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Philadelphia-Towering Wilt Chamberlain signed a one year. contraot with the,Phil
adelphia Warriors professional basketball team at an un-announced salar but.be
lieved to be in excess of 130*000, described as the highest ever paid a player in
the National. Basketball Association*
; The giant 7-foot, 2-inch produot of tho Philadelphia high sohool basketball
courts who won All-Amerioa fame at the University of Kansas, and Warriors* mana
• 5©r Eddie Gottlieb declined to name any salary figure* .
The fabulous Ohomberlain come to the Warriors by way of the Harlem Gleb ©trott
ers and Kansas as the climax of a draft right exeroised by Gottlieb several ;years
* back#- The Warriors selected Chamber lain long before his oolloge play underrate
rritorial-rigl^t, rulo then in the NBA books# ; -
r. Chamberlain loft Kansas at the end of his junior year - and was a member of the
Globetrotters last season reportedly earning between $40,Q00 .and $65,000f ■/'
Philadelphia-—-Carmen.Basilio and Qene
(Fullmer scoffed at Sugar Ray Robinsons
announoanont that ho was signed to de«*
fSnd the world middleweight champion
ship against Basilio here Sept. 21.
Former champ Basilic, who says all
he knows of the proposed deal is what
he reads in the papers, said in Syra
cuse, N.Y., that the terms outlined
wsound like one of Robinson’s deals.”
iind Marv Jenson, manage? of Fullmer
insisted his fighter and Basilio are
signed to moot for Robinson’s vacated
title in Syracuse, sometime in July.
The NBA clipped Robinson’s wings
for * failure to defend since winning
his. title back from Basilio .in Chicago
I on March 25,- .1958, • Robinson remains
champion •• in., the eyes pf the .'.New York.
Athletic. ’Commission,: but that group is
ready to crack down top.
Dr., Word-Wylie, NBA president, said
later that he would recommend that the
NBA executive committee reinstate Rob-*
inson.as world champion for the title
defense.
BASEBALL STANDINGS—- .
AMERICAN LSj&UB ' •
"v" W L PCT
Cleveland 16 9, *640
Chioago 15 11 #57?
Baltimore 15 12 #556
Washington 16 14 *517
Boston It. .13 4-...#480
New York ll 14 .440
Kansas City 11 14 .440
Detroit 9 17 .346
j .Stop up,—.Wayne Hardin, Havyl.s fcaokr
fiold opaoh for four years, has
! named; head football, ooaoh at Annapolis*
!.•••. Ho sucoeds Eddie Brdolatz,'whq’“resigho<3
| reoonfcly* •
i.
. I NATIONAL IMltm.
w
Los Angelos *■ 16
Milwaukee 15
Cincinnati 14
Son Franoisoo 14
Chioago 15
Pittsburgh 12
Philadelphia 11
8t. Louis 10
L PCT.
12 .. .600
10 '■. .600
12 .538
13 .519
15 .500
14 .462
15 .440
18 .357