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The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 25

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THE FRESNO BEE c1- a -9-B Ball Wins 100 Mile Race James Is Hurt Seriously Blanda's Field Goal Upsets 49ers 20-17 By United Press George Blanda's fine footwork and Frankie Albert's faulty hcadwork decided the Issue as the Chicago Bears tightened up the National Football League race by upsetting the San Francisco Forty Niners 20 to 17 The Bears 40 to 16 losers to San Francisco two weeks ago and 15 point underdogs pulled the miracle of the 1952 campaign yesterday in San Kezar Sta Stadium The Forty Niners "We played and beat a great club" Halas said "But if San Francisco Is going to win the division title it will have to watch out for the Rams and Giants" San Francisco will play the By Ed Orman Tha rasas Baa apart 4 Her Giants Sunday in New York and las two more games with the Rams Bobby Layne threw two touchdown passes to end Leon Hart and fullback Pat Harder kicked a 43 yard field goal as Detroit whipped Cleveland A snarling defense led by-ends Jim Doran and Blaine Earon gave Cleveland had swept their five previous starts this year and had rolled up eight straight victories extending back to the 1951 season A sellout crowd of one of two capacity throngs drawn as the league reached the half- SAN JOSE Bobby Ball of Phoenix Ariz won the 100 lap American Automobile Association big car race here yesterday in which Joe James of Van Nuys was seriously Injured in the next to the last contest on the national championship circuit Ball took the lead In the race on the forty seventh lap on which James was injured in a spectacu-ar accident in front of the grandstand at the Santa Clara County fairground The 27 year old unmarried ex-totrod driver from Southern California was a half lap ahead of Ball and the other drivers as he started to ride bis car high on the approach to the northwest turn lie drove into the rear right wheel of Duane car ackknifed into the steel fence xranced onto the track careened Hric Into the fence again pitched back and nosed over on tne rac- The Statistics Star Flrat downs 15 Mrt yards rushing 117 Mn yudi fuilni 147 Fmuea attamptad 24 2ft Paaaaa completed 1ft Number of puma I ft 7 A vara ((a of punta 438 414 Penoltlea against 7 7 Tarda Inst penalties 81 45 atrip Ja ames way point In its 12 game schedule-watched Blanda play the at In hero and Albert the goat ter may be awarded some points as he piloted In a relief -role for Jimmy Reece of Oklahoma City from the thirty first lap on Carter finished tenth good for 30 points in car -Carter a Fresno product who was on hand to race for the first time since his accident in Detroit several weeks ago did not try to qualify in his car He reported "the rear end blew lie will get it in shape for the Phoenix event Billy Vukovich of Fresno also ran into trouble spinning out and ramming a backstretch fence on the forty first lap Vukie was third behind James and Ball at the time and pouring on the coal in (Aggie) Agajinian's No 98 in which Ruttman won the Indianapolis classic As he came roaring out of the turn onto the backstretch he went into the costly spin He was towed onto the track pushed and got back into the running and ran for several laps while the race was slowed because of the James accident Then he was waved into the pits and declared out of competition by AAA officials who ruled he should have come into the pit Immediately after his restart for a technical check Johnny Boyd another Fresno pilot driving Agajanlan's new mystery car No 97 could not get the car running right and took the last crack at qualifying but missed out as 18 qualified ahead of him Boyd probably will attempt to qualify in the same car in the Phoenix event Carter took over the wheel in mount after Recce came into the pits with an eye injury A clod of dirt splattered glass from his goggles into an rye Carter barely limped in with the car as did Frank Arml of Hanford in his No 38 the last qualifying car Arml did not make a stop and finished tenth The order of finish was Ball Mike Nazuruk Paul Russo Jack McGath Hanks Rob Scott Stevenson Walt Faulkner Bill Bryan Reece Carter Arml and Manuel Ayulo Johnny Parsons one lime Indianapolis champion conked out final quarter Blanda Kicks Field Goal Blanda provided' the winnin points with a 48 yard field goal In the final