The White Falcon - 27.11.1943, Blaðsíða 6

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Infantry
Wins IBC
Grid Race
The temperamental Icelandic
weatherman and a veteran squad
of Infantry huskies banded to-
gether this week to hand the
Blue Devils undisputed posses-
sion of the IBC football crown
without reaching the wire.
With the Infantrymen having
already stopped everybody in
the league except the luckless,
winless Quartermaster Bulldogs,
yesterday’s three-game card was
scratched from the docket, and
next Wednesday’s' final round
also has been redlined. None of
the seven entrants objected, how-
IBC Grid Standings
FINAL STANDINGS
W. L. T. Pts. O.P.
Glima ‘Grew Up’ With Iceland
Blue Devils ... 5 0 0 90 2
Eagles 4 1 0 36 19
Packers 2 2 0 55 10
Redskins 1 ^2 1 12 25
Bears 1 2 1 19 64
Giants 0 3 1 6 52
Bulldogs 0 3 1 0 46
The sport of glima — Iceland-
ic wrestling — was introduced I
to the American soldiers here
last week, and judging by the ap-
plause theGI’s gave out with when
the Icelandic champs left the ring
after their exhibition matches,
the soldiers found it mighty int-
eresting.
But the sad part of the whole
thing was, they also found it
confusing.
A private from Tennessee who
sat eight rows back at the dedi-
cation bouts in the Andrews Me-
morial fieldhouse Saturday night
summed up the reaction of the
Yanks very well at the conclusion
of the matches. Said the private:
“It sure looks like fun, but I
reckon it would take me another
thousand years to figure what it’s
all about.”
A scientific sport which de-
pends chiefly on strength and bal-
ance, glima is as different from
American wrestling as Tony Gal-
ento is from Joe Louis. The con-
testants face each other and at
a sign from the referee grasp
each other by a belt which ex-
other off their feet.
When one of the “glima-ists”
ever, because the ground is more succeeds in lifting his opponent
suitable for ice skating this week, off the floor and heaves him to
In their parade to the title, the boards so that he lands on
the Blue Devils found the path his back or on his side, it is
comparatively soft. Football was a fall.
a new venture for the other
clubs, but the Infantry gridders
have been playing as a unit for
two years and their experience
was a definite factor in the race.
A radiogram has been sent to
ETO, requesting possible dates
for the Iceland champions to
compete against Britain’s AEF
champions in London.
The Blue Devils encountered
surprisingly sitff opposition from
the Redskins Monday. Numerous
Infantry scoring threats were
foiled by the capable quick-kick-
ing of Halfback Jack Frazier and
yeoman defensive work by Bill
Miller, tackle, and Bill Cornnell,
center, but the Devils won, 12-0.
Held scoreless in the first quart-
er, the Blue Devils shoved across
their first touchdown in the sec-
ond period when Jack Hurley
found an opening through tackle
on a reverse to scamper the last
three yards. The other touch-
down was registered in the clos-
ing minutes when End Leo Carr
snared a 20-yard pass from Steve
Kaplan and stepped across the
final stripe.
Pete Mattis, one of the league’s
outstanding backs, went on a one-
If a contestant lands on his
hand, knees or elbows, it merely
means that the men resume their
standup stance again. That is
where balance comes in. Learn-
ing how to fall is an art that
all glima champs must master.
Glima is a round-by-round af-
fair in the sense that if no fall
is scored in two minutes the
whistle is blown and the men
return to their corners for a
breather. However, each bout is
to a finish, and if there are no
falls in the first two minutes the
men go back to tugging, tossing
and tripping each other until
there is a fall.
An Icelander with a sense of
humor this week said that the
belt “was introduced to save the
wear and tear of pants.” In the
olden days the competitors grasp-
ed each other in the same man-
ner, but there was no strap at
the outside of the thighs, and
Somebody’s up to no
good! This action shot
at the Andrews Memo-
rial fieldhouse caught
Agust Kristjansson Ice-
land’s most scientific
wrestler, throwing
Kristmundur Sigurds-
son, 1942 champ of Ice-
land, to the canvas.
a pair of pants was usually good
for no more than one bout.
