A Roundup Of The Sports Information Of The Week

BASEBALL—LOUISVILLE COLONELS defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4 games to 2 in the American Association's junior world series. In the first game Louisville's center-fielder MACK JONES drove in four runs with a single and an inside-the-park homer for a 4-1 victory. Toronto came back in the second game with 16 hits for a 10-1 victory, won the third game 6-2. In the fourth game Louisville evened the series 2-2 with an llth-inning victory, followed with a 4-0 shutout in the fifth game, then clinched the series with a 5-1 victory after FRANK TORRE's two-run, sixth-inning homer.

BASKETBALL—NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION granted franchises to CHICAGO and PITTSBURGH beginning with the 1961-62 season. The players for the two new teams will come from college graduates plus the other teams: the eight present teams will be allowed to keep their top seven players, the rest will be subject to draft next April by the new clubs. The NBA's board of governors also voted to boost team squads from 10 to 12 players until December 12, after which they will be limited to 11 players.

BOATING—BILL MUNCEY, driving Seattle's Miss Thriftway, won the Governor's Cup and clinched the national unlimited high point hydroplane championship at Madison, Ind. BUDDY BYERS of Columbus, Ohio, driving Miss DeSoto, won the seven-liter (next fastest to the unlimiteds) world championship at Madison, sanctioned for the first time in the U.S. by the International Motorboating Union.

BOWLING—RAY BLUTH of St. Louis, runner-up for the last two years, won the Southern Match Game championship at. Nashville, Tenn. Bluth took 28 games and lost only eight in the 36-game round-robin match finals for 187.06 Petersen points and toppled 7,956 pins. Second was Joe Joseph of Lansing, Mich., with 186.19 Petersen points and 8,094 pins.

BOXING—JOE BROWN, world lightweight champion, knocked out Raymundo (Battling) Torres of Mexico in the fourth round of a nontitle bout at Houston.

Len Matthews, three-round KO over Kenny Lane, lightweights, Los Angeles.

Vince Martinez, 10-round decision over Basil Campbell of Kingston, Jamaica, welter-weights, Miami Beach.

Floyd Patterson, after successful exhibitions in Sweden and England (see page 20), found Germany unrewarding. In first exhibition at Oldenburg, only 150 showed up in hall seating 5,000. Patterson received little more response in other cities throughout Germany. In Ketsch, near Heidelberg, where 20,000 American Army and civilian personnel live, only 100 turned out. Said a disappointed Patterson, "Maybe I'll come back (to Germany) for a vacation instead of doing exhibitions where nobody comes."

FISHING—CLUB MIRAMAR of Santurce, P.R., edged out Cat Cay Club of the Bahamas by less than seven pounds of blue marlin in four-day international game fish tournament at San Juan, P.R.

GOLF—BILL CASPER JR. of Apple Valley, Calif., won the $20,000 Hesperia ( Calif.) Open with a 13-under-par 275 for 72 holes. Runner-up: Bob Rosburg of Overland Park, Kans., with 280.