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Morning Herald SPORTS Complete Local, National Coverage Thirty-Four Hagentown, Md. 30, 1961 Terps Gary Collins Is All-ACC Lineman; Wagman Is Guilty Of 37 Hoop 'Fixes' Football fans and especially followers of the Baltimore Colts will have their last opportunity to sec the Slcccis in action at the Baltimore Memorial Stadium when they entertain the San Francisco 49crs this Sunday. The loser of this game will be eliminated fron. western division title chase. The 49crs, who own an 11-6 Guilty Plea Complete Surprise Three Other Bribe Cases Postponed Until Tomorrow NEW YORK A a Colts Lead NFL In Team Defense NKW YORK (AP) The Baltimore Colts may not have much lo show in the victory column but they've taken over first place in team defense in the National Football League.

The Kastern Conference leading The laser of this game will be eliminated from York Ciants havo led stern ilivkinn rli-iTM ACI-- i I'hc league in gambler Aaron Wagma.iinhe'K mi i i-u Aaron U'agmailjof the season lumbled to second scries advantage over the Colts, enter the fray one-half pleaded guilty Wcdnesdavl 1 W-'s weekly statistical re game ahead of the Steeds and two and one-half lengths to a sweeping indictment 11 1 1 sl nvcd Wednesda 'behind the pace-setting Green Bay Packers, naming him as a 1 A year ago San Francisco, blasting away with i fixer in recent college bas-j inclllllin 44G Vilr(is rushing and alcun attack, tunned Baltimore off ilic tnn P-. 2 7 passing. The Giants have attack, gunned Baltimore off the top perch a i a I i 2925 in the twict trimming tlie Colts down the stretch, receive sentences totaling Toil Lions, in 1 T.I 1 T-L: i ketball scandals. He could 30-22 and 34-10, This week when the clubs clash the 370 years and fines up to rospectors' heavy artillery may not include the "shot-! $370 000 gun. "The 49crs have been very impressive operalina out of the T-foimation in beating Chicago (41-31) and Minnesota (38-28) the past two weeks." commented Colts scout Don McCaffcrly.

R. Roberts and J. D. Smith have been i exceptionally well and John Brodie scms to be i i as the regular quarterback in the T. He was awfully sharp against the Bears and Vikings.

R. C. Owens is looking better than ever as a receiver and rookie end Aaron Thomas has added speed to what was The move The Colts' surge past the Giants in the scramble for team defense honors came Sunday during Balti- i'e came as a surprisejmore's 27-6 triumph over the itart of his trial on37JVVnshinglon Redskins and New he judge acccpteii the'land Browns, spiracy. He entered a plea of, Baltimore, likewise, replaced guilty to nil. die Giants as leaders in pass com- Ashen faced lie stood in Cen-jplction percentage by the oppbsi- cral Sessions Court.

Wagman told it ion. The Colts' opponents have Judge Joseph A. Saarilte that ho 46.7 per cent. who trail move. The judge accepted plea and set Jan, 10 for sen- sn i pi rema i ne( i nl 1op in tcam MJS offen se Our dcfe TM wi ta best Sunday." mini, iu umc me unexpected step.

tsattimore defense has featured the club's last LI his indictment last April, triumphs the first time since mid-season of I960 8 A ran -hJi' logan saici it has -won two in a row. In the 27-6 conquest of five col'loges" andTriversiUes ington last Sunday the Colts established a new 10 cut do TM cn ttlcir leams ma total of 3,888 yards with J-----I on passine and 1200 nn TM loVkeZ at aS le Sa'n Franco has 1 cl ste and Baltimore 3.787. standard by throttling the Redskins with a net s'aidtL payments ran to irom scrimmage of 97 yank, 34 via J9 rushing attempts niuch as 1 500 a la 5'er, and 'r 32 and II lute defense also contributed a blocked field were successful, Hogan said. attempt by Andy Nelson, to launch a tint int drive, and three interceptions ail int 'gBing system Minor Leagues Will Try To Curb Bonus Spending Sprees sare Ben Rechichar and Tom Keane, both of whom turned tlie trick in 1953. Click.

