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I Village Smithy Impatient Parker Quick To Shuffle Losing Steelers Coach Just Can't Wait For Results So He'll Outshine Frank Lane As Trader By CHESTER L. SMITH, Sports Editor Professional football gets off and it would be highly appropriate with a rundown on the Steelers, but sible because it's only Friday, The may not be the Steelers of tomorrow. the boy pitches your copy of the paper on dealer, Buddy Parker is to football what baseball, doubled in trades. Buddy's objective is, of course, plain. supervises the club's selection committee, Curbstone Coaches why so many draft future had been "Parker," he team now.

He is could sit around for tWo or three won't wait that The Steelers reached the defense could becoming confused time it gained ball and lost it. have dealt for SMITH offensive unit val. SMITH a-winging Sunday, to service you this is imposSteelers of today Or even when the porch. As a Frank Lane is to Dan Rooney, who explained to the last Monday choices for the sacrificed. said, "wants a not a patient man.

and maneuver years but he long." have about point where any be pardoned for between the possession of the Buddy might an entirely new during the inter- They are picking the Browns to manhandle the Divison again and the Lions to once more subdue Western. The gamble here concerns Detroit, where a has shown up, notably at end and there are the to consider. Last September, the Bears had all the one, of a winner, with the most devastating running back in section in Willie Gallimore. But they slowly came and the result was George Halas' decision to leave his in front office and become the head coach again. Bears, Not Lions, Called The exhibition tour these the Bears to be the best.

If quarterbacking combine of they have everything else. The question comes up, can Halas maintain this tum through the next two months? Halas is one of those lovable old cusses for whom a team will give it all. I would say it is the Bears, the Lions, who have to be licked before Detroit can repeat. The Browns well, Team To Beat past weeks has again shown they can't stand with the Lions' Tobin Rote and Bobby Layne, LET'S WIN FOR Ou PAPA 8 they're the Browns, with a coach who runs the whole show and has no superior, either in the professional or college circles, as a tactician. Paul Brown was a little surprised by his top finish last season.

He had 18 pro freshmen on his squad and had every reason to believe that they would make the mistakes that coaches think are inevitable among first year men moving into the big league. One of those yearlings, it turned out, happened to be Jimmy Brown of Syracuse who became the National Football League's leading ground gainer. Maybe another, Penn State's Milt Plum, was even more important in the long run. When the campaign opened Plum was sitting behind Tommy O'Connell as the second quarterback. Then O'Connell got hurt and it had to be Plum.

Brown credits the ex-Nittany Lion with four victories that would have been doubtful without him. The Browns are no longer an old team that is giving out with creaks and groans. It could be off on another long run of success. Three Teams Piloted By New Coaches There are three coaching changes in the league, excluding Halas, who is only a switchback to an old routine. The persistently IVY IF OUR DRAFT KIDS COME THROUGH TI COACH Chicago Cardinals have picked Frank Ivy to place Ray Richards in an effort to give the Bears competition in their home town.

Ray McLean follows Lisle Blackbourn into Green Bay and Buck Shaw, long a pro, left the Air Force Academy to see what he could do with the Philadelphia Eagles. Both Shaw and McLean have much to do! They inherit clubs that ranged from mediocre to awful in spots. Ivy's hope in Chicago stems from a fine set of players grabbed in the draft that include King Hill of Rice and John Crow of Texas A. M. in the field and, for the line, Tackle Jim McCusker of Pitt.

If Ivy can have the same luck with his kids that smiled on Brown he can show the most improvement of any of 1957's have-nots. The league, which has had consistent growing pains at the gate year after year, expects this to be another pay-off campaign. The admission of the Steelers to the Pitt Stadium and the Eagles' entrance to Penn's Franklin Field up the crowd potential by thousands. Should these teams come through with only fair records a new attendance record is in the books. Crowd To Pray For Dick Kadis WAYNESBURG, Sept.

26-Dick Kadis, the Geneva College football player who has been unconscious since suffering a head injury in the Waynesburg Geneva game here two years ago, will be remembered when the two teams play here tomorrow evening. Just prior to the kickoff a minute of reverent silence will be observed in which players of both teams, students and fans will be asked to pray, each in his own way, for the recovery of the Youngstown, youth. Bert Bell Denies Otto Blacklisted PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 26 -Bert Bell, commissioner of the National Football League, today denied that he had blacklisted tto Graham as a radio broadcaster for NFL games.

