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Stanford Scares Cal at a later date The deal strengthens the Sojj a PAGE 1 NOVEMBER 23 1947 inal Big Week Clears Picture or Bowl Games Vernon Stephens i Jack Kramer the win (MO) mar and Outfielder over to the Browns According to reliable authorities there were only two football play 4 i 21 18 Win Thrills 85000 Spectators OOTBALL SCORES Big Nine Officially Invites Michigan To Rose Bowl After Un needed Balloting Washoe county golf course re ceipts for October were $2280 as compared to $1864 for the same month of the preceding record breaking year' igures compiled by Ellen Eat her' county statistician show income for the first 15 days in i i i ST LOUIS Nov 22 The St Louis Browns whose player deals in the past week have aroused protests from other American League clubs tonight announced they had swapped their regular second baseman John Berardi no to the Washington Senators for an in fielder and an undisclosed sum of cash Berardino was the seventh member of the 1947 squad to be traded in five days or him the Browns got Washington in fielder Jerry Priddy plus cash Johnny Longden Rides 6 Victors In Single Day CHICAGO Nov 22 (UR) The Big champion football team Michigan will be invited officially to participate in the Rose Bowl early next week iV aculty representatives of the western conference were expected to vote tonight and tomorrow select the conference representa tive to face the best of the Pacific I 80 Yard Aerial Play Overtakes Lead Erps for Angels LbS 'ANGELES Nov 22 UR) The Los Angeles Angels today ac quired third baseman Bob Erps from Omaha of the Class A West ern League The new infielder who hit 302 for Omaha will get a crack at the position handled last season by de coast league in the Jan 1 classic but there was no doubt that Michi gan would win the nomination The Wolverines won the league championship last week by de feating Wisconsin Kenneth Wilson com missioner of the western confer ence early last week requested faculty representatives of the Nine league members to: send him their ballots Vat the end of the He specified that he would like to have' their rankings by tomor row at the latest An official Big Nine announcement' on the team chosen to represent the confers ence was expected Monday or Tuesday Each faculty representative was asked to rate three Big Nine teams in order of preference for the Rose Bowl' taking into consideration the standing in games won and lost conduct1 on the field and academic standing None of the Big Nine schools has made any preparation to go to the Rose Bowl although Michi gan this week held a qjeeting of athletic officials to consider pos sible arrangements It was pre sumed that after announcement of the conference nominee prac tice would be suspended for two weeks Golf Income By HAL WOOD United Press Sports Writer PALO ALTO Calif Nov 22(UR) A last ditch pass play that went for 80 yards and a touchdown brought the highly favored Univer sity of California from the brink of defeat today and gave them a spine tingling 21 18 victory over an underdog Stanford eleven that fought its heart out in search of its first victory of the year Jensen to Keckley Trailing 18 to 14 with only three minutes of play remaining Cali fullback Jackie Jensen Aivn 1fl onH tin I Beats Bruins 6 0 Cinches Rose Bowl Bid Gray Intercepts in End Zone As Bruins Drive to 4 In inal Moments of Classic LOS ANGELES Nov 22 University of Southern Califor head football coach Jeff Cra vath today said his team was the luckiest in the country and squad the unluckiest in losing to the Trojans by a score of 6 to 0 were just awfully lucky to win said Cravath who had the highest praise for Coach Bert Bruins looked like we played bet ter against California but of course Bert pulled some new de fense strategy on us I think there were any standouts on my team They all played Bruins Rough and Tough Cravath described the UCLA team as rough and awful tough and a team that wanted to The Trojan coach disclosed thit he sent Jim Powers in the game with instructions to throw the pass that proved to be ning play Labrucherie said the Trojans were the toughest team his boys have played all season even over the Southern Methodist squad take Southern Metho said: the saddened Labruch erie team played their best game of the He Lauds Powers Labrucherie singled out Powers as the outstanding Southern Cali fornia back The dressing room scene was a quiet pne after the game The UCLA players were cheerful but obviously disappointed They said they had vowed to win and failed On the other side of the dress ing room the victorious Trojans