The White Falcon - 21.11.1942, Blaðsíða 7

‘Peejay' Doesn't
Lose A Bet!
By Gene Graff
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It’s time to warn naive, unsuspecting doggies
who wager on football games that they had
better seal their purses and turn a deaf ear
to the intriguing propositions of a gent named
“Peejay.” He’s a likeable fellow, albeit com-
parable to a Damon Runyon character, and
never has manipulated a shady transaction. No,
“Peejay” is tpo shrewd for that. He merely
collects information, frequently owning more
gridiron literature, than a woman has racing
sheets on her first visit to a dog track, and
he knows all the answers, even so far as to
what his favorite halfback ate for breakfast
yesterday.
“Peejay” comes by his trade honestly because
he, once was a football hqro, himself. When
just a wee mite of a 200-pounder, our “No. 1
tinhorn” attracted national attention as an end
on his high school eleven, and later spent three
years—and wore out eight pairs of trousers—
sliding up and down the bench as a seldom-
played substitute on his nationally famous col-
legiate team.
“Peejay” is a clever workman and seldom
shows his hand prematurely. When the cur-
rent football season began, he touted this team
and that team, but always asked plenty of ques-
tions to Impress pre-chosen victims with his
lack of gridiron knowledge. Meanwhile, he spent
evenings studying collegiate rosters and past
performances, and stored up enough data to
puzzle even a “Quiz Kid.”
To folks at home, that may not seem start-
ling because it was common gossip in every
sports page. But news is scarce at this far-
flung garrison, and “Peejay” was days ahead
of his buddies. However, get the facts he did,
and probably could have out-handicapped the
infallible grid pool-card promoters. Funny thing
about “Peejay,” he never knows that Georgia
Tech, Boston College, Georgia, Notre Dame,
Wisconsin and a few others are chuck full of
talented players, but he always can produce
evidence of “great power” among the hapless
opponents of his secret champions.
Only last week, "Peejay” was caught on three
different occasions weeping about Boston Col-
lege’s ill-fortune of bumping up against “that
powerhouse from Fordham.” He wanted to
make a wager on Boston College, and agreed
it was an even-money proposition—if the Ford-
ham backer gave him six or seven points as
a handicap. And, of course, “poor, undefeated
Georgia Tech didn’t have a chance against the
Crimson Tide of Alabama.”
He might have been forgiven for those “swind-
les,” but when he cornered a U. of Illinois
alumnus and waltzed off with a juicy wager
on Ohio State—plus seven points handicap—
he joined the Otto Kruegers, Yellow Kids and
Jesse James in duping the public. Just for the
record,* B.C. humiliated Fordham, 56 to 6; Ala-
bama crumbled before the Rambling Wreck, 7
to 0, and Ohio State staggered the Illini, 44
to 20. So “Peejay” is now independently weal-
thy, and ready to begin again with this after-
noon’s schedule.
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Minnesota Blocks
Badgers’ Title Path
Shorn of their eoach, a winning streak that embraced three seasons, and a chance to retain their
role as perennial master of the conference, Minnesota’s Golden Gophers still hold a key vote in the
Big 10 football shambles of 1942.
The Gophers, already hav- ~ ~
ing been shackled by Illi-
nois and Indiana, today
threaten Wisconsin’s claim to at
least a share of the champion-
ship spoils. The Badgers, erased
from the unbeaten picture by a
surprising Iowa eleven, play
host to Minnesota this after-
noon and can clinch a tie by
winning. Today’s game is Wis-
consin’s season finale.
Another front-runner is de-
stined to topple among the also-
rans today when Michigan and
Ohio State, deadlocked with the
Badgers in first place, match
touchdowns. Ohio’s lone con-
ference setback was inflicted by
Wisconsin, while the Wolverines
faltered against Minnesota, 16
to 14.
The Buckeyes
schedule today,
still must face
However, the
formances of
conclude their
but Michigan
streaky Iowa,
scintillating per-
Bob Wiese and
Tommy Kuzma last Saturday
when the Wolves battered Notre
Dame, 32 to 20, indicate that
Fritz Crisler’s Michigan gridders
have reached their peak, .and
they’re a slight favorite to repel
the Buckeyes.
The deflated Irish of Notre
Dame tackle another disappoint-
ing team today when they enter-
tain Northwestern in the middle-
west’s annual No. 1 affay:. The
Irish were sailing along remark-
ably well until they crashed into
Michigan, while Northwestern’s
Wallace “Pun-
chy” King, In-
fantry guard,
appears to be
tossing a block
at the shirtless
gob here, but
he’s merely halt-
ing his foe in a
recent basketball
game between
Army and Navy
intramural quin-
tets on the Sail-
ors’ court. Army
cagers will be
invited to the
Navy gym when-
ever there is
available time.
