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eaction Vehement At Boxing Following Moore's Peatfc HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Adcock, Triandos Find Life With Mew Clubs, Uniforms By DICK JOYCE I'PI Sports Writer ,Ine Adcock and Gus Triandos long ball clouters who suffered disappointing seasons in 1962 ap pear to have gained a new lease on life w ith a change of uniforms. Adcock, acquired by Cleveland from the Milwaukee Braves, hit a pair of three-run homers in leading the Indians to an 11-3 ex hibition victory over the Houston Colts Monday. Triandos, obtained from the Baltimore Orioles, wal loped a homer and drove home four runs in the Detroit Tigers' L ' t I I i THE DALTON BROTHERS Dalton Brothers Feature Mat Card "The Dirty Dalton Brothers," holders of the -Northwest Tag' jTeam championship, will be t h e 'main feature on the wrestling (card to be held Wednesday night 'at the Klamath Auditorium. 1 They will be in Klamath Falls to defend that Northwest tag title by taking on fast-rising challeng ers Rocky Columbo and Cowboy g Rob Boyer. The match will bel . sfor the championship. , 1 The supporting card will have popular Wild Bill Savage, a well i known wrestling figure here, go- Mel Counts Shatters Record Book .1 CORVALLIS (UPII Towering ; Mel Counts finished the basketball season with 661 points in 31 games (or a one season Oregon State i' scoring record, final statistics I showed today. The Beavers were bealen by j Cincinnati and Duke in the NCAA !i chnmnionshins last weekend tn p end their campaign with a 22-9 record, the seventh best mark in the history of the school. Counts, a 7-foot junior from Coos Bay. shattered 7-2 Wade I Swede ) Halbrook's scoring rec ord of 614 in 1953-34 and ran his point total in two years at Oregon State to 1,198. Dave Gambee w ith 1.468 points holds the Beavers' career scoring mark. Counts also picked off a record 4H5 rebound this season. Seniors Terry Baker and Steve Pauly were second and third in scoring with 334 and 284, respec tively. Sophomores Frank Peters with 283, Jim Jarvis with 191 and Jim Kraus with 10.1 rounded out the top six. Pauly finished 11th and Baker 12th among OSU's all time scorers. The Beavers also broke school attendance records. They per formed before a record 259,598 persons in their 31 games and sell a home mark with 96.004 in 12 contests. Baker To Pass Up Star Game ' CORVALLIS. Ore. U PI '-Terry Baker. Oregon State's llcis- man award winning football quar terback, has decided to pass up the Coaches' All-Star basketball came in Lexington. Ky. Baker, who also quarterbacks the Beaver cage squad from his guard position, had been picked fur the West team. He was drafted bv the Los An geles Rams of the National Foot ball Loacue and may sign a con tract with the Rams soon. Gordon Martin of Southern Cali forma was picked tn take Baker's place on the West team. HAW KS RECALL DEJORDY CHICAGO (L'Pli The Chicago, Black Hawks have recalled Denis Dcjordy from Buffalo to serve as a reserve goaltender in their first two National Hockey Iasue play off games against Detroit. Falls, Ore. Tuesday, 17-3 triumph over the Washington! Senators. The 34 year-old Adcock, a hard- hitting National League first baseman for 13 seasons, slipped to a, .248 batting average last i year, far below his lifetime .282 mark. However, Joe belted 29 homers and drove in 78 runs in 1962 so Cleveland Manager Birdie Tebbetts, who managed Milwau kee last year, thought enough of Adcock to ' take him along to Cleveland. Suffered Injured Hand Triandos, who spent most of ing against young Rickey Hunter. Buck Davidson of Klamath Falls will wrestle on the first prelim if he is available. His opponent was unknown at press time. Jack and Jim Dalton, who claim1 to be direct descendants of the famous (or infamous) outlaw gang, are from Kansas City. They wear their hair long and they are decked out in a fancy assort ment of cowboy clothes, including authentic .45 revolvers. This shall bring about another part of the program. Jack Dalton will