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DETROIT FREE PRESS 'Sunday, Feb. 1, 1959 Chance9 Give Us a Pistons Pull Out Of Spin Good Old Cincy, 103-83 A And Tigers Alivays Glad to BY BOB LATSIIAW Thank heaven for the Cincinnati Royals. For the first time in one month and five days, the Detroit Pistons Saturday night won a basketball game at Olympia and moved back int( second place in the western uivision. -v uV i The Pistons beat the Royals, BY HAL MIDDLESWORTII Fraa Prm Start WrIUr LAKELAND "They tell me that kids have changed. Well, there's one way they haven't.

They all want to play baseball to get that one crack at the big time." The speaker was Bernie deViveiros, peppery Tiger scout from the Pacific Coast who had his "cup of coffee" In the majors quite a few years ago. He was watching 140-odd young prospects taking part in the Bengals' second spring tryout school at Tigertown. "LOOK AT 'EM." deViveiros said as the big ones and little ones streamed past. "They come all the way 103-88, in the nightcap of a doubleheader and snapped a i nine-game losing streak. The St.

Loul Hawks easily won from Minneapolis in the opener, 120-96. 1 This was the Pistons' first victory since Jan. 13 and the first at home since Dec. 26. SATURDAY'S game was enlivened by a fight between the Pistons' Walter Dukes and Jack Tarr, of the Royals.

Play came to a standstill late in the second period when Dukes and Tarr forgot about basketball and 1 'L started trading punches In a down here at their own expense $03 plus their travel Just to prove one thing. They have to know whether they have what it takes: "They want corner of the court. 1 In seconds, there was a pile of basketball players along with referee Mendy Rudolph sprawled on the floor. Every Katalinas member of both clubs dashed mem into the ray but order was i quickly restored. Both Dukes and Parr were tagged with personal fouls but continued In the game without further Incident.

Gene Shue sparked the Pis TIGKR TKACIIER Bernie de Viveiros couldn't wait to get the boys into uniform before starting bunting lessons at the Tigers' tryout school at Lakeland. Here the veteran scout and instructor gives some pointers to Bill Hendricks (left), an outfielder from Valparaiso, and Roger Beilfuss, a pitcher from Bear Lake, Mich, Free Freee Photo by DICK TRIPP STILL SCORING Out of the Detroit Tiston lineup with a fractured finger on his left hand, scoring ace George Yardley stays in shape practicing tennis. Yardley visited noted tennis coach Jean Hoxie at Tulaskl School In Hamtramck Saturday for a few fast sets. The Piston star Is a highly rated club player in his home Los Angeles area. Meet Nabob of Gnomes: Detroit's Oivn Mr.

Light ton triumph with a 27-point performance in which he got considerable help from Dukes and Joe Holup. Dukes added 19 and Holup 17 to the total. THE riSTONS Jumped off to a 8-0 lead in the opening minutes and the closest the Royals came in the first half was three points, late in the that one good chance." Just how much of a chance do these untrained, untried performers have? "LAST YEAR, at our first camp, we had 109 players," said Ed Katalinas, the Tiger scouting director, who is in charge of the two-week trials. "Out of that group, we signed nine and two of them stuck It out all year with our farm But it is going to be even tougher sledding for the 140 ambitious youngsters now on hand, Katalinas warned. ALREADY have enough players under contract to man all of our farm said.

"There might even be a surplus, since we cut down from 10 to seven farms. "Recau of that, we can 'afford to be real choosy about the boys we sign this year. They will have to show as something. "But you never know what you might find. "One player out of this second period.

The Pistons held the Royal to a single field jroal in the last seven minutes of the third period at the end of which Detroit tract and between the ages of 18 and 24. THE AGE LIMIT had to be lifted this year, however, because of a special plea from a rotund, balding applicant who confessed to '40 years but begged for a chance to enroll. "What I want Is a chance to loarn the technique, of pitching and hitting to use' In coaching baseball myself," he wrote. "I can't find a bet-' ter place to learn them." "All right." Katalinas wrote back to Charley Lavoie, of Elizabethtown, "but don't you do any running or We don't want you collapsing on us." now he is happily taking his turn with a few skips eight at the side of energetic youngsters half his age. About half of the prospects are here on recommendation of Tiger scouts or their "bird dogs" a baseball tag for unpaid volunteer cub-scouts.

