The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1961-08-12
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Eleven American athletes
stayed in Europe Tuesday as the
rest OF the United States track
squad flew home
Splinter Frank Budd. quarter.
miller Earl Young, halfmiler
Jerry Siebert and broad jumper
Ralph Boston will spend another
week competing in Sweden Ger
many and Norway.
Steeplechasers George Young
and Deacon Jones, distance run
ners Max Truck and Bob Schul,
pole vaulter John Uelses, hop
step jumper Ken Floerke and
walker Ron Zim will go TO the (
international military champion
ships Aug. 1920 at Brussels.
Ed Flanagan. head track coach
al Boston University. is recover.
ing from a heart seizure at his
home Flanagan, 40, who coached
high jump champion John Tho
mas and most of Americas top
hammer throwerls, suffered the
attack Friday.
Horace Walker. former Michi
gan State basketball star signed
with the Chicago team of the Ma
tional Basketball Association
Fullback John Henry Johnson
was back in pads for Mondays Pit
tsburgh Steeler workout in Slip
perry Rock, Pa, after signing his
1861 contract in Pittsburgh earl
Ter Wednesday. Johnson. who
came from the Detroit Lions last
season to become the Steelers'
second-ranking ground graincr,
was ordered out of Camp Saturday
by head coach Buddy Parker un-
til he came to terms.
The light heavywe;ght title
fight between National Boxing
Association champion Harold
Johnson and Eddie Cotton, of Seat
tie, has been moyed back from
Aug. 20 TO mid-September. That
will allow Johnson to meet heavy;
weight Eddie Machen Aug. Fl in
Portland, Ore.
The 29th annual East-West All
Star Game. featuring the out
standing players of the Negro
American Baseball League. Will
be played at Yankee Stadium in
New York-Sunday, Aug. 20, at
2.30 pm, league president Dr.
j. B.. Martin announced
This marks the first time in the
history of the game that II will
be played anywhere other than
Chicagos Comiskey Park
! Manuel (Pepe) Montejo. pro-
nounced Mon-te-yoo. Detroit
Tigers new relief pitcher was
born in Las Villas, Cuba The
slender highlander is % years
old and has been in organized
( ball since 1857. He stands 5-feet-
IL and weights los pounds. He
throws with a sidearm motion.
/ In 1859 at San Antonio in the
Glass A Texas League. Montejo
won seven and lost four and
won 10 and lost eight at Victoria
I in the same league in 1860.
( Noah Browns weekenders sum-
mer league is loaded with college
high school and amateur stars
but even Noah wilr nave 10 admit
the league will have to go some
to top the similar summer basket
ball league in Harlem, N. Y. The
leading team in that loop is com
posed of former New York Uni
versity stars Cal Ramsey. Tom
Sanders, Russ Cunningham. AL
Barden and the one -and-Only Wilt
Chamberlain.
Sometimes over 1000 spectators
brave the torrid New York heat
and jam themselves around the
small Harlem court to watch the
proceedings. Chamberlain helped
his team to a 92-7l victory over
Brooklyn and then left for Europe
and a months vacation.
The word comes from the East
that the 1861 Army football team
will be integrated. David Leroy
Ramsey. who came out of volun-
tary hitch in the air force to
accept an appointment TO the
West Point Military Academy,
appears to be a cinch to run from
the left halfback position for the
Cadets come next fall. Ramsey
stands 6 feet /, weighs an even
200 pounds, runs the quarter-mile