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Pistons Draft Dave DETROIT FREE PRESS Tuesaay, March 27, '62 2." 0 0 0 And Re Hardin ggie y-' player who quit Kansas in his sophomore year and is now playing with the Real Madrid team in Spain. Leroy Ellis, another St. is an excellent playmaker and good outside shot. Detroit's third pick was Harold Hudgins of Texas Tech, a 6-8 forward with a good outside shot. Hudgins weighs 230 and the Pistons hope he can be moved into the pivot.

All the All-American players John's star, was taken by Los 5 iP "fete i' vii I 'I llilf pill Angeles the first round. The Pistons picked DeBus schere despite a possible con were drafted in the first or flict with baseball. The big U-D star insisted Monday that second round. Billy McGill off Utah went to he would play both sports. NBA draft lists Page 26 BY BOB LATSHAW Things went nearly according to plan in the NBA draft meeting in New York Monday.

The Pistons took Dave DeBusschere of the University of Detroit as a territorial choice and the Cincinnati Royals grabbed Jerry Lucas of Ohio State. But there were several surprises. For instance, Detroit picked Reggie Harding, the seven-foot phenom from Eastern High School, among five home-frown players in the Pistons' first 10 picks. The legality of Harding's draft was challenged immediately, but the Pistons believe that it is the only way to protect themselves against anoher team picking up the lanky star. Other Michigan players MY PLANS haven't 1 changed," DeBusschere told Chicago, Len Chappell of Wake Forest went to Syracuse, and Terry Dischinger of Purdue went to Chicago.

THE NEW YORK Knicks picked Paul Hogue of Cincin George Maskin of the Piston staff. "I'm going to play pro basketball." DeBusschere Harding Bradley Earlier, DeBusschere had told Piston director of staff Fran Smith that he would play both baseball and basketball. nati and John Havlicek of Ohio State went to Boston. The St. Louis Hawks took Zelmo Beat-ty of Prairie View, the national small-college champs.

The Philadelphia Warriors picked Wayne Hightower, a quesne and Redford High School. The Pistons bypassed high-scoring Chet Walker of Bradley on the second round to pick Kevin Loughery of St. John's of Brooklyn. The 6-foot-3 guard picked by Detroit were: Ed Noe, Morehead State Teachers forward who played prep basketball at Mt. Clemens High School; John Bradley of Lawrence Tech and Highland Park High, and Mike Rice of Du- It is expected that De Busschere will get a bonus from the Pistons as well as a substantial salary.

Reports are that Dave is seeking about $20,000 from the Pistons. Reports have DeBusschere ILyall Smith receiving at least a $60,000 bonus if he signs a baseball contract. Several major league 4 clubs are interested in signing Dave, a top-flight pitcher. Boxing Goes On Pan Again Paret Remains in Coma Condition May Last for Year BLACK BEAUTY Former State Junior champion Marlene Honaker and Army private Donald Hayes gaze fondly at the ball Hayes used to help them win the 18th annual Free Press Mixed Doubles bowling championship. Hayes shot a G99 series and with Miss Honaker totaled 1343 to win the $2,500 first prize over a record field of 9,000 bowlers.

Story on Page 26. In basketball, DeBusschere averaged 24.8 points a game for his three-year U-D career. His 1961-62 average was 26.8. including the school's all-time single-game record of 44 points BOOT ONE TO YANKS, 6 5 Free Press Wire Services Tigers Get the Yips NEW YORK An attending physician said Monday night that stricken boxer against Dayton University's NIT champs. He hauled in 1,552 rebounds in three seasons and his 1,985 points are also U-D records.

IUKDING'S status is up in the air, pending an investigation by league president Maurice Podoloff. The NBA rules state that a high school player may be drafted if he does not plan to enter college and if he has been out of school a full year. Harding's class graduated a Lucy Paret RIPS GRIFFITH Benny (Kid) Paret, if he lives, could remain in a coma Bubba Morton misjudged Gonzalez's long -drive and it sailed over his head for the winning hit, sending in John Blanchard from first. BY JOE FALLS Free Press Staff Writer FORT LAUDERDALE The Yankees are L-O-A-D-E-D, friend, and if you doubt it, for a year or more. Dr.

John S. Crisp, a chief IT HAS BEEN ALMOST 30 YEARS since the February night in 1933 when Primo Camera stuck out a left jab the kind they term a creampuff and hit heavyweight Ernie Schaaf with it. Schaaf went down and the crowd booed. Camera wasn't that hard a puncher. It looked like a dive.

It wasn't. Doubting customers were still spewing catcalls when Schaaf was carried from the ring to die. Not until later did they discover that the victim had been a sick man when he went into the fight. Camera's feeble punch was merely the straw that broke his life span. Now there is talk that maybe Benny (Kid) Paret, battered senseless by Emile Griffith the other night, fits into the tragic mold of Schaaf.

Less than four months ago he was subjected to a savage beating by Gene Fullmer before he was knocked out in the 10th round. Maybe so. Maybe not. Meanwhile, Paret battles against odds that he'll win his biggest fight. Coming at a time when boxing being belted on other buttons, the Paret case is certain to add new fuel to fires which term the sport barbarous, senseless and bestial.

