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of By ART HOEFS

SPORTS Opinions Differ on Demise of TV Boxing Shows

Christmas Tidings On th i s "Chris tmas Eve , let 's pass on season 's greet ­

ings and joyous Yuletide to those connected wi th the A m s t e r d a m spor t s scene and to jus t plain Mr. and Mrs.

J o e F a n . Silent N'Lsnt. Holy Night

As the holiday nears. how about good cheer for Ray Sinda. Don Bates. Lewie Rogers. Dick and Shirley Sponable. F|aul and Lil Strack. Carol Lasky, Larry Lanzi. Jimmy Davis. Chris Bona-fede. Joe Kalenik.' Bill Krey, Babe Stratton, Buddy Heck. Tony Brooks and Georgp Rogers.

And also to Bill Stanley Sr.. Joe Kula. Gene and Dick Bik. Ken Moffit. Bob Shanahan. Herm Bettine. Gary Pope. Joe Orsini. Georgp Rink. Bob Wilson. Marv Bubniak. Leo Barzinick, Howie Dvnes, Dave Rilev. Bob Ploof and Art Jsabel. "

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Santa Clans. Time Fill the. stockings for nice people like Morrie Olender. Harry

Van Derbeck. Johnny Carbone. Dusty Miller. Brll Van Allen, Justice Felix Aulisi. Vito and Hank Dandreano, Nick Williams. Steve Bessell, Stan Urban. Squeak Squillace, Harry DeVoe, Vince Kusso, Mike Bigelow, Ray Stanton, Ed Michaelski, Al Young and Bob Marotta.

A tip of the Christmas toke to the Fondacaros, Joe, Joe Jr. and Vic, Kathy Novak. Mike Vaiuso. Horst and Lillian Schwenke, Ruth Kelly. George Schuhardt, Charlie Waterstreet, Vince Cresantl. Pete Palmier!. George Piatt, Sam Sr., Jimmy and Joey Pepe, Pete Miskinis, Jerry Ottati. Frank Matt, Joe Dylong, Walt Jasper, Lou Buck-ner. Bill Fennhahn and Hank and Jo Jackson. Something nice for good folks like Steve Bengis. Lou Noto.

Dominick Peters. Ed Carbonelli. Judge Bob Sise. Dom Salamack. Jim Eaton, Whitey Meade. Don Olender. Leon Bartosik. Rich Semprovivo. Walt Krupa. Bob Gardinier. Alan and Shirley Craw­ford. Joey Peters. Jiggers DiCaprio. Mort Lampkin. Carl Dietrich. Alex and Sylvia Salerno. Herm and Peg Fuchs and Joe Leone.

g Uf * & tf Season To Be Jolly

A Christmas Toast to Emerson Sheehan. Art Glamm. Harold Green. Frank Stuhler, Art Hartig, Pumpy Sargalis, Loren Vebber. Al Petrosino, Gene Catena. Joey Isabel. Al Pike. Bill and Hazel Bell, Ace Gulnack. Gordon Fisher, Ed Malia, Chuck Dana, Lew Harrower, Pat Russo, Kenny Fields and Bob Niles.

May the horn of plenty be filled for Dean Dale, Sam Fox, Alan and Fil Faulds, Willie Alexaitis, Sam Zurlo, Dick Bramer, Red Nethaway, Joe Pakeltis, Larry Spag-nola, Bill Smltka, Ed Rublnski, Connie Catena, Earl Scott, Frank and Dot Shelly, Pete Schell, Charlie Rakstis, Tony Sculco, Ben Luksls and Jim DeCostello. Yuletide's best for Vito Leone, Ben Karutis, Barber Poli-

tano, Ralph Sasso, Jimmy Seymour, Tom DeLuca, Stan Manos. Glenn Gay, Bob Conover, Pete Slovik, Ed Feuz, Bill Burns, Sonny Sheckton, John McNamara, George Nevulis, Bob Boyd, Al Luzinas, Frank Elmy, Lou Coluni, Bob Harvey, Bob Ellerson, Eddie Costello and Bill Cotter.

