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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1965 n(B WdDirflcul cnfi Pa rt Aatoraotrra State News Qjj With Malice JM Toward fforie gers League Flag By BILL LEE Sports Editor Koufax Beats Milwaukee As Sandy QTORRS-John Bateman, winning Rutgers football coachcame into the post-game press conference room with Joe Soltys, UConn publicist "You should have seen women kissing Bateman just. now outside the door," Soltys said. "They must love a winner," one of the writers remarked. "So do shot back Bateman, whose team had beaten Connecticut, 17 to 8. A week ago, while the Huskies were getting UConn Bows To Rutgers uieir iirsi cnensnea victory over Yale in the Bowl, Rutgers Lefty Wins No.

26 And Strikes Out 13 In 3 to 1 Triumph LOS ANGELES (AP) Los their seventh in the last 14. was Derng KicKea xo aeatn by Charley Gogolak's six field goals. The kissers, incidentally, were family. Knights Win 17-8 Contest "This was a key game for us," Bateman explained, "After losing to Princeton, we never STATISTICS First Downs know how our players will res pond. Only twice in my ex Rushing Yardage Passing Yardagt perience have we been loose Passes enough at Princeton to play Passes Int.

by 3-2? L- jf v4L2 Punts our best football." Fumbles Lost The Dodgers, who rocketed to the top with a 13-game winning streak that ended Friday night, now fact the American League champion Minnesota Twins in the World Series starting Wednesday at Minnesota. Second-place San Francisco Yards Penalized Angeles clinched the National League pennant in typical Dodger fashion Saturday, defeating Milwaukee 3-1 behind the four-hit pitching of Sandy Koufax and a two-run, fifth-inning rally built on one hit. The victory, their 14th in the last 15 games, climaxed a 17 day comeback that brought the A man asked the Rutgers coach if his team had come up to expectations against By BILL LEE Courant Sports Writer Connecticut. "We knew before the sea STORRS Rutgers beat Con son that we had a strong of necticut on the strength of clear edged Cincinnati 3-2 earlier in the day but lost all chance for the pennant when Los Angeles fensive but after what hap Dodgers from iVi games behind ly superior ground power, 17 to JSk jfa San Francisco to their third! downed the Braves. The Giants pened against Princeton we needed this showing today to 8, in UConn's opener Saturday, pennant in seven years and make that belief stand up Yes, I'm very happy with The UConn team, in its next start after last week's tingling first victory over Yale in the what we got done against a Bowl, and to take what comfort it could from the fact it out- Koufax At End of Endurance scored the big Scarlet eleven good Connecticut team." "What did you think of Wha-ley?" Bateman didn't quite hear.

He cocked an ear toward the questioner. "The Connecticut quarter- in the second half. A Band Day crowd of 10,629, DAVE WHALEY which Governor back i LOS ANGELES "I feel "Oh, Whaley is Bateman said. like I'm 100 years old." Dempsey watched a dynamic Rutgers running game set up all of its 17 points in the second period. Connecticut salvaged a are two games back with only one game remaining.

26th Victory Koufax, working for the clincher with only two days rest instead of his usual three, gained his 26th victory against eight defeats. He went into the game with shutouts in his last five victories but was tagged for a leadoff home run by Gene Oliver in the fourth inning. The brilliant 29-year-old left hander, who was battered by the Braves only 10 days ago, struck out 13, raising his major league record total to 382 for the season. Offsets Run Oliver's homer offset a run the Dodgers scored without a hit in the first inning. Jim Gilliam walked, stole second, continued to third when catcher Oliver fired the ball into center field and raced across on Tony Cloa-inger's wild pitch.

