Cid RAM ec Sm Se my by enn. a ae ; “2 ¥ : / wey “AND FL ; i Rad j 2 Bs Ve A ee uy EEE VAS IN! 62,000 See Sailors Anchor Airmen, 7-0 By BILL LEISER i ‘ : Plunging a tremendous*three feet to the end zone midway in period two, James Thibaut of Tulane cinched Fleet City’s Bluejacket victory over Frankie Sinkwich’s Second Air Force Bomb- ‘ers before 62,000 customers yesterday on Kezar Stadium field. When Lou Zontini’ of Notre Dame kicked the extra poin: from the fingers of Pittsburgh’s Edgar “Special Delivery” Jones, the second overflow crowd in ghysany days of the new Northern California football season. saw all the Scoring it was going tt see through the long afternoon of uljra perfect defensive play on 2 2 say aoe of poe, SaUE DE: eye ina aD GE ae E as a remeni ir 4 » fflmnat Thibaut collected. ‘Three feet MAJOR LEAGUE | PENNANT RACES were hard to get yesterday, in any situation. Neither organization é could at any time offer a suggestion| py Associated Press ; 5 AMERICAN LEAGUE . Won Lost G.B. TP. 86. 6k # of sustained marching. Each actually reached the enemy : io Detroit m |Seven-yard line once, first down,|wachinets 87 7 goal to go. acif failed to make) ne on ea tue as the distance on its own. Chicago 2 = 7 St. Louis 91 57 Wace = |PENALTY SETS IT UP Fleet City managed to reach the a \three-foot mark only by grace of peed pass pareEreuente called by # |Field Judge Elwood Allison. NATIONAL LEAGU From the Air Force 34-yard line,| cHr1caGo—aAgainst St. meat 2, L 7, Remaining games: AMERICAN LEAGUE DETROIT — Against Cleveland 2, Louis 2. Total 4. WASHINGTON—Season ended. se | CCCCAAB Page 1?! MONDAY, SEPT. 24. 1° play doesn’t when and victory over the Second Air Force eleven. Thibaut smashed across left guard in the second period after a penalty had giuen Fleet City a first dow. ~~ the one-yard line. end zone from one yard out boomed baut, Fleet City fullback from Tulane y, and the Sailors from Camp Shoe- makerleft Kezar Stadium. yesterday with a Cy Jones had passed long into the endj>urgh 3, Cincinnati 2. % zone, intending the throw for Paul poe _LOUIS—Against Chicago 2, (Illinois) Patterson, Ray (Kansas) |°™mati 3, Pittsburgh 1, Total 6, evens ran ae Peterson Ang og son droppe e handkerchief, plac- ing the football one yard from the ; goal. As subsequent events indi- CUBS WIN § eated, it was the only way a score e q F could be made. ; e : Perfect defensive 3 make for exciting football, Brown res ood players ke no errors aie meh fected vierense, Shere’'s ay , aia? 7 g to take advantage of. } 4 Georgia’s Flatfoot Fireball, Sink- e ac ‘ wich, engineered as much’ offense f ‘ as was generated by the victors, but ° ? ‘I that was not too much except for : a little spurt now and then. ige rs L ma A LOT OF FLESH SORT tts For our part we can’t see how|, NEW ¥ » Sept. 23 (®)—The anyone is pane to run much offense|Detroit Tigers returned to their an- against numbers 25, 56, 43 and 41/0ying habit of backing into the from Fleet City. They are Frank|American League pennant today (Mississippi) Kinard and Ed (Ala-|When they suffered a humiliating 5-0 bama) Gerber, John (Western Re-!drubbing by the St. Louis Browns. serve) Badaczewski and Quentin{ , However, the Tigers need only a (Southern Californiay Klenk. They;Single victory in their remaining weigh approximately 2% tons each,|four games to clinch a tie, or two they’re quick as well as big, they!ttiumphs to insure the flag, as the didn’t even need the help of the|wobbly Washington Senators could ends flanking them. do no better than split with the If and whenever anybody starts/!@St-Place Athletics, losing the first shoving ’em around and running|$®™e, 4-3 in 12 innings, and win- against them, I want to be there to|/ing the second game by the same see. And that’s not even mention-|S©Or€ in eight frames. Darkness ing guys like Doyle (No College) |CUrtailed the nightcap. Tackett, Charles (Boston College) O’Rourke, and Harvey (William & Mary) Johnson, who were always tgetting in the way whenever Sihk- Wwich threatened to pick up a yard or two. .Not even Glenn (Pop). Warner, inventor. of the double wing, in the In the event Detroit wins two out of the four games the final stand- ings will be: : Won Lost Pet. DETROIT 88 66 571 WASHINGTON 8% 67 565 The Tigers meet the Indians twice and the Browns two more times, while the Senators have concluded their 1945 schedule with today’s twin-bill. The National League shuffle re- mained status quo as both contena- ers, the leading Chicago Cubs and runner-up St. Louis Cards won their games. The Cubs humbled Pitts- burgh 7-3 in