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Winston Salem North Carolina Winston Salem Journal Southerners Are avorites And Basilio In Blue Gray North South aceinquhy NEW YORK (AP) The New United Press International The Gray the South and the Na tional All Stars are favored in three post season col lege football games The Gray is a point choice to win the 22nd Blue Gray game at Montgomery Ala This game will be carried by NBC radio TV at 1:45 pm est (in this area Station WSJS Channel 12) The South is a two point favor ite to whip the North Saturday night in the 14th annual Mahi Shrine Game at Orange Bowl stadium in Miami la THe National All Stars are fa vored to defeat the Southwest All Killebrew Doubles Pay In Pact WASHINGTON (AP) Harmon Killebrew co winner of the Amer ican League home run title has signed his 1960 contract with the Washington Senators it was an nounced Thursday He reportedly was given more than twice the $9000 he made last season Without giving specific figures club President Calvin Griffith said the 23 year old third baseman signed for a substantial increase in salary It was believed he will get between $20000 and $25000 Killebrew from Payette Idaho tied Rocky Colavito of Cleveland for the league home run cham pionship by hitting his 42nd on the last day of the season Over all he batted 242 scored 98 runs struck out 116 times and walked on 90 occasions Attracts ans No artist with the glove Kille brew was money in the bank to the Senators in 1958 because his home run hitting attracted to Griffith Stadium many fans who otherwise wouldn't have paid to see the last place club play Other clubs thought highly of Killebrew too It was disclosed recently that the Cincinnati Reds had offered Griffith $500000 for the young third baseman Griffith turned down the offer Griffith said he has been dicker ing with Killebrew since the last few days of the 1959 season add ing: have never been too far At his Idaho home Killebrew said: satisfied with the terms There was little trouble reaching Prep Gridders Mourn Deatli Of ROCKY MOUNT NC (AP) or the past 25 years or so the Rocky Mount High School football team have played a game without Spero Kounouklis any more than they could have played without cheerleaders a band or a coach Spero a Greek born restaurant operator hardlyknew what a foot ball was until some friends intro duced him to the game more than two decades ago After that he could have told you the record for touchdown passes thrown by left handed quar terbacks who majored in chemis try The Rocky Mount High School team in particular was his pet He traveled with the team super vised its meals in restaurants Paced Sidelines At the games his short figure topped by grey hair could be seen as he paced up and down the sidelines with the coach puffing on a cigar Spero was unmarried The football players were his chil dren A few months ago Spero and his partner John Leloudis closed down the New York Cafe which they had run here for 44 years and took a trip to Greece Spero a native of Lamia had two sis ters in the old country After his return the retired Spero puttered around spending a lot of time at the high school He liked to eat lunch with the youngsters They loved him and sought him out for conversation Last Sunday he suffered a stroke In Sunday school at the irst Methodist Church He was rushed to Park View Hospital where he lay unconscious The hospital had to put on 'an extra switchboard operator to handle the calls An orderly was stationed outside his door to manage the flow of visi tors uneral Set Saturday At about 2 am Thursday he died The Rev Leon Russell pastor of irst Methodist will conduct funeral services at 2 pm Satur day Assisting him will be two Greek Orthodox ministers the Rev George Stefanis of Raleigh and the Rev Papazisis of ay etteville Six high school football linemen will be pallbearers He will be buried here He was 67 years old But he was unlettered and did not know his exact birth date When his natu ralization papers were being drawn up he decided July 4 would be a good birthday for him And so it was Appendix Less CHAPEL Just a month ago Larry Brown underwent a serious appendectomy operation which as rank McGuire pointed out used to sideline a player for an entire season reshman Brown is fully recovered usually plays the entire game Bowling Highlights Bowling Body Organized In 1895 to Revive Sport Stars in the Copper Bowl game at Tempe Ariz The contest will be televised