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The UNCIE STAR SECTION SPORTS SECTION SPORTS MUNCIE, INDIANA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1969 Blanked. Cardinals 130 After the Ball Salute to Jim-He Made Us Proud LEXINGTON, Ky. Eastern Early In the fourth quarter, State had a first down at the Colonel seven-yard line, but The loss was Ball State's first in two starts this season. It was the opener for Eastern Ken Kentucky shut out Ball State Colonel defensive halfback Bob Webb, plucked a Rice pass out of the air at the 20-yard line couldn't drive across the double here Saturday night, stopping the Cardinals, 13-0. It was the By Bob Barnet MAJOR LEAGUE tucky.

The Cards will return home to meet long-time rival stripe. The first, midway in the first quarter, sputtered as quar first time in 43 games that Ball I State drew a terback Willard Rice was Butler next Saturday. The game Saturday night was played at Stoll Field on the Uni IT WAS TIME to cut the squad to the 40-man the wire service story said, and the Los Angeles Rams released five players. One of them was a five-year veteran named Jim Nettles. dumped for a 14-yard loss back to the 22-yard line on a third- Last time a Cardinal football team was blanked was the fifth game of the 1964 season when after the Cards had moved to the 32.

Brooks got his tallies on runs of 25 and three yards. His first capped a 67-yard "drive" that took Brooks only two cracks at the Ball State defense to com versity of Kentucky campus, down pass attempt. On the next play, Greenlee missed his first Indiana State turned the trick, site of Indiana's wild 58-30 win NATIONAL LEAGUE RESULTS AMERICAN LEAGUE RESULTS three-point try. STATISTICS (Night Games Not Included) Down by a 13-0 count in the fourth, Ball State put together a 17-0. Colonel tailback Jimmie Brooks, a sophomore, scored both Eastern Kentucky touchdowns and a stout Colonel defense, led by tackle Teddy Pittsburgh 4, New York 0 Philadelphia 6, Montreal 4 St.

Louis 4, Chicago 1 Atlanta 3, San Diego 2 Minnesota 3, Seattle 2 Boston 6, Detroit 3 drive that carried them to the Washington 5, Cleveland 3 (12 mil, STATE 1(S 104 1S l.i-34 0 EASTERN KENTUCKY First Dowm 14 Rushing Yardage Passing Yardage 128 Passes 8-11 Intercepted by 1 Fumbles Lost 1 Yards Penalized S2 Punta It was only a line in a wire siory, but you saw the little guy again, skimming over the low hurdles in the state track meet, slipping through an invisible hole in an enemy line to run for a touchdown, skimming up the floor in effortless grace as he advanced the ball for the greatest team ever assembled in Indiana high school basketball. The Los Angeles Rams cut a Hpfpnsive rnrnerman who was 5 feet, innings) Taylor, broke up four excellent Cardinal scoring drives. San Francisco 5, Los Angeles 4 Cincinnati at Houston (N) National League Standings East W. L. Pet G.B Baltimore 8, New York 7 Oakland at California (N) Chicago at Kansas City (N) TAYLOR is a well-remembered Cardinal nemesis.

It was over the Wildcats earlier Satur the 6-0, 194-pound Taylor who American League Standings East Pet. G.B. plete. Brooks took a punt from Jack Morse on the Colonels' 33-yard line and streaked 42 yards to the 25, where he was pulled down from behind by the only Ball State defender with a shot at him. ON THE first play from scrimmage, the speedy Brooks ripped into the end zone.

On the first play of the fourth quarter, Brooks caught a pass from quarterback Bill March good for 32 yards to the Cardinal three-yard stripe. Brooks burst into paydirt on the next play. (See CARDINALS on Page C4) day. A crowd estimated at 11,000 looked on. burst through the Ball State line New York 9 1 61 .599 Chicago 88 66 .571 4 St.

Louis ....82 70 .539 9 Eastern Kentucky seven with a first-and-goal situation. Rice tried four straight passes, missed on all four and the Cards were forced to hand over the football at the seven with 7:02 to play. LATER in the period, the Cards again began moving the ball, driving to the Eastern Kentucky 26 on a second down situation with five yards to go. Rice threw three straight interceptions and the drive stalled again. two seasons ago in the Rice Bowl game to take a handoff X-Baltimore 106 47 .693 THE CARDS couldn't even buy a field goal.