The Dodgers used similar tac A weary, perspiring Sandy Koufax, speaking just a decibel share of the day's honors with above a whisper, confided that Memorial Stadium Saturday afternoon as the Scarlet topped UConn's Huskies (Courant Photo by Maurice Murray). an electrifying last quarter ral DO-SI-DO-LIKE IN DANCING: Rutgers defensive end Scott Lewendon (81), and UConn's Bob Quist (33) seem to be doing a square dance step in first half action at he had reached, the end of his endurance when he retired Dennis Menke of Milwaukee for the ly that earned one touchdown and kept the ball in the New Jersey team's territory most of the 15 minutes. RUTGERS PLAYERS SURPRISED, NOT COACH The well satisfied Rutgers coach said that Rick Forzano, Huskie head coach, had brought the UConn team back for the second half sparked up like a powerful engine, i "It didn't surprise me when Rick brought them out keyed up like that, but I guess it may have surprised my football players." "Whaley is just a helluva quarterback. When he had time to pass, he was wonderful the way he dropped passes into his receivers." Regretably, not all of those passes were caught Some were muffed. But Whaley did have time in the second half after being rushed off his feet by a ferocious Rutgers blitz in the first two periods.

last out in the ninth inning Baseball Colgate Nips Rutgers played it safe in the The putout by left fielder Lou closing minute and a half by running the ball back of its Johnson brought Koufax and the own goal line for a safety Dodgers a 3-1 victory and the National League championship. Yale by 7-0 Intercepted Pass Provides Break that helped stall UConn's repeated passing threats. The brilliant southpaw, too tics in the fifth inning, but th's spent to get out of his sweat- AMERICAN LEAGUE Yesterday' Results: California 5, Minnesota 4. Detroit 9-6, Washington 1-2. New York 6, Boston 4.

Chicago 12, Kansas City 0. Cleveland 2, Baltimore 1 (12). time they had the help ot one 01 Most Passes Ever Unable to move from here Had Forzano made adjustments between halves that pro vided his passer better protection? GAVE WHALEY BETTER PROTECTION stained baseball unuorm, sat their two hits to the game ptua alone in the tiny 4-by-8 kitchen across the street on the ground, ette alongside the commissary, Connecticut had to depend al we adjusted our protection for Whaley and also got 187 20 312 where the rest of the Dodgers Dave to get nis throws off a little quicker," Rick answered. most entirely on the air arm, and quarterback Dave Whaley were celebrating their triumph First Downs Rushing Yardagt Passing Yardage Passes Passes Intercepted by Punts Fumbles Lost Yards Penalized 3 129 14 (20 1 -33 1 54 4-35 by dousing each other with accounted for a nebulous Con Bateman asked the outcome of the Yale-Colgate game and when informed the Red Raiders had pulled it out 7 to 0, with a late surge he remarked, "That means Yale is a tougher team 3 33 champagne. necticut record by putting the Standings (not including games marked abovtf.

HI a than we thought." bases-loaded walks to John Ro-seboro and Koufax. Cloninger, now 24-11, started the inning by walking Lou Johnson, and Jim Lefebvre followed with a single past third bass-man Mike de la Hoz that sent Johnson to third. Johnson Gets Back Wes Parker then grounded to first baseman Joe Torre, who fired to thf plate. But Johnson headed back to third, and Oliver whipped the ball to de la Ho. "I'm tired, very tired," murmured.

"I don't ever being so tired in my By BILL NEWELL Courant Sports Writer eg CQ Forzano wanted to talk about the dead game way his UConn ball into the air 40 times. The previous record of 36 attempted passes was made by UConn quarterback Jim DiGiorno players had fought it out with a strong Rutgers team. life. I don't believe I could have Minnesota 11 10 "I'm very confident this bunch of mine will bounce back," NEW HAVEN Colgate and defensive giants but of gone on any longer." Rick said. "They're going to be all right We may fool a lot of against New Hampshire in 1954.

