ProbeRs MO Call Not Dal (Continued from page 2) the act of some individual or individuals in involving certain players by unattributable comment te news media representatives is totally irresponsible." Then Rozelle added: "More than a year ago, during the 1968 season, rumors were circulated regarding Dawson At that time, Dawson and his attorney cOoperated fully with our office and Dawson volunteered to take a polygraph (lie detector) examination to establish his innocence in regard to the rumors. The test and our independent investi- Karl Bill Sweeten Munson gation proved to our satisfaction that the rumors were I cooperated with federal investigative agency (FBI) throughout the course of that investigation in accordance with our long-standing policy. "WHILE THE ENTIRE matter (current) has been under investigation by our security department for several days, we have no evidence to even consider dis- Pete Lammons Named in news report ciplinary action against any of those publicly named." Records in ex-FBI agent Jack Danahy's missioner's office department show in that the more com- SUPER BOWL Kansas City games have been "off the books" (meaning no bet- NEW ORLEANS JAN.1 ting line) than any other club in recent years. A partial reasor. for this was that Dawson missed six games, all this year, due to a knee injury which five of six specialists said should be operated upon immediately.
Only the Chiefs' winning their way into the Super Bowl as AFL champs has delayed the surgery. JET COACH Weeb Ewbank, reached at his home in Eastchester, said that the disclosure of the names of Namath and tight end Lammons of the Jets was a surprise to him. Has Faith in Two "I don't believe my kids did anything wrong," he said. "I'm on the sidelines with them all the time. "I suppose that some gambler could have used their names and the players are being asked to provide information.
It's just like if a gambler called me and I answered the phone. I wouldn't know who it was and then if it came out that we had talked, then I probably would be asked to supply information." Ewbank leaves for New Orleans, site of the Super Bowl, this morning, and doubtless will be in touch with Rozelle concerning the naming of his two players in the gambling probe. Dizzy Dean, Hall of Fame pitcher, was first brought into the gambling probe New Year's Day in Las Vegas. It was revealed in Biloxi, that an affidavit filed there alleged that Dean "placed bets in a total of $6,000 for millionaire Howard Sober with three men known as Sammy, PJ and Wimpy at the 406 Club" in Biloxi. THE DISCLOSURE of the affidavit was the latest development in the cracking of an alleged nationwide betting ring New Year's day by Internal Revenue Service agents and other federal authorities in the Detroit area, Lansing, Neyada, New York and Mississippi.
James H. Brickley, U.S. attorney for eastern Michigan has said that the operation may have grossed "in the millions of dollars" and could involve prominent sports figures in football, baseball and horse racing. Among 14 persons arrested in LEN DAWSON 8 Chiefs' Len Dawson the case were Peter J. (PJ) Martino, 47, his brother, Warren L.
Martino, 44, and Salvatore (Sammie) J. Sicuro, 64, all of Biloxi. Their arrests were based partly on information supplied by Dean, who has been "very helpful" in the investigation, Brickley said. Dean was searched but not arrested-in his Las Vegas hotel room New Year's Day, and friend of his was taken into custody. Dean and Howard Sober were partners in a Lansing golf tournament last year and Dean has been a guest at Sober's home on at least one other occasion.
Ole Miss' Manning Gets Camp Honor Washington, Jan. 6 (UPI) Archie Manning, the junior quarterback who guided Mississippi to victories over four nationally-ranked teams the past season and a conquest of Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day, today was named Touchdown Club's Walter Camp Memorial Award as the outstanding college back of 1969. Dawson: Not Notified, By Larry Fox Len Dawson held a press conference at 11 p.m. last night and read a formal statement to about 40 reporters in Suite 61 of the Fountainbleu Hotel in St. Louis, Kansas City's Super Bowl quarters.
"Gentlemen: My name has been mentioned in regard to an investigation being conducted by the Justice Department. "I HAVE NOT BEEN contacted by any law enforcement agency nor been appraised of the reason that my name has been brought up. "The only reason I can think of is that I have a casual acquaintanceship with Mr. Don Dawson of Detroit, who has been charged in the investigation. Mr.
