Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-01
KIRN, EX-SUB, HERO
. OF MILDLY VICTORY
New Back Smashes Big
Green Line to Score Twice
as Losers Passes Fail.
BY EDWARD J. NEIL,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


hectic season, Navy uncorked a
4 smashing offensive today, a
brand-new scoring back, and
enough punch to whip powerful Dart
mouth eleven, Is to 6, for the first and
last mayor victory of the Sailors In the
1929 gridiron campaign.
A second year youngster named Lew
Kim, $50 pounds of smash and go from
Hightstown, N: j., was the leather lug
ging Moses who led the hand-picked
nephews of Uncle Sam out of wilder
ness of defeat and ties that have en-
quilted the Navy record since the start
of the season. Thriving on the coolest
November 80 Philadelphia has expert
enced since 1880, this 19-year-old boy,
one of the "B" squad sparring partners
for the first team until two weeks ago,
smashed the husky Dartmouth line
for two touchdownS in the second half
and all but one of the points needed to
win the first game Navy has ever play
ed with the Indians from the Hanover
Hills Of New Hampshire.
Navy Gets Jump.
While 10000 of the faithful braved
the bitter winds that accompanied q
temperature of 10 degrees at Franklin
Field. Navy quickly got the jump on a
Dartmouth team that had been beaten
previously only by Yale, and never once
relinquiShed the upper hand.
Kirn, ripping the tackles and slam
ming the guards, kept the sturdy Dart
mouth line constantly on the defensive,
while Jack Cannon, veteran Navy back,
sprayed his ends and backs with short
passes that gained little, but tantalized
the Indians secondary defenses no end.
The Sailor line, playing great foot
ball from end to end on frozen grid
iron that had the resiliency of a rock
ledge, held the hard-running Dartmouth
backs so completely that the New
Englanders made only two first downs
in the first half and five in the second
Navy piled up IL first downs and stole
leaf from the Dartmouth book with
IL completed passes in II tries, for the
surprisingly small total of IS yards
gained. Dartmouth could complete only
two passes in IA tries, for 80 yards.
First Half ScOreIess.
The first half was scoreIess, although
Navy three times had Dartmouth in
trying positions. In the opening kick
OF, when hands were nun1bed by the
cold. a Dartmouth tumble gave Navy
the ball on the Big Green 32-yard line.
1t was too early for Navy to gain con-
sistently and even in the second quar-
ter, when the smashes of Kim and
Gannon's short passes for and yard
gains reached to the Dartmouth %
and then 14-yard lines, the Sailors
could not keep up a sustained offensive.
Dartmouth never had the ball in Navy
territory in the first half.
kim, the youngster who was ready
to quit foot ball two weeks ago until
unexpected promotion brought him to
the 1rst squad warmed to his task in
the second half. Taking a punt on his
own 30-yard line, the Jersey lad ran
back to his own 45-yard mark, smashed
through to Dartmouth's 30-yard stripe
In four lunges, and then rested while
Cannon tossed five straight passes to
the Green 13-yard line. Then, in
half dozen plunges, Kim carried the
ball over for touchdown.
BOwstrOm Blocks Kick.
A few moments later Bob Bowstrom.
big Navy tackle, blocked Bill Norton's
kick on the Dartmouth 48-yard line and
Moret, Navy end, chased it all the way
to- the Green 12-yard line before recov-
ering it. In four smaShes Kim laid
the ball on Dartmouth'S 1-yard line as
the period ended. He carried the
leather over for the second touchdown
on the first play of the fourth quarter
and Cannon passed to Clifton for the
extra point
A poor kick by Bowstrom that slanted
off INTO McCall's arms on the Navy "a
yard line, gave Dartmouth its first scor-
ing opportunity in the final period.
Mccall and Wolff eked out one first
down through the line before Wolff shot
a forward pass to Mccall from the az
yard line that was good for an easy
score. The try for point was blocked
and though Morton threw focks of wild
passes in the final minutes the big
Green was never dangerous again.
The victory closed a mediocre season
for Navy. The Sailors, picked as one of
the most formidable elevens of the East
at the outset, lost both to Notre Dame
and Pennsylvania and we're tied by
Georgetown and Princeton in the major
contests.