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The Oshawa Times, 28 Sep 1960, p. 15

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Jim Norris Retires ing From Box CHICAGO (AP)--Chicago has passed from the scene as a ma- jor professional boxing centre with dissolution by millionaire Jim Norris of National Boxing Enterprises Television, which formed the financial foundation of his box- ing empire, finally turned into a frankenstein monster, The de- cision by the American Broad casting Co, to drop the televized Wednesday night fights strangled the main source of revenue for NBE. An embittered Norris Tuesday renounced all connection with the sport Tonight, Eddie Perkins of Chi. cago meets Gene Gresham of De- troit in a 10-round lightweight bout in Chicago Stadium that ends a nine-year history of the Wednesday night fights feature, "I'm sorry I ever got into box- i ' said Norris, owner of the ago Black Hawks hockey , a racing stable and part. with Arthur M, Wirtz, of ago Stadium, 'OUR BELLY 1S FULL "I tried my best to bring good boxing to the public of America," continued Norris, who has been under Congressional fire for al- leged a tion with shady characters in boxing, "My enem- jes--as vague as they were--beat me down, Our organization is quitting impossible situation Any usefulness desire 1 had in boxing We put our heart, mone integrity into boxing only to slapped down Our belly is now full and we're quitting TV boxing Saturday night the bouts in New Square Garden dynasty is dead Death of the NBE is a knock out blow to boxing in Illinois," said Frank Gilmer, chairman of the Illi State Athletic Com mission Norris said Chicago Stadium would be available for boxing] promotions, but he didn't expect any igh ht BOUGHT FROM JACOBS Norri nized the Inte tional Boxing Club in 1849 afier buying controlling interest inland Madison Square Garden and Mike Jacobs' 20th Century Box-| turned out two televized fights ing Club of New York. He set up| Week, on Wednesday and Frida go Stadium! The double feature wi SOC an or Is gone and ge will continue on wit most of York's Madison but the Chicago is JIM NORRIS, (centre), had today renounced all connections top ' with professional boxing, as well as calling a finish to the org a a headquarters at Chi weekly Ryne Duren's Tying Record Tickles Casey WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fast mon Killebrew in the first, Jim balling Ryne Duren of New York|Lemon and Faye Throneberry in Yankees has pitched himself out, . ie "hel Ys zou Rb A {the second. Earl Battey finally of manager Casey Stengel's 40g ound the ball in place of the blur house and into one of baseball's| hit'3t' to shortstop T Ku- strikeout records, | bek h th » \ o Pp ibn v "I'll tell you," Stengel said, "if ly Wo rew Him out, he gets it over (the plate), the] "Baltey hit a slider," Duren Pirates won't hit him." said, "1 didn t know it was a rec- Duren was thus reinstated in|ord or I'd have reared back and good standing for the Yankee./fired away. Pirate world series starting in| Stengel sald the bespectacled Pittsburgh next Wednesday, {81-year-old pitcher's control will The six - foot - one right-handed he tested an inning at a time in reliever Tuesday night made his/two more games next weekend first start in two years and against Boston Red Sox in New launched the Yankees to a 5-1| York. victory over Washington Sena-| «q tors by fanning the first five men|fessed. he faced. It was the 11th straight| Duren's wildness had caused triumph for the Americanigiense] grief, Since starting League champions, against Detroit Tigers late in the Only three other pitchers inlygse season, Duren had been baseball's modern