Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 17

BY BOB CONSIDINE Serrlet Sports Writer NEW YORK Oct Brooklyn's comeback reached epidemic proportions Saturday at Ebbets Field The exuberant Bums routed the halt and the lame of the Yankees 8-5 and tied the World Series in a cozy 2-2 knot The hoary tradition that a Yankee uniform frightens Brooklyn players was crushed to earth for the second straight day The National Leaguers rattled 14 hits off five hapless Yankee pitchers fielded like characters in improbable fiction and Saturday night the air was tantalizing with the scent of greater triumphs to come tin singled home Joe Collins and in the sixth when singles by Elston Howard and pinch-hitter Eddie Robinson and a Martin fly that Duke Snider misjudged into a double produced two more runs But all this violence was but a staircase to frustration Everything the Yankees could do Saturday the Dodgers could do better McDougald's homer was answered by home runs by Roy Campanella Gil Hodges and Snider the latter poke being the seventh he has hit in series competition more than any other National Leaguer Good Yankee fielding plays were met with Dodger plays that frequently brought the 36242 witnesses (including former President Herbert Hoover and Gov Averell Harriman) to their feet a'cheering Brooklyn began winning Its ball game In the third Junior Gilliam reached across the plate at an outside pitch from starter Larsen and slashed it down the third base line for a double scoring Sandy Amoros whom Larsen had walked to start the inning The Yankee lead had paled to 2-1 For a few rinutes in the fourth the eventual losers pulled out to 3-1 Then the roof fell in Hippo-shaped Campanella clouted the ball a country mile into the left field seats to start the last half of the fourth Carl Furillo lobbed one over Larsen's head and reached first an inch ahead of Martin's desperate throw as he sprawled Gil Hodges muscled a home run over the scoreboard beneath which the hobbling Mantle stood glumly The Brooklyn National League Baseball Club Inc of 215 Turn to Dodgers on Page 2 Brooklyn has never won a World Series and for generations this failure has lain like a curse on the population Is liberation at hand? It was a hard day for the Yankees Even their co-owner millionaire contractor Del Webb suffered He was hit in the right temple by a towering fly off the bat of Don Larsen while he sat in a box with Comissioner Ford Frick Once Saturday it appeared that the Yankees would get away with it even though Mickey Mantle could hardly move off a dime in right field and Irv Noren's knee should have been in bed not center Gil McDougald had hit a home run off Carl Erskine in the first A walk and a sacrifice aid a single by busy little Phil Rizzuto had produced a 2-0 lead in the second There were Yankee rebellions In the fourth when Billy Mar SPORTS NEWS SECTION 2 Fort Worth Star-Telegram FORT WORTH TEXAS Where lhe Wesl Begins SUNDAY OCTOBER 2 1955 FROGS ITER PORKERS 26 0 Hamilton Turns Pass Interception Into 39-Yard Touchdown Run Swink Chalks Up Pair Of Scores for Purples BY FLEM HALL Star-Telegram Sports Writer FAYETTEVILLE Ark Oct Set in motion by a pass interception that Tackle Norman Hamilton turned into a 39-yard touchdown run the alert and muscled Frogs of TCU scored in every quarter to blow the Arkansas Razorbacks defending football champions of the South-wpst Ponfprpnce off the soft emerald turf 26-0 UAiM AT A tlVM TCU ARKANSAS 21 Flnt Downs S87 Yards lined Rushing Yards Gained Pawing IK 4 of Passes Completed 4 of It Passes Intercepted by I 1 Opp Fumbles Recovered 4 4 for 555 Punt' No Avg 5 far S5S for 65 Penalties No Ydit I III Star-Telrgiam Photo by AL PANZERA Flown by Rltchey Flying Service Engram has decoyed one Porker secondary man and that Norman Hamilton has blocked another SIX FOR Texas Christian's Jim Swink heads through a tremendous breach in the Arkansas line for' a second-period touchdown in the game at Fayetteville Play started on the Porker six Note that End Bryan The Frogs went 48 76 and 37 yards for their other touchdowns in a contest that really ended in the first minute of the fourth quarter when Jim Swink raced across the goal line for his second and TCU's fourth touchdown Thereafter the reserves played it out for both teams The victory was TCU's first here in 14 years and the 26 points set a new all-time record for the Frogs scoring in Arkansas For the third straight week the undefeated Christians stuck almost exclusively to rushing as they rolled up a ton of yard MARYLAND CLOUTS BAYLOR 20-6 Christian trying to get off a pass from close back of the line was rushed Just as the ball left his hand it was tipped by Hallbeck and tumbled in the air five yards to the squat 215-pound tackle Hamilton He showed remarkable agility in getting away from one man and then displayed equally astonishing speed to stay ahead of a pack of pursuers to reach the goal GtME AT A GLANCE BY LORIN McMULLEN Kolarac intercepted as the gun i back to the 36 where Tamburcl- sounded lo pitched out to Jack Hcaly who went around left end for Maryland's scoring drives age and ground out a pile of first downs started by (1) an interception 26 to thc 10t a hnH mint cnnkooi Vereb made four as the third MARYLAND BAYLOR 11 First Downs 13 145 Yards Gained Rushing 11 105 Yards Gained Passing 175 ol 13 Passes Completed 14 of ''9 Passes Intercepted by 1 Opp Fumbles Recovered 3 5 