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Detroit, Dec. 21 (P). Pat Harder, an aging fullback who was in the starting back-fleld only because he could block, ran like a battering bull and scored 19 points to boost his Detroit Lions to the National Conference championship of the National Football League today. Then the Lions turned back a last-period thrust and whipped the defending champion Los Angeles Rams, 31-21, in muddy, fog-wrapped Briggs Stadium before 47,645 fans. The victory put the Lions in the NFL title championship game The Joints Jumpia9 Olympian! Lavey (dark jersey 1 and Royals' Johnson strain every muscle in effort to snare rebound in first period action at -Garden -----yesterday afternoon.

Barnhorst watches for possible chance to intercept. Los Angeles Loses CI 61 4 next Sunday at Cleveland against the American Conference champion Cleveland Browns. Harder, an effective runner, but great blocker all season, scored or Bullets Are MyBlanks, lose So llnhhs, W2-77 By Dick Young Clair Bee, who has had better teams at LIU brought his (Associated Press Wirefotol Doak Walker goes wis yards in first period for Detroit before getting lopped. Blocking bark Pat Harder looks for more Rams to knock down, and they are roming up in the persons of Andy Robustelli and Norm Hecker (extreme right). 12 and 4-yard line plunges, kicked a 44-yard field goal and converted four times in the post-season tie breaking playoff.

Baltimore Blanks, nee Bullets, into the Garden yesterday afternoon and took another trouncing this one a 102-77 massaging by the Knicks, who zipped off their fifth straight RAMS I.E Fears. Carer. Brink. IT Simen- en. T-Miwa.

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Detroit f2i. Hart. Harder lit senrinir: ToiK-hdowns Harder Hoernsi-hemyer. Conversions-Field aoal Hanler. who converted three times, missed on a 34-yard field goal attempt in the second period and the Lions took over to go 80 yards for a score.

This time it was Walker, sidelined much of the season with injuries, who picked off key passes. From his 20. Layne hit Walker at midfield and Doak reached the Rams' 30 fo ra 50-yard gain. Layne then handed off to Hoernschmeyer, who soared a 24-yard pass to Walker at the four. Harder took Layne's handoff, ripped through right guard, and ended standing up in the end zone.

In the third period, the Lions took a 21-7 lead after Yale Lary recovered Bob Carey's fumble at midfield. Harder boomed 18 yards and 11 more on the next play to help the Lions on their way. WALKER TOOK a handoff from Layne, raced to the right as if to skirt end and heaved a touchdown pass to Hart. On the game-clinching touchdown after Torgeson's interception ended the Rams' last-minute hopes of pulling the game out, Walker streaked to the 10. Hoernschem- yer whipped through the line and scored easily.

Waterfield, who announced pre viously that he would retire after this season, was quartei backing on the fourth period Los Angeles scores. Stan West intercepted a pass on the Lions' 21 and an offside penalty helped set up Towler's score. STATISTICS RAM is 12S 14S 2S 18 4 30 1I0XS 18 173 187 23 11 1 5 43.8 35 First Downs Rushing- Yardage Passing; Yardaire Parses Attempted Passes Completed Passes Intercepted Punts Ptllitinr Avrwe Fumbles Lost Yards Penalized (Othc- picture on back pace) Final NFL Standing YESTERDAY Detroit SI. I -rot Anreles 31. AMr.RUAN C'KKKNE Point? W.

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Rochester 83. Imlianapohs 65. LAST NIGHT Boston at Syracuse. Philadelphia al Fort Wayne. EASTERN I WESTERN W.

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Milwauke at Buffalo. ran away from Indianapolis, 83-65, with Odie Spears drawing 21 points and blood. Odie speared Alex Hannum with an elbow, necessitating four stitches to be taken beneath the left eye of his teammate. KNICK -KNACKS: Crowd of 7,846 was considered good, in view of all-day rain, plus competition of NFL playoff game on TV. Vince Boryla dressed for game, but did not play.

There was no need for coach Joe Lapchick to risk reinjury to Vince's" knee. Ray Lumpp, ex-Knick, started for Baltimore and did well. He left-handed points. Only Scolari's 14 topped him among Bullets. Dick McGuire, who wouldn't shoot if he had a gun, actually popped a couple of baskets as the game broke into small pieces in the final minutes.

Dick Surhof made first Garden start with Knicks, and did so-so. He'll do better when the exciting newness of it all wears off. Doc Vandeweghe played with bulbous wad of adhesive tape on his nose. It's a budding infection that the medical student let go too long. He hates doctors.

(Other pictbre on back page) Turpin Best? Singapore, Dec. 21 P). No boxer in the world will stop Britain's Randolph Turpin from regaining the world middleweight title, said Mel Brown, American Negro light-heavyweight contender, who arrived here by air from London today. Brown, from St. Paul, trained Randy Turpin for his fight against Sugar Ray Robinson in London.

