Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 5 October 1955 — Page 7

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Yellow Jackets Beaten By Concordia; To Play Bluffton Here Friday

The Decatur Yellow Jackets were caught napping on two plays Tuesday night and it cost them a touchdown each time as the Fort Wayne Concordia Cadets beat the locals at Worthman field, 11-7. The Jackets again played a good football game and against a team that is supposed to be really strong, but the two lapses cost them a tie or a victory. One was a 45-yard punt return and the other was a 60-yard off-tackle jaunt. Decatur opened the game kicking to Concordia. The Cadets thought they would wrap the game up early, but hadn’t reckoned on a stout Jacket defense. The Summit City team rolled for four first downs, the last on the Decatur 11yard line, but there they stopped. In four plays the Cadets managed two yards and the ball went over to Decatur on their own line. After a Jacket punt, a pass from Goeglein to Roemer gave the Cadets a first down on the Jacket 10-yard line, but again the local defense set up a wall the Fort Wayne team couldn't puncture. Early in the second quarter. Buss Doetffler, the Cadet safety man, grabbed a Decatur punt, cut for the sideline, and went 45 yards for the touchdown. Hein added the first of three placements for a 7-0 lead for Concordia. The Jackets started a march of their own, racking up four first downs, but an Intercepted pass stopped the threat on the Cadet 12-yard line. Concordia got off one play before the half. The Cadets kicked to Decatur to open the second half, and after an exchange of punts, the Jackets started to roll. In eight plays, the Worthmanites went from their own 35 to pay dirt. Two passes set up the TD. The first went from Tony Kelly to Rocky Strickler for 26 yards, and the other was from Kelly to Ted Hutker for 27 yards and a first and goal on the Concordia seven. Four plays lat- . er, Rocky punched over for the TD, and then added the PAT on a plunge to tie the score at 7-7. The Cadets were not to be denied their next score. They took the Jacket kick-off and in five „plays went 66 yards for the score. The big factor in their march was a 41 yard runningbplay thabOoeglein started and then lateraled to Doerffler, who went to the Decatur 10 before he was brought down. After an incomplete pass, Roemer bulled through the middle for 10 yards and t-he score. Decatur failed to move the ball after the Concordia kick-off, and the second play after the punt. Doehrmann popped off tackle and went 60 yards to score. The rest of the way was an exchange of the ball as nefffihr team could get a drive started and both had a lot of subs in the game. The Jackets next foe will be the unbeaten Bluffton Tigers at Worthman field

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Friday at 7:30 p. m. Scoring: Decatur — Touchdown, Strickler. PAT —Strickler, plunge. Concordia —Touchdowns, Doerffler, Roemer, Doehrmanq. PAT—Hein 3 (placement.) Score by quarters: Concordia--- 0 77 7—21 Decatur 0 0 7 0— 7 Decatur Concofdia LE Murphy Datnmeyer LE Dorwin Kostoff LG - Agler Hein C Krueckeberg Scheiderer RG Debolt Gotch RT Corey Schroederer RE Hutker Ridley QB Kelly Goeglein LH Baxter Doerffler RH Strickler Doehrmann FB Schott Roemer Officials—Todd, Dornte, Lieberutn. 50-Yard Line Flashes By JACK HELLER A lot of fans were down on Gene Baxter after a pass that looked like an easy interception was completed in his area. What most of the fans didn’t know was that Gene had his left arm chained down from an injury he got at Garrett. It’s mighty hard to catch a ball when you can’t lift one arm as high as your shoulder. Gene probably could have knocked the ball down, but it was natural for him to go after the ball and it was too late when he realized he couldn't Intercept the pass. In any event, it didn't figure in a scoring drive as the Jackets held the Cadets after the completion.

Thofje two first quarter goal-line stands were really nice to watch. The boys just dug in and refused to budge. In the eight tries Concordia had, they gained a net of one yard. The Cadets had nine first downs to the Jackets eight. The Jackets again displayed the fact that they can play good football and that they are really coached, but they still had the lapses that cost them the game. That makes five of the six games played that with a break or two the Jackets could have won. The competition Friday night is going to be rough again. The Rluffton Tigjtfs far this year, although they have l>een tied once. It would be nice if the Jackets could find themselves as a team and give the Tigers a good trimming. If therd's any team on the schedule that the locals would like to beat, it is the old rivals from Wells county. If the Jackets make up their minds to win. it will prove to be an interesting game. Berkeley—Diameter of the sun is 864,100 miles. Its average dis- ’ tance from the earth is 92,900,000 miles. It is about one and onehalf times as dense as the earth at I water level.

