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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-05
WIN LOSE OR DRAW

THE FIRST SEASON, nearly everybody
thought the Nets were funny. Screamingly
funny. Imagine, losing 100 of the 100 games
they Played 1t was wonderful. Comics
called them the New York Nuts
Most people, self-styled underdogs
themselves, loved the Nets Jimmy Breslin
wrote hilarious book called Cant Any
body Here Play This Gamer" lifting the
title from the beloved and beleaguered
manager, Casey stengel, who asked the
question one day in moment of complete
despair and sanity.
"All lies" Breslin once said, after being
congratulated on wringing a full and in
teresting book out Of ball club that had
existed for only one season. He was being
modest; they weren't lies. The Nets were
Jokes and Breslin wrote accurately of their
history.
The irony is that in the American
League the Senators, year older than the
Nets, were and remain almost as bad But
nobody cherishes the Senators, who lost
100 games in 81 and 101 last season. They
are last in hitting and last in fielding, Just
like the Nets in the National League.
PEOPLE CHUCKLE at the Nets but
shake their heads in dismay when they dis
cuss the Senators. They should be dis
mayed at the ineptitude Of both teams and
disguised with the so-called brains of base
ball who have selfishly handicapped these
franchises by stocking them with inferior
: talent.
Baseball clubowners are VIGOROUSLY
short-sighted and greedy. Most are highly
successful in other fields, including stocks
and bonds chewing gum, lumber, etc. But
they don't know how-or don't care TO
balance their leagues
Does anybody honestly think the Nets
are still hilarious2 They're pitiful. All OF
their records are negative. Recently they
played % consecutive games on the road
without winning, and yesterday one Of their
pitchers-Roger Craig-lost his 18th
straight game to Tie league mark
The established" clubs wrecked the
four new expansion Washington,
Houston, New York and Los Angeles-be-
fore they could get off the ground. They
charged each Of them upward Of 50 million
for Junk players.
EACH ONE OF THE EXPANSION clubs
is backed by big money. But what good does
1t do2 The Angels got lucky in their second
year and finished third after actually.
making a run at the Yankees. But II was
a freak happening because the Angels,
who should be better this season, are In
seventh place and out Of contention.
In Houston, the Texans, who backed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-05
New Clubs Have Cash ,
But Not Much Else
By FRANCIS STANN


up their talk with money, haven't made
much progress with the Colts. Oh, they're
building a $21-million domed stadium. It's
going to be nine tiers high and the main
road that leads to it viii have IA lanes.
They're going to Guido the new Nets
park at Flushing Meadow, which will cost
less and will have only 1900 parking spaces
Houston is talking of accommodating $4,000
cars, darn near one 10 a customer, since the
new park will hold $4,000 for baseball.
But they haven't the ballplayers. Nor
have the Nets and Senator's And the
Angels have precious few, as they're finally
discovering.
JUST ABOUT THE BEST front-office
and dugout talent that money can buy
has gone into the new clubs The Angels
have the Fred Haney-Bill Rigney combo.
The Colts lured Paul Richards from Balti-
more to run their program.
The Senators have been more unsettled.
Originally there was Gen. Pete Quesada in
the pilots seat, and Ed Doherty and Mickey
Vernon as general manager and field man
ager, respectively. All are gone now, but
there are others as rich in talent in their
places. But they haven't the ballplayers.
Periodically, the Senators issue press
memorandum reporting the deeds of their
farmhands in the minors. They ought to
ban the reports. Their own scouts say
there's hardly player in the modest farm
system worth bringing up.
OF ALL THE EXPANSION clubs the
Nets went overheard the most, at least as
far as high-priced management was con-
cerned. Stengel, the field boss, was fan
tastically successful during his years with
the Yankees. In a less publicized way,
George Weiss, the general manager, was the
best in his field.
But they can't play. They've had to
use the Marv Throneberrys and the Jim
Piersalls and the other castoffs. It is diff
ficult for the expansion clubs to trade.
Hobie Landrith couldn't catch for the Nets,
who have no catcher by Stengels own ad-
mission, yet he catches for the Senators.
BY the same token Piersall, who was ex-
pendable as far as the Senator's were con-
cerned, was put into the Nets lineup and
now he's with the Angels
Rival owners and general managers,
when charged with negligence, piously de-
clare that they've tried TO help the talent
poor clubs. I'VE offered so-and-so," they
say, land you know he's good one. But
all they offered in exchange was Junk"
Don't blame the Nets, Senators, Colts
and Angels for not offering anything else.
Each has SO few that fall into a higher
category.
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jim Slams Two Home Runs
AS Team Wins Sd in Row

