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3 -YEAR CONTRACT LURES AWAY GRID COACH DETROIT FREE PRESS Tuesday. Jan. 23. 1962 21 Chucks UD Job to Go to Good Riddance! His Aide, Tigers Won't See Much of Yanks at End Idzik, In Line But Bigivigs Aren't Talking The American League schedule maker, friendly chap, must have been thinking about the Tigers when he drew up the 1962 slate. He has booked them to play the Yankees only twice in the last seven weeks of the season a pair of night games in Detroit, Sept.

10 and 11. Detroit's final visit to night game schedule has been decreased. Baltimore will play 59 night games, followed by Los Angeles with 54, Washington, 51, Kansas City, 50, Chicago, 37, Cleveland, 36. Minnesota, 30, Detroit, 27, and New York and Boston, 24 each. The Indians have booked the most doubleheaders, 16.

New York is Aug. 10-11-12. The league schedule, released Tuesday, calls for the Tigers to open the season in Washington, April 9, a day earlier than the rest of the league. The 10 teams have scheduled 392 night games, a reduction from last year's total of 397. It marked the first time in years that the BY KEN CLOVER Jim Miller, swayed by the lure of a three-year contract and the "over-all potential" at Boston College, resigned Monday night as University of Detroit football coach to accept a similar position at B.C.

The first team which Miller will have to face next season Complete American League Schedule Page 22 will be U-D. wt, .1 1 ILyall Smith Paradise Is Yours For Only Two Grand U-D officials, forewarned al- most three weeks ago when Miller first started talking to Boston College, said that they would start the search for a successor immediately. FOREMOST among the candidates is Titan assistant John Idzik. reportedly the man behind U-D's wide-open and highly successful offense for the last three seasons. "I have not been contacted by anyone," Idzik said late AP Photo position at Boston College.

With Jim and wife Victoria are sons (left to right) Doug, 8, Tim, 14, and Jeff, 9, and daughter, Carrie, G. OFF TO BOSTON in the near future will be the Jim Miller family. Miller quit as the University of Detroit football coach Monday to take th head grid EBB WARREN IS A FRIENDLY, ruggedly handsome guy in his mid-forties who has a problem. Nothing personal, understand. It's just that nobody believes what he tells and shows them about New Zealand being the last fabulous wilderness outpost for hunters and anglers who are searching for ways to avoid that fenced-in feeling.

"I don't blame 'em," Ebb concedes. "I spent two months over there hunting, fishing and shooting movies. I've seen the films at least 200 times. Sometimes I still don't believe what I see CAMPBELL BOWS IN PLAYOFF Monday night. "The news of Miller's resignation comes as a surprise to me.

Only Monday afternoon he called me into his office to talk over our scholarship list so I was sure he was staying." The Very Rev. Father Lau FORMER TIGER manager Steve O'Neill, 70, is in poor condition at a Cleveland hospital after suffering a heart attack at his home Monday. "Stout Steve," a long-time catcher, managed four major league teams, piloting the Tigers to the flag in 1943. Ford Captures the 'Crosby9 PEBBLE BEACH. Calif.

pi- Neither hit' the green with: CAMPBELL, who won the located on a point extending in- Veteran Doug Ford beat, their second shots on the extra national collegiate title in 1955, to the Pacific Ocean, young Joe Campbell on the hole. Campbell was in the fringe was scrambling most of the; first hole of a sudden-death at the edge, putted six feet past day, and yet he came close to: SAX DIEGO'S Phil Rodgers rence V. Britt, SJ, president of U-D. said that he didn't know whether the new coach which would be the Titans' fifth in the playoff Monday to win missed coming back. igetting the top prize instead nearly caught Campbell at the Ford's second shot hit a if thG $3'4 Pint 0f Monday's irrassv embankment, He needed a 12-foot Putt on round- but couldn't hold his pace the 18th to do it.

land finished with a 74 and off a woman spectator's leg and into a trap. last 12 years would come from the present staff. "FRANKLY," said Father Britt, "it is too soon to answer that one. "John R. Mulroy, chairman of our faculty committee on athletic affairs, and the athletic committee will decide the successor.

