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SPORT NEWS VOL. 44, NO. T.i the game. They had heard the of the Oklahoma Northwestern game, which Tom idham's club won. 25 to 0.

Texas meets Oklahoma next vppIc at the Dallas fair and the Bible coached team feels confident of victory, uKia homa won last year, 13 to 0. The Texas boys made a appcarance nth their wide Stetsons and thei black and tan boots. Must be hard walking thc bots which have high heels and many of thc visitors walked about the dressing room barefoot. Littcl Gilly Davis looked like a pvgmy on his bare feet, hut he's a football player ppurr! for, ucund and his tick (Contir.ued on Second Spts Page) Much lor Touted this Waldorf Club 15 WILLIAM W1.KK1.S VANSTOX. III.

Oklilho Sooncrs. the boss team ol the overvthmg risiii Saturtta lo f.e hi a staggering "23 to 0 upset triumph over Northwestern, tr. pile "cm brilliant operations by Bill DcCorre i a totooto; ool star two re ago. would do inst the bis boys, and they saw the nothing DcCorri Oklahon who used to tutor Northwestern lines, clamped a strangling defense on highly regarded crew of backs, and produced stunning offensive power when scoring opportuni DeCorrevont went into action late the fust period and lost 13 yards on plays as the Sooner forwards through Northwestern' line. He came back lat; in the third period return a kickofT 40 yards, raced 13 yards around an end, and gave a dazzling exhibition of footwork ir.

slipping thrmsb the right of the Oklahoma line for a 28 yard gain. A fumble by Don Clawson fullback, nullified DeCorrevont's long return, and lack of protection for Wildcat passers set at nought his 28 yard dash. Oklahoma scored its first touch down in the first period when Ollie Hnhnenslcin. Wildcat back, fumbled as he attempted to kick. John Shirk Sooner end.

recovered on the Wildcat six. and after Jack Jacobs, the Sooners Inciian halfback took it to the one ir three shots. Fullback Bob Seymoui Sooncrs Get Field Goal Beryl Clark. 162 pound halfback led another advance a few minutes Nort'nv. 0.

00 on its 15. Quarterback Dick Favor kicked a 24 yard to mcnt. Favor missed the first one but kicked the extra points alter Okli noma's last two touchdowns. To: second full on own four yard line in the third period. second toticndown.

(Jiiiton Oklahoma's clever junior and Seymour crash ed over again. I TOv.i. TOUrn; as. .1 lartin. a substitute fullback, reached and snatched a toss from Chambers (Continued on Second Sports Page) Edge wood 'W And St.

Mary's Clash Today Coach Earl Wilke's Edgewood eleven, undefeated but tied once in two games makes another bici for victory this afternoon at 2:30 against a hard driving St. Mary's of Menasha club at Brcesc Stevens field. Ecieewood already has beaten Maus 27 0, but was tied last Sunday by St. John's Cathedral hign 01 Milwau kee. 6 6.

The local Catholic preps face another strong foe in St. Marys today, although the Menasha eleven was defeated 12 6 by Kaukauna in an earlier game. The visitors were champions of i to valley uatnonc comer ncc in 1938 and have taken on one ol toughest schedules in lustorj Coach Wilke wi full strength today and plans squad at Dick Sweeney and Jim Reilly at ends; Dan DiLoretta and Dave Heilman too Dirk Wrabetz and Dan Free. man. guards: Pat Martin, center; Dick cannon or otto at quai terbark: Myron Brockman and Joe Find, halfbacks, and Ellsworth Hughes.

fullback. THE CAPITAL TIMES Only Madison Paper With Associated Press Service through the team which last crushed Arizona, 62 to 0. Honn Hods O.ver Gophers iod of bruising football game to find him lf surrounded by a horde of Minne An attempted block sailed the institute haifbaek into the end zone. All afternoon a trio of Nebraska backs rammed and rambled through and around a flabby Minnesota line. First it was Hcrmie Rohrig, then it was Harry "Hoppity" Hopp and late in the game Henry Rohn who knifed And it was this Nebraska regularity of depending almost entirely on oni ball carrier in each set of backs thai brought Minnesota's downfall.

