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Pag 6 NEWS-PILOT SAN PEDRO CALIFORNI A TUESDAY EVENING JAN 3 1939 Doyle Nave Wins Letter With Touchdown Pitch O'Brien Leads Perfect Throws Net Trojan Win GOSS-IP by DOYLE NAVE RIVALS TOP HURLERS Old Grover Cleveland Hamilton gawkily striding to the hill in the memorable world series of 1926 after Jess Haines star Cardinal pitcher was injured made a more dramatic entrance than did Young Doyle Nave at the Rose Bowl yesterday but the result was almost identical Alexander tossed three pitches to retire Tony Lazzeri in the seventh frame which paved the way for the Card HOT BAP roe a re oust" eoes WMLE MS' AiOUAlT ooes ire tAMP woetc Zbpt All Rigtu TCU to Win Gaels Roll to 20' 1 3 Win Over Texas Tech NEW ORLEANS I Little Davey the all-America mite of a quarterback has proven to the satisfaction of the football world that he is one of the greatest passers of all time Leading the Horned Frogs of Texas Christian to a 15 to 7 triumph over Carnegie Tech yesterday in the fifth Sugar Bowl game the 152-pound aerial artist threw a total of 28 passes completing 17 of them for 225 yards Not one of his tosses was inter- cepted The Christians gained a total of 367 yards to 188 for Tech and made 17 first downs to 10 for the Skibos The first period was scoreless but in the next quarter started from its 48 and on passes and nice runs by Johnny Hall and Connie Sparks worked to the one-yard line and Sparks drove over for the score missed the kick from placement A few minutes later Muha gathered in 50-yard pass to tie the score placement was good for the extra point and the half ended with Tech leading 7-6 The Texans threatened often in the third finally starting from the 20 to march for a touchdown Again placement try for the extra point failed His toe was more accurate in the fourth however as he booted a field goal from the 10 for three points COTTON BOWL DALLAS (JP) Powerhouse St Mary's a bunch of lads who could model In any iron foundry rolled back to California today with a Cotton Bowl triumph over Texas Tech and reverence for the pass-flinging tactics of the southwest St won the football game all right 20-13 but it had its doubts along with 40000 fans in the final 10 minutes when the Plainsmen opened up with a sky raid Out in front 20-0 with 11 minutes to go St gave up two touchdowns and shuddered through the possibility of a third before the Techs finally were beaten "Those sighed Slip Madigan of the Gaels was a pleasure to play those boys have a hell of a game out at San Francisco next ORANGE BOWL MIAMI Fla The University of Tennessee football team 17 to 0 victor over Oklahoma in Orange Bowl game here relaxed today and received praise as a team that made no mistakes Many of the 32181 persons who saw the unbeaten and untied Volunteers crush the Big Six champion that had won 14 consecutive games spoke of the speed power and judgment that made the triumph possible Outweighed 12 pounds to the man In the line the Volunteers completely throttled land maneuvers and gave way only slightly late in the game to the Sooners aerial bombs ALLEN UNDERGOES KNIFE CLEVELAND Johnny Allen pitcher for the Cleveland Indians had a small piece of chipped bone removed from his right elbow today The twirler reported by the hospital as resting comfortably said he expected to start conditioning his arm within six weeks Fine selection of new Fall top coats as low as $1750 Browning-Baker Tailor 214 6th St Adv JOE GOSS Don Budge Vines Clash Tonight NEW YORK This is the night that Donald Budge comes of tennis age and learns that there is a powerful lot of difference between amateurs he has been slapping around for the last two years and Ellsworth Vines who for four seasons has ruled the professionals Budge and Vines meet in Madison Square Garden before what threatens to be a capacity audience of 17-000 spectators and it should be a blistering match with Vines the probable winner for a variety of reasons The most important is that Ellsworth when is just about the greatest tennis player who ever lived For Budge the match Inaugurates a professional career that will pay him a flat $75000 for his first winter on the boards Vines whose racquet has made his financially independent at 27 stands to put away another $30000 before summer as he and Budge play one-night stands across the land Don Lash Wins Sullivan Award NEW YORK Don Lash pace-maker for America's distance