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(I Hail, West De Ceremonies State Meet Set For Opening Press-Gazette 30 Wins in Row For Two Quints ftportf Cocktails: WEST DE PERE, Wis. This little community of more or less should never forget the "1946-47 high school basketball season Twenty years from now, local citizens can say, "do you rememner back there sometime, in the 40's we licked everything Green Bay had to offer in basketball." And they'll add: "Was It St. Nor-bert High or West De Pere that won all those games. Seems ike a couple of guys named Fred Dillon and Buss Young; were the coaches. Hey, Murphy, was Dillon coach at West De Pere or St.

Nor-bert. Ask your dad tonight; he played with St. Norbert when they won 16 in a row.1' And so it will go. The facts may be twisted but the guys and gals will have something to talk about. To bring you up to date or Green Bay, Wednesday Evening, Feb.

5, 1947 Teams Will Roll First Round At N. S. Lanes Ceremonies for opening of the state bowling tournament at the North Side alleys Saturday afternoon will be in keeping with the scope of the meet, largest state pin event In the history of the American Bowling Congress. Under the program being prepared by Leii Reis and Johnny Kowe, co-chairmen of the Green Kay tournament association, city and state officials wilt give brief Sauires eat Cadets For 16th 33-31 Radio Station WTAQ and one other to be selected. Former individual champions also slated to be on hand for the ceremonies are Eldon (Skimmer) Becker, all-events titleholder In 1927, and Clarence (Shorty) Sor-enson, who won the crown in 1941.

For those interested in tournament statistics, 2,905 teams will compete, nearly 400 more than the record 2,518 entry in last year's Milwaukee meet; plus 4, ISO doubles teams and 10,935 individuals. A total of 202 communities will be represented during the tourney, which runs through Mav 25.. Figures for Green Bay show it with 368 team entries, 325 doubles tandems and 604 singles, which, it goes without saying, are all records for city participation in the state event. In connection with the Saturday ceremonies, Reis announced that adults only will be admitted, due to the limited seating capacity. There will be no charge.

He also announced that there will be a small admission charge to spectators at both the North Side and 1he Playdium during rolling of the regular tournament events. St. Norbert High Still Unbeaten; West DePere Rips Kiel for 14th Win in Row The basketball representatives of two schools in West De Pere Nicolet High and St. Norbert High were stiD unbeaten today. The St.

Norbert Squires snared their 16'h straight victory without defeat by whipping Green Bay Central, 33-31, in Van Dyke gymnasium Tuesday night, and Nicolet downed Kiel, 51-19, there for the Black Phantoms' 14th win in Succession. Norbert and Young West De Pere. The action story of the thrilling Centrul-St. Norbert tilt is told beautifully by Ed Arndorfer in an adjoining column, so we'll not delve into that. Enjoying a contest as a spectator for the first time in years, we'd like to transmit that it was a hot way to spend a cold night.

Among the added sidelights to a high school game, especially one like this, are the antics of the opposing coaches. In one corner, we have Smiley Nico-dem of Central and in the other is St. Norbert's Dillon. They present the two extremes Dillon, the quiet, cucumber and deliberate type and Nicodem, the excitable, nervous and hair-pulling type After the show, Nicodem was the first to congratulate Dillon, Dillon could tay nothing but, "we were lucky to beat you tonight," while Nicodem added: "You've got a great team, Fred." With all due respect to Central's great fight, the belter team won Tuesday night This is taking nothing away fiom the Cadets who were keyed to the limit and almost vulled the trick. St.

Norbert has a great team, and Nicodem was the first to admit it. The Squires have two big weapons height and an air-tight zone-defense. Tuesday night, the Squires controlled the rebounds 80 per cent of the time but they were off on their t'p-ins and close-up shots. But they still won, which might mean that if the Squires had been "on" the score might have been 50-38 or thereabouts. Most fans, however, side with the underdog and this writer is no exception That's why we'd rather talk about the manner in which Central almost teat St.

Norbert. The Cadets, at times, toyed with the high-scoring Squire firecracker as they moved the defense off to one side and then drove in for a basket on the "weak side. But that Squire fast break was something else again. Bill Fickett, the veteran official from Appleton who worked the game with Jim Boex of Green Bay, was smiling broadly after the game. He had just taken part in what he simply called a "beautiful basket ball game." Pickett, who has been working games in the Fox River Valley conference for years, was asked what St.

