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Stars Score by 7 SPORT POST Oregon as roans SCRIPTS iiWebfooters By I PAUL Ik- A- vvv in Surprise Southern California Comes From Behind to Get Even Break if k' a 1 -y I -s 0 i. a a i I0 if-, Nave's pass from the 11 -yard line. John Stonebraker spills the nearest Webfoot just for good measure. Peo- pies broke out fast to take the flat flip on the 7-yard line and whirl down the sidelines with inches to spare. Bob Peoples skips' over the the field after taking Doyle Wide World photo by George 8 1 rock Pacific Upsets California, 6-0 Sraggmen Score on Pass; Bears Manage to Beat Aggies BERKELEY, Sept.

30. (U.R) i Little College of the Pacific; Berry as he slipped to one knee achieved its greatest football sue-' over the goal line with a quintet cess today by beating University! of Trojans converging but never of California 6-0 in a tremendous arriving. upset and adding another tri- The Trojans had the ball on umph to Amos Alonzo Stagg's the 11 when Nave faded back, long and notable career as a foot- eluding a couple of the Oregons, ball coach. las he threw a semi-flat pass to Pacific's fighting band fought Peoples in the northwest corner the Bears to a standstill, then in of the field for the tying touch-a lightning thrust in the third down in the fourth quarter. Boh quarter marched from Califor-.

took the ball in full stride and out-ran a couple of other Web- (Illuatroted on Pag. 13. Part II.) footg as he raced iSeven yards to nia's 4G-yard line to the 16-yard score. line from where Bob Then Phil Caspar, with the halfback, tossed a touchdown i pressure really on, stood up and pass to Doug Smallwood. The' toed the ball between the up-pass traveled 5 yards and Small-; rights for the important point wood stepped into pay dirt.

Roy that clinched the tie. Cooper's conversion try was PSYCHOLOGY THERE wide. i I j5- 7 -iC 33 is Jack Banta, Trojan Demprsey, Trojan center. 21-yard pass from Left Half Olson to Left End Vandiver put the ball 10 yards from the goal. On the next play, Fullback Kis-selburgh tossed a short one to Quarterback Peters, who ran 4 yards for the touchdown.

SETS THE STAGE In the second quarter John Tsoutsouvas, Oregon State center, whose brother served in a similar role for Stanford a few seasons ago, set the stage for the second touchdown. He blocked a punt by Left Half Al bert and O.S.C. took possession on the onDonents' 40-vard line. Twn lino hnmno anH twn naccoc the second from Olson to Right Half Morrie Kohler good for 29 yards, put the oval 2 yards from the last chalk line. Kisselburgh Turn to Page 12, Column 5 FRANKIE FRISCH TO PILOT BUCS PITTSBURGH, Sept.

30. () President William F. Benswan- ger announced tonight Frankie Frisch will manage the Pitts burgh Pirates of the National Baseball League in 1940 and 1911, succeeding Harold (Pie) Tray- nor. Although it had been rumored here for days tltat the Fordham flash was to succeed Traynor, who resigned Thursday, Ben- swanger said the deal closed until noon today by I 1 viiiiirnif I ill 1 1 That thorn In the side of thor-oughbred racing, that cursed appliance that has made raving maniacs of the $2 betters, wildmen of owners and Jabbering jitterbugs of the jockeysthe starting gate goes modern at Bay Meadows come Saturday. The "perfect starting device" 1 Is the description veteran horse- men give this appliance of the electrical age which turns the nags loose from the post in a faultless getaway.

A COWBOY'S IDEA Tried out with great success at Vancouver last summer, the new gate is the brain child of Clay Puett, a Colorado cowboy. It remained for George W. Stratton, Southland aircraft manufacturing company execu- tive, to finance construction of the device. Two have been built. One went to Bay Meadows, where the inventor Puett will start schooling horses tomorrow.