"We plan to replace Miller with the best posible man Another name thrown into the hopper has been that of tbb, it should be explained, makes a livelihood by showing his outdoor movies to drooling landlocked sportsmen. He now is embarked on a 64-site tour of Michigan before he swings all the way from New York to Spokane. It will be May before he flicks off his projector and heads for home, which is a cozy spot on the shores of Big Lake up by Gaylord. New Zealand? Ebb swears it is fantastic. His movies back him up even if they are on the improbable side.

never saw so much game," Ebb insists. "Yet there are no bag limits, no closed seasons and every wild animal over there originally was imported. ISirtMl liiius rml Make Denf UNTIL AROUND 1900, New Zealand's only native animal was a small-sized possum. But through efforts of a game supervisor named Alf Donne, red stags were shipped in from Scotland, fallow deer from England, white-tails from Pennsylvania, chamois from Austria and similar big game targets from elsewhere. Spartans Surprise Gophers Special to the Free Press third-place total of 288.

Only one golfer broke par Don Massengale, with a 71, one stroke under regulation figures for the 6.701-vard course. He stroked the ball straight, only to have it stop two inches from the cup. The 26 year old Pendleton Doug, former PGA and Masters champion, wedged out of the trap, the ball stopping 4'i feet from the pin. He sank the putt for a par-4. $5,300 top prize in Bing Crosby's $50,000 golf tournament.

The steady 39-year-old from Vernon Hill, N.Y., had caught the former Purdue national collegiate champion on the next-to-last hole of the regulation 72 and each finished at 286. Ford fired a closing round of 74 while Campbell went four-over-par to 76 on this frigid Pebble Beach course. Their tie brought the first playoff in the quarter-century-old Crosby tournament. golfer had led from wound up well down the list opening day until the 17th holelvith a 292. rro Bob McCallister of EAST LANSING igan State's basketball campoeii iook a live wnen ne, Monday.

Then ne carded a missed a six-foot putt. jbogey-four when his tee shot Ford's last victory came at landed in a trap. Indianapolis in 196L He won Minutes earlier, Ford had the Masters in 1957 and PGAjsunk, an eight-foot putt for a in 1955. par-3 on the windswept hole. Yorha Linda, and Al-bie Pearson, the Los Angeles Angels outfielder, won the Turn to Page 22, Column 5 Danny Boisture, a U-D graduate and now an assist-and at Michigan State under Duffy Daugherty.

staved off a second-half comeback by Minnesota Monday 'night to defeat the Gophers. 84-79, and earn its second Big Ten triumph of the season. "They mushroomed like mad," Ebb explains. "There are no predators of any type. No bears, mountain lions, wolves or anything like that.

As a result there's wild Miller's new salary was not disclosed, although it is expected to be slightly higher than the $12,000 he was paid at U-D. Salary wasn't the deciding factor, however, he indicated. MILLER reportedly has been dissatisfied because of recruiting problems and a year-to-year contract. U-D had steadfastly refused to give him anything longer than a one-year contract in the three seasons he had been with the school. The setback was Minnesota's third straight in conference play.

Michigan State built up a 17-point lead at the end of the first half. 45-28, but had to fight all the way in the second half. TOM KEZAR chopped Michigan State's lead to three points, 80-77, with 52 seconds left. Minnesota contributed to its defeat with bad passing and poor dribbling. game everywhere.

"So much of it that deer, chamois and elk are considered pests. The government, for example, hires 100 hunters on a year-round basis just to kill off the game so they won't overrun the ranches and farms. "Now that jet plane service is available, big game hunters are flying in from the States and Eu Despite those irritations. Miller's resignation was a bit unexpected. The Spartans were led by four sophomores, Pete Gent, Bill Berry.

Fred Thomann Ebb Warren and Bill Schwarz. Schwarz netted 20 points, Thomann 16, Gent 13 and Berry 10. Minnesota was paced by Eric Magdanz and Tom McGrann with 17 points each. MINNESOTA MICHIGAN STATE It was thought that Miller and Boston College, who first began dickering over the New Year's weekend, had been unable to get together. Boston College had talked to other candidates since then, and Miller's name had praduallv I flrV'r I If io dropped out of the spotlight.

Mcqrann 7-11 17 Thomann Bateman 4 5-7 13 Schwann I J-4 I GOT A CALL from them Linenan 4 -0 12 Schwarz i 1-10 20 6av's i 7 3 4 slndeV, i at 6:30 Monday night," said Keiar wiiiiamso MJ Miller, "and immediately ac- Totals 21 23-37 7 Totals 30 240JI4 Cepted. Minnesota 28 5179 'T'm leaviner hecanse was MICHIGAN STATE 45 3-4 ieavine Detduse i aa very impressea oy ineir pro 'i OSU Rips Purdue gram and by the over-all potential of Boston College. "In regard to the University of Detroit, I'm leaving here with a fond feeling to- COLUMBUS, O. (UPI 1 Ohio State whipped Purdue, 91-65, Monday night for its fourth consecutive Big Ten bas rope. But while the deer kill is more than 100.000 a year, the herds are growing all the time." Ebb frankly admits he was more than a little shook-up at the nonchalance with which big game is taken.

