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Evening star., 1961-06-20
As Shocked
ByDismissuI
OfGordon

KANSAS CITY, June 20
(AP).-Hank Bauer, new man
ager of the Athletics, is an ex-
tremely popular fellow with the
players. He's known for grit
and determination.
But the man he replaced as
manager of the Athletics was
so highly respected and well
liked by the AS that the firing
of Joe Gordon came as a shock
to them.
"Joe is a great guy and he
did a great job," Second Base
man Jerry Lumpe said. "A
neighbor came over and told
me about the change. At first
I couldn't believe it. It just
didn't seem possible.
"Joe Nuxhall and I were
talking tonight and he said he
wouldn't be surprised to come
out here some night and find
the ball park gone and an
apartment house here"
Outfielder Norm Siebern
summed it up this way:
Gordon was a wonderful
guy to play for. I thought he
was a good manager, and he
was good to me. They have
a heck of a replacement in
Hank, but I still hated to see
Joe CO."
Bud Daley, former AS pitch
er now with the Yanks, called
Gordon the best manager Kan
sas City ever had.
10 10 White, a third-base
coach and close friend of Cor
don, said Joe told him he
thought the club made a good
choice in Bauer.
Evening star., 1961-06-20
You Gotta Have Heart

THE SECRET is now out Fairly certain
that they will not win the pennant, the
Senators have devised a most cunning
scheme to keep their supporters interested
They pick the most unexpected, bizarre
methods by which to win and lose ball
games, and fans with even mild curiosity
are hooked.
Some fans are lost, of course. These
are the ones who also Shun roller coasters,
preferring their ups and downs in more
conversative doses. The Senators apparently
want only strong-hearted, thrill-seeking
types in their following. The way they play
it, baseball is not game for the timid to
watch.
The Senators have played GA games to
date and % have been decided by one-run
margins. They and their opponents have
split these. Ten others were two-run deci-
sionS, and the Senators trail in this depart
ment, 73.
A number of the Washington victories
have been blockbuSters. The Senators scored
the winning run one night after three were
"out" In the ninth-when a strikeout of
Billy Klaus was annulled by passed ball.
They've won on timely pinch-hits and they
SCUIGu Cl1IlCIlcLS Will UdoCUdA . AAAOoG ChC1I-
ing sneak play, the home run.
BUT IN LOSING, TOO, the Senators
have come up with some weirdies. In the
weekend series in Boston they reached new
heights in the art of lowering the boom on
themselves.
They built up 60 lead and lost with
the aid of IS walks; they had the Red Sox
on the ropes, 5-1, and blew that one; and
they had 1875 lead with two out in the
ninth and with dramatic futility let that
one get away. In the final game the Sem
atorS changed the script. They let the Red
Sox get the lead, caught them, and left
their fans hopelessly trapped at their radios
until the 18th inning, when the end came
mercifully with one quick swish of the bat
by Jim Pagliaroni.
But being dumped overheard in that
four-game Boston tea party was just con-
tinuation of the zany pattern the Senators
have been weaving all year.
AS early as April 16 they were showing
their flare for the dramatic. Going into the
Evening star., 1961-06-20
Donovan Is Biddinq
To Spark Senators

straight beauties, the last two
six-hit jobs at the expense of
the White Sox and Orioles.
This will be his first start
against the Tigers.
The clubs lowest earned-run
average. 2.59, belongs to Dono-
van, who also has been stingy
with walks. He's given only Is
free passes in 661s innings.
The Senators, to a man, say
they will bounce back after the
Boston fiasco. They've done it
before. They dropped four of
their first is games and came
back to take II of the next II.
Early this month the Sena-
tors lost five straight and al
most were bombarded out of
their own park by the Indians
but showed their recuperative
powers by winning the next
four and six of the next eight.
Pitchers Faltering
Hitting, a deficiency in the
early season, has been continu-
ouSly on the rise. The Senators
boast five batterS in the .28O-
class - Gene Green,
1875; Willie Tasby, 3O2; Gene
Woodling. .290; Jim King, .285,
and Dale Long, .283.
They've been getting home
run power from Tasby, IL;
Long, 8, and Green, z.
But the pitchers, the heroes
in the early going, have been
Evening star., 1961-06-20
Bauer, Athletics New Pilot,
Plans No Sudden Chances

