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Evansville Press from Evansville, Indiana • 45

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TRAMPLE EASTERN ILLINOIS 40 7 i 1 Memorial Downs Owensboro Catholic 15-0 For First Win (Hip Suniatj (Hmtrirr attii EVANSVILLE INDIANA SUNDAY OCTOBER 2 1955 12000 Fans See Boys Gallop By BILL ROBERTSON Evansville second annual "Super Market last night at Reitz Bowl attracted 12000 customers but the football forces of Eastern Illinois found Coach Paul Beck's Aces no bargain at gll Clashing with an Evansville football tram for the first time since 1927 the embryonic school teachers from Charleston 111 got lost in the biggest Saturday night rush the West Side has seen in years The final seme was 40-7 and it might well have been much greater had not Coach Beck pulled up All Points Gome In Second Half By JOE BELL OWENSBORO Memorial coach AI Lee revamped his lineup Saturday night and the shift brought the Tigers their first victory of the current football campaign 15-0 over the Owensboro Catholic Aces The two team fought on even termr during the tint half with neither club able to mount any sustained offense Memorial made the deepest penetration in the first i two periods going to the Catholic 23 Block Punt Held scoreless in their first two starts against Lincoln and Owensboro Senior Memorial finally tallied its first touchdown of the Aerial War -Cops 28-6 LEXINGTON Ky (AP) Kentucky effectively used its own and too en route to an easy 28-0 football victory Saturday night Successfully containing an expected Vili inova passing assault" Kentucky's Bob Hardy twice passed to end Howard Schnellen STSTUTICa Thpv RrnncrHt Inv to Rronklvn Hme 0 win ever the Yankees la World Series gsme pose iney Drouguijuy loorooiuyn drMrtBf room after the game Lett to right: Duke bolder relief be Her Own U- STATISTICS Mne Boy Csmpaneiia and GU Hodges Hodges and Snider hit homers and drove la three runs each Boy also homered (AP Wlrephote) STATISTICS rrnnw 'ra'rdMe'Wati''' mblns i Till mts 'ill in Tint Sawne Auihlna ri i hponnli tumble TMOwrid mined Tirds penal! Alston Picks Youngster For Classic S4 rsmaoa "I'h Ij complete AS lntercapud hr 4 otto a a 1 1M twin ImI penalise 4 Punt PunlISc Fumble Tarda LOCAL EvanavUle 46 Eastern lillnois 7 Memorial IS Oweiubora Cathy INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL Hammond Noll 28 Ft Wayne Catholic 0 Indianapolis Shortridge 18 New Albany 0 South Bend Washington 13 South Bod Central 7 INDIANA COLLEGES Dr Pa mw 19 Ball State 6 Butler Indiana Mate1 it 8t Joseph's Valparaiso Washington (Mo) Wabash 14 Indiana Central II Earl ham Hanover 34 FraoMlo It Mancheater S3 Grand Rapids 13 Aadersoa 6 Taylor BIG TEN Illinois 41 Iowa Slate Michigan 14 Michigan St 7 Pnrdiie 7: Minnesota 6 Noire Dame It Indiana Mtaaford Ohio Statq Tulane XI Northwestern Wisconsin 37 Iowa 14 MIDWEST Nebraska It Kansai State Utah 10 MiMnnri 14 Call si FaeUlt IT Cincinnati Jaesla iMot Ik Cnirai St (O) Sjjin'feu jgBmSte lirlrMi II Moamsuth fnuijaiibiiT SSj AJbrifht 3 Dikta year in the third quarter by cashing in on a big break End Larry Warner crashed through block Jim Howard's punt The ball rolled into the end zone where Wagner fell on it Don De-Vault converted The second touchdown was the result of an 80-yard drive in the last period accomplished ir 12 plays Jerry Amoroso's run on a pitchout covered the last 14 yards DeVault's attempted place kick was blocked Len Norcia of the Aces fumbled on the first play following the kickoff with Wagner recovering for Memorial on the 0 eight Joe Nichols carried the ball over on the next play but the Tigers were detected for holding and the touchdown nullified Nereis Trapped The final points of the contest were the result of another instance of punting difficulty by the host echoed kick from the -end zona wobbled out-of-bounds