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1 THE ECTION EVENING SUg BALTIMORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1973 PAGE Co fa Berry-, Parker i W.I i' "iUT! r.sv fir iff jm 51 i 4 Kjrv i 1 By Larry Harris Two of the greatest Colts of all time. Raymond Berry and Jim Parker, today received professional football's highest honor when they were elected to the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Joining the great receiver and blocker was Joe Schmidt, the recently-retired Detroit Lion coach who was the first of the truly super middle linebackers in the National Football League. Berry and Parker are elected in their first year of eligibility for the Hall. Rules require a player to be retired for five seasons before he can be nominated for membership.

Moore Was Close Another Colt great, Lenny Moore, was on the final ballot and is a sure bet to join the supreme list in another season. Berry and Parker join two more Colts in the Hall of Fame. Gino Marchetti was inducted last summer and Artie Donovan became a member in 1968. The 1973 class is the smallest ever named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which welcomed its charter group of 17 enshrinees in 1963. The total of pro greats permanently honored will reach 77 on July 28 when official induction ceremonies are held during Canton's annual Football's Greatest Weekend festival.

Most Fabled Catcher Berry, with 631 receptions in 13 years, was for years pro football's leading lifetime pass-catcher. The New York Jets' Don Maynard finally edged past him in the next-to-last game of the 1972 season, but Berry still remains as pro football's most fabled receiver. At 6-2 and 187, Berry didn't possess the great speed many consider essential in a Xm fell's'' I a TIC? 'C RAYMOND BERRY A Lion aide now great receiver. -But he combined fanatic determination and hard work with an end- IN PLAYING DAYS Jim Parker was a fearsome blocker. TO 5M 'XVAH t-T: Mil i i SPORTS EDITOR less repertoire of moves and patterns and he developed into a receiver that no defense could adequately cover.

The question has often been raised since Berry retired if he could be a star against the zone defenses so prevalent today. John Unitas had one good answer when he said, "Raymond would have done whatever it was necessary to do to be successful. He was that kind of man." The Glory Years Stories of Berry's dedication and battles against heavy odds have become legendary. In fact, some of them are so distorted now they bear no resemblance to the truth. There is little argument, however, that his devotion to duty has been an example many of today's aces have taken to heart.

Berry's glory years came in 1958, 1959 and 1960 when he led the NFL in receiving three straight years. The Colts won NFL titles in the first two seasons and the Johnny Unitas-to-Raymond Berry aerial duo was Baltimore's most deadly weapon. In the famous 1958 overtime championship game against the New York Giants, Raymond caught a record 12 passes for 178 yards. In Baltimore's desperate drive to tie the game in regulation time, Berry nabbed three of Unitas tosses. Then in the winning drive in overtime, he caught two more.

Parker Was Tops While Berry may have joined the Colts as a comparatively unheralded rookie, Parker came to Baltimore two years later in exactly opposite fashion. An all-America at Ohio State, Parker was the 1956 winner of the Outland Award, symbolic of the nation's top college lineman, and the Colts' No. 1 draft pick. An immense 6-3, 275-poun-der, Parker immediately lived up to every prediction made of him. Buckeye Coach Woody Hayes had rated him a better defensive than offensive prospect, but Jim's destiny with the Colts was strictly on the offensive line, where he was to play two positions with exceptional skill.

Interestingly, Parker divided his career almost 50-50 as first a tackle and then a guard. He was equally successful at either spot, win- lw i FAMILIAR SIGHT-For Colt fans of 1950s and 1960s was the leaping catch like one above made by Raymond Berry. 'i -i -l ill ning all-NFL honors four times as a tackle and four times as a guard in an eight-year stretch. He was named to the Pro Bowl each of those eight seasons. Throughout his career, Parker was a superb pass-blocker but, in spite of his great size, he also had the speed to become just as effective as a pulling guard clearing the way for a Colts sweep.