were just as quiet making it a point to congratulate their coach and he shook the hands of each of inis men before they went to the showers 4 Hendren Breaks Jaw Tackle Bob Hendren will not be i a likely prospect to play against Notre Dame or in the Rose Bowl Cravath disclosed Hendren suf fered multiple fractures of the jaw in game Leahy Saw It Notre Dame Coach rank Leahy who flew out here to scout South ern California for their game with the Irish here December 6 said: the best team seen all year The Trojan line is superb and we will have to go all out to Report hannegan May Buy Cards But Breadon Mum ST LOUIS Nov 22 Own er Sam Breadon of the St Louis Cardinals today declined comment on a report that a syndicate with Postmaster General Robert Hanhegan as chief interest1 was seeking to purchase the club The Star Times reported that it has learned that the deal is near ing completion and would be' an nounced Tuesday It quoted liable that Breadon met with agents of the syndicate last night to complete arrangements r1 Horn Scores 109 th As Pepperdine Wins 'LOS ANGELES Nov 22 UB ullback Darwin Horn scored three touchdowns as he sparked the undefeated Pepperdine Waves to a 46 0 football victory over Cal ifornia Institute of Technology to nights Horn ran his season scor ing total to 109 only three short of the record Browns Would Have rouble Making irst Division in Minors With Present Squad But Yields Big Game In Closing Minutes! We're Lucky Says Cravath After Battle tion were dictated by an urgent need for quick cash and defended the policy of selling players to meet debts as business Glance Is Enough A quick glance at the list of players left or added to the St Louis roster was enough to show the sub major league caliber of the squad The 15 outfielders infielders and catchers have an anemic col lective batting average which in minor league performances of 237 and the pitching staff on the same basis has an over all1 mark of 79 wins and 89 defeats The only pitchers over the 500 mark were Clem Dreisewerd Al Gerheauser and Glen Moulder Dreisewerd a lefty who make the grade with the Red Sox won 18 and lost 7 for Louisville of the American Association Ger heauser picked up in the draft is another lefty who won 15 and lost 12 with Montreal in the Interna tional league Moulder was with the Browns as a little used relief man winning 4 and losing 2 He Blames Repairs In tne Star Times story Muck erman said that the $300000 check the Browns received from the Red Sox in the deal that saw pitcher Jack' Kramer and shortstop Vem Stephens go to Boston was suffi cient to put the club back in the blue ink He blamed the fi nancial deficit on the fact that re pairs on Sportsmans Park St Louis and the erection of a park at San Antonio Tex had far ex ceeded estimates The Brownie head denied that the wholesale disposal of big name players? indicated he was going to sell out sticking with the he said we all hope oont up with a winning ball club" Indiana Retains Old Oaken Bucket SAN MATEO Calif Nov 22 (UR) Jockey Johnny Longden try ing for national championship rid ing honors booted home six win ners here today putting him one behind Steve Brooks the leading reinsman Longden topped his sensational day with a superb ride aboard Burning Dream victor in the $10 000 San rancisco County handi cap winners were SS Sa lute in the $530 $4 $350 Sage Counsel in the third $760 $460 $330 Jiggs in the fifth $390 $270 $250 sixth Nantook it $10 $490 $280 Burning Dream in the seventh $870 $440 $320 and in the final Eugene $910 $470 $370 On his only other mount Ar cady in the fourth ne ran third Alabama Accepts Sugar Bowl Bid By JOHN GRIIN United Press Sports Writer NEW' YORK Nov 22 Activities ori the final big Saturday of the football season did much today to clarify the situation as Southern California clinched an invitation to the Rose Bowl and Alabama accepted a bid to the Sugar Bowl Southern Trojans won over their Los Angeles neighbor UCLA by the narrow score of 6 to 0 in a game that left 102050 fans in the Coliseum limp from excite ment The margin of victory proved to be the second period touchdown scored on a 32 yard pass from Quar terback Jim Powers to Halfback Jack Kirby Alabama had a field day against Louisiana State 41 to 12 with Harry Gilmer leading the fun and immediately thereafter the Crimson Tide accepted a bid to appear in the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans Gilmer ran 92 yards for a touchdown the first time he got his hands on the ball and just kept rolling after that The Tide's bowl opponent will not be announced until next week The na leading undefeated and