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00 0 0 0 1 Angeles Times Sports CC MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19, 1960 SPORTRAITS Jam at Wrigley May Ire Fans BY AL WOLF (Columnist Frank Finch is on vacation) A vacation flashback: American League operates in Los Angeles next year -Great, but too hasty for a solid start, even with the fine front-office team of Gene Autry, Bob Reynolds, Fred Haney and Bill Rigney Mob scenes at Wrigley Field, while the nearby Coliseum stands empty, will arouse resentment among those fans who are convinced the Dodgers maneuvered the Angels into that small parkingless park. Phil Wrigley predicts expansion into Los Angeles and New York won't, be successful--But the Cubs owner didn't bother to attend the recent league meetings and enlighten his brethren brass. Fight probe reveals hoodlum influence So what else is If professional boxing can't be properly controlled, it should be outlawed. Chargers win AFL western division title The higher the team climbs, Norm Van Brocklin the lower attendance drops An alarming situation. Gene Fullmer retains middleweight title--Indicating a need for new glasses by this watcher, who thought Sugar Ray Robinson won handily When Judge Lee Grossman, one of the best ring officials anywhere, voted for Fullmer, no room was left for argument." Santa Anita permits fans to watch pre-meeting workouts--And some are practicing those last-minute sprints from the rail to the windows.

And Put a Red Ribbon Around It! Coliseum Commission excuses Dodgers from paying $45,000 for rebuilding of cinder track At the rate the Commission is going, also having decided to compensate Walter O'Malley for his baseball appurtenances (fences, backstop, cushions, he'll probably be given title to the joint as a going-away present. United States tennists eliminated from Davis Cup play by Italians What do we do now, Perry Jones? And what do you do now, Jack Kramer? Eagles win NFL eastern division title If Sid Gillman simply had handed the football to Norm Van Brocklin and gone fishing on game days, both still would be Rams. Washington Redskin coach Mike Nixon canned. You could see it coming in August, after one look at his material. Gophers Beat Strong Hawk Team Minnesota favored by over Washington That 27-10 Gopher win over Iowa is a strong selling point, especially for TV viewers who saw the Hawks demolish Ohio State.

Long Beach CC wins Little Rose Bowl game Wonder where Dee Andrews, Willie Martin and Lonzo Irvin will do their footballing next fall? Rams upset Colts Bob Waterfield's unhurried building begins to pay off Watch the Rams ramble in 1961. Detroit hires Bob Scheffing He deserves another chance, that firing by the Cubs after the 1959 season having been about as senseless as the Giants" bouncing of Bill Rigney early this year. Ben Tincup, 70, appointed Yankee farm pitching coach Let's see now, wasn't this the club that said Casey 70, was too old? STAGGERING BLOW- -Force of pro football is de- showing Charger Charlie McNeil blasting Titan picted in photo by Times photographer Art Rogers, Leon Burton loose from ball on passing play. Times photo LIONS ROUT BEARS TO GAIN NFL BOWL Once Proud Chicagoans Shutout, 36-0, as Pietrosante Sets Club Rushing Record DETROIT. (P- -The Detroit Lions, with fullback Nick Pietrosante setting a new club rushing record, blasted the once proud Chicago Bears Sunday 36-0 and learned a spot in the Nation(al Football League's runnerup bowl.

The Lions of the western division will face the Cleveland Browns in the bowl game. The Browns won the eastern division spot with a 48-34 victory over New York Sunday. The Bears, taking their third straight walloping, did not cross midfield until' the final four minutes of play. Avenging a 28-7 mauling earlier in the season when CLEVELAND'S 27-PT. RALLY DEALS GIANTS 48-34 DEFEAT Illustrated on Page 3, Part IV NEW YORK (A) The Cleveland Browns, triggered by lineman Paul Wiggin's 20-yard interception return for a touchdown, came from behind with 27 points fourth period and smashed the New York Giants, 48-34, Sunday for a in the National Football League's runner-up bowl.

The Browns, who had lost, six in a row to the Giants, ended the regular season with an 8-3-1 record, beating out New York (6-4-2) for second place in the eastern conference. That sends Cleveland into the bowl game at Miami Jan. 7 against western runner-up Detroit (7-5). Milt Plum passed for four Cleveland touchdowns, and jarring Jimmy Brown rammed across for two. But it was Wiggin's steal of lateral midway in the final quarter that sent the Browns, who trailed 34-21, scurrying to their first vic-1 Chargers Win Seesaw Fray 2, CAGERS' CATCHES PLANE PHILADELPHIA (P) A chartered airplane that was to have taken the University of Kentucky basketball team home Sunday caught fire as it was being readied for loading at international airport.

