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PART FOUR Pages 1 to 8 ffof tfior mfmt Sports HARTFORD 1, CONN, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1950. Wesley an9 First Score In Deadlock With Amherst 1 1 With Malice Toward None BY BILL LEE Sports Editor Battling Wesleyan Eleven Gains Tie With Lord Jeffs I i Unbeaten Amherst Gridmen Forced to Come I From Behind Twice in 14-14 Little Three Opener Of ficial, Three Players Hurt in Bruising Tilt Middlebury Overtaken By Trinity, 35-19 Hilltoppers Unleash Precision Offensive After 12-0 BY JIMMY CUNAVELIS Middlebury, Vt, Oct. 28. Trin MEN under 50 would most likely agree that Babe Ruth is the greatest ball player of all, but a poll of experts conducted by Sports magazine gives tne accoiaae to ians Wagner. The magazine asked experts to Kutn, wagner and Ty.Cobb.

'Wagner won by 6 to 5, with two men, urantiana nice and John Kieran, I 1 ii ,4 f- it I i Rice is old enough to have seen a lot of Cobb and he must have seen Wagner in his prime. Kieran's baseball writing career covered the Ruth era mostly, although he must have been writing baseball at BY BILL NEWELL I Middletown, Oct. 28. Undefeated Amherst had some of th gloss rubbed from a shiny football record this cloudy afternoon a the Lord Jeffs were held to a surprising 14-14 deadlock by Wesleyan before 5000 fans at Andru Field. The Norm Daniels-coached Cardinals waged a tremendous defensive battle against the big Sabrinas in the fifty-sixth meeting of the schools on the -gridiron and promptly threw the Little Three race wide open at its outset.

John McLauehrv's Huskies Win Over Violets By 14-7 Score Bettencourt's Late Touchdown Climaxes Thrilling Windup BY OWEN GKEFFITH Storrs, Oct. 28. The University of Connecticut Huskies took to the air today to hammer down the New York Uuiversity Violets in fashion-' The elder critics put Wagner example, me white-haired manager and Cincinnati and helped Boudreau win another in Cleveland, is a soiia wagner man. Those who did not see the storied Dutchman of the Pittsburgh Pirates perform simply missed their baseball education, McKechnie avers. "He was champion batsman of the National League eight times and he stole an average of 40 bases a season over a period of years," McKechnie states in casting his ballot for Wagner.

''Well, even those of us not old enough to have seen Wagner can Imagine what a sensation a player of his extraordinary talents would create in this day and age. Shortstops who lead their league in bat- iing out a thrilling 14-7 football vie- through Colby, Champlain, in the last two minutes ofjdoin and Coast Guard with only had ting are rare indeed, not to mention having the speed to steal 30 or 4U bases. Fellows like Slats Marion and ShftrtjttfVnS- Vint Marlnn mnHa Vila Bird shortstop's virtue at the plate timely bingle more often than most. Marr Hagel (22), Wesleyan halfback and a Middletown youth, plows through Amherst on a five-yard scoring blast In the first period of yesterday's game at Middletown. Amherst players are Captain Jerry Gavin (on the ground lower left), Center Charlie (53) and Back Dan Gustafson (40).

Kgel was Injured later In the game (Courant Photo). how the fans would rave today over a shortstop who could field like a combination of Marion and Rizzuto, hit like Ted Williams and run like the wind. fheir final home game of the sea son, The Huskies, in beating the non- shrinking Violets to gain an even break in their season's record, had to uncork a late aerial offense to turn back the New York team which had won the only other meeting 25 years ago by a 23-0 score. Two thrilling pass plays which took the ball from the Violets 34 ac counted for the winning score, Joey Bettencourt racing across after grabbing a pass from Tony Fer- rigno at the 16. On the previous pass play Ferrigno pitched to Bet tencourt who galloped from the 34 to the 16.

Matt Johnson added the extra point, breaking a 7-7 dead lock. THe winning touchdown was scored with one minute and 15 seconds remaining. In winning its third game of the year the Huskies gave a Dad's Day crowd of about 8000 an action-filled windup after turning in a mediocre first half performance against a team that showed plenty of power up front. The Connecticut team employed. Luck, Skill Of Too Much For WAGNER BIO AS A COW AND GRACEFUL AS A CAT Wagner In appearance was as unlike the popular picture of a as moonlight is from the mid-day sun.