Berne And Roll Win EIC Baseball Titles Berne and Roll, with five victories and no defeats, won their respective divisions in the baseball race in the Eastern Indiana conference. These teams were the only undefeated teams in the conference race. Lancaster Central finished scond in the north division and Montpelier was second in the south division, both with marks of 4-1. The final standing: North Division W L Pct. Berne .. ,5 0 1.000 Lancaster —4 -i Adams Central .... 3 2 .600 Geneva 2 3 .400 Monmouth 1 4 .200 Hartford — 0 5 -000 South Division W L Pct. Roll 5 0 1.000 Montpelier .4 1 .800 Bryant -. 3 2 .600 Albany ... 1 3 .250 Pennville 1 4 .200 Redkey 0 4 .000 Indiana To Battle lowa On Saturday

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (INS) — To have and have not might well be the theme of the Indiana University football battle with lowa at lowa City, Saturday. On paper it appears to be a battle strictly of the “have note” of the Big 10 this year. Indiana has lost two straight, first to Michigan State and then to Notre Dame. 3 lowa took a’ walloping at the hands of Wisconsin (which plays at Purdue Saturday in the Big 10 feature), after winning its opener with Kansas State. Over the years, the Hoosiers have just about split even with the Hawkeyes — IU wiping JLO, ■ 10p>ftg‘12and typing four. Last year, lowa won. 27-14.•’"■“'tv-coach Bernie Crimmins, who said pre-seasonally he had hopes for this year’s squad, said his team is better than its record indicates and he is confident IU fans are in for more than one good game this fall. Fumbles, missed blocks and tackles have plagued the Hoosiers in their first two games. However, Crimmins said the mistakes of the first game weren’t as obvious in the second game and perhaps the third game will be a smooth sail such as the one which stung Michigan 13-9 last year.

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Dodgers Take First World Series Title NEW YORK (INS) —Those magnificent, incomparable Dodgers were champions pt the world today, and if they closed down the gates to the Brooklyn Bridge, it was to prevent the beloved Bums from bitting the road. The pain of frustrations and lame puns borne by generations were obliterated and faith healed all wounds Tuesday when the Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees, 2 to 0, in the seventh, sudden-death game of the 1955 World Series. And while the realists measured the Bums’ first win-all ever in terms of a record 32,000.000 jackpot and the cynics dismissed the whole thing as just another series, the sentimental and the faithful measured the triumph in terms of time, tears and honor. For . the supposedly invincible 16 times and five tfines in the last six years, the tomorrows had to be brightened by memories of the past.— (For the Daggers, the future glowed in the present, historically and almost hysterically. ft made virtual sin of any thoughts harbored by the management to move the franchise to Jersey City, Mexico City, Bombay, or any other metropolis. The Bums belonged to Brooklyn, by birth, by suffering, and in their finest hours like Tuesday. Appropriately, Johnny Podres, the 23-year-old southpaw who effected the dream with a hearty, pulse-pounding eight-hit whitewash of the Yankees, was the prime object of management's thoughts on the future. !- “We’ve been waiting more than half a century for this in Brooklyn.’’ Dodger Plresident Waller O’Malley declared. "But it was good to get when it did come. Maybe we’ll erect a monument to Podres in Prospect Park.” Certainly, Podres, a resident of the tiny iron-mining town of Witherbee, N. Y., will rank for all tjme as Brooklyn’s favorite son. Everything about the fellow was dramatic and sparkling. For a fellow who had a 940 regular season record with- the National League champs and one who hadn't finished a game since Juen 14, Johnny J. piitbuig tmui -m Hue. World Series. He celebrated his 23rd birthday by baffling the Yankees in the third game and in winning Tuesday he mixed his blazers and changeups superbly again to become the first Dodger hurler ever to cop two games in a series. Podres also was the first Brook to hurl a shut-

