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2C Wednesday, Feb. 26. '64 DETROIT FREE PRESS MICHIGAN LUTHERAN COLLEGE A CAGE WINNER IN 1ST SEASON! Where There's a Will, There's a Way in Sports World president that we should have a sport," Melikan says. "So they made me athletic and he's after Joel Mason to see about Wayne. And Melikan knows when it's time for an athletic director psychology instructor to be just that.

Next year he aims to be boosted upstairs and have a new -basketball coach. erably, and there was one game where all five starters were over 20 points. Next year the Saints will have Lawrence Tech on the schedule along with DIT, and Melikan thinks he can get Western Ontario again. Hillsdale, Aquinas and Windsor, of a team when they opened their collegiate doors last fall with night classes in the two Lutheran high schools East and West. But Michigan Lutheran also had a psychology Instructor named Chris Melikan.

His basketball credentials, along with head shrinking, were some football halfback-ing at Central High and Wayne State some years ago, teaching in the Hazel Park school system, and coaching Little League football in the same neighborhood. "I argued with the school season with a 12-game winning streak, a 17-4 record, and an eye for bigger game. IF ALL THIS sounds crazy and it does don't tell Michigan Lutheran. The Saints had all the ingredients for struggling basketball failure and no ideas BY BOB riLLE The way to start basketball at a new college is with no money, no gym, no players, no plans. You can't pay a coach, and he must be willing1 to risk dishpan hands washing uniforms.

Then you end your first 'I INTEND TO MAKE IT'-CRAIG Ex-Titan Real tion's Jim Yono, Lutheran West's Max Reck. He scratched around town to find Longworth Mapp, another Highland Parker, and Mervin Gallop, out of Birmingham Seaholm. Melikan found practice time between his players' daytime jobs and their evening classes and found that Mackenzie High could be rented for games (extra fee for heat). The coach found a schedule, gas for cars to get to games, beat Cleary twice, Detroit Tech once, and split with Western Ontario in clashes with collegiate varsities. "Western Ontario was our big one," says Melikan.

"It was the first varsity we beat. "GALLOP HIT 16 of 19 shots from the outside, and their coach said he'd never seen shooting like that, and he had Detroit, St. Bonaven-ture, Canisius, Toledo, Eowl-ing Green and Valparaiso on his schedule." Gallop finished with a 28-point average, and the other starters were Mapp (22), Jackson (18), Yono (14), and Highland Park's Henry Harden (12). Reck, Visitatlo n's John Swirles, and Dearborn's Tony DePaulis also played consid BY JOE FALLS Fn Press Staff Writer LAKELAND Even in the light of day, on the broad plains of Tigertown, Pete Craig scares you. He scares you because he is so big, and because he is so honest.

He goes 6-5, this boy from U-D, and now that he's passing up the potatoes, he weighs something like 225 pounds. STUNNED, PUZZLED taste Title Fight Finish Shocks TV Fans COMPMY. t.RESCEBJRG. INDIAN. B.JVBED Free Press Photo by DICK TRIPP "HIGH THERE," is what Tiger pitching coach Stubby Overmire (left) has to say to rookie Pete Craig, ex-University of Detroit pitcher.

Stubby is 5-feet-7, compared to Craig's 6-5. NEEDING athletes to direct, Melikan found there were some in school acquainted with a basketball Highland Park's Benny Jackson, Visita- Hospital, Feared the sixth round, he couldn't lift his left arm at all. "There was nothing; to do but stop the fight. Sonny was simply defenseless." LISTON HAD won 28 straight since he suffered his only previous defeat at the hands of Detroiter Marty Marshall, Sept. 7, 1954.

He had won the title from Floyd Patterson, Sept. 25, 1962 in 2:06 of the first round and defended it in 2:10 of the first last July in Las Vegas. REWARD We are offering a $50.00 Savings Bond for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone cutting hair or practicing in basements without a state barber shop permit. CALL WO 2-8131 OR WO 2-3083 LOCAL 552 GUILD NO. 4 BARBERS UNION Industrial and Commercial PiiiG? Get 2 Prices! ff I Be Sure One Is from OUR 50TH YEAR 24-HOUR SERYICE 65 TRUCKS ALL WORK GUARANTEED 17600 LIVERNOIS UN 3-7800 15304 KERCHEVAL YA 2-9070 Iff 1 11 I i i LtJ I a AT I WGCSL Once, he was up to 260 and made Dick Radatz look like a bat boy.

BUT HIS honesty is the scarriest part of all. "I was so lousy in high school that I couldn't even make the team," he said, nibbling away on an egg salad, sandwich during lunch break. "I mean, I was really brutal. I couldn't throw the round, got in a few licks, then almost lost it all in the fifth. He came from his corner in confusion.

