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ears To Host World Champion Colts,
Finless Detroit Battles San Francisco

PRO BASKETBALL NOTES:
Celtics Nip Royals in Opener, 129-125

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By HAL APPLEBAUM
Despite talk of expansion, rival
leagues and the death of the com-
missioner, the warriors of the NFL
will take the field today in their
weekly warfare.
Highlighting the schedule will
be two Western Conference battles,
one pitting the defending cham-
pion Baltimore Colts against the
erratic Chicago Bears, and the
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Com-1ments
On Game
By FRED KATZ
Associate Sports Editor
"I don't care whether we win
by one or 50 - just as long as we
win," said Northwestern coach
Ara Parseghian, minutes after his
club continued their unbeaten
ways by whipping Michigan, 20-7,
yesterday.
Parseghian was still unnerved
by a relatively closer call than the
score would indicate.
"If Michigan had scored when
they were on our two-yd. line in
the fourth quarter, it would have
been a lot different game," he
analyzed.
"It's getting so that we have to
fight, for our lives in every game."
Hard To Relax
Judging from the difficulty he
was having in trying to relax, the
tight battles seem to be having
their effect on the 35-year-old
coach.
"I haven't been so concerned
about a game in a long time," he
revealed. "We knew Michigan
would be up for this one because
of last year's game (Michigan lost
55-24), and we knew our boys
would be down."
Parseghian said Michigan played
a spirited, hard-fought battle and
that his 'Cats "had to do it the
hard way."
He was especially dismayed
about the number of Northwest-
ern fumbles (five out of six were
recovered by Michigan).
Too Many Fumbled
"You just can't fumble the way
we did, particularly when and
where we did, and expect to win
very often," he said.
Parseghian, who is having trou-
ble keeping together a healthy
squad, was glad that Michigan's
line was more the size of North-
western's.
"Wait until Michigan plays
Minnesota next week and runs
into those 240-pound linemen;
they're real monsters," he relat-
ed from experience. Northwestern.
barely skipped past the Gophers
last week, 6-0.
Comparing both Minnesota and
Michigan, Parseghian calls the
,Wolverines much more versatile
offensively, but thinks that Min-
nesota's line could make the dif-
ference.
A visitor greeted Parseghian
with the question: "Just how- did
you ,win today's game?"
The coach raised his arms and
eyes toward the ceifing, sighing,
"I think the Good Man Upstairs
bad a lot to do with it."

other matching the undefeated
Green Bay Packers with the Los
Angeles Rams.
Rounding out the action in the
Western Cdnference the Detroit
Lions are host to the San Fran-
cisco '49ers. ,
The New York Giants and Phil-
adelphia Eagles tied with the
Washington Redskins for first
place battle in Yankee Stadium in
the top game in the Eastern Divi-
sion today.
At Washington
To complete the slate the Pitts-
burgh Steelers travel to Washing--
ton and the Chicago Cardinals are
at Cleveland to do battle with the
Browns.
The Packers, this year's surprise.
team, moves to Milwaukee County
Stadium to meet the Rams.
Doomed to the cellar by pre-,
season pollsters the Packers have
nevertheless gone u n d e f e a te d'
through their first three games, a
feat not accomplished by any oth-
er NFL team.
Relying on the passing of Lamar
McHan and the running of Paul
Hornung, as well as' a defense
made up of veteransand- castoffs
the Packers have defeated the
Bears, Lions and '49ers on suc--
cessive weekends.
Lose First Two
The Rams, on. the other hand,
picked as co-favorites in the West
then proceeded to lose their ,first
two games before exploding be-
hind the impetus supplied by the
running of Ollie Matson to upset
the Bears last weekend.
In Chicago the Bears will be
seeking to make it two in a row
over the Colts. Two weeks ago the

Bears stunned the Colts with a
26-21 victory.
However, the Bears have shown
little in their other games losing
to both Los Angeles and Green
Bay. The Colts meanwhile, have
two victories over the Lions to
their credit.
After last Sunday's encounter
with the Lions, Colt Coach Weeb
Ewbank said, "We were really
lucky today. We were able to win
without using any new plays. Now
we can save them for the Bears.
We have a lesson to teach them."
San Francisco, beaten only by.
Green Bay, 21-20, will be in De-
troit to challenge the winless-
Lions.
Depend on Tittle
The '49ers, still depending on
the arm of aged Y. A. Tittle are
favored to defeat the Lions, the
only winless team in the NIL.
The Lions were ahead through-
out most of the second half of
their battle with the Colts last
week, but were unable to hang on
against the persistent pressure
applied by Baltimore, losing 31-24.
In the Eastern Division, the
surprising Philadelphia Eagles will
see If they can make it two in a
row over the Giants. Two weeks
ago the Eagles, a. six-point under-
dog, rolled past the Giants, with
ease, 49-21, in Philadelphia. After
opening the season with a defeat
at the hands of the '49ers last
week; they edged the Pittsburgh,
Steelers, 24-21.
One Defeat:
The, Giants, with their loss to
Philadelphia the- only black spot
on their record, go into today's
battle a slight favorite. However,
with Charley Conerly pitching
against Norm, Van Brocklin this
game appears to be a near even
battle directed by two of the
game's old pros.
In Washington, the Redskins
will be aiming to retain their po,
sition at the top of the Eastern
standings as they seek, a victory
over the Steelers.
Two weeks ago in Pittsburgh
as seven-point underdogs, the
Redskins rose; and upset the Steel-
ers 23-17 and then followed with
a victory over the Chicago Card-
inals last week. The Skins have
the league's two top passers, Ed-
die LeBaron and Ralph Guglielmi
alternating at the throttle.
Upsets Browns
The Steelers, after upsetting the
Browns in their opener, have lost
to both the Eagles and Redskins.
and will be depepding on the arm
of Bobby Layne to return them to
the win column.
Closing out the docket, the Chi-
cago Cards battle the Browns in
Cleveland. With Jinr Brown, the
league's leading ground gainer
leading the way, the Browns are a
solid choice to repeat their vic-
tory of two weeks ago against the
Cards.

