Bronze Reporter [Volume: 9, Issue: 50]

State, Helverd tied the retog
nizied. world record in the finals
peli 20-yard ~dash here. in

Carrs elocking of 20.7 seconds

equals the. world American and
collegiate mark which is presently shared by Ed -Coliymore of
Villanova, Harry Jerome of Oregon, Paul Drayton, Ray Norton
and Steve Johnson.

a Events
In The

WORLD

By
WALTER HOYE

For the first time in many a
moon, Tiger attendance is lagging. The reasons are many, but
mainly fans are tired of spending their hard earned cash on
a loser. For many seasons they
have went along hopefully with
the Tigers and nothing happene~ {

"WILLIE SMITH

They have demonstrated their
faith and now they ~want our
Tigers to demonstrate some ball
playing ability. This dilemma has
been causing the Tiger front
office great concern. And right
WILLIE HOR 1 ON

ly so beeause they are in the
game to make money. When the
fans don~t show they aren~t making any.-. Something has to be done, but
what? Well, the first. step is
a big ~one for our ferocious: Tigers. They need to get up off |
their trading-and-call-up rumps.
We all know that anything that
remains still very long either
becomes stagnant.or frozen stiff.
This js the case with the Tigers.
When it ~omes to trading they
tenaciously hold on to a select
few as ~if by some miracle the
team -will suddenly. start to win
ball games in. the style loyal
Tiger fans have come to expect.
An example of the way they

think is shewn in the case of |.

Frank Strong ~Bulldog~ Lary.
Lary, a pitcher, had,one_ terrific season ior the ~Tigers in
1961 when hé won 23. while
losing ~only 9 and had a earned
run average of 3.24. In ~62 he
developed arm trouble and won
only 2, Idsing ~6. with an ERA
~of 5:74.

- When spring. ~training started:
this year ~everyone was hopeful;

that his atm would come around.

to their AAA farm club |?

he should pe: ~gone after |

SPORTS

_| without him.

even yesterday, it~s what he is
loing now.~ If a piayer is net
delivering the goods then he is
no good to the team. It is just
that> simple.

When most major ~ league
teams get in trouble they bench
players make trades and. reinvestigate their farm teams, In
this_latter area the Tigers are
in pretty fair shape.

They have one of the most
promising young pitchers to
come along in sometimes on
their farm team. He is Willie
Smith, and should be given a
try out. He is with the Tigers~
Syracuse team in. the _ International ~League. Here is a pitcher with so much~on the ball that
he jumped from Class A_ to
elass AAA in three. short seasons. Last year with Knoxville
in the Atlanta League he had
a 10-7 record with an ERA of
3.60. Why not give him a shot
like they gave William A. Faul?
What have they to lose? A game,
you say? Well, that wouldn~t be
new; they are already doing that

In the~ outfield which is sag
ging except for the bail play-}

ers~ bal] player, Al Kaline, they
couid send for. nammering William Wattison Horton. Willie is
a slugging star~right off our Detroit sandlots. Most -avid baseball fans will remember Willie

as the 16-year-old prep y-star with
the Northwestern Colts. In the
1959 City Baseball Cnampionship
game, Willie smashed a home run
into the right-center pavillion

near the bleacher section in~

| Tiger Stadium. Quite a blast for
a young right-handed batter.
There is Gates Brown, 23 years
-old, another slugging sensation
who was picked by the radiotelevision broadcasters for their
All-Star Team in. Look. Magazine
last: year. Brown could quite
possibly be another Elston

Howard. Originaly ~a -catcher, he.
is now nlaving the outfield.

re

stretch kick to béat ~Stantord
soph: Larty Questad. This timing

_| es. winner) made

~in 13.9 seconds.

RBIs.

~| Leon is doing.~ Rig says.

a

~ HENRY CARR

ry, a varsity basketball forward,

who had.jumped -6-6% and
placed ~third with a~6-6 in the
Big Ten championships was

eliminated~ in the semifinals at
~ 7. In the finals Southern Cal~s
sophomore Lew Hoyt won with
a jump. of 6-9%. Hoyt was declared the winner because of
fewer misses. Six men including

defending champ Roger Olsen of |

California the

cleared
height.;

same

&

BILL BERRY. Wayne State's diminutive Paul
Jones (the Penn 120 high hurdl-it into the
semi-finals in the 120yard. high
hurdles, finishing fourth in his
heat in 14.1 seconds. He was
later eliminated ~finishing fifth
in his semifinals heat in 14.2
seconds, UCLA~s C. K. Yang won: teres ec

PD was edged by Oregon soph Dave:

| fied.

| ed from the 100.
1 chamnion,

| and thereby set up: a head to

| Orioles ~Smith

Spartan high jumper Bill Ber- |.

