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NEW YORK, 0 c t. 12 (UPI) - Walt Alston, the quiet man who led the Los

Blll Rigney ot the San Fran• votes and Fred Haney oi. Milwaukee Braves and Dan- ny Murtaugh o! the Pitts- burgh Pirates received one cisco Giants received six Alston's selection capped a season during which he finished seventh In 1958 and led them to the greatest ragij-to-riches comeback In baseball history. No pre- rious National League team ever rose from seventh to 11rst place In one year and evPr rose from :,;eventh to took a Dodger team that To reach his goal, Alston had to lead the Dodgers to an upset victory over the each. a world one year. ______ championship In

Braves In the third post- season playoff In NL his-

Ohio Slate's Woody Hayes l .. ,, aceused of swinging at a couple or :sports writers, both sedentarv typeR. Iowa's Forest Evashev- skl, niffing the political winds, has announC"ed he does not rl1oose to run again in '63. And ( lappy Chandler, who is cam- paigning for 1he White House, is being mentionerl as a possible surccs. or to the late Bert Bell as commissioner of the National Football League. Lots of bookmakers will lay a .,.ood prke that Happy won't get ilher job. Nobody ever made it to 1700 Pennsylvania Ave. <:hanting the slogan: "Ah Love BasC'ball.'' Anct it's un- ~11! turn to a man who was booted e things are happC'ning. For the first ry, a football game has been cancelled

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United Press International. The 47-year-old native o! Darrtown, Ohio, was se- lected 1or the honor by 16 o! the 24 writers, three repre- senting each team in the cir• cult, who form the UPI'S board of ba~ball experts. , ___________ _;..

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....:..,_ __ ~_.,___ fJK·~ Successor DressenGets T~ Bell $300 Fine Shll Cloudy Profanity, Actions, 'Showboating' PHILADELPHIA, oct. 12 In Series Draw Frick Ru ling t¥1-The sudden shock of Bert . Bell's death left National NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (11')-Baseball commissioner Ford Football League owners with• Fnck today imposed $300 ,tine on Charley Dressen, Los out a standout choke to sue- An_geles coach, for actmg up In the final World Serles game ceed him as commissioner. la 8 t week. -- · --- The commissioner s a l d and just after Ted Kluszew- His l3 years M czar of the Dressen must pay $200 f o r ski Chicago :first baseman NFL wer~ busy_ ones for Bell, using profane language and had h't a three-nm ho ' leaving him without time to t h r e a t en- mer. groom a successor I t Dressen began exchanging · ng ges ures words with H I A Even the man who tempor- and $100 f O r . ur e:,:, an mer- arily Is filling Bell's post, for- "s h o wboat- ica:1 LPague umpire. After a mer FBI agent Austin Gun- Ing" after he while, Hurl~y thumbed Dres- sel, said today he had no had b e e n sen off t~i> field. idea whom the 12 owners thumbed O t f , Later it was reported that might select. the field by ~rcsscn was ejec_ted tor yell. Gunsel. as league treasur- Ed Hur I e y, mg at plate umpire Frank :1 er, became acting commis- the first base eascoli while Earl Torgeson sioner yesterday when Bell umpire. as at bat for the W h l t e main in that post at least until Dressen has been fined for back. Wednesday when the c l u_b his actions In a World Serles. owners a re expected to meet He drew a $100 penalty for 0 ! his .The league constitution pro- when he was manager of the complained m for such a meeting Dodg.ers at Brooklyn in 1953. room that he was banished within 30 days after the death The commissionPr said 'he without reason. of a commissioner. As an al- had sent the news to the fiery "The bench got on Dascoli ternative to choosing a com- Dodger coach bY. telegram, for what we thought should m1ss1oner, the owners could advising that the sum would have been a strike against select an interim president be deducted from Dressen's Torgeson,'' Dressen said, to hold office until the regular World Series check. "Hurley told us to shut up. Dressen, who missed mo.st team's 9-3 victory here after Bell's funeral. protesting a strike decision which ~ewed_ up the Serles, the dressing v1des died, under provision of the NFL constitution. He'll This Is the . Sox. Hurley to!d Dressen to be qmet and Dressen snapped re- second t Im e Dre~~en

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o, 'tha I n't quite <"Orrect. They had to call off ame betv.een the University of San Diego and orado We tern Saturday becau~e the Pioneers unahl to kMv Lindbergh 1''ield. un D1 o athl ,te · were grounded because M1rter illane, C'Oming in from Los Angeles, Jund ln a heavy early-morning fog. They r th plane dr ·ling overhead, but pilot and never made conta ·t. usic Was Beautiful d of flying the Pioneers to Gunnison, Colo., the '()Ian' returnl'd to Los Angeles. The Pioneers dly pi keel up !heir gear and went home. Tn Gunni~n. some 1,200 high school musicians had a hlC'd to ·elebrate 1he great occasion. Instead, they ta~Nl a parade iwtl held a ~oncert. It must ,hav b n a lovC'ly concer1• I got bar•k from the World Series In time to see P· ul Go~ernnh go through a pocketful of cigars while San Dirtr'i State was losing its third traight, this tim to Long Beiwh State. It wa. an interesting football K mr, featuring a 70-yard run by a jack- rabbit. For a mom nt, I 'thought It was another or Bill Veeck's unts. 'l'he rabhit made a heautiful break- away d to the goul , then hopped into the stands •with the Idea, no doubt, of watching proceedings from the !JO.yard line But It wa n't funny for the burmy when they tossed him out the gatt-. Ile didn't have a ticket. Govem i could use some football players with the rabbit' rd. In Cact, he could use some football player , period. '!'he Azte1• played Long Beach with only 1., and the:,• pla:i, erl exu·i::mely well under the com tion . But their numbers are too small. Don't surpri ed if Governali start. campaign- Ing for en-man foo tball. Then he'd have people on the h nrh. Football i a game of ad stories. Vanderbilt took 11 33-0 thumpiJ;!g from Miss issippi, but the losing coach was philosophical. ''We ieve ln eduea ting the boys at Vanderbilt," td A1t Guepe. "They certainly got an education Saturd night.'' Oklahoma has lost to Texas for the second straight year and, incredibly, Bud Wilkinson has experi- enced the awful fate of lo~ing two of his first three game . The S90ners blamed their first reversal on food poi ·oning, but the food-taster was exonerated at Dallas.