Big, burly and bow-legged, Wagner was the antithesis of the long, lean Marion type or the sprightly stubbiness of Rizzuto. He looked like a lumbering cow, but he moved with the erace of a cat. I saw him as a small bov when he Finnegan Pounces on Fumble to Set Up Tieing Touchdown, Scored by Ryan; Bush's Kick Gives Bulldogs 14-13 Win; Crusaders Passing Brilliant came to my town for an exhibition then, but not nearly as much as I todav or seeinar the Incomparable Dutchman at the height of hi cinrv. They say Wagner had the best 111 with mnra resile Viit Intn thfl Air McKechnie says he was also a good team man. Rip Collins was telling me the other day that Wagner should get credit for starting something popularly attributed to Mel Allen.

You know how Mel says, "How about that!" The Ripper says he heard it the first time from Wagner years before the radio broadcaster came upon the scene. running plays to manufacture its Ch P.kelly. of Providence, opening period touchdown when knocked out of bounds 5KL CT? nSrW Wn the second play of the second 1Z IZcc 1 Ihalf and hurt so badly he could extra point. A short pass from Irv continue. He was kicked in Panciera to Gene Pehota who ri ht knee three other eraled to Mignault was the drive Referee Fred Riel.

Um- Irutrw6- Clarence Taylor and Head The Violets didn lose much time Linesman Frank Hopkins, carried in storming back to get the tying commendable iob. Wagner is the greatest liar in baseball," Collins laughs. "He has more tall tales than any fisherman you ever listened to. Tell him the craziest baseball story your mind can conceive and he will top it with one of his own and swear it happened. He used to give us daffy plays that couldn't even happen in Brooklyn and ask us the solution.

'How about that? he would say to us and when we said we would give up and ask him the answer he would lauph and av. 'Fienire it out for But he would never give 1 1 A txa a. cioss uy jimiseu auu mri wui piuuauiy never ue anuLiici remotely like him. Coming as he did out of a school for boys directly into International League baseball, the Babe rewrote baseball history and influenced changes in the game more drastic than any man who ever played basebalL ED BARROW MANAGED TWO OF THE THREE iUd isarrow, KicKey, Jrrea uiarke and am MCK.ecnnie are Wagner men when it comes to nominating the greatest ball player of them all. Barrow discovered the big College Football STATE Wesleyan 14.

Amherst 14 (tie). Yale 14, Holy Cross 13. Trinity 35, Middlebury 19. Connecticut 14, NYU 7. Worcester Tech 6, Coast Guard Academy 0.

New Britain Teachers 14, Paiuer IS. Adelphi 13, Arnold 6. New Haven Teachers 47, National Agricultural Collere 0. EAST Syracuse 13, Boston U. 7.

Virginia 28. West Virginia 21. Maine 19. Bates 6. Princeton 27.

Cornell 0. Penn State 7, Temple 7. Williams 27 Tufts 0. Army 34, Columbia 0. Western Maryland 19.

Hampden-Syd-hey 7. Dartmouth 27, Harvard 7. Lehigh 21, Rutgers 18. Alfred 26, Brooklyn College 13. Penn 30, Navy 7.

Fordham 21, San Francisco 14. Miami (Fla.) 28, Pittsburgh 0. Villanova 20. Georgetown 14. Penn Military 21, Moravian 0.

Bucknell 32. Lafayette 0. RPI 7, Rochester 0. Haverford 32. Hamilton 0.

Bowdoin 26 Colby 13. Champlain 14 Norwich 7. Colgate 35 Brown 34. Dickson 26 Juniata 0. St.

Lawrence 32 Clarkson 0. Franklin and Marshall 41 Swarth- more O. Springfield 23 St. Michaels 0. Hampton Inst.

14 Lincoln (Pa.) 12. Hobart 33 union N. o. Glenville State 13 Concord State 6. Buffalo 33 Rhode Island State 12.

Susquehanna 7 CCNY 6. Geneva 18 Westminster 13. Montclalr Tchrs 14 Blassboro 13. Ursinus 25 Wagner 6. Albright 27 Lebanon Valley 13.

Thiel 14 Washington and Jefferson 0. New Hampshire 47 Vermont 0. New York Aggies 31 Leicester 0. Massachusetts 27 Northeastern 6. Kings Point 18 Hofstra 6.

Howard Univ. 13 Shaw 7. Mt. St. Mary's 40 Catholic Univ.

