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A-16 Sports R ; w-& - *•- j ' ;■ " - ?. ■ 4*> : 4 *«§£. r- I Mfe BUM! f *U< ;W| f * WF J? *"■: JSIF * w®W<p|h * > **x * * k H HB < iw 1W MwhMbtairfiril f 1 qt S «E3P. • ~** w ■ ; wMMHMMMMMh* x - x : > ** : ... Italy’s Nicola Pietrangeli and Orlando Sirola (upper left) watch the last play of their doubles match with Chuck McKinley (lower right) and Earl Buchholz—McKinley throwing his racket into the stands—in the Davis Cup interzone finals at Perth, Australia. The Italians had just • won the match on a miss by McKinley, who exploded. The Italians then went on to take the next two singles matches to win a dramatic, come-from-behind victory and the right to meet Australia for the cham pionship.—AP Wirephoto. mH W/N, LOSE OR DRAW By FRANCIS STANN Time and Memories Are Enemies BOSTON, Dec. 12.—Time and memories will be the twin enemies of Ed Doherty and Mickey Vernon of the Senators and Fred Haney of the Los Angeles Angels tomorrow when they draw from the 120-player list to stock the American League's two new franchises. If the years could be peeled back—and if only one of |he fledgling organizations coud choose—it wouldn't be a bad ball club the Senators or Ange s would put on the field. An almost certain pennant conte ider, as a matter of fact. But it is fantasy of this sort that must be guarded against. Rookie Manager Ve non keeps reminding him self. “I knew the best known players on the list when they were good, some great,” Mickey says. "You've to remember that time has taken a toll. “There’s no point in loading up on veterans because they had it once. Doherty and I intend to claim Just enough older players to give us balance and pick younger prospects if possible. You know, for example, that Ted Klu- 1 szewski can’t play a full season. And what good is an old ball player when he runs out of gas? You can’t send him i to a farm team. You want kids to stock your farms.” •* * * BUT TO INDULGE the imagination, to give free rein to the capricious, a pretty good pitching nucleus would have come out of Don Newcombe, Bobby Shantz, Ned Garver, Billy Hoeft and even Don Larsen. Roll back the years to 1956 and Newcombe was a 27-7 pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Turn back the cal endar and Shantz was 24-7 for the Philadelphia Athletics in '52 and the AL's most valuable player. Upend the* hourglass and Hoeft was 20-14 for the Tigers in ’56 and Garver was 20-12 for the St. Louis Browns in '5l. Go back to ’56 and Larsen was 11-5 with the Yankees, for whom he additionally pitched the only per fect game in World Series history. Tomorrow they will cost $75,000 apiece if claimed and, alas, none is worth such a price. But in their peak years Newcombe, Shantz, Garver, Hoeft and Larsen aggregated a fictional 102-45 record. You don’t just win pennants at that pace, you breeze. •* • * SPEAKING OF BIG KLU, there was a time when $75,000 would only have been a down payment for Mr. Muscles. Like in 1954, when Theodore batted .326 for Cincinnati, hit 49 homers and drove across 149 runs. Oh, he was priceless over a four-year stretch with the Red legs—l9s3-56—when he hit over .300, knocked in more than 100 runs each season and hit 40, 49, 47 and 35 home runs. < But Kluszewski is 36 years old now, overweight, pain fully slow and with a suspect back to boot. Ten years ago Billy Goodman, one of the few active players with a lifetime average of .300 or better, led the AL in batting with .354. He was a spray-hitting pest for the Red Sox and a handy if not brilliant infielder because he could play all four positions. But Billy is over the hill, like the rest of the “name” expendables. Eddie Yost is on the list and he’s still a nuisance with his bases on balls. But go back to 1950 and he was as good a third baseman as there was in the league with a .295 batting average, stronger arm and faster feet than he has now. •* * * NONE OF THE AVAILABLE shortstop veterans ever threatened to make the Hall of Fame in their best days but the Joe DeMaestri of the A’s in ’53 could make all the plays, even if he batted only .255. And Billy Klaus was no drawback