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Ill TRAVELIN' MUSIC FOR KARRAS ALEX MAS DC Sic SOME KEO IN' THE RING ANi? ON Tr4 GPi! 77" 9 Lions DETROIT FREE PRESS Wednesday. Nov. 25. iackie of 'When there's football to be played, whether it's on the Cranbrook practice field in midsummer, or, the frozen turfs of December, nobody steams as quickly or as continuously as Karras. "It's his pride," attests Les Bingaman, coach of the Lions defensive line.

vHe doesn't want anybody to get the best of him on a football' field." Nobody does. KARRAS, a GIANT 255-pound tackle in his fifth season with the Lions, has been named to manipulates-ball carriers as artfully as. the comic guardian oT Lion Team Spirit. HE BREAKS 'EM UP in the lockerroom. He keeps 'em loose on the practice, field.

He is, beyond being the one. best defensive tackle in football, the one. best mimic of his game a sort of Jackie Gleason in spiked shoes. 1 There's a strange paradox in Karras. For although he is the funniest Lion, he is also the angriest.

BY GEORGE PUSCAS Someday, when the town is in proper humor, Lion coach George Wilson really must consider, using Alex Karras at quarterback. The guy's great! No, not much of an arm. Not much for leg, either. And, come to think of it, maybe he cannot. even call signals.

But, except for such details, nobody runs; a better huddle, makes a more captivating picture at the line of scrimmage, or fakes and 9 the NFL's All-Pro team for the last two years. He's a cinch to make it again this season. "He's the 'best pass rusher in football bar insists Bingaman. Tig I Bait Trade A Chisox Nibble "With Roger Brown along- side him, we've got the two best tackles anywhere, maybe at anytime." Karras is deceiving. He runs with "short, waddling strides, seems to be slow afoot.

One mate insists he runs like a mad duck, or a girl in a tight skirt. THE POINT IS, the stride deceives, for Karras despite his great bulk has chased and caught from behind some of the swiftest backs in the pro world. "He's quick on his eet agile and quick with his hands," Bingaman said. "It's those two things that make him so hard to hold out of the enemy backfield that, plus he's mean and tough on the fields The Lions' defensive line severely punished the Packers on Thanksgiving Day. The spotlight largely was on Brown, and for a special reason, It might remain that way the rest of the season.

During the last five weeks, With Apa new if I "i "'(''' i iininr BY LYALL SMITH Frt Pre Sport Editor ROCHESTER, N.Y. Just how valuable is Roeky Cola-vito? That's the problem the Tigers weighed here Tuesday as the pigeons they dispatched with trade offers started com-- ing home to roost. Rocky Colavito Lion rivals have gone to double IF -THEY TIE, PLAY GB HERE variably, they've had pairs of i i ILyall Smith blockers teamed keep the big tackle immobolized. Not even that, though, has worked. With Karras tying up two there are fewer men around to work on Toss the Lions 'Win They are trying to trade for a starting pitcher and a regular shortstop.

They are trying to get one, or without breaking up their front line of Colavito, Billy Bruton, Al Ka-line, Norm Cash, Dick McAul-lffe, Jim Bunning or Hank Aguirre. It looks like a losing proposition unless they give up Colavito with his 37 homers and 112 RBL Cassius Clay Red Sox Pitch Picks Up Power Is Stadium Sunday, in Tiger Dec 23. 1 MACHEN MONEY BY GEORGE PUSCAS On a' gridiron or at a conference table, the Lions can handle the Green Bay Packers. Lion general manager Edwin J. Anderson took charge Tuesday and bested the Packers.

He called it right at special coin flipping ceremonies in New to determine where the Lions and Packers will play, in the event they tie for the NFL's Western Division championship. The" playoff would be held then went on to smash Cleveland for the NFL championship. Mathematically, a three-way tie for first place in the West is still possible. With a 7-4 record, the Chicago Bears are still alive. If the triple tie develop, the Lions and Tackers will meet at Green Bay Dec.

23, with the Bears idle. The winners would be host to a second playoff game with the Bears on Sunday, Dec. 30. That multiple rlayoff Turn to Page 2D, Column Prediction Could Pay Off for Clay PORTLAND, Ore. (UPD Young heavyweight Cassius Despite their shattering 26-14 loss to the Lions on Thanksgiving Day, the Packers (10-1) maintain a one-game lead over the Lions (9-2) with three games left on the schedule.

IF THE LIONS catch and tie the Packers, they would then be ordered into their second title playoff in six years. 1 In 1957, they beat the San Francisco 49ers in a play "WE'VE HAD several offers for admitted Jimmie Campbell. "But they've been on the ridiculous side." Two of the deals involved the Chicago White Sox, who in one offered shortstop Luis Aparicio even up in an effort to get-Rocky's big bat to Comiskey Park. They also dangled tWra baseman-outfielder Al Smith, a rookie shortstop named Al Weis and one of several secondary pitchers In front of Tiger noses as another bait for Colavito. $10,000 if he can name the Eddie Machen, then follow ROCHESTER, N.Y.

SOMEBODY REMINDED Johnny Pesky, new manager of the Red Sox, that his new first baseman, Dick Stuart, had hit 66 home runs off Western League pitching seven years ago. And that the cocky kid was so impressed by his muscular stunt that when he was asked, for autographs he signed like this: "Dick Stuart, 66." "You've impressed me," observed Pesky from behind a long cigar. "And so will Stuart if he's only half that strong for me next summer." Li'l John makes no attempt to hide the premise that Boston is determined to slug the baseball in an effort to pull up the Sox. They were a good-pitch no-hit team last season, went no place. So now they're heading hopefully in the other direction.

