Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1959, Tokyo, Japan                                Wednesday february 18, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 19 coast guard wants Graham As Grid coach new London Conn. A the athletic director of the Toast guard Academy said monday night former Cleveland Brown Quarter Back Otto Graham is the no. 1 Prospect to become the cadets next head football coach. Diet John Forney the Academy s athletic director told a new Haven journal courier sportswriter by Telephone i Haven t talked with him recently but Graham is our number one possibility for the Job. Graham is by no Means the Only follow we Are considering. But he is our top Prospect. Nothing is definite yet Graham met in Washington Mon Day with vice adm a. C. Rich mond coast guard commandant. Both sides interested Bolh sides Are interested but the talks Are still in the exploratory stage Graham said on arriving Home in Cleveland. I will make up my mind definitely in about a week or  the 37-year-old Graham an All America at Northwestern made his debut As a coach last summer. He masterminded the College All stars to a 35-19 trouncing of the Detroit Lions then defending National football league champions. If he and the Academy agree on terms Graham would replace Nel son Nitchman As head coach. The coast guard won two lost four and tied one last  reportedly was weighing both the salary of the Job and the time off he would have for other activities. Jockey draws 10-Day ban Miami a Bob Ussery the leading jockey at Hialeah with51 victories monday was sus Pended for 10 Days for rough rid ing in the fourth race last Satur Day. Ussery Rode arrant bully to a six length Victory in that race. He drove his mount through a Nar Row opening along the rail at the head of the stretch to assume com Mand and bumped with another horse while going to the  Hialeah stewards reported they sidelined Ussery for making his own opening with the Horsey bulling through thus endanger ing the other horses and jockeys. Ussery s suspension will give Willie Hartack his closest Chal Lenger at about half Ussery s vic tory total a Chance to make a con test of their rivalry. Nil rams sign passer Humphrey los Angeles up Baylor quarterback buddy Humphrey leading collegiate passer last year has become the first Rookie this year to be placed under contract by the los Angeles , a rams second round draft Choice climaxed his 1958 Reg ular season play by completing 22 passes for 387 Yards against Rice to establish new Southwest con Ference passing records and was a standout in the shrine North South game at  threw five touchdown passes and scored another himself in the shrine game provoking ram coach Sid Gillman to comment that Humphrey has All the equipment needed to be a top nil  yanks sign pair but six standouts continue to balk new York up it s a Long hard struggle but the now York Yankees Are slowly but surely going about the task of signing their 41 players. Infielder Jerry Lumpe and Pitcher Mark Freeman became the 22d and 23d members to agree to terms monday. Still unsigned however Are such standouts As Mickey Mantle Whitey Ford Gil Mcdougald Ryne Duron Don Larson and Tom Sturdivant. Rink Battle policeman Al Gallagher slaps a wrestling lock onto Toronto s Marc a Caumo during a penalty Box scuffle against the Montreal cilia client. Beauine never caught the Man he was after and the Maple Leafs did t catch the canadians either losing 5-2. Adj Fullmer says sugar Ray is killing his division once a rarity Melbourne up Herb Elliott Australia s world record Holder for the mile ran the distance in less than four minutes 10 time sin 1958. New York a Gene full Mer is tired of waiting for sugar Ray Robinson to make up his mind. While the middleweight Champ debates whether to try for Archie Moore s Light heavy title or give Carmen Basilio another Hance Fullmer plods along on a Treadmill. They ought to do something about the middleweight division said Fullmer who held the title briefly in 1957. Robinson has t fought for 1.1 months and the Rule is supposed to he six  see where he s talking about fighting Archie Moore for Archie slight heavyweight title. If he beats Moore then it will be another year round table has cracked Hoof May miss big Handicap Arcadia Calif. A round table was fount to have a slight crack in a Hoof monday and May not make it to the Post in the$100,000 Santa Anita Handicap on feb. 28. Billy Molter Trainer of the Ken stables 1958 horse of the year said the chances of round table going in the big Handicap were about 50-50. He said a bar plate would be placed on the Hoof and his train ing routine continued. Well Hope for the Best Molter said. Round table one of the soundest horses in racing turned up with a tender Hoof after his morning workout sunday. Or. John Peters Kerr stables veterinarian looked him Over and found a half Inch crack near the Back of the right front Hoof. The further Back such a crack develops the Milder it is  said round table had a slight tenderness in the foot Mon Day. If the tenderness goes away he said he would seek permission from track officials to Gallop round table Over the turf course in a Day or  table has been assigned High weight of 132 pounds for the Santa Anita Handicap which he won last year. No Winner has Ever repeated. Before he goes through a rematch with Moore. If he loses hell makes much Money anyway that hell Ake another year before he de fends his own title. What Are the rest of us sup posed to do stand around with our hands hanging at our sides this could kill the division. What is the sense of building yourself up for a shot if you know you re not going to get it. For a year or two Fullmer Hopes to keep Busy stir ring up enough attention to Force the Issue on Robinson. He Boxe Wilfie Greaves a Canadian Young Ster with a 13-fight winning Streak in Madison Square Garden Friday. We tried to get Basilio he  he did t want it. He wants to see what Robinson is going Todo  somebody suggested to mar Jonson Fullmer s manager that he made a