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ebfoots Suffer Second Loss, 7-6 Giants Clinch Series With 7-4 Victory m. Il ll ' " " " " ' 1 lamps Build illy lead, issl To Win 0SCAR FFALEY S.rin. bals carried hNeVYork Giants tf Saturday for a incl0 .Sr.he World Kci handed the huniili- . hnnus MJ5rS.,home IT slrode to the K e th inning to halt b,fcwiand rally. Then W i ., mm2 hung on 'I inooed the In- ESd tri- ,krwd 0 BOD Lcm- K.had.ostaheart; FT, 10th inning "Chinese '.. n.iv Rhodes. But the P ".',.. ..n,,H fmir w Giants bim "w- ----- w 74) lead and then Kottreifealed Cleveland at- r . L .tt (ha flnnr .J. tn pel oil .1, ih. fifth World Scries C for the Giants in their &jj National League his- nd marked tne una "'"--iwhrr had piloted a Eld champion. Durochcr failed illtmpts to win wonu km i Rmklvn Dodgers in 1941 V Ciuts in 1951 both times m the Yankees. mi Indians made a gallant try it in tvery game ot tnis up- fcries, they tad too little, too Inity still were hopeful Satur- u they went out in sprawi Municipal Stadium before a hi crowd as favorites. But Et mi no stopping those cin Mi Giants, who came out of Sire to win the National ii pennant and were bent tipping the surprise leat. ot norti year with a fourth lucht win. M since the miracle Braves UK beat the Philadelphia Slititi in four straight had an turn League team gone tto such ignominous defeat, then this classic started it fat believed possible that the could accomplish such a U they did, and it was young py who came striding out of (Ml pen to make it possible. PI FALTERS ONCE pi, pitching smoothly, had W only once as the Giants W P a 7-0 lead. That was Ik bottom of the fifth when Giant errors put two men f and then he served a neran pitch to Hank Majeski. tie faltered asain in th P Md the Giants summoned J wiuelm, their usually re m nlief .i.. jjihta choked off that one-i r mm rauy hut in the r one away and two on PW 01 an f rrnr J . WUoDuroehed beckoned 1 IW bull npn unA v. i - r' mm im inhume Wane to the rescue. r?wertt,tte hitting hero was up there swing- JUL Sr-J' 'F aw x 7 ?W " j h25. -- . ' ... .... - r-'wnffl, looked M big as Z "VhMy. the kid PJiown swinging and then i?hh 2f? fast bal1 f0 t WesUake with in, W pitch. P&f Off H am Uent(!' C3 a walk. num. I kba anH k V nny ennncd . and lor a then iirrd , '""""W Oil Pan, rp. third final Offense Sputters As Oregon Falls HALFBACK DICK JAMES WASN'T THE ONLY OREGON player in an intcrscctinnal football game on Hayward Field Saturday when the invading Skyline Conference Utah Utcs upset the Oregon Webfoots of the Coast Conference 7-6. Oregon's lack of blocking can be seen here (Reslstcr-Guarrt photo, Wiltshire eng.) as James made five yards on a wide cutback to his right while a swarm of Redskins swarmed him. Captain Ron Pheistcr was injured on the play, but returned in the fourth quarter to intercept a pass and give Oregon its chance to score. SPORTS CLASSIFIED LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. SECTION C EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1954 Huskies Topple Beavers, 17-7 Grid Scores PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE Standingi W L Pet. ft!. Op, Stanford 1 USC 1 Washington 1 Oregon 1 Oregon Stat 1 Idaho. 0 WSC 0 UCLA 0 California 0 l.ooo l.oon l.ooo .500 .500 .000 .000 .000 .000 PORTLAND, Ore. OftWash ington's Huskies turned two Ore gon State fumbles into touch downs to defeat the Beavers 17-7 in a Pacific Coast Conference football game Saturday night, hut lost the services of Quarter back Sandy Lederman for the season when the nation's top passer suffered a broken leg. Lederman was carried from the field early in the second per iod after passing the Huskies into a 70 lead the first time Washington got the ball. With its aerial arm lost Wash ington relied on the hard run. ning of Bobbv Dunn