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"Break Agreement"
Chandler's Advice
FRANKFORT, Ky. API -"Break
the major-minor agree
menl." is Gov. A. B. Chandler's
advise to minor league baseball
in its fight for survival.
"The major leagues control
practically all the players and
most of the minor league clubs,
but have no real interest in
them," the former commissioner
said.
"Under the shortsighted and
selfish major league operations,
such as television invasion of mi
nor league territory, the farm sys
tem, the draft and huge bonuses,
the minors are gasping lor breath.
They must fight fire with fire, and
the best way would be to abro-
Hal Wood's
Weekend
Short Shots
' By HAL WOOD
SAN FRANCISCO (UPH
Saturday's shorts:
Gene Fullmer, win or lose, will
make more money off his fight
here with Carmen Basilio for the
NBA middleweight championship
than he did at any time when
he held the crown. His share of
the TV receipts will be $50,000
He'll get 25 per cent of the gate
which should bring in another.
$50,000. Biggest gale he ever got
while champion was $75,000, for
losing the crown to Sugar Ray
Rohinson ...
"Every team in the league used
(o send scouts to watch the open
practices of the Forty Niners,"
says head coach Red Hickey.
"But there will be none of that
this year. We'll have secret prac
tice as soon as the exhibition
schedule is over.
"I can recall the days when
1 was with the Rams. We had
people watching the Forty Niners
practice before we played them.
Most ridiculous report of the
year: A local columnist said that
Frankie Albert, former Forty
Niner head coach, collected
$30,000 in interest on his: five per
cent stock in the Forty Niners for
the 1958 campaign. At that rate
the San Francisco football club
made $600,000 last year. But don't
you believe it . . ,
San Francisco and Los Angeles
must rate as the top sports towns
In the country. Now it seems
everybody wants to promote
California. Bill Rosensohn of New
York staged a fight in Los Ange
les: now Norm Rothschild
Syracuse is the top man in the
Basilio-Fullmer fight here. Hor
8ce Stoneham brought the Giants
from New York to San Francisco
and Waller O'Malley took the
Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los
Angeles. The Forty Niners and
the Rams draw more for their
football exhibitions than most
National Professional Football
league teams do for reg
ular season games . . . With
the beaches, hunting, fishing and
skiing, it must be surmised that
the average Californian spends
more money," per capita, on en
tertainment than any other per-!
son in th world
And speaking of Brooklyn, we
never seem to hear of the bor
ough since the Dodgers evacu
ated. It's just another part of
New York now, like Queens
Manhattan or the bronx.
gate the pact with the big leagues
"That would do away with the
draft, and the optioning and re-l
call of players. The majors could
sign all the 'bonus players they
desire, but at cut down time
they'd have to release most of
the talent now being farmed, and
the minors would sign them as
free agents.
"Then they could sell them back
to the majors, after developing
them, instead of just getting a pit
tance for the development as it
is now. It would also do away
with the majors recalling a play
er in mid-season, thus wrecking
the interest in the minor league
cities."
Of the 150 minor league clubs
30 are owned outright by major
lopp teams. Practically all the
others are under control of the
majors to some extent through
working agreements.
Since 1949 a total of 38 leagues
and 29fi cities have passed from
the minor league picture, leaving
21 leagues and 150 towns.
"And, unless the majors change
their attitude, or the minors start
fighting, I see the complete de
struction of the minors," Chand
ler said. "And if the minors fall
the majors won't survive . too
long."
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Cubs Hex Top 5'
C ASox Breezing
Chicago Clubs Prove Major Problem
ism
TITLE FIGHT ACTION Here is the action between sec
ond and third knockdowns in third round of th Moore
Durello light heavyweight title fight at Montreal. Referee
Jack Sharkey watches Durelle as Moore moves In with a
punch that bounces the challenger to the ropes, Moore
won on a knockout after decking the Canadian four times.
AP Wirephoto
Eugene,
Yakimans
Defeated
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wenatchee's Chiefs are back in
first place in the Northwest
League baseball standings but by
only a mere percentage point.