Like the day they were up in the mountains and came on a herd of elk. "There were at least 30," he recalled. "We took pictures and then asked our guide to help pick out the one with the biggest antlers so we could take a trophy. "He was one of the best guides over there. He just waved at the herd.

'Shoot 'em he said. 'We'll measure their antlers ('s a Land of Itaiabows FISHING? SOMETHING LIKE 300,000 rainbows were taken from Lake Rotarua last year. The AVERAGE trout weighed 41 pounds. "We took 8-9 pound rainbows out of other lakes," Ebb enthused. 'Scale samples revealed they were only 3-4 years old.

Back here, a trout that size would be twice as old." That's the way he tells the story and his movies prove the point. More yet. There are no mosquitoes, no black flies, no flies of any kind. are mountains 13,000 feet high, rushing streams, clean cool lakes and endless plains. "You can get there in 18 hours from Detroit by jet," Kbb offered.

"It'll cost you $1,140, round trip. And Ihen a three-week safari including everything will cost you another SI, 100. It's worth it, believe me." I said I believed him but maybe I'd start with paying $1.25 for a ticket to see his movies instead. Ebb said he understood. He was a newspaperman himself once upon a time.

ketball victory and 14th of the! Turn ti Page 23, Column 1 year. Hathaway's i silvery soft Vij t( LOVAT BLUE I snap-lab dress shirt 'r, I The Buckeyes were led by All-America Jerry Lucas, who scored 32 points. Purdue's Terry Dischinger, playing with a finger in a cast, was held to 9. Purdue made a game of it through the first 14 minutes, leading once by four points. OHIO STATE PURDUE Hav'icek 7 2-4 Berkshire 2 4-4 I1 McDonald 0 1-2 1 Dawkins 3 0-0 6 Lucas 13 4-6 32 Dischingr 3 3-5 Nowell 2 5-4 Garland 4 4-5 Gearhart 3 3-4 McGinley 7 5-7 Douohly 5 0-1 10 Wills 2 0-0 4' Bradds 2 3-4 7 Ricklman 1 t-2 3 Flatt 0 2-2 2 Brown 12-2 4 It- HMI.ij' avior 0 3-5 3 Lane 1 00 2 Totals 33 25-35 Ohio State Purdue Totals 44 21 23 19-25 45 47-l 37-45 John Idzik We think youll like lovat blue.

It's blue with a touch of green muted to a silvery softness. And it's here in a style that's fast becoming a well groomed classic: the easy-to-do push-tab. Hathaway completes the picture with square cut French cuffs, extra-long tails, bigger-than average buttons. 50 fr. 'I Jf 1 A.

ikL It's UP Against Cage World Again had their And they've hour, too. THE SNAP-TiB COLLAR Class Sault Ste. Marie-Loretto, in Class and Champion and Pickford, in Class are the UP schools to be found in this week's ratings of the state's Top Ten teams. In high school sports, and particularly in basketball, the Upper Peninsula lives for the day it can hang one on the city slickers. That was the day John Hannah feared his guests from the UP were about to tear down his magnificent Jenison Fieldhouse on the -Michigan State campus.

The date will undoubtedly go down as the most memorable in the sports history of the Upper Peninsula. Its teams swept all three Turn to Page 22, Column 1 BY HAL SCHRAM In the weekly ratings of the state's foremost high school basketball teams this writer will not ignore the Upper Peninsula. The natives of that beautiful wilderness above the straits are a proud, fighting and vociferous lot. I have, eaten their "crow" for the final time. Escanaba Holy Name, in IT WAS 15 YEAUS ago that the UP got its teams back into the state tournament picture, and its 75 schools 42 of which have fewer than 200 students have gone home with 13 titles.

Who will ever forget Saturday, March 24, 1956? WOODWARD and WONDERLAND OPEN TUESDAY 10 9 P.M. ARBORIAND CENTER SHELBY 4 STATE WOODWARD AT MONTCALM WONDERLAND NORTHLAND GRAD KiVt. CENTER EASTLAND CENTER i C- MACK 4 VOFOSS V.ESTECRN CENTER I LINCOLN PAPK.