Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 18 November 1940 — Page 8

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REDSKINS BEAT BEARS IN PRO LOOP THRILLER Same Team* Likely To Meet December H For Pro Title New York Nov 1* HJ» ProPea* lona I football fans Were counting the day* until Dec * today for a replay of the Washington R<-d aManChlcago Bear* grMiron thriller I’nles. there’* an upaet in the script these two duh* will meet on that date In Washington for the world's professional title. I’ntll then the Redskin* must be recognised as the national football league« top team at a result ot their 73 triumph over the Rears yesterday in-fore 35 331 fan* largest throng ever to see .i pro game In Washington The victory virtually clinched the eastern title for the Redskin* With only two more game* left to play and a two game lead the Redskins need only a tie of a vjctory to clinch the title The worst- they can do .is finish hi a lie To do that they'd have to lose their last two games and the Brooklyn Dodger* would have to sweep their remaining pair Although they lost to the Reriskin*. the Bear* still hold a 1-garne lead Hi the west and seem reasonably safe with only th* Cleveland Rams and Chicago Cardinal* the west * two weak sisters remaining on the schedule The Bears have lost three time* and hi two of those defeat* they were within a few seconds of victory Last week the Bears lost to the Lions in the last minute of play and yesterday they were within one yard of victory in the last live seconds With the Redskin* leading 7 3 Bob Snyder fired a 3o yard ]«ss to George McAfee who pulled the hall down on the 2»-yard line and ran to the 1 yard line before f>l< k T<>dd puller! him down The Bear* took time out and drew a 5yard penalty Then two last ditch passes failed a* the game ended Two passe* trom Frank File ho. k gave Washington the winning touchdown In the second period after the Bears had set up a 3-0 lead

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• • 1 1 Week's Schedule For Adam* County | Basketball Team* | I * * Tuesday I New Haven aßt • II Wednesday I I- 9- ■ • ■ M Hartford at Elmhurst. J, Friday Commodore* at Monroeville Yellow Jackets at Garrett Monroe v* Geneva ai Berne. Kirkland at Pleasant Mills. |in the opening pertod <m Jack r j Manders' Held goal Sammy Baugh I-1 completed 11 out of 17 passe* for I-1 Si yards hut failed to throw any f | toil' hdown aertai*. t Scoring a tou< hdown tn the f! r *t * I two minutes of play, the New York 1 Giants did the Boar* a good turn • 1 t>y beating the Green Bay Pae k< *. 117-3 and keeping them in second I pla« lairry Buhler I'a< hers full i bai k fumbled lhe opening kickoff - j and la-land Nhaff'i recovered on > the Packer* I. Two (days lo*t two ■ yards and la-n Bai num passed to ■ Nbaffer In the end gone for the win ' nlrig touchdown The Pa- ke s out gained the Giants 327 yards to 12*. but were handcuffed in scoring territory Claik Hmkle's 31yard field goal saved the Packer* from a shutout A < rowd of 2* • 742 saw the gam- • The Brooklyn Dodge"* spotted the Cleveland Ham* allo ;.-ad and then routed the westerners. 29 It before 19 212 lans at Ebbeis field The I lodger* were red ho! In the final half, storing 23 points Ace 1 Parker was the lh.dg.-rs hero, running back an intercepted pas* yard- for one touchdown, pass ng for two more and setting up another one with a long run after an inter. ept ion Whiizer White had a field day as the lietrolt Lions handed the Philadelphia Eagle* their ninth straight defeat 21-<• White scored two tou< hdown* and set up the other one with his passes bet ire 7 non at Philadelphia The Lions gained 397 yards to the Eagles' 129 D/EWmWL Team Standings W L Pctt ' Geneva 3 175 u • Berne . 21 5*7 Monroe 2 1 447 Commodores .. 11 ,500 Kirkland 1 2 333 Monmouth 1 2 333 Jefferson 1 3 2501 Pleasant Mills 1 I .200 Jeilow Jackets 0 2 .000 Hartford u 3 mm —o<»o • The basketball season is only three weeks old- and not an Adamo county team hat a clean elate. The last undefeated team fell by the wayoide Friday night, when the Geneva Cardinale knocked over the Berne Beer* on the Geneve floor. —oOo— Seven game* are on the Thanksgiving week menu for Adams county basketball fan*, to be played on three different nights Tuesday. Wednesday and Friday —-000 — The Berne Bears will lie In action Tuesday night, entertaining the New Haven Bulldog* at Berne Wednesday night. Jefferson playa at Monmouth and Hartford at Elmhurst. —oOo— Both Decatur teams will play Friday night, both gameti away from home The Yellow Jackets will travel to Garrett for their first Northeastern Indiana conference tilt of th* season, while the Commodores Journey to Monroeville Other games Friday night at Kirkland at Pleasant Mills, and Monroe vs. Geneva at the Berne auditorium —oOo— The Yellow Jackets will be after their first win of th* Mason Friday, having dropped decisions to the Portland Panthere and th* New Haven Bull- - dog* in their first two start*. Th* Commodore* will seek to improv* their standing, having gained an even break to far, loeing to New Haven and tripping Celina, Ohio, athellc. —OOO--The sectional champion*, the | Pleasant Mill* Spartan*, are find Ing the going plenty tough to far this year. Loeing tow ot their championship team by graduation. I the Spartans ar* having a hard time getting started, winning only oa* of their first five starts. The champ* dropped two over the week-

