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Title Will Go To 1st Team Scoring Sports Local News Financial Classified Odds 4-1 SIX GAMES HOME TEAM FT! OF 28 TILTS h(l ORIOLES SELL 2 FARM HANDS TO SAN DIEGO Oplinger, Luebke Go To Cincinnati Affiliate In Gaines Deal SCHEDULED IH 10 DAYS V- 2 I yf; V. HI 7r fl 1 i right) area pro Gene Nolan; Ivddie Jacobs, vice president of the Middle Atlantic Patron Fund; Walter E. Beuchelt, representing the Mayor, and Druid Hill pro Joseph Skrcntncy. Roberts has made arrangements with the touring pros. IT'S OFFICIAL Frank Roberts, signs contract Which will bring pro tennis to the Civic Feb.

17. C. Maxwell Armor (left) and Nathan S. Jacobson of the Civic Center Commission flank Roberts. Looking on in rear are (left to THE NET TROUPE Morning After By Bob Maiscl, Sports Editor JOE GAINES Newest Oriole acquisition COLTS ASKED TO QUIT BASE C.O.R.E.

Says Team Should Leave Westminster The Congress of Racial Equality asked the Baltimore Colts yesterday not to return to Westminster, for pre-season training next year because of the town's segregated facilities. C.O.R.E. told Don Kellett, ex ecutive vice president of the Na tional Football League club, that Negro players on the team resent being confined to the training camp because of segregation policies in places of public ac commodation. Trained There Since '53 The Colts have trained at the Western Maryland college campus since the N.F.L. franchise returned to Baltimore in 1953.

C.O.R.E. and other integrationist groups have conducted sit-in demonstrations in estminster in recent months in protest of segre gated eating places. Kellett said a copy of the let ter has been sent to Carroll Ros- enbloom, owner of the Colts, and that they would sit downand dis cuss the" problem. "C.O.R.E. people know our feel ings about Westminster," Kellett said.

"We would like to clear up this matter as much as they would. Roemer's Listing John Roemer, vice chairman of the Baltimore C.O.R.E. chapter, said some eating places, the town's only movie theater, and a bowling alley remain closed to Negroes. In his letter to Kellett, Roemer said Negroes from Baltimore who want to see a Colt practice session "are deterred by the lack of eating places open to them. In addition, he said, Westmins ter can be the difference between gaining and losing a top-flight player.

He said the team should either get another training site or de clare all segregated facilities in Westminster off limits to all the players. Talked With Officials Kellett said he talked with town officials last summer after C.O.R.E. representatives had ap proached him on the subject. We talked last summer with some of the town's officials," Kellett said. "They were sympathetic but they didn't do anything about it." He promised to take up the matter again with the mayor, the local restaurant association and chamber of commerce.

Bruins Beat Wings Detroit, Dec. 20 WV- Jerry Top- pazzini's late third period goal tonight broke the Boston Bruins away to a 5-to-3 National Hockey League victory over the Detroit Red Wings, their first triumph over Detroit in six tries and only their fourth victory of the season By LOU HATTER Pitcher Dick Luebke and in-fielder Willard Oplinger, two members of the Orioles' Rochester farm club, were sold yesterday to San Diego, of the Pacific Coast League. Locally, the transaction is significant only in that it com pletes Baltimore's payment to Cincinnati for outfielder Joe Gaines. Diego is the Reds' top farm system affiliate. Bought From Cincinnati In case it escaped universal notice, Gaines was purchased from Cincinnati late Saturday, shortly before the midnight inter- league trading deadline.

The deal was overshadowed by Saturday's earlier six-player swap by which the Birds acquired pitch ers Stu Miller and Mike McCorm-ick and catcher John Orsino from the San Francisco Giants in exchange for pitchers Jack, Fisher and Billy Hoeft and catcher Jim Coker. Admittedly, Gaines is no Willie Mays. However, he is extremely fast afoot and reportedly a good defensive flyhawk with a strong throwing arm. Righthanded Hitter Only 26, Gaines is a righthanded hitter who, the Orioles hope, may develop into an asset. At any rate, General Manager Lee MacPhail went high to get him.