by CBS at 3:30 pm est (in this area Station TV7 Channel 2) Dwight Nichols Iowa 164 pound tailback will be one of the stars on display at Montgom ery Nichols who will play for the North gained 749 yards on 207 attempts and completed 43 of and eight touchdowns during the 1959 season His three year total offense amounted to 3949 yards Jack Lee of Cincinnati and Ross ichter of Purdue are the quarterbacks Charlie Milstead of Texas A and and Harvey White of Clemson will call signals for the South Sam Horner outstand ing Virginia Military fullback also is in the South backfield group along with Ronnie Rice Texas Tech fullback who aver aged 52 yards rushing in 1959 ran Curci 152 pound quarter back for the University of Miami (la) heads the South backfield for the night game in the Orange Bowl Halfbacks Gordon Speer of Rice and Jack Westbrook of lor ida and fullback Don Klochak of North Carolina are scheduled to start with Curci Dale Hall is head coach of the North squad and is expected to start four of the men who played on his 1959 Army quarter '3 na AL '4 Hr WBT Zxli DEACS IN ALL STAR These three mem bers of the Wake orest football team will be playing in senior all star games Saturday Top to bottom they are fullback Neil MacLean and end Pete Manning be in the Blue Gray game at Montgomery Ala and guard Nick Patella selected for the North South game at Miami York State Athletic Commission Thursday ordered promoter Nor man Rothschild of Syracuse NY to answer charges of action rimental to the best interests of The commission also di rected Carmen Basilio former world welter and middleweight boxing champion to appear for an inquiry into his boxer manager contract Rothschild was summoned to a Jan 12 hearing to show cause why his matchmaker's license and pro license in the name of the Arena Boxing Club Inc should not be revoked or other discipli nary action taken The commission charged Roths child paid $10000 to Gabriel Ge novese a person not licensed by the commission to make the match and take part in the pro motion of a Sept 12 1956 welter title bout in Syracuse between Ba silio and Johnny Saxton Basilio won the fight on a ninth round TKO regaining the title he had lost to Saxton in Chicago earlier the same year Welcomes Hearing In Syracuse Rothschild told re porters welcome the hearing I feel I have done nothing Rothschild said he had asked Genovese to help him and had agreed to pay was noth ing he said re ported everything to the govern ment at the he said he also had told his story to a grand jury last May never knew he (Genovese) had lost his said Roths child I don't believe he had at that I knew him as a li censed promoter and manager Genovese was found guilty June 3 by a General Sessions Court grand jury in New York of man aging fighters without a license He had been accused of sharing in the receipts of two 1956 bouts involving Ludwig Lightburn of British Honduras He gave his home as Miami Beach la Set Jan 13 The Basilio inquiry will be held Jan 13 the day after hearing The former champ from Chittenango NY will be asked about his contract with Manager Johnny DeJohn and any assignee thereof Subpoenas were issued for both DeJohn and Joe Netro gen erally considered to be his co manager DeJohn and Netro were ques tioned by District Attorney rank Hogan in New York last summer in an investigation involving rankie Carbo reputed under world boxing boss who recent ly admitted guilt and was sen tenced as an undercover figure in boxing The commission statement from Chairman Melvin Krulewitch was dictated to newsmen by Marvin Kohn commission press repre sentative back Joe Caldwell halfback Bob Anderson end Bill Carpenter and center Bob Oswandel Wade Walker of Mississippi State who heads the coaching staff said he planned to give John Saunders 'of South Car olina and Joe Tranchini of Navy the job of shadowing Carpenter All America end when the North has the ball Saunders and Tranchini will share the left linebacker spot in the South de fense Lucas Leads Nationals Richie Lucas All America quar terback from Penn State and Bill Burrell All America guard from Illinois head the National All Star teatn for the Copper Bowl game Lucas who suffered a hip injury in last Liberty Bowl game has played mainly on de fense in drills for the contest with the Southwest All Stars The Southwest team coached by rank Kush of Arizona State and Ben Martin of the Air orce Academy hope to overcome the all around strength of the Nation al team