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out in the annual fall spectacular since Preacher Roe turned the trick in 1949. In tumbling down the walls of baseball's mightiest dynasty, Podres also refashioned baseball history. Never Before In the game's annal shad a team that had lost the first two games come back to win a seven-game series. But the Dodgers did just that. They lost the first two at Yankee Stadium, went home drearily to Bbbets Field-the park they hope to vacate-and Podres ignited the spark which led to three straight triumphs in their home bandbox. Then the Yankees came back to win game No. 6 at Yankee Stadium and the non-believers had them stopping the Bums for the sixth time since 1941. It was not to be. And the Dodgers, after seven previous failures dating back to 1916. gained the promised land led by the young man Podres and his left-handed magice. It was Podres, most deservedly, who captured the hearts and frenzied cheers of the 62,425 fans at Yankee Stadium. But the most glorious day in Brooklyn's athletic history was a day in which the brilliance of other Dodgers contributed huge amounts. Gil Hodges drove in both his team’s runs; And little Sandy Arnoros, the dynamic Cuban left fielder who speaks hardly any English at. all, contributed “a memorable catch which was converted into a rally-choking double play in the sixth. Almost lost in the shuffle was the fact that the loser for the Yankees was 35 - year old Tommy Byrne, the rejuvenated southpaw whose scintillating comeback had to end in defeat. (Byrne, who stunned the Dodgers with his sliders and soft stuff in the second game, yielded a run on a double by Roy Campanella and a single by Hodges in the fourth. He gave up only three hits in the 5 1-3 innings he worked. But the one - run was margin enough, as it turned out. Manager Casey Stengel, dropping his first series since he tpok over the Yankee reins in 1949, lifted Byrne in the sixth when the Brooks had the bases loaded. Hodges then drove in his second run with a long sacrifice fly off reliever Bob Grim.

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The key plsV of the entire Series occurred in the Yankee half of the inning. A walk to BiUy Martin and a bunt single by (11l McDougald put the Yankees in business. Yogi Berra stroked a long skyscraper toward the left field corner. Little Arnoros, playing the catcher over toward center as the book dictates, raced like a deer across the green turf and gloved the ball with one band right up against the boxes in fair territory. Arnoros relayed the ball to Pee Wee Reese, who tossed to Hodges for the Dodgers’ record 12<h twin killing of the classic. McDougald, who had been off and running, just failed to get bac&ih time. Junior High Gome Here This Evening The junior high football game will be played at 7:3.0 tonight regardless of the weather. The boys will have to play under adverse conditions if they make the varsityteam so it is felt that it will be godd experience for them. FolstaH Team Wins Match Game Here The Falstaff bowling team of Fort Wayne defeated the Leland Smith team of Decatur, 29-42 to 2726, in a match last Saturday a. the Mies alleys in this city*. Fa’staff had the high team game of 1085 and Gerry Schmidt had the individual with 230. High series were Erv Byltemeier 614, Tom Carr 616, Ken Corbes 602. IHSAA Distribution Received By School Hugh J. Andrews, Decatur high school principal, today announced recept of $l2O from the Indiana high school athletic association. This is the annual distribution from the IHSAA to member schools and the other eight high schools in Adams county have or will receive similar checks. Fort Wayne Pistons Begin Fall Training FORT WAYNE, Ind. t- The Fort Wayne Pistons, today begin their fall training at the YMCA,

World Series Set Double Play Marks NEW YORK HNS) — Hare are some of the World Series records equaled or established in the 1955 classic: Brooklyn made 12 double playa for a new series record and the Yankees' seven added up tp a new series DP mark for two clubs. Gil Hodges participated in 11 of the Dodger DP’s a new mark for flrat basemen. Hodges started three DP’s, another series record. Jackie Robinson participated In and started three double plays, equaling the record' for t(jjrd basemen. Yankee shortstop Phil Riz.zptp played in his 52nd World Series game, breaking Joe DiMaggio’s record of 51 for tho most games played. Yankee catcher Yogi Berra caught his 38th series game, tying Bill Dickey’s mark for the most games caught in the series. Dodger centerfielder Duke Snider knocked in 20 runs in series competition, a National League series record. The Dodgers hit nine home runs in the series, another National League high. There were 17 homeruns in the series, tying the old record. with Coach Charley Eckman greeting the advance guard of a squad that ultimately will reach 18. Rookies will dominate today’s first session. Veterans Frank Brian and Larry Foust still haven’t come to terms and George Yardley. who changed his mind about retiring, can’t report until Oct. 13. The Pistons first appearance in this area will be Wednesday, Oct. 19. in an intra-squad game at Syracuse high school, followed by their only pre-season Coliseum appearance against the College All-Stars Thursday night, Oct. 20. Lane Confers With Cardinals Today ST. LOUIS (INS)—Frank Lane, who quit recently as general manager of the Chicago White Sox, is scheduled to confer today with August A. Busch, president of the St. Louis Cardinals.

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