Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1959 — Page 7

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Jackets Show Good Defense In Jamboree Coach Bob Worthman’s 1959 Yellow Jackets gave Decatur football hopes a much needed shot In the arm last night at the Huntington Jamboree as a good rock-ribbed defense outshone its own fair offense, allowing a lone score by Huntington fullback Carl Wetters midway in the first period. In the third period against a burly and more experienced Hartford City eleven, the defense shut the door, and the yardage gained through the interior line barely made it to double figures. Decatur unlimbered a passing offense late in the first quarter on the wet and slippery Kreigbaum field before 400 dampened fans, connecting on four of five throws by quarterback Jim Reidenbach. but mainly for short yardage. The clock ran out on the Jackets as they pressed for a first down on the Viking 33-yard line. Passes Click Reidenbach hit Jim Gay and Jay DeVoss for the first two completions and one more grunt by blockers would have put Decatur in the scoring column, but Huntington tacklers saved the day. The defense, bolstered by seniors Larry Butler and Terry Snyder and juniors Tom Sharpe and Mike Drake in the interior line plugged hole after hole. The line-backing the luster of crisp, clean, rock of Gay and Reidenbach added to and -ock football. ■4Jie Jackets counted three first downs to Huntington's pair. The two big gainers for the Vikings were around Decatur’s right end, with the counter by Wetters coming from nine- yards out. The 187pound fullback skirted the end with good blocking for the tally and the point after made it 7-0. Against Hartford City, the offense picked up good gains on jaunts by John Cowan, Reidenbach, and Gay, but illegal motion penalties set the Jackets back. With 10 seconds left to play in the third period. Cowan fired a pass from the Huntington 25-yard line to the that hit the the game ended for Decatur, an attempted pass Was fumbled away. Clock Rons Out Big spurts in the final drive were carried by Cowan who went 20 yards around his own right end, and was followed by Reidenbach with a nine yarder through the same hole. Gay belted his way for a first down on a third and seven to the Huntingt9n 32. Reidenbach picked up another nine yards, and then penalties befell the local grid-

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Jimmy Foxx 111 In Galesburg Hospital GALESBURG, HI. (UPI) — Hall of Famer Jimmy Foxx was recuperating in a, hospital here today from a case of what doctors termed “severe exhaustion.” Foxx, 51, a former home run slugger who won the American League’s most valuable player award three-times, collapsed two days ago in a doctor’s office where he fiad taken his wife, Dorothy, for treatment of a sprained ankle. The physician attending the baseball great. Dr. Howard Graham, said, however, that there is “a possibility” Foxx suffered a heart attack in his office. “We will make electrocardiagram analysis Thursday,” Graham said, “but it will be about a week before we can tell whether or not the trouble was coronary and 1 certainly wouldn't call it that now.” Foxx reported in good spirits, blamed his condition on working too hard in preparation for Thursday's formal opening of the Jimmy Foxx restaurant here, where the former major leaguer has been serving as general manager. mm i leR&M&tZ AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Eastern Division W. L. Pet. G.B. Louisville 91 61 .599 — Minneapolis ... 87 64 .576 3*4 Indianapolis 79 74 .516 1214 St. Paul 77 73 .513 13 Charleston 74 78 .487 17 Western Division W. L. Pet. G.B. Omaha .. 79 72 .523 — Fort Worth ... 76 76 .500 314 Dallas 72 81 .471 8 Denver 70 81 .464 9 Houston 54 99 .353 26 Tuesday’s Results Charleston 1, Fort Worth 0. Houston 6, Indianapolis 1. Dallas 3, Louisville 1. Omaha at St. Paul, postponed, rain. Denver at Minneapolis, postponed, rain. ders. Dwafir took to the air in the i closingjeconds to no avail. In thersecond quarter, Columbia City tallied once against Hartford City with only three minutes gone in the period when the quarterback sneaked over the last seven yards. The Airedales came back with a 79-yard march on the ground, ending when Dean Carbone. coach John Carbone’s son, knifed through tackle from nine yards out for the counter. Carbone missed the try for point and the aggregate score read, NEIC 7, CIC 13. Huntington and Columbia City played out the final quarter.

