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A M's 'MONEY ISN'T EVERYTHING Duff: as Gold for 6Love of I Snartan IN BID TO SAVE BOUT rass weep Shines Again as Seek Tex Spi Nets Dee auaherty Stays Aid Wil licatts Pin Lead Wroblewski Blanks 4 Foes it A The support of Gov. Williams was sought Wednesday night in an effort to prevent cancellation of the light heavyweight title fight here between champion Archie Moore and challenger Chuck Spieser, of Detroit. 7 BY GEORGE PUSCAS Joe Spieser, the fighter's manager and brother, said that 5 Gov. Williams has written a letter to one of the companies that sponsors fights on tele-. vision urging it to "buy" the local title fight.

"The Governor told them," 3f-Spieser said, "that they I shouldn't allow themselves to Sf BY GEORGE PUSCAS Free Pre Staff Writer CHICAGO Hugh Duffy Daugherty gained immortality Wednesday, joining Health and Happiness as things money cannot buy. The curly-haired Irishman spurned a reported $60,000 er from Texas to remain at about $20,000 a year as head football coach at Michigan State University. He refused the offer, he said, because of his love for Michigan State. "Money," said Daugherty, "isn't everything." DAUGHERTY HAS BEEN at Michigan State for 11 years, initially as an assistant to Clarence (Biggie) Munn and then as head coach for the last four years. Largely, he explained, that was the reason for his refusal to accept one of the most fabulous coaching jobs on record.

"You can't be around a place so long without developing a strong feeling about it," Daugherty said. "I wouldn't have felt right, going there and leaving half of myself at Michigan State." The great commotion caused by Daugherty's negotiations with the Texas school disrupted the winter business sessions of the Big Ten, which opened here Wednesday. ATHLETIC Director Munn went back to the job of ironing out the Spartans' 1961-62 football schedules following be pushed around by the IBC I i i I I it i "TJ I ilia fin iQirti wftin in iWBwtrar tfn tmtti MWranmiiriiif iiiiitf that the International Boxing 5, Club has used "all its power and influence" to keep local in- dependent promoters from lin- Free Press Staff Writer CHICAGO Dolores Wroblewski, who is a fine Polish girl from Detroit, scored an astonishing eight-game sweep of her rivals Wednesday to take the lead at the halfway mark of the United States Invitational match game bowling championships. The shy, bespectacled bowling instructress clipped along at a remarkable 217 average and earned a slender 27-pin lead over grandma Marion Ladewig, of Grand Rapids, the perennial queen of tenpins. EDDIE LUBANSKI, who is a fine Polish boy, meanwhile was locked in a stirring battle for the lead in the men's division with ex-Detroiter Don Carter, now of St.

Louis. After an eight-round split with Carter in a head-to-head match, Lubanski held third world champion, St. Louis' Tom Hennessey. Other Detroiters in bowling's Turn to Page 45, Column 7 ing up television coverage or the fight which is scheduled to be held at the Michigan State Fairgrounds late next month. He also revealed that only $65,000 of the $100,000 guarantee to Mopre had been raised I by Wednesday and that there Chuck Spieser was a chance the title match Duffy Daugherty: His Heart Is in Spartanland would be moved back until late in February while the search for a television sponsor continued.

AS OF TODAY By Lyall Smith Daugherty's revelation that I he would not send Biggie hunting for a new coach. "We are greatly relieved and happy that Duffy has decided to stay with Munn said. If it is true that there have been cross words between Munn and Daugherty in the Durelle Wins TV Slugfest TAMPA, Fla. ftp) Canadian Yvon Durelle, light heavyweight champion of the British Empire, beat less experienced Jerry Luedee Wednesday night with clubbing right3 and wagon-tongue lefts for a unanimous 10-r decision in Tampa's first nationally televised fight. The three ring officials favored Durelle as follows: Referee Mai Manning, 96-95; julge Bob Diaz, 98-92, and judge John Branch, 97-95.

