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Bear Experimenting
Don’t Be Fooled
By Alabama Score
By DAVID M. MOFFIT
VP I Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPD—Don’t let
• that score of the Alabama-
Virginia Tech game fool you.
As soon as his young offense
finds its footing, Bear Bryant’s
• Crimson Tide is going to be a
• powerhouse again.
Alabama beat Virginia Tech
only 14-7 Saturday night. But
the Bear was experimenting at
> quarterback and his defense
may be the best In Dixie.
The Gobblers got their touch
down on a blocked punt. The
, rest of the game they gained a
total of only 48 yards (losing 20
In the rushing department)
and earned only three first
' downs.
Bryant started with senior
quarterback Joe Kelley, just
like he promised. When It be
came obvious that Kelley could
• not get the Tide rolling, he
brought In red - shirted sopho
more Scott Hunter and Hunter
teamed with sophomore end
, George Ranager for two touch
down passes in a two-minute
span of the second period.
SEC Entry Delayed
Alabama has another week In
which to hone its offense before
going after the Southeastern
Conference crown. This coming
. Saturday the Tide will be at
' Mobile against independent
Southern Mississippi which post
ed an unimpressive 27-12 vic
tory over Southeast Louisiana.
• All those people who conceded
Florida the SEC title on he
NamathSharesSpotlight
With Ex-Bama Star
By GARY KALE
UPI Sports Writer
Joe Namath doesn't mind
sharing the headlines with Paul
Crane so long as it's kept in the
family.
Both are products of the
University of Alabama and they
returned to Birmingham Sunday
for their first regular season
game as pros.
Namath is an established star
with a golden arm worth
millions to the New York Jets.
Crane, Namath's teammate on
Crimson Tide squads in 1963-64
and an All-America center in
1965, has languished among the
second-string defensive backs
since turning pro.
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basis of the Gators’ relatively
weak league schedule are not
quite so confident today after
the Gators had to come from
behind to take a 23-20 win over
the Air Force—* three-touch
down underdog.
“I’m afraid that game may
have shown we were overrat
ed," moaned Gator coach Ray
Graves. “It indicates that we’re
not going to have as easy a
time of it as a lot of people
seemed to think.”
There were a lot of surprises
in the Southeast this past week
end. Kentucky upset Missouri
12- Louisiana State had to
come from behind in the closing
minutes to edge Texas A & M
13- Auburn was upset by
Southern Methodist 37 - 28 and
Mississippi State was upset by
Louisiana Tech 20-13.
Weekend Results
In other action, Miami (Fla.)
beat Northwestern 28-7, Missis
sippi beat Memphis State 21-7,
Vanderbilt beat Virginia Mili
tary 27-12, Georgia Tech beat
Texas Christian 17-7, Florida
State beat Maryland 24-14, Chat
tanooga beat Austin Peoy 41-13
and Tampa beat Santa Barbara
18-7.
Sophomore Archie Manning
proved Ole Miss coach Johnny
Vaught was right on target as
a prophet when he said Man
ning was the finest quarterback
prospect he’d ever had. Man
ning threw two touchdown pass,
es and scored once himself as
the Rebels avenged last year’s
Crane staged the key defen
sive move of the game and 1
knocked the Boston Patriots out 1
of the unbeaten list when he 1
blocked a Bob Scarpitto punt in 1
the third period with the Jets’ 1
leading by a slim 20-17 score. !
The Jets capitalized on the
break and went on to defeat the <
Pats, 47-31, for the undisputed ’
lead in the American Football J
League’s Eastern Division. 1
Cincinnati and Kansas Cilj
each won their second games of ;
the season as the Bengals 1
defeated Buffalo, 34-23, and the. 1
Chiefs routed Denver, 34-2.
Turner Set Record
Which Way Will
Packers Bounce?
By FRED DOWN
UPI Sports Writer
Which way will the Green Bay
Packers bounce?
That's the question raised in
the National Football League .
today after the Minnesota
Vikings’ upset 26-13 victory over '
the world champions Sunday.
Did that triumph demonstrate
that the Packers have become
just another football team? Or ,
does it merely mean that the '
Packers are starting slowly this .
season as they did in 1967 and ,
still retain the championship (
touch?
One fact is clear—the Vikings ,
beat the Packers at their own ,
game, retaining tight ball
control, intercepting two passes
and making the clutch first- :
down plays.
