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Tribe Hopes for Sweep With Muir on | | Unveil Probably

- Mound; Brewers Aim for Upset Times Special . Most Ex MILWAUKEE, Sept. 27—Sure of themselves but not — g io | Xplasive counting a game won before it is played, the Indianapolis) = "=" 2 loop - Indians invaded this Cream City today to resume action in cra Carat iy, ey ho the American Association's playoff finals against the stalled as favorites to win again Brewers the Western Division title in the . . : : National Football League, laid Holding the whip hand over the Milwaukee pastimers, cjaim today to the most ex- : three victories to none in the plosive backfield in the league. Times’ Soothsayer scheduled best-of-seven series, The quartet hailed by Card Picks Right Finish the Hoosier Tribesters realize rout of the once-mighty Washthey now are bucking the law of jngton Redskins last night were On 6 of 8 in AA |»vemses Charley Trippi, Pat Harder, Paul They also are bucking Norman Christman and Elmer Angsmann. iE TIMES Sorta Denart. ROY, the Brewers’ best pitcher. And the greatest cheers went up THE TIMES Sports Depart {Although they edged Roy in In-'for Trippi ment has a soothsayer, yet! dianapolis last Friday, he held In 10 tries at lugging the {mes Sports Writer Jim Smith them to only four hits in seven leather, Trippi gained 129 yards — was one of 38 writers around innings before stepping aside for an average of 129 yards. He the American Association eircuit!® Pinch hitter. scored one touchdown on the rewho listed what they believed Faith In Mulr ceiving end of a pass from Christwould be the outcome of the, But Tribe Manager Al Lopez man and racked up another on league's season. That was back thinks that young Joe Muir 8 3-yard blast through the line. in April at the beginning of the! southpaw, will repeat over Nick The former Georgia star ran 13 season. Jim used the right crystal ball,| Field lights here tonight and send by Harder and again ran 55 it was disclosed today. He placed the Indians into the Little World yards to set the stage for ansix of eight teams in their correct! Series against the winner of the other Harder thrust. order, with only Columbus and International League's playoff Christman hit on eight of 15 Minneapolis being in the wrong champion. passes for 117 yards. Harder hhd place. Jim won the top prize] In the IL finals playoff, Mont- a total of 20 points on two touchof $25. {real 1s leading Buffalo, the pen- downs, a field goal, and five extra s a's : nant winner, three games to one. points. And Angsmann was in BUT IT doesn't end there. Bill Young Muir has won three tilts there slamming away at the RedEggert of The Times Sports De- in the playoffs, two in semifinals, skins’ line. . partment came: in for $10, being one in finals. In regular season The Redskins offered only tied on his selections with writers INDIANS BREWERS {Sammy Baugh in return. The

from Milwaukee and Toledo. Beard. ef Hartstield. 3 |veteran pass master clicked on Want to know how the league Ctssini 3b Sonsuier ft 16 passes in 28 tries and one will finish next season? Just pumine ib Moss. If (touchdown, but it wasn't enough. ask ‘em. Weatherly, rt Etten. 1b | Last night's win set the stage] Kalin, If Phillips. 3b {for the Cards’ game Sunday y . Conwar. u Logan, 44 (against the Chicago Bears, Each U's. Clyde Smith | =5 E57 fees fan a : competition, he defeated the ny game.

e ® Brewers twice and lost two nk k * to them, . Has No Alibis ’ Tonight's contest is scheduled ontrea Ta es to get under way at 8:15. The 7Q_ : {teams are to remain here unt 1 Series Lead

By JIM HEYROCK |

Hoosiers “just ran out of gas” game riding a seven-game win-|ward their second straight InterSaturday at South Bend. ning streak, four over Minneap- national League playoff championThis, chiefly, was the explana- ols, three over the Brewers. |ship, took a 3-to-1-game lead tion made yesterday afternoon by The Tribesters arrived here this the best-of-seven series last night Indiana's chief grid mentor, Clyde morning and established head- whén they scored two runs in the Smith, at the autopsy session quarters at the Schroeder Hotel. ninth inning to beat the Buffalo

t| Bisons, 6 to 5. following IU's 49-to-6 trouncing In regular season. games a c : by Notre Dame Saturday. Borchert Field, the Indians won The Bisons, 1949 pennant win

Indians Buck That One-More-Victory

Lopez Warns Players Chicago Cards He's Mighty Little, but He's a Mighty Mite

Cullop’s team under the Borchert yards to set up one touchdown|

#” . . : , the series is completed. | MONTREAL, Sept. 27 (UP)— qpme® H : Indiana University's Hurryln'| ry... yngians enter tonight's The Montreal ee. driving to Tin Pike Tw ° Grid Star

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. fal Tension Great Game Filled With Blunders Due to Agonizing Pressure. .

