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Sunday Mornlnp, Oeton'e? 9, 1941 8LX Nose Out Dodgers 2-1 to Grab Series Lead SUNDAY NE WS-DEMOCR AT. T. T.ATTASSEn. FTOTUDA' Yankees Florida Gators Smother Tampa Spartans Under 46 to 6 Score RUSSO ALLOWS DODGER TEAM ONLY 4 BLOWS Golf Tournament Semi-Finalisls Live Oak is Next on Schedule For Lions; Band Steals Show 33 RED HARRISON LEADS GATORS IN EASY WIN Oranjre and Blue Cridders Roll Up Biggest Score In Twelve Years Wl nN: fit ll News-Democrat Staff Photograph) are shown holding the beautiful trophy for which they will battle of the first annual city golf championship. Parker defeated Jimmy nosed out Bruce Davis, jr, extreme left in their semi-final matches.

By WAYNE OLIVER GAINESVILLE. Ai The Florida Gators rolled up the highest score of their 12 seasons of play in their home stadium. Florida field, last night as they overwhelmed a badly outclassed Tampa eleven. 46-6. Coach Tom Lieb of Florida used 36 of the 37 players he had on the bench but it didn't hold the score down as the Gators made touchdowns almost at will.

There was some measure of consolation for Coach Flucie Stewart's Spartans of Tampa, however, as they scored against Florida the first time since the two schools began football relations in 1938. Fullback Paul Straub did the trick for the Spartans in the fourth quarter after Florida had made its last touchdown, breaking off right tackle and reversing his field to run 38 yards for the score. Gators Score Early The Gators struck when the game was only a few minutes old, halfback Jack Jones tossing a five-yard pass to end Forest Ferguson to climax a 48-yard drive. Fullback Bill Cowen kicked the extra point. Fullback Red Mack drove across from the two-yard line to complete the Gators' 75-yard march for the second touchdown.

Quarterback Charlie Tate placekicking the additional point. Tate took a pass from Halfback Tommy Harrison for a 31 -yard touchdown play early in the second period. A third-string backfield added another before the half ended. Sophomore Halfback Frank Buell racing the final 25 yards off tackle and Guard Paul Eller booting the extra point to make the half time score Florida 27. Tampa 0.

Ferguson got his second touchdown of the evening in the third period as he took a lateral and ran 19 yards around right end. doing some facy twisting on the way. Tate adde dthe extra point. Harrison Stars Harrison, slender sparkplug of the Florida offense, then gathered in a Tampa punt on his own 40-yard line and streaked straight to the goal behind some neat blocking. Milton Hull, Florida's fine left tackle, booted the point after.

Breaking off left tackle. Harrison got away on another touchdown jaunt early in the fourth period, breaking through left tackle and racing 47 yards to pay dirt. Tate's extra point attempt was blocked and Florida was through for the evening. The Spartans then staged their lone sustained drive of the evening to score. Straub.

Capt Howard Beynon and Halfback Johnny Kaufman were the bright spots in Tampa's backfield play. The lineups: Maroons Upset Alabama, 14 to 0 Both Touchdowns Scored In Last Half TIiKPts i numerous tlJJStlS 1 scored as drid Favorites Fall Alabama, (ieorgetown And Wisconsin Fall By the Wayside BY HERB BARKER NEW YORK. Alabama. Georgetown and Wisconsin all suffered unexpected defeats yesterday as the football machines of Duke. Texas.

Navy. Tulane and Notre Dame gave new demonstrations of all-around class and Fordham's highly-touted Rams barely got past their first test. Duke, clashing with Tennessee in the day's most important en-gaacment. crushed the Volunteers. 19-0.

with a great display of alert football and will be favored to whip through the rest of their schedule unbeaten. Handing Tennessee its first regular season defeat in 35 successive games. Duke took advantage of all its scoring opportunities in the first half and then settled back to hold the Volunteers safely in check. Texas, looking more and more like one of the country's greatest buried Louisiana State under a 34-0 count as Pete Layden and Jack Crain led the way. Navy, meeting what supposedly was to be a stern test, in dark-horse West Virginia, on the heat in the second half, scored 33 points and crushed the Mountaineers.

