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THE SCRAMXW REPUBLICAN. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1927 12 CROWD IN HIS REPUBLICAN TROPHY FOR SCHOLASTIC TILT Close to 12,000 GROUP OF CENTRAL GRIDDERS WHO WILL PL A A GAINST TECH TOD A PLAY TORYTOsSEE TECECENTRAL Fans Will Watch Teams in Action if tW 1 1 5 Samuels and Backos, Blue and Gold Mainstays, Unable to Start Contest CITY OFFICE LOOP OPENS ITS SEASON 'vf m' IMPORTANT GRID GAMES BOTH WILL GET INTO LINEUP DURING FRAY Blue and Cold Will Have Weigrft Advantage Gates to Open at 9:30 O'clock (Continued from Page One) ship between the two schools in 1921. Wteasons advanced by many is that Mhe brakes will tell the story. As the coaches emphasized in closing statements, "the teams are about eauallv matched and the one getting the break first will probably be the winner." With Tech holding five victories and Central the same number while four games were played to deadlocks in their fourteen meetings, both squads will take the field confident of breaking the existing tie and emerge first on the official records with the sixth win. Both Teams Workout The squads were given a final grooming yesterday afternoon.

Tech went through a snappy signal prac tice at Brooks' field, while Central took a final workout" in the school gymnasium. Confidence marked the players as they concluded the prac tice. Apparently every man was in the best of physical condition. School spirit was manifested by the students at pep meetings held at the institutions, yesterday. Final preparations were made for the stu dents to march in a body to the stadium.

A band will head each procession. Special sections for the students have been reserved in the stands, Tech occupying the east stands and Central the west. For the first time in the history of scholastic activities in this region, a program win oe issued. The booklet win contain pictures of the teams Historical data, name, heieht and weight of the individual player, and many otner ieatures. With the largest crowd ever to at.

tend a football game here expected to view the annual tilt, special preparations have been made by the authorities in charge of the contest, to insure expert handling of the mammoth attendance. F. Burton Derby, supervisor of physical education in the Scranton Public schools, Is In charge of all arrangements. Windows Open at 930 Ticket booths will be opened at 9:30 o'clock. Mr.

Derby requests persons already holding tickets to "pass through the automobile gate in order to avoid congestion at the booths and the main entrances. As no seats are reserved, Mr. Derby urges the spectators to come early in order to secure the best seats and avoid confusion shortly before game time. The spacious lot across the road from the nark has been leased for special auto parking. A big detail of police will be at the grounds.

At tne close or the game, every gate in the park will be opened. spectators in the west stands can avoid the jam by passing throueh the sida gate immediately In the rear of the third base bleachers. The game marks the passing of Louis Hutto as head coach of the Central high school football squad. Although he has nofyet tendered his official resignation to the board of physical education he is expected to do so within the next few weeks. In his position as a member of the faculty and grid coach, the duties hava burdened him to the point where he is unable to devote his best efforts In either direction.

He has been mentor of the bootball team at Central for the past three years and this season has been his most Central Coach Pitt Favored to Defeat State In MORE PLUS OLYPHAHT TEAM THIS AFTERNOON Central will have an excellent opportunity to strengthen V.s hold on The Scranton Republican trophy in its annual clash with Tech at Brooks' Field this morning. The trophy will be given in permanent possession to the school, winning the annual contest for the city championship three times. As the Blue and Gold has already one leg on the handsome emblem and the Red and White has as yet. to win the contest since the trophy was offered to stimulate rivalry and sportsmanship, Central has the advantage in gaining it "for keeps." The trophy was first put up for competition in 1925 when a Central team captained by James Manley had as its stars Clarenca Waite and Arthur Davidowitz, present Lehigh University star back, defeated the Tech eleven, 13 to 0. As the score' was deadlocked at 12 12 last year the trophy remained in Central's possession.

Turkey Day Game Six Undefeated Experts Pick Panthers, W. Nebraska, Syracuse And Colgate to Triumph in Traditional Battles This Afternoon Many Outstanding Heroes, WH1 Be Seen in Action Bucknell vs. Dickinson. NEW YORK, Nov. 23 to share with Yale mythtcal and conjectural football championship of the East or a dismal descent to place among the'; great but beaten teams awaited the powerful arrays "Pittsburgh, Washington Jefferson and New Teams Figure In Contests Today Georgia, Texas Aggies, Pittsburgh, W.

