Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California • Page 9

SPORTS OPEN TONIGHT AND EVE FY NIGHT 'TIL CHRISTMAS Marin's Winless Wonders' Battle Cal Blues Tonight INDEPEN0ENT.JOURNAL, Pet. 16, 1949 9 Movar LET GEORGE DO ST By Alan Pre-Christmas Season Satisfies Give Kentucky 11 Edge Over Broncs Tough University Quint Favored To Give Tan 7th Lois By HARRY VTt OK.KNVt OtM at the few tun left In the aettre slate with a perfect rseerd, the College Marln Tari with no win and six luun. out tonlfht ver In Kentfleld against the Cal SUIT EVENT Stray Hotel Key COLUMBUS. O. Ohio State university student took a cruise with Task Fores 81 as part of the navel ROTC program last Sails Worth Dp lo 65.00 On returning to his ship from leave in France, Fred Kirby discovered that he stUl had the large key to his room at the Louvre Ho 5 tel In Paris.

There was no return address tec on the key, so he kept it. The other day, as evidence that 50 he had created an international In cident, hti commanding officer showed the dumbfounded Klrby the correspoiidiince regarding the key which he had received: letters from 54 the comroandaner of Task Force fettent ef the yoong The Blues hold Impressive wlna ever Santa Rosa J.C., Ban Mateo and the Menlo JO. Oaks. The Tan heva played both Ban Mateo end Menlo, bm. the best they could do an 83-76 overtime loss to the Mataana and i thrilling 87-4 Ion to tha Oaks from Metilo Part.

Coach "Red" Diamond o( the var-Ity Improved Tan (rem Kentfleld dldnt say so, but a tether dlsap. pointed look appeared on his face after the defeat to Menlo. Compared to thu two losses to the Alumni and the Stanford Braves, the Mariners are the rrwvt Improved ball club north of Pas.adcna. Diamond said yesterday after he pat hh charges through a two-how workimt. that "the Udi get off to a rather weak start Wednesday night but if that second half la any criterion or what we can expect, we otej win Mere than we'll lose.

Davie seems to have helped the dob oat, and when Res McD0uf.1l comen hack Into shape we mar start to go place. (MoDowel Kroke hit hand the day after the Alomnl came and wtU be back In shape to play next Monday when the doctor take off hla cast.) "Of course we have improved 60 ever our first game agnlnsi the Alumni, and If we continue on the tm straight path, wo will give a good account of ourselves come this Modesto tournament neat month. We drew City College of toe Angela in our first game and as of yet ws know absolutely nothing About the southerners. Should we win our first game we then tangle with the seeded host team from SANTA CLARA VP) Ken- tecky is presently a three point favorite over Santa Clara for tha Orange Bowl football game at Miami, Jan. Mike Welds, statistician-publicity man for Santa.

Clara, thinks the Kentucklans siwuld be even stronger favorites. Welds camr up with a set of figures to prove his point. Kentucky played 11 and Santa Clara 10 games this lauit season. In total offense, Kentucky had a yard gaining jvverage of 309.9 yards per game compared to Santa Clara's 2B9.9. The hard hitting Kentucky team scored an average of 37.7 points per contest.

Banta Clara's average was 20.1. Kentucky therefore averaged over one touchdown a game more than Its forthtoming opponent. Some of the other figures favoring Kentucky were: Total first downs Kentucky 151 (10 rushing, 13 passing-, front penalties): Santa Clara 12s 198 rushing, 2S passing, 2 penalties). Total rushing Kentucky, 357B (lost 405, net 21731; Santa Clara, 232 (t 332, net 3002). Passes attempted Kentucky 177 (completed 94, had intercepted, 14) Santa Clara, 152 (completed 59, intercepted Hi, The only department In which Santa Clara had an appreciable advantage was in punting, with total Cf 3677 yards and average of 43.7 against Kentucky total of 333S and average of 33.6.

Santa Clara crack left halfback Hall Haynes, who did most of the punting for his team, finished third in the country with an average of 44.07. 01, the commandant of the Naval Academy nt Annapolis, and the United States ambassador to France. Klrby sent the key back. ICVjXy MIKAi eCOftED YfCi. C-faMi ovmtt out I 41 rE TttIRD OF MS TeAM' Menlo Vs.