challenge all comers in a fast draw contest in the ring be fore the main event. Promoter El lon Owen will offer a $10 prize to! the winner. The two Daltons will also put on an exhibition of fancy gun handling. The Daltons have hit the North-1 west by storm and it didn't take; them long to win the tag team championship along with becom ing big attractions in Seattle, Portland and other cities. They like it rough and the ac tion is fast, furious and continu ous when they are performing. lhe rougher it gets, the belter they like it. They are certain to get all the action they want against Hunter and Boyer. Columbo is an ex-boxer from New York. Boyer is a relative newcomer to the ring. Both arc fast, two of the fastest operating in the Northwest. Columbo has a temper to go with his punching ability. Boyer is improving all the time and recently defeated Northwest champ Vachone, in Roscburg. Savage is a well-known grap plcr in this area and he also likes it rough. Hunter is fast im proving and he may give Savage some trouble with his acrobatic ability. Tickets are on sale at Dick Reedcr's and the Waldorf. Dallas Bowlers , . Did rOT Lead BlrrALO. N Y. UPI ) Ad miration homes of Dallas. Tex., opened its bid for classic division honors Mondav nioht Iw rnllinn 3 054 in its firs Ihree game block in the American Rnu lino f'nn. gross tournament. The Texans need 3,156 tonight to overtake the leaders of the di vision, United Van Lines of St. Louis. In other classic action, the Fairlanes team of Fairless Hills Pa . failed to stage a comeback in its last three games and wound up with 5.703 to place far below the leaders. No one on the team fired in the 600's Monday night and the Fairlanes added only 2.729 to the 2.974 compiled Sun day. The top 10 standings remained firm in all nine divisions Monday night. Bet score in the minor I events was turned in by Ophir Vellcnowath and Jack Reuther of Wheeling. W. Va , in the regular doubles with 1.2.19. Harold Stewart of Akron. Ohio, had such a strong lineup in Pal compiled l.fwi in the regular all- mer, Player and Nicklaus. Nick- events. March 26. 1963 the last 4'i catch Hoyt knuckleballs. seasons trying to Wilhelm's elusive cot into only 66 names last season, hittinc .159. because of an injured hand the result of a Wilhelm pitch, The 32-vear-old Triandos. who has three times tied the major league record of four passed halls in a game, was never hap pier when traded and may take the No. 1 backstop job over Mike Roarke and rookie Bill Freehan. Another disappointment last year, third baseman Bubba Phil lips, who batted only .258 for Cleveland, rapped five hits for Detroit Monday as the Tigers pounded out 17 hits while Phil Regan and Dick Egan held the Senators to four hits. Cubs Beat Angels In other games, the Chicago Cubs raked Bo Belinsky and whipped the Los Angeles Angels, 7-4; Jim Hickman's 11th inning homer earned the New York Mets a 4-3 victory over the Braves; the St. Louis Cardinals edged the Chicago White Sox, 4-3; the Kansas City Athletics routed the Cincinnati Reds, 11-4; the New York Yankees tripped the Los Angeles Dodgers. 5-2; Paul Brown pitched a six-hit. 2 0 victory for the Philadelphia Phil lies over the Minnesota Twins; the Baltimore Orioles nipped the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5-4, and the Boston Red Sox stopped the San Francisco Giants, 4-2. Ernie Banks hit a homer and two doubles and Ron Santo hit a homer to help the Cubs to vic- troy. Belinsky, who hadn't al lowed an earned run in 13 pre vious exhibition innings, was reached for four runs and eight hits. Hits Long Homer Hickman's homer travelled 425 feet and came with two out in the 11th inning to offset five early errors by the Mets. The Braves had staked southpaw Warren Spahn, who worked six scoreless innings, to a 3-0 lead before an error helped the Mets catch up. Carl Sawatski's two-run double in the ninth inning pulled out the Cardinal win, erasing Dave Nich olson's 450-foot, two-run homer for the White Sox. George Alusik of the A's rapped out four sin