mistake going through with his Robinson rematch on  won the Crown Jan. 2, 1957, and lost it to Robinson on fifth round knockout May 1, 1957. Given our word we went ahead because we had Given our word said j e n s o n. From now on we Are going to take things on their face  were promised the shot at the Basilio Robinson Winner but whenever got  since Robinson s left Hook cracked Home on Fullmer s jaw i their Chicago fight in 1957, the Chunky sex Champ has won eight straight. In his Only 1959 fight Fullmer out pointed Milo Savage at san Antonio. Lumpe batted .254 in 81 games last season while the right handed Freeman posted a 13-10 record wit Denver of the american association. The los Angeles dodgers virtually completed the signing of All their players by coming to terms with Pitcher Danny Mcd Evill out fielder Don Demeter first basemen Jim Koranda and Norm Barker my Catcher Joe Pignatano. Only dodger players loft unsigned now Are pitchers Bill Harris and Rene Valdes both of whom had been playing Ball in South America this Winter. Chison sign Throe. The Chicago White son announced the signing of infielder Billy Goodman and i fevers Gerry Staley and Don Rudolph. Only eight sox players still Are unsigned. Goodman balled .299 in Lufi fames last season. Szaloy had a4-5 record while Rudolph had an 11-12 Mark with Indianapolis Anda 1-0 record with the White sox. Pitchers Curt Raydon and Jim Hardison signed with the Pitts Burgh pirates who now have 29 men under contract. Raydon had an 8-4 record with the pirates an Hardison a 7-7 Mark with Salt Lake City of the Pacific coast league. Jii Nieson quits hues the pirates also announced that Dick Jamieson a Catcher with Salt Lake City has forsaken a baseball career and signed to play for the Philadelphia eagles of the National football league. Outfielder Roger Maris who Hub asked at terms earlier became the 28th member of the Kansas City athletics to sign. The 24-year old Maris obtained from Cleveland last june batted .240 while hitting 28 homers and driving in 80 run sin 150 games. Pitcher Jim Bros nun became the 34 11 st. Louis Cardinal player to agree on a 1959 contract general manager Bing Devine announced. Braves Schoeni exist to undergo operation Milwaukee a the Mil Waukee braves announced monday night that second Naseman  stricken by tuberculosis last fall will undergo sur Gery thursday at mount st., Louis Hospital in st. Louis. The braves said that Schoen Dienst s physicians reported the surgery was decided upon in Hopes of accelerating his recovery fro the disease. The National league Champiom also announced that  Humberto Robinson signed his 1959 contract. Xavier drops Center from Cage squad Cincinnati a coach Jim Mccafferty monday dropped Junior enter Rich Piontek from the Xavier University basketball squad or the remainder of the season or disciplinary  at the same time decaf ferry said sophomores Jim Haffner and Whurlie Phillips were not being Ken to Bowling Green ky., for a came with Western Kentucky for the same reason. They will be out or Only the one game however. I in said however the cases of Phillips and Haltner were not re item to that of Piontek. Xavier was the 1958 National Iri Itati onal tournament Champion. Loses scholarship Mccafferty declined to elaborate on the reasons for the action but he said Piontek also had been dropped from the Xavier Basket Ball scholarship list for the remainder of the Spring semester.  s action was another addition to the string of troubles that have plagued the Xavie cagers. Highly regarded off their nit championship performance last season and a Long list of returning veterans the musketeers got away fast and then sagged woefully. The now have Only a 10-9 record and generally Are conceded to have Little Chance of being invited Backoo defend their nit title. Two ineligible within the last week they lost Ricky Jannott a Junior and Tom my Malone a Sophomore because of Scholastic ineligibility. Janno Tonly recently had been graduated to a starting position at times. Piontek who stands g feet 8 inches has been a starter All season and has averaged 7.7 Points a game. He is from Pittsburgh and is a brother of Dave Piontek of the Cincinnati royals of the National basketball association. Dave Piontek also suffered similar disciplinary action when he played at Mavier. Phillips at 6-9, has started several times and has averaged 5.3 Points a game. He is from Detroit. Haff Ner fort Wayne ind., has played briefly in Only a few games. Pro Gage pioneers new York up professional basketball was introduced Back in 1896 with the formation of the National basketball league which had teams in new York Brooklyn and Southern new Jersey. The league lasted two season. Chicago rivals n.y., i,.a. As heavy title site Chicago a promoter Bil Rosensohn monday listed Chicago along with new York and los Angeles As having the inside track for the heavyweight title fight be tween Champion Floyd Patterson and swedish challenger Ingemar Johansson. Agnar Benson Chicago contractor offered him a $500,000 Guaran tee in the form of a Bond to select Chicago. Benson has the backing of mayor Richard Daley and other City officials who would like the fight to be a curtain Raiser of Sev eral special International events opening of the st. Lawrence sea Way and International Trade fair and the pan american games. Predicts big Gat Rosensohn said he would like to hold the fight the lust part of june or Early in july he Esti mated a potential Gate of it Mil lion in new York and $1 million in Chicago or los Angeles. He said he was undecided whether it will be Home or theater televised. Benson told him that there Are some 63,000 american born swedes in Chicago As Well As some 40,000 others with swedish relatives who would support the fight. Benson also reminded Rosensohn that Chicago holds the record for the greatest outdoor fight Gate $2,658,660 for the second Gene Tunney Jack Dempsey bout in sol Dier Field in 1927, and the top in door Gate $422,918 at the Tony Zale Rocky Graziano bout in Chi Cago stadium in 1947