"I thought the Supreme Court broke up this monopoly they call the IBC," Joe Spieser screamed. "It looks like that bunch Is stronger than ever. They've stopped us cold on two good television deals." Spieser said two companies Duffy Wows 'E, Again SEVEMH ROIND STANDINGS MEN Pts non Carter 1 139.15 1 which sponsor the regular Wed- Vas.os'nesday night and Friday night irvilis fights were interested in vising the Spieser-Moore bout Pin fiOlS 5905 5768 S833 5770 5647 5678 138.47 K.I.I NSKI 1 10 HennetiM-y 18 10 Dick Hoover 17 11 Bill I.illarri 13 15 Jimfarmaa 14 14 John KinB 16 t'i Steve Nacy 15 13 Lou Campi 14 14 ilcn Allison 14 14 Ray Blnth 13 IS Don Ellis I I 1 B.GL'MB'SKI 1 1 17 P. Patterson 13 15 138.38 Turn to Page 45, Column 6 5704 138.04 5579 136.04 5669 135.19 5667 135.17 5663 134.13 5487 133.12 nick Weber 1: 15 "A 5458 131.33 l. R'fiTf till 17 Jim Thomas Kxtra half-noint for outtotalini football meetings in Chicago.

Would he leave MSU for Texas? Or would he stay with the Spartans for less money? His audience was left dangling while it tried to figure out what it would do if it were in the shoes of the chunky little coach whose teams won 27 and lost 10 in four seasons at Michigan State. He pulls down between $15,000 and $20,000 a year with the Spartans, plus added dividends from TV, radio, clinics and speeches. His chances of ever becoming athletic director are slim. The offer from Texas reportedly Is almost three times that much in cold cash of the land. And there is more where that comes from in the state where oil and cattle are kings but where a winning football team is the.

crown prince. How could anybody turn down such an offer He Turn to Page 45, Column 6 opponent while logins match. past, there was no indication of it in Munn's manner. He was plainly thankful. Dougherty would give no indication that the offer from Texas A was actually $60,000.

Reportedly it was to include the jobs of head football coach and athletic director, and fees from television appearances were to accrue to him. "I WOULD NOT want to disclose anything of that nature," Daugherty said, "since it might embarrass Texas A in its negotiations with other coaches they might seek." Daugherty was offered the job when Paul (Bear) Bryant quit to move to Alabama. Friends of Bryant say he had told them he paid income tax on $60,000 last year, which indicates the offer to Daugherty, as reported, may be accurate. "For someone who Is not completely happy with his job," Daugherty explained further, "the job at Texas would be a great opportunity. They are great people and deserve the best." Daugherty said he and his WOMEN r.

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DEMPXET 5 Ann Karrer A 9 Pin Ft. 3834 65.34 3769 65.19 2734 64.34 3783 63.33 2674 70.49 3690 6O.40 36)8 60.33 3733 60.33 2707 60.77 2618 59.18 2616 58.16 2581 57.31 2519 56.19 2531 55.31 3453 54.03 2437 53.37 41 Thursday, December 12, 1957 THERE IS NO BETTER banquet speaker in sports than Coach Duffy Daugherty of Michigan State. Some men who are called to their feet on such occasions have troubles as they tediously wind their way through a lengthy yarn which supposedly carries a punch line with a yak. Not Daugherty. His is a puckish humor.

He lives a story while he tells it. He chuckles. He laughs. He grimaces. He digresses.

He has that desirable touch of keeping his audience dangling helplessly, and anxiously, as he builds to the climax. When he gets them set up just right, he belts them with the clincher. A master of story-telling suspense is Duffy. 1 He proved it again in the last 48 hours. Six months, ago he was booked into Texas, for a fee, to give a talk at the end of the football season.

He went there Monday. He talked and was talked to. Texas had just seen its football coach, Paul (Bear) Bryant, walk out on another long-time contract to amble back home to the University of Alabama. He had served only four years of a HJ-season pact just as he had cut short a previous contract at Kentucky. When he went to Alabama, he left without a coach.

They talked to Duffy. He listened. He could be both head coach and athletic director. The salary? Well, everything is big in Texas. "I'll give you the answer in .48 hours," said Daugherty.

Then he left for another speaking engagement in Rochester, N. Y. The Old Buildup-- THE STORY of the Texas offer was out by then. Reporters camped on his trail. "What are you going to do?" they asked him every place he went "I'm happy at Michigan State," he said.

"But a fellow has to look ahead. Duffy left it that way as he headed for the Big Ten Today Detroit's Largest Clothier Presents a shipment of Fabulous Suits of Imported Veteran Reporter JL Zerilli Dies family have become firmly at tached to East Lansmg where his son Dennis, 10, is attend fc nn A familiar byline disappeared ing school. Daugherty, normally at ease from the Detroit sports scene Wednesday with the death of no matter what the situation, was tense and obviously tired James Zerilli, 53. A member of the Free Press sports department since 1944, Jimmy built up a wide reputa normally $115! on sale at a price that makes this the quality-value of the year! after struggling to hold off news of the decision until he could relay it to Texas officials. HE HAD FLOWN Tuesday from Texas to Chicago to Rochester, N.

where he had a speaking engagement Tuesday night and then back to Chicago Wednesday. Here he talked with Michigan State President John A. Hannah and Munn, then gave his "no" by telephone to the Texas school. Daugherty's staunchness in Turn to Page 44, Column 4 AGAINST BEARS, TOO 'Crucial9 Last Da Old Storv to ions "-v 3 tion as a baseball and boxing writer. He started his newspaper career as a copyboy on the Detroit News and spent 23 years with that paper before moving to the Free Press.

