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John Lovetere, Big Giant Tackle, Gets Pre-Game Jitters Sy MILTON GROSS” | NEW YORK (NANA)---Each inday, a few hours before ants’ football game, John Love- re is certain to come knocking Dr. Francis Sweeney's dgor to * for a tranquilizer. tw. Sweeney hands a pill to the | '", 285-pound defensive tackle, { 1 Lovetere invariably says:! ive me two, doc.” ‘Why two?” Sweeney mAs ue should be enough.’ Che ather's for Mo,” says Love- H . Mesning Dick Modzelewski, Giants’ veteran defense man, ! it never is, : + the newest Giant, who may one of the strongest men in ball. “If I don’t get it I walk halls. You know, I get ner- >» before a game.” .oeking at Lovetere, who came the Giants fram the Rame !n trade for large Rosey Grier, uw must wonder what could iturb this giant of a man, who Ight lifte 5206 pounds from a ne prers. It ie the same ling you get with any of these staedons, who earn their pay the football field, but each something that sets his wee on edge, Johnny's case, it is one of the gest football backgrounds of! ime. For instance, the pro-! will list Lovetere as coming Compton Junior College. however, has been trying y to get the Giants to drop, *ffiliation from the program. | easoning is simple and direct. ' 1 didn’t go there but 2 couple “eks. I didn’t have any col- ‘eally. I just played a couple sames on account of the/I arship. Vanishing Scholarship ‘ar-old tells the story, ft i be called the case of the “ving scholarship. ‘ey ram out of money or hing so T just had to quit,” 4d. “J had an apartment and and a wife and ® little girl. nave promised they were go- punts, which may be an NFL took over as coach, John's troubles }Season game against the Giante, I need something to relax me," ‘ recovered, Colts in the season's opener and! three da, then against the Bears, followed next. i Svare. a former Giant, himseit,| Wilhite, Joe Moeller and Phil On a plane from a subsequent} Ortega. ; game after several weeks activity, Lovetere could stand iti (sland, did some fine late season no longer. . know why he wasn’t playing and. when he's really going to fake a swing at you?” the coach said. Lovetere. reason for why I wasn't playing./ McNullen at‘third bese. threatened him, but all he told me: Spring, will make another try at was » way this dark curly-haired ' bugging, so I told him.” Young Ideas By DICK YOUNG | LOS ANGELES (NY. News)— Par This will-slay you. The Dodgers are looking for a pitcher, Buzzy Bavasi, vice president in charge of Dodger needs and deals, . | statea in a look-ahead chat, that 'he considérs such an addition his | orimary purpose during the long winter of negotiations. 4 need = another = starting pitcher; | know that,” he said. “That will be the enly major change we will make.” 1) caWt teN now If he witt came from eur system, or in a deal with another club, but | know we'll - get one” This from’ ‘the bossman of the had scouted him.” In’ the Rams condition they would have taken anybody and Lovetree says he was: able to stick, “only because I got a few breaks and I guess I was! hungry.” , He didn’t just make it in the dros. He was the team’s rookie; with three pitchers," said Bavasl, of the year and earned the MVP| “put you have to go into a pen- defensive awards in 1960 and '61.! nant race with four solid’ starters.” In 1960, he personally blocked tive | Last wigter, the Dodgers {Changed their No. 4 starter. They traded Stan .Williams to the Yankees four runs in four World Series games, record. But when Harland Svare! the Mets, / Miller did well as a Spot starter pius reliever but now is regarded more as a reliever— the “long man” who can give three or four innings and do it two or ys at a time. . * « @ began. . Pre-Season Injury The tackle was hurt in a gre- played against the: “t hurt my ankle, but kept on! Failing to come up with the deal playing and I had @ bad garie,"| they want, the Dodgers will try to said John, “and I never did play; develop the new starter from again.” ; among their own youngsters, Out- : ti erst of what | Standing candidates named by neers, tre two “One te told. by Bavasi are Pete Richert, Nick or in-| Richert,~. lefty from Long’ work after coming back from the Spokane farm. Wilhite had a mid-season shot with the big club, but wasn't quite ready end wound up back in PCL. Moeller and Ortega both showed well at' Spokane. New Reliever, Too It is likely that Baevasi will attempt to find another relief pitcher to back up Ron Pers ranoski, No. 1 finisher in the National League. The Dodgers also will give twa young infielders shots at jobs. said| Bart Shirley, a good gloveman, “I just never got a) will compete with. incumbent Ken Peewee know he told the coaches I Oliver, who failed to stick Jest Svare came glong the alsle and Johany blocked it with his bulk, He is the kind of man whose bi- ceps are larger than most peoples thigha. He wanted to threatened to poke the coach. “You know how a guy looks “Well, that's the way this guy ooked.