« * * * m Tidings of Good Joy

A plaintive carol for Jack Woodhead. Dave and Diane Santos, Buddy DiCaprio, Bill Dygon, Tony Ianotti, Gerald Fitz­gerald. Jay Knapp, Joe Glamm, Perc Cudmore, Jinx Brooks, Mary Kryszczak, Ralph Tarabosco, John Cionek, Freddy Fleszar, Danny Quarisemo, Edmund Reilly, Arnold Power, Bill Gilston. Herm Miller, Stu and Earleen Hayes, Gene Canale. Jimmy Bergen. Judge Malcolm Tomlinson. Steve Slezak. Marcel Paquin, Babe Pallotta. Rocky McCune and Bernie Welch.

Tom and Jerrys all around for Bob Colasurdo. Bosco Greco, Barney and Mary DeStefano, Al Chambers. Danny Pantalone, Al McKnight. Jackey Ross. Ed and Helen Magila, Tony Colistra. the Sandy clan. Jack Fabozzi, Ray Piech, John Bogdan. Marc Breier, Gil Rust. Frank Cionek, Junior Hassenfuss. Frank Cichy, Sam Maxwell, Bill Silk, Kenny Boice, Joe DeRose, Ron Wyszo-mirski and Joe Fratianni.

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Glad Tidings Pill the egg nog bowl for the likes of Art Snyder, Harry

LaBate, Frank Dean, Stan Kaminski, Don Van Derbeck. Pierce Tolson, Eddie Kenna, Jack Thompson. Eddie Miller, Dick Dona­hue, Myron Chupka, Ziggy Ludwin, Charley Kelly, Larry Czech. Lou .Petrosino, Everett Szurek, Frank Themm, Dick Malicki. John Kosinski, Bill Daye, Jimmy DeBerry, Don Brown and Jake Jasinske.

And for Rich Robertshaw, Nick Vidulich, Joe Markulis, Percy Engle, Joe Heller, John Nabors, Ed and Norma Going, Frank Krzysko, Joe Mason. Alex Dybas, Ronnie Bull, Ed Heslan, Ray Fyfe, Tony Rapello, Howard and Lucille Van Amum. Betty Ged-des, Dan Petrosino, John Cetnar. Mary Czar Dlugas, Harold and Lillian Klump, Joe Kluska and Joe Pirfo.

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By MURRAY ROSE Associated Press Sports Writer

N E W YORK UP)— Box­ing p r o m o t e r s who h a v e s taged fistic shows wi th and w i thou t television had differing opinions today a s to w h e t h e r a total black­out of fights' on television will "help or h u r t the h a r d y

old spor t . Herman Taylor of Philadel­

phia. 76-year-old dean of Amer­ican fight promoters, said "per­sonally 1 can't complain about

i TV," but added "there is no question about TV doing boxing no good."

"We have to live with TV," said Chris DurWee of Miami Beach. Fla. "I think a lot of fans look for the Friday night fights on TV."

"Boxing will enjoy a new lease on" life." said Archie Lit-man of Pittsburgh "It may take longer and be more difficult to develop headline attractions. But the fans will return to the practice of paying to see a fight."

"I think one show a week on TV would help boxing," said

Sam Silverman of Boston. "It '. has kept interest up in boxing [and done a lot for it."

| Actually ' the ancient sports hasn't been knocked off the air waves yet. But the old guy is staggering.

Back in the 1950s there, were six network fight shows a week. They were beamed over region­al and national networks on Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday,' and Saturday nights.

j The Gillette-sponsored Friday j night bouts from Madison Square Garden and other major

j arenas, have been telecast since

1944. It is the longest'continuous sponsored- program on televi­sion.

It is the last regular fight i program on television and it is J tottering. The American Broad­casting Co. confirmed Monday that it plans to drop boxing from its network scheduling in 1964, possibly in April.

A Gillette spokesman said: "This was the network's deci­

sion. We realize ABC's problem with declining ratings. Enough people just weren't watching the show and the network decided to drop it."

