Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 259, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1961 — Page 7

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Michigan State And Minnesota In Top Clash , CHICAGO (UPI) — The Big Ten’s “big one,” as well as the nation's top glamor game, was scheduled Saturday for Minneapolis where first-ranked Michigan State meets conference co-leader Minnesota. It was a showdown match for the contenders, who are locked in a three-way tie with Ohio State for the league lead, and a “must” game for the Spartans if they seek to remain atop the national coaches' poll. The Spartans, undefeated in five starts, including three in the Big Ten, were 7-point favorites over the lOth-ranked Gophers who also are 3-0 in league plays. The Spartans ran over Indiana 35-0 last weekend to mark their third Big Ten shutout. Earlier, they defeated Wisconsin 20-0, and Michigan, 28-0. The Gophers stumbled over Missouri on opening day, losing 6-0, but they have picked up steam as the season progressed with victories over Northwestern, Illinois and Michigan. Ohio State, the Big Ten’s offensive pace-setter, is host to lowa, which departed the elite company of league leaders with last week’s surprise loss to Purdue. The Buckeyes were favored by 3 points. Northwestern, still aglow over its Notre Dame victory, entertains Indiana, and the Wildcats were a 15-point choice over the Hoosiers. In the only other conference game, Purdue goes to Illinois. Wisconsin was not scheduled, and Michigan hosts Duke in a nonconference tilt. Today's Sport Parade (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) By OSCAR FRALEY United Press International NEW YORK (UPI) — At the risk of beating a dead horse, Ohio State and Michigan State were disclosed today as having taken precautionary steps for more than a year against lethal football equipment which this year has contributed to 26 football deaths. Some manufacturers have contended that the equipment in use today is “safer than ever.” And the National Collegiate Athletic Association Equipment Committee laggardly took another year to investigate the protective qual-

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Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Friday Monmouth at Adams Central. Pleasant Mills at Hartford. - Assistant Manager Os Athletics Quits KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)— The unexpected resignation of Asst. General Manager Bill Bergesch today left the Kansas City Athletics devoid of experienced baseball men in the front office. Bergesch, who has devoted 15 years to the game, quit his job here Thursday to become director of the New York Mets’ farm system. His departure to the new National League club dropped the operation of the entire Athletics’ organization into the hands of owner Charles O. Finley and General Manager Pat Friday, a pair of insurance executives with no background in baseball. Bergesch, 38, was the last survivor of an experienced five-man front office staff Finley employed when he purchased the American League club last December. The owner said their job was to build the Athletics, who had finished last the previous year, into a pennant contender. But before the halfway mark last season, Finley had fired three of the five—including General Manager Frank Lane and field manager Joe Gordon. The fourth, player personnel director George Selkirk, quit during the season. Finley named Friday general manager to replace Lane, and Bergesch assumed the duties of Selkirk and ousted farm director Hank Peters. Neither Selkirk nor Peters was replaced.

ities of equipment. Impatient with this deadly inactivity, Woody Hayes of Ohio State and Duffy Daugherty of Michigan I State deserve commendation for going ahead with their own protective improvements. “The armament race isn’t confined to nations,” asserted Dr. James Feurig, team physician at Michigan State. “We have it in football. In trying to give the player the maximum amount, of protection, we now have reached the point where we are seriously endangering his opponent.” Heed Warnings Jim Schlemmer of the Akron Beacon Journal, one of the first to publicize the equipment danger, forwards this note. “Dr. Richard Schneider, neurosurgeon at the University of Michigan, created quite a stir last May when he told the Wisconsin Medical Association that the plastic helmet and its face guard were to blame for 14 of the 18 deaths in 1959. One player was killed when his own helmet snapped back against the base of his brain.” Hayes and Daugherty heeded these warnings. As long as a year ago, Hayes and trainer Ernie Biggs of Ohio State applied a two-inch strip of foam rubber from front to back ion the outside of the helmets their team used, thus cushioning the shock for both wearer and opponent. Daugherty this fall added special foam rubber pads which cover the sharp rim at the back of the neck. Daugherty also suggests that the face guards project too far and proposes that the “cage should be flatter against the faoe.” “Gains Terrific Leverage” “These face guards they have added extend so far in front that when an opponent strikes one with his open hand he gains terrific leverage," Daugherty an ayzes. "The head is tilted back to a dangerous angle and the rim of the helmet depresses the neck to the point where severe damage is done. Already this fall we've had one boy in the hospital after he came out of a similar situation dizzy and dazed.- — r — Dr. Feurig also protests sanc-