Wenatchee look over the top
rung by dumping Eugene, 10-4.
Friday night, while Lewiston was
pasting front-running Yakima, 9-7.
The results gave the Chiefs a .523
won-lost percentage compared to
the Bears' .522.
Eugene's Emeralds dropped to
fifth place but still only a game
and a half out of first in one of
the tightest pennant chases the
league has scon.
In the other league contest Fri
day night, Salem defeated Tri
City, 2-1, leaving the Braves 3Vi
games from the top.
The Chiefs had litlle trouble in
downing the Emeralds in an error-
filled game at Wenatchee. The
winners committed five bobbles,
Eugene four.
Veteran outfielder Herm Lewis
turned in a stellar performance
for Yakima In the Bears' losing
effort on their homefield. Lewis
drove in six of Yakima's seven
runs with two homers and a sin
gle. '
Roger Gregg drove in four runs
for the Broncs, three of them with
a bases-loaded double in the third
frame.
Carl Hutzler's bases - empty
homerun in the fourth inning
proved the winning tally in a tight
game between Salem and Tri-
City. .
Salem scored its first run in the
first but Tri-City tied it in the top
of the fourth frame when mana
ger Danny Holden doubled in a
runner. Hutucr s circuit clout
sent Salem ahead for keeps.
Mitef f Eyeing Swede,
But Doesn't Everyone
NEW YORK (AP) Every time
two heavyweights get together
Ihese troubled days, the winner
thinks he is ready for Ingemar
Johansson.
Argentina's Alex Miteff is no
exception. "Johansson? Sure I
want to fight him," said Alex Fri
Nixon Hobby
Sport Page,
Competition
CHICAGO (UPI Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon would like
to be a sports writer, he told the
annual meeting of the Football
Writers Assn., although he could
be a lawyer if his present occu
cation should change.
Nixon said that his hobby was
reading sports pages and watch
ing sports .competition, in person
or on television, and listed numer
ous memories that he has. Among
them was the recollection that he
was not a sports star in college,
although he went out for baseball,
football, basketbaR and track.
"j did get a letter in football,"
he said, "the year Whittier Col
lege had only 11 eligible players
and they had to play me at tac
kle
Warren Giles
Denies Protest
CINCINNATI UPI) National
League President Warren Giles
conceded Saturday that Bill Rigney
had a .point, but still rejected a
protest by the San Francisco
Giants' manager which arose dur
ing a 20-9 loss to the Chicago
Cubs last Thursday.
Rigney based his protest on the
fact Tony Taylor of the Cubs, on
third base at the time, fielded a
foul grounder off Ernie Banks'
ba in the fifth inning. The Cubs
led 10-7 at the time.
Quoting rule 7:09-C, Giles said
Beavers
Clinging
To Lead
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A newcomer, a veteran pitcher
and a man who nearly didn't play
baseball this season all had a
hand in keeping the Portland
Beavers ahead of the Pacific
Coast League pack Saturday.
Portland stayed at home Friday
night and swept to an easy 5-1 vic
tory over Sacramento, thus re
maining in first place by two full
games.
Lcn Tucker provided most of
the impetus at the plate in the
Portland victory.
Playing only his second game
in a Beaver uniform, Tucker, who
was purchased from the Vancou
ver Mountics this week, blasted
a three-run homer for Portland in
the first inning.
With that cushion, 36-year-old
Duane Pilletle pitched an adept
eight-hitter for Portland for his
seventh victory of the Reason. He
has lost but three.
Jim Westlake drove in Port
land's other runs. Westlake, who
had about decided to stay out of
baseball this year until given
Beaver contract, slammed a two-
run liner over the right field
fence. , .
Sacramento's lone run came in
the ninth. It also was a homer,
by Nippy- Jones.
day night after snapping Alonzo
Johnson's 13-fight winning streak
"I am a street fighter. I fight
anybody, anytime."
