Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 226, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1957 — Page 7

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Warren Spahn Likely Choice To Open Series By TIM MOIARTY United Preu Sport* Writer Fred Haney can make it official now—Warren Spahn will open the World Series for the Milwaukee Braves a week from today. Spahn clinched the assignment Tuesday night when he beat the St- Louis Cardinals, 6-1, in the "hangover” game of the National League race. The victory was the 36-year old left-hander's 21st—and also just about clinched his right to be named the major league pitcher of the yearHank Aaron, the Braves' Na 1 candidate for most valuable player honors, again swung the big bat for the new NL chaYnpions. Aaron, whose two- run llth-inning homer wrapped up the flag Monday night, hammered a grandslam homer off Sam Jones in the first inning and from then on it was <aU downhill for Spahn. Williams Hite 38th Ted Williams hammered out his 38th homer of the year to give the Boston Red Sox a 2-1 victory over the Washington Senators. Williams' grounded out in the first inning, however, and ended a string of 16 consecutive appearances at the plate in which he reached base safely. He struck out and walked in his other two appearances to dip one point to .384. Frank Sullivan was the beneficiary of Williams' homer, chalking up his 14th win after a fine duel with rookie Hal Griggs. The Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Athletics, 7-6, the Brooklyn Dodgers played what was probably their final game of all time at Ebbets Field and scored a 2-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Philadelphia Phillies whitewashed the New York Giants, 5-0. and the Cincinnati edlegs whipped the Chicago Cubs, 4-3 and 11-9, in other games. Ron Jackson had four hits and Nelson Fox and Earl Battey three each to "lead the White Sox’ 16hit attack which brought Don udolph his first win and ended Kansas City’s longest victory streak of the year at five. 6.702 See Finale Danny McDevitt struck out nine and yielded only five hits for the Dodgers who bowed out at Ebbets Field before a corporal's guard of only 6,702 fans The loss went to Ben Daniels, who made his first start in the majors after being called up from Hollywood in the

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Pacific Coast League. Curt Simmons pitched a fourhitter for his 12th victory for the Phillies who kayoed Curt Barclay in 1 1-3 innings Ed Boucbee had three hits and Bob Bowman knocked in two runs for the Phillies. , Wally Post homered in each game as the Redleg* pounded out a total of 22 hits and retained a mathematical chadce of overtaking the third - place Dodgers. Hal Jeffcoat received credit for his 12th win in the opener and Don Gross for his seventh in the nightcap. Decatur Lutheran In Playoff Final Decatur Lutheran blanked Union, 12-0, Tuesday evening to advance to the finals in the Lutheran league playoff. Decatur will meet the Preble-Soest winner in the final game at the Hoagland diamond at 2 p.m. Sunday. Bille Conrad hurled a no-hitter for the winners in the game Which was halted by darkness after five innings. The winners drove out 11 hits and scored all their runs in two innings. Union AB R H Bienz, ss 3 0 0 R. Thieme. p‘.......... 2 0 0 W. Reiter, 3b 2......... 2 0 0 T. Kruecljeberg, rs ..... 10 0 Bischoff, 3b 2 0 0 M. Thieme, c 2 0 0 G. Krueckeberg, 2b .... 2 0 0 Weiland, If 10 0 Bohnke. If 0 0 0 Haugk, cf 2 0 0 Totals 17 0 0 Decatar AB R H Callow, cf 3 11 McClure, ss — 3 11 Conrad, p 3 2 1 Ru. Kleinknight, lb .... 3 2 2 Ro. Kleinknight. 2b .... 12 0 Marbach, 3b 2 2 2 M. Busse, rs 3 2 2 G. Busse, If — 3 0 2 Schultz, c 2 0 0 Ohler. rs 10 0 Hollopeter, If 0 0 0 August, cf 0 0 0 Totals 24 12 11 Score by innings: . " RHE Union 000 00— 0 0 3 Decatur .......... 600 6x—l2 11 1 *■■■ . .<>. 1 ‘ - - Trap Shoot Planned Sunday Afternoon A merchandise trap shoot will be conducted on the St. Mary’s and Blue Creek club grounds, located nine miles southeast of Decatur, or one mile west of Willshire, Ohio, or six miles east of Monroe, on state road 124, Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. High School Football Elwood 19. Alexandria 6. Noblesville 47, Madison Heights Anderson 0. Tipton 13, Westfield 13 (tie). Fairmount 19, Mississinewa 18. Nappanee 36, Baugo Twp. 7.