on the Senator's pitching staff,
gave up eight hits In six In
nings but deserved a better
fate. Two Of the Senator's
three errors figured in Bos-
tons first three runs. However,
Rudy got q break in the sixth
when the Red Sox had three
singles but failed to score
when Centerfielder Don Lock
threw out Bob Turley at the
plate on Dick Williams single
to center. Turley, who started
from second, did not slide.
Rudy famed five, his sec
ond highest total Of the year.
AS usual, he was skinny with
his walks. giving up only one.
Chuck Hinton slowly climb
ing toward the 800 mark, lined
three straight singles and had
not been retired in his last
six times at bat after the third
single. He had a single and
two walks his last three times
at bat Saturday night.
Hinton flied deep to center
his last time at bat, and now
is hitting .278. Chuck also
stole his second base.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-05
Auto Clocks
4O8 MPH

UTAH. Aug. 5 (AP). - The
Utah Highway Patrol says
Craig Breedlove, 20, Of Los
Angeles set a world land speed
record Of 408 miles an hour
today.
The patrol said Breedlove
made two runs-one Of 1888
miles per hour, the other Of
428.37 miles per hour - on
Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats.
The late John Cobb Of Eng
land set the previous speed
mark-394.2 miles per hour
l6 years ago on the same salt
speedway.
Breedlove set the record in
his jet-powered tricycle. called
the Spirit Of America"
Observers said the Los An
geles race driver set the record
at approximately 1880 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-05
BY the Associated Press

The proud Yankees were In
serious danger of looking like
an ordinary ball club, but then
Mickey Mantle stepped in just
long enough to swing the bat
once, and they were the Yank-
eeS again.
The Yanks' oft-injured super
star, making his first appear
ance in a Yankee game since
he broke a bone in his left foot
June 5, cracked a dramatic,
pinch-hit home run into the
leftfield bleachers, pulling the
Yankees from behind and aim
ing them toward an lilo
second-game victory yesterday
over the Orioles at New York.
The Yanks had lost the first
game of a double header, To,
their two starting pitchers had
been bombed out and Balti-
more, helped along by five un-
earned runs, had a 1919 lead in
the second game.
Wild Ovation
Mantle, to a wild ovation
from the Yankee Stadium
crowd Of 1856. stepped in in
the seventh. Batting right
handed against the lefthanded
George Brunei. he lined the
second pitch into the leftfield
hleachers.
The Yanks won it in the 10th
on Yogi Berra's sacrifice fly.
"You can't imagine what a
lift this gives to the club"
Manager Ralph Houk said.
Second-place Chicago inched
within seven games of the
Yankees on an 81 romp over
Los Angeles, Kansas City beat
Minnesota, 60; Washington
stopped Boston, Us, and De-
troit and Cleveland split a
pair. the Tigers taking the
first, 20, and the Indians the
nightcap 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-05
Richter Gets Tips
From FriendIyRiva

tation than both. He ran the
100 in o.9."
Cooper played at Michigan
State but didn't distinguish
himself. The 6-foot- / 210-pound
Negro had q little trouble ham
ding some of Snead's losses,
but on other occasions gathered
'em in with an easy, one
handed motion.
Hes Bucko Kilroy's discov-
cry" McPeak said. Cooper
just had a seven-day sea voy-
age from Europe and his legs
are a little tight. When he
gets looSened up he ought to
be something"
Everything this week viii be
aimed at Friday nights intra-
squad game, for the benefit Of
the local high school. A stable
delegation Of Neutrality-suspicious.
is expected to attend.
NOTES - Rookie tackles
Charlie Nickoson and Ron Sni-
dow worked out for an hour
and q half yesterday morning
and were excused from the
afternoon exercises. Bobby
Mitchell says he is 100 per cent
further advanced than he was
at this time a year ago. .
McPeak doesn't intend to work
on punts, punt returns, etc.,
until the week before the Bears
game at Washington.
Gene Cronin is still in trac-
ton at Doctors Hospital and
the Redskins have no word yet
on when he'll be released. .
Leroy Jackson and OBrien
were released from their Air
National Guard units at the
same time, but Leroy missed
yesterdays workout. He was in
Washington Saturday night.
Rookie Lonnie Sanders, an
other absentee, is en- route by
auto from Detroit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-05
HOMER LIFTS YANKS
Mantle Shows
Dramatic ouch

