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aterioo SJoilg Cowries HUT WITH THI fe NtWl 4,995,233 Paid to See Baseball in American TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1941 NOTRE DIE TEAM AGAIN HI SPOT They'll Be Headliners at Iowa Illinois Heads Toward 4 New Offensive Marks Chicago (UP) Illinois' speed-crazy football team, featuring a quartet of 10-second backs, is running full speed ahead toward at least four new national offensive records. Coached by Ray Eliot, who has designed his own T-formation to fit his fleet backficld, Illinois has rolled up record yardage in beating Illinois Normal, Indiana and Iowa, tying Great Lakes and bowing to Purdue. Eliot's now-famous "stopwatch backfield," in sprinting through the first half of its schedule, has scored an aggregate 190 points to 95 and established the Illini as an unpredictable team. A touchdown-conscious crew, the Illini concentrate on offense, consider defense a necessary lull in the game and win games by piling touchdown upon touchdown and letting the other team try to catch up. 7 ft.

4 I FORREST MASTERSON A I 1 Io Center 1 I dick woodard i i Iowa Right Halfback ED CODY 11 Purdue Fullback N-y 1.1 BUDDY YOUNG KNAiA 1 tVi ft I Ml ir'v it' I 5 aCT -vf I VMA" 1 HANSEN I hi FRANK BAUMAN iw'uft1 Purdue End KEN ROSE Hawk Punting End Chicago (JP) The American league, offering one of the most spectacular pennant battles in major league history, drew a 1944 paid attendance of approaching the circuit record and topping last year's total by more than a million fans. President William announcing attendance figures Tuesday emphasiied that the official total did not include fans who attended war relief games which made an actual paid attendance of 4.995,233. The league record Is 5,433,791 for the 1940 season. Last year's official attendance was 3,695,569, or 1,101,589 fewer than whirled the turnstiles in the recently-closed campaign which produced a four-club race down to the final week. The 1943 at tendance, including war relief games, was 3,840,286.

Harridge pointed out that 1944 attendance also included 508.491 servicemen admitted free as guests of the clubs. The Detroit Tigers, who were edged out of the championship by the St. Louis Browns on the final day oj the season, finished with an amazing home attendance of 923,176 to set the pace in the banner season and surpass their 1943 following by approximately 300,000 fans. Attendance at American league parks topped National league figures by 619,414. figures released by President Ford Frick of the senior loop disclosed.

Both Detroit's Tigers and New York's Yankees topped the New York Giants, the National league leader, in the number of fans paying to see the majors play. Although the flag-winning St. Louis Browns finished fifth in home attendance with 508,644, their increase over 1943 was almost as great as Detroit's a jump of approximately 294.000 from last year's attendance of 214,392. It was the largest season attendance for the Browns since 1924. National league figures showed New York drew 733,598 fans this year.

17 Report X-k, I achers Cage Drill (Courier Special Service) cedar alls beventen men re ported for physical examination and practice at the first meeting of the Iowa State Teachers college basketball squad Monday night. None of the 17 had college or junior college experience but 12 had been on high school squads. Of those 12 only eight had won high school Eight of them are 17 years or under and the average age of the squad is slightly under 18. Six are 4-F and two are likely to be called for military service soon. Average height is 5 feet 10 inches and their average weight, 153' lbs.

Only four men are six feet or over. Thirteen are freshmen and four sophomores. Referring to the aggregation, Mon Whitford, who has had 14 years coaching experience for freshman basketball, and will direct the squad, said "At the very maximum not more than four or five of these men would survive the first cut of fair to average freshmen squads in normal years." Above are some of the headliners among the University of Iowa and Purdue football players who will appear at the 33rd annual Hawkeye homecoming game in Iowa stadium this Saturday. Purdue has been the opponent at only one previous homecoming. Ken Rose, Iowa left end, has averaged about 40 yards on his punts and his defensive work has been excellent, although he is a 17-year-old freshman.

