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Saddler KO's Pep in Fourth Round
Lightweight Blues'Rip
'Reds'; Burns, Ryan Star
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NEW YORK-(P)-Sandy Sad-
dler, spindle-legged Harlem
scored a stunning fistic upset
last night when he knocked out
Willie Pep of Hartford, Conn., to
win the World Featherweight
Championship in 2:38 of the
fourth round at Madison Square
Garden.
Pep, a 1 to 3 favorite who never
before had been knocked out in
136 previous fights, went down for
the full count from a murderous
left hook thrown bly the lean
graduate of the New York Police
Athletic League.
* * *
FLOORING PEP twice in the
third round, each for a count of
c ndl
nine, Saddler swarmed all over
Wily Willie in the fourth to lift
'he 126-pound crown from the lit-
le fellow who had held it since
1942.
Saddler at 124 gave a pound
and a half to Pep, who weighed
1251,.
The long-armed Saddler car-'
ried the battle to Willie through-
out the milling. For a time it
Seemed that Pep would be able to
bottle up Saddler's stunning left
uppercut. But that was the blow
that shook the New Englander
loose from his crown.
* * *
after the first minute of the scrap,
Pep suffered a cut under his right
eye in the third when he just
escaped a kayo, saved by the bell.
Three smashing left upper-
cuts by Saddler started Pep on
his way in the third when he
was caught flatfooted in his
own corner by the fury of the
attack of the 22-year-old chal-
lenger.
When Willie finally managed to
squirm loose from Saddler's punch
barrage, he had the cut under the
right eye. Well mussed up and ob-
viously hurt, Pep ran smack into a
left uppercut that dumped him
for the count of nine,
BLEEDING FROM
the nose'
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Everybody got into the act yes-
terday as Michigan's lightweight
gridders staged their third-and
by far their most impressive-in-
trasquad game of the season at
Ferry Field.
Five men joined in the scoring
and a dozen others turned in stel-
lar performances as the "Blues"
walloped the "Reds," 61-0, in a
direct about face from last week's
dismal showing at Illinois.
IT WAS A HIGHLY satisfactory
showing for the little Wolverines
who were sent to their showers in
the gathering dusk with the first
words of praise they had earned in
two weeks ringing in their ears.
The 150 - pounders tackled
and blocked with a vigor that
would have done Dick Kemp-
thorn proud, and showed a spirit
that had been conspicuous by its
absence in recent weeks.
Prentice Ryan started the
"Blue's" scoring parade late in the
first quarter when he grabbed a
30-yard pass from quzrterback
Jerry Burns on the 3-yard line and
stepped over for the first of his
three touchdowns.
THE SPEEDY halfback then
put on a one-man show which left
spectators shaking their heads..
After kicking the extra point,
Ryan went back to kick off to
the "Reds" who returned the ball
to their 35.
On the first play from scrim-
mage he intercepted a Red pass
and returned it to the 32. Full-
back Bud Marshall carried to
the 26 and then Ryan raced
around left end to the 2. From
there it took the one-than gang
one play to hit paydirt.
Then-you guessed it-Ryan
dropped back and sent the pig-
SEYMOUR SONKIN, Night Editor
skin soaring between the goal
posts to run his total to fourteen
points for the day.
AFTER THAT IT became a
question of how many points the
"Blues" would score. Marshall ran
the score to 20-0 on a beautiful
run through left tackle of 38
yards.
Burns, whose passing was
outstanding all afternoon,
passed to left half Johnny Wil-
cox for the fourth six-pointer
and the combination repeated
three plays later to make the
score 34-0.
End Pat Costa grabbed a mis-
directed "Red" lateral on their 24-
yard line and raced the remaining
distance untouched to aocount
for touchdown No. 6, and then lit-
tle Ed Morey made the best run of
the day, 73 yards through his
right tackle, to score for the
"Blue's" once again.
* * *
RYAN SCORED his third
touchdown on a two-yard plunge
after dribbling, a la Rifenburg, for
28 yards cn the previous play and
Costa gathered in a Burns pass
good for 22 yards to wind up the
festivities.
Johnny Wilcox made six perfect
conversions in six attempts to ac-
count for the rest of the Blue
points.
our MCIA
team!
how
. . .
WTC re
proud of
... and why not?
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With the brilliant coaching
of Bennie Oosterbaan and the
winning football these boys play,
naturally it's the top team
in the country.
CONG RAT ULATIONS -
Fighting Wolverines of 1948!
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