Rutgers, operating a The handsome native of 5 .2 St 3 1 I 5 a 10 7 13 8 15 17 10 101 60 .627 -9 10 8 12 13 14 12 94 67 .584 7 11 9 13 13 8 11 11 93 68 .578 8 8 10 10 11 12 13 89 72 .553 12 9 12 9 11 10 9 87 74 .540 14 8 6 12 11 8 11 76 85 .472 25 8 9 6 6 13 13 75 86 .466 26 6 7 7 12 7 12 69 92 .429 32 6 8 9 5 11 11 62 99 .385 39 5 9 7 5 6 7 59 102 .366 42 people from here to the finish." fensive midgets, huffed and puffed for 58 minutes and 57 Brooklyn had just posted his double wing back formation, Forzano talked most of the time about a strong Rutgers 26th triumph, a four-hitter over team having earned its victory but pointed out that injuries to with one set back after a shift and a man in motion from the seconds Saturday before the Red Chicago 7 9 Baltimore 8 9 Detroit 8 9 7 Cleveland 11 8 8 New York 5 10 5 California 9 6 5 Washington 3 5 10 Boston 1 4 7 Kansas City 8 5 7 the Braves, in which he struck- Jeann White, Whaley, Don Fisher and Gene Campbell hurt his out 13 and raised his season tot Raiders seized upon a final Johnson slid back into the base safely, and the Braves argued to no avail, that he was out. corner, got eye-filling Mocking scoring opportunity an inter al to a record 382. But it had taken a double play With the bases loaded. Clon ahead of wide sweeps by Ralf Stegmann, Rich Capria and Charley Mudie for a rocking cepted pass to gain a 7-0 team seriously. UCONN BREATHER COMING UP An ankle injury to defensive ace Campbell, the hero of the Yale game, did the most damage.

Rutgers struck quickly for an to help him out in the ninth inger walked Roseboro, forcing 72 74 85 86 90 98 101 LOST 59 67 68 when he gave up a hit to Mike 262 yards on the ground. football victory before 26,676 Yale Bowl spectators, half of LaHoz. Then he walked Woody UConn had to make two titan Today's Games (EOT), Probable Pitchers: overhead touchdown right after Campbell had been helped off Woodward. Manager Walt Alston came ic goal line stands early in the second quarter to make it as the tie-breaking run. i ne Braves' are right-hander then went to three balls and io strikes against Koufax, and Manager Bobby Bragan called in Ken Johnson.

Johnson's first pitch was a close as it was. out to the mound to talk to Koufax after he had pitched one ball to Menke. The Huskies did have some thing of a threat going in the "How do you feel," asked the middle of the first period with worried skipper, who knew, as first down just across mid- them youngsters. The game's only score, coming at a time when virtually everyone in the huge saucer was certain a scoreless draw was imminent, resulted from a 13-yard run off the left side by reserve back Wayne Edmunds. He dove inside the flag with only 1:03 left to play.

Greenlee Tremendous Until this burst, neither team had shown much when given ball, and the Dodgers had another run. Johnson, however, escaped further damage by getting Maury Wills on a shallw did the 41,574 people in the park, the field. Campbell returned in the second half but Forzano thought his availability next week might be doubtful "His ankle blew right up after the bandage came off," Forzano explained. "I'm afraid we'll have to get along without Fisher he has a bad knee injury. Mike Nitaro has a head injury.

He's a real tough fighter and we'll miss him if he can't play." Forzano had another bit of balm from the loss to Rutgers. "I don't like defeats, I don't like them at all," he said "but sometimes a team learns more from defeat than from victory." "Who do you play next Saturday?" one of them asked Forzano. "We've got a breather-Massachusetts," the Connecticut coach answered blandly. New York (Ford 15-13) at Boston (Morehead 10-18), 2:15 p.m. Detroit (Sparma 13-7) at Washington (Coleman 1-0), 1:30 p.m.

Baltimore (Barber 14-10) at Cleveland (McDowell 17-10), 1:30 p.m. Kansas City (Hunter 8-7) at Chicago (Horlen 12-13), 2:30 p.m. California (Brunet 8-11) at Minnesota (Perry 11-7), 3:30 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE Yesterday's Uesults: Los Angeles 3, Milwaukee 1. San Francisco 3, Cincinnati 2.