Bell said that under the FL constitution, broadcasters or sponsors of NFL games must submit the names of three people they are considering for a broadcasting job. Bell then selects the one he believes best qualified. A By ROY John Michelosen's esting Pitt football team sion on the road last week, be getting around. A crowd of at least opener here except the one Oklahoma, will see the Panthers at Pitt Stadium. It will be Band Day, Boy Day, and Holy Cross comes quarterback named Tom selves are the main attraction.

There were many striking Pitt team that tumbled UCLA day, 27-6, and the one that losing to Miami. The most apparent offense. It's a winged-T with passing formation. Against the defense SO invitingly New Players To Help Club, Parker Says Steelers Add Offensive Tackle In Latest Move By PAT LIVINGSTON Press Staff Writer PASADENA, Sept. 26- Coach Buddy Parker, a study in dejection five short days ago, today feels that the Steelers' offense is coming out into the sunlight.

Since arriving on the West Coast last week, the Steelers have picked up five new play. ers. They will help the club immensely, Parker believes. "They're not going to help us much on Sunday." Parker said, referring to the Steelers' National Football League opener against the San Francisco Forty-Niners out here, "but they're going to help us later in the season. Just as soon as they get a acclimated to our system." The five players who mean SO much are Halfback Dick Christy and Billy Reynolds, Flanker Jimmy Orr, Defensive End Billy Ray Smith and Offensive Tackle Darrell.

Dess. Dess, a 235-pound Washington Redskin reject from North Carolina State, is destined to replace End Bill McPeak on the roster prior to Sunday's game. McPeak was put onto the active list last week when Parker had given up hope of getting help for his offensive line. The long range pattern was to move McPeak to defensive end, switching Ernie Stautner to the offensive platoon. Dess' arrival makes that move unnecessary.

"That boy is a corker," said Parker of Dess. "We don't have to use Stautner on offense now, and Smith will help us out at end, too. The Steelers, in addition to being unprepared for the Forty-Niners are at an addithey are without tional in that disadvantage, one of their big offensive guns -Flanker Ray Mathews. Mathews is still nursing a broken bone in his foot. It is unlikely that he will play, although he has been running at partial speed all week.

Halfback Tom Tracy also is out for Sunday's game. In San Francisco, Coach Frankie Albert has announced that Sophomore John Brodie, outstanding in pre season games, will start at quarterhack for the home team. Brodie will replace the veteran Y. A. Tittle in the regular lineup.

That presents another problem for Parker and his Steel. ers. don't know much about Brodie," Parker admits. "When a player is in the League for a while, you get an idea of how he reacts to situations. You learn that by studying his actions.

We don't have that 'book' on Brodie." The Steelers will, work out here today and wind up drills tomorrow before flying north to San Francisco. Sports On The Air Radio TONIGHT Aliquippa at McKeesport, 7:45 p. Wilkinsburg at Greensburg, 8 p. m. WHJB (Greensburg).

Pirates vs. Phils, Forbes Field, 8:15 p. Gale Kerwin VS. Frankle Ryff (boxing), 10 p. WAMP.

SATURDAY Holy Cross vs. Pitt. Stadium, 1:15 p. South Carolina at Army, 1:45 p. WMCK.

Wash-Jeff at. Grove City, 2:15 p. (Butler). Pirates vs. Phils, Forbes Field, 8:15 p.

Television TONIGHT Gale Kerwin vs. Frankie Ryff (boxing), 10 p. SATURDAY Detroit at Cleveland, 1:45 p.m. -7. Auburn vs.

Tennessee, 4:45 p. ok' Panthers To Attract 50,000 Fans McHUGH lightest, fastest, most intermade a good first impres, and the word seems to 50,000, the biggest for any last September with glamorous play Holy Cross tomorrow Scout Day and High School to town with a cover boy Greene, but the Panthers them- differences between the in Los Angeles last Saturended the 1957 season comically difference, of course, is the new an open end, theoretically a UCLA, though, it spread out that Pitt used the pass HAPPY, AND NO taugh and General awards they received given by Westinghouse WONDER- Manager Danny MurManager Joe L. Brown display at Pirates' testimonial dinner Broadcasting Co. last night Badgers Favored To Snap Arc Jinx Wisconsin Plays Miami Tonight as a PAGE 29 Friday, Sept. 26, 1958 threat more than anything else, gaining 229 yards on the ground.

