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Taylor Daily Press, Friday July 21, 1961, Page
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Pro Football
TV Contract
Is Invalid
NEW YORK UR — The Justice
Department had its answer from
a federal 'judge today—the Na-
tional Football League’s new $9.3
million “package” television, con-
tract with the Columbia Broad-
casts System violates antitrust
laws and is invalid.
Still unanswered for the nation’s
sports fan who thrives on his
year-round menu of televised
games is what happens now to
similar contracts held by other
sports groups.
In addition to the NFL, the
American Football League, the
National Basketball Association
and the National Collegiate Ath-
letic Association hold exclusive
contracts with networks. Major
league baseball always has shied
away from package deals. Each
baseball club makes its own tv
arrangement.
Federal Judge Allan K. Grim,
announcing his decision in Phil-
adelphia Thursday, made no men-
tion of the other pacts. The Just-
ice Department, which had ques-
tioned the legality of the NFL-
CBS two-year pact signed last
April 28, said it would have no
comment until it studied the
judge’s decision.
Both the AFL and the NBA
were in doubt as to what the rul-
ing could mean to them.
The NFL contract granted CBS
exclusive rights to telecast all
regular season games played by
the 14 NFL teams, with each
team sharing equally in the tele-
vision income.
The shift from the old federal-
approved NFL tv program, which
permitted each team to negotiate
its own tv contract, came after
the new American Football Lea-
gue had operated in its first sea-
son last year under an exclusive,
share-and-share alike contract
with ABC without a legal chal-
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Second Game Tonight
Pony League Stars
Lose to Kerrville
The Taylor Pony League All-
Stars lost a close one to the
Kerrville All-Stars in, the first
game Thurssday night in their
two-out-of-three series, in the
All-Star tournament.
The final score was 9-8 in favor
of Kerrville.
The second game between Tay-
lor and Kerrville will be played
at Morrison Field in Austin to-
night at 5:30 o’clock. Should Tay-
lor win this game, a third bat-
tle will follow immediately to de-
termine the winner of the series
of three games.
Taylor got off to a good start,
scoring one run in the first inn-
ing and five in the second, to
take a 6-3 lead at the end of the
fourth stanza, Kerrville having
scored one run in the second inn-
ing and two in the third.
But the fifth was Kerrville’s
big inning, when they scored six
runs to take a 9-6 lead. Taylor
managed two more scores in the
top of the seventh, but that just
wasn’t quite enough and Kerrville
won 9-8.
Roy Reichenbach scored Tay-
lor’s one run in the first inning.
Scoring five runs in the second
were Reichenbach, Larry Zeplin,
Larry Moehnke. Rodney Marek
and Larry Hehrnan. The scores
were made on five hits, one-bag-
Celfar-DweSIgr
'Giant Killer'
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Omaha’s cellar-dwelling Dodg-
ers turned giant killers and club-
bed league-leading Indianapolis
6-1 in Thursday night’s American
Association baseball race.
'Second place Louisville moved
to within one-half game of the
leaders with a 12-hit assault and
9-1 victory over Houston.
Denver beat off a ninth inning
rally with the bases loaded to
edge Dallas-Fort Worth 3-1.
Omaha get to Ray Rippelmeyer
for four hits in the sixth to break
open the -tie game. Joe Tanner
blasted a double and drove in
one run. Tanner scored when
catcher Don Pavletich dropped
Rippelmeyer’s throw after the
pitcher fielded' a bunt.
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gers by Reichenbach, Zeplin and
Jezek, and two striking home-
runs by Marek and Hehrnan.
That was all the scoring for
Taylor until the seventh, when -two
runs were scored by Reichenbach
and Billy Mucha. The only -hit
of the inning was a one-bagger by
Marek.
Taylor accumulated a total of
seven hits, and the losing pitch-
er was Billy Mucha.
Kerrville scored their one sec-
ond-inning run on two hits with
Zrizola crossing the plate.
Two runs in the third were
scored by Lopez and Syers on
no hits.
Tht Kerrville aggregation ac-
cumulated four hits in the fifth
inning to score their six runs.
Benedict and Syers got three base
hits and Arizdla and Peschel got
one base hit. Scoring were Lo-
pez, Syers, Villarreal, Arizola,
West and' Peschel.
Kerrville rolled up a total of
eight hits. Winning pitcher was
Peschel.
Baseball Standings
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit ........
YV
.. . 60
L
33
Pet.
.645
GB
New York . .. .
.. . 58
32
.644
%
Baltimore .....
.. . 51
42
.548
9
Cleveland .....
... 32
43
.547
9
Chicago .......
