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Show 18 Sunday Herold SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1963 UlCft County, U1h All Star Football Game In Planning Stages NFL-AF- L Grapefruit Ramblings Gor- - to HOUSTON (UPI)-Jo- hn Jack O'Connell of the become an actuality by the end, dy, president of the National Astrodome about the possibility! of the 1968 season. Plans call Football League Players Assort- - of the dome being the site of for the revenue irom the game ation, said that there might the game. Gordy, a Detroit to go w me piajers Deneni be an NFL - Air.erican.Lirois lineman, said other sites Football League game were also being looked into by cut the league spokesman in te-- ths 1968 season, but an the players croup. New York said it was doubtful NFL spokesman said that early the the game would be played said might Gordy game But Dick Tracewskl, date was i leagues. By MILTON RICHMAN "highly official approval from club before 1970 because of contrac- unlikely." get s Detroit utilityman and Sandy LTI port! wruer Gordy was in Houston to talk owners of both leagues and,tual obligations regarding the old roomie with the -S- Koufax Fla. (L'PI) TAMPA. close. Trix comes queezed fresh from the Grape- Dodgers, always has a smile and a good fruit Circuit: Kansas City and Seattle, the word for everybody. It only American Leagues two new goes to show you don't have to be expansion clubs, already hav bt a $100,000 performer to decided on their mcnagerial happy, choices but can't do anything about them because that would Larry Shepari Pittsburgh's be tampering. new manager, comes from the KC wants Hank Bauer and Walt Alston mold. The low key Seattle is going for Joe Adcock. casual type. He has the Eauer, who managed Kansas approach and doesn't go around is now once before, City how tough he so thu telling everybody Baltimore handling is but he makes his point. He's presents a small complication. than his different Not much, though. Remember entirely and Waker, predecessor, Harry from Gil moving Hodges now let's see what kind of fault Washington to New York. the Pirate players find with Adcock Is him. So far everything is fine He'll manage Seattle of the on both sides. Pacific Coast League tt.ls year and that'll make it most convenient when Seatt!e moves Deney Boasts Mays Mastery Bill Deney, the kid pitcher into the big time next year. Washington got from the Mets in the Gil Hodges' managerial One of Warren Giles' National the said a nasty switch, isn't dismayed by in League umpires fact he's won only one game He was word. Real the majors. "I struck out Willie merely .repeating what some Mays all four times I faced ballplayers call some umpires him," he volunteers proudly. r and he asked Giles, his boss, a Milt Cincy's Pappas, what he would do if a ballplayer persuasive speaker, once talked ever called him that. Giles so long and convincingly ihat he didn't flinch at all. was offered back a fine metec "No man's job resuires him out to him for a minor league to be called profane names," infraction. Miltie is proud, NL "And the any though. He said uh-u-h and didn't prexy, replied time anyone calls you such a take the money back. All be name I'll back you 100 per cent. cared about was making his At the same time, let's not point. become overly sensitive. You know that bad word you asked handed out The Braves about? I've been called it, too." Giles shows good sense. Not questionaires to five of their only with his umpires but with Richmond grads and one of the who was: the NL owners. He doesn't want questions asked them to hurt the lespe by helped you mcst in baseball? hurry-u- p expansion. "The only one boy wrote, "my father." thing I care atout," he says, "is The other four all had the same He the National answer: "Lum Harris." not weakening League," At least he's the only managed Richmond last year, one in the circuit without a so who knows, maybe those four kids were playing it safe? personal axe to grind. J all-st- the and games. NFL AFL Hill and the The NFL presently plays an 'president King association attorneys. Los Angeles is game vear which is televised by ,J...t;n Cue. 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But there's one player on the Oakland roster he should feel This good about employing. youngster 6ays: "I've heard a lot of stories about this man and he has done some things which made me do a lot of thinking, but as long as I am with this club you'll never catch me criticizing him be cause he's my boss and I was brought up to respect the person you work for or else not work for him at all." Hank Likes His Brother Hank Allen, the Washington outfielder, says all his kid brother, Richie, wants is to be left alone and not bothered by people. Hank says he doesn't blame Richie for doing some of the things he has. He says he'd do the same thing. Fine. Nothing wrong with one Brother sticking by another. There's only one rub. Hank Alien never does the things his brother does. - One National Leaguer, who has been around awhile, says If they were going to start a baseball game from scratch and choose up sides, his first pick would be Cub catcher Randy Hundley and he'd give you anyone else you want. Anyone, he says, and this guy doesn't get paid by the Cubs, either. "There's probably other club like the Cardinals in the majors. Remind you of the Green Bay Packers.. One big happy family. "It makes you play better this way," offers Orlando Cepeda. "If you're at your position and you look around and see a guy you don't like, you say things to yourself that get you all upset. But if you look around you and see everybody you like, it makes you feel good." There are no loners on the Cards. "If we see a guy here who doesn't mix," puts in Bob Gibson, "we make him mix." Too bad everybody in the world doesn't see thing like the Cardinals do. Johnny Cincinnati shotgun no the young catcher with the arm, has the right Bench, attitude. Whenever anybody tells him the Reds are handing him the No. 1 job, he answers, "I figure on having it, but I don't want them to give it to me; I want to earn it." Don Pavletich is accommodating him by battling him for the position every day. ever take away Ernie Banks' title as the bes't humored ballplayer in both Nobody'Jl can happen in Anything baseball and it happened here in a hotel lobby only the other evening. "Theres the one Yankee player I've always wanted to meei" said a man. "Mickey ! Mantle!" The man glowed as he smiled at his hero-J- oe Pepitone, the poor man's Warren Beatty. Sports Of All Sorts By STEVE SNIDER UPI Sports Writer NEW YORK (UPI)-Sp- orts of all sorts: Dick Williams, manager of the defending champion Boston Red Sox. savs an eizht-tearace is pending in the American League. . . Dick counts his Red Sox in, eliminates only the New iorK Yankees and Oakland Athletics. Mayo Smith of the Detroit scramTigers sees a ble. . . He eliminates the Yankees, Athletics, Cleveland and Washington... Bill Rigney of the California Angels is careful not to make any enemies. . . Rigney picks the Angels as "one of five'' contenders but diplomatically declines to name the five that aren't in his estimation. Tennessee's tentative 1968 football roster is out with one glaring omission. . . Ace flanker Richmond Flowers, Jr., apparently is "lost" for the year because he hopes to be an Olympic hurdler come October. Mickey Wright, now S3, is in her first two tour naments on this year's lady golf pro circuit . . She tries for her jj 'J 1. "Ami u Esprit tie Monaco Hart Schaffner & Marx J captures the Riviera spirit In this princely Bengaline suit that f proudly bears the wool mark label,! mark of the world's best... pure virgin wood 1 1 The color is Verte Royale, a reigning favorite reminiscent of the green-blu- e Mediterranean. 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