Another 30 per cnt come from mall towns which even the bird dogs don't reach. They are ustially recommended by coaches or newspapermen. "Then we have about 20 per cent who really don't have much ability but have the money to pay their tuition, said Katalinas. "And where could you get a better two-week vacation led 75-69. tryout school might be worth all of the expense and effort it takes." THE CAMP, which combines Instruction with scouting, is the only one of its kind in the country.

It is the Joint brainchild of Katalinas, Tiger business manager Jimmy Campbell and former general manager John McHale. "We figured If a kid had enough confidence In himself to ramble hl own money on a two-week trip down here, we ought to give him the chance," Katalinas said. The school Is manned by Tiger coaches, scouts and minor league managers. It Is open to j'ouths of any ex-periene but not undr con- In the fourth quarter, the Pitons padded their lend to 14 point at one stag, 89-75, before Park found the range for nine points to cut the gap. Four tallies by the Pistons in rapid succession then put the game on Ice.

In the opener, Bob Pettit clicked for 27 points, although CHARLEY AGREED and in Florida for he played Just three quarters. to lead th Hawks to their IT FIGURES Nebraska tvrlNNATI (SS DKTROIT Car oh Jenkins Ice Titles Overhauls of 10 ordinals. Brewer had 17 the same day in these fcur-day U-D, 91-77 ordinals. Snrrlal to th Tret rreaa Nationals and Miss Heiss and Jenkins gave the spectators In War Memorial Auditorium a brilliant show a art a i-i 7 r.tii. i -o i I Mm A 4-A It lluara 7 S-H 19 Kmlirr '11 11 rrlrr 4 O-O MM.IT 3 HnhlD 7 3-4 17 1-1 Jordan I -0 r.rk ft 4-S II Until 4 -4 II Pr I O-n Mrl.n l-l 7 Pont Ik A-A 3 MrM.I 3 AS Hnlln.

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The wrestling techniques and how-manship are mastered under two of Light's associates, both former mat-men of outstanding ability Bert Ruby and Jack Britton. Another aide, still active himself, acts as a troupe guide. He is Lou Klein. "Some of the midgets amaze you with their strength," Light says. "Sky Low Low can lift 460 pounds (he weighs 89) to his shoulders.

Tom Thumb can tear a deck of cards in half." BUT CAN they really wrestle? "Some of them can," Harry says without attempting to apologize for those who can't. "Little Beaver is a real fine wrestler and so is Sky. He's on a European tour now." Light already has booked his charges well Into the summer, with the schedule topped off by a Hawaiian Junket. "I'll book my boys for about 600 matches a year," he says. The general practice is for the wrestlers on a show to get 60 per cent of the receipts.

Light gets 10 per cent of that amount as his fee. WHILE LIGHT is preeminent In his unusual field now, he traveled a devious route to reach the spot. Harry was born in Paris, France, but was' brought to the United States by his parents when he was a year old. He spent his boyhood In New York (and that accounts for the accent the years haven't been able erase). Then when he was 14 the family moved to Montreal.

"My dad was a baker and moved around following his trade," he explains. When Harry was 17 he Joined the Canadian Navy and saw action in World War Back in Montreal after the Armistice he became a professional boxer. "I WAS A featherweight (128 pounds) and fought under the name of Kid Yank," he says. "I did pretty well for a while. I had about 60 bouts.

"The two I remember best are onee I fought agalnot fellows named Young Burnikoff and Soldier McDonald. "Burnikoff knocked me down nine times in the first round. McDonald stopped me with the first punch of our fight, and to this day I don't know who dressed me after the bout." HARRY CAME to Detroit in 1919. For. years he worked as an usher at old Navin Field and at indoor around the city.