Dawson is not a relative of mine. I HAVE KNOWN Mr. Dawson fer about 10 years and have talked with him on several occasions. only conversations with him in recent years concerned my knee injury and the death of my father. On these occasions he contacted me to offer his sympathy.
His calls were among the many that I received. "Gentlemen this is all I have to DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY a Super Bowl casualty. KC linebacker Bobby Bell suffered hyper-extended knee against Oakland, but he'll play. If Robinson and Marsalis are definitely scratched for Sunday, Chiefs probably will reactivate Caesar Belser, whom they dropped because of a flu attack last week. He's a defensive back.
KC coaches have devised their game plan and players will get a look at it tomorrow. Chiefs asked for films of Vikings' two playoff victories, plus their 27-0 rout of Lions in regular season. "The Lions do some of the things on defense that we do, and we wanted to see how the Vikings reacted," Stram explained. "They're similar to Green Bay in appearance and I personality except that the Packers play more man-to-man pass defense, and the Vikings use more zone," Stram said. Stram said Joe Kapp's predilection for the bootleg makes him different from any quarterback 1 tin the AFL.
and dixie art sot JOE KAPP UPI and Joe Kapp of Vikings are starting pitchers. Bad Ankle Won't Halt Vikes Warwick By Norm Miller New Orleans, Jan. 6-Back coal mine country, they said amount to much. They said he kid who couldn't get serious and even then, he wound up a On Sunday, Lonnie will strap up his gimpy left ankle and call defensive signals for the Vikings in the Super Bowl, because no matter how much it hurts, this is the biggest thing in his life, and he still has something to prove to those people who said he'd never amount to anything. WHILE WARWICK didn't go outside in the cold today with the rest of the Vikings for their loosening-up drill, he insisted, "I definitely feel I'll play Sunday; the ankle's OK." He twisted it this past Sunday in the second half of the NFL title win over the Browns.
Lonnie Warwick has lived the legend of the Vikings, and it's remarkable how his own lifetime has followed the roughneck rise to fame of his ballclub. Ask Lonnie Warwick how the Vikings got to the top and he answers: "We fought. We scratched. We took poundings. We had fights.
We lost our ten.per with other teams. We hit after the whistle. We drew penalties. "IT ALL CHANGED after Bud Grant got here," he went on. "His is a different type of discipline from Norm Van Brocklin's.
As we matured, we saw the reason home the West Virginia Lonnie Warwick would never was a brawler, a drifter, a about anything but football, drop-out at two colleges. Telephoto why we had never been a good football team until now. "We knew we had to take care of ourselves. We've all grown up together." Lonnie Warwick, who came up the hard way, might have been talking about himself. At 10, his father was killed in an auto accident, leaving his widow to bring up Lonnie and three sisters.
As a high school kid in the dingy mining town of New Hope, W. he cleaned stores, on Sundays for $1.50 an hour, boxeed in the Golden Gloves, and got himself jailed twice for brawls around town. IN COLLEGE, more scrapes. He was asked to leave Tennessee for a variety of such reasons and, when he transferred to Tennessee Tech, he had to drop out because he was broke. He followed his girl friendnow his wife--to Douglas, and took a job as a grinder with Southern Pacific Railroad, and at age 22, during the spring of 1964, football was far from his thoughts when he suddenly got a few nibbles from pro clubs on the hunt for free agents.
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2N, 517 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 1970 Dawson said: say. I have told you everything I Dawson then was whisked away by Chiefs' coach, Hank Stram. THE CHIEFS apparently found out about the probe at 2 p.m. and discussed it during their team meeting at 3.
The players, however, were instructed not to discuss the incident. The press conference had been called for 8 p.m., but Dawson was still in conference with Stram and KC owner Lamar Hunt, who flew in during the evening, until 11 p.m. At the conference, Dawson, looking a little less than his usual cool and composed self, was accompanied only by Stram. GRID GRIST: Chiefs switched their practice facility today. Scheduled ball park wasn't secure enough.
Motorcycle and car in the chief's police escort to their first workout collided band the cyclist burt his leg; First.