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EX-HELIX STAR IS BIG FIVE''S BEST

Gael Barsotti, California 's end from La Mesa, has been named the Big Five's "lineman of the week" Bear Ment r . w d w· 0 0 0 I junior -------------

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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12 evaluate the strength of his ~~e~~:n~\fr~.:VOPaul B~·ownd, PARKER F/RES PITTSBURGH (UPIJ-Coach Don Clark an- Trojan squad Clark toda . s coac an t!:~~ould develo; =~~c~~~~~/i~e~;~rK1:;;;!~t HALFBACK BISHOP FOR 'SKLJLL' is;~;:;.~:~:~

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Parker was reported to have told news- m~n afte1· the game In Philadelphia "He (Bishop) has cost me two gameS-but he He specifically accused Bishop of being on the bench getting an ankle taped when he should have been on the field in a As it ~urned_ out, the steelers had only 10 men m act10n on the play and rookie back Art Powell of San Diego returned kicking situation.

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a punt 58 yards for a touchdown through what normally would have been Bishop's territory. "That play cost us the game," Parke!' sa\d. Parker added that Bishop, a second year man wlth the Steelers, also Jet a pass catcher get behind him in an earlier game that helped the Washington Redskin•

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Aztecs' Endurance Cited By Governoli By HOWARD JIAGEN

Unbeaten Marine Corps · Recruit Depot delivered its best game of the year in downing Fresno State, 13-6, last Saturday night, coach Robert (Bull) Trometter told the Union-Ti'ibune Quarterback Club yester- day noon at Mission Valley Inn. ''Fresno is much im- proved over the last two years, very well coached by Cecil Coleman, and we were fortunate to win," said Trometter. "It was a game we could have lost, but our men gave their best effort of the year and came through." Trometter said eight or 10 of his top men didn't play because of injuries, and penalties n e a r the Fresno goal helped stop Marine touchdown drives. He praised backs Al Hall and Vern Valdez and ends Ernest Brooks and Carrol Roberts of h!s own team

for good performances, and c It e d Fresno's speedy backfield men, 1, J. Owens, Dale :w!esser and Billy Wayte. Trometter said he ex- pects his toughest game of the season against Hamn. ton Air Force Base this weekend. "If we wind up 8-2 or 7-3 for the year," he added, "we will have re•· ceived more out of our :ma• terial than we expected be- fore the season opened." Gene Gregston, executive sports editor of the Eve- ning Tribune, was toast- master at the weekly luncheon meeting. Com- ments by coaches: Paul GovernaJ!, San DI- ego St a t e, 14-6 loser to Long Beach State - "We used only 15 men against Long Beach. Center Bob Moss went all 60 minutes, and o t h e r s most ot the time.... It's to our team' • (Continued on Ml, CoL 1)

d CURTICE PLEASED . Stanford coach Jack Cur- l tice, whose club hosts Wash- ington State on Saturday ~.aid he felt the Indians wer~ just about as good as Wash- ington" despite a 10-0 loss. "If the ball had bounced just a llttle bit dtlferent " Curtice comrren+Pd, witho~t adding the apparem Implica- tion that Stanford might have won. "We each had 65 offensive plays and 17 first downs. But we had four passes inter, Icepted ?n the rainy afternocm, somethmg unusual for us." I Curtice said the 4 for 21 completion record ol quarter- back Dick Norman didn't give a true picture because on sev- eral Instances the thrower put the ball in the receiver's hands only to have It dropped.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12 CIFI-Head Coach W o o d y Haye~ of Ohio State Uni- verslty today became the target of a formal protest hy membe,a or the South- r.rn California Chapter of the F0<>tball W1 ters Associ- ation ot Ame, ,ca. 'fhp group 1vott•d to re-Inv to grid otft l4)l a rc•port on Haye alleglll'Jly hitting or ahovlrt1 a writt•r and miss- Ing anot,hr.r outside t h e Ohio 'tati, dressing room tl>llowlna the Buckeye lo s

to Southern California here Oct. 2 1 Hayes has denied that he struck anyone. Dick Shafer, covering the dressing room stories for his brother, Bob Sh a fer, sports Pditor of the Pasa- dena Independent, s a y s Hayes struck him In the hack . HP s11ld there was no provoea tlon Al Bine, sports ,..,-riter of thl• Los Angeles Examiner, said at thi, time that Hayes threw a punch at him but mi~sed. No one. Bine said, had i;poken to Hayes. I

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IT WAS THIS WAY, COACH

Birt Slater, left, Kearny High foot- ball coach tells George Irvine, center, and coach Robert (Bull) Trometter

about game with Rancho Alamitos High, at Union-Tribune Quarterback Club meeting yesterday.