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Notre Dame Finishes As No. 7 Grid Team, but Prestige Drops Notre Dame Finishes as No. 7 Grid Team, but Denittg f&fetf Prestige November Drops TUE8DAY, 30,1943—A—13 Great Lakes Gets 6th Wills' Stock Up Again Parks, Vengeful, Again Meets Revamping of Big Ten Tulsa's Grid Fans Rabid, Generous By Defeating Irish; But He's Fair in Oma in Turner Ring Feature Court List to Favor By the Associated Press. Only TULSA. Okla.. Nov. Either Georgie Parks, District tend to make this time. He had Oma 30.—The news that Tulsa has been invited Negro heavyweight, is a glutton reeling and on the verge of a knock- to the Sugar Bowl to meet Seahawks Second for punishment or he's a greatly out in that last Baltimore encounter game Whipping Robinson Trainees Is Georgia Tech had been off the By HAROLD improved fighter in the last few and failed to follow up the advan- Likely CLAASSEN, Frankie press only a few minutes when Associated Press Sports Writer. Wills. District middle- months. He's fighting Lee Oma, tage. He'd not going to miss such By the Associated Press. Tulsa's rabid football fans were NEW YORK. Nov. 30.—Notre weight champion, appears headed New York glamour boy of the ring, an opportunity again, he says. CHICAGO. Nov. 30.—The new- upward again in the boxing business in the main bout next at it again— Dame remains as the top football Monday night Helping Parks’ confidence for fangled Big Ten basket ball schedule with last night's victory at Uline at Turner's Arena, and the fact that They're buying tickets to send team in the country despite its 19- Monday's fight is the fact he usually be in for a overhaul- Arena over the tough Ernest (Cat) Oma twice beat in Baltimore may thorough servicemen to the game. Already to-14, movielike lass to Great Lakes, Georgie shows very well in Washington. In ! Robinson. He helped himself on the is no secret. ing when conference directors and enough money has been donated a recent bouts here he drew but its popularity took drastic cut. against; to send record, although the fight was far Pete Sauer, Parks’ handler who meet with Commis- 175. Eighty-six of 131 sports experts, Larry Lane and then knocked out cage coaches from spectacular. workouts at the Tulsa fans last year put 3.000 in the final Associated Press supervises daily Nap Mitchell, with both results in sioner John L. Griffith here Thurs- voting Twelfth Street claims Parks servicemen in the New Orleans Frankie has had his ups and YMCA, the nature of Also on his poll of the season, marked the Irish upsets. day and Friday. bowl downs. He looked very in beat- has ironed out the defects that to fill seats they couldn't No. 1 on their ballots, and their ] good record is a knockout over Vince Pim- caused his two losses to As the tentative cards now stack occupy them.selves because ing A1 (Bummy) Davis last year and previous some the of decisions kept Notre Dame on the pinelli which helps take of :big things were for him. Oma, Sauer declares his boy ready conference would be travel restrictions. throne for the ninth straight week. predicted sting away from the Oma setbacks. up, games Then the unknown R. J. Lewis for good fights in Philadelphia and on and voters were spilled played Fridays Saturdays— The remaining 45 and lose some in him. Now the Robinson victory may New York if he gets past Oma, and "You win you instead of Saturdays and Mondays definite in their opinions that the and I’m out to do some bring him to the attention of some they intend to do just that. this game, as in previous seasons—for nine loss had robbed the Frank Leahy is the Parks Hooded of the bigger Northern promoters Parks himself admits to one mis- winning this time,” way consecutive week ends starting Jan- Rasslers Head machine of much of its glamour. in- it. again. take against Oma that he doesn't puts uary 7. But there is a possibility Some dropped the Irish as low as Wills used a lot of some of the V-12 schools may run seventh, in contrast to the poll of ring strategy in the Cat last afoul of Turner List three weeks when Notre Dame | beating night after Navy rulings preventing Thursday ago. the lads twice being floored in the early Direct Poe to Marshall from being away from the Two hooded will established a record by snaring every Humphreys to Cup grapplers appear ; rounds. Robinson had ex- campus too long, and some resched- first-place ticket. nothing on the card at the rassling matchei cept a wicked left hook, however, uling is likely. Irish Lead 231 Points. in Turner s Arena