Evening star., 1952-11-26
Underdog Role Played
Aqain as Raiders Face
Wilson for Crown
By Brion Bell, Jr.

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the seasons big upsets before bow
ing, TO. to st. Johns in the Cath
olic League high school title game
before a crowd of 10000 last night
The Raiders 5-4 seasons record
hardly compares with Wilson's
impressive 8-0-1 mark. but neither
did Gonzaga figure to give St
Johns much competition. The
Western Wilson game is a neigh
borhood rivalry which goes back
16 years and the favorite's role
may mean little.
Fred Mulvey, Western coach. Is
frank to admit he likes his posi-
ton. Upsets occupy much of the
record in the Western Wilson
series and the Raiders will be up
for tonight's game.
Wilson Has Heavy Artillery.
Wilson. on the other hand, has
most of the heavy artillery on its
side. Manned by big line and
powered by two of the areas finest
backs. this years team is termed
by Coach Joe Carlo one of the
best he has ever handled at Will
son.
Western. which uses Big Jim
Bakhtiar, its crack fullback, on
both offense and defense, also
depends on the speed of Halfbacks
Billy Richardson and Fred Timbol
for long yardage. The Raiders
line-outweighed almost Is pounds
to a man-will have to play over
its head to open holes and stop
Wilson's Mike Sommer. the
speedster. and Lon Herzbrun, the
powerman. in the Tigers offense.
Last nights forecast, however,
was much along the same lines.
Gonzaga's line wasn't expected to
put up much fight against a
powerful st. Johns forward wall.
The Eagles weren't supposed to
contain the Johnnies' Bob Rusev-
lyan and Brother Frye, two fine
running backs.
AS it turned out. the Eagles
played an inspired game. Only
the breaks-a tumble recovered by
st. Johns on the Eagles 30-yard
line late in the second quarter
plus roughness penalty-de-
cided the result.
IT'D have taken a 7-6 victory
and been glad to get it the way
Gonzaga was playing" said a still
nervous Joe Gallagher, st. Johns
coach, after the game. "1t's a
good thing our defensive team
played the type Of ball it's capable
of. because extensively we couldn't t
do much"
Scores As Halftime Nears.
The Johnnies got the only
touchdown with 80 seconds re-
naming in the first half. Rusev-
lyan went over on a quarterback
sneak from the one after Dave
Shannon had recovered Gonzaga
tumble on the Eagles 80 with two
and a half minutes to go.
Although the Eagles couldn't go
very far against the st. Johns line
they held the powerful Johnnies
in check. The Gonzaga line con-
tinually smothered Frye, Rusev-
|lyan and Paul Caporaletti when
they tried to run. Rusevlyan at
tempted to go to the air but
couldn't complete a pass in five
tries and had one intercepted.
st. Johns staged one long drive
ST. yards-after the second-half
kickoff but it was halted by a
tumble at the Gonzaga 80. Two
thrusts by the Eagles in the third
period were stopped by a penalty
and a tumble.
Two Long Runs Called Back.
There were only two long runs
in the over-officiated game and
both were called back. Ralph
Hawkins returned a punt 81 yards
for what seemed touchdown for
st. Johns in the second period
but his dash was nullified by an
Ioffsides penalty. Gonzaga's Jack
|Kirchner. the best back on the
field last night, ran 81 yards to
the st. Johns 18 in the third quar-
ter but the ball was returned be-
cause Of a clipping penalty.
The st. johns touchdown came
after Kirchner passed to End Joe
Malta who fumbled when hit by
Frye. Some observers felt Malta
hadn't held the ball long enough
for it to be ruled a completed
lpass but the officials gave St.
Johns the ball after Shannon
pounced on it at the 30. A Is
yard penalty against Gonzaga for
Iroughing the passer put the ball
on the 3, Frye carried to the l
and Rusevlyon went over. Bob
Kelly kicked the point to end
the scoring.
I'VE can't sustain a long scor-
ing drive" said Frank Gilmore,
the disappointed Gonzaga coach.
1--WE have to get a long run or a
break to set up our touchdowns.
I believe If Kirchner's run hadn' t
been called back we would have
scored from the 18 but those are
the breaks, I guess"
Mush Dubofsky. st. Johns line
coach, complmented his defensive
unit led by Guard Frannie Ma
loney and Ends Shannon and
(See HIGH SCHOOLS. Pg. A-17.)