The latter accomplishment matched a one-ganie'f ln sucil cases lh sarily Wagman was the key figure in i grand jury probe lasting for months. The inquiry eventually involved 37 players from 22 schools and concerned fix attempts in 29 games. The scandal paralleled that of decade ago. which implicated from seven colleges. By JACK HAND Associated Press Sports Writer TAMPA, Kla.

(API-Baseball's minor leagues are expected to adopt a new version of a bonus The Steeds- defensive forward vail continued to exert tremendous pressure on the opposing passer, in this case freshman Norman Sncad, The Coils' manct of crushers Gino Marchctti, Art Donovan. Billy Smith and Ordell Braase dumped the slick-tossing Sncad lor 28 yards in losses and increased to 141 the total i U1 MV i i i iUlL'UK. 1 rule Thursday, designed (o curb said one high baseball official, to of the 37 athletes received immunity from prosecution in return for their testimony before that they have set back rival quarterbacks in the 1 le urr case a bul one three For the eleven contests played thus jar the flosses' masters of mayhem have flogged enemv flingers for an overall deficit of 354 yards. San Francisco's rugged offensive barrier could make Brodie an elusive target this week, however. The win over Washington was also marked fev Lenny Moore's 15th touchdown of the campaign, another Baltimore record.

He tallied on a 54-yard sprint from scrimmage to lift his 1961 aggregate to 539 yard.s on the ground an average of 7.5 yards per Will Hagerstown operate in 1962 on the half-mile tt i. in HI i i TM' cou. Wagman also has pleaded guilty to attempted bribery of a detective from the district attorney's office at the time of his arrest March 27. In addition, Wagman was convicted of attempting to fix the Florida-Florida State football game in i960 He has been out on bail pending appeal. An associate, Joseph Green, 37 circuit'? From time to time this to crop up and rirlit here and now the answer is YES.

Many rumors have been going around to the affect that Cumberland will not operate in 1962 but will sell reen, pleaded guilty Monday to charges of bribing Columbia Universitv Player Fred Pcrtnoy lo shave Joints jii four sijncs las! se AP I A OF -Wisconsin end Pat Hichtcr, who caught two passes for touchdowns and played a key role in Wisconsin's 23-21 vcilory over Minnesota, is Lineman of the Week, He earned the honor in the weekly Associated Press poll of sportswriters and broadcasters. (AP Wirephoto) Ai 8 Big 10 squad Gabriel Of Wisconsin's Stafp Richter Is 5late AP Lineman thosen By HARVEY BREUscHSR Center Bob Hacker Roger ball teammates who watched end Shoals Oil 2nd Team Pat Richter elude defenders all eason joined Wednesday in call- By KEN ALYTA ng his Associated Press lineman Aiiociit.d Pru, Wrlttr of the week award well-earned, CHARF OTTO' ilm expected and maybe a bit inle 1AKL OTTE, N.C. (AP) in coming, Two men who gained na- 'He's been an outstanding man tional honors during the 8 UVennn a anVne 0l on th TMTM Gary ot of weeks," was Coach Milt Collins and North Carolina re endTa le lred Wisconsin's season-ending tri- "'lOnei, head the Associat- umph over Minnesota ed Press All-Atlantic Coast he tba 5ig Ten championship. It went to lor lyb1 Ohio Slate without attachments. They are tlie only repealers Richter also was named to the from last year's team to make all Big len team announced ear- top unit announced Wednesday I ight by lto AI board of sports Quarterback Ron Miller, who writers serving Ihe ACC area manned the throwing end of Ihc Collins was AP Lineman of'the Mler-to-Richter passing combinn- Week for his role in Maryland's ion that paced Wisconsin's of- early season upset of Syracuse ense, greeted the announcement Gabriel was AP Back of the Week' of Richtcr's award with a blunt: for his passing and running job ltmt produccli fou to Ihrowmg: to that guy is as smother South Carolina.

New Version Of Bonus Rule In Offing leorge Trautrnan, president of the National (minors) Associa- "We have to do something to seep from committing suicide," the spending spree that cost club- owners a reported S12 million in as payments lo untried youngsters. If the minors adopt the proposed legislation at their final convention sessions, the majors probably will follow through or Saturday at Miami Beach. Seven teen of Ihe 22 minor leagues must approve the adoption. At least two amendments offered by Hie Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Gianls organization through minor league affiliates would alter the original proposal, drawn up by a six-man major league committee. The committee has the backing of Commissioner Ford C.

