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Gene Lekenta's Last-Play Field Goal Earns 6S' 17 to air-Raiser Over Oregon 14H State Inte rference Ruleing Beats Michigan Spartans' Winning Boot Badgers Offside Penalty Gives MSG Needed Reprieve To WinJ7th Straight Spartans Score Twict in First Half on Passes; Dekker. Duckett Catch Yewcic Payoff Tosses By GEORGE S. ALDERTON (Journal Sports Editor) PORTLAND, Oct. 4 IT WAS OREGON STATE TROUBLE Weird Plays By Stanford Trounce Illinois Aid 14-7 Win Wisconsin Ends Three-Year Fumbles, Pass Intercep- Dominance of Big Ten, 20 to 6 FOR MICHIGAN STATE HERE AGAIN TODAY, and you can write that in capital letters. The Spartans had big chunks of gloss knocked off them by very eager Beavers, who came within one teeney-weensie second of pulling (By Journal Wire Services) MADISON, Oct.

4 A de out with a 14-14 tie. termined Wisconsin team sparked Eut Gene Lekenta, 20-year-old the ball straight and true between tions Mar Play for Both Teams By HAL, WOOD STANFORD, Oct. 4 (UP) The surprising Stanford Indians bamboozled the favored University of Michigan football team with a series of the weirdest ground-gainers ever seen here today to chalk up an upset 14 to 7 intersec-tional victory before 45,000 fans. Using the fumble play, as personified by the decathlon champion Bob Mathias with great success, junior reserve hairoack, was tne by" a brilliant sophomore quarterback, Jim Kaluska, ended Illinois three-year dominance of Big Ten football today by handing the Illini a one-sided 20 to 6 defeat before a the uprights for the all-important man of the second. He booted a 15-yard field goal to give the Spartans three points.

The clock stood at a 17 to 14 victory, their 17th in suc cession. double "0" before the ball landed up in the bleachers. Michigan State will never have It was a day for fireworks, being a closer call than this one, before a scorching 93 degrees with the sun blazing down into this partial bowL The heat plainly sapped the Spar Statistics III. Wit. Flrt downs 7 'iS Kuthlnr yrilae no racing yardae 7 100 rastrs attempted 22 Parses -mil-ld 8 A Pap fnttrcrpted 2 I'linM 1 4 Tuntlnc average 506 29.8 tumble lovf I 1 Yard a penalized 41 5tf 22,595 spectators in Multnomah stadium.

Lekenta, at that, as timely as his feat was, had to have two tries to make the Held goal. The first one, on fourth down, missed. tans strength, but since Oregon 'Statistics State had to play in he same furnace, State's squad cannot offer But the Beaver line was just a that to excuse their failures and weaknesses. little too eager, and lunged offside trying to block the kick. So, the Michigan State was in front 14 Stanford Mlrhfnn Ftrtt 4owna 1 Hushing jrardar Its Pauinc rardacr 81 1'J fassrs attempted 17 Pairs complrtrd ft it Pawn Intercepted 3 4 PnnU 4 5 Puntlnc avrraie 32.3 4.1.3 Famblra kt 4 1 Yards prnalixtd 80 88 to 0 at half time, and while the av sellout crowd of 52,701 fans wcre saved by the bell, Madison.

so to speak, and Lekenta got a re- It was Illinois' first licking since I'rieve. The next time, he slammed Spartans were not particularly im- A field grtal two seconds before the end of (he game gave Michigan State a 17-14 victory over Oregon State Saturday. This shows the action. Halfback Gene Lekenta (42) is kicking at the left. Halfback Vince Fisano (13) held the ball, shown by arrow in the small of the first blocker's back.

O. S. C. end, Jim Cordial (80), is atop the heap. (AP Wirephoto) I I'JjU.

Wisconsin throttled Illinois' run ning and passing attack of the contest as its big line charged in on the mini's quarterback, Tommy Mize Allie Statistics Ftixt 4miTi I It Kirthlnc ardace 93 ralnc artfacr I'as altrmptilt )M 17 FaiHr4 rwnplrtrd ft Intercepted a A runU It 7 Pantinr average 3ft 4 Fumble lt 1 3 anl penalised ftp 5,1 dropping him for stunning i frequently. Thp winning RaHnorc errtmA Reynolds Team Series for Yanks touchdowns: in tne firt Ihirrt nnrt 1 To Even final quarters. March "3 Yards pressive, they managed to keep the Stanford came from behind to tie the score at the end of the second quarter; and got the winning touchdown in the final period on a pass interference call. It was a battle of fumbles all the way through, with the ball changing hands time and again on miscues and pass interceptions. Only the great running of Ted Kress kept the Michigan club in contention.