Joe Kapp guided the Viking >
victory with his short pinpoint 1
passes and twice sent Bill !
1
27-17 loss—the only time Mem
phis State ever beat Ole Miss
in 23 tries.
Dicky Lyons began defense of
his SEC scoring title Saturday
by scoring both of Kentucky’s
touchdowns in the upset of Mis
souri. Florida’s Larry Smith,
the South’s premier all-America
candidate, ran for 109 yards
and two touchdowns against the
Air Force.
Quarterback Larry Good of
Georgia Tech completed 18 of
25 passes for 214 yards and
quarterback David Olivo of Mi
ami threw three touchdown
passes as the Hurricanes
avenged last year’s 12-7 opening
loss to their Big Ten visitors.
But the top performance with
in the region was turned in by
visiting Chuck Hixson — SMU’s
sophomore quarterback. Hixson
completed 27 of 48 passes for
283 yards and three touchdowns
and ran for two more touch
downs as the Mustangs scored
more points than any Auburn
foe since 1962.
This coming weekend, in ad
dition to the Alabama-Southern
Miss game, Mississippi State
plays Auburn and Ole Miss
plays Kentucky in a day-nlght
twin bill in Jackson, Miss., Flo
rida is at Florida State, Geor
gia hosts Clemson, LSU is at
Rice, Tennessee hosts Memphis
State, Vanderbilt is at Army,
Georgia Tech hosts Miami and
Tulane hosts Texas A & M.
Namath threw touchdown
passes of 39 yards to Don
Maynard and 31 to Pete
Lammons, and Jim Turner
kicked a club record four goals
from the 30, 48 and twice from
27 yards out.
The New York defense
chipped in with another gem
when Randy Beverly ran back a
Mike Taliaferro pass 686 yards
for the game’s opening score.
Taliaferro clicked on a 70-
yard pass to Amos Marsh in
retaliation and Mel Witt inter
cepted a Namath pass four
yards away from the Jets’ goal
line and ran it over.
Brown over the goal line on
short runs as Minnesota built a
16-0 halftime lead. Bart Starr
scored on a 10-yard rollout
climaxing a 66-yard drive early
in tlie third period but the
Vikings struck right back with
an 83-yard march to take a 23-6
lead that clinched the contest.
Viking* Leading Division
The victory was the Vikings’
second straight and gave them
sole possession of first place in
the Central Division of the NFL.
The Packers are tied at 1-1 with
the Detroit Lions, whom they
play next week. The Lions
routed the Chicago Bears, 42-0,
Sunday.
The Los Angeles Rams and
Baltimore Colts remained un
beaten and tied for first place
in the Coastal Division, the
Rams by routing the Pittsburgh
Steelers, 45-10, and the Colts by
beating the Atlanta Falcons, 28-
20.
Roman Gabriel threw touch
down passes of five and 55
yards to Bernie Casey and 28
and one yard to Dick Bass in a
game that was close until the
middle of the second period.
Then the Rams broke loose to
take a 31-10 halftime lead and
rested Gabriel and their defen
sive front four for most of the
second half.
Morrall Scores Three
Earl Morrall, filling in for
injured Johnny Unitas for the
second straight game, threw
three touchdown passes in the
first half and set up a fourth
touchdown in the final period.
Morrall was intercepted three
times and fumbled away the
ball once in a somewhat erratic
performance, however, and the
Colts weren’t home free until an
84-yard Morrall-to-Jlmmy Orr
pass play set up a two-yard
touchdown plunge by Tom
Matte in the fourth period.
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EVEN CARDS HAVE “DOWNS”—St. Louis catcher Tim McCarver protests decision
of plate umpire Ed Sudol in recent game. Manager Red Schoendienst has come out to
(1) assist McCarver in his stand and (2) to lend a consoling word to Tim, so that he
won t get carried away—and carried out of the ball game.
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By United Press International
Nation a l League
W. L. Pct. GB
X-St. Louis 94 63 .599 ...
San Francisco 85 72 .541 9
Cincinnati 80 75 .516 13
Pittsburgh 78 77 .503 15
Chicago 79 78 .503 15
Atlanta 79 78 .503 15
Los Angeles 74 83 .471 20
Philadelphia 73 84 .465 21
New York 71 86 .452 23
Houston 70 87 .446 24
x-Clinched pennant
Sunday’s Results
Pittsburgh 5 Chicago 1
New York 5 Philadelphia 2
Houston 6 Cincinnati 1
San Francisco 10 Atlanta 2
Los Angeles 3 St. Louis 2
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EDT)
Cincinnati (Carrol 7-8 and
Culver 11-16) at Pittsburgh
(Veale 13-14 and Bunnlng 4-14),
6:05 p.m.
