By for Stanford, while the following week the Bears conclude a very Negro, could be another such sleeper. nections, and not entirely because They have one common denominator, Martin Holdberg. Norden unsatisfactory year. of his inaccuracy, either. Others con held to a dull draw by Holdberg but Smith murdered Holdberg, Unless Washington State snaps out of the doldrums into which it has sunk in its last two games the flattening him.

By I'nited Press my words," saya Fine, "Smith will take him rights, those surprise-pulling Lobos has to aay it, for 1200 worth. Coast Conference championship Is going to be handed on a platter to PALO ALTO. Nov. 23. fTl nected and a pair were intercepted.

The half ended with Engle snagging one of Freitas' throw on the Pre-Flight 11. The Broncos in the third quarter got as far as the Air Devils' 16, a fumble and Navy recovery ended the threat. Freitas' pitches early in the fourth Stanford's Indians rested today as 'Ik the hysteria of the Big Game, the news of a world champion The Washington Redskins faced football's most difficult task today a job that called for stepping up their offense and tishtening their defense to meet the Chicago Bears for the championship of the National Professional League on De- who rambled all the wav to pay-off from the University of New Mexico sone. It was a 56-yard play. Guisti nnd nn business winding up with missed point this time.

ia with Loyola of Los An- In the third quarter Ohlstrom'clM ln their football tussle intercepted a pass from F.gbeit Outplayed, outpassed, outrun and Heath, Mather's best passer, and i just about out-everythinged for two crown was lost in tne dispatches. I mean the upset of Ernie reward for their 2G-7 big game either U.C.L.A. or Southern California. TIED BT BASE A week ago the Cougars, now victory over California, but they resume football practice tomorrow. weeks ago in Portland Nordman collapsed against Lou Nova, landed the ball on a spot sufficiently The Indians meet the undefeated comber 13.

'stripping Lou of his title that of being the world's worst heavy- galloped 60 yards for a score. Guisti, periods, the red-shirted visitors close to the Navy's goal line to allow had' won it here by getting himself floored by Blimp pulled just two count 'em two converted. Jess' touchdown smash from the leading the league, looked very stinko in eking out a 7 to 0 victory over weak Idaho, and they showed no improvement last Saturday in playing a 6 to 6 tie with the Second smart plays out of their badly bat rat Duffy's Gym. NINE-YARD STRIKE tered gridiron trick bag that en who had extended his remarkable streak to nine or ten St. Mary's Navy Preflight team Saturday, but Milt Vucinich, center, and Halfback Don Zappettini probably won't play because of injuries received in the California game, Coach Marchie Schwartz said.

Podesto connected for a nine-yard four-yard line. Passes of 11 and eight yards, both to Beals, put the Broncos in scoring position. The Broncos appeared touchdown live defeats, was considered a cinch to hold his championship for strike with Joe Fercm for the fourth Air Base team of Spokane. Babe Holingbery's prides take on Buthe must have become over-confident Defeat went abled them to overhaul the victory-confident Lions and hold them on even terms to the final gun. Loyola drew first blood in the touchdown in the last period.

A Washington this week, and that few minutes later. Reserve Half bound for the second time in the game like the St. Mary's-Santa back Jack Germaine pegged a 17 i his first defease of his title last Friday night in the same third period on a 25-yard scoring final paragraph when Santucci5' yard fling to Irwin Barnickol for Clara contest is always a dog fight ging where be won It Nordman ruined his record by passed to Freitas, Max Sailor ran 34 jf If they were playing in early season fcfVOHround K.O. over one Keller Wagner. bat all the Yanks in Tunisia that Ray Carlen hu already the final score.

Mather made two bids for touch downs in the first half but both fiz tied out on th- Gael 10-yard line. form the Cougars would be rated a cinch to win, but they won't be able to eet over the Huskies on their The Redskins clinched tho Eastern Division crown Sunday by whipping the Brooklyn Dodgers. 23-3. while the Bears won the Western title by beating Detroit. 41-0, as Green Bay was automatically eliminated by deadlocking with the New York Giants, 21-21.

The Redskins have won four of their meetings with the Bears and scored a total of 94 points. One contest ended in a tic. A crowd of 34.445 fans Washington watched the Redskins rack up their ninth victory in 10 games. A free-for-all featured the game In the third quarter wh-m Bob Mas-terson of Washington and Perry Schwartz of Brooklyn began slugging each, other. Both teams joined the melee, and it took police five minutes to break it up.

Both play- yHras, i reiias iwice passed, once Beals for 12 yards and again to Vinolla for 25. A C08TLY FUMBLE JI to fight Wagner. tsOvi Holbrook Appointed Trojan Cage Coach LOS ANGELES. Nov. 23.

(f) Ernie Holbrook, former University of Southern California basketball player, is the new Trojan cage coach. He was appointed to succeed Jack Hupp, who has entered the Army Air Forces. Holbrook has been a high, school sprint by Halfback Ed Saena. Then the Lobos uncorked their first surprise a pass combination, Katz to Brown to Jourdan, with the latter sprinting 62 yards for the tieing tally. The Lions spurted ahead again in the fourth period on a 25-yard scoring pass.

Machado to Sweeters, and thought they had the game on ice. With three minutes to play, however, the Lobos. made it 14-14 When However, perched on the Navy 20, mm IN FIGHT TONIGHT press clippings. HUSKIES MAT UPSET U.C.L.A., after nosing out Washington, 14 to 10, last Saturday, draws a bye this week then takes on easy Idaho the following Saturday and 300 Horses fa bled For Hioleoh Opening MIAMI. Nov.

03. Three the Broncos' made a costly fumble, and it was Freitas who lost the ball on an attempted pass Manske Seeking this somewhat synthetic uue will be Alfred (Big Boy) hundred horses already are stabled Brown, 148, of Detroit and Lou It wasn't surnrislnc that Freitas finishes the season December 12 at Hialeah Park in preparation for coach here for five years, following 1H of Wilmington, DeL Jourdan passed to Foster, who scam hobbled the ball. It was surprising against the Trojans. In the mean- his 1933-S5 servica on the Trojan scheduled to go pered 49 yards to cross the Loyola the M-day Jlorlda racing season opening Zeomber SL raffalS, Cat 7 CeaUaaei rage tVOei team. goal standing up.

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