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Cut 153 Games Karras 9 Durability String i If "Of course," adds Mann, "it still will require a perfect snap, a perfect set and a good stride." The Lions' hooter allots one month each spring to distance practice but judges I hat the shortcoming of working on long kicks "is how much accuracy you want to sacrifice. "I know that if I work loo good on distance, I lose consistency on my shorter kicks. A kicker's true value to his team is assessed from 40 yards in; 55 yards isn't the name of the game," Mann says. Mann picks Kansas City's Jim Stenerud as the likliest to put the first one over from 60 yards out and break Bert Re-chichar's record of 56 yards set while he was with Baltimore in 1953. "And, if he does it, it will be in Denver's thin air." Allie Taylor (bruised ankle), receiver Charley Brown (shoulder), defensive halfback Mike Weger (groin), and defensive end Jim Mitchell (ellNw and ankle).

Sunday's Minnesota-Detroit football game may be decided by a foot. The Lions hope it's Errol Mann's. Mann, Detroit's leading scorer with 53 points, still trails Minnesota's Fred Cox in the National Football Conference's scoring race. But the Lions' kicker may be more accurate from the longer distances and the oddsmakers will likely peg the game on a field goal or less. Cox, who leads the NFC in scoring with 58 points, has converted 14 field goals in 19 attempts for a .737 percentage while Mann has hit on 11 of 15 (.733 per cent).

Slate Journal Wire Services After playing in 153 consecutive National Football League games Alex Karras has to start a string all over again. Rut it isnt certain when that will be. Karras, four-time All-Pro defensive tackle of the Detroit Lions, had his durability streak broken Sunday when coach Joe Schmidt failed to use him for even one play in the 16-10 victory over Chicago. The ailing knee which required surgery during the off season was the reason Karras didn't play. "He could have played.

But it was decided it would be better to give his knee the rest." a Lions spokesman said Tuesday. "The most rest we can give him that's all the better he'll be when we use him." "He's not lost for the season or anvthing like that," he said. "He'll be available for the Vi-Rings game." Detroit home from a three-game road trip to face Minnesota Sunday at Tiger Stadium. Both teams are tied for first in the Central Division of the National Football Conference with 5-1 records. The Vikings beat the Los Angeles Rams 13-3 Monday night in Minneapolis.

Karras, 12-year Lion veteran who is 35 years old, was replaced by second-year a Dan Coich against the Bears and Goich will likely start Sunday. The 153-game string isn't the longest for a Lion. Darris McCord, defensive end who retired in 1967, played in more than 160 consecutive games. Detroit will have to play over numerous injuries in the Vikings game. Joe Robb, starting defensive end, tore left knee ligaments in Chicago and underwent surgery Monday.

He is probably lost for the season. A dislocated elbow will put specialty team player and second-string center Bill Cottrell out for two or three games. Guard Rocky Rasley and defensive tackle Dave Haverdick have been activated from the taxi squad to fill the void. DOCBTFL'L Linebacker Wayne Walker and cornerback Lcm Barney have been listed doubtful starters against Minnesota due to Walker's foot sprain and Barney's ankle and knee injury. Others with various aches and pains are halfbacks Bruce Maxwell (shoulder sprain).

Nick Eddy (bruised knee), and Ma la's longest this season has Ix'cn 51 yards and in practice Tuesday the kicker Detroit obtained for a $2 20 phone call Ix'fore last season pui one over the cross-bar from 52 yards out. And it had a few yards to spare. Mann, who set a Lions record with 101 points last year, thinks artificial turf will bring the first 60-yard field goal in the National Football League. He has kicked one from 62 yards out with a tailwind one day during practice. STANDARD SURFACE hen everybody gets it there will be standard surfaces no change in grass height from one field to another.

And some nice warm day, with the wind at his back, one of us is going to break 60. ALEX KARRAS String Snapped Preliminary Pact Signed Lions Moving to Pontiac? PONTIAC (UPD Pontiac city commissioners Tuesday night unanimously approved a signed contract for construction of a stadium in that city for the Detroit Lions football team. and made preliminary cost estimates by Dec. 1, completed final plans with approval in writing by the Lions and Detroit Tigers baseball team by June 1, 1971, and have awarded contracts by Oct. 1, 1971, for completion of a Detroit stadium within the following 40 months.