Tenessee and N. Y. U. in Important Battles This Afternoon Southern California, Another Eleven With Clean Record, Meets Notre Dame in Chicago Sunday. Three Games in Recreation Bureau Circuit Are Played at Weston Field Organized by the Bureau of Recreation as part of its winter athletic program, the City Office league began Its season with three games at Weston Field last night.

Six teams are enrolled in the loop, and games will be played each Wednesday night at the Providence Road center. In the contests last night, the Hudson Coal team defeated the Lackawanna freight office quinete, 40 to 17, and City Hall turned back the Lackawanna motive power team, 27 to 12. The I. C. S.

defeated the Ma loney Oil company, 28 to 18. The scores HUDSON COAL D. It. FREIGHT fb. fg.

tp. fb. g. tp. Oakes, fd 4 Toole, fd 0 McCl'y.

fd 3 Scanlon, ct 1 Duffy. ct 0' McQ'gan, gd 0 Phillips, gd 1 Neuls, fd 1 Deising, fd 1 Watkina, fd 0 Scheuch, ct 4 Wheeler, gd 5 Barh'ht, gd 2 Totals 17 6 401 Totals 5 7 17 Half time score, 25 Hudson leading. Fouls called on Hudson, 18; on i. W. Freight, 14 Referee Thompson.

CITY HALL D. L. MOTIVE fb. g. tp.

fb. fg. tp. Phillips, fd 4 Marcus, fd 0 Landy, fd 0 0 0 Fowler, fd 4 Wagner, ct 0 Cencl, ct 0 nowen; gd 0 Tigue, gd 0 Boet'eer, gd 1 Blue, ct W. J'nes, gd 0 Duffy, gd 2 Totals 8 11 271 Totals 5 2 12 Half time score, 15 City Hall leading.

Fouls called on City Hall. 16: on and W. Motive Power, 20. Referee Sloan I. C.

S. MALONET OIL fb. fg, tp. fb. fg.

tp. Whalen, fd1 2 5 Whit're. fd 0 W. J'n's, fd 3 Lutz, ct 4 Brower, gd 0 Mangan, gd 0 Crane, gd 0 Simple's, g4 Moran, gd 1 61 Rafferty, fd 3 111 McL'hl'n. ct 1 01 Morgans, gd 0 01 Jones, gd 1 II Totals 11 6 281 Totals 5 8 18 Half time score, 12 3: I.

C. S. leading, Fouls called on I. 20; on Maloney OH. 11.

Referee Roache. successful one. He was also head coach of basketball for that period and last year piloted the baseball nine. While he wishes to continue as basket ball coach. Hutto stated em piratically several days ago he would oe una Die to carry on witn tne aouDie duties of grid coach and instructor nereaiter.

Neither Samueu, brilliant hall back, nasser and open field runner nor Backos, squat, shifty and heady quarterback, wui start tne game lor Central. Central's backfield com bination will be uncertain until per haps after the toss Is made this morning at 10:30 o'clock. Culkins win start at center, nis finser having respond veil to treatment, thus allowing Reese, 175 pound halfback, to take his place once more in the backfield. Lavis will also probably start at fullback. The other two positions are uncertainties.

With Samuels and Backos out, five backs remain, namely. Miller, Kadjesky, Conklin, Magnotta and Beck. The latter are varsity linemen, but former backs, while the others are all fast and dependable ball carriers. Kadjesky and Conklin are great punters with the latter holding the edge. Samuels and Backos were injured in the O.

A. R. Memorial High school game, and because he believes a hard tackle will put his backfield stars out of the game, Hutto will not start them until later in the contest. CRESCENTS TO PLAY WILKES BARRE LITS The West Side Crescents, looking for new fields to conquer, will invade Larksville, Sunday, where they will line up against the Wilkes Barre Lits, a team which has been burning up Luzerne county gridirons. Larksville, which is a short distance from Plymouth, has a large stadium.

It is expected that a large delegation of local fans will accompany the Half Mooners, as an interesting contest is looked for. Bill Hopkins, the West Siders' mentor much elated over the defeat his proteges administered to the Petersburg A. Sunday last, and is counting upon the same shock troops to duplicate the feat over the down valley eleven. Sport Briefs NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (A.P.).