Norbert would do against conference competi i "They'd sure win plenty of games," he answered Pickett went on to explain that the Squires can be classed as one of the "better conference 1 earns." And he added: "Don't forget that Central would do itself okay in the Valley." With West De Pere cagers (St. Norbert and Nicolet) unbeaten in 30 games, our next task is to get some statewide recognition for these two teams. The WIAA which controls high school basketball has completely overlooked the two schools in their weekly state-wide rankings. ART DALEY. 1 iix HT- Ji.

jQjattl ii-1- i rr, I Here's a tense moment in the tense St. Norbert High-Central Catholic basketball game in St. Norbert college gymnasium Tuesday night, as Johnny O'Brien (10) jets himself to grab a loose ball. Coming up at the left are Tom Arndorfer (14) and Kelly Danen. Arms outstretched behind O'Brien is St.

Norbert Joe Richards who won game in last three seconds, 33-31. Bluejays Add Men's league, one of the city's oldest loops and two others which will include members of the ori-einal Lvnch's Allevs and Rahr's 0d ja, fives which won slate championships in 1924 and 1937, respectively, plus a team from the Press-Gazette, one from Pitcher Joe Meeuwsen of De Pere Fourth Signed for M7 Despite sub-zero temperatures that make spring seem a long way off, baseball again jumped into the spotlight today as the Green Bay Community Baseball association announced signing of Pitcher Joe (Moose) Meeuwsen, former De Pere High school athlete and veteran of Navy service, to a 1947 Green Bay Bluejay contract. The rangy youth, a graduate of De Pere Hign in 1944, has already rdc rt tti? nonv ii Tin been "scouted'' by Bluejay Mana ger Harry Griswoid, who watched Joe work at several 'Jay batting practice sessions late last summer following his discharge from the service. Griswoid considers the latest Bluejay honeful a pretty fair pros- pect. Twenty years old, he stands three inches over six feet and packs 175 pounds.

While in the Navy, he gained valuable mound experience as the mainstay of the 19th Fleet team's hurling corps, turning in a record of 12 wins against two losses. Meeuwsen is the fourth player the third pitcher now under Bluejay contract for 1947. The others are Roger Frebel, a 19-year-old right-. hander from Harvey. and Alger Shillings, another hurl-er, from LaCrosse, and Joe Lubawy, Chicago first baseman.

After his discharge last summer, he joined the De Pere Legion naires of the Green Bay Municipal league, turning in a 3-1 won and lost mark. In one contest against VFW, he tied a league record by whiffing 19 batsmen. Meeuwsen, whose slab repetoire features a better than average IF YOU LIVE Back in the Saddle Again NFL Scoring Championship in Green Bay 7th Time in 9 Years talks to formally initiate the tourney. After they have been heard, 14 teams will roll one game to officially open tournament action and "break in" the alleys. The group will include a team headed by Major Dominic Olejniczak and composed of city and county officials.

There also wiy be one team each from' Denmark, De Pere, Luxemburg, Pulaski and Wayside communities making up the Green Bay association. The teams will include bowling leaders in those communities. To add an historical touch, there will be two teams of sponsors in the North Side Business It; Packers Opening Frame point-making heap. league figgers, released today, Isbell Eyeing Pro Grid Job? LAFAYETTE, Ind. (U.P.) Cecil1, Isbell, head football coach at Pur- due university and ex-Green Bay Packer, was in Baltimore today concerning an offer to coach pro-, fesisonally, and Athletic Director Guy (Red) Maekey said the for- mer Purdue star could keep his Purdue job "as long as I'm around." Mackey said there would be "adjustments" in the Purdue coaching staff, but he indicated they would not affect Isbell.

The former Boilermaker passing and running ace, head coach here since 1944, left the campus Monday. It was reported that he was meeting officials of the newly-; organized Baltimore team of the All-America professional league about the head coaching job. Vukovich, Nichols Slated for Return yfrU I hlirCfinV Pete Vukovich, new holder of the National Wrestling association middleweight crown, will meet Bill Nichols. Oklahoma City, who lost his title in their initial meeting at trie Temple two weeks ago, in a rematch Thursday night, Promoter Bernie Zilles announced today. The pair will collide for the second time in the feature bout cn the night's card, he said.