era, since, .q colely in relief. Before Tues 1900, have opened a game Withigay night he had a 3-4 record five consecutive strikeouts, Lefty|e = 4a 5 inos in 39 games this Gomez of the Yanks did it inlyear His earned run average 1937, Walter Johnson of the Sena- was 4.60, poorest of the club tors in 1912 and Dazzy Vance of| . the old Brooklyn Dodgers In 1926. | am elated," Casey con- WIN LACROSSE TITLE FOUND THE BALL TORONTO (CP) Huntsville For two innings Duren hurled Hawks defeated Mimico Moun- the bullets which marked him as|taineers 9-8 Tuesday night to win one of the game's best relievers. | the Ontario Lacrosse Association He whistled them past. Reno Juvenile championship best « of- Bertoia, Lennie Green and Har-{three series 2-0, BASEBALL SCORES, STANDINGS By THE CANADIAN PRESS American League y w Pet, GBL xPittsburgh - Milwaukee St National League w Pet, GBL 616 58 64 64 70 74 " 92 ™ 93 87 New York Baltimore Chicago Cleveland Washington Detroit Louls Los Angeles San Fran Cincinnati Chicago Phila x-clinched pennant, National League incinnati 000 100 200 000 000 0 Pittsburgh 300 000 000 000 000 1 4 15 Purkey, Pena (7) MecLish (4 11) and Bailey; * Cheney, and olive (1) Umbricht (14) Green (11)/(34) (16) and Oldis. HR: Pgh- Hansen §iuart. (23), Milwaukee 5 0 Phila 000 001 40x-- 5 9 1| 000 000 000-- 0 3 0 Jay (9-8) Piche (7) and Crand. (11-14) and Chiti; all; Roberts (11-16) Farrell (8) Kemmerer (9) and and Coker, HR: Mil « Crandall 19 St oi Boston y City A738 37 American League Baltimore 240 431 210-17 8 0 Boston 000 100 011 3 13 3 Brown (12.5) (8 Triandos, Courtney (9-10) Early 2), Hillman Sturdivant (6), Casale (8) Nixon. HR Bal-Triandos Brandt (14) Adair (1) Bso-Gile (1 000 001 001 2 Kansas 31114 Jones 1 (7); +14 '9 100 020 000-- 3 Detroit 2 5 Chicago Bunning Wynn (13-11 Lollar New York Louis 000 000 010 § 70 Wash'ton 000 100 000 1 3 1 Angeles 200 000 Jox . Nha ARRY nia | BrOglio (21-8) Gibson Duren, Grba (8-4) (5) Turley|con (3) and H. Smith, Sawatski (8) and Blanchard, Howard (8);] Craig (8-3) and Roscboro.| oa Lralg J ang 0seboro, | Lee (8-7) Sadowski (8) Kaat (8) LA-T. Davis (10 | ties NY - Skowron Ards Av ' and Batt HR: N 010 200 000 bod San 000 010 000 10 Cardwell (9-15) and Bertell; 203 000 00x 9 2 0'Dell (8-18) Fisher (6) Miller (8) Harshman (4) and Landrith. HR: Chi-Thomas Funk (6) and Romano; Herbert|(21) (13-13) Wickersham (6) and P.| Today's Games Daley. HR: KC-Lumpe (8), | (And Probable Pitchers Today's Games [Milwaukee (Jay 9-7 or Buhl 15:0) (And Probable Pitchers) at Philadelphia (Owens 4-13) (N) York (Ford 11-9) at Wash. St. Louis (Sadecki 9-8) at Los An-| Stobbs 12.6) (N) geles (Podres 13-12) (N) | and (Perry 17-9) at Kansas Chicago (Anderson 8-11 or Ells. Garver 3-9) (N) worth 7-13) at Sam Francisco 10-7) at Bos- (Sanford 12-13) (Only games scheduled) | (N} | 1 § 312 (7) Nel 020 000 030 1 Los (7 HR {Chicago > Fran 6 6 0 0 3 1 Cleveland 000 031 000 2 Kansas City Latman (7-7) 4 5 New ington Cleve City Baltimore (Barber ton (Muffett 64) (Only games scheduled) Thursday's Games None scheduled Thursday's Game St. Louis at Los Angeles Only game scheduled) averaged Boss Post Gn ii i lor the opening game of the world | Donald Campbell night fights on sorry 1 ever lared Nor- National Boxing Enterprise whose president is Tepuman | Gibson (left), Ben Bentley got ng (right) matchmaker for Y the group. Norris ended | | of Wednesday televisio I'm nto hoxi dec nine AP Wirephoto y ht Chicago Stadium sed $10,000 and March in reported to have Ww 000 at fi ros HE hi m Carmen 1958 Ra middle a year height hen Sugar ained fre Robinson ve championship re Lou Nor1 Gibson houts annually, Joe va i figurehead, with Wirtz and