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BUBBLIN' OVER WILLIE DETROIT FREE PRESS Tuesday. May 18. '65 I-f! nor ton ville Dressen Returns to Will Resume Duties Monday BY JOE FALLS Charles Dressen came back to town Monday and, no, he's not going to bench Willie Horton. "Jimminy! That boy must be really something," Dressen exclaimed as he stepped from the DC-8 at Willow Run Airport. H' rr- pirn np nm V- rv a.

15" If -v Ji- f' '3 if 1 yl --v t'V Vv a vK-y -f I -1 1 A i H- -J ft ii VVjJ -ar' r1 "Everybody in Los Angeles is talking about him the radio announcers, the newspapermen, the fans. All of the Dodgers have been asking me about him." AND YOU just know what Jolly Cholly has been telling 'em. Willie the Wonder la his boy, his baby Campanel-la. From the first time he saw him swing a bat, Dressen has been Horton's biggest booster. "Two years ago I said he could be the bell-cow of this club, and he's going to be," said Dressen with a broad smile on his face.

"When he and Kaline are there's nobody that can stop them. Willie will help Al at the plate. Now they'll have to pitch to Al and watch out!" Dressen was his old buoy- ant self. The color is back in his cheeks, the bounce back in his steps. He all but swaggered down the steps of the airplane.

"I feel good I've been walking three miles a day," he said. DRESSEN will watch his ball club for the next week and then return to the dugout when the Tigers play in Chicago next Monday night. That would make his official homecoming the night of May 26 when you-know-who comes to town for the first time this season. "The Yankees are all gummed up," said Dressen. "I don't think they're going to make it this time." He added that the White Sox are the club to beat.

"They're going like mad and they've got that (Eddie) Fisher pitching almost every Free Press Photo bv TOM VENALECK Back in Tiger Stadium and smiling is Charlie Dressen tmUmmrf imniiiifimwf sir Aw JOr day," he 6aid. Free Press PNjto by TOM VENALECK WONDROUS WILLIE Horton came home Monday and enjoyed the day off with his family. Mrs. Pat Horton is holding Terry Lynn, 11 months old, while Daryll William, snuggles to his heavy-hitting dad. Birds Stall Ford, Win Iyall Smith This Was the Week Of Wondrous Willie 2 Willies Are Dill ies For Pappas FP Points Way to Golf Looking for new places to play golf this season? Then don't miss the complete Golf Guide in Thursday's Free Press.

Golf Writer Jack Berry has information on all the dally fee courses and driving ranges in the six-county Detroit area plus Windsor. Listings include 1 -cation of each course, phone number, name pro or manager, number of holes and price. Watch for this accurate and up to date guide in Thursday's Free Press. Here's How They Compare Whitey Gets Bombed So Do Yanks, 9-2 AB 19 31 15 32 II 29 49 IIR 9 13 RBI Pet. 21 .403 26 .408 DRESSEN plans no changes from the way Bob Swift has been running the club.

In fact, he plans to keep Swift at his side in the dugout and keep Frank Skaff in the third base coaching box. "I'd like to have Bob with me so we can talk things over and so he can work the phone to the bullpen," said Dressen. This means that pitching coach Stubby Overmire, who has been in the dugout, will return to the bullpen and work down there with Mike Roarke. This will give Dressen five coaches. "They, tell me Skaff Is one of the best third base coaches in the business, so I'm going to leave him right there," said Dressen.

BALTIMORE OD The Willie Horton Willie Mays 120 Baltimore Orioles routed Whitey Ford with nine hits in less than five innings Mon- day night and went on to a 9-2 victory behind the five-hit pitching of Milt Pappas. Free Press Wire Services In the National League, they're calling it the merry month of Mays and in the American League it's a time of Hootin' for Horton. Willie Mays of San Francisco has hit .667 in his last seven games and Willie Horton of Detroit batted .600 in his last eight which are good enough reasons why pitchers who have to face them must be getting the shakes. Mays' performance parallels his sensational start of last season when he had a .393 average and 14 homers in his first 31 games. His figures Monday after 31 games were .408 and 13 home runs.

ON THE STRENGTH of a 16 for 24 showing in last week's games, the Giants' Pappas allowed two hits and both New York runs in the first star soared from ninth place on a gain of 64 points from .344 to take over the National League batting lead. He also is the pace-setter in homers and trails only Chicago's Ernie Banks in the runs batted in competition. 26 to 34. Horton. the American League hatting leader at .103, had a average last Monday.

However, he's had 18 hits in 30 tries since then, including six home runs. The Tigers' young outfielder heads the AL with nine home runs. Gordon Coleman. Cincinnati first baseman, climbed wo notches to second in the National League hatting race. He gained 16 points to with six hits in 13 times at bat.

Vic DavaUllo. Cleveland's diminutive outfielder, moved into the runner-up position in the American a ue He boosted his average 17 points to .355 with 11 hits in 18 tries, a .611 pace. Leon Wagner, another Cleveland outfielder, advanced to No. 3 despite a 28 point drop to .333. inning, then shackled the Yankees the rest of the way while picking up his fourth straight Neiv Tire Problem Atlndy INDIANAPOLIS (jpi A.