on the seven Nichols fumbled on the first play with Earl Fischer recovering for Catholic on the 10 Bill Barth lost to the one and Norcia was caught be- bind the goal line for a safety Three changes were made in Memorial's starting eleven lor the game halfback Amoroso and tackles Tom Hormuth and John berger for touchdowns both' drives starting from intercept iona The pnmea covered 2 and 28 yards as the Mg senior end caught 7 all told for 110 yards Villanova meantime completed only 2 passes for a mere 13 yards after hoisting an aerial alert by completing 12 of 27 in its tint game a 1S-2 loss to Kentucky's other touchdowns came on halfback Bob 16-yard sprint around left rod In the- first and one-yard sneak in the third Two other Kentucky threat were stopped at the' Vlllanova' 1 and the 3 respectively once after a 68-yard sustained drive and another after a fumble recovery Villanova its passes grounded found Its running game only moderately effective and crossed mid-field only three times never getting inside the Kentucky 20 Its deepest penetration came af the end against Kentucky reserves A crowd of 24000 saw Kentucky gain its second win in three starts in its intersectional clash with the winleas Pennsylvanians It gave' Kentucky a chance to let its reserves gain experience for its future Southwestern conference en wnontrr 17: II Ak Mtuklnruai II Akron ILMsWlfSSrVtantel his horses In the second half after the Aces had rocketed into a 264) halftime lead Once beyond reach of the industrious end ti releu Illinois squad Evansville's careful football architect decided that the visiting scouts had seen enough and the second half wai hugely a matter of restraint and retrenchment with reserves playing most of the final two quartern The prosaic and sometimes drab second half wu such a depressing departure from the spectacular opening quarter that many of the overflow crowd that had streamed into the Mg hilltop bowl for the bargain night offering had depart' ed the premises long before the one-sided contest waa officially concluded Luttatarli Again With gleeful and hard-driving Ken Luttertach again spearheading their ground assault the Pimple Acea rolled to their third straight runaway with a steady grinding attack that netted 338 yards during the evening 228 by land and 110 by air Eastern's advances In face of this rugged attack were meager and laborious the Invading Panthers ending up with a total of only 52 yaras od the ground and another 51 the result of a persistent but only moderately successful air arm that kept the crisp October air filled with adventurous and truant passes through much of the second half Even In the third quarter when Evansville reserves played much of the time the Easterners found the road to progress extremely difficult and hazardous ending the period with 16 yards less than they started with Lutterbach the leading collegiate scorer in Indiana and the most prolific ground gainer among the nation's secondary colleges picked up another 87 yards last night in 15 trips with the ball raising his rushing total for three games to a- bulging 360 yards average of 120 yards per game Score Twice ilT ill -It I 17 kfirrvill I rsl Clrnti I mi 7 raincabnr! (arawnta IJ union is llmlniton If jrtlrla Via igilor'th I Cvntraf" Iaw Marietta "A1 Stuckey drawing opening assignments for the first time ground offensive was completely throttled by the Tiger defensive unit the Aces being held a minus 21 yards rushing to a total of 145 -yards gained on the ground by Memorial and making only one first down in the contest to the nine The losers did hold an edge in passing 32 yards to 10 iarlal(U Owobl iFB imiI tesasesas 1 Hard 4 EAST Army 35 Penn Mate 6 1 Colgate ft Cornell Roly Crone St: Dartmouth if Harvard SO Maas 6 Princeton 30 Columbia 7 Pen Military 35 Maryland 6 West Virginia 45 Waka Forest Yale 37 Brown 2t Navy 