Hnnn had slanted through the Goph. er forwards for gains of nine and 13 yards in the series of downs preceding the touchdown Play. The Gophers were set to slop iasiy this "time handed it to De Fruiter for a sweep around Nebraska's The sophomore threaded his through the oopners hkc a i bramble patch until the th r.e was nemmea n. eak Play Wins Game Capt. Win Pedersen's side catapulted him across, inches a single forward pass and made good for three yards.

Minnesota ook to the air lanes a bit more avid tossing 12 with one completed lor icht vards. Only in spurts did the visitors, Big Ten defending champions, display tne oo; istency that made them iavontes. It was only Nebraska's fourth victory in 21 games with Minnesota and ranked on a par with the 14 to 9 up v. iio.imph here two years ago. verdicl also kept alive the Nebr Continued on Second Sports pa MADISON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1939 Texas U.

'LonghoiW Stampede Over Ragged Badgers, 17 to 7 The worst team I ever saw was the manner in which one rn of the Texas aides character Jjj ized Wisconsin eleven at the conclusion of a day's Same. Not a charitable remark, but truthful. Dana Bible. Texas head coach, was, tickled pink at the outcome, but he admitted the warm weather was ideal for the Longhorns. It was what would have been termed a perfect day in Austin, site of the I.onghorn school.

Wisconsin won the hand painted loving cup for being the most gentlemanly team on the field. In fact they were so busy picking up the Texans and patting them on the back for good play, that they forgot the rudiments of the game, blocking and tackling. There wasn't a good hard tackle made by the Badger? all afternoon. Not the kind that you can hear in the stands. Jack Grain, Texas soph, complimented Coach Harry Stuhldreher on the conduct of his players, but that didn't help.

Harry smiled, a wan grin, but made no A former Badger star, who witnessed the Rame criticised the nlav of the Badgers with brutal frankness. "They must have ice water in their he said. Comine; from a play lin was a treat perform er, and blessed with intestinal f.irtitiide to a hteh degree, the comment must carry weight. Texas isn't a great team, iney didn't get the feel of things until near the close of the first half. Then Nelson Puett, halfback came to a momentous discovery.

"These boys ain't tough. They haven i anv punch nor desire. They're casv to beat. Just rock and mm 'em and they will be our meat." Puett told his mates, and lie proved a true prophet. Texas wasn't too confident and a sudden attack at the outset would have set them buck on their heels and the result would have been entirely different.

Bring on Oklahoma." yelled the Texans at the end of Wildcats Fall Wisconsin's Attack BeJoreFails Miserably As i Oklahoma Power Is loo Lone Star Eleven Wins Handily in Third Quarter Splurge; Lubuow Shines For U. Miller Scores By HANK CASSERLY (Capital Times Sports Editor) 4 BAND of Texas Longhorns, milled about for two periods, f. and then stampeded in the third and fourth quarters to hand Wisconsin a stunning 17 to 7 upset at Camp Randall yesterday afternoon. Nearly 25,000 fans sat in midsummer heat and watched the Badgers play miserable lootDall in Dow ina to Coach Dana Bible's fleet performers. Wisconsin, looking worse than the previous Saturday against Marquette, played touch football, while tne horns tackled for keeps.

The Texans also blocked, while Wis consin either forgot this all important assignment or else Huskers Stun Gophers, Win 6 to 0 Battle ICOLN, Neb. HP) Nebraska. LINO an ipping with raw power, relied Saturn, on a surp; oo and misdirected block by Mtotoo to: otain to tarnish the Golden Gophers, to 0. Dc Frni yarc! ITO were stricken by the heat, which favored the Texans, but which shouldn't have had an important bearing on the outcome. Let's dismiss the quarter backing with one word: terrible.

Fumbles Don't Help Besides these two glaring deficiencies, the Badgers fumbled three times and on each occasion failed to recover. The Badger timing was off and the line was completely outplayed by an aggressivr. charging Longhorn ioi wall. Onerating behind this wall were fleet backs, who raJi for consistent gains on reverses, single, double and B. Pati i0.1 ITO.UOTO Hi'' TEXAN INJURED Vernon Martin.

19, Amarillo, Te; back on the Texas football teai tas rushed to the U. W. student ii irmarv last nirht at 6:15 and onfined there, overnight suffering 1 bl i the back in thi Badger Longhorn game Saturday afternoon at Camp Randall. Dr. Joe Gilbert, Texas team physician, remained with Martin last night.

ray pictures will be taker this morning to determine the extent of the injury. Local doctors could not determini seriousnesSPof thc injury. "The victory was most pleasing. romorow is my 48tn oirtncay unu boys couldn't have given me a licr nresent. said Coach Bible.

