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Colts Vs. Giants
In Big NFL Battle
By VITO STELLINO
UPI Sports Writer
A decade ago — before instant
replay, before the AFL, before
stop-action, before $400,000 bon
uses, before the Super Bowl—it
all began when the Baltimore
Colts came to New York for the
1958 NFL title game.
If there was one game which
got the pro football boom
snowballing, it had to be the
sudden death overtime cham
pionship game between the
Colts and the Giants. That’s
why it’s noteworthy that Sunday
will be the first time since that
title game that the Colts will be
playing the Giants in New York.
This time it’s supposed to be
a routine victory for the Colts
even though Johnny Unitas,
whose reputation was built
more by his cool artistry in that
game than by any other single
factor, is injured and Earl
Morrall will direct the team.
The Colts are 11 point favorites
and should win by that unless
** SPORTS
Casper’s 65 Ties
Up Lucky Tourney
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)—
Consistent Billy Casper shot a
six under par 65 Friday and
young Dave Stockton, who
celebrates his 27th birthday
today, came home with a 66
to share the second round lead
in the SIOO,OOO Lucxy Open Golf
tournament with 36 hole totals
of nine under par 133.
Casper, admittedly playing
his best golf this year, reached
14 greens in regulation and took
26 putts in all, while Stockton,
hobbling around on a heavily
taped right ankle, went one
better as he took 25 putts,
including 11 one putt greens, to
tie for the lead.
That left Casper and Stockton
two strokes ahead of Don
Massingale and Miller Barber
who had 67 and C 9 rounds
respectively on another day in
which the touring pros tore up
the par 71 Harding Park
Course.
Terry Dill, xtaudy Petri,
Jimmy Wright and Ken Still
had second round 66's, Joe
Goldstrand, Massingale, A1
Balding, Bob E. Smith and Bob
Duden had 67’s, 14 players had
68’s and 16 had 69’s.
The 136 group, six under par
and three strokes behind Casper
and Stockton, was made up of
Charles Coody, who matched
Casper’s 65 with a six bird
sprinkled round, Dow Finster
wald, Still, Bob Rosburg and
Bob Smith.
Doug Sanders, Jack Fleck,
Mac McLendon and Duden were
8
they suffer a letdown after last
week’s key triumph over Los
Angeles.
Seven other games are also
scheduled Sunday with most of
the favorites listed by lopsided
margins. Green Bay is figured
by 11 over Chicago, Dallas is
listed by two touchdowns over
New Orleans, Minnesota is
figured by 12 over Washington,
St. Louis is listed by 10 points
over Philadelphia, and Los
Angeles is a 10-point choice over
Detroit. In the two close
listings, San Francisco is
figured by three over Cleveland
and Pittsburgh is a slight choice
over Atlanta.
The Colt- Giant overtime
game, won by the Colts 23-17 on
an 80-yard march climaxed by
Alan Ameche’s one-yard plunge,
stirred the imagination of the
country’s sports fans and the
talk about it kept football in the
spotlight for weeks.
But, even more important, it
was played in New York and
at 137, while five strokes off the
pace at 138 were Chi Chi
Rodriguez, Bobby Lunn, Jim
Langley, J.C. Goosie, Frank
Boynton, Jacky Cupit, Billy
Maxwell and Balding.
U.S. Open champ Lee Trevino
shot his second straight 70 and
was among the group of 75
players who made the cut for
the final two rounds. Bob
Goalby, the Masters champ,
failed to survive after shooting
a second round 73 for a 144
total.
The cut was set at one over
par 143. Joining Goalby on the
sidelines were such as George
Knudson, Marty Fleckman, who
had a second round 69, Bob
McCallister, Babe Hiskey, and
Chuck Courtney. '
Casper was in the clubhouse
some three hours earlier when
Stockton, whose home is in San
Bernardino, Calif., put on one of
those Arnold Palmer-like char
ges over the tight and
sometimes tricky Harding lay
out.