"Adam Weismuller was running wrestling at the old Danceland (later known as the Madison Ballroom and currently the Motor City Arena)" Light relates. "I was standing outnide tbe box office one night when he needed change. He handed me $30 and aWed If I would go around the corner and get some dimes and quarters. "He didn't know me, and I guess he was a bit surprised when I came back with his money. That was the start of our friendship.

It lasted until his death." AFTER ADAM died, his wife continued the mat promotions for a while and later took in Ed (Strangler) Lewis, the greatest heavyweight of his day, aj a partner. "I then went out on my own," Light ay, "and started promoting; at Fair-view Gardens. That was In 1039. Later Lewis found his wrestling commitments all he could handle and dropped out of the promotional picture, I took over his spot, too." Wrestling was a big-time venture in Detroit in those days and headlined stars like Jack Reynolds, Dick Shikat, Gus Sonnenberg, Hughie Nichols, Ed Don George, Danno O'Mahony and All Baba. "IN THE late 1930s and early 1940s we had weekly shows at Fairview, the Naval Armory, Hazel Park, Dearborn, Chesterfield, Arena Gardens and Arcadia," says.

"Now, look at it nothing. What killed it here? Lack of a decent small arena murdered us." While blanked In Detroit. Light promotes weekly shows in Kalamazoo, Flint, Lansing, Muskegon, Jackson, Grand Rapids and Windsor. He puts spot shows In Holland, Battle Creek, Chatham, Sam la and Wallace-burg. Harry's family name was Llcht, which in German means light.

He has five sons, one of whom, 19-year-old Sol helps in his office, and a daughter. If you need a midget (wrestler, that is), remember the name of Harry Light. ROCHESTER. N.Y. Ml World champion David Jenkins captured his third straight National Senior figure skating crown Saturday while ice queen Carol Heiss virtually clinched her third consecutive women's title.

Tom Brown, 20, of Sacramento, Jenkins No. 1 rival, again was the runncr-up, with 19-y ear-old Pete Brewer, of Alhambra, third in the field of seven. Jenkins, a lithe, 22-year-old Brown, whose forte is In the school figures, made a gallant attempt to snatch the victory. The tall, lean Cali-fornian pulled out all the stops in his free skating exhibition and was awarded no lower mark than 9.1. Ten is perfect.

Then the champion took the Herschell Turner, buried the University of Detroit under a second-half blitz Saturday night for a 81-77 victory, the Cornhuskers' 12th straight at home. The loss was Detroit's second in a row and seventh in 16 Miss Heiss, a pretty, 19-year-old New York University sophomore from Ozone Park, N.Y., just about made it no contest in the Senior Ladies competition with a poised and near-perfect display in school figures. She finished so far ahead it is almost impossible for the three other contenders, including her 17-year-old sister Nancy, to catch her in the free style skating which climaxes the championships Sunday. games, The Titans who had won all medical student from Colorado ice. At times he looked like a human top as he whirled around the ice.

The lowest mark he received was 9.5. IT WAS THE first time two world champions performed on Springs, had a perfect score of five in the ordinals, meaning that each of the five Celtics Rock Warriors Frw Prm Wlrs Srtre three earlier games in this series, held a two-point lead at intermission, but it quickly faded as Nebraska popped in 61 per cent of its shots from the floor. TURNER, a 6-foot-2 forward, tossed in 19 points to lead the Judges awarded him first place. BROWN received five second place votes for a low total BOSTON The Boston Cel tics, playing without bedridden Tommy Heinsohn and minus second half rally. He finished Jim Loscutoff and Gene Con ley in the late stages, swamped the night with 30 points.