Pittsburgh 3, Chicago 0. X.Philadelphia 6, New York 0 (1st, 2nd N). St. Louis 6, Houston 3. field, but an infraction after the first down had been made that the Giants had defeated the Reds, putting the pressure set them back 15-yards.

They still had first down and Whaley of winning on the Dodgers. Dog-Tired passed to tight end Norm Char- tier on the Rutgers 31. When "I'm dog-tired." Sandy re the Scarlet braced, Whaley tried plied honestly. "But I think I a field goal from 43 yards out the ball. Colgate's big line, plus linebackers Ray Hg and Mike Grimes, stunted Eli's ground have enough left to get this guy" and missed.

fly, Gilliam to hit into a for-e play at the plate and Willie Davis on a grounder to first. Fifth for Alston Manager Walter Alston, who has won five pennants in 12 years with the Dodgers, was greatly pleased with his latest champions, who don't have a regular hitting .290. "What more can I say in praise of a team than that they played their very best in those games they had to win most. I'm prouH of them." he said. 1 Boots Field Goal That was enough for Alston growth and the Blue passing, 60 by After these two rebuffs, Rut Stand bv Pete Dohertv and Watts and he ambled back to the a 01 5 If Humphrey, was erratic.

Charter Oaks Crushed Philly Bulldogs, 62-22 a 03 cs ca a. The count on Menke ran to But neither could the Red ings (not including games marked above) gers drove in again and when UConn blunted the attack for the third time in a few minutes, Jack Hohnstine kicked a 25-yard 3 a a "3 3 12 11 Raiders handle Yale's defense, jg 55 2-2. Koufax, using no wmdup, reared back and fired a reasonable facsimile of his noted fast spearheaded by junior tackle Los Angeles 10 field goal that put the visitors Bob Greenlee, a 235 pounder cessful but managed only one 8 San Fran. a (A 13 15 12 10 14 12 8 8 in front, 3 to 0 at 10:55 of the from Daytona Beach, who By FRANK KEYES Courant Sports Writer MILWAUKEE LOS AN6ELES ball. Menke met the ball solidly and raised a long fly to Johnson turned in as fine a defensive 10 12 11 12 9 10 8 touchdown, engineering a late drive that ended the scoring with 5:40 left and the fans 12 13 11 14 13 8 13 11 14 AB ab 61 2 0 0 0 Wills ss 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 Gilliam 3b 3 10 0 4 0 0 0 Kennedy 3b 0 0 0 0 4 12 1 W.Oavis cf 4 0 0 0 65 67 72 72 75 76 81 89 96 Alou If Thomas If Aaron rf G.oiiver in medium left.

"I thought the ball was never performance as Bowl regulars have witnessed in years. Col .596 .584 .553 .553 .534 .519 .494 .447 .404 .314 12 10 10 4 11 10 10 9 5 second quarter. Less than a minute later, Lou Tepper, junior defensive back from Arnold Palmer's home town of Latrobe, intercept The Philadelphia Bulldogs buried the Charter Oaks under an avalanche of touchdowns 2 7 7 10 12Vi im 24 31 45 9 10 13 10 6 7 8 6 7 76 9 7 8 9 8 14 5 8 4 72 swarming toward the exits. gate's passing game was virt Torre delaHoz 3b 6 11 10 8 8 6 3 5 67 coming down," tne grinning Johnson confided to Koufax la 6 9 8 9 6 8 5 6 65 Cincinnati Pittsburgh Milwaukee Philadelphia St. Louis 1 Chicago Houston New York LOST The scoring sequence will be 10 6 5 8 7 6 7 72 ually nil.

