The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-12-07

taken by Jacksonville, Of the Sally
League. Bennett was claimed by
Mobile, but he was one of the Ha-
gerstown players claimed by the
Boston Braves at the end of the sea-
son under their working agreement
with Hagerstown, and so was not
on the Hagerstown Roster
With players like Levan, Tedesco
and Burgett as trading bait, l would
not be surprised of Dutch Dorman
comes out of the meeting with some
new faces for the 1851 team and no
doubt he, or general manager Ru-
fus Edwards, will have some inter
esting news when they get back
home
But as I've said in this column
before, the makeup of the 1851 Ha-
gerstown Braves will depend large
ly on what the boys show Dutch
when they go into spring training.
Navy proved on Saturday after
noon that a team that has trained
practically all season on milk and
crackers, with it's last meal just
plain milk-New Mexico College
was no match for team that had
been fed raw meat all season long
and then given two weeks in which
to thoroughly digest it before the
biggest meal of albany.
The final score-Navy ID, Army 2
doesn't begin to show the SUI
periority of the Midshipmen on the
days play, either from the point of
view of the physical aspects of the
game, or the mental.
Let's look, first at the mental at
titude of the two teams
Navy, a 20-point underdog, went
into the game, as did their coach,
with, it seemed to me, devil-may-
care attitude An attitude that
seemed to say-We've got nothing to
lose and everything to gain, so let's
throw the book at them-as was
evidenced by that fake punt forma-
ton in the first quarter when, on
fourth down and two to go, with the
ball on Navy's 22-yard line, Bob
Cameron dropped back as if to kick,
but instead ran with the ball. Then,
in the second half, with Navy lead
ing 10 and less then three minutes
to go before the half ended, Navy,
with the ball on their own 36-yard
line, made no attempt, as might
well have been expected, to protect
their lead by freezing the ball for
those last few minutes, but instead,
under the tremendous quarter
backing of Zug Zastrow, started
daring drive that in two line plays
carried them down to Army's 80.
Then with the seconds rapidly tick
ing away, Zastrow started out on
what looked like a deliberate
freeze" play around left end But
just before he reached the line of
scrimmage he stopped dead in his
tracks and threw a high pass into
the end zone that Nays right end,
Baldinger, leaped into the air and
caught, to put the game on ice.
Contrast these devil-may-care tao
tics with the ra-conservative tao
tics Of Army, who seemed to be say
ing-We're the champions, don't
take any unnecessary chances, We
will just wear them down and pour
it on them when they start to weak
en-. How else can you explain
Army's decision, when in the sec
ond quarter, with Navy leading TO,
Army had the ball on Navy's 81
yard line, fourth down and two to
go, but Blaik elected to kick rather
than gamble on making those two
yards and a possible touchdown and
a tie score?
Turning now to the physical as
poets of the game, that very play in
the early part of the first quarter,
when Cameron went off tackle from
that fake punt formation, proved the
definite superiority of Navy.
As you remember, the strategy
backfred when Cameron fumbled
and Army recovered on Nays %.
And right then everyone predicted
that the expected rout was on and
that Army would crash through for
those remaining % yards to 60 out
in front. But what happened? On
the first play Fischl was thrown for
a yard loss at left end; on the next
play a pass, Blaik to Folberg, was
good for exactly four yards; on third
down a Blaik pass was knocked
down, and on the fourth down Ste
phenson was stopped cold at right
end after picking up three yards.