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Q.A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
? A Abilene, Texas, Wednesday Morning, May 30, 1962
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Piersall Hits Newk About Ready
iomerin 10th To Play in Japan
I WHEN THE FIRST INFLUX of foreign trackmen hit
Texas colleges, there was more than a little resentment
In some quarters.
[ Temperamental individuals such as Houston’s John
Macy, who bounced pop bottles off roommates’ brows, did
little to enhance the foreign students in the eyes of the
critics.
But Macy and his ilk appear to have been supplanted
by a nicer class of people.
Australian Runners Top Students
Pat Clohessy, the NCAA three- Houston's Al Lawrence is an-
mile champion from Houston, for other very intelligent Australian
instance, is graduating with Phi who impresses all he meets. And
Beta Kappa honors at the bayou
university.
The friendly Australian has
earned a fellowship at the Uni-
versity of Texas and will assist
Coach Froggie Lovvorn with the
freshmen and it is reported that
he will also take over cross coun-
try.
ACC's John Lawler made five
A’s and one B during the fall
semester and the Wildcat captain
has had much better grades this
spring in the class room than he
has had on the track, where ear-
ly season injuries and illnesses
took their toll.
one could look a long time before
finding a more pleasant and hard-
working athlete than the Wild-
cats' Denis Moore.
Oliver Jackson, secretary of the
NCAA Track and Field Rules
Committee, flew directly to Kan-
sas City from Houston for a vital
meeting of persons concerned
with the new track and field fed-
eration.
Heartening to these leaders has
been the backing voted the new
federation by the major athletic
conferences around the country.
Death knell of the AAU, which
However, in winning the two-
mile steeplechase at Houston last is battling the federation Moth
week, Lawler appeared just about.and nail, probably was sounded
ready to regain top form and may when the Eastern College Athletic
make his mark again this year in Conference gave its unanimous
the national meets, support to the federation.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—A quar-
ter-million speed enthusiasts, thrill
hunters and people who just like
crowds were pouring into Indian-
apolis and suburban Speedway
Tuesday night while 33 masters of
auto competition tried to get a 3
little rest before Wednesday’s 49th
500-mile race.
Uncertain racing weather was
forecert for a field that had shat-
tered all the qualifying records
at the old speedway in the 10-
mile time trials.
Variable cloudiness with humid
heat, wind* and scattered thun-
dershowers are expected when
crew* start the bellowing 450-
horsepower engines shortly befor
horsepower engines shortly before
11 a.m. EST. Temperatures from
the mid-80* up are forecast
3% Hours Work
There will be a parade lap and
a pace lap and then they’ll race
for about 3% hours.
It’s a short day’s work but ■
hazardous one for some driver
who will pick up about 9120,000
for first place. The purse depends
on the crowd and was an even
$400,000 last year when A. J. Foyt
Jr., Houston, Tex., set the race
record of 138.13 mile* per hour.
Foyt, U.S. Auto Club big car
champion the last two years, was
rated the man to beat. But the
husky 27-year-old had to take off
in the middle of the second three-
ear row on the basis of qualify-
tag times.
Before Foyt can start winning
Cubs Name
Miller Now 4th in Broad Jump
The East has long been consid-are 9-1 against Parnelli Jones' Fire Negro
ered the stronghold of the AAU, winning the Memorial Day 500 at I II JI ITV9I V
but the college men of the East Indianapolis Wednesday. Only
evidently are fed up with the five times out of 45 races has the
AAU s high-handed methods, too. pole winner also won the 500
HASH REMARKS - The odds
Teen Age Loop
To Open Monday
The four-team Teen Age League
will start play Monday night in
Teen Age Park Thus far 11 boys
have been assigned to each team
but league officials emphasize
that there is room for more play-
Boys age 16-18 living in Abi-
lene or within- a radius of 25
miles are eligible to play in the
league. A 910 registration fee will
be charged each player.
Those interested in playing in
the league should contact Gary
Coppinger at the City Recreation
Department at Fair Park.
The Teen Age champion will en-
ter the Connie Mack playoffs at
the end of the season, which
closes July 27.
One manager and two sponsors
are still needed.
NM Ags‘ Jackson
Joins West Stars
BUFFALO, NY. (AP) — The
East added a tackle and the West
two backfield men to their squads
for the All-America Football Bowl
game here June 29.
John Brown, 240-pound Syracuse
tackle, who has signed with the
Cleveland Browns, joins the East,
while New Mexico State fullback
Bob Jackson and Oregon State
halfback Enk Rivera wiU play
for the West.