Frick and "The clubs spent $12,000,000 on bonuses in 1961." Opponents of the proposal point out that the draft of 15 first-year As matters stand, a club can pay a bonus of any size to an player. After Ihe boy's first sea son, he can be advanced to the big league roster until the 40-man limit is reached and thus made immune from Ihe draft. Frick's group would reduce first-year draft price from $12,000 men and a steady increase in the to $3.000. It would permit a un, iotal draft that numbered 35 for league club to farm out only one $680,000 by the majors indicated first-year man and he wouh on the present rules would work if count in the big league club's ren- given more lime. player limit.

No other first-year Previous bonus rules did not man could be farmed out unti work because they could not be enforced. Basically, the committee's proposal would strengthen the existing first-year draft by which club's can lose their big bonus babies for only $12,000. It is designed to discourage the huge bonus by first- year men subject to the draft and at a lower cost. I I I Ul The towering 6-0 junior snagged rc nte lhe passes for 142 yards and two la ly "S' fail to ouctotowns against Minnesota. place The yardage pushed his seas'on )orlh Carolina gained three po- otal to 656.

yards, a half dozen tlons champion Duke and Mary- beyond the previous conference an wo eacn an the four others mark of 650 set by North western's were rea(i over as many teams. Joe Collier in 1952. The team is considerably pleased with the lineman's er lhan the one named last fall award and mighly pleased with The line is 10 pounds lighter at lie whole season," is the way a 200-pound average and the back- Richter, whose home is in Madi- field at 197 is three pounds lighter. Gabriel, at 6-4 and 220 pounds is the biggest man on the team, Joining him in the backficld are halfbacks Alan White of Wake Forest anil Gib Carson of North Carolina and Bob Elliott, North Caroling fullback. Collins, a skilled all-around player for three years at Maryland, has been one of the most colorful KASTON, Md.

(AP) Ailing ACC history. A top first-year man and he would Biu Veeck admitted Wednesday he not 11 he also has played missed the baseball meetings un- wcl1 on and is a good der way in Florida. But, he said unler all the other big league clubs hac a chance to take him at the $8,000 waiver price. The players sen down after going through the waiver process could not lx re called unlil after fie next draft The Dodger amendment woulc leave the draft price at $12,000 but would permit a team to farm out two first-year men Army-Navy Game Will Be Nip-And-Tuck ANNAPOLIS A Coach two big games on this final foot- about the Rose Bowl? By WILL GRIMSLE NEW YORK (AP) Hunger wobably will decide one of the ..,1 uii-i Loacn nig games on tms unal loot- couui receive a maximum Wayne Hardin started last spring ball Saturday (Army-Navy), and CC 01 20 VPai'ij. -inH i COfliWiItn ViJri i i i -n i their dales to some other track in the stale leaving onlv'i wcrc have onc Hagcrstown to cnmpete against West Virginia.

fe adelphia and he said grimly burn) They are Ixiuis Brown, 22 of Jersey City. N.J., former star Player for the University of North A Dr. Robert C. Snavely, general manager has staled time and again that Hagerstown be ready for their 12 day meeting when the time arrives and it is hoped that some sort of an agreement can be worked out whereby the local dales will not conflict with those allotted to Shenandoah Downs. It is wry doubtful if Cumberland will sell out as TM was on lwo officials of the upstate track after coming throush the bribery arid one of con meeting this year feel that interest is on the upswing and KtaSIfS a A that horsemen will once again ship their strings to Fairgo.

ea'h taiy 1 "It looms as a great Navy football squad thirst for revenge will dictate the admitted Capl. Asbury Coward ready for Army Saturday in Phil- Wednesday. "We don't want to fail our final exam." It was one way Hardin replied to a flat statement by Army Coach Dale Hall that "We will beat Navy." Hardin declined on a te about what is 1 MaiK" 1 week's score 28-12 for .700. make him feel differenlly. I jinn jJiiniCl Quimlazzi, 24.

of Yonkcrs, NY also a former Alabama player Brown was indicted on two -One of these days you'll wake with a To blanket covering the ground and later on an aching back from shoveling. Good Morning! FRANK COLLKY Generals Win Opener By 8241 Score Three of the P. E. Generals' Fans Awaitiug Developments On Rose Bowl PASADENA, Calif. (AP) All courlmen scored 18 points each toj fan could do Wednesday was lead the Generals to an Kl-U 1 lac and await developments tory over Brooklanc Tuesday eve-'" 1 1962 Rnsc Bow picture, nine rllc onl sure thing was that iUCLA will have concerned, either team can win.