the first game of a doubleheader. The second game was called off on account of darkness. The Cards hammered four Cin- cinnati pitchers for a free-scoring 9-6 victory over the Reds to remain @ game and a half behind the Cubs with six games' remaining to seven for the Cubs, who play a twin-bill with the Pirates tomorrow to make up for today’s and yesterday’s post- ponements. (Complete big league baseball on. 2H.) Zollners, Jax Take Softball Crowns CLEVELAND, Sept. 23 (UP)—The Zoliners of Ft. Wayne and the un- defeated New Orleans Jax tonight won the men and women’s world softball championships. Flint won the first game from the Hoosiers, 1-0, tonight, but lost the second by the same score, and thereby the crown, The Jax defeated the Toronto Crofton Athletic Club ten, 5-0. Keaton Light Grabs Caliente Handicap AGUA CALIENTE, Sept. 23 (»)— Collaring the field at the far turn and holding enough in reserve to withstand the late challenge of R. W. Brayden’s Pari Brab, Dan Ho- gan’s Keaton Light captured the $1500 Madre Perla Handicap at seven furlongs today. Cork Booters Cop All-Ireland Crown DUBLIN, Sept. 23 (®)—Making its press box with a phone in front of him, was able to get Major Ed Walker’s Flyers under way against what they had in front of them yesterday. Considering their experience, the boys were not too smooth. ‘They hardly ever ran as many:as three consecutive plays without interrup- jtions for penalties, times out, sub- |stitutions, or busted gear. STINGY WITH PASSES For three periods, Second Air al- most never threw a pass, and try- ing to operate steady running play against what we’ve mentioned of Fleet City was obviously doomed to failure. It looked like an Air Force with- out an air game. At the very end, Sinkwich and Billy (Washington State) Sewell did nothing but throw passes, aS Inany as seven in a row. Major Ed should tell them there’s no law against the change of pace. Greatest entertainers were the sprint champion, Little Buddy (Illi- Inois) Young, although he did not \play Jong, and Steve (Notre Dame) \Juzwik, for Fleet City. Buddy ‘brought the big crowd to its feet severy time he got the ball, whether ‘gaining or losing yards, and Juzwik ‘made the best advances of the after- noon, twice going more than 30 yards and threatening to break loose more often than that. SINKWICH DOES 0.K. ° « Best for Second Air were Sink- wich, who can really run and no mistake, and Evans and Sewell. But the real entertainment was from defense. The boys would widen and converge and cover everything like Omar’s tent almost all the time. Many times each team would end a series of plays losing more than it gained. Often the. crowd laughed at the hopelessness of any one’s deploy- ment to gain yards, so fast would the defense blanket the play and kill it at the line of scrimmage or worse. _ As was the case Saturday at Memorial Stadium, the surprise|first appearance in the Irish Cup crowd arrived early in ‘warm, per-/final in 34 years, Cork won the All- fect. weather, and the stadium was|Ireland Gaelic football championship more than packed before the kick-|today by defeating the favored off. Thousands of servicemen,|Cavan team, two~goals and five admitted for the walking in, were|points to no goals and seven points. not officially counted. But they} The game was played in a neat stood_and sat around the field be-|gale before 67,000 rainlashed specta- low Row One. The crowd must|tors, including Sir John Maffey, easily have been the biggest in|United Kingdom High Commission- PEN ALTY This is the play that cost Second Air ' Force the game yesterday.at Kezar Sta- dium. Paul Patterson, Fleet City halfback, and Ray Evans, Air Force defending halfback, went into the end zone to- gether after Edgar Jones’ long pass: intended for Patterson. The ball fell uncaught, but Field Judge Elwood Ellison ruled Evans had interfered with the Sailor, giving Fleet City a first down on the one-yard line, from which it scored the game’s only touchdown on the next play. ° BELL “BO TOM TROUSERS: ETC. Navy Day Preview at. Kezar By BARNEY GOULD : NAVY DAY NOTES: Oh, no, it isn’t officially Navy Day till October 27, but yesterday’s celebration will serve as a spectacular preview until Admiral Halsey sails through the Golden Gate. Yes, it was Navy Day on the football field as Fleet City’s big bell-bottomed Bluejackets stopped Superbomber Frankie Sink- wich and his second Air Force team, 7 to 0. The stadium was stacked to the rim with 62,000 shouting spectators, and at least half of ’em must have been Navy. And Kezar’s famous fog was scared