European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Friday october 13, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 19 red sox starter Gary Waslewski. Fires for five plus innings Williams disappointed Waz did t get win Boston up red so manager Dick Williams was delighted with his team s sixth game Victory Over St. Louis but admittedly disappointed wednesday that his Rookie starting Pitcher Gary Waslewski did get the Victory. Who got the win William asked before a Small army of writers could begin firing questions at him in a crammed Boston dressing  that reliever John Wyatt had been credited wit the win Williams said i wish Waz would have gotten the Victory. But it s been a team Effort All the Way. Waz marvelous Waslewski did one hell of a Job. He had no starting jobs sphere for quite a while but he did it today he was  told him that when i went out there to take him out. Head thrown his Best for As Long As he could. I wanted six innings out of him and he came pretty  admitted he left himself wide open to second guessing if the relatively inexperienced Rookie Rig than Der had been bombed out of the crucial sixth series game. Not in Relief the Rookie Boston manager said he never had any intention of employing two game Winner Jim Lonborg in Relief in the sixth game. I sent him Home anyway after we got those four runs in the seventh inning. No i Twain t that i did t want to be tempted to use him. I jus wanted him to beat the crowd and go hide until  Boston Pilot said he had Grid giants acquire Colvin from cowboys new York a the Newyork giants of the National football league acquired Jim Colvin Veteran defensive tackle from the Dallas Cowboy wednesday for an undisclosed draft  make room for Colvin the giants released Dick Kotite Rookie linebacker from Wagner College. Expected a heavy hitting Gam and had been expecting his club to break out since the Start of the series. That was another Laugher was t it he said. We be got a new sign a third base Williams joked. We say hold up and they run right through it a reference to Dalton Jones running through coach Eddie Popowski s Stop sign in the seventh  scored what proved to be the winning run on the play. Williams said his decision Totake the Chance of starting Waslewski in the sixth series game stemmed both from the fact that the Young righthand Rhad thrown three innings of perfect Relief in St. Louis an because he looks and throws a lot like Lonborg out  Don t care if Waz was disappointed in not pitching longer Williams said. I was satisfied with the Job he  than  ran out of Gas Waslewski said i just ragout of Gas. I m not especially proud of my performance. I glad we won but i d rather pitch nine innings. I was boiling inside i was so  slugger Carl Yastrzemski said i Hope we can hold up for one More game. This is the Wayto end it up. We re going with our Best and so Are they. All we be got to do is get one More run than they  shortstop Rico Petrocelli who whacked two homers in the game said they both came on fast balls. I was just hoping i d get apiece of it. I just kept  noted his disappointment Over the fact that his wife had not seen the game. She was Home watching onto because we could t get a Babysitter he said of his Best by far series performance. Jones said of his  in which he ran through a Stop sign at third base Idin t see the sign until i had rounded the base. If i had tried to Stop then i d have broken a leg. I had been watching Heball in left  Hodges Given 3-year contract by mets in unprecedented Deal Boston up big Gil Hodges came Home wednes Day to manage the new Yor Kmets and they gave him a three year contract at $50,000 year for consenting to a managerial switch totally unprecedented in history. To lure the 43-year-old former dodger favorite away from the Washington senators whom he guided to a tie for sixth place in the american league this year the mets gave up a substantial amount of Cash and a player to be named later. As far As i know this is the first time that a Cash sum was involved in obtaining a Mana Ger said Bing Devine pres ident of the mets who was present along with Hodges and vice president Johnny Murphy at a hastily called news  switchover from the senators culminated a two Yea Effort by the mets to get him and was a Homecoming for thesis foot four sex Brooklyn first baseman in More ways than one. Although he s a native of Princeton ind., Hodges and his wife Joan have lived i Brooklyn since 1948. He was one Riley settles on Oakland As potential new Home for his  franchise Chicago a Charles 0finley said wednesday he has decided that Oakland calif., i where he wants to shift his Kan Sas City american league base Ball franchise for 1968 and added i am hopeful the league owners will Grant me approx  the other owners were in formed by letter from me today of my