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May 1. '64 1I DETROIT FREE PRESS Friday. its ackpo BY GEORGE PUSCAS Alex Karras became the highest paid lineman in the history of pro football Thursday when he signed a two-year contract with the Lions calling for a salary of nearly $30,000 a year. The huge all-pro tackfe, suspended through 1963 and only recently reinstated, came to terms with Lion personnel director Russ Thomas following a brief morning meeting. Neither Thomas nor Karras would indicate the actual value of the contract.

But, said Thomas: "WE CONSIDER him as fine a player at his position as there is in football. Nat urally, we expected to pay him that way." Karras earned about $18,000 in 1962, the year before his suspension from football for betting on games. "I wouldn't say I got back all the money I lost last year," said Karras, "but I'm happy with the new contract." It was evident that the new contract places Karras somewhere in the range, and among the top paid players in the National Football League. The Cleveland Browns fullback Jimmy Brown is generally considered the highest paid player in football at about $45,000 a year. H1TH THE exception of linebacker captain Joe Schmidt, no Lion defensive player has ever been paid more than $20,000.

Schmidt, who made $22,000 in 1963, is presently negotiating his new contract. Thomas, who assumed the new personnel director job last January shortly Turn to Page 5D, Column 5 4 VL4K $30,000 Our Al on the Derby a oure thing Free Press Phofo by WALLY STEIGER It was a contract-waving day for the Lions and Alex Karras LOLICH BELTED 12 Colts To Run for The Roses A Swamn Hill Rise LJK JL Tigers, 10-3 r.Y JOE FALLS FrM Press Sports Writfir KANSAS CITY Coach Babe Dahlgren of the Kansas City A's filmed Thursday's game against the Tigers from the press box, and it turned out to be a horror movie. The Tigers scared poor old Charlie Dressen out of his wits ing Jim Gentile picked up and with a frightening display of ran from second to third base. yn- I S' yf i i ss t- hi -4 Hill Rise: A breeze on Derby Day? Northern Dancer Is Second Choice BY AL COFFMAN Fre Preu Turf Writer LOUISVILLE The stage is set, the actors both thoroughbred and human fidget nervously in the wings and in little more than 24 hours the curtain will go up on the "Hill Rise Derby." To most critics including this one the 90th running of the Kentucky Derby Saturday looks like a Hill Rise show. A lot of rival horsemen realized this Thursday, and only 12 of the 15 or 16 three-year-olds expected to enter turned up in the entry box.

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But Northern Dancer and all the other challengers, from con-! tenders Quadrangle, Mr. Brick, the Scoundrel and Roman and out 01 Billy Bruton glove Kansas 5. .1 2B McAu iffe. Demeter. HR -Rev- ana went over the centeriield noids.

Gentile. Coiaviti. chanes. Brother to outsiders Royal Shuck and Extra Swell, will have to be at their best to handle Hill Rise off the form AP Photos WHAT'S THAT THEY SAY about the way the ball bounces? Ask Tiger outfielder Billy Bruton, who got his glove (left) on a fly ball by, KC's Tom Reynolds only to have it pop out and drop over the fence (circle) for a first-inning homer in the A's 10-3 win Thursday. fence for a three-run homer.

lioiich 2-1 2P 3 5 ESR stJ Later, Norm Cash got into a 32233 hassle with umpire Ed Hurley; Koch 1 0 0 0 0 1 ot ri-i, P(na W. 2-2 9 11 3 3 1 5 at first base and while Cash; hb bv Pena (McAuiifte. werti. was jawing away, big, lumber-j u.7.H6aMeJey- Flaherty, carriaan. the California whiz kid dis-j played in the Derby Trial a few days ago.

In 1962 George Pope's El Peco Ranch got lucky here, when it won the Derby with Decidedly, but this time it has the clas9 horse in Hill Rise. He's a horse with everything it takes to be great, not only in the Derby itself, but afterward when he moves into handicap company. In Willie Shoemaker he has Titans Sparkle on Gridiron H-H-S BUDGET BY JACK BERRY the finest jockey of our time, Something old and a lot that's perhaps of all time. In the 73- year-old Bill Finnegan he has new boosted hopes at the Uni- a trainer in the Ben Jones mold versity of Detroit Thursday I who can bring a horse up to; night as the Reds beat thei peak for a big- race like Derby. Whites, 28-7, in the wimcHip of BUY spring football practice.

1 HILL RISE is a big, long-striding colt who has swept everything in sight once he started running farther than five-eighths of a mile. The 1, The Titans, climbing- back from two straight sorrowful seasons with only three victories in 18 'tries, showed a bundle of young backs, classy Detroiter Tom Beer at end, and some kicking. They also showed that Ron Bishop, the Shrine product who was scholastically ineligible last miles of the Derby is his meat. He has the speed to stay with the pace, but Shoemaker KENTUCKY DERBY ANSWERS that will be no good unless these questions are asked before Saturday's 90th running of the historic race down at Louisville Answer: They gave Congress power to reach into a fellow's pocket and pick it clean of everything but lint; called it personal income tax. Question: What happened in 1913 when a longshot named Donerail paid $184.90 to everybody who plunked $2 on the nose of the biggest winner in Derby history? Answer: Regret.