It probably will be a long cold
day in August before Miteff ever
gets a chance at the world cham
pion but he should get plenty of
work after Friday night's winning
effort.
Teddy Brenner, the Madi
son Square Garden matchmaker.
wants to pit him against Eddie
Machen or Willie Pastrano when
they reopen the arena in October.
Meanwhile, Miteff will be recover
ing Urom a cut left eye that re
qquired two or three stitches. He
also has a swollen finger.
Miteff hardly looked like a win
ner, when they rang the bell. But
he won it all right on the cards
of all three Afficials. Referee
Mark Conn and Judge Phil Bot-
winik scored it 6-4 and Judge Leo
Birnbaum had it 7-3. The AP card
also was for Miteff 5-3-2.
Despite his swollen eye, Miteff
made Johnson fight his kind of
fight. When; Johnson tried to trade
with Miteff he got the worst of
it. When he boxed at long range
and struck out with his slashing
punches, Johnson was in com
mand. Most of the time they
fought at close range where Mi
teff gave Alonzo's body an un
merciful pounding. ,
Miteff at 208 pounds to John
son's 185',i, had a small rubber
tire hanging over the. top of his
trunks. He claimed the extra
weight is good for- him. "Maybe
it doesn't look good but I felt
great," he said. "For the first
time I didn't get tired."
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
If the Chicago Cubs had only to
play the National League's top
three clubs, they'd probably win
the pennant.
No fooling. The fourth place
Cubs, playing only .478 against
the second division teams, hold
the season's edge on the first
place San Francisco Giants and
third place Milwaukee Braves
while holding the second place Los
Angeles Dodgers even.
Chicago's record against the
Giants is 8-7; against the Dodgers
it's 8-8: against the Braves is 8-7
The Cubs made it two in a row
over the Giants Friday, winning
7-5 on the strength of two-run
homers by Walt Moryn, Dale Long
and Ernie Banks. That gave the
Cubs 15 homers in their last four
games, all victories.
Despite the defeat, the Giants
lost no ground to their closest
pursuers as the Dodgers were
beaten 2-1 in 11 innings by St
Louis and Pittsburgh defeated the
Braves, also by a 2-1 score. Cin
cinnati swept a doubleheader
from Philadelphia 15-13 and 5-4
Chicago's White Sox increased
their American League lead "over
Cleveland to 3'i games, defeating
Kansas City 5-1 as Detroit was
scalping the Indians 11-1. Boston
whipped New York 11-6 with a
nine-run eighth inning and Wash
ington downed Baltimore 7-3.
Cubs 7, Giants 5
Trailing 3-1 in the sixth, the
Cubs tied the score on Moryn's
ItjtJ home run with a man on I had lour tn the opener. One of
bal Rookie Willie McCovey put I Robinson's hits was a three-run
thi Giants in front. 4-3. in thelhomer. his 27th.
luh with his third hit but the
Cvl went ahead in their half on
pili hitter Dale Long's two-run
hccr. Ranks followed with an-
otrr two-run homer, his JSth of
th year, to clinch the victory
The Reds snapped a 4-4 tie in
the eighth inning of the nightcap
when Johnny Temple doubled off
Jim Owens and scored on a single
by Gus Bell.
Don't tell Sherman Lollar that
rdinaU 1. Bums 1 Chicago's American League lead-
V,.,U ,.nr m,ff h i.
nch hitler Alex Grammas' ,,s " " "
1 . j : ,u- ...ijicrs. ine nnue x idiuin ma
iu. r..j- -ii u... u-jihit vou with that hot bat he's been
Mil till V at H3 mill mrj lint,
!h ,,- i.i in ih ,nth swinging lately
Cunningham's home run. Don
lidale gave up the homer.
Dany McDevilt gave up the win-
mil hit but Clem Labine, w ho I
puthe winnjing run on base, won
hi 12th. Duke Snider accounted
fo the Dodger run with his 18th
hiier.