7. Edinboro Teachers 42 Brockport State 14. John Carroll 39 Marshall 2. Gettysburg 46 John Hopkins 14. Clarion State 13 Indiana (Pa.) State 6.

Shippensberg Tchrs 15 California (Pa.) Tchrs 0, Carnegie Tech 36 Case 27. Bluefield State 36 West Virginia State 32. Cortland Tchrs 37 Hartwick 0. Randolph-Macon 32 Brldgewater 0. MIDWEST Baldwin Wallace 49, Upsala 7.

Wisconsin 14, Nodthwestern 13. Maimi (O.) 28, Ohio U. 20. Hope 39, Adrian 6. Minnesota 7, Michigan 7.

Michigan Tech 48, Northland 0. Illinois 20, Indiana 0. Ohio State 83, Iowa 21. Muskingum 27, Denison 7. UCLA 20, Purdue 6.

Michigan State 36, Notre Dame 33. Butler 25, Western Reserve 14. Oklahoma 20, Iowa State 7. Mt. Union 63, Slippery Rock State 12.

Bowling Green 39, Toledo 14. Ashland 44, Hiram 13. Wayne State 13, Kearney 7. Beloit 15, Knox 7. Oberlin 27, Ohio Wesleyan 26.

Dubuque 14, Central Iowa 0. Canterbury 40, Rose Poly 7. Indiana Central 7, Anderson 7. Valparaiso 21, Ball State 7. Wilmington 21, Cedarville 7.

James Millikln 34, Carthage 7. Nebraska 33, Kansas 26. Southwestern Kansas 19, Northwestern Oklahoma 14. Michigan Central 26, Michigan Normal 7. Kenyon 39, Capital 0.

Gustavus Adolphus 34, St. John's (Minn.) 0. Depauw 34, JCalamazoo 14. Caleton 21, Monmouth 0. Wabash 42, Franklin 13.

Omaha 32, Wayne Univ. 13. St. Olaf 27, St. Mary's (Minn.) 0.

Eastern Illinois State 47, Indiana State 0. Cornell (la.) College 6, Carroll 0. Loras 70, Buena Vista 14. Centre 24, Hanover 14. Coe 21, Grlnnell 0.

Eureka 0, Prlncipia 0. Heidelberg 27, Findlay 7. Ripon 16, Lawrence 14. Lake Forest 26, Augustana (HI.) 0. Tllfnnls Mnrmnl 21.

Macnmh Tchrs. 20. South Dakota State 54, South Dakota U. 28. Missouri Mines 35, Southwest Miss ouri 34.

Concordia (111.) 19, Elmhurst 18. SfllTTH Tennessee 27, Washington and a). Clemson 13, Wake Forest 12. Maryland 26, Duke 14. North Carolina 40, William and Mary 7.

Kentucky 28, Georgia Tech 14, Florida 19, Furman 7. Alabama 14, Mississippi State 7. Clarke 6, Morehouse 0. Mississippi 19, Texas Christian 7. Catawba 14, Virginia Military 13.

Alabama A and 20, South Carolina State 6. Greensboro A and I 0, Morgan State o. St. Augusune 30, Kentucky state 19. Tulane 28, Auburn 0.

Florida State 14, Sewanee 8. Emory Henry 47. Tusculum 0. SOCTHWEST Missouri 27, Oklahoma A and 0. Texas 35, Rice 7.

Baylor 27, Texas A and 20. Vanderbilt 14. Arkansas 13. Abilene Christian 13, Midwestern (Texas) 0. Houston U.

46, Wichita 6. Texas Tech 61, Texas Western 7. WEST Adams State 19. New Mexico Mili tary 13. Colorado A ana 33, Utah State 13.

Wyoming 44. New Mexico 0. Utah 20. Colorado 20. Colorado College 34, Montana State 18.

Southern California 30, Oregon 2L Colorado State 20, Idaho State 18. Washington State 7, Idaho 7. California 40. St, Mary's (CaL) 25. Loyola (Cal.) 34.

Nevada 7. Washington 21, Stanford 7. Late Score Wllberforee 57. Lincoln Univ. 0.