and Stu Crook to open its conference sea son successfully. Dunn scored the first touchdown on a 33 yard pass play from Lederman and Crook bowled over for the sec ond Husky tally in the fourth period from one yard out. Dunn added a field goal with four minutes left. He also made good two conversions. Oregon State was stymied in the first half but got back in the ball game in the third period when the Beavers recovered fumble on the Washington 12 and Dick Mason plunged over from the half-yard line. That tied the score at 7-all but early in the fourth period Mason fumbled and Gene Peder- sen recovered from Washington on the Husky 48. Washington then marched to the winning touchdown with Crook's 25 yard run the key play. Crook broke awav for a 41 yard romp late in the period and Dunn booted a field goal lor tne cuncner. osc First downs JJ Rushing yardago JJ Passing yardage 9 Passes attempted ljj Passes completed 1 Passes Intercepted by 1 Punts - J Puntlne- average 4, W 15 251 77 14 5 3 2 40.5 3 30 Fumbles lost J Yards penalized H0 Score by periods; Washington 7-MM0-17 Touchdowns: Dunn, Mason, crooK. Points after touchdown: Dunn a, west fall. Field goals: Dunn I If . WEST Utah 7, Oregon 6 Washington 17, OSC 7 San Jose St. 38. Idaho 7 Stanford 12, Illinois 2 Montana 39, Idaho St. 20 Pac. Lutheran 6, UBC 0 Wyoming 23, Denver 2t Lewis & Clark 14, CWE 1 Washington 17, OSC 7 EOCE 31, Carroll 25 Colorado A&M 14. BYU 13 Utah St. e. New Mexico 0 Whitman 22, Pacific 14 MIDWEST Army 26, Michigan 7 Ohio State 21. California 13 Indiana 34. COP 6 Iowa 48, Montana 8 Purdue 27, Notre Dame 14 USC 12, Northwestern 7 Colorado 27, Kansas 0 Missouri 35, Kansas Stale 7 Wisconsin 6, Michigan St. 0 Nebraska 39, Iowa State 14 Cincinnati 40, Tulsa 7 SOUTH Texas A&M , Georgia 0 Virginia Tech 18, Clemson 7 Duke 7, Tennessee 6 Virginia 14, Geo. Washington 13 Kentucky State 20, Knoxville 12 Miss, State 46, Arkansas St. 13 North Carolina 7, Tulane 7 Florida 19. Auburn 13 Bcthune Cookman 13, Paul Qutnn 6 Wake Forest 26. N. C. Slate 0 Florida State 47, Louisville S W. Virginia 26, S. Carolina 8 Memphis St. 6, Abilene 6 Davidson 13. The Citadel 0 VMI 19, Richmond 8 Kentucky 7, LSU 8 Alabama 28, VanderbUt 14 SOUTHWEST Texas 40, WSC 14 Rice 41, Cornell 20 Arkansas 20, Texas Christian 13 Texas Tech 13, Okla. A&M 13 Georgia Tech 10, SMU 7 EAST Navy 42, Dartmouth 7 Massachusetts 13, Harvard 7 Colgate 18, Holy Cross 0 Minnesota 46, Pitt 7 Boston College 12, Temple t Penn State 13, Syracuse 0 Yale 28, Brown 24 Fordham 13, Rutgers 7 William & Mary 27, Penn 7 New Hampshire 33, Rhode Island 7 Princeton 54, Columbia 20 Boston U 41, Connecticut 13 Slippery Rock 7, Edinhoro Tchrt 0 Brandels 27, Springfield 7 Boston Col. 12, Temple 9 Maine 24, Vermont 20 Carnegie Tech 23, Lafayette 21 Tufts 26, Wesleyan 6 PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL Colts 20, New x otk is Steelers 37, Washington T 22 "teal of SJTAGGED out by Cleveland's shortstop Sam Dcntc, on this at irttm. iL01. second in fho ii f Bo.iirrfav's World Scr cs game. The "Am" llmn. The Giants went on -mpionsnip with a 7-4 victory over me inei.oi Milligan Tied ASTORIA W Four were tied with scores of 148 Saturday after 36 holes in the fourth annual medal play championship of the Oregon Golt Assn. nere. Tied for first place after Sat urday's round were Rick Cooney land Kermit Smith, Portland, and Dr. E. G. Palmrose and Kaipn Dichter, Astoria. Sid Milligan, Eugene, was one of four tied for fourth place with 151. HIGHCLIMBER By Dick Strife 1c Want to be owner of an organized ball club? The new proposed class B Northwest League would like noth ing better than to have Eugene as a member of a circuit that would take in southern Washington; northern California and Oregon. . . . One of the reasons the Western International League failed was