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Stanford And Northwestern Meet Saturday NEW YORK (UP'.—Stanford and Northwestern, a pair of teams offering Broadway oddsmakers little to go on, were rated “even" today for Saturday’s nationally televised college football game of ♦fctag w*VMBK« Both finished sixth in their respective conferences last year and few if any observers have picked them to finish higher this season. However, the oddsmakers bad decided "lines" on the nation’s more highly regarded elevens. Texas A&M, Georgia Tech, Michigan State and Minnesota, ranked second, third, fourth and fifth, respectively this week by the United Press Board of Coaches, all were figured to score big wins. Oklahoma Idle Oklahoma, the defending national champion and the nation's top team in the first weekly rankings this season, is idle Saturday, but the Aggies are rated prohibitive favorites over Texas Tech in a Saturday night game. Georgia Tech is picked by 10 points over 16th ranked Southern Methodist. Michigan State gets the nod by 21 points over Indiana, and Minnesota is favored by 13 over Washington. Michigan, another leading Big Ten power’, is picked by 14 over Southern California, a PCC title contender, while the IllinoisUCLA game at Los Angeles Friday night was rated “pick, 'em.” Tennessee, a ranking southern power with only three tough games on its 1957 schedule, tangles with Auburn, one of those toughies, and is picked by seven points. This game is expected to show how far the Vols can go toward a high national ranking. Notre Dame, hopeful of bouncing back from the worst season in its long and colorful career, was rated a one-point underdog against Purdue in its season opener, while California and Washington State were rated even and Cornell was picked by twg points over Colgate in other expected close games. In other leading intersectional games, Pittsburgh, which bowed to Oklahoma last Saturday, was the choice by six points over Oregon, Army was picked by 19 over Nebraska in the Cadets’ first game of the season, Syracuse was rated 14 points better than lowa State, the improving Ohio State Buckeyes were made 13 points better than Texas Christian, and Oregon State was picked by eight over Kansas. Duke, Baylor Picked Duke, a perrenial southern power and the nation’s ninth - ranked team, was picked by 20 points over

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Virginia, Baylor got the nod by a touchdown and extra point over Houston and Texas was picked by the same margin over TulaneIn other games by sections, Navy by 21 over William and Mary, Penn State by 14 over Pennsylvania in the East; Maryland 7 over North Carolina State, West Virginia 6 over Virginia Tech, Mississippi 6 over Kentucky, Florida 13 over Wake Forest and Clemson 6 over North Carolina in the South; Wisconsin 21 over Marquette -and Cincinnati 7 over Wichita in the Midwest; Arkansas 13 over Tulsa in the Southwest, and Colorado 13 over Utah in the Rockies. Purdue Accused By I.U. Alumni Head INDIANAPOLIS — Iff) — The president of the University of Indiana x alufnni association has charged the Hoosiers’ intra-state rival," Purdue, with a pare in the suspension of IU football coach Phil Dickens. McDonald Kroger, an attorney, charged Purdue University was instrumental in the sidelining of Dickens by the Big Ten. Dickens was suspended for alleged violation of the conference's new code for athletes. Kroger predicted Tuesday, Indiana will “kick the tail” out of Purdue in their" season closing game Nov. 23, “by guts” if not by ability. The Hoosiers are "out fund raising and recruiting and I don't thin k Tug Big Ten Commissioner Kenneth L. Wilson can hold 50,300 of us down,” he said. "We’re going to keep in until we get into the Rose Bowl, and, once we make it, we’ll get back as often as they let us.” The suspended coach has never been told by the Big Ten what activities he may engage in while sitting out the season, Kroger charged.

