Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 265, Decatur, Adams County, 9 November 1964 — Page 7
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 1984
Colts, Browns Continue To Win
By FRED DOWN UPI Sports Writer It’s time for the other National Football League teams to admit they’re licked when Johnny Unitas stars as a runner for the Baltimore Colts and Jimmy Brown throws a touchdown pass for the Cleveland Browns. Unitas, who didn’t score a tounchdown during the entire 1963 season, ran 11 yards for a key fourth-period touchdown Sunday as the Colts downed the Chicago Bears, 40-24, for a club record eighth straight victory. Brown, who hadn’t completed a pass since the 1962 season, hit Gary Collins with a 13-yard touchdown pass to help the Browns to a 34-24 victory over the Washington Redskins. As a result of the triumphs, the Colts lead the Western Division by 2% games and the Brown! hold a two-game lead in the Eastern Division. The peerless passer and the intrepid runner also starred in their specialties — Unitas completing 16 of 32 passes for 241 yards and Brown gaining 121 yards on 18 carries. Lenny Moore co-starred with Unitas, scoring a touchdown in a recCeltics, The Stilt Keeping Reputations By United Press International The Boston Celtics and “Wiltlesa” Wilt Chamberlain are maintaining tjieir reputations as two of the toughest opponents in the National Basketball Association. The perennial world champion Celts beat back a hectic Cincinnati rally in the final period Sunday night to edge the Royals, 106-103, and the “very tired” Chamberlain scored 41 points to spark the San Francisco Warriors to a 130-121 win over the New York Knicks. Boston held a 26-point lead going into the final quarter and appeared to be breezing to its 10th victory without defeat. But the Royals battled back to within two points with 11 seconds remaining and forced the Celtics to sweat a little. • • <• Jerry Lucas led the scoring with 37 points for the Royals, who are playing without their No. 1 scorer, Oscar Robertson. Sam Jones was top for the Celts with 26. Chatnberlain,' f who is still plahing his way back - into shape after being sidelined by a stomach ailment, got a helping hand in the scoring department from Al Attles, with 32 points. But Wilt had a battle for high scoring honors with Willis Reed of the Knicks, who hit 38.
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ord 12th consecutive game, and Frank Ryan shared laurels with Brown via a 62-yard scoring play with Paul Warfield. Cards Keep Face The second-place St. Louis Cardinals kept pace with the Browns in the East by defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers, 34-30, but the Detroit Lions* Western Division hopes suffered a severe setback in a 30-7 loss to the Green Bay Packers. The defeat dropped the Lions into a second-place tie with the Los Angeles Rams, who beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 20-10. The Minnesota Vikings defeated the San Francisco FortyNiners, 24-7, and the Dallas Cowboys topped the New York Giants, 31-21, in other games. The seven-game crowd total was 352,281 with 47,891 at Chicago, 76,385 at Cleveland, 28,245 at St. Louis, 53,994 at Los Angeles, 42,327 at Green Bay, 40,408 at Minnesota and 63,031 at New York. Moore’s two-yard touchdown plunge and three of four field goals by Lou Michaels enabled the Colts to build a 16-3 lead at halftime. Rudy Bukich threw touchdown passes of four, nine and 32 yards for the Bears in the second half but the Colts countered with three touchdowns of their own including Unitas’ 11-yard payoff run after he was trapped trying to pass. The Colts ran up 479 yards rushing and passing against a Bear team eager to avenge an early-season 52-0 shellacking by Baltimore. Brown Scores Brown plunged two yards for a touchdown in addition to his scoring pass, Ernie Green ran 21 yards for a touchdown and Lou Groza kicked two field goals for the Browns, who led, 27-10, after three periods. Sonny Jurgensen starred for the Redskins with two 14-yard touchdown passes to Bobby Mitchell and a 10-yard scoring aerial to Charlie Taylor. Charlie' Johnson’s passes gained 237 yards and produced two touchdowns for the Cardinals but the Steelers threatened to pull out the game when they moved to the St. Louis 24 with 39 seconds left. Pat Fischer’s interception saved the victory for St. Louis. Bill Nelsen threw
Appears Berra May Accept Mels' Offer MONTCLAIR, N.J. (UPI) — Yogi Berra’s silence may be telling the baseball world today what it wants to know. Asked to comment on a report that he will join the New York Mets as a player-coach next season, the deposed New York Yankee manager said, “there’s nothing I can say about that story now.” Berra admitted his Yankee contract contains a clause permitting him to accept another job but added, “as of now, though, I’m still a member of the Yankees.” Reports that Berra may become a member of the Mets have been circulating since the former all;time great catcher was dropped as manager of the Yankees after the World Series. Berra has refused to confirm the reports but hasn’t denied them either. 'Die latest report says that Berra has been offered $40,000 by the Mets — $5,000 more than he made last year as manager of the Yankees.