... 47
47
.500
13%
Boston ........
. . 44
51
.463
17
Washington . ..
.. . 42
5Q
.457
17%
Los Angeles . .
.. . 39
54
.419
21
Minnesota .....
.. . 38
54
.413
21%
Kansas City . ..
.. . 33
58
.363
26
Thursday’s Results
Detroit 15, Baltimore 8
Cleveland 12, Boston 11, night
Only games scheduled.
Today’s Games
Detroit (Regan 9-4) at Kansas City
(Archer 6-5), night.
New York (Ford 17-2) at Boston (Mon-
bouquette 8-7), night.
Cleveland (Grant 8-4) at Minnesota
(Kaat 3-10).
Washington (Hobaugh 6-4) at Los An-
geles (Bowsfield 5-3), night
Baltimore (Hall 5-4) at Chicago
(Pierce 4-6), night.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W
E
Pet.
GB
Indianapolis .....
55
43
.561
—
Louisville ........
53
42
.558
%
Denver ..........
53
46
.535
2%
Dallas-Ft. Worth
48
47
.505-
5%
Houston .........
41
56
.423
13%
Omaha ......... 41 57
Friday’s Games
Louisville at Houston
Omaha at Indianapolis, 2
Denver at Dallas
.418
14
TEXAS LEAGUE
Thursday’s Results
Austin 9, Mexico City Reds 8
Ardmore 7, Mexico City Tigers 2
Victoria 3, Poza Rica 2
San Antono 5-0, Veracruz 4-3
Puebla at Amarillo, ppd., rain
Monterrey at Tulsa, ppd., rain
Junior Loop
Champs to
Bo Decided
With the championship still in
doubt, the Junior League is sche-
duled to wind up its 1961 season
with a double-header Saturday
night.
Both are make-up games.
Williamson County Equipment
Company’s Harvesters will play
the VFW Buddies -and Taylor
Meat Company’s Packers wil play
Firestone’s 500s.
Taylor Floral is holding down
first place in the standings with
a 6-4 record.
Running only a half-game be-
hind is the Harvesters with a
5V2-3V2 record.
Taylor Floral has fiinished up.
They don’t play any more games.
But they could still lose the cham-
pionship, if the Harvesters can
beat the VFW Buddies, now in
last place. It’s probable they will.
The battle between the 500s and
the Packers will not affect the
championship.
Here are the standings:
Team W L Friday’s Schedule
Taylor Floral 6 4 Artes^a^Vpke0^18^
Harvesters 5Y2 3Vz El Paso at Hobos
Firestone 5 4
Paper Hangers 5 5
Meat Packers 4 5
VFW 2% 6%
Cincinnati .....
YV
. 56
L
36
Pet.
.609
GB
Los Angeles . .. .
. . 54
37
.593
1%
San Francisco .
. 48
42
.533
7
Pittsburgh .....
. 44
39
.530
7%
Milwaukee .....
. 43
43
.500
10
St. Louis ......
. 43
46
.483
11%
Chicago .......
. 38
51
.427
16%
Philadelphia . ..
. 27
59
.314
26
Thursday’s Games
Milwaukee 5, Philadelphia 1, night
Pittsburgh 4, Chicago 0, night
Los Angeles 10, Cincinnati 1, night
San Francisco 10, St. Louis 6, night
Today’s Games
San Francisco (Jones 7-5) at Cincinnati
(Hunt 9-5), night
Los Angeles (Drysdale 7-5) at St. Louis
(Jackson 5-8), night
Milwaukee (Burdette 10-6) at Pitts-
burgh (Mizell 4-7 or Haddix 6-4),
night
Chicago (Cardwell 8-7 or Ellsworth
5-6) at Philadelphia (Owens 1-3),
night
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
Thursday’s Results
Omaha 6, Indianapolis 1
Denver 3, Dallas-Fort Worth 1
Louisville 9, Houston 1
Amarillo ......
YV
. . 59
L
35
Pet.
.628
GB
Tulsa ........
. 56
39
.589
3%
San Antonio ..
. . 50
45
.526
9%
Austin ........
. . 46
50
.479
14
Victoria ......
. 45
50
.474
14%
Ardmore ......
. . 40
58
.408
21
Friday’s Schedule
Poza Rica at Victoria
Monterrey at Tulsa 2
Puebla at Amarillo 2
Mexico City Tigers at Ardmore
Mexico City Reds at Austin
Veracruz at San Antonio
SOPHOMORE LEAGUE
Thursday’s Results
Alpine 7, Artesia 5
El Paso at Hobbs, postponed, power
failure
Albuquerque at Carlsbad, ppd. rain
Albuquerque ..