Born in Sicily in 1904, Zerilli came to Detroit with his parents and was widely known in 1920's as a basketball star. He played in several local amateur leagues. HE CONTRACTED multiple sclerosis five years ago. Unable to travel with the Tigers or to cover the fights, he worked on the sports copydesk for several years coming to the office in a wheel chair. Since 1955, he has been confined to his home.

He is survived by his daughter, Phyllis; a brother, Joe; and four sisters, Lena, Sylvia, rs. Antoinette Vitale and Sirs. Doris Scrivo. The body is at Bagnasco Funeral Home, 512 E. Grand Blvd.

Services will be at 9:45 a.m. Saturday at Holy Family Church, Hastings and East Fort. Interment will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. And Now It's Philly For Philley BY BOB LATSHAW Crucial battles on the last day of the regular season are nothing new to the Detroit Lions especially since 1951.

the Coast in 1951 and needed only a tie or a victory in San Francisco to win the cham pionship. LATE IN THE fourth quarter it appeared they were on their way until Joe Arenas grabbed a punt and returned better than 60 yards to set up a touchdown that turned a 17 14 lead into a 21-17 defeat. After a miserable start in 1952, during which they drop ped two of the first three games of the season, the Lions won Four times since then the Lions have gone into the last game needing a victory to clinch the divisional title or a playoff berth. They'll repeat the act Sunday when they face the Chicago Bears in Wrigley Field. Off past performances, the Lions have a 50-50 chance of gaining a playoff berth.

In the four previous make-or- break games, the Lion? have won two and lost two. THE BEARS were one of the clubs which ended the Detroiters' title hopes. George Halas' Monsters of the Midway will be shooting to repeat the performance and knock the Lions from their deadlock with the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Colts. Last year the Bears eliminated Bobby Layne early in the contest and rolled on to beat the Lions, 38 to 21, and win the Western Division title with a 9-2-1 record as Detroit dropped Its third game in 13 starts. Dave Philley, who played his way around most of the American League, will start on the National League in 1958.

The Tigers arranged that Wednesday when they sold the 37-year-old outfielder-firstbase-man to the Philadelphia Phillies. It was a straight cash deal. No amount was announced but Briggs Stadium officials indicated it was "sizable." THE PHILLIES will be the seventh stop for Philley, a switch-hitting Texan who broke in with the Chicago White Sox In 1941. He also was with the Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles and the White Sox again before the Tigers acquired him last June 13. Philley came here with a bundle of cash for Earl Torge- five in a row to bounce back into contention.

In the last game of the season the Dallas Texans provided the opposition as the Lions needed a victory to tie the Los Angeles Rams for the divisional crown. This one was easy, Bobby Layne and his cohorts rolling to a 41-6 triumph and then beat-Turn to Page 45, Column 5 Once you wear this luxurious fabric you'll never be without it. Lightweight and luxurious to feel and wear, it combines all of the features that bespeak quality and elegance. Magnificently tailored in handsome browns, greys and blues. They're unmatched values at $73.75 so come in today and get your 'prize cashmere buy' at Harry Suffrin.

son, another veteran who DETROIT'S LARGEST CLOTHIER played S6 games at first base for the White Sox. Philley, strictly a utility man and pinch Although it's possible for the Bears to stop the Lions' title hitter with the Tigers, appeared in 65 games and batted .283 Illini Post No. 3 CHAMPAIGN (A Mannie Jackson poured in 26 points and Roger Taylor added 19 to lead Illinois over Butler, 91 to 75, Wednesday night. It was the undefeated mini's third victory of the basketball march, they will not be a fac ifaf and Shmlby Grand mnd Ornt'ild after the trade. tor themselves in the cham He was one of 10 outfielders pionship picture this year.

en the Tigers' winter roster, This habit of playing right down to the wire started when iMii IjMny Siting SUBIgs (jJiBB fe'flf llMii' (iD Qinfl wnicn now Decomes one man below the limit. James Zerilli i the Lions beat the Rams on.