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SPORTS... By Eddie Ash

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PARACHUTES failed to open for the grid experts over the week-end and their selections on the whole were picked up in pieces by the mop-up squad of second guessers and Monday morning quarterbacks. However, it was a gala week-end for the football customers who were treated to a series of rare fourthquarter thrillers in all sections of’ the nation. ; Garrison finishes featured many of Saturday's major college tilts . and while the outcome of some key games surprised the dopesters, they were not genuine upsets as the term used on the football front.

The real upset probably was the defeat of Fordham by St. Mary's of California, 9-67 and perhaps, Mississippi University’s setBack by

. Arkansas, 21-20. . . . Fordham and Mississippi came up to the week-

end undefeated and untied and were highly regarded in the national picture. , . . But the prognosticators underrated their opponents. This department was caught in the flood of last-quarter uprisings but managed to tah.correctly the week-end’s Big Three, Michigan over Penn, Cornell over Ohio State and Stanford over Southern California. i Ur Selections were made on 55 games. and the record was 32 winners, 18 losses and five games went to no-decision. . . . Week's batting average, .640. =o ; For the season this department's record stacks up, or stares down, in this fashion: Games picked, 291; winners, 207; losers, 66; ties, 18. . . , Batting average over all, .758.

Purdue, Indiana, Lead in ‘Left On Bases’

PURDUE AND INDIANA were long on statisics but short on points Saturday, . . . In other words, “left’ on bases.” . . . Both were victims of fourth-quarter splurges on the part of their opponents. Wisconsin hit a home run on the last pitch to overcome the Boilermakers. . . . Saturday's madness reached a new high in the * Wisconsin section and Saturday's sadness a new low in Purdue rooting circles. Indiana was heading for a major upset when the worm turned in Northwestefn’s favor. .-. . Purdue's strategy will be second-guessed from now until football [is off the sports calendar for another year.

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WHAT struck DePauw Saturday? . .. Well, Evansville, for one thing. . . . The Tigers’ free-scoring machine ran out of gas. . . . Still, "Evansville has only lost one in five, and that to up-and-coming St. Joe. | Where'd Rose Poly get that super power? . .. The Engineers smothered Earlham, , .|. The comparative score system of doping football was just so much trash in that Rose-Earlham tilt. .. . Rose

beat Wabash 9-7, Wabash beat Earlham 3-0. . . . Rose trounced -

Earlham 47-0. L : 3 : Last year Franklin won its final game, after losing its first seven starts. . . . This fall the Franklin gridders have dropped their first

five. | Early Foot Prevails Over Late Foot

BUTLER showed a lot of late foot in St. Louis but Washington's early foot beat the Bulldogs. . . . However, give the Hinkleites credit for their fighting spirit. . . . They refused to surrender until the clock called it quits and the Bears were on the ropes and reeling at the finish. . Wabash invaded the Blue Grass and fought Georgetown College to a scoreless tie. . . . In¢identally, Georgetown met Manchester early in the season and that game also was a scoreless deadlock. Notre Dame will spend the next two weeks engaging Uncle Sam's Soldiers and: Sailors, playing the Army in New York this week, the Navy at Baltimore on Nov. 9... . The Irish kept rolling last week-end and have yet to be called upon to go “all out” to win,

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Entering the November stretch, the 17 Hoosier colleges playing football have played a total of 84 games. . .. Undefeated and untied Notre Dame has five to go, Army, Navy, Iowa, Northwestern and Southern California. . . . Only the Iowa game, on Nov. 16, is at home, Indiana has won one and lost three, four .to go, Ohio State, Michigan State, Wisconsin and Purdue. . . . Only the Michigan State ‘game, Nov. 9, is on the home grounds. Purdue has won one and lost three; four to go, Towa, Fordham, Minnesota and Indiana... . Only the Indiana encounter, Nov. 23, the Hoosier Classic, is at Lafayette. 5 ” 8 = . 8 » »

THE HOMETOWN Butler Bulldogs have won two, tied one and

" lost three, with three to go, DePauw, Ball State and Toledo, all at

the Butler Bowl. This is home-coming week at Butler and the fracas between the Bulldogs and DePauw Tigers gets top billing within the State,

. gince Notre Dame, Indiana and Purdue will travel out of Hoosierdom.

