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13, '68 Ml TJ jCi Asks for Time Seymour DETROIT FREE PRESS Friday, Dec. BY JACK SAYLOK When things go wrong as they have for the Pistons seven straight defeats it's too much to expect instant corrections for everything that's gone sour. "Give us a little time and we'll get things straightened out," new coach Paul Seymour, who is winless in five starts since replacing Donnis Butcher 10 days ago, has pleaded. In the case of the Pistons both their offense and defense failed simultaneously. rRIOK TO THE slump, the Pistons had been averaging almost 118 points per game.

But in their skid, they've hit 118 only once in a 132-118 loss to Boston. Five other times the club couldn't achieve 110 points and then there was the 83-pointer against Chicago last Tuesday, one of the four most futile efforts in the team's Detroit history. Defensively, things have been even worse for the Pistons. They started the week last, among the National Basketball Association's 14 teams in giving up points an average of 120.7 per game. This compared to leading Boston's 105.2 and the 117.7 and 117.9, respectively, of Phoenix and Milwaukee, the two newest expansion clubs.

BUT, IF nothing else, the Pistons' 100-S3 loss at Chicago Tuesday and 108-106 reversal to Boston at Cobo Arena Wednesday proved to Seymour that the Pistons were making improvement in one vital department. "We played them pretty tough," Seymour said Thursday during a practice at Cobo. "It was our aim to make the Celtics shoot long from 15-18 feet away. That's what happened. They just were pretty hot.

The same held true in Chicago. Seymour felt the Pistons did an excellent job "of boxing out" the Celtics. "We kept them away from getting a lot of second and third efforts and this showed up in our outrebounding them, something which doesn't happen very often against Boston. If Tyson Earned Cilys Respect mmmii Vr Tram f1- 1 i it HOPEFUL that the Pistons have discovered they can play tighter defense, Seymour turned most of his attention in the Thursday drill to offense. It'll be the same Friday when the team wraps up preparations for Saturday night's game with the new Phoenix Suns at Cobo.

"We're not passing the ball enough," explained Seymour, as he called attention to the final statistical sheet on Wednesday's game. "Imagine we had only seven OUR OLD BOSS AT THE Detroit Times, Edgar Hayes, was sitting in the office one day trying to do a story when he asked: "Anyone know the last year Bobby Veach played for the Tigers?" "Bobby who?" came the reply from our side of the room. Edgar never quite forgave me for that. From that day on, I was always "Bobby Who" to him. Edgar was a good newspaperman, an honest one, and he'd say: "You know, that's where Sam Greene has us he's got antiq- MVm, -7' BV ft 1 lunrtriftmiPtff 'wcrx4 fcSi an nigm.

usually you have that many in a quarter." Seymour is working to spring the Pistons clear for shots closer in. "Unless you move the ball, you're not going to free anybody for a good percentage shot." THE PISTONS obviously weren't taking the good percentage shots against Boston. They made only 38 out of 100. All young-sters attending Saturday night's game will receive free a Pistons' basketball when purchasing a reserved seat. AP Photo Flett, only a second-year man in the National Hockey League, has played against the Red Wings six times and scored the hat trick in three of the games.

IT'S THAT MAN AGAIN Los Angeles' Bill Flett (No. 17) pulls Red Wing goalie Roger Crozier out of the net (top photo) and then fires in one of his three goals Wednesday night as Detroit lost, 6-3. Seals Ambush Wings AP Photo NO CHANCE, at least not this season. That's what the grimace on Cowboy halfback Dan Reeves' face means as trainer Don Cochren exercises his battered knee. Reeves, injured in October, had hoped to return by playoff time, but now it'll be next year.

Hill Back With Colts SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Well, that's true. I don't have antiquity. My impressions of Detroit extend back only to 1953, and this is unfortunate because that was the year Ty Tyson quit broadcasting in this town. So I didn't know Ty and when I heard the news of his death while driving to work Thursday morning, I felt a little sad.

Not so much at his death because this is a fate that comes to all men and Ty Tyson, at 80, must have lived a full, rich life. I felt sad because I didn't know him. I hadn't heard him on those Tiger broadcasts and wasn't a part of his era which must have been a great one in this town. I'd see Ty at a sports luncheon at the Press Club or in the press room at Tiger Stadium. We'd say hello and chat a little and that was about it.

