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Play Football, That Is! Ex-Husker Pat Fischer aids instruction Jim Ross lectures pair of gridders. John Melton demonstrates passing technique. Battling Benny Paret Dies First Boxing Champ to Die Of Injuries in Title Fight New York (UPI) De-: throned welterweight boxing champion Benny (Kid) Paret died early Tuesday without regaining consciousness from his knockout Mar, 24. The Kid was counted ou' for the last time at 12:55 a.m. CST before his pregnant wife, Lucy, could reach his side.

The 24-year old Cuban was the first champion in boxing history to die of injuries received in a title bout. Paret was pounded senseless by Emile Griffith in the 12th round of their title fight at Madison Square Garden. The Cuban boxer underwent emergency surgery to relieve pressure on his brain early Mar. 25 but stayed in a coma until he died. With only a 10,000 to 1 chance at survival at the time, Benny began to make slight progress.

To aid his breathing surgeons inserted a tube into his Uiroat. He was reported to be making some slight progress until Monday when he contracted pneumonia. Mrs. Paret, flew here from Miami, after her husband was felled, reached his bedside too late. With her were mother, Mrs.

Maximo Crespo, his brother, Antonio, and a Roman Catholic priest. Mrs. Paret collapsed on Needed Rill" Layoff Page CoL I learning of her death and was unconscious for about 15 minutes, Manuel Alfaro, manager told reporters. Alfaro was with the boxer when he died. 1 w-ant to go with Alfaro quoted Mrs.

Paret as saying as she stood beside her dead husband. me He said then Mrs. Paret prayed, holding in her hand the gold cross she wears around her neck. son, Benny 214, was with a friend. Mrs.

Paret had kept an almost constant vigil at her bedside, leaving him only to nap on a couch in an adjoining room. Monday night she had gone to a home for a rest. Mrs. Crespo had flown to her side last week from Cuba. family refused to see anyone.

mother is a hospital security officer told newsmen. all crying. They want to see anyone. You know how it spokesman said TELE3PHOTO wife (left) and mother leave hospital. Stadium Track, Turf Needs Repair Spot Resodding for Gridiron; Track Work Is More Costly The University of Nebraska faces some costly work at Memorial Stadium in the near future.

Of primary concern are the football field and the track. The stadium turf is still in real bad shape after the beat- inches lower than the East ing taken from the Colorado game and then the Oklahoma, i Ltest, both played after a I Track toaeh rank SeviRne heavy, wet snow. I said it probably would cost Athietic director Tippy Dye from to $10,000 to put said plans have already been the track back in shape with made for resodding the bad a volcanic ash and clay sur- body would be taken to Bellevue Hospital for an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death. manager said the mother wanted to take her body back to Cuba where he has a family cemetery plot. Griffith, who knocked Paret out, was not immediately available for comment.

However, his manager, Gil Clancy, told United Press International: knows about it. praying for him, all we can do When told of comment, Alfaro said, right now' bring him back. We have been praying for him since they took him from the Garden on a tragic injuries produced new cries and crusades throughout the world to ban boxing. Ruby Goldstein, who refereed the last fight, was criticized in many quarters for not stopping the bout sooner. However, he was held blameless by the New York State Athletic Commission in a post-fight report requested by Gov.

Nelson Rockefeller. The commission report said that Goldstein in good judgment in stopping this contest w'hen he However, Alfaro insisted that Goldstein too in halting the machine-gun punching of Griffith, who had lost his title to Paret in their second fight in the same Garden ring last September. Other boxing observers, though, felt that Paret may have received initial brain damage either in his first fight with Griffith at Miami Beach last April, when the Kid was knocked out in the 13th round, or in his equally brutal brawl with NBA middleweight king Gene Fullmer last Dec. 9, when he was kayoed in the 10th round. Only two other boxers have died of injuries received in title fights.

In 1947, Jimmy Doyle succumbed as a sequel to his 8th-round knockout by Sugar Ray Robinson at Cleveland. It was first defense of the welterweight title he held on 5 different occasions. In 1897, Walter Croot died of injuries received in a world bantamweight bout with Jimmy Barry in London. Paret also was only the 3rd fighter to die from injuries received in a bout at the famed Garden. The first was Ernie Schaaf, kayoed in the 13th round by Primo Camera in a non-championship heavyweight brawl in 1933.