35 Rnuth Carolina 9 TorthoMtarn Bta I 14 Greyhounds Rip Earlliam 16-6 For 15lli Victory INDIANAPOLIS IB Indiana Central's Dick Nyers scored on an 84-yard sprint with an Intercepted pass and a 70-yard run from BROOKLYN (AP) Manager Walter Alston of he resurgent Brooklyn Dodgers pinned his World Series hopes Saturday night on an almost unknown 24-year-old Durham Roger Craig He selected the 6-foot-4 right-handed pitcher to start all-important game the last to be played In Ebbeta Field After that the aeries moves back to Yankee Stadium got to go with what I he said after Saturday's 8-5 victory Craig showed me something" Alston said he watched Craig In a pre-game wanning up session and decided then that the youngster showed enough stuff to -start Sunday Newcombe Ailing Normally he would have started his big 20-game winner Don Newcombe but Newcombe has a sore arm and back Newcombe pitched the opener and lost Craig has only a 5-3 record for the season but the veteran catcher Roy Campanula declared is a good good fast ball curve gnod change-up and plenty of Asked what was the turning point of the game the quiet Dodg-manager smiled wryly homer homer homer La bine getting Collins out with the bases loaded your The Dodgers were a noisy happy bunch after the game confident they can now go on to win the series "Duke Snider's homer changed the whole explained Casey Stengel sadly "and the thing la I was hoping we could walk In a New York Yankee dressing room sobered by the sudden realization that now the aeries is right back where it all tied up pointed to a fifth-inning boner by pitcher Johnny Kucka as the key because Reese Safe The Dodgers were leading 4-3 with a man on first and none out in the fifth when Kucka blond young righthander relieves starter Don Larsen Pee Wee was the first man Johnny faced and Reese rapped a hard grounder that first baseman Joe Collins fielded But Kucks failed to cover first quickly enough and Reese was safe Snider the next batter put the game out of the reach with a three-run homer If only Kucks hadda covered first and Reese was out we'd have walked Snider and played for double Stengel disclosed he gets his shot and hits the bejabbers out of Kucks a mighty sad young man didn't try to alibi hii boner "At first I thought the ball was hit into the hole for a hit and that Collins couldn't get to It" he said "But I should have been breaking for first anyway when I saw Collins had nabbed the tall I still stood on the mound for a second or so before I started running Then it was too late reaions C01B Memorial Owmi boro Clin Soorlna Toachdawas: Ml iSMflfl rman Tompkin! Ociaar Ocia Booth ruSt iraiBMs Tniinliflnwn fn Ann Don Henry Evansville College end caught two touchdown panes In 1 ouchtlown lOr ACCS Bight's 40-7 romp ever Eastern Illinois scoring this one from two Evajuvflie a six George la the first quarter of the game at Kelts Bowl Beaching frantically for the touchdowns giving him 42 points nr the goal line and into hands is Eastern's Winston Brawn a junior half- for the netton but one of the rteans A crowd of ISAM saw the fame exciting touchdown runs of The smashing 195-pound fullback two Quarterback Bud tall no it sailed over I back from New Orleans of ISAM anw the game moat exciting touchdown runs of nncCleui 10: Boston tlTkbura 17: BuckaaU I (alna J4 Vcraiant unUta 14 Morivlin I nlllsn IfTKaniMlsar I Tworthnoro tampla union I luMurktnaa I ilovon'I) 'oatailnaWr ITilal 7 WsreMtar Tien ik Brooklvn Call Mlant I Fa I IkTCaUtornia IFal HOUTH Aabam Florida Oemm 35 Georgia 7 Georgln Tech SO 8MU Mias Mate S3 Memphis 8t 9 Duke 31 Tennessee 9 the evening wu concocted by another Lutterbach Ken's sophomore brother Gene a dynamo who operates the same pattern He scored the final touchdown of the game late in the fourth quarter when he boomed through an inviting hole in the Eastern defenses catapulted