Schmidt played fullback at the University of Pittsburgh and knee injuries cast at least some doubt on his pro future. Still the Lions picked him in the "lucky seventh" round of the 1953 draft with a specific idea in mind that he would eventually fill middle linebacker's role, a new casting in pro football in the 1950s. From the start, he was a sensation. Starting in his second campaign, he was named to the all-NFL team eight times in nine seasons from 1954 through 1962. He performed with distinction in nine straight Pro Bowls during the same period.

lllllllllittilil llllllllliiliii r4 ll 1. A HllllHlllilllllllll JOE SCHMIDT Made MLBs famous HALL OF FAMER Jim Parker displays retired Colt jersey at his store here. Clips' Miller Dreams Of Football Glory Erratic Hawks Could Narrow Bullet Lead By Larry Hargrove just 20 times. He's starting to feel like an albatross. Randy Miller has a dream.

He dreams he's a wide receiv "It's tough on everybody er in professional football, in Parker, Berry Find Hall' Beats Titles In Fayetteville, Raymond Berry paused from winding up his affairs as assistant coach at Arkansas to comment on his selection to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. "I'm humbled," said the ex-Colt receiver. "This is just tremendous." "Is there nothing like it?" Raymond was asked. "Heck, no' he said. Soon Berry will leave Arkansas to go to Detroit and, work on the Lions' staff under their new head coach, former Colt Don McCafferty.

The man McCafferty replaces in Detroit, Joe Schmidt, is, ironically, another of the three men named today to the Hall of Fame. "This," said Schmidt, "is the highest honor in gA month ago Schmidt quit as the Lions' coach because job "was no longer fun." The former Detroit middle linebacker is convinced now that the only" good jobs in pro football are as player and ownetjiifsiT "Nothing in between," Joe says as he prepares to drift into obscurity unless he plans to become an owner. And on Liberty Heights avenue at Garrison boulevard in Northwest Baltimore, Big Jim Parker, eight times an All-Pro offensive lineman, with the Colts, stood behind the counter at his package goods store, sucking on a pipe and still half wondering if the news were true. "Hall of Fame," Jim! said. "This is a bigger thrill than winning the championships was." Mistake To Omit Lenny Moore It is a reminder of the Colts' glory days to learn that two of the three men named today to the Hall of Fame played their entire careers here.

Both, unquestionably, are bona fide Hall of Famers. Parker played offensive tackle for six years, made All-Pro and was generally considered to be the best ever to play the position. Then he was switched to guard, where he played five years with the same results. All-Pro. All-time great.

"This makes my career complete," Jim was saying at his store. "I made All-America at Ohio State. Won the Outland Award. AH -Pro. Played in the Pro Bowl eight times.

Now the Hall of Fame. I can't think of anything that's left." Berry is every bit as legitimate as Parker. No greater pass catcher than Raymond ever lived, yet it was typical of him that he would give credit for his success to the quarterback who was on the throwing end John Unitas. "Consider- the guy I had throwing to me," Raymond said. "That was not a bad arrangement for me now, was it?" "The only thing I regret," Parker says, "is that Lenny Moore is not coming in with us.

He's eligible this year, too. He's been out five years just like me and Raymond. I think Lenny deserves to be in the Hall of Fame." Parker is right about that. Skipping over Lenny is a mistake. Any Colt fan who remembers ol' Spats running with the football, often behind Parker's blocking, could have told the people at Canton that.

Gino The Best He Ever Played With "One thing I always remember about Lenny when he-played," Parker said enviously, "was that he could go to training camp and in two days be in mid-season form. Everybody else had to go out and run for three months before we went to Westminster. Lenny didn't run a day." Parker reminisced at length yesterday, making these comments on the men he played with and Lectin st i On' Doug Atkins, the former Chicago Bears defensive end "He was the greatest player I ever played against. We used to curse each other during the games, but after the game we could go out and drink beer together. Doug was big 6-8, 280, and strong.