Tribes New Manager, Srar IgA ■Ms x j t w i , ’I A Hr hr?' \fl iff. / i La . .LJ * . k i K' I N wly sppoinlrJ »" manager of the Clevelan 1 In Ilin*. Roger Reck-inpau,-h. left, is shown with one of hi* star pitchers. M<-f Harder, in UcvsUnX Peck was maragtr of the Indian* when Harder came up to the big leagues.

MINNESOTA IS BIG TEN CHAMP Gopher* Take Fifth Conference Championnhip Since 1932 Chicago Nov I* tU.R' It's M un.-«ota again big ten < hampion forth.- fifth time since Berni.- Bierman wrnt to work up there in All th.- Golden Gophers n-.-d is a vliiory ovri Wisconsin this We*-k for » |>erf--i t season first by any big ten team *in * the great Minnesota squad of 1935 trampled .-verythbig in sightNeoring with th.- opening kf< koff Minnesota put Purdue to rout Saturday 33 to tl for victory numte-r five tn conference competition Northwestern's defeat at .Michigan. 20 to 13. gave the Gophers an undisputed . hampionship They run lose to Wisconsin and still win the i big ten crown Grudge battles are coining up this week. The old Mood and thunder feud between Michigan j and Ohio State will 1w staged at Columbus, o Indiana travels to Purdue to si rimmag.- for the old oaken bucket Notre Dame, its victory string brought to an abrupt halt by lowa 7 to o. meets Northwestern at Evanston and Illinois goes to lowa Northwestern Is the only team already finishixl with Its conference schedule Pi< k'-d as a second division club because us heavy graduation losses in the line, the Wildcats surprised the league by scoring four victories while losing two. I'ntll they lost to Minnesota, they figured among the title favorites. tine the strength of their early ahowing. .Northwestern and Notre itume will draw a full hou».. this week Not a ticket has been available for weeks Both Notre Dame and Northwestern lost Saturday, but that won t hurt either the house or the scalp era. ( lowa still has the enviable record ot never having lost to Notre I lame Three games, three victories. all of them upsets. Again Saturday th- courageoua Hawkeye* shattered a six game Iriab winning streak by seising three important breaks hi the fourth period —two fumble* and an intercepted pas* Together, they produced the only touchdown of the game Northwestern applied It* to advantage with another of ita fourth period rallies, hut there was too much ground to make up. Michigan had scored twice in tbe first period and once in the sec ond Final; Michigan 2<» Northwestern end. losing a double overtime tilt to the Jefferson Warriors Friday night and then taking a defeat from an alumni quintet Saturday . night