* “I never threatened him,’ to get off my chest what was/ the age-old effort to move Junior Gilliam off second bese—and he'd better be better than good. “I admire Gilliam from all Draws Fire team that has just given the]. “You can ‘win a World Sertes |. The Tuesday following the inci- dent when ali pro teams get to~| euéles,” said. Walt Alston. ” gether for the first time after »| Dodger manager meant as a play~ game, Svare told Lovetere he was|¢% 99 as & person. being fined $250. “Everything was all right until take care of the whole thing | that Tuesday,” said John, “but 1 The “In the 12 years I had him, here and at Montreal, henever complained or moaned to me. When you play him, he does @ helluva job; when needed the money to live,| Suess I hurt his feelings and hef ey didn't, They probably had a delayed reaction, He said i Yd stay on without it, but nothing to me on the plane about ldn’t, Y couldn't afford to|{t and what I couldn't understand i. route.” . | was if he didn’t blame me for how I felt, why should he fine me? I must be the first one in the league you don't play him, he never com- plains.” - . Lee To Got That's about it for the future of the world's champs at the moment , that time Lovetere had —except for one thing. ned fia wife and five- th-old daughter Dentee, back of folks In Tennecesee. He d them and took a job in a mill as a laborer. Johnny the opportunity, ; wondered at first how the new-/ on fire vas making about $1.10 an| comer would fit in with Mo, Sam | think to be fined for wanting to play.” year managed at Spokene, prob- He Fits in OK The Giants have been giving They and did it for three weeks| Huff, Jim Katcevage and Andy uy father-in-law helping out | Robustelli on the defense in the the Rams got in touch with| Place of Grier. + come for a tryout,” John] are not wondering any more. here was this inexperienced! meaning the Rams, who had played only at{ guy for himself, aunt High in Los Angeles{s hen in the Army at Fort|it is to win. Over there I never vell, Ky, where the Ramsl knew it.” Apparently they “Over there,” said Johnny, “it was each Here you don’t tand alane. Here you know what ably wil) be moved up to replace Leo Durocher’ as Dodger coach. And Leo? He'll set the world me place. If you don’t , just ask him, : - A Sad Game A friend of ours, after watch- ing Alabama murder Tennes- see last Saturday at Legion Field, commented: “That was such a sad game even the seats were in tiers.” y 0-2 t008 by The Cohnge Theme, Mets H By DAVID CONDON (Chicago Tribune Press Service) CHICAGO — Whenever Casey Stengel does decide to retire the New York Mets hope to summon back Gil Hodges. Gil, now doing penance as manager of the Wash- ington Senators, is one of the most popular athletes ever to perform in the New York area, He is an Indiana boy, though, and at- fended St. Joseph College. Charles Callahan, Notre Dame Sports publicity director, says there is one thing about his oraft —It is a stepping stone to bigger jobs. commissioner of the National Football League,” itlustrates Cal- lahan. “Rozelle was in charge of sports publicity with the Univer- sity of San Francisco when Joe Kuharich had that great football team out there. Look at Ford Frick, the ezar of baseball. Be- sides his sports writing career, Frick had a stretch doing public. ity for the National League. And Walter Kennedy, the director right here at Notre Dame.” : as their coach for 10647 Warning Te Basebatl ning the only game in town. The gers and Yankees, was on free home TV .. . But 60,264 paid to see Minnesota engage Army's football forces. A respectable 5!,- 862 saw the Northwestern and Illinois duel, Michigan and Navy drew 55,877, and down in Bloom- ington, Ind., they pecked in an unprecedented 42,298. Apparently there are several hundreds of thousande of sports fans who can get along without the World Series. They proved it again by jamming the pre football arenas, And we wonder what rating service will tell us which drew the greater audience in areas where both pro football and the World Series were on television? Finley Gaining Favor There. seems to be increasing sentiment In favor of Charlie |; Finley's proposal to open the World Series on a week-end, to play some of the games at night. Dodger owner Waller O'Malley endorses this idea, O'Malley smells more money. “Go in an’ hit ’em with the same like to come up with Y . A. Tittle |a fan fo . World Series, matching the Dod- | | y! Theyti mever dream anybody would be that stupid!” ope To Land Hodges When Casey Does Retire Yankees and obtained Miller from . s it certainty would be a break for the fane and the achoot kids who can't take off on week-day afternoons. And it ie about time baseball began’ doing a@ title more for the fans. World Series time, you eee ab-. solute disdan for the fan whe SUpprote the team during the . tegutar season, The poor sucker, and his ticket Money,’ are welcome at the box office from opening day untit closing day. But who ends up with the World Series tickets? business executives, of others with clout, get the tick- ets; and you can bet that more than half of them haven't been in the ball park Series, “Half the folks who buy World Series tickets have no more in- terest in baseball than in the Moscow ballet. But it is prestige to be able to come up with tickets and to be seen in the arena. At... e . The. . the moviewer “Look. at Pete Rozelle, Stars, the politicians, and an army_ - cle since the last World _ Meanwhile, the sucker fan has: to settle for television. Or maybe, Wouldn't the San Francisco 49ers | perhaps, baseball may have lost The baseball Jeaders, in their blindness, figure that the answer If baseball's deep thinkers took | to attendance slumps is the traa- lime to scan the sports news, they | sfer of a franchise. That’s redicu- might have been shocked into the |lous. Give the fans a better break, realization that they aren't run- | and they'll get them back. DIXIELAND! 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