Bill Miller will be shooting for
more than just the NA1A broad
jump championship when he leaps
Friday at Sioux Falls, S D.
McMurry’s Miller added the
NCAA College broad jump crown
last week to his Triple Crown
(Texas, Kansas and Drake Re-
lays) but while he was doing it,
Olympic champion Ralph Boston,
Olympian Anthony Watson of Ok-
lahoma and ex - Oregon star Dar-
rell Horn went ahead of him for
the nation's best broad jumps of
1962.
Boston cleared 26 feet and Wat-
son and Horn 25-6% in the Cali-
fornia Relays at Modesto.
Miller's best of the year was
25-6 at the Kansas Relays.
Boston and Miller won’t meet
until the National AAU meet at
Mt. San Antonio. Calif., June 22
23 Boston will be jumping at
Compton, Calif. this week end
and is not eligible to compete in
the NCAA meet at Eugene, Ore.,
June 15-16.
Miller will compete at Houston
in the Meet of Champion* June 8
but so far Boston has not been
announced as an entry there.
To Be Coach
CHICAGO (AP) - John (Buck)
(AF Wirephoto)
A, J. FOYT
... man to beat
To Spark Nats
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jim
drivers who bettered 149 m.p.h, in
the trial* and veteran speedway.
observers rate him a possible win-Piersall hit a home run in the
ner 10th inning to give Washington a
WASHINGTON (AP)—Don New-
combe. former pitching star for
the Brooklyn Dodgers, said Tues-
day it's "pretty definite” he will
accept an offer to play baseball
in Japan this year.
pound
"The way it look* now, I'm go-
Track official* gave the boys 2-6 victory ever Los Angeles after E wiercombe to Aterrtern 2
terr ano moinapseraca meet the Senators had kicked away a tasked with Pierre Salinger. Free-
ing Tuesday and it seemed L..
telling a mountain climber to day.
watch his step. Emphasis, as us-
ual, was in avoiding suicidal tac- the Angels this season, was hit. ** *
ties on the first lap when the 33 . ___. from * good will standpoint,
ears are bunched and unwieldy ting a poor 220 when he con-
with full fuel tanks
54 Have Died
set three-run lead in the ninth Tues, ident Kennedy’s press secretary.
Newcombe said Salinger told
Piersall had gone hitless against him he felt Newcombe could "do
*the government a lot of good
Newcombe has been considering
nected with his fourth homer of an offer to play with Japan's
the year The ball sailed into the Chunichi Dragons.
The test driver’s death in the left field boxes. Newcombe said it was. pretty
race was that of Pat O’Connor ini ItT the hard to, turn down that kind of
• in 1968 , it came off Jack Spring, the money.” He did not say bow
. fourth Angel hurler. much he was being offered, but
A matinee crowd of 2.029, low- reported that it was more than
he made when he won 20 games
for the Dodgers in 1951. He said
he made $17,500 that year.
The track’s toll, including 1909
races before the track was paved.
is 54 dead-30 drivers. 14 riding est of the season, looked on.
Starter Don Rudolph of Wash
mechanics (no longer in the cars) Starter Don Rudolph of Wash-
nine spectators and a speedway ington pitched shutout ball behind
guard who was run over by a fire
Before seeing Salinger, New-
combe said he wanted to get the,
press secretary's idea at to
whether he felt his going to Japan -
would mean good will for the U.S.
For
SATISFACTION
WELCH SIGNS
COLT CONTRACT
BALTIMORE in - The Bal-
timore Colts of the National
Football League announced
Tuesday that defensive half-
back Jim Welch has signed
his contract for 1962.
Welch played football at Ab-
ilene High and SMU.
He is the 42nd Colt to sign
for the coming season
TOP RUSHER
Brown Signs
Record Pact
CLEVELAND (AP) - Fullback
Jim Brown, who has set several
National Football League records
with Ms powerful runs, put anoth-
er in the books Tuesday. He
signed a contract, for his sixth
season with the Cleveland Browns
at a salary reported to make him
the highest paid player in profes-
sional football.
The former Syracuse All-Amer-
ica, who considered retiring to en-
tor business last winter, said he
was looking forward to having
a fine year and plan to give 100
per cent, as I always do ”
Specific figures were not re-
vealed, but Arthur B Modell,
president of the Browns, said the
big fullback's salary is "a sub-
stantial increase over what he got
in his last contract We believe
it is the highest in professional
football.”