Wabash 42. Franklin 13. North Carolina State 34, VPI 6. Delaware 0, Muhlenberg 0 (tie). vote for their choice from among voting for Ruth.

across. Like Bill McKechnie for who won nennants in Pittsbureh Phil Rizzuto are outstanding among T-orrtitnJrtri am a fiolAoy rPJi a was that he came through with a game and I was impressed even would be if given the privilege pair of hands in baseball. He came Vi a oryir cfiArfetAn HaIiva us the answer." ...111 1 AT fellow and managed him when he Mary's School in Baltimore. Ed respected sportswriter of the old of baseball voted for Wagner to does not settle the issue by any and get him into the lineup every Speaker or a Joe DiMagglo play than any man before his time or Series innings than anyone. His Thus it could be argued that the a ball player apart, even from and base runner than any of the don't know that he ever played timers will concede that he was particularly strong arm.

been a wonder. All I know for sure is no one on the scene or on the become a baseball player as good Cobb. Rickey has been linked with executive posts with the St. Louis Browns and the Pirates. The Pirate rumor seems to have more basis in fact because Buc President John Galbreath has not gone out of his way to deny that some- thine is in the wind.

Rickey has said he won't join the Bucs as general manager, a post held by genial Roy Harney. Harney insists he's staying on as general manager. There's even speculation Rickey might become president of De- Pauw University at Greencastle, ity's football team regained the victory trail today against Middlebury with a brilliant demonstra tion of how to come back. The highly favored Bantams surrend ered a pair of touchdowns in the first eight minutes and then un leashed a precision offensive to earn a 35-19 decision. When the determined Vermont- ers swept into a 12-0 lead, the crowd of 2000 fans at Porter Field had visions of an upset simi lar to the 1948 game between these rivals when the Panthers stunned an undefeated Trinity club, 24-13.

But the- Jesseemen had other ideas and settled down to whack out four consecutive touchdowns with a beautifully executed attack piloted by Quarterback Ed Ludorf. Trinity Leads at Half Despite their lightning start, Middlebury led only at the end of the first period, 13-7. Two second period touchdowns put the visitors in front, 21-13, at the half. The contestants traded third markers and Trinity locked up its victory with a 69-yard drive early in the fourth quarter. Billy Goralski and Dick Nissi each racked up two touchdowns for the Hilltoppers in the rough contest while Dick Garrison registered once on the end of a long pass from Ludorf.

Trinity traveled at length for most of its scores. The Bantams wheeled 75 yards for their first points with Goralski circling end the final two yards. Not one pass did Trinity toss in this long march. Nissi climaxed a 53 yard onslaught with a 16 yard dash up the middle. And on the last play of the half Ludorf and Garrison connected on a 43 yards pass.

Art French's pass interception set up the third quarter touchdown with Nissi capping a 32 yard drive on an eight yard smash into the line. Goralski cut four yards through! tackle for the fifth touchdown as a 15 yard penalty helped the Hilltoppers cover the long route to the goal line. Junks T-Formatlon Middlebury, as the Trinity coaching staff anticipated, junked its formation attack and operated from the single wingback. Coach Duke Nelson yanked his famed big end, Ralph Loveys, out of the line and placed him at the blocking backs position. The veteran Wendy Forges played fullback with West Hartfords Dick Allen seeing plenty of serv ice as a ball earner.

The Middlebury forwards, who outweighed their foes plenty, played a six man alignment most of the way fairly well spaced with two backers up playing behind the tackles. Trinity found this pattern much to its liking. Trinity amazed the chilled on lookers sending its smallish, but shifty backs for tremendous gains between the tackles. The Bantam forwards coached by Art Christ, opened up huge holes in the Mid dlebury forward wall time and again. The public address an nounced before the game extolled the virtues of the Trinity club and its sensational backs and he was never more right once the Hartford contingent found itself.

Start Early Drive Middlebury wasted no time In throwins a scare into the several hundred Trinity supporters who made the long jaunt up from Connecticut. The Panthers elected to kick off with a cross wind par tially in their favor and immedi ately started the makings ot an upset. Panther back Hank Darghi dashed through to partly block Bill Vibert's punt. Loveys grabbed the loose ball on the Trinity 40 yard line and was finally hauled down on the 10. Three plays later from the nine yard line Forbes oassed down the right alley to Bob Stalker in the end zone ior the score.

