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Inside This Section Detroit SECTION Want Ads Joe Falls Michigan Outdoors Racing. Results Want Ads Page 2 Page 8 Page 9 Pages 10-20 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1967 A. Sports Wayne Wins 7th Straight iiow Use Passing Saturday and powerful Central Michigan on Nov. 18 stand between Wayne and its first perfect season. Gale blamed a deplorable field and the ineptness of his own team for the slow start.

A blanket of white filled the air and covered the playing field at Michigan Stadium at the start of Saturday's game and U-M's John Gabler (dark jersey) was snowed, too, by white jerseys as he tried to catch a first-quarter pass. Gabler was out numbered, 5-1, by Northwestern defenders Don Ross (65), Joe Hudson (49), John Cornell (89), Dennis White (16) and Tom Garretson (24). The Wolverines won, 7-3. BY HAL SCHRAM Fret Press Sports Writer CLEVELAND Wayne State continues to flirt with football destiny. The Tartars, Cinderella team of Michigan collegiate football, found its scoring punch in the late stages of a muddy football tug of war here Saturday to overwhelm Case Tech, 47-18.

It was Wayne's seventh straight victory, first time a Tartar team has ever won seven games at a start of a season, and only the second time a Wayne team has won seven games in any campaign. QUARTERBACK A. J. Vaughn had another brilliant day as the Tartars came out after a sluggish first half to roll through the Roughriders in the late stages of the gridiron mismatch. Vaughn, who went into the game the nation's 11th individual rusher, passed for four touchdowns and ran for another.

He was credited with 339 yards in total offense, completing 12 of 25 passes for 211 yards and rushing for another 128 yards. Coach Vern Gale hustled his entire 40-player squad into the game and Vaughn was benched with 13 minutes left. Only games with Eastern Illinois next WE'LL have to get back on our game," Gale said. "We weren't nearly as sharp in our blocking and tackling as we were a few weeks ago." It wasn't until late in the first period that the Tartars got on the scoreboard. Wayne took a quick kick on its own 31.

After Vaughn picked up one yard he stepped back and hit Jim Konopka with a 56-yard scoring toss with 3 :24 left in the period. Joe Piersante set up Wayne's second touchdown late in the first quarter with a pass interception at midfield. 10 plays Wayne went in with Vaughn scoring from the one. A 21-yard pass, Vaughn to Konopka, was the big gainer in this drive. Case came back to drive 65 yards in 12 plays to score its first TD.

F. Gowan passed 30 yards to Gregory Davis for the score. Turn to Page 8C, Column AP Photo 7 Keeps Tryin victory something that had escaped them when they had played well for the past two weeks. The Wildcats moved fairly well on the running of halfbacks Bob Olson, Chico Kurzawski and fullback John Anstey, the latter of Pleasant Ridge, in the first half but all they had to show for their 12 first downs in the first two periods was a field goal. Dick Emmerich booted his ninth of the season, a Northwestern record, from the 18-yard line and put the Wildcats ahead, 3-0, in the early moments of the second quarter.

BUT THEN Johnson and Brown began to work on the next Michigan series. Just like he has done alj season when all else fails, Johnson took the ball himself. On a second down and eight to go situation from the Michigan 32, Johnson found daylight and raced to midfield. BY CURT SYLVESTER Free Press Sports Writer ANN ARBOR And as the soft snow settled quietly into Michigan Stadium, there went up the greatest "hurrah" of the year. Not the loudest, understand, but the greatest.

The Michigan Wolverines snapped their heart-searing losing streak at five games and pushed to victory No. 500 in school history as they took a snug-fitting 7-3 victory over Northwestern Saturday afternoon. And once again, it was junior halfback Ron Johnson who led the way. This time he gathered himself in the snow and slippery turf and carried 42 times a Big Ten record. Except for quarterback Dennis Brown, Johnson was the only man to carry the ball out of the Michigan backfield in the Wolverines' first Big Ten win of the season after three losses.