gles and knocked in four runs as Cincinnati pitchers gave up 16 hits. The Yankees beat the Dodgers for the first time in three games this spring behind the pitching of Bud Daley and Skinny Brown, who held Dodger batters hitless for 5 1-3 innings. The world champions touched Don Drysdale or nine hits in six innings. Strikes Out Seven Brown, sidelined by illness mosi of last season, struck out Name Corrected On Jr. Bowler There Is a correction on the name pf a Junior League bowl er whose picture was in Sun day's Herald and News. It was erroneously reported that It was Bruce Sneed as half of a win ning combination for second place In the recent State Junior Bowling Tournament. His name is Bruce Seoecal. The name was reported tn the Herald and News that way and it is regret ted. 4-Man Field For World Series Of Golf AKRON. Ohio (UPD-All pre cautions have been taken to guar antee a four-man field for the 1963 World Series of Golf, it was revealed today by Walter Schwimmer, organizer of the event. The original idea of the World Series was to match the winners of thc world's four major golf tournaments the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open and the PGA and while the format remains thc same, several amendments have been added to assure a full field this year At slake in the World Scries is a first-prize payoff of $50,000. golfs most lucrative jackpot, for just 36 holes of work. The championship was inaugu rated last year but Arnold Pal mer threw a scare into the or ganizers by winning both the Masters and British Open and losing in a playoff In Jack Nick- laus for the U.S. Open .South! Africa's Gary Player later quali fied for a third spot by captur ing tlie PGA. Although original plans called, who took llthifnr a field of four. Schwimmer decided to go with three since he ilaus, playing his first season on PAGE seven and worked out of a bases- loaded, one-out jam in the ninth to become the first Phillie to go nine innings. Rookie Richie Allen contributed a homer. Rookie Bob Savarine continued to wield a hot bat for the Ori oles, banging out four hits to give him 17 in 32 at-bats this spring. Frank Malzone delivered a bases filled double to lead the Red Sox attack. Jack Sanford of the Giants permitted only an un earned run in five innings before Don Larson came on and suf fered the loss. At Clearwater. Fla. Minnesota 000 000 000 0 6 2 Philadelphia 010 000 lOx 2 7 1 Stigman, Bonikowski 8 and Zimmerman. Brown and Oldis Loser Sigman. HR R. Allen. At Vero Beach, Fla. New York (A) 000 311 000- 5 10 0 L.Angeles IN) 000 000 020 2 5 2 Dalev. Brown (4. Reniff (8) and Blanchard. Drysdale. Roe buck (7), Scott (9i and Camilli, Brumlcy (7. Winner Daley. Loser Drysdale. At Sarasota, Fla. St. Louis 100 000 012 4 7 0 Chicago (A) 000 001 020 3 11 0 Washburn. Sadccki (71, Olivo 19) and Oliver, Sawatski 17) Baumann, Johnston 6, Phillips (9) and Lollar. Winner Sadecki. I-oser Phillips. HRs Cunning ham, Nicholson. At Tampa, Fla. Kansas City 101 040 041-11 16 0 Cincinnati 200 100 001 4 10 1 Pfister, Wyatt (7) and Bryan, Azcue (6). Tsitouris, Henry (6), Fodor (91 and Edwards. Winner Pfister. Loser Tsitouris. At Ft. Myers, Fla. (10 Innings) Baltimore 000 003 100 1 5 10 2 Pitts. 020 100 010 0 4 9 2 McCormick, Burnside (3), Short (51, Stone (8) and Orsino. Card- well, Sturdivant (8 and Paglia- roni. Winner Stone. Loser Stur divant. HR Goss. At Pompano Beach, Fla. Detroit 030 331 043-17 17 Washington 000 200 100 3 5 2 Regan, Egan (7) and Triandos Daniels, Daird (5), Baker (8) and Schmidt. Winner Regan. Loser Daniels. HR Triandos, Os borne, Goldy, Kostro. At St. Petersburg, Fla. '11 innings) Milw 100 011 000 00-3 8 1 N Y. 000 000 210 01 4 11 5 Spahn, Constable (7), Funk I8, White (10) and Crandall, Torre (6). Rowe, Kucks (6), Reed (81, Hawkins (11) and Sherry. Winner Hawkins. Loser White. HR Hickman. At Mesa, Ariz. Los Ang (A) 000 210 100 4 9 2 Chicago (N) 003 010 12x 7 14 2 Belinsky, Grba (6) and E. Sa- dowski. Jackson, Schultz (8) and Bertell. Winner Jackson. Los er Urba. HH Dees, Santo, Banks. At