The semi-windup will bring together Milt Olsen, brother of Einar, who spent the last several years touring with USO units, and George Hackenschmidt of Marsh-field. This bout, like the windup, will be two of three falls with a one hour time limit Hacken- Schmidt is a former Wisconsin middleweight and light heavyweight contender. The 8:15 curtain raiser, a one-fall, 30-minute time limit affair, will find Emil Robel, Toledo, Ohio, holder of the Ohio state middle- weight crown, trading holds with Einar Olsen, the Racine grappler. 20 years behind 1966-67, we'll report that Nicolet and St. Norbert High schools now have a string of 30 victories without defeat this season.

The St. Norbert Squires won their 16th straight and Nicolet No. 14 Tuesday night Probably the juiciest part of the Squires string is that five of these wins were posted at the exoense of the three Green Lipy schools. They picked Fast High twice, Central Catholic twice and West High once. And just for the record, Dillon coaches St.

in Row McMillin Opens Orlando Action ORLANDO, Fla. Miss Mary McMillin, of Green Bay, the petite ex-stenographer wh first gained prominence by defeating Mrs. Babe Didrikson Zaharias in the Women's Western Amateur at Cleveland in 1946, began the sec ond lap of her Florida tournament tour today in the mixed four-ball open here today. Miss McMillin, who played her first vacationland tournament at Tampa 10 days ago, is teaming with Phil Greenwald, the former Fond du Lac and Milwaukee, pro, down here for the winter tournament season, over the tough Dubsdread Country club layout. Things Are Tough East Five Lost Three Contests In Last Frame Faces North in Valley Tilt Friday By LEE REM MEL Things are tough all over.

This is what Jake Shaffer, the wavy-haired coach of East High's slumping Red Devils, must be telling himself after watching his proteges absorb three fourth quarter defeats in their last four starts, as he prepares them lor their ninth Fox River Vailey conference effort of the season against Sheboygan North here Friday night. The East siders will be out to even the score for a 61-47 loss sustained on the Golden Raiders' home court in a pell-mell con- lest in December. Elsewhere around the circuit, West will travel to Sheboygan Central, league-leading Oshkosh goes to Appleton, and Manitowoc journeys to i'ond du Lac. ONE OF Shaffer's major aims this week will be to reinforce his cagers for another of those sud- den death finishes which have brought nighly undesirable results against Sheboygan Central, Fond du Lac and Appleton in recent games. In all three of these cases, Shaffer's basketeers either led or had tied the score going into the final period, only to see their lead evaporate or the tie broken by the opposition.

Against Central, they led all the way until the late minutes but lost 37-33; against Fond du Lac, they bat tled to a tie going into the last quarter but dropped the decision 30-25; and most recently, against Appleton Friday night, they led 32-25 five minutes remaining but a'ain they lost, 34-33. Only against West in the first of their home and home intra-city series did the Devils show staying powr. In the final stanza of that contest, they performed like champions in the last eight minutes overcome a 27-22 deficit and come away with a 39-31 victory. THE SAD part of this tale is the fact that if the Red Devils could ha'e come through on the jother tnree occasions, they would be up there breathing the ad- mittedly pleasant air of first place along with Oshkosh. As this written, Pat Malone, the genial Irishman who handles West's Wildcats, plans no changes in his starting lineup for Central, despite s'X successive reversals since their opening two-victory spurt.

Malone, who like Shaffer has had his share of tough breaks in seeing the Purple and White lose games with poor finishes after they were apparently on the way to victory, is convinced the I five men he been using as regulars since the holiday recess are the best talent available. HE'S EQUALLY convinced that the 'Cats will have to play lover their heads in order to beat Kir-man nelin-j three tallies apiece and Frank Vonckx and Wanger adding the extras. in the oih'-r the Oldtim.is trimrn Lison's Drugs, 8-3. Foi-r ol the oldsters meshed to in tiis victory Wayne Ol -'Ions, Len Jahn, Dym-jud and Henry Kim. F.M scored a foi t-ry Thomas Ins odd one.

i'l Fritsch's 100 Points Did Got Only 13 Markers in By ART DALEY In the matter of scoring points, the Green Bay Packers got back into the saddle again in 1946. For the seventh time in nine seasons, the Packers landed a man, 215-pound TEight Phantoms Figure in Scoring KIKL, Wis. Running their consecutive victories to 14 for the season was accomplished with comparative case by the West De Pere Black Phantoms here Tuesday night, They scored double figures In each of the four quarters to finish with a 51 to 19 win over the Kiel High cagers for their victory in competition in the Mid-Valley conference. However, because of an arrangement by the league officials, only fire victories are counted in the standings. Reserves took over the task of the regulars, who had run up a 25 to 12 lead in the first half, early in the third period and they displayed a classy brand of shooting while checking the home team's offensive efforts.