by doing plenty of pass ing Quarterbacks Joe Majors of lorida State Jim Geist of the University of Arizona and ran Urban of Arizona State Univer sity are their passers 2 Unbeaten In Western Jr Colleges Unbeaten North Greenville and Gardner Webb led the standings in the Western Carolinas Junior College Conference at the com pletion of pre holiday basketball action Wingate which has dis played a powerful attack was up set Dec 17 by Gardner Webb and dropped to third place In a pre season poll the junior college coaches picked North Greenville to win the Dis trict 10 National Junior College Athletic Assn title and ranked the Mountaineers 13th in the coun try Wingate was ranked 19th Top scorers in the conference are Norman Youngblood of Ashe ville Biltmore who has dumped in 115 points in six conference games and Jim Gentry of Spar tanburg who has netted 112 points in six games Other leading scorers are John Laughter and Phil McKinney of Asheville Bilt more with 93 and 92 respectively Buddy Broome of Spartanburg with 91 and Bobfly rank of Win gate with 86 rank tops the scorers in aver age with 215 per game in four outings Youngblood the most consistent scorer in the league performances has a 191 average I Greenville 3 0 Brevard 2 2 Gardner Webb 2 0 Lees McRae 2 2 Wingate 3 1 Spartanburg 1 5 Ash BHtmore 3 3 Mars Hill 0 3 On September 9 1895 a group of people who were interested in bowling met and founded the American' Bowling Congress: for the purpose of reviving the sport which became the modern game of ten pins Elmer Baumgarten secre tary emeritus described bowl ing conditions before the found ing of the Congress: to 1895 bowling alleys were fre quented by hustlers touts hang ers on cheap gamblers and dis reputable individuals The situa tion was such as to disgust business professional and de cent working men who enjoyed Baumgarten went on to say that better teams intentionally lost matches to poor teams due to the threats of physical vio lence led to the creation of the Congress at a meeting in Beethoven Hall New York The pioneers of the ABC went to work immediately Instead of alleys and equipment being of all dimensions sizes weights and descriptions and a conglo merate lot of rules being in ef fect as had been the case with the 9 pin game everything eventually was made uniform" The first ABC national tourna ment was held in 1901 in Chi cago There were 41 five man teams 72 doubles and 115 indi vidual matches The total prize money was $1592 By 1953 the fifteenth anniversary of the Con gress the again in drew 43000 bowlers with a total of $573860 in prize money There were entries from 1298 cities in 44 states The tournament ran 93 days The tournaments were held yearly until 1943 when World War II forced a postponement It was revived in 1945 In 1901 there were compara tively few teams and individuals registered by the Congress By 1942 the team total was 190000 and there were over 1000000 in dividuals During the later part of the war the number de clined but by 1953 it had reached nearly 2000000 with 341000 teams Since many are not registered including the total num ber of bowlers is estimated at around 20000000 In 1916 interest had grown so much in bowling that the Wom an's International Congress was formed It works in much the same manner as the ABC The first tourna ment held in 1917 attracted 8 teams 16 doubles and 24 sin gles matches By 1952 3045 teams were competing Membership in the group in 1917 was about 200 it is now more than 600000 and there are more than 18000 sanc tioned leagues throughout the United States and Canada WOODY PEELE Skip Alexander Wins Ben Hogan Trophy CHICAGO Stewart (Skip) Alexander survivor of a 1950 plane crash fatal to three others Thursday was named 1959 winner of the Ben Hogan Trophy for handicapped golfers by the Golf Writers Assn of America Alexander 41 one time Duke golf star now is head golf pro in St Petersburg la He will re ceive the trophy at the National Golf Awards Dinner in New York Jan 26 Alexander won the honor over Horton Smith of Detroit still ac tive after two major surgeries Billy lynn of Salem Mass born partially paralyzed Ted Kroll who received the World War II Purple Heart four times and arn putee golfers George Campbell Jack Harrison Prospero Gianvito and Jim Nichols Last winner of the Hogan Award named for the great Texas pro who nearly lost his life in a 1950 auto bus accident was Char ley Boswell Alabama athlete who lost his sight in the Battle of the