He totaled 167 yards most of it ground out on short bursts up the middle, where the game Wildcats of Northwestern expected him. Ironically, it was not Johnson who scored the only Michigan touchdown of the day. It was Brown, on a one-yard blast into the line. That brought Michigan from a 3-0 deficit to the lead that stood up. WHEN TIME ran out at the end of the game, with snow falling for the third time during the afternoon, Michigan was just one yard from another touchdown.

But the win was secure and gentleman Bump Elliott wouldn't call time out just to run up the score. Although it was the first victory in the last six games and the second against five losses for the season, Michigan was not at its best Saturday. This was possibly because of the snow that made good timing and crisp hitting difficult at times, or possibly because the Wolverines were playing a weaker team. But they played over any short-comings and treated the sparse crowd of 62,063 fans to a 'iff'' ir yl Turn to Page 4C, Column Spartans Drop 3rd in Row Mistakes Give OSU 21-7 Win Ik i rree Press Photo bv ED HAUN Dennis Brown (22) is buried by Wildcats, but scores U-M TD BY JACK BERRY Free Press Sports Writer EAST LANSING The weather was Christmasy Saturday and Michigan State got into the holiday spirit, charitably setting up two first period touchdowns for Ohio State and then losing to Red Wings Sing Blues Lose, 3-2 Special to the Free Pre ST. LOUIS They call 'em the St.

Louis Blues and that's Wins 119th at PRC Whited Gets Turf Record BY AL COFFMAX With one day to go in the 84-day thoroughbred meet at what they gave the Red Wings the Buckeyes, 21-7. The Buckeye offense was thre yards and a chorus of Jingle Bells. OSU coach Woody Hayes paraded day-long in his shirt sleeves, short shirt sleeves, and looked like Frosty the Snowman at the end. But Woody had inner warmth, provided by sophomore fullback Paul Huff, the fifth rival runner to rip the Michigan State defenses for 100-plus yards this season. THE 6-FOOT-3, 219- pound sophomore, making his first here Saturday night.

The St. Louis expansion team the Detroit Race Course, the outlook was for near-freezing temperatures and snow flurries With eight races to go in Mich salvage owner and trainer championships for Detroiters T.A. and igan's 1967 thoroughbred racing season, jockey David Whited still needed a winner for an all-time record at a Detroit J. E. Grissom and their trainer, got a goal from Ron Stewart midway in the third period to knock off the Wings, 3-2, before 9,499 fans at the St.

Louis Arena. The loss was the Wings' sec-. ond straight, their first to an expansion team and spoiled a chance to tie the New York Rangers for first place in the Eastern Division of the NHL. The victory was a heady sec Dewey Smith. The Grissoms, trailing peren start, carried 35 times for 120 nial champions M.

H. Van Berg track. Well, there was a happy ending for everybody concerned. Closing day dawned bright and sunny, and track officials played host to a surprising 17,704 fans, a crowd so large that the DRC ran out of both programs and yards and two touchdowns he'd carried only 28 times all season for 93 yards. Huff puffed and Michigan State fell down.

The Spartans have been doing that with dis fcu.jw.LT.:iwnTni-iiiii inn iwt Jt-mw-m-'- n. m-'-i ond straight for the Blues over established teams. They whip Free Press Photos by DICK TRIPP Bobble by OSU's Bill Long comes too late for MSUhe's over goal line for TD tressing regularity. This was walking room beneath the jammed stands. their third straight defeat, the first time they've lost that and his son Jack by a 61-59 count at the start of the day, needed to win with One-Eye Bully and Accompilla in the next two races.

BOTH HORSES went to the post as favorites, but only One-Eye Bully got the job done. A choice, he coasted home by 4 lengths, but Accompilla faded badly and the Van Bergs repeated their narrow 1966 victory over the Grissoms. There was one horse left for Whited to ride Cussalot in the $7,000 President's Cup purse. Cussalot, at odds of 8-1, outdueled Alhambra Son to pull away to a six-length victory at $18.80 for $2. Pistons Romp Over Bullets ped the Boston Bruins, 5-1, in their last outing.