Top Teams In Both Leagues Lose Tuesday By FRED DOWN United Press International Take it from the White Sox, Dodgers and Braves —a “spoiler” is a pennant contender’s worst enemy in September. The true “spoiler” almost always is a fellow who’ll have to pay his way into the World Series in October but is happy to spoil the party for the contenders. And, more often than not, he’s a pretty ordinary performer except where his favorite opponent is involved. Jim Bunning of the Tigers, Larry Jackson of the Cardinals and Don Cardwell of the Phillies all pretty much fit that description today—much to the chagrin of the contending White Sox, Dodgers and Braves. Bunning, rocking along on a soso season, exended his career mastery oyer the White Sox to 10-2 Tuesday night when his threehitter gave the Tigers a 4-0 win over the American League leaders. The loss snapped Hie White Sox’ five-game winning streak and sliced their lead over the idle second-place Cleveland Indians to five games. Jackson, a “.500-pitcher” since he joined the Cardinals in 1955 and struggling to beat that mark all this season, raised his career mark against die Dodgers to 12-5 with a two-hitter that* gave St. Louis a 3-0 win. The defeat dropped the Dodgers 144 games behind the idle first-place San Francisco Giants and to within two. games of the fourth-place Pittsburgh Pirates. Killebrew Clubs 39th Cardwell, a 23-year old righthander had wop one game up to July 1 but has been knocking off contenders with happy abandon ever since. He’s won a mere nine games this season—and seven of them have been against the four top contenders. He picked on the Braves Tuesday night pitching a six-hitter and hitting a two-run ninth-inning homer for the Phillies’ 5-3 victory. Harmon Killebrew hit his 39th homer as the Washington Senators downed the Boston Red Sox, 7-4, and Whitey Ford, aixj Ryne Duren combined in a seven-hitter as the New York Yankees whipped the Baltimore Orioles, 5-0, in other games. Harvey Kuenn hit a double and three singles to raise his average to 356 and lead Detroft’s 11-hit attack, on 14-game . winner Ibbi Shaw. Bunning, meanwhile, walked two batters in the first inning but did not allow a White Sox runner to reach second as he struck out eight the rest of the way. It was his first shutout of the season. Jackson's second shuout of the year ended Johnny Podres’ fourgame winning streak and prevented the Dodgers from moving to within a half game of the Giants. Ken Boyer, who stretched his hitting streak to 20 games, and Alex Grammas homered for the Cardinals. Cardwell Homers Off Buhl Cardwell, who had made only one single in 44 previews at-bats, homered off Bob Buhl in the ninth to hand the Braves their fifth loss in eight games. The Phillies had taken Hie lead with three runs in the sixth inning but Joe Adcock homered in the bottom of the frame to tie the score. Killebrew tied Cleveland’s Rocky Colavito for the American League home ryn lead and also completed the circuit of homering in every park with a 380-foot clopt off Boston's A1 Schroll. The Senators clinched the decision in the eighth when Billy Consolo singled home one run and Roy Sievers doubled home two more. y The Yankees sent Ford off to a 3-0 lead in the first inning with a salvo of five singles and a sacrifice fly against 20-year old Jerry Walker. The little lefty, who won his 14th game, was lifted in favor of Duren when the first two Baltimore batters singled in the seventh. , P tz> i jg/Sr) B / BAT | SAL.W /1 |

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MAJOR I NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. G.B. San Francisco .73 58 .557 — Los Angeles —72 60 .545 1% Milwaukee —. 70 61 .534 3 Pittsburgh - 70 62 .530 314 Chicago 62 67 .481 10 Cincinnati 63 68 .481 10 St. Louis ..... 62 72 .463 12*4 Philadelphia .. 55 79 .410 19*4 Tuesday’s Results Philadelphia 5, Milwaukee 3. St. Louis 3, Los Angeles 0. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, rain. Only games scheduled. Today’s Games Chicago at San Francisco. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 2, twinight Philadelphia at Milwaukee, night. St. Louis; at Los Angeles, night. AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. G.B. Chicago 80 50 .615 — Cleveland 75 55 .577 5 Detroit 66 65 .504 1414 New York . 65 66 .496 1514 Baltimore ..... *6l 67 .477 18 1 Boston 62 70 .470 19 7 Kansas City .. 59 70 .457 2014 Washington .... 53 78 .405 2714 Tuesday’s Results New York 5, Baltimore 0. Washington 7, Boston 4. Detroit 4, Chicago 0. Kansas City at Cleveland, postponed, rain. Today’s Games Detroit at Chicago, 2, twi-night. Washington at New York, night. Kansas City at Cleveland, night. Boston at Baltimore, night. | Today's Sport Parade | — J 4— (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) By OSCAR FRALEY United Press International NEW YORK (UPI) — There is something humorous, on the surface, when the nation’s football coaches take their seats at the wailing wall even before the season opens. Like in the case of Ralph Jordan of Auburn, whose teams haven't tasted defeat in two years. “I doubt seriously,” he says, “if we will be much improved over the past two years.” Funny? Not at all. Nor is it to such as lowa’s Forest Evashevski, whose team last year copped the Big Ten and the Rose Bowl, when he time out they will be ‘ju&y* ’ to win half their games* 1 * Nr in Racking, 1 nothingTnattets as little as the games which were won 1-a-s-t year. Joe Stydahar found that out in 1962, one year after winning the National Football League title. He dropped three exhibition games and the season opener—and was canned. Coaching A Demanding Business When they wave that pre-season crying towel it is known in the trade as preparing the “alumni alibi.” It has a two-fold purpose. If the coach, after much moaning, comes up with a winner 1 he is accepted as a genius. If he has ,a losing season, the fans have been pre-warned and the bowls of the alumni, wolves aren’t quite so raucous. For football coaching is a tremendously demanding business. It is not uncommon for a losing coach to be hanged in effigy ana for his entire family to be hounded and insulted. Being summarily fired is the least of his torment. Frankie Albert summed it up best when he resigned last December as coach of the San Francisco Forty-Niners. Albert withstood the physical and emotional strain but “couldn’t stand it when the fans started picking on my family.” Lasted Four Years Football coaches, on the whqle, make more stops than ball players. One such was Wes Fesler, who bod been an outstanding athlete at Ohio State and coached at Connecticut Wesleyan, Harvard, Princeton and Pitt before being handed the head coaching reins at his alma mater. Fesler lasted four years. He led the Buckeyes to the Big Ten crown in 1950 and on to Rose Bowl triumph. But the alumni really bounced him against the wall a year later when he won "wily” six of nine games. Fesler resigned on the grounds that “my health won’t stand the strain of trying to win every game.” Dale Hall, taking over an Army team ranked third nationally last year and rated even stronger this season, faces his debut with cautious optimism. He explains that “circumstances change the results of games and campaigns.” That’s soldier talk but any football coach will tell you that he’s always under even the - Rbman Colosseum had nothing on this. a