For Purdue, Frank Bauman, end, is the line star. Rival fullbacks, Jim Hansen, Iowa, and Ed Cody, are leading ground-gainers with an average of nearly five yards per carry. Dick Woodard, another Iowa freshman, is a hard-running halfback who also passes; while 230-pound Forrest Masterson, veteran of the 1942 Iowa team who has been discharged from the army, is a mainstay center. Hawks Warned About Strength Following are the endangered records and the backs who are running to re-set them: Quarterback Don Greenwood, field general who does some of Illinois' passing and all of its punting; Halfback Paul Patterson, the workhorse of the backfield who does much of the running and most of the passing; Halfback Claude (Buddy) Young, leading scorer and featured breakaway runner, and Fullback Jerry Cies, blocker. The threatened records: 1.

Average gain per rushing play of 5.7, set by Missouri in 1941 when Backs Bob Steuber and Harry Ice carried the Tigers to the Big Six title. In five games, Illinois has traveled at a 7.9 average. 2. Average gain per play, rushing and passing of 6.8, set by Tulsa university in 1942 when Lt. Glenn Dobbs was doing triple-threat offensive honors for the golden hurricane.

With five games remaining, Illinois has an 8.3 average. S. Average rushing gain per game of 324.5, set by the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks in 1943, when they were national service champions. Even against such noted lines as Great Lakes and Purdue, Illinois has maintained a 360-yard average. 4.

Average gain per attempted forward pass of 10, set by the national and Big Ten champion in 1942, Ohio State. Although neither Greenwood nor Patterson are great passers, Illinois is averaging about 12 yards in the overhead department. Illinois takes its vaunted offensive east this weekend to meet Pittsburgh in one of the day's top intersectional games. Two other Big Ten teams carry the conference's reputation into major games Saturday. Ohio State, undefeated in three games and the conference leader, entertains undefeated but once-tied Great Lakes, and Wisconsin meets undefeated, untied, un-srored-upon Notre Dame.

The top conference game of the day will be at Iowa City, where Purdue will be a heavy favorite to take its second straight Big Ten game; Indiana at Northwestern is the only other Big Ten match, while Ft. Francis E. Warren plays Iowa Pre-Flight on Sunday in the other major Midwest meeting. Prep Sports NORTHEAST IOWA CONFERENCE. Team Standings.

W. Pet. Waverlr 4 8 1.000 Osage 3 1 .750 Cresco 4 Pi Oelwein 'i l'j .250 Deeerah 8 2 New Hamplon 0 3 .000 GAMES THIS WEEK. 'Oecorah at Oelwein. Osage at Rlceville.

New Hampton at Crese. Charles City at Waverly. Conference games. RELKCN INJURED. Vinton, la.

Clarence Selken, Vinton high's triple threat left halfback, broke his ankle in last Friday's game with Marion and will be out the remainder of the season. Johnny Davis will replace Selken Friday when the Purple tangles with independence in a WaMaC confer eiice game. WA MAC CONFERENCE. Vinton 3 Tipton 2 Marion 1 Monticello .2 Manchester 1 Maquoketa 0 Anamosa 0 Independence 0 GAMER THIS WEEK Vtnton at Independence. Marion at Maquoketa.

West Liberty at Tipton. West Branch at Monticello. 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 .886 .500 .333 .186 .166 .000 1 TEN Chicago (VP) A little man but a mighty swift little man is leading the way in the Western conference scoring and ground-gaining departments. lie la iiauuw I (Buddy) Young Illinois national sprint champion, who has streaked to five touchd owns and 285 yards by rushing in three conference games. Young weighing 160 pounds and standing 5 feet, 5 inches tall- scampered to two touchdowns the first two times he got his hands on the ball against Iowa last Saturday to take over' the scoring lead with 30 points, six more than second-place Bob Wiese of Michigan.