225 Reservations For Grid Banquet

Two hundred and twenty five reservations have already been made for the annual Booster Club football banquet to be held Tuesday, Nov. 7, according to Norman Steury club president. Each member of the club received a card requesting that he return the card, advising whether or not he would attend, and if he would be accompanied by his wife or date. As of 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon, more than 180 reservations had been returned, with more still to come. Michales Speaker Featured speaker for the affair will be Walter Michaels, ace linebacker of the Cleveland Browns. Michaels is scheduled to arrive at Baer Field shortly before 5 o’clock, the evening of the banquet, and will return by plane to Cleveland following the meeting. The Booster club annually sponsors the football banquet in honor of the Decatur high school football team of that season, and the team members will be guests of the club at the banquet, as will

Eagles, Bears Battle Sunday In Pro Feature By NORMAN MILLER United Press International Sooner or later, Sonny Jurgen- ( sen and his fine pass-catchers are bound to run into a ganged-up aerial defense, so don't be surprised if the Philadelphia Eagles spring their latent running game against the Chicago Bears Sunday. The Eagles were favored by 3 points in this National Football League game-of-the-week at Philadelphia. This is the first clash between these two teams since 1955. Os the 15 games previously played between them, the Eagles have won only once. Although the Eagles have three excellent running backs in Clarence Peaks, Billy Barnes and Ted Dean, they have preferred the aerial route of Jurgensen to Tommy McDonald, Bobby' Walston and Pete Retzlaff for their touchdown drives. To Stress Running Statistically, the Eagles have gone through the air for 68.7 of their yardage. In edging the Washington Redskins last weekend, they gained 436 yards by passing and had a rushing deficit of 12 yards. This, NFL buffs agree, cannot go on forever. And Coach Nick Skorich of Philadelphia is fully aware of the situation. “Our running game was allowed to deteriorate for several seasons and it takes time to reestablish it,” Skorich explains. “We have to reeducate the backs to throw those crashing blocks for one another. I will continue to stress running in practice and I’m sure it will be there when we need it.” And Sunday could be the day when they’ll need it. Bears Improving The Bears, according to Coach George Halas, “are improving with every game.” They have won their last four games after tioned protection for forearms and hands. “I can put a legal handwrap on a boy, or give him a forearm fibre board guard covered with foam rubber that is admitted to the game but is highly dangerous,” he explains. “It’s like arming them with two-by-fours. They carry clubs in there and some places, I’m sorry to say, they aren't too particular about the limit they go to in giving them these wraps.” Schlemmer makes a very noteworthy suggestion when he points out that rugby and soccer football, two rugged sports, are played with few protective devices. He questions whether the answer lies in less armor and more bare flesh. Whatever the answer, and there must be one, something must be done quickly before football faces institutional or even legislative bans. Twenty-six deaths, with the season little more than half over, is a disgraceful toll.

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the coaching staff. The complete tabulation of reservations was to be made at the Youth and Community Center today. The banquet is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p. m. Jack Helle* of the Decatur Dally Democrat will be the emcee for the festivities. Largest Attendance With the number of reservations already in, the banquet will be the largest-attended in its five year history, this being the fifth year. With the closing of membership sales Thursday evening, the Booster Club was over last year's total membership of 138. This year’s membership will total around 150, which was the goal set before the drive started. A complete tabulation has not been made as yet, but the figure will be around the 150 mark, the largest in the history of the club. Michaels and the Browns will meet the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday, and fans wishing to see the Brown star in action before the banquet, may tune in channel 33, Fort Wayne. &