He will meet Isimeli Radrodo a Fijian and former light-heavyweight champion, over 10 rounds. "I must add," said Brown, "that Turpin is not the same Turpin who beat Robinson. He has slipped somewhat, but it does not mean to say he is not the best middleweight in the world now that Sugar Ray has quit." srSDAT Detroit at Cleveland ''hampionhip). period to make it Lions 14, Rams 7 at the half. Earlier, Harder scored his two touchdowns to start the Lions to their third straight win over the Rams, whom they beat twice in the regular season.

It broke the Rams' eight-game winning streak. The first score came at 10:47 of the opening period after Van Brocklin's initial punt sliped off the side of his foot and carried only 15 yards before it went out of bounds at midfield. -Hart, 262-pound end from Notre Dame, hauled down 22 and 13 yard passes from quarterback Bobby Layne to push the ball to the Rams' 17. Hoernschmeeyr hit to the 12 and Harder scissored around right end and fell into the end zone. THE RAMS BOB win enroute to the top of the It was the 12th loss in 13 games for the forlorn Bee.

who shrugged good-naturedly and said: "Well, you can't win them all." Actually, Bee doesn't have a club that figures to live through the second half, no less His over-aged operatives just aren't gaited to get through a. game without a blood transfusion. They can make things tough for a half, as established by yesterday's 39-37 half time score, but after that they play oa one half of the court, and meet the speedy Knicks on the way back. IT WAS CONNIE SIMMONS who took the heart out of the Bullets just as surely as the knee-action Knicks shook the legs of them. Connie didn't get into the game until the second half and once he started hitting with his hot hooks, it was no contest.

Connie has his good days and bad. BALTIMORE 07 NEW YOKK (103) G. F. G. F.

P. 5 1-2 2 0 4 4 8 5 4 14 7 17 Baechtold.f Miller.f Barksdale.f Maasek.c Lunipp.g: Seolart.g: Hoffman. Shea.g- 3 a 3 lmsurhon.f 8 Braun.f 4 5 0 2immoiin.e 5 5 lSIZaslnfsky.c 6 14 A Mi-tiiiire 5 3 71 3 1 3 id 5 15 1 7 2 8 Totala 29 IB 37 28 102 This was a real goodie. In the little time he played, he wound up with the game-high total of 17 noints. What's more, Simmons put Ed Miller, his 6-foot-9 opponent, in his pocket.

The previous night, wjien the two teams clashed at Balti Miller gave Simmons fits. but Connie learned that Miller needs room to hit with his twisting jump-pops from the pivot, and crowded the big fellow so effectively that Miller scored only three points while Connie adhered to him during the second half. ONE PARTICULAR offensive streak by Connie a personal tear of seven points midway through the third quarter, blew the game to bits. New York zoomed ahead by 6Q-46 on the power of Simmons' multi-pointed hook. By the end of the stanza, the bulge had bal looned to 67-52.

Then, in the final stanza, uninhibited AI McGuire put on a one man show of his own as the Knick drove for the 100 mark. Swoosh-ingeye high to the rim at times, Al reeled off 12 of New York's final 13 points, in the space of litle more than two minutes. He was virtually unopposed on these jet takeoffs for the baskets. The Bullets seemed content to be still standing at this stage, without geting in his way. In the NBA prelim, Rochester Bl'T IT WAS linebacker La Vern Torgeson, an unpublicized defensive workhorse, vho saved the nationally televised victory for the Linns, slim pregame favorites.

The Rams, apparently hopelessly out of the game, ripped to two touchdowns in a two-and-a-half- Lo Hart Took 23-yJ. pam for ocorm. minute scoring outburst in the fourth period to cut Detroit's apparent big lead to 24-21 with about two minutes of play. Then Torgeson kept the Rams from starting a possible game-winning march with a pass interception on the Rams 30. THE LION'S, who.

hadn't tasted divisional title in 17 years, scored seconds later on Bob Hoernsche-meyer's nine-yard blast through left guard. That crushed the Rams' hopes of reaching the NFL playoff game for the fourth straight year. The late Ram explosion was climaxed when Vitamin Smith caught a punt on his 44 and raced up the sidelines for a spectacular touchdown. Moments before. Towler had skirted right end for live yards and a touchdown.

Harder. 30-year-old former W'isl eonsin star in his seventh pro year, carried eight times and gained 72 yards for a spectacular nine-yard average. His avera-ge during the 12-game regular season was only 2.9. liiant end Leon Hart caught a 23-yard third period touchdown Eass from Doak Walker for the ions other score. THE RAMS Norman Van Brock-tin passed 15 yards to Tom Fears at the goal line ia the second i Pointing for Hams Detroit's Pat Harder was the hero of the day yestreday, as he accounted for 19 points all by himself.

He scored two touchdowns, booted a field goal, and kicked four extra points. The bigger the Bams, the Harder they fell It.