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II A-10-THE DAILY SUN Dec. 14, 1960 IU1 nie istoh Swears Racket-Free! i lip by Jim McKone SBVC Could Beat Texans Fighter Claims No Criminals i In His Corner 1 WASHINGTON (AP) Heavyweight challenger Charles (Sonny) Liston yesterday swore he does not know that any underworld characters take a slice of hi ring earnings. If he finds they do, Liston said, he'll gei As the Junior Rose Bowl re-eniphasized last Saturday, Texas college football resembles the old gray mare: She ain't what she used to be. Beach City College de molished Tyler JC from East Texas, 38-16. I "'This marked the second consecutive 22-point triumph for a California team over Texans in the Pasadena junior classic.

Last year Bakersfield trampled Del Mar of Corpus Christi with similar ease, 36-14. San Bernardino Valley College might not have beaten Bakersfield in '59 or Long Beach in 60, But the Indians certainly would have given their California comrades much The Syracuse Incident 111 i fSIl n'ltiiii' fi virwiw-1 J'liufcm 'm iinu Ti.n iimin Hm fti ''-f i im imimh i in rtij help familiarize young horses with starting gate, an apparatus thoroughly frightening to skittish youngsters. Racing at Santa Anita begins Dec. 26. (Sun-Telegram photo by Ronald L.

Wilhite) SCHOOL DAYS Set of yearling thoroughbreds breaks from starting gate in Santa Anita schooling session under watchful eyes of William R. (Billy) Mills (right background). Mills and his assistants SANTA ANITA RUNS KINDERGARTEN Angels Start Picking Team New AL Batlclubs Will Make History BOSTON (AP)-Officials of th new Washington and Los Angeles clubs yesterday went over final plans before a history-making session in which they will select many of the players who will perform for the two new American League teams. They will meet with league President Joe Cronin today and draft 28 players each from a pool provided by the eight existing teams. The meeting originally was scheduled for yesterday, but was postponed when a blizzard halted all air travel in and out of Boston.

Los Angeles General Manager. Fred Haney and Bill Rigney named as the Angels' field boss Monday arrived yesterday afternoon and, along with Washington General Manager Eddie Doherty paid a visit to American Leagua' headquarters 'SOCIAL VISIT' "It was just a social visit," league publicist Joe McKenney said. "We didn't discuss any bus-, iness. They just dropped by to visit with Cronin." He said Los Angeles President Bobby Reynolds and Board Chairman Gene Autry; Washington owner Brig. Gen.

Elwood (Pete) Quesada, and Washington Manager Mickey Vernon were dua later in the day. They will gather with Cronin and his staff in a closed-door session to pick their players at a price of $75,000 each from the 120-man pool. Each of the eight existing clubs has placed 15 players from their 10-man rosters in the pool. A list, of those players has not been announced officially. nOR BONUS The two new teams also have cittish Colts to 'Graduate' rid of them.

Liston, who has a long police record In St. Louis as well as a dazzling 30-1 boxing record, told Senate investigators he was una ware that either Frank (Blinky) Palermo of Philadelphia or John J. Vitale of St. Louis acted as his undercover manager. The Senate unit hopes to drive hoodlums from the prize fight business.

It has received testimony that mobster Frank Carbo, racket figure Palermo and ex-convict Vitale split with two others the manager's end of Liston's purses. NO. 1 CONTENDER Liston, the top-ranked contender for Floyd Patterson's crow-n testified that he did not know until he was told yesterday that a former manager still gets a cut of his receipts. Subcommittee investigator Robert Turely said Frank Mitchell, who managed Liston until 1958, acknowledged privately in October that he received about 25 per cent. Thomas Williams, another staff member, described it as going "to the St.

Louis group." Mitchell declined to answer questions when he was called before the subcommittee last week, pleading the fifth amendment's guarantee against possible self incrimination. FIFTH AMENDMENT Palermo, the pint-sized Phlladel-phian whose name has treaded the prize fight hearings, preceded Liston as a witness but refused to yield any information. He also invoked the fifth amendment. Palermo, among others, faces trial in Los Angeles next February on charges of attempting to muscle in on the earnings of former welterweight Don Jordan. His adamant silence drew from subcommittee Chairman Estes Kefauver, a promise tQ recommend contempt proceedings against him.