Bulge then went on to win the national blind golf title 11 times Alexander was flying home from a Kansas City Open in a Civil Air Patrol plane with three CAP offi KHraK x' Bhb Jm 'i SKIP ALEXANDER cers on the night of Sept 24 1950 when the craft crashed in flames near Evansville Ind The three officers were killed but Alexander was saved Both his ankles were broken and his face and hands critically burned He spent five The Redhead Gets a Gift He Calls ST LOUIS (AP) was a virtual forest of Christmas trees in the hospital last Red Schoendienst reflected Thursday you know they com pare with the one in my living room is the only place to said Red glancing around the gaily decorated room A year ago the Milwaukee second baseman was in Room No 327 at the Mount St Rose Sanitarium a victim of tu berculosis Red worried more about his family last year than he did about himself His wife Mary had just borne their fourth child Kevin came out of the hospital on Dec 11 and I went in on the he said was worried about them with Mary just out of the hospital Really I wor ried about getting well decided to get well before I went to the The Schoendienst family has made happy plans for the holi days Matter of fact their plans include a gala Christmas Day re union at the Germantown Ill home of his mother Besides RED SCHOENDIENST no place like home i Et I Wl JR TW v' I four children 23 other grandchil dren will be there On tap Thursday night was a get together with parents Mr and Mrs James O'Reilly in St Louis on birth he said generally vis it them exchange presents and eat a little ham Christmas Red stalked around the tree ap prehensively as he talked of the ornaments are clinging for their he laughed they all seem to be staying Just then Kevin began making a racket with pots and pans think trying to cook up something in the Red said he has a lot of en Red is still busy as honorary chairman of the national Christ mas Seal campaign and I are going to take the kids to California with us aft er Christmas supposed to do a show for the TB Association and we thought it would be a good chance to see the Red said he feels fine better than I did before contract ing think everything will be all he added looking for ward to spring training "I have the greatest gift a man can receive the gift of good months in Evansville hospitals and at Duke Hospital Ingo May Name Ship for loyd STOCKHOLM Ingemar Jo hansson has ordered a sister ship to his first fishing and he may name it loyd The first is named Ingo The boat Will Jbe delivered in October nexf'year It will cost $100000 Though the name of the new vessel has not been definitely chosen some press circles say it will be after loyd Patter son the fighter from whom Jo hansson wrested the world heavy weight boxing crown last June Ty Cobb Asks Return on Taxes SACRAMENTO Calif (AP) ormer baseball great Ty Cobb is asking Superior Court here to make California give back state income taxes from him between 1949 and 1957 Cobb insists that although he maintained a home in Atherton Calif he was a legal resident of Nevada In his court suit filed Wednes day Cobb asks that California re turn $51956 in iicome taxes pen alties and interest it collected over his protest during the pe riod riday Morning December 25 1959 Page 19 I I I 1 I I 1 Illi I 7 1 a I ROAD I JlliW'Mraal G1IIIIIIIIK 1 1 hgfeDcBlAKriIo GRANDSTANO AW A SVMR I vs A A A I oav A RT A "us S' 'i 7' 'h jo Dreamer and His Dream Veteran stock car race driver Curtis Turner watches construction on the Charlotte Motor Speedway of which he is president The inset above is the proposed plan for the IVz miie speed plant Si The Big Pitch Herman Hickman Turner Visits Netv Track Site STOCK CAR race driver Curtis Turner stood on a high banked dirt mound which will be the south turn of Charlotte Motor Speedway and smiled wistfully watching a stream of construction vehicles at the arduous task of fashioning the huge speed plant Turner whose skill and daring are regarded non pareil when racing equipment withstands his punishing driving is president of the proposed 1 mile track which is scheduled to open with a 600 mile NASCAR Grand National race next May The former Virginian who now resides at Charlotte and is in the timber brokerage business in addition to racing activities visits the track often and is impatient for its completion The 550 acre site is located 10 miles north of Charlotte on Highway 29 in Cabarrus County track going to be one of those turnpike said