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13 Ohio State had its moment* of ( stress against Illinois, but the Bucks w.-re too muc h On power play* they so.red twice, such lime ■ending Don Scott over on »hort plunges. Illinois pl. k'-d up pl.-nty of yardace by pissing, scored hi the fourth period. Final Ohio Slate 14. Illinois 6 MBNROEBOWNS MONMOUIHFIVE Bcarkatz Register 11 To 36 Triumph Over Eagles Saturday Tile Monro.- Bearkatx chalked up another victory Saturday night defeating the Monmouth Elagt-s at the Berne auditorium. 41 to 34 Th.- team* were tied at 19-19 at th. end of th.- first half but Monroe pulled away in the third qu«r-1 ter. holding a margin of 31 to 23 as the period closed Th.- winners' scoring was well divided Winteregg leading with 1! point* followed by E Raudebush with 11 and A Baud-bush with 10 ( Fuelling and Kunkle each tallied , eight points for Monmouth. Monroe FG FT TP I E. Rautiehush. f 5 1 11 Winteregg. f 5 2 12 Gilbert, c- .. 10 2 4'rfst. g 3* 17 A Raudebush. g 3 4 10 Trump g 10 2 Totals 1» I 44 j Monmouth FG FT TP Miller, f .13 5 Aumann. f 10*2 Fuelling, c 7 3 2* Marhenke. g 0 2 2 Kunkle, g .405 S'-lmepf f 2 0 4 ' "tiraii, f 10 2 Getting, c —1 3 5 Totals 13 10 34 Referee. Markley. I'mpire- Raber. Preliminary Monroe 27. Monmouth 14. B ' , 500 SheetN Canary Second Sheets, neat I) wrapped. 35c. The Ileealur Democrat Co AUTHORIZED SIMO N I Z E SERVICE Protect your car from baa weather. A S-monite or *>i Job now will protect year car all winter. "Motoriet Wiee Bimonlee" Decatur Auto Parts & Service let at Jeffereon St*. "Complete Service"

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agreement with lhe Cub* manageGaliagher'e announcement that Wilao nhad been offried the Job wa* not iine»|»-< led 11. was one of four men cotiaidered giuid pro* pect* and li had been rumored that 1 ■ ha<l mid- tentative arrange | -11. for !h> tniMfdl »!>•■« Il' mad* a surprl*.- vi*it to Chicago recently, after <nmlug out of re- , tit. mi nt during th.- world series to fi s hl* 44 year old Jega behind the plate as a substl'ute for catcher Ernie Inimbardi when the latter .uff. red an ankle Injury. The n.-w Cuba manager will be fit'i-d with serious problem* ot at- ’ tempting to rejuvenate th.- team tor Wrigley. Among them are the alllng-arm pitchers IHsty Dean and Clay Bryant A new .etcher proh i ably will be needed to replace the i veteran Hartnett And not the j least of hl* puttiers will be that I ot trying to imbue the team with the spirit that was lacking during . the I94<' season whe nth.- Cub* fin-1 ishrt! in the sstottd division. He follow* In the footstep* of I othe rIMM-ball "greats" who have 1 fallen tn rapid am < <-s*lon since Joe M.artby was releas' d In |930 Rog- ' I <-r* Hornsby was the first to ry and j laated until 1932 when hr was re-1 1 placed by harley Grimm who led 'hr Cub* to pennant* In 1932 and 1935 but wrnt the way ot hl* prede i .-••or* In 193* That was the year . Hartnett took over In mld-srasoti ' : ..nd almost single handed won th.- ' liennant bul lost the aeries Meanwhile- Wrigley still was balking for a man Io fill hl* own a sprrsldent of the club 11.- . announced hl* club hou*<--< leaning program probably would start at 1 the top. but he was unable to con | vtnee vice president Charles ' iBoot*! Weber hr should abandon hl* plan* for retirement and take over the Job. —p Trade Is* a Good Town— Decatur.

COLLtGC FOOTBALL " lowa 7. Notre Hume o I 1 Wisconsin 27 Indiana Io > Minnesota 33 Purdue u Michigan 2<i Norihw.-*iern 13 Ohio Ntatr 14 Illinois e I Indiana Htate 27. Ball Ntatr 7 North Central lllinoi* 7, V«|| J * r , * 4 II TcHHo 20. Rutlwr 4 Wabash 17. In-Pauw 13 > Eairlham 20, Franklin « Rose Poly 24. Hanover d. I Western tMli-h.) Ntatr 19. Man ’ Chester 14. Boston College 19 Georgetown ,11. Pennsylvania 4*. .tamy u Navy o Columbia o itl< t. Corneil 7. Darthmout 3.

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