Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 37

1 1 I 8 'i r1 1 mi ti -HT in; i DETROIT FREE PRESS rVnlAy, Jan. 20, I It Bimgannan Says No to Lion Job BY JOE DOWDALL All-time Lion great Les Bingaman spurned an offer to return to Detroit as an assistant coach as new head coach Joe Schmidt began a recruiting plan for top assistant coaches to help rebuild the Lions. Bingaman, an All-Pro defensive star when Schmidt broke in with the Lions in 1953, reportedly elected to stay with head coach George Wilson and the Miami Dolphins. Schmidt made his first contact with his ex-teammate and close friend as soon as he learned he was to be named head coach of the Lions to succeed Harry Gilmer. Lion owner William Clay Ford released all of Gilmer's assistants at the time to give Schmidt a free hand to rebuild the Lions.

"We never got down to terms." Bingaman said after a meeting in Miami. "I told Joe I didn't feel I could leave George (Wilson)." Bingaman was defensive line coach for the Lions for five years under Wilson, building the respected Siveetan In for Surgery Lion rookie quarterback Karl Sweetan underwent surgery Thursday at Ford Hospital to correct a muscular defect in his left eye. The corrective surgery is expected to give Sweetan more lateral vision to his left. Sweetan is expected to be released from the hospital before the weekend. 1 lines which carried Detroit to three straight Runnerup Bowl victories from 1960-1962.

Bingaman and Wilson left Detroit in Ford's clean sweep of the Lion coaching staff at the end of the 1964 season. But they reunited last year when Wilson was hired to coach the new Miami AFL franchise. Bingaman was one of the first coaches signed by Wilson. "George has been too good to me and he needs help," Bingaman said. "I couldn't leave him now.

This is a year of building for us, too." Bingaman, a boisterous player oi polar bear proportions, has taken to Miami and Miami has taken to him. Trimmed down from his playing weight of 349 Turn to Page 4D, Column 6 Lies Bingaman Bill McPeak orton Finds Good ome Again Skate I VyV-C vJ li In New Misfortune Wings Leafs, 6-2 Rip the size of a baseball, Horton was grateful. He had received a massive dose of cortisone in the heel to break up a spur of bone chips. The cast will remain in place another 10 days. "But if I hadn't sprained my ankle in Puerto Rico, maybe they wouldn't have found the chips until the season started.

Then I would have missed two BY GEORGE CANTOR The nice thing about Willie Horton is that he can always find something to be grateful for. If the roof of his house caved in he would say that it saved him the trouble building an open-air patio. Even with his left leg wrapped to the knee in a plaster cast and his heel swollen to BY JACK BERRY The Red Wings got back on the oF track Thursday night. They skated, they hustled, they checked, they shot, ihey scored were a weeks of games," he said philosophically. THE WHOLE Puerto Rican stay this winter was a bag of mixed blessings for Willie.

"I played 31 games and got rained out of 22," he said. "It seemed as if we'd play one day and watch it rain for the next two: "Sometimes it would be clear all day and then start to come down In buckets. Two minutes was all it would take and we couldn't go on the field." And then Willie's buddy, Gates Brown, had to pass up the Caribbean for finger surgery in Detroit. Horton figures that didn't help things either. "I never saw so much breaking stuff in my life.

Turn to Page 4D, Column 4 i i Scoring at a o-goals-a- 9 period clip, the Wings whipped first period: i. Detroit, Mac lhe Toronto Maple Leafs. 6-2. be-irecj-r (ui.r.ian. i) in.

fore a smaller than usual week-7. DETROIT, Cullen (Howe, Delvecchio) a-c (3) 2:52. 3. Toronto, Horton (Ke gilt of fans at Ellis (Jeffrey) (IS) Olympia. 9:44.

Penalties Baun Ulltn Oouqlas (minor and misconduct, snack (IV37) 1 warsna" THIS MIGHT not have been second period: s. oetroit. Hen- the greatest game artistically, derson (Ullman) (IS) 1:04. i. DETROIT, Kllt V.acGregor (Howe) (12) 19:03.