Don MacLean, who con verted from placement only after Middlebury's first touchdown, kicked too low. Minutes later, the Vermonters were back deep in Trinity terri tory. After Goralski lugged tne kickoff 15 yards to his own 18, the big Panther forwards tossed the next three plays for losses back to the five. Hal Sierra car ried Vibert's punt 15 yards back to the 24 and the Panthers were snarline: again. Two rushes earned the lb and hen Allen, former Kingswood School standout, fought his way 17 yards around end to make it 12-0.

Little" Trinity, almost helpless ud to this point, turned a rapid about face. Staying entirely on tne ground and between the ends ex- ceDt for the scoring play the Ban tams hammered out 75 yards. Al Magnoli started the parade with a five yard gam. -Then Goralski and Jim Pickett took over going through giant holes in the Panther defense for short gams. The Hilltoppers grounded out their sixth first down at tne Mid dlebury three yard line.

After Pickett was stopped try ing tackle for no gain and Goralski made but a yard up the middle, Ludorf called an outside play for the first time in this march. Goral ski took a pitchout and sped around left end to the goal line, Nissi Crosses Line Not until the second period did Trinity try the air lanes in a 35 yard drive which penetrated the Middlebury 13 where the Panthers dug in. However, the next time the visitors got their hands on the ball they went half the played for the Paterson club, but Barrow's vote is the strongest of all for he managed the Red Sox when Ruth came into the majors and he was the boss of the Yankees during Ruth's tremendous career in New York. Rickey's vote counts for more than most because the Mahatma isn't swayed by personal connections with any of the candidates and also because Rickey is widely accepted as the smartest and best informed baseball man alive today. Fred Clarke might be prejudiced a little because he managed the Pirates of Wagner's time.

Don't think some of the old timers didn't vote for Ty Cobb. Clark Griffith, a pitcher in thevmajors before Tyrus came upon the scene and a major league manager and club owner for more than a half century, is a Cobb man. So is Billy Evans, who was an umpire and sports writer before becoming a major league front office executive. H. G.

Salsinger is all for Cobb, but this is only natural because Mr. Salsinger is one of Detroit's finest sportswriters and Detroit is where Cobb spent virtually his entire major league career. Strongest vote for Cobb comes from Connie Mack, who was a big league manager when Wagner and Cobb were rookies and before Ruth Irish At Yale Holy Cross Ostriches Won't Run, Race Is Called Off Salem. N. Oct.

28 OP A pair of ostriches proved today to be more stubborn than mules and absolutely refused to race for the benefit of 17,000 customers at Rockingham Park race track. They had the last laugh on Laughin' Lou Smith who wanted to make history by staging the first ostrich race on a recognized track. The ostriches not only wouldn't race, they wouldn't stay on the track. After one of the long legged birds chased a press photographer from the area. Smith called off the race for the day.

But he said he'd try again Monday and again on Wednesday. "This is a poultry state and I know my customers will love to see these king-size roosters run," he said. overhead assaults ever launched in the Bowl. Sophomore Chuck Ma loy chucked first to Massucco, then to the acrobatic Joe Mikuo-wicz and Holy Cross had gone swiftly from behind midfield all the way to Yale's twenty. A back in motion penalty nulli fied the second long overhead gainer and set Holy Cross back to the Yale 44-yard line, but on the next play Maloy and Mikuowicz clicked on as brilliant a forward pass play as anyone has seen in years.

Maloy angled back and fired a long pass that must have covered 40 yards. Far down the field the speeding Mikuowicz went leaping into the air out of a dead run, clutched the ball over his shoulder on the "21-yard line and ran the rest of the way for the touchdown to complete about as perfectly ex ecuted a forward pass as would be possible to make. It was a thing of beauty at both ends and left Yale partisans as well as Holy Cross supporters gasping in astonished admiration. Tackle John Feltch booted the ball squarely across the target to tie the score at seven all. an achievement he was unable to du plicate after the second Holy Cross touchdown.

Holy Cross continued its sensa tional overhead attack and ap peared to have another touchdown even before the first period ended, From back of his own twenty, the amazingly poised Maloy pitched to halfback John Turco, who caught the ball about the 25 and raced 75 yards for what seemed to be an other whiz-bang touchdown, ut an official ruled that Bob Parcells, Yale defense quarterback, had pushed Turco out of bounds at the 44-yard line. Despite setback, the Cru saders kept driving and reached the Yale eleven on the first play of the second quarter only to be knocked off balance by a clipping penalty that inspired Yale to brace and take the ball on Maloy Throws Variable Passes There was no further scoring in the first half, but Holy Cross threatened repeatedly with Ma-toy's bag of passing tricks. Ma oy threw running passes, jump passes (Concluded on Page 2, Column 4) Scholastic Football Dacked combine, wh ch had swept one bad scare, by the Cadets, to come from behind twice to get the tie and keep from deserting the nation's unbeaten ranks. Wesleyan carried the battle to the Jeffmen much of the time and the going was surprisingly even, as the statistics show. The Cardinal defense over-shifted to confuse the visitors and Amherst's vaunted passing attack was effectively checked by a line that charged hard, rushed and more often smeared the passer.