runners for three years has won the Sullivan Memorial award The University of Indiana alumnus polled 459 points to win the annual award to the amateur athlete adjudged to have contributed the most to the advancement of the cause of sportsmanship Second place went to Mrs Katherine Rawls Thompson the versatile swimming star from Fort Lauderdale Fla with 371 points Joe Burk the Penn A sculler who climaxed a sensational year by winning the diamond sculls had 317 points for third Porter's Mite to Run Saturday LOS ANGELES (P) Mite winner of the rich Belmont futurity today headed a list of 21 nominees for the $10000 Santa Maria stakes at Santa Anita park Saturday It will be a six-furlong dash for 3-year-olds Alfred Vanderbilt named four Atavistic Hysterical Impound and Outdone Louis Mayer entered Flying Bonny and Sweet Patrice TROY CAGERS WIN EVANSTON IU The touring University of Southern California basketball team had little trouble giving the Northwestern quintet a 47 to 32 drubbing here last night Ralph Vaughn Southern Cal forward took high point honors with 19 One of the earliest printed picture books is the by John Amos Comenius issued in 1657 inal triumph and gave that team the championship Nave required four flings yesterday but connected with the final one for a touchdown which gave UJ3C a Victory in the Rose Bowl classic of the gridiron Per haps Mr Sammy Baugh said to be THE pitcher in professional foot' ball ranks and Mr Davey who does a fair sort of hurling on his own can try to think up a time when they had four chances to pass in one season and connected with all four PATTERSON SHINE While Doyle Nave was earning national recognition as well as his USC letter tossed 28 passes for TCTJ connecting with 17 for two touchdowns and then added a field goal for good measure Billy Patterson who Baylor to a one-sided triumph over Loyola as well as several other opponents during the season tossed two touchdown passes in the Shrine game at San Francisco to give the West team a 14 to 0 victory over the East Maybe these boys got in the wrong league after all pitching is supposed to be a baseball art MAY HAVE PRO TEAM While plans are still a bit hazy It is reliably reported that San Pedro will get a taste of pro football next season Word that the Longshoremen team would like a crack at stronger opposition than afforded in the Municipal league has been passed and tentative arrangements made to enter the pro league would include teams of the calibre of the Hollywood Stars Fresno Crushers and Salinas Packers Sports field was under consideration as a local site but according to reports would have to be made over for grid contests Regardless of the league affiliation the Dockmen will have a powerful squad next year and a much larger appropriation from the ILWCT local BANNING HEADED FOR TITLE Although Marine League basket-' ball players along with other students returned to school today league action has been postponed until Jan 10 San Pedro faces the second place El Segundo Oilers in the top game of the day with Banning leaders in the chase opposing Narbonne Gardena and Torrance tangle in the other tiff With four straight wins Banning appears almost sure-thing champions Should the Pilots nab the league crown it will be the second such championship Coach Mark Sampson's outfit has won in two years Last year Banning won the Facifie league crown despite the fact the squad was given little chance of winning a single game Sampson took over the team last BRUINS WIN ANOTHER HONOLULU Scoring their second victory over an island team in a week the University of California at Los Angeles Bruins smothered the University of Hawaii 32 to 7 in a football game played before 18000 shirt-sleeved fans yesterday The Bruins defeated the Honolulu town team 46 to 0 a week ago COACH HOWARD JONES UNMARRED RECORD for Coach Howard Jones in Rose Bowl conflicts was continued at Pasadena yesterday as Doyle Nave bench warming pass thrower was rushed into the game in the final two minutes of play to the Trojans to a 7 to 3 triumph over Duke Nave had been kept on the bench throughout the past two seasons Although lacking enough playing time to earn it Nave will be awarded a letter by the Trojan athletic board TEXAS struck yesterday in the final half of the Sngar Bowl game as 152-pound Davey pass throwing wizard paced Coach Leo (Dutch) Texas Christian Homed Frogs to a 15 to 7 win over Carnegie Tech The smile of