KANSAS CITY, June 20
(AP).-Hank Bauer, off to a
booming start as manager of
the Kansas City Athletics,
says he's going to let the "fel-
lows kind of play their own
game for a WHILE" at least un-
til he gets his feet on the
ground.
The AS greeted Bauer as re-
placement for fired Joe Gordon
by beating Hanks old New
York teammates, 4-3, on sue
cessive home runs by Norm
Siebern and Pinch-hitter Yves
Covington in the bottom Of the
ninth last night.
"A game like that (JiIn)
Archer threw and successive
clutch homers can make a
manager look pretty smart. "
Bauer offered. Archer (5-D
beat the Yankees in New York
earlier and is tough on hit
ters like Roger Maris," Bauer
explained.
"I don't plan to change any,
thing, at least for the present. /"
he said. Il just expect every
player to keep hustling like
they did against those Yanks.
Names HOwser Captain
There's no goal for number
Of victories-just win every one
we can" The. AS are eighth
in the American League. 111a
games out Of first place.
Bauer, who will be 80 next
was with the Yankees
13 seasons before coming to
Kansas City in December 1859
in a seven-player deal that
cost the AS the services of
Maris. His first official act
Evening star., 1961-06-20

as manager, directed by Cen
eral Manager Frank Lane,
was to name Rookie Shortstop
Dick Howser team captain.
Lane said name Howser
captain and I did just that u
Bauer said. THAT Howser is
"a great little battler."
Club Owner Charles o. Fin
ney took Lane off the hook in
the firing of Gordon.
II was the man behind that
move (firing Gordon) and
think the heat should be taken
off our general manager" /"
Finley said in an interview last
night.
Finley said Lane and Gordon
like each other but seemed to
have trouble working together"
and that one or both had to
go.
Lane, Finley said, had taught
him a lot about baseball but
that he discovered he was
trying to please both Gordon
and myself"
Lane had done practically all
Of the talking in announcing
Gordon'S dismissal at a news
conference yesterday and most
writer's suspected it was a con-
tinuation of an old feud.
AS general manager of Cleve-
land, Lane hired Gordon as
manager, fired him, then re-
hired him and finally traded
him to Detroit for Manager
Jimmy Dykes last season.
Bauer has a contract-terms
not disclosed - that runs
through next season. He'll be
listed as a playing manager
until an outfield replacement
is obtained.
Evening star., 1961-06-20

faltering. The Senators are hop
ing Donovan can get them back
in the proper groove.
John Gabler came through
with a fair effort against the
Pirates before a good Griffith
Stadium turnout of IA, 1863. Cab
Ter, who owns an ERA of $50,
was touched for II hits, but he
went the distance and had diff
ficulty in only the fourth and
fifth innings, when the Pirates
scored all of their runs.
Scatters Eight Hits
Singles by Dick Groat and
Bob Skinner were followed by
a home run into the leftfield
bleachers by Dick Stuart in the
fourth. Singles by Joe Christie
pher, Skinner and Stuart and
an infield out brought home
two more runs in the fifth.
SiSk, signed to a bonus con-
tract by the Pirates last winter
and regularly employed by the
ASheville, N. c., team in the
Glass A Sally League, scattered
eight hits. A walk, a bloop single
by Chuck Cottier and an infield
out scored one Washington run
in the second. The Senators got
another in the fifth on a single
by Danny O'Connell and a triple
to deep center by Green.
NOTES: Bob Bailey, SITS, 900
bonus acquisition of the Pi-
rates, got into the game as a
pinch-hitter in the fifth and
took three called strikes. Bailey
was to go with Sisk to Asheville
today. Bob's parents watched
the game with Joe L. Brown,
Pirates general manager. g.
Don Hoax, whose eye was
scratched when a ball took a
bad hop Sunday and shattered
his sun glasses, watched the
game from the press box.
Roberto Clemente, another
Pirate star, did not make the
trip. He had just been X-rayed
because of a stomach ailment
with negative results. =. Long,
the Senator'S Slugging first
baseman, spent the day at his
home near Boston. Boys
Clubs from both Pittsburgh and
Washington will share in last
nights receipts.
Evening star., 1961-06-20
Seven Added
To Bonus LIST
BY the Associated Press

