Stan The Man' Musial, 42, in last year of baseball
By Lao Sorok
UPI Staff Wrltar
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UPI I This
Is the final season for Stan (Tlie
Man) MusiaL
Musial, one of the greatest hit
ters in baseball history, an-
nounced Monday night he will re
tire as an active player at the
end of the current season.
The 42-year-old Musial, who
spent a quarter of a century in
the Cardinal organization as a
player, will continue to work for
the Red Birds in an executive
capacity.
When the Cardinals retire the
familiar No. 6 this fall it will
complete the longest playing ca
reer of any major leaguer with
one team.
The lithe, slightly stooped slug
ger, with the unique "corkscrew"
batting stance, will bow out with
complete or partial ownership of
58 major league, National League
and All-Star records.
The surprise announcement at
a Cardinal picnic at tlie plalatial
home of club owner August A.
Busch Jr. came only a week
after Musial said he would not
make a statement concerning his
retirement u til the end of the
current season.
"Baseball has been my life,"
Stan told the gathering of play
ers, their wives and children, arid
a few newsmen. "I love baseball.
I like nothing better to do than
play tvxball.
"Nothing beats playing in the
big leagues and putting on that
big league uniform.
"I came in with a winner in
my first full year with the Card
inals in 1942 and I'd like to go
out the same way. I've dreamed
for a long time of playing one
more World Series. I think we
still have a chance to do it."
General manager Bing Devine
called Musial's decision "a great
loss to the playing end of the
game but a gain to the executive
side."
"It's a sad thing for baseball,
for St. Louis, for Stan's many
friends, for Stan's wife and fam
ily but a happy one for the
Cardinals who need someone
like Stan to step into our midst,"
Devine said.
Indication that Musial's retire
ment was imminent came when
his batting average continued to
tumble this season. Musial went
for a week at a time without
being in the lineup, then when
he was put In he would be lifted
often for a pinch cuimer or de
fensive replacement.
Asked if anything particular
made him decide to quit, Musial
said: "I just think Ive had
enough, regardless of what kind
of year I've had. I'll be 43 next
winter, and by next baseball seas
on I'll be heading for 44."
Musial's wife, Lit, who said she
never wanted Stan to quit, and
two of his daughters, Gerry, 18,
and Janet, 13, broke into tears
when the announcement was
made.
Mrs, Musial said she had not
known about Stan's decision until
"just a day or so ago."
Musial, smoking a cigar, tried
to relieve the tension.
"If I had known this would
cause such a commotion, I would
have announced it in New York
City and it would have been over
in two minutes." he cracked.
The Bulletin, Tuesday, August 13, 1963
A LOOK AT
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Tiny grid booklets
lend 'helping hand'
By Web Ruble
Bulletin Sports Editor
Every year in August, college Oklahoma, with the exception
football information books begin of a few recently developed arch
crossing the desks of sports writ- rivals, has played mostly within
ers. the confines of the Big Eight Con-
They are nifty little booklets ference. It heretofore has encom-
tliat tell you nearly every grid passed (with spotty exceptions of
statistic Immaginable, plus sea- Missouri ana coioraaoi sucn not
so-dynamic sisters as Kansas,
Kansas State, Nebraska, Oklaho
ma Slate, and Iowa State. People
were arguing a few years ago
that if Oklahoma played in a
tougher league, they wouldn't go
through a season with such win
loss records. It was true about
Oklahoma. The Sooners stayed
son records of years past and
comments about the team's grid
chances for the approaching year.
They often include "sketches"
about individual players and the
coaches.
Newspapers get them from all
of the local large colleges plus
other certain large colleges from
across the nation. Many of the rieht in their own neighborhood.
smaller institutions send them out, However, Wilkinson's grid teams
too. won their Share of bowl games
Not only do they shock the against top-ranked national pow-
sports hack out of his summer ors.
letharev with a stark reminder Lately tlie Oklahomans have
that the mid season is iust around not heen in the national spotlight
the corner, but they are handy Big 10 and Pacific Northwest grid
for various tid-bits of information, nowors like Minnesota, Wiscon-
At first its just a trickle, and sin, Washington and Terry Ba
fhen tlie sports scribe is hit with kcr's Oregon State moved in. So
a deluge. By mid-September he s did Southern Cahtorraa.