Modell said reports that Brown
signed for 942.000 were not cor-
rect but declined to say whether
the figure was close to the salary
he will receive. He said the con-
tract was for one year with a 1-
l year option Brown has just
completed * 2-year" pact under
which he wa* paid $32,000 a year
The 228-pound fullback has led
the NFL in rushing for a record
five consecutive seasons, compil-
tag s total of 6 483 yards on 1,269
carries for a 5.1-yard average.
Head Coach Paul Brown cried
Jim "the No 1 drawing card in
professional football" and said he
had signed "a very fine contract
1 JIM BROWN
... won’t retire
for himself,” adding:
We hope he has the kind of a
year that a contract like this
would call for."
Brown 26, said he had consid-
ered quitting football and devot-
ing full time to his off-season job
with a soft drink company, but
decided to continue his gridiron
career after the company assured
him a "good job will be waiting
for me when 1 retire ”
He said he takes the seasons
“one at a time,” but feels like
he could play three er four more
year*
the $150-a-lap special money for
leading the race, he will have to
pass three tremendous competi-
tors.
Parnelli Jones of Torrence,
Calif . won the No. 1 starting spot
by turning the first 150-m.p.h.
qualifying laps in the history of
the 52-year-old track. Beside him,
and directly in front of Foyt, will
be Rodger Ward, 41, of Indianapo-
lis, the 1959 winner and no worse
than third in the last three.
Bobby Marshman of Pottstown,
Pa , the youngest starter at 25,
will start on the outside of the
front row-the spot the late Jack
McGrath contended is the best for
grabbing a quick lead.
A second-generation race driv-
er, Marshman is one of seven
truck last year.
The real racing buffs are count-
ing on seeing two races at once.
A see-saw battle is likely up front
among Jones, Ward, Marshman,
Len Sutton, Foyt and veteran
Shorty Templeman.
Farther back, because of late
qualifications, there will be a fight
to move up last And the racers
who can do it include I960 win-
ner Jim Rathmann, 1952 winner
Troy Ruttman, and such chargers
as Jim Hurtubise, Don Branson.
Paul Russo, Sachs and Lloyd
Ruby.
There are five rookies in the
a 6-0 lead until Los Angeles scored
three runs in the sixth.
WASHINGTON
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field, bucking the fact that a new- BUN
corner has not won since George LOT-
Souders came through in 1927 n@d-
Fastest of the speedway novices bit
in the trials was Jim McElreath,
Arlington, Tex. The others include
Dan Gurney of Costa Mesa, Calif.,
a noted European road racer who
has the only 500 car not powered HBP
by an Offenhauser engine. JoA
O’Neil was signed as a Chicago
Cub coach Tuesday, becoming the
first Negro to hold such a position
in the major leagues,
O’Neil, 50, had been a scout in
the Cubs’ organization since 1956
and was instrumental in signing
most of the Negro players on the
club.
As a former player and man-
ager for the Kansas City Mon-
archs of the Negro American
League, he helped both Ernie
Banks and George Altman of the
Cube get their start toward the
majors.
"Buck will serve in the capacity
of an instructor and as such will
not be considered a potential bead
coach or manager under the Club's
rotation plan," said Vice Presi-
dent John Holland, who pre-
dicted more than two years ago
that O'Neil would become the
first of his race to serve a* a big
league coach.
The Cubs inaugurated the man-
agerial system last year, running
the team under a coaching staff
with a head coach named every
so often.
Lou Klein is the present chief.
El Tappe started the season in
that post Charlie Metro is await-
ing his turn. The rotating plan
apparently has sifted down to
among these three taking turns
as the general with the others fil-
tertag throughout the minors.
With O'Neil on the staff, the
club has six coaches with them
and five in the farm system.
O'Neil, who has aided the Cubs’
spring training instructional pro-
gram the last seven seasons, was
in the dugout Tuesday in the Cuba
game with Milwaukee. Recently,
while traveling with the club, he
was refused permission to stay in
the dugout in several National
League citie* because iM had no
official statu* with the club while
the games were in progress.
R.
eeevee
LOS ANGEL
Newcombe, 35. said he was not
being asked to pitch in Japan un-
less he felt his arm was in shape,
instead, he said, he would play
first base and outfield, at least
at the start.
Newcombe said he weighs 2&1
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fractured left hand and will be
unable to box Sugar Ray Robinson
of New York in London June 26,
Downes’ Manager Sam Burns
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hand during the fifth round of his
fight against Don Fullmer of West
Jordan, Utah, last Tuesday
Downes won the 10-rounder
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