Placekicker Detroit 85 67 .559 20'2 from Cardinal quarterback Doc Boston 81 70 .536 24 Heath and race 39 yards to score Bob Greenlee, who set a record last Saturday by booting a 43- Washington 78 74 .513 27i2 New York 75 77 .493 302 varder to top Buffalo, missed touchdown that put the Colonels ahead of Ball State, 20-7. Eastern Kentucky retained their twice here Saturday night from Cleveland 60 92 .395 452 West Pittsburgh 82 70 .539 9 Philadelphia 61 91 .401 30 Montreal 50 104 .325 42 West San Francisco 85 67 .559 Atlanta 85 68 .556 H2 Los Angeles 82 69 .543 2'2 Cincinnati 80 69 .537 3'2 Houston 77 72 .517 6'2 San Diego 48 104 .316 37 Sunday's Games re- distances of 40 and 26 yards." two-touchdown margin the mainder of the game. Twice during the game, Ball Minnesota 91 60 .603 10'2 23'2 272 272 33.. Oakland 80 70 .533 California 68 83 .447 Kansas City 63 87 .420 Chicago 63 87 .420 Seattle 58 93 .384 Gonso, Isenbarger Star Pittsburgh (Ellis 10-6 and 10 inches tall and weighed scarcely 170 pounds and if you didn't know the guy you wondered how he ever made it in the National Football League in the first place. If you knew him you knew he made it because he had courage and pride and dedication and that wonderful quality that we call class because we don't know a better word.

Most longtime followers of Hoosier sports regard the quiet, gentlemanly Nettles as the greatest athlete ever produced by Muncie Central High School, a school that prides itself on the excellence of its athletics. He was a regular halfback with the football' team and a regular guard with the basketball team for three years and a superlative trackman despite the fact that he was a tick of the watch too slow to be a great dashman. Central coach Mel Wilson fixed that. In Nettles' senior year he decided a couple of weeks before the sectional that Nettles ought to run the low hurdles, an event he hadn't tried since junior high school, and so Jim learned to run the low hurdles, bigtime style. He stayed after practice to learn.

He ran them so well that he won the evnt in the state meet that year and when Nettles hit the finish-line string the remainder of the final-heat field was barely over the final hurdle. He was that kind of athlete. IN 1960, HE RAN THE SHOW A halfback of all-state caliber, Jim was a brilliant basket-fifth nf the ereat 1960 team that swept Blass 15-9) at New York (Koos IU Crushes Kentucky, 58-30 man 15-9 and Cardwell 7-9) (2) Philadelphia (Champion 5-10) at Montreal (Robertson 5-14) St. Louis (Taylor 7-4) at Chi Jack.Inr P'troll 1 run (Warner kick) sot its chance when By BOB COOPER STATISTICS INDIANA KENTUCKY cago (Jenkins 20-14) X-Clinched Div. Title Sunday's Games Oakland (Roland 1-0) at California (Murphy 9-14) Chicago (Horlen 12-15) at Kansas City (Bunker 11-10) Seattle (Meyer 0-3) at Minnesota (Chance 5-4) Boston (Wager 1-2) at Detroit (Kilkenny 6-5) Washington (Cox 12-6) at Cleveland (Hargan 5-13) Cincinnati (Nolan 7-6) at Hous ton (Dierker 20-10) LEXINGTON, Ky.

(AP) downs Indiana jumped to a 24-0 lead Ruling yardas and rolled over defenseless Ken- tucky 58-30 Saturday in a foot- Passes ball game that included almost Fumbles lost Atlanta (Reed 16-10) at San 25 19 295 52 246 229 248 13 25-33-1 16375 443 45 3 1 69 91 Diego (Niekro 8-16) Los Angeles (Bunning 13-10) Mathews recovered a fumble on the Indiana 40, but Wildcat quarterback Bernie Scruggs fumbled on the next play to return the ball to the Hoosicrs. After Indiana moved to Kentucky's 15, sophomore Joe Fed-erspiel intercepted for the Wildcats to end the threat. evprv rvr nf Krnrinp. Varl? Penalized inn rorier punt return (Warner Kick) Ind Andrews 40 pass from Oonso (Warner kick) Ind FO Warner 37 KY Godwin 71 past from Scruggs (B. Jones kick) Ky Gran 24 pass from Scruggs (B.