to the Red Sox in '55 when he hit .283. In AL President Joe Cronin’s office here tomorrow at last four once-formidable outfielders reportedly will be up for grabs. They aren’t what they used to be, but once upon a time Gene Woodling was hitting .321 for Cleveland over a season, Hank Bauer was helping to win nine pen nants for the Yankees, Bob Cerv was a .305 hitter with 38 homers and 104 RBIs at Kansas City and Jim Rivera was batting in high 280 s for the White Sox and running bases and throwing in a manner to inspire Rogers Horns by to call him “the only ball player today I’d pay to watch.” The best known among the catchers were an ordinary lot even in their palmiest days, although four years ago Clint Courtney hit an even .300 for Washington and could throw and receive better than now. Nor was Red Wilson to be confused with Mickey Cochrane, although two years ago he hit .299 for the Tigers. Those were years and records to remember perhaps, but to be put aside when tomorrow’s moment of truth arrives. As Vernon and Doherty agree, take a few and ■ leave a few. Especially at $75,000 apiece. IHt kVtNIHG St/r Washington, D. C., Mandaj, Dacamhtr 12, 1960 Ike Williams Tells Probe of Bribe Offers By GEORGE HUBER kt»r Staff Writer i Ike Williams, former light weight boxing champion, today told Senate investigators that his manager, Blinky Palermo, twice withheld "every nickel” from his championship fight purses and twice relayed to him big offers of bribes to throw fights. Palermo is a convicted Phila delphia racketeer whose name frequently has cropped up in the hearings that started last week before the subcommittee i headed by Senator Kefauver, ; Democrat of Tennessee. j Waiting to follow Williams to the witness chair was Sonny Liston, leading heavyweight contender. Testimony last week ( I connected Liston s manage- , jment with racket figures. $lOO,OOO Offer Williams told the subcommit tee that Palermo relayed bribe offers to him of $30,000 to throw a fight against Freddie Dawson in 1949, and $lOO,OOO to throw a fight against Kid Gav ilan. also in 1949. According to Williams, Palermo did not identify the party or parties making the original bribe offers. Williams said that in both instances Palermo advised him not to accept the bribes. "Actually I'm sorry I didn’t take it,” Williams said in refer ence to the $lOO,OOO offer before the Gavilan fight. He lost the fight anyway, he told the sub committee. and he needed the money for taxes and other expenses. Williams earlier told the sub committee that "not to this day” has he seen his share of two 1948 championship fight purses. He never received his cut of $32,500 for beating Jesse Flores or his $32,400 for fight ing Beau Jack, he said. Palermo Spent Purses Williams, who now works for the New Jersey Conservation Dept., with a take-home pay of $46 a week, said that the purse money was given to Palermo, as is the custom. But Palermo did not give Williams his two-thirds share. Blinky explained that he had "run up against tough times and spent it,” Williams said. Questioned by Senator Ke fauver, Williams said that he even had paid income tax on i the money he never received from Palermo. On another occasion, Wil liams said, he gave Palermo somewhere between $750 and $BOO for training expenses be fore the Gil Turner fight in 1951. Later "I got sued” for those expenses and had to pay them a second time, he said. When he asked Palermo about the money on that occa sion. Williams said. "I got no answer.” AFL STANDINGS By the Associated Press EASTERN DIVISION W L ▼ Pct. Pts. Op xHouston ft 4 (1 .602 342 284 New York 7 « 0 53* 33ft 34ft Buffslo ft 71 .417 2*9 27ft Boston 5 H O .385 265 312 WESTERN DIVISION W L T Pf Pts Op xLon Anieles ft 4 O .692 323 2ft3 Dallas ... 7 « ft .53* 338 -’46 i Oakland ft 8 0 .385 271 378 Denver 4 8 1 333 299 345 x Clinched division titles. Results Saturday Ln* Anieles. 41: Denver, 33. Results Yesterday Dallas, 34: Boston. 0. Houston. 31: Buffalo. 23. Mew York 31: Oakland. 