Major league clubs have
added at least seven more
baseball prospects to their
lengthening parade of bonus
Signings.
The University of Southern
California, which last week
won the NCAA baseball cham
pionShip. gave up a battery to
the pro clubs as Pitcher Wally
Wolf accepted 100000 from
the new Houston entry in the
National League and Catcher
Lawrence Hines took a very
high" figure from the Cincin-
natl Reds.
The Reds also signed Out
fielder Steve Reeves. who
played with Riverside (Calif.)
High School. The Los Angeles
Angels added another West
Coast bonus youngster in
PlCcher Paul MoSIey OF SauguS
(Calif0 High.
sgd Thrift, regional scout for
the Pirates, signed Catcher
Jerry May of Staunton, Va,
whose father, E. E. (Kit) May,
pitched for the old Philadelphia
Athletics.
The Dodgers gave $4,000 to
Infielder Tony Torchia. a heavy
hitter for North Miami (Fla.)
High School. And the Mime
sofa Twins took on Pitcher
Wayne Kodel of Milwaukee for
q small bonus"
Wolf, a 19-year-old sopho-
more fast-baller for Southern
California, will be paid his
500, 1000 over a five-year period
and will be paid an additional
salary of $500. He will re-
port to Houston this week and
pitch in the American Associa-
ton until the club joins the
National League next season.
Evening star., 1961-06-20
ATHLETICS, 4; YANKS, 3

E-None. PO-A-New York 1918, Kan.
sas City U.l4 Zone out when winning run
scored). DP-DeMaestri, Richardson and
Skowron; Howser, Lumpe, and Siebern;
SorE kansss esS ty sseOs sRcSsrdsev
Lumpe. 3B johnson. HR-SkowrOn,
Maris, Siebern, Covington.
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x-Faced man in 9th.
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Drummond, Paparella. T-2:ll. A-l6Jl5.
Evening star., 1961-06-20

Lane said Gordon's contract,
repeatedly calling for $4,000
per season through next sea-
son, will be honored.
Gordon Processes Surprise
Gordon had just returned
home from fishing when Lane
called to tell him he had been
fired. The one-time Yankee
Flash" said it came as a sur
prise, but rumors have it he's
been expecting it for some
time since he'd had several
brushes of opinion with top
brass. He only recently bought
a home at Lake Lotawanna in
Jackson County.
Evening star., 1961-06-20
Mike McGee Signs

ST. LOUIS, June 20 (AP).-
Mike MCGEE, a Duke Univer-
sity product who developed into
an outstanding offensive guard
in his rookie year last season,
today signed his 1861 contract
with the st. Louis Cardinals Of
the National Football League.
Evening star., 1961-06-20
Yankees Find
Patsies Won't
Follow Form
BY the Associated Press