NEW YORK, Sept. 2T—Harsh reality seems to be catching up with old Casey Stengel and his incredible Yanks {after all these weeks, Those strange and radically dissimilar characters who undoubtedly were responsible for the original script—Frank Merriwell, the Brothers Grimm, Ibsen and Houdini-—were nowhere to be seen when the Red Sox | |took over the league outright | . in the gathering dusk at the View ofhag A Stadium yesterday. he must genuinely have believed And yet it might be istake De 6 runner. to pr that he a final It was inevitable perhaps that chapter in this saga of a ball club/s0mebody or something had to |that has adopted the. bloody but Sive. The game was played under |unbowed head as a routine fash- 2" aeuing. agonizing Haga fon note has been written. It can |= Pd Sg aly o! {not be overly simple to contrive SF Sion bias al tension oxy

| bled epic which has known fan. |lack of craftsmanship. And from

[the ultimate climax to a scram-| |tasy, heroics and lurid melodrama time to time the heavy inferences

las well as the utterly proposter- °f jus wi VEgie woud Seem to Ha lous. Still, a full game behind and 4h t 80 Foul be ur Smancel {only five left to play is a situation : a Snonislling 3 ie Teds oa (which is not calculated to en- os hen right. a i. os - |courage gay . indifference 40d peat the Yanks than all four ume [sublime optimism, [pires put together. And Jerry ys.» |Coleman of the home nine made FOR THE first time since the one step in the vicinity of second season started the Yanks, cas- that can be described only as ually dismissed in the spring bY super duper. the experts as serious pennant s = ® .|material—even . with a Joe Di-| ‘THIS WAS what is known in the | Maggio doing full-time chores—|trade as a real big game and the {were being asked to come from two managers played it that way. |behind. In spite of the Red Sox’'| Before the ninth was over it |aull record on the road the ad-|looked as if Stengel was drafting {vantage lies with them. [Selatives and Jriends, from he grandstand to help out. He use Oey Baby 8 Mit accurate sree of his starting pitchers and had about it some of the m re °f course the inevitable Joe Page

: {was around, too. Around just Ee guaitify oA vast/1ONg enough to pick up the tab lcrowd of 66,156 will testify that|foT the loss, in fact. lit was one of the most bitterly] Joe McCarthy didn't come land desperately contested ball close to matching Stengel in man |games that any.stretch run has Power or extensive mental maever produced. For awhile it even neuvering but as soon as his [looked as if we were going to cultured pupils regained the lead have murder at home plate. {—they had gone into the eighth | The Yanks’ catcher of the trailing 3-6—he called on 35-year-moment, Ralph Houk, blew his 0id Ellis Kinder who had had top almost literally when Umpire Only one day's rest and sald in [Bill Grieve called what was to effect: “Stop those birds the rest |prove the winning run safe on of the way.” He did through the Phole by Ud 3 Walton, fla Staff Photographer. a squeeze play in the eighth with Signth A nd had Been talk ' y n Malloy . . . sc the hei . the score tied at 6-6. It took|/!PE to abou nde Pike's Teddy Potter and Spartan s Joh alloy + « . scale The heights. the conned strmposity of two before fh same. asking what of the league's most muscular|ype 0 cher he was and how Softball Tourney Set lumpires, Sagues os, Berry, to he asounied for the Driliant Imes State Service {keep Houk, a battle hardened season the aged-in-the-wood right= GOSPORT, Ind, Sept. 27—The|woriq War II major, from hander was having. annual Tri-County Softball tour- jumping down Grieve's throat—a| “He's a pitcher, that's al.” nament will be held tomorrow at performance, incidentally, in This is a high compliment from Cascddes Park, Bloomington with| which I have no artistic Interest McCarthy. He means Kinder has » Stinesville playing Smithville and | but as a novelty I could probably mastered his business, has sufPupil,’ Coach Reese Says of Ted Potter Unionville PN Ellotsville. |stand seeing once. [ficient stuff, knows how to use By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS At Eminence, Gosport plays| s =» {it and has the necessary poise.