The kickoff will be advanced 30 minutes and bring the rivals together at 1:30. . . . Butler is undefeated in State Conference competition. with two Conference games remaining, DePauw and Ball - State. ... - Manchester also is undefeated in Conference competition,

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Culver Defends + Gridiron Lead |

Times Special : CULVER, Ind, Oct. 28—Culver’s football game with Morgan Park Military Academy next Saturday afternoon will headline the annual home-coming program at the Academy. Alumni fro mover the United States will be entertained from Friday through Sunday. Culver now stands at the top of the Mid-west Prep Conference, undefeated, and a win over Morgan Park will strengthen the Hoosiers’ chances for the first championship in the newly creanized conference. Also on the Saturday afternoon

» athletic program will be cross-

country runs against Morgan Park . and Emerson High Bepodt of Gary. A special garrison parade of the cadet corps, a football dance and a special alumni meeting are included on the program announced by Colonel Allen Elliott, secretary of the alumni association.

Coast Wrestler On Local Card

Opening action on the mat card tomorrow night at the Armory will

pit Jim Coffield, 224, of Kansas

City, against a newcomer, Ted Christie, 227, of Los Angeles. They meet in a one-fall encounter. Matchmaker Lloyd Carter has a promised thriller for his headliner in which “Lord” Lansdowne, the

colorful Briton, faces Stacey Hall,

assistant wrestling mentor at Ohio State University. Both are speedy and skilled and are listed near the top in the light-heavyweight ranks. It is for two falls out of three. Pat Fraley, 225, the former “Black Secret,” engages Ray Villmer, 222, of St. Louis, in the one-fall semiwindup. Ray has t dropped a Fraley is from Lincoln, Neb.

228 Wins the Shoot

Firing a 228 total, a team comof Pratt, Epler, H. Davis, Bakér and Oeftering won yester-pro-amateur skeet shoot at ital City Gur Club,

167s.

Tackle Dies

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28 U. P.).—Jack Tandy, 2l-year-old tackle of. San Francisco State College, died last night of a brain. hemorrhage suffered in Friday night's game with California Poly. Tandy, first collegiate football casualty on the Pacific Coast, never regained con- | sciousness after a third period scrimmage pile-up. He was rushed to a hospital immediately following the injury.

Wins Meet With

Seven Under Par

EMIL MASCIOCCHI, 33-year=-old golf star from the Owentsia

Club of Chicago, shot a T-under-par 64 to set a new course record and capture the Third Annual Greenskeepers® National Golf Championship at the Speedway Golf course yesterday. The old course record for a single round was 65. « Masciocchi shot a par 71 in the morning round for a total score of 135 to finish 16 strokes ahead of his nearest competitor. A field of 33 representing 10 states was entered in the tourney.

| Masciocchi came to the Chicago

club a year ago from Pittsburg, Mass.

8 Under Par Wins At Pleasant Run

Combining for an eight-under-par 65, a team composed of Ernie Stanfill, Earl Hollingsworth, O. Hands and Harry Olds won yesterday's pro-amateur golf tournament at Pleasant Run. . Two teams tied for second with On one were Fred Wuelfing Sr., Fred Wuelfing Jr., Art Hall and Don Warrick, whilq the other was composed of Tommy Vaughn, Sol Center, Francis Schumacher and Louis Johnson.

Purdue Runners Win Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 28.—Capt. Ed Holderman ran the three and a half-mile course in 18:43 to lead

|Purdu’e cross-country team to a 25-

32 victory over Wisconsin in a weekend meet. !

Far From Home HANOVER, Oct. 28.—John Pea-

cock, 200-pound Dartuouth freshaman tackle, is from Honolulu,

National Title

The Old Army Game

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Games This Week—Minnesota at Northwestern, Indiana at Ohio State, Illinois at Wisconsin, Purdue at Iowa.

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor

NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—The Midwest, still agog about the

football spotlight this week with the top game of the nation being played at Evanston, Ill, between Minnesota

‘land Northwestern, both un-|

defeated and untied.