In addition to Luebke and Oplinger, the Flock handed over bundle of cash believed half again the $20,000 waiver price. In Oplinger, the Birds gave up 19-year-old second baseman who commanded a bonus in ex cess of $30,000 two summers ago. He batted .364 for Bluefield W. in all-rookie Appa lachian Leagueln 1961 and .238 for Class-G Aberdeen, aoutn uaKota last season. Defensive Shortcomings In spring training last March, Oplinger defensive shortcom ings were apparent and, obviously.

the management1 did not regard him as a prime big-league prospect. Luebke had been in the Oriole system since 1954. A 27-year-old lefthander who specialized in re lief, he won 10 and lost 7 last sum mer at Rochester in 44 games, with a 1.77 earned-run average. Promoted to the Bird varsity last August, Luebke appeared in 10 games, yielded 12 hits and runs in 13 innings and lost his only decision. Little Big-League Play Gaines did not play enough at Cincinnati last season for an ac curate estimate of his big-league ability.

Used primarily as a pinch hitter and runner, he batted 52 times and numbered 3 doubles and a homer among his 12 hits for a .231 average. In 1961, though, he lathered Triple-A American Association Ditching for a .315 bat maiK, in cluding 20 doubles, 12 triples and 10 homers lor 142 games at Indianapolis. For Columbia, S.C., Gaines compiled a .327 average during the 1961 South Atlantic League campaign. Back in 1957, his second campaign as a pro, he walloped Class-C California League hurlers for a .359 mark that included 14 homers and 119 runs batted in for Visalia. Supplementing the high ratings (Continued, Page 18, Column 5) 1 1 Paille Ready To Play After Suffering Ankle Injury By ALBERT R.

FISCHER One of the best things about a long schedule is "there's always tomorrow." The Clippers, a discouraged bunch of hockey players after Tuesday night's loss to Providence, have forgotten that one and are looking forward to to night's 8.30 o'clock Civic Center brush with the Rochester Americans. With 46 more games to play, the Clippers can look ahead to a lot of tomorrows, but then again, even tomorrows eventually run out. A Busy Schedule With six games to be played In the next ten days, the Baltimore club starts catching up on the schedule with the rest of the clubs in the league. The Clippers received some help from Pittsburgh last night, when the Hornets upended Hcrshey, and a victory over the Amerks tonight would close the gap between the Clippers and Hershey to one point as coach Red Sullivan's crew attempts to "get out of the cellar by Christmas," a gift the team promised Sullivan. Tonight's affair will be Balti more's last home game before Christmas and following the game.

the team will take the train to Springfield, where they meet the Indians tomorrow night. Then it's on to Quebec for games Sunday and Christmas afternoon. Second Meeting In Week This is the second meeting of the week between the Clippers and the Amerks. On Sunday, Balti more took a 4-3 verdict on Roche ter ice, the first time in three games that the Clippers ha9 beaten the Western Division's seo ond place club. The Amerks, after a modest winning streak, have fallen on ba? times of late and even though in second place, they trail front-run ning Buffalo by nine points.

Baltimore, which can't seem "tc escape the basement despite a 500 record, is far from out ot anything, trailing Eastern leader Quebec by 8 points. Paille Ready To Play Clipper goalie, Marcel Paille. who acknowledged his ankle bothered him in Tuesday's loss to Providence, reported yesterday that he would be ready to go tonight. Team doctor Ross Pier-pont stated that Paille's ailment was an inflammation of the tendons just above the ankle, causing severe pain. General manager Terry Reardon talked to Paille yesterday and the little Frenchman remarked that he would be able to play tonight.

Gene Ubriaco is the Rochester leader in the scoring column. The little center, only man in the league to wear a helmet, has 10 goals and 19 assists for 29 points, more than veteran Dick Gam ble, who tops the club in goals scored with 17. Sullivan Paces Scorers Sullivan holds the Clipper scor ing lead with 31 points, while Pat Hannigan is second with 26. Hanni-gan however, has not scored a point in 5 games and Baltimore fans are looking for the touch Irishman to break out of his slump tonight. Amerk coach Rudy Migay Is undecided as to who will be his goalie tonight.