But two things impressed me about him that black beret he always wore and the fact I never heard him not even once knock the modern-day broadcasters or modern-day ball players. He seemed like a nice man. IlozoIIe's AH ion Was Sound SORRY, BUT I CAN'T share the opinions of our colleagues in Baltimore and Pittsburgh who felt Pete Rozelle was too harsh, and even unfair, in suspending those six officials after last Sunday's game in Los Angeles. And as for the charge Rozelle was playing favorites because he once worked for the Rams that's too childish to comment on. The officials made a blunder, one that could have cost the Rams a shot at the championship.

It was their responsibility to keep track of the downs. They are paid good money to see that things are run right, even in the heat of battle, and especially when everyone else around them is getting excited. What was Rozelle to do? Tell 'em to forget it get it right next time, fellers? The critics complain about baseball because it doesn't have firm leadership at the top. Here Rozelle takes a firm step and he gets rapped for it. I think his punishment was a fair one, but if he really -iiP! rett scored one and assisted on another.

Seal Goalie Gary Smith helped out with his second shutout in three games. It was Oakland's biggest scoring splurge of the season, and Hampson started it off with a goal at 1:22 of the first period. HOWEVER, the fireworks came in the second period as a rookie, Norm Ferguson, hit the nets with just 38 gecondu elapsed and Gerry Ehuian scored a second at 1 :03. Ferguson get another at 8:06, and Jarrett chipped in later in the period with his. The Wings now retreat to Olympia where they will get a rematch with the Seals at 2 p.m.

Saturday, the first of two Saturday matinees this season. Then Sunday night they take on the Minnesota North Stars. Running back Timmy Brown of the Baltimore Colts suffered Special to the Free Press OAKLAND The Detroit Red Wings have found the West very unfriendly. They were ambushed by the Oakland Seals and a couple of old teammates Thursday night, 6-0, in a National Hockey League game. Former Red Wings Ted Hampson and Gary Jarrett figured prominently in the massacre.

Hampson had a goal and three assists, and Jar a pulled leg muscle during Wednesday's workout, but the seriousness of the injury was not immediately ascertained. In any event, fullback Jerry Ty Tyson 1st Voice of Tigers, Dies BY GARY BLONSTON Free Press Staff Writer Edwin Lloyd (Ty) Tyson, the original voice of the Detroit Tigers and a man with a broadcast history as Hiu, vno suffered a knee injury on Nov. 10 and went on the in active list, will be activated this FIRST PERIOD 1. Oakland, Hampson, (Ferguson, Jarrett) 1:22. Penalties Law-son Marshall Odrowski Leclerc SECOND PERIOD-2.

Oakland, Ferqu- jNajjcl Leads AUCKLAND, New Zealand week by the Coastal Division champions of the National Football League. Hill must be on the active roster for the Colts' final resr- Locclie ins TOKYO (UPI) Argentina's Nicolino Locche won the world son (tnman) 3. Oakland, Efiman (Hampson) 4 (Ehman, Hampson) 5. Oakland, Jarrett (Vad-mais, Hicke) Penalties Baun iPr Kel Nagel. veteran Australian golfer, shot a course record Odrowski Douglas 64 Thursday and held a three- ular season game against the i welterweight boxing Baun Marshall Bergman stroke lead after the first round TUIDn PCDinn risLianH U.rLn Rams in Los AngelPs on Sunday to be eligible for the NFL play- (vadnais, Hampson) Penalties Baun jof New Zealand international championship Thursday night when Paul Fuji refused to come out for the 10th round.

Igolf tournament. Shots on goal: Detroit 24, Oakland 40. oti contests. old as radio, died Thursday morning in Cottage Hospital, Grosse Pointe Farms. He was 80.

Ty Tyson, who spent 31 years with WWJ radio before his retirement in 1953, was the first man to broadcast a midwestern football game (Michigan 21, Wisconsin 0, 1924) and the first to broadcast a regularly scheduled baseball game (Detroit 8, Cleveland 5. 1927). Calm and precise in his com- ment. Tyson was to several generations of Michigan sjxirts fans the last -nvord and for years the word in local sportscasting. In.

1934, 'when the broadcast networks said Tyson couldn't covefr the- World Scries cause was partial tr the American i League-xjsampion SELLING SPECIAL Tigers 600,000 fans petitioned 1 WOOL WORS TED TWO- TROUSER SUITS ONLY wanted to pin it down, he could have dealt only with the head linesman since it was his specific responsibility to keep track of the down box. But that, for obvious reasons, really would have brought the skies down on Rozelle. The head linesman was a Negro. Funny, but I keep thinking of where quarterback Roman Gabriel was all this time. And coach George Allen, too.