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South Bend's Central Tops Initial Poll INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — South Bend Central, apparently as powerful on the gridiron as on the basketball court, today topped the first United press Indiana high school football coaches’ poll of the season The South Benders, who won the state hardwood tourney with a perfect record last March, grabbed five first-place nods and no worse than third place on any ballot for 93 points to nose out Evansville Reitz by six points. Reitz, perennially the best in the deep south, also was second in the final roll call of the 1956 campaign last November. The Panthers were first on four ballots. The other first-place vote went to East Chicago Roosevelt, fourth with 56 points behind Indianapolis Tech, which got 58. South Bend Adams with 45 markers rounds out the upper bracket of the "Big Ten." Elkhart and New Albany tied for sixth place, followed, in order, by Kokomo, Hobart, and Terre Haute Garfield. South Bend Central ranked seventh in the 1956 wind-up. Three other prominent outfits were listed last time—Adams was third, Hobart fifth and Roosevelt's Rough Riders were ninth. Still, the experts were far from agreement on the top elevens in the state after three full weeks of warfare. They singled out no less than 26 crews, including such smaller powers as Noblesville and Indianapolis Scecina. Conspicuous by their absence in the Big Ten were Richmond, mythical state champ last year but thrashed at Anderson recently, and Terre Haute Wiley, which dropped two of its first three games The breakdown, with first places and total points: l.South Bend Central (5) 93 2- Evansville Reitz (4)—— 87 3. Indianapolis Tech 58 4. East Chicago Roosevelt (1) -56 5. South Bend Adams.—..... 45 6. Elkhart & New Albany 31 8. Kokomo 26 9. Hobart ... 23 10. Terre Haute Garfield 16

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11. East Chicago Washington and Evansville Bosse 11; 13. South Bend Washington 10; 14. Noblesville 9; 15- Indianapolis Scecina 7; 16. Gary Mann and Richmond 6; 18 Seymour 5; 19. Logansport 4; 20. Anderson, Bloomington, Hammond Morton 3; 23. Rushville, Rochester 2; 25. Gary Roosevelt, Connersville 1. Denver Bears Take Opener Os Series DENVER (UP) — Ace lefthander Walt Craddock of the Buffalo Bisons will attempt to save the International League’s reputation tonight when he faces the rampaging Denver Bears of the American Association, whose thundering bats have put them one game up in baseball’s junior world series. Denver smashed five Bison pitchers for a 16-5 victory before 11.858 tans in Tuesday night’s opener of the best-of-seven series between the playoff winners of the two trlple-A leagues. Denver can further tarnish the International’s reputation b ytaking the series because it would mean an unprecedented four-year sweep by the Association. Giants Reduce To 35-Player Limit NEW YORK (UP) — The world champion New York Giants got down to the 35-player limit Tuesday night with only two rookies able to win berths with the National Football League club. John Bookman of Miami (Fla.) U. and Eddie Crawford of Mississippi, both defensive backs, are the rookies who join 30 players from last year's squad and returning vets Bobby Epps and Jack Spinks and John Martinkovic, who came to th* Giants from Green Bay. High School Gridder Dies From Injuries HOBOKEN, N. J. (UP) — A 16-year-old Fort Lee, N.J., high school football player died Tuesday in St. Mary’s Hospital here, two weeks after suffering a ruptured spleen during an intra-squad practice session. The youth. Walter Leuthke, was on the ground when a teammate tripped over him during a scrimmage, coach Joe Oxley said.

