Word: semipros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stain of Shamateurism. The Killy case evoked memories of Jim Thorpe, who won the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics, then was forced to give back his medals because he had once accepted a few dollars to play semipro baseball. And it illustrated how deeply the hypocrisy of "shamateurism" stains the fabric of sport. If Killy did accept money for a story, is he any less an amateur than the tennis star who collects under-the-table payments from promoters? Or the basketball ace who gets discounts from the" stores and restaurants in his college town? And how about...
...professional beats weren't hard to single cut. The Devils Disciples, blood-brother to the Hells Angels and the fighting arm of Boston hippy-power, had staked out their turf next to their mounts and squatted on the ground shining their Nazi helmets. Up near the Weeks bridge, a semipro combo formed the nucleus for what became an ever increasing circle of sound. There was a full set of skins, bongos, congos, a bass, sax, and crazy flutist...
Time to Turn Loose. When he challenged former Governor Val Peterson in the G.O.P. primary last May, Tiemann-a former semipro baseball player-was determined to change all that. After a punishing campaign involving 600 appearances and 65,000 miles of travel, he beat Peterson by 15,000 votes. "We paced him just right," says Tiemann's campaign manager, David Pierson. "When election day came, we figured he was just about 14 hours away from total collapse." In the general election, Tiemann walloped liberal Democratic Lieutenant Governor Philip Sorensen, younger brother of ex-Presidential Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, by more...
AFTER quitting school in the eighth grade and bouncing around as a stunt pilot, semipro baseball player and riveter, Thomas Elliott Millsop landed a salesman's job at Weirton Steel in 1927. His first week there he astounded everyone by writing a $1,000,000 order. This persuasive salesman is now the chairman of Weirton's parent, National Steel, and has built it into the nation's fourth largest steelmaker, with 1963 sales of $846 million. Last week he announced that National will build the world's first mill containing all three of the industry...
Kinasewich, a former Canadian semipro star whose eligibility was argued up and down the Eastern College Athletic Conference two years ago, was one of two unanimous selections. Brown's sophomore defenseman Bob Gaudreau also received the maximum 50 points. A first-place vote counted ten points and a second-team vote five; no coach was allowed to vote for a player from his own team...