European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Friday Juno 29, 1962 Bur Cleveland said no wanted to Trade Wilson in red hot of nine have this overtake rom the " runner up position Lii the Safe Germany District when key tract the a Irieta by Ali " whose Only loss Dur ing the past five weekends was a 5ir2 i id at the hands of the comets which they avenged by a 3# store the following Day will be playing Host to the Ever dangerous in the top series saturday sunday Boston a Okay so May be you Don t know much about Boston s big Earl Wilson the american. League s.1, newest no hit Pitcher. Just Don t ask Cleveland Man Ager Mel Mcgaha who he is Mcgaha knows Only too Well. The red sox tried to peddle the Brawny but wild right hander to Cleveland this Spring but the indians would have no part of him. The proposed Deal was Wilson for ind 1 an s outfielder Chuck Essegian. Cleveland general Man Ager Gabe Paul would have okayed the Swap but Mcgaha said Nix according to a red sox spokesman. Mcgaha the spokesman said considered Wilson too poor a risk. Mcgaha however was t aside from trying to stay close to i darn Staat. Wiesbaden. Ij-5j? wac have motive Rev nge. For it we the Taroji Johb to used Thel Riel Rudly Ion fines bar their own Diamond to hand the flyers a double setback by a res of 5-2 and b-4 on the second weekend Jef the season. With a a . Juncture the flyers were almost left for dead. R. R the comets still commanding a two game Edge in the Ever important loss column despite having a Kiili same shaved from their Lead in a sees split with Sembach will be it i ome against a sixth place pan Dahiem nine 6-10 which fell before the comets by 9-3 and 13-0 Flat time around. " rocket Stein meanwhile still not out of Contention with a 10 lowing win be an Odds on favorite .in., pier against the invading Rhine main rockets my residing Jin seventh place. Still uhe rockets might assume the role of a late season spoiler recent performances Are criterion behind the tight _. Thrif the. Piera they sex Tih de Acta Stadt to the limit the to Beli icky left and Earl Wilson. Congratulations from one no hitter to another Wettjen in Harmon refused entry in British open because weekend before Lajti until the subdued them 2-1, the last of the ninth i#$8s by gave. Wales la tit Tygh time of it As Well 54 scorer then forcing the times in the _ decision Sembach h tigers who have a lumped to an record dropped them to fifth Hope to continue their momentum gained in sunday s w win Over Darmstadt in a Road series wit the cellar dwelling Hahn Hawks. Kew York Claude har Mon one of America s Best known Golf professionals has been turned Down for the British open Golf championship next month for a very weird reason. The Only thing i can figure out is that they never heard of me Over there the former masters Champion and head professional of the famed winged foot country club in Mamaro neck n.y., lamented wednesday. Here s the sequence of events Harmon decided a few weeks ago to play Iii the British open. Like Arnold Palmer Jack Nicklaus Sam Snead and others planning to take part he was advised to flip his entry by Cable through. The vs., Golf association. Claude did this. When Days and finally weeks passed without confirmation Harmon double checked with Joe Dey executive director of the Urga. Then Early wednesday with bags virtually packed and Allar Range ments made Harmon got the news from Dey they said your entry was t accepted because it lacked proper the standings 12 Lii l Al Ujj 10 9 h 2 u pet .800 .900 .500 .375. -313 .121 of a a Bbowers better division Olibus a. The ,7th army soccer the last of for Tiit 7th army club it sixth graduated from Urcla. " Boston a the american football league executive com Mittee has voted to reduce the clubs player limit to 33 men each and set up a system designed to strengthen the clubs which finished v in the standings last year. The player limit had been Tenta raised from 33 to 36 at a january meeting subject to review at this session. The system provides that on aug. 14t a month after the Start of the training Camps each team will place 35 of its training squad on an untouchable list then /tw_6, Clisba Oak Laid d an d Denver which finished lowest in 4he league standings la St year will have the privilege of selecting three., players each from the remainders above the in touch Ablest u -. -. R after the. Oakland and Denver dubs have completed their Selec u6ris of three players each Al clubs May participate in another player draft starting with Oak land and Denver and working up from the Bottom to the top in last season s standings each club May select one player each in three consecutive Gq-around5. Earlier the ,1 eague executive committee voted to defer expansion of the league from eight said a decision might be made later this year to expand but said there was no reason to Rush expansion plans at this time. He said an expansion committee will a the meantime Confer with franchise applicants from new or leans Kansas City and Atlanta and that enlargement of the league is still possible this year in time for the 19f 3 playing season. At tie conclusion of the three Day Between seasons meeting of the eight member committee Foss planned to move on to Buffalo for a meeting of american football league coaches and