Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
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Hamilton Follows
NIL Action
By MORRIS SIEeEL


AN HOUR OR so before the Eagles kicked off to the
Redskins in Philadelphia last Sunday Jim Hamilton with
poteness unusual for most cops who supposed
tough excused himself from his breakfast companions.
i He had to make telephone CALL He makes the same
phone call about the same time every Sunday 1ng
wherever he happens to be-Green Bay . Phade.ph
-. Los Angeles Dallas New York Detroit
anywhere
Hamilton makes many phone calls but the Sunday
morning duty is most important He won't say where
he's calling
Everything Ok" he smiled he returned,
suffing nondeScript sheet of paper in inside coat
pocket
Es LIKE MOST COPS Jim always is seeking information
His Sunday calls usually get him the information he wants
It's the latest odds National Football League games.
No bookmaker in America gets better dope than Jim.
It's his business
OF hours before the kickoff it's the signal for Hamilton
70 become worried He hasn't had to be so far.
big time bookmakers used to know them are
al extinct breed now he 1.-THE Government knocked
EN- out couple of years ago. Most Of them retired
vent to Vegas and others bet with another just to
have action going"
Jim won't say where he gets his Odds but he con-
sders them good anybody eSes used to be easy
out Of Minneapolis or Davenport Iowa. But now they
are not reliable they used to be- STILL they're good
10 a starter"
Is HAMILTON is THE NILS full time, man police
cities and elsewhere but Jim's the big man.
~ He often talks in alphabet lingo which teeviewers
came to understand when Jack Webbs "Dragnet" was
the hit show Jim had hand in the series technical
adviser.
~ That was when he was on the LAPD-Los Angeles
Police Department He captain and worked at times
homicide and racket squads He knows most of the
West Coast racket guys but important they know
Jim Mickey Cohen regarded him as tough cop.
Except that Mickey didn't say tough" He used an
other word Mike Wallace TV show and it cost the
network $225O0 in damage suit Hamilton filed against
him. Jim's boss in L. A., Chief William Parker got
$4,000 from the network on another charge. Mickey
said something about their integrity.
HAMILTON NnDDLE-AGED and craggy-faced looks
like cop. He talks slowly listens well and smiles lot.
He suspects everybody-unt he checks That's what his
job is with the NFT-to check rumors and reports
In a MidweStern city recently he got word that one
of the NIL players hanging around a restaurant
owned by former hood Hamilton, using connection
from the local police department, checked it out The
dope was wrong.
1.-THE owner was legitimate and the player supposed
to be playing around in there doing nothing
than having dinner with his wife But you've got to check
just the same.
Somebody got a couple Of joints mixed up There
is place in that city, learned, owned by fellow
who did time for safecracking didn't tell players not
to visit it. that's not my business tell the coach and
owners and it's up to them They usually take the hint
WHEN HAMILTON VISITS league city he rarely pays
courtesy call at team headquarters Usually he goes
directly to another headquarers-police It's always
whats new?" basis They tell me if there's any trouble
spot" he says. Police get along with another"
Hamilton denied the existence of any list" of off
limits spots for players Never has been he explained
"A do is check places which hear bad. If
we find they tell the coach of the hometown team
and all clubs which visit the city about it. Then it's their
responsibility"
Hamilton joined the NIL force" shortly after Paul
Hornung and Alex Karras grounded by Commissioner
Pete Rozee Hamilton knows few of the players person.
ally and prefers that they don't know him. His desire
for anonymity is understandable.
His precinct is from coast to coast but his chief
interest is to protect only 58 players in the NIL
What about Hornung and KarraS? Does Hamilton have
particular interest in them during their suspension?
= Nope" he said, very cop-like, they aren't under
contract in the NIL"