Eli Coach Carmen Cozza, how Saturday" night in a Continental Football League scoring or ed a Whaley pass that bounced ter. found below in the summary since there were too many scor 4 0 0 Fairly rf 4 0 0 0 4 0 10 L.Johnson If 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lefebvre 2b 3 1 2 3 0 0 0 Parker lb 3 0 0 0 3 0 10 Ros'boro 10 0 1 2 0 0 0 Koufax 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 10 0 0 1 0 0 30 1 4 1 Totals 37 1 2 off a UConn man into Tepper's ing to the Gogolak Brothers' in 10 7 89 gy that degenerated into a 62-22 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Cllne pr Jones cf Wood'rd Alomar 2b Menke ss Cloning'r Boiling ph Totals es to permit the details but the 4-50109 96 109 hands just off the ground at 81 The San Francisco Giants main fluence in Eastern football, came up with two soccer play rout. Despite the lopsided margin, the Connecticut 33-yard line. Rut action went like this. Snatch Lead Brodhead passed to H.

D. gers promptly took advantage of ers who alternated in trying for the Dillon Stadium crowd of an injury-riddled Connecticut se 000 100 O001 100 002 OOx-l tained their slim chance of tying for the National League pennant Saturday, edging Cincinnati 3-2 as Willie Mays and Jim Hart Milwaukte Los Angeles Murphy fr 32 yards with 4:47 condary by clicking on a first field goals. They went 0-for-3 1-2 Punch Fails One was a cotton-topped Eng 6,680 whooped it up for the seven-times beaten locals until their organized resistance dis left in the first period, nut tne down option pass from Steg Oaks snached the lead at 9-7 bv throwing Brodhead for a Today's Games (EOT), Probable Pitehersi Philadelphia (Short 18-11) ht New York (Jackson 8-19), 2 p.m. Chicago (Faul 6-6) at Pittsburgh (Sisk 7-3), 1:05 Pf-St. Louis (Gibson 19-12) at Houston (Sembera 0-0), 3:30 p.m.

Milwaukee (Sadowski 5-8) at Los Angeles (Drysdale 23-12), 4 in Cincinnati (Maloney 20-9) at San Francisco (Marichal 22-13), 4 p.m. integrated late in the second E-G. Oliver, Gilliam. DP Los Angeleo 1. LOB Milwaukee 7, Los Anaeles 5.

HR-G. Oliver (21). SB-Gilliam. Cloninger. IP ERBBSO Cloninger 24-11 4 1 3 2 4 3 K.

Johnson 2 10 0 0 1 rapped key hits in a three-run, sixth-inning uprising. 1 rtmriNNATI SAN FRANCISCO mann to Mudie for a quick-strike touchdown. Hohnstine add half. safety and on Ron Martin's lish lad from Somerset named Derek Bush, who missed on side-winding boots of 33 yards in the first quarter and 35 in ed the extra point to make it al ab bi Prw. 1h 5 110 Fuentel ts 3 1 0 0 brilliant 80-yard touchdown re Ollvo 2 0 0 0 13 It was Philadelphia's seventh win in eight games and protected the Bulldogs' first place Shamsky rf 1 0 0 0 McCovey lb 3 0 0 0 turn of the kickoff.

10 to 0 at 11:47. Scarlet Gets Crusher the final canto. The other, John Koufax 24-0 9 4 1 1 4 11 Cloninger faced men In 5th. WP Cloninger, Ollvo. A 4V Perez lb 1 0 0 0 mays et 4 Pinion 4 0 3 1 Hart It 3 111 Brodhead threw his second The Rutgers crusher, however, Griswold, was far short on a 55- 574.