ABC and Gillette were report-

; ed seeking another sports pro-j gram to replace the fight shows. I Football, college and pro, is getting a large share of the TV

J advertisers' dollars. I There was another report that i the change may take place as early as April although the ABC-Gillette contract with the Gar­den runs through September.

j Garden officials maintained | that they haven't received any | official word of the coming end I of the program.

"We have no notification from ! anyone that the weekly boxing j shows will be dropped from tele­vision." said Harry Markson.

boxing director at the Garden. "Even if these shows will be

dropped from television, even if these reports about ABC and the sponsors proves to be true, that does not mean an end to Garden boxing. We ran boxing success­fully before TV and will con­tinue to do so."

If boxing goes off television, fighters will be paid on their ability to draw customers as they were in the pre-TV days. Now main event fighters are guaranteed a minimum of $4,000 each fbr TV fights and champi­ons command sums up to the $100,000 range.

Football

Texas Faces Staubach Showdown

BEARS FOR PUNISHMENT — Wearing attire offices. They hope to get Inside in time to used at football games, fans line up on snowy buy tickets to the NFL title game Dec. 29 Chicago sidewalk in front of Chicago Bears between the Bears and the New York Giants.

Coaches Divided on Outcome Of Giants-Bears Title Tilt

Happy Holidays On this Christmas Eve, may the Hoefs

clan, Gladys, Rick, Deal, Bobby, Holly, Kenny and Kim, wish all a very, very —

* * MERRY CHRISTMAS * *

Cincy Cage Chances Rest On Ron Krick's Shoulders

By MIKE RATHET Associated Press Sports Writer

T h e baske tba l l fo r tunes of * C inc inna t i ' s Bea rca t s m a y res t p reca r ious ly on Ron K r i c k ' s shou lders .

Krick scored 11 points as the* —— fifth-ranked Bearcats - unim-[SCOred 3fi points in Yale's 97-85 nressiye so .far and beaten by triumph ^ v e r Tulane. Stanford

-Kansas early iA the season - c d g e d Kansas 69-64 in overtime. 5 ? « „ e S t ? ^ h ? ' n " r S t a l e 7 i ? kreighton whipped Nevada 92-Monday night on George W«. M t i^uisville defeated South sons tip-in with only one sec Carolina 66-57. Colorado State U

By JACK HAND + Associated Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK UP) — I Coaches of the four teams that have played both the Chicago Bears and the New York Giants are divid­ed on the outcome of Sun­day's National Football League title g a m e at Wrigley Field. Two like the Giants, one favors the Be"ars and one straddles the fence.

Jack Christiansen, whose San Francisco 49ers were the only team to beat the Bears in 14 regular season games, thinks the Giants will win. The.Giants thumped the 49ers 48-14 later and there were complaints about rubbing it in.

Buddy Parker of Pittsburgh and Nick Skorich of Philadel­phia hedge a bit because of the weather, with snow and icy winds swirling around the East.

Wind and snow can make a mockery of the slim odds favor­ing the Giants. Parker, beaten by the Giants in the final win­ner-take-all game for the East­ern title, favors the Bears "un­der normal playing conditions."

Don Shula of the Baltimore Colts refused to pick a winner. His Colts lost twice to the Bears and dropped the season opener to the Giants who made a great second-half comeback. *

"I think the New York Giants will win," said Christiansen. "I feel the big difference is in of­fensive football. The Giants' of­fense is a better, more sound type based in good running and good passing. I feel the defenses are just about the same. The de­fensive lines and linebackers, are old pros, the secondary for each a combination of experi-

and youth." think the condition of the is going to be a big fac-

' said Parker. "If it is fro-hard it will be in the favor

Loyola Holds Lead

Most Top-Ranked Quintets Face Tournament Action

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bah, humbug on Cincinnati. With the exception of the fifth-ranked Bearcats,

every Top Ten team in The Associated Press poll is entered in one of the over 100 holiday tournaments dotting the basketball map for the next week.

Top-ranked Loyola of Chicago • will be in Philadelphia for the

(This Is the first of eight reviews on sports in 1963.)