"Maybe we got it all out of our iystem today. Certainly things went badly and maybe we can forget and return to saneness, saia narry ctuui drcher. Badger mentor as he stood shaking his head in the dressing room "uibnow Paces Ball Carriers The biggest individual ground gainer of the day was Harold Lubnow. KnriPTT snnhomore. who drove for 59 yards in nine tries, late in the final Both teams reached the 20 yard line in.

first hall wbu oo (Continued on Second Sports Page) Park Nips Central, 7 0 (Special to The Capital Times) TfcACINE Washington Park turn ed back Madison Central, 7 0, last night when Dick Miner ai Al Zucck teamed to score the wi ninn' touchdown in the third perk Miller first began the scoring drive by taking the ball from Park's tf yara line to the 32 for a first dowt peck then swung over towar north sideline, cut back, and good interference for the touchclowr Bobeck plac ki.TOod of 78 yards. 5 on the play. The Iowa Tips Hoosiers in 32 29 Tilt Hawkeves Hand Coach Eddie Anderson Win In 'Big 10 Delml OWA CITY, cr. 1933. play with red bac a the 1 here Saturday to clip the Indians' aerial sharpshooters 19, in a wild, free for all scoring ba le that kept approximal ans In continuous suspenst It was the first Western P't for Iowa at home Thc Hr kcyes.

trailing 20 the fourth period, pulled into count by marching 73 yards touchdown, then followed with only four minutes left the mo touchdown pass from Nile Kinnick to Copt. Erwin Prassc. Third for Kinnirk.Prasse It was thc third point making per formance for the Kinnick Pi ir.p Thc game throughout was a battle in. OTO 1...0 MoTO.OOS completed the remarkable sum of IB if 26 passes for 227 ys lirlanes 13 ti The Hoosiers took the opening kick and were off in a drive that by a field goal by Eddie He) from the Iowa 14. Indiana then passed and smashf to the Iowa 15 yard line, where Harry Brooks skirted off the weak out raced an Iowa back over line.

Herbert converted. Kinnick quick kicked thc Hoosiers into trouble by placing the ball on the Indiana three yard line. The Hoosiers punted out to Kinnick who returned 10 yards to the 30 yard line before hurling a pass that Prasse caught for jckdowt Kinr Gets mbled 55 vards to the Indiana three at the start of the second period. He promptly smacked over the goal line on the next play. The Hawkeyes widened their margin when Kinnick sent another aerial to Pras.se who grabbed the ball on the Indiana 15 and again scored.

Then came a Hoosier counter attack. Indiana rushed down to the Iowa 14, getting there when interference was ruled on a pass. On fourth down, Harold Hursh flipped a pass to Bill Tipmore in the end zone. After the half time rest, Indiana quickly swung into the lead as Mc poured in substitutes to relieve tired veterans. Iowa couldn't match reserve power and the Hoi the Iowa 15 early in the third period Continued on Second Sports page Uclans Rally, Defeat Huskies By 14 7 Count SEATTLE (P) Coming from bend, the University of California at is Angeles Bruins scored two second half touchdowns to defeat the University of Washington Huskies 14 to 7 before a crowd of 10,005 Saturday.

Steele's end sweep scored for Washington in the first period. UCLA tied the count in the third quarter with Kenny Washington going over. Gilmore caught a pass and rambled five yards for the winning counter late in the fourth period. OREGON 10: STANFORD 0 PORTLAND, Ore. Of) Oregon defeated Stanford 10 to 0 in a Pacific coast conference game here before 20,000 fans.

Duplicating their feat of last Sat urday against U.S.C.. the Webfoots scored in the last minute of the first half on a long pass from Smith to Gravbeal. In the last Quarter Gray beal kicked a field goal from the 15 GAELS BEARS 3 I BERKELEY, Calif. JPy St. Mary's i Gaels, pushing over a touchdon I tory over a stubborn band of Cali of 55,000 football 1 i 1 Yankee Bats Boom, Homers Crush Reds in Third Straight World Series Win kinstsbut I a deep into the bleachers, some I in New York, despite heroic hurting.

