Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 222, Decatur, Adams County, 21 September 1955 — Page 7

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Yellow Jackets Drop Tough Battle Tuesday [Night To Airedales

The Decatur Yellow Jackets lost a tough football game to the Hartford City Airedales on the Hartford ‘City field Tuesday night, 136, but even In losing, the Jackets played one of the finest games by a Decatur team in many a year. Giving away better than 20 pounds per man to a burly Airedale team, the Jackets played on an even . keel with the bigger boys until the final minute when the Airedales pushed over the winning touchdown. It was just a matter of the smaller boys tiring a little sooner from the vicious line play. They were still game as ever when the final gun sounded, but the 48 minutes of hard football had slow ed the locals down just enough for the bigger Hartford City team to push over the clincher. The first half, with nothing spectacular in the way of runs, was a real display of slam-bang football. Decatur kicked to Hartford City to open the game and the first two quarters were mostly defensive. Each team got one sub tained drive going in the first half, with- the Airedales getting to the Decatur 20-yard line before losing the ball on downs, and the Jackets pushing down to the Hs-tford City 25 only to have penalties halt a drive. Decatur played a five man line with four linebackers on defense, and smeared one running play after another. At half time the score was still 0-0. * The Jackets didn’t waste any time in the second half. The Hartford City kickoff was downed on the Decatur 35. Rocky Strickler picked up three yards and Gene Baxter got one, and then Tony Kelly threw a 20-yard pass to Terry Murphy who grabbed the ball and went all the way. The first try for extra point was good, but Decatur was offsides and the second attempt was stopped with the score reading Decatur ahead, 6-0. Hartford City came right back to score, -taking the ball back to the Decatur 47 on the kickoff return. The Airedales used 14 plays * to go the 47 yards for the TD, and they felt every yard of it. The Jackets couldn't hold the bigger southern team, but they made them pay for every gain. The Airedales had first downs on the Decatur 36. 25, 11, and one foot line 1 before Dewitt went into’the end zone for the tying points. The try for extija point was supposed to be a run. but big John Isch Had different ideas as. he stopped the - ball carrier the instant he got the ball. The rest of the game was another defensive battle. Decatur couldn’t get much of an offensive threat rolling, but continued to play fine defensive ball. In the final quarter, the Airedales drove down the field for a first down on the Decatur seven yard line, but weren’t able to make more than three yards ip four plays. The Jackets, really tired now. weren’t able to make enough yardage to roll up a first down and run out the clock, and were forced to punt. The Airedales, with a fresher ?..... team as they had an offensive and defensive unit, then marched for the clincher. The final touchdown was a seven yard pass to Ely. The I PAT was scored on another pass I The Jackets got off three passes | before the game ended, but could n’t connect. The next game will be at Gar | ret on, Friday night. Score by quarters: Decatur ----- 0 fl 6 0 — 6 I Hartford City -— 0 0 6 7 —13 Scoring: Decatur— touchdown Murphy. Hartford City, touch 3 downs:’Dewitt, Ely. PAT: Beeson (pass). Decatur Hartford CityLE Murphy Ely g LT Corey Micheal LG Debolt Meyers C Krueckeberg Leffingwell RG Agler Linder RT Dorwin Chaney | RE Hutker Beeson QB Kelly Reid RH -Roth Seekel LH Baxter Bowman FB Strickler Cline Officials: Todd, Dornte, Gross. f Prefect Is Winner At Columbus Race Prefect, a race horse owned bv Chet Barker of Decatur, won the race at Beulah park in Columbus. Ohio, in 2 minntbs and 4’a seconds,. with Kenny Durbin of Decatur as jockey. The race was held Tuesday, and Prefect lacked 2/5 ot a second of breaking the track : record. Monmouth Defeats Jefferson, 11-5 Seoriug seven runs Ik the fourth inning, the Monmouth E:>cles defeated the Jefferson Wariors. 11-5, -at the Jefferson diamond Tuesday afternoon. The line score: •R H E ,J Monmouth 300 701 0 11 13 • 5 JClTetson - 013 000 1- 4 1 W. Myers and Fuelling: Caffee -I ■ Smilley.’ to

