Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 20

Gzgers ffefc For U. III lVersity THREE GAMES Ml SPORTS SECTION RIEGELS RUNS IN WRONG DIRECTION, ENABLING TECH 5 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, WEPNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2,1929 QM v'k TO SCORE DECISIVE POINTS California Unfortunate to Lose Game; Benny Lorn Proves Hero of Annual Rose Carnival Game in South 1 By PHIL RAY PASADENA, Jan. 70-yard run in the wrong direction cost the University of California Bears the mythical na tional football championship here yesterday in the fortieth annual Tournament of Roses football game at the Rose Bowl. I Captain-elect Roy Riegels, Bear center, scooned up a fumble in the second ouarter and ran down a clear field to his one. SCHEDULED FOR PLAY California Lacking Team Work Daring JEarly Clashes CORBIN SET Difference in' Style of Plays May Be inning actor Br FRANK LOWER THElUnivergity of Kansas 1 hnsketball sauad will at rive here today to engage the University of California cage 5 yard line before Benny Lorn overtook him and informed him that he had twisted his direction.

Loin's punt was blocked on th next play and Stan Barr recovered behind his Jine for a safety and two. points that 7 I A mm 1T uj mm cr r.rmmi-Jiul,l-j'' team in a tnree-ffame series, tho coliorts of "Nibs" Price, t'p to this point In the contest, the Bears hail been playing conservative football. They punted on fourth down with a yard to They unleashed passes only on. third down. In short, they were waiting; for a break that never came.

But Georgia's touchdown touched a button In the California ma e7-MllVBMiBMBBBjMBxaBj 14 -rf -(f 1 1 i Natai4ksaWjKiMNi ft MMtaMMalR0eatf i chine and the Bears opened: Hp a passing attack than they have shown all ca- son. Kuss Avery look throw from Lorn for 22-yard A gain and Lee. Eisan narrowly missed another long one. perfectly" thrown, when he slipped. Then Hlegels blocked and recovered Mizell's punt On the) Georgia 38-yord line.

but', Georgia held and punted ont a 1 1 1 1 danger as the ouarter ended. The Bears came back drive that was not to be halted. Lorn broke through tackle again. and travelled 85 yards before, Thomason nabbed him. But the next play Eisan caught a for a second, and fumbled ti Georgia, recovering In mid-flebl As the timer's watch showed on'J, five minutes to play, Georglf again got a jreak-tnat cast gloci ,1 over the faint hops of the.

BU and Gold. Mizell kicked a hlL.K 0 0' najrwi1 dietloiana whoTMUclied the southerners' morning menu gave the mush diet their hearty olteh So much for the matter of diet. The close score of 8 to 7 In favor of the Atlantans does not tell tlie true story. Neither doee the fact that the Callfor- nlaiis scored another touchdown that looked as though It should have counted, or that The stamina, part of it, however whether diet had anything do with it or not was of outstanding Importance. During the first half the two teama played nip and tuck football, if anything the gold coasters had a slight edge.

Captainceleet Riegels' faux pas, which ho ran tne wrong way with the ball, was, one of those of over-taut nerves. Op posed to Fund. Georgia Teoh's ceninr the, Bear pivot played on otherwise topnotch by U. C. FuW.

V. S. Pat Off.h Inar tomorrow- nlrht. Games are scheduled at the Oakland Auditorium for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The visiting cagers from the middle west are annually con.

lderVd among the best and despite a bad start, nr expected to captlonally Losing four straight eonteste failed to please Coach "Phsg" Allen In the leaat and the Kansas mentor hopes to run hie lads through a good work, out aoma time today In an effort to ahaka their train lege. a tour to the nortlicrn see- tlon of the state for game with Tincoln and Auburn netted the-Bears two victories but little satisfaction from Coach Hnu. venin. iack Of teamwork is outstanding In the ilay of California against Auburn and only the work of a lata aub-atltuta woa the same. Captain Vern Corbln haa been playing exceptionally well and haa 't lent.