victory seems very becoming to Coach Meyer Marked Men SCRANTON Mayor Fred Huester hopes to make Scranton the city in through reckless drivers by painting circles on the rear of their cars A first offense against traffic laws would rate a yellow ring a second offense red and a third blue The circles will stay on 30 If the city legal department decides the punishment is lawful The mayor reasoned a marked car would get a wide berth No Longer Needed HUNTINGTON Several days before Christmas 150 colored electric light bultas were taken from trees on the lawn of the Hopp-stetter home Yesterday Mrs Hopp-stetter found a bag on a rear porch containing 27 bulbs and this note: am sorry I took your Christmas bulbs Here is all I MS WFE TRAVEL rtSOM reAcc 70 7evirT Wffl Patterson Leads West to Victory SAN FRANCISCO (P) A heavy western team with an impregnable forward wall and an effective pass ing attack gave its all-star eastern opponent a 14 to 0 drubbing in the 14th annual Shrine charity football game here yesterday Tire western outfit tossed passes all over the field Two of them one in the second quarter and another in the fourth were good for scores The others were so close they kept the 60000 fans who jammed Kezar stadium in a continual dither Both scoring plays were manipu lated by Bill Patterson of Baylor university and Jim Coughlan of Santa Clara Patterson did the pitching and Coughlin the catching The first touchdown in the second quarter came after Patterson toss' ed one nearly half the distance of the field to Coughlan who went over In the fourth quarter Patterson heaved one from the 25-yard line to Coughlan for the final touchdown On the previous play Patterson had galloped 30 yards with tlie ball after taking a lateral from A1 Braga of the University of San Francisco The two lads who were expected to be the stars of the Marshall Goldberg of Pittsburgh on the East team and Vic Bottari of the University of California on the West also played Main Man Wins New Year's Stake LOS ANGELES Louis Mayer film producer who spent thousands last year to build up one of finest racing stables clipped a dividend payment today on one of his Main Man which breezed to an easy victory yesterday in the $10000 added New handicap at Santa Anita Fourth Stringer Saves Day and Record By Paul Zimmerman PASADENA Calif (TP) The shadows had all but swallowed the Rose Bowl For 59 minutes a great Duke football team had kept its goal line uncrossed as it had done all season Southern California was on th qf verge of its first defeat in four Rose games 1 Then out of the shadows raced a slender youth Doyle Nave who enough playing time in two seasons with Troy to win his letter Nave was-comjng in and the score 3 to 0 against him From the 40-yard line Doyle rifled the ball to A1 Krueger glue-fingered end The ball reached the 26 To A1 he fired another and the ball was on the 18 Once more he threw and the big farm boy from Lancaster Calif who developed strong hands milking cows caught the ball for no gain TOUCHDOWN PASS Nave faded far back to the 33 Trojan blockers knocked down the Duke rushers Doyle stood there and waited Suddenly Krueger broke to the left over the goal line He was alone among 91000 witnesses Doyle fired the balL At took it and the game was won 7 to 3 with Phil Gaspar booting the conversion Duke vainly tried to come back in the dying seconds but the die was cast and soon that record Rose Bowl crowd swept on the field carrying 177-pound Nave off on its shoulders the goal posts into match sticks The crowd already was moving out when the touchdown came For Troy had muffed a scoring chance a few minutes before when Bob Spangler of Duke fumbled a towering kick on his 9-yard line and Gas-par recovered Then trouble broke loose for Coach Howard men Eric Tipton whose great punting pulled the Blue Devils out of many a hole fired a high arching pass to George McAfee and the ball was on Troy's 24 RUFFA BOOTS ONE Roger Robertson and Tipton punched their way to the 16 Tony Ruffa a third-string guard stepped back to 24 and booted a perfect field-goal from there Silk feminine variety-waved in the Duke stands and Rebel yells rent the air As the fourth period slipped away Duke's three points loomed ever larger Troy with the great Lansdell and his helpers could not muster a scoring drive even from the 9-yard line Then Nave came dashing in Out went great record of no defeats no ties and no points scored against