(Only games scheduled)
Tuesday’s Games
Los Angeles at Chicago
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, night
San Francisco at Houston, night
New York at Atlanta, night
Philadelphia at St. Louis, night
Am e rican League
W. L. Pct. GB
x-Detroit 101 55 .647 ...
Baltimore 89 68 .567
Boston 84 72 .538 17
Cleveland 83 73 .532 18
New York 80 76 .513 21
Oakland 78 78 .500 23
Minnesota 75 81 .481 26
California 66 90 .423 35
Chicago 64 92 .419 37
Washington 60 95 .387
x-Clinched pennant
Sunday’s Results
Washington 6 Detroit 0
Boston 5 New York 1
Cleveland 2 California 1
Minnesota 2 Oakland 1
Baltimore 3 Chicago 0
Today’s Probable Pitch e rs
Ail Times EDT)
Chicago (Fisher 8-11) at
Oakland (Nash 12-12), 11 p.m.
Minnesota (Chance 15-15) at
California (Wright 10-5), 11 p.m.
Boston (Morehead 1-4) at
Washington (Moore 3-5), 8 p.m.
Detroit (McLain 31-5) at
Baltimore (Nelson 3-2), 8 p.m.
(Only games scheduled)
Tuesday’s Games
Cleveland at N.Y. 2, twi-night
Detroit at Baltimore, night
Boston at Washington, night
Minnesota at California, night
Chicago at Oakland, night
Atlanta Hawks
Cut 3 Rookies
ATLANTA (UPD—The Atlan
ta Hawks, who open a pre
season round of games Tues
day, have announced the first
squad cuts since their training
camp began two weeks ago.
Rookies Oscar Smith of Eliz
abeth (N.J.) City College, a col
lege draft choice, Charles
Thomas of Los Angeles State
College and Bill Sheridan of
Fordham University, both free
agents, were cut from the
squad.
The Hawks meet the Boston
Celtics in Salem, Va., Tuesday,
then play the Celtics Wednes
day In Kingsport, Tenn., and
meet the Chicago Bulls Thurs
day in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
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St Louis Cardinals
Are Champions of Old
By MURRAY OLDERMAN
NEA Sports Editor
Os the St. Louis Cardinals’
11 previous pennant-winning
ball clubs, the best probably
were the 1931 and 1942 teams
and the most colorful was the
1934 Gas House Gang. The
current Cardinals have char
acteristics of all three.
They’ve got the speed, de
fense and almost as much
pitching depth as the 1942 St.
Louis Swifties, the veteran
balance of the 1931 team which
included Pepper Martin,
Frank Frisch, Burleigh
Grimes, and much of the
personal charm and musical
depreciation of the Gas House
Gang, a collection of cut
throats who climaxed a Sep
tember ’34 run to the pennant
with a World. Series victory
over—coincidentally—the De
troit Tigers. On that team
were the Dean brothers, Joe
Medwick, Rip Collins, Leo
Durocher.
When St. Louis hoists a pen
nant, the National League’s
chances automatically im
prove in a World Series be
cause the Cardinals, once the
only N.L. standard-bearer that
could keep heads high in the
annual October battle for
baseball’s blue ribbon, have
prevailed in eight of 11 series.
Despite that Series tradi
tion, the Cardinals never have
put world championships back
to back.
So the R e d b 1 r d s of Red
Schoendienst now will have
an opportunity to meet a chal
lenge that first was presented
to them in an open letter of
congratulations shortly after
Bob Gibson had defeated the
Boston Red Sox a third time
last October.
Would the Cards permit
themselves to get fat in the
head and at the waist as well
as in the wallet?
That was the question,
which they’ve answered in a
Spalding Eight
Plays Tuesday
The Spalding Junior High eigh
th grade football team opens the
1968 season Tuesday when it
plays Babb Junior High of For
est Park at the Spalding Field.
The game will start at 4 p.m.