J. victory. Ford was touched for the first six Baltimore runs. The Yankee lefthander has been beaten in his last four starts, and has a record of 2-5. ROR Iprf Balti DRESSEN WILL sit in the stands behind home pjate when the Willie Horton All-Turn to Page 2C, Column 3 THE DATE WAS MARCH 12.

The Tigers had yet to play their first game of the new year. They would take care of that the next day over at Orlando in an exhibition with the Twins. Bob Swift, manager pro tern, was mulling over his lineup. He decided to start Willie Horton in left. He started him with a prediction, and it was a bold one.

"Once he gets his confidence there won't be a ballpark in America that can hold him. 'He'll hit 'em out in every direction left, center and right. Maybe as many as 40 of 'em It was Florida in the springtime, so nobody in the press room laughed. For spring and Florida is the time and the place for baseball managers to point a finger at this player or that one and optimistically find a couple of 20-game winners or a clutch of .300 hitters and long-distance sluggers. Flowers always bloom in the Spring and even in baseball where the name of the game is optimism, that's a fact.

But all of a sudden here is Willie Horton with an average of .403, a collection of tape-measure home runs adding up to nine, a half-dozen doubles, a triple and a batch of singles that hardly count not to mention 21 RBI and an assortment of oohs and aahs. To say that he will keep it up is to flaunt the law of averages. Nobody has repealed that law yet. But it's easy to savor the week he had; the fabulous week that was when he collected 18 hits in 27 trips, belted six homers, five doubles and drove in 21 runs. Another Top Michigan IroiIti-l THIS IS MICHIGAN WEEK, a time to extol the state's products.

Willie got the jump on it by having seven fabulous days. And while there now will be a wail from the superstitious souls who claim all the publicity is a cinch to spoil him, that's the name of the game, too. It'll be hard to spoil Willie Horton. For baseball is more's 14-hit attack with four Foyt of Houston, winner of the hits. Jackie' Brandt and 50-mile race, and two oth-Orsino had three safeties drivers threw rubber from Orsino led off the fourth withltheir tires in endurance runs a homer and drove in three as tire problems devel oped at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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It. blue, bur 2:17. A 18,601. Cars Friends Pay Banks his game and hitting a baseball is his life. He knows it.

The Tigers know it. That is why they handed him a $22,000 bonus to sign him three years ago. He had come out of Northwestern high school with muscles on his muscles, and he was no surprise to the scouts. As a 16-year-old sophomore, he made eyes pop when he smashed a 400-foot blast into the upper right-field deck at the stadium in the high school title game. It was a homer to the "wrong field" for a right handed hitter.

But Willie hit 'em to all fields as a kid and that is why the big league scouts lined up to talk to him. They had followed him for a couple of years before that; visited him in the crowded two-room apartment where he lived on West Forest with his folks and their seven children. Whee Willie Made Blink THEY KNEW HE LIVED FOR baseball. They had reasons and one of them was the incident back in 1960 when he played for the Lundquist team in the Detroit Baseball Federation. Willie's team (catcher Bill Freehan was on it) was scheduled to leave at 10 a.m.

to bus its way to Altoona, Pa. for the national Class tournament. Every player was told to be on time. Willie made sure. He showed up at 5 a.m.

and slept on a park bench next to the spot where the bus was to pick up the players. His glove was his pillow. Willie didn't miss the bus. He made certain. He hit .600 in that national tournament.

He hit balls out of sight before and afterwards. Like any player who is 22 and swings hard, he has slumps when he can't buy a hit. He's had them in the past and he'll have them again. He is naive in many ways. But baseball has put Willie and his wife and his two youns children in a new house and it's all paid for.

He has money in the bank and he is swinging the hottest bat in the major leagues and life is wonderful. And all of a sudden you remember what Bob Swift predicted before Willie had played a game down in Florida this Spring and when you took at the record you wonder if maybe Swift could turn out to be a prophet. You wonder about Willie the Wonder. It is a very pleasant thing to wonder about. WASH 'N' WEAR SUMMER SLACKS IN DACR0N5-RAY0N Bengaline weave slacks of 65 Dacron polyester, 35 rayon in 2 models: one pleat belt loop model in charbrown, Cambridge grey, black, and blue.

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olive, brown and Cambridge. Regulars, shorts, and longs 6.99 4.79 gundy, banana, camel, XL tor, recalled AND THERE'S NO CHARGE FOR ALTERATIONS that he had sent Banks on to his fatal fight a week ago with the advice to "take his man out MONTCALM OPEN TUESDAY WEDNESDAY 9 A.M. TO 9 P.M. SHELBY OPEN TUES. TO 5.1S T.M.

WED. TO 9 P.M. SORRY, NO MAIL OR PHONE ORDERS ON DDD SPECIALS life Chuck Davey praised Banks, then added: "All fighters know they face this chance of serious injury. He was a credit to boxing in and out of the ring, and a little bit of us goes with him." Eulalia Barrow, sister of Joe Louis, joined the eulogizing of Banks, recalling worries over her own brother when he was heavyweight champion of the world. "You all know that about 15 years ago I could have been sitting where Sonny Turn to Page 2C, Column 7 "He said he would let his man last long enough to give Banks the people their monev's worth, then SHELBY AT STATE DOWNTOWN STORES ONLY take him out," said Rev.

Boone, whose church conducts the gym where Banks trained. BOXING Commissioner WOODWARD AT MONTCALM.