To get Stuart, they traded Don Schwall, their elongated pitcher who was the league's top Tookie two years ago. As for Their Fielding, Well STILL NOT SATISFIED, they swapped Pete Runnels, defending batting champion, to Houston in a second trade that crossed over into the National League to pick up a would-be outfielder named Roman Me jias. This character collected 25 homers last year and will try to escape possible injury as a leftfielder for Pesky. "I don't believe he's as bad a fielder as some people say," Pesky offered. But despite the banter, it's a cinch that the short high Aparicio.

the 29-year-old transplanted Venezuelan, has been the American League's outstanding shortstop since 1958, and led the AL in stolen bases since 1956 when he was rookie of the year. His lifetime batting Clay Tuesday was offered round he can knock out through. Sid Flaherty, Machen's manager, issued the challenge. "If he'll fight Machen," he said, "we'll post'a cashier's check. It's all his if he can name the round." Clay recently predicted he would dispose of veteran Archie Moore in the fourth round and did.

Flaherty said, "sof ar Clay's fought the usual run of washed up fighters and one ancient warrior. Machen's been trying to get Moore into the ring for the last four years and hasn't had any luck. Clay's been mouthy enough to pick the round for nearly every heavyweight fight he's had. Let's see him do it now." Machen, who fight out of Portland, backed up his manager. "It he can pick the round against me, then make it good, I'll crawl across the ring on my hands and knees and give him the check." MEN'S HOCKEY SKATES WITH Hockey TENDON GUARD lovers take note! Your whole family will have fun together this winter with ice skates from Hudson's Here's a real skate-full of value.

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He hit .292 last year with 16 homers. Weis was an All-Star team shortstop at Indianapolis in 1962, is a slap-hitter with a .296 average and according to the Sox is just what the doctor ordered for Detroit's attempts to improve on Chico Fernandez. "We listened," said Campbell. "That's alL" THEY' ALSO listened to Washington's ideas about giving up a pitcher, to Kansas City's glowing praise of in-fielders Wayne Causey and Dick Howser and to Milwaukee's proposals for any of a handful of players, none of whom are in the Eddie Math-ews-Joe Adcock-Roy McMillan class. Campbell tried to pin Johnny McHale, his ex-boss, for a swap Turn to Page 2-D, Column 2 J.

Braves Juggle Two Ex-Tiirers bruises now that Stuart and Mejias are swinging at it. And that Boston fans will suffer many nervous moments when the pair of newcomers throw away their bats and put on the glove as fielders. Stuart started in the majors as an outfielder with the Pirates. "Best way to explain the way he played out there is to say that he was brave," gallantly stated Danny Murtaugh, his MILWAUKEE CP) Former Detroit Tiger player Dale Alexander, 59, wa3 named by the Milwaukee Braves as a scout for Tennessee, Northern Alabama and Southwestern Virginia. He replaces another ex-Tiger, Dixie Walker, who became a Braves coach.

v-f Wm iv ir 1 'r ex-manager at Pittsburgh. After awarding him some mental medals for gallantry in action as an outfielder, Murtaugh pulled him in to first base all 6-3 and 215 pounds Johnny Pesky Adcock Braves vV I Goes to Indians GIRLS', WOMEN'S SKATES White cowhide shoes, plaid lined, insulated with poly-foam for warmth. Hollow ground blades. Girls' 13 to 3, 6.99; ROCHESTER, N.Y. (LTD First baseman Joe Adcock was traded by the Milwaukee Braves to the Cleveland Indians Tuesday night in a five-player deal which was the 9.50 wromen come in sizes 4 to 10, for just ninth trade this week with the Braves this season but' hit 29 homers and drove In 78 runs.

His acquisition makes It possible for. Tribe first baseman Tito Francona to return to the outfield. Funk, a 27 -year -old righthander was one of the American League's most effective reliefers in 1961 when he won 11 games for the Indians, but he of him. This happened four years ago. His first two hits at his new post accounted for seven Pittsburgh runs.

Both blows cleared the fences. Season before last, he hit 35 homers for the Bucs and' pulled his average up to a strong .301. He slipped badly in 1962, managed only 16 homers. Fenway Wall Is Appealing BUT PESKY IS CONFIDENT that Fenway Park, with its short leftfield fence, will mean new life for the ebullient Mr. Stuart.

Still fresh in memory are recollections of Stuart when he first came up to the Bucs' training camp. Fresh from his 66 homers the previous season, he was the object of universal inspection when he came to bat. Dick disappointed nobody. In his first three exhibition games he belted five homers. His fielding was brutal.

As' a first it ha bettered itself. But Murtaugh still laughs at remembrance of the day last summer in Wrigley Field just before the start of a game with the Cubs. The park announcer gave the lineups and then, gave out the customary pre-game spiel; "Anyone who interferes with the ball on the field," came the voice, "will be ejected from the park. Stuart turned to Murtaugh. "Is he talking about me he wanted to know.

won only two games and lost The 35-year-old Adcock went to Cleveland along with left-handed pitcher Jack Curtis, who promptly was assigned to the Indians' Jacksonville farm club of the International League. In return for Adcock, and Curtis Braves received relief pitcher Frank Funk, outfielder Don Dillard and a player to be specified at a later date. THIS WAS the third transaction of the day. In earlier deals, the New York Mets purchased righthanded pitcher Wynn Hawkins from the Indians, and the Philadelphia Phillies swapped righthander Jim Owens to the Cincinnati Reds for infielder Cookie Rojas. Key men In the five-man deal between the Braves and Indians were Adcock and Funk.

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