Stanford, getting a fine signal-calling job from Quarterback Bob Garrett, threatened often, but the Picture on Page 54 Wolverine defense held off when the Indians got down within the 20 game well under control. After intermission, Oregan State came back They sent their rooters into a I frenzy of excitement in the first and dominated the play clearly. Lnable to luiicuon effectively on the ground, both teams used the forward pass for three of the four touchdowns, and it was an aerial that set up the fourth marker -teiai 4 quarter wnen mey iook tne kickoii on their own 27 and marched 73 yards for a touchdown. That was the tempo for the entire game, although Wisconsin was delayed until the third quarter for its second touchdown. This came on a 35-yard pass from Haluska to By JACK HAND NEW YORK, Oct.

4 (JPi Once again big John Mize came back to haunt the National league with a crushing home run today as Allie Reynolds rammed a four-hit shutout down Brooklyn throats to square the" World Series with a 2-0 New York Yankee victory in the fourth game. made by Oregon State. Quarterback Tom m.y Yewcic pitched seven yards to End Paul Mize, nearing his 40th birthday In the gloaming of a glamorous Halfback Jerry Witt. The Badgers wound up business with a fourth Dekker for State's first touchdown I career, jerked the 71,787 Yankee a 1 stadium moD to its leet wun a fjce there were men on second 'quarter touchdown on a 60-yard and third and onlv one out. drive with Amei-he battering over yard line.

The victory was established when the officials called a pass interference against a Michigan player when Mathias was about to take a 37-yard pass in the end zone early in the fourth quarter. gave Stanford the ball on the Michigan one-yard line, and The big pitch of the ballgame came to Black who was under from the one. I The sole Illinois touchdown came Ion a 63-yard riturn by end John lowering mast into tne lower rigm field seats in the fourth inning. Bouncing back from his opening day loss to Rookie Joe Black, Reynolds fired his singing fast ball land dancing curve past the bewil- nn tho thirrt n.h nt.nru- miH i Rocky) Ryan of Wisconsin kick FOURTH SECTION off after its third touchdown low inside pitch as Pafko raced toward the plate. Berra easilv ran Si m.

ion rj'dered Dodgers to claim 10 strike- UndaV, UCf. IIOZ, raqe victims, only three short of in the opening quarter, and in the second period he pitched 30 yards to End Ellis Duckett for the second Spartan score. Quarterback Jim Witherow was Oregon State's touchdown setter-upper. He threw 39 yards to Halfback Wally Jackson on the one-foot line, and Halfback Ken Brown scored from there on the second play. The other Oregon State touchdown resulted from his -25-yard pass and run combination, Witherow to Claret Taylor, who gathered in the ball 15 yards from home and sprinted from the right flat zone to a touchdown.

Since points after touchdown i him down and tagged him out. tiowara r.nmKes great record in Although Reynolds walked Black 1929. to put two men on base again, he Harland Carl, 20-year-old. 176-pound speedster from Greenwood, was the cay's flashiest performer with 112 yards in 16 tries for a sparking 7.2 average. But Alan Ameche was the real block-buster in the vicious Badger attack.

The 205-pound sophomore from Kenosha, carried the made Billy Cox loft a high foul to Berra who grabbed it for the final out of the inning. The Brooks, who finallv were Homer May Alter Plans Mathias plunged over for the touchdown on the first play. Garrett made good the second of his two conversions to cinch the contest. Michigan had scored on the second play of the second quarter. The Wolverines, getting a fine running job from Kress, which included a 30-yard run.

had worked up to the Stanford 30. A holding penalty moved the ball to the six. From there Tony Branoff went around end for a touchdown, but it was called back because Michigan was off sides, as the quarter ended. On the second stab, Quar made favorites nfter yesterday's! bail 32 times, to bruise the Illini win behind Preacher Roe, named; for 116 yards. Carl Erskine (14-6) to face Black- Tommy O'Connell.

veteran Uli- For Mize's Retirement were added unerringly oy tvan (Continued on I'afco 56) (Continued on Tage 57) (Continued on Page 56) GENE LEKENTA With this tremendous pitching job, Reynolds earned his fifth world series triumph, more than any active major leaguer. All Dodger hits were singles and never did more than one come in the same inning. Cutting through the heart of the Brooklyn batting order with the skill and cunning of a proven ace, the 34-year-old Reynolds fanned Jackie Robinson three times and Roy Campanella and Andy Pafko twice each. Reynolds added Billy Cox, Pinch-hitter Rock Nelson and Black, his pitching rival, to the strikeout list. From the very first inning when he pulled himself out of trouble by blazing a called third strike past Robinson and whiffing Campanella, By OSCAR FRALEY i "When you have to have that NEW Y'ORK.