yard effort just before halftime, was the touchdown they made with 43 seconds of the half re Robinson If 4 0 11 M.Alou If 0 0 0 0 Coleman lb 4 0 0 0 J.Alou rf 10 0 1 Harper If 0 0 0 0 Oavenp't 3b 3 0 I 0 Johnson 3b 4 0 0 0 Lanier 2b 3 0 0 0 Edwards 4 0 0 0 Haller 3 0 0 0 Card'nas ss 4 1 2 0 Herbel 3 0 0 0 They wore No. 1 and 2, respec maining. Starting just back of Correction Los Angeles Dodger star San Live Sports On the Air dy Koufax will not pitch the CToole 2 0 10 Queen ph 10 0 0 P'vletich ph 1 0 1 0 Helms pr .0000 Totals 15 1 1 2 Totals 3 3 3 Distaff Record NEW YORK (UPI) Judy Kimball established a ladies' PGA record in 1961 when she used only 21 putts in the final round in winning the National Women's Open Golf championship. College Soccer Brandeis 1. Hartford 0.

Trinity WIT 1 Adelphl 3, Pratt 1 West Virginia i. Davis I Elklni 1 00 000 0)0-1 000 003 00X-3 TD aerial, a 60-yard pass and run play to Frank Baker in the first minute of the second quarter, but Lee Grosscup's five-yarder to Mike Haffner put Hartford ahead again 15-14. It didn't survive the period. Go Ahead for Keeps The Bulldogs went ahead for keeps Brodhead's third six-point pitch, a three-yarder to John Drew and more of his uncanny accuracy set up Ken Webb's two-yard buck for a 28-15 half time lead. Then early in the third pe opening game of the World Series on Wednesday for religious reasons according to a statement he made Friday night.

Cincinnati San Francisco mid-neld, Rutgers proved they could pass as well as run. Two of these were running heaves from halfbacks on the option play. The clincher was a 17-yard overhead play from Jack Calla-ghan to right end Bob Stohrer. Callaghan had started the game margin in the Eastern Division. Hartford's record is in direct contrast, 1-7.

Hartford Led In view of the 50-point final spread, it's amazing but documented truth that Hartford actually led at two stages in the first half, 9-7, and 15-14. And the Oaks managed one second half score to remain in contention at 35-22 before the dam broke in the last eight minutes of the third quarter which ended 56-22. All this was accomplished before Bob Brodhead, the loop's top passer, left for the sidelines for the night. Sonny Gibbs, the 6-7 replacement, was quite suc Bistbilh Tinkt vs. Boston 1:30 P.M.

Ch. 8 1:55 P.M. WINF-1230 Mots. vs. Philadelphia 1 :55 P.M.

Ch. 18 1:55 P.M. WEXT-1550 tively. Yale's deepest penetration was to the Colgate; 16 at the outset of the game, 'first whitewashing for the Blue since Dat-mouth applied the brush in 1962. Colgate, dominating the statistics, was stopped on the Blue 0-yard line in the first period, on the 23 in the second, on the nine and later six inches away in the third quarter and on the 23 and the 32 in the last 15 minutes before the big pass inter-See COLGATE, Fg.

2C, Col. The headline on the story carried in Saturday's city edi Coleman, Johnson, McCovey, Fuentes. DP San Francisco 2. LOB Cincinnati I San Francisco 3. 2B-Pinson.

3B-Hart, McCovey. SF -J. Alou. IP ERBBSO O'Toole 310 1-3 3 3 3 I 3 Zanni 1 J-3 0 0 0 0 2 jay 1 0 0 0 0 0 Herbel 7 1-3 3 2 2 2 2 tion of The Courant was correct with a jammed thumb that made in stating Koufax will not pitch on the holiday. However, the it difficult for him to throw, but Football: NFLi Giants vs.

Pitts. 1:15 P.M. Ch. 3, 12 0 AFLi Boston vs. Kansas City 1 3:30 P.M.

Ch. 10, 22, 30 word NOT was inadvertently halfback Stegemenn and reserve quarterback Fred Eckert riod with the Oaks double-team- Colleq Cross Country CCNY 15, Adelphl 4 West Virginia 17, Lock Havtn 55. West Liberty. Va. IX Henry 1-3 1 0 Llnzy 114 3 0 0 0 3:24.

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