The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-01
GAMES SCHEDULED
FOR FINAL FLING
By SID FEEDER

BY SID FEEDER
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-RLMr.
Football, capable hand with a
tasty dish, puts what is left OF his
1913 gridiron stew into seven bowls
tomorrow and serves 1t up not to
some 100000 customers.
From the Orange bowl at Miami
to the Rose bowl out in Pasadena
with dips into the New Orleans
Sugar bowl the Dallas Cotton bowl,
the Houston Oil bowl, the Ell Paso
Sun bowl and the East-West war
at San Francisco-the pileup-pass-
and-punt parade puts on its last
fling before wrapping up all the
little pigskins until next fall. And
from all reports. it's going to be
quite show.
Most of it figures to be an aerial
circus from the word go. For in
stance, the Sugar bowl. which may
head the attendance list with 49,
O0O-the Rose bowl turnout is ex-
pected to fall way off from its
''high'-shapes up as pitchers
battle between two of the wear S
better collegiate elbowers, Tulsa's
Clyde Leforce and Georgia Techs
Eddie Prokop.
At Miami, where Texas A. &M.
tang1es with Louisiana State, Aggie
Coach Homer Norton already is
promising to ''give 'em Texas"
which can only mean ride
through the air with the greatest
of ease. Glenn Dobbs, who piled
up a fancy learned run average"
'flipping'' for Randolph F e l d.
at Tulsa until this year, will be
against Texas in the Cotton bowl.
And both the Oil bowl, featuring
Arkansas A. & M. and Southwest
ern Louisiana. and the Sun bowl,
Texas and New Mexico, figure to
bringing together Southwestern
be up in balloon and bouncing
along.
Transportation difficulties and
several days of rain probably will
keep the Rose bowl attendance well
down from its record $4,000, and
the best estimates are that only
some $4,000 will show up to see
Southern California, which has new
er lost Rose bowl game in six
starts, collide with the unbeaten,
united Washington HuskieS, W h o
have never won one in four tries.
The Huskies, who played only four
games this season, are 2 to 5 IA
vorites to break the jinx, largely
because of their win over March
Field, which handed Southern Cal
one of the Trojans' two defeats
this season.
At New Orleans. Tulsa makes a
return trip to the Sugar bowl, but
the folks in New Orleans don't
think much more of the Golden
Hurricanes chances this time than
year ago, when Tennessee came
through on top. This time, Georgia
Tech is 5 to 8 favorite to turn
the trick, despite the Hurricanes
unbeaten record.
Two of the days tussels are re-
turn matches. For the expected %,
900 watching the Orange D W
brawl the Texas Aggies face an
L. S. U. team over which they
already hold 28-13 decision this
season, but the Aggies' edge mar
rowed when their key back. Mar
ion Flanagan, came down with
twisted knee and was declared
out. Earlier this year, Arkansas
A. M. and Southwestern Louisl-
ana went all out to a 20-2O dead
lock and naturally are toss-up
for this second-time around. South
western comes into Houston with
an unbeaten record for the year.
Just what's on the fire for the
East-West game, which probably
will have $4,000 fans sitting in on
the shindig, isn't quite clear. The
West is the l to 2 betting choice,
but has just lost two men-Frank
Rhea, Oregon's 216-pound guard,
who was declared ineligible f o 7
playing two games with the Chi
cago professional Cardinals, n d
George Bettridge, Utah fullback,
who is i'll.
The experts are all tangled
up, too, in the Cotton bowl, which
is looking for a crowd of $4,000.
Randolph Field, featuring ''Magi.
cian' Glenn Dobbs, has lost only
one game this year and is a threat
as long as Dobbs keeps pulling
the rabbits out Of his hat. But
Texas, also beaten but once, stands
out as one of Dana Bibles best
outfits, and Dana x. is a whole
lot better than a green hand al
the game.