Although the sport has never
been tested in America, Iceland
did send glima champs abroad.
In 1908 and 1912 the leading
glima stars gave exhibitions at
the Olympic Games.
A good share of the best glima
men in Iceland are wearing pol-
ice uniforms, and a look at most
Icelandic cops should serve to
prove the point that glima is one
of the best body-building sports
in the world today.
Army-Navy Grid Classic Highlights
Season’s Final Collegiate Slate Today
What might well have been
the battle for national suprem-
acy — if Coach Frank Leahy’s
destructive Notre Dame gridders
hadn’t gonh on a scuttling spree
— will be nothing more than
a traditional pageant between
two colorful elevens this after-
noon when the Cadets of West
Point entertain the Navy.
Championship thoughts cov-
eted by Army and Navy went
up in smoke on successive Sat-
urdays!, the Irish playing the
man-gang spree as he sparked villain’s role in both cases. Notre
his Packer eleven to a 26-0 ver- Dame sank the Navy, 33-6, then
diet over the well regarded Gi- polished off Uncle Sam’s future
ants. Pete scored two touch- shavetails, 26-0, dropping both
downs, threw a pass for another from their unbeaten pinnacles.
While Navy was idle last Sat-
urday, resting for today’s critic-
al test, the Cadets enjoyed
at-
and completed two aerial
tempts for extra points.
Mattis’ first tally came on a
15-yard slice off tackle in the field-day against hapless Brown,
first period, while his second was I crushing the enemy, 59-0. Virtu-
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| ally everybody in uniform got
Nine Unbeaten Quintets
Remain In Western Loop
Nine undefeated leaders re-
main in the Western Sector bask-
etball chase this week as sharp-
shooters move farther along the
path toward the playoffs in their
four-bracket tournament.
The Typhoid Torpedoes are
setting a torrid pace in League
A with three straight victories
to occupy first place alone. How-
ever, competition in the other
brackets is more intense, with
ties evident in each Gase.
In League B, the Plague Pla-
toon. a nd Panthers, with three
triumph's each, are deadlocked;
the Eagles and Vitamin Pills,
having pasted three rivals, and
the Cashmarcs, successful in two
tries, are ahead in League C, and
the Grizzlies (4-0), B-??? (3-0)
and Trojans (3-0) set the early
pace in League D.
Of the 36 clubs in the tourney,
only seven have failed to win
at least one game. League B has
three of the unfortunates — the
Bombers, Centours and Cholera
Kids — each having absorbed
four consecutive spankings.
After the preliminary victors
are determined on a percentage
basis, survivors will advance to
a Western Sector championship
series. The winner of this scram-
ble then will compete against
the Reykjavik titleholder for the
IBC crown and a trip to* England.
into the game as Army tried to
keep the score within respect-
able dimensions, but Brown was
hardly a match, even against
the rawest recruits.
The Brown scalping gives
is one of the strongest grid
squads ever to represent the
Naval Academy.
The Middies have been invinc-
ible except for that sad after-
noon when Angelo Bertelli was
Army a record of seven victor- pitching accurate passes all over
ies, the setback by Notre Dame,
and a 13-13 standoff with Penn-
sylvania. Victims of the Cadets’
juggernaut include Villanova
(27-0), Colgate (42-0), Temple
(51-0), Columbia (52-0), Yale
(39-7)-and Sampson Naval (16-7).
Navy, with 150-pound Hal
Hamberg sparking the attack
from his backfield post, has been
equally as impressive. In fact,
experts say this year’s edition
Canukes Widen
NHL Advantage
The Montreal Canadiens took
a firmer hold on the National
Hockey League lead this week
and established a new scoring
record for the season at the
same time by swamping the
Boston Bruins, 13-4.
Teams chasing the Canadiens
climbed into a triple-tie for sec-
ond place as Detroit joined the
Chicago Blackhawks and the
Toronto Maple Leafs. With Bud
Brunetu contributing three
goals, the Red Wings broke Chi-
cago’s four-game winning streak
with a 5-2 triumph before 13,000
fans.