'* 50-yard Line Flashes By JACK HELLER Hello there. We’re back again, ready for another football season. And from the looks of the team in the jamboree last night, several of the boys are ready, too. Overall, the Jackets performance was quite encouraging to the fans who braved the weather and made the trip to Huntington. There are several rough spots, as can be expected this early in the season. Also, as is true every year, coaches Worthman and Leitz had to do a lot of rebuilding. The timing is hot what it is hoped to be later in the year. The offense looked bettre oft the single-wing than the T. The line was surprisingly scrappy. Despite the lack of size, the Jacket front boys did pretty well, particularly on defense. They need some work on offensive blocking, but that will come. For those fans who like to watch a defensive unit work, the Jackets will give them a show. Led by Jim (Crunch) Gay, the boys put on a good tackling exhibition. Gay is as good a linebacker as we’ve seen in many years. He has the knack of being where the ball is. Terry Snyder, Mike Drake and Tom Sharp plugged up the center of the line well. Stu Knodel handled one defensive end, while Larry Butler, a linebacker last year, 'looked real sharp at the other. This looks like a team that could be from fair to good, depending on how bad they want to play. They'll get a good test at Penn Friday. Penn blasted Kendallville Tuesday night, and scored three times on passes. The Jacket seconary will have to be alert. The Jackets found out that they .can play against a big team. If they can get the offense a little more consistent, and keep a lot of enthusiasm, they can really go. If -not, it’ll bte another usual Decatur season. Jim Reidenbach handled the quarterbacking real well, and made some nice runs from the halfback position. John Cowan shook loose for a 20-yard run against Hartford City, and did some nice weaving. Two backfield regulars, Mike Thieme and E. Nelson, were unable to dress because of injuries. It's not certain whether they will be able to plqy, against Penn. Ron August, an-early season qi/estion mark at center, handled himself and the ball like a veteran. Jay DeVoss showed that he may be what every cotth likes. A dependable) fifth bvjfield man that can fs'in underpressure and do the job. As is always the situation in ■ Decatur, the season is a matter l

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D.S. Continues Domination Os Pan Am Games CHICAGO (UPI) — The United States still was racking them up in the Pan American Games today. Thirty-nine gold medals have been decided, and U. S. athletes have picked up 33 of them. The runner-up, Cuba, has won two. Another was won for the West Indies Federation by a U. S. college athlete. Tuesday seven of the nine medals went to U. S. competitors, six of them winning with a record performance. Berta Diaz of Cuba upset record-setter Barbara Mueller, Chicago, in the 80 meter women’s hurdles, and George Kerr, a University of Illinois runner, broke the tape in the 400 meter run ahead of two West Indies teammates, Basil Ince, of Tufts College, and Mai Spence, of Arizona State In the two championships the U.S. lost U. S. performers swept all three medals in the men’s shot put and women’s broad jump. Parry O’Brien, Los Angeles, cracked the Pan American record in the shot put and fell only 8% inches short of his world record to lead Dallas Long, Phoenix, Ariz., and David Davis, Canoga Park, Calif. Anne Sipith, Atlanta, Ga., topped teammatps Margaret Matthew's, Memphis, Tenn., and Willie White, Greenwood, Miss., in the broad jump. All six U. S. athletes broke the previous Pan American recard. Lucinda Williams, Nashville, Tenn., became the U.S.’ third double medal winner, adding the 200 meter dash to her 100 meter dash title with a record performance, and Phil Coleman, Champaign, 111., outlasted Decaon Jones, Boystown, Neb., to beat Alfredo Tinoco of Mexico in the 3,000 meter steeplechase in record time. Ann Flynn, Irvington, N.J., won the high jump. of spunk. The Jackets will have the same number of boys on the field as the other teams (if the substitutes get in on time). From now on, it’s up to them. Judging from past seasons’ performances and desire, this club will do well to win three games against a stiff schedule. Going out on a limb, 1 that wiik be our guess. We also ’ hope thikyear's craw will cause us to eat a little crow—-but they’ll , have to work. Teams in years past r have looked good early, only to fold later.

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