Into the land of promise darted between the last two Eastern defend era then sprinted a lull 50 yards for his first touchdown of the year But It wasn't really needed for the surprised Eastern team had never been able to recover from an opening shock that had them the on the ropes while late comers John a arvlond at I Hmn Ki MImImI Alabama Texas Aggies Bounce Houston COLLEGE STATION IB-Texas AIM gobbled up two University of Houston fumbles to score twice in less than four minutes then hurried on to whip the Cougars 21-3 Trailing 34) at the half the Aggies shot into the lead on the next to last play of the third period on a 9-yard pass from quarterbhok Donald Grant to end Bobby Keith On the first play after the nex kickoff end Bobby Marks recovered a Houston fumble for AAM on the Houston 21 Seven plays later Loyd Taylor crashed over for AAM fumbled but saw his teammate Loyd Hale recover for the touchdown Aggie tackle Darrell Brown roared in to block Houston's next punting attempt and AAM got the bail on (' i the Cougar 11 scrimmage and his Greyhounds whipped Earl ham Saturday 164 It was Indiana Central 15th straight Hooaier Conference victory Central picked up four points on safeties one when a bad pass from the Earlham center went acrosi the end fone and another when Bill Cope 7 ns trapped tack his goal line Herb Sawyer plunged a yard It Earlham's touchdown in the last seconds Marqucllc Slugs Tulsa by 13-0 MILWAUKEE ID-Marquette stunned Tulsa with a touchdown in the first 95 seconds of play Saturday night on a 57-yard pass from Ray Zagar to Stncka and went on to post a 134) football triumph before 14000 at Mar quette Stadium Zagar a converted halfback playing his second game as quar terback thwarted strangest bid for a touchdown in the closing minutes of playing by intercepting a pass by Charley Wynea on the Marquette one and running it tack to the 4L Lee Hermsen as usual was the individual offensive leader The 5-foot-ll 188-pound battering ram carried 13 times for 88 yards Zagar completed two of five passes for 61 yards and added 12 rushing Diak Hughes and Dick Phillips accounted for 38 yarda each for Tulsa Hughes on 10 carries and Phillips on three completions in eight pass attempts 2Jloa I I- llfrqu-ttf ST 11 ofaraiMtt Beer In: TPurhdaax -tracks 'AT pau-ran from Zaaar) Icrauan (IS runi OlrautB 3 were still trudging up the huge parked sii hill from KsalSEkr Sk: Vlllanova I But Tcnn Ti Wut CaraHL Flown lj: Anatln Fear 7 jynildina Teeb JI: Abilene Ctirlitlan Lwlovllli TI: Wnrne But Ky at SI: Murray St Nice Loululena at SS Wnfford 17: Fannin I Rue fl Ausaeflne I Bewanee 14 jjnjTOlljnnrlnl SOUTHWEST' Oklahoma Plttsbargh 14 Tsxaa Chriatiaa 3C Arfcanaas 9 Texas Tech 34 Oklahoma 9 Mexico Wut I NIC I kanee AAM 4 St Joseph Surprises Valpo26-0 Pumas four-touchdown underdogs smashed defending Indiana Conference champions Saturday 264) and moved into a tie with Evansville for the league lead The Pumas intercepted four uses by Gordon Helms aerial star and picked up one Crusader fumble to smother the Valpo offense The Crusaders lost the tall on downs at the SL 12 in their best drive Ralph Tite scored one touchdown and passed to George Sherwood for another Bob Hammon broke loose Tilth an 89-yard touchdown tun and Norb Daigle plunged 3 for another Merle Effing from Evansville kicked two extra points Valparaiso had won its last five games with St Joe 'flta 'fjSuiia Sherwood Mu Ira Tl'c llaamaa Jt run Da lila 1 plunra Conversions: Kir Inf 2 CANADIAN FSO BIO fOCI mflloB 40 Ottawa on trail 10 Taranto SO in the myriad afreets and byways beyond Evansville kicked off to open the game but on the first play from scrimmage Bill Huff the 240-pound tackle who wu 3 an all-city lineman at Central three years ago speared Gene Ward's pan right at the line of acrimmage and (Printed with incredible speed 30 yards for the first