By The Aswociated Prese
BOSTON - The Boston Celtics,
world champions of basketball,
opened defense of their title yes-
terday with a 129-125 victory over
a spirited gang of Cincinnati Roy-
als, the team that was the Na-
tional Basketball Assn. doormat a
year ago.
The Celtics were paced by their
big four of a year ago-Bill Rus-
sell, the perennial all star Bob
Cousy, Tommy Heinsohn and Bill
Sharman.
This quartet accounted for 107.
of the winners' points.,
The Royals, led by Jack Twy-
man, one of their four veterans,
also had a good scoring quartet..
Twyman led all the. scorers with
38 points, six more, than Russell
hooped with his hooks and dunks.
Heinsohn scored Boston's first
field goal, making the score 6-5
at 2:45. Only twice after that did.
Cincinnati go ahead--8- a couple
minutes later and 50-45 midway of
the third quarter.-
Not only was Russell high man
for Boston but he-led all by' snar-
ing 23 rebounds, three more than
Heinsohn grabbed off the boards.
PHILADELPHIA - Eddie Gott-
lieb, owner, of the Philadelphia
Warriorg, said yesterday that Na-
tional Basketball Association Pres-
ident Maurice Podoloff acted:
"hastily"' in announcing big men'
would- be, penalized for "filoating"
on defense.

The NBA offite In New York
had announced that league own-
ers voted 5-3 for permanent adop-
tion of the following rule':
"After the offensive team has
advanced the ball to its front court
area, a defensive team player is
not permitted to place himself in
the key area (foul lane) longer
than three seconds with no ap-'
parent attempt to play :his op-
ponent. The penalty is a technical
foul, and the offensive team retains
possession of the ball."
The rule is aimed at the War-
riors' 7-foot plus Wilt (the' stilt)
Chamberlain, and Boston's 6-10
Bill Russe . According to Podo-
loff's office, league referees have
been instructed to tnforce the new
rule and will do so "until another
change, if any, is made."
DETROIT-The Detroit Pistons,
gave up on holdout Walter Dukes,
their star. center, yesterday and
will open their National Basket-
bal, Assn. season at Minneapolis
'today without him.
General Manager Nick Kerbawy,
indicating disgust, flew alone to
Mlnneapolis last night after a flOp
in his further: contract talks with
Dukes.
"T'he young 'man hasn't budged
one cent in more ,than six weeks,"
Kerbawy said.

Dukes, 29, seven-foot ace scorer
and chief rebound man of the Pis-
tons, has been holding out for
more pay.
The former Seton Hall star, a
veteran of the NBA, and the Pis-
tons were said to be about $2,500
apart. Dukes, one of the higher-
paid of the pro basket shooters,
draws down in the neighborhood
of $15,000 a season. He has played
three years for Detroit. Before that
he played a year each with New
York and Minneapolis.
In hopes of taking Dukes with
him to Minneapolis, Kerbawy said
he had two plane tickets but then
had to sell back the other one.
Kerbawy said Dukes "definitely"
would not play today even if he-
should agree to terms between now
and game time. He said he and
DIkes negotiated four times on the
telephone yesterday without re-
suit.
The general manager said that
even without Dukes the Pistons
would have their full complement
of 11 men for the opener.

WASHINGTON LEADER--Eddie LeBaron will lead the Washing-
ton Redskins into action against the -Pittsburgh Steelers this
afternoon. The Redskins are tied with the New York Giants and
the Philadelphia Eagles for first place In the Eastern Conference
of the NFL. LeBaron Is the league's second,'ranked passer this
season. Oddly enough the man in front of him is his understudy,
Ralph Guglielmi; formerly of Notre Dame.

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BERNARD GEOFFRION
...scores twice

New York Whips Montreal;
Toronto Shuts Out Boston

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By The Associated Press
MONTREAL - The New York
Rangers snapped a four-game los-
iug streak by defeating the Mon-
treal Canadiens 4-2 last night for
their first National Hockey League
victory of the season.
Andy Bathgate and Bill Gadsby
scored for the Rangers in the first
period and New York never was
headed. Goalie Gump Worsley ex-
celled for the New Yorkers turn-
ing back 38 shots.
Essentially it was the fast skat-
ing and consistent checking by the
Rangers that counted most. New
York met the Canadiens at their
own game of wide open play and
beat them to the punch.
Dean Prentice and Andy He-
benton scored the other New York
goals. Bernie (Boom Boom) Geof-
frion counted both Montreal goals.
* * *
TORONTO - Goalie Johnny
Bower posted his first shutout of
the young National League sea-
son as the Toronto Maple Leafs
blanked the Boston Bruins 3-0 last
night.

Boston's defeat left the Detroit
Red Wings, idle last night, in first
place.
The Dick Duff-Ted Hampson-
George Armstrong line accounted
for all the Maple Leaf Coals. Each
scored once with Duff and Arm-
strong also getting two assists.
Duff, in his four seasons with Tor-
onto, collected his 100th goal.
I The victory boosted the Leafs
into a second-place tie with Bos-
ton. Each team has six points and
trails the Red Wings by one point.
The 33-year-old Bower played
a steady game in the Leafs' nets
to earn the shutout, only the sec-
ond in the league so far.
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