DKTROIT 77) NF.RRASKA f91 Philadelphia 137-102. in the sec i Titan Just Won't Lose Sprrlal to the Free Prraa ond half of an NBA double- f'rhlann 2-3 IS Main IO-1 2fi Hrrr 2 A-A 4 Htr 7 3-3 1 l-l J.l 1 ahlll A 3-3 3 header Saturday night. Ray Felix's tap-in at the fi Sir briverA Should Jnow Rrlhlvk 1 2 2 4 Turnr 14 2-3 in Hmhf II 4-A 2 Harry 3 4-7 ll tnmi) A-O 3 I.ndhm I A.A Writht 0 1 -O Mrkar A A-A A AlMT 2 6-7 9 Sirank A A-A A nal buzzer gave the New York Knickerbockers a 119-117 victory oyer the Syracuse Nationals in the first game. Walln 2 A-A 4 OBERLIN, O. Gerry Sur-owiec extended his winning streak in the saber division to twelve in a row as the University of Detroit defeated Ohio Totala 31 15-20 77 Total 3A 31-29 91 DFTROIT SS 39 77 EW Y0RM119 (IF SyRAftSF(117 fi MStKANKA OA 01 4 Srhart 1A-17 27 Farmr 2 A-A "nri 10-I3 1A 4-7 Uiirrin 3 7 rlvT 1 A- Tr 4 A-A Nmill.

4-S 4 A-A Rrmnn A 2-3 Brnan fl-O 2 (nnln A-3 fi 24 Krr A 4-A 1 13 (tain 3 A-A 4 9 (Inwr 1 1 S-S 2S Pal.l 3 3-3 IS Blanch 9 3-3 21 Hpkna 4 1-1 9 13 A State, 18-9, in fencing here Saturday for the fifth straight time. Other results in the triangular meet saw Oberlin down U-D, 16-11, and OSU in turn trip Oberlin 15-12. DRC, HAZEL SHARE BOB Total 4131-41119 '11 4331-40 117 IVF.WVORK 23 33 3S 119 College SATURDAY'S RESULTS Anhnrn fit. VanriVrbllt SI. Itavlor f.i.

Arkanaa AS. Btaillrr Tulaa 72. RrandcU 7. Mrrrlmark Collera 82. Drake 74.

N. Trxaa fit. Duko 7ft. rittaburt-h fi6. Colorado fifl.

Kanaaa fit. Connrrtlrnt 72, Maine SI. I'lnrinnatl 95. Wirhlta S7. Ford ham 93.

Krlon Hall 69. tirorrla Trrh fifi. Alabama A3. Indiana 7A. IWanI fit, lows 7S.

Mtrhlcan 74. Iowa Stala 48. Oklahoma Stat 47. Kanaa Ktata 91. S.

Dakota M. 6A. krntiirkT 9t. Florida Al. Mirhlran 81 at 81.

Nort hweatern 72. Nrlraka 91. Detroit 77. Carolina H. Carolina AA.

A 'Secretary for Two' SI RAM Kb 23 32 37 3S 117 BOSTON (137 FHILADKL M02 OFT l-nartr 3 1-2 7 Arisnn 3 11-13 IS f'onlar 1-2 13 irahkl 4 2-2 1A Riim-II 4 4-A 12 NalH.by 2-3 IS Shrmit II 89 3A f.ola 4 fi-S li oiit 9 31 Rixtrra 7 1-2 l.t Rimwi 7 2-4 IS Snarw 2 4-1A BY AL COFFMAN i duties, McAuliffe will continue dent of Hazel Park) and I For the first time in the his-1 a racing secretary at Sports-1 believe that racing can make Fifty thousand women are members of the Automobile Club Of Michigan. They are protected by more, far, far more than a ample insurance policy. They have here a great, sheltering, far-reaching, friendly blanket of protection, help, aid, convenience, that makes their motoring life a more secure hfe A master membership is only $15 a year, just about the cost of a half cup of coffee a day. Women whose husbands are members can enjoy an associate membership for themselves at only $8 a year. Here is CARE-TAKING for women motorist developed by the organized motorists for better motoring.

AUTOMOBILE CLUES Swain 2 A-A 4 rWk 3 A-A I.JnM 1A 4-S 24 Ranhlth A 2-2 12 Tiger Pitches In With a '1101116 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (UPD University of Florida baseball coach Danny Litwhiler, a former Philadelphia Phillies' power hitter, slammed a 400-foot homer Saturday to give the National League a 1-0 victory in the fourth annual March of Dimes old-timers game. The winning homer came off Gene Burroughs, of the De tory of Detroit's two thorough- man's Park in Chicago, where great strides in Michigan by K.C.Jna 4 2-4 10 Hatton 3 A 4 bred tracks, one man will serve i he has served for 11 years. Total.