Bucs 2, Braves 1
fern Law pitched a five-hitler
alinst the Braves for his 13th
vilory. Pittsburgh's two runs off
.My Jay came in the first on
sties by Bob Skinner, Bob Cle-
njnle and Smnkey Burgess and
A error by outfielder Lee Maye.
'e. Braves had beaten the Pi
i es six straight times.
eds 15-5, Phils 13-4
The Reds pounded out 30 hits
I their doubleheader sweep over
ie Phillies. They got 23 in the
pener as they overcame an early
0 Philadelphia lead. A five-run
ally in the ninth won it. Frank
ilobinson and Vada Pinsoni had
tVe hits each and Willie Jones
Sherm is a quiet, easy-going guy
who rarely has much to say but
oh. how his bat has been talking
lately.
The reticent Arkan.san walloped
two home runs Friday night, each
with a man on base, to lead the
White Sox to a 5-1 triumph over
Kansas- City. H was Lollsr's
lourth home run in three days dur
ing which he's driven in nine runs.
The triumph together with' De
troit's li t shellacking of Cleve
land, increased the White Sox's
lead over the Indians to 3'i
games, five in the lost column.
Lollar leads the Sox with 17
home runs and 65 runs batted in
for the season. He was the team
leader last year, too, with 20 home
runs and 84 runs batted in.
Chicago 5, KC 1
Bob Shaw pitched a five-hitler
for the While Sox and lost his shut
out in the eighth on singles by
Kent Hadley and pinchhitter
Preston Ward. It was the young
right-hander's 12th victory of the
season, his sixth in succession. Ha
has lost but three.
Tigers 11, Indians 1
Eddie Yost, veteran Tiger third
baseman, banged five straight
singles his first 5 for 5 game in
15 big league seasons to help
Frank Lary register his 15th tri
umph of the campaign. The vet
eran right-hander missed getting
his fourth shutout when Tito
Francona homered for Cleveland
in the ninth. Detroit collected 14
hits and dime loser Cal McLish
out of the box with a four-run out
burst in the third to take a 7-0
lead.
BoSox 11, Yanks 6
The Red Sox pounded three Yan
kee pitchers for nine hits in the
big eighth, including a grand slam
homer by pinch hitler Vic Wert.
Ryne Durcn was the victim of
Wcrtz' base-clearing wallop im
mediately alter relieving starter
Whitcy Ford with the bases full,
nobody out and the Yankees lead
ing 6-2. After Gary Geigcr's home
run had given the Red Sox the
lead, Boston scored four more be
fore Bobby Shantz put out the fire.
It was Duren who threw a homo
run ball Wednesday night to pinch
hitter Julio Bccquer with two on
that gave Washington a 3-2 victory.
Solons 7, Birds 3
Harmon Killebrew hit a homa
run, then doubled home the lie
breaking run in Washington's vic
tory over Baltimore.
Portland LL
Squad Edged
PORTLAND (AP) - The Wash-I
ington Little League baseball
champions met the British Co
lumbia winner for the divisional
Little League title Saturday and a
trip to the Western regional tour
ney next weekend at Sacramento,
Calif.
Alcoa of Vancouver, Wash.,
eliminated Ihe Oregon titlisls,
Norlheast of Porlland, 1-0 Friday.
despite the 'one-hitch pitching of
ih rnlo stain, n runner is nut Northeast's Steve Reiter.
if he intentionally deflects the. ftlcoa s vincem smgiea in me
course of a foul ball in any man- slxtn' ,hcn went t0 thlrd on an
error ana scorea on neuer s wua
throw.
Alcoa 0n 001-1 1 4
Northeast 000 000-0 2 1
Rhode and Cheney; Reiter and
Hohnslein.
"Taylor did touch the ball and
was wrong in so doing," Giles
added, "But rule 7:09-C was nev
er intended as a penalty for such
an act as this, which had no ef
fect whatever on that' particular
play. The primary purpose is to
Nixon said the most exciting. . . rnn-r r h,t,er frnm
thing he'd seen in sports was ondenec(j (he co(rsc o g (ou,
television, ine unio oime-iuwa
game two years ago when Bob
White carried "nine straight
times over the same position, and
even though Iowa knew where he
was coming, they couldn't stop
him, and Ohio State won."