Flames are leaping high these days in the wake of the scheduled title fight between champion Floyd Patter surgical resident at Roosevelt It was the kind of performance manager Bob Scheffing had been waiting for all spring. His boys hadn't been playing very well, but now they looked sharp and crisp. They were producing at the proper time against the proper team. If they were going to wipe away this Yankee enigma, they listen to this: The Bombers rallied to beat the Tigers, 6-5, in 10 innings Hospital, said that the chances of Paret ever regaining full control of his body are 10,000 'I Hate Paret year ago, but he entered a prep school in Tennessee, Monday on a three-base hit by The Yankees tied it with three in the ninth with shortstop Dick McAuliffe committing two errors on one play to let the tying run scoot home. Until then it was such a lovely day for the Tigers, too.

to one. Paret suffered a savage beating at the fists of challenger Emile Griffith in their title fight at Madison Square Garden Saturday night. The 25-year-old welterweight might as well start in the springtime. rookie Pedro Gonzalez, and as soon as the game was over, they told poor Pedro that he was on his way to Richmond. That's power for you sending a guy back to the minors after he hit only a And so they were in corn- It was they who had per playing basketball there until it was found that his high school eligibility had expired.

"We are encouraging Harding to go to college," Smith said. "But in the event that he doesn't, we have the advantage of the draft protection. Several other clubs have shown an interest in him." formed like world champions Plete command of the situation for most of the afternoon before a noisy crowd of 5,245 was carried from the ring on a Pre Press Wire Services NEW YORK Mrs. Lucy Paret, worn out from an all-night at her husband's bedside and tears streaking down her pretty face, cried Monday "I hate boxing! Our son will never, never be a boxer!" Her husband, Benny, was critically injured Saturday stretcher, and has been in a coma ever since. His condition is "critical" and the outlook for his survival "extremely grave." Harding returned to Detroit triple.

Gonzalez smiled about his fate. "I learn to hit homer and I be back," he said. IT WAS NOT a typical Yankee finish in fact, it was in the spanking new million-dollar Fort Lauderdale Stadium. ROCKY COLAVITO hit a pair of 400-foot homers, Steve Boros hit a vicious drive over the leftfield wall for another homer, and Jerry Casale pitched until that ninth inning. THE TIGERS held a 5-2 lead entering the ninth and Schef-fing summoned Tom Timmer-man, his best-looking rookie, to close it out.

Timmerman had been out Turn to Page 28. Column 1 recently and has not gone back to the prep school. He would rAKt-l UAUtLKET an ha vp hpfn olimhle to enter Tn operation feunday to remove nessee next fall on corn- pressure from his brain. This pietion of his prep school work pretty messy. (brilliantly for five innings.

weus luuuweu juunuay oy a tracheotomy an incision into the windpipe to assist his breathing. "No further operation at this time is contemplated," said Dr. Crisp. Charter Club Shop The surgeon said no "radical change is expected" in Paret's condition within the next 24 hours. He said that the first 12 to 24 hours were the extremely critical ones ana that any night in his technical knockout loss to Emile Griffith in their title bout.

Mrs. Paret said Monday from Roosevelt Hospital that brain specialists told her that Benny's chances of survival were "one in 10,000." DESPITE her bitterness toward boxing. Mrs. Paret said it shouldn't be prohibited. "There are a number of men who depend on it for a living," she said.

"They know no other thing and they've got kids to support." Mrs. Paret was especially bitter toward Griffith, who regained the welterweight championship in the fight, and referee Rudy Goldstein. "The referee should have stopped the fight." she said. "I blame Griffith because he knew my husband was knocked out but he kept hitting him. He was very mean.

I know that Griffith wanted Turn to Page 27, Column 4 change In the next two or three days "probably would be for the better." He added that Paret's "ex cellent physical condition is in his favor." PARET'S MANAGER said that once during the day Benny partially opened his eyes when his name was carlled. son and Sonny Liston. Not because of the potential barbarity of the match but because of the possibility that Liston will climb onto the throne as heavyweight champion of the world. Heavyweight Champs Xever eDie' I IT IS A TITLE that commands respect which has been known to border on awe. "Shake the hand that shook the hand of John L.

Sullivan." Remember that one Jack Dempsey still signs autographs. So does Gene Tunney. Joe Louis carries a trademark of distinction. He is known and cheered wherever he goes. Same thing for Rocky Marciano.

Patterson, current champ, is a quiet, almost sensitive guy. He's that way out of the ring. And even when he is in it, he still is the type who wears no butcher's apron. Like when he decked young Tom McNeeley a while back. Patterson dropped him 11 times.

"I felt bad that I had to keep hitting him," Floyd said. "But he kept coming on. I had to. Now he is slated to fight Liston in what will be the most profitable, most controversial battle since Louis took on Max Schmeling in their second go-around. Liston can hardly be described as a pillar of society even in the society of the squared circle.