40-0. Following hard upon its rout of Boston College a week ago. Tulane's Green Wave, apparently certain to be a major factor in the Southeastern conference race, had no troubles whatever with Auburn's Plainsmen and won. 32-0. Dippy Evans scored all three touchdowns for Notre Dame as the Irish stopped Bo McMillan's Indiana outfit, 19-6.

Alabama Upset Alabama, picked by many to run 1-2-3 in the Southeastern conference, never could get going against Mississippi State's green eleven and fell by the wayside. 14-0. Alabama's line was badly-outplayed and that spelled the essential difference. Georgetown, which had whipped Mississippi In an upset a week ago, was in turn spilled in sensational fashion by Virginia Tech, 3-0. Roger Mc- Clure's field goal in the third quarter meant victory to Tech which had absorbed a terrific arouncing from Kentucky in its last start.

Wisconsin, rated well up in early season forecasts, took a frightful 28-7 beating from Marquette, making its first start under its new coach, Tom Stid-ham. Yale, opening Spike Nelson's coaching regime, gave the east another sensational intersectional victory. The Elis spotted Bill Dudley and Virginia 19 points in the first half and then, led by sophomores, pulled the game out of the fire in the last half, 21-19. John Petty's touchdown in the second period enabled Purdue to halt Pitt, 6-0, and Army outpointed Citadel, 19-6, in other intersectional tests. Penn, defending champions in the Ivy league, put a fast, inex perienced team on the field against Harvard's veterans and spilled them easily, 19-0.

Ken Stofer scored a second period touchdown and that was all Cor nell needed to whip Syracuse, 6-0. Paul Governali's passing carried Columbia to a 13-6 decision over Continued on page seven Robert Parker. t. it. rlllllipS I r.

ri' i iniyoltvuum Two Veterans Meet Today For City Championship; Other Matches Set Robert Parker and Phillips, two veterans, will fight it out over 36 holes today for the city golf championship. Parker, former Piney Woods champion, advanced to the finals with a great 2 and 1 victory over jimmy Lee while Phillips won from Bruce Davis, jr. 4 and 3 in his semi-final match. This is the first annual city championship tournament ever staged here and the winners, run-ners-up and consolation winnres will be awarded beautiful trophies. Wilbur Boozer will meet the winner of the Richard Ervin-Ray-mond Marsh match in the finals the first flight.

Boozer nosed out George Lee 2 and 1 in his semi-final match. Other finalists are, second flight. Perry Nelson vs Dempsey Mayo; third flight, William Carson vs Buck Hood: fourth flight. Fred Elliott vs Tom Kienan: fifth night, Rodney Durrance vs Julian" Smith; sixth flight, Capt Black vs the winner of the Simpson-N Moore match. In the semi-finals of the lower flights Nelson defeated Julian Proctor 2 and 1 Mayo nosed out Durwood Dedge 3 and 2: Carson won from Jerry Everton one up: Hood snowed under Ed Kiles 6 and Elliott defeated Glen Hil- burn 2 up; Kienan defeated Jack Lauder 3 and Durrance beat Bob Grunow one up; Smith de- feated Malcolm Yancey, jr, 3 and 2 and Captain Black nosed out Bob Tinney one up.

Texas Steers Bowl Over Louisiana State, 31-0 AUSTIN, TEX, The orange wave of the University of Texas, which threatens to engulf six other members of the Southwest football conerence, showed its vast power yesterday by roll ing over a gallant Louisiana State University eleven 34-0 before fans. Despite rain and mud, the Steers, reaching deep into their reserve strength to conserve regulars, humbled the Tigers with a brillian ground and air attack. and allowed only four hits. He was a trifle wild at the start but got steadier as he went along. After walking one man in each i of the first two innings he didn't give another pass during the rest of the game.

