The White Falcon - 16.10.1943, Blaðsíða 6

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Pappy Waldorf
Sings Lament
By Gene Graff
Lynn (Pappy) Waldorf,
Northwestern U. pigskin
professor, isn’t one to fret
about reversals. He’s had
his ups and downs during
an illustrious career as
Wildcat grid pilot and his teams
always have been a formidable
threat in Big Ten circles.
But Pappy is unhappy these
days. In fact, he sits in a dark
corner each day and laments his
plight to anybody who will lis-
ten. Husky guards are seen
everywhere with the Dean of
Men, or whomever it is that
passes judgement on enrolling
youngsters, because Pappy has
larceny in his heart when the
gent’s name is mentioned.
*
Pappy, so the story goes, was
elated this spring when he real-
ized his football squad would be
loaded with stars from other
campuses, shifted to Northwest-
ern under provisions of the
Navy’s V-12 training program.
Pappy, himself, had lost a few
veterans to the Navy, but the
ledger showed a favorable ba-
lance of talent for Northwestern.
Unfortunately, Pappy failed to
reckon with the possibility that
more academic members of the
faculty might look a gift horse
in the mouth, shrug their shoul-
ders, and proceed about their
business as usual.-
A couple of months ago, the
Navy sent a wire to Northwest-
ern, informing the school that
a V-12 trainee assigned to Min-
nesota U. was in a school that
didn’t offer the course he was
required to take, and “would
you take him?” Northwestern’s
hasty reply was, “Sorry, no
room.” So Navy officials tried
again at Michigan and the Wol-
verines wired back, “Send him
on. We’ll make room if we don’t
have it.”
The student nobody wanted
was Bill Daley, Minnesota’s ver-
satile all-American halfback.
*
Just missing a player of Daley’s
caliber would have been enough
to send Pappy for the crying to-
wel. But the story doesn’t end
so abruptly. The ex-Gopher turn-
ed in a sparkling one-man-gang
exhibition as the Wolves bowled
over Great Lakes Naval, 2G—0, in
their opener—and personally
scored two touchdowns and set
the stage for another a week
later when Michigan spanked
Pappy’s ’Cats, 21-7.
“That boy (Daley) ruined my
club last year when he played
for Minnesota,” Pappy wailed,
“and now he’s done the same
thing again wearing a different
uniform. They (Uncle Sam’s
Navy) can’t do that to me.” But
they did and that’s why Pappy
is out of sorts.
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SHORT SHOTS: Bill Kelly, in
the Buffalo Courier-Express, has
football tabbed for this season
as the 4-F sport: fast, furious,
fearless and flat-footed... .The
boom is on again to move the
defunct Cleveland Rams football
franchise of the National (Pro)
League to Los Angeles. .. .Walt
Masterson, former Washington
pitcher writing from his station
in the South Pacific, says that
Jap prisoners are hot on base-
ball but play it about the way
they do everything else. In a
close game recently, a Jap run-
ner tried to cut down the short-
stop on Walt’s team. Next time
up, Walt bopped the Jap with
a “beanball”, accidentally, of
course.
Yanks Win World Series
Navy Lt. Joseph Hunt (forecourt) reaches out for a forehand
smash at the net as he defeats Jack Kramer of the U.S. Coast
Guard, 6-3, 6-8, 10-8, 6-0, in finals of the U.S. national tennis
singles tourney.
Wolves To Meet Redskins
In Touch-Football Finals
The Engineer Wolves and In-
fantry Redskins, having passed
and run their way through a
60-team field without defeat, will
match touchdowns tomorrow at
1400 hours, barring interference
from the weatherman, for the
IBC touch-football diadem.
The finalists qualified for
tomorrow’s championship affair
by chalking up close victories in
Thursday’s semi-finals. The Wol-
ves blanked the Ordnance Raid-
ers, 7-0, while the Redskins shad-
ed the Signal Badgers, 6-0, in a
fiercely contested doubleheader.
Both teams scored their game-
winning touchdowns in the first
half, then turned back numerous
scoring bids by the losers. How-
ever, the Wolves’ margin of vic-
tory is no indication of their su-
periority over the Raiders be-
cause they muffed several scor-
ing opportunities after pushing
across the clincher.
