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3 OUCfluOWllS erous as neaaacn mm 11 2k the vaunted Duke squad to get ahead, much to the dismay of the 56,000 damp spectators who jammed their way into the stadium built to hold but 34,000. Don Durdan, the slim halfback who passes with his left hand, was the payoff player although the Beavers' winning touchdown was manufactured on a 70-yrd pass and run play rem Bob That was all the scoring the 73,000 spectators, most of them peeking from beneath umbrellas saw although each club gained approximately 150 yards and the supposedly non-passing Midwest erners completed three aerials in five tries. In manufacturing their upset, the lowly rated Oregon Staters scored first and never permitted before the Tcxans realized the game was under way. On the other bowl fronts, Tulsa's Missouri valley champions lasted for fourth period touchdown and a 6-0 verdict over Texas Tech in the Sun Bowl; Langston. blanked Morris Brown 13-0.

in the Vulcan Bowl for the negro champion-ship and Louisiana college bested the University of Mexico. 10-0, in Mexico City for the Orchid Bowl crown. back, who scampered 72 yard on a punt return and later registered from 21 yards out. Frank Sinkwich, the broken-jawed all-America halfback, was the difference between Georgia aid the Texas Christian the latter eleven dropping its first bowl decision in four outings. Three times Sinkwich flipped scoring aerials and once he broke loose on a 43-yard touchdown jaunt of his own.

He and his mates combined for a 40-7 lead Dethman to Gene Gray in the third period. Alabama used the minimum of effort turning back the cadets of Texas A. M. collecting itj four touchdowns while gaining only 75 yards by rushing and passing while registering but a lone first down. The Tcxans.

who could get only three touchdowns, gained 309 yards and 13 first downs. The Tide's success was a tribute to Jimmy Nelson, their ace pliment to the two teams who wore forced to play on a field that resembled a Louisiana bayou. Fordham's two points came early in the first period when Don Greenwood, Missouri end, dropped back to punt and the water-logged boot was blocked by Tackle Alex Santilli of the Rams. The ball squirted through the end zone before Stan Ritin-ski, Fordham flanker, jot control of it. triumphed, 40-2(1.

Oregon State got three and Duke two as the west coast champions fooled everyone but their coach in upsetting the Blue Devils, 20-16, in the Rose Bowl game at. Durham, N. C. Arid Alabama crossed the double stripe four times and Texas A. three times in the Crimson Tide's 29-21 Cotton Bowl victory.

The Fordham-Missourl score wasn't a surprise. It was a com NEW YOriK, Jan. Everywhere but at New Orleans, where Fordham slogged to a 2-0 triumph over Missouri, touchdowns in the annual football bowl games Thursday were as numerous New Year's Day headaches. At Miami Georgia and Texan Christian players popped over the goal line with all the regularity of habit ruining the best of resolutions at the Bulldog of the Southeast conference She Austin Btateswan THE SECOND OLDEST DAILY IN TEXAS SPORTS ROUNDUP Oh, My Goodness Now The Carolina People (Want a Bowl to Keep Bowls in Brief By INTERNATIONAL NJFAYS SERVICE Results of New Year's Day "bowl" football Games: Rose Bowl at Durham, N. C.

Oregon State 20, Duke 16, Crowd 60,000. Orange Bowl at Miami, Fla. Georgia 40, Texas Chris-Sugar Bowl at New Orleans Fordham 2, Missouri 0. Crowd 70,000. tian 26.

Crowd 39,000. Cotton Bowl at Dallas Alabama 29, Texas 21. Crowd 38.000. Sun Bowl at El Paso, Texas. Tulsa 6, Texas Tech 0.

Crowd 14.000. Orchid Bowl at Mexico City Louisiana college 10, University of Mexico 0. Crowd 8,000. Sugar Bowl Declines To Follow Dope Defensive Battle, Instead of High Score, Results In 2-0 Win for Rams NEW ORLEANS, The Fordham and Missouri loot-ball teams were about as evenly matched as teams could be, and Iho nna 1hat tj-t tV, Ki Bv HIGH JR. jof Fordham's good gains came on NEW YORK, Jan.

2. (Wide quick opening plays that were lup-Worldi -Duke saved the Rose Bowl i posed to be a Tiger specialty, game for thi year but the move I nB. Friday, January 2, Sports Situation Aggies Won Statistics, -outride of that the eighth annual Duke moaning Sugar Bowl game Thursday rap nv Lnn tlncr wcfs, corn-exactly contrary to all predictions. wet weather before leaving may hurt the Fasadena show in the long run. Looks like a cinch that the folks in the Carolinas will try to make a permanent fixture ot a New Year's Day game, and if they can arrange a hookup with the Southern conference, that will eiimnate a possible Californa vis-! itor each year.

