Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 29

DETROIT FREE PRESS Saturday, Nov. 23, '63 1-C oud I -1. 1 consoling him after his kicking failures had cost his high school team an important game. The boy was armless. THE PRESIDENT and his family took a lot of kidding about their touch football tactics but John F.

Kennedy also took his sports very seriously. He was a man who spoke his mind and, frankly, he thought we were a nation of softies. But, more important than that, he did something about it. His heritage will live on in the physical fitness program he established upon assuming office. You can see living, proof of it in any gymnasium, in any school, where your Susie and my Bobby go through the one-to-three-four ritual of daily calisthenics.

THE PRESIDENT wasn't much for golf in recent years. A bad back kept him from ripping into the ball. But if you looked carefully, on a stroll along Pennsylvania Avenue on a warm spring afternoon, you might have seen a bushy-haired man tapping in putts on the specially built green behind the White House. He endorsed our Olympic bid, and for this Detroit will forever be grateful. When the grieving is over, the games will go on because this is our way of life.

And because this is how he would have wanted it. BUT. SOMEHOW, in East Lansing and wherever Slippery Rock might be the cheers will have a hollow and empty ring. It's always that way when you lose a friend. The world of sports not only lost a leader in John F.

Kennedy; it lost a friend. A very close friend. He met with the mightiest with Stan Musial and Mickey Mantle with Ty Cobb and Red Grange with the whole Boston Celtics' basketball team. You'd see him on television at the biggest football games Army-Navy the Orange Bowl and in the Presidential box on opening day of the baseball season in Washington. But he was not too big, or too important, to pause and think of the little people of our land like the small boy he wrote to in Rhode Island last week JOHN F.

KENNEDY Schoolboy gridder at Dexter MSU Be cides to Play 1 AP Photo President even puttered with golf 'Be BYY LYALL SMITH Free Press Sports Editor EAST LANSING The Big Ten football title game here Saturday afternoon between Michigan State and Illinois will be played as scheduled. The decision to go ahead was made late Friday afternoon after a hurried series of conferences involving the MSU board of trustees and the office of William Reed, conference commissioner, despite a request by Gov. Romney that the game be canceled or postponed after the death of President Kennedy. This initial decision was followed by several hours of indecision. They were caused by the wave of postponements of games in other sections of the nation, including the Big Six from which the Big Ten's opponent in the Rose Bowl will be picked.

The Purdue-Indiana game as well as the Big Ten game between Minnesota and Wisconsin also were postponed. But Friday night a telephone conference involving a four-way hookup among Michigan State, Illinois and Ohio State was held. All decided that despite the President's death, the show should go on here and at Ann Arbor. nfoy IBS And so it is that two college football teams, each with a 6-1-1 record, will bump here at HANNAH EXPLAINS MOVE On 1:30 p.m. in a showdown for the conference crown and a berth in the Rose Bowl.

Is Playing Why MSU A glum sellout crowd of stunned by the national tragedy, will watch the game on an afternoon predicted to be cloudy, windy and chilly with a chance of showers and maybe a dash of snow. There will be cheers at the Turn to Page 2C, Column 1 nn reak Fumble Defeats Irish, 7-0 Goodfelloiv Victory Is 9th Despite rage Hose Fever Hits MSU EAST LANSING (UPD Rose Bowl fever swept the Michgian State campus as the Spartans' Saturday showdown battle with Illinois drew nearer. Hundreds of students demonstrated throughout the campus area with snake dances and cries of "Go, State, Go." Campus police said the demonstrati ona had caused no trouble or damages except for an occasional traffic block. Despite a wave of cancelations due to the death of President Kennedy, the Michigan State-Illinois and Michigan-Ohio State football games will be played Saturday. In the following statement, similar to one issued by U-M athletic director Fritz Cri-sler, MSU president John A.

Hannah explained why the action was taken: "In consultation with the president of the University of Illinois and the athletic directors of the two universities, the decision has been reached to play the football game Saturday afternoon as scheduled. "This decision is reinforced by a similar decision reached jointly by the presidents of the University of Michigan and Ohio State University to proceed with the Micchigan-Ohio State game as planned. "In making our decision, we have taken into account that it would be difficult to re- schedule the game for another time in view of the approaching Thanksgiving Day holiday and the approaching final examinations at Michigan State. "The alternative of canceling the game could not be reasonably considered in view of its singular importance in deciding the championship of the conference and ta cancel the game would deprive the University of Illinois of an opportunity to win the championship. "A memorial service is being arranged to precede the game in which all of those attending will be asked to join.

"The usual pre-game and halftime program of entertainment by the band has been canceled. "This decision Is final, subject only to a request by President Johnson that all public events be canceled in this period of national mourning." 1 Free Press Photo by VINCE WITEK. BILL FORD And that's that OJSLY OIVE 'AO' Denby is State Class A champion- Page 4C. BY JOE DOWDALL Denby High capitalized on its one lone break in the 26th annual Goodfellow Game at Tiger Stadium Friday night and cashed it in for the biggest prize in Michigan high school football. Gino Cattenacci, an alert junior guard, recovered a Notre Dame fumble on the Irish 13-yard line in the third quarter to set up the Tars for a thrilling 7-0 victory.