Jerry Cheevers has been handling the chores since the departure of Don Simmons to Toronto, but Gerry McNamara. regular netminder last season, is back off the injury list and it is possible he will get the call tonight. A.II.L. Standings Last Night's Game Clippers not scheduled. Buffalo, Quebec, 4.

(Only game scheduled) Tonight'i Game Clippers vs. Rochester at Civla Center (8.30 P.M.). '(Only game schodiuVn EASTERN DIVI9IOV W. L. T.

P'S oro Quebec Provirlf nrr Snrlnitfirid CliOPr 14 It 6 34 B9 fS 11 3 33 SW 11 3 31 in 13 1 2 lnl 12 3 26 5 DIVISION 9 1 35 II 3 SS 90 18 2 20 S7 17 I 17 "ii 99 is 14 14 12 WESTFTtN RufUlo 17 RmhcslT II rtvciin1 Piusbuna I MEYERS SETS NEW RECORD Colorado Vaulter Tops In door Mark At Chicago Chicago, Dec. 20 Or) Don Meyers, a post-graduate student at the University of Colorado, bettered the world indoor record for the pole vault tonight with a vault of 16 feet VA inches in the first track meet jointly sanctioned by the, erstwhile feuding A.A.U. and the N.C.A.A.-sponsored Track Federation. The approved indoor record is 16 feet, 3,4 inch set by John Uelses of the Marines at Boston last February 3 the night after he became the first 16-foot vaulter in history by clearing in the Millrose Games at New York. World Mark Outdoors The world pole vault mark, made outdoors, is 16-2'i by Fin land's Pentti Nikula at Kauhava, Finland, last June 22.

The top American vault outdoor is 16-2 by Dave Tork of the Marines at Walnut, last April 28. Each used the controversial fiber glass pole. Meyers, a virtual unknown in top competition, sat up all night in a railroad coach to travel from Colorado Springs to appear in the meet, the University of Chicago's tenth Holiday competition. Wanted To Look Good "I wanted to make a good mark this year in a meet like this so I could get invited to other meets," said the 22-year-old graduate student in physical edu cation who is married and the father of one daughter. Using a fiber glass pole, Meyers reached the heights on his fourth vault after going 13-8, 14-6 and 15-3.

He said he had only once hit 16 feet before and that was in practice. A tthe same time, Brooks Johnson of the University of Chicago Track Club tied the American ree ord of 6 seconds fiat for the 60- yard daslu Many Feel Giants Must Tally Quickly To Win On December 30 New York, Dec. 20 Mt When the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants meet December 30 for the National Football League championship, records of past title games show it is 4-1 that the first team to score will win. It happened that way 23 times In 29 games since they set up the play-off system in 1933. Green Bay in 1960 and New York in 2958 were the only recent losers who scored first.

The same records give a 20-8 edge to the home team in this series, disregarding the 1936 game between the Boston Redskins and Green Bay on neutral field at the Polo Grounds in New York. It was played there because Boston was not drawing at home. The next season the club moved to Washington. The first-to-score theory is particularly interesting this year be cause many football students believe the only way to beat the Packers is to score quickly and jolt them out of their ball-control system of grinding out first downs methodically along the ground. The basis of this theory is that the Packers' passing game, despite Bart Starr's No.

1 rating among quarterbacks, is not as effective when Green Bay is behind. Eddie LeBaron, Dallas quarter back, mentioned this theory earlier in the week at a luncheon, but he added, "That probably is the way to do it, but the big prob lem is getting those points on the board before the Packers do. You can be sure that the Giants, regardless of what they say, are hoping to score as quickly as they did when they rambled over the Chicago Bears, 47 to 7, in 19a6. The only recent losers among teams that scored first were the Giants in the overtime game with Baltimore in 1958 and the Pack ers on the slippery turf at Phila delphia in 1960. A quick review of the Packers' fourteen games this season shows that the opposition got the jump only four times.