If I felt that we were going up there and shellack them, I'd say so. "But I-feel it's going to be a nip and tuck game." i The closest Hardin came to say- ling Navy would win was, "We lost three of our nine battles, but we are not going to lose Ihe war." Navy considers the nine games leading up to Army only as bathes and the defeats to Penn State, Pitt and Duke will be forgotten if final victory can be gained over the West Pointers. Hardin said he doesn't put much stock in posting clippings of quotes by rival coaches, such as Hall's, to fire up his players. "I never felt that's what does consider-acUorTorrihe 1 controvert' win hc Said Yo11 Sli11 sial football game of Nov -I bl A hrcen Syracuse and Notre Dame. fnr vti OII 1nan when I was more ac- Army 21, Navy 18; Army has There has been no official word co Veeck said.

Vorwav on only one of the last five hat Navy is being considered for elo ws 7" the nes lo Send games and has been upended in the New Years Day game in Pas- a(e to te me lhln SS- I hea the last two by the exploits of adena, Calif. But Coward agreed son onc Joe Bellino, no longer around. Army will score three touchdowns during the halt that President Kennedy, a touch football specialist, sits on the Cadets' side. Take Action On Rnlinjx FOUT WORTH, Tex. (AP) nrdt President of the will score two and a field Armv Vaw i r.

nm-n i JFK is seated among SS Sr i fficia sing irom Plato to "Citizen mark for the over-thc-pole flight to either Chicago or Minneapolis uu .1 mumajiia mdLMiiia, unbeaten and untied, rated No. 1 and looking to the Sugar Bowl should be big, "But," up the situation." n- i A r- avc is loot lTMn C. Forback, R. Rickelt and for the New Year's Day Owens each tossed nine basketsigrid spectacle. Us athletic defer their paints, with I).

artmpnl Retting geared for and T. Perry scoring 12 SL avalanchc of demands each for second place honors. High scorer for Brooklane was Joe Young with 17 poinls, followed by Ray Deiter with 10. Generals took an 18-2 first period lead, and were ahead at halftime 42-17. lm 10 4Hlgh (Oil 3 3 1 7 3 7 i 11 5 15! 1 7 7 4 1 Washington 100 ABL 103, Los Angeles Fhuiclsco 103, Pittsburgh for tickets.

UCLA will be the host university but it is up lo Ihe athletic directors of all schools in the Big Five Conference to decide on the team to be invited. There was no indication of anything transpiring from the conference executive director, Tom Hamilton. He has said an announcement be made before the week is out. In Columbus, President Novice G. Fawcett of Ohio Stale announced the faculty committee's ban on the Rose Bowl is final.

Speculation continued the invitation might go to Minnesota, Purdue or Michigan State. Hockty By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Montreal 2, Toronto 2 (tie) sss. illegal. The field goal enabled Ihc Irish to win the game 17-15. Oen.

Bob Ncyland of lhe NCAA rules committee said Tuesday the victory came on an illegal play However, Notre Dame's i president, the Rev. Edmund C. Joyce, refused to accept the vcr- nicl and asked for judgment by a competent board." Hardt said he received a request from Notre Dame asking Ihe council to investigate the mailer and that he had replied by He called the incident embarrassing and regrettable and said he sincerely hoped some decision! could be reached quickly between 1 Ihc two schools. they've been through, that if they suffer an adverse break they are not going to give up. And if they get a good one, it will only spur them on and they will not let up." The latter seemed to happen to Navy last year.