Only the pilot and copilot were aboard and both escaped without injury. The basketball team, which played Temple Saturday night, took a commercial flight. Former Seals Owner Dies HILLSBOROUGH (P) Paul I. Fagan, 70, West Coast industrialist, and one-time baseball club owner, was found dead in bed Sunday of an apparent heart attack. Fagan was best known here as the former owner of the old San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League and owner of Seals Stadium, recently razed to make way for an industrial development.

He sold the franchise and players in 1954. Fagan bought one-third interest in the Seals in 1945 and another third in 1949 from Dr. Charles H. Strub. Fagan is survived by his widow, a son and a daughter.

Los Angeles Defeats New Yorkers, 50-43 BY BRAVEN They came up with the Sunday as the Los Angeles augural season by nosing a wild scoring binge, 50-43, Touchdowns were a dime a dozen as Jack Kemp and Al Dorow, the rival slingshot artists, fired 57 passes between them while chalking up half of the 12 tallies, posted by the arm-weary keeper of the scoreboard. The lead changed hands more often than a dollar bill as Sid Gillman's battlers were forced come from behind five times before subduing the stubborn Titans. Winning Tally It was Kemp who rolled out for four yards and the winning tally with five minlutes left in the final period, erasing New York's 43-40 lead after his team had been 10 points down earlier in the chukker. The Chargers already had clinched the Western Division crown of the AFL and HOW THEY SCORED Titans Chargers Time FIRST QUARTER Lowe, 25-yd. run 7:36 Agaianian, conversion.

Mathis, 1-yd. smash ..10:51 Shockley, conversion. 10 Agaianian, 41-yd. field goal 13:54 SECOND QUARTER 13 10 Herndon, 6-yd. pass (Dorow) 3:58 10 Shockley, conversion.

16 Norton, 11 yd. pass (Kemp) 11:37 20 16 Powell, 34-vd. pass (Dorow) .13:54 21 16 Shockley, conversion. QUARTER 21 19 Agaianian, 37-yd. field goal 5:27 25 Norton, 31-yd.

pass (Kemp) 8:13 MA 3 Cooper, Dorow, 1-yd. pass for smash conversion (Jamieson). 32 Ford, 53-yd. run ........14:00 884 33 Shockley, Agaianian, 42-yd. kick.

pass (Dorow) ..14:59 36 33 Shockley, kick. FOURTH QUARTER 33 Burton, 11-yd. run 2:09 33 39 Shockley, conversion. Martin. 11 yd.

pass (Kemp) 5:16 Agaianian, conversion. 8588 Kemp, Agaianian, 5-yd. 27-yd. conversion. field 9:54 goal 13:42 the Titans had been eliminated from the title fight in the eastern half.

But you'd have thought the championship rode on Sunday's outcome, the way the rivals battled. There were frequent fights and Howie Ferguson, Charger fullback, was expelled early in the second stanza for punching his way out of a wild melee. Record Broken The 93 points broke the AFL record which Gillman's team set while beating Oakland here, 52-28, a few weeks, ago. In the final analysis victory rode with the Chargers Sunday because of Ben Agajanian's talented toe. Although Bootin' streak of at conversions stopped center snapback), he conPlease Turn to Pg.

2, Col. 3 DYER lively ball at the Coliseum Chargers closed their inout the New York Titans in before 11,457 witnesses. FINAL PRO STANDINGS NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Western Division Pct. PF PA. Green Bay .667 332 207 Detroit Francisco .583 239 212 .583 208 205 Baltimore .500 288 234 Chicago .455 194 299 LOS ANGELES .364 265 297 Dallas .000 177 369 Eastern Division Pct.

PF PA Philadelphia ...10 .833 321 245 Cleveland .727 362 217 New York .600 271 261- St. Louis .545 288 Pittsburgh .455 240 275 Washington .100 178 309 Saturday's Result Green Bay, 35; LOS ANGELES, 21. Sunday's Results Cleveland, 48; New San Francisco, 34; Baltimore, 10. Detroit, 36; Chicago, 0. St.