Me la a certain atarter at aM 'against I V. A I I ia figured to be a mainstay In the attack. Lenny Stevens la scheduied to Jf ward alorfg with X. Vha clever Ten 'iVy0- Tn11 A are among the iJ sheet forwaide on coaat aed i their team VvauiiX they will vauaa the vlnltora plenty of grief. (ireitgory anil Conk ley will.

open the (tame at guard ami -'lhatnaj pair will give KaiiMua playa plenty of troublo. Defensively, two arc good while offensively they arc also kteady playcrn. Ieroy Plumley and Hob Jlaney Will uphold the refutation of Kan-i aa' defenae by otwuVylng the guard bar-Urn. Coach Allen 1h liependlng largely on work of these two tor a Kanaaa victory, to end the string of defeats. Baxkothnll In Kuiimis la played different ihim here.

No tlmnglit. of bodily contni't orimm Into a game the east and no blocking Ih "wltnmaml In the For tlila rcawn, tlin opening Kaine may prove an interesting sitectuclo aa far aw typea of play are coiu-erneil. -if. Bound for defeat, ROY RIEGELS (with ball) is teen facing 66 a fumble. BENNY LOM, directly behind him, proved- sufficient, Jo give OeorglaT Teoh the victory, as events turnea The final score was to 7 in favor-of the Qolden.

Tornado from the south-after one. of wlerdest football games In the annals of the coast. California played for the breaks, and Tech got them. Both teams scored In sensational fashion, but the toplte that will linger longest on the lips of coast football fsna was l.Iegel's fatal run. After a first quartet devoid Of thrills, eecpl for a spark- ling 87-yard, run by Benny tom and a 32-yard run by Warner Mlaell of tieorgia, Tech took tlie ball on her own 25-yard line.

Mlzel) fumbled i as he lilt the line and TUcgels aoomnI up the ball and started down the field at 65.000 fans stood with their. mouths open. Je "ivaa toward hi Owri goal line dovtn nnob- Structed field with Benny Am In hpt 1 it might have been passed off as a huge, joke, bW as events rha-terlallzad, the two points Georgia garnered on the net play decided the Klegeli was smothered un der a southern avalanch as he atood with Lorn on the one-' yard Hue and liom was forced to punt from the. corner of the; -end. wmet too close, to llnef of scrimmage) etinir Tp'm 'Jonets, the TecH left end, 'thrextr 'himself In front of tioni's toe- and blocked the i kick.

Barr falling on the ball, i Toertaatr'oph6 naturally had a depressing effect on, the Bears and It was iitiUl second half that they fully fegalijed their equi librium. i 1 At the start of. the third quarter, the rival- eleven -'staged a fumbling contest In rapid succession. Frank Waddey, the sturdy tieorgia enrl. recovered Harold Breaken rldce's fumble of Mlzell's BO-yard nunt on the Bears 37-yara line, After ope play, Wlzell fumbled and Fltz recovered for the Bears.

One play, later, LomH kick was biookeo and Waddey recovered on the nine-ward line In a scoring posl tion for the first time during the contest. The' famed Golden Tor nado swuna 'mto action. Mizell smashed tackle for Lump- Kin drove at on, a lightning split buck for three more, forcing the oval to the three-yard line, and then crashed through for twd more over "center. With the-bfl Inside tne one-yarn une, dove into the line but came face to face, with Charlie Schmidt, the Bears' great fullback and Schmidt was coming faster. When the mass of humanity was cleared away, the ball lay on the one-yard line still, as California titans neaved a great sigh of rener.

tfut tne re lief was rapidly turned into con sternation when the Tornadoun leashed Its greatest fury and scored two plays later. Iioni's spiral punt came to rest on the 43-yard line, hut on the first play, Mizell followed an army of Interference, around left end for aw jaunt of 80 yards, placing the ball on the" IB-yard chalk mark. VStumpy" Thmnason, one of the stars of the game, cut hack through the npposllo tackle on the peit play and crossed the hue untouched by the paws of the same Bear that had been Impregnable hut a moment before. The convert ailed, but Cieoegla, had an eight-point-lead thnt looked like eighty to Bv BUD FISHER Georgia Tech 2 points. At the lower left is "FATHER" LUMPKIN.

star, dulling around the Bears' right end for a gain. At the right is a blocked kick which cost the Bears the LOM (with his back to the just kicked but MAREE, Georgia Tech player, has just hit the! ball it to the ground for a two-point P. pholos. for the California goal after recovering brought down the California captain wrong direction, Lorn attempted to kick floater which went out of bou4-( on the Bears four-yard line After another exchange punts, Iioni whipped long pnss to Captain Irv Phillip. for a gain ot 86 yards.