Yankees Take Twin Bill To Tighten Grip NEW YORK (INS) —The Chicago White Sox are “dead,” the Cleveland Indians are dying and the New York Yankees are three wins away'from making it another subway series. That was the American League story today after the Yanks reduced their pennant clinching magic number to three-any combination of three Yankee wins or Cleveland defeats —by downing Washington twice, 6 to 3 and 9 to 7. The Indians remained mathematically alive, and at the same time eliminated the White Sox from the scorching flag chase, by beating the Comiskeys last night, 3 to 2, Yankees manager Casey Stengel was jubilant after yesterday's daynight killing but refused to order the ice for the champagne because “we’ve still got four up in Boston.’; Bat it appeared that even the once formidable Red Sox pose no serious threat to the Bombers. The Baltimore Orioles, six games away from setting a major league record as the only club to remain in last place all the way. used the Red Sox as stepping stones out of the cellar yesterday by beating them. 3 to 2, in ten innings and then, 7 to 4, The Indians are 21% games out with four games left to play aud must win all, while the Yankees lose four their remaining five, to cheat the Bombers out of their sixth pennant in the past seven years and fit:h World Series meeting with Brooklyn. The White Sox are out ot rt. 6 Vi. games in arrears with only four games remaining. While increasing their win streak to seven in the sizzling September stretch, the Yankees dropped Charlie Dressen’s Senators into last place, two games behind the Orioles. The Yankees kayoed Maurie McDernrott wirh three rtnis in the firs: inning of the opener and assured reliefer Tom Morgan the victory with the decisive tally in the third on Hank Bauer's double, an outfield fly and Bill Skowron s foui pop. Mickey Vernon homered sot the Nats. The Yankees gave Whitey Ford .his.LSlh win wklr a six run outburst in the seventh inning of the night game on two singles, a Washington /error, two batters hit by Pete Ramos, back to back triples by Yogi Berra ad Joe Collins and a sacrifice fly. But the Nats answered with four runs in the eighth and two in the ninth before Stengel's fifth pitcher. Tommy Byrne, came In to stop the, rally. Jim Lemon hit a pinch homer for the Senators. The Indians snapped a four game losing streak by scoring twice oft Chicago's Billy Pierce in the eight! Inning on a walk to Ferris Fain, Early Wynn's single and Bobhj Avila's triple. Wynn permitted ten hits to six for Piei ce but was tong, in the clutch to pick up his 17th decision. The Orioles beat Boston in overtime when Don Lcppart tripled ano Angelo Dagras .scored him with a sacrifice fly. Ted WilTTams' 28th home run went dawn the drain. The Orioles blasted Ike Delock for tourruns in the sixth of the second game and sewed it up with two more in the eighth off Leo Liely. In other games, Detroit defeated Kansas City, 7 to 3; Brooklyn topped Philadelphia, 6 to 3 and 6 to 1; New York ripped Pittsburgh. 11 to 1 and 14 to 8; Lew Burdette pitched a six hit shutout' tor Milwaukee,7to 0. at Cincinnati,/ and rookie Ben Flowers and Harvey Haddix shut out Chicago, 2 to 0, on five hits at St. Louis. Brooklyn's 20-game winner, Don Newcombe.' gave up eight hitsincluding homers to Eddie Waitkus and Stan Lopata-before' yielding to winner Clem Labine in the eighth.' It was Ins first appearance since he came down with the flu Sept, 9. Rookie Rogie Craig went all the way as the Brooks handed 23-game winner Robin Roberts his 13th s~etback in the nightcap. Giants centerfielder Willie Mays joined a sqten gioup which ineluded Babe Ruth, Johnny Mize. Hack Wilson. Raiph Kiner, Hank Greenberg arid Jim Foxx when he upped his major league home ru.i lead to 50 with a circuit clout in tach game. His feat tied the major league cluster of seven in six games held by (George Kelly of the 1921 Giants and Walker Cooper of the 1947 club. He lias hit 11 this month, with four gauges remaining.