The other will go to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Pimlico race track. Which is proof enough that the new gate is no figment of a dis- gruntled horseman's imagina- tion, PLANE INVENTOR AIDS The release locks on the gates were invented by an airplane engineer and are patterned aft- er the bomb releases on war craft. Only two assistant starters are needed. After they lead the thoroughbreds into the stalls the job is strictly up to the jockeys. The shaped frontal barrier opens at the press of the starter's button.

It is impossible for a horse to break side wise. In fact, the only thing the gate fails to do is to goad on the nag that Is apt to "loaf" at the, post. WALK-UP STAKT From the old "walk-up" start, the development of the starting stall has been painful. The first was the Australian barrier, a ponderous thing that resulted in the injury of jockeys and horses alike. The chute idea with stationary stalls was that of Marshall Cassidy, who introduced them at Agua Caliente in 1028.

It was an advancement. The mov- able gates followed then the-overhead stall gates. The first enclosed gate was tried at Kansas City several years back but the result was so bad that turfmen became soured on the idea. Not Puett. lie had a theory born of the fact that blindfolded horses are docile ani- mals.

So he built lattice work in front of the horse's head on the new gate and the problem was almost solved. It needed only the engineer's touch. ritOOF OF rUDDING Proof of the pudding is that tn 400 odd races at Vancouver last summer, the average post delay was 30 seconds! The per- certage of "good" starts as list- ed on the form charts was 100. Puett started life riding the ranges near Pueblo, Colo. He had the urge to correct false starts after losing a couple of bucks on a bad one in a race at Cheyenne at round-up time.

Eventually he returned to Cheyenne as a starter to make good his boast that he could do a better job and he did. It was then that he started tinkering with a starting gate, sinking his $4000 of savings in a device built at a Pueblo iron works that was a success. GETS TO BIG TIME In the meantime Puett was graduated into Big Time as a starter, working tracks at Seattle, Vancouver, San Francisco. Last summer The Times exclusively announced production of these gates and the fact that Hollywood Park was making tests with the idea of using them at its 10-10 meeting. But they were so successful that popularity grew almost overnight.

Dr. Charles Strub, Santa Anita's general manager, will watch them work at Bay Meadows with the idea of using the innovation at Santa Anita this winter. Arlington Park is going to give the electrical gate a trial. And whether Santa Anita does or not, the device definitely will be used at Ingle-wood next summer. ArRoros of nothing As a result of serious accidents on Maryland tracks in which Jockey Lou Machado was killed and nine others were injured, severe penalties are being dished out for rough riding at Havre de Grace Apprentices C.

Friedman and G. Wallace were fined 200 potatoes each 'and were suspended for the remainder of the meeting Jockey Don Meade still holds his big advantage in the national jockey standing although his recent performances have been overshadowed by Basil James James' remarkable riding in the last few weeks carried him into third place where, he is tied with Johnny Oros and Chuck Carlton behind Johnny Longden. TOUCHDOWN PASS Here's John Berry fielding Bob Smith's pass on the goal for Oregon's touchdown. No. BY PAUL ZIMMERMAN They had to call on that sharp-shooting trouble-shooter, Doyle Nave, again yesterday at Memorial Coliseum to save the fair name cf Troy, and he did.

This cool, calculating customer came through just as he did in the Rose Bowl last January to deflect what had all the earmarks of an Oregon triumph and turn it into a tie that Southern Call-' fornia fans were mighty glad to get, The score was 7 to 7. NAVE RUINS UPSET Coach Tex Oliver's wily Webfoots, spurred on by frequent comment that they always did the wilting act before the battlements of Troy, might easily have perpetrated the season's most amazing upset, had it not been for this Los Angeles youth and his accurate pitching in the last half. To sum the thing up in a few brief words, Nave rifled a pass into the arms of speedy Bob Peoples for a fourth-quarter touchdown after those ornery Oregonians had taken the lead seven seconds prior to the closing of the first half. And of all the people who had to be on the receiving end of the Webfoots' touchdown pass, it would be John Berry, a citizen of the Southland Inglewood to be exact who went north for an education. RIGHT IN HIS LAP For the sake of the records, Bob Smith's southpaw throw went 14 yards into the lap of io pui mncuy, mere was I an atmosphere of overconfidence in the Trojan ranks and a deter- in and did his throwing act.

