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DETROIT FREE PRESS Tuesday, June 18, '63 D-l LA.L SMITH i ympic Outlook Dim Brun City i Sports Editor Ly all Smith is back rom Europe where he interviewed Olympic officials on Detroit's chances of being awarded the 1968 Games. He also inspected Lyons, France, Detroit' 's No. 1 rival. Here i is his first report. i AVERY BRUNDAGE OF CHICAGO and the world is wealthy, straight-backed, strait-laced and a man who does not exactly let his hair down in conversations re-j garding his views as president and most powerful figure of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

We met in the stodgy lobby of the Palace. Hotel in Lausanne, a Swiss city on the shore of Lake Geneva. and Mexico City are very strong. Lyons seems the popular choice. These observations, understand, are not the official views of the IOC.

They are mine as an. individual who is being pressed for answers by a newspaperman Brundage had just spent two days with members of the IOC executive committee. He declined saying if his non-optimistic views over Detroit's chances had stemmed from opinions gleaned from conversations with his committee members. Cost Factor Hurts Detroit "THERE IS MUCH TALK over the fact that it would be very costly for European nations to transport their teams all the way to Detroit," he conceded. It is the burial place of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, reviver of the ancient Olympic Games in.

1896. It is the headquarters of the IOC. It also is only 115 miles from the French industrial center of Lyons, the city Detroit must defeat when the vote on the site of the '68 Games is taken in October. "I am not a good forecaster," Brundage said in prim modesty. "Just before the ballots were counted for the selection of the Winter Games in I960, I didn't think Squaw Valley (Calif.) would get three votes.

Squaw Valley won in a landslide." Detroit's chances? "Your city is not the favorite," he stated. "Lyons "It would be inexpensive to send athletes to Lyons. The fact that the Games next year are in Tokyo and therefore costly for European countries also would seem to work against Detroit's chances. There are fears that Olympic treasuries in those nations would be sorely pressed to meet such long trips in consecutive Games." Over the course, of a lengthy conversation Brundage never really banged the door on Detroit. But outside of saying that it was "impossible to read the minds of Olympic officials now and determine how they would feel when the ballots are cast in October," he left the Impression that Motor City chances are slim.

He was asked if the longtime campaign by Detroit, one stretching back over 30 years, would not be a strong chef fin Refuses to Panic factor in its behalf inasmuch as Lyons has never made an official bid in previous years. "I personally doubt it," the IOC president stated in flat fashion. "It is possible that some delegates feel that such continuing efforts should be rewarded. "It also is possible that many may take the attitude that familiarity breeds contempt that they are tired of seeing Detroit always standing in line at their door." He definitely feels that Detroit Barlich Returning to NL TUmmp HHeveirses f(DaHIT No Big Sliakeup Ahead Tigers May Try Thomas, Brown milium I wCN 1 Vs. f.

i i us mi 1 CINCINNATI (UPB Senior umpire Al Barlick, who angrily quit the National League Sunday because he was "fed up," has done something umpires seldom do change his mind and will return Co action on Fri day, the league announced Monday. League president Warren C. Giles blamed Bar-lick's action in quitting Sunday on a "misunderstanding" and said the situation was "cleared up entirely" In a conversa tion he had with the umpire this morning. No one ever has said anything about what the "misunderstanding" was about or why Bar-lick was "fed up." Barlick himself was avoiding any comment. 1J" 0 ESQ Cl acf.ni -nam 2 TALKS BRITONS INTO TOP GATE BY JOE FALLS Frt Prtst Staff Wrltar BOSTON You can say this for the Tigers: They're remaining quite calm in the face of their collapse.

Manager Bob Schefflnsr Is TV, Clay a 4-1 Favorite studiously keeping his finger Brundage was wounded when Vienna withdrew from the list, leaving Lyons, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Detroit to fight it out. "A second European city would have split the European vote," he pointed out. "Now, Lyons is all alone," There Is a Bright Spot THIS FACTOR COULD BE a vital one. The host city for 1968 will be named by vote of a 67-man committee in Nairobi thi3 October. Of that total, 39 members are from European countries.

The issue will be decided by a simple majority of members who attend the meeting. One bright spot in an otherwise gloomy picture for Detroit as viewed by Brundage was the way the State of Michigan and the entire Midwest united behind Detroit when the U.S. Olympic Committee reaffirmed this city over Los Angeles as the official U.S. choice. "Quite a few officials over here have told me that they were amazed at stories that hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions supporting Detroit's bid," he said.