Carbo is to be brought to Wash ington from his New York prison cell today for questioning by the committee. He is serving two years for undercover matchmak ing and managing. SYMPATHETIC ADVICE Kefauver dismissed Liston, after more than two hours on the stand, with a sympathetic lecture. Consult a clergyman, someone he could trust on financial matters and possibly a police officer, Kef auver advised Liston. "You have a real responsibility and a real opportunity," he said, "but you are going to have to shake off the Palermos, the Vitales and some of these other people who have leeched themselves on to you." For his part, Liston, in a stumbling drawl, suggested of boxing's future that "the onliest thing that can bring it back to life is a guy who fights like Joe Louis and fights anybody and everybody." That fighter, he implied, could (Continued on A 11, Column 1) stiffer competition than the unimaginative invaders from Texas did.

SBVC almost certainly could have outrun and outslickcd both Del Mar and Tyler. In fact, by comparative scores this season, Chaffey College would have acquitted itself like a champ in the Junior Rose Bowl. Long Beach topped Santa Ana by just four points early in the season (2419). Chaffey later whitewashed Santa Ana in its worst licking of the year (12-0). Texas teams have had a generally sorry record in bowl games in recent years.

The sorriest showing of all came last New Year's Day, when Syracuse edged Texas in the Cotton Bowl, 23-14. A few ill-mannered Texas players heaped insult, saliva and fists upon the visiting team. The University of Texas, stung by northern criticism after the Syracuse game (the Texas players did apologize later), bad the bare-faced gall to ask for a NCAA investigation absolving Texas of blame. The National Collegiate Athletic Association sidestepped this complaint without action. Bad Loser a red flag, a good 10 yards out of bounds.

That's one of the few penalties you'll ever see called off the playing field. Each team was penalized for roughness after that melee in front of the Texas bench. The crowd of 38,064 was in an ugly mood at the finish, with fights in the stands and a good deal of non-penalized wrestling and piling on, down on the field. Long Beach partisans pulled down one goal post before the final gun. A policeman laid low one of these overenthusiastic fans with a nightstick.

The injured man was carried off the field on a stretcher. the Future Oddly enough, both the University of Texas and Del Mar have integrated their classrooms, but not their teams. Del Mar integrated 10 years ago the first college in the South "to do so, and without any prodding from the Supreme Court. One major college in Texas, North Texas State, integrated around 1957 with excellent results. Star runner Abner Ilaynes of North Texas (in Denton) graduated to the Dallas Texans pro team and now is one of the big names in the American Football League.

So there is hope that Texans will be able to stay on the same field with Californians, in the future at least. unrizir i i Rut the purpose of today's lecture is to explain the decline and fall of Texas football. Further evidence: Arkansas, only non-Texas member of the Southwest Conference, is playing in the Cotton Bowl as SWC champ for the third time in five years. True, three of the Texas SWC members are playing in other bowls. Rut Baylor (Gator Bowl) and the University of Texas (the new Bluebonnet Bowl in Houston) accepted minor-league invitations.

And Rice (Sugar) looks like a sensible choice only because rice and sugar go together like watermelon and salt. Another Tyler also looked like a bad loser. As the United Pres International delicately described Saturday's slaughter: i "The game was punctuated by several fist swinging incidents, not only on the playing field between the two teams but also among partisans in the stands as feelings ran high in both areas." That was putting it mildly. Tyler was penalized only 45 yards, Long Beach 36. But the roughness was rampant.

In one unusual play, a Long Beach runner was forced out of bounds into the Tyler bench, and fists started flying at once. One official rushed up a throw Hope for All 38 of Long Beach's points -were scored by Negroes. Tyler, of course, was segregated. This might explain why feeling ran so high. It is only fair to note, however, thai none of the-obvious fights on the field involved Negroes.