two touchdown passes for the Steelers. The Rams played • ball control game and ground out 281 yards rushing in a victory that moved them into a second-place tie with the Lions. Big plays in two of the Bams’ scoring drives were 48 and 31-yard passes from Bill Munson to Bucky Pope. Ollie Matson scored the Eagles’ touchdown on a 24-yard pass from King Hill. - ', Taylor Stars Jim Taylor scored on runs of one and 84 yards and gained 145 yards on 19 carries and Paul Hornung kicked field goals of 40, 19 and 34 yards for the Packers, who held the Lions to 50 yards rushing. The Lions didn’t score their touchdown until the fourth period when Milt Plum passed 23 yards to Gail
Final NEIC Records, Scoring Are Listed
A final tabulation of ~ Northeastern Indiana Conference football action shows New Haven won the title, but Decatur won the most games, and Terry Habig won the scoring crown, but Max Elliott scored the most touchdowns. All NEIC teams concluded action last week as three non-con-ference games were slated. League action was finished the previous week. A final count of the records shows that New Haven, which dropped a 14-7 decision to Bishop Luers last Friday, won the championship with a perfect 5-0-0 record. The Bulldogs won the title last season, also without a defeat The Decatur Yellow Jackets, who set a new school record for victories in a season, finished in the runner-up spot) with a 7-1 slate, losing only to New Haven. Die Jackets won more confe,’ence games than any other eleven, and also had the best overall record of any of the 10 league members, 8-1. Auburn's Red Devils concluded in the third spot in the standings, winning five of six league encounters. The Devils lost only to Decatur. Outside Records The 10 conference teams posted a nine win, 14 loss record in contests involving non-conference foes. . Kendallville was the only elev? en that did not win a conference game, as every other team, with the exception of Angola, won at least two league games. The high-scoring Auburn team was the circuit’s top Scoring team, including both NEIC and' non-league games, as they racked up 282 points in 10 contests for an average of slightly more than 28 per contest. The Devils werfe shut out fay Defiance, 0., 6-0, last week. New Haven and Bluffton Mso scored more than 200 points, garnering 207 and 203 tallies respectively. The Jackets totaled 194 points in nine games. Auburn had the best defensive record in all games, allowing just 66 points in their 10 games. New Haven and Garrett gave up 81 points each in their eight games, and the Yellow Jackets allowed just 83. Habig Top Scorer Auburn’s all-around end Terry Habig won the individual scoring title, with an accumulation of 75 points on nine touchdowns, 18 ex-tra-point conversions and one field goal, according to unofficial totals. Yellow Jacket halfback Max Elliott, AU-NEIC last season, scored the most touchdowns, 10, and was runner-up to Habig in the
A CHAMPION Wants to see you JIMMY CARAS .... BRUNSWICK ADVISORY STAR to appear Saturday, November 14 Golden ‘Q’ 232 W. MADISON ST. DECATUR, IND. — —.... > Jimmy Caraa-naUonally known • Free Billiard champion pocket billiards arid Instruction. "Xi" • WartTi Fa<ta« BlUl.nl • Billiard Game SJ-’S "X“““ ~ Exhibition Match • .ainui iuouitaui rwkn BUMards Championship , (1962 IM3) between Caras and • Co-hoider with Willie Mosconi Charles Stonestreet >■ of world’s record Hffh ran of of Decatur, Ind. ™ d « 1n * tournament play in IM7. EVERYBODY’S INVITED! SEE THE CHAMP . , . FREE BILLIARD INSTRUCTIONS FROM A CHAMPION BRUNSWICK STAR BILLIARD PLAYER. Golden 4 Q’ 232 W. Madison St. - (FORMERLY KLENK'6 BUILDING) Decatur's Newest and Finest Fcimily Iliffp<| Rbmnvbl
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Cogdill. Bart Starr completed 14 of 20 passes for M7 yank for the Packers. Frank Tarfcenton threw three touchdown passes to lead the Vikings to a 24-8 halftime load and hand the Forty-Niners their seventh lose i* nine games. Tarkenton had 17 completions in 25 tries for’234 yards while John Brodie connected on only eight of 26 tor 102 yards for San Francisco. Don Meredith threw touchdown passes of 14 and eight yards to Frank Clarke and one of 48 yards to Tommy McDonald to pace the Cowboys to their victory over the Giants. Veterans Y.A. Tittie and Frank Gifford teamed up for scoring pass plays of 40 and six yards 'tor the Giants, whose 1964 record dropped to 2-6-1.