Renewal of Thanksgiving football rivalries this year finds Pennsylvania on the long end of Its series with Cornell, Syracuse with a clean sweep oi its competition witn uoiumma, Brown with more victories than Colgate, Pittsburgh with more than Penn State and West Virginia and Washington and Jefferson even. The standing of these feuds: First Game Games Won Ties 1893 By Penn, 24, by Cornell 7 2 1901 By Syracuse 5, by Columbia 0 1 .1904 By Pittsburgh 14, by Penn State 7 2 1917 By Brown 4, by. Colgate 1 1919 By West Virginia W. 4 4 0 The 37 year old football argument between Army and Navy, which will be reopened Saturday at the Polo Grounds has resulted in 14 victories for the Cadets and 12 for the Midshipmen, with three ties In the 29 games played since 1908. Navy has not won since 1921.

The games last year and In 1923 were ties. Harry Wills, negro heavyweight pugilist expects to start a ring comeback in about a month. Low blood pressure was responsible for his defeat in his last bout Paulino, Wills said today. "Im just going to fight the boys and I'm going to fight for he asserted, "and I might fight for the heavyweight champion Bobby Veach, former Detroit can still hit 'em. He batted .363 'in1 the American Association this year.

Rival Borough Schools Will Lineup in Annual Tussle at Bucktowtf Park CONWAY WILL START FIRST STRING MEN Coach Reap Confident of Vic tory Accommodations for Crowd of 3,000 Neighboring boroughs will crowd the chalk lines at. Dun more Park this afternoon when Dunmore High and Oly phant High play their annual classic. The kick off will be at 2 :15 o'clock. A record, attendance is looked for as rivalry between the two schools is intense and the game is becoming' more attractive every year. Coach Butch Conway, of he Dun more squad, has been putting the finishing touches on his cohorts the past week and will start his first string men.

Loughney, Cattone, Ly nott and Clements will make up the backfield. Hookie Reap, of' the Mid Valley school predicts a victory for Oly phant. He has an excellent eleven this year and his reserve material can be dependsd upon. Officials will be named this morning. ST.

MARY'S QUINTET WINS OPENING GAME St. Mary's Basketball quintet, of Dickson City, opened their 1927 1923 season before a capacity audience Sunday night in the new St. Mary's Auditorium, when they easily defeated the Secret Five of Archbald, to the tune of 0 to 23. The Dixonlans. led by their newly elected captain, Vossy, took the lead in the first minute of when Griffith May By ALAN J.

GOULD (Associated Press Sports Editor) NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (A.P.). Seven of the nine remaining unbeaten teams among the "big college" elevens have, their work cut out for them 'in this week's gridiron classics. TO BE PLAYED TODAY Important grid clashes schedi uled for today in northeaster! Pennsylvania stadiums are; Tech vs. Central at Brooks' iel at 10:30 o'clock.

Wilkes Barre Coughlin vi Kingston at Artillery park at 1 o'clock. Manhattan vs St. Thomas' al Catholic club at 2:30 o'clock. Bucknell "Frosh" vs. Wyomin seminary at Nesbitt Memoria stadium at 2:15 o'clock.

Olyphant at Dunmore at Dud more Dan parit, at 2 clock: Nanticoke vs. Plymouth at Nan ticoke at 2 clock. PROVIDENCE FIVE LOSES TO TAYLO Borough Quintet Cops Openii Game in County League By Score of 23 to 18 The Taylor Booster Club defeat the crack Providence outfit, chaij plon's cf last year, in the first gatj of the County Basketball League fl the present season, played Tuesd night in Lincoln hall, North Sera ton, before a capacity crowd, scd 23 to 18. Marshall Evans, at guard was ley club, the former Providence a scoring 13 of his mates points. Jon for the losers was high scorer his club with ten points.

TAVLOH U. C. I I'ROVIDEXCE fb. fd. tp.l fb.

fg Haves, fd 1 0 2 Jnnen, fil 3 2 Panchal, fil 0 1 HOistor, fd 0 nl Timlin, ct 0 7 Ml raschal, (rrt ft 2 41 Dean, gd 0 1 ll "Mulligan, fd 0 Oseare, fd 0 I.loyd, ct 0 Evans, gd 3 Wil'Hms, Bd 1 Silvers, gd 0 Totals 5 2.V Totals 4 10 rteferee Vincent McGouldrick. Half tl score, 14 to 7: Taylor Booster Club leal Ing. Fouls called on Providence, 2y, Taylor, 21. Reha, of the Sa'nts, caged three fir coals in succession and gave the Mary's Five a lead which the visitq could not overcome. Cravitts, fleet forward of St.