Question: A total of 29 fillies have started in the Derby. What was the winning cry in 1915 and the losing feeling of bettors who backed the 28 gals in other years 1 Answer: "I don't know if it should be called Derby or Darby, but this thing on my head is a bowler. Question: When Lord Derby, on whose estate the first English Darby was run in 1780, visited Churchill Downs, what did he say was on his mind? Answer: as in Beatles. Question: When hunch bettors go for the first letter in a horse's name, which one produced 10 winners for 'em Quality, Not Quantity Answer: Two is company, three's a crowd and four is a lot of wasted effort. Question: What's the moral to be picked up from the 1923 Derby when Greentree Stable entered four colts as an entry and saw them finish 20th, 15th, seventh and sixth in a field of 21? Answer: You tell me, but he won! Question: Why woula anybody take a colt that was bred in Illinois, foaled in Montana, trained in Tennessee and raced in Kentucky and name him Spokane? Answer: Might as well make the first one a big one.

Question: If a horse could talk, what did Sir Barton say when he pranced into the winner's circle in 1919 after making the Derby the first race he ever won? Answer: It was nice while it lasted. Question: And what were the. immortal words of Brokers Tip whose 1933 Derby triumph not only was his first victory, but his last one? Answer: That's keeping it in the family, boy. Question: What was the line when Reigh Count (who won in 1928) got together with his son, Count Fleet (who won in 1943) and his grandson, Count Turf (who won in 1951)? Kentucky Way in Front Answer: Color blind. Question: Since the Derby has been won 40 times by bay colts, 29 times by chestnuts, 14 times by browns, four times by blacks and twice by grays, what is the best way for a hunch bettor to be Saturday? Answer: There's no place like home.

Question: What can you make of the fact that one Kentucky Derby winner was born in Kansas, one in Virginia, one in Montana, one in Missouri, one in Ohio, two in Florida, two in England, two in Texas, two in New Jersey, three in California and three in Tennessee while the other 70 were foaled in Kentucky? showed in the Derby Trial that Hill Rise can turn it on from behind. From his No. 11 post position in the Derbv itself, wnu serve as a steady should be able to settle into 7- stride and then run when he l5, or better than ever wants to. i Hill Rise Is no pampered darling as Rex Ellsworth's Candy Spots was in the 1963 Derby. He has raced regularly and hard.

He has the benefit of two races in Kentucky, the latest over the derby track just in time for the big race. Running FRI. SAT. ONLY! TWO-TROUSER TROPICAL SUITS OF DACRON -WOOL-MOHAIR over a track far from fast, he BISHOP AND Beier will be two of the few seniors in the fall on a team that will be predominately sophomore-junior with 20 returning lettermen and the best sophomore crop in years. Beier scored twice, gained 85 yards in 14 carries and turned in one of the night's best runs, a 27-yarder that set up his second touchdown.

After Beier the sophs-to-be were the stars on the chilly, damp night before a sparse crowd. And, there is even a Beier in the new group Fred's younger brother, Tom, a 5-10, 185-pound halfback who gained 30 yards in three Turn to Page 4D, Column 5 won in lightning time. Can any of the others have so much said in their behalf? 70 BUDGET BUY PRICED 47 Northern Dancer comes closest to matching Hill Rise, but he's smaller, even more sensitive. WHILE HILL RISE was nervous at the gate in the Derby Turn to Page 4D, Column 4 Mow They'll Mini Here is how the field for the 90th running of the famed Kentucky Derby looks to Al Coffman, veteran Free Press turf expert. As Michigan's leading handicapper, Coffman has covered more Derbies than any other Detroit writer.

Al's pick? Hill Rise. Take cool, lighrweight Dacronwool, this summer's favored blend. Add rich, resilient mohair, and you have a suiting as luxurious as it is crisp, cool and collected. It's beautifully tailored in a trim 3 button model with TWO PAIRS of pleated trousers; or a 2-button model with TWO PAIRS of pleatless trousers. Solids and neat effects in navy, black, grey and olive.

In a complete size range. And there's no charge for alterations and it's a tremendous value! odds, Sitf- i 8.1 1 II ml PP Horse Comment Jockey 11 HILL KISi: Rise and shine W. Shoemaker 7 NORTHERN DANCER Cool Cat W. Hartack 1 SIR. BRICK Solid speed I.

Valenzuela 2 Quadrangle Tough at times R. Ussery 3 Wil Rad Speed won't do J. Vasquez 4: Extra Swell Not swell enough M. Volzke OPEN FRIDAY I SATURDAY TO 9 P.M. IShelbr ooen 5:45) Answer: Hill Rise.

Question: Who will win this one? Answer Mint Julep, wow Question: What added starter always gives Derby fans the biggest kick for their money? J. Combest M. Ycaza R. Baldwin M. Solomone H.

Bolin W. Chambers. 5 Mr. Moonlight Another night 6 The Scoundrel Beware, surprise 8 Ishkoodah In-and-out closer 9 Dandy Dandy in name only 10 Royal Shuck More like shucks 12 Roman Brother Little but game 20-1 NORTHLAND EASTLAND GRAND RIVER GREENFIELD 30-1 10-1 1 SHELBY STATE MACK MOROSS WOODWARD AT MONTCALM WONDERLAND WESTBORN LINCOLN PARK ARBORLAND PONTIAC MALL.