minutes after Albert the San Francisco quarterback set up the touchdown which enabled Chicago to tie the score at 17 all Albert one of the smartest signal callers gambled by running on fourth down on his own 33 and failed Three plays later Steve Romanik threw a scoring pass to end Bill Wight-kin to tie the score The Bear victory helped tighten the race In both divisions The Detroit Lions second in the National Conference sliced San lead to one game by Kindt 6 Teammate Boone 24 is in the background The Bears upset the Forty Niners 20 to 17 with a fourth period I FOR Hugh McElhenny the San Francisco Forty Niners sensational rookie halfback is shown sprinting 17 yards for a touchdown against the Chicago Bears in the Bay City yesterday Bears chasing are Billy Stone 45 and Don AP Wlrephoto field goal was not thrown out Ills injuries consist of a skull fracture and internal injuries ils condition Is critical Race Is Slowed The race was slowed during the accident as a track ambulance took James to a San Jose hospital alter he was pried from the wreckage which later was removed to allow the field to resume competition Except lor a brief few laps James led the field with Ball in second spot until the accident Because of the slowing of the race no elapsed time nor miles an hour record were maintained for Ball It was first victory in the AAA national circuit The 26 year old Arizona cotton farmer who raced in Fresno on many occasions in midget car competition finished fifth in the Indianapolis 500 mile classic this year James formerly raced hot rods in Fresno This year James captured the 1952 Mid West sprint car championship in Indiana Fresno pilots aid not fare well at all in event Chuck Stevenson who is leading the point race with one more event to go a 100 miler in Phoenix November finished seventh in his red and cream No 16 owned by a Springfield 111 outfit and picked up 60 points making his total 1360 against 1410 for Troy Ruttman the Indianapolis winner who did not ride yesterday Ruttman was present however It also Is doubtful if he will race in Phoenix because of injuries suffered in the East last Summer Hanks Gains Points The main change in the standings came when Sam Hanks picked up 100 points in finishing fifth moving ahead of Carter with 1230 for third position Car- Six Inch Scoring Pass SAN FRANCISCO Quarterback Frankie Albert and end Gordie Soltau of San Francisco teamed on a six Inch touchdown pass against the Chicago Bears yesterday but they missed the National Football League record lor passer Otto Graham so much trouble the Browns scored their only points on 12 and 41 yard field goals by Lou Groza Fullback Ed Price scored two touchdowns one on a 75 yard run and quarterback Charley Conerly threw touchdown passes to Bill Stribling and Bob McChes-ney as New York beat the Cardinals End John Martlnkovic went seven yards with a blocked kick to provide Green victory margin over Philadelphia Ram fullback Dan Towler scored two touchdowns in the romp over Dallas and Steeler Fullback Fran one yard plunge Jhe deciding touchdown Washington The summary: Ufl and UcColl Hoffman' Laft tacklaa Connor Cross Wall area laft ftuarda Barwegan Bradley Hansen Right ftuarda flaorg Clark Right tacklaa Turner Blahnp Rlftht Sehroadar Wightkin ftprln- Ouartarbacka Williams Romanik Blanda Left halfback! Hunalaftar I-taana Campana Whita 7 Right ha If back a Stona Xlndt Doolajr If a con Fullback! Morr1n Campbell Karl if Inara Left anda Soltau Powell Henke J-aft tackle a Toneff Collins Campon Laft Smith Momaea Fehar Center! Johnaon wlamann Right Banducrl Burke Right tackle Notnelinl Carapeila Right end a Wllann o'Ponahua Rndrlia Quarterback! Albert Pnwera Tittle left Bonne Barry Catheart High halfbacks McElhannjr Wagaar Cason While Fullback Tarry Brown Aldridge Scar By Quarters Baftrs 10 0 Forty Nlnara 3 7 0 17 Tourhdowng Wightkin 31 field go la White Blanda extra points Blanda 2 Forty MImm Touchdowns Saltan lfe- Elhsnny field goal Soltau extra points Soltau (8) Officials: Referee Bowen (UCLA! bead linesman Hutchison (UBC1 umpire Tarremsra (Santa field judas Underhill back Roth-art (Stanford) League Draws 209641 NEW The Na-I tional Football League drew a total of 209641 fans including two sellout crowds to its slx games yesterday A capacity crowd of 59700 1 watched the Bears beat the Forty Niners in San Francisco and a I full house of 56029 cheered the Lions to victory over the