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Show r me Slaled -a .- i-- oi I A U3 SUMDISf There's Still fc etroit 1-- ' , s"A ' More than 500 NEW YORK sports celebrities from throughouta into the nation were was heavy. banquet, room. There weicht champion Rocky Marciano Bob Ney- famous coach Brig.-Gland, Sen. Estes Kefauver and . The babbling throng quieted down as a still spry, auburn- haired fieure loomed in the door, Everybody's glance turned toward Harold E. Grange. Red Grange has been out of football for nearly 20 years, yet his presence still holds a macical attraction that has brideed the time element and leaves the Galloping. Ghost of B linois facing the crowd as though he'd just come off the field after scoring five touchdowns against pin-pomt- ea Br LLOYD NORTHWARD DETROIT (UP) The Cleveland Browns, with a record unparallel ed in professional football history, were ruled a one. touchdown favor ite today to dethrone the Detroit Lions in today's National .Football League championship same at Brisss Stadium. Coach Paul Brown's Cleveland team has 'reached the charnpion- shis ' round each year since it i'fi'k'' t'y) - Joined rr r 1 SUNDAY HERALD Magic In Red Mo mas Makes Boasts Grange's Name Good In Pro Basketball oday I 1953 n. 1.0 -- the NFL in 1S50. Before Brou-n-s dominated the' All-conference for four that, the Am erica , yrars. By HARRY GRAYSON V NEA Sport Editor FORT WAYNE, Ind. (NEA) The first time Fort Wayne cam into Madison Square Garden to play the Knickerbockers. Paul Birch of the Pistons grabbed Jack Molinas by the arm in the pre-gahuddle. "Watch yourself with that Gallatin," said Coach Birch. "He is big- and tough. Stay away from him until you learn your, way around the league.-- " RecruitMolinas looked around at Harry Gallatin, and replied: "Aw, don't worry. Skipper. I can take care of him." Sticking to orders, Molinas stayed on the outside and was, apparently, a good boy. But when he connected with two long set shots, Columbia alumnus showed the cockiness of the came back to itself. He drove in and spun off Gallatin for a lay-u- p, score with a hook. He began to come down with the ball iruevery rebounding scuffle that pitted him against the New York toughie. Pretty soon, Coach Joe Lapchick inserted a substitute for Gallatin and Molinas walked to the sideline and yelled at Birch: "What did I tell you?" Molinas ia making himself known In profesThe sional basketball as the cockiest fellow to come along in years. He is pro basketball's answer to baseball's Billy Loes, and experts declare him to be the best rookie to break in the National Basketball Association since Bob Cousy came out of Holy Cross. He is the slickest to emerge from the Ivy League since that ancient group took up the winter sport invented by Dr. James A. Naismith. me - " Cleveland turned back the Los Michigan. 23, in Its first Angeles Rams, 30 to What is it' about Grange that two NFLBut bid for the title. him a persistent sports leg makes chain the for tries subsequent end long after contemporaries and cicnshi? ended la reversals. stars who came later have faded Los Angeles gained revenge bv L-into J yellowed clippings? He wasn't beatir.z Cleveland. 24 to 17, for and Isn't a flamboyant man by handed Lions the 1331 title and the nature. But he has the essential the Browns a 17 to 7 setback in MOLINAS CAN BURN up the boards if the game turns into one poise and dignity of the great ath of those fire horse last year's championship game. affairs, knows how to play cute if things slow down. lete that attracts a subdued sort Then he'll wait The oddsmakers have sound the other bloke to make mistakes. for of adulation. the type heaped on reasons for installing Cleveland as and Molinas, 21, drops in set shots from the outrangy, Rapid a Joe DiMaggio, a Lou Gehrig or a the favorite. i lay-ufor and he can stay around the key and drives side, through Joe Louis. His fame .transcends rebound The Browns won 11 games and He is an accomplished hook. the and Li theirs because in performance he quick hands that make up for defensive deficiencies. He with lest only once en route to the center Dick Stanfel (63), Oliver tackle possesses (78), in Browns Cleveland to (S2), Spencer guard the An set READY TO BOAR go against Creek- - was even more gensationaL all the moxie demanded of a guy who embarks on the money players lsague's eastern division title. The Dec. at Detroit 27, is this probable Vince Banonis (51), guard Hirley Sewell (66), tackle the world game championship tortuous schedule. Lions won to? honors in the west duarterback Dibble Dome and (87) end Layne mur Bobby (76), Uon starting lineup. Left to right (back): backs Gene Gedman; Red The New York basketball claim Molinas ranks with NFL. of Students His of the em division with a record of 10 Bob Hoernschemeyer are Lions The autobiography. champions Leon (22). defending Hart end and Doak Walker. Sitting: victories and two losses.' Grange Story (G. P. Putnam's Cousy, Adolph Schayes and Dick McGuire as the slickest to come out Cleveland scored 343 points In Sons, $3), weaves a complete pan of the big town in the last 10 years. There's no question about where a dozen starts, compared with 271 orama or tne wneaton iceman's Molinas comes from once you get a load of him in street clothes. The black-haire- d youth wears the flashy zoot or bop or roints for Detroit. The Browns extraordinary career, refreshes a of has duds, taps on his shoes. In the you see, he works few sidelights, that almost skipped 3ve up 1S2 points while the Lions as a at his parents Coney Island saloon. bartender 2C5 out of memory. were charged with points. . The modern T formation comes However, the Lions have one MOLINAS CREATED A stir at Columbia by dropping a glass, fillShoK-Change- d in for a close analysis, with full thing in their favor. They've been ed with of his dormitory window onto a professor's car. water, a "jinx" team for Cleveland since ' credit going to Ralph Jones, who It left a dent in out the hood and Molinas without a school to attend for Zealand AUCKLAND. New (UP) introduced Grange as the original six months. Buddy Parker relieved the late Bo and visit was the whose Robertson Al Eastern 25, Elizabeth GRAYSON 1331. II, HARRY 1930 Jim Queen Finigan, in in and refined Finigan, McMiln as head, coach By Molinas wants to inform his Bronx Concourse friends that Fort Zealand has been sad third baseman the old power T the Chicago Bears NEA Sports Editor League's All-StJohnny Gray. Parker never has lost to Cleve- - to New the is a fine town. The Indiana city likes him fine, too. He averWayne Eve Christmas dened by In four years, he has been through had been using by splitting his tragic know fans "American League the more than 13 points a game for the first seven weeks, gave every If YORK (NEA) aged Saturday watched NEW A sellout crowd of 55,000- will train wreck. Renna was D. C. B and A leagues, with two ends and spacing his halfbacks on indication and Renna Bollweg. that he'll score more. Henrich as says, Tommy Coaltown capture the $35,000 Royal Yankees, of the the outside shoulders to break Into an out years out for the Army. natch the championship game. cood enough Molinas Jack on Stadium the a qualified as a student, was accepted by had on the opening day Auckland cup painted sign r lnigan ana mat's tne way tackles. Yankee outfield to the Additionally, millions of fans of the of Harvard School standing but a he eouldn't beat basket-ba- ll Business, want season. "We figured .seasoned summer the reading, racing, of 61 games, and bat .314 you spell it is a grand competitor What astounds is that the col extent throughout the nation will see the The and d rieht-han- d a and bartending. pitcher queen,' her left arm pumping game via television. in his freshman year. Oddly and will be the Athletics third lege didn't pick up the modern T up and down during the race, en power hitter," the advertisement Pos Cleveland Detroit until 10 years later when Clark enough, the only thing on 'which baseman," says MacPhail. combeen more a LE Brewster thusiastically waved the winner could not have faulted Babble renna, Shaughnessy brought it so success filled than it was by the Casey Stengel . the in finish the across line top pletely -did right-hanhe LT Grora Creek mur batter, was that Discussing the Yankees' corner fully to Stanford. Athletics. handicap of the day. left-hanLG Gibron d Sewell not hit pitching well on material last summer, Paul Who remembers that on Grange's After the race, she chatted with Harry Gladwyn Byrd throws enough. C Gatiki moniS Richards of the White Sox men 1922 freshman team at Illinois Jockey C. H. Mackle, shook hands hard, is a potential big winner. were three destined to win RG NoU StarJel left-han- d tioned hit a Robertson. is pull Coach-Ji- m Ta- - rived Friday night, held two long RT Sandusy with the trainer and presented a The Stadium's right field stands ter"Bollweg honors at