Oct. 4 (UP) base hit, Big Jawn gets it for you," Mountainous Johnny Mize, his 'Casey complimented Mize. "They terback Ted Topor passed over center to End Lowell Perry on the seven, and Perry went over unmolested for a touchdown, with Russ Lower Prices at Sam's For Top Quality Rescorla converting. Mathias had the Stanford fans in a dither with his fumbling ac tivities on the Indian touchdown drive a few moments later. The at uniing Equipment! tack started on the Michigan 42.

World Series picture and notes on page 55. He fumbled and recovered twice on the way to the Michigan 19 where Garrett then passed into the round, red face split by a cavernous grin, allowed happily today that his fourth inning homer which squared the World Series for the New York Yankees might have blasted him right out of impending retirement. "I just don't know now," Mize smiled. "I thought this would be my last year but I felt better this season than I did last year and I know I could go up there and get my hits for a couple of more seasons." Manager Casey Stengel, who subbed Mize for the non-hitting Joe Collins, nodded sturdy agreement and asserted that the Big Cat would be back there on first again in tomorrow's fifth game. don't fool him with those junk pitches." Allie Reynolds, who held one run lead carefully until Mickey Mantle got one in the eighth, showed no signs of strain after his four-hit shutout triumph.

"I wasn't scared at any time," said Indian Allie. "I slowed down about the fourth or fifth inning while I got my second wind, but after that I wasn't even particularly tired." The super-chief of the Yankees, whose win squared the Yanks at two games each with the Dodgers, said that he seemed to be "slipping all over" on the mound and wasn't using his curve very effectively. end zone to End John bteinberg for the deadlocking touchdown. A three-pronged Michigan pass' Reynolds was superb. In fact he started the game by whiffing Cox but Pee Wee Reese's single and Billy Martin's wild throw put him in a jam.

He 'didn't need any help to get out. Great as was Reynolds' strong-hearted pitching job, that man ing attack, featuring Kress, Topor and Branoff each taking turns tossing the ball around, worked "TYER" RUBBER Hunting Boots 12" LACE TOP "AMERICAN FIELD" Hunting Coats WATER REPELLENT well in the first half. However, the Indians bottled up that aerial of' Mize captured the hearts of the tensive in the second half to gain crowd this crisp, sunshiny after ball control and the game. The score by periods: noon. "AMERICAN FIELD" Hunting Pants WATER REPELLENT LACE LEG KNIT LEG STRAIGHT LEG Select from 3 Styles! Sears Leads Southern Cal Stanford 0-7 0 714 Michigan 0 7 0 07 Manager Casey Stengel dragged Mize off the bench to deliver a pinch homer yesterday in a lost Past Stubborn Army 22-0 Touchdowns: Stanford, Steinberg, Mathias; points after touchdown, Garrett Michigan, Perry.

S)95 Points after touchdown: Stanford, (O) Garrett Michigan, Resorla. Northwestern U. Held to 20 to 20 Coach Jess Hill, still trying to install an offense, experimented with player after player but none could get the Trojan war horse going until Sears caught fire in the BASEMENT Regular $24.95 "PROSPECTOR" Sleeping Bags 100 NYLON KAPOK FILLED 95 second half. Coach Earl (Red) Blaik's Black Tie by Vanderbilt BASEMENT Famous "Tyer" Quality Built-in Protection Olive Drab Color Cleated Sole LOS ANGELES, Oct. 4 (UP) Southern California's versatile tailback, Jim Sears, passed to, two touchdowns and ran for another today as the Trojans defeated an out-weighed but not an out-fought Army team, 22-0.

The Cadets from West Point, unable to penetrate Southern California's vaunted defense, charged so viciously for half the game that they held their foes to only two points. Eut Trojan depth and Sears' individual brilliance finally paid off before a crowd of 48,330 in Memorial coliseum. cause. So today he benched Joe Collins, who had gone hitless in 11 attempts and started the hulking tobacco-chawin' vet. With Reynolds and Black knotted in another terrific struggle, Mize came up to bat as lead-off man in the "fourth.

With the count one ball and vtwo strikes, he stroked one some 10 or 15 rows back in the lower right stands. Mize, the leading active major leaguer in home runs with 355 in regular season play, bounced a double into the right field seats for his hit. That includes his series, all-star game and regular season base hit.s since he first hit the majors in 1936. When the big fellow from De-morest, finally retired for a pinch runner in the eighth, a mighty chcer rattled windows in passing elevated trains. It mattered little that the Yanks Hunting CAPS 98' By TOM BRANAGAN Knights moved in spurts as first Paul Schwikert and then Freddie Attaya looked good but neither could get a real march going through the powerful Trojan de BASkMENT EVAN3TON, 111., Oct.

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Tomorrow's game will start at 2:03 p. EST. Black, also trying to come back with only two days rest after his brilliant opening win, was not as sharp as he was Wednesday. Still homer and two doubles in his he allowed only three hits a seven inning stay. He walked five and had men on base in every inning except the seventh.

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