Browns in Detroit Club officials estimated nearly 10000 fans were turned away in San Francisco The Rams and Texans drew I 30702 in Los Angeles the Giants and Cardinals drew 27195 In Chicago the Steelers and Redskins played' before 25866 in Washington and the Packers and Eugles brought out a small crowd of 10149 in Milwaukee Individual Statistics the shortest completed pass by two inches The league lists Cecil Estoril's four inch touchdown toss to Don Hutson for Green Bay against the Cleveland Rams in 1942 as Its shortest completed throw of the fortieth lap Nazaruk picked 360 points not In the for second spot but is first 10 in the national rare Russo added 140 to his 920 to stay in seventh spot McGrath set the fastest qusll-fying time of 3747 MP1I for the mile James was second best Ball next and then Bryan McGrath picked up 120 point for third place and has 1200 and Is fifth back of Carter Ralph De Palma the old time speedway king drove the pare car About 8000 fans attended in ldal weather Bulldog Cagers Start Drills With Six Lettermen Six returning lettermen and a top junior college transfer will form the nucleus of the 1952-53 Fresno State College basketball squad Coach Dutch Warmer dam called his first practice in the San Joaquin Memorial High School gylmnasium this afternoon Warmerdam will tutor the varsity Baseball Coach Pete Bleden also started workouts with the freshman team in the Fresno High School gymnasium this afternoon Fred Bartels the scorer last season will lead the returning monogram winners which also include Don Viel Lowell Reynolds Hugh Shaffer Hollis Shannon and Terry Sadler Heading the newcomers is flashy Len Tucker a transfer from the College of the Sequoias where he was all conference am made several all tournament teams -Tucker is 6 feet 2 inches tall and is veiy fast The Bulldogs will face a rugged 29 game schedule and hope to have their new gymnasium ready for action by time for the initial home game against the University of Nevada Wolfpack Long Beach Hounds Win Los Banos Trials Niners 20 to 17 yesterday Holding for Blanda is Whizzer White 33 Watching is Don Kindt 6 The falling Forty Niner is Pat O'Donohue WINNING MARGIN George Blanda a Chicago Bears' back cuts loose with a 48 yard field goal which beat the San Francisco Forty Ike Jones Will Help Direct Louis Movie LOS ANGELES UP Ike Jones the star UCLA football end haa been signed as an assistant director for a motion picture based on the life of former heavyweight champion Joe Louis Jones was signed after conferring with the producer Sterling Sifliphant who flew here over the weekend from New York Shooting on the picture Is scheduled to start January 26th Jones who will be the first Negro to complete the motion picture course at UCLA lives in Santa Monica In the UCLA 28 to 7 win over California Saturday he caught nine passes a school record including one for a touchdown SF Gators Top Chico 39 to 19 SAN Halfback Johnny O'Shea powered the San Francisco State College Gators to a 39 to 19 homecoming football victory over the Chico Stale College Tigers here Saturday night before 4500 fins in Cox Stadium scored twice as the Gators rolled up a 20 to 6 halftime advantage struck for 13 more points in the third quarter and then coasted home with reserves playing most of the time in the final period Biale 33 7 3ft ft Chlro mala A 1 -1ft Touchdown: O'fthaa 8 Nava Smith Bremond riiinran Marrtis Tamil Madam Paints after touchdown! mertar China Madaraa downing the Cleveland Browns 17 to 6 before a rapacity crowd of 56029 in Briggs Stadium San Francisco has a 5-1 record against 4-2 mark The Browns began the day with a one game lead in the American Conference but fell into a first place tie with the New York Giants Both have 4-2 records The Giants beat the Chicago Cardinals 28 to 6 in Comiskey Park The Giants Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles started out in a three way deadlock for second and the Eagles lost their chance to grab a share of the lead by bowing to the Green Bay Packers 12 to 10 In the other games the Pittsburgh Steelers edged the Washington Redskins 24 to 23 and the Los Angeles Rams coasted to a 42 to 20 victory over Dallas The Cardinals and Eagles teach 3-3) are tied for second in the American Conference while the Bears Rams and Packers (also 3-3) are tied lor third in the National Coach Buck Shaw's Forty Niners handed Coach George Jiroud Bears the