Scottsdale, Ariz. San Fran. 001 000 010- 2 7 1 Boston 010 003 OOx 4 9 0 Sanford, Larsen (6) and Bailey. Stephenson, Radatz (6) and Till man. Winner Radatz. Loser Larsen. HR Davenport. At Tucson, Ariz. Houston 001 200 000- 3 6 1 Cleveland 003 034 10X 11 13 0 Bruce, Brunei 6, Dickson (8) and Campbell. Sicbcrt, Perry (3), Nischwitz (fl) and Romano. Win ner Perry. Loser Bruce, HR Adcock 2. Guaranteed the pro tour, emerged the winner with a 36-hole course record score of 1.15 at Akron's Firestone Country Club. This year's tourney will be played on the same course. Sept. 7-8. but regardless of the out come of lhe qualifying tourna ments, four players will take part, even if one man should complete a grand-slam. The first amendment to guar antee a full field specifies that lhe defending champion in this case Nicklaus becomes the' No. 1 alternate in case one play cr wins more than one of the ma jor qualifying championships. Hie second concession is that the loser of a playoff in one of those tournaments will qualify an alternate, in l!2, for exam- D1INEDLN, Fla. (UPD Arnold pie. playoffs decided both thelpalmer earned $1,800 in the Doral Masters and the U.S. Open, and1 Open Golf Tournament last week if this rule had been in eflectiend to close in on leader Gary last year. Dow Finstcrwild, loserl Player in the Professional Golf- to Palmer in the Masters, wouldlers' Association money-winning have earned the fourth spot the World Series. Should one man sweep all four tourneys without being involved in any playoffs, then an 18 holc playoff will be conducted at Fire stone on Sept. 3 between the second-place finishers of those cham pionships. DEATH CAUSE REVEALED Neurosurgeon Dr. Cyril Courvilla draws a diagram of the brain damage he and LA County Coroner Theodore Curphey, right, found when they performed an autopsy on fighter Davey Moore. At a news conference in Los Angeles, they announced that in addition to damage to the brain stem, there were large contusions in the middle of the cerebral hemispheres and a hemorrhage on the right side of the brain. They summarized that his death was due to brain damage as a result of application of blunt froce to the head. UPI Telephoto Butts Files Libel Suit ATLANTA (UPD-Former Uni versity of Georgia athletic direc tor Wally Butts charged in a $10 million libel suit Monday that the "sophisticated muckraking" of the Saturday Evening Post hasl ruined his 35-year football coach ing career. Butts accused the magazine of "wilfully, maliciously and false ly" publishing an article concern ing him in lhe March 23 issue of1 the Post The article, entitled "The Story of a College Football Fix," said an Atlanta insurance man George Burnett, accidentally overhead a long distance tele phone conversation in which Butts gave valuable information to Alabama Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant before the 1902 Georgia Alabama game. Both Butts and oryani ucuieu we accusauun. Atlanta attorney Pierre How - ard said Monday that Burnett re ceived $5,000 from the Post for information n tile article. In a libel suit filed in federal district court here, Butls asked $5 million in general damages and $5 million in punitive dam ages from the Curtis Publishing Co.. which publishes lhe Posl. "Plaintiff's career as a mem ber of the football coaching pro fession has been ruined and de stroyed by this scurrilous and con temptible defamation, the suit said. Bryant has indicated through his attorneys that he intends to file a second libel suit against the magazine. He already has sued the Post for $500,000 as a result of an earlier article accus ing him of condoning brutality among his players. Butts' suit said he had enjoyed a national reputation as a suc cessful and respected member of lhe coaching profession and in 1959 was elected president of the National Football Coaches Asso ciation. Bui, it said, lhe Posl destroyed this long career with the article, which, it said, was a result of the Post's "announced new edi- Pel Boosters Slate Meeting The Pelican Bookter Club will hold its weekly meeting Wed neday night, beginning at 6:30 at the Broiler Restaurant. Bill Mansfield, baiicball coach, Jack Peterson, track coach, and Gil Boyd, tennis coach, are ex pected to be available to give short talks on their respective teams and prospects of the Peli cans, as.PAL.MKR CLOSING IN mi standings. DOWNTOWN OFFICE SPACE Inquire At GUN STORE 714 Main . . .... . 