J- Tf U' why rV A K' --aP Detroit groups have suggested construction of a new stadium adjacent to the existing Tiger Stadium or the building of a riverfront facility. Cousins said Pontiac agreed to the escape clause because "when you have your hat in your hand asking you don't insist on absolute conditions." The stadium authority and the Lions began negotiations on possible construction of a stadium in Pontiac last March. However, the pact allows the team to escape the contract if Detroit interests can make the National Football League club a similar offer by Sept. 1, 1972. The contract has been signed by William Clay Ford, president of Detroit Lions and Harold Cousins, president of the Pontiac Stadium Authority.

The commission authorized Mayor Robert F. Jackson and City Clerk Olga Barkeley to sign the contract. In order for the Lions to escape from the contract, Detroit interests must have picked a site, developed preliminary plans THE STATE JOURNAL Hardship Rule Gets New Look ii fe- r. M'3Z4 Lousing East Lonsing Michigan j. Oct.

28,1970 SECTION 0 I I Bob Hoerner Spartan Passes Spartan Roster Has Young Look CHAMPIONS! Captain Ambrose Pikes proudly displays the team trophy presented to the Eastern Quakers by Russ Sheathelm of the Downtown Coaches Club for winning the 15th annual Greater Lansing All-City Cross Country meet Tuesday afternoon at Wa-verly gold course. From left to right are: Clarence Le-Clear, Rick Hoberla, Joe Britton, Pikes, Sheathelm, Ray Baker, Jeff Cornell and coach Ed Townsend. Cornell won the event and LeClear was second. See related story, photo page G-2. (State Journal Photo by Dave Webb) I Hearing Test Wa mi By JERRY ESTILL NEW ORLEANS (AP) The Council of the NCAA voted Tuesday to sponsor legislation at the group's convention in January to waive eligibility rules in extreme hardship cases.

The decision stemmed from the airplane crash which killed several members of the Wichita State football team earlier this year. The 18-member council said it could not change the rules without an amendment approved by the full membership of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, although it was sympathetic to the Wichita State case. The legislation to be pro-posed would stipulate that large numbers of a team would The other three are juniors. Wilt Martin, Cal Fox, Mike Hogan, Clifton Hardy and Tom Kuischinski are the starting seniors on defense. Kutschinski See SPARTAN, Pg.

G-5, Col. 3 Errol Roy, quarterback Mike Rasmussen, fullback Henry Matthews and tailback Eric Allen are juniors. Counting DeLamielleure, eight of the 11 back-up players on offense are sophomores. have to be disabled before the eligibility waiver would occur. In the Wichita State case rules allow a freshman to participate in varsity football, but NCAA regulations would block these freshmen from participating in any post-season activity in their senior year.

In other action, the council informally approved a report from a financial aid committee to limit the number of scholarships each school can give and to require that scholarships be awarded only on a financial need formula. The other part of the three-part program suggested by the committee would establish one date on which all member schools could issue scholarships invitations and establish a one week "quiet period" immediately after the scholarships are offered. During this period no coach could contact a high school prospect. The idea is to allow the athlete to decide which school he wants to attend without outside pressure. Once the decision is made it can't be changed without forfeiture of a certain period of eligibility.

The net effect of the three-part proposal would be to drastically cut athletic costs and equalize competition. The Council will announce disciplinary action, if a against NCAA Wednesday afternoon after the final session of the three-day In the future Duffy Daugherty may give his top football prospects a hearing test before offering them a scholarship. Last week against Iowa, senior Wilt Martin and he's having a ureat season messed up one of the Hawkeyes' screen passes. When young quarterback Kyle Skogman was ready to pitch to the screen-man, there was Big Wilt standing there. As he came off the field, Daugherty grabbed Wilt and asked him how he knew that Iowa was going to throw a screen pass on that play.

"Ernie Hamilton told me." was his direct answer. Hamilton is the sophomore defenseman who was starting his first game. Curious as to how Hamilton knew Iowa planned the screen pass, Daugherty asked him. "I heard them call it in the huddle," he told the coach with a smile. So, excellent hearing can help win football games, too.