Aft 2.V3A 137 Total. 37 2R-3R 1 O-J as racing secretary at both the! "Both Dick Connell presi- HnwTO'N 30.37-3l-.Ifi 137 I' I LADFXPHIA 23-23-2 1-30 1 03 V. Carolina St. HA. (Irmann Al.

Ml' fit. Holr Croa Ohio St. 81. Minnesota SO. Oklahoma 4A.

Atr Fnrro 39. Oklahoma Ity 1A3. f-lor. et. 7B.

WESTERN DIVISION Pet- GB I rinreton 7A, Kiitirrr 48, Pnrriiia 102. Illinois SI. Rlrhmond 79. I 61. St.

Bonavmturi' 82. Vlllannva 78. troit Tigers, the losing pitcher having the same racing secretary and his assistants operate at both thoroughbred tracks," Shaffer declared in his announcement. "Since the tracks plan to alternate early and late meetings in the coming years. Mo Auliffe's job will have the continuity necessary to a successful racing program.

During his race-track career, McAuliffe has earned a reputa Tfl' 72. S1U A. St. Louis 35 IS DETROIT 20 30 Minneapolis 19 31 Cincinnati IS 38 .729 .400 16 .380 17 .240 231, and the son of St. Petersburg Mayor John Burroughs.

T.nnnvr tfi. l.nrrla Trxaa Terh A7. Tela. AM 48. Yale 78.

Harvard 6V EASTERN DIVISIOJf Pet. GB cies 9n fb. Boston 86 IS New York 27 20 EVENING REGISTRATION .735 J574 71 .521 11 .429 18 Detroit Race Course and Hazel Park next summer. Robert P. McAuliffe, a veteran of 28 years in the sport, became the man of distinction Saturday when he was named to the post at the DRC.

In 1958 he had taken over the eame Job at Hazel Park after coming to the North Detroit track as a steward one year earlier. "We wanted a man with experience and reputation," said DRC president Dale Shaffer, "and yet we wanted someone who understood the problems of thoroughbred racing in Detroit. McAuliffe fits this description perfectly." McAuliffe succeeds Pat Far-tell, who resigned after the DRC'a 1958 meeting. In addition to his Detroit Syracuse 25 2S tion of being a tough, but fair Philadelphia 21 28 VISIT OR PHONE YOUR NEAREST OFFICE ENGINEERING Fi. 9.

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12. 136 F.M -1 139 Bagley Downtown 22131 Grand Rivar Bedford 15065 Grand Rim Grand River S29 BxUUt Wyandottt Vm SoutMeM Allan Park 13822 W. S780 Sefcaafcr East Dearborn 19184 Tan Mil East Detroit 15415 E. Jefferson Points 11474 Jot. Campau Hamtramck 18610 Jas.

Couzens Northwest 13881 Gretiot ftortneest 24280 Woodward Royal Oak 275 S. Honter Birmingham 8850 Southfield Joy-Southneld 34236 Waym man. As a result, the big genial Irishman has gained the re-pect of horsemen and racing officials alike. McAuliffe is currently In Florida contacting horsemen regarding the DRC meeting which opens May 20 and runs through July 25 as well as Hazel Park'a July 28-Oct. 3 season.

SATURDAY'S RESULTS DETROIT 103, Cincinnati 88. St. Louis 120, Minneapolis 98. Boston 137, Philadelphia 102. New York 119, Syracuse 117.

SUNDAY'S GAMES DETROIT at St. Louis. Syracuse at Boston. Philadelphia at New York. Cincinnati at Minneapolis.

EVENING DIVISION LAWRENCE TECH Sm flrtl pog ef leca phone bolrt for office in ttatej cMe I 5-5050 I I details i0JJ.W..TIM-AX.-m MM Eobert P. McAuliffe "i.