The only hit off him in the first six innings was coming. Joe Medwick, a slugger of good repute, topped a curve and the ball rolled tantalizingly along the third base line while the Yankees hovered over it and waited for it go foul. Instead the ball stopped dead just inside fair ter- ritory about half way to third base and Medwick received credit 1 for a single. The other safety, in addition to the two that made the run in the eighth, was a tremendous double i by two-gun Pete Reiser against I the centerfield wall at the start the seventh. This brought the Brooklyn fans their feet shouting and pleading for the Dodgers to score and win for Fitz.

But Russo was supreme, striking out Medwick and Dolph Camilli, the latter for the second time during the game. He also fanned Reiser to open the ninth and make a total of five strikeouts during the game. Yanks Cut Loose Fitzsimmons matched him in effectiveness as long as he was on the mound, although he gave up four hits during his term. It was his artistry with these men on base that endeared him the crowd. After Joe DiMaggio led off the second inning with a single for the great slugger's first hit of the series, Fitz made the next two men go out to Camilli and the third send a fly to the outfield.

Red Rolfe led off the fourth with a single and John Strum, who forced him, was picked off first by Owen, the Dodgers' quick little catcher. Then came the big emotional Continued on pane seven i i Injured After Hurling Shutout Ball By JUDSON BAlLfcX BROOKLYN, W) Masterful pitching by Marius Russo, a young i iouthpaw with a sick stomach and four quick singles in the eighth Inning brought the New) York Yankees a 2 to 1 triumph 1 over the Brooklyn Dodgers yes- terday and gave the Yanks a two to one advantage in the games i played. But the memory that as print- ed indelibly in the minds of the 33,100 sweltering fans who jam med this little park for Brook- lyn's first series show in 21 years was the gallant fight of old Fred Fitzsiramons until a line drive struck him on the left leg in the seventh fhning and knocked him out of the ball game. The fat, 40-year-old knuckle ball expert who in his younger days as a star of the New York Giants was beaten three times in world series contests, battled beautifully in a scoreless hurling duel that kept every fan in suspense while it lasted and brought them to their feet cheering time after time. Blast Hits Knee Then with two out in the seventh, Russo ripped off a vicious line drive that struck topheavy old Fitz inches above the left knee and bounced high in the air.

Peewee Reese caught the ball to end the inning, but Fitz-simmons had to be helped off the field and later was taken to New York hospital for X-rays to determine whether the kneecap might have been broken. His removal let down the dykes to the power of the Yankees and after Johnny Sturm had flied out to open the eighth against relief pitcher Hugh Casey, Red Rolfe. Tom Henrich, Joe DiMaggio and Charley Keller blasted four con aecutive singles for two runs. Larry French, Brooklyn's only lefthander, then came in to make Bill Dickey ground into a double play and Johnny Allen pitched hltless ball in the final frame, The Dodgers tried to recover the lost ground in their half of the eighth when Dixie Walker led off with a double In right center. Russo put his thumb down on the next two batters, throwing out Mickey Owen after striking out pinchhltter Augie Galan, but Reese shot a sizzling single into the rightfield corner to score Walker.

Then Russo made Pete Cosca-rart pop up In the infield and the Dodgers' chance expired. Russo in Form The 27-year-old southpaw star, who grew up on the streets of Brooklyn and became a great athlete tot Long Island university, pitched magnificently all the way The Box Score New York AB PO A Sturm, lb 4 0 1 12 0 Rolfe, 3b 4 12 12 Henrich, rf 3 112 0 DiMaggio, cf 4 0 2 2 0 Keller, If 4 0 12 0 Dickey, 4 0 0 4 1 Gordon, 2b 3 0 12 4 Rizzuto, ss 3 0 0 2 3 Russo, 4 0 0 0 4 Totals 33 2 8 27 14 Brooklyn AB PO A Reese, ss 4 0 13 1 Herman, 2b 1 0 0 0 1 Coscarart, 2b 2 0 0 0 3 Reiser, cf 4 0 15 0 Medwlck. If 4 0 13 0 Lavagetto, 3b 3 0 0 1 0 Camilli, lb 3 0 0 11 0 Walker, rf 3 112 0 Owen, 3 0 0 2 1 Pitzsimmons, p- 2 0 0 0 2 Casey, 0 0 0 0 0 French, 0 0 0 0 0 zGalan 1 0 0 0 0 Allen, 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 30 1 4 27 8 Batted for French in 8th. New York 000 000 0202 Brooklyn 000 000 0101 Runs batted to DiMaggio, Keller, Reese. Two base hits: Reiser, Walker.