Ellis explained that something seemed to be bothering Clay's eyes. Liston tore after him, several times seemed within a whisker of landing the finishing blow. But Clay, backpedaling furiously, escaped to live another round, and, unknowing, was on the way to the championship. He opened the sixth with a sharp right cross to Lis-ton's head, then pounded away in a smart flurry of body and head blows, his best showing of the entire fight. THOUGH LISTON was unphfased.

Clay seemed to gain new confidence. On this card, this was the second round of the fight credited to Clay. It was to go no further. When the round was done, the fighters retired to their corners, and seconds later. Clay exploded from Ms seat in wild jubilation.

Long minutes were to pass before the studio audience had an inkling of why the fight had ended so abruptly. The natural suspicion of "fix" stems from the usual boxing arrangement which grants the unseated champion a return match against his conqueror. In this instance, such a rematch would bring about $5 million in new business. Contracts here, however, did not call for a Clay-Liston re match, although one is almost certain to come. DETROIT TV outlets did a landslide business.

More than 20.000 fans paid nearly to watch the action at Convention Arena and five Detroit theaters. At the Arena, 6.600 fans watched. The theaters were sold out. Unlucky fans at the Riviera Theater at Grand River and Joy missed all the action when the special transmission equipment broke down. Some 40 policemen were summoned to halt possible trouble from a sellout crowd of 2.800.

The theater said it was refunding the money. As it was, the number of fans and the money they paid produced Detroit's top fight crowd in more than 15 years even though the action was a mere TV picture. One Detroit Glover Wins LOUISVILLE- Only one Detroiter, 118-pounder Richard, Alexander, survived the second! round of the Golden Gloves tournament Tuesday night. Alexander outpointed Harry Lee of Cincinnati. But Gerald Foreman of Lafayette, de-cisioned Billy Hunter in the 112-pound class and Don Cobbs of St.

Louis won by default over Dennis Camp in the 147-pound division. Tiger ball anywhere near the plate. It was nobody's fault but my own." Three times Craig went out for the baseball team at Assumption High in Windsor. Three times he failed to make it. "I couldn't blame the coach.

He had two pitchers who could get the ball over, so why should he bother with me?" NOBODY bothered with Pete Craig until he went to college and began harnessing his control. Once he began throwing his fast ball over the plate for the Titans, it seemed that everybody cared. Scouts would buy his supper and his phone would ring at night. He signed with the Tigers for $20,000 and now, with just one year's experience in organized baseball-half a year, really the talk is that he might make it as a relief pitcher this season. "Listen," said Bobby Mavis, who managed Craig out In Duluth last year, "ninety per cent of this game Is confidence, and Craig's got the confidence.

He's got the fast ball, too, and isn't afraid to throw It." Craig's figures were slightly sensational last season. He pitched 122 innings at Duluth and struck out 117 batters. He walked only 28. They gave him a brief whirl at Knoxville and he proved it was no fluke by fanning 11 and walking only three in a 14-inning trial. "YOU SHOULD have seen me in the Winter League," Craig said.

"I was horrible. I couldn't do anything right. I guess I must have worked only once a week and I got into a rut and couldn't get out of it." But now he's ready to go again. He worked in the salt mines over in Ojibway, outside of Windsor, and got his weight down by playing bean bag with 100-pound sacks of salt. "You'll probably think I'm an egoist, but I don't Intend to make a career for myself In the minors.

There's only once place to pitch and that's In the big leagues and I intend to make it. "You understand what I mean?" Sure, Pete, sure. We understand. We sure do understand. We're with you, lad.

Go get em: DAVE WICKERSHAM, the lanky righthander acquired from Kansas City, showed up Tuesday, and took part in the indoor drill at Tigertown. There had been talk that Wickersham would be used as a relief pitcher but manager Charlie Dressen, after learning that Wickersham had beaten Minnesota, an old Tiger trouble spot, seven times, said he would give Wickersham a chance to be a starting pitcher. Dressen will come to grips with baseball's senior manager, Casey Stengel, when the Tiger rookies play the New York rookies at Henley Field Wednesday. Perfecto! Steve Irme. who carries a 198 average in the Oakwood Blue jackets bemor House League, fired a 300 game a Inight.

Irme started with a 185 roiled his 300 and then finished with a 162. College Cage TUESDAY'S RESULTS STATE North wood Inst. 17, Hillsdale to. OTHER GAMES Baflor 17, Texas Christian 7. Boston U.