Flores suffered fatal injuries in a 1951 Garden bout with Roger Donoghue. There were two New York ring deaths last at St. Nicholas Arena. With Kid Until End Alfaro Blames Cireii lourttal PAGE 13 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1962 Carl vSelmer places ball down for Lick of Depth Concerns Devaney We Have a Lot of Work to Do; Attitude Real GootV Bennv Paret McKeans Loaded Des Moines, Iowa Chevrolet of Philadelphia, the first Classic Division team to appear since last Thursday, gets top billing at the American Bowling Congress Tournament tonight. Jules Roder has captained the McKeans, one of the best teams in the east, for 18 years.

The top shooter on the club is Joe Ostroski, who once averaged over 201 for 5 consecutive ABC tournaments. Leo Hart of Reading, was the only bowler to crack the top 10 standings Monday. The 44-year-old Welder shot to take 9th place in the regular singles. Andy Renaldy of Youngstown, Ohio, leads that category with 720. Ken Emmerich and LeRoy a 1 0 of Waukegan, 111., rolled the best regular doubles score of the day, 1273.

Emmerich, 30, a draftsman, led the pair with 688. Pete a i a n. Reseda, compiled the best regular all-events total of the day, 1894. Nadian, 33, a former star in the Chicago Classic League, rolled 653 in the team eveiit Sunday nighf and came back Monday with 627 in the doubles and 614 in the singles. Pete Valenti of New Haven, Conn.

led a small delegation of Classic Division bowlers. He had 643 in the singles and 1806 for an all-events total. He paired with Dave Johnson for 1190 in doubles. RKOrLAR SIMILES Andy Renaldy. Younsstown.

Ohw Dick Thompson, Youngstown, Ohio Shel I.ewis. Wichita, Kan Hob Howley. Berwyn, Jim Ricci, Hamilton. Ohio SherwiHKl Gregory, Wichita, Kan Rich Schifferdecker, East M. Louus, 111 Le.s Ftaska, Chicago Leo Hart, Reading, Roy vSchroedor, Dayton.

Ohio 702 areas of the football field. This will be done as soon as spring football has been completed. Work on the track will be more costly and may be delayed for a while. Several years of wear have left the track nearly bare of the necessary surface. Cinders are being pulled from the track and large holes develop.

The West side is some 4 face. Dye said he plans to visit with Sevigne about the situation. The Husker plant will be used for 3 spring Houston Apr. 24, Colorado May 5 and Kansas State May 12 Day). upcoming is the Stall High School meet on Ma) 18-19.

Foiiner Park Monday Mllf Miss Tic Toe Zipper 26.3bg Busy Beam 25.2hK Miss Onyx 26.3bg Nathasia 53 2b Clay 52.4h Mr. Hoot 25.4hg Wagon Mile Hood Demorari 56b Dan Common 52.4h Slow But Sure Lady Putnam 5L4b Sombraza 53.2b Ax Mile Belle 38 lb Bay Wagon 37.2hg Pride Merry Money 56.3hg elanies Shors 36.3h Mr. Light 36.aig xively Music 36.3h Cond.xtor 11b Bolivia 37b Moon Rush 37.1b CoodBuU 37.1b« 33b Lincoln Do" Rrcsscs Lhamp Kansas Tammy, a Black Labrador, came within a whisker of winning the Open All-Age stake at the Kansas City Retriever Club Trials. Tammy is owned by John Van Bloom of Lincoln. The winner of this hotly con- stake was Pomme de Pete, a Lab owned by lohn Olin and handled by Cotton PershaU, both of Alton, 111.

New York (UPI) The death of Benny (Kid) Paret early Tuesday struck his family like the knockout blow that put the welterweight boxer into his fatal coma. pregnant wife, Lucy, his mother, Mrs. Maximo Crespo, and the brother, Antonio, reached Roosevelt Hospital about a half hour after Benny died Tuesday morning. Onlv his manager, Manuel Alfaro, was at bedside when the fighter was counted out for the last time. family wept hysterically at the bedside of the fallen ring warrior.

The boxer had been unconscious since he was pounded insensible at Madison Square Garden Mar. 24 in the 12th round of a welterweight title fight with Emile Griffith. died without saying a Alfaro said, say a word. was there at the time he passed on. He was breathing very fast and then his blood pressure began to drop.

He expired at 1:55 a.m. got pneumonia Monday and that was too much for The fight manager said he loved Paret like was my own son. I brought him from Cuba 4 years ago and I kept him like a little baby. So I feel that I lost a son. dies a Asked who he blamed for death, Alfaro replied: blame anybody.