touchdown Cart Huff (left) father of Evansville CoDcgn farkle Rill Haft of his career just 50 seconds after waa choaea of the at last night's Day" pro- the game tad itarted gram at the Eaatern-Evansville game at Belts Bowl He Is shows Chuck House again kicked off here with Dr Melvin Hyde College president who made the ae- for Evansville and four play -nonneement Bill who scored Evansville's first touch down last ter Eastern had to punt Then on night wen the Kiwanla Award at Central In INI In IMS another Evansville's first play from scrim-at the Huff sons Malcolm also won the Kiwanla award and la IMS mage Ken tattertach took a still another Carl Jr won the name award handoff from Bud George on (Photon by Jack Alexander) (Contlwned an Following Page) Jl Meaies ASM I if Mldr-wrn A Tree We tern 17- New Mexico it Texas St 7 HAvanTpayaa 7 cMnrry 1A BufBou IS naa AAM 11 Hnutn arvlend St Baylor I Arliaaa 47 Idaba 14 WEST California 37 Pen no1 vanla 7 Cblnrado 13 Kanrna 0 UCLA 55 Wanh Male 0 Wuhlnalnn lk: Oraxon 7 Idahs Stale If: Mnntsna Bt 14 wvnmlna SI: 'Hah e'e 11 IlllMfa Ml Cm I Mich II anthem lllinot I 0 7-14 Central Mich teen a 1J Southern HI ecortni Touchdown: Jack Schneider run) Hrt Wr-field (73 run) Conetnkm: BUI SpraM Mich Touchdown: Bob Cent NATIONAL FOOTBALL LCAGCS WashlMtoa 11: Fhllsdalphla JO Boltlmor 20 Detroit 11 ham Touna II McNamara (7 run I Xneraon Item tram Kins) Coneemoa: Jnrr Wic Yank Hurler Skulls Boss Dreams of Exile to Minor League Jimmy Wright threw straight down the middle on the first play to Keith on the goal line Ten seconds before the end of the half Donnie Caraway came in to boot a 14-yard field goal for Houston Tnu AAM Off AAV Morins Tmtrhdown Kslth MW-ruti from Oran': 11 naa from WHvhtl: Halo inmord Tiylor1! tumble In end aoml Conrrr-inni: Taylor a Dudl-T Hmutoa riold soot Carraaej Baltimore Colls Tip Lions 28-13 quarterback-George Shaw passed and fullback Alan Amerhe ran both like old pros Saturday night rathe Baltimore Colts to spring their second straight upset in the National Football League by a 28-13 core over the Detroit Lions Shaw the bonus pick of the Colts from Oregon State passed for two touchdowns and Amerhe the -first draft choice from Wisconsin wheeled along the turf for two more to the delight of 40030 the -biggest home crowd in four seasons of NFL play in Baltimore It was the first time in isix Kmes that Baltimore had beaten troit Wood Platt Annexes Amateur Golf Crown NASHVILLE Tenn- J-Wood Platt of Philadelphia and Bethlehem Pa Saturday defeated George Studinger of San Francisco 5 and 4 to become the first Senior Amateur champion of the United States Golf Assn with a number two wood and sliced wildly over the scoreboard and out of bounds GU used a pale yellow club for this earlier he had employed a two-tone one- Women Bowlers Have Meeting Tuesday The first meeting of the season nf the Evansville Woman's Bowling Association will be held in the Community Center at 7:25 nm Tuesday Short talks are scheduled by Russ Neathery Harold Mills and Herb Henderson Delegates to the national tournament at Miami Fla' will he chosen and the group will present awards to the women turning in the high single game and series at each of the city's bowling establishments during the past sear son RVSSJW CLAIM RECORD VIENNA Marie Itkim nf Russia Saturday ciaied a pew world record in the 400-meter-run for women wth a clocking of 519 seconds st the International Romanian Track Championships Radio Bucharest announced today The old record held by Dnneth of East Gennnnv 545 secoud the broadcast added mnay nsth of Kwd least) Snider Hodges Furillo Amoros and and they pulled Labine through So now the guessing game is back where it all started except that neither side can use its Mg pitchers just yet Now it's Stengel's turn to holler for help from the accident ward where pitcher Bob Grim passed