28. This Week s Games Saturday Denver at Oakland. Sunday 1 Boston at Houston. Buffalo at Dallas. New York at Lob Angeles. Italians Gain Davis Cup Finals, U. S. Fails First Time Since '36 Packers Can Take West Title Sunday By the Associated Press The Green Bay Packers have clinched a tie for their first National Football League West ern Division title since 1944. apparently ending the Balti more Colts’ two-year reign as kingpin. And the Packers seem to have gotten one of their big gest assists from a former Van derbilt star, Billy Wade, who engineered the Los Angeles Rams to a 10-3 victory over the Colts yesterday. Wade ran 66 yards for the deciding touchdown as the Rams prevented the defending world champions from tying the Packers for first place in the West. Green Bay broke a three way tie Saturday, sloshing to a 13-0 victory over San Fran cisco in the mud of Kezar Sta dium as Paul Hornung scored all the Packers’ points. Three Tied for Second However, the Colts’ loss, and a 23-14 Detroit victory over Dallas, has created another three-way tie—this time for second place—in the division. Baltimore, San Francisco and the Lions, all 6-5, trail Green Bay by a full ghme. The Pack ers are 7-4, with the regular season coming to a close this week end. Then, Los Angeles will try to play spoiler twice in a row. meeting Green Bay. while the Colts play San Francisco. De troit meets the Chicago Bears, creating the possibility of a ttfree-way tie if the Packers lose and two of the other three win. A Green Bay victory clinches the title. The Bears were eliminated yesterday by Cleveland. 42-0, with the latter retaining a half-game edge for second place in the Eastern Division over the New York Giants. The Giants, plagued by five inches of snow in Washington, beat the Redskins, 17-3, to set up a showdown for runnerup in the East Sunday with the Browns. The teams meet in New York, with the winner playing the Angels Likely to Name Rigney as Pilot Today LOS ANGELES. Dec. 12 <AP). 1 —The reincarnated Los Angeles i Angels name their new field manager today—and Bill Rig ney reportedly has the Inside i track with the new American i League club. 1 But whether it’s the silver- i haired ex-skipper of the Giants j or someone else, the new pilot i will be stepping into a job where i most angels, non-baseball va riety, would fear to tread. I The Angels were to announce < their choice this afternoon at i a news conference in Wrigley s Field—old home of the defunct Angels of the Pacific Coast I League. i One indication that Rigney might get the job was a report I that the veteran manager was 1 flying to Los Angeles, just in time for the press conference. The other leading possibility in the speculation was Bob El-. liott, former Kansas City man ager. Like Rigney, he’s a Cali- i fornian and in his early 40s. Other names tossed about in cluded Casey Stengel (who wasn’t Interested), Leo Du- Senators and Angels Make Final Plans for Selections By » Star Staff Writer | BOSTON. Dec. 12—Officials 1 of the new Washington and Los Angeles baseball clubs ’ gathered in separate huddles ! today for last-minute prepar ations for tomorrow’s session ' of choosing up sides. Memories of many an ob- j server have traveled back to , the empty-lot ritual whereby j the fellow with the last grip of the bat was given first choice ( of the available players. A toss of a coin, with Ameri- | can League President Joe . Cronin as referee, will decide which team gets first choice in tomorrow’s unprecedented , pick-up. : Then the two clubs each will pick 28 players on an alterna- ; ting basis from a prepared list of 120 players made available by the already-existent eight 1 teams. 