The New York Yankees are
back to playing the patsies
again in that American League
pennant race, but the patsies
won't play ball.
After splitting six games
against Detroit and Cleveland
in their three-way fight for
first place, the Yankees were
no worse than third, just a
game behind. Ahead lay nine
road games, all against the
third" division-Kansas City,
Minnesota and Los Angeles
while the Tigers and Indians
each played seven, squaring off
against each other in four.
It figured to be a quick ride
to the front for the Yankees,
but they ran into a quick de-
tour. Their Kansas City
cousins came from behind on
consecutive ninth-inning home
runs by Norm Siebern and
Pinch-hitter Wes Covington for
a 4-3 decision that made ex-
Yankee Hank Bauer a winner
in his debut as manager Of
the Athletics.
Yankees III Back
1t was the only game played
in the AL. and dropped New
York 112 games behond first
place Detroit. The only other
game scheduled, Cleveland at
Chicago, was rained out. leav-
ing the second-place Indians a
half-game behind the Tigers.
No games were scheduled in
the National League, in which
Cincinnati has won five in a
row for a 11a-game lead-the
biggest bulge any MI. leader
has had in three weeks.
Bauer, 38, taking over after
Joe Gordon was fired in a sur
prise move by AS owner
Charles Finley, was backed by
a couple of ex-Yanks and
picked the right man at the
right time for Kansas City's
third victory in nine games
with New York this season.
Siebern, like Bauer a one
time Yankee outfielder, collect
ed half of the AS six hits. He
drove in their first run with a
fourth-inning single, then sin
gled and scored their second
run in the seventh on a triple
by eX-Yank Deron johnson be-
fore finally chasing starter Ro-
land Sheldon with his ninth
home run in the ninth.
Bauer Outmaneuvers Houk
The homer squared it at s.
all, and Yankee Manager Ralph
Houk brought in Relief Ace Luis
Arroyo, a lefthander. Bauer met
the challenge by picking Cow
ington, a lefthanded hitter, and
Wes walloped his fifth homer.
Jim Archer, a stubby south
paw, won his third in a row
with a Seven-hitter. He gave up
a pair Of solo homers, Bill Skow-
ron's 14th in the fourth, and
Roger Maris' 25th in the ninth,
while beating New York a second
time. Archer. now 5-1, is the
only lefty to pitch a complete
game against the Yankees this
season, and he's done it twice.
For what it's worth, Maris,
the major league home run
leader, now is seven games
ahead of Babe Ruth's record-60
pace of 1927. But he's exactly
even with his own pace of a
year ago, with 25 in So games.
He finished with SO last season.
Evening star., 1961-06-20
Eagles Sign Pair

PHILADELPHIA, June 20
CAP.-Tackle Ed Khayat and
Back Bob Freeman, two regul-
lar members of the Philadelphia
Eagles defensive unit, have
signed their 1861 contracts, the
National Football League cham
pions announced today.
Evening star., 1961-06-20
PIRATES, S.;
SENATORS, z
WASHINGTON

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Evening star., 1961-12-02
ID SEEK EXHIBITION PAY
Three Redskins Hurt,
May Not See Action

as the money that had been
paid to them subsequently was
deducted from their regular
season salary. The association
takes the position that all
players in the league should
be paid for each exhibition
game played, as agreed in 1857.
and this should not be a draw
on future salary"
The Redskins management
said this was erroneous, as the
players were signed to seasonal
contracts, which would include
payment for exhibition games.
not on a ame-to-game basis.
Coach Bill McPeak was sur
prlSed by this turn of events,
for none of the players went
to him or to George Marshall.
president of the club, before
appealing to the commissioner.
! Miller listed the following
/ players as complainants: Tom
Osborne, Ray Leinek. Bob
Toneff, Bernie Darre, Bob
Whitlow. Dick Lasse. Don
Lawrence, Roy wilkins, Jim
Crotty, John Paluck. Jim
Schrader, Jim Wulff. Sam
Horner and Dugan. Whitlow
and Crotty no longer are with
the team.
Evening star., 1961-12-02
BY FRANCIS STANN
Star staff Writer

MIAMI BEACH. Dec. 2-The
baseball meetings-the minor
league end at Tampa and the
major league sessions here
have been complete duds as far
as the Washington Senators
contingent is concerned.
Apparently we've had no.
body of any value to offer and
we've not been offered any
thing" General Manager Ed
Doherty said today as he pre-
pared to quit this site.
Our last trade talk was with
Kansas City-again-and at
our end it was the catcher
Joe Pignatano,for Willie Tasby
But the AS wanted more. They
mentioned Ray Hankins, whom
l don't need. and Mickey MAN
ager Mickey Vermont spoke oi
Bob Shaw, the pitcher.
I'VE didn't get anywhere.
Vernon flew out of this sand
spit last evening. Strangely, he
wasn't invited to come down
to the major league meetings
until the very end. If Mickey
was miffed he didn't say so in
as many words and if Doherty
talked only of being disap-
pointed about the lack of deals
he didn't go into details, either
Ed sat in at all of the meet
Evening star., 1961-12-02
Hoyas, Terps
Open Tonight