1 V 10 Million Against Post loriul policy. . .(of) sophisticated muckraking. . .in an apparent last ditch effort tn bolster its sagging circulation. . ." A number of witnesses, includ ing Burnett and current Georgia Coach Johnny Griffith, were questioned Monday by state Alty. Gen. Eugene Cook in his investi Al Weill Defends Boxing Business By OSCAR FRALEY UPI Sporls Writer MIAMI (UPD-Al Weill, the man who kid-gloved Rocky Mar ciano to an undefeated career. st0,)pC( to thc defense of boxing loday despite gale proportion dia- jlribes following the death of for- mcr featherweight boxing cham pion Davey Moore. Weill, a man currently without a boxer and "having no axo to grind," laid the blame squarely at the faulty doorstep where it belongs. "The fuult is with politically ap pointed commission doctors who should be supplanted by special ists." Weill charged, "and with 'amateur' managers who sacrifice their fighters for a quick payoff." Need Boxing Figure The answer to it all, he con tended, is a federal boxing com missionera fight man like Jack Dempsey or Gene Tunney and "not a politician who doesn't know a damned thing about boxing and its problems." "Moore dies of boxing injuries and right away they talk about banning the sport, or business, if you will," Weill asserted. "Well, why not ban football? After all, more than 40 kids and young men were killed playing football two years ago and nobody says ban football. Why not? Is il okay to kill off rich kids who can go to college and banish boxing because one man died who otherwise might never have had a chance to make a name and some mon ey for himself?" An aggressive defender of box ing. Weill offered as credentials that fact that he has retired "about 80" of his fighters during his career. These included such as Lou Ambers, Marty Servo, Al Nellow and Sammy Luflspring. l)Se Reflexes "I didn't wail 'til they got killed,'" said Weill. "I could sec them going back, or losing their reflexes. I knew they had It When Ambers was champion I didn't have a contract. When I made him retire, I signed him to a 10-year contract at one dollar NEW LOCATION - KUHLMAN INSULATION 1721 MAIN Call er nop of our "Houit cl Alum inum" for irto ottimolct on aluminum ttdinfl, roofing, car ports, patiot, ttorm window and doort. NOW! DOWNTOWM BUSINESS r a kjj-irjitci KUHLMAN Ph. TU 4-7039 gation of charges in Die article. Cook said he intended to ask Butts and Bryant to take new lie detector tests but he indicated he possibly was satisfied with Bur nett's lest by a "qualified" poly graph operator. Both Butts and Bryant passed lie detector tests last week. a year. Then I knew nobody could get lo him." Weill has one boxer right now he is trying to get banned in Eng land. "Dave Rent is under contract to me," he said. "I sent him lo Europe, heard he had double vi sion, and told him to retire. Now I hear he is lo fight in the scmi- windup in London this very day. cabled the London Board of Boxing Control not to use him be cause he has double vision." Weill's feeling Ls that there def initely is a place for boxing in the American scene, but insists that if commission doctors and munagcrs knew their business the fatalities would not occur. Hatfield Speaks Out On Boxing SALEM (UPI) Boxing should be allowed to continue only if pro tective headgear is adopted and changes arc made in gloves, Gov Mark Hatfield said Monday, "I think boxing ought lo be giv en one last chance lo cope with its problems. Otherwise its days are numbered, the governor said. "Unless new mandatory equipment provisions can be in slitutcd, boxing is doomed to wider public disfavor." Hatfield spoke out after the