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Daily News from New York, New York • 252

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(M lamms 2-1 fro Take N.C; Pick Airinniy, Mavy, Liomis By Dick McCann North Carolina smacked South Carolina 18-6. South Carolina tied Tennessee. Tennessee trounced Fordham 40-14. Shake well and you get a comparative-score rating of: North Carolina over Fordham by eight touchdowns! Then turn around and ask any Broadway bookie for the odds and he'll quote, "Fordham favored, 2-1," unquote HBoost for EBucky By Dick McCann Talked to Bucky Harris on the phone yesterday. Bucky, you know, is the dethroned manager of the Washington Senators and, for the first time since 1919, is out of a major league job.

We know from conversations with the Dodgers' board of directors that Bucky is under consideration as Leo Durocher's successor if and when the Brook boss resigns to enter the armed forces. Yet Bucky purposely came up here to the World Series last week, roamed around, made no secret of his presence but wasn't approached by anybody for any job. Can't understand it. Bucky's one of the shrewdest men in baseball and certainly would help any club in any capacity. We hope, though, that the fact no one offered him a job indicates that he already has clinched the Dodger post.

The Brooklyn club couldn't pick a better man as Durocher's successor. And so it is. The once roaring Rams, reduced to braying billy goats by last Saturday's shellacking', nevertheless take to the Polo Grounds turf against the undefeated Tar Heels at 1:45 this afternoon, a solid Pi P3 fx" i-3 You might wonder how a man, who has just "resigned" as manager of a hopeless seventh-place outfit could possibly be the genius to reorganize the Dodgers fur a pennant-winning Active Alumnus George Stirnweiss, Newark infielder labeled for the Yanks, boots a few during North Carolina practice at Polo Grounds. Billy Myers, holding ball, and Hugh Cox seem to appreciate former Tar Heels halfback's kicking ability. campaign next season.

But Bucky had miserable material. His last two years at Washington all but crushed his spirit which, once, by the way, flamed as high as Durocher's. Harris is a shrewd, scrappy fellow. Give him a job like that Brooklyn one, where a man has an incentive to work and the material to work with, and you would see the old Harris in action a resourceful, relentless, highly respected competitor. 1 V' Bucknell Tallies Late to Draw With Temple, 7-7 Philadelphia, Oct.

9 (). Bucknell and Temple battled to a 7-7 deadlock before 18,000 fans tonight in Temple Stadium, marking the sixth stalemate in a rivalry dating back to 1927! After a scoreless first half, Temple broke the ice with only two minutes remaining in the third quarter as fullback "George Sutch plunged over from the one-foot line to climax a 62-yard drive. Alex Beshunsky converted with a placement to give the Owls a 7-0 lead. A completed pass on an interference ruling levied against Temple's Johnny Ginta gave Bucknell a first down on the Temple 11 with six minutes left to play. Bucknell lost 5 yards on a penalty but then Johnny Paar raced through the Temple team for a touchdown.

RUNS POINT ACROSS The game tieing point came in dramatic fashion as Paar fumbled the pass from center and Elting Johnson retrieved it and galloped safely across the final chalk line. Statistics of the battle indicate anything but the close affair that resulted. Temple chalked up a 15 to 3 advantage in first downs and rolled up a total yardage of 290 to 93 for the Lewisburg eleven. The Temple scoring drive was featured by Gene Hubka and Sutch, alternating in line smashes, and a 24-yard pass from Hubka to Spitz Sparagna to reach the Bucknell 11. Hubka cracked the line for 8 and was a foot short of the scoring zone two plays later to pave the way for Sutch's scoring plunge.

In the Bucknell advance, Paar heaved two long passes which barely missed clicking, deep in Temple territory before the interference ruling against the Owls. choice with New York's unbelieving fandom in the feature game of Gotham's first Fall football date. At Yankee Stadium. Navy and Princeton will be tangling in an Ivy League game with Navy a 2-1 choice. At Baker Field, Columbia entertains Brown and rules a 6-5 pick.

And, at West Point, Array tackles Cornell and is 14-5 to win its third straight. Although he won't be 46 until next month, Harris, from point of continuous service, is second only to ageless Connie Mack as the "oldest" manager in major league baseball. He just finished his 19th campaign. He won pennants his first two years '24 and '25. But hasn't come close since, and you might think the one-time boy wonder thus had grown up to be a bust.

However, if you recall, in this interim he has had to compete with the Yanks of '26, '27 and '28 and the Athletics of '29, '30 and '31 perhaps the two greatest aggregations that ever stormed through either league. Some unthinking critics, however, will point out how Harris turned over a fifth-place Tiger team to Mickey Cochrane in 34 and the Mick promptly won two straight pennants. But they forget that Harris probably would have won the same two years at Detroit if he'd had a catcher like Cochrane. Cochrane's catching ability and not his managerial ability won those flags. Rizzuto to Start Naval Traiiiing Admitting he felt "a little scared" about the changeover, Phil Rizzuto, star Yank shortstop, left his Glendale home last night for the Norfolk, naval base, where he reports tomorrow to start training as a Seaman First Class.

That's the way he felt when he first joined the Yanks two Springs ago. The spunky youngster, who led the World Series batters with .381, was beaten into the service by his kid brother, Fred, who enlisted with the Coast Guard three months ago. Brooklyn would like Harris. In many ways, he is like Durocher. He was a self-made player, a light hitter who was most dangerous in the clutch, a daring fielder and always played to win at all costs.