Team play marked the action by the Phantoms, and eight players figured in the scoring from the floor. Joe Schadrie, center, paced the victors with 17 points. He sank eight field goals. Dick Willems, guard, followed with 10! points, achieved on five baskets; and Bob Haskins, forward, drop-i ped in three ringers and two free throws for eight points. Kiel's leading scorers were Forward Johnson and Center Sleeker with five points apiece.

The Phantoms close the con-; ference schedule Feb. 1 1 in game with Chilton High school on the court here. WEST I)K PI KE 2 Johnson, 2 1 Haskim, Flu, Wmman, Culb'ion, Sihadrle, Mandrra, Wlllemi, Hmmn. Kltrh. Mndilev, Totals 0 Hein, 1 Koeppen, 1 1 Sleeker, 2 I KIaw'k, 1 1 Groh.

1 1 i Jrantv. 1 0 I. Kl i i 1 Totals I 1 14 Hut Be Pere Kiel 11 1 14 1051 i YMCA Plans Cage Tourney One of Northeastern Wisconsin's outstanding sports attractions the annual YMCA invitational tournament will be held March 19 to 22, it was announced today by Walter Seims, tournament chairman. Plans for the 12th annual tourney were discussed at a recent meeting of the basketball committee at which Seims was elected to head this year's cage classic. The tournament annually attracts one of the largest fields in this section of the state with some of the best squads par-ticipfiting in a selected group of entries.

Entry blanks will be mailed out around the first of 'March, Seims pointed out. It is expected that with the talent available among reurnea servicemen aim yuung hijh school stars who have completed their scholastic careers that an outstanding list of teams should be ready to vie for the crown won by Wehr's Steel in 1946. A record-breaking list of 23 teams applied tor entry in the 1946 tournament and 18 squads were admitted to the four-day meet. The committee hopes to obtain 16 or 18 fine quintets for this year's tournament. M'Ke'h r-n 8 O'Brien, Arnd'fer, Tnlali 13 Central St.

Norbert 0 0 0 5 II V'dertle, 2 Conley, Totals 11 11 14 7 7 1031 10 33 Free throws mlfri: Central 11 Maloney O'Brien 3, Geyer. Van Hout, Arndorler. St. Nornert uanen Richard J. I.ensa 2, Vandertle.

Th Official Jim Boex, (ireen Bay, and Bill I'lrkMt, Applrtnn. Major AA Cage Action Tonight Second round firing in the Major AA and Major A Basketball leagues is scheduled on the split Washington Junior High school court tonight. In the Major AA, Cathedral opens against Badger Business at 7 o'clock: Linpark opposes Reliance at and U. W. Extension takes on Rothe at 9.

Linpark and Rothe finished first round action last week in a dead heat, with four wins and one loss apiece. They will meet for the first round title at Washington Junior High Tuesday night at 8:15. Jack Woulf, giant Badger Business center, is leading the Major AA loop in scoring with 67 points on 23 field goals and 11 free throws. Jim Gerhard of Rothe is second with 25 field goals, gift tcsses for 61 points. In Major A games, Amvets takes on VFW in the opener at 7 o'clock; Johnny's Service opposes Badger Bees at and Denis Sport faces Cathedral Bees at 9.

Denis won the first round championship with four wins and one loss. VFW and Cathedral finished I in a knot for second. Bob Emich I of VFW leads the Major A in scoring with 51 points. 'No Change' Reported 1 Condition of Ruth NEW YORK (U.R) The Babe was still holding his own today. Hospital authorities reported there was "no change" in the condition of the former Yankee home run king, and that he was resting comfortably.