Three base hit: Gordon. Stolen bases: Rizzuto, Sturm. Double plays: Rizzuto and Sturm; Reese and Camilli. Earned runs: New York 2, Brooklyn 1. Left on bases: New York 7, Brooklyn 4.

Bases on balls: off Russo 2, off Fitzsimmons 3. Struck: out: by Fltzsimmons 1, by Russo 5. Pitching summary: 4 hits and no runs off Fitzsimmons In 7 Innings; off Casey 4 hits and 2 runs in 13 taning; no bite and no runs off French 23 inning; no hits and no runs off Allen in 1 inning. Los- Ing pitcher Casey. to of to to Leon Keeps Record Clean With 19-0 Win Friday News-Democrat Sports Editor The stage is all set for another conference championship battle between the Leon Lions and the Live Oak Bulldogs.

The two Northeast Florida conference powerhouses tangle in the Suwannee county city Friday night and the winner has a fine chance of winning the title. Leon kept its record clean with a 19-0 victory over a scrappy Dun can Fletcher squad here Fri day. Three quick thrusts, in the first, second and fourth, gave the Lions victory over the rugged east coast eleven. Carter Leads Way Wesley Carter scampered 36 yards around right end for the first touchdown and then tossed a 32 yard pass to Charlie Wood for the second tally. Bud Flynn, substitute halfback, intercepted a Fletcher forward and dashed 35 yards for the final touchdown late in the fourth period.

Ellis Bradley bucked the line for the extra point after the third tally. Both teams fought tooth and nail from start to finish and a little unexpected fireworks were exploded in the third period, af ter a Leon touchdown had been called back because of backficld in motion, when Billy Green of Leon and Dorn of Fletcher swapped blows. However, the officials who turned in their second fine performance on Centennial field. quickly restored order and banish ed both players from the game. Two young reserves.

Jack Clem-ons who replaced the injured George Taft at left end, and Jack Croy, came through with some of the niftiest tackling seen on the local field in a long time. Both boys tackle hard and low and when they hit the opposition, they i stop them. Carter, Wood and Dick Woolery were standouts for the Lions in i the backfield while Bill Earnhart i joined demons and Croy with fine defensive work. Ba Sta nds Out I Friday night the Lions. how- I ever, had to share their glory with the snappy Leon high school band, an organization that needs never to take a back seat to any other outfit.

The band, under the supervision of Romulus Thompson, put on a fine exhibition between the halves and kept the crowd pepped up with snappy music throughout the game. Miss Anita Hartsfield is head drum majorette and leader of the band while marching and the members step as lively and perfectly at a blast from her whistle as West Point cadets on dress parade. Champion Twirler Adding extra color to the band are little Helen Barrow, national champion twirler and acrobat, and Zeke Carter, drum major, and Miss Nancy Murphree, Miss Ruth Jackson and Miss Fay McCrackin. drum majorettes. The latter were dressed in their all satin blouses, skirts and capes Friday night.

The band will accompany the team to Live Oak Friday night and also will go either to Jacksonville or Daytona Beach later in the season. Minor Mystery Proves Too Much for Police WASHINGTON, CJP)) Capital police failed to solve, a minor mystery yesterday. A mail carrier left his cartload of letters outside a senate office while he went inside. When he came out the cart was gone. He reported to the capitol police, and finally found the cart, empty, in another corridor.

