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i THUNDERING HTERS GEORGIA HERD SLAUG 60-0 7-7 Whips Navy Team VON ELM, COX BATTLE TODAY Sort Francisco $7500 Open Play Reaches Finals Diegel, Burke Vanquished -After Hard Matches Morrison Eliminated in Quarter-Final Round SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12. While the several thousand spectators thrilled to two great golf' QHEER POWER OF TROJAN ATTACK STUNS BULLDOGS Southern Team Sags Before Terrific Offensive Drive, as 75,000 Fans See Troy Score Nine Times BY BRA YEN DYER Close to 75,000 souls stormed the Olympic Stadium yesterday to see'Georgia's courageous Bulldogs attempt to stop the smashing sons of Southern California. After it was over and the Bulldogs had been all but slaughtered under an avalanche of 60 points Coach Harry Mehre and other Georgians decided to refer the "question of how to halt Howard Jones's Trojans to the Society for the, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It appears certain that PART VI-a.

VOL. LI. DECEMBER in irmn-w i iwiwwwiit'rwim nothing, short of legislation will put a stop to the grid massacres perpetrated by the 1931 edition of the Thundering Herd. Georgia was helpless before the devastating interference of such i J7 1 Tlf AT A 1 1 ,1 STECKER STAR OF CADET WIN Brilliant Halfback Proves Victory Margin Substitute Herb Scores Pal of Touchdowns Tschirgi Takes Long Pass for Middy Tally BY GRANTLAND RICE Copyright. 1931.

if the North American Newspaper Alliance, lac NEW YORK, Dec. 12. With the summer air of mid-December filled with the wild racket of service cheers, a slash- vmgmm aiuit tack cut Its way to victory over the Navy this afternoon by the score of 17 to 7 as 80,000 looked upon one of the best battles of the lone-drawn Vs year. A stout- hearted Navy defense literally fought itself out, but the faster; harder running Army attack CAY 6TECKEQ; led by the brilliant Ray Stecker, was more than the Navy could hold at bay. The big crowd, sitting undar a steamy winter sun, saw its share of exciting runs up and down the field, mixed in with able passing and high-class kicking.

But the Navy had no back to match the wild galloping Stecker and when he was resting Fields was In there throw ing long passes into Army arms, Tbe Army scored a field goal by Brown and a touchdown by Herb in the second period. With Army leading 10 to 0 and the game apparently well in as the battle moved along into the third quarter, Kirn of the Navy fired a 40-yard pass to Tschirgi, who took the ball from the balmy air on the Army's 20-yard line and galloped across the goal. This changed the entire com-piexion of the battle as the Army was now leading only 10 to 7 but Stecker, the wild horse, ran amuck once more on the fourth period and his final charges turned the tide. In a series of smashing off-tackle runs Stecker carried the ball to the Navy's 1-yard line and from here it took four desperate Army thrusts to get Herb across that narrow strip of green turf to make the score 17 to 7 and put the game away beyond all doubt. Through the first period a hard fighting Navy team, that battled desperately to the last play, held the Army almost even.

But the Army same sweeping along in the second stanza when a long pass from Stecker to Carver gave Brown his chance to kick a placement goal as he stood on the Navy's 14-yard line. The Navy defense had driven back the Army attack at this point but Brown's perfect kick gave West Point the Jump. Just a few moments after this Fields, replacing Stecker, threw a great pass to Ko-posak, who took the ball to Navy's 1-yard line before he was hauled down. From here Herb took it across so the Army's second-string backs featured the first touchdown play. Up through the early part of the third period the Army had shown more speed and drive with its running game while Brown's kicking had kept the Navy in continued trouble.

But even with the Army's 10-point lead there was still danger lurking in the Navy's passing game and 80,000 spectators soon got their share of thrills as Kirn, one of the outstanding Navy 6tars, suddenly dropped into his own territory and let the ball fly beyond the last line of Army defense. Two Army backs made frantic efforts to catch up with the flying Tschirgi, but lie was in the open as his hands reached for the ball and on he went across the Army goal. You may have heard rackets before, but none that rose above the Navy outburst at this unexpected thrust which suddenly tightened up (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) i I 1 duels, George Von Elm oi Los Angeles and Wlffy Cox, tali Brooklyn pro became finalists of the $7500 national play open championship as the result of impressive semifinal victories today Von Elm took the measure oi Romle Esplnosa. San Francisco, 2 and 1. while GEORGE VON ELM Cox disposed of another local hope, Willie Goggin, by the same margin of victory.