as many MIAMI (UP) Spencer ' Yan the who with helped power who finished with "Robertson, to the Robinson's Eddie cold for were owner, built sheep cup other were Ralph tum ordered his Maryland boys secret drills during the RE Lavelll Hart kees on more than one occasion. Kansas City after with schools? The who day. Coach pull hitting. transferred to into uniform for a scrimmage with- Bud Wilkinson would comment (Moon) Q3 Graham Rancher H. Glazebrook. Layr.t Baker, While his batting might have been Syracuse last season,starting lita is hustling trans- considered Earlier, the queen had been Announcing' the LH Renfro Walker hit .237 in catcher of the Mickey Owen type," Northwestern, and Frank Wick- - in an hour after they arrived Sat tle on the practices but seemed he streaky, a when horse G 8 dm a n RG Reynolds visibly distressed who gained fame at Navy. urday but his immediate concern action, General Manager George 155 times at bat." explains MacPhail. "He has a horst, stumbled In front of the royal box Weiss and his assistant, Roy A chapter is. devoted naturally in preparing for the Orange Bowl willing to talk about Maryland beFB Jagadt Hsernschemeyer favorite. good arm, but has had a tendency to and came to a limping halt, its Harney, talked like a pair of golf battle with Oklahoma was Bernie ing a seven-poistupendous Grange's against day to MacPhall the believes be with his in erratic younger a left hind foot dangling from throwing met a man who had sharks dedication Whether Maryland remains, the Michigan, the day of the just Faloney's knee. smashed fetlock. Elizabeth, an ar- with a lot of money may be of more assistance the spring." and a fast fellows of Champagne's mammoth Methe ace favorite until Jan. 1 depends .on Faloney, quar Terrapins' Bollto Renna the than and A's dent horsewoman, turned her head backswing. 25. was the Athletics morial Stadium, when the young "Gray, with how team dressed the terback, rapidlyFaloney recovers from was led off weg. ; away as the horse number one draft choice from sophomore had the biggest a and ' the few times. knee Tatum hurt in the Alabama game were Macks punted can't "The day they sty to be destroyed. Power,; 23 led tht American As- - Kansas City. He is rightbig ever enjoyed by a football player,1 asked him how the heavily band- last month.; Faloney told reporters Harney. soeiation in More than 80,000 persons turned hypnotized," explained with .349; had hander with a strong arm." to five at the airport that the knee "seems four aged knee felt. running out at the suburban Ellerslie race "They went to every other club the greatest batting of hits, 217; The Athletics also got rid of Ed on long runs in thetouchdowns, number 12 so to be holding up all right" but H "Not re first to Coach." minutes. came and in the back good. NEW YORK (UP) Paul Brown, course despite heavy rains which league, " and the most total bases. die Robinson's contract and with a $30,000 his worried look. an hour later confided to his coach relives of Invasion plied Grange ns." of won the arrival eased the hese Cleveland Browns only after The Yankees ' the tore Yankees east in the the Enhis The Oklahoma who $25,000 tab ar senior young that all was not well. played up Sooners, year. National League's Eastern Con Elizabeth and her husband; the The consensus seemed to be that outfield in the in Kansas held return in contract for the cumbered Negro in they by mediocre support f?rence race with an 11-- 1 record Duke of Edinburgh. once more the World Champions . mud against Pennsylvaniar her City because first base is the only of Loren Babe. Saturday was selected professional They cheered and applauded as had dealt themselves into a pen- place where Bill Skowron doesn't As Roy Harney said, the Macks proved to Atlantic coast critics his football coach of the year in the the royal car drove around, the nantthis the sixth straight. ' bis hurt. side.. didn't have to be mesmerized. track followed by five scarletlad annual United Press poll right to his press raves. Brown received 23 of the 35 mounted horsemen. Hundreds" of But CO Grange, 50 and a Chicago insur to in know the position chap "in of the ance crowded who front cast 'votes still persons close tab broker, by sports writers; keeps tells you that the on football. He conducts a question covered the 1353 games in the royal couple during the runnings. the talent best not . were Americans Philadelphia The of queen 'interrupted her and answer column