He was rather ruthless about this idea of winning, too. There was the time, for instance, when his pennant-bound Senators were playing the Yanks a close one late in the season. A rookie named Lou Gehrig was playing first base for the Yanks. The score was tied, two were out in the ninth and Washington had a man on second when Harris strode to bat. The best he could do was a feeble roller to the pitcher but he hustled like all get-out down to first and leaped with all his weight on Gehrig's instep.

Lou let out a scream, dropped the ball, Harris was safe, and the winning run pattered across. Pos. BUCKNELI. TEMPLE Glenn Jarmoluli Then there was the time Max Carey was wrecking Harris hopes in the Pirate-Senator Series of '25. The night before the sixth game, the Senators held a meeting to try to figure out some way to halt BeshunedjLT Tmlu L.

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Other games featuring local teams pair City College against Lebanon Valley at Lewis-olm Stadium and Brooklyn College against Panzer at Brooklyn Field. EXPECT 100,000 CROWD. The five games on local gridirons and the Michie Stadium clash between Cornell and Army are expected to draw a total attendance of about 100,000. Because of the colorful Middies nd the ivy-draped traditions the Navy-Princeton fray is expected to outdraw all others with some 35,000 half filling the Stadium by game-time at 2:45 P. M.

Fordham-North Carolina and Brown-Columbia anticipate 20,000 turnouts each, with trekking to West Point and 8,000 or so straying in for the City College and Brooklyn College tilts. This will be New York's first chance to view Fordham's Jim C'rowley-less team. Both previous 12am games have been played away from home the victory over Purdue and the rout by Tennessee. Observers report that Earl Walsh, struggling with far less material than his old boss had, has brought the Rams out of the depths of despond nicely this week and that they will tackle North Carolina in fine mettle, mentally and physically. Only casualty is Benny Babula, second-string to Fullback Steve Fi-lipowicz.

Benny suffered a recurrence of an old knee injury and is believed out for the season. Carolina, which has been able to salvage only one tie out of its four previous meetings with Fordham, is well armed with talent and may resort to a two-team attack. The Tar Heels hold victories over Forest, which upset Duke, end South Carolina, which tied Tennessee, and came into town yesterday morning full of confidence. FORGET EARLY LOSSES Both Navy and Princeton will fighting to forget early trimmings. William Mary upset the Middit in the season's opener, while Princeton bowed last week to little Williams.

Navy, however, showed considerable power routing Virginia S5-0 last SatiudjUt. But critics still are hesitant to jab Navy, wrecked by. war-time hastened graduations, as a thoroughly co-ordinated, competent team. Columbia may be sorely tried against Brown. The Bears have a flashy aerial attack and a bone-crunching, veteran line.

The Lions, of course, will pin their hopes on their senior G-men Paul Gover-nali and Ken Germann. Gover-nali already has completed 22 out of 28 passes for 411 yards and seven touchdowns. Germann has scored five goals, four on passes. An old coaching rivalry will be revived when Cornell and Army clash. Cornell's Carl Snavely and Army's Red Blaik pitted teams against each other regularly until Blaik left Dartmouth two years ago.

Snavely'g club, beaten by Colgate, is handicapped by injuries and, on form, unbeaten Army should score its third straight triumph. Army easily defeated Lafayette 14-0 while Cornell was hard-pressed to win, 20-16. However, form has meant little in previous Blaik vs. Snavely battles. (Other picture on back page) for Podd).

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Oct. 9 Syracuse racked up its third straight football win tonight with a 13-0 triumph over a dogged Western Reserve eleven which yielded two first half touchdowns, Carey. But hobody had any scheme. So Harris, grim, said: "Well, I'll take care of him." No one knows exactly what Harris meant but, by a coincidence, Carey next day was tagged so hard at second base by Harris that he suffered a broken rib. However, Carey was a game one, too, and the docs strapped him up and he stayed in the Series and batted the Bucs to victory.

But it wasn't Bucky's fault. Harris, who played throughout that Series with a broken left hand, showed he was a great team player when he tried to take the blame for shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh's amazing epidemic of eight errors. was my fault," Bucky said. -Peck was off-stride trying to rush his throws so that he wouldn't have to throw hot ones at me." then bottled up the veteran Orange backs during the final 30 minutes. The Orange struck with lightning suddeness for its first touchdown.

Standing on his 35, Bunky Morris tossed an aerial to Dick Whitesell. who took it on the 40 and threaded 60 yards to score, 13 Harris, who favors the National League brand of baseball sacrifices, squeezes, steals is a fine judge of young players and a diplomatic handler of temperamental veterans. Cronin probably owes his big league success to Harris' keen judgment. Back in '28, when Joe was breaking -in with the Senators, Harris used him regularly at shortstop on a late Western trip. Angrily, Clark Griffith wired Buck several times to "bench that kid and move Bluege over to short.

Cronin will never do." But Harris persisted Cronin developed and, in fact, eventually arose to where he took Harris' job from him at Boston. In his various managerial jobs, Harris has had to handle such prima donnas and playboys as Wes Ferrell, Goose Goslin, Buck Newsom, Bill Cissell, and no manager ever got mora out of them. From all angles, he's the guy for Brooklyn. minutes after the opening kickoti. A 55-yard power drive in the Stolz Outpoints Denner at Boston Boston, Oct.

9 (JP). Allie Stolz, 133, gave Abe Denner, 129, of Boston, a convincing licking in 10-round main bout here tonight. Stolz was on top all the way, taking every round by a goodly second period produced Syracuse's other score, 20 seconds from the halt end. Whitesell rammed it over from the 10. Mirabito, who had booted the first conversion, missed this one..

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