‘He'll Try Tackling Anyone and Is a Fine

Notre Di eight times in 11 starts. But I°rs. knocked out Montreal starter —— . Rin, Some eek So, hal they still have to win one more Ronnie Lee with a four-run fourth

¥ meeting of the Indiana University to annex the league's playoff Club of Indianapolis in the Ath. championship. » letic Club to discuss the outcome For that reason, anager. a got the tying and winning of the Notre Dame tussle, |Lopez is taking no chances. He .,,, off right hander Jim Wilson He was visibly heartened by the ald it would be Muir on the ip the ninth. attitude displayed by the 150 In. mound tonight, and if necessary, Wilson went all the way for, diana alumni who attended the|ROYce Lint tomorrow. {Buffalo. Clarence Podbielan, who, “post-mortem.” The atmosphere| Lopez also warned his athletes relieved Lee in the fourth, was

cheerful {to be wary of overconfidence. |credited with the victory. was cheerful and nobody asked Just in O

“Smitty” why IU was beaten so badly, In the event the Brewers Szulborski. Ready LAFAYETTE, Ind. Sept. 27)

Montreal got within striking dis-|

“We have no alibis” said the achieve a comeback and win two shor ying coach. “W a i 51 team that was well called upon to face them oniground gainer for the coached.” Thus. : 4 . { Boilermakers, will be ready for| . pez is anxious to SeWiaction in the first hom | Ran Out of Gas’ up the show tonight. He knows against Towa next game But Smitty let it be known to that the Brewers bounced back the alumni that if the university to beat St. Paul in the semi-

{three games to one. 800d -footbal The Indians had a similar rec-| injury. ord, only better. They eliminated!

as Notre Dame, players must be obtained. IU, he

inning to take a 5-1 lead but ular starter with a neck the size of Joe Louls’ ankle. |tance with three runs in the sixth pounds heavier than himself, especially if the tackler weighed only Park for.the title.

wiry first string quarterback]

lin a row, Mel Queen will be (UP)—Ha ing WAISE. miner a Ton: eading|ybove the size 9% shoes, digging

moccasins.

Saturday, a oach Stu Holcomb said today. a: le 4 try tackling anyone handoff with-finesse and his tiny

The veteran halfback was un-'fe's as to ny man I've feet can propel like a fly-wheel is to continue playing such teams finals playoff after being down, able to play in the season's opener got.” a2 tough ny ask any On guarterback sneaks. |at Northwestern because of a leg quarter and has gained respect ‘from his heavier and taller team-

You'd never think a high school football player could be a reg- Paragon and Morgantown meets| WHETHER Grieve missed the It was no surprise, then, when {Eminence. The two division win- play nobody will ever know. the announcement came he was You'd cringe at the idea of ‘a linebacker hitting someone 183 ners will meet Friday at Cascades Houk bulled, bellowed, raved and bringing in Kinder to hold the (ranted around the plate area foridelicate one-run lead. 79 pounds in his stockinged feet. How would the five-footer with a 28-inch waist reach around to tackle a six-footer with a 44inch waist, a player too large in the midriff and legs to wear hip-| pads and a pair of game pants| he can call his own? | Ted Potter, Pike Township's

mates for his unflinching attitude in the man-sized game of} . football. Last year as a reserve quarterback, he made three tackles in slightly more than one minute, backing up the line. This year he has the quarterback spot all to himself almost all of the 48 minutes of each game. But he doesn't pass since his {hands are too -small to grip a football at either end. He can

WHAT'S AS STEADY AS THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR??

THE STEADY DEMAND FOR

wouldn't hit him around the He'd barrel down just]

in with his own size 6 cleated Coach Clifford Reese of Pike student.

Potter is the smallest prep {school gridder in the county and can lay claim to being the smal-

pointed out, played a great ball

dent body. to 3. Smitty said he believed it was, “The Indians beat us good in better to tackle Notre Dame early, that third game” Manager CulIn the season and ‘get it over !OP said, “but in the first two we with”. The -injuries, if .the team didn’t play heads-up baseball, and must suffer them, may as well that made the difference.

t tilt .and lost the second de- ball. spite the fact we got three home

runs. Don’t count us out of this yolved many perennial doormats,

son. Joe Balabon, guard, one of Indiana’s best this season, was In- series prematurely jured Saturday and will be. out , for the remainder of the season coneaakiie Jutiany dre over. - The Willlamson System, which Bob Stebbins also was injured pez has cautioned his players to Steers clear of prophecy in pure and will be out of action for a hold the line and keep fighting, ‘OTM: nevertheless turned in a while Watch us turn the tables if the '°COrd of 238 won out of 308 Smitty would make no predic- Brewers come through tonight games reported. The prediction tions regarding IU’s game Satur- and I think it's going to happen.” average, 77.8, is not the worst in ddy against Ohio State, the first. Even if the Indians eliminate Nistory, but near ft. conference test. the Brewers, Manager Lopez still The result hailed as the No. 1] But a different view of Satur- will have something to worry him. upset of the week—Villanova 27, day's action was taken by Paul He's carrying an extra outfielder, Penn State 6—was correctly pre-