Milwaukee To i Have Edge In i Hitting Power By DOWN ] United Press Sports Writer !| NEW YOK (UP) — The Mil- 1 waukee Braves have a distinct 1 edge over the New York Yankees ; in blasting power that is balanced { somewhat by the world cham- , pions' more resourceful attack. I ( Even allowing for the smaller National League parks, it is safe : to assume that a team which will approach 200 home runs and 800 runs scored for the season is a more powerful . offensive team than a Yankee squad which will finish the year with about 150 ’ homers and 750 runs scored. This : Yankee team is not a “block- ' buster” outfit in the Babe uth tradition. On the other hand, the Braves will find it is a team which knows how to score runs in many ways. It was shut out only twice during the American League season (the Braves were shut out eight times) and it does have its big sticks in Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra and Bill Skowron. Mantle can be expected to be in good shape for the series despite all those Yankee crying towels and he, of course, can be the most devastating hitter in the series. If Berra and Skowron hit behind him the Yankee attack could be stronger in the series than during the regular season. Against this lineup the Braves will have a solid run of hard linedrive hitters headed by Hank Aaron (42 homers, 320 average) and Ed Mathews (32 homers, .290 average)- The return of Joe Adcock, sidelined three months with a broken leg, gives the Braves still a third big gun. Wes Covington, Hurricane Hazle, Johnny Logan. Red Schoendienst and Dell Crandall round out an order that earned the Braves a reputation as I“a real hitting team.” I The Yankees' supporting hitters do not hit the long ball as often as the Braves’ supporting clubbers but they are a more versatile group. Gil McDougald and Tony Kubek typify no less than 10 players who comprise Casey Stengel’s famous “two platoon” contingent. Most of them can play severer

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positions. are fast runners and are adept at hit-and-run tactics. McDougald may be the AL’s best infielder at three positions; Rookie Kubek has played four positions. This is why Stengel can field an all-right-handed hitting team excepting Berra against left-hand-ed pitchers and an all-left-handed hitting lineup excepting McDougald against right-handers. No less an authority than Ted Williams says good left-handers like Whitey Ford and Bobby Shantz should handle the Braves but National Leaguers say Teddy boy has the wrong slant. They say the Braves started the year as a predominantly right-handed power team, for a while switched over to a basically left-handed hitting crew and now have made the full turn. The reason for this, they say, was Adcock’s injury and Hazle's spectacular arrival. All right-handed hitters, of course, are hurt by the vast contours of left field at Yankee Stadium The Dodgers, a powerful right-handed hitting team, never hit much at the stadium. Offense may be the Braves’ ticket in Milwaukee but defense probably will be more important at the stadiumnor League Leaders National League Player A Club G. AB R. H. Pct. Musial, St.L- 133 501 82 175 .348, Mays, N.Y- 150 577 122 192 .333 -Robinson, Cin. 14« 595 95 194 .328 Aaron, Milw. 147 603 118 195 .328 Groat, Pitts. 123 495 58 157 .317 American League Williams, Bos. 128 411 95 158 .384 Mantle, NY. 144 474 121 173 .365 Woodling, Cle 130 419 73 135 .322 Fox, Chi. 150 600 108 192 .320 Boyd, Balti. 138 474 70 149 31< *• Home Runs National League—Aaron, Braved 44; Banks, Cubs 43; Snider, Dodg- | ers 40; Mays, Giants 35; Mathews, Braves 32. American League—Sievers, Senators 41; Williams, Red Sox 38; , Mantle, Yanks 34; Wertz, Indian 26; Zernial, Athletics 26. Rnns Batted In I National League—Aaron, Braves . 132; Ennis. Cards 105; Musial/ i Cards 101; Banks, Cubs 161; Mays',' Giants 98. American League—Sievers, Senators 112; Minoso, White Sox 102; ’ Jensen, Red Sox 102; Wertz, Indians 100; Malzone, Red Sox 99. Pitching Buhl, Braves 18-6; Ford, Yanks f 11-4; Donovan, White Sox 16-6; t Sturdivant, Yanks 15-6; Bunning*„ Tigers 19-8.