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Sev eral inches of snow blanketed Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. And in Washington, they never got the tarpaulin off the grid iron as it became weighted down with snow, which con tinued throughout the game. The Rams <3-6-1 > complete ly humiliated Baltimore's of fensive laden Colts, snapping Johnny Unitas' touchdown-a game streak at 47 while hand ing the reeling champions their third straight setback. Baltimore, failing to score a touchdown for the first time since a 1956 loss to Detroit, took a 3-0 lead in the first quarter on Steve Myhra’s 9- yard field goal. It stood up until Wade electrified the crowd of 75.461 in Los Angeles’ Memorial Coliseum. Unitas Breaks Record Unitas steered the Colts goalward in the closing min utes aftqr Danny Villanueva's 32-yard held goal had built the the Rams’ lead to 10-3. but with time running out, Alex Hawkins fumbled on the 19. George Strugar recovered and Baltimore was finished. Although he failed to con nect for a TD. Unitas gained 182 yards through the air and broke the NFL one-season record for yards gained passing with 2,939. That eclipsed Sam- See NFL, P«t A-17 rocher <who said he apparently was eliminated) and Bill Jurges (a distinct darkhorse). Most observers feel the n?W manager will be getting what is laughingly termed a chal lenge. The Angels will be stocked with retreads and re jects from other major league clubs <at a cost of $75,000 apiece). They’ll be confined in 1961 to tiny Wrigley Field—seating capacity about 22,000, if you use a shoehorn, and parking space nearly nonexistent. With spring training just a few weeks away, they haven’t acquired a single player. They’ll be competing against the established Dodgers for the baseball sports buck. Rigney, one-time Journey man shortstop with the old New York Giants, succeeded Durocher as the Giants’ pilot in 1956. He was fired early last season when the Giants were only four games behind the front-running Pirates. The team, under hi* successor. Tom Sheehan, finished fifth. the two newcomers of 2.1 mil lion. The Senators won their fran chise earlier than Los Angeles and thus have a head start in nuclear personnel. They In creased their working force by two over the week end. hiring Jack Sheehan, former White Sox farm director, as chief scout, and Joe Mooney as groundskeeper. The 65-year-old Sheehan is considered a very knowledgeable baseball man. He played third base for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the early 20s, and has been in the game ever since. Mooney is only 29 but has a lot of experience in his line, having worked at Scranton, Minneapolis and Louisville. The Louisville club of the American Association reluctantly per mitted Mooney to accept the job with Washington. Ed Doherty. Washington’s See SENATORS, Page A-19 I Redskin Bools Keep Giants in Runnerup Race By LEWIS F. ATCHISON Star Staff Writer The New York Giants’ sec ond-place hopes are still alive today, thanks to the obliging Redskins, who fumbled away a 17-3 decision yesterday in snow-piled Griffith Stadium before 14,077 chilled but not thrilled faithful. Victimized by their own gambit, the dethroned Eastern champions were rescued by a couple of Redskin bobbles that STATISTICS Giants Redkins First downs 4 « Rushing yardage —1 108 Passing Yardage 52 B Passes 11-S 7-n Punts 6-3.58 6-40.6 Fumbles lost 1 3 Yards penalized 5 30 paved the way to victory in the second half. Thus, the Giants’ battle with the Cleveland Browns for a spot opposite the Western Division runnerup at Miami next month goes down to a head-to-head meeting in the season's finale next week in New York. The Browns indicated their readiness by handing the Chi cago a 42-0 thumping that snuffed out the latter’s already faint Western title hopes. Bosseler Gains 73 The statistics tell a story not reflected in the score, for the Redskins outgained the Giants on the ground and. except for 39-year-old Charlie Conerly’s one touchdown pass to Joe Morrison, contained them through the air. Don Bosseler, making one of his best showings of a medi ocre season, not only led both teams’ runners with a remark able 73 yards, but cracked off the day’s longest gain of 29 yards. It planted the ball on the Giants’ 4-yard line in the first period, paving the way for Bob Khayat's 15-yard field goal after Dick Modzelewski, Rosey Grier and Sam Huff threw up a roadblock at that point. The rest of the time both teams had to be satisfied with a rag-picking offense of a yard or two here, and three and four there. It was that sort of day. 