Pound-for-pound, Green Bay's Henry Jordan was the best. He went about 240. A lot of tackles today are that small. Manny Fernandez had a great day in the Super Bowl and he only weighs 240. Back when I played, we had tackles like Big Daddy Lipscomb, Art Donovan, Sherman Plunkett, Luke Owen.

They were close to 300 pounds." On another Colt Hall of Famer, defensive end Gino Marchetti "Gino was the greatest player I Continued on Page 9, Col. 1 going through a season like By Mike Janofsky Staff Correspondent we're having," he says, "but stead of a left winger for the Clippers a guy will go through o. season like this during his career, but to go through two in consecutive years is really hard to take." As hockey players go, Miller doesn't rank as a superstar. However, if they ever start ranking hard workers in the American Hockey League, Randy will be among the "If I had it to do over again Atlanta No sooner does one feel it a little tougher on me because I went through the same thine last year." I would've like to have given have the Atlanta Hawks figured out than they blur the Sam tried to come up with the Colt coach yesterday. Today he's going to try and find someone to run Navy's football team.

Sunset says the new Middie mentor will be George Welsh, now Penn State assistant. In pro action tonight, Sam sees the Clippers surprising everyone, especially Hershey, by winning easily over the Bears. In the ABA All-Star game it'll be the East over the West. In the NBA, Sam will go with the Bullets over Atlanta, Boston over Cleveland, Milwaukee over Phoenix and Chicago over KC-O. Record: 405-170 .704 football a shot," says Randy.

Randy spent last season with Seattle in the Western League crystal ball. I imagine myself running like a deer on all those pass The Hawks are the picture of .1. "3 -a i a .1.2 inconsistency. They beat good; which only won 12 times. The Clippers will do well to top that mark at their current league leaders.

teams, lose to baa ones, iney win with defense one nieht. I Albatross Feeling You can't blame him for fantasizing. In the past two pace. offense the next. Center Walt' tential is there to wipe opponents off the court.

"They run the whole game," Shue noted with a trace of remorse. Running is why the Bullets stand 2-2 with the Hawks instead of 4-0. The first Baltimore loss was a freak. Down by 12 with 3.51 to go, the Hawks tied the game in regulation and won in overtime. In the other Atlanta needed only the standard 48 minutes to erase Baltimore's 10-point lead at about the same juncture to win by one.

However, sandwiching those two memories were the two He plays a positional game, is very seldom caught off his wing and when he's on the ice he never stops hustling. Unfortunately, seasons like this one and last year make his job Bellamy plays like an AH Pro seasons, Miller has played in Hard To Believe "It's just one of those things, but I'm still finding it hard to believe," he admits. "Usually one game, poorly the next. roughly 130 hockey games. He's been on the winning side Five Games Back So please explain to why they'd better not pre that much tougher.

Pay The Same "Sure, it's tougher to get yourself going when a team is dict the outcome when the Hawks host the Bullets tonight (8.05, ch. and visit Balti playing like ours, but I try to Maryland Falls To 9th In AP Poll After Losses more tomorrow night. u'J Bullet wins, which give further tell myself it my job and I getting paid the same, no matter what our record is," he says. Better these astute prognosticate listen to Gene Shue, the Bullet coach, who's not much for predicting. He has a pretty good idea why the talented Hawks are no better than 31-26 and five games behind Balti it Ml' He also sees a few incentives still left for the Clippers, even if their playoff chances are all but gone.

For instance, there's tonight's game (8 P.M.) with more in the division. New York UP) The membership of college basketball's Top Ten club remained unchanged today from last week but except for top-ranked UCLA and No. 2 North Carolina State there was considera "It just comes under playing consistent defense," says he. Two Big Scorers Shue, being defensive- after beating Maryland and Virginia, got two first-place ballots and 670 points. Making the Second Ten were Houston, Providence, Southwestern Louisiana, St.