The winner probably will go on to the Western Conference championship ‘and maybe to recognition as national champion. Bill De Correvont, Northwéstern’s ace ball carrier, probably will have recovered

at least-a part of the game. Neither team had a severe test on Saturday. Minnesota brushed aside Iowa, 34 to 6, and Northwestern romped over Indiana, 20 to 7. So both should be ready to go for this all-important game. :

The Old Army Game

Here in~the East the big game will be Notre Dame against Army, not because they are closely matched teams, but because of the long tradition that hovers around

their annual meetings. Notre Dame has three teams probably. all able to defeat Army, but every seat will be taken in Yankee Stadium when the Cadets march in before game time. In the Far West, Stanford, undefeated and apparently on the way to the Rose Bowl, runs up against U. C. L. A, a team that qualifies as the hard-luck outfit of the 1940 season. Week after week U. C. L. A. gets beaten by a close score, and

this may be the spot where the Uclans start rolling. Down South one of the best games appears to be Texas A. & M., unbeaten and untied, and an Arkansas team that turned up with a surprising 21 to 20 upset over Mis-| sissippi this week-end. Texas A. & M. gave evidence on Saturday that the club may be stale and just

Baylor. Carnage Was Terrible

Saturday will go down as the day of upsets, with the carnage terrible against unbeaten teams. The following major unbeaten elevens dropped out of the magic circle: Mississippi, Texas, Columbia, Fordham, Rutgers and Southern California. That left the strongest teams in each section lining up-as follows: MIDWEST~—Notre Dame, Minnesota, Northwestern, Michigan. EAST—Boston College,- Cornell, Georgetown. SOUTH—Tennessee, Texas A. &

M. FAR WEST—Stanford. Some of the high ‘points of the week-end: Upset of the day—St. Mary's 9 to 6 victory over a Fordham team that was so sure of an unbeaten season that it already was eyeing the bowls. Saddest city in the U, S. A. —New York, where six local teams went down in defeat — something that hasn’t happened since the Indians sold Manhattan.

Doctors Play For 3 Titles

Times Special FRENCK LICK, Ind: Oct. 28.— The doctors of Indiaha will put away their little black grips and drop the bedside manner to match their skill on the golf links and the rifle range here tomorrow. Two hundred golfers and 100 trapshooters in the ranks of the physicians will compete for the 1940 Indiana State Medical Association championships in these sports. The sporting events will be the highlights of the opening day of the 91st annual session of the association which will bring 1500 doctors and their families here for three days. Dr. Robert Acre of Evansville, present holder -of the golf title, Dr. C. M. Donahue of Carmel, winner of last year’s trap shoot, and Dr. C. W. Cullnane of Evansville, holder of the skeet championship, all will be present to defend their titles. Golfers wil start their 18-hole low gross and handicap medal play competition at 9 a. m. tomorrpw over the French Lick Springs Hill and Valley courses, while the trap and skeet shooters will go into action at 1 p. m. at the French Lick Springs Trap and Skeet Club. Prizes will be presented at a barecue and smoker in the evening. Members of the golf committee are: Drs. W. E. Schoolfield, Orleans, chairman; A. P. Hauss, New Albany; C. B. Emery, Bedford; A. E. Newland, Bedford; and Walter A. Hall, New Albany.

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Furlong, Northwestern half (18),#is being tackled by Bragalone, Indiana guard (42), aided by two teammates, after he made four yards and first down in the second quarter of Saturday’s game. Northwestern, trailing at the start of the quarter, opened up and scored two touchdowns

to beat the Hoosiers, 20-7.

So You Left Early? Well, You See Purdue Led, 13-7, and Only 5 Seconds Left—Then—

By J. E. O'BRIEN

This early-week essay is directed

at you who brushed peanuts off your lap, picked up your blanket and elbowed out of Ross-Ade Stadium at Lafayette Saturday afternoon five minutes—or even one minute—before the official closing tim Of course, there was somegE thing to be gained by extracting your car early from the parking tangle or getting a comfortahle seat back in the fraternity house, but we're certain you practically tossed away the : : bigger part of O’Brien your $2.75 football investment by such haste. Naturally, this is all second-guess-ing and we might have departed, y except that it's a press box custom never to walk out on the party. It makes your host feel that maybe you weren't entertained well, and besides you're liable to kick over an expensive telegraph instrument or leave heel prints on some colleague’s hard-gotten statistics.