By BOB HOOBING Associated Press Sports Writer

All-America Roger Stau­bach, Navy's miracle work­ing quarterback, was col­lege football's player of the year. Unbeaten, u n t i e d Texas was the No. 1 team. Both were matched in the Cotton Bowl to climax a troubled 1963 season.

The assassination of President Kennedy, a longtime friend of the game, hit football hard. Teams which played the tragic weekend of Nov. 22 were sharp­ly criticized. Others postponed or cancelled games.

The c l o u d over football formed early when a magazine alleged former Georgia coach Wally Butts had conspired by telephone with Bear Bryant of Alabama to fix a game. A mul­ti-million dollar jury award ex-

C o l l e g e B a s k e t b a l l

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Cincinnati 72, Kansas State 70 Ohio State 79, Houston 62 Utah State 95, Bradley 90 Utah 101, New Mexico St. 72 Creighton 92, Nevada 63 Colorado St. U. 82, Washn. 52 Okla. St. 92, Los Angeles St. 68 Stanford 69. Kansas 64—ot Brigham Young 94, Mich. St.

90 New Mexico 63. Purdue 61 Florida State 91, Tulsa 76 Louisville 66, So. Carolina Alabama 75, Howard, Ala. Army 10, American U. 70 Yale 97, Tulane 85

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ond remaining. Wilson and Ron Bonham each

scored 23 points, but it was Krick's performance that may have given Coach Ed JuckeV the biggest kick. The fi-font-8. 230-pound sophomore, expected to take up some .of the .Mack-loft Hy the graduation of Tom Thackcr and Tony Yates, had scored only 27 points in six pre­vious games.

While Cincinnati, the

crushed Washington 82-52 and Florida State downed Tulsa 91-76.

Tate Named Miami Coach

MIAMI. Fla. (AP) - Charlie only Tate had today what he called

member of the Top Ten in ac- "a wonderful Christmas pros-tion Monday night, brought its cnt—the job of head football record to 6-1. Utah Coach Jack coach at the University of Mi-Gardner recorded the 500th vie- ami. tory of his career as the Utes j Tate. 42-vrar-old assistant thumped New Mexico State 101 coach at Georgia Tech under 1° '2. 'Bobby Dodd for seven seasons.

In other top games. New Mex- received ' unanimous approval Ico edged Purdue 63-61 on tuo Monday night and uill be given foul shots by Skip Krmich with a four-year contract

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j field tor."

I zen hard it win oe in i of the team with the best pass­ing attack and that gives the

(Giants and Y. A. Tittle the edge. It all boils down to the league's best offense against the | ^ ' n l s T n bVltotlng'V Th

. league s best defense. Under ' normal playinfe conditions I would favor a defensive team like the Bears."

"This is a meeting between the two best defensive teams in the NFL." said Skorich. "Chi­cago has the better defensive line. Linebackers a r e about even. The Rears have a slight edge on defense overall with New York the edge offensively because of Tittle. Therefore, give, the Giants a slight edge on a day for football. If weather is bad and defense dominated, the Rears rate the edge. Tittle has had bad days in bad weather and this could be the dif­ference."

in Quaker City tournament start­ing Friday, meeting George­town in a first-round game. Sec­ond-ranked Kentucky, winner of its own Kentucky Invitational last week, will wait until next Monday before starting play against Loyola of New Orleans in the Sugar Bowl tournament.

Third-ranked Michigan, fourth ranked UCLA and lOth-ranked NYU make up part of the field for the Los Angeles Classic be­ginning Thursday. The Wolver­ines and Violets meet in a first round game while the Bruins tackle Yale.

Sixth-ranked Vanderbilt will meet Memphis State when the Vanderbilt invitation gets under­way Thursday, seventh-ranked Davidson gets Penn in the Char­lotte Holiday Tournament be­ginning Monday. Duke will tack­le Auburn in the Sugar Bowl and Oregon State opens in the Far West Classic at Portland, Ore., against Louisiana State.