scoring race with 65 points. Habig’s margin came on the efforts of his talented toe on points-after-touchdowns. Bill Blythe of Decatur finished 10th in the scoring race with 30 points, gained on five touchdowns, while Dave Anspaugh was 14th and Sam Blythe was 15th in the individual scoring. TD PAT TP Habig, Aub. 9 21* 75 Elliott, Decatar 10 5 65 Baker, Elm, 8 5 53 Lewis, Gar. 71 43 Carnes, N.H. 4 19 43 T. Cook, Col. City 6 2 38 Mahnensmith, Bluff. 6 0 36 Rohrbacker, N.H. 6 0 36 Pressler, Cone. 5 1 31 B. Blythe, Decatar 5 0 30 Steward, Garrett 5 0 30 Bailey, Aubn. 5 0 30 Dew, N. Haven 5 0 30 Anspaugh, Decatur 3 10 28 S. Blythe, Decatur 4 2 26 Myers, Auburn 4 0 24 Bowman, Bluff. 4 0 24 Lake, N. Haven 4 0 24 Hosier, N. Haven 4 0 24 Powets, Angola 3 5 23 Ehr mat), Cone. 3 2 .30 Final Standings NEIC ALL Pts. Opp. New Haven 5-0-0 5-2-1 207 81 DECATUR 7-1-0 8-1-0 194 66 Aulßirn 5-1-0 7-3-0 282 66 Qariatt 88 Bluffton 8-3-0 6-3-0 200 117 Col. City 2-3-4) 2-7-0 117 211 Elmhurst 2-3-1 3-64 143 202 Concordia 2-3-2 2-5-2 104 189 Angola 1-6-1 2-6-1 70 165 Kendallville 0-8-0 0-9-0 42 239 Flags Whip Komets; Take Over Top Spot The Fort Wayne Komets lost their International Hockey League lead over the weekend to the Flags of Port Huron. , The Flags whipped the Komets by a 7-2 score Saturday night at the Coliseum, administering the Fort Wayne sextet’s first defeat. The Flags then tripped Des Moines by a 4-2 score Sunday night to take over the league lead with a 4-1 record. Fort Wayne, Toledo and Des Moines are all tied for second spot, each with six points. Bill LeCaine tallied the "hat trick” Saturday night in pacing the Flags to their victory. Len Thornson, returning to action after being out with a leg injury, scored both Fort Wayne goals. The Komets entertain Muskegon Wednesday night, at 7:30 p.m. Werle Changes Jobs CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (UPI) —Bill Werle, 42, who managed the Fresno Giants of the California League last season, will
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N. Y. Jots Attract AR Record Crowd NEW YORK (UPI) - New York proved Sunday ft can support two pro football teams. The Jets drew a record American Football League crowd of 80,300 •t Shea Stadium and 4BAM fans watched the Giants play the Dallas Cowboys at Yankee Stadium. Jets’ owner Sonny Werblin refused to gloat over the attendance prestige his AFL club attained in the first head-on meeting with its National Football League rivals. “I wish both of us tack,” “I have never regarded ourselves as being in competition with the Giants . . . the more people interested in pro football the better it is for both of us.” The National League drew a total of 352,281 in its seven Sunday games. The day’s top attendance figure was the 76,385 recorded for the Washington Redskins - Browns game at Cleveland. The American League’s three games were witnessed by 100,993 fans. Professional Grid Leagues Ngtlunnl Football League TBy United Preaa International Lantern Dtvialon W. L. T. Pci. PF PA Cleveland 71 1 .875 248 172 St. Louis 5 3 1 .625 224 235 Dallas 4 4 1 .500 168 161 Phila 4 5 0 .444 200 173 Wash 3 6 0 .383 189 209 Pittsburgh 3 6 0 .383 161 223 New York 2 6 1 .250 152 237 Weatern Divtalon W. L. T. Pct. PF PA Baltimore 8 1 0 .889 314 153 Detroit 5 3 1 .625 157 152 Los Angeles 5 3 1 .625 208 195 Green Bay 5 4 0 .566 214 152 Minnesota 5 4 0 .566 213 208 San Fran 2 7 0 .222 153 248 Chicago 2 7 0 .222 159 252 Sunday's Reaulta Dallas 31 New York 21 Cleveland 34 Washington 24 Baltimore 40 Chicago 24 Green Bay SO Detroit 7 St. Louis 34 Pittsburgh 30 Minnesota 24 San Francisco 7 Los Angeles 20 Philadelphia 10 Sunday's Games Chicago at Lon Angeles Detroit at Cleveland Green Bay at Ban Francisco Minnesota at Baltimore New York at St. Louis Philadelphia at Dallas Washington at Pittsburgh American Football League By United Press International Bastern Division W. L. T. Pct. PF PA Buffalo 9 0 4 1.000 278 173 .■ Boston 6 8 1 .750 278 197 York 4j I .Ml 188 151 .. 1 2197 2U Diego " t 1.760 225 186 . Kansas City 4 4 0 .600i21U88 Oakland 17 1 .125 191 261 Denver 1 8 0 .111 159 326 Sunday's Reaulta Buffalo 20 New York 7 Kansas City 42 Oakland 7 San Diego 81 Denver 20 (Only games scheduled) Sunday’s Games Boston at Buffalo _ New York at Denver San Diego at Kansas City Houston at Oakland IHL Standings W L T Pts. Port Huron 4 10 8 Fort Wayne 3 10 6 Toledo 3 2 0 6 Des Moines 3 4 0 6 Muskegon 2 3 0 $ Dayton 15 0$ Sunday Results Port Huron 4, Des Moines 2. Toledo 3, Dayton 2. Confers On Bowl Bid SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (UPI)— Coach Bill Edwards of the undefeated Wittenberg Tigers plans to speak to his team today about the prospects of excepting a possible post-season NCAA tournament invitation. The Tigers are the nation’s No. 1 small college football team. manage Tacoma of the Pacific Coast League next year.