Jones kick) Ind Butcher 16 pass (rom Oonso (Warner kick) Ky oann 9.r kickoff return (kirk failed) Ind Saiely Hard! tackle tn end sons Ind Gonso 1 run (kick failed) Ky Duke 12 run (B. Jones kick) Ind Pernell 63 run (pass failed) Ind Gonso 2 run (Warner kirk) Ind lllghbaugh 73 punt return (run tailed) A-esllmater 38.000. 1 o- to Jade Butcher Dass and a 95- at San Francisco (Perry 17-14) The touchdown plays alone vard kickoff return bv Ken. covered 481 yards with running tucky.s Roger Gann scores, touchdowns by passing, kickoff and punt re- LATE in the quarter, Kentucky sconng 58 17 I 730 Indiana Kenlursr a safety, that included back-to-back turns, fieldgoals and Pirate Pitcher No-Hits Mets, 4-0 IT WAS Indiana's senior quarterback Harry Gonso and halfback John Isenbarger who carried the brunt of the Hoosier at- I 1 it 1 1 I NEW YORK (AP) Stocky Haddix hurled 12 perfect mn nne aaoiticr rv i uaiiKPR in Bob Moose hurled Pittsburgh's first no-hitter in 10 years Satur 1959 before losing 1-0 on one hit in the 13th. day, shackling the front-running New York Mets 4-0 with the help Moose, a 5-foot-ll who spent a good part of the of a sparkling defensive play by Gonso, before retiring in the final minutes, connected on 23 of 28 passes.

The Hoosiers scored three touchdowns in the first quarter, one on a 63-yard punt return by Steve Porter and another on a 60-yard pass from Gonso to right fielder Roberto Clemente. season in the bullpen before Moose, three weeks short of earning a regular starting as his 22nd birthday, limited the signment, struck out six three in the eighth inning in bringing Mets to a pair of walks and re tired 11 batters in succession over one stretch on the way to the fifth no-hitter in the majors this season. CLEMENTE made a leaping John Andrews. SENIOR Don Warner scored on a 37-yard fieldgoal with 13:33 left in the second quarter before Kentucky's offense finally jelled and racked up 17 points before halftime. The defense, a forgotten art in this scoring marathon, had its heyday in the third period touchdowns on a 16-yard Gonso his record to 12-3.

He walked three. With the penant conscious Shea Stadium crowd cheering wildly as the scoreboard showed St. Louis scoring four runs in the eighth inning to go ahead of Chicago, Moose reached back and fanned Ron Swoboda, J.C. 1 (See PIRATE on Page C2) one-handed catch of Wayne Gar rett's liner to the right field va.il piajri hum t.w through all opponents to move into the final game of the state tournament with a perfect record. Then, homehow, it fell apart and an East Chicago Washington team that had been a 17-point underdog won the final game, and the championship, 75-59.

Other Bearcat starters were John Dampier and Ron Bonham and Jim Davis and Mel Jolley and it is quite likely that a majority of Hoosier sportswriters and sportscasters, asked to name Indiana's greatest high school net team, would choose this one. Something went wrong in that final game, but week after week, from November until that strange March night in Hinkle Fieldhouse, it was an awe-inspiring array that often destroyed opponents before the first quarter ended. And Jim Nettles, 5-10 and scarcely 170 pounds, was the man who brought the ball up the floor, and ran the show. THE ROSE BOWL, THEN THE EAGLES Nettles was a defensive halfback for Wisconsin when the Badgers lost to Southern California in that amazing 42-37 brawl in 1963 in the Rose Bowl. He signed with the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL and played through five seasons in that greatest of all football circuits, defending against fearsome giants who appeared always on the verge of breaking him in half.

Bigtown sportswriters watched him and marveled and wrote stories in which they wondered how a man so small could do that kind of job as a defensive regular in the NFL. They had no way of looking inside Jim Nettles' chest, of course, and didn't know the size of his heart. He was traded to the Los Angeles Rams after last season and was with that club through its pre-season training campaign. His wife and child joined him in Los Angeles and they found an apartment. Then they called Jim into the office and told him he was released.

That's the way things happen in professional sports. "HE LOVES THE GAME SO MUCH" Jim's mother, Mrs. Frances Nettles, a Muncie city employe in the sanitary department collection office, doesn't know Jim's plans, even though she called him the day after the release story appeared in the newspapers. "He was feeling pretty badly when I talked with him and didn't say much about the future," she told this writer. "I think he still wants to play.

He loves the game so much. Maybe he can catch on somewhere else. He thought everything was all right when they kept him through pre-season training and he was happy because he had found a nice apartment so his wife and baby could be out there with him. 1 know he must have been terribly disappointed, because football has always meant so much to him." Mrs. Nettles, who lives at 1405 S.