Turner referring to some modern tracks which have high banked turns that permit (wide open) driving for the complete circuit track will be plenty fast because drivers will be able to maneuver real well through these parabolic curved (cone shaped unbroken by adjacent angles) he continued there will be corners that will keep the drivers Turner one of the finest dirt track drivers ever to perform gets his in races that permit him to take advantage of his skill Had a Ball at Sebring NO UN racing when all you have to do is push the accelerator to the floorboard and the car that blow up said the brown haired veteran of 14 years of automobile racing ran a Lark in the compact car race at Sebring the other week (he finished second) and had a he said was more fun than any racing done since running on the beach course at Turner who last year was hospitalized with back trouble has recently been testing 1960 ords under track condition at Concord Speedway really put those cars through the he said back and the cars held up Those 360 horsepower babies will really perform I expect drive one in our opening Construction on the speed plant began last summer Most of the work to this stage has been moving dirt chose this site for its location rather than the way the land was laid Turner explained wanted a place that would be easily accesible for traffic Cars can come and leave quickly right on Highway 29 a two mile road which will be one way before and after the race to and from Highway 49 Highway 601 and the new interstate Highway 85 are Plans call for 50000 seating capacity when the plant is completed However speedway officials count ing on more than 30000 seats for the opening race Working on Grandstand Side WORK IS NOW being concentrated on the home stretch so that the main grandstand may be erected while the rest of the track is being completed If time becomes a factor the grandstands on the backstretch will be delayed until after the initial race If Turner had his way they would probably never finish the track That is to say they pave it Anyone who has ever watched his bronco busting driving on a soupy dirt track or his patented power slides on beach course knows that this guy likes to do things with a car that others hesitate to try Super speedways no matter how the corners are constructed do not offer the type of action found on the dirt tracks which Turner mastered more than a decade ago Charlotte Speedway is emblematic of several tracks that have been built or are being built for a racing They are just an addition They take the place of the old dirt track thrillers at Hickory North Wilkesboro and dozens of other where a mud spattered tousle haired Curtis Turner crawled from his grinning broadly and yelling to other drivers: we had some fun out there Schwartzwalder Adds New Tricks HOUSTON Tex (AP) Coach Ben Schwartzwalder put in some new tricks for Texas Thursday before his Syracuse football play ers rested to enjoy Christmas Many players were to attend Christmas Eve church services A Christmas party and dinner in a gaily decorated recreation hall complete with tree is slated ri day night The team will stay at the Uni versity of Houston training site until Wednesday when it leaves for Dallas and the Cotton Bowl game The big Syracuse varsity ap peared sharp in running a new series of pass plays under a bright sun and temperatures well into the 60s Dave Sarette versatile 178 pound quarterback from Man chester NH faked a third string unit consistently on smashes into the line or quick pitch passes Schwartzwalder said he was pleased at the progress and attitude but the bantam sized coach still had cause for concern Tips to TV ans On Colts Giants By United Presi International Tips for TV quarterbacks watching Sunday's New Giant Baltimore Colt clash for the National ootball eLague championship: NEW YORK Offense Quarterback Charlie Conerly (No 42) likes to throw to rank Gifford (16) Kyle Rote (44) and Bob Schnelker (85) with an occasional toss to Mel Triplett (33) A favorite play has Conerly flipping the ball back to Gifford the left half Gifford runs to his right and passes or rushes de pending upon how the rival de fense reacts When he throws on this play Gifford usually angles the ball back across the field to rote The Giants passed effective ly in recent games but are pri marily a running team with Gif ford Triplett and Alex Webster (29) doing the bulk of the rushing Webster usually carries when the team needs a yard