The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1961-09-09
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6 RAPHIC
BY JIM BUTLER

previous seasons in Detroit. Gin
cinnati never once claimed a vic
tory at either of the two home
sites.
With the addition Of the Chica-
90 franchise the Pistons schedule
will Jump TO 30 games Resides
their 80 home dates. coach Dick
McGuire's athletes will play four
games at Fort Wayne and as
others on foreign and neutral
courts.
The Pistons will play % OF their
home games either on Wednesday
O5) or Saturday a. Three games
each will be played on Sunday
and Friday. and the other date
is a Monday (New Years nighi.
Starting time for single games
has been moved back a half hour
from 8 to $3.50 D. m. with double
headers still tipping off al Z.
Mcclure will take his II candl-
dates to Marysvilc High School
for l0-day preseason training
stint beginning Sept. 10. The club
will open its 10-gamc exhibition
season early in October.
Twenty schools in the PSI Will
start their first workouts Tues
day. The first day will be devoted
principally to registration OF
candidates and issuing Of informs.
Thereafter the players Will be
busy six days a week since the
season opens Friday Sept y.
DENLY defeated Cooley for the
PSI championship last fall then
came from behind in the last
period to edge Catholic Central
2l-18 in the Goodfellow game
before a record breaking turnout
of 1916 persons in Tiger Stad-
ium.
One of the important coach
changes this new season viii be
George Newman who will be
swimming and track coach at
Eastern in place Of Lorenzo
Wright. who was granted lcavc
of absence to accept a position al
the University Of Nigeria in Airl-
ca.
When Michigan State Coach
Duffy Daughcrty turned to his
bench for brcakaway runners last
year he confronted with nothing
but power-running backs
This year when Dauehcrty
wants to insert some real speed
into his backfield he'll have a
number of rapid sophomores TO
turn to.
The two youngsters he probab,
ly Will resort to mcT often are
Sherman Lewis. lean. little
runner from Louisville. Ky, and
Dewey Lincoln, the compact all
state spccdStcrs from llamlramcN.
Lewis has some of the most
impressive credentials Of any
Spartan back OF recent years He
has run the 50-yard dash in 5.3
seconds. the 60-yard dash in :O6.3
and the 100 in .098.
Lincoln will give a step or two
to Lewis in wind sprints but as a
high school trackSman he cracked
the l0-second mark in the 100
with a clocking OF :099.
Dewey reminds me lot OF
Billy Wells the way he runs He
cuts and weavcs all over the
place.
Lincoln weighed in at l78 pounds
on the first day of practice
after a summer of working with
an asphalt gang for the City of
Hamtrack He expects to play this
fall at about 173.
Former middlcweighi champion
Sugar Ray Robinson Will meet
Will GrcaveS. the young Canadian
title contender. in the feature 10
rounder of the next Detroit Box
ing Club presentation at the new
Cobo Arena Sept. 25.
Robinson, who was born Walker
Smith in Detroit, Jan 3. 1920, de-
cisioned Garth Painter in 10
rounder in his last appearance
in Detroit May A.
The bout with Greavcs Will
launch second comeback cam
paign for the five-tIme holder of
the middleweight title once re-
cognized as one of The greatest
( fighters in the business.