them TROJANS BEST Statistically Troy earned the victory Southern California made 13 first downs to 8 gained 135 yards to 86 on running plays and 84 to 53 on passes The great Tip-ton saved for Duke the kicking honors 'with a 405-yard average against 33 for the parade of Trojan quarterbacks Lansdell Mickey Anderson and Oliver Day reserve strength was too much" said Coach Wade Coach Jones choked up as the alumni some of whom sought his scalp last fall swarmed in to wring his hand and slap his back got to hand it to Doyle and he said Doyle said you had to hand it to Al and Al passed the palm right back to Doyle One certain Southern athletic board is going to give Nave his letter although he hasn't played enough minutes to it AMONG HIS SOUVENIRS of that 15-round bout with Tommy Farr Lou Neva (above) the California heavyweight cherished two fine which cut into his enjoyment of this dance at a New York night club The model Peggy Badey was one of a party helping Nova celebrate victory over Welsh Tommy Farr celebration was limited to milk-drinking Rewnrte bj Tint Aaxllt4 Prw Fort Cagers Open Schedule Tonight Six Fort MacArthur basketball teams square off at the Admiral Leigh gymnasium tonight starting at 6:30 in the inaugural series of a 45-game schedule Battery defending champions in the race meets Battery in the feature game with Headquarters 63rd tangling with Battery A and Headquarters 3rd facing the Detachment five Games will be played each Tuesday and Friday evenings throughout the next two months with each team facing each other aggregation three times in the schedule Lieut Kauffman post athletic officer will award the winning team the post basketball trophy SUN BOWL EL PASO Tex Razzle-dazzle and dipsy-doo are all right in their place but 13500 Sun Bowl spectators were convinced today that football is still a game of the old-fashioned fundamentals With little more than the time-tested technique of and sock the University of Utah Utes blasted the gridiron circus of New Mexico university's Lobos 26 to 0 here yesterday The vaunted attack of Ted Ship-key's New Mexicans collapsed like a pricked balloon before the demonstration of hard line charge timely tackles and well-placed blocks California produces more lettuce than all other states combined Desert land In Southern California once considered useless now is the basis of a thriving date Few Changes Seen for Grid Rules COLORADO SPRINGS Colo (V) As Lou Little president of the American Football Coaches association sees it the game of football in 1939 will look about the same as in 1938 The keg-chested Columbia coach said today he thought the national rules committee in session at the Broadmoor hotel do much in revising the grid code than the coaches did at Chicago last week In advocating changes All of the recommendations were of minor importance designed mainly to take some of the severity off penalties imposed in cases of forward passes hitting ineligible players and violations during kicking plays Fall Almost Cost Trojan's Victory PASADENA Calif A fall In the Rose Bowl shower room nearly robbed Doyle Nave of the chance to be a football hero fourth-string quarterback wearing cleats after a workout last Saturday slipped and hit his head on the concrete floor Several stitches had to be taken to get him ready to warm the bench for 59 minutes of game with Duke And he was wearing a big bandage on his forehead when he hurled a touchdown pass Nave nicknamed "The because he has been on the bench so long In two seasons with Southern California's varsity-played about 53 minutes during the 1938 schedule For a letter he needed 175 minutes but Coach Howard Jones said played enough to win anything he wants from SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FINDS GOING TOUGH Bill Sangster (27) University of Southern California fullback is shown being brought down by Tackle Frank Ribar (50) and End Bill Bailey (47) of Duke after a two-yard gain in their Rose Bowl game yesterday before 90000 spectators At left is Quarterback Granville Lansdell (78) of Southern California Southern California won 7 to 3 TCU BEATS CARNEGIE TECH IN SUGAR BOWL Little Davey who steered Texas Christian to a 15 to 7 win over Carnegie Tech threw a lot of passes which were completed in the Sugar Bowl classic at New Orleans but this was one which didn't work It was intended for Durwood Horner (white jersey) TCU end but two Carnegie Tech players messed it up.