Mantle, who had missed 81
games since his injury in Balti-
more, said the ovation when he
came from the dugout actually
chilled me. I could feel the
bumps rising on my arms.
was shaking. I told myself,
I'll settle for a single"
Mantle was limping heavily
when he trotted slowly around
the bases, and Houk said his
duties will be confined to
pinchhitting for some time.
IT don't remember running, .
Mantle said. "It's a long trip,
and it's been a long time since
I've taken that trip" The
homer was his 18th Of the
season.
Brooks Robinson had a homer
for the Orioles, and Elston
Howard connected for the
Yankees.
Home runs by Steve Barber,
the winning pitcher: John
Powell and John Orsino made
it easy for the Orioles to win
the opener.
TwO-Hitter for Aguirre
The White Sox closed up a
half-game as Camilo Carreon
drove in three runs on a double
and a single and scored an
other against the Angels.
Hank Aguirre tossed a spark
ling two-hitter in Detroit's
first-game victory against the
and rookie Mickey Lol-
ich had another shutout until
the Indians erupted for their
three runs in the ninth and
gained a split.
Kansas City backed Moe ORA
bowsky's five-hit pitching with
a 12-hit attack in subduing the
hard-hitting Twins, who got
both their runs on homers by
Harmon Killebrew and Jim
Hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-05
SENATORS, 2;
RED SOX,

E-Cottier, Osborne, thinner, LaMabe.
PO-A Boston 24-7, Washington 27-l2. DIP
Gardner and Geiger; Golfer and Bias
ingame. L0B-Boston 10, Washington 7.
2B-King, Tillman. HR-King z, Mino-
so. SB-Hinton. S-COttier, Osborne. ST.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-05
Gimeno Takes Title

POERTSCHACH, Austria,
Aug. 5 (AP) Andres Gimeno
of Spain defeated Frank Sedge-
man Of Australia, SO, Sc,
GA, 81, to capture the pro-
fessional tennis tournament
here yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-05
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON
Star staff Writer

I
CARLISLE, Pa, Aug. S.
Veteran Bill Anderson and
rookie Pat Richter, who may
be battling for the same posi-
ton with the Redskins, have
met, officially, and it's going
to be q firm, but friendly
rivalry. In fact Anderson gave
the Wisconsin All-America q
few tips during yesterdays i'm
promptu practice session.
Richter has the field to him.
self today as Anderson-along
with Guard Vince Promuto,
Tackle Charlie Moore and
Quarterback Norman Snead-
resumes National Guard chores
at Indiantown Gap while the
rest Of the Redskins go back on
their two-a-day practice work.
Anderson looked good In a
long passing drill yesterday,
showing the benefit of after
hours work with Snead in
camp. But Richter is q lot of
competition.
THE big thing In his favor
is that he has nothing to I'M
learn" Coach Bill McPeak said.
He has fine footwork, good CO.
ordination and he was well
coached. This is all in his
favor.
TOO many youngsters COM
ing into pro football have faults
and habits that must be cor
rected before they can hope to
make the grade"
Handles Assignments
Richter seemed to enjoy the
breeze-swept day, his first as
a full-fledged pro. He handled
the short pass assignments
without difficulty and demon
strated that he can 60 get the
long ones.
"Snead puts the ball high"
he said, answering the newt
able question Of how Norm's
passing compares with that Of
Ron VanderKelen, Pats Wis
consin teammate and the most
valuable player in the College
All-Stars' 20-17 victory over
the Packers Friday night.
Ron throws overland, /"
Richter continued, indicating a
downward angle. "And you
know it's always going to be a
spiral for Snead."
Richter stepped on the scale
after the hour-and-15-minute
workout, and the arrow swung
around to 223.
"Two-forty- five, that's what
you'll wind up" Line Coach
Abe Gibron predicted. mot
this year. but you've got the
frame to carry It,"
O'Brien Under Wire
Yesterdays practice was an
eye-opener on several counts.
Tackle Fran O'Brien. reporting
In from his two-week service
with the Air National Guard,
ran his prescribed mile in 6:0l,
well under the seven-minute
limit.
That's good for a guy weigh
ing 270. isn't it2" Obie prunted
when he recovered. "Tomor-
row I start dieting. I'm going
TO the fat mems table.
A bigger surprise was Mike
Cooper's performance. A 23-
year-old Army veteran. Cooper
Is listed as q halfback but has
such good speed McPeak may
give him q trial on defense II
he can't make 1t extensively.
Hes green and it'll take
him some time to catch on TO
our pass patterns but he can
fly" McPeak said. Cooper
went 10 high school In Philadel-
phia with Angelo Cola OF the
Bears and Herb Adderly Of the
Packers and had a better repu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-05
TIGER, FULLMER
SLOWING PACE