The winners will meet tomorrow in a thirty-six-hole match with $1500 as the first prize and $1000 to the runner-up. Victories in the eightcen-hole semifinals were gained only aft- er close battle. Von Elm held a up lead at the tun, but Espinosa reduced the margin by ont hole at tbe thirteenth. The Los Angeles star turned the first nine in par 35, while Es- pinosa was two strokes over. COX VVINS Cox and Goggin finished the first nine all square, and halved the next four holes in subpar golf.

The Brooklyn player forged to the front by winning the fourteenth with a birdie 2 and increased his lead ac the sixteenth with a par 4. The seventeenth was halved In par -threes, to give Cox the match. Cards, semifinals: Par, out 544 344 43435- Par, in 545 534 43437 Espinosa, out 553 444 54337, Espinosa, in 545 434 53x Von Elm, out 544 344 43435 Von Elm, 554 534 43x Goggin, out 544 354 43438 Goggin, in 544 535 53x Cox, out 643 244 44536 Cox, in 544 525 43x In eighteen-hole quarter-final matches this morning, Von Elm defeated Fred Morrison, Beverly Hills 5 and 4. Cox eliminated the national open champion, Billy Burke, of Greenwich, Ct, 2 and 1. and Goggin beat John Golden, Norton, on the twenty-third hole.

Espinosa furnished one of the big upsets fthe tournament by defeating Leo Diegel of Agua Caliente, Mex on the nineteenth. In defeating Morrison, Von Elm shot the most brilliant golf of the tournament to date on the first nine. He had a 32, three under par, while Morrison equaled stand- ard figures. NEVER HEADED The stocky blond from Los Anv geles, once national amateur eham pion, and now a self-styled "business-man golfer," toured the Lake Merced course in even par figures 1 for the afternoon round. He went 1 into the lead ai the fourth hole and was never headed, although' Espinosa provided a threat until the finish.

Von Elm's game was sound in all departments, and he turned in some remarkable recoveries, Es--" pinosa's putter failed him in a few instances, contributing directly to his defeat. Cox, one of the veteran cam- palgners of the golfing wars, was given serious competition by his little known opponent. Held even for thirteen holes, Cox picked up a one-hole lead when he dropped a twenty-five-putt on the fourteenth. Goggin paved the way for his own downfall on the sixteent hwhen he sent his second into a trap and. had a weak recovery, taking 5 to Cox's par 4.

GOLF GROWING There are now ten golf courses in the neighborhood of Tokio and Yokohama, where ten years ago only two existed. The young Japanese Emperor has a private links on the grounds of the imperial palace. BULLDOGS (0) Kelly Hamrick Leathers McWhorter Maddox Rose Smith Sullivan Dickens Chandler Gilmore PERIODS Pinckert, Arbel-b i Baker, Brown and the rest of the Tro-J a stalwarts. To the credit of the southerners, It can be stated that they never quit battling, but it's going to take something more than human savagery to silence Troy's siege guns. Mehre's gang lacked the weight to stem smashing Southern California offense and that's the story in a nutshell.

ffensively the Bulldogs did fairly well. They completed many flank passes and on several of these only the Trojan safety man prevented the receiver from racing to the goal line. It is doubtful if any team In gridiron history ever mastered turn sheer power as Southern California showed yestrday. And it didn't make much difference whether Jones used his first or third-stringers they all looked alike Georgia. The Bulldog line appeared to be rather flat, not from the pounding of the Trojan steam roller, but whatever it was the southern linemen didn't have th upark which other Dixie teams have displayed hereabouts.

As has been the case in Toy's most recent victories, it was a triumph for team play rather than in dividual brilliancy. No one man was tho all.annnri nrnrk of Krnv Plnck- ert, both offensively and defensively, and Garrett Arbelblde gave the big Trojan halfback a great run for recognition as the "hero" of the Cay. HAMMACK'S Rl'N One of the mcst thrilling plays the game came when Mott fum bled the ball on Troy's zo-yara line. It bounced into Hammack's arms without hitting the ground end the Trojan back raced 80 yards to a touchdown. Pinckert was revealed in all his manly glory when he tramped down the field and mowed down Catfish Smith as the Klwgia end attempted to close in on Hammack.