by and was a bit slow, while Wills was Six member schools open their Thursday night. the Irish Athletics at As Grid Ace As it was, however, the faster, although his punches Navy Tigers' cage campaigns this week, with The Original Angel will meet his finished with 1.259 points, to take lacked Md.. Nov. 30 Bt the As»oci»ted Press. Wisconsin the on all I authority. Robinson wras ANNAPOLIS, —Capt. getting edge largest opponent In the form of the over the mythical national cham- ahead at the halfway mark in the Charles Owen Humphreys, former PRINCETON. N. J., Nov. 30 — the others by starting last night the 1942 Black Mask, in the feature. pionship in succession to 10-rounder after slashing Wills to Navy baseball coach, will become David S. Marshall of Tarentum. Pa., against De Pauw Preflight and win- Ohio State eleven. the floor for no counts in the second director of athletics at the Naval ning. 28-25. Naval Trainee Bob George Macricostas. the Golden j halfback on this year’s Princeton Not only did Notre Dame's loss E PLURIBUS UNIIM—This right to the jaw of Washington's and fifth rounds. Academy "in the near future,” suc- Gallagher's two long shots gave the Greek, will tangle with The Blue cast it heavily in points, but it lifed John E. Whelchel. football team, today was the pos-! a tie and then sent them Streak in the semiwindup. Billy Banks (left) was but one of many landed by New York’s After that Frankie wised up and ceeding Capt. Badgers the Great Lakes aggregation from Announcement of sessor of the John Prentiss Poe ahead in the final minutes of the Maurice La Chappplle. the Flying Victor Creelman in the process of his eight-round decision kept crowding Robinson. He didn’t Humphreys’ ap- Cup, 21st to 6th and made the Iowa game. Veteran Patterson Frenchman, who was defeated by place let the latter get set for that one pointment was made by Rear Ad- awarded annually to a member of Ray paced No. 9 a victory in the boxing show at Uline Arena last night. A 2,500 Macricostas last is Preflight, Irish victim by of his and won miral J. R. Wisconsin with 14 points as the week, meeting punch every round Beardall, academy the eleven for a to crowd $3,676.35. —Star Staff Photo. Tiger sportsmanship, the Henry Blumfield. a newcomer, in a 14-to-13 count, strong runnerup paid after the fifth. Wills was inside all superintendent, who had no in- Badgers gave Preflighters their and influence. first loss in five starts this season. 30-minute match. the South Bend stalwarts. the time and there was a lot of formation concerning the new Navy play The Seahawks 12 first- and Indiana start tomor- grabbed clinching. The split decision was football coach. Whelchel is ex- Marshall, a pre-theological student Chicago Winding up the card will be Frank 1.028 the place votes and a total of points booed not because it to leave his football coaching row, Maroons against George Brunowicz, once a great Irked Skins Toil particularly pected in the class of 1945, was the princi- drawing total com- Williams on —only 231 less than the Facing Heavy went to Wills, but because the bout duties soon to assume active sea College of Chicago the card at the Washington auditorium, Dame. pal ground-gainer for the Tigers and the versus piled by Notre itself was more of a grab-and-hold duty. Midway Hoosiers mixing with Chief Mambu Tabu, the re- and did most of the team’s Michigan, with a single expert session than it was a passing Camp Atterbury at Bloomington. Oklahoma Indian, for 30 minutes. To Forestall Jolt Giants fight. There were reports, however, that was by and kicking. He for Prince- it as the country's best, the was the prepared garding Stealing show eight- the athletic department favored ap-; while 13-to-0 victory By WALTER McCALLUM. should be healed by midweek, but ton at Shadyslde Academy, Pitts- third, Navy’s : round semifinal in which Vic Creel- of an Shocked out of illusions of an un- there's still some pointment academy graduate Pa. over Army hiked it from sixth a, doubt about Dick New York burgh, j man. welterweight, de- to serve as head grid coach and to fourth. beaten season, the Redskins were to Farman, regular Redskin starting j Presentation of the cup was made week ago cisioned Washington's Billy Banks. that the selection would be made! a plunge into probably their hardest guard, available He by Nellson Poe, *97. brother of the Purdue, undefeated and whom being Sunday. This, too, resulted in a divided ver- work I from some former football star now! as No.
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