LAGOS, Nigeria, Aug. 5
(AP). Mid dleweig h t
Champion Dick Tiger of
Nigeria is slowing his train
ing pace for next Satur-
days title fight with Gene
Fullmer.
Already under the I60-
pound class limit, Tiger
now scales 1924 pounds.
Fullmer, training at the
fight site at Ibadan, SO
miles from the sea, is also
easing off, because Of the
high humidity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-05

(46), Sec0nu IN Triples N1our) /,
and fourth in walks 1927. He
led the team last year in draw
ing walks.
Moves Pay Off
It was another day Of good
moves for Hodges. BY playing
King he had Minnie Minoso
available as a pinch-hitter, and
Minnie produced in that role
by stroking a three-run homer
against Wilbur Wood in the
sixth to give the Senator's a
SD lead. Minoso has hit only
three .homers this year, but
the last two have been good
for seven RIBS.
Gil sent Don Leppert to bat
for Ken Retzer in the sixth,
and Leppert singled to center
to figure in the four-run rally.
The Senators have had a late
inning rally in each Of the last
three games they have won
from the Red Sox.
Gil was disappointed. for his
sake and for Pete Burnside's,
that Pete could not have saved
the game for Don Rudolph.
Burnside has turned in a num-
Der Of excellent relief jobs lately,
but with a chance to save a
game yesterday he did not last.
Ed Gets First Save
Ed Roebuck, making his Sec
ond appearance for the Sena-
tors. chalked up his first save.
Hodges had q good word for
Burnside, who was the victim
of two bad bounces. Pete
walked the first batter he faced,
but he seemed to be on his
way out of trouble when Roman
Mejias hit a perfect double
play hopper toward Shortstop
Chuck Cottier. However, the
ball hit a rough spot in the
infield and bounced over Cot
tiers head for q hit.
Lou Clinton then hit che in
the same spot, and his ball hit
a clod Of dirt. Cottier, who
barely SHARED 1t with a leap,
could get only a force play.
Gary Geiger's sacrifice fly
scored one run, and after Billy
Gardner singled, Hodges called
in Roebuck.
Ed gave up a double to Bob
cutting the Senators
lead to 6-5, but the only other
baserunner against Roebuck
in 2h innings was Mejias,
who walked to lead off the
ninth. He was erased on a
speedy double play started by
Cottier.
Rudolph, who has more de-
cisions (7-lD than anybody
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King Snaps Back Proves Hodges Point
PENNEL HITS Is FEET 10 INCHES
TO BREAK VAULT RECORD

LONDON, Aug. (AP) John Pennel Of Miami Fla
bettered his world pole vault record today with
leap of 6 feet 10 inches in the u SGreat Britain track
and field meet
1t was the third time in less than a month that
Pennel had boosted the world pole vault mark
In this same White City Stadium on July 49, Pennel
went 16 feet 834 inches.
On July %, in Warsaw on the current American tour
he raised the height by fraction when he went $40
meters Q6 feet $40 inches)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-05

X-Faced one man In 9Th. :.
HBP-By Rudolph (Geiger) WP = Ru-
dolph. U-Carrigan, Flahgerty, Hurley,
DiMuro. T-2:30. A-7,237.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-05
BY MERRELL WHITTLEsEY
star staff Writer

Gil Hodges brushed aside a
couple of suggestions that he
give Jim King a rest in yester-
days game with Boston and he
has no reason to regret it.
The lefthanded power hitter
slammed two home runs and a
double as the Senators beat the
Red Sox, 7-5, for their third
straight victory.
On the basis Of the record
Hodges might be tempted to
have King sit out the Yankee
series, which opens with a twi-
night double header tomorrow,
because Jim is 0-for-19 against
New York this year. However,
for the same reason that Gil
played Jim yesterday he will
have him in there against the
Yanks, except against left
handed pitching.
King had only four hits in his
last rs times at bat going into
yesterdays game, and Gil said
two Of the coaches had men
toned that Jim appeared to
be a bit tired.
Il know Jim had not been
hitting for the last few games,
but he had been missing by Just
a matter of an inch or two"
Hodges said.
HE wasn't a tired swinger-
his timing was just a fraction
off. ! hoped he would snap
out Of it any minute, and he
did"
.255 Average
Hodges was surprised to
learn of Kings 0-for-19 streak
against the Yankees. I'm sure
he will do something about
that this week." Gil said.
King, whose double and
homers-his 18th and 10Th
raised his average to .255,
agreed with his boss that it
was no time for a rest. Throw
out the Yankee games and he
would be hitting .272.
Il hadn't been getting many
hits, but I was hitting at
pitches I liked and missing by
only a fraction" Jim said.
He said he didn't realize he
was hitless against the YAM
KEGS. but he knew he didn't
have many. Last year it was
Cleveland" Jim said. I'll
couldn't buy one against the
Indians. This year I have more
homers against them than
anybody else"
King now leads the Senators,
who are idle today. in homers,
is second in runs batted in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-13
BY EARL H. VOSS
Star staff Writer