Nevertheless, Mr, Get-Up-and-Get-

Out, you should be fully informed of that part of the proceedings you missed. There it was—less than a minute to play with Purdue taking its sweet time huddling, signal calling and whiling away the seconds

in general to preserve a 13-7 lead. .

Nobody was giving the Badgers a chance—unless it was sidelinestalker Struhldreher and his scar-let-shirted substitutes. Finally on fourth down—after the referee had administered a penalty to Purdue for its tarrying—the Boilermakers tried a run from their own 35. Sophomore Bryan Brock was stopped cold. . : And right there, Mr. Get-Up-and-Get-Out, hangs a winter-long argument of which you will have no part. A lot of folks say ‘Purdue should have kicked. Mebbe so, but what if some Wisconsin back had returned it for a- touchdown—then what? Then there are the conformists who maintain the quarterback is always right. But don’t you butt in. After all, you weren't there, were you? : Only five seconds. remained now as Wisconsin took over for one last play. This would have to be something extra fancy — and it was. Quarterback John Tennant - took the ball from center and started deep around his own right end.

of Badgers and suddenly tossed a looping pass to Ray Kreick, an end who had wandered nonchalantly toward the east sidelines as ff looking for rare coins. Kreick grabbed the ball, danced by a would-be Purdue tackler and proceeded down the boundary line into the end zone.

That's how it happened, Mr. Get-Up-and-Get-Out. And we're so sorry you weren‘t around now to see the hysterical Badgers pounding one another in joy while Purdue players, alumni and fans just stood, sat or scratched bewildered heads. You also missed the posthumous point—accomplished by Bob Ray, substitute fullback, who placekicked the ball squarely between and over the bars for the victory. The Boilermakers, still stunned by five seconds of something from a “Lights Out” script, thought there would be another kickoff. But the officials poinfed to the official clock and waved them to the dressing room. The Badgers: willingly went to theirs. In brief, that’s the story, Mr. Get-Up-and-Get-Out, and no matter how many times you stay until the end after this, you won't see another like it. But even worse, you probably told the state-cop on Road 52 that Purdue had won. Shame on you for

He faded behind a heavy screen

Bench Signals for Cornell?

St. John: 'Yes';

COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 28 (U. P.) — Reports circulated today that Carl Snavely, Cornell. football coach, directed his team from the bench in Saturday's game at Ithaca, N. Y.; between Cornell and Ohio State. L. W. St. John, Ohio State athletic director, said that Snavely signaled to his team with a light paper cylinder, shifting the paper from one hand to another and holding it in different positions for different plays. “It was the poorest sportsmanship I ever saw on the part of a football coach in major competition,” St. John said. . Late in the game, the Ohio State Athletic Director said, he became so familiar with Snavely’s signals that he could call Cornell's plays before they were executed. Dr. E. P. Maxwell, former football official seated on the Ohio State bench, supported St. John’s statement.

ITHACA, N. Y,, Oct. 28 (U. P.) — Cornell football coach Carl Snavely branded as “unwarranted and contrary to fact,” the charge made by L. W. St. John, Ohio State Athletic Director, that he had coached Cornell from the bench during Saturday’s 21-7 victory over Ohio State. “The officials of the Ohio StateCornell game were. perfectly competent and were empowered by the rules to take any action they saw fit in the case of illegal activity on

Silent Hoosiers Lose

Times Special

DELAVAN, Wis.” Oct. 28. — The

Silent Hoosiers of Indianapolis lost, 6-0, to the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in a week-end football game here.

Snavely: 'No'

either bench or on the sidelines,” he said. ’ “If Mr. St. John had any complaints to make, they should have been made to the officials during the course of the game.”