a discouraging season start and are only a game behind the firstplace Green Bay Packers in the Western Division. Quarterback Billy Wade, obtained in an off-season trade with the Los Angeles Rams, has keynoted the Bears’ rapid rise. An in-and-outer until he won the job a few games ago, Wade now ranks as the league’s fifth leading passer with a 53.3 completion percentage and 10 touchdowns. “The Bears are a three-second team,” Jurgensen commented. “You have three seconds to get the ball away and run for your life, or be smothered under Bear jerseys.” Here is the “line” on Sunday’s other NFL games: 49’ers Over Detroit San Francisco Forty-Niners 4 points over Detroit Lions at San Francisco; Green .Bay Packers 6 over Colts at Baltimore; Cleveland Browns 10 over Pittsburgh Steelers at Cleveland: New York Giants 14 at home over Washington Redskins; St. Louis Cardinals 1 at home over the Dallas Cowboys, and the Los Angeles Rams 9 over the Minnesota Vikings on the West Coast. In the American Football League, it was the Boston Patriots by 3 over the Dalas Texans in a Friday night game at Boston, while on Sunday, the unbeaten San Diego Chargers were 17 at home over the New York Titans; the Buffalo Bills were 11 at home over the Oakland Raiders, and the Houston Oilers 10 over the Broncos at Denver. High School Football Hammond Morton 66, Gary Tolleston 0. Gary Mann 47, Gary Froebel 20. Indianapolis Cathedral 28, Indianapolis Scecina 7. Pro Basketball ABL Results Washington 65, Chicago 64.

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Three Os Top College Teams Facing Battles By FRED DOWN United Press International Miami is a 13-point favorite to defeat Georgia in the Orange Bowl tonight in a game that marks the start of a weekend schedule in which three of the country’s top five teams take on formidable opponents. A crowd of about 45,000 is expected despite threatening weather at Miami, Fla., in the most important game of a light Friday night program. ■ Each team reached the ,500-mark last week —Miami with a 10-0 victory over North Carolina and Georgia with a 16-15 win over Kentucky. Quarterback Duel The game pits two of the country’s most talented sophomore quarterbacks against each other in Miami’s George Mira and Georgia’s Larry Rakestraw. Mira has thrown a touchdown pass in four of Miami’s six games this season, while Rakestraw blossomed into a dangerous passer in the last few games after playing defense in Georgia’s early contests. With the Friday night game, out of the way. the decks will be cleared Saturday for three big games that could have important repercussions in the national rankings. These send unbeaten Michigan State, the nation’s top-ranked team, against once-beaten, 10thranked Minnesota; second-ranked Mississippi against seventhranked Louisiana State and fifthranked Ohio State against ninthranked lowa. MSU Over Minnesota Michigan State is favored by seven points over Minnesota (4-1), Mississippi is a six-point choice over LSU (5-1), and Ohio State (4-0-1) is a three-point pick over lowa (4-1). Michigan State is putting its five-game winning streak on the line while Mississippi is placing its perfect 6-0 slate in jeopardy. Texas, the country’s thirdranked power, is a 22-point favorite over Southern Methodist, fourth-ranked Alabama is a 14point choice over Mississippi State, sixth-ranked Georgia Tech is a 13-point pick over Florida and eighth-ranked Colorado is fated even with Missouri, in other games involving the top 10. Here’s how the other big games are rated: East — Dartmouth 2 over Yale; Columbia 5 over Cornell; Syracuse 7 over Pittsburgh. South— Tennessee 3 over North Carolina; Kentucky 13 over Florida State; Clemson 14 over Tulane; Auburn 17 over Wake For-i est. "V Midwest — Notre Dame. 8 over Navy; Michigan 9 over Duke; Oklahoma 9 over Kansas State; Kansas 12 over Nebraska; Pur-