Penalties "ut "aa a lot action and A Ellis Young Howe lot of Scoring. THIRD PERIOO: 7. DETROIT, Delvecchio (Boivan, Cullen) (9) I. DE- troit, Goeqan (Young, Bathqate) (2) There would have been much 10:30. Penalties Bergman Con-; morf, unrincr if thf loafs' acher Younq i more scoring li me leaiS Shots on goal: Detroit shooting hadn't been so mis-Toronto 5-8-1225.

i 4 Modern Hockey Without a Heart Free Press Photo by JERRY HEIAAAN Willie Horton adds autograph of son, Darryl, to his leg cast II Fouls and Out? Not in Future as many good scoring opportunities as Detroit but the Leafs couldn't put the puck on the net. Detroit boasted a hefty 45-25 shooting advantage. Bruce MpcGregor scored a pair, his 11th and 12th. Paul Henderson collected his 15th and Henderson is typical of the Wings this season. Thirteen of the swift left wing's 15 goals have been scored at Olympia and he leads the team in winning goals with four, all at home naturally sine th Wings are 0-18-1 on the road.

RAY' CULLEN, just recalled from Pittsburgh Thursday and installed on the Gordie Howe line in place of rookie Pete Turn to Pag 4D Column 9 si l. id AND YOU THOUGHT THE Super Bowl was a super flop? It'll look like the Game of the Century compared 3to next year's Stanley Cup finals. Yes, sir, next year the champion of the old boys, the old, established East Division, will meet the champion of the new boys, roughly the equivalent of today's Rochester Americans, Quebec Aces or Pittsburgh Hornets. Wait, you protest, didn't Pittsburgh beat the Red Wings, 9-0, last month? Sure, but doesn't everyone beat the Red Wings on the road? Yep. The new division, president Clarence S.

Campbell said, will play for the Stanley Cup the first year. No second-class citizenship for the new boys just second-class teams. The old boys justify it by comparing the formula to that used by baseball, football and basketball. In other words, three wrongs make a right. The new boys took their lumps with good grace Jack Kent Cooke called it "a statesmanlike way" of allocating players.

Cooke is the owner of the Los Angeles Kings. BY HAL McCOY What does every college coach forced to play UCLA hope to do? Get 7-foot-l Lew Alcindor in for trouble, naturally! That's what Washington State did last week and almost beat "unbeatable" Alcindor U. In a couple years, It won't be possible, says Michigan State coach John Bennington. Alcindor might have 11 fouls on him and still be in the game. The next big rule change in basketball will eliminate foul disqualifications.

Players no longer will be forced out of a game when they commit a fifth personal foul. Instead, when a boy fouls for the fifth time (or sixth, or seventh, or eighth), the offended team will shoot the free throws, then also get the ball out of bounds. THE FOUL-PRONE lad will stay in the game at the discretion of his coach. The coach might not like to gamble on a four-point play. Say Alcindor has four fouls.

He fouls MSU's Lee Lafayette in the act of shooting. Two shots. Lafayette makes both. That's four points. Of course, Alcindor could foul Alton, too.

If Aitch makes both and MSU scores again after getting the ball out of hounds -r- that's eight points. ad infinitum. "This proposal has come up the last few years," said Benington. "At first, it was voted down overwhelmingly. But each year, the vote got closer.

Now, it's real close and should pass before too long. "We'll get static from the West Coast. They'll hold out until after Alcindor graduates. Opposition did come from the Midwest. They wanted to wait until Turn to Page 4D, Column 1 Alcindor here's just one of the bi: What he means is: "We knew we were going to get it and we did." The new boys have no court of appeals.

Campbell said he acted as "the devil's advocate" and saw himself as "the conscience of the NHL." When asked how his conscience felt after the plan was completed, he smiled and said: "1,11 take the Fifth Amendment on that." IVo Wonder They Waited CAMPBELL SEEMED ALMOST embarrassed by the stocking plan. He is a good man and the league is extremely fortunate to have him. But he was like a voice in the wilderness. The plan that nearly went through would have allowed the six old clubs to protect 10 players and a jroups of sport coats we've reduced in price for 1 our semi-annual clearance goalie. The new clubs would have selected two players each before the old boys would pick one back from their pool.