five weeks with a gimpy elbow Now Alston is leaning on a reed from the minors pitching Roger Craig a rookie imported from SL Paul in July When the Dodgers were trailing and Don Newcombe was at hone to Ed Murrow on his show last night it was predicted that this would be Newk's last television appearance before spring Chances are however that the cameras will pick him up again not later than Monday (CoprrUhl lu Ktv York HtraM Tntant Inc out to the mound and spoke to Erskine Both turned toward the bullpen where Don Bessent was wanning up Erskine stood socking the tan into the pocket of his glove over and over gain When Bessent arrived Carl dropped the tail into the reliefer's outstretched glovs turned without a won and walked to the dugout hia eyes on the ground An inning later Bessent followed him out leaving the bases filled for Labine who retired one man to get safely out of the fifth After that though the Yankees worked Labine over like muggers rolling lush wielding their tat like lead pipes and bringing Sgt Snider's riot squad up on the dead run The 36242 witneues quivered with apprehension si baseballs whistled around but Brooklyn had for defense or at Naturally Labine waa in there Saturday and somewhat unnaturally he finished as the winning pitcher He did so because he nad friends everywhere but mostly in center field Watching Snider tearing over the landscape holding the Yankees scoreless by picking oft aw howling line drive after another have to say it waa one of the finest relief jobs the Duke ever pitched Labine Beta Worked On The core-armed Erskine a gifted pitcher when he is sound and a dead game competitor in sickness or in health grudgingly yielded two runs to the Yankees before the Dodgers got one back for him then put a third one on base and departed He went reluctantly Yogi Berra had singled meninq the fourth inning and Joe Cbllins had walked when Alston walked ther team winning For a long time it looked as though neither would for after breaking in front for the first time the couldn't hold their lead and as soon as the Dodgers tad an advantage of 7 to 3 it began to melt like ice in the sun When tilings began hitting the Yankees Webb vis in the clubhouse with an icepack on hi head but it was CAsey Stengel who needed it In the fourth inning home runs by Roy Cam-panella and GU Hodges produced three runs and put the Dodgers ahead 4 to 3 In the fifth Larsen walked himself out of the game and Duke Snider got three runs for Brooklyn wholesale by denting an automobile in a parking lot across Bedford avenue CampaneUa's home run was a stock model delivered on a line into the left field seats was a freakish tee sbot made By RED SMITH NEW YORK In the fifth inning Saturday Don Larsen skulled his boss Del Webb with a foul ball that raised a knot on George head Horrid memories of life in Denver flashed through mind and he grounded out hurriedly and sought cover in the dugout It was a tough day for pitch-era all around And the Yankees' co-owner used to throw for a ahipyard'a team In the first three World Series games only lefthanders had been successful Now with the righthanded Larsen and Carl Erskine starting the fourth game the oddg were against ei bat to pitch a single to the green in left field Snider's Mast was a scandal to pitching Clem's Song When at long and painful last the Dodgers made oft with victory 8 to 5 and squared the aeries at two games all Stengel had used five pitchers and Brooklyn's Walter Alston had called upon three During the last month of the season writer traveling with the Dodgers began composing a song The project was left unfinished but as far as it got it went like this: Oh my darling Gem La bine Now we need you all the time For the starters never finish any more I I wtow siiiAiA i -i i ii f- -i -f riirt i liMSaMsjra:.

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