Louis, 38; Pittsburgh. 7. Philadelphia, 38; Washington, 28. MONDAY, DEC. 26 Green Bay at Philadelphia (champion ship).

SATURDAY, JAN. 7 Detroit vs. Cleveland at Miami (runnerup bowl). AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE Western Division Pct. PF PA LOS ANGELES .10 .714 373 333 Dallas Oakland 8 6 -000 .571 .429 362 319 253 383 Denver .308 309 393 Eastern Pct.

PF PA Houston 10 0 .714 379 283 New York 0 .500 382 399 Buffalo .385 296 303 Boston 0.357 286 349 Saturday's Result Oakland, 48; Denver, 10. Sunday's Results LOS ANGELES, 50; New York, 43. Dallas, 24; Buffalo, Houston, 37; Boston, 21. SUNDAY, JAN. LOS ANGELES at Houston (championship).

Mike Nixon Fired After Ninth Defeat Double Drills Start Tuesday for Gophers BY AL WOLF Minnesota's Gophers, who arrived Saturday for Rose Bowl date with the Huskies of Washington, worked out the kinks at East Los Angeles Junior College Sunday afternoon. Another single session is scheduled this morning, after which both squads will take in the sights of Disneyland. Then the real work starts. No Scrimmages "We'll go twice a day, starting Tuesday," coach Murray Warmath said Sunday, "and will keep it up until we're back in shape. That might take us some time, too, from the looks of things." While the drills will be double-barreled, they're not likely to be bruising.

The coach of the national champions doesn't. believe in heavy scrimmage once a season is under way. I He indicated Sunday that there may be no full-fledged scrum at ELAJC. The Gophers arrived in top condition--plus one, so to speak. Fullback Tom Robbins, Please Turn to Pg.

3, Col. 49ers Belt Colts, 34-10, Tie for Second Place SAN FRANCISCO (UPI). Halfback Lennie Lyles raced one kick-off back 97 yd. for a touchdown and returned another 78 yd. to set up one more score Sunday as he led the San Francisco 49ers to a 34-10 triumph over the aging Baltimore Colts.

In a bruising battle that had nothing at stake except the dubious honor of a tie for second place in the West-' ern Division of the National League, the 49ers handed the Colts their fourth consecutive loss. While everything seemed to work for San Francisco, Baltimore had a rough day. Quarterback Johnny Unitas PACKERS' LOMBARDI NAMED AS WEST PRO BOWL COACH Vince Lombardi, mir- acle man of Green Bay, received his first reward Sunday for putting the Packers into the National Football League championship play-offs for the first time since 1944. He was named head coach of the Western Conference squad for the 11th annual All-Star Pro Bowl game Jan. 15 at the Coliseum, and immediately ac- WASHINGTON -Mike Nixon was officially dismissed from his job as head coach of the Washington Redskins Sunday.

"His contract has not been renewed," owner George Preston Marshall of the Red. skins told newsmen soon after Washington had lost its last. game of the Nationa Football League season to the Philadelphia Eagles, 38-28. The defeat was the Red skins' 9th against only one victory and two ties. It wa the poorest record since Marshall moved the team here from Boston in 1937.

Nixon declined any comment. Marshall would not rule out assistant coach Bill McPeak, who reportedly had been in line to succeed Nixon. Marshall did say, however, that he had discussed the post with three others and hoped to name his new coach in time for the National Football League draft meeting on Dec. 27. the two teams got into a wild-wing swinging brawl, the Lions belted the Bears with 29 points in the first half.

The rest was routine. The victory, the first for coach George Wilson over his old tutor, George Halas, put the resurgent Lions in the runner-up bowl at Miami on Jan. 7. The Lions finished in a tie for second place in the western division. The Lions, 9-3, wont the runnerup berth automaticalIly on a point basis because they beat the Colts in both meetings this season and also scored more points than the 49ers while splitting two games with them.

