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Flip Back Calendar to '22 How Mickey Cochrane Kept Owen Busy on Ice Coach Says Kidd to Run 4 Sees. Faster Than 1961 University of Toronto freshman Bruce Kidd not only is ready to run in the Knights of Columbus two-mile race at the Boston Garden Saturday, but should run the event in 8 minutes 45 seconds. Ding Dussault, director of the K. of C. meet, called Toronto to check whether Kidd, the teen-ager who provided the 1961 surprise, was fit enough for the demanding race.

By HAROLD KAESE Sports Mickey Cochrane, the Hall of Fame catcher, was once assigned to cover George Owen, Harvard captain and one of the finest college hockey players affair, more shinny than hockey." Coach Bill Claflin used 21 Harvard players over the three 12-minute periods. Owen was credited with the first goal, Ted Crosby with the second. One account said: "Capt. Owen was the one the Boston men aimed to cover, and it generally took three men to turn the Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1962 Page 37 Toronto coach replied, ready.

He expects to to Boston and run in The "He's come 8:45." heck, Mates! ByPhilBissell this country has produced. John (Brick) O'Hare, who coached Boston University's first (1922-23) hockey team, remembers it well. 'Do you want to play against I asked TOMtftfr AT UTS 60, 58v SHOCKS That would break the Boston Garden record, set by Kidd a year ago, by four seconds and would be only a few seconds short of the world record. Dussault also said he had received about 140 inquiries, by telephone, telegram and letter, from women athletes since he announced the special 880- VtlCKEY COCHRANE in. yard event.

sr- wJi i 'We set up the race origi nally so people could see Helen Shipley and Julia Chase, both of whom have been in the sports news. Miss Shipley is from Newton and now is a freshman at Cornell. "Miss Chase is the Manchester girl who attends Smith. trick." But it was a good start for B.U.'s first hockey team. "Hockey was a different game then," said Owen last night.

"Substitutions were made individually. Some players played the whole game." In beating Yale, 3 to 1, in three 15-minute periods the last game of the 1922 season, Harvard used only eight players, and Charlie Baker, the right wing, played the full 45 minutes. "We could only pass forward to a line about 10 feet in front of our own goal. The rest of the way we could only pass laterally or backward," explained Owen. "It was slower and harder to score." "Hockey has changed all for the better.

Good players then would be good players now. Gene Kinasewich is no better than Ding Palmer and Johnny Garrison were at the same stage. But there are far more good players and good teams now than then." Owen said he had only one criticism of the game, pro or college: "The officiating allows too much holding, interference and illegal work on the boards. A player pins another against the boards with his stick for five or six seconds, making no attempt to get the puck. I ask you, 'What is Owen will not see tonight's Harvard-Boston College game at McHugh Forum, which he rates "a tossup." He has too much work to do and he doesn't have one of the 4000 tickets.

Who has? She has run in men's distance races, but without A.A.U. sanction. Then we added other runners to fill out the field. Cochrane," recalls O'Hare, who is now on the M.T.A. legal staff.

he said. 'Then I want you to watch Owen and knock him down every time he comes down the O'Hare told the spunky, versatile young man from Bridgewater. "And that's just what he did." George Owen, however, does not recall Mickey Cochrane knocking him down, covering him, or even playing hockey against him. "I just don't remember the hockey game, but I remember playing football against Cochrane, and we knocked each other down, all right," said the man who now coaches at Milton Academy. "We opened the season (1921) playing a doubleheader against B.U.

and Middlebury, and barely beat B.U. (10 to 0)." The first hockey game, played Dec. 13, 1922, at the Arena, was won by Harvard, 2 to 0. Monday's game there between these rivals will be celebrated as the Fortieth Anniversary Game. On hand will be Brick O'Hare, Owen, and several others who played.

It was Harvard's first game of the season, and "developed into a comedy wrm "Apparently the press wires and radio carried the story all over the country. There have been inquiries from Chicago and from Florida. BRUCE KIDD It looks as though the girls, were right when they said the woman athlete. I have enough track promoters were the ones' inquiries to fill a meet just for who didnt encourage the B.C.-Harvard Tilt Sold Out 10 Days By LEONARD M. FOWLE Summer College Leagues? Automatic Payolf? HIALEAH, Jan.

9 The clash of the titans of New England college hockey for which New England fans have been waiting since the first puck was dropped six weeks ago comes tonight at 8:15 p.m. when Harvard meets Boston College in McHugh Forum. (Url) Hialeah race course will begin operation of a Ted Blasts Baseball: serve-yourself betting win dow when it opens its annual After the Eagles pulled their astounding 2-1 upset of Clark- Winter meeting Jan. 17. Customer Always Right, So Majors Offer HRs Four AL Teams Move Fences In By HY HURWITZ Baseball Comm.

Ford Frick and American League Pres. Joe Cronin are losing more ground in their endeavors to aid major league pitchers. son at Potsdam, N.Y., Saturday, there has been small Hialeah announced today it Ignoring Resources Harvard Six Tips Cornell By BOB MONAHAN Captain Dave Grannis scored doubt Harvard and B.C. could was setting up four automatic betting machines, all of them for $5 tickets only. nil tne uaraen.

