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1ES 7 'I 0 54rcutp fart 113'1ttlittt 04--1 4 1 40 I 4 i Maryland is better than last year: page 2-C with or without contact NBA injuries are mounting: page 2-C Bossier's Mike McConathy leads Louisiana Tech: page 3-C Baltimore's front four wants sacks not nicknames: page 7-C Sp Mike MeConatky C-1 THURSDAY DEC 11 1975 1ERN care Box PM- e3 c6J0174: tged Jaguars Don't Know About Freshman UFG A Long Way But I I Grambling's football team Was come a long way since Eddie Robinson took over the coaching reins in 1941 "Things were real bad" he recalls "Nobody knew about the school Nobody iwould help us We had to do it ourselves We didn't have much to look ahead to but we had en less to look back on" That was 245 victories ago By JOEL B1ERIG Journal Sports Writer The University of South Alabama doesn't know much about Dick Brown To the Jaguars he's just another UFG (Unidentified Flying Gentleman) To Centenary coach Larry Little he's Dick Brown Mr Dick Brown Mr Dick Brown Esq Any time a freshman 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for games at Hawaii once in a thile Each year they send a half-dozen players into pm football Wednesday as expected Grambling dominated the black college All-America team Robinson was named "Coach of the Year" Sammie White is the outstanding offensive player James Hunter is the outstalnding defensive player Shreveport linebacker Robert Pennywell is another first-team choice The Tigers are rolling along in high gear But in one respect they're in worse shape that they were 34 years ago In the 'forties and 'fifties Grambling and its opponents were in the same boat They played by the same rules They had the same opportunities to recruit football players That is no longer the case "UNDER THE PRESSURE of a road game his first game as a starter Dick Brown had to be the most pleasant surprise of the night" Little said "He's still a little slower than some of the quickest guards we'll face and he's having trouble pressuring the ball the way we'd like him to "But those are problems you can accept when a player is as complete offensively as he is Believe me 10 assists are a lot" South Alabama will believe Brown when it sees him at 8 o'clock tonight in the Gold Dome The last time Centenary played South Alabama (Nov 29) Dick Brown was a figment of the Jaguars' imagination With a junior-varsity game the following night Little didn't see any reason to unveil his 6-1 freshman Dkk Brown unusual freshman starter "Then- was one part in the second half where the press gave me some trouble but other than that I was pretty pleased" FOR BROWN coming off the bench is as new an experience as sitting on it At Edwardsville Ill High School Dick was a two-year starter "The first year he was more of play maker" Little said "Last year he turned into a scorer" "My junior year we had a better team" explained Brown whose scoring average zoomed from 15 to 27 points per game "My senior year I was the only returning starter and they needed me to score" When his scoring average improved 12 mints in one season Brown received offers from the universities of Louisville New Mexico and San Francisco That he chose Centenary was due in large part to Little and a fellow named Tom Gammill Brigitte Totschnig of Austria comes over a rise during today's World Cup downhill ski race at Aprica Italy which she won (AP Wirephoto) Over The Top Bill Veeck Back But I THE RULES ARE still the same on both sides of a football field but Robinson and Nis assistants go into recruiting battles with one hand tied behind their backs ISU Tulane and smaller state school like Louisiana Tech and Northwestern are going after the top black athletes So is Grant bling But LSU Tulane Tech and NSU are also recruiting white prospects "We aren't doing too well trying to re cruit the white boy" Robinson says in a classic understatement "Until we become more mm- petittve for the white boy we're going to ah vays have it tougher" Eddie who has seen a lot of his dreams et nne true in 34 years as Grambling's football cog tch is still looking forward to the day when he can make top white prospects offers they can't 100 ed (or lestld )ice whole thing would have been over in 15 minutes" It was explained that Veeck was supposed to come back with $6 million deposited in the bank Instead he had $31156730 on deposit in Continental Bank of Chicago and submitted $2630000 in signed subscription pledges group at the four-day-old winter baseball meetings didn't come easy It took two ballots by the owners before the necessary three quarters vote was obtained The final tally was 10-2 Nine votes are needed to effect an American League club sale On the first ballot the count reportedly was 8-3 with one abstention A debate etistied as some owners insisted on a second ballot This move was challenged but prevailed on the plea that every club should vote yes or no Lee MacPhail president of the American League refused to confirm the vote counts THE JAGUARS shot only 39 per cent from the field in an 82-68 loss to the Gents on Nov 29 Since losing its season opener however South Alabama has defeated South Dakota 86-79 and Jacksonville 79-68 "As