dcalh of former featherweight champion Davey Moore in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Stale Sen. Lynn Ncwbry. R-Ashland. said his Sen ate Health and Welfare Commit tec will open hearings soon on a bill to outlaw professional boxing in Oregon. Thc bill, introduced by Sen Tom Monaghan, D - Milwaukie was languishing in committee un til Moore's death revived it. Mon aghan made an appeal for action on the bill Monday, suggesting the legislature could refer it to thc people for a vole. Marvin Kuhlman INSULATION 1721 Main 'Ml f W , it I Cause Reported 'One In Million' LOS ANGELES (UPli-Reac-tion was immediate and vehement following the death Monday of boxer Davey Moore despite a cor oner's report that the principal cause was a "one in a million accident." The 29-year-old fighter died of injuries suffered when his head snapped against the bottom ring strand on a 10th round knockdown in his featherweight championship bout with Sugar Ramos Thursday. Demands for bans on profession al boxing were made throughout tile world, including the Vatican Radio and legislators in Califor nia, Connecticut. New Y'ork and the U.S. House of Representatives But the sport was also defended by many leading figures in the sporting world and by Moore's widow and mother of their five children. Following an autopsy Monday Moore's body was taken to the Angclus Funeral Home where friends were invited to pay re spects today. Whiplash Major Factor Coroner Theodore Curphey and Dr. Cyril Courville, a prominent brain surgeon, told newsmen aft er the two-hour autopsy that thc bruises Moore suffered from the whiplash action of the bottom ring strand were the major fac tor in his death. But Curphey withheld final judgment that the injury was solely responsible. "I'm not prepared to rule out that blows on the jaw might be contributory," he said. "This is not contradictory to Dr. Cour villc's statement that the bruise from the rope was the major fac tor." Courville said he had never seen a death under such circumstances. The autopsy also revealed Moore took a severe beating to the head and suffered lacerations and contusions of the inner surface of the mouth after he lost his mouth piece in the fifth round. There were other injuries including a small hemorrhage in the right side of the brain, not sufficient to cause death. Moore Defended Boxing "In summary, his death was due to brain damage bs a result of application of blunt force to the head," the coroner's report baid. Moore, a champion in thc ring and a model of good conduct in private and public life, died three clays after the knockout without emerging from a deep comt;. He lost consciousness 40 minutes aft cr the fight and after he had talked with newsmen. Moore himself had defended boxing the day before his fatal fight, calling it a good sport and saying people who soek to outlaw it are "sick. "There are a lot of sports Uiat you get crippled and die in, Moore said in a radio interview, A race driver he can get killed . why don't thoy stop lhe 500 auto races?" Moore's wife, who was told of her husband's death while in the same hospital for treatment of shock and fatigue, said "it was God's will. 'Davey had planned to quit this year and go into some kind of business," she said. "But wo had no definite plans. This would have been his last year." To Discourage Sons She refused to condemn boxing although she said she would dis courage her sons from following in their father's footsteps. Asked about Ramos, Mrs. Moore said, "I don't blame him. Accidents can happen in anything. It was un avoidable. Ramos, weeping silently, was hardly able to answer reporters' questions, but said he didn't know if he would fight again. It was thc second time a boxer had died after a fight with Ra mos. Jose (Tiger) Blanco, a light weight, died in 155B in Havana of injuries suffered the day before. "It was one of my first fights,' Ramos, a Cuban now living in Mexico, said In Spanish. "Destiny hasn't treated me too well. I know it's not my fault but that doesn't make me