Quarterbacks Ivan Toncie and Bill Kaliden were poised and sure-handed, never flighty and insecure aS in 1957 at inopportune moments, and their sophomore uD derstudy, Ed Sharockman, threw a touchdown pass whe Michelosen let him go in at the tag end of the game. Pitt's ball carriers were steady rather than electrifyin Joe Scisly had the best average, 6.7 yards. Fred Ride averaged less than two yards, but it was Riddle who hi the job of making the important first downs. Third stringer John Flara, coming into his own as a The Pittsburgh Press SPORTS Penn-Sheraton Hotel. Left Cannon, president of Murtaugh, Gwilym Price, in Westinghouse Electric Old Rivals Launch WPC Grid Rivalry Geneva's Clash With Waynesburg Expected To Be Even Match By DON GIFFIN To Geneva and Waynesburg, a century, falls the honor tomorrow tion in the West Penn Conference.

Despite the differences in last week, the night game Waynesburg seems likely 10 be another even match in the old series, which stands 17-16-2, Waynesburg. While the Jackets were breezing against unpretentious Potomac State, the Covies were absorbing one of their rare shutouts at the hands of Muskingum. The always potent Ohio Confer. ence club held Willie Taylor, Geneva's Little All-American halfback, to 38 yards. Perhaps the two best State Teachers College Conference teams in these parts meet when Slippery Rock, 15-0 victim of Carnegie Tech last Saturday, visits Edinboro.

The Red Raiders, responsible for one of Slip. pery Rock's two 1957 defeats, whipped another STO foe, Clarion, 19-0, last week to maintain their remarkable defensive reputation. Two other Teachers Conference opponents- Indiana and California--launch their seasons on the Vulcans' home lot. Both had losing seasons last fall, when Indiana beat California by an extra point, the third straight year their meetings went Indiana's way by a touchdown or less. Thiel, which hasn't taken Westminster since 1950, has perhaps its best chance this week.

The Tomcats gave St. Vincent a real battle before bowing in the last quarter, 15-7, last week. It will be Westminster's opener and Coach Harold Burry, apprehensive anyway, may not be able to use two regulars- End Jim Dewar and Guard John Rehfuss, who haven't shaken leg injuries. Thiel's offensive hopes ride with Fullback Chuck Scafuri, one of the district's best, and several good pass receivers. Grove City, 1957's comback team, tries to do something that's never been done before--win a home game against Washington Jefferson.

The Prexies, 1-6-1 last year. are rebuilding, while the Grovers start only two freshmen, one a 1 replacement for Tom Duessel, injured captain-center. Two other district teams he. sides tune up for their Presidents' Conference seasons, Allegheny, making its first start under Coach Johnny Chuckran, takes on experienced Rochester in New York and Bethany goes after its sixth straight win over Coach John Knight's alma materWest Virginia Wesleyan--at Buckhannon. West Liberty, one down tor the season, attempts to even the record, facing Salem in a night game at New Martinsville, Va.

St. Vincent gets the week end of district football going tonight. The 1957 small-college champions draw Clarion, the victims in their last three meetings. senior, did some pretty hard running on the 70-yard drive that wound up with Norton Seaman kicking field goal. The Pitt line, although certainly not as an college lines go, isn't big when compared with the beef trusts of previous years.

Nonetheless it made mincemeat UCLA's line and the deeper it gets the bigger it gets. It's livelier, more aggressive line than the massive live Jumbos of last year. Even John Guzik, the only umbo still on the team, seems to have more hustle and ash. He attracted so much attention in the UCLA game 1at Sports Illustrated picked him as its Lineman of the Week. Holy Cross has a line Pitt's.

Jim Healy and Vin scribed by Dr. Eddie Anderson ever coached, and his coaching that will probably outweigh Promuto, the guards, are deas the best pair he has career covers 33 years. The Holy Cross ends -five of them won letters in 1957 aren't the man eaters on defense that Pitt can turn loose, but they catch passes almost instinctively. Greene does the throwing and' no one in college football throws any farther or straighter. He will make it clear very quickly whether the 1958 Pitt team is as good as it Friend Guns For 23rd Win Against Phils Roberts Opposes Pirate Ace In Series Opener Eastern the defection Bears earmarks their apart, chair Modzelewski Wins Plaque Tennis Title Len Modzelewski of Central Catholic and Joe Brown of St.