far as a full 40 minutes of play they gave us the most trouble anyone has" Little said TUESDAY NIGHT against Southwestern Louisiana Little saw a very good reason for using Brown: The absence of starting guard Barry McLeod who had returned home to Bridgeport Conn "Barry's mother is very ill" Little explained "and he needs to be with her Right now we don't know when to expect him back it's going to be a day-to-day thing" Until McLeod returns Brown will serve as Centenary's point man And if Dick can perform as he did in Tuesday night's 97-80 victory over USL Little will sleep very well thank you Because his four turnovers aside Dick Brown played a very tmfreshm a nlike game "I think it helped me a lot" Brown said of his debut as a college HOLLYWOOD Fla (AP) Bill Veeck is back in major league baseball but not exactly the way he planned A Veeck group of some 40 people was approved Wednesday as the new owner of the American League's Chicago White Sox But the 6I-year-old Veeck wound up with little or no capital interest in the team Veeck disclosed that he had to sell much of the interest he would have received for putting the purchase package together in order to raise the additional $12 million- required for league approval THE COLORFUL Veeck actually winds up as president 'of the White Sox at a reported $65000 a year salary The majority stock (80 per cent) purchased from John Allyn for $975 million is owned by investors including former home run king Hank Greenberg and Bill DeWitt one-time owner of the old St Louis Browns and the Cincinnati Reds Allyn retains a 20 per cent interest The league approval of the Veeck THERE WERE varying legal interpretations to these subscriptions "They don't mean a thing" said one owner "A guy who signed one of those things can change his mind and back out" Veeck's lawyers explained that there was no question that the Veeck group had met league conditions GAMMILL STOOD six feet eight inches and Larry Little will gladly travel a few hundred miles to scout a Big Man with Talent "We lost him to St Louis University" Little said "but while we were there we got Dick to play" Little liked what he saw and Brown liked what he heard "I chose Centenary" Dick said "because I thought I'd be able to play as a freshman and because of what my high-school coach (Mel Roustio) said about coach Little "They played together in college and coach Roustio told me 'You'll never play for a better man'" Tonight's game will be preceded by a junior varsity contest between Centenary and Grambling's Jayvee Kitbens Tipoff for that game will be 6 pm MACPHAIL HOWEVER did confirm that the holdup arose because Veeck didn't conform to the league's stipulations after the owners turned down the group Dec 3 demanding the extra $12 million in working capital One owner who would not be identified said "He (Veeck) would have won immediate approval if he had complied with our instructions The ATTORNEY DAVID Cohen said "The league requested that we raise $6 million and that we did" Veeck who owned the White Sox from 1959 through 1961 when health forced him to get out of baseball said he was aware of the negative first ballot UNTIL THEN Grambling will depend on black athletes getting 100 per cent of its football team from 32 per cent of the state's popul atom And since 11 Louisiana schools are biddin tg for the best football players in that 32 per cent the Tigers are recruiting more out-of-state prt spects than they did a few years ago "It's easier for us to recruit out-of-state that it is in Louisiana" Robinson says One reason for that is the matter of facilities Just five miles away Louisiana Tech has al impressive new athletic complex Grambling's plant doesn't measure up to a 1 lot of high schools The school has a new complex on the drawing board but nobody seems to know how high or low it ranks on the priority list Is Baseball Ready for Rchometer? By DAVE ANDERSON (c) 1975 NY Times News Service contract Eddie Gaedel was a pinch hitter once who walked Instead of laughing the American League owners branded the stunt a travesty The next year when Veeck wanted to move the Browns to Baltimore the owners voted no But after Veeck sold the Browns the owners voted yes Those owners proved that they were a travesty not the midget NEW YORK back in baseball He never should have left but it wasn't his fault that he did Doctors advised Bill Veeck in 1961 to delegate more authority in operating the Chicago White 'Sox but he soon decided to sell his syndicate's majority control "If I can't run a ballclub myself" he aid "I'm not interested in it" "WE WANT OUR football to equal any other school" Robinson says "But our facilities-aren't up to the other schools I never use that as an excuse I've always figured that if you can 01-4 block on astroturf you can block on sand It's a matter of taking what you have and doing re something with it But with us competing against the other schools in Louisiana our facilities are going to have to be upgraded "People have eyes A man has to have some pride A man who doesn't have any pride isn't worth a damn You can't look the other way and say it doesn't matter It does matter But until we have better facilities we think all