The victory, Denby's ninth of the year and 36th in the last 37 games, gave the Tars their fourth City championship and second State Class A crown. THE VITAL fumble broke up a battle in which the two East Side schools fought on even terms. Notre Dame was attempting to move out from under the shadow of its own goalposts Lions' Sale To Bill Ford Wins OK "rjtTJt v-ixTr" 'fit HiSi By GEORGE FUSCAS William Clay Ford acquired the Detroit Lions Friday with im nn nfMiminif iminn iii i tlllllM when halfback Bob Lantzy only one significant dissenting vote that of his great uncle. Free Press Photo by ED HAUN TAR-RIFIC Denby halfback Tom Demske (40) drives for a gain in Friday night's Goodfellow championship game at Tiger Stadium as the Tars dumped Notre Dame, 7-0. Giving chase is Irish guard Rick Benigni.

cracked into the line on his 13-yard line. The ball was pounded from Lion stockholders eagerly ac cepted the $6,000,000 offer of the young industrialist in a special meeting at the Statler- Hilton Hotel. FOR 'No. 1 EX-GRAD' Thus the 15-year group own ership of the Lions was dissolved and Ford, 38, youngest of the late Henry Ford's grand sons, became sole proprietor of the professional football club. Harvard Cancels Football Game his grasp and hit the turf with Cattenacci right on top of it.

Denby took over and hammered its way into the end zone six plays later. An 11 yard third-down pass from quarterback Gary Nar-doni to halfback Paul Meyer gave the Tars a first down on the two. Notre Dame threw back the thrusts of Tom Demske and Frank Nardoni before Nardoni dove over his own left guard for the score. THE TOUCHDOWN cli ROUGHLY 94 per cent of the shares in the Detroit Football Co. were voted in favor of accepting Ford's offer, the highest ever made for a sports franchise and its properties.

A saddened campus went into mourning at Cambridge, Friday for its most illustrious graduate, John F. Kennedy, and Saturday's traditional football game between Harvard and Yale was called off. A sports spectacle dear to the heart of the late President, the game was postponed within minutes after the shocking news of his assassination. I The President was a one- maxed the only scoring threat in the game by either team as the two defensive lines held time and time again to stall Turn to Page 4C, Column 4 The one known "nay" came from E. R.

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Luke Appling ATTORNEY Sol Dann, rep To Coach A's KANSAS CITY UP) Luke Appling, who spent 20 years as resenting Wismer, said that a 1948 agreement between Wismer and Bryant gave Wismer first option on the father-in-law's Lion holdings. Goetz Leads Cajun Golf LAFAYETTE, La. Jft Harvard gridder. It was the first postponement of a Yale-Harvard game since the rivalry started in 1875 and triggered similar action throughout the country. IT WAS TO BE a big weekend, with many games between traditional rivals dotting the schedule, but the stunning tragedy cast a pall on athletic and social events.

Leaders in the sports world joined the rest of the nation in expressing their shock and grief. Ford Frick, commissioner of baseball, said: "I am terribly shocked. President Kennedy's death is a terrible blow. I knew him when we were neighbors in Bronx-ville, X.Y., and was very fond of him." National Football League commissioner Pete Rozelle said he was "deeply shocked." Activity ground to halt almost immediately Friday. Remaining horse races at Aqueduct, Pimlico and Narragan-sett were suspended and night Turn to Page 2C, Column 1 a major league baseball player, has been named a coach for the Kansas City Athletics.

The club said "He cannot dispose of the stock without first giving Wismer a chance to purchase it," Dann said. The alleged agreement would Bob Goetz, a lean, angular pro' llisrfa i I lUJI Lid who says he's playing in his last allow Wismer to purchase the tournament as a tour regular, "tt fears i i via i (trsuiwniM i Friday that Appling's primary duty will be in- Willi llll sloshed through the rain with a four-under-par 67 Friday to take the second round lead in the structing hit- stock for its original price $20,000. Under Ford's offer the stock is now worth more than $400,000. "We mav have to go to court wm fri OPEN SATURDAY TO 9 P.M. except Shelby la 5:45 I 1 Cajun Classic golf tournament.

8-7-135 to settle this," Dann said. Appling ters. During his playing years with the Chicago White Sox, 1930 to 1950, Appling failed to hit .300 in only four seasons and finished with a lifetime batting average of .310. Appling served as coach of 6-7 136 9-6-137 47-71-138 70-68-138 Bob Goetz Dava Man Jack Rule, Jr. Sara Reynolds Jim Cassia Gardner Dickinson Frank Beard Rex Baxter, Jr.

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