Georgetown and Maryland
open their basketball seasons
tonight in the features of a
schedule that finds seven area
teams in action.
The Hoyas open on the road
against Baltimore Loyola while
Maryland travels to University
Park, Pa, for a clash with Penn
State.
In other games, American
University is at Akron. Howard
at Lincoln, Gallaudet at Bowie,
D. C. Teachers at MillersVille
Teachers and Prince Georges
Community College at home
against the Alumni.
Georgetown. playing it's sec
ond season under Coach Tommy
OKeefe, has eight lettermen
back and has built its attack
around Bob Sharpenter, 6-foot-
7; Paul Tagliabue, SIS, and Jim
Carrino, 6-3.
Maryland goes into it's 18th
season under Coacl, Bud Mil
likan with a veteran team that
is missing only two men from
last years squad, high-scoring
Bob Mcdonald and Bob Wilson.
Joe Barton, 6-foot-7 sopho-
more. will replace Mcdonald at
center in the opener and will be
Joined in the starting lineup by
Bruce Kelleher, a senior, and
Jerry Greenspan, Bob Eicher
and Bill Stasiulatis, all juniors
Evening star., 1961-12-02

Layne and his Steeler mates.
McCusker's place will be filled
by Virginia Tech Rookie Don
Oakes.
Besides the Giants and
Eagles (8-3, the Cleveland
Browns are the only other
team still in the running for
the Eastern crown. The Browns
(7-4 go to Dallas to meet the
Cowboys (4-6-D, one of the
two teams able to master the
Giants. Washington t0-10-1
minus star pass receiver Fed
Dugan because of a fractured
hand, invades St. Louis t4-O
in the other Eastern game.
Green Bay, despite a bulging
21a-game advantage, still could
lose out in the West if the
Packers drop their remaining
three games and either the San
Francisco Forty-Niners or the
Detroit Lions win all three
The Forty Miners and the Lii
ons are tied for second with
6-4-l marks.
San Francisco meets the
Colts (6-5) at Baltimore and
Detroit will try to remain in
the thick of things by beat
ing the Bears (6-5) at Chi
cago. The Los Angeles Rams
(3-8) go to Minnesota for a
tilt with the Vikings 90.
Evening star., 1961-12-02

summer the school voted in
favor of a contract between
the Big Ten and the Big Five.
Coach Bill Barnes of UCLA
said he would welcome Mime
sofa as an opponent.
Theirs was one of the
toughest schedules played in
the Big Ten" Barnes said
Murray Warmath is a fine
coach and I'm sure we'd have
a great game"
Warmath, in WinSton-Salem
N. c., for speech. told a news
man he was very happy the
faculty vote was so decisive. "
I've got my game gear
packed, my ankles taped and
I'm ready" he jested, but
added, "Of course, we will have
to be invited, and 1 wish I could
have as much confidence that
we will as some of the others.
Both coaches are from the
University of Tennessee.
Minnesota would bring a To
record to Pasadena this time
UCLA is 7-3.
Evening star., 1961-12-02
Gophers Likely to Get
Rose Bowl Nod Todoy

PASADENA, Calf, Dec. 2
tAP) Selection of Minnesota
as UCLA's opponent in the
Rose Bowl football game jan
uary l was expected momen-
tarily today.
The University of Minnesota
faculty voted approval of the
Gophers' participation yeSter-
day. The vote was 108-33.
whereas Ohio State earlier this
week rejected a possible chance
by 1925 in the faculty senate.
Minnesota was deprived of a
tie for the Big Ten champion
ship in its last game of the
season as it was edged by Wis
consin, 1921.
Ohio State finished its Big Ten
season undefeated but was tied
by Texas Christian.
Until last season Minnesota
had been opposed to Big Ten
participation in the Rose Bowl.
But it played and lost to Wash
ington, 1T, last January 2
and apparently liked the re-
ception in asadena. for last
Evening star., 1961-12-02
ORIOLES DENY
TRADE REPORT