With some breaks, it spurted to a 17-0 lead over Army. A lot of the players had been on the Navy squad that shellacked Army 43-12 the year before and Hardin concedes they got careless in the second half and had to hane on to win 17-12. Hardin also promised that while Navy will show something differ- en LA ense not earthshaking." "It will not be anything new especially for Army," he continued. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NBA Syracuse 136, Cincinnati 18 lic because they are such blocking assujnraenu. uuumii Picks Bid To Play In Rose Bowl of the other (Alabama-Au- Navy director of athletics So the 1961 campaign will end ieason itself surprise.

a declared the Rose Bowl woulc that with Alabama and Ohio State both declining feelers, the Rose Bowl are bound io be looking everywhere for an attractive opponent for U.C.L.A. Rose Bowl, said Tuesday that a definite bid to a visiting team even for last year's 3-0 setback. Duke 18, Notre Dame 15: The Blue Devils unleash a bevy ol race horse halfbacks against an Irish tcam still reeling from the Iowa debacle. Mississippi 33, Mississippi State Ole Miss has the stuff and pours it on against a traditional state foe. a would urday.

Knoxville will rock and roll with this one. nerciful to the once pround but battered Mustangs. Allege Holy Cross Oregon Affair Tn State 18, Houston North CaTM TM 0t H. Virginia as, Lotiisville dub Baylor 14; Texw Tech West Texas State 10. Czechs Upset Scots BRUSSELS, Belgium HI Czechoslovakia defeated Scotland jtau: lltf two UK Al teama were deadlocked after their maaaced home-aad-bonw League tat ANNAPOLIS Navy Wednesday.

Coach Wayne Hardin, who is not Hamilton, former football coach and athletic director at Navy, is scheduled lo attend the Army Navy game. Navy had reason to believe it would be invited last year to the Rose Bowl if it beat Army and was already to accept. But the bid went to Minnesota before the Georgia Tech 14, Georgia 7: ro'Wary classic was played, Noggins crack when cracker Navy's first post-season game meets cracker. was in the 1923 Rose Bowl, where Oklahoma 20, Oklahoma State it tied Washington 14-14. Its next 7: Bud Wilkinson, whose 47 New Years Day trip was to the straight set a modern consecutive Sugar Bowl in 1954, and since the winning game record a few years Navy has played in the Cotton wck, stretches his new skien (o Bowl in 1957 and in the Orange riv c.

Bowl last year. Tennessee 19, Vanderbilt 14: Army has never gone to a Bowl But it would be a great tempta- Just os for Navy, It the Army lexas Christian 13, Southern wins Saturday, and was asked by Methodist 8: The season's end is Rose Bowl, In Navy circles, there was little doubt what its own answer will The others: be. It would probably accept im Colorado 22, Air Force Miami mediately after the game. Fla 19, Florida 14, Boston TAMPA, Fla. (AP)-BiU Adair veteran minor league manager, was named pilot of the 1962 Louisville club of lhe American Asso- ciatkm Wednesday.

Adair succeeds Ben Geraghty, easy as pitching 'cm down a fun nel," said Miller, playing down lis contribution to the combina son, summed it up. Bill Veeck Recuperating At Home cheerfully, "two orchids bloomei oday in my hothouse." Veeck, former major domo he Chicago While Sox, the Cleve and Indians and Ihe old St, Loui Browns, retired lo Maryland' quiet Eastern Shore last summe because of ill health. The nature of his ailment ha. not been disclosed, but if is no 1: ilVT wounded while a Marine durin? i- Jln jeCompte of North Car- Football May TM SftS--ts Lxxels ftessxi only once a year at the meeting "ackle nn ff TM Se and may never see again. lappcning in baseball sitting a The team reflects the balance Ihc conference achieved on the field this year.

Seven of the eight He teams with another good receiver, Tommy King of Clemson at the end positions. Two of the three juniors who made the team are tackles, Art Gregory of Duke and Jim Moss of South Carolina. The team has fine guards In junior Jean Berry of Duke, a strong, fast man who plays of- "But other than that, things are jss.rff ft nous. And the ck Hockey Team To U.S. 1 OS (AP)-The Nor- IN AVl uuuu, i i a he controlled 'the wcgian Ice Hockey Federation de- VaS "'I 10 eidcd Wcdncsd ay it would send a key Pa in team to the world Championship r- Whlch cx (ournal "ent at Colorado Springs wor whcn Cola.

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