European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse It Tel 18 the stars and stripes wednesday augut 19, 1959 Flosen Sohn s License suspended by . Commission new York a the new York state athletic commission monday suspended the matchmaker s License of Bill Rosen Sohn and the promoter s License of Rosen Sohn enterprises inc., for an unexplained violation of commission rules. The violations occurred the commission said in the promotion of the Ingemar Johansson Floyd Patterson heavyweight title fight at Yankee stadium last june 26. The commission which has been probing the baffling background of the show did not say what rules had been broken. In addition to the commission District attorney Frank Hogan and a continuing new York grand jury has been prying into the promotional affairs of the , who is vacationing at Cannes France said in a Telephone interview i sort of expected it and i Welcome it now the athletic commission wll have a Chance to find out what s been going on. I am looking Forward to returning to new York and explaining to the athletic commission the articles i have written about the promotion of the Patterson Johansson fight and the statements i have made to the but Vincent j. Velella president an majority stockholder of Rosensohn enter Prises said he was requesting an imme Diate Public hearing with a View to lifting the suspension of the promoter s License of the corporation. Velella who had split with Rosensohn said i certainly do Nofe quarrel with the commission s action in suspending Rosen Sohn. He asked for speedy action and said unless the hearing was held quickly the projected sept. 22 fight in new York might be taken to another state. He s already out of the picture in t he was Johansson s comment to Rosen Sohn s suspension. The stars and stripes red schoendienst. Probably next year schoendienst works out Milwaukee a courageous red schoendienst battling Back from a bout with tuberculosis rejoined the Milwaukee braves monday but Only for a workout. The 36-year-old second baseman took a Light Drill at Bat and inthe Field still hopeful of getting Back on the Active list to help the braves in the stretch drive of the National league Pennant fight. But it appeared both the Veteran redhead and the braves we rethinking ahead to next year. Up to doctor i think it would be a lot easier for me to get Back this year butt s up to the doctor Schoen Dienst said. Actually he does t want me to play this season. So i m concentrating on next the status of schoendienst often referred to As the inspirational Genius on the braves championship teams the past two years will depend on the outcome of an examination in St. Louis next tuesday. Red will work out Here and then go Home to St. Louis for the exam general manager John my Hale said. If the doctor gives him the of Well put him Back on the roster sept. 1 when we can carry More players under the schoendienst took about 20swings in batting practice. He sprayed some hits around the infield but his longest was a foul smash into the stands in right Field. Giants club reds 6-3, to boost Lead braves dodgers Divide doubleheader giants see red san Francisco a r h Brandt. If Davenport 3b Pagan 3b Mays of from press dispatches Milwaukee los Angeles and Milwaukee lost ground to the front running san Francisco giant by splitting a twi night doubleheader Here monday before 40,255. Bob Buhl backed by three homers checked the dodgers 8-1, in the opener but Don Zimmer s seventh inning four Bagger Sank the braves 4-3. San Francisco s 6-3 win Over Cincinnati enable the giants to move three games ahead of . And four braves. Buhl in picking up his 10thwin in 18 decisions contained the dodger scoring with a Well space seven hitter. The big right hander lost his shutout bid in the seventh Frame when Wally Moon cracked out his 10th Homer. But by that time the braves were Riding along with a 7-0 advantage thanks to the heavy artillery of Joe Adcock Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews. Adcock belted his 17lh Homer to highlight a three run first inning assault on loser Sandy Koufax. Mathews powered his 34th a Daaron collected no. 31 along with free singles. Aaron drove in three runs while Adcock and Andy Pafko each plated a pair. Koufax record dipped to 6-3. Zimmer s fourth circuit clout of he year earned Johnny pod res his 10th Victory in a Battle of relievers. Dodger starter Stan Williams was knocked out in the first inning when the braves scored All their runs on three walks Wes coving ton s double and Adcock s sacrifice Fly. Los Angeles tied the score inthe fifth with the Aid of an error by shortstop Johnny Logan on Pinch hitter Chuck Essegian grounder. Ron fairly had opened the rally against Carlton Willey with a Dou ale and Zimmer walked. Fairly scored on Logan s Boot and Charli Eneal singled in Zimmer and Essegian. Bob Rush took Over and was charged with the loss when he served up the Gopher Ball to Zim Mer. Rush is now 5-4 and podres10-7. Box scores on Page 22 Cepeda in Spencer. 2b Alou of Bressoud is Schmidt o a saner Landroth o a Macovoy tit Kan e Mccormick p Miller j. S. Jones p totals 38 8h totals 34 3 10 a rounded out for Schmidt 6 a singled for Landrith s a struck out for Thomas 8 a sonic it out for Hook 9 from press dispatches Cincinnati the front running san Francisco giants padded their National league Lead monday night by defeating the Cincinnati reds 6-3, while their closest pursuers were dividing a doubleheader at Milwaukee. The win upped the giants advantage to three games Over los Angeles and four Over the braves. The giants had to rally to pull monday s game out of the fire As Cincinnati built up a 3-1 at the expense of lefty Mike Mccormick. But with Jackie Brandt and Felipe Alou showing the Way the giants caught up with a pair in the seventh and wrapped it up with two More the eighth. Brandt had four singles while Lou had a single and two doubles each scored twice and drove in Arun. Rookie Willie Mccovey drove inthe deciding run in the eighth with a Pinch hit single. 