I promptly tagged for a run, when, with Myers came home as the roar of the) I By SID FEDER lot the National league kings but ano Yank Assault Stops Too two out, Ival Goodman beat out an crowd rocked the stands. 1ROSI.EV FIELD. CINCIW.II the end of Junior, the That, too. was the end of the Yan hit, Buck McCormick sliced Thompson was retired at the plate I 1 i he riht 22 vear old tight handci, who didn't kecs. assault, for Lefty Lee GrissomUc to right, and Ernie Lombaidi on Lonnie Freys grounder but Ival 7 to 3 1 ()Thp New York Yank powerhouse, alter travelling in low gear before masterful pitching tot two days, broke loose its home run lightning Saturday to smash the Cincinnati Reds, 7 to 3, for the third straight victory in the 1939 world se With the pitching giving way to the attack on both sides for the first time in this series, the bombing squad from the Bronx blasted four home runs two by Rookie Charley Keller and gave a strongly partisan crowd of 32.723 home club rooters a display of the dvnamite which has made it famous in its last three straight ia'm; rough Goodman made up lor it wnn a hit down the right field line set Werber.

and ending the Reds making for the afternoon. Goodman Is Reds Hero spots in the first five innings. Charley and Joe Homer Keller clouted his first four bagger alter Frankie Crosetti had walked in the opening inning. Then Clouting Charley drew a pass with two out in the third, and Joe DiMaggio snapped out of his series hitting doldrums with a towering smash that soared high over the 383 foot mark on the center field fence and into the street Red Rolfe singled with one away in the fifth, and was promptly brought around by Keller's second four bagger, hard hit drive that landed about 10 rows back in the right field bleachers. DiMaggio only managed an infield and Young Lloyd "Whitcy" Moore handcuffed them completely all the way through the last four innings.

Not a Yankee reached base in that time, LOMBARDI OUT CINCINNATI, O. (P) The Cincinnati Reds, on the verge of elimination from the World series, may have to go In today's crucial game against the New York Yankees without the services of their heavy hitting catcher. Ernie Lombardi. After Saturday's game, Manager Bill McKechnie announced Lombardi complained of pain in his right shoulder, where he was accidentally hit by one of Bump Hadley's pitches in the seventh inning. field for a run producing base hit.

Hadley Relievos Gomel Lefty took his turn at bat in the and only three of them managed to hit balls out oi tne inneid. On the other hand, the Yankee twirling, although well below the form of Red Ruffing and Monte Pearson in the first two games, was not bad, once it got started. Lefty Gomez. of Bump Hadley, the portly 35 year old right hand veteran. Bump apparently was summoned without a long enough warm up in the bull, pen, and gave up the Reds' other two runs before he settled down.

It began with one out in the second, when Billy Myers shot a single through short. After the umpires settled a lenghty argument that Thompson's foul tip third strike had not been "caught by Dickey's glove, the young hurler looped a single in short left, sending Myers to second. Werber Altogether, Goodman of By the end of the second, Harney had hit his stride, and for the last seven innings he gave up only three hits. In that stretch only two of the Rhinelanders reached third base, one of them, oddly enough on Hadley's wild throw of Lombardi's grounder in the seventh, for the first error of the holder of the all time record of six oi.l Wi hi no out defeat, started for the American league rulers, although still suffering somewhat from the injured side which put him into a hospital for several have anything even closely resembling the stuff shown by his pitching mates. Paul Derringer and Bucky Walters, who lost the first two games days at the end of th series by either club.

The victory was Hadley's second in (Continued on Second Sports Page I In summer weather thai of the jam pack But it wasn't Lefty's tossed only one inning, day. He this tcher Bill aehind him. crashed then drove a single to ci and made only five Oral llildcbrund 1 rjgjj PRICE FIVE CENTS SPORT NEWS Button, Button, Who's Got Davis! Orto! Gill, Davis, smallest man on the Texas squad, scoots through Badger line in third quarter will. AI Dorsch and Bob llollowav chasing him arid to: to too tooto. oO a Rmi, mack into flok of Siito 'tight." ''evailV.

past I ml I 1 and Bobby Cone (8S hi. a crowo toMch dow with nothing in his way but the goalposts. in his way but the goalposts..

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