The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-01
CENTRAL PASSES
 PROVE TOO MUCH
 FOR THE JACKETS
CrimSOnS Defeat EnsIey Foes in TituIar Battle at Rick
 wood, 6 to 0

GltY GHamplouS or i8SS, ana cAdirn- ants of the state title that's the status of the Crimson grldders of Central High school. after their Turkey Day clash with the Fellow Jackets of Enslsy High At Rick wood park yesterday morning, the crimsous won a grueliins struggle from tho Yellow Jackets, by the score of to o.
 There were~su surprises and surprises in yesterday mornings battle at ming attack of the Crlmsons. the powerful line smashes and swift end runs, failed to materia1ize. Time after 1 time Crimson runners were thrown ! for losses by tho Jacket forwards. and tho Central attack was forced to i shift from its regular channels, and resort to aerial work to win the game, The work Of the Ensley line waF an undoubted feature of the l game, the Jackets forwards so thor oughly Hooking in on Newton. Crave lee and company that. If totals were l compiled, they would probably show l that the Crimsons lost moro ground
 
 and through the line.
 Jackets Dfdn,t Pass
 On the other hand. Ensleys most 1 feared of forward passing maohtneS failed to open up with any aerial work whatever, until the game had progressed so far that 1t was almost hopeless to attempt to pull 1t out of I the fire. Then. when Quarterback 1 Hassler had finally decided to use 1 fIs passes. the Jackets had no more success with them than mere novices. The passer would either be l covered and lose many yards. or the I ball would go wild when thrown Only one pass was completed by Ensley.- and ftswas forsonly a-ahort gath.
 It was with forward passes that 1 Central won tho game. A few min- utes before the first half ended. finds ing that their running attack waa making little or no headways the l CrImsons resorted to the overhead attack. Freeman. bunting for Ens- ley. hit an 'offside man on his own team. and it was Centrafs ball where the misplay occurred, with five yards more on a penalty.
 l How Central Won
 That gave the crimsons the ball on Ensley's 20-yard line. Newton passed Is yards to Holder. but the ball was brought back. when a Central man 1 was offsides. On the next play, Newton again passed to Holder. the Crimson captain catching the ball on the run after 1t had travelled. 20 yards through the air. and then fall ing across Ensley's goal line for the icne score of the day. 1 Holders attempt at goal from placement failed.
 The two teams fought on about equal terms throughout the contest. l There was little to choose between the performances of the two teams. although Ensley gained more through I Gentrars line than the crimsens did through the Jackets What gain ing the Jackets did was done through
 the line and around ends, as their open work was not used yesterday
 Stars of Game
 For the winners, Sanford and Cap-
 tain Holder, at the ends. played great ball. Sanford's defensive work was feature. and he, with Mills and Streit. made the Crimsons' left side of the line look like stone wall.
 There were no sensational back I field plays in yesterday mornings game, although Newton's accurate passing enabled the Crimsons to win. Gravelee and F'ullbrfght gained at times. while chet Hoster, quarter back. certainly seemed to get the best possible results out of his team. Il Ensley presented a stone wall limo
 defense that hurled the Crimson backs to losses time and time again. From end to end. the forwards played
 jam-up ball, and 1t would be hard task to pick a star who shone brighter ' than the rest out of the bunch. Country Lowry, played an aggressive. affective game. while Hardie, at csn- ter, was great on the defense. al- though his passes to the backs at ' times were bit unsteady. Freeman n Star
 In the backfield, 1t Is easy to pick the Jacket star. Freeman. halfback, was In great form yesterday, and
 gained practically every time he carried the ball The wonder was that he was not called upon more. l az he always came through with a few precious yards. Tinkelpaugh gained on end runs. when he held on to the ball. while Spring was sent
 though the line for several neat gains. Pete Hassfer. field general, made two or three nice end runs. and
 bueked the line for first downs on two or three occasions.
 \ Freeman's bunting kept the Cxfn- sons down in safo territory, the biz . JaCKelS DAck ktktlHA OIh opHk0 ASuk spirals that were beauties
 Fumbies Are Costly
 There was considerable funbftns in the Ensiey backfieid yesterday. On the other hand. costly tumble by the crimsons almost resulted in 8. Jacket touchdown. In the second period. Newton. while going through tackle, in the very shadow of Ems ley's goal posts. dropped the ball, and Zac Walker. captain of the Ems ley outfit, scooped up the ball and istarted for Centrals goal line. with Ia clear field ahead and several in- terferers accompanying him. Walker l stumbled and fell, and before he fcould regain his feet and continue
 his way to touchdown, & Crimson defender had fallen on him.
 There were no particular thrills. in yesterdays game. just hard fought, whole-souled struggle, with the more resourceful team winning. Line-ups and summary:
 Streit. l. g.; Smith, c.: Yielding. r. g.. II Hoster. q. b.; Young. l. h. b.; Newton. r. h. b.; Gravelee, f. b. Ensley--Walker Gel, l. e.: J. Eng fish, t.; Faircloth. l. g.; Hardie, C.:
 Barnett. r. g.; Lowery. r. t.; Vines, , r. e.; Hassler. q. b.; Tinkelpaugh, l. h. b.; Freeman. r. h. b.; Spring, f. b. | Substitutions; Central, Fullbright for Young; Ensley. Lavis for Falr- si cloth, Harwood for Spring. Fayatts for Barnett Vowell for Vines. Spring for Harwood. Barnett for Lavfs. ' Abercrombie for Barnett l Touchdown: Central, Holder.