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GEORGETOWN FAIRFAX, VA. 1 Pietrangeli, Sirola Down American Aces in Singles By WILL GRIMSLEY Associated Press Sports Writer PERTH, Australia, Dec. 12—Italy’s veteran combination of Nicola Pietrangeli and Orlando Sirola rose to tennis heights to day and abruptly ended the United States’ bid for the Davis Cup with surprise victories in the final two single matches of the interzone final. As Pietrangeli defeated 20-year-old Earl (Butch) Buchholz of St. Louis, 6—l, 6—2, 6—B, 3—6, 6—4, and thhe towering Sirola soundly whipped 25- year-old Barry Mac Kay of Day ton, Ohio, 9—7. 6—3, B—6, the United States failed to reach the challenge round for the first time since 1936. For Pietrangeli and Sirola it capped 10 years of cup play and gave Italy the right to challenge for the coveted international trophy for the first time in his tory. They meet Australia at Sydney December 26-28. Italians Come Back Down 2-0 after Buchholz had beaten Sirola and Mac Kay had taken a heartbreaker from Pietrangeli in the opening singles, the Italians came back and won the doubles yesterday after a tense five-set struggle with the United States school boy combination of Buchholz and Chuck McKinley. Even then they were not give much chance of beating the youth-inspired Ameircan team. But Pietrangeli squared the series by whipping Buchholz in a thrilling five-setter. Still, the Ameircans were favored, even though Mac Kay had lost to Sirola the last time they met in the 1959 French champion ships. Sirola, however, was far from NFL STANDINGS * EASTERN DIVISION W L T Pct. Pts. OP. xPhiladelphia ft 2 O RlB 283 21* Cleveland 7 3 1 ,7UO 314 183 New York H 3 2 ,e»«7 237 213 St. Louis 5 5 1 .500 250 223 Pittsburgh ft ft 1 .600 233 237 Washington 1 8 2 111 150 271 WESTERN DIVISION W L T Pct. Ptt. OP Green Bay 7 5 o ,H 43 297 188 Baltimore H 5 O .545 278 200 San Francisco « 5 O .545 174 195 Detroit 6 5 0 .545 203 212 Chicago .ft ft 1 ,sfi(» 104 263 Los Angeles 4 6 1 .400 244 262 Dallas 011 1 .000 177 309 x Clinched conference title. Results Saturday Green Bay. 13: San Francisco, 9. Result* Yesterday New York. 17; Washington. 3. Loi Angeles. 10: Baltimore. 3. Cleveland. 42: Chicago. 0. Pittsburgh. 27: Philadelphia. 21. Detroit. 23: Dallas. 14. THIS WEEK S GAMES Saturday Green Bay at Los Angeles. Sunday Philadelphia at Washington. Baltimore at San Francisco. Chicago at Detroit. Cleveland at New York. Pittsburgh at St. Louis. ' awed at the Ameircan’s big game. He stood Mac Kay off ’ until he pulled out the deuced ' first set, whipped through the , second with two breaks of the ' American’s service and then . wrapped it up in a hard-fought J third set. . The lanky Italian played in -1 spired, phenomenal tennis. So . tall he can stand in the center t of the court and pivot to make a shot in almost any corner, Sirola returned Mac Kay’s shots with deadly accuracy. At the j same time he gave Barry very j little chance on his service. 1 Battle of Services I s The 6-foot-7 Sirola and the y 6-foot-4 Mac Kay engaged in e a battle of services through the . first eight games of their open z ing set. Mac Kay had a good chance to break through in the g second, which went to 18 points, g but each time the towering L Sirola cuit loose with a service E which was almost unretum z able. And that is the way they continued until Sirola wrapped i’ it up in the 16th game. t American hopes grew dark t when Sirola broke Mac Kay in - the third game of the second set and went into a 3-1 lead i by holding his own. Two ser rific returns of service and per- * feet lob in the wind gave the Italian a second breakthrough . and the second set. Big services boomed in the third set and there was no i chance for either to break ser ; vice through the first 10 games. [ At this point, Sirola had not dropped his service in 17 games. Mac Kay, however, a couldn’t stand the pace and > one break of service gave i Sirola the set, match and j series. Sad Scene for Americans Mac Kay double - faulted at match-point. Then pandemo nium broke loose on the staid Royal Kings Park courts. The Italians lofted Sirola to their shoulders and carried him to the dressing room. Pietrangeli broke into tears. So did Mac Kay, but they were tears of sadnqss rather See DAVIS CUP, Page A-17