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Saturday Mabitian: Billiard Star At Golden ‘Q*
Jimmy Cara*. A)Mr4inxe World's Pocket Billiard champion, will make two appearances Saturday at Decatur's new billiard parlor, the Golden Q Car** wiU apear *t 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon an again at 8 o'clock in the evening in a bil>» hard exhibition at the new Golden Q, which is located at 232 W. Madison street. The Brunswick billiard expert will first demonstrate billiard fundamentals. and will then battle Charles (Chuck) Stonestreet of Decatur in an exhibition match. He will conclude both performances with an exhibition demonstration of hirs famous skill and trick shots. Following the exhibition, Caras will give personal instruction to those who request it. Boy Wonder At the tender age of 17, Caras earned the title of “Boy Wonder of the Billiard World” by defeating Ralph Greenleaf in an exhibition match in 1927. At the time, Greenleaf was the world billiard champion. In 1936, Caras won the pocket billiards championship of the world, repeating the effort in 1938, 1939 and 1949. He and fellow Brunswick star Wille Mosconi share the world's record high run of 127. Two movies, which ‘ played in theaters throughout the world, were produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, depicting famous trick shots by Caras and Mosconi. Beats Mosconi On the nationally televised ABC “Wide World of Sports" presentation, Caras beat Mosconi, 125-82, for the 1962 National Invitational Pocket Billiard title, and repeated in 1963 with a 125-26 victory over Mosconi. As a member of the Brunswick advisory staff, Caras is one of over 400 bowling and billiard stars who promote their respective sports throughout exhibition and instruction programs such as the one planned Saturday for the Golden Q. Begins At Five Born December 17, 1910 in Scranton, Pa., Caras now resides in Upper Darby, Pa. He began playing pocket billiards at the age pf five on a miniature table. He launched his colorful career at 17 when he defeated Greenleaf in the exhibition match. Caras became the second youngest player
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to win the world’s title when he defeated Edwin Rudolph at the age of 26 in 1936. He is the author of “Trick and Fancy Shots in Pocket Billiards.’ Owners Adjourn But Set Future Actions PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPI) — Major league club owners scattered to their home cities today after a three-day series of meeting at which the only formal action taken was to bar Milwaukee from moving its franchise until 1966. But the groundwork was laid for a series of actions which will be brought up at the ma-jor-minor league meetings in Houston, Tex., later this month. Looming large among the proposals under consideration was one to restore the power of the commissioner of baseball so that he has the authority that originally was vested in the first commissioner, the late Judge Kenesaw Mountain Land-
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Indiana Football By t'altrd Preu" lateraatioßal COI.I.EGK Notre name 17 Pittsburgh 15 Michigan State 21 Purdue 7 Oregon State 24 Indiana 14 . Butler 48 Evannvllle 21 Indiana State 36 St. Joseph's 8 Valparaiso 21 DePau w 14 Franklin 34 Hanover 7 Earlham 44> Kalamaaoo 12 Roue Poly 13 St. Procopius • Akron 25 Ball State 16 Defiance 33 Anderaon 7 Northwood 12 Taylor 7 Olivet 34 Indiana Central 0 Wilmington 14 Manehenter 13 Whlttenborg 42 Wabash 7 Buchholz Defeated CAIRO (UPI) — Australia’ Rod Laver defeated Earl Buchholtz of St. Louis 6-2, 6-2 in the semi-finals of the Egyptian professional tennis tournament Sunday. is. Commissioner Ford Ftick, who ’retires at the end of the 1965 season, made the announcement that the owners had agreed in principle to his proposal that his successor should have greater power to regulate the sport.