Two of them did it with field goals and lost subsequently. Another did it with a TD run and also lost. Significant to the Giants-Packers came is the fact that the only team that beat the Packers to the punch through the air was the only team to win. The Detroit Lions did it on Thanksgiving Day when a 33-yard bomb from Milt Plum to Gail Cogdill started the Lions on the way to a 26-14 uDset. When Green Bay scored first, it did it by running five times, on field goals three times and only twice by passing, both against the Los Aneeles Rams.

The Giants present a sharp contrast. They have been behind in six of their fourteen games before (Continued, Page 23, Column 1) Hunt, Murchison Won't Quit Grid Dallas. Dec. 20 W-Two of the world's wealthiest young men Lamar Hunt and Clint Murchison, Jr. aren't getting any richer with their rrofessional football teams In Dallas but neither has any plans of abandoning the Held to the other.

In interviews with the Dallas Times Herald, the two pro ball club owners were asked it reports that each had lost $1,000,000 during their two years of football here were true. Hunt, owner of the Dallas Tex-ans of the American Football Leaiwe. answered the question this way: "Our policy has been never to discuss losses, gains nlaver salaries, contracts. Thi in not in cood taste in anv business. I hate to be evasive but the Dolicv will have to remain the same.

Our losses this year will be less substantially less, but I can't give you a figure." Murchison, owner of the Dajlas Cowboys of the National League, said, "There was a printed report that Dewev beat Truman in 1948. As was that, this estimate Is quite wide of the mark. We have not made a orofit. but I think we will have an excellent chance of doing so next year." I'll tell you how. Right now, I'm 54 years old.

In the last 25 years he must have knocked at least a ton of weight off me." Here Bass caught a bystander casting a glance at his ample midriff, self-consciously gave it a pat. then added, "the only trou ble is I gained 1998 pounds of it back. But that amt Lees fault, Go there with your mind made up to lose weight, do what he (Continued, Page 20, Column 2) Do-Or-Dic Effort By Coast Horse Los Alamitos, Dec. 20 Victory and death came to Do Chick, a 4-year-old quarterhorse, in the fourth race at Los Alamitos race track today. Do Chick obviously was in dis tress as he went under the wire a head in front of Binks in 18.2 seconds for the 350-yard race.

Jockey Richard Luian said he noticed Do Chick had difficulty breathing as he pulled up at the finish, so he jumped down to lead his horse to the winner's circle. Do Chick never got there. The horse collapsed suddenly and, in a matter of seconds, he was dead. HERE FEB. 17 Rosewall, Other Top Tennis Pros Due At Civic Center By ROBERT L.

NAYLOR Frank Roberts, the S. Hurok of Baltimore tennis, made it ofFi cial yesterday when he signed a contract with members of the Civic Center Commission for a February 17 date for the pro net game's return to this city. It had been announced December 9 that the pros would be in town in mid-February, but final commitments and the detinue date were settled yesterday in the office of Civic Center general manager Ben Moore. Defending professional tillist Ken Rosewall, of Australia, tops this year's tour. Under the direc tion of the new International Pro fessional Tennis Association, this tour will be the pros' first fling since 1960-1961 at an American audience found by former im pressario Jack Kramer to be slightly less receptive than fans in Europe and Australia.

MacKay And Bucholz In addition to Rosewall, a former Davis Cupper who broke into the pro game with a remarkable showing against former world champion Pancho Gonzales in a 1956-1957 marathon series. the Droeram includes ex-United States Davis Cuppers Barry Mac- Kav and Butch Bucholz; Andres Gimeno, of Spain; Luis Ayala, of Chile and a player yet to be named, That player "yet to be named" will be unmasked after the up coming Davis Cup challenge round in Australia, when I.P.T.A executive director Tony Trabert hopes to have the world's top ranked amateur, Rod Laver, of Australia, in the pro fold. At first it was projected that Raphael Osuna, ace of the Mexi can team that faces Laver and the other Australians in the chal lenge round, would also appear in (Continued, Page 20, Column 4) Davis Cup Foe last two years," the Australian professional added. "They have enthusiasm for the game, lhey are fit and tough and they show a lot ot talent. "If thev happen to have a good day on Tuesday we could be in trouble.