Oregon State jumped back into the Top Ten again this week, while Toledo dropped out. Loy­ola. Kentucky and Michigan kept their places in a tightening race but there was considerable shuffling below the Big Three.

Loyola grabbed 20 first-place votes and 405 points to 17 firsts and 393 points for the Wildcats. Michigan drew the remaining eight top votes and totaled 360

e Asso-j ciated Press' special panel of j sportswriters and sportscasters.

UCLA climbed from sixth to ' fourth while Cincinnati dropped one notch. Vanderbilt jumped two spots to No. 6 and Davidson vaulted three to No. 7.

Duke dropped from fifth to eighth after losing to Michigan 83-67. and NYU fell from sev­enth to 10th following a 77-76 overtime defeat by Wagner.

The Top Ten trams with points on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 ba­sis.

Baylor's Trull Agrees to Play for Houston of AFL

PALO ALTO, Calif. UP)—Don Trull, a pass-happy quarterback from Baylor, will do his throwing next year for Houston of the American Football League.

But neither Trull nor the Oil-* — nor ers will even hint at the salary, bonus and terms of their con­tract—apparently one of the big­gest in a series of skyrocketing pro pacts.

The Oilers out-talked the Bal­timore Colts of the National Football League for Trull's services. Both clubs wanted the two - time national collegiate passing leaders so badly that each drafted him as a future in 1962.

The contract, said Oiler's Gen­eral Manager - Coach Frank (Pop) Ivy. "is no doubt better than any that were ever made when I was with the Cardinals." He left St. Louis of the NFL for Houston in 1962.

"The football costs have sky­rocketed." said Ivy, who fended off all questions about Trull's contract. In 1960 the Oilers paid Billy Cannon $110,000 for three years and threw in gas stations and a car.

The Houston Post called Trull's pact a "Cannon - sized" contract and said it had learned from authoritative sources that

onerated Butts, but the smudge had been planted.

A much-maligned substi­tution rule — which em­ployed the word "unlimited" but was far from that — caused b i t t e r comment months before the first game. The rule change was aimed principally at the three unit system Paul Diet-zel had popularized.

And it was .Dietzel's Army team which was left two yards short of a tremendous upset when time ran out against Na­vy, the 21-15 winner. Unlimited substitution had been permitted in '63 only when time was out.

| To prevent an excess, one less time out per half was allowed.

Under the '62 rules, Army would have had another time

I out and might have gotten off the one last play it needed.

During the campaign such out-! standing performers as Okla­homa halfback Joe Don Looney and Alabama quarterback Joe Namath were dismissed from their teams.

Texas rallied from a 10-polnt deficit, recovered a, fumble right after a nearly fatal pass inter­ception and edged Texas 15-13 to preserve its national cham­pionship.

Navy (9-1) wound up ranked second nationally.

The east, which posted a 37-5 record, in major intersectional games, and the Big Eight, which placed champion Nebras­ka (9-1) and Oklahoma (8-2) in the top ten, both enjoyed in­creased status.

Illinois won the Big Ten title and a Rose Bowl date against Washington.

Washington (6-4) took six of its last seven and the Big Six crown.

Undefea t ed Mississippi (7-0-2) won the Southeastern Conference title but was rat­ed lower than runnerup Au­burn (9-1). Auburn was matched with Nebraska in the Orange. Bowl and Ole Miss with Alabama in the Sugar.

Dartmouth capitalized on a

he will receive a $30,000 bonus and $20,000 annually on a three-year, no-cut arrangement.

The 6-foot-l,. 185-pounder com­pleted 174 passes for 2,157 yards this year—both national records —and handled the ball a record 406 times. He also set nine Southwest Conference passing marks.

Skating Rinks

Closed Tonight All municipal skating fa*

cflities will be closed to­night, Christmas Eve and Christmas Eve and will re­main s% until tomorrow, it was announced this morn­ing.

Recreation Director Mi­chael A. Valerio said all rinks will open Christmas Day at 1 p.m. and will oper­ate at full schedule through­out the holiday vacation.

fumble, beat Princeton 22-21 and tied the Tigers for Ivy League laurels. Virginia Tech won the Southern'race while Wichita tied Cincinnati in the Missouri Val­ley.