Toronto retained its share of
the runner-up spot by handing
the New York Rangers their
ninth straight plastering of the
season, winning 5-2. The lowly
Rangers are still seeking their
first victory of the campaign.
the gridiron to Irish receivers,
including a photo-finish 14-13
win over V-12-laden Duke. Navy
triumphed over North Carolina
Pre-Flight (31-0), Cornell (46-
7), Penn State (14-6), Georgia
Tech (28-14), Penn (24-7) and
Columbia (61-0).
. Meanwhile, Notre Dame is
resting on its laurels until next
year, having already slammed
the door in the face of erst-
while collegiate titlists. The Ir-
ish finished their season Thurs-
day against Great Lakes Naval,
but the South Benders wrapped
up the national flag a week ago
when they eked out a slim 14-
13 verdict over previously un-
tarnished Iowa Pre-Flight.
Leahy’s champions had to fight
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Landis Bans Cox
For Gambling
President William Cox of the
Philadelphia Phillies was declar-
ed permanently ineligible by
Comm. Ivenesaw M. Landis this
week to hold any baseball of-
fice on the grounds that Cox had
bet on games.
Landis took the drastic action
after Cox had refused to attend
further hearings touching on
charges thaL the new boss of
the Phils had wagered on games
during the 1943 season. Major
league rules prohibit such bet-
ting by any player, umpire or
club or league official.
Hoopsters
Drill For
IBC Whirl
Tlie merry tune of basketballs
pounding on the hardwood
court of the Andrews Memorial
fieldhouse has been disturbing
the neighbors this week as of-
ficers and enlisted men whip
their quintets into streamlined
condition for the title whirl that
gets under way Monday.
Enlisted-man teams have been
placed into nine brackets, each
playing its own round-robin
schedule. Division winners will
be determined on a percentage
basis. In all, 67 GI squads are
entered in the marathon.
The past week was devoted to
practice sessions and warmup
No Holds Barred!
Shoulder ornaments will be
taboo tomorow night when a
quintet of IBC Hqs. officers
faces the IBC Hqs. enlisted
men’s basketball team at 2000
hours in the Andrews Memo-
rial fieldhouse. Spectators are
welcome, but sidearms must'
be checked at the door.
contests, not counting in the
standings, but providing coaches
with ample opportunity to pre-
pare their cagers for the forth-
coming grind. League officials
have been working the games
in an effort to sharpen their
eyes before the payoff tussles
commence.
With last year’s championship
club among the missing, a new
champion is assured. The field
is wide open since the runner-
up Air Corps quintet is playing
in the Western Sector meet and
the Signal Gophers lost most of
their squad, including diminut-
ive Jimmy Alderetti and Marty
Van Oonscliot, rugged center.
The 12 teams composing the
pair of officers brackets also
have been drilling this week and
are ready to train their guns
on the title. This is the first time
that an officers’ basketball leag-
ue^ has been organized in Ice-
land.
Spectators are always welcome
in the fieldhouse. No tickets are
necessary except for boxing
shows and special occasions
when ample advance notice will
be given.
Beau Jack
Recaptures
Ring Crown
The world’s lightweight cham-
pionship rests*in the hands of
Beau Jack again today, the re-
sult of his stirring 15-round vic-
tory over Bob Montgomery in
Madison Square Garden.
A crowd of 17,866 fans saw
Jack stagger youthful Montgom-
ery several times and almost
score a knockout in becoming
the second fighter in history ever
to regain the lightweight crown.
No knockdowns were scored
in the entire fight. But in eight
of the 15 rounds the two Negro
punchers filled the air with leath-
er and had the big crowd in 'an
uproar as they repeatedly stag-
gered each other with sharp,
clean punches.
In the 13th round, Jack had
Montgomery groggy. However,
the youthful Philadelphian ralli-
ed and in the last two rounds
had Jack almost through the rop-
es three separate times.
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