All that noise I vou heard over, the air really was the fans cheering, not the boys who! the coast but apparently that was what the Beavers needed so they could handle a slippery ball. Can't decide whether the No. 2 surprise was the way Georgia wrecked T.C.U. or Fordham Jim Crowley's stunt of springing a formation on Missouri. Most Dobbs'Pass Beats Tech EL PASO Jan.

2 AP)- whip as the toast of the town xi r-! tku. i He was Glenn Dobbs. lanky six-foot, four-inch halfback for Tulsa university, who pitched Tex-; as Tech diizv in the Sun Bowl 1 dim. wiui me iKiy vi misiiuiu line ana some iancy pas letep- i w'w, itntiia WWII 1 ful offensives, the tilt was expect-1 ed to be a free-scoring affair but the final score was Fordham 2, Missouri 0, and a blocked punt decided the issue. It was expected to be a contest of Fordham's passes vs.

Missouri's running. But Fordham netted 155 rushins to Missouri's 143 and yards passing to Missouri's Fordham threw four passes completed none. no ad I Break Come Earlr i i Missouri had run up its most impressive offensive records in i mul, and was thought to be able to go on any kind of field. But the! sround was soft and the fast and the fast Tiger Respect for Intelligence Of Oregon State People Enhanced by Duke Result DUKE MYTH having been exploded by Oregon State's busy Beavers, it might be apropos to recall a remark by a certain coach who didn't want to be quoted, then or now. He remarked it shortly after Oregon State selected Duke (in-' stead of Texas) as its Rose Bowl enemy.

"Well," he welled, "cant say as I blame them. First place, they're afraid Texas might lose to Oregon. In the second place they figure they've a tetter chance to beat Duke than Texas." Smart people, these Oregpn Staters, what? TWO FOR FIVE COl DI MAGCilO DO ANY BETTER? This department has little cause to with pride to its bowl predictions, having emerged with a glowing .400 percentage. At least we strangled sectional prejudices and called the logical turn on Alabama and Georgia games which Southwest scribes missed almost unanimously. Our colleague Wilbur Evans missed all except the Tulsa-Tech result.

Jinx Tucker, the Waco know-it-all, made a clean 1942-Page 17 By Weldon Hart JACK CRAY i i if long-legged kid with a nonchalant be hke Biy Grfmi's perennial re-ny slipped and i and an arm sfa blacksnake tiremeiUs-'from tennis." tion, downed the Bed Raiders 6-0. Frankie Albert has been signed to Dobbs' bullet-like passes de-. 0 a movie, "The Spirit of Stan-moralized Tech's defenses, and forrr for Columbia pix. If you when it wasn't his passes it was on't hear from your favorite base-Dobbs 'kicking and rurning. Two i bal writer these days, it probably great ends.

Saxon Juddand Elston is because he is rehearsing for the Campbell, with Dobbs made a pass- wnter frolics. Chicago tips the ing combination which bowled 1 next wee'K, New York's affair But Alabama 'TaterHead' Gave Aggies Full-Nelson By TOM W. MILLER DALLAS, Jan. 2. (LTj Here' I a football poser: I How can a team he outrushed 115 yards to 59, be outpas.sed 194 yards i to 1(5, be outstripped in first downs 13 to 1 and still win and win decisively? And here's the answer: Give the team a few breaks and a climax rjinner like Jimmy Nelson to cash in on them.

Alabama's Crimson Tide rolled homeward Friday with its fifth victory in seven bowl appearances, a 29-21 Cotton bowl triumph over A. which had never lost a bowl game before. The Aggie had the statistic! all their way, but still they were sucked under by the Tide, whose big pull was Jimmy Nelson. This is what the fleet halfback did: He ran back a punt 72 yards to a touchdown through the whole M. team, weaving and twisting, tacklers slipping off him like county fair contestants trying to hold a greased pig.

He bruised his way. with little interference, through a clot of Aggie tacklers 21 yards to a touchdown. hp swished around end in quicKmaneuvered reverse to an other touchdown without a hand being put on him. i i He also did thr Alabama punt- 1 ing, tossed the one pass that accounted for the Tide's 18 aerial yards and did his part of intercepting seven of He 42 passes the Aggies attempted. They call Nelson "Old Tater Head," supposedly because of the shape of his head, but he's really just a modest, soft-spoken, black-haired young athlete from the little ti.wn of Live Oak, who wants to help LTncle Sam's armed forces rather than go on in football as a professional.