feel better He said he felt the fight wilh Moore should have been stopped "I think maybe It should have been stopped in the eighth. His Moore's) legs were wobbling. Although many state boxing of ficials deplored Moore's tragic death, they defended the sport. Defend Sport Eugene Rabiet, general secre tary of the European Boxing Un ion, said relatively few fatal acci MARCH SERVICE SPECIAL! LUBE (With Oil JIM OLSON 522 So. 6th dents in the ring show there is far less danger than people think." Most boxing officials agreed that it was safer now than it has ever been. But many legislators were vigor ous in their demands the sport be outlawed. A two-pronged legislative attack designed to make boxing illegal was before the California Legisla ture loday, one a proposal con stitutional amendment that would ban the sport and the other that would ask the State Athletic Com mission to suspend promoters' li censes. Rep. Hugh L. Carey. D-N.Y.. said he would introduce a bill in Congress to outlaw professional boxing and Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn.. said he would reintro duce legislation designed to in sure a close check on the physical condition of licensed boxers. The Vatican Radio asked people everywhere to make their con demnation of professional boxing heard openly so that the sport may be reformed if not imme diately abolished. Boxing Attacked, On Ropes SACRAMENTO, Calif. UP1) -Professional boxing, which has been outlawed before in Califor nia, found itself back on the ropes today under a two-pronged legis lative attack designed to make it illegal. Lawmakers introduced a pro posed constitutional amendment that would ban the sport if passed by a state referendum at the 1964 general elections. But two Assemblymen also in troduced a legislative package Monday that could halt profession al lights almost immediately. This would ask the State Athletic Commission to suspend pro moters' licenses. The move started following Monday's death in Los Angeles of Davey Moore, who was fatally in jured last Thursday while losing his world featherweight title to Sugar Ramos. Assemblymen Carl A. Britschgi, R-Rcdwood City, and Alan G. Pat tee R, Salinas, are authors of the proposed law to revoke licenses'. "It seems ridiculous to let this thing go until 1964 and wait for a vote of the people," Brltschgi said. "I think we should pull the permits and stop it right now." And Pattee said, "if boxing Is going to be bad in 1964, it is bad now." The two Republicans also had planned to halt amateur boxing but Britschgi said, "we're not go- , ing to fool around with the ama teurs at the present time. They have hcadguards and other safe ty equipment. Besides, we'd get into too much opposition on It." Although the commission could ignore the resolution to take away licenses, "It wouldn't be very smart for them to do it." Britsch gi said, "a resolution like this is a type of mandate. Gov. Edmund G. Brown, long a foe of boxing, said that he was in favor of a referendum on the sport but opposd the Britschgi- Pattee proposal. "The people voted boxing in in and they have a right to box ing until they vote it out," said Brown, who said that he opposed it ever since he sold pop at fights in San Francisco. s; While the resolution needed a bare majority, it was conceded Uiat the proposed amendment would have an uphill battle be cause of the two-thirds vote need ed in the Legislature. Assemblyman George R. Mil ias, R-Gilroy, called for a com plete overhaul of the rules and said that he was not convinced that complete outlawing of the sport is the answer." Milia.i favors a two-knockdown rule, elimination of taped hands, 12-ounce gloves, mandatory head gear, a rating system to insure equal matches, and an eight count for a fighter who still is on his feet but in trouble. From 1914 until 1924, only ama teur boxing was legal In Califor nia. Then professional boxing be came legal that year by vote. Michigan is the only state In the Union to be completely split Into two parts. Chenaa) MOTORS INC. Ph. 4-5126