Spalding’s offensive lineup has
Charles Buckalew and Walter
Jones at end, Jamie Crawford
and Keith Tate or Mike Ed
wards at tackle, Darrell Chap
man and Robert Akins at guard,
Mark Beckham at center, Dar
rell Jones at quarterback, Cur
tis Jones at left half, Kenney
Hattaway at right half and Tony
Head at fullback.
The tentative defensive line
up has Mike Edwards and Tony
Head at end, Jamie Crawford
Dolphins Beat
Broncos, 21-0
The Dolphins beat the Bron
cos 21-0 and the Jets and Char
gers battled to a 6-6 tie Saturday
in the Pee Wee Football League.
Clay Rumph scored two touch
downs and an extra point for
the Dolphins and Danny Moore
scored one touchdown and two
extra points.
Andy Smith scored a touch
down for the Jets. Robin Calla
han scored for the Chargers.
CARD OF THANKS
Mrs. Opal Mangham wish
es to thank the many white
and colored friends, for the
kindness shown her during
the illness and death of her
brother, Charlie Roberts.
season marked by the con
sistency of the incredible Gib
son, who rounded the bend
into mid-September with an
earned run average lower
than the best dead-ball ERAs
of two old masters. Walter
Johnson and Grover Cleveland
Alexander.
Aided early by Steve Carl
ton, late by Ray Washburn
and most often by Nelson
Briles, a staff led by Gibson
shrugged off almost total loss
of Dick Hughes, who won 16
a year ago.
With lefthanded Joe Hoern
er the most reliable reliever,
this was indeed the deepest
staff in talent of any St. Louis
club since the ’42 club fea
tured the efficiency of Mort
Cooper, Johnny Beazley,
Ernie White, Max Lanier,
Howard Pollet, Harry Gum
bert, Howard Krist ahd Mur
ray Dickson.
The backbone of the 1942-
43-44-46 pennant winners was
the pitching staff and a fabu
lous outfield of Musial, Moore
and Slaughter. Marty Marion
at shortstop and Walker Coop
er, catcher, also were stand
outs in that period.
Os the stars of the ’4os,
though, only sure-thing Musial
and probably Slaughter now
seem likely to win Hall of
Fame recognition. Os the cur
rent Cardinals, Gibson seems
to have a strong chance, fol
lowed by Curt Flood and Lou
Brock. Gibson this year has
been the greatest pitcher I’ve
ever seen.
This is, you see, an exciting
team like ’42 and '34. It’ll run,
steal, take the extra base and,
like the ’3l and ’42 clubs, it’ll
make the big play defensive
ly. A year ago it hit smartly,
like the ’3l and ’34 teams, but
not this time, not in the Year
of the Big Zero.
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and Keith Tate or Darrell Chap
man at tackle, Mike Hardy or
Keith Tate at middle guard, Dar
rell Jones and Darrell Eppinger
at linebacker, Robin Akins and
Kenney Hattaway at corner back
and Charles Buckalew and Cur
tis Jones as deep backs.
Petty First
Under Flag
MARTINSVILLE. Va. (UPD—
Richard Petty figured about
halfway through Sunday’s Old
Dominion 500 that the had the
stock car race won, and it
turned out he was right.
It was midway through the
250-mile event that David Pear
son of Spartanburg, S. C., had
to sit in the pits and watch
Petty’s blue Plymouth lap him
seven times while his crew re
paired a leaking oil cooler.
Until that point, Pearson had
either held the lead or chal
lenged the Randleman, N. O„
native for it, but he ended up
sixth.
Cale Yarborough of Timmons
ville, S. C., finished three laps
behind Petty, in a Mercury, for
second place money of $2,700,
which boosted his winnings for
the year to $130,706. That bet
tered Petty’s mark of $130,275
set in 1967.
Petty’s average speed was
only 65.808 m.p.h., far short of
the record 69.605 m.p.h. he set
in last year's Old Dominion.
Lee Roy Yarborough, of Co
lumbia, N. C., also in a Ford,
and Bobby Isaac of Catawba,
N. C., in a Dodge.
Griffin Daily News
As Good Goes
So Goes Tech
ATLANTA (UPD—As senior
quarterback Larry Good goes,
so goes the Georgia Tech of
fense.
That was made only too clear
Saturday when Good’s passes
furnished three-fourths of the
Yellow Jackets’ offense in a
17-7 opening win over Texas
Christian.
Good completed 5 for 5 for
72 yards during a 71-yard (cor
rect) drive In the second pe
riod that produced the game’s
winning touchdown — that on
an 8-yard pass that Tommy
Chapman caught on the dive in
the end zone.