Phil-. lips, reached up through- the amis of. two Georgia Backfield men to snatch the ball out of the air. And pn the next play J'ssan gained 14 yards On a short pass behind the line, Carrying the hall to. the, 10-ynrd line.

two line bucks fulled, but 1oni shot a pass to Phillips in the end eone and Barr added Im extra point- tho point that would have beaten the champions ot the. south, tbut for llleeels mis-' taken sense of direction. Georgia chose to receive minute to gri, and the Bears, in desperate effort to, gain possession, of the ball, tried a shor? ene-slda. kick. Buft Georgia recovereif-tbej ball and otcupled the remalnjrtt minute of play by, vainly smashy," ing the Bear line.

As tho game turned ont. the v. f. Roy Riegels Should Not Be Blamed or Direction Loss aia. yardi directly the run in the blocked for a STRIBLING IN ANOTHER K.O.

VICTORY KANSAS CITY, Jan. 2. (iP) W. L. (Young) StriblinR, who gets his big chance in Florida next month against Jack Sharkey in a Rickard elimination contest, needed only a couple minutes last night to dispose of Jack League, Texas boxer, in the heavyweight's last, bout before the M.lnml fight.

Despite the brevity of the fight (here were three knockdowns In one of which Strthling was on the receiving end. Wtribling one of i.es.gue's right handed punches and whs down for the count of four, but returned 'to dis pose ot his opponent quickly with knockdown, followed the kmookont. The fight was said to be Strlhllng's 110th knockout Country. safety giving Yellowjacket photo of the camera) has enough to knock Bears Scored Touchdown Not Allowed by Officials By L. C.

OWEN Special Correspondent to The Oakland TRIBUNE PASADENA, Jan. 2. -Corn pone and hot biscuits proved a more enduring diet for athletics than did mush and milk in Georgia Tech's defeat of California here Tuesday. Coach Bill Alexander's Ramblln' Wrecks outlasted Coach "Nibs' Price's Golden Bears just at a time when their stamina was supppsed to wilt owing to climatic 1 1 1 4 By LAWRENCE PERRY (Speetat T-eaaed Wire to. tha Oakland TRIBUNE) V.

EW YORK, Jan. 2 RiegePs sixty-yard run toward his own eoall In the Georgia dena on New Year's Day was hy no means an unprecedented incident. Confusion as. to one's own goal may well occur in the heat- of conflict, particularly in the case of a backfield man who nay have been Jarreil 1 i elect a foot from the goal. Following from behind hit goal, but it Was Tech California eame at Pasa overliend throws brought about Cnlirornln's touchdown after a scries of plays sodirllllnnt that fitui'h of Ilio Nthig pos-Hllile was taken outNif tho dc feat the Rerkelcy Hp it.

As the writer wild vnuld he ilie c-nso, the element of psychology figured Very definitely In this game. Tech nine to CiilirornlR Inspired by lifgh resolve a nil actuated by militant and the working out of the game showed how difficult It Is to defeat a (cam thus endowed, tiilllornla hwt no prestlite at nil In this sot hack. Mm did her part, to nmke a BiTiit ethlliltlun foolhnll gn mc thrilling and all football lov. era, uot swayiil by partisan emotion, will airreo that the amc ns easily as not could have gone the oilier way. a.

teams were evenly Both elevens mndo 173 yards for scrimmage, but California totaled 117 by her aerial game)' to 23 for the southerners; tJntll the time of Riegels' Bliins der, the play had been' consist tently in tho territory of theVjV'. 7, southerners, but the blow of thnt mishap weighed heavily upon the Bears shoulders and they-'dld not regain their com- posure until the fourth qnur- ,1 ter. Benny lorn was the Individ- iml star of the game, lie gained. 21 yards from mago ana tnrew all or Call. fomla's completed liasses.

His performance was rivaled. hlW-, on ft pcaylous play. Rut never has u'cVX thing happened In a same of the Importance of that battle. In the Rose ftowl. Cienera! sympathy will out to lllegela.