C. C. Golf Tourney Scheduled Thursday Fifteen prizes will be awarded at the annual Chamber of Commerce golf tourney and picnic scheduled for the Decatur golf club Thursday afternoon, George Laurent, chairman of the general committee announced today. All members of the local Chamber and their friends are invited to attend the picnic and take part in the tourney, pther committee members in addition to the chairman are M. J. Pryor, 1 Ronald Parrish, Dick Wertzberger, Rober Holthouse, Dr. H. R. Frey, Fred Kolter and Dike Eddleman. A first award will be made to the low handicap member and also to a aon-member. Second and third prizes will be awarded on actual low gross,"' .Several other awards will be made. The picnic supper will follow the tourney and awards will be made at that time. 50-Yard Line Flashes By JACK HELLER Last night’s game will go In the I record books as just another loss for Decatur, but the boys them- ’ selves, the fans who saw the game [ and the coaches know better. The . purpose, of any sport is for the benefit and maturing of the play- j ers, and last night the local fellows got and gave a good lesson. I They got beat, but they got beat; playing good, hard football. If Decatur had a little more reserve strength it would have been a different game. You can’t' expect a 16-17 year old (or anybody else) to play 48 minutes of hard football and still be as sharp and quick as! he was at the start. Without making any excuses, the [ weight and reserves made the dis-I ference. Os course it’s a physical, fact that the smaller boy will tire | sooner in a game like football. Hartford City, with its much bigger line and two unit system, had the advantage of strength. The old-timers who talk about the good old days of rough football should have seen last night’s game. It was slam-bang all the way. De- i catur suffered some bumps, with ■ Terry Murphy getting a banged ■ leg and Bill Roth a cut on his finger that took three stitches to •lose. At least the boys know none ■ >f the Hartford City players will . hop out of bed fresh as a daisy for a few days. There were a lot of bumps in the game, and it was really nice to see Decatur get , rough — not dirty, just rough' and tough. One thing the boys have to re- . member is that it’s hard to build I a reputation, but- easy to lose tt. They showed the tans last night i that they were of really! good football, and we’ll expect the same from now on. If they play the way they did last night there will > be no holding them, but no team j can win on past performances. We know now they can play, hope' they’Tl continue to play, and no one •will be happier if.they doplay, real. football the rest of the season. It's! no crime to lose a game if you lose : it playing your best. But if thel Jackets will keep on playing their best, they should win at least five ■ and possibly all of their remaining ' games. We’ll be at Garrett Friday to find out. “MAJOR” AMERICAN LEAGUE Club W. L. Pct. G.B. New York ---- 93 56 ,624 Cleveland .... 91 59 .607 2% Chicago .. ... 87 63 .580 6*4 Boston 82 67 .550 11 Detroit __'»77 -73 ,513 16'4' Kansas City 63 .87 .120 3014 | Baltimore - 53 95 .358 39’4 ' Washington .. 51 97 .345 11’4 Tuesday’s Results New York 6-9, Washington 3-7. Cleveland 3. Chicago 2. Detroit 7, Kansas City 3. Baltimore 3-7, Boston 2-1 (Ist 10.1 innings), NATIONAL LEAGUE Club W. L. Pct. G.B. Brooklyn 97 53 .647 I Milwaukee 84 66 .560 13 New York 77, 72 .517 -Philadelphia ..75 76 .497 22’4 j Cincinnati 73 78—.48-3' 24Yi Chicago 70 180 .467 27 St. Louis ..... 66 'B4 .410 31 'Pittsburgh. ~. 58 91 .389 ,28 & J * Clinched pennant. Tuesday's Results Brooklyn 6-6, Philadelphia 3-1. New York 11-14. Pittsburgh 1-8, Milwaukee 7. Cincinnati (J. St. Louis 2. Chicago O. ' ] Irade iu a Good Tow a — Decatur

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Adams Central Winner Over Commodores The Adams Central Greyhound* handed the Decatur their first defeat of the fall baseball season, 10-9, in a nine-inning battle Tuesday afternoon at the Adanus Central diamond. A big five-run third inning, scored on three hits, two walks and a •passed ball, shoved Adams Central to an early 6-1 lead, which the Greyhounds increased to 8-2 in the fourth. The Commodores scored three In the fifth on a walk, an error and two hila, and both teams tallied single runs in the sixth for a 9-6 Adams Cent: al lead. The Decatur team ramea to tie the score in the seventh with three runs on three walks, an error and Beal’s double, all with none out, but the next three batters were retired to leave the lead run on base. , Neither team scored in the first extra inning but Adams Central won the game in the ninth on successive singles by Corson, Springer and Dick, who took over mound duties in the seventh to become the winning hurler. *• —■ ■ The Commodores will play the undefeated Berne Bears at McMillen field here Thursday as ernoon, and must win this game to have a

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chance to gain a tie for the Adams county league championship. Commodores AB R It E Beal, 2b 1-7— 5 11 0 Vogleede, as 6 10 0 Reed lb, p ‘f.... L 6 110 Kable, p, c 6 12 0 Costello, cf I 4 1 0 0 Omlor, If 3 1 Ot 0 O'Campo, c 0 10 0 Meyer, rs — 2 110 Ford, 3b — — 6 110 Hake, rs, lb 3 0 0 1 TOTALS 41 9 6 1 Adams Central AB R H E Rowden, cf 2 0 0 0 Dick, p 2 0 10 Steiner, rs 4 2 0 1 Byerly. p,3b 4 111 Miller, If 5 1 3 0 Baumgardner, 2b ...... 5 110: McMillen, lb 2 10 0 Landis, lb 2 0 0 0 Mitchel, c 4 2 10

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Corson, 3b 4 2 3 0 Sprunger, ss 4 0 2 2 TOTALS 38 10 12 ’ Adams Centra. 015 Commodores .. 100 131 300 — 9 1. U.-Michigan State Game To Start Late BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (INS) — Indiana Uniiversity's opening football game Saturday at home against Michigan State had officials consulting the weatherman. Beginning time was changed to 3:30 p. m. CDT to permit television clearance for the midwest. IU statisticians figured the game should end by 5:45 p.m. or 6 p.m. at the latest. They consulted weather experts and learned 40 minutes of daylight remained — plenty of time for most fans to drive home before sunset. Trade in a Good Town — Decatui

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Reynolds 182, Halberstadt 17}. V. Smith 17«, Trosin 173. Archery Club Plans Membership Drive The recently-organised Limberlost archery and conservation club is planning a membership drive, with cards to be sold within a few days. The organisation is affiliated with the national organisation. Officers of the club are George Stults, president; Bob Leißirun. vice president; Marion Robinson, secretary.' Richard Cottrell, treasurer; Merle Affolder, Ropian Gaskill and Frank Sardella, directors.

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