Mississippi State C5-2-2) b~at two bowl teems, t rd Ole Miss and lost to 'Bama by a single point.

Staubach. one of four juniors to win the Heisman trophy, ran and passed for 1.892 yards. 1,474 of which came on 107 pass com­pletions in 161 attempts with only six interceptions. Staubach also caught three tosses. ,

He was joined in the All-America backficld by fellow quarterbacks Jimmy Siddhi of Auburn and Billy Lothridge of Georgia Tech and halfback Sher­man Lewis of Michigan State.

In the pro ranks, the National League lived with its black eye. In April all-everything Paul TWnung of Green Bay and Alex Karras of Detroit were suspend­ed for betting on games.

Coach Paul B r o w n was» dropped by Cleveland after 17 years.

I Wish • Merry Christmas

and Happy New Year

to all my friendi and to those I have served

in the past . . .

at Sal's News

THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING

FLORENCE TESORIERO

Pro Basketball

10 seconds left, Gary Rradds score 29 points in Ohio State's 79-62 victory over Houston, Bob Quinney'g 35-point performance led Brigham. Young to a 95-90 triumph over Michigan State and Utah State defeated Bradley 95-M behind Troy Collier's 28-point performance.

Elsewhere, Rick Kaminsky' mentioned.

Dr. Henry King Stanford, uni­versity president, said he had recommended Tate as successor to Andy Gustafson. who retired after 16 years to become ath­letic director. Tate is expected to come to- Miami, this week to discuss salary and. sign a con­tract. No salary figures were

National Basketball Assn. No games Monday or today

Wednesday's. Games I/>s Angeles at New York St. Louis at Cincinnati

Rosily Victory LOS ALAM1TOS, Calif. (AP)

—Safety Pin, a 4-ycar-pld geld­ing, scored an upset victory in the seventh race at the Los Ala-mitos quarter horse track.Mon­day, then dropped dead in the winner's circle.

^ Loyola Chicago Kentucky Michigan UCLA Cincinnati Vanderbilt Davidson Duke Oregon State NYU

Pts. 405 393 360 276 237 204 153 76 69 48

Eastern States Skate Meet Jan. 11-12 at Spa

SARATOGA SPRINGS—One of the nation's top juvetiile girl speed skaters of 1963, Suzanne Blair of Cornwall, N.Y., is among the first entries for the 32nd annual Eastern States Outdoor Speed Skating Cham­pionships to be held here Jan. 11-12.

In the age 12 to 14 juvenile • —

National Hockey League

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS No games Monday or today

Wednesday's Games Montreal at Chicago Toronto at B6stori New York at Detroit

division last season. Miss Blair captured the National Outdoor Championship at St. Paul, Minn., the Middle Atlantic Out­door at Newburgh.- N.Y., the North American Indoor at West-field. N.J., and the Eastern States here. She also won the national indoor juvenile girls' title at Champagne, III., in IM,

Now 15, Miss Blair is moving up into the junior division this season. •

Suzanne isn't the only Blair entered for the East­ern Slates meet. Accom* panylng her entry was one for her eight-year-old broth­er, Robert, in the special midget boys class, and an­other for her seven-year-old sister, Angela, in the pee wee girls division. Angela owns a 1963 championship, having taken the Northeast-

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em Indoor pee wee girls title at Worcester, Mass.

Th« Eastern 'States meet, sponsored by the Saratoga Win­ter Club and the Saratoga Springs Chamber of Commerce, again will be held at the East Side Recreation field rink.with competition starting each day, at 1 p.m. Bleachers already have been set up for the event.

Entry blanks have been sent to skaters In six states and Canada, according to E. Barnes Dunlap and William P. Tarrant, co-chairmen. ,

The meet again will be fea­tured by the scnldr men's three-mile Saratoga Cup race on the second, day. The .powerful area skater, Richie Wurster of Balls-ton Spa \fho won the event last January, is an expected entrant for the 1964 meet.

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