The Cotton howl game was his last for Alabama and the six foot. 180-pounder says he wants to do physical instructor work in the army after he gets out of school maybe before. Frank Thomas, coach of the Crimson, said "Jimmy played the greatest game of his career." Martin Ruby, the giant Aggie tackle who played a whale of a game and enlisted in the naval air corps during the half, summed it up: "Three things beat usJim Nelson, our fumbles and our passes lhat fell in their hands. But mostly it was Nelson. I guess you could say he put the full-Nelson on us." Louisiana Team Wins I 'Orchid Bowl' Game MEXICO CITY, Jan.

2. (AP) I Louisiana college, unable to cash I in on its superior weight for two I periods, fourtd the combination in the last quarter Thursday and defeated the University of Mexico 10-0 in an "Orchid bowl" game. i over tne nea aiders Deiore spectators. As a spectacle the Sun Bowl encounter was dull going, for about 53 and a half minutes. At this precise juncture, when almost every-' one was willing to settle for a tie, dodos connected wnn a pass Judd for the touchdown.

The play traveled 31 yards. TURNER'S January i sweep, He missed 'em all. All games except the Cotton and Orange affairs were close enough to argue over, and behind that fragile alibi this department takes refuge. Happy New Year, everybody. STEER CAGERS STEAL TIME Jack Stuart Gray, the Long-horn basketball professor, has discovered how to make two days out of one.

He has his cagers working out morning and afternoon during the current "holidays." Thanksgiving and Christmas were merely red marks on the calendar for Mr. Gray's charges. They needed a lot of work, and they have been getting it. Gray says his team did "about as we expected" in the Oklahoma City tournament. Texas finished fourth, plaving a good Ore-State Underrated Duke Never Able To Get Ahead Of Pacific Coasters In 'Rose Bowl' i DURHAM, N.

Jan. 2 (API They laughed when Coach Lon Sti- ner of Oregon State sat down hard on the football dopesters because they had "underrated my team." But when Lon's boys started to play, the laughter changed to amazement. Lon proved convincingly Thurs-; day in the Rose bowl game here that his Beavers, who entered the. contest on the short end of 3 to 1 odds, were the most underrated in- since David slung his sling. The youthful coach maneu-; vered his team to a 20 to lfi tri- umph over a Duke club which had i gone through a nine-game season without defeat, a tic, or a close call.

i Fake Pass Scores Thus ended what probably will 1 go into the record books as otic of the most unusual games in the Rose howl 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 Durdan, 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 tip 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 Zcllick. Simas' kick was good. Score Tied, Again 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.

In the last quarter, Duke scored a safety when Durdan, standing in his end zone, got a bad pass from center. There were no alibis from Coach Wallace Wade. "We lost to a mighty fine ball club," said the Duke mentor. Berl Huffman 111 In El Paso Hospital EL PASO, Jan. 2.

(AP) Berl Huffman. Texas Tech ba.etball coach, was taken to Southwestern General hospital Thursday night I with a high fever and in danger of pneumonia. i Huffman had been traveling with the basketball team and, had complained Wednesday of feeling ill. He was confined to his hotel room Wednesday night, but Thursday saw i the Sun bowl game from an auto-I mobile. Really Was Second guessing at long range, it seems that Duke's workouts against George McAfee weren't enough to get ready for Don Durdan, the Oreson southpaw pitcher.

And T.C.U. annarer.tly had heard all about Frankic Sinkwich' running But didn't know he could pass. too. Miami reports Frankie showed just one sign of slowing up before the game, mat was when Simone Simon, the movie eyeful, visited the practice field and the photogs wanted her to kiss Sinkwich. It took considerable coaxing to get the Croatian Crecker to go for that one.

Radio announcers had their usvnl trouble not saying anything about the weather, but they manased to say something every time a new ball was brought into play. Best line we heard when Bill Stern said tan Oregon State penalty was for "clipping, illegal use of the hands and unnecessary roughness." TODAY'S GUEST STAR Jack Troy, Atlanta Constitution: "Talk is that Don Hutson, who ha? a S75.000 establishment ot Green Bay, will not play any more foot ball Chances are. however, it win ONE-MINUTE SPORTS PAGE M'ke Jacobs won't even talk about a sdlout fof the igrit because he still has a lot of tickets left and doesn't want to scare off any customers, but he figures that there wont be many it Vrn cpltinff ivacaiK seats my thp current rate. Stanford's Feb wjll be Re(j Cross benelit and even the "player of the year" will have to pay to get m. Preparing for a test blackout, the Jacksonville (Fla.) dog track an- nnnnred all liahts would be ex- under grand stand.