Maryl olaved a wonderful hrand of ball. onH Vqbou rw.lrto tiprt far fVff srrtrtol cnors for the evening nir i) points each. Regret was a classic. rpffrpt.ferl that, t.hesft twn orent. ianJtr' yyg separated.

Fandom enjoyed then. public their money's worth whe niu icauAC uiejf value, (A.P.). A golden opportunity On the eve of Thanksgiving Da" battles with worthy and traditional foes, the Panthers of Pitt were favored to beat Penn State at Pittsr burgh and the Presidents, of W. to hurdle West Virginia at Morgantown while the blushing Violets of N. Y.

U. entered their intersectional duel with Nebraska at Lincoln with the odds against them. All three of the favorites were victorious In last year's battles. Pittsburgh and W. J.

ente these final engagements of their regular season with records marred only by a scoreless tie game played against each other. Except for draws with Colgate and' Penn State, the N. Y. U. record is thus far spotless.

Carrying little bearing upon the championship situation, but contain ing the maximum in traditional rivalrv and pomp, the Pennsylvania Cornell classic at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, the Columbia Syracuse at the Polo Grounds, New York, and the Brown Colgate battle at Providence, round out the pro gram of Thanksgiving Day games for major eastern teams. What odds there are on these games favor Penn, Syracuse and Colgate. The Quakers and the Otanse both havo beaten these rivals with considerable regularity in reoent years and Brown has had a dismal time of it this season, losing six games i a row before taking a brace last Saturday. While Cornell has shown a lack of ran effective scoring drive, particu larly in Its scoreless tie with Columbia, and proved 'weak defensively against Dartmouth. Penn has its hidden ball f.ttack working well and showed a sturdy if inadequate defense against Chicago and the Navy.

Syracuse makes its bid with the forward pass, flung by the slander Baysinger, and must stand or fall upon its success. Brdwn's "iron men" have a chance to save something from the season's wreckage by trimming a hardy Colgate team which has lost not a mme to Eastern foes. Outstanding individual heroes who will see action In the malor battles include Captain Gibby Welch, of Pittsburgh, and Captain Johnny Koepke or Penn state; Captain Bui Amos, of W. ft Captain Connor and Briante. of N.

Y. and Presnell. of Njbraska; Dowler, of Colgate; Wascolonis and the Sculls, of Penn; Captain Hoekelman and Ealderston. oi Cornell. Many of these men will be playing In their last college football game.

Among the smaller teams where renewal of time honored rivalries also is in order, a number of hard fought "naturals" are in prospect. A Rochester teaiv which has lout but a single game plays host to a Hobart eleven, beaten only once by an antagonist in the same small college class. George Washington has a chance for a record of unalloyed victories, excent for a beating by Penn State, if it can stoo a medi ocre Catholic University team at Washington. One of tile Strongest of all Bucknell teams rules a decided favorite over Dickinson, while Gettysburg anbears stronger than Franklin flnd Marshall ana Maryland is favored over Johns lone University INTER COUNTY STARS TO PLAY THANKSGIVING DAY Two all star teams comprised of players who have starred in the Inter County Soccer league during the past season, will clash in an exhibition game at the Mott Haven grounds, Peckville, Thanksgiving Day at 2:30 o'clock. The teams will be known as the Reds and the Blues.

NORMAN MORGANS Tech Mentor 4L fill's. Release of Schacht 1 Six figures in the Thanksgiving Day melees oa widespread battle fronts, where the results may turn out In some respects to be anything but a cause for rejoicing cr campus bonfires. These six are Georgia, Texas Aggies, Pittsburgh, Washington and Jefferson, Tennessee and New York University. The seventh, Southern California, leaves its native sector for the first time to play Notre Dame Saturday in a record smashing spectacle "in Chicago's embattled arena. Soldiers Field, where the Trojans will find the Irish primed for the biggest intersectional fray of the season.

Illinois and Minnesota, the other two major teams with records un marred by defeat, have nothing to worry about. Their campaigns have closed. Georgia, as. the only major outfit that has escaped a tie as well as defeat must turn back Alabama's crimson tide tomorrow to keep its record spotless. There is every indication that this task will be easier than the final test for the Georgia Bulldogs, who meet their old and possibly greatest southern rival.