Truman hack-scenes powers, The first Chicago stadium TV show was Oct, 3, 1951, whe uch figh Kid Gavilan's bub Dave Sands defeated Bobo Olson ble bursting of Davey th a 10 in the first coast-to-coast tele. round knockout in 1953 to an ex vized bout. However, the first pected 700 or so tonight's IBC promotion was the heavy-|Perkins-Gresham finale, weight championship fight be-| The Norris empire began tween Ezzard Charles and Jersey| crumbling in 1957 when the IBC Joe Walcott in Chicago's Comis-|was ruled a monopoly and when key Park, June 22, 1949. Charles|the ruling was i won. iby the United States Supreme Eleven world title bouts were court, The Norris-Wirtz holdings held in Chicago Stadium in the (in Madison Square Garden had next seven years and sports'|to be sold, Norris temporarily first darling of TV, Chuck Davey,| regrouped in Chicago with the was born. The last championship NBE a lio the ATTENDANCE Attend: cago 8 DROPS dwindled adium, from the in Ch 20,000 fo ne | a for as sustained in 1959 LONG STRING Yanks Continue Pirates Have Winning Streak [Pitching Edge By ED WILKS next Wednesday along with Art Associated Press Staff Writer Ditmar and Whitey Pord, gave Manager Casey Slengel of the up one single in his two frames. 4 New York Yankees may be up! 4 g 8 " |of brilliant feats by relief pitch. record of 45-29, decided over his starting pitcher SHOW GOOD HITTING |ers. Larry Sherry added the! However, after early - season "The Yankees, riding their long- most recent chapier, leading Los difficulties Turley and Terry a series a week from today, but he|¢st streak since they won 11 in Angeles Dodgers to victory inifinishing strong, while Law, Iknows for sure that one-time re-|1956, beat Don Lee (8-7) with two 1999 i Pitisburgh's most dependable lief ace Ryne Duren is ready, |Funs in the second on a double! Elroy Face of Pittsburgh Pi-lhurler most of the year, has been The fast - balling right-hander, by Dale Long; a triple by Johnny|rates is most likely to put his slumping, Terry has won three making his first start in two Blanchard and an error, Bill name on the list as a result of|games and lost none this month years, Tuesday night tied a mod- Skowron than rapped bis 26th|the 1960 series opening pex!|Turley is 240 over the same pe ern record by striking out the home run as a pinch-hitter lead- Wednesday in Pittsburgh, New riod, Law has won only one Ifirst five men he faced as the|ing off a three-run eighth, [York Youkees ave ae fo| game sna dropped three since 44 hi # i ent il e | s mach agains e great bullpen! Aug, 4 ggg Vivo ¥ .g ingion 5.1.1, J 3 Gest seven Sve tung specialist, The Pirate pitching! Labine is the only Pittsburgh was the American AgUe! its including four homers, for "tAif In general is given an edge|pilcher with world series experi- champs' 11th in a row, |its, ol ers, over New York's, {ence, Turley, whose two vicior- Baltimore walloped Boston 17-3 their one-game scoring high this les helped beat Milwaukee and took 8 one-zame lead over season, Skinny Brown (12:5) was Southpaws Bobby Shantz and ** heiped | . apes ; ir y . Luis Arroyo have been the Yan. Braves invi958, has an over-al Chicago in their scrap for second the winner and lke Delock (9-10), yo | eries k of 3-3. Ditmar, whe od : w y § kees' top relief men, But neither series mark of » Dlimar, who place as Detroit beat the White who beat the Birds with a three- ' 4 if | pitched briefly jn the 1957 and Sox 240 behind Jim Bunuing's bitter in his last start, was the/'s In the same class with Face, flog "i 0 Tae no decisions three-hit pitching, Kansas City|loser, jo vs ve oo Shantz also worked in the 1957 defeated Cleveland 5-4 Bunning (1114) allowed noth