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Show Pare 18 - THE HERALD. Provo, Utah. Thursday. June 30, 1983 Recalls Oldfimer - Nielsen Finds Fame On Gridiron, Screen game-winn- : ; ; All-Star- Heisman Trophy in his senior 4-- er All-St- ar mid-seas- year at Southern Cal, his coach John McKay was quoted as saying to him: "You could have been the biggest name in Logan, Utah." Park on July six-gam- e, All-St- ar 6, 1933. All-Sta- rs Gehringer, better known during his major league career as ar the Detroit Tigers' "Mechanical Man," is among at least 14 of the It was McKay's snide way of telling the world that O.J. al-- : most went to Utah State instead of USC. Well, great football players k aren't the exclusive property of the Southern Californias of this world. And it is possible to attend a school in the Inter-mounta- in Region and go on to fame and fortune in the world of pro football and television just as O.J. has done. Exhibit A is Gifford Nielsen. Giff Nielsen is a Provo boy. He was at Provo High. He went to BYU where it took a little time but he became an 1933 All-Sta- rs ar ,. t white-haire- planning to return to the South Side ballpark this week for the 50th anniversary game. Others expected include Lefty Gomez, the winning pitcher who drove in the first All-Strun with a second-innin- g single and four other Hall of Famer s: Earl Averill, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey and Carl Hubbell. These eldest of the Old Guard will be among 50 or more baseball legends on hand Tuesday afternoon for an preliminary psmp to the main event on original all-sta- te AU-St- inter-leag- ue ex-ar- s' quarterback as a junior and was making a strong run at the Heisman when he suffered a torn ligament early during his senior year. Nielsen went from here to the Houston Oilers where he will start summer camp next month as the Oiler's No.l ' quarterback. But that isn't all. Last February, Giff signed another conof tract this time as PM Magazine for KHTV Hous- Gifford Nielsen gets ready to do an intro at a Caribbean location. AND COME JOIN THE SAVE BIG $ $ AT OUR V uu co-ho- st ton. Giff is doing very well in his career. "moonlighting" KHTV's Don Hougland, used to be director-produc- who of WAC TVS basketball in the mid-70- s, sent some pictures of Giff at work as a along with a couple of comments. "Giff is doing a great job," Hougland said. "His recogni- er co-ho- st tion in the market place is very strong and with a graduate degree from BYU in radio-tv- , the job is right up his alley. "It is going to be difficult in scheduling taping of his programs around his football com- believes it can be done. We just hope he isn't traded to another NFL team." camp and the regular NFL season, but everyone involved ality. Aw CELEBRATION The accompanying photo show Provo boy Giff Nielsen, an NFL quarterback, at work as a Houston television person- mitments during summer o o o o ATHLETIC WEAR FOR THE Way to go, Giff. WHOLE FAMILY Centrum Offers Celtics a Home -- Mass. (UPI) ! WORCESTER, Officials at the Centrum have been trying to woo the Boston Celtics west to Worcester, a Celtic official was quoted Wednesday as saying. Celtic Vice President Jan Volk, team counsel and assistant general manager, told the Worcester Telegram he has been meeting with Centrum General Manager Anthony Tavares to talk about playing at Worcester's civic cen FRIDAY ter. talks. "We didn't talk numbers then, we simply discussed what the Centrum had to offer us and what we would want from the Centrum to play a substantial number of games there," said Volk, who planned more talks with Tavares. The Celtics now play 37 of their home games in Boston and four at the Hartford Civic Center. Centrum spokesman Brian Wei-nhas refused to discuss the "We're in the midst of negotiations with the Celtics, but they want no statements made while negotiations are going on," Wei-nsaid. "They do not wish to negotiate through the press." JULYl The Celtics have not signed a contract to play in the Boston Garden next year and have yet to sign a contract to play anywhere, the newspaper reported. adidas er s, well-playe- Gehringer, the American League's second baseman when Ruth broke open that first classic, played in Chicago's Comiskey the won a k IIIUtM old-time- rs All-St- ar Herald Sports Editor After O.J. Simpson vama ThpvJ irvJ in oot tt Wednesday. Some of the more, over with, apparently, now." include Roger modern also objects to the fan Gehringer Willie Wee Pee Reese, Maris, a system of the election McCovey, Harmon Killebrew, Don Commissioner reinstated by Willie and Stargell. Drysdale Bowie Kuhn in 1970 after a hiatus Gehringer recalls that first 2 of a dozen years. d conAL victory as a test in which the AL and NL "I don't like it," he said of the squads were hopping mad and fan balloting. "I guess it yearly really out to get each other. helps, maybe, at the gate, but I in that inauCharlie went think it makes a good gural game, getting aboard for don't game. Ruth's round tripper by drawing a "I don't really think they pick walk, but he resolutely made up the good players now, the way for it in the rest of his to have the they do it. I like career, finishing coaches and pick the managers Today, he complains, the are good years, that having guys aren't as serious. "I played every inning of the six not the guys they remember from games I played," Gehringer, now 10 years ago." d a tall, 80, said in a But even if the game today isn't telephone interview from his suburban Detroit home. "Now they quite the spectacular it was when and Lou Gehrig were in play two or three innings and then Babe Ruth doesn't diminyou get a whole new ballclub in the AL lineup, that at making ish pride Gehringer's there. The challenge is gone a little bit, other than just to let six appearances. And it could never tarnish one of everybody get into the show." "Mechanical Man's" most the believes the Gehringer change of emphasis from winning to prized baseball memories, the 1933 premiere the showcasing game's biggest thrill of that that he, his game talents has hurt the annual and rivals will be contest. at Comiskey week this "You've got to go there like a reliving World Series," he said. "You've Park. 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