It seems like it's their job to also keep count of the downs. Student Ilcaciiou Puzzling A TRIP TO YPSILANTI to see the University of Detroit-Eastern Michigan game produced some mixed emotions. It was warming to see those Eastern Michigan students present a plaque to Spencer Haywood for his contributions to the U.S. Olympic team and listen to the EM students give Haywood such a thunderous ovation. But the reaction of some of the black students was dismaying.

When the national anthem was played, these students, about 100 in number, thrust their fists outward the way Tommie Smith and John Carlos did at the Olympic Games in Mexico City. This gave the impression that these students weren't respecting the flag as much as they were protesting against it. That isn't what troubled me, though. If they want to use this form of protest, okay. It is their right, and as I've said here before, being a white man I cannot hope to fully understand the deep problems and feelings of the colored race.

What did bother me was the way these same students sat there so passively during the game, which was about as exciting as a basketball game can get. They hardly reacted at all. while everyone else around them was going wild with excitement. It seemed like they were missing an awful lot, a little piece of what college life is all about. Not the most important part, certainly, but a vital part in its own way.

True, it was only a game but it was a time to let yourself go, to forget your worries to enjoy the excitement of the moment. But they weren't involved and it was sad to see. for. a cdiar.ge'" of heart. THEV AVON a place it- the-Seriftsf for Tyson and WWJ, andvsJheTigers won the: '-title.

The riext year -the. National BroaWatiRg: Co. asked Tyson ttf.heatf.iheir World Series" cove rag Phillipsbiu g. Pa Tyson canv8fo Detroit in 1922 when Billjgiliday, WWJ manager Pennsylvania friend, jieeded an 'announcer at the fledgling station. Urged by Fred Waring, another rennsyfvania boy then leailing hi -orchestra in Ann Arlior, HoiJidyy alled Tjson, who had been, working in his father's paper Tuisines3 and ari mercantile1 appraiser for Blair Pa.

An accomplished baseball player -a if just as good 'aft actor, Tyson was a natural as sports-caster. 64" A 1 I I I' 2- I i MM Mi A 1 i i-ffi -A i vi- I ti I I 4 fT I I I 'V I I 4 1 i Xl Jf i Ty Tyson the mike $64.85 is'-all-you spend but you get a lot more than a Jo begin with, the fabric is a fine wool worsted: smooth and luxurious, the tailoring comple- irwasn't easy to-qrack into thefouiness.f though. Tyson's lirt" ifootball broa dcast" from Ann Arbor was allowed only because the game Too, 31 iu Flu i KINGS in well-cut, well-detailed two- Because aboftT? percgnts.of the! late Fielding Hi Ybs tbevtlBlteca'tnTetic didn't like lhe: i rofiv jgram.rthe radio overage, chant rine Aca4pmiiS3 beea 11 Keep people buffen-mcds's with flap pockets, side or center ventsj andftwo of trousers; in a large assortment ofpatteiTS'-and colors; in a wide range of proportioned (i nrst- game. canceled until A iost caned to'say Tyson-could I come-back. Tysvirr'reminisced some years ago about Yost's; Change of saving: rejnember he'.

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fo 5:30 provost last January and apparently neglected to tell anyone about the scheduled game before he left. After some scurrying about, two registered officials were lined up to supervise the game. They were Don Tallman, North-wood's present athletic director, and Dick Strait, assistant coach of the Detroit Tech team. Despite the lack of advance notice, word circulated around the campus and about 100 fans showed up by the time the game was played in the high school gym. Detroit Tech won the game, 73-69.

M.IDLAND ('API Coach Lee Fox was running his Northvvood Institute basketball team through a routine workout at Midland's Central Intermediate High School Wednesday night when the team from Detroit Institute of Technology showed up. "We've got a contract to play a game with you tonight," Detroit Tech coach Bob Kiess told Fox. "First I've heard of it," said Fox. TURNED OUT that the contract had been signed while Lou Jullereat was still athletic director at Northwood. He was assigned to Northwood's campus in Texas as Stengel, 78, was hospitalized jwith minor injuries Wednesday night after his car was involved in an accident at an intersection.

Neither Stengel nor his phys ician would comment on his injuries. Stengel was expected ito be released from the hospital ASBORLAND EiRMINGHAM EASTLAND GRAND RAPIDS GRAND RIVER GREENFIELD JACKSON LINCOLN FARK LIVONIA WALL MACK MOROSS MACOMB MA' NORTHLAND OAKLAND MALL P0NTIAC MALL S-ELEY STATE UNIVERSAL CITY VESTEOPN V-'ESTLAND WONDERLAND V.OODWARD MONTCALM Thursday..