Although he has carried the ball only 26 times in three games, Young has averaged almost 11 yards per try in wresting the lead in that department from Teammate Paul Patterson. Second in ground gaining is Les Horvath, Ohio State, who in two games has galloped 255 yards in 40 attempts. Another freshman, Northwest-em's Johnny Yungwirth, continues to top the conference passers with a two-game record of 17 completions in 33 attempts for a net gain of 234 yards. Second, far behind Yungwirth, is Bob Hoernschemeyer of Indiana with five completions in 18 tosses for 123 yards. Liqht Drill Given Seahawks Iowa City, la.

(JP) Movies of last Saturday's games with Purdue and a light signal drill made up Monday's practice for the Iowa Seahawks as Lt. Cmdr. Jack Meagher allowed his football charges to have an easy day before starting preparations for a game next Sunday with Fort Warren here, John Frampton, former Notre Dame freshman, was slated to replace Fred Kuhlman, who leaves for primary training at one of the guard posts. OKESON GETS GRID HONORS. Bethlehem, The A.

A. Tfitag award, highest honor of the American Coacnes association, was conferred posthumously' Monday night upon Walter Okeson, vice president of Lehigh university and for 50 years a player, coach, official and administrator of football. CYCLONES CUT CAGE SQUAD. Ames, la. (U.R) The Iowa State basketball squad has been cut to 25 men, Coach Louis Menze rn-nounced Tuesday.

Only four holdovers were listed. aft Buddy Young of Purdue Team PAGE NINE Homecoming Ames, la. (P) The navy is asking term end examination puzzlers this week of those dry land sailors doing their gridiron bit for Iowa State college and next Saturday the Missouri Tigers intend to ask another pertinent question of the Bluejackets when they come to Columbia. The Missouri boys want to know if the Navy-conscious Cyclopes are as good as their press clippings, which tell a story of 133 points scored against the opposition's none in three straight triumphs. The Tars got a holiday Monday but will do double duty the rest of the week trying to answer both the Navy department and Missouri queries.

If they get by the Tigers Saturday, the Iowans will be a position to ask some questions of their own of the defending champion Oklahoma Sooners. Missouri, beset by injuries since the season began, got back into Columbia and work harness almost simultaneously after a brilliant last half showing against Minnesota The Tigers won the admiration of the Minneapolis crowd, but the Gophers made away with the 39-27 decision. The Sooners counted noses yesterday after bowing to the Texas Longhorns at Dallas Saturday, and found Harley Smalley, guard, missing from practice with a lame ankle. The Kansans came home from Iowa State and plunged into a stifl workout that featured forward passes by Don Earrington anq Charles MofTett The Hawkers have watched a lot of completed aerials go sailing over their heads this season and Coach Henry Shenk evidently is planning to turn the tables on Saturday via the sky- "i- MEREDITH WARNER Does Cyclone Punting. LANDIS TO LEAVE HOSPITAL SOON Chicago (TV- Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw M.

Landis, who entered St. Luke's hospital shortly before the world scries for a physical check and remained to under? go treatment, proposes to return to his home within a few days. The condition of the 77-year-old baseball executive was reported as greatly improved Monday. He missed the all-St. Louis world series, the first fall classic he has not attended since he was named commissioner in 1920.

IOWA STATE, a mi IN SPOTLIGHT Nebraska ways. I v. SPORTS Athletics, Not Guns, Says Madigan Chicago (U.R) Coach Edward (Slip) Madigan of the University of Iowa Hawkeycs advocates "com pulsory athletics instead of universal military training" after th? war. In an address before the Quar terback club. Madiean said that during the years of Deace there would be "a clamoring for the old compulsory military training in colleges and universities.

That would mean formal drilling for all male students." He offered a plan of preparing young men for "any eventualities by exposing them to competitive rather than for mal athletics." Madigan sad any i 1 i a ry maneuvers would be ou dated in 10 or 20 years buv Madigan that the competitive spirit, when once instilled, would never die. "After world war Madigan said, "Germany sent a commission to the U. S. to discover why had such fine soldiers. "The commission reported that competitive athletics was the re son and Germany immediately redirected its program and the result was a boxing champion Schmeling and a runncr-uo team to the U.