The only other Tech touch
down was a TCU gift in the
closing moments. The Horned
Frogs tried to pass on fourth
down and four to go and lost
seven yards and the ball in
stead when Lou Santospago
broke through and nailed Ted
Fay.
For the afternoon. Good com
pleted 18 of 25 passes for 214
yards. Tech’s top runner, Den
nis James, had only 45 yards
and It took him 20 carries to
get that.
Georgia Tech was fortunate
Saturday that TCU didn’t have
much of a passing attack. Even
though they were able to jam
the line most of the time, the
Yellow Jackets gave up 186
yards to TCU’s top two .run
ners—Norman Bulaich (97) and
Braves Nearer
2nd Division
ATLANTA (UPD—It appears
the Atlanta Braves’ battle for a
first division berth in the final
standings of the National
League is going right down to
the wire.
With five games left to be
played in the 1968 season, the
Braves are tied with Pittsburgh
and Chicago for fourth place.
One of the three is destined for
the second division, barring a
deadlock.
The Braves lost a chance to
gain ground Sunday, dropping a
10-2 contest to the Giants in
San Francisco.
Atlanta was idle today before
entertaining the New York Mets
in two games starting Tuesday
and then concluding the season
with a three-game series with
the Los Angeles Dodgers, begin
ning Friday.
Hank Aaron hit his 28th hom
er of the season to give Atlanta
one of its runs, but it wasn’t
nearly enough to save Pat Jarv
is from his 11th loss against 16
wins.
Willie McCovey drove in four
runs and Willie Mays scored
three times in the San Francis
co assault before a crowd of
29,457 fans. Bob Bolin was the
winner for the Giants, his 10th
victory of the year.
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CHA-CHA HAPPINESS—CardinaI first baseman Orlando
Cepeda raises his arms in a pose of joy after another
St. Louis triumph. Cepeda, a Puerto Rican, is called Cha-
Cha. He also coined the phrase, “El Birdos.”
MINNIEAR INJURED
PHILADELPHIA (UPD —
Halfback Randy Minniear, a
surprise performer in the New
York Giants backfield, will be
lost indefinitely to the National
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Ross Montgomery (89), * pair
of 220-pound speedsters.
“We were fortunate on two
counts,” said Tech coach Bud
Carson who was delighted with
the victory. *Tf TCU had been
more effective with its passing
it would have helped their run
ning game and they didn’t keep
Bulaich and Montgomery in
there together as much as they
probably should."
Georgia Tech has a real
toughle immediately ahead. The
Miami Hurricanes, 49-7 winners
over Tech last year at Miami
and 28-7 winners over North
western in their opener this
past Friday, will be at Grant
Field Saturday.
Georgia, idle this past week
end after playing Tennessee to
a 17-17 tie the previous week,
opens the home portion of its
schedule this Saturday as host
to Clemson, which played a 20-
20 tie with Wake Forest.
Chiefs Looking
For Same Type
Game In Finals
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (UPD —
Phil Woosnam, the playing
coach of the Atlanta Chiefs,
doesn't expect anything differ
ent next weekend.
“We’re looking for the same
type of game,” Woosnam com
mented after the Chiefs and
the San Diego Toros battled to
a scoreless tie Saturday in the
opener of a two-match series
for the North American Soccer
League championship.
The teams clash again next
Saturday at Atlanta and the
winner will be the league cham
pion. The title is decided on the
total number of goals scored by
each side in the series.
Woosnam and San Diego
coach George Curtis both were
pleased following the deadlock
before a crowd of 9,300 at Bal
boa Stadium. The game was tel
evised nationally.
“It was a good game, tight
all the way,” Woosnam said.
“The defensive play of both
teams was great,” Curtis add
ed.
SIMPSON SUSPENDED
HOUSTON (UPD—It appears
that the 1968 season may be
over earlier than expected for
outfielder Dick Simpson of the
Houston Astros.
Simpson, obtained in a
midseason trade with the St.
Louis Cardinals, was suspended
Indefinitely Sunday by General
Manager H.B. “Spec” Richard
son, who ave no reason for the
disciplinary action.
Football League club because of
an injury suffered Sunday.
Minniear, a former Purdue
back now in his second season
in the NFL, suffered a broken
cheek bone in Sunday's win over
the Philadelphia Eagles.