Suppose that re 1 betun windowrlocated STARTS TODAY! Kirschbaum SUITS and O'COATS tic NOW (27 75 NOW WE AH To Paramount Theatre GRADY TURNER dfc! 4- -v it y- ft-. '-u 75 Won Game! Nelson's Runs Beat Champs Of Southwest Farmers Have Big Edge in Yardage And First Downs By HAROLD V. RATLIFF DALLAS, Jan. 2. 'API Alabama didn't stop that blazing aerial game of the Texas Aggies but the Crimson Tide did the next best thing they just outscored the Cadets and the result was the thriller of thrillers in Cotton Bowl history.

At the long end of a 29-21 count, the tide will roll back toward Tuscaloosa late Friday, breaking the homcAvard journey at New Orleans where the squad will see the east-west came. Pretty good for a team that makes only one first down nd is out-' gamed by 234 yards as was the Crimson Tide Thursday in halting the Aggies' victorious march among the bowls. But there was Jimmy 1 Nelson and there, brother, was plenty. One of the greatest running backs ever seen in these parts, Nelson was the difference as he sifted wraith-like through the Aggie team twice for touchdowns, one on a 72- yard return of a punt, the' other on a 21-yard swirl around end. Score on Reserves The score was tied 7-7 when Nelson started to move and the Aggies never could catch up, although scoring twice llteainst Alabama reserves in the waning minutes of the game.

And the downfall of the Aggies made it a clean sweep against Texas teams in Thursday's bowl battles. Texas Christian lost a scoring thriller to Georgia, a fellow mem- i ber of Alabama in the Southeastern conference, and Texas Tech was beaten by Tulsa in the Sun Bowl, i An estimated 38.000 saw the sixth annual Cotton Bowl tilt, the defeat marking the first time a Southwest conference team ever i had lost in the Dallas post-season i clash. The Aggies rolled up 194 yards I I in the air but Alabama intercepted seven passes and tried seven I of their own, completing only one i for 16 yards, but that led to the touchdown that brought Alabama even with the Aggies in the second period of the riotous game. Daniels Takes Over Nelson led the scoring parade with 13 points two touchdowns and a point afterward swhile Russ Craft pitched in with one touchdown, All-America Holt Rast another and George Hecht kicked a 22-yard field goal and one point after touchdown. Sophomore Leo Daniels ran back a punt 43 yards to set tip the first Aggie touchdown, passing to Harold Cowley for the counter.

Daniels also sparked the second Aggie drive with a 26-yard pass to Cowley who was dropped on the Alabama nine. Daniels, Marshall Spivey and Jake Webster blasted it over. nated the scene. He passed to Keuper who bucked his way to the. five and in a single play went over.

Before the half ended, the Bulldogs scored again, this time on a pass from Jim Todd to Davis. Revived by the rest between the halves, the Texans came back on the sun-drenched field and took to the air with a success that was definitely lacking in the early-stages of the game. They scored on a pass from Emery Nix to Bruce Alford. The redoubtable Sinkwich, however, immediately offset this by sprinting 43 yards to the goal line on a faked pass. The Texans, warming to the task, completed two more aerials for scores in the final period, but the 12 points only tempered the sting of defeat.

Statistics showed that Sinkwich single-handedly outgained the entire T. C. U. team, totaling 139 yards rushing to 101 for the Horned Frugs. The Georgians piled 12 first downs to T.

C. 8 and excelled in virtually every other department. Sinkwich attempted 13 passes and completed nine of them for a total of 241 yards. Four of his throws were intercepted. Wgm backs continua its hard to talk about a like that," said Fordham's Coach! Jim Crowley.

"On a clear day! both team might have run up high scores." The score came after about minutes of play- After a punt over the Missouri goal line, Maurice! fnr i9.r4 jo.u worKl to klck "on the goal line. Alex Santilli blocked the punt and the ball bounded through the end zone for an automatic safety. Ice Runs Well Thereafter the game was a defensive battle, as each teem played its secondary close in practically En eight-man line. As Missouri's Coach Don Faurot said, "the bright spot of the Fordham attack was the de- tensive play of Steve Filipowicz." Although Joe Andrejco and Joe! Ososki frequently pierced the Mis- s'ouri line on short stabs, the Rams never drove past the Missouri 2.. i Similarly Missouri's fleet halfbacKS Harry Ice and Bob Steuber reeled off several good runs, including a pair of 32-yarders by Ice, but the Tigers got no closer than the Ford-, ham 18.