S. in the 1936 Olympic games." Fight Results tii thi Anrintrd Prrss) Phiffcdelphla Mello Bettina. 190. Beacon. N.

knocked out St. Thomas, 204. Dayton. 3. Baltimore Lee Oma.

191. Detroit, T. K. O. AIBlake.

Baltimore, 9. Providence, R. I. Phil Terrviova. 120.

New York, outpointed Vince Dell 'Orto. 131, Philadelphia, in. Newark. N. 1311, New York, nutpointed Joe Matone, 150, New York.

8. Holyoke. Mas. Lice Drew. 144, Los Anselrs.

knocked out John Brown, 153, New York, 8. Chicago Lou Anrcltiecl. ISS'i. Chicago, outpointed Jimmv Hunt. 152.

Chicago. 8 Houston. Tex Ccferino Garcia. 159. Los Angeles, knocked out Pfc.

George Baratko. 1(1, Camp Livingston. 3. Detroit Sampson Powell, 162. Detroit, knocked out Ossie Harris, 1B2, Pittsburgh.

3. Scrsnton. Pa Chprlpy SabateMe. 143, Dunmore. outpointed Andy Klinges, Hl'i.

Ashley, Pa 8, i 0 i Iowa City It's homecoming Saturday, not only for the alumni but for the University of Iowa fotball squad itself, as the wandering Hawk-eyes who played at Columbus and Champaign appear in their own stadium for the first time in 1944 Beaten by 34-point margins by Ohio State and Illinois, but showing great improvement Saturday despite the score, the Iowans now are preparing for Purdue, conference co-champion. They don't need any warning about the strength of the Boilermakers, only team to defeat Illinois; but Coach Waddy Davis, who scouted Purdue three times, is emphasizing the skill of the opponents. New York (in It's Notre For the 12th straight Dame again. week, including ten weeks from last year, the Irish have been voted the nation's No. 1 college football team.

The unbeaten and untied South Benders, who last week snowed Dartmouth under a 61-0 score, polled a total of 973 points from 107 sportswrltere In Monday's Associated Press weekly poll, the second of the season. The Irish ranked first on 59'i of the 107 ballots. Army and Randolph Field, both undefeated and untied, moved up a notch to second and third place, respectively, as a 13-13 deadlock with Virginia tumbled the North Carolina Tre-Flighters from second to tenth. The leaders, with 10 points given for each place vote, nine for second, first place votes in parenthesis): TOP TEN. Notre Dame (594) .111.1 XnZ Randolph field (21 VU) 1.5 Ohio State i4i Iowa Pre-F light ('.) Great Lakes til Pennsylvania (3) Georgia Tech Navy North Carolina Preflight 831 399.5 388 328 313 308 218 Second Ten: 11-Purdue 13-Califor-nia O) 80; 79; 14-March Field (1) 75; 15 and 16-Michigan and Souther" California 59 each; 17-Tenns5ee 53; 18 Beinbridge Naval 2i 50; 19-Second Air Force 48.5: 20-Indiana 47, Other vote getleri; Illinois 40.

El Toro Marines tl 38; Washington UCLA 22; Mississippi State 21: Norman, Navv C4I I7H; Virginia (lt 16; Morru Field. 14; Yale 13; Wake Forest Texas Alabama Tulane Wiscon-sin Duke 1. The three-way tie for first place that existed last week in the Rath league is now a two-way tie as Sausase defeated Pork- Cut two of three and Bacon kept pace by downing the Gov't Office by the same edge. Jiggs Johnson had high series of 527 and Frank Abel nign game of 217. joe Briggs picked up the 4-7-9-10 split.