It was a rough although exceptionally clean game. One job the battling Wesleyan forwards did on the Amherst passing ace, Bob Davidson, had much to do with the final score. Davidson, a New London boy, was smacked hard near the end of the first half after getting off a pitch and was removed from the game with an Injury to his throwing arm. Thereafter, Amherst's aerial game bogged down. Official Injured Three others were, injured in the bruising battle, but only two 1oQM! tiiHt Marv Haeel.

Middletown back with the Cardinals, departed in the fourth quarter with an ankle injury and John (Moose) Mc-Grath, towering Amherst end, was carried off the field on a stretcher with an injury that later developed to be noth'ng more serious than a charley-horse. Despite its show of power on the ground, where Henry McDonald and Dick Snodgrass did some hard driving that stamped them the best backs on the field, Amherst's offense sputtered much of the time and only on three occa sions were the Sabrinas able to penetrate deep into Wesleyan territory. Twice the sorties paid off in touchdowns, the third time the Cardinals intercepted a pass. All the scoring came in the nrst and third periods with Wesleyan takine the initiative on both occa sions and Amherst battling back to even matters. Wesleyan seized upon a break in the early milling and turned it into a fast touchdown that appar ently aroused Amherst's ire.

Hagel punted to Chuck Connington on the visitors 26 and he returned to the 37 before he was hit hard and fumbled. Bill Buck recovered for the Redbirds and Wesleyan was immediately super-charged. Three plays failed to gam but on fourth down Johnny Brigham, who directed the Cardinals' through much, of the first half. completed a pass to Dick Lucas for a first down on the Amherst 17. Lucas caught the ball off his shoe tops, barely an inch from the ground.

Three line plays racked up a first down on the live and then Hagel sent the Wesleyan rooters into a frenzy by banging olf his right tackle for a touchdown. Don Burdick kicked the point and Wesleyan had drawn first blood. Amherst came slashing back to tie the count with such a burst of speed and power that many felt the Cardinals were about to be swept away. Snodgrass Scores Davidson made a 33-yard run-back of Dave Welsh's kickoff to his own 46 and the Jeffs were rolling. McDonald broke off the weak side end on the very first play from scrimmage and churned behind crisp blocking down to Wesleyan's 23 before he was nailed.

Two plays reached the 14 and then Snodgrass bolted through right guard and scored. Vic MahL? er kicked the point and it was a tie game, just like that. Wesleyan tightened after this score and though it didn't threaten itself, it made a great goal line stand to hold off the Jeffs in the second quarter. Just after the second period opened, Brigham fumbled and Jim Lyon, Amherst guard from West Hartford, recovered on the Cardinal 49. With McDonald and Snodgrass carrying the load, the visitors drove to Wesleyan's seven.

With third down and six on the Middletowners' one the situation. Jack Graham and Buck broke through to toss Davidson back on the 17 and a final pass, though incomplete, failed by five yards of making a first down. Davidson was injured shortly after this and did not return -to action. Wesleyan started the second half the same way it did the first by getting a quick score before Amherst was set. After the kick-off.

Wesleyan paraded to the Jeffs' 45 on three plays. Then Lucas took a handoff from Dave Nixon, now running the Cards, and the hometown boy scampered dowTi the sidelines for 45 yards to send his team ahead once (Concluded on Page 3, Column 3) was a left-handed catcher at St. Wray of St, Louis, another well chool, casts his vote for Cobb. Cobb was perhaps the most scientific batsman that ever lived, th most extraordinary base runner and a flaming competitor who hated losing with a venomous hatred that made Cobb feared and disliked among his rivals. AN ARGUMENT THAT WILL NEVER BE SETTLED BY BELL LEE New Haven, Oct.