But the licking absorbed by Tyler underscores the weakness which Texas teams have brought upon themselves by segregation. Texas teams waste priceless talent every year when Negro athletes like Ollie Matson, or the two Texans who ran wild for the University of Washington in the Rose Bowl leave the Lone Star State to play where they are given a decent and otherwise emit a variety of sounds to make sure their mounts know it's time to move, but fast. "If the riders are squalling the first time the yearlings come out of the starting gate, the animals are liable to bolt through the inside fence or in any direction, possibly severely injuring or even killing themselves and their riders," Mills noted. However, on the yearlings' third trip to the starting gate, the riders are allowed to make full use of their vocal cords. From the 55( yearlings Mills is now teaching the mysteries-of racing, only 280 will be around when Santa Anita be- (Continued on A 13, Column 3) high-strung and moody kinder-gartners is William R.

(Billy) Mills, now in his 17th year as starter at Santa Anita race track. A quiet, patient horseman who especially enjoys working with the "baby" racers, Mills has also worked as starter at Del Mar track the better part of two decades. He also was starter at Suffolk Downs near Boston and has served as steward at the Sacramento, Stockton and Fresno fair race meetings in California this year. Mills' biggest problem with his kindergartners occurs the very first day of "school." In the first lesson, Mills introduces the skittish youngsters to the starting gate, a formidable apparatus that still frightens even veterans oMhe racing wars. Says Mills about the "babies" when they show up for their first class: "They're looking for trouble anyway; everything is completely strange to them and they're really scared." Mills spends most of his first class day, coaxing the reluctant young horses into the stalls of the starting gate.

Mills' assistants and the exercise boys and jockeys who are astride the yearlings in their schooling give the veteran starter the help he needs in settling down and soothing the temperamental young colts and fillies. During the first two lessons, the exercise boys aboard the young horses are not allowed to "squall" yell loudly, whoop The new champ, who is the father of a year-old daughter, is a 21-year-old transfer from Citrus Junfor College. He is the second champ from UCLA. The other was Kenny Washington in 1939. Five players gained more than half the yardage of their teams.

They were Ron Miller of Wisconsin (57.8 per cent), Roman Gabriel of North Carolina State (53.4), Melin (52.0), Dyer (50.6) and Harold Stephens of Hardin-Sim-mons (50.4). The final leadfrs: Pla.vn VIK in 202 l.SSfl t. Kilmer. ITLA 2. Molin.

Wash. Staid 3. Johnson. N.M. Slate 4.

Knead, W. Korpst 5. Dyer, VMI 6. linker, Orrcon Stale 7. Mattp.

Ohio Stale R. Miller. Wisconsin 9. Wright. MemphlR St 10.

Gahiiel. C. State in in in 10 in 9 10 10 313 312 200 22R 236 238 1(11 24 1.713 1.831 l.afin 1.47S 1.473 1,119 1.3M 1.375 By JOHN SCIIAEFER (Sun-Telegram Turf Writer) It's near graduation time for the kindergarten class at Santa Anita. These "students" are of the four-footed species equine. When they graduate, they don't get a diploma, but their owners receive a small rectangular piece of paper with figures on it arid it makes them very happy.

The class consists of 550 thoroughbred yearlings. On Jan. 1, the birthday by decree of all race horses in the United States, these youngsters will beT come 2 years old and eligible for, racing during Santa Anita's 55-day season beginning Dec. 26. The teacher of these nervous, NFL SCRAMBLE Packers Plan For Playoff GREEN BAY, Wis.

(AP)-The Green Bay Packers announced yesterday that if a playoff game between the Packers and Baltimore or San Francisco is neces- sary to decide the National Football League's Western Conference title, it will be played here Mon day, Dec. 26. The Packers, who have cljnrhpH at least a tie for the title, currently lead the Baltimore Colts by a full game with one to play. If the Packers win or tie at Los Angeles Saturday they will take the title regardless of what the Colts do. However, a Packer de- teat coupled witn a Baltimore vie- over San Francisco would leave them tied.

THRKi; WAY POSSIBILITY Detroit could force its way into three-way deadlock if it beats Chicago Sunday and Green Bay loses. Also a Green Bay-Detroit two-way tie could result if the Packers lose, the Lions win and the Colts play a tie at San Francisco. A Green Bay-Detroit playoff game would be in Detroit. Any three-way playoff would result in a complicated situation with one team drawing a bye and then playing the survivor Jan. 1.

