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The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 53

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53 XCC Monday. Oct. 21. 1961 Chargers Thrash Raiders, 41-10 Raiders Score First -A nd Thai's About All OkIioiii Fools III, MkN Home Robert L. Osborne, one of the owners of the Oakland Raiders, left Candlestick Park yesterday during the second quarter of the Raiders' game with the San Diego Chargers.

The Oakland City Councilman left for home because he said he was feeling "slightly sick." Osborne suffered a light heart attack ten days ago. IML Award Banquet Is On Tomorrow The Police Athletic League Boosters Club will stage an awards banquet at the San Francisco Athletic Club (1630 Stockton St.) tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. Guest of honor will be Willie Mays, who will accept a plaque on behalf of Giants' owner Horace Stoneham. Tickets for the affair, which is open to the public, may be obtained from the Flying Goose Sporting Goods, 1404 Taraval St. and Free Minetti Sporting, Goods, 1525 Haight St.

They are priced at $5. Examiner sportswriter Syd Russell will be among those honored. By PHIL NORMAN San 34-7 was finally turned off, Dieeo had roared into a They prayed for a miracle and it was a miracle the Raiders weren't killed as the super-charged San Diego Chargers rolled home in ridiculous fashion by a score of 41 to 10 at Candlestick Park yesterday. lead after the first 30 minutes. If this wasn't bad enough, Raider coach Marty Feldman found his troops evaporating, falling by the wayside under the weight of wounds.

OTTO GOES OUT Pouring on the goals almost from the outset, the Charg ers applied a full Nelson on the half-dead Raiders in the first half, handed the ball to the second unit and coasted along to their seventh league victory. A surprising crowd of 014 fans sat in on the car nage, an all-time high for two First, off, Jim Otto, the all league center, was knocked off balance, incurring damage to his knee. It necessitated his removal from the ball game. Feldman tried a variety of athletes in the pivotal position, but all failed to do the task. They were not centers and the resemblance to offense was not even coincidental.

Later on, halfback Wayne Crow was out of commission with a bruise on his calf and guard Willie Smith suffered seasons of American League football in the Bay area. Brown Gains Tennis Title San Francisco net veteran Tom Brown eliminated Jim McManus, 6-2, 7-5, to capture the Bay Counties Tennis championship yesterday at the Olympic Club. McManus and teammate Bill Hoogs won the doubles crown from Tom Edlefsen- FIFTH SETBACK The Raiders, who went Mr Sr 1 fpU tin i Examiner Photo by Matt Southard. down to their fifth reversal in six outings, pulled off one electrifying execution early a recurrence of an old knee in the contest but it served only to infuriate the big ruffians from Bordertown. injury.

KIND HEARTED SID It was lucky that Charger That was a 28-yard shot Greeks Take S. F. Soccer League Lead The surprising Greek-Americans took over first place in the San Franciscoi Soccer League, defeating Hakoah AC, 4-1, at Balboa, Stadium yesterday. After being held to a 1-1 first-half tie, the victors exploded with goals late in the contest to win going away. Last year's champion SF Scots found the range in the final eight minutes of play to knock over Club Peru, 3-0.

Ian Fraser, Bill McFarlamJ-and Alex Oneal accounted fori the scoring. In other firs t-division matches, Guadalajara of Oak-, land tied Mercury, 1-1, and San Francisco AC knocked over Teutonia, 3-1. The latter tilt was played at Crocker Amazon. SECOND DIVISION Pannona 4, Nacional AC Shamrock Rovers 3, Viking AC 1: Mecico AC 1, Union Espanola El Salvador 2, Liberty of Sarta Rosa 1. (All games at Crocker Amazon.) THIRD DIVISION Racing Club 4, Olympic Club San Carlos 4, Melita Nicaragua 8.

Sons of Italy 0. (All games at Beach Chalet.) LITTLE LEAGUE Mercury 3. Vikings Rams 8, Hercules 0: United Hayward 1, St. Gabriel 0: Dons 10. Pirates 0: Hakoah 0.