As it is the contest has been so anticipated since the season opened that McHugh, with its less than 4000 seats, has been two goals and assisted on two By ASSOCIATED PRESS Ted Williams took a swipe at major league baseball yesterday in Chicago for talking a lot about, but doing little about, "building up their whole resource" of talent. others last night as he paced Harvard to a 5 to 1 victory over Cornell at Watson Rink. "There's no question in my er but expansion to 10 teams Harvard, playing its first mind that television has hurt is bound to help the hitter," Field, they put in a bleacher the minor leagues and whenlbaseball's last .400 hitter ex- from left to center held. the minor leagues are plained. sold out for more than 10 days.

Any complacency, which Harvard might have had, was surely erased by that B.C. victory over Clarkson. Harvard, beaten 5-3 by Clarkson early in the season, knows full well the class of the Potsdam Engineers. B.C.-HARVARD Page Thirty-eight Detroit Gen. Mgr.

Rick Fer- "It stands to reason, doesn't you rurt your main, source oi 61. It had too and that's not taking anything away from Roger." Williams was in Chicago for a lecture on hitting techniques to the nation's college baseball coaches, who are conducting their annual meetings in conjunction with the N.C.A.A. convention. As Hialeah explained it, the bettor walks up to the automatic window, places a $5 bill face up on a conveyor belt which feeds into the betting machine, punches a number identifying the post position of his horse, and then punches either the win, place, or show button at the top of the machine to indicate how he wants to wager. His ticket then pops out of a case alongside the machine.

The machines are quite selective, the race track said. They have scanning devices which will reject counterfeit bills, and they will also reject bills which are too-crumpled or worn. major league talent, he said. Ivy League game of the season, was held in check for a period and a half by some sensational goal tending by Cornell's Laing Kennedy, who had 38 saves for the game. HARVARD Page Thirty -eight rell in announcing the removal of the right field screen and the lowering of the outfield "I don't know exactly what it? You've got 22 pitchers or so in the majors who wouldn't be there except for the addition of the new teams.

they might do, but I would think that college baseball "Sure, it helped Maris hit would, be more important to the majors that it ever has Defeated in their attempts to bring back the "spitball," Frick and Cronin have had to sit with their hands tied, while four American League teams announce shorter fences for 1962. It will be easier to hit home runs in Baltimore, Washington, Kansas City and Detroit this coming year. In Baltimore, they've brought in the field fences. In Detroit, they've taken out the wire screens in front of the outfield grandstand sections. In Washington's new ball park, they are going to erect a fence been." barriers from 12 to 9 feet, indirectly pinpointed Yankee Stadium as a soft touch for home run hitters.

Said Rick: "There's no doubt the "Aire fence is a handicap to batters when other parks, similar to Yankee Stadium, for instance, have nothing but a low wall Lynn Grid Season Not Over Yet Move On to Kill Merger; St. Mary's Coach Faces Ax He 'said he felt Summer baseball competition among colleges, as has been suggested might be a help. "The more tne kids can play, the better they'll be," he said. "Has there ever has a good hockey player from Alabama?" Today's Sports HOCKEY Boston Arena, 8:30 iwill hold its first meeting to culty than anticipated. In the Fall taking shots at the merger schoolboy history.

Last season Foster ran up a seven wins, two losses record on the grid out there. The Detroit management kept statistics on the number of times the screen was struck to deprive batters of home runs las year. It only happened on 11 occasions, with the Tigers the victims seven times. He asked. There just isn the chance.

But you know darn By WILL McDONOUGH Griddle is more apropos than gridiron these days when discussing high school football in Lynn. Decame part of political campaigns, especially with Lynn's morrow night. Early reports had it that the committee would not take iron. tootbau team having a bad This included three upsets Maiden Catholic in the opener; season. pm, Boston Univ.

vs. R.P.I.; McHugh Forum, 8 pm, Harvard at Boston College; Amherst at M.I.T., 7 pm; An-dover Ac. at Harvard 3:15 pm: (Amateur) Weymouth Skating Club, 7 pm, Old Colony League; Radio (WHDH), 7:55 pm, Boston Bruins at Toronto. TRACK Tufts at M.I.T. 6 nm.

But successes in basket handing Wakefield, the Middle The anticipated abandoning cf Lynn Public's sports merger and the pending removal of head coach Hal Foster at St. In Kansas City, they need ball and hockey, plus a $50,000 sex League champion its only on the field to shave about 20 feet from the foul lines. There is one argument in favor of increasing the home run output the customers like it. It was done right here in Fenway Park, too, and in old Braves Field when the National League was operating here. Bullpens were constructed in front of the bleachers and the right field foul pole was brought in to aid Ted Williams' home run hitting At Braves well they (southern young-j sters) could be hockey players if they had the chance." Williams also said he wouldn't be a bit surprised to see someone in the National League hit close to 60 home runs next season or bat as high as .380 or .390.

