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Show Veeck Receives Olceh To Peddle Ball Club CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 16 UP) Philip R. Clark, Chicago banker and a big stockholder In the Cleveland Indians, Wednesday gave resident Bill Veeck the green ight to sell the club to the Ellis: Rysn syndicate of Clevelanders. Clark, after talking with other Chicago stockholders In the team, said they had told Veeck to "sell at 1 reasonable price to Cleveland people." I Another Tribe bidder, Bob Gold- stein, New York Motion Picture executive, returned to New York from Chicago, apparently having given up any hope that ha could purchase the Indians. He said six stockholders In Chics Chi-cs go represent about 38 of the needed 66 23 control needed to make a sale. "With his own holdings, hold-ings, Veeck can make a deal," Goldstein said. Veeck is believed to hold about 33 of the club! Stock. Clsrk Insisted that one of the prime requisites his group Insists1 on for a sale always has been that the buyers be Clevelanders. "We are grateful for the way Cleveland people supported the Indians In-dians under Veeck and believe that they should be returned to them," he said. I Clark was In Cleveland Wednesday Wednes-day on business other than neco. tiations for the Indians' sale He said he has not seen Veeck in two days and that no details of the proposed deal have been given the stockholders, but expressed complete confidence that the deal to sell to the Ryan group has Jelled. "I'm happy, too," he said. "I felt sorry for the team during the season when every crazed bidder got his name in the paper. I think it hurt the sale of the team." It was believed the sale could not be completed this week. Veeck said In Chicago that he expected to announce an-nounce the deal "sometime before Dec. 5." |