second worst decat in their 33 year history October 19th in Chicago It looked like another easy Forty Niner triumph yesterday as the Californians built up a 10 to 0 lead in the first 16 minutes on Gordie Soltau's 18 yard field goal and Albert's six inch touchdown pass to Soltau Bears Tie Score But the Bears made it 10 to 10 at halftime on Whizzer 15 yard field goal and Bob Wil linms 14 yard scoring pass to Wightkin Hugh McElhenny ran 17 yards in the third period to put San Francisco Jn front again 17 to 10 but then came mental flub and fine kick LOS BANOS Hounds owned by Joe Hooker of Long Beach took two first places here yesterday to highlight the fifth annual American Kennel field trial for Beagle hounds PISEST sharp LEAVING YOUR TROPHY GUARDED IN THE FIELD handkerchief AM Comp III Tda TDP DALLAS Tex UP Hie name of Penn State is making the unofficial rounds 8S the likely prospect to meet the South west Conference champion this year in the seventeenth annual New Year's Day classic in the Cotton Bowl Although officials withheld comment for publication Penn State is the most likely prospect unless the Big Seven and Southern Conferences lift their ban against post season bowl games Penn State which probably will play against Texas If invited loomed as the best bet ahead of a field which includes once beaten Tennessee twice tied Mississippi once beaten Alabama and once tied Villanova Georgia Tech naturally its expected to be the No 1 choice for the big bowl game but the fact At Cotorudo Springs Smart Guests agree DIHIIDIIDIE ns TTIHIIE HDITMIIIDIERJIED figuri Do NOT ALLOW GAME ID UE ON THE GROUND AN LONGER THAN IS NECESSARY AFTER DRESSING IT OUT ELSE IT SPOILS QUICKLY If IT IS TOO HEAVY TO MOVE BY TOURSELF WORK TREE UMBSp STICKS ROCKS ETC UNDER THE PRIZE TO RAISE IT OFF THE GROUND Cover rr with pineppruce or FIR TyPE BOUGHS IF POSSIBLE (AS ABOVE) TO SHED RAIN snow USE ROCKS 70 WEIGHT DOWN IF WIND IS LIKELY THIS COVERING OR OTHER BRUSH KEEPS PREDATORY BIRDS AWAY A HANDKERCHIEF KEEPS COYOTES AWAY BUT NOT OTHER ANIMAL PREDATORS Shoemaker Hailed As Best In History By Hal Wood SAN Wee Willie Shoemaker the silent lad with the magic In his riding ability is being called by veteran west coast horsemen greatest in the history of thoroughbred racing That is taking in a lot of ter ritory especially in view of such great riders of the past as Earl Sande and Isaac Murphy and such stars of the present as Eddie Arcaro and Johnny Long-den But Wee Willie has something special" says Abe- Kemp a veteran turf writer who has seen them all for the past 40 years know what it Is He just sits there He even have to use the whip lie is a hard rider and by some magic when he wants the horse to run faster the horse just starts going And he is a great Judge of pace and The silent little jockey who at 21 is making about $100000 a yearpilotlng thoroughbreds around the ovals at the nation's major tracks has become a menace to the track owners Nearly every horse he has ridden this Fall at Bay Meadows and Tanforan Instantly has become the prohibitive favorite to win even when his mount should be at least a 6 to 1 shot "The trouble with Shoemaker around the aavs a long time boss player "is that if you bet him you barely get your money hack even if he wins If you bet him beat you by a nose- and you can kick yourself all over the track for trying to beat him The best thing to do when in' a race is not to Although he was suspended for 10 days during the Bay Meadows meeting he rode 77 nearly 30 more than his closest rival During the first three days of the Tanforan meeting he rode 11 winners on two days getting four horses home in front He turned that trick three times at Bav Meadows too Shoemaker will not win the national riding championship-this as he did Two years ago when- he tied with Joe Culmone for the title but he will finish a strong second By the first of the year he will be over the 300 mark for the second time jn his young career He already has piloted home more than 270 winners Quarterback Bobby Layne and 1 halfback Doak Walker of the Detroit Lions also were teammates on the Highland Park (Texas) I High School team pare the allure of a return trip A lot of things happen between now and late November when the actual selections are announced but unless the Big Seven and Southern loops have a change of heart all signs point to the Lions The Southwest Conference champion automatically