New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08

Armed Guards
Hold Pelham to
Scoreless Tie
Lear Tower of Strength, to
Bay Boys, but Attack of
the Latter Is Too Weak

The Pelham Bay Naval Training Sta
ton football eleven battled to a 0 to 0
tie with the Armed Guard, of Brooklyn,
on South Field yesterday afternoon.
The game was bitter struggle with
Pelham Bay showing an aggressive for
ward line and doing most of the fight
ing, but failing to develop scoring
punch. Twice Pelham brought the ball
inside the Guards 10-yard line, but
each time was forced to relinquish it
on downs, while a third time, after car
rying the leather to the Guards 15-yard
line. the advance was checked by the
blowing of the final whistle. Oed, the
hero of the Pelham Bay Granite State
game. last week, tried two drop kicks,
| but both failed.
king" Lear, the one-tme big league
ball player, was a power in the Pei
ham Bay team, and late in the second
half it appeared as if he would save
the game but, despite two spectacular
runs with the ball. he failed to bring
victory to his team. Lear broke away
the first time and carried the ball to
Armed Guards 96-yard mark. Then he
sliced off tackle on brilliant run that
carried him to the 20-yard line. Ford
made six yards and then forward
pass from Lear to Hagen gained five
Guards 9-yard mark. There the
Guard held, and, despite four smash
ing drives, Pelham couldn't gain and
had to give up the ball on downs
Guards Defence Too Strong
, Pelham Bay was keen to win the
game and thereby earn q clear title to
the championship of the Third Naval
District, but it could not bulge the
Guards defence once it was thrown
back on it's last line. The Guard had
no attack of its own and failed to make
single first down in the course. of the
game, getting within scoring distance
only once. But, defensively, it played
we'll.
Both teams handled the ball poorly,
for fumbles came thick and fast all
through the battle. If it hadn't been
for errors in handling the ball, Armed
Guard never would have been inside
of Pelham's end of the field. In the
third period Lear missed double pass
from Wakefield and Davis grabbed up
the ball for Armed Guard. Three line
smashes failed to gain an inch, and then
Davis hurled forward pass which was
intercepted by Lear. The baseball
player was tackled and thrown outside
the line, and he struck the ground with
such force that the ball bounced out of
his arms and Davis again recovered it
for the Guard. That time Pelham took
the leather on downs, after the Guard
had failed to gain.
Pelham Rush Comes Late
In the first quarter Pelham had the
ball most of the time, but could not
get within scoring distance, but in the
second period Bergin's team advanced
the ball to Armed Guards 10-yard
mark, where the Brooklyn sailors made
their first defensive stand taking it on
downs. AS the first half came to an
end Pelham had carried the ball down
to the Guards 15yard mark, only to
have the advance go for naught when
the whistle blew.
In the third period Pelham had a
chance to score after the Guard had
made its brief sortie into Pelham ter
field goal from the 35-yard mark by
Oed, was q failure. In the fourth
period the play, for the most part, was
in midfeld, until Lear broke loose and
advanced to the Guards 20-yard mark.
The lineup and summary follow:
Pelham Bay co., Position. Armed Guard lol
Fitzpatrick ..........L L. .....,......... Edison
Weber .................L T......,....,... Oldham
Norlstrom .............L G......,.........; Grace
Throckmorton ...,..... r. 6 ...,.......... Hogariy
Mcshelley .........,...R 7. ............;, Bishop
W 1afsa .o q B5..''', ,''Hl'i iss
Ford ..........,.....I. q 3. ..........,. MeCool
Hannah ..............F Observation-Disclosures. Davis
Bay Duncan nc for
Dodge for French MeDQnaId for Davis Melinofsky
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