In his memory, he said, Frank
Gifford was the best all around
player, Ernie Pinkert the best
blocker, Gene Brilo the best de
fensive lineman, Sammy Baugh
the best passer, and Johnny I'ni
tas the coolest player.
The best quarterback, he said,
would be George Marshall, owner
of the Washington Redskins, be
cause he can "sit way up there
tn the stands and call the most
Imaginative game. If he only had
he players to go with nis cans,
then the. Redskins might wis this
fear."
ball into fair? territory to advan
tage their team. No such action
was evident here.
"The protest is therefore disal
lowed and the game stands as
played." '
Bill Blakcly Wins
VICTORIA, B. C. (AP) - Power
driving Bill Blakely of Portland
won the Northwest Seniors' Golf
Assn. championship Friday with a
3 and 2 win over Tom Green of
Seattle. '
It was the second lime Blakely,
58, has won the title since he' be
came eligible for the tourney in
1958. That year he won medalist
honors but lost in the semifinals.
He won the title in 1957 and was
medalist again last year.
Bookie Ring
Erased In SF
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-If
you ve got two bucks and
hunch, don't dial SEabright 1-2871
because the joint's been raided.
Police converged Friday on
the nerve center of a $10,000 to
SI5.000 a day bookie ring that was
comfortably established in a tow
er over a popular bar in the Sun
set district here.
The rooftop lower, operated by
George iTimmy) Early, 50, was
equipped with television set, cof
fee maker and the all-important
telephone. Early said he had "no
idea" what went on in the com
pact, circular tower, but while he
nervously looked on, police an
swered the telephone nearly once
a minute taking bets ranging
from U to $100.
Brown
Injured
Severely
CHICAGO (AP) Halfback Don
Brown of Houston fought a life-
death battle on the grass of Soldier
f ield ana won.
From then on, his shaken All
Star teamates fought in a phs
chological maze and lost 29-0
to the National Football League
champion Baltimore Colts. '
The All Stars undoubtedly would
have lost Friday night to the on-
rushing wave of seasoned vetcr-
rans in football's hardiest league
But Ihe depressive sight of
Brown, injured in1 the first quar
ter, struggling for life on the
gridiron before being hauled off to
a hospital, was enough to jolt the
most calloused player.
Brown went out for a hook
pass, explained Lee Grosscup of
Utah, the starting All Star quar
terback. "He was supposed to
swing tight. I think one of the
Colts' pluggers clotheslined him
(accidentally hit him across the
throat.)
For 12 minutes, Brown lay
silently on the ground while 70,000
fans stared downward at officials
trainers and coaches frantically
working over him.
"When Brown got hurt, that was
a big letdown, said Coach Otto
Graham afterward. "He actually
died on the field and stopped
breathing. But they finally opened
his mouth and brought him around
again. I was scared to death."
The impact on his throat caused
Brown to swallow his tongue. He
was choking to death. The situa
tion was remedied during the
frantic 12 minutes he lay on the
ground. Hospital attendants later
said he also suffered a slight con
cussion but his condition war
good.
As for the game, Graham said
"We didn't have the horses and
the Colts were a lot tougher than
Detroit,"
Fraley's
Facts
And Figures
By OSCAR FRALEY
NEW YORK (UPI) - Fearless
Fraley's facts and figures:
Rocky Marciano despite all his
protestations to Ihe contrary
would come back and challenge
for the heavyweight champion
ship, intimates say, if his finan
cial demands were met but the
asking price is too' high.
Marciano," they assert, wanls al
guarantee of one million dollars
but the gimmick is that he wants
it paid at 50 thousand dollars a
year over a 20-year period. The
answer seems to be that nobodyl
is willing to put up that kind ol
money for such a commodity.