Flood Set With Senators? Bettor Collects I 2,45340 By BOB HOERNER. State Journal Sports Editor Michigan State has one of the youngest teams in the Big Ten football race this fall. Although Duffy Daugherty will not name his traveling squad for Saturday's game at Indiana until Thursday, it is expected that he will take only 14 seniors on the trip. Sophomores will dominate the 48-player squad with about 20 first-year players going to Iloosierland. After Tuesday's brisk workout, Daugherty had five seniors on each of the two starting units and only one position, defensive right end, has two seniors listed on the two-deep lineups.

STARTING SENIORS Fulltime starting seniors on the attack squad are center Tom Beard, split end Gordie Bowdell and flanker Bill Trip-lett. The other two, guard Mike Tobin and tackle Vic Mit-telberg, moved to the top unit when underclassmen were injured. Tobin advanced when Joe DeLamielleure suffered a sprained ankle in the Michigan game. DeLamielleure did not dress for the Iowa game, but the Detroit sophomore is back in uniform now. He still has a slight limp, and probably will see only limited action against the Hoosiers.

Mittelberg moved to the tackle spot when junior Jim Nicholson injured a toe early in the season. The injury was not serious, but does not allow the big Hawaiian to "push off" properly on offense. Nicholson has been moved to middle guard on defense. There are two first-year players starting on offense tight end Billy Joe DuPree and tackle Marv Roberts. Guard HAZEL PARK, Mich.

(UPI) An unidentified bettor collected a big Per feet a of $52,453.40 Tuesday at the Hazel Park Race Course for the third largest Perfecta of the current meeting. The win occurred when long shots finished second in both the sixth and seventh races. The winning numbers were 5-7-6-8. Siren Call ($7.00) won the sixth with Larry Light second, paying $36.40 to place. In the seventh, favored Therm Jack ($6.40) finished a neck in front of Chilote, who went to the post at odds of 109 to one and paid $39.00 to place.

Classic Slated NEW YORK (UPI) The richest event in the history of women's golf the $50,000 Sealy LPGA Classic has been scheduled for May 13-16 at the Desert Inn course in Las Vegas. A group of Lansing volleyballers will compete for the World's All-Church championship at Salt Lake City this weekend. Gary Dill. Kyle Andrus. Steve Doty, Mark Andrus, Ron Baylor and Dan Pick play for the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints in Lansing.

The team advanced to the All-Church tournament by inning a district championship here and a sectional title at Cincinnati last weekend. Ted Nance, Houston sports information director, tells this colorful telephone conversation. "Is it true," a sports writer asked Nance, "that your offensive backfield coach is black?" "No, he is Brown," said Ted. "In fact, we have two offensive backfield coaches. One of them is Brown and the other is Redd." (Melvin Brown and Elmer Redd, the only Negro assistant on the staff.) "Well," asked the caller, "is one of them black?" "Yes," said Nance.

"Redd is black and Brown is white." About five minutes later the phone rang again. "Say," the caller said, "would you mind going all over that again please?" How would you like to win a purebred Arabian horse? That's one of the door prizes at this year's National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York next week. Last year more than 500.000 entries were received for a similar horse offered by the French concern Courvoisier Cognac to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's birth. The winner will be selected by random draw. Anyone can enter and it is not necessary to be at the show to win the horse.

WASHINGTON (AP) Outfielder Curt Flood, engaged in an antitrust battle over baseball's reserve clause, has come to salary terms with the Washington Senators, the Washington Post reported today. The newspaper said Flood flew from Copenhagen for a weekend meeting with Senators owner Robert E. Short in New York. Flood's salary was estimated at more than the $90,000 he was paid by the St. Louis Cardinals.

Short and baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn declined comment on the story. Flood, the Post said, presumably returned to Denmark after the New York meeting. "It is believed that Short did not insist that Flood withdraw his antitrust suit against organized baseball while playing for the Senators," the newspaper said. "Short is dealing with Flood in the hope the commissioner's office will consent to the player's return to the game if he signs the standard reserve-clause contract and despite the still-pending damage suit by Flood." After he was traded by the Cardinals to Philadelphia, Flood filed a $4.1 million damage suit, contending he was victimized by the antitrust nature of the reserve clause. The clause prohibits a player from negotiating with any team except the one which holds his contract.

