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7VC44 Hints Tougher Policy on Football TV Regional Plan Gets THE SCREWBALL WHO'S COMNG TO DINNER mmez Piitchooi in Copt ODim Basketball Reports Washington encompassed 189 pitching victories and 102 defeats. BIT "THE GOOF' could make baseball news without pulling on a glove. From 1930 to 1943, Gomes made good copy for sports-writers up and down big-league world's all-time "characters," will be the feature speaker for the Captain-Sponsor banquet. RETIRED from major league baseball for 10 years, but still busy as a Wilson Sporting Goods Co. representative, Gomez is a master at story-spinning and noted for BY DICK PETERS Dinner with a screwball.

That's the promise for Jan. 16, when the Free Press tosses its 14th annual Captain-Sponsor bowling; tournament and banquet. Vernon (Lefty) Gomez, one of baseball's great all-time pitchers and one of the sports Voted Star Athlete LEFTV GOMEZ Plan treat' for bowler Hogan HUNDREDS PAY TRIBUTE TO GUS Thursday, January 7, The Dorais Saga Ends I Li 4c As of TODAY Got Sparc Grid TV May Need It BY LYALL SMITH sports figures who through the years had worked with, played for and respected the character of one of sports' immortals. Requiem high mass was sung by the Very Rev. William Foley, S.

of Gesu. Inter- It's Affected, Too CINCINNATI (UR) Two Fourccs indicated Wednesday that restrictions on eollege football telecasts may be tightened next fall rather than loosened. Asa Bushnell, television program director for. the NCAA and Robert J. Kane, chairman of the 1953 TV committee, hinted as much at a press conference at the National Collegiate Athletic Association convention.

Meanwhile, the Television Committee reported that college athletic directors split almost even on whether television hurts col legiate basketball. REPLIES FROM 273 direc tors to a committee questionalre gave no clear-cut decision, the committee said in a report readied for submission to the convention. Bushnell, hinting at contents of the report to be submitted Thursday, told sports writers that "we hope to have more colleges represented on TV, but still think It essential to restrict telecasts to a single football game on a playing date." "Our recommendations will substantially for the same format now in effect," Kane said. He said that he knew of no recommendations for regional game-of-the-week telecasts along with the national network shows as some schools had suggested. THE NCAA convention will vote on the television committee's report in a business session Friday.

Then it will submit the recommendations to the new 1954 TV Committee, which has the power to change them, providing changes are approved by a referendum. If there were a referendum, results wouldn't be known until April, committee members said. The Television Committee revealed that its poll of college athletic directors on basketball telecasts gave no clear-cut answer to the problem. One director, apparently from e. small school, wrnt nn hi "Missed the train, but not by much." Or the time when Jimmy Foxx came to bat with the bases loaded against Gomez.

Lefty shook off every sign Catcher Bill Dickey gave. Finally Dickey strode to the mound and ssked what pitch Gomez had in mind. Said The Goof: "Bill. I'm not at all sure I want to throw it at all." HERE ARE some other fast Gomezisms: "I owe my pitching success to a dinky curve and three fast outfielders. "I always enjoyed baseball, not only for the money, but for the amount." One of the most famous cracks made by Gomes was the day In Detroit when I-ou Gehrig was taken from the line-up, ending his streak of 2,130 consecutive games.

To the downhearted Gehrig, Gomez quipped: "Don't feel bad, Lou, It took them 15 years to get you out of the line-up. They got me out of there in 15 minutes the other day." Those are some of the inci. dents Gomez may recall from his vast storehouse of sports yarns on Jan. 16. But chances are he will have some entirely new ones, which no one has heard before.

TO MAKE SURE you get your sponsor in on the big Free Press event, now is the time to start your entry on its way. An entry blank is printed on Page 26. The $12 Tee covers bowling and banquet for both captain and sponsor. Deadline for entries is midnight Monday. Now is the time to do it.

New Track Given Nod A proposed race track near Flat Rock got a boost Wednes-I day from the board of supervisors of Ash Township, where it has been planned to build metronoitan netroif. thirri thoroughbred track. Tn i.m.i. nnv vviiii.m. baseballdom for his comments and antics.

i There was the time he won his first World Series game In 1932. He was so excited he missed the train to Chicago for the next game. He sent a telegram to Manager Joe McCarthy! 'J-CVL 1951 25 that top-level GM executives program. They felt then, and fans would be kept happy if I do If GM turns off the TVj Page, Column 2 DON'T BE SURPRISED if college football has to dig up a new television sponsor for 1954. The annual meeting of the National Collegiate Association, which for obvious reasons is better kown as Sports Leaders Pay Respects the NCAA, is under way in Cincinnati.

