New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

nave q cnance.
| With the score well knotted at IA
and IA in the final quarter and only
three minutes left for play in the first
fringes Of October dusk. OrviIle
("Tiny") Hewitt, the 210-pound Pitts
burgh fullback. intercepted a forward
pass from Simmons on his own 20-yard
line to run eighty yards back to flying
interference for the winning touch
down Of the day.
The pass that settled in Hewitt's
arms and the thrilling run which fol
| lowing came as the most stunning
shock which great football crowd ever
| knew. For here was sudden and Bit
| ter defeat in place of victory which q
racment before had only been q span
away, defeat all the more bitter in view
of the fact that Syracuse had been out
playing his hard-fighting opponent all
| through the decisive period Of the day
| and apparently was just upon the verge
| of cashing in this superior power when
! the bolt struck and only shattered
dream was left as Hewitt, surrounded
by his five mates. crossed chalk mark
after chalk mark until he finally
lanted the ball upon the fertile soil Of
victory.
Orange Machine Buckles
! Once again it was the old, old story
of a Pittsburgh team rising to its
greatest heights against Syracuse as
| the Orange machine buckled up
| against an ancient hoodoo that it can
not drive away.
| The story of the closing moments of
that fourth quarter makes one of the
most spectacular pages in football his
| tory. 1t was perfect drama, further
embellished by the incidents that had
gone before. Pittsburgh had scored
first early in the game largely through
! a Syracuse tumble in Syracuse terri
tory. Syracuse. with a fine rally, had
swept back into the lead with two
downs and strong margin Of safety.
Whereupon Hoot Flanagan breaks into
the Pittsburgh cast and, almost un-
aided, ties up the score again with
three great rushes down the field, the
last circling Jappe's end for touch
down.
With the score tied at two touch
downs each and the fourth quarter Just
warming up the stage is now all set
for the closing Syracuse drive and the
| well-earned Syracuse revenge for what
happened a year ago. After brief
furry around midfeld Bowman, the
feet Syracuse back, whirls over 20 the
right and shoots a forward pass which
! Zimmerman takes out of the air while
travelling at top speed.
| Zimmerman, without slackening his
| pace for moment as he takes the ball,
swerves over to the left, with Flanagan
cutting across to drive him out of
bounds. 1t is here a race for life and
| death, but at the last drive Flanagan
barely managed to crowd his rival over
c;< &~yI fia
| goal. Once again Flanagan, the sub
stitue, had turned the tide. He had
scored one touchdown and had saved
another brilliant offensive and defen-
sive play.
Pantherns Appear Doomed
| But even with this spectacular
| Flanagan effort, Pittsburgh looks
doomed, as Syracuse has the ball on
her five-yard line with downs to go.
Line attacks by Anderson and Bow
man gain just three yards, Pittsburgh
has lost her last two games and she is
about to lose another, but her in
domltable spirit fails to weaken in the
crisis. At this point Simmons rushes
IN to run the team and with one down
left, in place of driving off tackle on
the left side of Pittsburgh's line, the
| weaker side, as his instructions an
doubtedly We're, he elects to send Bow
man on wide sweeping end run around
plttsburghs stronger side, where the
alert and certain Williams is on guard.
hoWman IS thrown for loss. Pitts
| ou!gh mad shown no punter up to this
| point able to kick a football thirty
yards. put once more it falls upon the
at "Hoot" Flanagan, who. STANDING
| PACK Of his goal line, kicked ffty-two
| yards on by midfeld; the strong Syra-
cuse offensive is halted, but onIv for
q breath. For, after a play or two
bowman, the fieetest back on the field
IS shaken loose, escorted past the
serimmage line and left alone to maLa
| his way
bowman, once loose, started for the
ie1t, stopped, waited moment too
iong after covering twenty-five yards,
| ana was nnally brought down on Pitts
nurgh's 1S-yard line, where he might
have come much closer to score bv
| using his great speed without break
, on swerve Off to the right. Even
| as IT was, Syracuse was still threaten
ing, still the dominant factor. still, an
| the verge of winning when a penalty
set her back fifteen yards to the an.
yard line. Here one forward pass
Hewitt Starts Long Run
] On the next atte,Apt Simmons PASSED
far to the right of his line, off to
one one side Of the fieM where orville,
npiny Hewitt and five fleet, husky
r,anthers f,aI were on the JOB. The pass
| lew lew straight into Hewitt,s grasp and
/ lhere We're but two rivals in the .wav
as his well guarded carayauser;e
started Ta on the long, long march.
lnese two Syracuse defendants were
quickly brushed aside and amid =
STRAINED. tense silence. the silence Of
agony OF shock, Hewitt crossed the line
ana q another Pittsburgh team had beaten
., syracuse rival that looked to have
sness stronger machine. But Of all the
/ games eves played between these two
| oLd rivals, tins was the toughest one
! .nae Syracuse eyer lost, for She lost it
/ as she s, was in the act OF winning. and
hghtning defeat which suddenly
lakes sal the place of expected victory Il
Always tho rawest blow the game has
20 OTTER those who follow it's devious
| and winding wavs. 80
r,.a As bitter az the defeat came for