eaction Vehement At Boxing Following Moore's
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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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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