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BOWLING Suburban League W L Pts. Lutes Flowers —— 15 6 21 Sherwin-Williams - 14 7 19 VFW Auxiliary .. 13 8 17 Srnith Dairy 12 9 15 Hammand s Market 9 12 13 Citizens Telephone 9 12 12 Gerber’s Market.. 6 15 10 Cassandra's 7 14 7 High games; J. Reidenbach 150, J. Hesher 145, V. Merriman 164, M. Lovellette 163, E. Peters 168, S. Keller 151, J. Hakes 151, F. McCormick 145, K. Young 160. Splits converted: P. Morgan 510, J. Erhart 1-4-5, L Hutker 5-8-10, M. Lovelette 4-5, Smith 1-5-6. County Church League W L Pts. St. Luke E & R No. 12 20 7 28 Monroe Methodist N 0.7 19 8 26 Mennonite No. 6 18 9 24 Decatur Christian ... 18 9 24 Monroe Methodist No. 14 ..... 18 9 23 Decatur Methodist ... 17 10 23 Mennonite No. 16 .... 17 10 23 Berne Cross E & R .. 14 13 19 St. Luke E & R No. 15 15 12 18 Pleasant Dale ......1. 12 15 16 Pl. Mills Methodist .. 11 16 14 Geneva E. U. B. ...... 911 14 Monroe Methodist No.B 918 12 St'. Paul Missionary.. 10 17 13 Church of Christ 621 8 High team series: Mennonite No. 6, 1958, Mennonite No. 16, 1878; Decatur Christian, 1850; St. Luke E & R No. 15, 1840. High team games: Monroe Methodist No. 14 690, Mennonite No. 16 676, Mennonite No. 6 641. High series: Bill Emick 562, Howard Nussbaum 555, Everett Parks 552, Roy Stucky 545. High games: Roy Stucky 216, Howard Nussbaum 214, Jim Steiner 201, Bill Emick 210. Hockey Results National League Boston 5, Montreal 2. Detroit 1, New York 0. International League »• Omaha 6, Indianapolis 2. due 14 over Illinois; Northwestern 15 over Indiana. Southwest — Baylor 3 over Texas Christian; Arkansas 6 over Texas A&M; Rice 7 over Texas Tech. Far West—Oregon 3 over Stanford; Washington 6 over Southern California; UCLA 12 over California.h

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Back Rests Here For Season Ticket Holders Hugh J. Andrews, Decatur high schobl principal, announced this morning that back rests for season ticket holders may be reserved, when the fans pick up their season tickets. The back rests will be rented at a cost of $1.25 for the ten home games, and should be paid for when picking up a season ticket, as they will be set up before each game. Andrews also explained that the cost of season tickets is $6 each for adults, not $5.50 as printed on cards mailed recently to last year’s season ticket holders. The $6 for the ten home games this season, is priced for quite a savings, Andrews stated. Fort Wayne Komets Seeking Second Win The Bort Wayne Komets go | after their second win of the still-young IHL hockey season tonight, when they travel to Toledo to meet the Mercurys, the only team they have beaten in five starts thus . far. The Komets will i eturn home Saturday evening, when they entertain the Muskegon Zephyrs at the Memorial Coliseum, beginning | at 8:15 p.m. They wrap up the weekend, traveling to Muskegon for a Sunday encounter. Order Houston Club To Pay $200,000 NEW YORK (UPD — The new Houston club of the National League was ordered today to pay the American Association $200,000 for the privilege of taking over the Texas territory. A baseball arbitration board, headed by Commissioner Ford Frick, arrived at the figure after the Houston club of the American Association demanded $500,000 for surrendering its franchise to the new major league team. Von Clay Substitute In Television Fight LOS ANGELES (UPD — Philadelphia light - heavyweight Von ! I Clay, ranked among the top ten lin his division, today hoped to capitalize on the break which found him substituting for Alejandro Lavorante in Saturday’s nationally televised fight against I Billy Hunter. Clay and his manager Tony!

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Graziano were contacted Thursday after Lavorante, Argentina’s latest heavyweight sensation, had to cancel out of the Saturday bout because of a cut lip. Los Angeles Angels Sign Two Scouts LOS ANGELES (UPD — The Los Angeles Angels of the American League have announced the signings of scouts Nick Kamzic and Walter (Doc) Gaurtreau. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

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