And before we get into the gory details of the struggle, let it be said that this fortunate tie is apt to build the fire under the Trojan War Horse that will make it kick up some awful capers through the remainder of I the trip toward Pasadena where that certain Rose Bowl is situated. 'LITTLE TOO SURE "The boys were a little too sure of themselves," opined Headman Howard Jones, who contemplates no drastic shakeup come the morrow and preparation for Washington State. "Don't go selling those Trojans short off their performance to- Turn to Page 13, Column 1 Read 'Em and Weep Oregon, U.S.C, 7. Pacific, California, 0. 27; Washington, 6.

Santa Clara, Utah, 7. Beloit, Chicago, 0. Illinois, Bradley, 0. N.Y.U., Colgate, 6. Mississippi State, 19; Arkansas, 0.

Vanderbilt, 13; Rice, 12. Capture Their World Series FEDER you no more than 4-1 if you like Marse Joe McCarthy's maulers to repeat their four-straight conquest of the Cubs last fall. On the other hand, the Reds, full of fight and a whale of a team spirit, are carrying a world of confidence into the series. Paced by the heroic hurling arni3 of Paul Derringer, and Bucky Walters, who won 52 games be-tween them this season, the Reds have it all figured out. They're certain they'll break even in the opening two grimes, scheduled 'for Vankep stadium Wednesday AGGIES PROVE PESTS Pacific's stunning victory came lOregon State Looks Powerfu THERE HE GOES OVER! goal in the very corner of Huskies Easy for Pitt, 27-6 Panther Air Squadron Completes 12 of 18 Passes at Seattle SEATTLE, Sept.

30. (Pitts burgh's Panthers, who flew the 2G0O miles from Pittsburgh to play here, took to the air again today, completing 12 of 18 passes for an easy 27-to-6 victory over University of Washington Huskies in an intersectional football opener before 25,000 fans. The Pitt aerial circus took com mand in the first five minutes and never was headed, although it looked for a while in the third period as if the weary Pan ther airmen were heading for the hangar for repairs, The de-emphasized Panthers, who certainly didn't look de-emphasized, won by the same margin 21 points by which they defeated Jim Phelan's team in the 1937 Rose Bowl game. CASSIANO THE ACE Lightning-fast backfield work bv Dick Casiano, onlv remain ing member of Pitt's 1938 "dream backfield," and Ben Kish, rug-j ged 200-pound quarterback, wasj a deciding factor. Pitt wasted! no time getting under way, either by land or air, and "quickie" passes had the Husky defenders dizzy.

Washington took the opening! kickoff and punted immediately. Starting on their own 31, the Panthers interspersed long ground gainers with passes to travel 69 yards for a score. It came on a fourth down 20-yard heave from Emil Xarick to Joe Rettinger, end, who caught the ball in the end zone. BLOCKED KICKS COSTLY Partly blocked punts by lanky End John Dickinson led to Pitt's second and fourth touchdowns. Dickinson recovered one on the Husky 44 in the second period, and Cassiano went over nine plays later.

In the final quarter Dickinson blocked another punt by Dean McAdams in the Husky end zone, the ball zooming skyward and coming to rest in the clutches of Tackle -Ted Konetsky on the Turn to Tage 12, Corn inn 2 Texas Aggies Rout Centenary, 14-0 COLLEGE STATION (Tex.) Sept. 30. (JP) On top all the way, the Texas Aggies shattered a long jinx today with a 14-0 triumph over Centenary's Gents, big John Kimbrough, fullback, scoring both touchdowns in the rout of the crippled visitors. in the second game of Califor-jmination to win on the part of nia's reason-opening double- the invaders. This psychological header.