geographical Salem, Tri-City, Vancouver and Edmon ton. ... All you have to do is draw a line between the four cities and you can easily see how costly transportation of the athletes would be. . . . Another reason for failure of the WIL is under- table dealings, paying players more than the salary limit per mits. ... A third, and very important reason, was the size of the league cities Van couver (275,000) and Lewiston (10,000). . . . We feel that Eugene and the Emerald Empire area would support a class B ball club and that with the right kind of management the club could be operated without a loss pos sibly a slight profit. ... The secret would be an inevitably profitable' series with Salem. . . . You can expect lots of spec ulation during the next few months, with baseball men pop ping into Eugene every now and again. . . . What is needed most to make possible a Eugene entry In organized baseball for the second time is leadership by some individual with the time, a knowledge of baseball operation, and with the confidence of the sporting public and the people who .would be willing to finance such an operation. . . . -4- Earl Averill Jr.. whose father was a Biff League star, could possibly follow in his Dad's footsteps if some minor league manager can find the position most suited for tne neavy- hipped youngster you played in the outfield, at third and also caught for Coach Don lurscns uregon- wemoots. . . . ne nas been Dlavine all three of those positions for Reading of the class A Eastern League this season. . . . Averill hit around .300 dur ing the regular season and batted .364 in nine Shaughnessy play off games, won by Albany's tnird-piace ciud in tne regular season Another former Oregon- outfielder, of earlier vintage, Dick Whitman, had a disappointing season for the Montreal Royals in the stronger International League, but in five playoit games re oorted in The Snorting News to date, is hitting .500. ... The record for the two ex-Oregonians in playoffs follow: Farrell Albright fr - By DICK STRITE RcgiKter.Gtiard Sports Editor An alert pass-defending Uni versity of Utah football team, led by a 5-foot, 6-inch, 170-pound nighty mite in Louie Mole, reg istered the Skyline Conference school's most important football victory in seven years here on sun-drenched Hayward Field Sat urday a 7-6 triumph over the University of .Oregon. A crowd estimated at 11,000, including a couple of thousand "Newspaper Day Guests," watch ed the Indians from Salt Lake City score in the first 11 minutes of the opening period and kick an extra point. The unbelieving customers also watched the Utes stop repeated Oregon scoring threats and saw the Webfoots score and then falter in the last 35 seconds of play, losing the chance for a dead lock on a wide point-after-touchdown placement. Mele, a 20-year-old Junior from Price, Utah, not only scored the Utah touchdown with a drive off his left tackle from just outside the five-yard line, but kicked the extra point and repeatedly inter cepted or knocked down Oregon s aerials rated the most potent in the nation until the Utes inter cepted three. SHAW APPEARS LATE George Shaw, Oregon's Ail- American quarterback candidate and until Saturday leading the nation in total offense (also No in passing), did not appear in action until the second quarter was five minutes, 19 seconds old. He paced several scoring drives and eventually found the combin ation, Dick James scoring from the half-yard line on fourth down. But Dick Pavlat, the best place- kicker on the Oregon squad, miss ed what looked like a kick that split the uprights. On paper and looking at the statistics, it is difficult to under stand how Oregon could have lost to a Utah team that seldom had possession of the ball after its touchdown drive. The outcome was much like the Stanford game of last week