Steuber tried a field goal from the Fordham 35 with three minutes to go but the baTTpassed under the crossbar. Jeff, Lamar Top Favorites Lamar of Houston in the upper bracket and Thomas Jefferson of Antonio in the lower were favorites Friday as the seventh annual San Antonio invitational basketball tournament started at Bracken ridge gym. The defending champion Austin Maroons were rated distinct outsiders in the 16-team melee. Their first-round foe was Chiner, at 7 p. m.

The veteran Mustangs, regional runners-up last year, were to meet Beeville at 9:10 p. m. Lamar, winner 50-36 of 8 six-quarter scrimmage with the Maroons here Thursday night, took on Lockhart at 3:05 p. m. Milby of Houston another title threat, was in Lamar's bracket but in a different quarter.

To meet Jeff in the semi-finals. Austin would have to take Shiner i and then defeat the winner of the John Reagan-Kingsvilie game at 10:25 a. m. Saturday. Coach Tony Burger employed his entire squad against the Redskins Thursday night, and the margin of defeat might no be quite indicative of the teams' relative strength.

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2 (UP) Maryville. Teachers and Baker university, of Baldwin, Thursday night entered the finals of the Emporia college basketball tournament and will meet for the championship Friday Basketball Scores Bradley Tech 53. Texas 41. Butler .15. Oregon State 29.

Evansville 69, Washington and Lee 26. Toledo 59. Dartmouth 46, Southern California 43, Canisius 39. i jet, m. td 5 losing game against Oklahoma in the semi-finals and a poor one against Pittsburgh in the third-place game.

"But Pittsburg had a good team," Gray hastened to add. "Should have defeated West Texas, the eventual champion had a seven-point lead with less than three and a half minutes to play." Gray reported that Frank Brahaney played about, the most consistent game of any Longhorn at Oklahoma City. GETTING DOWN TO HARD FACTS ABOUT ICE Harry Ice was the ball-carrying standout of the slippery Fugar Bowl game. Wilbur Evans recalls that the Missouri lightweight was once a candidate at Texas U. "Didn't stay long," Evans chronicles, "as U.T.

officials weren't ready to offer him financial assistance until he could prove his worth." We aren't sure that's the reason Ice left Texas cold, so to speak. It is doubtful if negotiations reached the board-and-room stage, or that Ice would have demanded any financial consideration at first. His father was one of D. X. Bible's midwestern friends end admirers he desired, nay insisted, that the boy come here from Wentworth Military academy.

As a junior college graduate, Ice would have been eligible for Southwest conference participation in '39. Bible didn't particularly want him. In the first place, he was trying to steer clear of out-of-state boys. In the second place, he already had several little men Jack Crain, Gilly Davis, R. L.

Harkins in the backfield. Ice worked out a few times, showed promise only as a punter. He was well behind Crain, Davis, et al, in other departments. He made up his own mind that he couldn't break into the Texas lineup, and the feeling was mutual. So Harry went away, to Missouri.

There, after freshman experience, he became" a good sophomore back and, this season, a brilliant back. But we don't figure Texas lost anything in the deal. Had he participated here in '39, as he desired, his competition would have ended in '40 just when he began to find himself at Missouri. It is quite doubtful that Ice would have been a regular at Texas probably not even a letterman. Entire Stock of Win ter Suits and Over coats Included.

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MIAMI. Jan. 2. tUP Frankie Sinkwich, his accurate passing arm and speedy feet, gave the University of Georgia its smashing 40-26 victory over Texas Christian university in the most colorful, thrill-packed football game in Orange Bowl history. Sinkwich took command on the opening play, before 35.30S gridiron fans.

The 180-pound All-Ameriean halfback's running and passing set up the first Georgia touchdown, scored by Ken Keuper after six plays. Texas Christian took a short-lived lead a few minutes later, capitalizing on a Georgia error. Recovering Lamar Davis' fumble on the Bulldogs 22. the Texans passed and battered their way to the four where Kyle Gillespie, T. C.

star quarterback, rammed it over. Frank Medanich's kick was good and Texas was! ahead, 7-6. But from there on, the Georgians had things almost their own way. Sinkwich threw two touchdown passes one to End Mel Conger and the other to Rack Cliff Kim.sey, before the period ended and the Bulldogs were in front, 19-7. Georgia didn't lose its "scoring momentum in the second period, and in short order Sinkwich domi Aj A 711 CONGRESS Next ED TURNER JAX BEER HOUSTON, TEXAS.