YV
. . 18
Lt
7
Pet.
.720
GB
Hobbs ........
.. 17
9
.654
1%
El Paso ......
. . 15
11
.577
3%
Alpine .......
. . 11
15
.423
3%
Carlsbad .....
. . 10
16
.385
8%
Artesia .......
. . 7
20
.259
12
Meet Rockdale Tonight
Taylor Little League All-Stars
Defeat Elgin 3-2 in Tournament
The Taylor Little League All-
Stars came from behind in the
fourth inning to edge the visiting
Elgin All-Stars 3-2 in a thrilling
ballgame played on the Rotary
Field. This gives Taylor the right
to meet Rockdale tonight here in
Taylor in a second round play-off
game that will eventually lead to
Williamsport, Pennsylvania and
the Little League World Series
for eight teams.
An overlfow crowd estimated at
nine hundred' jammed the area to
see this fine exhibition. Though
the crowd was the largest ever
at the local park, Taylor police
did an excellent job handling the
traffic so that no bottle necks
appeared and there was no con-
estion.
League officials announced that
tonight’s game with Rockdale will
be preceded by opening ceremon-
ies beginning at 6:30. The game
will follow at 7:30
Woodie Baker was the winning
pitcher for Taylor as he held the
visitors to six hits, walked three
and struck out nine. Maurice
Jones was the loser although he
allowed only two hits, walked
two and struck out twelve.
Baker was in trouble in every
inning except the final one but
some clutch strike-outs- and his
teammates chipped in at least
two timely fielding gems to throl
tie potential rallies.
Elgin took the lead in the1 first
inning when Baker walked lead-
off man Boyd Magnuson, and then
erred on Paul Morris’ grounder to
put runners on first and second.
Allen Magnuson then flied out but
John Majors got the first of his
two hits to plate Magnuson and
send' Morris to third. Baker then
hitched up to Strike-out opposing
moundsman Jones and get Coy on
an easy tap back to the mound.
In frame number two the Tay-
lor pitcher walked the lead-off
man and -then struck-out the side.
In the third Allen Magnuson sin
gled with one out but did not ad-
vance as Baker added two strike-
outs.
Elgin threatened to break the
game open in the fourth when
Coy opened with a single. Baker
then field Tamez’ high hopper to
I he left of the mound and fired to
shortstop Steve Svadlenak cover-
ing second to force Coy and Svad-
lenak’s relay to first baseman
Reichenbach coompleted the dou-
ble play and the threat died
Meanwhile back at the ranch,
Jones had' been mowing down
Taylor batters with monotonous
the fast bailer came through with regularity. After walking lead-off
Batter Dennis Seale, the Elgin
fireballer retired nine straight,
seven by strike-cuts. Disaster
struck suddenly in the fourth
however as Jones put Butch Lee
on base via hit-batsman. Right
fielder Kenny Baldwin then boun-
ced a towering fly off the center-
field fence for a double with Lee
stopping at third. Donnie Reich
enbach then lifted a triple to
right field that plated both Lee
Baldwin. Moments later, Reichen-
Reichenbach came heme on a
passed ball and Jones returned
to the job of mowing down Tay
lor batters.
Elgin made its final bid in the
fifth as Arthur Majors and
Boyd Magnuson got back to back
singles with none out. Majors then
attempted to steal third on a
semi-passed ball but Butch Lee
fired a strike to third base-man
Bland Smith for the put-out. Mor-
ris struckout and Allen Magnuson
walked. John Majors then, repeat-
ed his first inning chore as he
singled home Magnuson to bring
the score to Elgin 2 and Taylor
3. Baker then whiffed' Jones and
got the side out in the sixth in
order, the last two by strike-outs.
Taylor All-Stars in the line-up
other than the ones mentioned
were Steven Burkhart in left field
and Rodney Wolf an center.
Independents Defeat Coupland 4-0
To Claim Softball Championship
The Taylor Inndependents de-
feated C-oupland 4-0 here Thursday
night to win the city softball
championship.
The Independents earlier won
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Socialists, both at home and abroad, try to smear advertising
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The Taylor Daily Press readers.
Tigers Move
Back Into
First Place
By ED WILKS
Associated Press Sports Writer
The Detroit Tigers moved back
on top in, the American League
race by thumping Baltimore 15-8
Thursday for a one-percentage
point edge over the idle New York
Yankees.
Cleveland out-slugged Boston 12-
11 in the only other AL game
scheduled.