LTneriB UA Winh curiae with 53? pins and Fagerlind had high game with 205 pins in the Red Crown. Construction Machinery went into first place in the Industrial by winning three games from Penne's Forum Roof. Construction Machinery also set a new high single game mark of 962, and a new high series record of 2,849. A. Hennings set a new high single game of 213 and a new high single series of 565.

RED CROWS Chamberlain Bombers 2, Winter Dairy 2. Karns 532. Karns and R. Miller 193, Sctgeant Oil Co. 1, Omar Flour 3.

Ledtje 488, Ledtje 201, Chemherlain Rockets 4. Keeshin Nalt 0. Rigdon 475. DeVries 188. Spur 3, C.

F. N. 1. Fagerlind 494, Fagerlind 205. RATH.

Snsage 2, Pork Cut 1. Johnson 527, Abel 217, Bacon 2, Govt Oftice 1. Mumby 524, Allen 212. Suptd. Office 2, Specialty 1.

Briggs 320, Briggs 203. Stockyards 2, loading Dock 1. LaTier 514, LaTier 197, Govt. Office 2.734. Govt.

Office m. INIRSiHlAL. Construction Mach. Co. 3, Penne's Forum Roof 0.

A. Hennings 213. A. Hennings. 56S, Sycamore Drug 3, Eagle'a Lodge 0, Boots 163.

Knick 469. Iowa Transmission Co. 3. Spiege! 0. Brandes 196, Courter 515.

Swift and Co. 2. A and Stores 1. H. Hartman 198.

H. Hartman 492. WHAT A BREAK! San Francisco. Cal. OP When the professional golf clan gathers in Portland for the $15,500 Open Nov.

23 to 26, some of the members will pinch themselves to see if they are only dreaming, becausethe sponsors of the tournament are going to pay all the caddie fees. REED LOSES FIRST FIGHT. Philadelphia, Pa. OP) Tommy Reed, known in Father Divine's circles as Saint Thomas, lost his first fight in 17 starts Monday night when army Cpl. Melio Bet-tina knocked him out in 16 seconds of the third frame of a scheduled 10-round bout.

TERRANOVA WINS. Providence, R. I. (U.R) Phil Ter-ranova, former featherweight champion, added another victory Tuesday in his comeback campaign, an impressive 10 round decision which he hammered out over Vince Dell Orto of Philadelphia Monday Pol potontad tha Hollaw Ground Blade far Ur, quickar, "ftothar Touch" shaving 4U0 rtM'aVHMM'HWjit'i 4 lltAU MtVlAl lAiSH. ft ''sV Joseph Jcnks invented Jf.

Vlj DOWIII00I FiG I STATE Columbus, O. JPh Lt Paul E. Brown, who in three years as Ohio State university's head football coach never was inside the visitors' dressing room at the Buck stadium, will see it for the first time Saturday. And it looks as if one of the biggest crowds of the season-upwards of 60.000 will be on hand when Brown leads his Great Lakes naval training station team from that dressing room to do battle with Ohio State's unbeaten Bucks. It's a game which really has caught the fancy of the fans and there are plenty of reasons.

Neither team has lost a game, although Great Lakes was tied by Illinois, Brown in three years became one of the most popular coaches in Ohio state history and he produced a Big Ten and unofficial national champion here in his second season. At least a half dozen of the probable Buck starters played directly under Brown before he left here last spring to join the navy. Most of the freshmen were personally scouted by Brown. The opposing coaches Brown tnd Carroll Widdoes have a Damon and Pythias friendship that goes back to their days at Massillon (O.) high school. Widdoes was Brown's assistant there and also at Ohio State.

And if that isn't enough, it probably will be brother against broth-er in the game. Jim Keane of Bel-liiire. plays end for Great Lakes and his brother, Tom, is Ohio State's freshman quarterback. Brown Now Acting Athletic Officer Chicago (U.R) Lt. (jg) Paul Brown, Great Lakes naval training center football coach, haa been ap-pointed acting athletic officer to replace Lt Cmdr.