intentions Finley  will take six votes in Addi Tion to our own to carry it. I not sure i be got them. I have talked it Over with Only three or four owners. I have no Guaran tee or Assurance at All. I m  Finley said he and the owners will meet in Chicago next wednesday and that i a hopeful the whole thing can be settled in that one Day i thin kit  the athletics moved to Kan Sas City from Philadelphia in 1955. They finished last in . This season. Finley said he would not Esti rangers whip Black Hawks to open nil Chicago up Jean Ratelle scored two goals and two assists wednesday night to spark the new York rangers to a come from behind 6-3 Triumph Over the defending Champion Chicago Black Hawks in a National hockey league opening game. Both of Ratelle s goals Casein the second period wrapping up a three goal burst for the rangers which gave them a 3-2 Ead. His assists came on theist two goals of the game by Reg Fleming and red Beren son which closed off the dangers burst in 3 minutes and12 seconds of the last period. Don Marshall got new York first goal and Phil Goyette scored the  Hull the league leading goal getter for the past two seasons and the record Holder wit 54 goals in one season scored twice for Chicago and figured in the other  his first score he was turning from the Hawk Bench with a new stick when Nesterenko passed to him inc enter ice and he went the rest f the Way unmolested to beat continued on Page 22ji mate his losses although Rob Ert t. Nahas president of Oak land s coliseum corp., said i Oakland that Finley has lost $4 million in baseball and is  i have based my opinion to move to Oakland on four Points Finley told the associated press. One the Oakland Alamed county coliseum Complex pro Vides the finest facilities for All around sports in the world. Two the climate in the area is very Ideal for baseball and second to  the population growth in the area is the fastest of any major league area in either league. Enthusiasm overwhelming and four the enthusiasm for sports in the area is  Finley said he made up his mind definitely Only tuesday. Finley said he had advised the governor of Washington and the mayor of Seattle of his  told them he said that they Don t have the facilities today for major league sports but that the Pacific Northwest is a great area and will be wonderful for baseball in the  Nahas said Oakland has drawing area of four million persons and by 1970 there willbe six million persons within 50 Miles of Oakland. Rice Trainer Dies Houston up Eddie Wojecki athletic Trainer at Rice University since 1945, died Sun Day after a heart attack. He was56. Wojecki was Trainer for the . Olympic team at Helsinki Finland in 1952. Of the most popular player sever to play in that Borough. And he was one of the original members of the mets before they helped him launch his managerial career by sending him to Washington for outfielder Jimmy Piersall on May 22 1963.Devine announced Hodges acceptance of terms three hour before the Start of the sixth Gil Hodges. Comes Home world series game Between these. Louis cardinals and Boston red  was the second such announcement during the series the Atlanta braves having named Luman  Hodges has agreed to a new three year contract wit the mets said Devine sitting on a sofa Between Hodges and Murphy. I have to apologize for the suddenness of this announcement. Gil accepted yesterday evening and we announced it As soon As  Hodges departure from the senators whom he piloted from 10th place to sixth in three and half years leaves them without a manager now and Washington general manager George Selkirk said he would try to name successor As soon As possible. Rube Walker a coach under Hodges with the senators this year was reported in line forthe Job but Selkirk scotched that report. It won t be anyone in our organization or anyone who people have been guessing said Selkirk. It will be a  was something of a Surprise Choice himself when Selkirk named him As Mickey Vernon s successor to manage the senators in mid-1963. Wilt signs pact denies Philadelphia a the Philadelphia 76ers made it offid wednesday that Wilt Chamberlain had ended his holdout and signed a one year contract with the National basketball association Cham pions perhaps for the fattest salary Ever paid an athlete. Reports that the contract called for $250,000 were denied by Chamberlain and a 76ers spokesman. Owner Irv Kosloff refused to give a hint of the terms saying Only that the pact was Forone year. The agreement is believed to include a setup whereby chamber lain for tax purposes can spread the income Over u period of years. The 7-foot-l1 Star who had pressured the 76ers by making i known he was negotiating with several teams in the new Ameri can basketball association starts his ninth Aba season when the76ers open against los Angeles Here oct. 18