St, Buffalo S4. Butler 73, Depairw 71. Clemsan 43, South Carolina SO. ueiaware el. Lemon Duke tl.

Wake Forest 13. Georgetown (1, Maryland 71. Holy Cross I. Boston Col. 4.

Lone Island CCNY 44. Notre Dame 1, Evansville 75. i Ohio U. as. Morelwad 47.

Ohio Wesleyan 7f, Otterbein 7 uKianome tuy 105, centenary M. Syracuse corned 5. St. John's (N.Y.) 11, Massachusetts 7, Southern Methodist M. Arkantit 71.

Texas AIM 12, Texas Tech 71. Texas n. Rice 13. Temple II, Scranton 71. Western Reserve 14, Alleaheny S5.

western Kentucky i7, LaSalle S. RING FAST DEPENDABLE SERVICE IIGHT TO TOUR DOOR PHONE 366-5404 OUR SERVICE SHOP illl Carpenter Bids Packers Adieu GREEN BAY, Wis. UP)-For-j mer ueiron jaon naiiDatK Carpenter has announced his retirement as a player with the Green Bay Packers. Carpenter, who broke in with the Lions in 1954, said he will join the Minnesota Vikings as jan end coach. American Zone Cup Draw Set NEW YORK (jpi Canada will play host to Australia and New Zealand will be at home to Mexico in the opening round of the 1964 American Zone Davis Cup tennis matches, it was an nounced Tuesday.

Both series must be completed by July 19. THREE WORDS I Wl, KESSllS Continued from First Sport won the first round, surprising Liston with his footwork, darting away from him, then back in at him to sting the champion with repeated lefts. But early in the second round. Liston caught Clay with a glancing left hook to the jaw. It was a blow which awakened, while almost silencing, Clay.

In the third round, a solid left hook, then a right upper-cut to the chin delivered in a clinch had Clay in his worst trouble. CLAY AVOIDED Liston through most of the fourth Clay Tells World: Tm Continued from First Sport hospital, and here I am, still pretty as I can be. "That Big Bear was an amateur. If he wants to fight me, he will have to work his way up. I want Eddie Machen and Doug Jones." Machen and Jones are among the leading heavyweight contenders.

Machen on a comeback after a nervous breakdown a year ago and Jones seeking a return bout with Clay after holding him to a close decision in New York. Clay chided the sports writers for making him such a one-sided underdog. Bookmakers had it 7-1 in the latest betting before the fight and no better than even money to last five rounds. "Don't ever make me an underdog," he added. "I can lick the world." CLAY WAS asked what happened in the fourth round when he apparently had trouble seeing.

"He had linanient on his glove," the surprising boxer explained. "Almighty God was with me," Clay continued. "He Liston never hurt me. I took his best punches." And then Clay charged: "The man was dirty and he couldn't even hurt me." Asked if he would give Liston a return bout. Clay said he would if Liston would apologize.

"Sonny Liston 'was not even a match for me, but he must apologize." CLAY'S PULSE had slowed down to 64 when he was examined in his dressing room Tuesday night. Dr. Alexander Bobbins, examining physician of the Miami Beach Boxing Commission, who had reported Clay's pulse at 120 at the wild morning weigh-in, conducted the examination. Clay delayed the routine pre-fight exam while he lingered in the back of the arena to watch his brother, Rudolph Valentino Clay, win a decision in his pro debut over Chip Johnson of Naples, Fla. Rudy, 20, dropped Johnson in the second round.

He was shaken later but weathered the storm. German Pullout DORTMUND, Germany UP) East Germany withdrew its three contestants from the World figure skating champion ships Tuesday following a dispute with the West German KHiSwY. P5 ROOT. 72 KTJTMl HITS MEAN KESSLER 2V ARM IS NUMB Liston in Fracture Continued from First Sport der at the tailend of the first round. THE CROWD of some 8,000, not realizing what was going on, listened in disbelief as referee Barney Felix announced the verdict.

"I made the decision," Jack Nilon, adviser of Liston, announced to a horde of reporters in a post fight press conference that was supposed to be held by Liston. "Liston insisted he could go on, but his arm was numb and I -just couldn't send him out to fight with one arm," said Nilon. Nilon explained how Liston suffered the crippling injury. "We've been advised by Dr. Robert C.

Bennett, Liston's personal physician, that at the tail end of the first round, Sonny, trying to block a punch by Clay, took a shot in the left shoulder," said Nilon. CO M-PLAINED of numbness in the shoulder when he returned to his corner after the round. "It became progressively worse with each eucceeding round. The punch had a sort of paralyzing effect. The numbness moved down to his hand and, by the end of isMSKaT5M.il ri -1 8 N.

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