Lions Surge The victory climaxed a near miracle comeback for the Lions, who won seven of their last nine after losing three straight at the start. Pietrosante wiped out Ace Gutowsky's 24-year-old rushing record by running for 104 yards in 15 carries. The second-year man from Notre Dame finished the season with 872 45 more than Gutowsky gained for the 1936 Lions. Seldom in their long history have the Bears been so impotent. In their last three games, they have scored only 13.

points and yielded 119. SCORE BY QUARTERS Chicago Detroit 13 16 0 7-36 Det-Morrall, 15-vd. run (Martin, kick). Det. -Barr, 8-yd.

pass from Morrall (kick failed). Adams tackled in end zone. Def. Schmidt. 14-yd.

run with fumble Def. (Martin, pietrosante, 31-yd. run (Martin, kick). Def. -Pietrosante, 4-yd.

run (Martin, kick). STATISTICS First downs Chicago Detroit Yards gained rushing 78 160 Yards gained passing 65 41 8-161 Passes intercepted by Punts 10-31 Yards Fumbles lost penalized 31 Attendance- 51,017. tory over the Giants since Jim Lee 1957. game It was a sad good-bye, for coach won BROWNS TAKE PLUNGE, BUT BOUNCE BACK NEW YORK (P-Sev- en members of the Cleveland Browns football team were shaken up but escaped injury Sunday when their hotel elevator went out of control and plunged from the sixth floor to the basement. The players, including fullback Jimmy Brown, shook off the accident and walked the three blocks from the hotel to Yankee Stadium, where they beat the New York a Giants, 48-34.

The elevator operator also escaped injury in the sudden descent. Howell, in his final before retiring as head of the Giants, who the easten title the seasons. Giants, guided by quarterback Chuck to have the safely tucked away last two The veteran Conerly, game (run failed). STATISTICS Giants First downs Rushing yardage 151 Passing yardage 274 18-38 Passes Intercepted by Punts Fumbles lost -Yards penalized before the Browns cut loose with the final surge that stunned a Yankee Stadium crowd of 56,517. Cleveland 1 9 0-34 N.Y.-Lynch, 16-yd.

Interception return (Summerall, kick). N.Y.-Rote, 23-yd. pass from Conerly (Summerall, kick). 31-yd. pass from Plum (Baker, kick).

N.Y -Summerall, 11-yd. field goal. 69-yd. pass from Plum (Baker, kick). N.Y.-Summerall, 31-yd.

field goal. Cle. -Mitchell, 7-yd. pass from Plum (Baker, kick). Rote, 16-yd.

pass from Conerly (Summerall, kick). N.Y. Schneiker, 70-vd. pass from Conerly (Summerall, kick). Brown.

37-yd. pass from Plum (Baker, kick). Wiggin, 20-yd. Interception return (Baker, kick). Cle.

-Brown, 11-yd. run (Baker, kick). Gain, 22-vd. interception return was off on his throwing stick; and when he did hit his targets they dropped the ball. The Colts even tried the San Francisco shotgun offense a few times in the first half but this didn't work either.

Lyles set the pattern when he took the opening kickoff on his goal line and snaked his way to the Colts' 22. Five plays later John Brodie rolled around end to score from the two. SCORE BY QUARTERS San Francisco 10 7--34 i Baltimore 0 10 0 0-10 Scoring: S.F.-Brodie, 2-yd. run (Davis, kick), -Myhra, 35-yd. field goal.

S.F. -Davis, 36-yd. field goal. 13-yd. pass from Unitas (Myhra, kick).

S.F. -Lyles, 97-yd. kick off return (Day. is, kick). -Smith, 14-yd.

run (Davis, kick)), -Davis, 37-yd. field goal. -Owens, 7-yd. pass from Brodie (Davis, kick), STATISTICS Balt. S.F.

First downs Rushing yardage 152- Passing yardage 138 Passes 12-36 10-24 Passes intercepted by Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized 31 cepted the appointment. Announcement was made by Paul J. Schissler, the game's managing director for the sponsoring Los Angeles Newspaper Publishers Assn. With Buck Shaw of the Philadelphia Eagles coaching the Eastern Conference, the Pro Bowl classic thus brings the championship game coaches to Los Angeles for a rematch of their Dec. 26 meeting at Philadelphia.

The rival coaches have a parallel in that both took over disorganized clubs that finished dead last in their respective division in 1958 and built them into champions. The story of Lombardi and the revival of the Packers is well knownPlease Turn to Pg. 4, Col. 4 Unitas Sets Passing Yds. Browns 21 TODAY IN SPORTS 296 19-40 QUARTER HORSE RACSING Los Alamitos, 1 p.m.' SAN FRANCISCO UP John Unitas of Baltimore set a new professional football season passing record Sunday with 3,099 yards in 12 games.

The old record of 2,938 yards was set by Sam Baugh in 1947,.