California beat the Cali- situation appeared to have the fornia Aggies 32-14 in the opener Trojans opening contest of the with the help of the first Pacific Coast Conference season which was rushed into the game, by the horns until Nave stepped Notre Dame Field Goal Beats Purdue SOUTH BEND (Ind.) Sept. 30. (JP) A 21-year-old Irishman named John Charles Kellcher in Downing Stanford, 12-0 Superior Blocking, Better Choice of Plays and Solid Running Tells for Beavers; Stanford Line Weak to overcome an Aggie lead. California had been picked as one of the strongest teams on the Pacific Coast and the College of Pacific game had been re garded as a "breather" for the Bears before they started their big-time schedule next Saturday, PACIFIC THREATENS Pacific, using a wide-open pass- ing attack to good advantage, netted a total of 208 yards dur- ing the game as compared with California's 151; Pacific made 7 first dmvns Caiifornia 3. It was apparent, however, that the bobbed up from the ranks for one) PALO ALTO, Sept.

30. (JP) brief glory-filled moment today, Oregon State College, ranked as booting a field goal that gavel season contender for the Notre Dame a hard-won J-to-0 victory over Purdue before 40,000 Pacific Coast Conference football spectators in the Irish stadium, championship, established itself Kelleher, who lives in Lorain, as a definite challenger today and struggled gamely through I Wltn 12-0 victory over Stan-the past two seasons as a fifth or University before a crowd sixth-string quarterback, trotted jf 20,000. onto the field in the third period northern team, enjoying to coolly collect the points which; slight favoritism at the opening gave the Irish their hardest-won i kickoff, produced a finely drilled 'California first team had wearied fullback, and No. 80 The Webfoots scored is Ed first. photo by Maurice Terrell Grid Scores From Nation's Greenswards LOCAL U.S.C., Oregon, 7 (tie.) U.S.C.

Krosh, 26; Glenciale J.C., 2. Santa Barbara, 20; Willamette. 14. Santa Ana J.C., 24; U.C.L.A. Krosh, 0.

r.VCIFIC COAST California. 32; Cal. Assies, 14. College of Pacific. California, 0.

Oregon State, 12; Stanford, 0. Pittsburgh. 27; Washington, 6. Idaho, Montana State, 6. Fresno State ID; Texas 7.

ern, 0. Arizona Teachprs Flafrstaffl Nevada, 7. Utah Apgies, 33; Col. of Idaho, 0.1 San Luis Obispo J.C., Visalia J.C, 0 (tie.) Montana, Portland, 0. St.

Mary's Frosh, University Of San FrancLsCO Frosh, 0. EAST N.V.U., 7: Colgate. 6. Armv, 16; Kurman. 7.

Navv, 31; William Mary, 6. Kordham, 34; Waynesburg. 7. Dartmouth. 41; St.

Lawrence, 9. C'arnesie Teoh. 35; Wittenberg, 0. llolv Cross, 28; Manhattan, 0. Rutgers.

13: Weslevan, 7. Brown. 34: Rhode Island State, 0. Susquehanna, 6: Buffalo, 0. Villanova.

14: Muhlenburg, 0. West Virginia, 44; West Virginia Weslevan. 0. Wasb'ngton, and Jefferson, 16; Mus- kin cum. i.

Boston College, 45; Lebanon Val- ley. 0. Colbv. 20: New Hampshire. 6.

Bates. American International, 0. Vermont. Amherst, 6. Maine.

47; Arnold. 0. Lafavette. 33; I'rsinus, 0. Clarion State Teachers, Grove City, O.

Trinity. 2fi: Rensselaer Poly, 19. Norwich. Honart, u. Navv Plebes, 34; Massanutlen Acad mv, tv St.

Anselm. 36; Northeastern. 7. Mt. St.

Mary's. IB; Potomac State, 0. Bethany, Westminster. O. Panzer, East Stroudsburg Teachers.

6. Juniata. 7: Hartwirk, fi. i Parsons, 12, Teacheri, 6. i Turn to Tage 14, Column 8 Tarheels Trample CHAPEL HILL (N.C.) Sept.

30. (JP) North Carolina over powered Wake Forest. 3G-6, here (today in a Southern Conference football game before 16,000 spec-l tators. lhe nome team i I 1 I o. slightly in the Aggie game and was not fully prepared for Pa cific dazzling attack.

