European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes sunday october 15, 1967 army clips pirates appoint Shepard manager sum 24-6, with Lindell Dallas Tex. A quarterback Steve Lindell making his second appearance of the football season directed three army scoring drives while a aggressive defense intercepted four Southern methodist passes in a 24-6 Cadet Victory Friday Nithe 180-Pound Junior from Princeton minn., missed on only3 of 13 passes in the first half Pittsburgh a Larr Shepard with but one year s experience in the major leagues was named manager of the Pittsburgh pirates , 48, spent 25 years in the minors As a Pitcher player manager and manager until the 1967 season when he moved unto the majors As pitching coach for the Philadelphia  he s seen a dream come True managing a big league club. He succeeds Danny Mur Taugh who was named interim manager in mid season after Harry the hat Walker was fired. Murtaugh has since got ten a front office Job with the pirates. Shepard and Happy was at Forbes Field when Gen eral manager Joe l. Brow made the announcement. Larry Brown said has knowledge of the game experience dedication Industry knowledge of the National league and ability to handle players. There were a lot of out standing baseball men consid ered for the Job but in my Opin Ion Shepard can and will do the Best Job for  was Given a one year con  said no decision would be made on a coaching staff for several Days but Relia ble sources said three of the present four Man staff had Al ready been hired. They Are Johnny Pesky. Hal Smith and full Lulor cock of we Tull Aii Clyde King. The fourth Alex the stars and stripes winning Pennant earns schoendienst claim As no s manager of year Steve Lindell. Back in shape As army needed just 17 plays to March 80 and 62 Yards for second Quarter touchdowns. He completed the other two retried in playing briefly in the second half As the cadets moved39 Yards for their third touch Down in the fourth , who was ill through the first two games of the sea first Down Rushing yardage passing yardage return yardage passes punt fumbles lost penalties army 17 164 154 31 sum 10104 142 80 12-20-0 11-20-4 9-38 6-37 0 1 26 20 new York a re schoendienst the quiet Leader who lifted the St. Louis Cardi nals from a sixth place finish in 1966 to an explosive runaway Victory in the National league Pennant race the past season was named the circuit s manager of the year Friday. Schoendienst whose Cardi nals also Defeated Boston in a seven game world series drew257 votes from among the 397 baseball writers and broadcast ers who participated in the an Nual associated press poll. Leo Durocher of the chicag cubs was second with 119 votes. Cincinnati s Dave Bristol Wasa Distant third with 11. Schoendienst mane Vered his club to the top with a number of strategic moves that include the shifting of Mike Shannon from the Outfield to third  manager moved Nelson Briles a Relief Pitcher into the starting rotation in mid july after Ace Bob Gibson was Side lined with a broken right leg. Briles finished with 14  St. Louis skipper also first place with Chicago on july24. However they went on a 13-3 Streak in the next two wee Sand forged an eight game Lead. St Louis clinched first place two son with an ulcer made his 12completions Good for 154 Yards. He scored the first touchdown on a one Yard keeper and full Back Chuck Jarvis went one an six Yards for the others. In the third Quarter kicking specialist Nicholas Kurilko sent a 46-Yard Field goal through the uprights to set a distance place kick record for army. It washes fifth Field goal of the season to equal a Cadet  Perez injured sum quarterback got the Mustangs Moy ing in the third Quarter with his passes and averted a shutout forthe Mustangs when he threw nine Yards to Jerry Levias. Army 0 14 3 7-24 sum 006 06armylindell 1 run Kurilko kick army Jarvis 1 run Kurilko kick army Fig Kurilko 46smulevias 9 pass from Perez pass failed army Jarvis 9 run Kurilko kick attendance 26,000. Made effective use of Dick Hughes and Steve Carlton Young starting pitchers plus Relief staff that included Ron Willis and Joe  cardinals were tied for Side red remarkable in View o their performance the previous Campaign in which they Wou up in the cellar winning Only 59 games and losing 103. Durocher moved to Chicago in 1966 after a 10-year absence from the managerial ranks. Bristol had the reds in fireplace during most of the firs two months of the past season they slumped later on though and finished fourth with an 87-7mark, one half game behind Chicago. Ira Mas is being considered or Shepard s staff. The pirates pitching staff ailed to live up to expectations n 1967 and the pirates favored win the Pennant last Spring finished in sixth place. Brow was asked if he picked Shepard because his pitching experience May help the Mound corps. That was a minor consideration Brown replied. If Larry had not the background of pitch ing he