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The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 35

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Vinci Checks Seals in Game of Series, 5-1 Opening 1W Bud, i consirR W5 DiSCU'iWS 1REPEATER SO HAVE. IF WAS AN ACTO I'D go IK raThiE. W-AV 5TUFF) COMtfiiASS FAR. MORE. IMPORTANT HIGHER TOP ITS OF ENTtRTAiN" sTHAN TRAStDiANS A 'tmALL MtARAU.

GO -JTC name: iih ELtcTRid Rub WW ri3t r- STAGU lights (TlXL ALLY'S rap "ajlS- rantfero I NAHAGEfcAHD wS SETTlNS 1 II IM c'TR, "a-T' i JNA I of it Qn'xWtfi UNTIL EOOIE. NELSON bar i Tt-PPtO INTO SUNDAY CC SAN FRANCISCO. OCTOBER 7. 1928 35 SUNDAY I It Lorn Off Tackle The Bear's Strongest Play Look at Him Go PASS, LOM TO NORTON, WINS FOR CALIFORNIA One Arm's Length Proves Margin of Victory; Ball Deflected;" Stan Barr Kicks Point By WILLIAM LEISER. BY THE marginal one arm'l length California defeated Mary's yesterday at Memorial: Stadium.

It was Bob Norton's arm which provided the length, and it was a tight game that AvRrr- 'ltf fSys mZkza. JIIIn vr J' 'rl i f4 i- his work in handling one pass sewed up for tha Golden Rears, The first quarter was past, and the second well under way. Some 6 0,004, more or less, in the big bowl at Rerkeley, were well near convinced, by this that neither eleven could, on power, drive on through to the goal line. California, in fact, a few moments before, had hit frtAM PARR, Kirss I'oint, Tobin and Lien, at left and right of Lorn in the picture, aren't as close as they seem, Bennie rambled on through the hole. on this left side off tackle was mainly responsible for the fact that yesterday's football game was played entirely in St.

Mary's half of the field. tackle for eighteen yards and California's first first down of the bcttle. Notice that Frankian (No. 15) is being blocked out. Lom's strength BENNIE LOM, starting off tackle, in the first quarter of play.

Looks like he is due to be stopped pronto, but isn't. He went on through lirifiIA MfMM (ID Stanford's New Mack vmiuim DOWNS ROCKNE Italian Hurler Yields 6 Hits Jacobs Fails to Last Route Against Battling Solons; Hoffman Stars in Field, Also Hits Homer. Ml ft LJ Lit iJ Lili iw Cards Pick Haines to Pitch Today Red Birds Must Regain Confidence in Home Roost or Pass Out. the Saints' 10 -yard mark, with A first down and fresh start, and had been stopped cold. Taking up tho battle, a moment later, 32 yards from the St.

Mary's goal, Bennie Lorn, the game's brightest star, bit right guard and was stopped with a yard. Again he hit, and this time was brought down by Captain Al Tobin with no gain at all. Backward and to his right Bennie faded on the next play, and almost from the sidelines he hurled th football. It was a bautiful throw, near 40 yards in the air, and diagonally across th field. Rapidly it cSught up ith th racing Norton 6n the opposite aid of th gridiron, and in between Norton and th bail ome "Mack" Stennett, strong left half for th Saints.

RUNNING CATCH. Stennett leaped liiih for the ball, and touched it. with outstretched finger tips, dt-flecting its course but slightly. And up Jumped the tearing Norton for the bail. He also reached it with finder tips, hut with finger tips Norton brought it down.

For five full strides in his rac goalward, Norton's struggle was to net control of that ball. go it, and the next five strides took him over tht line. Stanley Rarr kicked and made tha extra elicit, and the CoMen Rears led. 7 points to none. With the same margin they won.

Had Stennet's middl fingr ban half an inch longer, or had Norton's arm ben an inch Its long, a vastly different story would be told at this tim. GREAT BATTLE. It was a great battle, it well played game, dominated by the" defensives of both teams, and fea tured, almost from first gun to last, with the strong off-tackles of Bennie Lorn, the best university halfback who has played In the Bay-community yet this season. Just a fraction over hundred yards Benni mad during th afternoon, and all but fivs yards Insid the ends. California's off taekl.

running to her own right, and with Lorn carrying, is th most dangerous play any eleven hereabouts has brought to light -this yar. In the wonri'M" team days the cry, (Continued Pag 39, Col. 3) ELEVEN, 22-6 i 40,000 Fans Witness Defeat of the Notre Dame Gridders; Heavy Line Turns Tide Overwhelms Oregonians Biff Hoffman Big Star in Triumph of Pop Warner's Men at Eugene; Victors Open With "Surprise Play." By DINK TEMPLETON. IUGMNF. (Orel, Oct.