The Catfish, after Pinckert's savage bit of blocking, eat disconsolately on the 10-yard line, wondering what manner of Cyclone had struck him amidships Power scored all but one touchdown. The first came after a 78-yard march in four plays, the average being 19.5 yards per play. No. 2, a 50-yard grind, arrived in seven attempts. On the third, S.

C. went 55 yards in eight smashes. Ham-kmack contributed the fourth. Four plays gained 11 yards for No. 5.

Six plays brought 77 yards for the sixth. No. 7 came after ten plays had gained 79 yards. Ten more plays brought the eighth on an 85-yard march. The last saw S.

C. going 43 yards in five cracks. These marches produced 478 yards In fifty-four plays for an average of almost 9 yards per try. That simple reverse play featuring Ray Sparling has become Troy's greatest ground gainer, as was evident yesterday when 1 (Continued on Page 2. Column C) ACHILLES OF PROVES HE'S BY HARRY A.

WILLIAMS Southern California yesterday Won a football crnmn in fha tuna nf KMarching Through Georgia." Had piannea lor a week to start my story this way. and then every expert in town up and used it Saturday morning. But the. idea is ftlll sound, having endured since the Civil War. and Is' 'strong enough to be passed around for a second helping.

the CATFISH SI fair maids of Troy, Hell'n Maria, are still safe and unsullied. We witnessed the royal spectacle cf a mechanical horse kicking a fynthetic bulldog in the slats to the accompaniment of martial music. "Marching Through Georgia" was the theme song used to pep up bone crushers as SPARC I NIC 1 1 .1 4 SUNDAY MORNING, 1 2 4 4 Two Flashes From the Slaughter RESIGNATION A statement Issued by the board said "The spirit manifested by Mr. Ingwersen in voluntarily relinquishing his position a means of pro. i GEORGIANS HIT BY EARTHQUAKE Bulldogs Demoralized by Poller of Trojans Visitors Collapse After Initial Touchdown Smith Turns in Fine Game for Southern Team BY RALPH McGILL Sports Editor The Atlanta Constitution Southern seismographs were wrecked here yesterday afternoon as an earthquake disguised as the Southern Call-- fornia football -team wiped out i' Georgl, I 1 eleven by a tre- mendous 60-to-C 1 score.

vl In administer. I ing one of the tlonal defeats ever suffered bj a southern football team, th( Calif orniani showed an ol- fenslve power orv that was mt.l thing like a steam roller mounted on a racing engine. TEAM FOUNDERS Georgia was shattered to bits ear ly in the game when the first blast was fired by the Trojan guns. From then on there was some resistance by individuals, but the Georgia football team never existed as a team after the first withering blast which saw a touchdown come in six plays and little more than three minutes. The stunned Georgians were unable to explain what had happened.

Twice their team play came to them to aid them on sustained marches of 60 yards, but each time they lost the combination and went to pieces. Never was a major eleven so demoralized as were the Georgia On the day they wanted to make their greatest effort they found themselves fumbling for ac curacy and Tailing 10 meet me emergencies that developed swiftly and inexorably as the Trojans threw their best attack at the southern front. Ray Sparling, Gua Shaver, Erny Pinckert and Orville Moh-ler led the way in trampling the Georgians under foot. It waj a killing pace that tbe Trojans set and not once was the southern defense able to muster strength enough to halt the roaring red tide of man power that went driving relentlessly onward. As the wreckage of Georgia's football hopes was borne out on the tide there was little to salvage.

From the Georgia side of it the play of Catfish Smith was one slight bit of balm in the shambles on Olympic field. Catfish Smith played a great game at end today. He was really playing tackle and end as Bobby Rose was unable to come through with his usual game. Howard Jones and Gordon Campbell, Trojan coaches, declared Smith's game to be one of the best they had ever seen. At least four or five times during the afternoon he stopped the Interference and got the runner.