The Pacific team threatened to Turn to Page 12, Column 3 Georgia Romps Over Citadel, 26 to 0 ATHENS (Ga.) Sept. 30 Georgia swept to a 2G-0 victory over the Citadel here today, shoving across a touchdown in every period to accomplish a first-of-the-season rout. Scoring honors were divided, with Mims, Powers, Hughes and Nelson tallying touchdowns. Yankees 1-3 to Fourth Straight BY SID NEW YORK, Sept. 30.

(JP) Like the pup that chased an automobile and finally caught it, the Cincinnati Reds are in the World Series and no one seems to know why. Outside their own select set the Uhinelanders aren't given one tiny chance of knocking off one of the greatest ball clubs of all time. Just to make the point clear, the odds-makers today estab- lished the Yankees favorites at to 3 to make new baseball history bv winning their fourth team inai quicKiy naa siamora on the run. Superior blocking, better choice of plays and a solid run jnjng and passing attack produced touchdowns for Oregon State in the first two periods. LOOSELY PLAYED In contrast, Stanford turned in a loosely-played Its aerial sorties failed to function, except in isolated instances, and its ground plays found the linemen tangled in confused masses with the backs on many occasions.

The game had barely gotten under way when Oregon State put together a drive of 74 yards on ground plays entirely to reach Stanford's 3-yard marker, before being driven back 2 yards where the ball was lost on downs. The march served as a pre view of what was to be expected. Regaining possession of the ball, Coach Lon Stiner's club charged 47 yards for the first score. A Texas Longhorns Drub Florida, 12-0 AUSTIN (Tex.) Sept. 30.

(JP) The University of Texas Long-horns, through stellar work by three sophomores, Jack Crain, Raymond (Wildhorse) Mayes, and Derwood Peveto, opened its grid season with a 12-0 triumph over the University of Florida's hard-fighting, embattled Gators hcr today. opening game in years, SITKO SHINES Steve Sitko, first-string Irish signal caller, opened the Notre Dame drive that ended with Kel leher's boot. Sitko returned a Purdue punt 13 yards to the Boilermaker 34 -yard stripe to start a smashing offense which carried to the Purdue 21. Then Joe Thesing, Irish fullback, spun a.nd fought his way 17 yards to the Purdue 4-yard marker. BATTLE OP LINES Purdue's forwards gallantly halted the Notre Dame surge, tossing Notre Dame back 6 yards on two straight plays.

Thesing smashed to the Purdue 8-yard Turn to Page 14, Column 2 LOVTRY the ambidextrous Australian star. Puncec's triumph was easily the highlight of a day's play which saw Harry Hopman and Jack Crawford, Bromwich and Adrian Quist make certain an all-Australian finals in the men's doubles, Alice Marble lose her first set of the tourney in winning her way into the finals of the women's singles, and Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyari and Mrs. John Van Ryn capture the worn-Turn to Page 46, Col urn a 2 Puncec Scores Four-Set Win Over Heldman to Reach Finals risen will sign a contract in' 11 I i New York, probably Tuesday, 'Ml WflKP. rMP.M BY PAUL Behind the power of his ground strokes and the accuracy of his baseline play, Franjo Puncec, the stocky Yugoslavian, drove to victory over Julius Heldman, the Bruin surprise package, to gain the finals in the men's singles of the Pacific Southwest tennis championships yesterday.

By virtue of his 2-6. 6-3, 6-0, 7-5 victory Puncec qualified to meet the winner of today's battle between Bobby Itiggs, the national champion, and John Bromwich, when he will meet Benswanger and Traynor at the draft meet-! ing preceding the opening of the World Series Wednesday, the Pirate president added. Traynor resigned, he said, be- cause of the low position of the sixth-place Pirates; a tradi-jthrice in the first, once in the! tional first division club, which second and twice in the third. this year experienced its poorestjWake Forest's only touchdown season since 1317, Icame in the final period. I straight world championship! and Thursday, and that when right on top of their 11th Ameri-ithey return their own back can League pennant since 1921.

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