Beacon reports that Jim played through five years with the Eagles with only two injuries, a broken finger and a broken toe. The former Muncie Central and Wisconsin athlete returned to Wisconsin to earn a degree in architecture and now is a mem fence in the sixth inning, keeping the no-hit string alive. It was the first hitless pitching performance by a Pirate since if A U.S. Siveeps Davis Cup Tourney I 4 i I from Washington, D. became By WILL GRIMSLEY CLEVELAND (AP) A pair of young Californians playing as m.

t. the first leader since Walter Pate in 1937 and 1938 to win Cup and successfully defend it the next year. With Ashe rated the best non-contract pro in the game and with stout backup support from such young stars as Smith, iffy Arthur Ashe, the top-ranking U.S. ace from Richmond, against the wily, controversial Tiriac. IN THE opening singles Friday Ashe turned back a nervous Nastase 6-2, 15-13, 7-5, and Smith won a protest-marred five-setter from Tiriac 8-6, 3-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.

The triumph marked the first time since 1948-49 that the United States had won the trophy two years in succession. Donald Dell, the nonplaying captain Lutz, Charlie Pasarell and Cliff if they were one, Stan Smith and Bobby Lutz, crushed Romania's Illie Nastase and Ion Ti-riac in a little more than an hour of doubles Saturday and clinched the Davis Cup for the United States. The score was 8-6, 6-1, 11-9. The victory gave the American team a 3-0 edge in the best-of-5 series and made formalities of the final singles Sunday sending Smith against Nastase and Richey, Uncle Sam appears in a position to hold the trophy until the competition, like the rest of SHORT GAINER Indiana's Jade Butcher (40), was brought down by Kentucky's Wilbur Hackett (41), and Tom Morris (55), on pitchout play which gained a few yards. Also shown is Kentucky player Doyle King (93).

(AP Wirephoto) tennis, goes open. Some observers believe this could happen as early as 1971. Eagles Sudden Death Iloh Koehler State PGA Champ ber of a firm of architects Fniiaaeipnia. He is years A RARE PRIVILEGE When you know the story of a lad like Jim Nettles you are ready to come up swinging when you hear some owl-eyed intellectual ridiculing athletics and athletes. Because the good Lord gave Jim athletic skill and the determination to use these gifts properly, he earned a university education by means of a football scholarship.

He was privileged to be a part of that great event that is the Rose Bowl. He played five years against the world's greatest football players as a regular in the National Football League. As they say in boxing, he gave away pounds and inches, but he did the job and earned his paycheck. There just can't be anything wrong with a system that makes it possible for a man like Jim Nettles to earn an education and take his place in society as a useful citizen. Because he is a tremendous guy, he might have achieved all these goals without athletics.

Maybe not. In any case, he brought honor to his family and his hometown and to Muncie Central High School and the University of Wisconsin and to himself. If his career in athletics is ended, I'm sorry. But let the record show that this sports editor, and many others, have felt it is a' rare privilege just to know him. The Los Angeles Rams must have a great many exceptional football players if they can release a man like Jim Nettles.

No matter what happens, we wish him luck. He is one of 4 Via nnnA nnrG hole of the afternoon round when he parred and Kfx-hler required a bogey five. Koehler went one dowr, on the second afternoon hole when he got Into trouble on the par-5 513-yarder and took a doublc-boycy while Pitney got his par. K')chler regained the lead by taking the filth and sixth the latter when Pitney took a double-bogey five on the par three of 211 yards. Tho seventh and eighth were halved and Km-hlcr went to up when he parred the yard ninth where Pitney took a bogey five.

After halving tho first hole of the back nine they took turns finding trouble. Koehler's tee shot on the 11th found tall "Sit- Z2-X "A avCI 1 -i AW IMC Tipton Stops Blackford By HAM RIGG Arnold Koehler capped a 15 year career as a golf professional Saturday afternoon by sinking a 30-foot chip shot for an eagle two on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to defeat Tipton pro "Red" Pitney for the 1969 Indiana Professional Golfers Association championship. The new champion, who has boon a pro at Conncrsville for the last nine years, is leaving that affiliation to enter the insurance field but said he will retain his membership in the Indiana PGA. His new association will send him to Richmond, Indiana, as divisional manager of the Waddell and Reed firm of Mutual Funds which own the United Investors Life Insurance Company. IT WASN'T brilliant golf which these two 1969 finalists played on a wind-swept day which made sweaters a necessity for both the contestants and a crowd of cart-riding spectators at the Delaware Country Club.