28. The luck and skill of the Irish was too much for Holy Cross this murky after- non and Yale beat the electrifying Crusaders in a tingling football game, 14 to 13. A New Haven townie from Hill-house High, one Joe Finnegan, pounced upon a Holy Cross fumble on the latter's 11-yard line in the third period, and Yale drove over fro mthat point with the tying touchdown, after which John Bush converted a vital extra point that turned out to be Eli's margin of victory. Both Yale touchdowns were scored by Jim Ryan, a transfer from Boston College. The first of these came before the game was ten minutes old, but the fiery team from Mount St.

James rallied brilliantly to tie the score before the first period ended and then went ahead in the early minutes of the third quarter. It remained for Finnegan re covery to set the stage for Ryan's second score and give kicking spe cialist Bush the chance to notch the point that settled the issue after 60 minutes of tense and exciting football. Ryan did an excellent job of fill ing in for the. injured regular quar terback, Stu Tisdale. If he didn't pass with Tisdale's familiar skill, his punting kept a red hot Holy Cross team from reaching too many boiling bunts and he twice pushed across for touchdowns on quarterback sneaks.

It was expected in advance that the game might revolve upon a duel between Holy Cross passing and Yale's running attack, and that is precisely the way it worked out. The Crusaders unleashed as spectacular a passing game as the Bowl has seen, with Joe Kikuto-wicz and Tom McCann making almost unbelievable catches of un canny passes thrown by sophomore Chuck Maloy. Yale's Running Game Excells Yale went into the air for two nicely spaced overhead gains in a 69-yard touchdown drive in the opening minutes, but mostly it was the hard-smackine inside smashes of Bob Spears and the outside nimble stepping of Ed Se- nay and Art Martin that kept Yale in possession of the ball long enough to deaden the force of the visitors' spectacular skill with the forward pass. Clock killing and first downs be came of the utmost importance, particularly in the second half. Holy Cross would not have needed many more minutes with the ball to have a good chance to emeree on top.

As it was, the Crusaders were dangerous right down to the last play of the thrilling contest that left a crowd of some 30,000 convmced they had seen one of the better football games of the season. A fumble was a dagger at the heart of the Worcester team's hopes when Yale's Finnegan re covered the third period bobble that led to the decisive Blue points, but long before this the first Yale touchdown foray had been started when Mevlin Massucco let the ball slip away from his possession and Harry Gropp, Yale defensive left end, recovered on Yale s' 31. The Cross offense had been rolling when this miscue stalled it, but Yale was 69 yards away and it didn't seem ominous. Nevertheless, Herman Hickman's opportunists knocked off those 69 yards In 14 plays. Bob Spears led the ground assault with power drives inside the tackles, but shrewd Jim Ryan mixed his at tack nicely with unexpected aerial ventures in which he threw first to Hal Woodsum and then to Brad Quackenbush on crossover passes to the opposite wingmen for gams of 12 and 11 yards.

The second pass was good for a first down on the Crusader 14-yard stripe and after Ed Senay hadswung wide around his right end for a first down on the two, Ryan took two tries to wiggle across on quarter back sneaks for the game's first touchdown. Crusaders Open Aerial Assault After falling behind. Holy Cross really opened the bomb rack and The fact that six older experts five for Cobb and only two for Ruth means. Even if each man had not played a different position it would be no part of a cinch to settle the relative merits of ball players as great IUUU1UUWU. itjih uie ensuing kickoff they ran off four plays with Joe Quinn going through a hole in left tackle and racing 42 yards for the score which came two minutes later.

Russ Girolamo kicked the tying point. Five Passes The Huskies' aerial attack which had been a potent threat in most of their games-earlier this spason. was throttled most of the way until the final session. The Uconns completed five of their 10 attempts but it was in the final session when they clicked on two in three attempts that they won the game. The Violets completed five of their seven attempts.

In the distance gained through the air the home team had an advantage of 81 to 57 yards. Connecticut made 13 first downs to the Violets' 11 but gaining 146 yards to 163 by NYU. Bettencourt besides his bril liant ball carrying throughout the ariernoon, exhibited powerful kicking ability and a quick kick early in the first period went for 59 yards, driving the Violets back to their 10. When the New York team failed to make any distance they kicked to their 40 then came a 15 yard penalty and the Connecticut team started from the 25 on its openine touchdown drive. Two plays took them to the 20.