@ | that~ only the White Sox were
~| off4ithe Orioles were on the old

vaguer..made 47, piitouts and. hada very |

be grgracetnty sprints to Pur
Blunt by two feet in their semifinal ipak a the at but quali
Bobby orily jot ~halfway
through his heat in the 220 when
he pulled up and collapsed in
the infield. He was later seratch
Purdue~ 's - Big Ten
Nate Adams,
beth his (100 and 220 semi finals

head match with Carr. In their

Away ~: AL SMITH |
BALTIMORE; Md. ~ (AHP) ~
Alphonse Eugene; Smith, Baltimore Orioles, 35-year old veteran~ right fielder, has been the
one big difference in the Baltimore: attack this year and their
front running in the American
League proves it.:
~Smith came to the Orioles
from the Chicago White Sox in
an ~off-season. trade. It appears

béam: As each day passes the
reasoning behind this trade gets

Al has been in' the maje:
leagues > 1i -years, playing both
outfield and infield. During one
streak this year with the chirping~ Orioles, Smith batted.381
raising his average to.293 with
seven homers and~.17 runs battern.

~Last season in 39 gaines he

good fielding percent of.964.' If
Baltimore makes a run: for the
world series chins this year, you
can be sure Smith was in there

hitgng.

~sprint |
won

oT re

e K. YANG~

NEL Teams
Need Help:

ST LOUIS, ~ Trade talk wasn~t
on the agenda at the recent
National Footbalt League Coaches~ meeting, but in most free
~minutes the 14 héad coaches
couid pe seen huddling in small
groups. No firm swaps came out
of the discussions, but the ground
work for future deals may have
yeen laid.

Here | is ae team~s biggest
single need, as spelled out by
un coaches. themselves;

Baltimore~fullback; Chicago~
off_usive linemen; Cieveland~
anterior linemen; Dallas~defense; DETROIT~offensive linemen; Green Bay~defensive end;
Los. Angeles~offensive ~guard;

Minnesota ~ defensive players;
New York~running back; Philadelphia ~ defensive linemen; |

Pittsburgh~defensive tackle; St.
Louis~defensive back; San Frahcisco~running back; and ~Wash
se >

TOP NEGRO LEFTY:

LOS ANGELES ~ Thoroughbred racing has its ~Triple
Crown~ in the Kentucky Derby,
The Preakness and the Belmont.
So does -baseball. The ~Triple
Crown~ of the diamond is batting, home runs and runs-battedin.
While it~s early in the season
to predict anything, naturally it
becomes apparent that Leon Wagner of the Los Angeles Angels
is a definite candidate for
~Triple Crown~ honors in the
American League this year. The
last man to win the ~Triple
Crown~ was Mickey Mantle, of
the.Yankees in 1956, when he
hit 353 with 52 HRs and 130

Wagner is off to the greatest
start of his career~and his manager, Bill Rigney, says ~Wags can

learned to hit..When I had him

season with us, Leon was a wild
swinger.. ~Now, he has concentrated on
swinging only ~at good pitches.
When you swing at strikes, you
stand a much better chance of
getting a hit~and -this is what

~When Wagner took over the

~of May 22. In the 34 game, month
remain among the top hitters in}
-our league because he now has

with the Giants and in his first | 7

Wagner moved into the ~Top
Ten~ in batting on April 27th
with.333 and has been there:
ever since. Twice since then,
Leon reached. 359 ~ his peak.
He:shas played all but two of the
Angels~ first 40 games,

~Cheeky,~ as he is called by
his mates, started his surge up
after. being benched by Rigney
on April 17-18. Since then, he~s
hit at a 370 clip ~ raising his
average from.192 midway of the
April 19th doubieheader. at Kansas City. to 342 after the game

long span, Leon went 47-for-127

with. all thirteen homers and 35

of his~ 37 RBIs.
&

A +

ter against lefthanders.

| for me, but it'll take

| Wagner

ington~running halfback.

Leon Wagner A ~Triple Crown~ "Candidate

~with 107.

He has become a aS hit*~T concentrate harder now when I face
a lefty,~ Wagner says. His. ~concentration has paid off this year.
Leon is hitting.286 against
southpaws~and his first four
home runs were off lefties. Last~
year, Wagner hit five roundtrippers off portsiders. In 1961,
Leon hit only one homer off a
lefthander.
~ This improvement is_ typical
of Wagner~s entire performance.
Hung with a ~bad fielding~ rap
when he first. broke into the
Major Leagues, Leon worked

hard at improving his defensive

play. His selection by the opposing players as the American
League~ s All-Star left fielder last
year is testimony to his hard

work and desire to be - a better-|

player.