Paul D. (Tony) Hinkle, Commodore R. R. M. Emmet, commander of the center, aa-nounced Tuesday.

Hinkle, who has "coached two Great Lakes basketball teams and two football teams to service, championships, has been ordered to duty in the southwest Pacific Hinkle's football teams won eight lost three and tied one game in 1942 and won 10 and lost two in 1943. His 1942-43 basketball team won 34 and lost three and the 1943-44 team won 33 and lost three He came to Great Lakes as a civilian volunteer basketball coach in March, 1942, was commissioned a lieutenant a month later ana was made a lieutenant commander last March when he became athletic officer. TWO COAST GAMES. San Francisco, Cal. (U.R) It was announced Tuesday that Father Flanagan's undefeated Boys' Town, Nebraska, football team will play two games on the Pacific coast this fall.

The first will be against a high school team at Spokane. Nov. 19, and the second will be against St. Ignatius high school, San Francisco, Nov. 2.

S750 FASHION BUllV Fitting Fourth Street THREE I 2J Mr. Sinkwich Is 111 "Purdue has a fine combination of speed and power," Davis said. "They have a good running and plunging game and a dangerous passing attack. "Ed Cody is a fine fullback and the halfbacks, 'Pump' Elliott and Boris DimanchefT are about equal in ability. "The line is good, but not as strong as the 1943 combination, with Frank Bauman, right end; Pat O'Brien, 220-pound left tackle, as stand-outs.

Purdue uses formation exclusively," he said. Heavy work for the game started Tuesday and Coach Slip Madigan probably will institute several changes. These include shifting Forrest Masterson from center to right tackle, and Bill Benskin from right tackle to right 'guard. Iowa's offense, which rolled for 208 yards by rushing against Illinois and an average of 4.3 yards per play, is topped by Bill Ker-sten. left, halfback, with 107 yards vin 20 trials.

Jim Hansen, fullback, has 98 in 21, and Dick Woodard, right halfback, 71 in 18. Purdue Tries to Correct Mistakes Lafayette, Ind. (INS) Coach Cecil Isbell was preparing the Boilermakers Tuesday for their return to conference action Saturday against Iowa at Iowa City, He announced that the civilian section will leave Thursday evening while the V-12 group will leave Friday. In Monday's practice, Isbell devoted his attention to smoothing out errors committed in Saturday's hard-fought Iowa Seahawk game, particularly in the blocking department. WINS 26TH IN MEXICO.

Mexico City (U.R) Ramon Bragana, ths Cuban Negro who took over the managership of the Veracruz baseball team when Rogers Hornsby quit his job after the first month, set a new Mexican league pitching record of 26 wins in one season. The victory put Veracruz two games on top of the league. When Hornsby left Veracruz was in sixth place. OMA T. KO'S BLAKE.

Baltimore, Md. (U.R) Lee Oma of Detroit, strengthening his position in the heavyweight field, added a technical knockout over Al Blake of New York to his record Tuesday." gaining the victory in the ninth round of their bout here I Monday night. t- A ''fills f-i fM i'-r TT." 5 Streamlined Moccasin Note the "overlap-seam" on this modern design moccasin. It's a weathcr-shedderl The rich heavy, weight leather is soft as buckskin and tough as rswhide. Here's solid comfort! And there's greater wear and flexibility in their moisture repellent soles X-Ray FOX' writ 1 1 i 1 imBtammttiMt.

i ') i'iii mi i i 225 East Frank Sinkwich, flat-footed military rejectee, who Sunday scored his team's total of 17 points, regains his composure in a Detroit hospital where he was taken following the Detroit Lions-Cleveland Rams National football game. Doctors hope that the appendix attack he suffered in the course of the contest, will not necessitate surgery. (NEA Tclcphoto.) REMINDER BRING WAR RATION BOOK WHEN YOU SHOP FOR SHOES. BE 2 i.