Georgia Tech, on December 3. Although this Is a season where anything seems likely to happen, especially when old rivals mingle, it sems fairly safe to expect Washington and Jefferson and Tennessee to remain among the unbeaten. The Presidents tied only by Pittsburgh great team, battle West Virginia, which has been below its usual stand ard this season. The Tennessee team encounter Kentucky which has been handled none too gently by most of Its southern rivals. The N.

Y. U. Violets found a snowstorm no aid to blooming in Nebraska last Pall but they hope to turn the tables on the Cornhuskers at Lincoln, tomorrow. Pittsburgh's hopes of remaining In nosition to dispute Yale's claim to Eastern honors depend on beating Perm State tomorrow but they may not be easy to fulfill. Out In the wide open spaces of the suuuiwcDt, me icAaa iggies nave erected their title aspirations on ex jpectations of roping the Texas University Longhorns In another Thanksgiving Day classic but this likewise looms as a tussle that may turn either way.

These big game climaxes are helping to aoncentrate the spotlight on an American candidate. Below the Mason and Dixon Line, the experts are lilting the praises of Bin Spears, Vanderbilt quarterback, along with McGrary, Georgia full Chick A prominent southern official, "Bill" Streit, of Birmingham, puts forward the name of "Phoney" Smith Mercer star who ran throvh Georgia 93 yards for a touchdown last week, "Smith is one of the greatest basks in the South," Streit says. "He is handicapped by being on a small team, where his light is hidden under a bushel. If jie were on a nationally Known eleven, ne would De a sur; ail American." This is the annual predicament of the small college ace, usuauv sub merged in the mass of football achievement, while the big college star graDs tne Headlines. The Southwest hails Joel Hunt, of the Texas Aggies, as one of the greatest backs that section has ever pro duped.

But there is an eaually strident note sounded for Gerald Mann, quarterback of the Southern I dist Mustangs. Rags Matthews, Texas Christian end is another favorite of the Lone Star belt. From the Far West comes echoes of the stalwart achievements cf such stars as Captain Morley Drury and Jess Hibbs, giant tackles of Southern California; of Larry Bettencourt, St. Mary's center, and Fritz Coltrin, California tackle. The Middle West has Gilbert Jnd Oosterbaan of Michigan, and Hanson of Minnesota, Kascov: A of Ohio State, to mention a few of the outstanding stars; the East has its Marsters, Wittmer, Gibby Welch.

Dud Charlesworth, Bud Sprague, Claude 'Grigsby and pair of great Penn tackles. Smith and Hake. TROUT AGAIN NAMED PILOT OF SHAMOKIN SHAMOKIN, Nov. 23 (A. Irvin Trout, of Readine.

was re elected today to manage the Shamokfn i.eam or tne New York Pennsylvania ue next season, bv the directors cf the Community Athletic association. Trout was chosen in preference to Lew McCarthy, former New York Giant, and Fred. Mollowitz, formerly already opened negotiations to obtain of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Trout has players for the Indians with deals now pending with several clubs of the loop. Nearly every team in the league has made overture for a trad to obtain Dutch Scheisler, big right handed pitcher.

back; Nash and Captain Shiver. Georgia ends. Nick Altrock, buffoon extraordinary of the Washington club, aga: findr himself without a partner. It is understood Al Schacltt, who jenrs has teamed up with Nick and by their pantomime made mlllioi laugh, has been turned loose. Altrock and Schaefer made up the first and original team of baseball clowns.

Death removed "Germany" Schaefer from the picture, random was sorry. For a year Nick struggled along alone but it was a difficult task. Then along came Schacht. He Joined the Washington club as a pitcher. Clark Grifflith soon decided tha.t as a pitcher Schlacht would.be a better clown, so he became member of the team of Altrock and Schacht.

4 These two for a number of years have been an even greater hit than the old team of Altrock and Schaefer. The eleever Schacht was always thinking up some new stunt that would prove different for the fans. Their tennis burlesque on Suzanne Lenglen and Mary Brown, wi so good that it finally Irritated the French miss, due to the fact that thl pair were getting a bigger hand everywhere than thl world's greatest woman player. They were turned, looa by Cash and Carry Pyle at Lenglen's request. After the recent Tunney Dempsey fight the twi put on a slow motion stunt; showing the knockout an the long count that Tt to to a makers are to be 1 They often gave the the contending club3 were nutting on a dull exhibition wW Unless the Washington club Is up in the race nexi 7 1 Ik.

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