certainly would still have been the  shrugged off a Sugges Tion that Shepard s Lack of much major league experience might  Larry has had a Long varied and successful career in the minor leagues the general Man Ager said and the element there Are the same As in the  ,.the same question was put to Shepard. I Don t think Heyers will hold it against me said. Brown said he and Shepard have held Only Brief discussion about possible trades to improve the  world shaking deals i doubt very much if there will be any world shaking trades Brown said. We re no going to bust this team  in his 18 years As a minor league manager Shepard has won four league championships three in class aaa Ball. He piloted the pirates Columbu farm team of the International league from 1961 through 1966.the pirates hiring of Shepard leaves two big league managerial jobs open those of the washing ton senators who called a new conference for saturday when they Likely were to name their new Pilot and the Kansas City a s. Big of royals concur on terms for contract Cincinnati a Oscar Robertson the big o of the National basketball association ended his holdout Friday and agreed on an unusual three Yea contract royals. With the Cincinnati knee operation shelves lions9 Shoals for year Detroit a the de troit Lions said offensive tackle Roger Shoals has undergone sur Gery on his right knee and will be lost for the  was injured in Sun Day s 27-17 loss to the Greenbay packers. Coach Joe Schmidt said Rookie Bill Cottrello Delaware pa., Valley col lege will replace Shoals in the lineup and Randy Winkler a Rookie from Tarleton Tex.,state, would be added to the team s National league roster. Football red schoendienst. Honoured by a voters weeks before the end of the Reg ular season finishing with 101-60 record and 10�/fc games in front of second place san Francisco. Schoendienst replaced Johnny Keane As the cardinals manager oct. 20, 1964 in an unprecedented aftermath to the club s seven game world series Triumph Over the new York Yankees. Keane had resigned and taken a similar position with the yanks. He replaced Yogi Berra who had been fired. The cards wound up in seventh place in schoendienst s first season at the Helm in 1965.they moved up a notch the next year with an 83-79  cubs third place finish under Durocher in 1967 was con both the club and Robertson said they were satisfied with the agreement that will mean a estimated $100,000 a year for the royals superstar. Terms How Ever were not disclosed. The 6-foot-5 Robertson who has been scoring about one Ellis Bonavenia go nov. 11 Louisville by. A the first semifinal bout in the world boxing association heavyweight elimination tournament will be fought in Louisville on nov. 11. Jimmy Ellis of Louisville and Oscar Bonavena of Argentina will meet in the 12-round bout Tobe televised worldwide Over Abc. Ellis 27, has a 24-5 record. He earned his semifinal spot by knocking out Leotis Martin of Philadelphia two months ago. Bonavena moved up with decision Over Karl Mildenberger of Germany last month. The South american fighter has a 29-3  and Ellis plan to Start training Here late this month for the Louisville  started fighting As a heavyweight two years ago. Hence served As Cassius Clay s sparring  other semifinal in the eliminations will match Thad Spencer against either Jerry Quarry of los Angeles or Floyd Patterson of new York a for Mer heavyweight King. Oscar Robertson. Three year  fourth of the royals Point joined his teammates for prac Tice Friday afternoon. The royals will open their regular sea son next tuesday against the Detroit pistons. We Are very Happy with the contract said j. W. Brown Robertson s attorney. There Are certain advantages to Bot sides in a three year agreement. Is Way Oscar can concen trate on helping the royals win the championship and does no need to be concerned with his siness  neither Ambrose h. Lind id St Board chairman of the Eloyas nor Brown would say anything about the terms of the contract though Brown admit Ted it contains a number of unusual  Robertson reportedly had asked for around �125,000 or $150,000 a year while the team offered him $100,000. The contract however was not signed immediately. Its final details were settled Friday morning in a Telephone conversation Between Brown and Lind Horst. Lost 7 on tour while Robertson was staging his third holdout in As Many years the royals went on a exhibition tour under their new coached Jucker. Cincinnati lost seven of the 11 games on the  Wilt Chamberlain the other top Aba Star to stage holdout this year came to terms with the philadelphia76ers tuesday for an estimated $250,000. Robertson 28, has scored total of 16,410 Points in seven seasons with the royals. Las season he scored 2,412 of the team s 9,487 Points for an aver age of 30.5 per game. His career average is 30.4 Points a game. A three time All America atthe University of Cincinnati Robertson joined the royals forthe 1960-61 season