Pfc. Hal Nerino sparked the
Wolves to victory. After inter-
cepting a pass deep in his own
teriitory, Nerino scampered 80
yards for a touchdown. Then he
passed to T/5 Frank Marken for
the extra point. T/Sgt. Johnny
Baker, Wolves captain, led the
victors’ air-tight defense.
The Redskins’ touchdown play
was just as spectacular. Shortly
before the half-time intermis-
sion, Sgt. Jim Hennessy, captain,
stepped back and hit his target
with a 35-yard pass to Pfc. Bill
Cheney, who sprinted the re-
maining distance to the goal line.
Hennessy’s aerial try for the con-
version went awry, but the six
points proved enough to win.
Bolingbroke Wins
Belmont Feature
Townsend Martins’ Bolingbroke
outfooted Fairy Manhurst and
Vagrancy to win the getaway-
day feature at New York’s Bel-
mont Park racetrack. Pukka Gin,
7-1, took the Agnes Stakes, de-
feating Pressure and Pensive, the
odds-on favorite.
Officials Wanted
With the basketball season
approaching, Base Special Ser-
vice is launching a search
for competent whistle-tooters,
scorers and timekeepers to of-
ficiate the games. Men inter-
ested in working the games
should contact Base SSO
through their unit SSO — aft-
er they’ve cleared with their
CO’s to insure availability
whenever needed. Only ex-
perienced men will be consid-
ered.
IBC Biffers
Trade Blows
n Navy Ring
(Last night’s results on Page 1).
GI battlers returned to leather-
pitching last night in the Navy
ring, giving boxing fans in Ice-
land their second look-see at as-
pirants to IBC championships.
Seven promising bouts were list-
ed on the docket by Base Special
Service, the sponsoring agency.
A middleweight punching party
between Glen Wilkins, 159, of
Terre Haute, Ind., and Nick Sullo,
155, of Boston, was expected to
produce the most action. Wilk-
ins, who packs lethal power in
his right arm, punched out a de-
cisive victory over Ed Podazaski
of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in the last
card, while Sullo was equally as
impressive in shading fast-step-
ping Ralph Cedas of Stockton,
Calif.
The secondary feature pits Milt
Scott against Jack Driscoll in a
lightweight tiff. This is a return
engagement, brought about by
popular demand as the result of
Scott’s photo-finish victory over
Driscoll two weeks ago, and Dris-
coll’s handlers believe their man
is primed to reverse the decision
this time.
Fred Shockley and Alfonso Dic-
hara, a couple of husky punchers
who participated in last year’s
tourney, were scheduled to square
off in the light-heavyweight at-
traction. Shockley demonstrated
his ability to absorb punishment
and come back pitching leather,
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Bertelli’s Passes Upset Michigan, 35-12;
Navy Shades Duke, 14-13; Army, USC Win
While the “haves”, Army, Navy
and Notre Dame, continue to set
a merry pace for the nation’s
collegiate football teams, the
“have-nots” are plugging along
as well as they can with inex-
perienced youngsters manning
key positions, an unhappy situa-
tion created by Uncle Sam’s drain
on last year’s stalwarts.
The Service elevens protected
their unblemished slates last Sat-
urday, although Navy barely edg-
ed a Duke squad loaded with
Navy V-12 talent, 14-13. Army
romped over Temple’s tender
Owls, 51-0, and Notre Dame
smashed a mighty Michigan band
of Naval trainees, 35-12.
None of the three powerhouses
has much to fear this afternoon.
Army tackles a weak Columbia
eleven; Navy confronts Penn
Slate, and Notre Dame faces Wis-
consin, whose veterans of last
season’s formidable squad are
wearing the Navy blue and play-
ing on the Michigan team.
Duke tries to get back on the
winning side of the ledger today,
meeting North Carolina, while
Washington bumps into an un-
tried Oregon State team.
Duke moved to an early lead
over the Middies when a Navy
kick was blocked in the first
quarter. But Navy opened up a
dazzling aerial assault, with little
Hal Hamberg’s passes setting up
a pair of touchdowns. Duke ral-
lied with two minutes to go, push-
ing across its second score, but
Bob Gannt’s placement sailed
wide of the uprights.
Today’s Games
Army vs. Columbia.
Navy vs. Penn State.