John's of New York, Memphis State, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Oral Roberts, Kansas State and New Mexico. New Mexico replaced Southern California which was 20th last week. The Top Twenty, with first-place votes in parentheses, season records and total Minnesota jumped to fifth from ninth; North Carolina moved up from eight to sixth; Marquette advanced from 10th to seventh; Missouri fell from seventh to eighth; and Alabama fell from sixth to 10th. UCLA again was an easy first choice. The Bruins, who beat arch-rival Southern California in their only game to run their record to 17-0, gathered 35 first-place votes and 736 points.

North Carolina State, 16-0 ble shuffling of positions. Long Beach State, fourth last week, moved into third place minded, looks at any basketball situation from the aft with the resultant theory: It doesn't matter how good or bad the offense, so long as defense remains consistently good. in The Associated Press' poll credence to the inconsistency theory and bring us to the real reason the Hawks aren't as powerful as they might be: Defense. Show To Fall Back Fast-breaking teams kill them because their defense can't fall back quickly enough to protect the middle. Against a set offense, the guards, Mar-avich and Gilliam, can be broken down with crisp execution.

So where does that leave the Bullets on the dawn of a quasi-important two-game set? "I don't like to look at things that way," said Shue, one of the original "one at a time coaches." "What interests me is us playing good ball, and we have been. It'd be nice to win two; I'll say that. But we could also lose two." He'll settle for a split. The Hawks are seven down in the loss column now and time's running out, in which case they may crush the Bullets at this' golden opportunity to slice into their lead, or fold. of sports writers and sports- casters as Maryland lost twice and tumbled to ninth.

Indiana remained fourth. But On one hand, Atlanta hasn the Hershey Bears at the Civic Center. "They beat us pretty bad (15-2) a couple of weeks ago and I know tonight's game will have more meaning for us," says Randy. "I know the guys want to get back at them for that score." Played For Shore Randy has been a pro for 13 years. He has spent time with Seattle, Denver and Spring-lield.

He's also one of the many players to have played for the inimitable Eddie Shore in Springfield. "Speaking of experiences I wouldn't like to go through again," laughs Randy, "playing for Shore was one of them. "He was the most unusual Continued on Page 11, Col. 4) a problem in the world. The A points: Hawks have the Nos.

5 and 6 leading scorers in the league American Hockey League Races 1. UCLA (3.1) 17 fl Tin 3. N. Carolina St. (2) IS 0 7N 3.

Lone Beach til 181 5'i 4. Indiana 14 495 5. Minnesota 14 i 319 6. Nor in Carolina 163 21 7. MamuetK Mi (Lou Hudson and Pete Marav-ich), who crank up a superbly WESTERN DIVISION I EASTERN DIVISION W.

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PtsGF GA 1 4 86 1B4 Nova Scotia tuned offense, third overall only to Boston and Los Ange Cincinnati Hcrshoy Virginia Richmond Jacksonville CLIPI'IRS 28 12 12 68 297 133 26 20 7 59 174 176 22 19 9 53 163 180 19 22 9 47 164 170 14 25 13 41 197 12 30 11 35 179 244 41 28 25 20 17 8 14 11 15 11 2(1 7 29 7 35 9 67 22 1S6 Boston 61 185 16.1 Rochester 47 185 196 Providence 41 180 212 Springfield 25 146 239 New Haven les. 8. Missouri IS tti 9. Maryland 143 10. Alabama 143 11.

Houston 153 197 11. Providence 14 13. SW Louisiana 15 1 152 14. St. Jnho's (N.T.) 15 124 15.

Memnhis 81 IS 3 18. Jacksonville tS 3 fil 17. Siin Francises 1 2 411 18. Kansas SI 143 3t 19. Oral Bohcrla Id 3 33 20.

New Mexico 113 I Scries Stands 2-2 And with sometimes help Games Tnlsht nershej yi, CLIPPERS, Civic 8 P.M. dprinirfleld at Boalon. Rhode Island at Nova Scotia. Virginia at. Richmond.

Games Last Night No games scheduled. from Bellamy, Hcrm Gilliam and Jim Washington, the po.