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Show NAVY BEATS ARMY IN THRILLING GRID GAME; TWO KICKS TELL TALE West Pointers Favorites Before Battle, but Never Seriously Threaten Middies' Goal; Right Tackle King Is Hero of Day, Victory Being Due to His Toe; Forty-five Thousand Frantic Fran-tic Fans Witness the Fray. NEW YORK, Nov. 29. Tho Annapolis goat Who today watered his blue blanket against the black, gray and gold trappings of the West Point mulo, all on the result of a certain football game at the Polo Grounds, tonight is nibbling with satisfaction satisfac-tion his rival's coat of many colors. For," before the greatest throng that has ever, beheld the service gridiron classic, the j navy trounced the army, G to 0. Two field goals booted by King on a field smeared with mud, brought victory to: the middies for the first time since 1912, when Annapolis won by the same score. Renewed after a lapse of three years, occasioned by the world war. the contest lost none of the pomp and ceremony, The commanders-in-chief of the two services were in their boxes, admirals ruhbe'd shoufders with generals, congressmen and-dlploraats and-dlploraats vied with one another for front row seats and fair women without number viewed the spectacle. And .to their credit be it said that although al-though the game began in rain and en.ied In fog. which at times hid punts from view, (here was not a deserter among the forty-fire thousand spectators. It was . an 'sJgly day, mates," as one middy con-: fided to his neighbor, but the fog and rain perved only to make the sailormen feel nt home. When the two elevens dashed onto the field, the stands, surging masses of blue and gray, rose and cheered. And the cheering did not cease for an instant. Whatever way went the tide of battle cadets and middies roared encouragement or praise to their brothers on the field. An Imposing Spectacle. Then passed the first two quarters, jj with a tally of 3 to the credit of the navy. In the intermission the spectacle took on a new interest for the spectators. . When Secretary Daniels and Secretary Baker advanced from their boxes to mid-field, mid-field, there to clasp hands, it was seen ' that General Pershing strode to one sid of his chief and General March to th other. The greeting was brief, but the armj men. losers in the first half as in thi second, advanced to the navy side for a few minutes to tender their congratulations congratula-tions to the winners. It was in this spi5.il that the game was played. Then cam? the roar of the field piece with which th army announced the beginning of eacti period and twenty-two mud-besmearec figures trotted onto the field once more to renew the struggle. Two more periods of hard bucking and harder tackling; another moment of joy for the navy when King again kicked far and straight and then the final blast oi the Whistle. That blast turned a square of blue intc a cascade' of gold. Rising as one man, the middies hurled their gold megaphones onto the field of victory. There was a scramble, a rush to the colors and a lbng column of blue clad figures passed in triumph under the army goa4. As this last spectator left the grounds he snw clinging to the pinnacle of one post a young midshipman Waving a banner ot blue and gold. Lineup: Army (0) Navy (6) Kief for lo Woodruff Travis It Murray Vogel Ig Denfeld Greene c Larson Brledster rg Moore Paniel rt King Blaike re Ewen Wi'.hide fb Koehler Schabacker Ihb Cruise Lystad rhb Bcnoist McQuarric fb Clark Score bv periods: NaVy 0 3 0 3 f Army 0 0 0 0 Navy scoring: Goals from placement. King. two. Referee. Langford, Triniiv; Umpire, Murphv, Yale: Field judge. Mr. Evans; head linesman. Carl Marshall, Harvard. Time of periods, 35 minutes each. - |