Early word indicates that the NCAA Is expected to pursue the same television policy this year as it did in 1953, namely, to carry one game each Saturday from roast to coast and points north and south. If that is done, General Motors is expected to show only lukewarm interest in picking up a tab which amounted to more than $3,000,000 last season. It's a poorlv kept secret were not happy about the 1953 still do now, that more football they got a better choice of televised games. These executives are In accord with the stand taken by the Big Ten and several other conferences that the solution to the football television chestnut is a regional problem. In simpler words, they believe that more fans would get 'questionalre that "TV hurt us in more out of the college program if Midwest fans had a chance to watch a Midwest pame "nr.

the same time Eastern fans football and it definitely would In I basketball. Two years ago we were watching an Eastern game, Western fans were watching and Racing Commissioner Jamesj''i'd and tne x- pressed their approval of the project. They urged that the track application for a racing license and dates be approved. ment was In Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Pallbearers were six Detroit High School coaches who had played for Dorais in his 17-year stay at the University of Detroit.

It was a somber Wednesday. paid LLOYD BRAZIL tribute to coach JACK ADAMS baseball and hockey TERRY BRENNAN Included two grid aides I iim iummtm.m-tmnt mi-mf iou win see a "best-sellers" many of baseball's most fa. mous funnyman incidents. He will spin yarns about baseball and other sports In his famed light fashion for rap-tains and sponsors attending the Free Press shindig Jan. 16.

Gomez's fabulous 13 year career with the New York Yankees and one season with Golfer Gets Wide Edge In '53 Poll Marriano Runnerup For Second Year NEW YORK (JV) Ben Hogan, called by many the greatest golfer who ever lived after he captured the British Open championship with a record-smashing final round last summer, was voted Male Athlete of 1953 Wednesday in the 23rd annual year-end Associ ated Press Poll. The mighty Texas shotmaker, who won golfdom's triple crown in 1953 the United States Open championships, and the Augusta Masters was an overwhelming choice in the nationwide poll of rports writers and sportscasters. The 41.year-old bantam re ceived 67 first-place votes of the 129 ballots cast and rolled up 229 points on a 3-2-1 basis. FOR THE second straight year, Rocky Marciano, world heavyweight champion, was in the runnerup spot. Marciano, who was second to Bob Mathias, twice Olympic decathlon champion In the 1952 poll, received 12 first-place votes this time and had 80 points.

Third In the 19,18 poll was Willie Shoemaker, the year's champion jockey who rode 48S winners, more than any other rider In one season In racing history. Two college football stars were fourth and fifth: Johnny Lattner, of Notre Dame, and Minnesota's Paul Giel. Following in order were Roy Campanella, Brooklyn Dodger catcher and the National League's most valuable player; Mai Whit field, two-time Olympic 800-meter champion; Ted Williams, Boston Red Sox slugger who returned late in the season from the Marine Corps and started banging homers again, and Wes Santee, of Kansas, who set an American mile record of 4.02.4 last June 5. HOGAN IS the first golfer to be named Male Athlete of the Year since Byron Nelson was voted the honor in both 1944 and 1945. Only one other golfer was chosen Gene Sarazen in 1932 second year of the poll.

Rangers Win Again NEW YORK (JP) The New York Rangers put together a three-game National Hockey League winning streak for the first time in two years Wednesday night as they defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 with two-goal splurges in the first and third periods. FIRST PFRlnni 1 Nw Tork. Hnirr fBulle ChrTtl), 1 New York, Kuklili. 14:17: .1 Oilrarn. Ore (Mnrt.

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Knrnl) No Ptnaltln. JABS AND JOLTS Giambra Is what the trade calls "right hand It is a common failing of young fighters and can be costly against an experienced foe as Dykes easily demonstrated. Giambra entered the ring as a 2-1 betting favorite. The loss was only his third in 41 professional fights. Dykes has a Detroit connection.

He headlined the IBC's first show at Olympia April 27, 1949, when he bested Lester Felton in a 10-rounder. He met Felton on two other occasions and lost both verdicts. Giambra currently is rated fifth among the world's middle weights. Dykes long ago dropped out of the top 10. Referee Coachman had his hands full throughout the battle.

He repeatedly warned Giambra for hitting en break and punching low. Dykes drew warnings for heeling spinning Giambra. rViailfriiflllBtiAiOVaffitrrllli a HARRY SUFFniLTS STORE-WIDE SALE VINCE B.VNOMS U-D's only All-Americans WALTER 'SPIKE BRIGGS Represented big league JOHN DRL'ZE Notre Dame's delegation i i mini i. nut a 1 BY LYALL SMITH Ftm Ftbb Sports Editor came from everywhere to pay final tribute to Gus Dorais on a somber Wednesday. They gathered in Gesu Church, hundreds of them.

And Just a short block away a soft blanket of snow shrouded the football stadium made famous' by the little coach who died Sunday. Big men and little ones. Athletes and fans. Catholics and non-Catholics. All of them came to pay homage to the quiet, soft-spoken man whose career was started on a football field and who started other careers on the same field.