Squires Seek 17 ih Coach Fred Dillon's unbeaten St. Norbert High Squires will go after their 17th straight victory and seventh Fox River Catholic conference triumph when they play host to St. Mary's of Menasha on the Van Dyke gymnasium court Thursday night. A preliminary contest between 'B' teams of the two schools is slated for 7 o'clock, with the varsity tilt slated to go on at 8 o'clock. fastball and a good curve, is also a pretty fair country basketball player.

He was awarded two let-j ters in the sport at De Pere High school and currently is handling the center spot for Tony Forst's Rothe Ironmen in the Major AA league, one of the city's fastest amateur cage circuits. OUT OF TOWN UDITC WE'LL HELP YOU WITH READY GASH Loam Over $2000 Richards' Basket Wins for Squires By ED ARNDORFER WEST DE PERE, Wis. St. florbert High's Squires won their 16th straight basketball game of the season here Tuesday night but they had a tough Sport ERV Urn doing it. The Central Catholic Cadets extended Iho unbeaten Squires to the limit before bowing, 33-31, on a basket by St.

Norbert Forward Joe Richards with three seconds remaining. An overflow crowd of about watched the traditional rivals put on one of their famous dogfights in Van Dyke gymnasium, where the series got its start back In 1941. The score alternated six times and was tied on eight occasions, with the teams never more than six points apart. It was knotted, 14-14, at the half. The defeat was a bitter pill to take for Central.

e-sides snapping a six-game 1 i streak by the Cadets, it robbed them of a chance to avenge an Maloney earlier 34-30 overtime decision to St. Norbert in Green Bay. St. Norbert now holds an 8-5 game edge in their all-time series. Outstanding in defeat for the Green Bay squad was Clayton Maloney, who poured in 13 points to tie the Central scoring record set by Bob Bur against this same St.

Norbert team in 1942. His total of eight baskets and two free throws almost doubled anything the opposition had to offer. Kelly Danen was. high for the Squires with 10 points, followed by Dick Lenss and Rich ards with nine apiece. Nay Deliberate Ciame Close euardinK and tough de fensive play under both baskets accounted for the low score.

St. Norbert slowed down its last- break offense and played a cie- ff.im like Central in jpost instances. Central relied nn urell-eTt edited tlavs with Maloney on the scoring end. Central outshot the home team from the floor, 13 to 11, but was unable to match the Squires at the free throw line. St.

Norbert converted 11 out of 21 gift chances, while Central hit on only five of 16. After Central had jumped off to an early 7-3 lead, St. Norbert caught up and went ahead at the first quarter, 8-7, on Danen's free throw. The game continued to gee-saw back and forth until little Jack Marchant sank a charity throw for Central to make it 14-14 at the intermission. With Lenss and Danen doing all the scoring, St.

Norbert spurt ed away to a 22-16 margin laie in the th rd period. Two quic push shots by Maloney put the Cadets back into the running ana me cuum j.v" going into the final quarter. 28-28. 4 minutes to Go! Lenss' jump shot and free throw pushed the winners out in front, and apparently put the game in the Squires' victory bag. Then Johnny O'Brien, Central's long-shot Ae, cut loose with two of his specialties.

while Gene Van Hout and Richards were trading free throws. Maloney circle pusher to tie the score once again at 28-28 with, four minutes to go. Another Van Hout free shot gave the Cadets a momentary 29-28 edge, but Richards uncorked three quick points to regain the lead for St. Norbert at 31-29. Maloney came right back with another pusher ana cemrai back in a tie at 31-31.

It looked ss though the teams were headed for another overtime period un til St Norbert intercepted a central pass to give Richards his last at the basket. The ball hung on the rim for a brief second and then toppled into me neiung. CENTRAL ST. NORBERT Maloney, 2 Bernh't. 0 1 i 1 I Kirnarni, i 2 1 l.rnii, 3 2 1 Danen, 4 4 (iryr, I v'Hout, a 2 Ted Fritsch, at the top of the Official National Football show that Fritsch outpointed his closest rival.

Bob Waterfield of Los Angeles, by 39 markers in counting 100 of the Bays' 148 points. Green Bay became the home of the individual scoring champ for the first time in 1938 when Fullback Clarke Hinkle rolled up 58. Andy Farkas of Washington captured 68 for the title in 1939, Don Hutsonitis set in. The sparkling end won scoring honors the next five years, piling up totals of 57, 95, 138, 117 and 85 That 138 total in 1942 stands as a league Van Buten of Philadelphia won out in 1945 with 110 points. Fritsch scored in 10 of the Packers' 11 games, faltering only be fore the Chicago Bears here Sept.