untied teams Notre Dame Michigan Penn State and Southern kept their records spotless Penn Perfect Season Penn State completed its first perfect season since 1912 by thrashing Pittsburgh 29 to 0 Rugged ground power was the key to the Nittany ninth win of the year as the famed forward wall threw back the Panthers with 23 yards lost rushing Southern Methodist had a surprisingly close call in beating Bay lor 10 to 0 on a muddy field The victory which was paced by Doak Walker assured the Mustangs of at least a tie for the Southwest Conference championship Notre Dame with Coach rank Leahy absent to scout Southern Cal for their clash two weeks hence bowled over Tulane 59 to 6 The Irish started with five touchdowns in the first period and then coasted Michigan completed its season with its ninth win of the year 13th in a row by downing Ohio State 21 to 0 The Wolverines of thus became the first unbeaten untied Michigan team in 15 years In other leading games around the country: In the East: Yale had too many guns for its traditional rival Harvard 31 to 21 Gene Rossides passed to two touchdowns to lead Columbia to a 28 to 8 victory over Syracuse with Ventan Yablonski scoring the other two touchdowns Big Three champion Princeton downed Dartmouth 14 to West Virginia came back from four straight defeats to thump Temple 21 to 0 Boston College did not have to go all out to stop St 25 to 7 In the South: Charlie Justice scored two touchdowns and passed to another as North Carolina crushed Duke 21 To 0 Bobby Gage topped that performance by passing to four touchdowns and running 59 yards for another to lead Clemson to a 34 to 18 win Georgia Tech mauled urman 514b 0 passes helpedTennessee upset Kentucky 13 to 6 In the Midwest: Northwestern climbed out of the Big Nine cellar by upsetting last champion Illinois 28 to 13 Minnesota downed Wisconsin 21 to 0 returning two intercepted passes for touchdowns Indiana won the Oaken' in another upset when they de feated Purdue 16 to 14 In the Big Six: Kansas downed Missouri 20 to 14 to virtually assure itself of a bowl bid and Oklahoma earned a tie with Kansas for the conference championship when they downed Nebraska 14 to 13 on two conversions by Dave Wallace In the Southwest: Rice found its vaunted offense stopped on a slippery field and had to take advantage of a fumble to set up a touch down that beat Texas Christian 7 to 0 In the ar West: California a heavy favorite needed an 80 yard pass play for a touchdown with three minutes to play the pass going from Jakie Jensen to Paul Keckley to beat Stanford 18 to 14 Wash ington defeated Washington State 20 to 0 NEW ORLEANS Nov 22 (UR) Crimson Tide today accepted an invitation to repre sent the Southeastern Conference in the Sugar Bowl game here Jan 1 immediately after overhauling Louisiana State 41 to 12 at Tus caloosa Sam Corenswet president of the bowl sponsoring Mid winter Sports Assn said Alamaba's opponent in the annual football classic would be announced next Saturday There was no hint of what team would be picked as op ponent but the Sugar Bowl peo ple however were known to look with a great deal of favor toward the University of Texas whose Longhorns have lost only to SMU and that by one point SMU if it defeats TCU next week will be committted to the Cotton Bowl at Dallas where Southwest Confer ence champions are pledged to play University Rif le Shoot Draws 60 More than 60 interested persons participated in last tur key shoot held at the University of Nevada indoor rifle range high scoring marksmen wpn turkeys the high scores (in order) being chalked up by the fol lowing: Lee Darrah Tom Ma cauley Cliff Webb Ed Stauts Stearns and Clovis Bull Stearns scored high for both fifth and sixth places and was awarded two tur keys The University Rifle Club which sponsored the shoot is planning another turkey shoot the weekend before Christmas: Interested per sons are invited to compete at that time By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK Nov 22 (UP) Most veteran baseball writers agreed today that the 9t Louis Browns as now consti tuted after trading away six of their big name players would have a tough time making the first division in one of the top minor leagues (much less in the American League) In their search for play ers who do not have a defeatist complex and for hard cash ths Brownies have reduced themselves to a team which does not include a single first baseman or a single player who Kit over 300 in the majors or minors last season and which places its main pitching re liance on two major league cast offs whose 1947 records of over 500 were recorded in the minors In