Saints 0. (All games at Beach Chalet.) Koreans Tie Israel TEL AVIV (Israel), Oct. 22l (AP) South Korea and Israel tied 1-1 in an international soccer match today. from Tommy Flores to Bob Coolbaugh with 3:50 gone, as pretty a passing play as there coach Sid Gilman, who knows how it feels to be up against it, had a kind heart and called was to be in the pathetic parade of points. off the snarling pinschers.

When the game had reached For a matter of four min utes the Raiders held their heads in the clouds with a 7-0 lead over the unchal- eged titans of the new pro fessional loop. But then class started to tell and wrote itself all over the giant centerfield score Joe Woolfson, 6-3, 6-3. Edlef-sen-Woolfson entered the finals after yesterday's semifinal victory over Mike Far-rell-Paul Welles, 6-2, 6-3. women's singles title went to Linda Vail, 6-0, 6-2, over Rosemary Casals. In the semis, Miss Vail defeated Jan Conroy, 6-2, 6-4, and Miss Casals wrested a 3V2-hour 7-9, 8-6, marathon from Mar-ga'reta Bonstrom.

Saii Leandro Modest Racket Club 1. Singles June Gav (S) d. Bettv Best 6-1. 6-1: Bess Fickert (S) d. Nan Quinn (M), 6-0, 6-1; Carol Gay (S) d.

Marsha Kufis (M), 6-2. 6-2: Reona Countee (S) d. Pam Lewis (M). 6-2. 6-2: Jean Wolfsson (S) d.

Marilyn Abbey fM). 6-4. 6-0: Gen Smith (S) d. Carol Swain (M), 6-2. 6-3.

Doubles Fickert-J. Gay d. Quinn-Kufis. 6-3. 6-2; Reolia Countee-Wolff-stfn d.

Best -Carol Allard. 6-1. 6-2; Lewis-Abbey d. C. Gay-Smith, 6-3, 3-6, 6-t.

Ardsn Hills 7. Sr. WiKhtman 2. Singles Gerry Carter (A) d. Roberta Altrers (W), 6-2.

6-2: Jean Danilovick (A) d. MarRe Stevens (W). 6-2. 6-2; Virginia Magnuson (W) 6. Avalon Hfrhn (A).

6-1, 6-1; Carol Reading (W) d. Jov Luking (Al. 6-3. 6-3: Midee Bird (Ar) d. Teenie O'Bripn (W).

6-2, 6-3; Susie McKee (A) Erma Garcia (W), 6 0. 6-2. Carter-Danelovick d. Al-pers-Stevens, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4; Pat Maloney-Luking d. Magnuson-Read-injz.

4-6. 9-7, 6-0; Bird-McKee d. 6-2. 6-3. board.

the mid-portion of the third period, he had much of his second team in the ball game, including Hunter Ennis, a quarterback out of Texas Christian who ultimately may spell injury-prone Jack Kemp. With such unlikely individuals as Bo Roberson, Keith Lincoln and Charley Flowers occupying the other backf ield btrths, the Ennis-guided team could not help from scoring one last touchdown in the third session. This was manifested after a slow, steady crawl up the gridiron in 16 sure-handed plays, with Ennis finally REJECT STARS Paul Lowe, a San Francisco 49er reject in early 1960, led the onslaught with two first period touchdowns and Jack Kemp, the AFL's answer to Otto Graham, came along to hurl a 15 yard scoring com CHARLIE FLOWERS GOES OVER FOR A TOUCHDOWN CHARGER pletion to Iowa's Don Norton. Things happened so fast 41-10 after Oakland had scoring. The field goal was "keeping" the ball over the final two yards on the right side.

That raised the count to fenders facing the opposite direction. The second was one Maider Statistics and furious, the Raiders were caught up in a giant thrashing machine. When the motor the result of some curious cashed in a three-point chip a short time earlier to end its pyrotechnics engineered from of 46 yards and it was the one-time Oregon State star's 041 San Diego 20 14 010 Oakland 7 0 sheer speed that paid off for returns 40 2 Penalties against 1 2 Yards lost penalties 5 20 Fumbles 3 3 Fumbles lost 2 2 Ball lost on downs ..3 0 CHARGER RUSHING points. He does the 100 in something like 9.7, but his maneuvering is like Goose the toe of George Fleming, last year's Rose Bowl hero. Fleming, standing back on the Charger 44, put the toe into the ball.