Formation the term used to describe the new "l'op" Warner offense of the Stanford Varsity isn't much of a name, but is responsible for the Cardinals winning a marvelous game from hard-boiled gnng ot Oregon giants by the score ot 26-12, or four touchdowns to two. It was this new type of offense, with which Oregon was thoroughly By PAUL R. MICKELSON, (Associated Press Sports Writer.) 8f ABE KEMP AHISON, (Wis), Oct. 6 (AP) After more than a Ai- By ABE KEMP SACRAMENTO, Oct. 6.

Louis Vinci's fine Italian hand shot a gleaming stilleto into the hearts of the Seals today before 10,000 scorched fins in the first of a three-game series to decide the championship of the Second half of the Pacific Coast League race. Vinci's coolness in the intense heat of the dav, his exceptionally onde of struggle, a big ten GOLFERS are crying tor a standardized golf ball, but they are not crying half as hard as ihc Cardinals are for a standardized baseball. good control and his murderous fast ball that sung a dirge on the outside By ALAN J. GOULD Associated Press Hoorts Kditor. ST.

LOUIS, Oct. 6. lAl') Unless the red birds of St. Louis regain some confidence and fighting spirit in their own home roost, the world's series of 1S28 appears likely to draw to a short find one sided familiar, but or tne corners w.A,'3nsiarj fact, and the blond first baseman, who it a raging idol with the populaet her, walked. Holfinnn lifted the haze that hung over the sward with a bit-inir sinele Into rlht.

KOEHLER BUNTS. Koehler injected the, element of (Continued on Page 36, Col. 6) which is s-tined to be ac- claimed the greatest single innovation that the evolution of 'oothall haj ever teen that enabled Stanford, hammering and battering away with every onei What the Cardinals want is the standardized baseball that they hit all summer and not the one they are trying to hit now. plate Were too much for the Seals, who walked silently from the pasture losers in a 5 to 1 confpst. 1 1 held Williams' bombers to six hits, which were made in the fir-Jt five i i rs.

After the fifth, the Seals lapsed into a sullen battlnit silence, I DArinr rnisT I I A Bad Start i i of the widely diversified plays conclusion. The Yankees may be handicapped by the loss of a. few Important cogs in their machine, but what is ft cog or two when a steam roller starts going down hill spread ing destruction in its wake? Tht Cards seem to be getting a Three I League baseball with American League pitching. One poison in this case instead of counteracting kills. SAN miM-INTO.

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K. JnlmtHit. If 4 1 0 riiirin, an i Aviriil. rf 4 0 made possible I by this forma- I tlon. to so con-1 found the fight- lug giants of Oregon that they I n't Bear Meat which was i HOI I MAN.

f-lnrs fur iirda. The Cards have honest weight in their bats and honest intentions, but tlicir swinging is dishonest from a St. Louis point-of VINCI. Stow genii. in the ninth when Hoffman raced to the team has finally conquered Notre Jame on the gridiron.

Coach Olen Thlstlewalte big Wisconsin team did it today, overwhelming Rockne's men 22 to 6 before a frentled throng of 40,000 spocta-tors. Superior in vrjr department of tha gams and fighting back to overcorna a slight advantage Notre Dame's sxperience had given it in tha first half, the Badgers smashsd and ran their way to triumph. It was mors than a powerful Wisconsin team. It was a smart one, alert for every mistake Knuts Rocknt's charges mad and they were many, and it served notios that it is to be reckoned with in the chase for the Big Ttn conferenct titia which hasn't been theirs since 1912. The battle was a bruiser throughout and Coach Glenn simply played Kotkne's game of strategy, matching his "shock troops" for Rockne's.

More thssi 30 badgers engaged in the combat, the result of which was swept revenge for the Card-insls who were stung to defeat by the immortal "Four Horsemen" just four years ago. Entering the game with tha odds against them because of their inexperience, Badgers carried the fight to Notre Dame at the outset, its heavier line and Bill Lusby's splendid kicking forcing Notre Dam back and back. The first score for the Badgers was a Notre Dame safety which cam when Bill Kettelmar, Badger tackle, broke through and smothered Jack Elder's punt from behind his own goal line. Elder fell on the ball, preventing a Badger touchdown, and giving Wisconsin 2 to 0 lead at the tnd of the first period. Rut th Notre Dnme fighting Thiimlnn, lb 4 Uliy im.

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AH. H. And the St. Louis point of view is very pointed these days. California 7.

St, Mary's 0. Stanford 26, Oregon 12. U. S. C.

19, Oregon Stat 0. Washington 7, Whitman 0. U. C.I L. A.