That would mean the NFL championship game, set for Dec. 26, could be pushed back as far as Jan. 8 UP LAND OPENS Uclan Averages 188.9 Yards a Game KILMER OFFICIALLY GAINS CROWN IN TOTAL OFFENSE CoIt-49er Tussle Is Like Soap Opera gift season brings be tied with the Packers for Cubs May Pick Pilot Today CHICAGO CAP) Rumors per sist that the day of decision on the new Chicago Cub manager may be today. However, owner P. K.

Wrigley, who has been in no hurry to re place Lou Boudreau, dismissed as manager some 10 weeks ago, com mented: "I don't know when we will get around to naming oir manager, but it won't be immediately." It was expected that Wrigley will confer today i his three vice presidents, Charlie Grimm, John Holland and Clarence Row land. Aslo on hand will be the suspected to be the Nc. 1 mana gerial candidate, Elvin Tappe, 31 catcher coach, who resides in Quincy, 111. i Carbo fo Leave Prison NEW YORK (AP)-Two deputy U.S. marshals were assigned yesterday to go to Rikers Island Prison and take into custody Frankie Carbo, alleged underworld ruler of boxing, and bring him before the Senate boxing in vestigation in Washington.

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Each team must select 10 pitch-ers, 2 catchers, 6 infielders and 4 outfielders. The other six players may be for any position desired. The ground rules are such that while each of the eight existing teams has placed 15 men in the pool no team may lose "more than seven players now on its roster, plus possibly two minor league of Wetter WbimStii SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Will the Baltimore Colts shake off their losing streak, now three games long? Will the San Francisco shake off the mud and regain a place in the sun? Will it matter? TJiese and other intriguing questions will be answered when the Colls and 49ers collide here Sun-1 But, like a soap opera, the drama hinges on an affair in Los Angeles, 500 miles to the south, where the Green Bay Packers' and the Los Angeles Rams meet Saturday. With mom, Aunt Matilda and a national television audience, thei 49ers and Colts will be watching Saturday's chapter of the perils of pigskins. If the Packers, leaders of the National Football League's Western-Division win or even tie the Rams then Die Wisconsin wonders win the West.

But if the Rams Win, then the on our Ill-year-old original recipe A BOURBON MAN'S BOURBON heighho weirdie necessitating the type of playoff arrangements that would sent Pepper Young's family! out to get pickled. That's why suddenly this fall, the Rams, who were the butts of the league earlier this season, now have more rooters than they've ever had before. Every-j body, that is, except those Pack-j crs from Green Bay. Colt Coach Weeb Ewbank says he's cot troubles: He's cot the world's mightiest touchdown pass- er in John Unitas, but he's won dering who is going to catch the passes, Three of Unitas' four ton re- ceivers are injured. MO NTC LAIR CAGE EVENT San Bernardino Countv's rs.

basketball tournament the' a at By ASSOCIATED PRESS Bill Kilmer, the triple-threat tailback of UCLA's single wing offense, yesterday became the official total offense champion of major college football for I960. Final statistics from the Nation al Collegiate Athletic Bureau showed Kilmer ran for 803 yards and passed for 1,086 in 10 games for a total of 1,889 yards. Kilmer closed with a rush as UCLA finished its season after the early leaders had called it a year. He was the first single wing tail back to win the championship since Dick Kazmaier of Princeton in 1951. The only other tailback among the top 20 was Oregon Mate i erry Baker, who was sixth with 1,473 yards.

PUNTS OVER 40 In addition to his ground gaining, Kilmer was the first total offense champ since Byron (Whiz- zer) White of Colorado In 1937 to average better than 40 yards at punting. Kilmer, a 6-foot, 186-pound senior, didn't rank higher than fourth until his final game against Duke. In the previous nine weeks, four others had taken turns in first place. Howard Dyer of Virginia Military led for three weoks, and Dave (I loppy) Hoppmann of Iowa State, Baker and Mel Melln of HEATING SALES SERVICE REPAIRS Cooler Covers Filters rv SHEET METAL i i 1 1 nnd Pnmnna TallinHf fanirlo B.F.Goodrich safety SPECIAL ON FRONT END ALIGNMENT anH Hanrsha vie uHth Mont'clair at 7:30, Pomona has winner of the Colts-'JOers its four-! Homa Stit26l. Bourbons day run today in the bye in this bracket, and is nasiums of the two host schools.

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