general manag ers to discuss Intro league operational procedural problems including player transactions and waiver " identification d e y t o i d he winged foot pro that s just a Nice Way of saying they never heard of me Harmon said. It s very personally interceded in Harmon s behalf with Brig Gen Eric Brickman executive Secretary of the Royal and ancient club of St. Andrews which runs British Golf. It did t do any Good. The British decided to stick by their guns and keep Harmon out on the grounds of no proper they also said i should have filled out a form but nobody else did it Harmon said this is the Rule Only in the Case of amateurs so they Don t get stuck with humpty dump ties. In the past cables always have been the Urga acknowledged that Harmon s entry was received Intima. Masters Champ in 48 Harmon won the masters tournament in 1948 and played that year in the British open. This year his 137 was the second lowest qualify ing score for the . Open topped Only by Charley Sifford s 136. In addition to being an outstand ing tournament golfer Harmon is famed As a producer of Topflight professionals. His proteges have included Dick Mayer Jack Burke. Al Mengert Mik Souchak and Shelley Mayfield among others. The British open is scheduled at Troon Scotland starting july 9. Harmon planned to leave tuesday with Fred Corcoran tournament director of the International Golf association. Only person who thought of the huge affable fellow As Juat an other Strong Pitcher who could t master his wildness. Many in Boston had Given up. Too. Thus Wilson was marked the fact there were no takers u one of the nicest things that has happened to Boston since the British left. Robert Earl Wilson came up to the red sox late in 1959, he was considered More than just a Good Prospect Many keen baseball observers predicted stardom As inevitable providing he could lick his control problem. But the 6-foot, 3-Lnch, 220-Pound Louisiana still was raw. In his first Start against Detroit he walked three batters then struck out three. Then he walked three More. Then he fanned three. It was too much for then Man Ager Billy Jurges who already was getting skitter about his position. The next Spring Wilson went Back to Minneapolis then the triple a red sox farm club. Last season Wilson stayed in the minors winning nine and losing 14 for Seattle of the Pacific coast league. He posted 127 strikeouts in 166 innings but issued 113 walks. Script looked familiar it looked like the same old Story this season even though he stuck with the red sox after Spring train ing. But about a month ago the transition began. Ear now 26, won five out of six. He beat de troit 4-2, then whipped Cleveland. 3-1. Still he had t pitched a com plete game As reliever Dick Radatz bailed him out on both occasions. Beating los Angeles and Bobel Insky for his sixth Triumph in eight decisions Wilson just grower in strength As the innings went by. The no hitter absolutely thrilled Wilson. He seemed in a delightful Daze. But Earl will be the first in the world to concede that despite his love of pitching he has an intense secret love. I love to hit he said. Home runs that is. I got my second of the year against the Angels in the no hitter. And i m going for six or eight More this year Earl might have been a Catcher if. San Diego Catt up bos ton red sox Pitcher Earl Wilson would probably have been a Catcher instead of a hurler if it were not for the i a of Supply and demand. That s the opinion o baseball scout Art Billings who discovered the Pitcher who blanked the los Angeles Angels. 2-0, tuesday night throwing a no hitter to the process. Billings said wednesday that his discovery probably would have been behind the plate if the class d team to which he was assigned originally had t had a shortage of pitchers and too Many catchers. The scout a Veteran of 22 years with the red sox and who Man Ages several sandlot clubs Here recommended Wilson when he was a hard hitting Catcher at memorial Junior High school Insan Diego. Boston signed Wilson As a Catcher in. 1953 and sent him to the Busbee Douglas. Ariz., club trains announced for All America Boud Buffalo a the coaching staffs for the second annual All America football bowl game has announced team co captains but re Mai tied mum on the starting line for Friday night s contest. Roman Gabriel of North Carona state and Larry Onesty of Northwestern were named Field readers for the East competing quarterbacks. Bobby ply of Bay 6r and Sandy Stephens of Minne teams to 10. Commissioner Joe Foss Sola got the nod from their West teammates to share the cup Tauncy. Despite the reticence of the coaches to reveal their starting units the first offensive Backfield appeared set v Gabriel was at quarterback in the East s Back held that head coach Woody Hayes of Ohio state has summoned As his no. 1 group the others in that unit were Ernie Davis of Syracuse Herman trophy Winner and Angelo Dabiero. Of notre Dame at halfback. And Ohio state s Bob Ferguson a fullback. Army fullback at Rushatz was alternating with Dattero at half Back. The Backfield that head coach Murray Warmath of Minnesota f most often called for a composed a of Stephens at quarterback Jim Saxton of Texas and Bobby Lee Thompson of Arizona at halfback and Art Perkins of North Texas state at fullback