This year, when he (was ex-|

periencing difficulty in left field,

Leon widerwent an eye exami- i
nation arid was found to have an}
astigmatic condition. ~Leon says, | |

~the glasses brighten things up

to get used to them.~ At first,
planned to wear them at:
the plate as well as
~However, he: changet

Wagner was fourth in the Most

+} Valuable Player balloting last
[year a deseryed honor indeed |%
for Leon and the Angels: He won} rs

}liams was beaten by Farming
_| 45.8 Cawley was second./

ime for me}. the field. |
his plan:
~and wore them in the field until]
+he could get them adjusted.

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BOBBY MORELAND.
who was clocked at 21.1 seconds.
In the finals) Adams tinished
third in both sprints. *,

Arizona State University got |
another first with ~their ace!
quarter-miler Ulis Williams. Wil
~ston~s Rex Cawley of Southern |
Cal in the. semi finals of the 440- '
yard dash. Cawley was timed in
46 seconds flat and Williams
was 46.5. In the finals Williams
really turned it on and won in

Southern Cal won their 23rd
NCAA team title with 61 points.
Cawley got 18 of these with his
first and second place finishes.
Stanford was second with 42,

In Soccer Came
By Walt Hoye
There was some doubts as to
whether Detroit could or would
support an occasional. big-time
soccer game that counts in the
standings of the International
Soccer, League.
This question was answered
Sunday as 10,065 avid fans filled
the University of Detroit Stadium

and Preussen-Munster of West |
Germany vie for first. Aca in
oy ISL.

telose Davalillo could;

\returned to the mound, Vic td:
{his normal -position inthe Batts
- ters box. Hank threw, Vic blist~ }
| ed. It was a line ~drive into {h~; stands for a big 3 tun home#!

to watch West Ham of: England*:
oo WWGe
~" pitehing to Vie the

+ mighty ~mite, Hank, last: yeasia:- ~
| ERA king suddenly ~stopped and.

| came to home plate. He complains
ted to umpire John Rice thet:.
| Davilillo was standing too close~
|to home plate: Aguirre was sipex
| formed by umpire Rice that Vaeu
\was within. his. rights..

fLSg~Hank not satisfied resorted Bit:

3 ~a little showmanship. He grand| standed a bit and drew a line

inthe batter~s box to show héWe
#stand.
make the story short, Agui

~New Hank-has. put Vic outUF
action for awhile, I wrote after~
the first encounier that the
~ ~mighty mite~ propably, by way:
of his home run, said: ~Man, BS
_ can~t tell me. Mcct to..: 1 ~
vic DAYAL fs
It seems now. that. Agui sirrel ify

saying, ~Oh, yes T~can, ot you
where to stand~ Maybe: ~he did

Oregon third with 41, and. Ari. roar Ma mssot le 6, awh
znoa State fourth with 39 points. |" pop. as cor
Most of, these firack men meet Aga he wa nibea
again in the }National AAU | iting 304 wi Cte ~pits and
Championship a St. Tavis next | 20~ ran Fe: Pr mise fae:
weekend, Pet. 7 yd ~
( number one: coniet: for. ~F
ie-of-the year~: honbis.." ~. pai
West Ham Boal | Not being ~ spoibepoi sisi
e veland~ imager,
Preussen-Munster ~| twsed to accuse Harik of purpetl

jy hitting his~ ~stir tookie fy.
hawk. ~We ~have no feeling at
all that Aguirre threw at Vic,~
said Tebbetts after the India:
defzated the Tigers 126 be
12, 70 fans at, ac. Sioa

| Shae
save more:

Two committees of the Board
of Supervisors have agreed. to
seek an emergency $42,000 appropridtion. to increase police
man ~power in Wayne ~County~s
10 parks, The Supervisor~s Sheriffs Committee and.the Parks
Committee. met jointly on. request: of the Wayne County Road
Commission: to discuss the need
for additional spolice man power,

~_~ -:

Emergency Appropriati

told the Committee of a num

~and been erica injured, Bo

Sheriff Peter L: -Buback asked:
the Committee for 18. depus

and three cars to supplement,:

road ~ patrol force during
summeér months.

Detroit Councibnan: Ed.
Chairman.of the Sheriff's C&
mittee and ' Detroit. Counci
Anthony J. Wierzbicki, ~Chit.
man of the Parks Commilt~e
said upon approval ~ ott iy

~they ~ ~

their committees,~
make the réquest for the f
ata special meeting of the ~
and Means ~Committee on

jon for the: Read

of incidents this spring~ volyaa
up: to 2,000 brawling. teenagers

the ~Senior a pak

dg ee ek;
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_ Both Buback and nee P. Me.
| Elroy, Director of <Administrat