He has had more scrapes with law and order than many characters who now are looking at the outside world through prison bars. Liston: More Con Than Pro? SO MANY OF THEM, in fact, that groups of law en-, forcement officers now are petitioning that he should not be given the opportunity to joust for the loftiest title in the boxing business. They have a point. But there still is the other side of the debate. If Liston is a criminal, he should be in jail.

If he isn't one, then why shouldn't he be given a crack at the chance to play a part in the "Rags to Riches" production? That's the way the argument goes these days. It will get louder before it ends. It will be a bombastic thing. So will the fight. Liston is a harder puncher.

Patterson can be punched. Ingemar Johansson proved that. Unless Floyd can baffle him with footwork until he gets a chance to land his own brand of dynamite, there will be a new champion. Even if Liston has yet to prove that he is a better man out of the ring than in it. Intermittent rumors of Pa ret's death swept New York during the day, and one radio network announced his death on a newscast.

State investigators Monday rushed a report to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller on the knockout, which was Paret's second in as many fights in less than four months. -f The New York Starte Athletic Commission, which polices pro boxmg in the state, called wit nesses, viewed films of the fight, then turned in a report IMPORTED MOHAIR the classic natural shoulder line in a luxurious new look for spring Unexpected this blending of the pure classic line with a most luxurious fabric. For here's a springweight blend of worsted-mohair that's crisp and lustrous particularly handsome in 14K black, dress blue and deep olive.

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"I've had long experience and I thought I was using good judgment when I let it go on. "In fact, I'm sometimes accused of stopping: bouts too Rookie Falters, Casper Wins fact." Former light heavyweight king Gus Lesnevich and former heavyweight champ Jersey Joe Walcott, both of whom saw it as they turned for home earned a meager $47 by tying came on to Win. for the 48th, and last, money CI a 1 ho fnrmw Tllini Spot. i. i i I i 1 i football nlaver r.nllansprf to toP money dinners: from ringside, defended Goldstein.

GRIFFITH admittedly carried a grudge into the ring because of remarks by Paret that MIAMI (UPI) Pudgy i Billy Casper's experience paid off Monday when he fired a one-under-par 36-35 71 for a 283 which won the $50,000 Miami Open golf tournament. Casper, with a difference of $4,400 at stake, outsteadied young Paul Bondeson on the final nine holes in a head-to-head windup to pick up the $9,000 first money. Bondeson, tied for the lead 707-75-71 71- 73-47-73-784 $4,400 4-74-4-73-J85 $300 $2,450 73- $1,450 70-49-73-74- 287 $2,100 4-77-72-71-28 $1,900 74- 71-49-74-290 $1,800 72- 73-77-49-291 $1,550 74-71-74-70-291 $1,550 78-71-74-49-292 $1,230 73- 75-73-71-292 $1,230 72-72-74-74292 $1,230 74- 70-72-74-292 $1,230 70-72-73-77-292 76 and finished sixth. Third place went to Jack Nicklaus, former two-time amateur champion from Ohio State, as he closed with a 73 for 285. Ben H.ogan making his 1962 tour debut, got better in every round and after scores of 74, 72, and 71, finished with a WOODWARD, WONDERLAND and ARB0RLAND OPEN TUESDAY TO 9 P.M.

questioned the challenger's manhood. Griffith is a millinery designer. But Griffith expressed sor Billy Casper Paul Bondeson Jack Nicklaus Ben Hogan Ted Kroll Bob Goalby Bobby Nichols Dave Ragan Buddy Sullivan Jon Gustin Lionel Hebert Cary Middlecoff Jim Ferree Gary Player Arnold Palmer Jack McGowan Harold Hennmq Frank Boynton Frank Stranahan Tommy Bolt Art Wall Jim Ferrier Ed Julius Boros Tommy Aaron Tommy Jacobs Jimmy Powell row Monday night over the in- with Bob Goalby at the start of the day's play, looked like a $950 juries. $950 $950 three-under-par 36-36 69 for a 286 which left him tied for fourth place just three shots certain winner after going two under-par with a 34 on the behind Casper. tl-ti-l I-J iTJ 74- 72-72-75293 75- 72-71-75-293 71- 71-73-78-293 74-73-75-72294 73-73-77-71 294 73- 75-74-72294 72- 75-74-73294 72-74-71-75-294 70-74-74-74-294 70-74-74-73-295 74- 74-73-74-295 75- 72-70-71-29! "I'm sorry now that I ever became a fighter," he said.

"I guess I'll go on fighting sometime, somewhere, but I don't want to think about it now. Everything's been a nightmare since Saturday night." Sam Snead finished in the money barely for the 41st $950 $475 $675 $475 $475 $475 $400 $400 $400 front nine. But then he collapsed to a 39 coming home for a 73, and Casper three 6hots back straight tournament in which I GREENFIELD MACK MOROSS WESTB0RN CENTER I LINCOLN PARK ARB0RLAN0 CENTER SHELBY STATE WOODWARD AT MONTCALM WONDERLAND I NORTHLAND GRAND RIVER CENTER EASTLAND CENTER I Vis has Tk Clommr I Silly MaXWll.