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Show California Uses Three Big Crews at Portland By HENRY McLEMORE I'nitrd Press Sports Writer PORTLAND. Ore., Nov. 15 The eastern team that comes out for the Rose Bowl game this season, even though it be one from the "ivy" colleges, where culture Is so abundant it has to be swept off the campus like leaves, will have to learn its ABC's all over again. it went about the business of win-ining win-ining the ball game with the poise of those old Rockne teams. The boys I paid no attention to the miserable footing. Surely and calmly they tore Oregon apart and punched through the holes. There Isn't a weak spot on the tine from Dolman at left end to Schwartz at the right wing. And in Herwig at center California baa a genuine Bear. The backfield, on Saturday at least, was tremendously impressive. Vic Bottari took the field hailed as the star ball carrier, and he played like one, yet he was not quite as efficient as one Sam 'Chapman. Chapman, a rangy fel-' fel-' low. is a power runner with a fine burst of speed, snd he can pass 'and kirk with the best. Another b-ickfielder is Meek, tm i u n c c m plaining lad who throws I blocks all afternoon, and throws 'era right. Not the old-fashioned ABC's, with their "A" for alimony, "B" is for bellboy and "C" is for corpse, but the University of California ABCs. which are something altogether different. dif-ferent. For at Berkeley, where Coach Stub Allison has put together to-gether one of the stronge.it foot-bill foot-bill teams in a decade, A is for the first varsity. B far the second, and C for ,the third. All Thefh Tough The team that meets California in the Rose Bowl will see all three of them, and it is not going to have an easy time figuring out which is the toughest. I saw the California first, second and third teams in action ac-tion Saturday against Oregon, and ithe tipoff on what a healthy baby that I" group is. is that it more than held its own with an Oregon varsity that was good enough a week earlier to trounce Washington State. The C varaity played the final quarter and yielded nothing. The B varsity was Coach Allison's choice for duty In the preceding period, lend all It could do was take the ball on its own 20-yard line and blase 80 yards up the field for a touchdown. In this march the second sec-ond stringers uncovered a pair of brilliant backs in Ingram and Anderson, An-derson, and e. line that riddled the big Oregon forward walL j This brings us. in backward fashion, fash-ion, to the California varsity the group that started the ball game and belabored the opposition during ths first half. Working on a field, that was ankle deep in slime the Multnomah gridiron has a sand and tanbark surface, and had been subjected sub-jected to a two-day rain the Golden Bears hammered across three touchdowns, and missed another by a yard. I Henry Like T.m This Calfornia firat team, on Sat-i urday. was far and away the most! impressive eleven I have seen all' year. It didn't have a flaw, and |