Not that the Rock's reputation
wouldn't fill a stadium against,
say, Ingemar Johansson. But he
still has that ' bad back which
helped force him to retire, he i.
badly out of fighting condition anc
it has been four years since hi
had a fight . . . Such a guaranty
would be a tremendously risk;
proposition even if old Fearle's
personally would pay (heaven!
forbid!) to see such a brawl . . !
WILT IN PRO DEBUT i
Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlaii
the seven foot basketball wonder
will make his debut against N
tional Basketball Assn. oppositii
in the NBA's Maurice Stokes full
all-star game at Kutsher's Cou,
try Club on Tuesday. And tk
pros can expect to really H
something.
Fuzzy Levane, coach of th
New York Knickerbockers, sa
Wilt play against another sevo
footer, Detroit's Walter Duke,
and he gives the tipoff on Chan-
berlain's ability by asserting tht
"Wilt handles Dukes like he w.s
a baby." ... , .
Spalding has a lock on majoii
league baseball manufacturin
but, even if it didn't, the proposed
Continental League would have ti
go to them if and when it gel
in business. This is because tin
sporting goods outfit has the naml
'Continental League" registerel
as the name for one of its chean
er quality balls ... So all they
have to do would be to ship
ball which would match the opei
ing talent of the new league .
BALLY ACHE BARGAIN
Leonard Fruchtman, the Tolei
steel man, came up with ,one
the turf's bargain buys when
purchased Bally Ache for $1.2(1
The colt to date has won $1(4
961. But Fruchtman says his
thinks more of the cups a
plates the colt wins .than she dn
of the monetary return . . . whi
is simply a case of "speak
yourself, Priscilla." . . .
Bally Ache, incidentally, is
son- of Ballydam. So when thy
were trying to name the colt, Mh
little success, Fruchtman stornjd
"this- whole thing is giving rit
belly ache." ... so they namo" It
"bally ache. . . .
Carmen Basilio, who leaves iyr-
acuse on Sunday for San Fan
cisco where on Aug. 23 he met
Gene Fullmer for the vanted
NBA middleweight title, inist
that this could be "my tougiest
light. This despite his last rriil
ing at the hands of Sugar lay
Robinson.
"Against Robinson I knew vlat
I was up against," he explahs
"But against - Fullmer I di
t hat s because Fullmer Is so tin
orthodox and, instead of beiti
standup puncher, makes full use
of his elbows and even his hen
. . this could well be a pier siihe
cause Carmen has his full tlaj-e
of head and elbows, too , , ,
Powerful Baltimore Colts
Deal All-Stars Grid Lesson
CHICAGO (AP) The powerful
ialrimore Colts gave the College
11-Stars a painful football lesson
Soldier Field Friday night and
took only 30 minutes to do it.
With snapshooting Johnny Uni
ts neatly hurling three touchdown
lasses, the National Football
league champions hanged to a
h-O halftime lead over Ihe out-
flasscd collegians and that's the
k-ay the uneven match wound up
h the big lakefront stadium be-
ore 70,000 fns.
Unnerved by an injury to half
back Don Brown of Houston, who
wallowed his tongue and ap
peared near death on Ihe field,
ihe All-Stars huffed and puffed in
utile fashion against the bruising
pros.
The scoreless second half didl
not mean improvement among the
hard-trying college lads as much
as it rcflecled Ihe fact the Colls
eased up in pursuit of the 16th pro
victory against 8 defeats and 2 ties
in the All-Star series.
In justice to the All- Stars. It
should be stressed that their two
offensive centers, both from Ohio
Slate Dan James and Dick Scha
frath were lost by injuries. Tack
le Bob Rcifsnydcr of Navy took
over the ball-snapping, but he, too,
was injured, and 290-pound Mac
Lewis of Iowa, also listed as a
tackle, finished at center.
But the troubles that surround
ed the All-Stars, in the main, in
volved what happened after the
array of four different quarter
backs got hold of the ball.
The All-Stars, whose deepest
penetration was to the Baltimore
3-yard line late In the third quar
ter, were comforted after tha
game by the vice president, Rich
ard Nixon.
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