29. McKay got the only Packer touchdown that day and kicked the extra point Fritsch made all of his team's points in the Packers' 20-7 victory over Washington Dec. 1 and scored the nine points wan wnicn tney blanked Detroit Nov. 17 He got 60 on 10 TD's and 40 on nine field goals and 13 extra points. Only one other player duplicat- 1 ed Fritsch's feat of scoring three i iniifhrinwnq in one partis.

Ken Kavanaugh caught three TD passes from Sid Luckman agai man against Los Angeles Nov. 10. AMONG THE interesting sirie-; lights to the 1946 scoring was the number of points scored by each team in Hie various quarters. The Packers, for instance, bottomed the league in the first quarter when they registered only 13 points, all by Fritsch. He kicked a first quarter field goal against the Cards in Chicago Nov.

10, did the same against the Cards here Nov. 24, and then counted the other seven points on a touchdown and PAT against Los Angeles there Dec. 8. The scoring-by-quarter figures showed that Green Bay made 47 in the second canto, 33 in the third, and finished strong with 55 in the final heat. plurge was the Cardinals' 105, scored in the second quarter, SCORING BITS: For the third consecutive year.

National league teams mirie more touchdowns running (.2) than they did pass ing (126). League teams set a conversion record in 1946, making good on 92.9 per cent of their attempts. There were only 20 misses in 278 Only four linemen, Guard Augie Lio of Philadelphia, Center Ki Aldrich of i Michalske Resigns at Iowa State AMES, la. (U.P.) A. M.

(Mike)' Michalske, head football coach at Iowa State college since mid-October, 1942, resigned today effective July 1. Michalske, whose teams have won 18. lost 18 and tied three at Iowa State, would not comment on the resigna tion, other than to say he had no future plans. Director Athletics Louis Menze said the athletic council would make no "hurried decision" to replace Michalske. "'We want to survey every possibility and get the best Michalske man possible for the job," he said.

"We hope to have a football staff completed in time for spring prac- tice." Jim Hauss, line coach, resigned list week to take a similar job at Butler university. Michalske starred at Penn State, where he was graduated in 1926. He played two years of "pro football with the original New, York Yankees before going to the Green Bay Packers, where he was all-pro gUHl MA IIINCS. lie servea as assistant coacn ai Lafayette and St. Norbert (De Pere, Wis.) colleges and directed the football program at Stevens Point, Teachers before com-' Iowa State as line coach in 1942.

During his career here his teams placed second once and tied for tnird once in me Big tix. i ne Cvclone football team failed to i win a major game last fall. the Rednvjp, who will be play ing on tiny gymnasium at hoine, a factor that has meant more thin one victory to the Sheboyg-in outfit over the years. To m.i'te the situation a little toucher, Central will b.e after re-e -s for a 27-26 last minute setback sui'fird on West's court in the second gcime of the season. All all, it lucks hke an ev'iiuy Malone and his 1 Gets 6 Goals-Team Still Loses MADE IN NEARBY TOWNS $50 to $5000 36 Months to Poy Tom Tlyde set a season individual scoring mark in a losing cause Tuesday night as he meshed six goals while his Dewey's Bar sextet was dropping a close 8-7 decision to the Blackhawks in a free-scoring Municipal Hockey league tilt at Fisk park rink.

Vern Jensen got the only other counter for the Bars. The Blackhawks won with a better show of scoring balance, 'Dick Hansen and Don ROCK FINANCE CO. Offices ot Stone Motor Co. W. Walnut St.

Adomi 3830 Fight Results By The Associated Press I ANGELES Bobby Zander, 180, Los Angeles, outpointed Joe Kahut, 185 Woiidburn, Ore. (10). BUFFALO. N. Y.

Phil Musculo, lRfi'a. Buffalo, TKO big Bill Peterson, I'hicaRo, HARTFORD. Conn Ceoie Dunn. 131 'i. Hartford, TKO Bobby English, I 127.

Fdll River, Mass. I Washington, Tackle Leonard Levy of Los Angeles, and Center Stu Clarkson of the Bears, were among I TURN TO PACKERS, PAGE 18.