Osuna Impressive Ayre was particularly Impressed with Osuna, Mexico's No. 1 who darted all over the court recovering difficult shots and turning what appeared to be irretrievable balls into slashing winners. "Osuna has one of the finest backhands I have ever seen in tennis," Ayre said. While Ayre was raving over Osuna, the Mexican captain, Pancho Contreras, was passirp out (Continued, Page 20, Column 2) My favorite ex-fighter was in the other night, and as usual he had a story to tell. Sylvan Bass always has a story for his friends.

This one was about reducing. He was reminded of it when somebody mentioned that they were overweight and would have to go on a. diet immediately after the holidays. "I'll tell you what to do, be gan the man who waded his way in against close to 300 opponents, one at a time, during his career. "Don't look no further.

Lee Halfpenny's your man." For those few men in town who have never come into contact with Lee, he has been an instructor at the Central Y.M.C.A. forever, he looks the same as he did twenty years ago and he stays in such good shape, he looks as though he is always ready to fight for the championship of the world. Everybody who has ever been to the Y.M.C.A. knows him. A Ton Of Sweat "Lee has got to be the greatest thing to hit the reducin' racket since ice cream without calories, said Sylvan.

"How do I know? Pcim Stale Drill Displeases JEnglc Annapolis, Dec. 20 Wi Penn State held a two-hour football drill today which left head coach Rip Engle with a distinctly sour impression. "It was the worst I have seen in 23 years of college coaching," the Nittany Lion mentor commented. He said maybe it was due, however, after three good days of practice for the Gator Bowl game coming up against Florida at Jacksonville December 29. "We got about 10 good minutes out of our backs and about 20 out of the linemen," Engle said.

The team had no contact work. following short scrimmage sessions yesterday. The players ap peared to have lost their legs, and weren't moving, Engle said. He set a goal-line senmmag tor tomorrow. Second-team fullback Buddy Torris, who bruised a rib yesterday, was running today but will be out of contact work tor the rest of the week.

Eddie Stuckrath of Baltimore will fill in on the second unit for heavier work. Johansson Receives Swedish Tax Break Stockholm, Dec. 20 MV-Ex- hcavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson harassed by income tax agents in both the United States and Sweden, received a welcome Christmas message from the Swedish tax authorities today He will be taxed $70,000 less for his income tax for 1960. Ingo's taxa ble incomes during the year were set at $23,000 instead of $100,000 as originally estimated by the tax authorities. Gridders Visit Crippled Children Ayre Tells Aussies Mexico I Mil I San Francisco, Dec.

20 lt The strong legs that will run December 29 in the East-West Shrine football battle here were, today, strong hands that wrote and friendly companions who talked. Thirty-four of the husky young players visited the crippled boys and girls for whose benefit the thirty-eighth annual Shrine game will be played. Traditional As Game Shyness in both the men and youngsters vanished quickly in a din of welcoming yells and animated talk that have become as traditional as the game. For the first time, however, a sizable group of players was missingfourteen members of the West team couldn't fly into San Francisco because of heavy fog that enveloped much of. California.

They'll visit the hospital next week, officials quickly assured (Continued, Tage 24, Column 2) Is Tough Brisbane, Dec. 20 UP A former Australian Davis Cup player who is now a professional warned to day that Australia is in danger of losing the international tennis tro phy next week to Mexico. "This is a strong, spirited and dedicated team," said Ian Ayre, a Queenslander who Once was a ranking world performer. "I must admit I am greatly impressed by what the Mexicans have shown me." Watches Workout Ayre watched Rafael Osuna and Antonio Palafox whisk through a two-hour afternoon workout on Milton courts where the challenge round between Australia and Mex ico is scheduled December 26 throunh 28. "These boys are nothing like the Italians who played here the HOME TOWNEKS Daryl Lamonica, Noire Dame quarterback who will play in East-West Shrine game December 29, talks with a 1 l-year-old patient in San Francisco Hospital for Crippled Children.

During conversation, they discovered they were both from the same home tow Fresno, Cal..