Evening star., 1938-10-15
TITANIC TUSSLES
SCARE PROPHETS
Big Teams SO Well Matched
That Picking Winners
Is Ticklish Task.
By BILL BONI.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-The Nations
weekly football drama, starring one
principal attraction in each section Of
the country and backing that up with
a notable supporting cast, moved into =
scene three of its october act today
before another array of packed houses.
1t was drama likely to be tragedy
chiefly for the hardy football fore
caster. In almost every game there
was definite favorite but the margin
of favoritism was so slim that the
smallest break, or the slightest acci-
dent, could upset the favorites, and
the forecasters'. apple carts.
The six headliners were expected to
draw $4,000 spectators-57,0 900 for
Minnesota Michigan and $4,000 for
Pittsburgh wisconsin, sharing top BILL
ing in the Middle West; $4,000 for
, U. c. L. A.-California, No. game on
the Pacific Coast: $4,000 for Alabama.
Tennessee, the days big game in the
South, and $4,000 each for Syracuse.
Cornell and Texas A. ano M.-Texas
Christian chief attractions in the East
and Southwest, respectively.
| Tests for Unbeaten Bands.
| Each of these battles had a strong
bearing on deciding sectional cham
pionships The Minnesota Michigan,
Pitt Wisconsin, Alabama Tennessee
and Syracuse Cornell games drew
added importance from the fact that.
they brought together teams which
had gone undefeated through all their
tests so far
In grave fear Of being mousetrapped
on the very first play, this observer
came out of one-man huddle with
the following conclusions on the
games (probable attendance figures In
parentheses):
Minnesota Michigan 7000)-Har-
old Van Every, the Gophers' star back,
still was on the injured list. But
Bernie Bierman's way Of assigning &
police escort of four blockers to every
other ball carrier sounded like too
many for Michigan to stop Minnesota.
Syracuse Cornell (25.00O) - The
Orange spoiled the Big Reds party a
year ago. when Cornell was supposed
to have much and Syracuse little.
Syracuse has more this year, but so
has Cornell. Enough more to win
probably. but warnings of a backfire
were out.
California Favored.
q. c. L. A.-California (50O00)-We
strung with California against it's
bothersome little brother from Los
Angeles.
Wisconsin, Pittsburgh (29 9o0O)-One-
team Pittsburgh against the we'll
manned Badgers. Pending further
developments, it still was the Panthers.
Alabama Tennessee (26,000)-Ten-
nessee beat Auburn, Auburn tied Tu-
lane, Tulane beat North Carolina,
North Carolina beat North Carolina
State. and so did Alabama. So what?
Alabama, but close.
Texas A. and M-Texas Christian
(25.00O)-Dick Todd against Davey
O'Brien. In the face of Southwest
precedent that favors the passer. We
took Todd and A. and NJ
Fordham Purdue 100000 - The
Rams believe they finally have cli-
max runner in Sophomore Len Esh-
mont. They've got few other handy
men, too. Fordham.
Illinois-Notre Dame (47,000)-Illi-
nois' line has held its last two rivals
to negligible gains. But neither of
those rivals had the Irish" array
of ball carriers. Notre Dame.
Tulane, without Guarantee.
Tulane-Rice 25000)-Tulane has
been improving from week to week,
Rice disappointing from week to week.
Tulane. without guarantee or rain
checks.
Columbia Colgate $4,000 - Bat
teries for today, Luckman and Co.
lumbia, Lube pronounced Loo-bay)
and Colgate. Banking on the formers
greater experience and control, Co
lumbia.
Notwithstanding State (35,000)-
Strictly in the anything can happen"
league. Northwestern, though this was
the Wildcats first big game
Stanford Oregon 100000 - Tex
Oliver has the Webfoots on top of the
Pacific Coast heap in his first season.
More power to fim-enough to beat
out Stanford
Carnegie Tech-Holy Cross (40000)
Both unbeaten, both united. Holy
Cross
Duke-Georgia Tech 5,00O)-Wal-
lace Wade and Bill Alexander have
been rivals since 1923. 1t looks Wade
and Duke's-year.
Odds and Ends Of Slate.
Here and there:
East-Navy over Yale, Pennsylvania
over Princeton, Dartmouth over
Brown, Army over Harvard. N Y q.
over North Carolina, Michigan state
over West Virginia, W. and J. over
Lafayette, Maryland over Western
Maryland, Penn State over Lehigh,
Villanova over Centre.
MidWest-Oklahom over Kansas,
Nebraska over Indiana, Iowa over Chi
cago, Iowa State over Missouri, Creigl-
ton over Drake
South and Southwest-KentucHy
over w. and L., Arkansas over Texas,
Baylor over Centenary. v. M. /. over.
Richmond, Wake Forest over N. c.
State, Vanderbilt over Mississippi.
Far West-Southern California o5c"
Washington State, Washington oVet
Oregon State. George Washington ov1r
Colorado, Santa Clara over Arizona.