gets the host role in the Cotton Bowi which is operated by the conference and that team also gets to help select its foe Spokane's Al Mengert Wins Mexican Crown MEXICO Al Mengert of Spokane the runnerup for the United States National Amateur championship earlier this year defeated Count Henri LaMaze of France 1 up in the 36 hole finals of the Mexican National Amateur golf champion ships yesterday Rifle Club Beats Guard Reserves The Fresno Rifle and Pistol Club team won over the National Guard Reserve in a JO caliber match on the local range yester day with a score of 1071 out of a possible 1250 The guardsmen scored 942 Members of the winning team were Henry Wright 231 Fred Cyr 214 Schacht 211 Ben Angelo 208 and Leonard Butler 203 The guard team included Fay White 210 Jim Prentice 198 Bill Mayo 189 Richard Menezes 175 and Gregory Gomez 170 The match included 10 shots offhand at 200 yards slow fire 10 shots sitting sustained fire 10 shots prone slow fire at 300 yards 10 shots sitting slow lire at 300 yards and 10 shots sustained lire prone at 300 yards Northwestern Again Loses On Field Goal EVANSVILLE HI AP Northwestern's football team should tear down the goal posts every time it sees Ohio State coming Saturday lor the fourth time in eight seasons a last quarter boot rescued an Ohio victory over the Wildcats Before a national television audience 128 pound Thur-low (Tad) Weed thumped a 17 yard lield goal with six minutes left to nip Northwestern 21 to 2L NBA Standings Hill Wins Cycle Crown Oregon Rider Is Killed SAN Bobby I lill of Columbus took place in the expert division of the California motorcycle racing championship which saw one driver killed yesterday at Bay Meadows Ralph Moores 33 of Bend Ore was killed in a practice run arcidcnt while warming up for what was to be his last race He had promised his wife he would give up the sport before he fell over the handlebars of his motorcycle and was thrown to the ground Ilill captured the top spot over the 14 mile route with a time of 10 minutes 6:64 seconds He finished a quarter of a mile In front of the second place man Don Hawley of Inglewood Ed Kretz Jr of Monterey Park Was third The winner averaged 837 miles an hour from a standing start Seven of the starting field of 10 finished the race In the 12 mile amateur event Samps Sicks of Long Beach was first with a time of 8 minutes 5983 seconds George Seplveda Redwood City was second and Maurice Burton Salt Lake City Ut finished third Troy Lee Oceanside captured the 10 mile novice event in 7 minutes 4561 seconds Second place went to Clarence Hoaglin San Francisco while the third position went to Johnnie Mucken-phaler Westminster Peter Duke of Fresno placed fourth in the 12 mile amateur race being clocked at 8 minutes 5983 seconds for the distance Bob Murphy of Merced was fifth in the same event The University of Florida ball team used 15 ball carriers in their first four games and 12 different 'Gaters scored points Golf News Sol Sanchez and Martin Errota be ire will play Gene Starr and Russell Weaver Sunday in the finals of the Fresno Airways best ball team match play tournament Sanchez and Errotaberre defeated Ed Barsettl and Negi-zio 2 and 1 and Starr and Weaver ousted Monical and Ben Yrle 5 and 4 in the semifinals yesterday Second round play in the Berg-Shelburne trophy competition at the Fort Washington Golf Club continued yesterday Fred Beck and Joe Josephine defeated Jim Hoffman and Gerald Beck 2 and 1 Bodell and Ed Fassett defeated Roy Jensen and Joe Yrulegui 1 up John Krick and Walt Babey defeated Cliff Hale and Dave Benson 1 up Qualifying play for the membership cup tournament at the Fort will begin this weekend prefer taste to whiskies costing up to $1 00 more and its lower price means you get a dividend of as much as 4 EXTRA DRINKS Guests at Colorado Springs are accustomed to the best They have the means to buy it So particularly significant when so many of them prefer the rich mellow smoothness of PM to ANY of the most expensive blends Yet with this dividend of flavor PM's price is so modest that you get up to four extra drinks per bottle Try PM agree PM is the smartest to America's smartest buy JEnjoy today's magnificent Kutera Ulviakw Pet Raw York 3 0 3000 Philadelphia 3 3 Boston 3 3 Syracuse 1 3 Baltimore Western iMrtalna Viniteapolla 2 0 Rochester 3 Milwaukee 3 0 500 500 SOO OOO 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