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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Oregon Thursday, November 7, 1963 PAGE-IB toward Takes SAW Award Dn American BOSTON a'Pl The Ameri can League's Most Valuable Player award remained almost the exclusive properly of the New York Yankees today when Elston Howard won the 1963 honors in a landslide. The 33-jear-old Yankee catch er collected 15 of 20 first place votes in balloting by selected members of the Baseball Writ ers Association of America BBWAA and finished 100 points ahead of runnerup Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers. The results of the voting were announced here by Hy Hurwitz, national secretary of theJ association. Two members in each of the 10 American League cities participated in the balloting. In scoring his clear-cut vic tory over outfielder Kaline, Howard became the fourth suc cessive Yankee to capture the coveted award and Hie eighth New York w inner in the last 10 seasons. SucPeeds Mickey Mantle Howard succeeded Yankee outfielder Mickey Mantle, the 1962 &VP selection. Roger Maris won the award in I960 and 1961 and Yogi Berra, the Yankees' new manager, cap tured the title three times, in 1951, 1954 and 19gi. 0ly the t!cird catcher to win MVP honors,, Howard totaled 243 points to 148 for ialine. Yankee pitcher Whitcv Ford finished third at 123 points and was second only to Howard in first place votes with three. Kaline and Yankee Tom Trcsh, who was 11th in the point to- tals. netted the remaining No. 1 votes. American League home run champion Harmon Killebrew of Minnesota won a close three way battle for the fourth spot, his 83 points barely edging Bos ton relief pitching ace Dick Ra datz 1841 and American League batting champion Carl Yas trzemski of the Red Sox (81 1. The point totals dropped off rapidly from there with 29 players earning mention in the balloting. Top Kidding Catcher Howard, who didn't get a sin gle vote in 1962 though he bai ted .279. was named on all 20 ballots this year after a season in which he hit .287 to finish 12th in the league. He had 27 home runs, drove in 101 runs, and led the league's catchers in fielding with a .994 average. KaSne, who was mentioned on 19 of the 20 ballots, ranked scond in the American League hitting race with a .312 aver age. The Detroit outfielder, who was rested by the Tigers dur ing the late stages of the season, had 27 homers and 101 runs bat ted in. Fordo led the ASieriean League in games won (24i, per centage (24-7 for .774), and in nings pitched I26?i. Killebrew, who wcis third in the voting a year ago, was the league's top slugger with 45 homers though he batted only .258. Though he did not qualify among the official league lex ers onQthe basis of finings pitched, Rariatz had the cir cuit's best earned run average of 1.98 while posting a 15-6 rec ord in 66 games of relief. Yas trzemski's .321 average led the league by nine full points to earn him mention on 17 of the 20 ballots. Howard's choice meant that members of the New York Yankees have won MVP hon ors 16 times in the 33-year his tory of the award. Detroit is New York's nearest challenger for most MVP's with a total of six selections. Selected Before Series Howard's selection came in voting conducted even before World Series play when he led Yankee regulars by getting five hits off the Los Angeles Dodg er pitching staff. In addition, Howard was struck out only once by Dodger southpaw Sandy Koufax, who posted a World Series strikeout record and last week was namcct the National League's Most Valua ble Player. . It was Howard who spoiled Koufax's World Series no-hit bid and who drove in a run to break the Dodger southpaw's shutout try in the opening game. A nine-season Yankee veter an, How ard j)ioke into organ ized ball as an outfielder with Muskegon of the Central League in 1950 and had his mi nor league career interrupted by two years in the service. He won the International League's Most Valuable Player award while playing at Toronto after he was ordered convert ed to a calcher by Casey Sten gel in 1952. a '.,,. t-i, i e III 1 iw f St IM WO S. If 'MBS- Oflfi I 2 XTLSKSUKir 2 TT- .T.: .'-: E -taj -rx'.-r Hit Kit ft ' ml ""TP S 1 1 W.VMV v ft. A U-JC,. T e1x AMERICAN LEAGUE'S BEST New York's Elston Howard is shown in batting and catching poses this year. The Yankee standout was named Most Valuable Player in the American League today. UPI Telephoto Sinatra Open Draws Large Starting Field PALM SPRINGS. Calif. IL'PI' Some 150 profession al golfers start taking pot-shots today at a pot of $50,000 in the first Sinatra Open invilational at the new Canyon Country Club course. This is the largest pot ever put up for the opening of a PGA tournament but there's an explanation sponsor Frank Sinatra is a well-heeled and a well-known singer. The Sinatra fun-fest mod eled after that of his older pal, Bing Crosby, will be topped by a $10,000 pro-amateur 18-hole event Monday and an evening party at !3 a p!ate. Profits go to boys clubs in this area. The 72-hois open invitational has attracted most of the na tion's top pros who like the idea of the $9,000 first prize. The field included: veteran Sam Snead w ho rarely gels this far West but has a nose for dol lars: Tony Lema: Bill Casper; Gene Littler; Bob Nichols; Jacky Cupit; Tommy Jacobs; George Bayer; and the Cajun brothers from Louisiana, Jay and Lionel Hebert. Also entered were such rela tive newcomers as: Al Gciber ger. winner of last weekend's Almaden Open; and Mason Ru dolph, winner of the Fig Valley Open at FreK, Calif., two weeks ago. 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KIRO-TV. an affiliate of the Columbia Broadcasting System, has requested permission t o televise "live" the three re maining games. CBS has exclusive rights through a contract wilh the Na rional CoIWgiale Athletic Asso ciation to televise NCAA foot 1 jll ganws. Owens, in a letter lo the sta tion management, said he re jected the proposal because NC AA policy discourages "tele vision exposure" of a member team in more than one national and one regional telecast per season. Washington's gam with Air Force was televised nationally and the Washinglon-USC game regionally. Owens wrote that last year the NCAA approved only six ex ceptions to the two-telecast pol icy. One of tlie exceptions was the Washington Washington Slale game in Spokane. Tlie coach added that the uni versity, by contract, would have to make refunds to stations holding radio and television film rights to Washington football games. , named Back of the Week and Jim Dent of Oregon College lineman of the week by Oregon Collegiate Conference coaches today. Hood carried Ihe ball 18 times for 133 yards in SOC's Saturday loss lo Chico State. Dent helped hold champion Portland Stale to 82 yards on the ground, the lat ter's lowest total of the year. Bob Battle of Oregon Tech led in rushing with 53 yards in 149 carries. Bill Bailey of South ern Oregon topped the passers with 74 of 144 for 780 yards and six touchdowns, although Mike Schrunk of Portland State had a higher percentage and more yardage with 58 for 106 for 897 yards and 11 touchdowns. Doug Olsen of SOC led the scoring wilh 65 points on 7 touchdow ns and It extra points. Jim Hollingsworth of Portland State. 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