But it was exciting as the two golfing veterans alternated In the lead. Pitney held the largest lead of the day, three-up at one point in the morning round. That 18-holes started off with the Tipton pro going two down, but he rallied sweep five holes in a row. At that point the putting woes hit Pitney and he finished the morning round trailing by one. Koehler took over the lead on the sixteenth hole of that morning 18 when Pitney missed a putt of perhaps 18 Inches after Koehler had gained a par.

They halved the final two holes to send Koehler to the clubhouse for a noon luncheon break with a one hole lead at the halfway mark of the 36-hole final. bat-1 Blackford County was unable to (FINAL 18 MOLLS) Par, out 454 313 44433 Koehler, out 574 434 434-40 Pitney, out 455 345 455-40 Par, In 443 534 4443370 Koehler, In 463 544 545 1080 Pilnoy, in 445 534 4543878 HARTFORD CITY-In him even when he captured the 14th and 10th, both with pars. On the 17th a four-wood second shot by Pitney found a trap, the ball settling into the tall grass between the sand and the green and although he made a beautiful recovery, Koehler again went Into the lead with a pur as Pitney required two putts from about eight feet. The final hole of the regulation round turned into a giveaway contest after both oiicncd the par-four hole with fine tee shots. Koehler was away but hit his approach short, stopping several feet In front of the green.

Faced with an opportunity to clinch It, Pitney undershot and h's ball stopped short of Koehler's with both laying two. Pitney's next shot was a beauty, stopping within less than a foot of the hole and Koehler's was again short, about seven feet from the pin. When he missed that one he conceded to Pitney Hnd the match was all even, setting the stage for the dramatic one-hole playoff. FLOODED with congratulations after that sensational eagle, the affable Koehler said, "this is a wonderful city, I've always played well here at Muncie, at both Delaware and Green Hills, and the people have treated mo like one of their own. I'll aUays have a soft spot In my heart for Muncie," Pitney also took the setback as graciously as could be expected.

"He sure wrapped it up like a champion, didn't he," the Tipton redhead said of that 30-ftwt chip shot that ended the match. "I jiist couldn't get those putts to drop for me today, or It might have been fercnt story, but there's no arguing with a brilliant finish like he made out there today," he summarized. I mound a drive but put Tipton back on its own 16-yard line i lie of Central Indiana Confer-I ence unbeatens, Tipton put. a halt to a two-game winning Itreak Of the Blackford County Bruins with a 17-6 victory here with a deep punt from which the Blue Devils mounted an 84-yard march and its second score late In the opening half, t.y. Halfback Mike Hoover climaxed that drive by carrying over from nine yards out, and Fakes Saturday afternoon.

The visiting Blue Devils had a light edge in all the statistics fcnd held a 17-0 lead before the Bruins finally got on the scoreboard after a march of 86 yards i', i again booted the extra point. There was no scoring during the third quarter but Tipton with 1:09 remaining In the final grass and his second shot went a scant 40 yards. After Pitney put his second shot on the green, Koehler's third shot found a sand trap to the left of the green and with Pitney laying two within reach of the cup, Koehler conceded. The next hole was Pitney's turn to get into trouble as his tee shot on the short 115-yard 12th overshot the green and plunged down an embankement amid trees while Koehler'a stopped on the gtecn. Pitney made a fine recovery but his shot failed to hold and rolled off the opposite side of the green after which he conceded the hole to leave him still two down.

period. TIPTON finally got a sus- talned drive going late In the ficoreless first Quarter and quar launched another drive in the final quarter which penetrated to the Bruin six yard line before the Blackford County line braced. After a pass was grounded and an attempted run was held for no gain, Tipton called for a field goal attempt terback Doug Legg went In for the onmf' first score ear in the second period on a two yard NEW PCA CHAMP AND RUNNER-UP Bernard "Red'' Pitney of Tipton, left, congratulates new PCA champion Arnold Koehler, after the latter won the i 969 championship with a sensational chip for an eagle-two Saturday on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff at the Delaware Country Club. (Star Photo by Ed Hayden) with Legg holding the ball on keeper. With Leca holding, full Iback Reuben Fakes kicked the the 15-yard marker and Fakes again kicking.

The three-pointer extra point for a 7-0 lead. I I PITNEY EVENED things on the first PITNEY started a surge that brought I Following the Tipton kickoff was good ana iipion lea uy u-v. 1 r- -1r r- rl.