when Oregon out- gamed the Cards, but lost. The present Oregon gridiron regime fast becoming famous for its ability to "beat" its opponents but lose. Actually the Webfoots penal ized and fumbled themselves out of a chance for their fourth traight win over the Utes. who last defeated OSC 7-6 in 1947 for their only other victory over a PCC team not counting Idaho's "cousins." Oregon had beaten Utah 26-7 in 1933, 8-7 in 1934, and 6-0 in 1935. PENALTIES COSTLY Oregon had seven penalties and on six of them the Webfoots made good gains, four times first down were nullified, A total of yards was gained on plays that also cost 32 yards in penal ties, an aggregate loss of 101 yards but the most costly pen alty came with Utah in possession. Utah's offense was sifting through the sieve-like Oregon de fense rather effectively with a first down on the Oregon 38. The Webfoots appeared nonchalant until Hal Reeve, bruising vet eran end, was charged with a personal foul. Reeve was disqual ified, too. That gave Utah first down on the Oregon 22 and two plays later Mele had scored For an Oregon team that some folks hoped had Rose Bowl pos sibilities, it is a football team definitely without a courageous all-around team defense or with an offense with enough imagi nation to make use of its vast amount of individual personnel. Oregon definitely lacks a hol ler guy" who can bring their forces to full strength. Otherwise the old song, "California Here I Come, will ring on the deaf ears of Bay Region fans when the Webfoots sing to the Golden Bears at Berkeley next Saturday afternoon. Averill Whitman AR 33 10 Ave. .364 .500 MR RBI SB 2 7 0 0 1 1 A F. Pet. 0 3 .8.10 0 0 1.000 Averill played well afield in the playoffs (left field) for six games, but was charged with three errors in the last three games, two in the finale. ... He picked up $896 series money, one of the smallest cuts in league history. . . . Whitman hopes to play in the Coast League next season and probably will move unless he has a continued new playoff performance. Oregon's first decathlon candidate since the days of Les Steers Is now attending the university of southern can. fornia. . . . Bill Bowerman, Webfoot coach, thought that Bob Lawson, 195-pound, 3-inch Aberdeen, Wash., youth would enter Oregon until he made a trip to southern California. ... As Karl Schlademan, Michigan State track coach, said to Bowerman last spring, "Will anyone ever break up the dominance of the USC Trojans?" Bowerman's answer was, "No!" Bill explained by asking how many track scholarships the Spartans have and found that M.S. and Oregon were the same six. , . . USC has 15 fresh men alone, which means 45 varsity scholarships and a total of 60. (Continued on Pag 2-C) CASH REGISTER HURT Financially, Oregon's athletic cashier has taken as bad a beat ing during the past two weeks as have the Webfoot players and the coaches. Without the $40,000 fumbles against Stanford and the $20,000 scoring duds here Satur day, the Orcgon-Cal game will be lucky to draw the players' par ents and Pappy Waldorf's Aunt Kate. Had Oregon beaten Stan ford and Utah, as the Webfoots are capable of doing, the Memor ial Coliseum might have been taxed to its 90,000 capacity. Now the crowd will likely be less than 20,000. Next Saturday's game at Ber keley . is still a "key" contest The Bears are still Rose Bowl contenders, in view of the fact that UCLA is not eligible. Ore gon is capable of beating all three of its other California opponents, Cal, USC and UCLA. With Shaw wearing stockings to cover the adhesive bandage that covered his bad leg from ankle to hip. Sophomore Johnny Keller had his big chance to lead the Webfoots. Although a capable sophomore, he has not come of age." Besides Oregons touchdown, (Continued on Page 3-C) Purdue Dumps Notre Dame By 27-14 Count SOUTH