Wildcats have failed bo uncork
any of their heralded pre-season
vitality, except in shading a for-
midable Texas eleven, 3 to 0.
The nation’s trio of unbeaten
leaders—Georgia, Georgia Tech
and Boston College—have little
to fear this afternoon. The Eag-
les, who stunned a well regard-
ed Fordham squad, 56 to 6, last
week, shouldn’t miss another
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Football Scores
SHORT SHOTS
If the Chicago Bears of 1942 aren’t the great-
est assemblage of gridiron stalwarts ever to
don uniforms, war or no war, the Green Bay
Packers would like to know who tops them.
The Packers, a fair-to-middlin’ eleven in their
own right with such stars as Cecil Isbel and
Don Hutson, have been set back on their heels
only twice during the current season—and both
times the Bears -turned the trick. The latest
humiliation was effected last Sunday when the
EAST.
Boston College 56, Fordham 6.
Colgate 14, Syracuse 0.
Amherst 12, Williams 6.
Army 19, VPI 7.
CCNY 7, Brooklyn 7.
Connecticut, 16, Coast Guard 0.
Cornell 21, Dartmouth 19.
Georgetown 28, N. Carolina St. 20.
Harvard 7, Brown 0.
Holy Cross 13, Temple 0.
Lakehurst Naval 14, Lafayette 0.
Manhattan Beach 14, Springfield
13.
Navy 13, Columbia 9.
New Hampshire 18, Northeast-
ern 0.
N. Carolina Naval 17, Manhat-
tan 0.
Penn State 13, Pennsylvania 7.
Pittsburgh 6, Nebraska 0.
Tufts 7, Mass. State 0.
Vermont 18, Middlebury 7.
Wesleyan 8, Trinity 0.
Yale 13, Princeton 6.
Delaware 45, W. Maryland 0.
SOUTH.
Georgia Tech 7, Alabama 0.
Georgia 40, Chattanooga 0.
Auburn 25, Louisiana State 7.
Furman 6, S. Carolina 0.
Jacksonville Naval 24, Clemson 6.
Maryland 27, Virginia 12.
Miss. State 28, Duquesne 6.
N. Carolina 13, Duke 13.
Tennessee 14, Mississippi 0.
W. Virginia 7, Kentucky 0.
Wm. & Mary 20, VMI 6.
MIPWEST.
Michigan 32, Notre Dame 20.
Indiana 54, Kansas State 0.
Iowa State 20, Kansas 13.
Michigan St. 19, Purdue 6.
Minnesota 27, Iowa 7.
Ohio State 44, Illinois 20.
Wisconsin 20, Northwestern 19.
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Oklahoma 6, Missouri 6.
SOUTHWEST.
Rice 0, Texas A. & M. O.
Texas Christian 13, Texas 7.
S.M.U. 14, Arkansas 6.
Texas College 52, P.C. Smith 12.
FAR WEST.
Stanford 49, Oregon State 13.
Southern California 40, Oregon 0.
San Diego Naval 14, College of
Pacific 0.
W. Texas St. 13, N. Mexieo 7.
Washington 0, California Naval 0.
Denver 13, Utah State 13.
Colorado 48, Brigham Young 0.
Bruins spanked their bitter foes, 38 to 7, for
Victory No. 8, and maintained the league’s only
unbeaten slate.
Tomorrow Sid Luckman and his formidable
supporting cast confronts hapless Detroit, still
seeking its first triumph. The Lions were vic-
timized for the ninth successive time last week,
bowing to the Cleveland Rams, 28 to 7. The
Rams are idle tomorrow. Green Bay, holding
a slim mathematical chance to overtake the
Bears, visits the New.York G*al,ts this week.
The Washington Redskins, quaking at the idea
of meeting the Jfears again (they still remember
that 73-0 score of two years ago!), are firmly
entrenched as leader of the Eastern division.
The Redskins shaded the Giants last week, 14
to 7, as Sammy Baugh hit his target twice with
touchdown passes. The Capitol .City gridders
entertain also-ran Brooklyn tomorrow.
In the only other league game last week,
the cellar-dwelling Philadelphia Eagles sur-
prised Brooklyn, 14 to 7.
HERE *N’ THERE: An Associated Press poll
of sports writers reveals that Whlrlaway, and
not Alsab, 1s the horse of the ydar ... Alsah,
runner-up for the .honor,'.beat Whirly' twite. .
this year ... Philadelphia Jack O’Brien, 64, ex-
lightheavyweight champion of the world, died
this week ... O’Brien knocked out Bob Fitz-
simmons in 1905, and won about 220 bouts.