Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-09
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Wolfe Do It
BY HAROLD KAHL

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Wojciechowicz were being her.
aided today as the players respon.
sible for the Detroit Lions first
pro football league victory of the
season over the Brooklyn Tigers
at Briggs Stadium yesterday
/ 1914.
The pair staged a two-mar
show. Slnkwich on offense and
Wolfe on defense. as the Lions
turned what started out like
another defeat into a brilliant
triumph TO the delight of Is. 702
fans. At that the ultimate out
come of the thrilling encounter
was in doubt until the final gun
bSrked.
$inkwich electrified the crowd
with a sensational 72-yard sprint
down the sidelines for Detroits
second I'd at the start of the
third after he scored the first on
4-yard dash around end in the
second. His recovery of a tumble
and passing led 10 the third. Bob
Westfall took it over from the l.
foot line in the third heat.
GAINS 1885 YARDS
Just how prominently Sinkwich
figured is shown in the statistics.
He gained 135 of the Lions total
yardage of $50 by rushing in Is
attempts. All of Detroit's 1873
yards passing resulted from his
seven compilations in II attempts.
That Clarence Manders, Brook
lyn's chief man afoot with &c
yards in n attempts. had the mis-
fortune of cracking three ribs
tackling Sinkwich spelling what
was otherwise a big day.
Especially when S XIV h
learned Manders' wife was seri-
ously injured in an automobile
accident Saturday night and the
Brooklyn star hoped to join her
in Des Moines, Ia, Immediately
after the game.
HE'S ALL OVER
Wojie's play was reminiscent
of the days he was one of the
Seven Blocks of Granite" at
Fordham. He was all over max
ing tackles and his interception
of Charley McGibbony's pass on
Detroit's "a in the first period
thwarted a Brooklyn march.
This McGibbony's passing Che
completed four out of Il for 113
yards and running had the Lions
on the defensive until he con-
nected early in the second quar-
ter. Given loads of time, in
possession on his SO, McGibbony
shot a long one Ray Hare caught
on Detroit's 80 and ran across.
Frank Kinard goaled.
The Lions knotted the score
when Al kaporch intercepted a
McGibbony toss and was downed
on the Tigers 46. Mixing off
tackle slants with passes, they
drove TO the 4 where Sinkwich
ran off the Tigers left flank. He
also goaled.
The spectators had hardly set
tied in their seats at the start of
the second half when Sinkwich
had them up with his 72-yard
gallop.
Sinkwich's recovery of kinard's
tumble on the Lions IA after the
latter had intercepted the De-
troiter's pass set up another
marker a little later. Frank
Sachse nailed Art Van Tone on
the 1-foot line, according to an
official, after he had taken an
8-yard heave on the Tigers 80
WeStfall went Off tackle on the
next play and Sinkwich again
the extra point.
The Tigers, however, didn't
give up and scored again in the
fourth quarter on a 39-yard drive,
Manders going off tackle from the
2-foot line. Kinard kicked the
extra point. With Van Tone
holding on the II, Sinkwich
attempted field goal late in the
game. but his boot was wide.
A play that confused the fans
occurred in the second quarter.
Sinkwich tossed a pass from his
IL TO Diehl who caught the ball,
juggled it and the ndropped II
when forced outside on the Tigers
"a. 1t was ruled complete be-
cause he had possession before
going outside.