Sranz and Arroyo have eom| The Senators didn't get a hit ing but singles, two by Sherm onl Lace . pon 3 Other Yankee pitching elig- until the fourth inning, when Lollar, while pitching his fourth with he Dodgers who turned in|ibles are Eli Grba (5-4), Ryne Reno Bertola and Jim Lemon three-hitter, second over Chicago, un outstanding job after being Puren (3-4), Jim Costes (12-3 singled. Eli Grba (6-4) won it and third shutout this season, picked up as a free agent last Duke Maas (2-1) and Rookie Bill with three hitless innings, Bob|/Early Wynn (13-11) lost it on a month, » jBtationd (3-1), The Pirates also Turley, considered by Stengel as/two-out wild pitch in the sixth HIF have Tom Cheney (22), George a povible. siarier a4 Pitispargh/inaing, | © PX paitsburth an avpenrs. 19, iss (12), Frod Green (74) and ee mee | "Jerry Lumpe was 4. for Aloo Cp Ce NN ia ps DIC Joe Gibhon (42), | pelted or dg droves ers, The Pirates' Big Four ---- le a home run and drove In| won 61 games and lost 38, Vern) i . [two runs for the As against Law has a 20.8 mark, Bob Friend TRIBAL ORIGIN L . H it | Rose Bart) Salman (79), 2 is 17-12, Vinegar Bend Mizell 13-8] Clambakes Srigmany Wei sia {Herbert (13-15) won it with -3 and Harvey Haddix 11-10. shore of New England In eaving ospl a |innings of one-hit, shutout relief| The Yanks figure fo ar who baked clams ob beds DOLE: yuh {AF) Jiu by rookie Dave Wickersham, |Art Ditmar (15-9), Whitey Fordlof hot stones, driver Donald Campbell, injured] ---------- - ---- - ---- -- when his Bluebird II speed car| crashed on Bonneville Salt Flats | Sept, 16, said Tuesday he hopes| to be "released from hospital by | the end of the week The end-over-end flip at about| 200 miles an hour caused him a| basal skull fracture. A doctor| I Campbell is improving sat:| actorily, and the date he leaves the hospital is "a little bit up to) him at this point." Campbell said the wreckage of Bluebird 11 is on its way back to England, along with many members of the crew, The aceid- ent halted Campbell's efforts to) break the world auto speed rec-| ford of 394,196 m.p.h, set in 1047| by the late John Cobb, | (93) and - combined NEW YORK (AP)--World se-|(11-9), Bob Turley ries history is filled with stories! Ralph Terry (10-8) has ---- teats go with « MOTOR SHOW manufacturers from 10 including Canada are d at Britain's annual n London in October countr represente motor show What did Confucius Say? One thing he said was: "Do not unto others what you would not have them do to you." , .. | and he lived in China 500 years before the birth of Christ! Read in October Reader's Digest the words of one of the greatest teachers who ever lived , , , ancient wisdom as meaningful today as it was then, Get your Reader's Digest now -- 44 articles of lasting interest, of unmistakable flavou | THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, September 28, 1960 15 Stan Leonard Sets Record MELBOURNE (CP) -- Pro | zolter Stan Leonard of Vaocouver established a course record shooting a 66 Tuesday over the Bell Park golf couvse st nearby Geelong in the sixth round in the W.D and H O, Wills golf tour. nament, Leonard Is in third place in the four-man tournament worth £5. 100 (811.500) to the winner, He has a 428 total for 108 holes, The marathon tournament has another three rounds of 18 holes fo It is being played over different courses in three states, Australia's Peter Thomson re. fained the tournament lead by shooting a 71 for a $13 total, six strokes shead of second - place Gary Player of South Africa, who shot a 70 for 424, After Leonard at 428 comes Mike Souchak of the United (States at 435. 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