away by September sun- shine all day. The scene was a white-capped ocean spilling down the slopes and over into the infield. But among the dark-blue uniforms of the Navy men of all ranks, was plenty of Army khaki, along with the dark red of the lounging robes of the Purple Heart brigade from the service hospitals. : GOOD NATURED CROWD It was the greatest early-season crowd ever seen im Kezar Stadium, and it enthusiastically overflowed on the playing field as the game drew to a close with the Super- lines, however, was anything hut jamiable, with the Bluejackets’ Bruiser Kinard at one time the cen- ter of a short-lived incident, and the dressing rooms after the game full of battered and limping hus- kies. You could hear the smack of the scrimmage in the stands. Despite the knock-down-drag-out Scrap, Harry Hopp, Navy triple- threater, appeared to be the ,only man whose injuries would keep, him out of next Saturday’s game in the same stadium with Coach Dick Han- ley’s El. Toro Marines. HANLEY IMPRESSED Hanley, in the press box, was well impressed by the strength-in-depth of the two full Bluejacket teams, Kezar history, save for the annual sellout Shrine New Year’s Day East-|S West show. Experts estimated the 62,000 as a conservative figure. If this keeps up, we’re going to have new and bigger stadiums everywhere. TWO IN A ROW er in Eire, and Davi tates Minister. Grid Scores Fleet City 7, Second Air Force 0 Washington 21, Green Bay 7 Philadelphia 17, Cleveland 7 Chicago Bears 14, New York. 13 d Grey, United bombers. frantically tryirig to get off the ground and over the Brob- dingnagian Bluejackets by the for- ward pass touchdown route. But she crowd was good-natured, sprinkled with servicemen and their families out for a war’s-over outing, and there were not even any flareup fights, nor a single bewildered dog- with their ample substitutes. “That’s more manpower than I’ve seen in a long time,” the ex-Northwestern; and Shrine game coach said. But| he opined that his Marines. might charge a bit harder than the Super- bombers, who failed to break! Frankie Sinkwich into the clear past the deadly Navy secondary defense. — Coach Ed Walker of the Second Air Force, naturally disappointed at qlosing a second close game after | Continued on Page 3H, Col. 1, Following the kickoff, Bill (Santa Clara) Prentice and Eyans put two first_ downs together, and appeared possibly able to go some place. Sink- wich‘ hit twice to, get eight more yards, but the march ended. when,|- on fourth and two to go, hé tried a delayed straight smash and was downed by Bob (Baylor) Nelson, giving the ball to Fleet City on her own 24. Maybe Second Air would have done much better had Prentice been able to remain through the game. He was hurt and assisted from the field. Period 2 found the Bluejackets gaining relative strength, and they put first downs end to end for one of the few times during the after- Detroit 10, Chicago Cards O AAF Training Comd. 29, Keesler Field 0 Third Air Force 27, AAFPDC 7 ‘Tuskegee Field, Camp LeJeune Marines 0 THERE WAS A CROWD * pee lates to bring the crowd to its feet. F The battle between the two huge noon, ‘They started when Curtis Sandig (St.Mary's, Texas) intercepted Sinkwich’s pass with a high, one- hand stop, to put the ball on Second Air’s 49. ‘ ‘ Harvey Johnson found a big hole for 11 in a single blast and when he then fumbled, Nelson recovered in the air for seven-yard gain. Jones was held to one, but Thibaut boomed up the middle for 9 and the boys were 21 yards out. 5 Then if was Thibaut 2, Jones forwarding to Enrico (Murray \teachers) Uguccioni for 7, Thibaut /0, and Jones over left tackle for first down on the seven-yard line, TOUGH DEFENSE But second air had a defense, too Expecially it had Don (Texas) Fam- brough, who stopped Thibaut on the 4, and Clyde (Hardin Simmons) Turner, who threw Paterson for a yard loss. Lester (Baylor) Gatewood fortunately recovered for Thibaut, when he did a third down fumble, On fourth down Adrian (Amherst)| | Hassee collared Special Delivery] © Jones and dropped him six yards| ° from the goal. That’s how hard touchdowns were to get, either way| : yesterday. ) : A moment later, after Sinkwich | Continued on Page 2H, Col. 4 % aot were admitied free, only Shrine East-West games have drawn bigger, crowds to the Sunset Bowl. More than 62,000 football fans sat and stood in _ Kezar Stadium yesterday to witness the Fleet City~_ Second Air Force clash. Although an official gate count was not available, since many servicemen oe . vers s Seen aa . pt Steed epee i BLS ct eP AAS t