The Senators obtained rights to Flood after the Phillies were unable to sign him. Flood has a lifetime .293 batting average over 13 seasons. Will 4th Meeting Prove Difficult? TROPHY FROM ALI Jerry Quarry, his left eyebrow cross-hatched with 11 stitches, talks to reporters during a press conference Tuesday in Atlanta. Stopped after three rounds by the cut brought on by some thunderous left jabs from Ali, Quarry told newsmen that Ali was "a good fighter, but he ain't greaL He couldn't whip mv four-year-old." See related story Page G-4. (L'PI Telephoto) There are several new high schools in the central Michigan area, but I haven't seen one with such fine athletic facilities as the new one at Alma.

The gy will seat about 3,000 and the pool is out of this world. Sexton's Goal-Third Win in Row exhibition game in August and then posted a 28-18 victory over the Firebirds in Pontiac, before crushing them 34-6 in a return engagement in Lansing. It used to be said that a team with two straight wins over another team would have a much harder time posting the third. Well, now the All Stars are going to find out if it's any tougher getting the fourth. Game time is 7:30 p.m.

Tickets for the game are available at Paramount News and Duke's Shell, with adult tickets costing $3 and children $1.50. The outdoor facilities football stadium, softball fields, all-weather track, tennis courts, etc. are not completed, but the plans are great. When it is finished, the school will have one of the best sports layouts in the state. Four times and out? That's the question that will be answered Saturday night at Pontiac's Wisner Stadium when the Lansing All Stars face the Pontiac Firebirds for the Midwest Football League championship.

Coach Turf Kauffman's All Stars already own three straight triumphs over their southeastern rivals this season, and a fourth would give the Lansing team its second consecutive MFL title. Pontiac advanced to the finals with a 35-14 victory over the Michiana Hawks, while the All Stars scored a 60-0 playoff decision over Lackawanna. "Pontiac has given us the best games of any of the teams in our league," said Kauffman. "They have a lot of fine individual material, and overall team talent. Ii should be a real good game especially in Pontiac." The All Stars, sporting a 28-game skien without a loss, are 11-0 this season while Pontiac is 9-2.

Lansing topped Pgntiac in an Wings Aim at Rangers By BOB GROSS State Journal Sports Writer If there ever was a homecoming game Sexton's Big Reds wanted to win, it's Friday night. Coach Ed Majdeski's team, still very much in contention for the Six-A League championship, hosts once-beaten Jackson at Memorial Stadium. In other action. Eastern (5-0-1) travels to Kalamazoo. (0-4), East Lansing (4-2) visits Adrian (2-4), Everett (0-6) goes to Jackson Parksidc (5-1), Lansing Catholic Central (4-2) vill be at Eaton Rapids (2-3) and Waverly (3-3) is at home against Ionia (2-4).

SHARE SECOND Sexton and Jackson are tied for second place in the Six-A, each at 2-1. The Big Reds, in rolling to the championship a year ago, handed Jackson its worst licking of the season, 53-0. "You can bet Jackson will have one thing on its mind Friday and that's to get even for last year," Majdeski said. "But, I don't think the score will be anything like that." The Big Reds started slow this year, losing three of their first four games. "It was a combination of breaking down in key situations and of course you have to remember we're young," added Majdeski.

Sexton has won its last two times out, hammering Battle Creek Central, 30-16 and rallying last Friday to clip Kalamazoo, 18-15. STILL LEARNING "We're still learning and several players have come off the bench to pick us up after los- See SEXTON'S, G-2, Col. 3 Senior Citizens Have Fun out of action then because of contract disputes with the club. They were key defenseman Brad Park, centers Jean Ra-telle and Walt Tkaczuk and left wing Vic Hadficld. While recovering from a knee injury, Detroit's Frank Mahovlich had a chance to watch the Rangers defrost Toronto 6-2 and he came away impressed.

"They've got Hiree good lines well-balanced lines," Mahovlich said. NEW YORK (UPI)-The Detroit Red Wings will be trying to duplicate their preseason efforts tonight when they meet the New York Rangers for the first time during the new National Hockey League season. The Red Wings and Rangers clashed three times during the preseason, with the Detroiters victorious twice. However, the Red Wings had an advantage in the form of Rangers' personnel problems. Four New York players were Page G-2 ROCKY GRANT Helps Reds in Sub Role t- I.