Canice met for the third straight year in the Duquesne Plaque tennis finals at Duquesne University yesterday with the customary result. Modzelewski won, 6-4, 6-3, for his third! straight West- Modzelewski ern Pennsylvania interscholastic title. It was Brown's first defeat in a junior tournament this year and he had beaten Modzelewski in the West Penn finals. Yesterday Joe was erratic while Modzelewski consistently passed him at the net with down line backhand shots. Liz Stockhausen of Mt.

St. Mary and Judy Knepper of Carnegie will play for the girls' title Sunday. Scoreboard on Page 30 By LESTER J. BIEDERMAN This final week end at Forbes Field may not mean much to the Pirates and the Phils, who have already clinched their respective positions (Pirates second and Phils eighth) but it means a great deal to Richie Ashburn and possibly Bob Friend. Friend, who pitches against Robin Roberts tonight, is seeking his 23rd victory of the season and with it an opportunity to solidify his chances for the coveted Cy Young Award.

to right are Donald McBroadcasting chairman of the board of and Brown. Wu Objective: Norman Conquest Mountaineers Hope To Upset Oklahoma NORMAN, Sept. 26- West Virginia's football squad is due here today. Objective: 'A second Norman Conquest that would rival the one in 1066." Tomorrow the Mountaineers will play Oklahoma, ranked No. 1 in several pre season polls, It will be the first game of the season Oklahoma, but the second for West Vir.

ginia, The Mountaineers, slaughtered Richmond last week, 66-22. Glen Shamblin may be at fullback for the Mountaineers in place of Noel Whipkey. Halfback Bill McClure, who missed the Richmond game with a leg injury, will be ready for action. Oklahoma Coach Bud Wilkinson will field two teams that are lighter, faster and better adapted to a passing game than last year's, In the line, the Sooners will be outweighed 10 pounds to the man. While West Virginia was walking all over Richmond last Saturday, Oklahoma held an intra-squad game and neither team scored a touchdown.

Wilkinson termed it "as low a session as we've had since I've been here." He said: "We did everything poorly. The summer publicity we've been getting is a great tribute to our 1957 team but our 1958 team hasn't made a first down." Woman Scout Dies McKINNEY, Sept. 26 Mrs. Bessie L. Largent, 76, believed to be the only woman baseball scout in the game's history and discoverer of such White Sox luminaries as onty Stratton and Luke Appling.

died today, Only 545 See Bouts McKeesport Card Ends In Red Ink Boxing Promoter Ben Anolik last night but only 545 cash Anolik's first Palisades card down last spring was a red ink Jimmy Chavis, home town welterweight, won the boring main event, a 10-rounder. It wasn't much of a fight until the next to the last when Chavis finally decided that Don Alderson was harmless and gave his Canonsburg opponent a chance to counterpunch. Chavis did what leading there was and got 49 of a possible 50 points on each of the three official scoreboards. football rivals for a half of initiating grid competi results of their season openers State Faces Experienced Penn Team PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26 Pennsylvania will open its football season against Penn State here tomorrow with the deepest, fastest, most experienced team Coach Steve Sebo has had in his five years as an Leaguer.

There are lettermen back at every position-21 of them altogether -but sophomores will, start at fullback and right end. Eddie Goodwin beat out three veterans for the fullback job and figures to give Penn some blasting power for the hard yards inside the 10. John Greenawalt, whose father and grandfather played at Penn, forced Sebo to move Regular Barney Berlinger from right end to left end. Penn has two exceptional Jack Hanlon. Doelling gained halfbacks in Fred Doelling and 511 yards last year which was more than Dave Kasperian gained for Penn State.

Sebo claims the first-string Penn line is the smallest in major starters college football. under Six 200 of are pounds. Penn has a center named John Rocco Marchiano, but nobody calls him "Rocky," be. lieve it or not. Boxing doesn't interest him in the slightest.

The eight round semi final was quite a bit livelier. Knocked down by a left hook in the fourth, Hill Lightweight Henry Hickman finished strong but lost a unanimous decision to undefeated Solomon Boysaw of Cleveland, The Pirate ace has won his last six starts and 11 of his last 13. If he wins again this evening, he'll be the No. 1 candidate. Wisconsin is a one touchdown favorite over Miami tonight despite the fact that the Badgers have never won a night football game and the Hurricanes are one of the South's best after dark teams.

