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Walt Frazier led the Knicks with 37 points, 15 in the fourth period, with Dave DeBusschere and rookie John Gianelli helping out with key scores...
...copycat ashamed to be found out? Not a bit. The American went right on pinching the Republic's box scores, even enlivening them with unrepentant asides to Frank Gianelli, stuffed in just above the pitchers' names: (STILL
...Frank Gianelli, sports editor of Phoenix's biggest daily, the morning Arizona Republic (circ. 148,645), loves his job but can't stand copycats. There was a copycat in town too: Phoenix's youngest daily, the seven-month-old Evening American (26,000). Gianelli noticed that whenever the Republic printed the box score of a game between big-league baseball teams now spring-training in sunny Arizona, so did the American-same box score, same head, same type, same everything...
...paper had to do was cut out a Republic box score, paste it up on a dummy of its own sports page and then photograph and engrave the whole page. A very useful trick for a small, struggling daily without much money to spend. But the Republic's Gianelli decided to fix the American's wagon. So into one box score he inserted a damning phrase-REPRINTED FROM REPUBLIC. Sure enough, it came out that way in the American that same afternoon...
...Crimson team will once more have to contend with Phil Tarasovic, when the rugby squad faces the New York Rugby Club today at Soldier's Field. Tarasovic, who put fullback Tony Gianelli out of action in the '55 Harvard-Yale football game, will start for New York as a scrum hooker. He now weighs in at 240 pounds and should provide considerable power in New York's forward line...