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The oct. 24 opening will find Washington at new York Philadelphia at Charlotte . Greensboro,., at Clinton -., and Johns town pa., at new Haven. Relief work. Big right hander Sam Jones finished up with two title sinnings. The reds tallied All their runs in the fifth on singles by Debailey Eddie Kasko losing Pitcher Jim o Toole Whitey Lockman and Gus Bell going Mccormick in the process. Lockman had three hits and Ell s rib was his 93d. The heavyweight Champion in Stock Holm reiterated his previous statement that he has no contract with Rosensohn enterprises but Only with Rosensohn personally. Velella and Irving Kahn a director of Rosensohn enterprises maintain however that Rosensohn assigned the return bout contract to the corporation. I do not think it has any greater significance to me but i cannot say yet added Johansson. Asked whether he regarded the con tract As void Johansson said i am not competent. To judge a matter like that. It is something for my lawyer a few Days before Johansson was quoted As saying he was no longer committed to any return bout with Patterson. However since then he has said repeatedly that Patterson would get the re turn bout. In a terse statement monday Gen. Melvin Krulewitch re chairman of the commission said in View of Public statements made by William p. Rosensohn the commission suspends the pro Moter s License of Rosensohn enter Prises inc., and the matchmaker s License of William p. Rosensohn. Any action on the revocation of these licenses will await comple Tion of investigations now specific article named in answer to questions a com Mission spokesman said the state ments were made by Rosensohn in a signed article in the Magazine sports illustrated and also to the press. He declined to Point to any specific statement made by Rosen Sohn in these articles. Rosensohn said on aug. 4 that he unwillingly signed away control of Rosensohn enterprises so that the Johansson Patterson fight could be held. Kahn said monday there still was a Chance of holding the fight on sept. 22. Pie said he had talked on the Telephone last saturday to Edwin Ahlquist Johansson s meanwhile Gilbert Lee Beckley a Gambler from s u r f is d a fla., made his second appearance before the grand jury monday. Beckley was questioned for about an hour. Hogan said that prior to the Patterson Johansson fight Rosen Sohn met with Beckley Frank Erickson former bookmaking King pin and another Man identified Only As or. in packers Cut 5 players reduce squad to 47 Green Bay wis. A Green Bay packers who lost to the Chi Cago bears 19-16, in a National football league exhibition game saturday night have placed five men on waivers. The cuts reduce the squad to 47. Coach Vince Lombard dropped ends Ken Higginbotham Trinity Tex College and buddy May Field South Carolina centers Wil lie Taylor Florida am and Dick Teteak Wisconsin and halfback Bob Laraba Texas Western. Proposed antitrust Bill to Benefit Grid Case rink sports Washington fun _ run non ont i.o1. " up sponsors of rival Senate sports Bills joined monday in sponsor ing a new measure to Grant exemptions Tom certain antitrust Laws to professional football basketball and hockey. The measure would ignore baseball. Sen. Estes Kefauver a ten chairman of a Senate antitrust subcommittee which hashed hearings on the subject introduced the new legislation for himself and Sens. Everett m. Kirksen r-i11. And Thomas c. Hennings,jr., do. Dirksen and Hennings originally propose giving a Broad antitrust exemption to All four organized sports. Kefauver has sponsored a measure to Grant a More limited exempt onto the four. In offering the new Bill. Kefauver commented that supreme court decisions have Given baseball an antitrust immunity not accorded to the others. He said the new measure was designed to Correct the inequity which has been the Bill would specifically permit football basketball and hockey to make rules an regulations governing team strength and the selection reservation and assignment of player contracts. These provisions would Seera to Clear away any Legal Cloud Over draft procedures and the contract clauses which keep players tied to the team which originally sign them. The Bill also would allow teams in the three sports to exercise exclusive franchise rights within five Miles of its Field rink or court. The exclusive jurisdiction would apply How Ever Only in cities with a population Large than 2,000,000. A television Section would permit the regu lation of telecasts by one team to within 75 Miles of the Home area of another. The two teams could also agree to split the to reve nue in such cases without violating the anti Trust Laws. Ingo offered $500,000 for Harris title fight Dallas Tex. Up promote Ralph Smith said he and his Fin Ancial backers Are ready to Post a $500,000 guarantee for world heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson to defend his title in the 70,000-seat Cotton bowl against Texas heavyweight Roy have four backers who Are Worth five times that kind of Money Smith told United press International when informed of Johansson s acknowledgement of cabled half million Dollar offer sent to Sweden by Smith. Becerra s title win earns Hickok vote new York up Jose Boccara Mexico who won the world bantamweight title by knocking out Alphonse Halimi monday wag named Winner of the july poll in the race for the Hickok professional athlete of the year award. Becerra led the july voting by the nation s sportswriters and sportscasters by a wide margin. He received 80 first place votes and a total of 137 Points. Don Drysdale Pitcher for the los an Geles dodgers placed second with13 first place votes and 66 Points. Harmon Killebrew Washington senators slugger was third with eight first place votes and 39points
