St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-01-05

title fight, the only man to stop the
Utah mauler Bill RusSell's
great all-around play spanked the
Boston Celtics to their third
straight MIA championship. Rus
sells climaxing performance came
in the Celts 121-112 victory over
the St Louis Hawks in the cham
pionship game before 1900 fans
at Boston. Big Bill scored 80 points
grabbed SO rebounds and was sup
erb on defense Emile Griffith
of New York decisioned Benny
kid Paret of Cuba to win the
welterweight title, April 1.
April - Chamberlain, the great
clipper, broke 10 MIA records
and including in his accomplish
ments a new scoring record of
3,O33 points and 2,149 rebounds.
He missed topping the single game
scoring record of II points set by
Baylor, but erased that record too
this season with a 75-point out
burst against the Lakers this sea-
son Joe Brown, the light
weight champion, defended his title
for the 18th time, easily defeating
Dave Charnley of Britain.
May-The Cincinnati Reds start
ed their pennant push, as slugger
Frank Robinson started a hitting
hinge that was to take him to the
Leagues smuggling title and bring
him the circuits most valuable
player award.
June - Frank Budd, 21-year-old
Villanova Splinter, made track his
tory by running the 1OO-yard dash
faster than ever before, when he
was clicked at 90 seconds in the
final of the AAU national outdoor
championship meet at Downing
Memorial Stadium on Randalls Is
land N. Y, June "a Archie
Moore, still defying the years, east
ly defeated Italian Giulio Rinaldi
at Madison Square Garden in New
York City on June 10, to retain his
portion of the light heavyweight
fffIn Tho National Rn1yiT,or
Assn. recognizes Harold Johnson
of Philadelphia as champion.
July - Willie Mays, Bill White
and Hank Aaron were among the
stars who led the National League
to a 5 to 4 victory over the Amer
lean League stars in the all-star
baseball game at breezy Candle
stick Park in San Francisco.
August - Mantle and Maris, the
MN" boys of the 1861 baseball
campaign, made most of the head
lines during this month. Maris
eventually wound up the season
with 81 home runs to technically
become the new home run king.
Babe Ruth hit 60 homers in 1874
games; Maris, 81 in 1852 games
Paret won back his weller title
from Griffith on Aug. 81.
September - The Yankees and
the Redlegs clinched the pennents
in their respective leagues. On the
Yankees championship team were
three Negroes - Howard, substit-
ute catcher Jessie Gender and pit
cher Al Downing - the largest
total in the teams history. The
Redlegs were loaded with tan tai
ent.
October - The Yankees met and
defeated the Redlegs in the World
Series, as Robinson, Cincinnad's
top star, was plagued by miser-
able batting slump, and the usual
ly brilliant Pinson performed be-
low par.
November-Maris and Robinson
were voted the most valuable play
ers in their leagues. II Davey
Moore, worlds Hfeatherweight
champion from Springfield, o., sue
cessfully defended his title by
knocking out Kazuo Takayama in
Tokyo on Nov. Is.
December - Patterson knocked
out McNeeley to retain the heavy
weight title Davis was voted
winner of the Heisman award and
then signed a three-year pro con-
tract with the Cleveland Browns
for a reported $50, 900, plus SIS, 900
in bonus.
The Associated Negro Press
wishes sports fans q, bright,
prosperous and exciting. New
Year Fg,g .. ~ D., ". =