Son Diego In GoM Dust Bowl VALLFJO MV-MerJo and San Diesro Junior Colleges meet tonight in the annual Dust Bowl football game. Menlo after dropping ite northern AVRA0O GAME eeAotf To coNTitwe AS PRO mutton ti Mln runum Sttthtn Smart new suits, alf of them 100 wool and quality tailored, offered at a pre-Chrietmos price way below ther class. Gabardines, sharkskins, unfinished vorstedt. Pattern selection Includes plaids, stripes, checks, diagonals, hart club checks, hob nail finishes and herringbones. Sins 35 to 44 in shorts, regular and longs.

9frdsmt California conference league opener to San Francisco City College, went on to win 'em all. San Diego lost two games to powerhousr Compton, 33-7, and East FUTILITY BOWL Los Angeles, 27-20. Bids Sent To Losingest Teams; No Ducat Worries NolUag Dowi Charge to Yftur Account or Budget tha Payment No Luck At AH LEWIBTON, Me. (U. Shortly before doctors planned to remove the cast from a leg broken a month before in an automobile accident, Luclen Boulay was struck by an- nual classic that's never been played, la a bowl that never was built, hard by Death Valley Scotty's other car.

Result of the second ac cident: several broken ribs. castle. "And, also as usual, there wont be any spectators- We've never 1st Annual Sale of LOB ANOEXES (U.R) Football statistician Deke Houlgate mailed out bids today to the Futility Bowl, the only New Year's football game that's never had to fight off a ticket-hungry fan In all Its three years. For the fourth annual Death Valley game between the "losingest' teams In the country, Houlgate norotoated Brigham Young University of Prnvo, Utah, (wen a. lost 11, tied 0) ud Rhode island (State of Klngtten, R.I.

(won Houlgate said he almost had a Of the three southern division teams that the Tars have met up to, data, San Francisco City College and San Mateo look to be the best of a strong lot. Menlo Is fair but tha lack of rebounding height should make them easy victims for O.O.S.P. and Ban Mateo. Should this boy Bob YardJey, Stanford's George Yard-ley' brother, come along with hit backboard work the Oaks might put en three-way dog fight for the southern title. Tonight, Diamond probably will go with the same team that open-ad up against Menlo: A) Murray and Johnny Mayers at the forward positions; Galo Brlckson at center; and Brick Inalna and Elton Davis At tha guard positions.

"name" school for a competitor thu time. Colgate, Columbia, Harvard Holy Cross, Indiana, Mlsslcslpl Hanger Misses Charities So Blue 'N Gold Loses OAKLAND flJR) The Stewart's Chevrolet basketball team of the Western Amateur League defeated the Oakland Blue and Gold 00-69 last night on a last minute free throw by guard Cliff Crandall. QrandaU come close to being the goat of the game as he fouled Chuck Hanger as the gun went off endlntr the affair. However, Hanger, given two free shots, missed State, Texas A. M.

and Utah CHRISTMAS TREES U.S.A. Troop 4 805 St. San Rafael Btate all were in the running. HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER MARX FOURTH STREET SP To Operate 38 Extra Trains For Rote Bowl SAN FRANCISCO (JJV-AtteiitlOh Rose Bowl goers. Tennis Racket 1 Cent The Southern Pacific said it will operate 38 special and extra section trains between here and Los Angeles from December 33 to January 4 for the January 2 football classic LOS ANQELES Charles Hage, IS, wanted a tennis racket.

Ha had come some 80 miles from Fonts.ua, to bid' for one ai M. Y. Baseball Writers Honor Casey Stengel TOW YORK (ffy-Miuiager Casey Stengel, who drove the New York Yankee to a world eerie victory tha past season, will be honored for in Pasadena and holiday passengers the semi-annual sheriff's auction of Houlgate said he had only one regretone of the outstanding candidates for the fourth annual futility automatically eliminated Itself by winning tough 7-to-9 victory over Montclalr to end a 44-game losing streak, "That was Trenton Btate of New Jersey," he said. "Think of It, A winless string like that, and still not futile enough," Houlgate announced some changes la regulations fee this year's meeting, but he denied that thay were Inspired by the threats of the NCAA "purity kods kids to put me out of bnwloees." "For yard-markers, well use king rattlers that can bs sti-etched to 10 yards. Between plays they'll be chained to a Joshua tree.

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"One cent," yelled Charles. der James M. Richardson levied a tJO-or-30-days fine on a piano tuner who said he drank shellac said the auctioneer. "Next item." thinner to "tune up his nerves." ball at tha annual dinner of the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association Fsb. 3.

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