BEND, Ind. 0B Sure fire Len Dawson cuf down the nation's No. 1 football team, No tre Dame, Saturday with four touchdown passes good for a total of 156 yards to sharpshoot Purdue to a stunning 27-14 upset triumph. The lanky six-foot sophomore quarterback from Alliance, Ohio, also converted three times and keyed the Boilermakers' pass-defense that eventually smothered desperation ' shots by two Irish aerialists, Ralph Guglielmi and sophomore Paul Hornung. The victory, before 58,258 screaming fans, snapped Notre Dame's undefeated string at 13 and repeated history of Purdue's 28-14 decision four years ago that ended the Irish's 39-game unbeaten streak. The 19-ycar-old Dawson, who fired four touchdown tosses as Purdue blanked Missouri 31-0 last week, was without peer Sat urday as his range finding shots put Notre Dame in the hole 14-0 in the first ova minutes of tne game. He hit senior end John Kerr for an eight-yard payoff in the opening 3V4 minutes then follow ed with a 41-yard scoring pass play to left-half Rex Brock. After Notre Dame trimmed the lead to 14-8 at halftime with a safetyand Nick Raich's one-yard touchdown blast after Hornung's 61-yard run, Dawson struck again for touchdowns in the third and fourth periods. Stanford Blasts Fading Illini 12-2 STANFORD, Calif. (IP) Stan-i ford's underdog Indians struck for two touchdowns in the second period today, then completely bottled up J. C. Caroline and Co. to defeat Illinois, 12-2, and hand the Illini their second straight upset of the season. It marked the first time in nine games that a West Coast eleven was able to subdue an Illinois squad coached by Ray Eliot, who brought his charges out here with a record of eight straight tri umphs over California opponents since he took over in 1942. But this time the bespectacled mentor showed up with a lme which consistently was outplayed and never could give Caroline or halfback Mickey Bates the pro lection they needed. The nationally-televised game was witnessed by a crowd or about 35,000. Illinois' deepest penetration came late in the fourth period when Quarterback Hiles Stout di rected the Illini on a 50-yard march to the Stanford 14 where he was thrown for a nine-yard loss to stop the push. Stanford went into the red, 2-0, in the first period when Fullback Bill Tarr was tackled behind his own goal line after an offside penalty put the Indians back on their own 1. Then the Indians started an 80 yard drive late in the first quar ter which was climaxed in the second when the same Tarr smashed over from the 3 to put Stanford ahead for the day. The long hike started after Caroline kicked dead to the In dian 20. Key gains were register ed by Tarr, who went 24 up the middle; Gordy Young, who ran for 12, and a pass from Quarter back Jerry Gustafson to John Stewart which gave Stanford a first down on the Illinois 17. Young smashed for another 9 through the thin Illinois line to the 9 and Tarr went the rest of the way for the capper. Tarr then fizzled the conver sion as the Indians rolled up the weird record of getting only one point after touchdown In seven attempts. Gustafson, a "hungry" quarter back who is battling with sopho more John Brodie for the job, then flipped a 16-yard pass to Stewart with 46 seconds to play in the half which put Stanford in the van, 12-2. This score was launched when Tarr intercepted a pass by Em Lindbeck on the Illinois 34 and ran 18 yards to the Illinois 16. First downs 17 Rushing yardage 227 Passing yardage 55 Passes attempted 15 Passes comoleted 6 Passes intercepted by 3 Punts .. . .- J Punting average 38.5 Fumbles lost Yards penalized 89 Score by periods: Stanford (I 12 (1 Illinois 2 0 0 Stanford scoring: Touchdowns Tarr, Stewart. Illinois scoring: Safety Tarr tackled In end zona by Wlman and Smid. 1 10 101 109 20 8 1 5 35.4 2 18 0-12 0- 2