32, California Tch 0. Idaho 6, Gonaga 6. Washington State 26, Montana 6. Utah 32, Nevada 7. Whittier College 24, Redlands University 0.

Colorado College 32, Montana Mines 14. Brlgham Young U. 7, California Aggies 6. Colorado Mines 13, Dtnvsr University 12. Colorado Aggies 26, Colorado Tsehrs 0.

Utah Aggies 54, Montana Mines 0. California Frosh 19, St. Mary's Frosh 7. U. S.

C. Freshmen 26, Pasadena J. CO. Fresno 7, Santa Barbara State C. Stanford Frosh 42, Santa Clara 0.

Willamtt U. 36, Linfield Col lege 0 i PREPGAMS i A. K. 3 0 t'lnrer FreneA. Sh 4 (Khorn.

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If 4 ilirl, Rawboned Jesse Joseph Haines of Phillipshurg, Ohio, may be able to do somethipg about It tomorrow when the rivals gather at Sportsman's Park, for the third game Of the series. Jesse Joseph, in the flush of pitching his first world's series game befur? a home crowd two years ago, was able to do quite a bit about it. Then, however, thp Cardinals met the Yankees on even terms, each with a victory gained. Now the Yankees are two up. going at top speed and down hill.

SEVERE SHOCK. It was a severe enough shock to National League partisans last October when the Yankess, In full and able bodied panoply, waltzed through four straight against the not so bold buccaneers of Tittsbursrh. Consequently, it can be imaRined how stunning the blow will be If the New Yorkers, crippled and handicapped ns they are. administer the Same knockout wal- from which direction the next blow whs stril.e. That Stanford team withdrew from the laydown club today, and played full game of fighting football.

It had to, or a lot of miracles would have knocked it right in the creek before it knew what was happening. And with the arrival of the Stanford team there also arrived Illt'f Hoffman the guy that's won Stunford Important games for the last two years the follow we pick as the host back in America, Out on Ilayward field today, he was the one great figure, without whom Stanford couldn't do. Unbeatable, because he had the means In his hands to win with something else when the thing he tried wouldn't work. It wasn't mad easy for Biff, because this Oregon crowd socked him with everything it owned throughout the game. And th harder they hit him, California Position St.

Mary's Avery L. E. R. Lir Fitr L. T.

P. Murphy Schwarx L. G. H. Herein Rigls Seqhetti H.

Gill R. G. McNally Bancroft R.T. Tobin Phillip R. E.

Frankian Eisan Q- Lorn L. H. Merrick Barr R. H. Stennett Schmidt F- Kaspee Substitutions: St Mary's Pitchford for Kasperi Ebding for Lien; Weisgerber foe McNally, Lun for Ebdingi McNally for Wisgrber; O'Garman for Merrick; Rooney for Stennett California Norton fee Avery Ric for Lomj Cockburn foe-Schmidt: Newman for Eisan; Cty mer for Barr: Brown for Phillipst Lorn for Rice; Ric for Barr; Nw man for Eisan C'ymr for Lomj Ewmg for Ric: Schlisting foe Cockburni Thorton for Brown.

Touchdown Norton; point aft touchdown, Barr, Total SO 5 Hatted for inenba in Rth. shadow of the leering green fence In center field to strangle Suhr's soaring fly. BRILLIANT VICTORY. It was a brillianS, unblemished Sacramento victory and the city Is full of Hosannas tonight for its heroes; Vinci the invincible; Hoffman, who 80orel one run and batted in two; one of them with a flitting home run over the left Ileld wall, and that much whispered about- gentleman when b.use hits are discussed, Jimmy McLaughlin. An embalmer on the field, but an undertaker at thi bat, McLaughlin threw off the cloak Of impotency today and batted in three of the Senators' tallies with two timely singles.

McLaughlin's first bid for the throaty roan of the multitude earn in the second, when the father of the five big Jakes Ditched carefully to Earl Shetly, xarcistd, too much caution, in TllnlteS fir May in Sth. The trouble with the Cardinals is that they are too healthy. Even old Alec's stomach won't get sour. Alec, says he pitched to Gehrig just the way he wanted to. Gehrig's only comment was "Christmas came early this year." The cry in St.

Louis is: "It's all over but the gouging." Ruth's only weakness in this Han Franetae ,...00091000 0 1 Hlth 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 Sarramenta 0 0 0 0 (F I i Hit 0 8 0 10 1 3 11 Home run Hoffman. Thre hae hH lint-Re. Saerlflee hlta Knehler, Hoff mann. Kuna batted lit Mcl.unihlin (Hi. M.

Lowell 20. Mission 0. Hollister 31, Pacific Grove 0. San Matao 7, San Rafael A. 0.

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