Secretary of State Rusk took
off for Paris this morning to
attend a get-acquainted min
isterial conference of NATO
next week.
Because there have been i'm
portant changes in 10 Of the
is governments of the North
Atlantic Alliance since last
springs meeting in Ottawa, a
major aim of foreign, finance
and defense ministers will be
to develop personal contacts
between newcomers and vet
Grams.
Hard questions on which the
NATO allies are divided-such
as the levels of their military
forces. strategic concepts and
the slow-moving multilateral
nuclear force-are not on the
agenda.
Chief topics of consultation
will be political questions ex-
ternal to NATO:
/. How the West can deal
with the changed Communist
world.
2. How the Communist world
has changed, because of the
Moscow-Peking split, industrial
and agricultural difficulties in
the Soviet Union and the recent
movement by smaller East Eu-
.ropean Communist nations tt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-13
Companion Of Sinotro
Played in Navy Band

The trumpet player with the
Sam Donahue band who was
with Frank Sinatra, jr., when
the young singer was kidnapped
Sunday formerly played with
the United States Navy Band
here.
John Nathaniel FoSs, 26. was
sharing a motel room in Lake
Tahoe with the 19-year-old
singer when he was kidnapped
at gunpoint. Mr.. Foss was the
only witness to the abduction.
A Navy spokesman said Mr..
FosS. a native of Augusta, Me,
enlisted in the Navy in August.
1859. He served two years as an
instructor at the Navy School
of Music here and was a trum-
pet player with the band dur
ing the second-half Of his
four-year hitch. He was dis
charged August 26 of this year.
The Associated Press report
ed Mr.. Foss was flying back to
Washington yesterday, but Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-13

The Justice Department
refused comment on reports
the bills were chemically treat
ed as a means of making the
money easier to identify.
The first $4,000 copies of the
serial numbers list were sent
today to FBI field offices
throughout the country. From
these offices they will be dis
tributed to banks and other
financial institutions as well as
news media. Thousands more
are to be shipped later.
In instructions accompany
ing the list. Mr.. Hoover re-
quests that lin the event infor-
nation is received concerning
the location of any of this
ransom money you i'm
m e dia tely communicate by
telephone collect with the
nearest office of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation"
The Attorney General has
maintained close contact with
the investigation. Before Mr..
Sinatra's 19-year-old son was
released Mr.. Kennedy had
called the father two days in a
row to assure him his depart
ment would do everything in
its power to restore the youth
to his family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-13

FosS' wife Virginia, who was
not on the tour, told The Star
she has not seen her husband
since the kidnapping.
After Mr.. FoSS told police his
story of the kidnapping he was
taken into protective custody
When young Sinatra was freed
by his captives, after payment
of a S240,000 ransom, Mr.. Foss
also was released.
He was seen by newsmen as
he left the lakeside lodge
Wednesday with two sheriff's
deputies in a car. When asked
where he was going, he replied,
ITO Washington, D. c. I want
to go home"
The deputies said they were
taking him to an airport.
Yesterday, Mrs. Foss ex-
pressed fear that she and her
husband may still be in some
danger. She said she was in
daily contact with authorities
investigating the kidnapping.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-13

bills, S35.000 in $50 bills.
$4,000 in $50 bills. $4,000 in
$40 bills and $4,000 in SIS bills,
he said.
All the money. except some
Of the IS bills. was in Federal
Reserve notes. Mr.. Hoover re-
ported. The IS bills included
silver certificates and United
States notes as we'll as Federal
Reserve notes.
The Justice Department an
nouncement accompanying the
list does not disclose what pro-
portion of the bills was re-
corded before the ransom was
paid. The list, however. con-
tains Al pages with 5 columns
Of serial numbers to a page.
For the 500 bills. the S50s,
the SOS and the SIS, the series
years are shown after the serial
number. For the $40 bills, how
ever. the FBI said the series
years are unknown.
The bills were collected in
one Los Angeles bank and the
method of recording was di-
rected by the FBI. Officials
refused to say how much time
was given Singer Frank Sinatra
and the bank to get the money
assembled, recorded and deliv-
cred to the kidnapers.
It was learned. however, that
a number of the bills were
photographed.