The Badgers have played only three previous night games, losing them all. Miami is always tough under the Orange Bowl lights and could upset the Big Ten Conference inVaders. In tonight's other major games, Georgia Tech, knocked off by Kentucky in its opener last week. entertains Florida State while Texas, victorious over Georgia in its opener, visits Tulane. The Engineers are 14-point favorites and Texas is an eight point pick.

Ohio State and Oklahoma, rated 1-2 in the United Press International rankings while still stretching their muscles on the practice field, will unveil their 1958 machines in Saturday's key intersectional games. The defending champion Buckeyes entertain Southern Methodist and Oklahoma hosts West Virginia. Ohio State 1 is a 13-point favorite and the Sooners are expected to win by at least three touchdowns. Third -ranked Notre Dame, launches its new campaign backyard brawl against Indiana while fourth ranked Michigan State opens against California on the Spartans' home grounds. In other games involving top-ranked teams, Texas Christian visits Iowa, Auburn entertains Tennessee, Navy entertains William and Mary, and Mississippi plays Kentucky under the lights at Memphis, Tenn.

Army debuts against an upstart South Carolina team that surprised Duke in its opener. ECAC Forbids Academy Aid NEW YORK, Sept. 26-The Eastern College Athletic Conference has adopted a new amendment to its code governing recruiting which forbids the type of prep aid given prospective athletes by the Army and Navy service academies. Although a "rider" was appended to the amendment permitting a limited form of aid by the academies, the old Army and Navy practices are out. Engaged To Hurler Miss Geri Latsko, sister inlaw of Pitcher Bob Purkey of the Reds, has announced her engagement to Charlie Rabe, a pitcher with the Reds.

An October wedding is planned. Miss Latsko is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Latsko of Bethel Park.

Ashburn has his eye on the league batting title and if he's as successful in the final three games here as he was in the last two in Philadelphia, he can cop the crown. The Bucs held Ashburn well in check until he finally broke loose Monday night with six safeties in 10 trips. He was hitting below .300 off Pirate pitching but this surge moved him into a .310 rating and for a time regained the leadership. Dick Groat at is hopeful he can collect enough hits this week end to reach the .300 circle and the Pirates have some business to take care of themselves. When the Phils swept the twi-niter in Philadelphia, it marked the first time since Aug.

30 and 31 the Bucs had dropped two games in a row. They'd like to wind up this big season on a winning note. Columbia Wins Again, Keeps Cup NEWPORT, R. Sept. 26-- Columbia, the gem of the ocean, beat Britain's forlorn Sceptre a fourth straight time today and retained the America's Cup taken from England's sailors in 1851.

The Sceptre bobbled the start of the fourth race today and Columbia sailed off in front in the sailboating classic. When the British sloop arrived too early at the starting line. Yankee Skipper Briggs Cunningham swept past in the windward position to take the lead in the first of the three eight legs. By the time they entered the final leg, Columbia led by more than a mile and the Sceptre was having trouble with its boom. The winning time was three hours, four minutes and 30 seeonds.

Haney May Start Johnson In Series went back to McKeesport customers tagged along. since the place almost burned production grossing $1143. Tommy Schafer, former national Golden Gloves and all lightweight champion from Blawnox, put on a stirring comeback to win his first pro fight by a fourth round TK0. Schafer hurt his right hand in the opening round, tried to fight after that with his left, and was getting badly licked by Billy Cooper of Wheeling, a substitute. Cooper had him tottering in the fourth when Schafer suddenly started using his right again and turned the tide.

With Schafer pressing for a knockout, Referee George Martzo the stopped crowd it- a seemed little tool quickly, -By ROY McHUGH. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 26- Braves Manager Fred Haney today tossed another name into the grab bag for his third starter in the World Seriesthat of Righthander Ernie Johnson, a relief pitcher who was farmed out and then recalled from Wichita this son, Haney said that he was "seriously considering" Johnson aS his third starting pitcher against the Yankees behind Warren Spahn and Lew Burdette. "His low breaking stuff goes well against the Yanks. Besides, he's an experienced hand and doesn't scare easily." Haney said.

Johnson thus joins Bob Rush, Carl Willey and Juan Pizarro in the array of hurlers from which Haney can choose for the third contest..