It took off left, caromed off the back of a San Diego defender, flew on course and through the uprights. It was better than finding SCORING PLAYS Qtr. SD Oak 1 Coolbaugh, 28 yard pass from Flores (39 yards in four plays). 3:50 elapsed. PAT Fleming.

7 1 Lowe, 35 yds. (74 yards in nine plays). 7:03 elapsed. PAT missed. 6 7 1 Lowe.

46 yards (46-1 play). 9:24 elapsed. PAT Blair. 13 7 1 Norton, 15 yard pass from Kemp (23 yards in four nlavs). 12:42 elaDsed.

PAT Tatum's. TCB NYG Lowe a 106 Roberson 51 Flowers 9 27 8 21 Lincoln 7 The Raiders, with no Hou- dini capes in their lockers, Kemp 2 6 RAIDER RUSHING Ten mvn will try the New York Titans for size next Sunday and they are happy as Hades there is nem nK 1 15 gold at the city dump. Ave. 9.6 4.6 3.0 2.6 2.3 3.0 Ave. 5.0 0.7 -15 Yds.

65 63 Yds. 96 no high-roller named Lowe Crow 10 Kowalczyk 1 Papac 1 Miller 2 Fuller 1 Flores 2 Anyway, it did little to al 7 -1 -3 -3 -4 -9 on that team. Blair. 20 7 2 Flowers, 1 yard at RG (10 yards in three Slavs). 10:00 elapsed.

PAT Blair. 27 7 2 Kemp, 1 yd. at LG (45 yards in eight plays). 4:00 elaps. PAT Blair.

34 7 3 Fleming, 44 yards. 4:30 elapsed! FG. 34 10 3 Ennis. 2 yards (86 yards in 19 plays). 14:30 elapsed.

PAT Blair. 41 10 TEAM STATISTICS Charters Raiders ter the nature of the contest. Paul Lowe and Company had CHARGER PASSING PA PC PI Kemp 17 5 0 Ennis 16 5 1 RAIDER PASSING PA PC PI Flores 20 9 Concar Clubs Two Polo Foes Bill Atkinson scoring seven set the trend long ago and there was nothing the hobbling Raiders could do about changing it. PROVES WORTH As for Lowe, he hiked the First downs rushing. 12 2 First downs passing.

6 4 4 Papac 5 1 1 CHARGER PASS RECEIVING of team nine goals, led Con No. Viu rn'. oiarn 3 23 car to a 3-0 victory over Cen tral Valley and a 6-3 victory ball 106 yards in 11 carries Rocourek .....2 24 Norton 2 40 Lincoln 1 16 Roberson 1 13 Flowers 1 13 RAIDER PASS RECEIVING over San Francisco at the and certainly proved he is nrst down penalties Total first downs. 20 6 Net yards rushing ..218 2 Net yards passing ..116 56 Total net yards .334 58 Passes 33 25 Passes completed 10 10 Passes had intercepted 1 4 No. of rushing plays 44 20 Average gain per rushing play 4.95 0.10 Total offensive plays.

78 50 Av. gain per off. play 4.28 1.16 Number of punts 2 6 Av. length of punts 16.5 31.3 Punts returned 3 1 Yardage of punt Golden Park polo field worthy of his Ail-American League halfback rating. No.

YrU Tr)' yesterday. Asad 3 44 0 Coolbaugh 2 32 1 Central Valley completed His first touchdown was a the round-robin play by de twisting, turning jolt up the Miller 17 0 Kowalczyk 17 0 Burch 17 0 feating San Francisco, 5-4. right side that had all de Crow 1 6 a 1 REDUCED! Cenuine lt Cordovan Regularly H8J95 Choose plain toe or wing tip styles Stout leather soles Full leather linings Shines at the flick of a cloth Waterproof -almost wearproof cordovan 1 Tha cigar shown Is Whits Owl Psrfecto Special White Owl planned this moment 3V2 years ago. The tobaccos'which madeup the Heart of this White Owl were carefully selected for. fine taste-then mellowed to perfection for 312 years.

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