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GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS MAGAZINE
Clay's Draft Board
Thinks He’s Capable
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Writer
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI) —
There’s a red, white and blue
sign outside Cassius Clay's local
draft board which carries a
rather ironic message.
It says:
"Join the U.S. action army—if
you’re good enough.”
Inside the red brick, five
story building which looks more
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doing, he said.
Commander Ragsdale and his
family are in Griffin this week
visiting relatives and frienas.
He is the son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Homer C. Ragsdale, Sr. of
Griffin. He has two sisters liv
ing in Griffin, Mrs. Lucille Sea
graves and Mrs. Phil Johnson.
The Commander was born and
raised in Griffin. He played
football at Spalding High School
where he graduated. He enter
ed the Navy 24 years ago from
Griffin.
He is on his way to Norfolk,
Va., where he has been assig
ned as Executive Officer on the
USS Chilton, an attack transport,
which is a part of the Navy’s
amphibious force. The ship will
leave Norfolk soon on a summer
tour of the Mediterranean.
Commander and Mrs. Rags
dale are the parents of eight
children, Suzanne, 20, Chip, 18,
Robert 16, Kathy, 15, Harry, 12,
Randy, 8, Emily, 6 and Caro
line, 5
The commander said he has
no plans of retiring from the
Navy in the near luture even
though he has enough credits.
“A man has to work some
where,” he said.
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THE FUN-FILLED Bill Bradley era at Princeton has spawned a new era for the Ivy
League, generally, and Princeton coach Bill Van Breda Kolff (left) in particular. The
Tigers, with players like sophomore Chris Thomforde, and other Ivy teams now are
in demand.
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like a public school than a
headquarters for Selective Ser
vice, one particular man has
good reason to agree war Is
hell.
So is his job, which incidental
ly doesn’t net him a nickel.
J. Allen Sherman is the
chairman of Local Draft Board
47. He has sat as a member of
that board for the past 20 years
and by his own say-so “no other
case has ever come close” to
causing the kind of furor that
Clay’s already has.
Sherman, a 52-year-old prac
ticing attorney who smokes a
pipe, wears blue botton-down
collar type shirts and thinks
Clay is “very able and very
capable” in the ring, also has
an opinion of him outside it.
Why Not Clay?
“From time to time, I hear
such comments as ‘My boy or
my nephew is going in, so why
can’t Cassius Clay?”’ said
Sherman.
“How do I feel about it
personally? I agree with them. ’
Ever since Clay began
appealing his 1-A classification
a year ago, Sherman has been
receiving letters and phone calls
pertaining to the case from
outsiders.
“The great majority of the
mail is favorable,” he pointed
out “I’d say the letters were
about 100 to 1 agreeing with us.
Some of the phone calls are
rather humorous. One guy
called and said, ‘Send Clay over
there and he’ll talk ’em to
death.’ "
On Thursday, Sherman sat
down with the three other
members of Local Draft Board
47, M. M. Dilley, a rail supply
manufacturer; Frank J. Wolk
ing, a realtor, and Robert
Ritter, an automotive repair
man, and reconsidered Clay’s
case.
They reconsidered it because
Selective Service Director Oen.
Lewis Hershey ordered them to
and when they were through
reconsidering after 45 minutes,
they rejected Clay’s request for
a ministerial deferment and
ruled he still was 1-A.
Fulltime For Allah
"It is our opinion that he is
not a full-time minister,” said
Sherman, after emerging from
the room where the board met.
"We go by the regulation and
the regulation is that such a
registrant (as ciay claims to
be) should be duly ordained as
a minister in a particular faith;
that he regularly preach or
conduct religious services and
ceremonies as his full-time
occupation or be a graduate of
divinity school. He isn’t or
doesn’t do any of these things.”
Sherman has seen Clay fight
several times as an amateur
but only once as a professional
and that was in his first paid
bout. He also has spoken to the
champion when he came before
the board here.
“He conducted himself very
well when I spoke with him,”
Sherman racalled. "He acted
like a gentleman.”
Local Draft Board 47 general
ly meets at least once a month
and every time it has for the
past six months, Clay's case
has been discussed.
But there are others, too.
"I get a laugh when people
tell me what a good job I have
with the draft board,” Sherman
said. “They think it pays a
great salary when, of course,
there’s no compensation at all.”
‘‘That’s right," put in Dilley,
one of the other board
members. “We don’t even get a
dime for the parking meter.”
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will coach the Detroit lions because while owner Bill Ford
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Shula, coach of the Baltimore Colts, about the
being a head man. o o •
Johnny McHale, general manager of the Atlanta
Braves and an old center at Notre Dame in the early
Leahy era, made the scene at the NFL club Players because Golf he
tournament at the Hollywood Beach
could swap reminiscences with his old college roommate
All-American halfback Creighton Miller, who’s the legal
adviser to the players association. McHale also has a
family stake in football, since his oldest son, a fine high
school fullback, is being wooed by 37 different colleges
with scholarship offers. ...
Look for Pete Retzlaff, the veteran all-pro tight end of the
Eagles, to announce his retirement shortly. . is . Bob . Brown,
The most awesome man in football now
the huge offensive tackle of the Eagles. During the Play
off Bowl, Dale Memmelaar, a reserve lineman for the
Baltimore Colts, was goading Brown from the sidelines.
Brown pointed a finger at him. “What’s that?” yelled
Memmelaar, “Your IQ?”. . . . Brown ran over to the
Colt bench and coach Don Shula, implored, “Please,
coach, put that No. 67 in the game.” . . . and fools
Brown, whose weight occasionally fluctuates between and already 290 has 315, pressed
around with weights
412 pounds, not too far off the world record. . . .
Before the next football season, there’ll be the greatest
wholesale trading of quarterbacks in history. Almost
cinches to wear new uniforms are Gary Cuozzo Los of
Baltimore, Milt Plum of Detroit, Bill Munson of
Angeles, George'Mira of San Francisco, Ron Vander
Kelen of Minnesota and Norm Snead of Philadelphia,
with Charley Johnson of decides St. Louis another after Cuozzo. possibility
if coach Charley Winner to go . • •
11 ig public relations trouble brewing in the Miami Dolphin
franchise, since President Joe Robbie has decided to take on
one of the local newspapers which has blasted his adminis
tration of team affairs. Could become serious enough to con
cern the league and even the commissioner. . . .
This happened after the Dallas Cowboys clinched the
Eastern Division title of the NFL and were flying home
as chr.jnpions for the first puckish time in millionaire their short history.
Clin Murchison, their owner,
grabbed the plane’s loudspeaker system as it circled
the airport prior to the landing approach. “Gentlemen,”
he intoned, “you are now approaching Dallas, former
home of the Kansas City Chiefs.” (The Chiefs, of course,
used to be the Dallas Texans, owned by Clint’s million
aire rival, Lamar Hunt.) . . .
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