a copyrighted story in the St Louis Star Times owner Richard Muckerman admitted that the sales which led to this condi i I trades in baseball the Boston Red Sox have acquired Vernon Stephens star 1 1 5 shortstop and Jack Kramer one of the leading pitchers from the St Louis Browns in exchange for sevea players and a cash sum reported tabe around $300000 The Red Sox gave up In fielder Eddie Pellagrini and Catcher Roy Partee from their own club Pitchers Jim Wilson and Al Wid t'ere iayaen irom rne uouisvnie team Two other Red Sox hirelings will be turned international I faded back to nis own iu ana un corked a cross field pass to Paul in midfield The fleet halfback raced the rest of the way unmolested to send Stanford down to their ninth straight defeat of the The 85000 fans looking on in the huge Stanford bowl saw coach Marrhip Indians 1 to 10 underdogs put on one of the greatest comeback exhibitions in the long history of the annual Big Game for the The powerful Bears who once looked Rose Bowl wards were outplayed half the game The Stanford club which has not won a victory since the against California last year took a moral victory to their dressing room It was ninth win in 10 starts this year under new coach Lynn (Pappy) Waldorf Looks Like In Until that prayer pass that came as night closed in on the bowl the Stanford boys appeared to have the same tucked away They had come from behind and with the score 14 to 12 against them rallied midway in the last period for a 66 yard touchdown march climaxed hen quarterback Don Campbell tossed a pass to Bob Anderson in the end zone As the Stanford fans hysteri cally antipipated the biggest upset in the history of the series that dates back to 1892 the gambling instincts of the Bears paid off California had nothing to lose and plunged on that desperate cross field pass which had it been in tercepted would have meant an other sure touchdown for the In dians Completed it told the story Conversions Decide But the accurate toe of Califor nia guard Jim Cullom a blocked Stanford conversion and two missed trys by the Indians also told the tale of defeat California 25 point favorites started out as though they in tended "to make it a walk away On the seventh play of the game halfback Ted Kenfield cut over tackle then reversed his field and sped 30 yards for a touchdown af ter three minutes of play Cullom converted the first of his three points that were the margin of victory Bell to Erickson The Indians came raging back in the second quarter witih a 65 yard march featuring the passes of Ainslie Bell with the pay off 12 yarder to quarterback Wayne Erickson in the end zone George Quist then missed the first of three costly conversion tries California made it 14 to 6 at the halt with a score in the clos ing 30 seconds of play on George plunge from the one An Indian threat in the third quarter was squelched when Cali fornia intercepted a pass in the end zone But Stanford came pounding down on a 36 yard march that was climaxed when Erickson went around end for five yards to make It 12 to 14 The Bear advantage then held until that 64 yard drive put Stan ford in front for the first time midway in the final a lead that held until the game saving surprise pass of California WITH STANORD CALI PALO ALTO Calif Nov 22 The statistics of the Stanford California game: irst downs Net yards rushing Net yards passing orwards attempted orwards completed orward intercepted Number of punts Average distance of pun umbles Ball lost on fumbles Number of penalties Yards penalized Promoter Pails Agree on Terms CHICAGO Nov 22 Pro moter Jack Harris said today he had to terms over the tele with Dinny Pails Austra lian amateur tennis champion and expected to sign him to a contract soon Harris said Pails had agreed to play for a $20000 minimum guar antee or a percentage of the gross er fatalities during the 1946 col BY UNITED PRESS EAST Yale 31 Harvard 21 Laayette 7 Lehigh 0 Wagner 27 Hartwick 8 Boston 20 Colgate 14 Penn State 29 Pittsburgh 0 Boston College 25 St Calif 7 Princeton 14 Dartmouth 12 Holy Cross 48 ordham 0 Muhlenberg 39 Bucknell Columbia 28 Syracuse 8 Hofstra 16 Kings Point 7' Juniata 20 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SAN DIEGO Nov 22 UR Presidents Bill Starr of the San Diego Padres today announced that he had signed the first Negro baseball player in the history ofthe Pacific Coast League Starr said he had signed John Richey' 23 year old former San Diego State college player who last year led the Negro American League in hitt inz while nlayinz for Cbtoeo Giant batted parting Johnny Ostrowski BLOOMINGTON Ind Nov 22 (UR) Hoosier