A check disclosed that all the mail had been delivered. "But who took the cart and delivered the mail we don't know," police declared. recovered 2 0 Yards lost by penalties 25 40 FOOTBALL This Week with NORMAN SPER Follow His Predictions ALL THIS WEEK FLORIDA THEATRE Robert Parker and Phillips over 36 holes today in the finals Lee. extreme right, while Phillips Phillips is standing next to Davis Vols Are Stopped By Duke, 19 to 0 Blue Devils Display Plenty of Power DURHAM, C. (W A pile iriving Duke team, which com-' bined offensive lightning with a stone-wall defense, broke the-! Tennessee jinx in a million pieces yesterday, whitewashing the Vols 19-0.

The whipping ended Tennessee's ctrir.g of victories in regular sea-ron fsmrs at 34. It was first victory over the powerful since 1935. A crowd of 45.000 fans packed "like stadium for the crucial bat-played in 89-degree weather. Duke did all the scoring in the firt half, srd Tennessee didn't a first down until two before the half ended. It was power that told the story power on offense and defence.

The best picture of the game can be seen in the statistics. Duke, rushing, gained a net of 164 vards, to only 42 for Tennes- see. As the game ended. Duke was on the r.ne-yard line, in a drive which had been sparked by Davis. There were two downs to go, but the whistle intervened.

Among those attending were Governors Broughton of North Carolina and Prentiss Cooper of Tennessee. URRe u-hLou Touch Football CITY OF TALLAHASSEE Recreation Department Oct. 4. 1941 TOUCH FOOTBALL NEWS The end of the third week of the Dale Mabry Field touch football league finds the Ordnance team the only remaining undefeated team. In second place in the 15th Pursuit with four wins and one loss against four win and no losses for the Ordnance.

Team standings: Pet. Ordnance 4 0 1 .000 15th Pursuit 4 1 .800 HiH, 53rd, No. 1 2 1 .667 42nd Airbase Squadron 3 2 .600 2nd Chemical Co 2 2 .500 Quarter Master 2 2 .500 13th Pursuit 2 3 .400 53. No. 2 1 2 .333 Medical 3 .000 14th Pursuit 0 4 .000 Schedule for the week: Monday, 14th vs Medical (7), No.

2 vs QM Tuesday, Chemical vs 13th '7), 42nd vs 15th Wednesday, No. 1 vs Ordinance (7), 14th vs No. 2 Thursday, Medical vs Chemical (7), QM vs 15th Friday, 42nd vs No. 1 (7), 13th vs Ordnance a i I and Parker is next to Lee. Football Scores (By The Associated Press) EAST Penn Slate 0.

47. Arr.ncrt 7. Yale 21: Virginia 19. Rochester 13. 6.

Army 19: Citadel 6. Cornell 6: Syracuse 0. Fordham 16: Southern Mth3dtst New York 6: LaFayeite 0. Pennsylvania 19: Harvard 0. 6: Pittsburgh 0.

Holy Cross 13: Providence 0. 10. Ci-y CJllf L-c-S--O, f.utgers 25: Springfield 0. 3v.es 7: New Hampshire 6 2J: Potomac State 0 Maine 14; Northwestern 12. Columbia 13; Brown 6.

13: Wesieyan 7. State Connecticut 8. Princeton 20; Williams 7. Navy 40; West Viremia 0. EAST Tufts 20: MidcUebury 0 Younestown.

12; Morris Harvey 7. 14: Cincinnati 13. I State 39: Lowell Textile 0. 19; Tennessee 0. William and Mary 51; Randolph-' ion 7.

SOCTH Tiorida 46; Tampa 6. Georgia 34; South Carolina 0. WaSe Forest 52; Furmau 13. 32: Auburn 0. Oecrsla Tech 20; Chattanooga 0.

Clemson 27: North Carolina State 6 Virginia Tech 3: Ororeetown 0. Mississippi 27: Southwestern 0. MIDHTST N'otre Dame 19: Indiana 6. Michigan 6: Iowa 0. Northwestern 51: Kansas State i.

28: Wisconsin 7. Nebra.ka 14; Iowa State 0. as 13; Washington University Louis) 6 Vrstern Reserve Ohio TJ 0. Ohio Weslevan 19: De-Sales 7. Missouri 21; Colorado 6.