BALTIMORE, Dec. 2 tAP). -
A reported trade between two
baseball clubs, the Baltimore
Orioles and the Los Angeles
Dodgers, was denied today BY
Buzzy Bavasi, the Dodger gen.
eral manager.
The News-Post, in a dispatch
from Miami Beach. Fla, hac
said the Orioles were trading
Catcher Gus Triandos ano
Second BaSeman Marv Breed
ing to the Dodgers for Catcher
John Roseboro and Second
Baseman Charlie Neal.
But Bavasi said there is nc
possibility of such a trade. He
said the Oriole general man.
ager, Lee MacPhail. had made
such an offer. but the Dodgers
haven't even considered it,"
Evening star., 1961-12-02
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON
Star staff Writer

Three players are question
marks today as the Redskins
leave on their final road trip
of the season, heading for St.
Louis and tomorrow's return
game with the Cardinals.
End Fred Dugan and Line
hacker Rod Breedlove both
have broken hands and Full
back Don BoSseler has a
pinched nerve in his neck
Whether any of them see ac-
ton tomorrow is speculative.
Dugan, only three pass re-
ceptions away from Bob NuSs-
banners all-time Redskins rec
ord of AZ in one season, was
catching them cunnythumb in
yesterdays practice and un-
doubtedly wants a chance to
tie the mark. He might get
the chance.
The Cardinals whitewashed
the Redskins, 24-0. at D. C.
Stadium six weeks ago and are
favored to repeat. The Red
skins are not only crippled but
apparently unhappy. Fourteen
claim they did not receive the
$50 per game for five exhibit
tions supposed to be paid them
under the league constitution
Creighton Miller, attorney for
the National Football League
Players Association. has ap-
pealed to Commissioner Pete
Rozelle for ruling.
In his letter. Miller said Ia
players did not receive COM
pensation for exhibition games
Evening star., 1961-12-02

ship for the second straight
year if they manage to break
the Giants four-game victory
streak. The Giants must win
to be assured of retaining un-
disputed possession of first
place in the Eastern Division.
Green Bays lineup for this
biggest test of the fading sea-
son, to be played before a SELL
out standing room throng in
MilWaukee'S County Stadium,
is expected to be virtually the
same that has carried the Pack
erS to a 90 record.
Star Halfback Paul Hornung
the NILS top scorer with 1876
points, and End Boyd Dowler
both will get weekend passes
from the Army to play. But
Linebacker Ray Nitschke will
not be permitted to leave Fort
Lewis, Wash, where he is sta
toned, because he has received
four previous leaves from the
camp. Dowler also is stationed
at Fort Lewis while Hornuns
will journey from Fort Riley
KanS.
/ The Giants, also 80, will be
without Alan Webb, a defensive
back, who injured his leg last
week against Cleveland. OF.
fenSive Back Joe Morrison will
take Webb's place. Offensive
Guard Jack Stroud also will be
ready for duty after being or
the injured list since Novem-
ber IL.
The defending champion
Philadelphia Eagles, trailing
the Giants by one game, may
be without the services of jim
McCusker. regular left tackle
on offense, when they invade
] Pittsburgh to battle Bobby
Evening star., 1961-12-02
TeIevisiion
TODAY
Football

Army VS.. Navy from Phil
adelphia, WMAL-7, lis pm.
Touchdown - films of last
weeks top four games, WTTG-
5, 4 pm.
NFL game of the week on
film, WTOP-9, 4::30 pm.
Scoreboard, WMAL-7, Ais
pm.
Basketball
Chicago at Syracuse, WRC-
4, 2:30 pm.
Horse Racing
City of Miami Handicap from
Tropical and the Gallorette
from Pimlico, WTTG-5, 4:3O
pm.
Bowling
Bowl the Champ, WMAL-
/ 7, 4:30 pm.
/ Make That Spare, WMAL-7
10:45 pm.
{ Golf
/ All-Star Golf, WRC-4, 5 pm
Boxing
Eddie MaChen VS.. Doue
Jones, WMAL-7. 10 pm.