for NEA Serv league cities. Buck Shaw, whose San Francisco ficial schedule to visit survivors shortchanged. is an outstanding television anice, Forty-Ninefinished a game be of the train wreck in which an "They got five players who will nouncer and analyst. He amazes hind the victorious Detroit lions estimated 168 persons died. play regularly," says Lee Mac with his fund of knowledge. the New York Phail, director' in tne western conference, re Red Grange's spectacular perBy OSCAR rRALEY" ting ready for its first New Year's formances ceived eight votes. The other vote in 1S46. But the voters felt this club s farms, and a mighty bright and popuLine coach Day bout, in which Lulu Peres larity built the,tremendous NEW YORK (UP) went to J:m Trimble, whose Phil was the year Brown and his as pitching prospect." foundation that "All you heard about was Byrd Hugh Duffy Daugherty will move battles Dave Gallardo in a third sustains the adelphia Eagles ruined Clevland's sistanti backfield Coach Blanton game today. and "rubber" match. There have 7 on Collier, End Coach Howard Brink- - Robinson and Vic Power, the lat up to the role of head football bid fcr a perfect record the last day of the season. er, tackle Coach WUber Ewbank ter insisted upon by Earle Mack coach at Michigan State if Clar been a lot of famed fights on Jan. Brown's Brownies have won and guard. Coach Fritz Keisler "Also going to the Athletics, you ence (Biggie) Munn gets his wish 1, however, with such warriors in Nothing Like a Rake e, eight pro division titles in as many really proved themselve, superb know, are Bill Renna, Don Boll' and moves up to athletic director action as Joe Gans, Johnny For Bass Fishing tr.es since he organized the team, football teachers. Harry Wills, Sam Langford, we? and three... younc fellows named in the spring. tNIU P. ..TV.... Munn has "had it" as a coach. Benny Leonard Lew Tendler and BELLE PRAIRIE, 111. (U.R) FishHe was coach of the year in 1952 Harry Greb. Still a rough way to ing is so good in the small lake on and this season, his first in the start a new year. Frank Frey's farm you can literalBig Ten, led his Spartans to the Bob Feerick, the Santa Clara ly rake them in two at a time Rose Bowl. Athletic director Ralph basketball coach who was a pro according to Mrs. Frey. She said she saw a disturbance Young' must step down this spring star with the Washington Caps, because of the conference retire- contends that people shrink as they in the water near shore and apment age, and Biggie is ready, grow older, and has fairly convinc proached to see two fish tails kicking proof. ing up a spray. and able, for the post. "When I was playing Mrs. Frey grabbed a rake, made He is expected to name Daugh six a was he "I basketball," swipe with it and landed two his the says, as because successor, erty World War II major was one 6f feet, three inches tall. Now I am bass, each weighing about a pound. --- -V : his proteges when Biggie was line only six feet, one and seven-eight- One was trying to swallow the .f'-i- . other. inches tall." coach at Syracuse, and a good choice it would be, both ways. T I V j Baltimore Problem Major League moguls are des perately hopeful for the new BaltiAUTO more club in the American League but suspect it will require an even greater marvel than the Milwaukee miracle to make the team a suc cess. The situation is vastly different than the Milwaukee case, to begin with, and expenditures have been staggering. The team is committed to more than $200,009 in salaries before even signing a player. This is due partially to the fact that it will be paying three managers, holdovers Rogers Hornsby and n Marty Marion and new pilot Jim- ALL FULLY GUARANTEED wise-cracki- ng "AY f - . ps , ball-handl- er -- Iu Queen Watches Coaltown Win Auckland Cup 77-ga- me Yank Official Feels A's Weren't what-have-we-ty- off-seaso- pe n, In Baseball Deal man-in-moti- on ar - pre-dent- al , left-han- ' - d, All-Ameri- ca Maryland Goach Concerned About Quarterback Knee 11-m- an nt Paul Crown Ilamed 7 cp Pro Couch t APPE1AM Dougherty Will Get Spartan Head Job If Biggie Moves Up rs i? m n 42-2- m Kil-ban- . ON ALL hs . - , 0) 0) A W o- Floor Samplos and Demonstrators m t fC' Y--A- Af ray Dykes.. ' And, observers point out, it took winning ball club to put over the Milwaukee story, a.nd that's something which Baltimore, lacks both now and in the directly foreseeable future. . 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