"This made a very strong impression on them. It could be an encouraging sign." The way he said it drove home the impression that it was one of the few encouraging signs pointing in Detroit's direction. I left with the feeling that if the president of the International Olympic Committee was an accurate sounding board, Lyons would be awarded to the 1968 Games over Detroit and the other two contending cities. Maybe on the first ballot. ii i ft LONDON Ofi Undefeated Cassius Clay, the self-proclaimed "greatest, heavyweight of them all," was a 4-1 favorite Monday to make British heavyweight champion Henry Cooper his victim before a possible record British boxing crowd Tuesday night.

A capacity turnout of 65,000 may pay $280,000 to ee if the Louisville Lip can make good his boast that "Cooper will fall In five" In outdoor Wembley Stadium- The will start about 3:30 p.m. EST. THE FANS, almost to a man, will be rooting for the London cockney to flatten brash Cassius with his thumping left hook. But not many of them expect to see the upset occur. Clay's poetic and non-poetic utterances have steamed up the usually hard to rile Britons and turned the promotion into a bonanza for Jack Solomons.

If 55,000 pay their way In, It will break the record of 54,000 eet In 1948 at White City Stadium for the world light heavyweight title fight between American Gus Lee-nevich, the champion, and Freddie Mills of Britain. Mills Turn to Page 3D, Column away from the panic button though some think it is time to push it Scheffing said Monday that he planned no drastic changes in his lineup other than possibly giving Billy Bruton a rest. He made It clear that he Would not shake up his lineup eimply for the sake of shaking It up. SCHEFFING SAID he might twitch Al Kaline to center and try either George Thoma or Gates Brown in rlghtfield when the Tigers meet the Boston Red Sox here Tuesday night. But he wasn't sure about It.

Scheffing Is limited to the number of moves he can make. Now that the trading period has passed, he must go with the players he has and hope they begin to win. AP Photo NEXT STEP In Arnold Palmer's comeback (wa he ever really away?) is the National Open at Brook-line, Mass. Ol' Arn' checks his clubs before stowing them in locker number 13 (his lucky number) at The Country Club where he'll tackle champion Jack Nick- lus and others Thursday. Fresh In his money belt is the $25,000 first prize from the Thunderbird Classic CASSIUS CLAY WOODWARD, WONDERLAND, ARBORLAND AND PONTIAC MALL OPEN TUESDAY TO 9 P.M.

TD LOVE TO WIN BIG' With a seven-game losing etreak, however, disheartened Palmer Wants Open Tiger followers must be cry mg ror some change, any change. The Tigers brought up Brown from Syracuse with the hope of picking up some punch, But Brown was strictly a left- fielder at Syracuse and Scheffing doesn't know If he can play right field. BROOKLINE, Mass. CP Arnold Palmer checked into the Country Club Monday for the 63rd National Open Golf. Championship and immediately drew locker No.

13. "Good," he said, with a broad grin. "Maybe it's an omen this is my lucky number." "Aren't you superstitious?" someone asked. "CERT AIN'T, I'm very superstitious," the golfing capitalist from Latrobe, said. "That's why I'm happy about getting 13.

"Every year I've won at the Masters three times, 1958, 1960, 1962. I've had No. 13. It's customary for the man who wins to get No. 1 the next year.

Each time I've won No. 1, I've lost" After parking his clubs. Palmer, who won the $25,000 first prize the Thunder-bird Golf Classic Sunday in a sudden death playoff with Paul Harney, wandered out to the 18th green. It is In the shadow of the old, yellow clapboard club- SCHEFFING COULD put house, and he gave the green a critical examination. "Boy, I'd like to come up to here Saturday afternoon, leading by 10 strokes," he said, more to himself than to the small knot of friends barely within earshot.

"This is one tournament I'd love to win big." "They called me an old man and said I was washed wp and had lost my edge. I'd like to show them." The game's all-time leading money winner and the man generally acclaimed as the No. 1 tournament professional last won the Open in 1960. Brown in left and move Rocky Colavito over to right, but he's hesitant to do this because he might weaken two positions to serve a third. Colavito is not nearly the defensive player in right he is in left.

Bnbba Phillips will remain at third base, at least for another game, even though his average is only .176. ORIOLES WIN, 7-2 Scheffing said he might give Thomas a try at third base but again he wasn definite Juggling the players Is not Jlv HfnKf i hfm-'r frwHv" ITEM -S i i the answer to Detroit prob Birds' M'Cormick Cools Off Bosox BOSTON W) Lefty Mike McCormick hit a home run and pitched Baltimore's reshuffled line-up to a 7-2 victory over' Boston Monday, snapping a six-game Red Sox win lems; what the Tigers need and what they've needed all season, is for Colavito and Norm Cash to hit the ball the way they did two years ago. ning streak. NEITHER HAS come close to It and may not for the rest of the year. field bullpen In the third inning.