I blame He said that neither Griffith nor Ruby Goldstein, the referee of the fight, had been in touch with him. But Alfaro added that they may have called the hospital. Alfaro rehashed the fight and said that it should have been stopped. He claimed that Paret had been fouled because he was being hit while his head was outside the ropes. The manager said because of the noise at ringside Referee Goldstein apparently did not hear him and seconds shouting to stop the fight.

Alfaro said he would not propose that boxing be abolished. I will not propose the abolishment of boxing because it was going on before I was born, and it will continue to go said Paret lived here while he was boxing because liked the way of life in the United States. wanted to become a citizen, but he have the Paret died in a speeial care unit on the second floor of the hospital. Ironically, the only other patient in the unit is former lightweight contender Frankie Ryff, who has been unconscious for 6 weeks. Ryff, who had been planning a comeback, fell 6 floors down an elevator shaft at a partially completed building where he had been employed as a construction worker.

Weslterweight c.o er Jose Torres, who fought Paret to a draw on Sept. 26, 1959, said at the hospital: was a good fighter, but he had too many tough I Sports State at By Becker other but it will all be done Bob Devaney putting in the in any advance orders on Big! The coach said there was 8 football championship pen-! not enough light outside and nants Tuesday. not enough room inside the After one session, his first, to permit further with the University of Ne- night practices, braska football squad, Bill Close to 90 players were successor as head out for the first drill, just coach declared: about the number expected. have a lot of work to The weather favored the do a tremendous amount first drill and the next ses- of Sion is scheduled for Wednes- What concerned Devaney; day. was what he had indi-i tv, ill 4cpth.

Huskers are be- I depth problem IS more acute than we had realized, said Of i Cardinals, and jour opinion could be Osborne, formerly of I as we go along in practice but Cairo There were new Washington Red- leaders in the team and sin- of the -t doubles leader, remained in: I Devaney said. The standings: attitude is real good c.i„. 11 real pleased with Schuyler Skelly Service. Cairo 2924 that. EnthUSiasm C3n COVer Walklin Drug, Grand Island .2895 Tuesday Local No events scheduled.

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Boeding, Grand Island .....................1559 G. Stepp. Seward 1520 Silas Makes All-Star Club Omaha Silas, 6-foot, 7-inch center for Creighton basketball team this past season, has been named to the 3rd team roster in the Helms Athletic catalog of basketball All-Americans. up a lot of But Devaney emphasized the coaching turnover by saying: starting from the very beginning at installing our offense. probably put in as much offense this spring as we had hoped to.

new boys from the freshman squad have quite a ways to go fundamentally. also are going to be hampered by some injuries. Dennis Stuewe, who we are counting on at halfback, pulled a leg muscle Monday night and John Strohmyer of Lexington, a tackle prospect, cut his knee and will be out for over a Devaney tossed out night practice after one night. going to lengthen our practice period with one group going ahead of an- Ifall also are giving a hand, enthusi- group are Mick Tin- gelhoff, Dallas Dyer and George Haney. First drills saw a lot of emphasis on the passing game with the linemen getting plenty of work at pulling out of the line to block.

Devaney hopes to have a controlled scrimmage by Saturday. not definite on the time of day, depending a lot on the weather. Aides Mike Corgan (left) and John Melton huddle. Pistons, Philly Face Must Tilts By United Press International tonight or wait until next year for the Philadelphia Warriors and Detroit Pistons. The Warriors, down 3 games to two, take on the defending champion Boston Celtics at Philadelphia tonight, needing a victory to stay alive in their best-of-7 series to determine the Eastern Division champion in the National Basketball Association playoffs.

The Pistons are in the same boat in their series with the Lakers to determine the Western Division champion. Their game will be played at Detroit. Victories for the Celtics and Lakers would set up the final series to determine the NBA champion. Gola Injured The Warriors, with Tom Gola on the injured list, plan to play their starting 5, including Wilt Chamberlain, as much as possible, but the superior Boston bench is expected to be the deciding factor. Gola injured, I think we would beat Warrior Coach Frank McGuire said.

I Bob Cousy agreed that the outcome of game will hinge on how long the first 5 can keep from fouling out. i The Pistons, meanwhile, are battling to accomplish what no other NBA team has done the Western title after being down, 3-0. Detroit Optimistic Thev won at Detroit and Los Angeles last Thursday I and Saturday and now feel they can beat the Lakers in the two remaining games. In 16 previous championship playoffs, no team has given another team a 3-0 lead and iwou the seriea..