Time after time he turned the play Inside only to see it go on as his mates failed to help. LINE RIDDLED The Trojan attack was centered on the tackles. The Trojans riddled the Georgia line time after time. One play scored four touchdowns for the Trojans. It was the reverse play that beat Notre.

Dame and California. The Georgia team had been coached for the play. They knew it was coming. But not once did they stop it without a gain. And usually the gains were long ones.

CARNERA SAILS HOME NEW YORK, Dec. 12. (F Primo Camera, Italy's giant candidate for heavyweight boxing honors, sailed today for his homeland to visit his parents at Sequals. He expects to return in January or February. Coast League to Have Czar SAN JOSE, Dec.

12. CPj Hyland Baggerly, Pacific Coast Baseball League presl- dent, who has Just returned ed today the minor leagues will hava their own "czar." Independent of the Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis committee. The "czar" question, he indicated, will be decided at the league's next meeting. Baggerly declared the Coast umpire staff Is un--changed. He hinted that Steve O'Neil appears to be the, most likely candidate to manage the San Francisco Seals club.

I Jfc 7 'IS "ft '-w rv (' -r 4- if. .4 1 3 1 fci VMit.rijr- SflHHMaaaaMMmMiataiwi Mw TITLE TO S.C. TEAM Dickinson Rating Gives Trojans Championship for 1931 Season CHICAGO, Dec. 12. W) Southern California's Trojans became national intercollegiate football champions under the Dickinson rating system, by their overwhelming victory over Georgia today, and gained the first leg on the Knute K.

Rockne memorial trophy. Its record of nine victories and one defeat gave Southern California 26.25 points, with Tu-lane, champions the Southern Conference, ranking second with 24.85. Tennessee, undefeated, but tied once, had 23.10 points, while Northwestern, co-champion of the Western Conference with Purdue and Michigan, landed fourth with 22.45. No post-season games are incuded by Prof. Frank G.

Dickinson of the University of Illinois, originator of the system. Notre Dame, which last year won permanent possession of the Jack P. Rlssman trophy, finished eleventh with 16.17 points. The Rockne trophy also was given by Rissman. The final rating; Team W.

T. Pts. Southern California 9 1 0 26.25 Tulane 11 0 0 24.85 Tennessee 8 0 1 23.10 Northwestern 7 0 1 22.45 St. Mary's 7 1 0 2253 Georgia 8 2 0 21.25 Harvard 7 1 0 19.50 Yale 5 12 18.79 Pittsburgh 8 10 17-50 Purdue 7 1ft .1658 oNtre Dame 6 2 1 16.17 Trojan Cagers Nosed Out by Northwestern EVANSTON (III.) Dec. 13.

(JFh- Northwestern basketball team outlasted Southern five tonight to win, 22 to 20. The Trojans twlc3 tied the score at 8-8 and 13-13, and in the closing minutes almost overhauled North western on long shot3 by Nemer and Pierce. 80UTHERN CALIFORNIA (20) F.O. F.T. PT.

Oardnrr. I. Nemer, f. 3 3 Pierce, c. 2 0 Capps.

3 1 Thompson, g. 0 Tot 8 12 NORTHWESTERN (22) r.a. f.t. p.r. Keirr.

I. Ill Perry, I i 2 jonnson. c. 1 1 Smith, t. 3 12 Brewer, 1 Fsrber, g.

3 1 Total ,8 i Score at hall Southern California, Si rforinwrstcrn, 1. B-ierceN. E. Kearns (De Paul.) Umpire George Levla (Wisconsin.) Only three members of the New York Rangers hockey team are unmarried Walter Selbert, John Roach and Hib Milks. ATHENS, JUST A HEEL the boys during Sherman's march to the sea.

But they had hardtack to sustain them between verses. The boys on yesterday's march out at the stadium stopped Just short of the ocean, but it must be remem bered that they were compelled to subsist on brittle crackers with a Catfish for dessert. Anchovies, however, go better with crackers. One Trojan in his hunger for victory and one thing and another inadvertently sank his teeth into the heel of a Bulldog. He thought it was hors d'ouever.

He said the flavor was not unlike Russian caviar which had made the long voyage without any ice to keep it cool. Well, even a football athlete must eat in order to live and die for his Alma Mater, and he can't be too particular in times of depression. Catfish Smith, it had been hoped, might relieve the famine. But he proved too elusive. It had been planned to catch him twenty-five times, which is the Stale limit, and then throw him (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) Harry Mehre, Georgia mentor, echoed Jones's opinion.