Harrell. He pointed out that IU Gus Bell, who is'ineligible for Lit- dicted by the Williamson System. went into Saturday's game with tle World Series competition. Best Average 100.0 Houston U 8 19 men out of 36 who had never Must Obtain Consent Oklahoma 230 8t Marys Cal a participated In a college, football For Bell to participate, it will } anova "3 Trani + . inneso r game be necessary to obtain permission 80 Cal U 910 Georgetown DC 8 Chairman of the meeting was from the International League op- NOIRE DAME 863 Nebraske 4 Paul DeVaul > . R 96 8 Oregon St MM aul DeVault, president of the ponent because he wasn't a mem 9¢ 0 Florida 84 Alumni Association ber of the Tribe on the last day ° 9 3 Soumbia 5" - ee of regular season play, Sept. 11 U-: 3a Senavuntury +, . YT » Ohto Shroder Out for Year Bell was made eligible for the am hisan © 94 5 Colorado U M ; American Association finals play- Hilior™e $4.0 Boston Col i . Gerald Shroder, left guard on off, as a replacement for Dom 8 M 838 San Joss St i die Cent i A 18 nd ana Cen Tals football team. Dallessaiidro, when Milwaukee Miss ie 930 Too . will be out of action for the re- and the parent Boston Braves, Mich State 210 Trinity Tex . , 3 . . » "Oregon 910 mainder of the season, Coach agreed to permit the Indians to Ro eriern 92 3 Kansas O. . 0 Angus Nicoson announced today. take on an extra player Ga Tech 31% Loulaville Shroder. a junior, suffered a torn Dallessandro became ill in Min a pet " 0 Wore ‘ens cartilage s - . a rele , cv «.. 920 Montans U. .. put ag in hi right knee "in neapolis and his physician advised oye asm 910 Auburn ast Saturday's game against him to give up baseball for the Georgia Rose Poly. season. ver —————————— Princeton h . Tennessee r90 8 Hardin... ue. Wake Forest 900 INDIANA :

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game in the first half but then to morning. | + LAST Week's Grid Forecas “ran out of gas. | The Brewers blamed two of the| : Hs poiisd ont 0 the geoup that three defeats at Indianapolis wN y ootball players in this day andthe breaks of the game. The t Ww + bh + N {4 age are not picked from the stu- scores were 3 to 2, 'D 4 and 9 0 ors 5 4 ear : More Than 60 Upset Games Bring Wins Down to 236 Out of 308

By PAUL B. WILLIAMSON ! Nothing short of true prophecy could predict a mess like last They are borrowed from Butler, come at the beginning of the sea- Bio outhit the Indians in the week-end when more than 60 upsets were reported in college foot- because, as Coach Harry Caskey One-half of the upsets coyld be called mild. The other half in- enough to outfit him in time.”

and batted down rivals who had been beating them for years.

playing fullback for Notre Dame, . crossed the double-stripe three LA FENDRIC times as the Irish royted Indiana, :

{veteran Kehoe, a swift-moving {scatback, who sparked Ball State ™

{lest regular starter in the state. It could go farther. Potter, a modest, quiet lad, will never face the county's heaviest player, at least in high school, but he met him on the scales. |

Borrows Pants { Senior John Malloy of Sacred {Heart weighed out at 262 pounds in his football regalia and turned up wearing his size 42 pants.!

says, “we couldn't find "any large

who got up on their hind legs His practice pants are his game pants . { Malloy, a reserve senior tackle {who is 17, is more than six-feet| tall and has a neck size 17. Pot-|

McGrath Leads ‘ /ter is a half-inch above the five-| IC Scorers {foot mark. His neck bulges out

. Pr United Proce almost 121; inches in circumifer-| 3 ence and it's all sinew. His pants Lanky Bill McGrath of Indiana gre size 28, taken in, and his age Central today was the leader of j5 16. | the first weekly Indiana College Potter's brother was an allfootball scoring roster, nosing out county halfback for Pike two] Emil (Six-Yard) Sitko.and Fred years ago, weighing 195 pounds. Kehoe for top honors. His father is an electrician. McGrath, a senior end from Little Potter will be around Fowler, scored two of the Grey-| next year to make the sparks fly hounds’ four touchdowns against Some more. He's only a junior. Huntington two weeks ago, and he got two more TD's against

Rose Poly in the preceding week to give him 24 points. - Sitko, the Ft. Wayne flash now

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49 to 6. He also was one of the state's top scorers as a halfback last year.

with & His feat was equalled by the AIR-VENT

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to a 28 to 14 win over St. Joseph's. One of his three markers was a | 92-yard punt return.

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