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Show East-South Midgets Battle to Scoreless Tie Sticking to the tradition of being the best squad of the three in South high school, the C taam boasts of an undefeated record so far. They downed the West drive 27-6 and then last week fought to a scoreless tie with East. Let's give a summary of facts for the midgets this season. Getting a late start on drills because be-cause of infantile paralysis, the midgets opened league plays on October 14th against West. Being the first game of the season both teams were finding each other out. West had the edge in the first half 6-0 but the Cubs came back with an unexpected amount of power plays to garner 27 points in two quarters. Last Thursday the C squad played play-ed its second league game. Well, it was a tough battle. East midgets held the upper hand all of the first half by outsmarting the Cub defense. de-fense. Bob Horman ran Walt Gehrke's punt to the midfield stripe. The Leopards from this point caught the Cubs napping. Dick Backman, end for East, slipped slip-ped over to the sidelines. Kenny Thorpe on the next play passed to him in the clear. While catching the pass Backman lost his balance and fell on the 12 yard mark. This was all for the Leopards. They were stopped cold from this point, except early in the second period, where Thorpe quick kicked over Gehrke's head. The pigskin stopped on the Cubs 7 yard line. These two plays kept the Cubs In hot water the first half. The second half found things quite different. The Leopard midgets mid-gets kicked off. Bob Sidwell, Mar-! Mar-! ion Gregory and Owen Wright, alternating, al-ternating, smashed downfield to the Leopard's nine yard stripe. Lacking the needed k punch East took over. Both teams defense held snugly, so most of the third period found an exchange of punts. Early in the fourth frame Sidwell on his reverse pass from his own 28 yard line found Dick Powers in the clear who caught the pass and galloped to the Leopards' 22 yard marker before being brought down. A worthy fumble at this point and the Leopards took oyer. They kicked kick-ed out and the Cubs started passing pas-sing again. The Cub midgets found the Gehrke-Dell pass offense working work-ing so South again threatened. Gehrke passed to Sidwell to the East 40 then he passed to Dell to the Leopard 15 yard line. Two passes to Sidwell and Kay Greer found the Cubs with a first down and one yard away for a score. Another An-other costly fumble with East recovering re-covering stopped the midget Cub attack. East again punted out of dangerous territory. As' the final gun sounded the Cubs were again threatening, but all they needed was a little time. Knell, Rindfliesch and Budd stood out on the Leopard line and Thorpe and Horman lead the back field. For the Cubs, Dell, Dubbeld, Woodward, Fivas and Johnson were the outstanding stars. Gehrke, Gehr-ke, Silwell ,Greer and Hughes were the bright spots for the backfield. |