Coffees Take Lead In Inter-League °

. Working on a 407 handicap, the J. W. Bader Coffee team netted a 3414 total to take first place in the week-end 1050 scratch classic at

the Pritchett Bowling Alleys. Second place went to the L. S. Ayres five, which added 268 to its 3149 gross total for 3412 and second place. Bowes Seal Fast turned in a 3233-99—3332 for third place. In the individual ranks Paul Moore of Herfi-Jones fired a 683 for top honors. Joe Michaelis, rolling with the Ayres Club, turned in a 679, and Larry Fox of Seal Fast was third with 674. A new handicap league is being formed at the Central Alleys to roll at 6 p. m. Thursday. For information cal lthe alleys, RI. 0036, or contact Harold Smith, TA. 6994.

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Central Takes Race

Indiana Central's cross-country team boasted four straight victories today dfter outrunning’ Earlham’s harriers, 26-29. Jim Miller of Central set the pace, doing the 4% miles in 23:07.

Grove Golders Still Unbeaten

Beech Grove, still unbeaten in the City Recreation Departmeént’s senior football league, will meet Sacks Auto Parts next Sunday in its fifth start of the season. Holy Cross Crusaders, winners in three of four games, will tackle Pendleton, while Holy Trinity engages North Side Chevrolet and Redmen’s Lodge takes on Shawnee A C. Beech Grove scored two touchdowns in the first half yesterday to down Pendleton, 12-7. Holy Cross Crusaders rode to a 20-0 victory over North Side Chevrolet, scoring one touchdown in the second quarter and two in the third period. In other games Redmen’s Lodge shut out East Side A. C., 20 to 0, and Sacks Auto Parts edged Shawnee A. C, 13-6. In the junior league, Spades chalked ‘up its fifth victory with a 12-0 decision over Boys Town. East Side Merchants toppled the South Side Merchants, 12-0; Plaza edged Southeastern Merchants, 12-13, and the Rams bested Ravenswood, 19-0.

14 Get Hillcrest Golfing Awards

Fourteen Hillcrest Country Club golfers carried home prizes in the week-end blind par tournament, The winners: Arthur Dixon, R. Reeder, Earl Hunker, G. Deabler, Frank Wilson, S. W. Rhatican, Ed Fiege, George Young, Harry Pock, Forest Kellogg, R. K. Stafford, F. T. Dolan, H. A. Newburn and E. W.

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Bones Crungh as They Pound Giants, 37-21

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This week’s schedule: Sunday—New York at Brooklyn, - Detroit at Cleveland, Green Bay at Chicago, Pittsburgh at Washing-

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—The big, rough, tough Chicago Bears were being hailed. today as one of the greatest professional football outfits of

‘|recent years after licking the New York Giants Sunday, .

37-21. * » The Bears, with a line averaging 219 pounds operating in front of a 191-pound backfield, crunched the Giants with consummate ease before 44,219 fans at the Polo Grounds and snapped New York's 15 consecutive National League victories on their home grounds. Rolling up a '30-7 lead in the first half, the Bears toyed with the Giants in the final half. ’ It was the third largest score ever made on the Giants, exceeded only by Detroit's 38 points in 1936 and Washington's 49 points in 1937. The triumph was the Bears’ fifth in six games and kept them on top of the Western Division, The Washington Redskins kept up their unbeated march by coming from behind to beat the Detroit Lions, 20-14, before 28,909 persons at Ded?

troit, and held the undisputed lead in the Eastern Division. In the other two games, the Green Bay Packers thumped the Pittsburgh Pirates, 24-3, before a crowd of 13,703 at Milwaukee and the Chicago Cardinals triumphed over the Cleveland Rams, 17-7, beforé 10,313 fans at Chicago. Washington's aerial attack failed for the first time this season and the Redskins went overland to trim the Lions in a bitter battle, The Redskins got away to a 13-0 lead, but went into the final period trailing, 14-13. Dick Todd twisted 69 _ yards in the fourth period for the Redskins’ winning touchdown. Detroit's Cotton Price completed nine out of 23 passes to outshine Sammy Baugh and Frank Filchock, who completed only six out of 16. In the last few minutes of play the

to move from their own 12-yard line to the Redskins’ 16, where the game ended. 3:

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