"That's the finest football team 1 ever looked at. What mora is there to say." From those close to Mehre it was revealed that Harry was terribly disappointed in the play of his linemen. Georgia fans thought their forwards were dead on their feet. 1 Jones will have his players out for practice tomorrow and Tuesday and then lay them off for a week of rest prior to the New Year's battle with Tulant. CRUMBLING THE CRACKERS TROJANS (60) Sparling Brown Baker Williamson (C) Stevens Smith Arbelblde Shaver Mallory Pinckert Musick L.E.R.

L.T.R. L.G.R. C. R.G.L. R.TI.

R.EI Q. L.H.R. R.H.L. F. SCORE BY JONES AND MEHRE AGREE ABOUT TROJAN GRIDDERS iiW id i iki- rr tT( i iiiiriinmimiiiiii i iiniwiwinin in in Ttn 4 Carroll photos punt.

No. 38 is Townsend, Georgia ACCEPTED Iowa's athletic Interests, is typical of his wholehearted devo tion to his appointed work and to the Interests of the university during his eight years of scrvka." i Trojans 14 19 14 1360 Bulldogs 0 0 0 0-. 0 SCORING Touchdowns Sparling, Shaver, Hammack; Barber, Mohler: Conversions Baker, Erskine; Youel. SUBSTITUTIONS Southern Calif ornia Mohler for Musick, Erskine for Smith, Rosenberg for Baker, Dye for Stevens, Palmer for Arbelblde, E. Clarke for Sparling, Hammack for Mallory, Hall for Brown, Barber for Shaver, Youel for S.

Williamson, Fay for Pinckert, Griffith for Mohler, Norrls for E. Clarke, Biggs for Palmer, Beatty for Griffith, Mohler for Beatty, Smith for Erskine, Baker for Rosenberg, Stevens for Dye, Arbelblde for Biggs, Pinckert for Fay, Musick for Barber, Brown for Hall, Mallory for Hammack. S. Williamson for Youel, Shaver for Musick, Erskine for Dye for Stevens, Hall for Brown, Rosenberg for Baker, Palmer for Arbelblde. E.

Clarke for Sparling, Hammack for Mallory, Barber for Shaver, Youel for S. WUliamson, Fay for Pinckert, Tatsch for Erskine, Plaehn for Hall, F. Williamson for Rosenberg, Beatty for Mohlcr, Biggs for E. Clarke, Brouse for Beatty. Georgia Townsend for Ros Mott for Dickens, Bennett for Leathers, for Gilmore.

Miller for Kelly, Key for Chandler, Pattprson for Maddox, Batchclor for McWhorter, Crenshaw for Smith. Brown for Mott, Leathers for Bennett. Smith for Crenshaw. Kelly for Miller. McWhorter for Batchelor.

Cooper for Hamrick, Maddox for Patterson, Mott for Brown. for Rose. IJamrick for Cooper, Bennett for Leathers, Dickens for Mott. Gilmore for Whire, Patterson for Maddox. Crenshaw for Smith, Miller for Keliy, Moran for Dickens, Batchelor for McWhorter.

OFFICIALS A. R. Flowers (Georgia Tech.) referee; A. H. Badenoch (Chicago,) umpire: B.

w. Kirkpatrlck (Occidental,) head linesman; Jack Black' (Davidson,) field Judge. The top photo shows Orv Mohlcr breaking down field on the return of a left tackle. At the bottom Key, Georgia halfback, Is about to receive a perfect forward pass for a substantial gain. i Tt is the greatest football team have ever coached and the best have ever seen." That's what Howard Jones, Trojan mentor, thinks of the B.C.

eleven. The head man unlimbered a bit after yesterday's game, congratulating the players individually as he went from man to man. "They're a great gang of kids. Nothing cocky about any of them and I'm proud of them. Georgia never quit fighting, even when their cause was hopeless, and they desert credit for this." INGWERSON'S IOWA CITY (Iowa) Dec.

12. (Vr- The University of Iowa's board in control of athletics today accepted the resignation of Burton A. Lng- werscn as head football coach, 1 i i.