with golden toed Rex Grossman the hero scored two quick touch downs and a field goal and then staved off a last period despera tion attack by favored Purdue to day for a 16 to 14 victory Tfye win which came after a scoreless first half was the second in the Big Nine It meant Indiana kept the old oaken bucket emblematic of the intra state rivalry between the san Diego state 32 Brigham Young 7 two state foes The game was the 1 46 CaEiornta Tech for teams AatoQio CoUegB By ALEXANDER KAHN United Press Sports Writer LOS ANGELES Nov 22 (UP)r University of Southern California today won the Pacific Coast Confer ence championship and the right to represent the west in the Rose Bowl by edging out a fighting UCLA eleven 6 to 0 in the wildest football climax seen in years in the Los Angeles Coliseum The finish of the game found 102050 fans shriek ing hysterically as the Bruins drove to the Southern Cali fornia four yard line then had their fourth down pass intercepted in the end zone by Halfback Gordon Gray The victory left the Trojans the only undefeated conference team on the Pacific coast arid the vote to choose the western Rose Bowl representative Monday will be' a mere formality The Trojans made their lone touchdown early in the second period by capitalizing on the known Bruin weakness against flat passes A 32 yard flip from Quarterback Jim Powers to Halfback Jack Kirby in the end zone gave them the only score of the game And for the next 40 minutes of play a desperate UCLA team that had vowed it would win this game to make its season a successful one smashed at the strong Trejan line only to be turned back time after time 4 But the greatest drive the Bruins put on was the fourth period march down to the four yard line Equally true was the fact that there Southern Cali fornia put on its greatest goal line stand of the season In that march the Bruins went from Southern 48 where the drive started (to the shadows of the goal before being stopped In the desperate drive ullback Jerry Shipkey ripped the Trojan line to shreds until the Bruins needed only two yards for a first down and foyr for A touch down There USG held On ourth Down And on the fourth down play Halfback Ernie Johnson took a short lateral' ran back to find passing room and heaved jnto the end zone where Gray made his in terception and thus ended the drive The bitter battle was mainly a contest between the two most powerful' lines in the west The forward wall was bul warked at tackle by John errara and at end by Paul Cldarj whila the Bruin line featured chiefly the work of Center Don Paul and End Tom ears Powers to Kirby 1 Trojan Quarterback Jim Pow ers a substitute for first string signal caller George Murphy was the inspiration for the Trojan team as well as throwing the scoring pass and the man who caught that also was a substitute who has been only limited playing time this season although one of the fastest runners on the squad Bruins showed their power first in th opening period when they backed up two first downs but the Southern California line halted an attempt at a sustained drive and the teams began ex changing kicks Verl Lillywhite got off a 60 yard kick that set the Bruins back on their 20 but a few minutes later Cal Rossi did the same get ting off a 63 yard quick one that sent the Trojans reeling back to their six In Second Period Only score in the game came early in the second period South ern California got the ball on its 32 after a weak UCLA kick from the five It was then that Powers threw to Kirby The Trojans had capitalized just before the score on weakness in guarding against flat passes Murphy made three quick first downs on flatties to Gordon Gray and Kirby got to the Bruin 19 but lost the ball on downs uu The third quarter opened a Trojan drive that carried them from their 35 to the UCLA 32 where the Bruins forced them kick over the end zone UCLA immediately generated its own drive for two first downs but was kick The Trojans couldn gain and they also kicked making it another scoreless neriod SPTS WI TH SO CAL UCLA 03 ANGELES Nov (UP) Zstatl? garnet the Southern CaliforAta uCLA irst downs Net yards rushing Net yards passing orwards attempted orwards completed orwards Intercepted Number of punts Av distance of punts umbles Ball lost on fumbles Number of penalties Yards penalized rom line of scrlmm JOMfUCl jporn coiror risf 1 I UM 9 A sS 9 a I I aht a ay 3 i 1 fl i Stanford Calif17 '9 193 153 151 166 28 17 10 a 6 7 356 40 4 1 1 3 4 35 30 So Cal UCLA 13 9 86 98 117 Kk 25 20 Tl Ji 3 2 7 8 378 22 0 2 0 6 6 30 84 OOTBALL SCORES 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