got a drawer full, plus some on Actually, in the meantime, Wil-
top of his desk, spewing over onto kinson put together some good
someone else's. He seemingly gets teams, though not so dynamic as
them coming out of his ears. the earlier ones. He had some
They are just now beginning to good seasons, and some not so
come in. Two have arrived. One good. Oklahoma didn't do well in
might expect that the more foot- i960 and 1961, and the Sooners
ball - minded schools would do slipped almost out of the grid pic
the best Job, or get them out first, lure. Last year, however, saw a
Sometimes this la true, but by- tremendous upsurge in Okla pow-nd-large,
whether or not a school er. The Sooners annihilated their
is a grid power appears to have Big Eight foes in pre-1960 fashion,
fttte to do with it. losing only to Texas and Notre
Which college was first to hit Dame In "extra" games. The
the desk this year? It was a cer- Sooners then went to tlie Orange
tain institution which cruised tlie Bowl, but took a 17-0 shellacking
high road In the grid world during at the hands of Alabama's Crim
the last decade, but slumped son Tide,
some during the last three or four Yet, it was quite a season. Ac
years. Some may guess quite eas- cording to the way that Wilkin
ily. . .and then maybe they son has been talking, Oklahoma
wouldn't. could be developing again. The
Oklahoma was the 1963 first. It truth of the matter is, the Big
came in a whole week before Eight Conference is no longer the
Stanford's which popped up in the patsy it used to be. OU's booklet
mail today. Oklahoma, a grid offers "The Big Eight, bristling
school which coes all out for the with coaching and playing talent,
game, ranks football as the num- will never again be the romp it
ber one sport. One can tell this once was. Last year, two Big
Denies game rigging
$10 million suit
Wallace Butts sobs at trial
ATLANTA (UPI) Wallace
Butts, former Georgia athletic
director, broke down in tears
Monday and again denied a Sat
urday Evening Post story that
said he conspired to rig the 162
Georgia-Alabama football game.
Sobbing audibly and his body
shaking, Butts was led from the
witness stand, and a five-minute
recess was declared in the trial
of his $10 million libel suit
against the Post.
Butts buried his head in his
arms on a table and sobbed un
controllably. His wife and three
daughters, sitting nearby, also
were crying, and his attorney had
difficulty controlling his emotions.
Testimony from the onetime
coach camo as the second week
of the trial got under way and as
direct testimony drew near an
end in the case.
The trial was scheduled to re
sume at 10 a.m., EST today, and
Is expected to be concluded
Wednesday at the latest.
John Carmichael, Atlanta real
estate and insurance man, was
scheduled to resume testimony.
William Schroder, attorney for
Butts, said Carmichael may be
his last witness.
Carmichael is the b o s s of
George Burnett, the Atlanta man
who said he was accidentally cut
into a long distance call between
Butts and coach Paul (Bear) Bry
ant of Alabama last September.
Burnett's notes were the basis of
the Post story of last March
which said Bryant and Butts con
spired to rig the game.
Bryant has a separate $10 mil
lion libel suit pending against
the magazine.
Butts broke down on the stand
when his attorney read a Post
editorial which said Butts and
Bryant "fixed" the game. He
asked Butts if the editorial, or
any part of it, were true.
"No sir," Butts replied. "And
I'd like to explain. It is not true."
Then Butts began sobbing.
Post attorney Welborn Cody
concluded his cross-examination
of Butts with questions about his
financial condition. He produced
a financial statement Butts
signed July 17, 1961, which listed
the coach's assets as $205,988.
The attorney asked Butts to
explain the financial statement in
the light of trial testimony in
which he said he had been unem
ployed and "financially insolvent"
since the Post story came out.
Butts replied that there had
been a "big change" in his fi
nances since the time of the
statement. He said some stock
he owned had gone down in
value, that he had sold other
stock, and borrowed all he could
on $80,000 in life Insurance poli
cies. Cody questioned Butts closely
in his cross-examination on such
Butts enterprises as real estate,
orange groves, fruit juices, scotch
whisky, loan companies, restaur
ants and coffee vending machines.
much as he leafs through the
booklet. Oklahoma plays basket
ball, runs track and does a dozen
different sports, but football is
still king.
A few years ago just after Bud
Wilkinson took the helm, Oklaho
ma put together perennially the
winningest team in modern his
tory. Why has OU then so slipped
from grid glory?
Football followers would argue.
When Wilkinson's elevens were
having thoso seasons with unde
feated skeins, fans woro saying,
". . .well, look who they are playing."
Eight teams won bowl games:
Missouri ovor Georgia Tech in the
Blucbonnet and Nebraska over
Miami in the Gotham. Two other
Big Eight teams also finished like
Ganghiistcrs, Kansas tying Mis-
souri 3-3 and Colorado capsizing
Air Force 34-10.