Mississippi State 14: Alabama 0. Kentucky 7: Wash Lee 0. Vanderbiit 42: "ennessee Tech 0. Georgetown (Kv, 7: MUllgan 6. SOUTHWEST Texaa 34; Louisiana State 0.

Texas Christian Arkansas 0. -r- Wesieyan 15; Southwestern. (Texas) 6. 33: University California at L's Anceles 0. Illinois 45; Miami 'Oi 0 Toiedo 55: Detroit Tech 0.

Indiana State 19; Eastern nilnots Teachers 6 ROCKY MOUNTAIN'S Colorado Mines Montant State 0 (tie). Washington State 13: California 6. Oregon Stare Washington 6. Ohio State 33; Southern California 0. TulaRe Smothers Auburn Plainsmen NEW ORLEANS.

"PO Tu-lane's big Green Wave reverted to its role of a powerhouse yesterday and completely outclassed a much lighter Auburn team 32-0 before 35,000 fans, The huge Green line, outweigh-j ing the Plainsmen 20 pounds to the man, tore huge gaps in the Auburn wall and threw up such defense that the Plainsmen made only one first down, a 23-jyard run by Monk Gafford. Tu-i lane gained 379 yards to Auburn's 26. Auburn failed to complete a single pass. The game was a big departure from most of the previous 22 meetings of the two clubs, nearly all of which had been close and hard -fought. Lou Thomas' off-tackle slants were Tulane's most consistent ground gainers, but so superior was the Tulane line that all the Green backs found ground-gaining easy.

Tulane's ail-American tackle, Harley McCollum, remained on the sidelines with Injuries. TUSCALOOSA. ALA. Undefeated Mississippi State dis-! played amazing speed and power here yesterday to win a cor.vinc- ing 14 to 0 victory over the strong Jy favored Alabama eleven before 20.000 startled fans. The victors counted in the third quarter, on a 22-yard pass from sophomore Billy Murphy to Bob Patterson, and again in the final minute when substitute Center Elbert Corley intercepted a last -hope, fourth down Alabama pass on the tide 34 and ran 30 yards to set the stage for Sonny Brnee's short dash around left end.

State's victory was the second in Southeastern conference circles, following a 6-0 triumph over Florida last week, and placed the Maroons in the front rank of the conference title contenders. Alabama's highly rated running attack was well bottled up most of the game, and was marred by frequent fumbles. The heavy Tide line was badly outplayed by the lighter and faster Mississippi forwards, and most of the Alabama gains resulted irom nard and shifty running than from holes opened in the defense. Nelson's great punting kept the score down. He averaged 37.1 yards per try despite having two kicks blocked, and picked the ball up off the ground in his end zone to get off one 51-yard boot.

Capt Bill Arnold, one of the few regulars left at State from last year's Orange Bowl champions. Patterson, Dees and Mason were outstanding men for the victors. For Alabama, Holt Rast turned in his usual fine game at end and Babs Roberts, Dave Brown, Don Sails and Russ Mosley did Yoe-man service on defense. Florida Tampa Statistics Statistics of the game: Tampa First downs 5 Yards gained, rushing 'net) 43 Forward passess attempted 16 Forward passes completed 8 Yards by forward passing 93 Yards lost, attempted forward passes 0 Forward passes intercepted by 1 Yards gained, runback intercepted passes 19 Punting average (from scrimmage) 34 Total yards kicks returned 131 Opponents' fumbles Fla 17 331 16 131 30 38 165 Tampa pos Florida Hach le Ferguson Weiner It Hull Read lg Ferrign Moore Parham Anderson rg McRae Thornton rt Lane (C) Brennan re Klutka Hatch qb Latsko Kaufman lh Jones Comporato rh Cahill Benyon (C) fb Cowen Tampa 0 0 0 66 Florida 14 13 13 646, i wm Cleaning Plant Phone 931 Every spot disappeared like magic from your suit when sent to New Way. Creases are precision-pressed, lapels are as identical as twins.

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