As it is now, the old clubs protect 11 players in the forward-defense bracket. The new clubs claim a man, then the old clubs claim one of their own and this goes on for two rounds. On the third rovsd the new boys get to pick three piHjrs and If if 29 buys you a fine sport coat, from a sale group that includes year-round Ivy shet-lands and all-wool worsted flat weaves. There are two- and three-button styles in regular models, and three-button natural shoulder styles. A big, big group, at an important saving.

Other sport coats, including such famous makes as Hart Schaffner Marx, Petrocelli, Austin Leeds, H. Freeman and Charter Club, sale priced now from 34.75 to 79.75 Studying the lie is golfer Doug Sanders Poor Boy of Tour Leads Nicklaus At Wax -tttM f- I tig 41 i it stw r- It A ft Mk Campbell after that the old boys claim one from their pool again. The one-and-one continues until the new boys get 18 foreward-defensemen. By the time the new boys get to pick three straight, the 90 best players in the game are unavailable. Or put another way, the six old boys have protected 13 of their 15 best before the old boys get a crack at three in a row.

The general managers threw the wrench in the works of the plan that Campbell beamed about Tuesday night. When their owners related the plan to them, their shrieks nearly shattered Mt. Royal. At the Tuesday evening news conference Campbell said he expected to announce the formula Wednesday morning. Morning dragged to noon, noon to afternoon and afternoon to evening.

The All-Star game, supposedly the showpiece of the two-day midwinter meetings, was lost in the shuffle. As the game turned out, that was fortunate. What Hid You Expect? CAMPBELL WAS HONEST about it at least. He's not one to beat around the bush the owners do that. "I've never heard of a generous general manager," he said.

Nor, he said, was it ever considered or intended the new boys would be able to compete successfully against the old boys the first year. But you know what? Despite all the editorializing and all the sermonizing and all the injustice to the fans in the six new cities who will pay major league prices; to see minor league hockey, they'll still pay to see it, and old boys and new boys alike will make their weekly journey to the bank, laden with money. Welcome to big league hockey, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Oakland-San Francisco and Los Angeles.

i mi PEBBLE BEACH, Cal. (DPD Joe Carr, a 28-year-old pro from Worcester, who has been just scraping by OPEN FRI. SAT. TO 9 P.M. Exceptions: Birmingham ooen Sat.

Shelby Open Fri. Sat. to 5:45 in five years on the tour, shot a four-under-par 34-34 68 at Cypress Point Thursday to grab a one-stroke lead over Jack Nicklaus in the first round of the $100,000 Bing Crosby pro-am golf tournament Carr, whose official earnings in 1966 amounted to $50, carded six birdies in his sparkling round at the Cypress layout, which is the shortest of the three in use for the Crosby tournament. to" sink a single birdie putt on the back nine. BILLY CASPER leading money-winner on the tour last year, and Arnold Palmer, who won the most money counting unofficial earnings, were four and six strokes off the pace, respectively.

Casper had a scrambling even-par 37-35 -72 at Cypress, Turn to Page 4D, Column Nicklaus, playing ms first competitive golf since last Dec. 12, shot a three-under-par 33-36-69 at Pebble Beach. Jack's round included four birdies and a single bogey a.s he hit every green in regulation but failed ARBORLAND BIRMINGHAM EASTLAND GRAND RIVER GREENFIELD JACKSON LINCOLN PARK LIVONIA MALL MACK MOROSS MACOMB MALL NORTHLAND PONTIAC MALL SHELBY STATE UNIVERSAL CITY WESTBORN WESTLAND WONDERLAND WOODWARD MONTCALM i. 'V. iT -Mi ii I i-il IT ri irl ifll fit 1 I'll nfl 1 iiH HI hi i-t rl rl rl r-l.