Pehota grabbed Panciera's pass and he lateraled to Mignault who went oyer the left side from the 13 and Johnson's point made it 7-0. The New Yorkers struck back in quick order to deadlock the score. Norm Cassowitz and Bill Morgan lugged the ball from their 34 to the 47 for a first down and after Morgan pitched a pass to John Baldasaro to the Uconn's 42, Quinn sprinted into the end zone. Girolamo kicked the point, tying the score at 7-7. The visitors got a likely looking drive under way, moving from their 10 to the one on eight plays but here a costly fumble by Morgan which Paul Martha recovered thwarted a score.

In this drive, in which they made four first downs the Violets were stalled on three plays inside the three-yard mark before they finally lost possession on the bobble. The Violets had possession when the teams changed ends and they stormed deep into Connecticut territory but it was the alert end Bob Barry, who saved the homesters by intercepting a pass. The New Yorkers went from the Uconn 33 using one aerial and four ground plays to reach the 12. Barry stemmed into the.nie- ture and snared Morgan's pass and Connecticut was off asain. Neither team scored for the remainder of the second period.

I he Huskies got rollms midwav in the third period when they showed a vastly improved ground attack, moving from their 27 to the visitors' eight when the period ended. The home team tried one pass this sustained drive but this failed. Field Goal Fails On the first play of the final session the Huskies tried a field goal but Johnson's attempt failed and the Violet? took over on the 20. The Uconns Bettencourt uncorked another long hoist with a quick kick and this was taken on the Violets' five. Ferrigno ran back a kick and on the second play Ray Good crashed the middle for 33 yards and followed this up with two short plunges before the Storrs team lost the ball on Ferrigno's fumble on the one yard line, Alan Hopewell recovering with four minutes to play.

Frank (Concluded on Page Column 5) as Ruth, Cobb and Wagner. Ruth was a pitcher and outfielder. He was one of the best left-handed pitchers anyone ever saw but he was such a strong man with the stick that there could be no other decision save to abandon his pitching gifts day. Ruth may not have been a Tris ing the outfield, but he was never anything but a good ball hawk, with extraordinary baseball sense in knowing where to throw the balL I like Tommy Henrich's crack. "Catching a fly ball is a pleasure but knowing what to do with it is a business." It has been said of Ruth that he never threw to the wrong Ftuth could hit a baseball farther base.

since. His distance records may never be broken. It also happens that he pitched more scoreless World record in that respect still stands. diversity of his greatness makes Wagner and Cobb. Cobb was a better batsman others, but he never pitched and anywhere but the outfield.

The old a good outfielder but did not have him I a Wagner, they will tell you, could play anywhere on the diamond except maybe pitch. He must have about this argument is that there horizon today who has a chance to as Hans Wagner, Babe Ruth or Ty Refusal Of Buc Owner To Deny Rumor May Indicate Rickey Sought By Club East Hartford 7, Hartford 7 (tie). New Britain 33, Weaver 0. Bulkeley 39, Norwich 6. Bristol 40, Hall 0.

Pom fret 14, Kingswood 12. Hotchklss 7, Loomis 6. Hamden 41, Manchester 0. Middletown 37, Mertden 6. Shelton 25.

Ansonia 0. Danbury 33, Basslck 18. Canterbury 7, Berkshire 0. Putnam 26, Berlin 6. Canton 28, Slmsbury 0.

Stamford 19, Central 7. Cheshire 33. N. Y. Military 0.

Choate 7, Mt. Hermon 6. Crosby 46, Leavenworth 6. Southington 43, Darien 7. Enfield 18, Holyoke Catholic a Farmington 27, Gilbert 18.

Fitch 8, Stonington 6. Fairfield Prep 12. Greenwich 0. Gunnery 24, Westminster 0. Kent 34, Taft 6.

N. Bulkeley 32, Windham 6. Wilson 25, Plalnville 6. South Kent 27, Salisbury 19. Moses Brown 6, Wllbraham 0.

Hopkins 34, Edgewood 0. Pittsburgh, Oct. 28. UP) Those rumors which only Branch Rickey can answer may be answered soon and right here in Pittsburgh where the Pirates are trying every conceivable way of getting into the National League's first division. Rickey, the.

69-years-old former president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is looking for a job. His wife wants him to retire but the man who's earned the reputation of one of baseball's shrewdest executives says the life of a rocking chair and bedroom began one of the most eye-filling tad. (Concluded on Page Column 4) slippers is not for him..