Iowa vs. Indiana.
Minnesota vs. Camp Grant.
Iowa Pre-Flight vs. Missouri.
Great Lakes vs. Northwestern.
Notre Dame vs. Wisconsin.
Ohio State vs. Purdue.
Washington vs. Oregon State.
■DSC. vs. San Francisco.
N. Carolina vs. Duke.
LSU. vs. Memphis Naval.
Southern Methodist vs. Rice.
Texas Christian vs. Texas A & M.
Army, operating with three
powerful squads, scored in every
period to bewilder Temple, one
of the nation’s more notorious
“have-nots” this year. Halfback
Glenn Davis led Army’s march
with one touchdown and passed
for two others. The Mules had
three more touchdowns nullified
by penalties.
Notre Dame established itself
as the country’s No. 1 team by
humiliating the highly regarded
Wolverines. With Creighton Mil-
ler running and Angelo Bertelli
passing, the Irish encountered
surprisingly mild opposition
from the Wolves. Bill Daley, ex-
Minnesota star, staged a terrific
one-man show for Michigan as
he scored one touchdown and
set up the second, but his sup-
porting cast was thoroughly
smothered by Notre Dame’s hard-
charging line.
The West Coast power clubs,
Southern California and Wash-
ington, trounced Service teams.
USC tripped St. Mary’s Pre-
Flight, 13-0, while Washington
ran over Spokane Air Base, 47-12.
A.L. Champs
Clip Cards
In 5 Games
The myth that Marse Joe
McCarthy’s slugging New
York Yankees were helpless
against southpaw pitching was
exploded with a vengeance this
week as the B: onx Bombers grab-
bed off their sixth world title
in eight years and the team’s
tenth since 1900 by smashing the
National League St. Louis Car-
dinals in four out of five World
Series games.
The Yanks won the opener in
New York, 4-2, then bowed to
Righthander Mort Cooper, 4-3,
before winning the Gotham fin-
ale, 6-2. The Bombers clinched
their victory by scores of 2-1 and
2-0 when the series was resum-
ed in St. Louis.
Scapegoats were rare but her-
oes were abundant. Of course,
Whitey Kurowski, Cardinal
third baseman, might be con-
demned for his failure to hold
a throw while tagging Outfielder
Johnny Lindell in the Yanks’ big
five-run eighth inning that re-
sulted in St. Louis’ 6-2 setback.
Or Max Lanier’s untimely wild
pitch could be blamed for loss
of the inaugural game.
But rather than point the fing-
er at “goats,” praise should be
handed to the Yankee “old guard”
— Bill Dickey, Frank Crosetti
and Joe Gordon — for reversing
the ’42 result. These three, plus
Tuck Stainback and freshman
Bill Johnson, supported baseball’s
most capable pitching with spec-
tacular fielding and booming
bats.
Gordon, fully recovering from
his unhappy misfortunes in last
year’s series, set three new re-
cords this time, his acceptance
of 43 chances without an error,
his 20 putouts and 23 assists each
being a new mark. He also tied
a record when he made eight
assists in the first game.
The Yanks, capitalizing on
three games in spacious Yankee
Stadium instead of the peace-
time two,carried off the most luc-
rative winners’ share in baseball
history. Each New Yorker voted
a full share .received $6,405, while
the Cardinal individual swag was
$4,337. Radio rights were not in-
cluded in the players’ pool this
year, going instead to charity.
Marius Russo, McCarthy’s sur-
prise choice in the fourth game
Sunday as the scene shifted to
Missouri, pitched and batted the
Yanks to their 2-1 triumph over
the Cardinals. Russo, former sore
arm southpaw, won only five
games while losing ten this year,
but he was unbeatable Sunday,
handcuffing the Cards with sev-
en hits and one unearned run.
The Bombers rapped out only
six hits from the offerings of
Lanier and" Harry Breclieen, but
two of them were doubles by
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paign. This new fieldhouse, how-
ever, will be the first building
of its kind strictly for Army per-
sonnel in Iceland.
“We’ll start with basketball
and boxing,” Maj. Lee F. Gils-
trap, Base Special Service offic-
er, explained, “because apparent-
ly they have the widest appeal
among the soldiers stationed
here. But we will expand the
program at any time enthusiasm
warrants it.”