for SJ Punts No Ayg 4 for 88 8 for 81) Penalties No Vdge 4 for 40 HOW NATION'S TOP TEN TEAMS FARED Here's how the teams voted as "Top Ten" last week fared in Saturday's play: 1 MARYLAND beat Baylor 20-6 MICHIGAN downed Michigan State 14-7 I GEORGIA TECH outscored 8MU 20-7 I NOTRE DAME blanked Indiana 19-0 OKLAHOMA defeated Ptttg-burgh 36-14 I ARMY bumped Penn State 35-6 7 I'CLA smashed Wuhlniton State 55-0 OHIO STATE wis upset by Stanford 0-0 sot THERN CAL beat Texas 11-7 10 TCU romped pst Arkansag 26-0 (Complete scores on page 2) line Harold Pollard who was destined to play an outstanding game on both offense and defense converted to put the Frogs ahead 7-0 in the 12th minute Arkansas again received failed to move and when Christian punted 43 yards Kenneth Wineburg ran the ball back 73 yards Tht TCU reserve right half took the ball near the west The game was never really close after Arkansas' first thrust blunted itself on the hard armor of the invaders from Fort Worth Arkansas received the opening kickoff and on the impulse of a 38-yard gallop by Henry Moore around his left end went to the TCU 17 before Capt Bryan Engram of TCU lamDurello altnough not a consistent passer nevertheless pitched for two Maryland touchdowns on plays that gained 30 and 4 yards And Maryland although it functioned best on the ground picked up a third aerial touchdown on a 19-yard play from Dave Nusz to Howard Dare The Bears over-matched in ground power and defense kept it from becoming a one-sized game by battling the big Terrapins all over the premises Down by 13-0 at end of the first quarter and without their starting quarterback Bobby Jones who was hurt early in the game the Bears rallied under Jimmy Davenport and scored on a 36-yard drive early in the second quarter Del Shofner swept end for a yard and the touchdown The Bears mustered another long drive and were on Maryland's 16 when the half ended They played the Terps to a Star-Telegram Sports Writer WACO Oct 1 Maryland's first -in -the -nation Terrapins wore down a ragged but dead-game Baylor eleven in a brutally-rough intersectional football clash before 39000 here Saturday night 20-6 The roughness brought on ragged play as the statistics showed 12 penalties eight against and 11 cases of give-away through fumbles and pass interceptions Baylor which came through on its promise to fire away at the mighty' Easterners completed 14 of 25 passes for 175 yards but yielded five interceptions and lost possession twice on fumbles Maryland with a lot of slid faking" and pigskin-hiding by Quarterback Frank Tamburello lost three fumbles and suffered one interception jjjiu nn hie 14 and ran north spilled Ronnie Undei vood for I MUIU1IC vu a five yard loss on a fourth aonij the sideline in an alley quarter ended Fred Hamilton smashed the middle for two and then Tamburello flipped easily over the right side of the line to Jack Heal who was wide open across the goal line Bob Laughery who had kicked the first extra point made this one to put the score at 20-6 Perlo had missed when he attempted to convert after thc second counter At the finish Maryland had made 250 yards (145 rushing 105 passing) to shade thc Bears who had gained 246 yards (71 rushing 175 passing) Thc ball changed hands four times on fumbles and pass interceptions in the first five minutes of the game On Maryland's fourth play of the game Tarn-Turn to Maryland on Page 6 (3) another interception carried 35 19 and 34 yards Baylor's opportunity to go 36 yards for touchdown came as Weldon Holley covered Tam-burello's lateral The interception that led to Maryland's final score was a woozy one grabbed by Nus after Davenport's throw had bounced off the hands of Bill Anderson Nusz returned to thc Baylor 34 A holding penalty nullified Ed Vereb's 9-yard gain sent the Terps back to the 45 and here Phil Perlo made seven up the middle Tamburello ran out of the passing pocket for 15 sneaked for three on the next play and then passed to Bill Walker at the goal line A penalty for holding wiped out this caper and set Maryland down play r--j made by a wall of blockers to iiiauv uj Qiinrtprhnrk- Chiirlc Curtis miHfiorl uhprf hp was forced to standstill in the third quarter but an interception set up Maryland's final drive and the visitors completed their 34-yard advance in the first minute of the fourth quarter for the final score Baylor turned back Maryland on the 24 mid-way in the fourth quarter and wound up the game with a dashing offensive display under the guidance of the sophomore quarterback Kenneth Helms He completed eight of nine passes for 90 yards (the yardage was lengthened by two long losses) and at the finish was on the Maryland 16 where George ujiuiviu called on Swink Vernon Hall-1 cut back to the middle of the beck and Rav Taylor to plow i field Although ne twistea ana 53 yards before a punt was re Marquette Jolts Tulsa MILWAUKEE Oct 1 i) Marquette stunned Tulsa with a touchdown in the first 95 seconds of play Saturday night on a 57-yard pass from Ray Zagar to Jim Stracka and went on to post a 13-0 football triumph before 14000 turned and made a beautiful run Kenneth was never able to clear the Arkansas safety Christian and was pulled down That opportunity was never cashed Three plays made only Turn to Frogs on Page 4 quired Taylor missed the coffin corner and from their own 20 the Porkers had made a few paces with their second string when quarterback Don.