In the National League, second-
place Lcs Angeles rapped Cincin-
nati 10-1 for a two-game sweep
that shaved the Reds’ lead to 1/2
games. San Francisco beat St.
Louis 10-6, Pittsburgh defeated
Chicago Cubs 4-0 and Milwaukee
beat Philadelphia 5-1.
The Tigers twice came from be-
hind against the Orioles before
ripping a 6-6 tie with eight runs
in the seventh. Rocky Colavito
drove in five runs with a pair of
homers, the second a three-run
shot in the big seventh. Jim Gen-
tile hit two home runs for th-he
Birds. Hal Woodeshick (4-3) was
the winner in relief and Steve
Barber (10-8) the loser.
Jim Piersall and Tito Francona
drove in seven runs between them
for the Indians and paired for
consecutive home runs in a four-
run seventh inning that heat the
Red Sox. Boston, down, 3-2 after
five innings, had taken the lead
with five runs in the top of the
seventh. Bobby Locke (3-0) won
it and Billy Muffett (2-10) lost
it, both in relief.
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Texas League
Wins Again
Over Pan-Arn
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexican Leaguers stumbled
again on Texas League diamonds
Thursday night as action contin-
ued in the interlocking Pan Amer-
ican Association schedule.
Only one Mexican team man-
aged a victory. That was Vera-
cruz which had to settle for
half of a double header with
San Antonio.
Rain forced the postponement
of two contests'—Puebla at Ama-
rillo and Monterrey at Tulsa.
Austin carded its second
straight triumph over the Mexico
City Reds 9-8 and the Mexico
City Tigers fell to Ardmore 7-2.
Victoria outlasted Poza Rica 3-2
San Antonio edged Veracruz 5-4
in the opener that featured nine
extra base hits, but Witty Quin-
tana’s home run and single in the
cond game helped the Eagles
gain a 3-0 verdict.
Austin’s Senators found safety
in numbers using five pitchers
and two big runs in the sixth in-
ning for its 9-8 victory over the
Reds. Billy Shields drove across
three runs for I he Senators, two
on his 315-foot homer in the
three-run first inning.
Southpaw Marshall Renfroe
spaced out six hits 1o gain the
6-2 win for Ardmore over the Ti-
gers, ,
the right to play Coupland by pit West Taylor and Wuthrich
defeating Walburg 14-4 for the
championship of Church League
No. 1. At thb same time Coupland
was defeating Thrall 4-1 to win
the Church League No. 2 cham-
pionship.
The 1961 season is- now over,
except for the big 12-team tourna-
ment opening Tuesday night at
Sportsmans Field in Taylor.
In defeating Coupland, the Inde-
pendents scored their first run in
the top of the second inning.
Stu Parker led off with a single
and went to third bn a single by
Frank Marek. Parker scored on
a sacrifice fly ball by David
Hertz.
It was in the top of the fifth
stanza that the Independents
scored their second run. Hertz
walked, taking second base on a
pass ball and taking third on an-
other pass ball. He scored on, a
rounder.
The game went scoreless from
then until the top of the seventh,
when the Independents scored
their last two runs. Kelly Cook
got an infield hit and advanced
to second base on a wild’ pitch
and advancer to second base
on a wild pitch and came in
on a double by Hertz.
Bubby McMakin walked and he
and Hertz advanced on a wild
pitch. Darrell Mott reached first
on an error, with Hertz scoring
on the play. McMakin and Mott
both were thrown out trying to
steal home.
For the Independents it was
five hits. Coupland got two, both
by Melvin Poldrack, the catcher.
He got a single and a double, x
Frank Marek was the winning
pitcher. Kenneth Seggern is credit-
ed with the loss.
Double headers will be played
each of three nights in the soft-
ball tournament opening Tuesday
night.
Georgetown will play St. Mary’s
in the first game starting at 7:30
p.m. The Brethren will play
Thorndale in the second.
Games the second night will
Hill and St. Paul and Thrall.
Coupland will meet Walburg
and the Independents will meet
Granger the third' night.
Exactly when the second and
third nights’ games yrill be played
depends on how the Taylor Pony
League all-Stars make out to-
night again Kerrville in Austin.
If Taylor should win they will
need the local field a couple of
nights next week.
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Minor League
Crowds Down
COLUMBUS, Ohio (#)— Attend-
ance at minor league baseball
games is running about even
with last year’s, despite a redue
tion of five cities and the loss of
Minneapbtis-St. Paul to the Amer-
ican League
In a midseason survey of -all
games played throuh the fourth
of July, 69 clubs report attend-
ance dipped this year to 5,328,754
from 5,352,755 in 1960
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