"You'll never get me to belittle the present day ballplay- tax bite looming, the job of up tne merger issue right away. But yesterday it was learned that one committeeman plans to make it No. 1 on the agenda. Dismissal of Foster at St. something more than shorter fences.

In '61, the Athletics hit loss of the season; and beating Lynn Public on Thanksgiving 90 homers for the lowest total Day. In trying to bounce the getting Classical, English and Trade back into separate units LYNN Page Thirty-nine Mary's have made it so. A new school committee, and one that is reported ready to ax the merging of Classical, English and Trade in sports, WRESTLING Rutgers at Har Mary's would be one of the merger, Lynn's school commit tee may run into more dim vard, 3:30 pm. most surprising in recent in the American League. The Yanks were tops, of course, with 240.

Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle hit more homers between 'em than the entire Kansas City ball club. Feller Prime Cooperstown Candidate at 18 By RED SMITH NEW YORK, Jan. 9 Maybe Robert William Andrew Feller wasn't born great, though there was a day in 1929 when his father might have argued the point. They were playing catch in Van Meter, finished high school. He still was locked in a death-struggle with algebra when sly, slick Cy Slapnicka brought him to Cleveland in 1936 from the Iowa sandlots.

Slapnicka meant to farm him out to New Orleans, but Steve O'Neill, the Indians' manager, worked him three innings in a night exhibition against the Cardinals in Cleveland in July, and the 17-year-old struck out eight A A. 1 1 1 1 I in August, ne maae nis nrsi vmencan league Man and struck out 15 Browns. Three weeks later he struck out 17 Athletics, something no pitcher in the league had Mi as tne xatner ana son naa done regularly since the boy learned to walk. Bob felt loose. He fired his fast ball, and it took off, whistling through his sire's hands.

Only three ribs were broken, but the kid was just eleven. On the other hand, there was a letter delivered to the Indians' clubhouse in 1940: "Feller," it read, "you are a bum. You pitched against Detroit yesterday and lost. I bet pvpr arrnmnlished. not even Waltpr Johnson or Rube Wad- rftr nAira VoWar- wrnn fiifo ffQmae lncf and ctrnrlr mil 7ft 11 1 AU for the baseball Hall of Fame, and it is taken for granted that if Feller's furrow-straddling gait doesn't take him ambling into the pantheon in Cooperstown on the first go-round, he will be dragged in forthwith, kicking and protesting.

Popularion Explosion and Olympus To get measured for wings and a halo and a niche in the neat brick shrine beside Lake Otsego, a modern player (active within the last 30 years) must be mentioned on 75 percent of the ballots cast by the Baseball Writers Assn. of America. For reasons that have never been clear, it always causes distress in some quarters when an election year passes with no new tenant admitted to the sweaty sanctum. That feeling is not shared here, for it is no great distinction to be one of a herd whipped to glory. Very few hegs sliding down a chute in the Chicago stockyards show gratitude for their selection.

However, the sainthood-at-any-cost mob is now in the saddle. Prodded by Ford Frick, the writers have altered the rules to make it virtually certain that one or two supermen shall be canonized every other year. It is now provided that if nobody scores 75 percent on the first ballot, the 30 top names will be re-submitted to the electorate. Somebody in this reduced field is pretty sure to get 75 percent, and if two make that score they'll both go in. As a matter of simple justice, it is to be hoped that Feller hits on the first rail-over.

Sneaking him in through a side door would stultify a guy who has earned the right to go first class. Born for Cooperstown Actually, he wag a prima candidate before he had Daiiers in oe, innings, ne was noi yev 10 yeais uiu. in uie circumstances, it is not surprising that when he took time BOB FELLER out the next June to go back to Van Meter High for his final exams, the Cleveland newspapers sent reporters along to reproduce for posterity the questions asked and the answer scrawled. In the three seasons preceding World War II, he won 24 games, 27 and 25. Two days after Pearl Harbor he was in the Navy, and there he remained until a week after V-J day, when he was sprung with eight battle stars on his barrel chest In the four seasons from 1942 through 1945, he pitched in only nine games.

Yet in 1946 his first full season out of the service, he won 26. He finished with a total of 266 major league victories. Except for those four years sacrificed at the very peak of his game, he couldn't have missed joining the tiny company, numbering 12 up to his time, of 300-game winners. $100 on you at even money. I will never bet on you again, first because you are a bum and next because I haven't got another hundred dollars." It's all in the point of view, no doubt, yet hardly anybody will deny that Bob Feller achieved greatness as a pitcher with the Indians from 1936 through 1956.

Three no-hit games, 12 one-hitters, 18 strike-outs in a game, 348 strike-outs in a season the record book goes on and on reciting the testimony. So maybe he was born great, after all, and certainly he achieved greatness and now he is about to have greatness thrust upon him, which ought to wrap it up to Mr. Shakespeare's satisfaction. Ballots art out for tht biennial voting on candidates by nGosht KP'i' FLYIN' RYAN Fran Ryan, Northeastern 6-6 sophomore center from Milton, starts his leap for two points as the Huskies downed Tufts, 56 to 44. (Story on Page 38).