HIS FORMER players were there. Some still trim. Some showing bald spots and a paunch. But they were there to Join in services for the man whose greatness as player, coach and gentleman will be remembered long as football is played. Baseball was represented.

So was hockey. So was golf. Radio, television and newspapers. All sports. Burly Vince Banonis, one of Poraie' greatest Ail-Americans, summed it up the best.

"He was a real -nan. a real great man. I never heard anybody say one bad word about him. FROM NOTRE DAME, where Gus teamed with Knute Rockne to, exploit the new-fangled forward pass 40 years ago, came Father Tom' Brennan to give a rich, yet simple, eulogy on his former college classmate and friend. With him were Coaches Terry Brennan and Johnny Druze of Notre Dame.

Joe Bach, head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, was there not only as a longtime friend of Dorais but as the man who last worked with Gus when the little coach tutored the ftteelers' harkfleld In his last gridiron fling. So was Pete Cawthon, -now athletic director Alabama, but formerly an assistant to Dorais' when Gus was head coach of the Detroit Lions. So were other 40 Rinks Open Curling Meet Here There will be no defending ehAmpion when the top curlers of two countries gather for their 8th annual International bon-spiel this week-end in Detroit. The Lloyd Raney rink, of Tim-mlns, Ont, won the event the last three years but will pass up the competition this time. forty rinks have entered 20 from the United States and 20 from Canada.

Five rinks will represent Detroit. 'A' SPECIAL feature of the four-day program will be the "Friendly Match Trophy" competition between six Canadian and lx United States teams. The opening draw will be at i m. Thursday with 12 hatches going on the Ice every two hours until 11 p. m.

Action Will run through Friday and Saturday until the finals on Sunday. All competition will be held at the "Detroit Curling Club, sponsor of the event, at its headquarter, 1236 W. Forest. Llf OA DETROIT 20 10 8 48 107 70 Montreal 21 18 5 47 108 82 Toronto 18 10 8 77 S6 Boston 14 IS 6 84 84 94 Kew York 18 19 6 82 82 109 Chicago 8 27 5 21 78 125 WEDNESDAY'S RESULT New York 4, Chicago 8. THURSDAY'S GAMES Boston at DETROIT.

Toronto at Montreal. SATURDAY'S GAMES Chicago at Montreal Boston at Toronto, A A atl i a ift A A Hockey Today! Dark and Deep CHARCOAL GREYS AT TREMENDOUS SAVINGS I few games in basketball we noticed a marked differ ence in attendance. "Last fall we played at home In football at the same day Turn to Page 26, Column II th in If: STATE GREENFIELD a Western game, etc. Just what the NCAA will Turn to Next Prlct-Maintcintd Mtr-thandiu Exctpttd A tl ida (IK a i vj, 1 I EASY UPSET FOR DYKES Jabbed into Defeat $75 and $79.50 Charcoal Grey Suits. 57.75 $65 and $69.50 Charcoal Grey Suits.

XOW 17.75 $55 and $59.50 Charcoal Grey Suits. 938.35 This season's big style hit the suit of elegance is yours today at once-a-year Fall and Winter sale prices. Come early for best selection. DETROIT'S LARGEST CLOTHIER 'i -ill Ji Giambr a BY TOMMY DEVINE Legs and a left hand. That was the combination ring-wise Bobby Dykes employed to score an upset victory over Joey Giambra in their 10-round middleweight 'bout Wednesday night at Miami Beach, Fla.

Dykes, who had been off the television circuit after losses early in the year to Gil Turner, Joe Miceli and Pierre Langlois gave Giambra a thorough boxing lesson. HIS MARGIN was clean cut. Judge Carl Gardner scored it, seven rounds to two, and called one even. Referee Eddie Coach- i'man had It, six rounds to two, and termed two even. fudge Horace Fein fold straddled a fence most of the evening but still had Dykes In front, four rounds to three with three even.

I gave the fight to 'Dykes, seven rounds to three. Under the new National Box- A. A. A.L. A ing Association's "Must Ten" scoring system now in vogue in Michigan and which Florida will adopt for future bouts, I gave the fight to Dykes by a 90-84 margin.

Dykes, who in recent fights had appeared over the hill as a headliner, followed a standard pattern throughout the battle. He stabbed the 22-year-old New Yorker with his left and" then danced away. He was on the move continually and seldom permitted Giambra to get set to unload his heavy punches. Giambra actually had only one exceptionally good round. That was the sixth when he landed a series of jolting lefts and followed with right crosses to the jaw which staggered Dykes.

However, Dykes weathered the storm and that was 'Joey's last great flurry. He apparently had punched himself out and wasn't dangerous the rest of the way, AAA A i I i i i I'M" 1 i i I SHELBY STREET AND GRAND RIVER AND lAA.Afc iriH'tr ii'fc f4.Ai 4. StJk A ii A A A.