or two for a first down On a favorite running play Conerly fakes a pass and then hands off to Triplett Trip lett drives into the line but usual ly slants over tackle rather than through the middle as fullbacks usually do on this type of play Pat Summerall the place kicker is one of the best clicking on 20 of 29 field goal attempts this year Defense New York gave up less points (170) than any other NL team this year Andy Ro bustelli (81) Roosevelt Grier (76) Dick Modzelewski (77) and Jim Katcavage (75) are strong quick forwards who frequently com pletely overpower the opposing offensive linemen Sometimes New outside Harland Svare (84) and Cliff Liv ingston (8) full tilt into the rival backfield Sometimes Svare and center linebacker Sam Huff (70) move up at the last instant and join the four linemen in a concerted rush Of the three linebackers Huff gets the most publicity but some observers rate Svare the better all around per former He is noted for making key plays Dick Lynch (22) Lin don Crow (41) Dick Nolan (25) and Jim Patton (20) are the sec ondary men When the Giants are backed against their goal line Roosevelt Brown (79) re places Nolan Brown a 245 pound tackle on the offensive unit is one of the league's most versatile performers and TV viewers may 1 a Ml 1 ALEX WEBSTER JOHN UNITAS notice him on four or five differ ent platoons BALTIMORE The Colts with quar terback John Unitas (19) throw ing are primarily a passing team although fullback Alan Ameche (35) is a hard runner Unitas throws mainly to left end Raymond Berry (82) right end Jim Mutscheller (84) and to right halfback Lenny Moore (24) These three have grabbed 157 of the 193 passes Unitas completed this year with Berry the league receiving champion with 66 Moore travel ing down the right sideline on most plays is long range receiving threat Berry op erates mainly on the left side It really requires two defenders to cover each of these Colts but the Giants may try to handle each with one man Crow (41) figures to shadow Moore while Lynch (22) probably will concentrate on Berry Tackle Jim Parker (77) heads the offensive line that usually gives Unitas enough time to toss his passes Steve Myhra the Baltimore place kicker whose 20 yard field goal with seven sec onds remaining produced a 17 17 tie and set up last year's unpre cedented overtime in the title game made good on six of 17 tries this year Defense Gino Marchetti (8) Art Donovan (70) Gene Lipscomb (76) and Don Joyce (83) usually are the starting defensive linemen but Ordell Braase (81) and Ray Krouse (78) figure to appear often Sunday as replacements for Donovan and Joyce Linebackers Don Shinnick (6) Dick Szyman ski (52) and Bill Pellington (36) intercepted 17 of the league high of 40 passes stolen by the Balti more defense this year The sec ondary is made up of Milt Davis (20) Carl Taseff (23) Ray Brown (17) and Andy Nelson (80) Athletics Help Score for Lord NEW YORK (AP) Athletic prowess is being used to mark up some scores for the Lord may sound strange but said Don McClanen the sports strategist who put the plan into action Crack athletes professional and amateur have joined in it So far given their spiritual signals to more than million youths across the country in sports can exert an unparalleled influence in pointing others toward McClanen said in an interview The 34 year old McClanen a Presbyterian and former college coach is executive director of the ellowship of Christian Athletes a nationwide interdenominational aggregation of advocates of the Gospel an element of paradox in their program Skilled at feats of the body they stress the importance of the soul In the rugged world of sports de rived from ancient pagan tourna ments which were scorned by be lievers of old they contend for Christ area like all areas of life is a potential channel for ex pression of said McClanen The movement includes many of the exalted names of sports A main feature is using the popularity and prestige of sports heroes who are Christians to boost faith particularly among the young A word from the champs and the kids sit up and take notice these great sports stars stand up and say their mainstay is Christ the impact is tremend McClanen said Moreover he added it helps dis pel a youthful misconception that there's somet i effeminate about being Christian the example of these great virile athletes taking a forthright stand for Christ does much to overcome this erroneous concept in many young McClenan said.