GORDIE HOWE tested St. Louis goalie Seth Martin early, but neither-team could mount a steady attack in the loosely-played period in which it was difficult to tell which was the expansion team. The Wings, who defeated the Turn to Page 3C, Column 2 shot against the Baltimore sharpshooters. He fouled out with 5 :09 left, Turn to Page 3C, Column 3 many in succession since 1958. And it was their fifth defeat in seven starts with three games left, against Indiana, Purdue and Northwestern, to reach .500.

The last five-loss season was 1964 when MSU was 4-5. Michigan State- was a two-touchdown favorite in its homecoming game and 76,235 of the faithful turned out despite the pre-game snow showers and 32-degree temperature which seemed half that because of a gusty 15-mile-an-hour wind. THE FANS stayed around through a couple of snow squalls to cheer Whited on to a record-breaking triple, a flurry of winners which raised his total for the meet to 119. It was three more than Bob Gallimore had collected only a year ago in a feat which many predicted would not be matched for years. In the third race Whited had the mount on Buford's Duke, a standout speedster in the field of eight.

And this time he didn't miss. Away they went and Buford's BALTIMORE By the time Royal Speed out hours earlier in a Detroit win at Baltimore. He came back with 38 Saturday night to lead the game's scorers. But Miles and Dischinger gave him the big scoring help Saturday. Miles, who sank 11 of 12 shots during one stretch, finished with 30 points and.

Dischinger added 25. Strawder played one of his top games of the year particularly on the defensive boards. He took 15 rebounds and knocked back shot after for the second straight night with a pulled stomach muscle. SO DAVE Bing, Eddie Miles, Jimmy Walker and Tom Van Arsdale ran more and scored more. Joe Strawder, Terry Dischinger and John Tresvant picked up the slack on the boards and that made the Pistons above the .500 mark for just the second time this year with a 5-4 record.

Bing had scored 42 points against the Bullets just 24 BY CURT SYLVESTER Anyone who says the Pistons are running scared without Dave DeBusschere is half right. They're running, all right, but they're not looking ery scared. The Pistons walloped the Baltimore Bullets for the second straight time Saturday night, 127-118, and the fast-footed, quick handed guards led the way. DeBusschere, Detroit's second leading with an average of 20 a' game, sat out 6 1 4-4 3-4 14 5- DETROIT 6 Bing 15 15 Dischingr I Ml 33 Miles 14 2-4 37 Strawder 1 0-2 1 Tresvant 5 2-4 0 Patterson ran Michigan Mile winner Es-treno by some eight lengths in the $27,800 Auld Lang Syne 15 7-7 i-8 -1 FIRST PERTOO: 1 St. Louis, R.

Pie-ard (1) (McCreary, Crisp) 19:00. Penalties: None. SECOND PERIOD: 2 DETROIT, Mac-Greqor (3) (Henderson and Ullman), 2:09. 3 St. Louis, Schock (1) (unassisted), 3:48.

4 DETROIT, Henderson (Talbot, Bergmann), 15:41. Penalties Bergman Talbot (13:29) THIRD PERIOD-S St. Louis-Stweart (4) (Melnyk) 11:08. Penalties-Crisp :04. Snots on goal: Louis 5 It Tl 54.

DETROIT IS 10 7-32. A-9W9. Ellis Johnson Ohl Scott Monroe Manning Merle West Handicap, Whited was getting Then the Spartans proceeded 1 2 V.Arsdale 5 3-4 Duke burst into the lead, steadi dressed in the jockeys room and 3 1-2 1-1 7 Walker 1 to play like it was the first game people were saying that here of the season. MSU kicked off to ly widening his margin as he won by 12 lengths. Now Whited had a chance to Totals 45 21-35 118 Totals SI 25-35 127 alitmnr 11 9ft 97 11 lift was a record that certainly would stand for years.

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