All four will have the momen
tum from these final 1962 achieve
ments. There Is no question about It.
Oklahoma will have to bo better
than ever to tnko the Big Eight.
If tlie Sooners do, they will better
deserve resulting national acclaim.
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It's lime for (ho Bend Itotary
Olympics.
City Recreation Director Vinoc
Genua announced today that reg
istration for the all-comers track
and field regalia is now oHn. All
entrants must register.
An annual affair, the track fest
will have events for boys and
girls in school grades one through
Camas wins in
AABC tourney
PORTLAND (UPI) Camas.
W'ash.. defeated Springfield 3-5
and Cascade blanked Gordon's
Fireplare 3-0 )n 10 innings Moo
day night in the state American
Amateur Baseball Congress tour
nament here. Wayne Swango best
ed Dennis Straub In the latter
game, as each pitcher struck out
11.
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(UPI) Bob Ussery. the lead
ing jockey at the current moot
ing just as he was at Aqueduct,
booted home four more winners
at Saratoga Monday. I'ssery
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In the second race. Pertinax
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$7.20) in the sixth and Gtiyna i
Ring ($11.40) in the ninth. J
nine. Each child will compete in
his ago group or school grade.
It is slated for Friday, August
2.1 at new Bruin Field. Prelimi
naries nro slated for the morn
ing. Finals will run in the after
noon. There will bo events limit
ed to tlie youngster's physical
ability. He or she will not be al
lowed to participate in any more
events than is proscribed by phy
sical education teachers and doc
tors. Coaching clinics will be held
thus year, but Uiey will be modi
fied considerably. The program
is intended to have tlie look of the
genuine Olympics. It is one of sev
eral Rotary youth programs de
signed to give youngsters a
chance to develop character,
sportsmanship, participation, and
physical fitness.
Registration may he accom
plished at the city swim pool or
in the city recreation office.
Every participant will get a rib
bon. Awards also will be made
for those youngsters placing one
through six in each event The
participants will be divided into
teams.
Prineville Fair
changes noted
PRINEVILLE Local cowboys
and horse fans will be interested
to learn that changes have been
made this year in the increasing
ly popular horse show and events
at tlie Crook County Fair, August
23-25. For adults, a cow-penning
contest will be hold in addition to
cow cutting, and the Quarter horse,
saddle horse and pony express
races.
For youngsters. Instead of tlie
cowhorse contest, there will be a
"Figure Eight" stake race, plus
two other events for juniors.
Ivan Chappell, fair manager, al
so states that Raymond Guthrie.
Prineville horse rancher, will
judge the halter class and Frank
McCullough, Fair board presi
dent, will be in charge of luirse
working events.
All horse events are scheduled
for August 25. Judging of Quart
er horses, Arabians, Thorough
breds, Appaloosas. Tennessee
Walkers. Shetland ponies and un
registered light breeds will he
held in the morning.
Both adult and junior working
wonts and races are scheduled
for the afternoon.
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9:00 a.m. 4:30 p.m. Playground activities at Harmon and Allen.
1:00 - 9:00 p.m. Bend Municipal Pool is open to the public.
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Adult swim lessons at Bend Municipal Pool.
WEDNESDAY
9:00 - 4:30 p.m. Playground activities at Harmon and Allen.
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5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Adult swim lessons at Bend Municipal Pool.
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Physical fitness for boys 9th through 12th grade
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8:00 p.m. Recreation and Park Board Meeting at City Hall.
Riders take bruising from
Roundup bucking stock
Special to The Bulletin
PRINEVILLE A number of
unscheduled events during the fi
nal show of the Crooked River
Roundup Sunday gave spectators
unexpected moments of taut ex
citement, or concern.
During the show, the city am
bulance was called twice to the
side of the arena. Evan Osborne,
Klamath Falls, was taken to Pio
neer Memorial Hospital and treat
ed for a dislocated right elbow
after a hard fall from a bucking
horse. Judy McSmith, Bend,
was treated at the hospital and
released after she collapsed with
heat exhaustion.
At the start of the show, a
number of Indians were bucked
from horses in the grand entry.
Later in the program an unidenti
fied cowboy was dragged, but
not injured, when his hand caught
in the bucking strap on a Brahma
bull. A hard fall was taken by
Bobby Christiansen when his
horse slipped and fell while work
ing in the arena as a pickup man.
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