Following the contest the radio it would seem-that the game went to the eleven which was the better prepared to tnUo advantage of breaks. Oenricla, Tech, for that matter, did some Tumbling and committed other mtsplaya, but without coKlly resulls California showed a rolling attack merit, mm no doubt surprised bol.li licr oppoocnls mill licr frk'iulN by it. Rut nlien nil Is III and done. It, ns the Itear' splendid parsing Kaiiie. wlileli inailn them daiiBcrouK as Avas the case ail scaym and in the nd, tin A 1 change, water and dletlc practices.

Ever alnce the Georgia Yellow Jackets hit southern California, their morning food- has been subject o.f gastronomic, arguments. The A41antans brought their own Negro cook along that Coach Alex-ttnder'a men might have their morning portion of hot biscuits and corn pone According to this Imported chef, the corn dodger was "wobbled In bacon frylngs to make It more succulent and strengthening. Health' experts out her decried It as being more dyspeptio than energy building. Meanwhile the Berkeley warriors breakfasted daily on uiush and succulent cream. That- became known, when the chef In the big Pasadena hotel 'where the Qolden Bears were quartered spilled a huge pot of It over his pedal extremities.

the (Copyright, 1928, Trade Marfc, Jteg. to In California will have a heavy line up of fast player, Ktevens be-55V- InfT the only llpht nieniber of the tVgiiHrd, The are cxneeted lu have tnore sinoolhnesa in their atark than the Bears. A "'Aeilna' Coach "llap" Him- reitin -will handle the ltciiri ii mil f'oneh "Nibs" 1'rlee re- turni from I'iimhIciiii EzLst Bay Soccerites Will Meet Tonight i' The Eat Ray 8oceer league will Jiold ll regular meeilng this even-j at HpaldiuR's. Thw date for the a reply of the at)ie between the i Kangera and be) eat. It i probable that a new -president will be named to the- place ot 'i e.

H. Grant, who hh been unable to attend the meeting. ever, by the work" of who totalled H8 yards for 'tlie nfternoou, Ragged football marred game and both teams were In only i fair condition. Three fumble apiece was charged up againat thrrt teams and almost eat)- of them I were factors in the outcome of the game. -it.

was a sad, tired Price-who sat In his room "7 after the game. The conserv. atlve, careful style of football Si that carried the colors of, Californlt through their most successful season in four fnlled yesterday la the futnre Golden ARenrs -will discard caution earlier In fhe game. i' for hesitation helped bring dls. MUTT AND JEFF-5S11 1m Big Game i coulun't.

Al TMa, money nrr i i walk AwoTHefa I I im THt u.c WmVl 1 PT'M 1 FEET. DO I S0MfeDli 60f AMMUMlTIOM'Sl AU. 60Nj Oct no GAME I'M could DROP IN fAV TRAChrs: asier yesieraay. ft fvMNUTe; Vv- IMCH. KID, (--S A 1 ft 0 Wildcat Carter Wins Over Johnny Lamar PORTfjAND, Ian.

WV-tV'ildcat Carter, tlii; cbnriy from Everett, niae (short work of Johnny Laniar of Hollywood here yesterilay afternoor fieferca Grumanjstopping the fiplit and awarding; a technic al knockout defcikion to Carter in the between the fourth and it h' rdunas. Boxer Placed i Under Arrest as Opponent Dies ST tfKITED r-EESS J.EAEEO WIBC.T0 1B1BUNE CHAUj, Colo. Jan. "Wild Bill" Markf, liglitKeight boxer of Crai(j; was under trnini-ral srret here today pehding a coronet's inqurst into tlie death of Dirk' Williami of Meeker, vlio died' an hour and a half after "Markd bid knocked him out in a bout here lart night. The inquest held Riegels Wires His Parents He Wa? Befuddled TJ0Y RIEGELS tli yesterday's garni at Pasadena wireo nu parents iit mornini that be wa befoddtv when he made bis famous nm in the wrens direction.

He declared he had been injured about the head JoM nrior to starling off with the ball," The Riegels family home is at 950.1 Olive street, Oakland. Roy may I sve lost his sense ef direction at Pasadena but one direction he will never home," said RiegeU this morping. "We. are proud of Mr hey even if he did make a take. Anybedy is liable1 te do that" -4 A.