the stadiums across the country all belong to us: the Superdome the Astrodome Yankee Stadium Shea Stadium" The Tigers have attracted big crowds to all of those and many more Anything that can somehow turn that frozen tableau into a sense of drama and excitement has solved about 75 per cent of your problems "According to the rules when nobody is on base the pitcher is supposed to deliver the ball within 20 seconds after he receives it The Pitchometer was set up to tick off the seconds for us When the hand hit the 20-second mark it would actuate a siren that was guaranteed to knock the pitchers' hat off and startle the boys in the downtown pool hall With luck it would even call the umpire's attention to the violations of the rule "In any good promotion timing is everything I wanted to find the right pitcher to unveil the Pitchometer against a pitcher who is particularly good and also particularly slow You want to annoy upset and even cow the opposing pitcher But more than anything else you want to surprise and delight the crowd And as in all gags you want to make the rest of the world kick itself for not being there "But before it was unveiled I was out of baseball It still sits there in the depths of Comiskey Park (now White Sox Park complete with siren like a leashed tiger unheard unseen" the Superdome "In the scoreboard you have a prefabricated fresh-air theatre built for rainy-day entertainment" he predicted "You can entertain your fans with anything from a follow the bouncing baseball community sing to the pictures of last year's World Series You can even run interviews from the dressing room or press box" Another thought is the Home Run Derby inning Names of ticket holders will be selected at random "If the first batter steps up and hits a home run for Mr Smith" explained Veeck "then Mr Smith has won $1000 IF THE BArrut does not hit a home run Mr Smith is entitled to 10 tickets to any game of his choosing and the next batter comes to the plate to flex his muscles for Mr Jones If nobody hits a home run during the inning the prize goes to $1100 the next day "Along the same general lines I have always wanted to fmd a ballplayer who was born on Christmas Day because that would mean he had been cheated out of a birthday all his life We would make things up to him by holding a birthday party for him on July 4" Nobody on the current White Sox roster was born on Christmas Day but the crosstown Cubs' second baseman Manny was Those fireworks and sirens you hear represent the background mute as Bill Veeck thinks about a trade a 11111111111 1 at jars I tegulat seals untd 1 it of an -I I 1 om A I is 1 I Al 1 swum' BUT NOW almost all the American League teams have changed owners And Wednesday the new set of owners showed their eventual wisdom by initialing Bill Veeck's return to the lodge on the second vote In recent weeks Bill Veeck has spoken of "some new promotional ideas" while declining to discuss them But several years ago he mentioned a few in "The Hustler's Handbook" one of three volumes that Ed Linn punctuated for him For the fun of it they are presented in his words: "The scoreboard he put up in Chicago was intended for greater things than mortar fire and fireworks Among the marvels were to be electronic instruments which would not only entertain and inform the customers but also serve to keep his mind riveted on the ball game For instance the Pitchometer "A GREAT PORTION of any ballgame consists of the Yitcher holding the ball or throwing it to the catcher ball or throwing it to the catcher NOW HE'S RUNNING the White Sox ain Himself At age 61 his health has in lproved So has the thinking of buseball people Perhaps they finally re alized that those "Bat Days" that fill their ballparks1 originated with Bill 14 eck as did exploding scoreboards firt and many other diversions for dre ary moments or dreary teams iNlot that Bill Veeck specialized in drel try teams The last time the Cleveland Indians won the World Series in 11148 Bill Veeck ran the organization The last time the White Sox won a pennant in 1959 Bill Veeck ran the organiz ation Pe rhaps baseball people also finally realiz edthat Bill Veeck's midget wasn't bad for the game Judging by some of today' batting averages Bill Veeck meret was a quarter of a century ahead of his time in signing Eddie Gaedei I who weighed 65 poilnds and stood tI3 inches to a St Louis Browns' MUMBLING'S LACK of facilities is one reason Robinson isn't interested in scheduling a game with LouislIna Tech "I certainly would want the same kind of facilities" he says "I can't turn water into wine I don't want to go into any battle with a disadvantage At least I would like to be on equal footing I want to feel I'm in the ball game" But that isn't the only reason he isn't enthusiastic about playing Tech He's afraid that something might happen that would ruin their good relationship BE ASSURED THAT the Pitchometer will be heard and seen now Bill Veeck also talked of installing closid circuit TV screens long before they appeared in the Capital Centre or tney appeareu in um tzpuzi tentre or "IIIE PEOPLE in Shreveport are concerned abolit filling their stadium" he says "I'm cod See JERRY BYRD Page 8-C I 6P.