It was the second home run HE WAS beaten in a playoff for the title at Oakmont last year by Jack Nicklaus, a pressing rival for world golf honors. Nicklaus, at 23, 10 years younger than Palmer, also grabbed A i e's virtually-private Masters championship last April at Augusta and beat Palmer in the rich Tournament of Champions at Las Vegas. The latter setback plus a poor showing in the Colonial Invitation at Fort Worth, where he finished 20 strokes back of the winner, caused Falmer to quit the tour. He returned to his Western Pennsylvania home for a rest and a rejuvenation of his sagging game. "It wasn't a real slump," Arnold said.

"I was just mentally and physically tired." The muscled architect of spectacular come backs is definitely his old self again. The Tigers also must get pitching if they hope to of his major league career. The Orioles wrapped up the victory with a six-run assault on loser Wilbur Wood in the fifth inning, highlighted by Joe Gaines' three-run homer. McCormick, acquired In a trade with San Francisco last Baltimore sent nine men to the plate in its big fifth inning, move up in the standings, i After the lost weekend In New York, the club's earned i run average spiraled to a sea-' son's high of 8.91. This looks like just one more grizzly statistic, bat It may be the most revealing of all.

The outcome left both teams three games off the American League lead held by the New York Yankees, who were a mere nine percentage points ahead of the Chicago White It means that the Tigers have winter, allowed the Red Sox six hits in pitching his first complete game in the American League. The lefthander, apparently fully recovered I I I I Turn to Page SD, Column 5 INTRODUCING HANES "STATESMAN" BOSTON AB Schillins.lb 30 Met as.cf 4 0 1 Giants Sign City Hurler check money order C.O.D. charge to my account Add 4 Mich. Sales Tax Add 35c for C.O.D.'j under 4.15 Ystrimski.lf 2 0 0 4 0 0 Ear ley, 0 0 0 BALTIMORE AS RH Aparlelo, 5 12 4 2 1 fi 4 11 Gainet.cf 4 11 Orsino.lb 4 0 1 Brown.c 4 0 1 BramJMf 1 1 1 -200 3 2 1 fromasore arm, became McCormick the first Baltimore pitcher to go the route in the last 23 0 4 0 0 Clinton.rf 3 0 2 4 0 0 4 12:: 1 0 0 Lamabe.v 10 0 The San Francisco Giants games. 9 The victory was only the Fine cotton, elastic and better tailoring that's what Hanes put into their new Statesman line.

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fourth in the last 18 games for the slump-ridden visitors. 1 1 1 Total! 34 7 1 Total 31 1 1 a Homered for Lamabe in Itti. Baltimore 0 0 1 t(( 0 0-7 Boston 0 0 0 MC 0 1 0-2 Big Hit IVo At Bat ST. LOUIS (UPD Outfielder Bill Virdon of the Pittsburgh Pirates was honored by hometown fans of Springfield, Sunday, even though he didn't get a chance to get into the doubleheader. During halftime ceremonies, Virdon accepted a plaque and a new MIFFED BY the club's recent slide, Baltimore manager Billy Hitchcock benched Jim Gentile and Russ Snyder, had catcher John O'rsino playing first and moved Gaines and HUGHES HATCHER SUFFRIN 2301 Woodward Avenue, Detroit 1.

Michigan WO 5-7900 signed right handed pitcher Jim 'Saskewiteh of Detroit Monday for a "moderate bonus," reported regional scout Herm Hannah. Saskewiteh, a six-foot, 190-pound 20-year-old, played for Henry Ford Community College, Favro's in the Free Press league and for the 1959 National Champion Edison Post in American Legion Junior baseball. He'll report to Salem, for the June 24 opening of the Appalachian rookie league. Jackie Brandt into the lineup. McCormick, Wood.

PO-A Baltimore 17-10, Boston 27-10. DP Robinson, Adair and Orjlno; Brawn and Adair. LOB Baltimore 3, Boston i. 2B Aparicia, Smith. HR McCormick, Gaines, Tillman, Williams.

McCormick. RBI Aparicio, Smith, Gaines 3, McCormick, Tillman, Williams. IP ER BB SO McCormick W.2-3) 0 2 2 4 5 Wood (10-2) 5 4 2 1 3 Lamabo 3Vi 1 1 0 0 1 Earley 1 2 0 0 0 1 WP-Wood. Balk-Wood. U-Valentine, McKinley, Chylak, Rico.

0 He also juggled the batting order with Jerry Adair in sec ond and Al Smith in McCormick belted his drive over 400 feet in the right SHELBY A STATE MACK I M0R0SS WOODWARD AT MONTCALM NORTHLAND EASTLAND GRAND RIVER GREENFIELD WONDERLAND WESTB0RN LINCOLN PARK ARBORLAND PONTIAC MALL,.