He played the back nine first
and went out in three under par
32. That put him seven strokes
under par and two behind
Casper, who had seven birds
and one bogey on his card.
Stockton, who hurt his ankle
in mid September when he fell
off a high tee and into an
“animal hole,” then fired three
consecutive birds from the
fourth through the sixth holes to
take the lead by a stroke.
He parred the next hole and
stirred the Imagination of the
TV executives — who started
putting more emphasis on their
telecasts and spending mare
money to buy the rights and
more money promoting them.
From 12 pro teams in 1959,
the number has jumped to 25
today and it’s somewhat ironic
that the Dallas Cowboys, who
didn’t exist when that 1958
game was played, now lead the
Giants by one game in the
Capitol Division. Unless the
Giants upset Baltimore, Dallas
should stretch its lead to two
games with just five remaining
two between the Cowboys and
Giants.
Baltimore needs a victory to
remain tied with Los Angeles in
the Century division.
Green Bay should take over
the lead for the first time in the
Central Division by beating
Chicago as the Packers begin
their late-season march to the
Super Bowl.
then picked up his first bogey in
two rounds when he missed the
green and chipped beyond the
pin. That left him even with
Casper and it stayed that way
when Stockton failed to run
(town a 15 foot putt for a bird
on the ninth.
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WOMAN JOCKEY— The na
tion’s first woman jockey is
28-year-old Kathy Kusner
(above), who was granted a
license by Maryland Racing
Commission by court order.
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Olderman
NEA Executive Editor
—Making a
MEXICO CITY - (NEA)-In the water, Masi Spitz took®
tall, and his back is broad, with the developed shoulders <>f a
swimmer. Mark couldn’t be accused of being anything
because he went into the XlXth Olympiad dedicated w the
proposition- he would win six swimming gold medals, two
more than any other Olympic competitor in modern history.
But out of the water, Mark reverts. He’s a slim 18-yex-old
kid who ducks his head when he talks, seldom looks tte list*
ener in the eye and starts out at a mumble.
“I might,” he said, “win four medals which is what Jess®
Owens had.” His omission of Don Schollander, his teammat®
who also won four at Tokyo in 1962, was obvious. Was the
specter of Schollander’s feat always in front of him?
“I’m swimming for myself,” he shrugged, “—not for what
he did.”
Spitz is self-reflective in analyzing his status as the No. 1
swimmer in the world. When he talks about himself, th®
mumble vanishes. He becomes articulate and poised, th®
product of an international environment in which a teen-ager
reflects maturity.
“My idea of hurt,” he said, as he lounged by the pool in th®
Olympic Village, “is higher than anybody else’s. This guy
swam 100 meters, and he was dying. His attitude towards
hurt didn’t compare to mine.”
By “hurt,” Spitz meant the self-punishment that a swimmer
must endure pushing himself to physical extremes. From
December through August of every year, Monday through
Friday, he’s in the water four hours a day, two hours on
Saturday, with a brief pause on Sunday.
“You have to have complete dedication,” he continued.
“I’m dedicated. You can’t play football and do other things.
“I have a natural ability to swim, sure. I have a hyperex
tension of the knee.. It goes back further. I’m exceptionally
loose. More so than any athlete in any sport. I’d probably
make a good track runner. I have skinny long arms and legs.
I’m not carting around a lot of weight.
“It’s really funny. I can lose 10 pounds in a day. I can get
down to 142.”
It was Mark’s own idea to try and qualify for three singles
events in the Olympics (two butterfly races and the 100-meter
free style). His position in three relays (hence the possible
shot at six gold medals) was a by-product.
“The chances for six out of six,” he said, “are a little bit
slim. But I have a good chance, better than most people.”
When you’re 18, there is also other motivation in the drive
to swim faster than anyone else in the world.
The phenomenon of girls has been relatively recent. After
all, Mark has been swimming competitively half of his life,
or nine years. When he was 13, the other kids in the neigh
borhood (his life alternated between California and Hawaii)
teased him about his single-mindedness towards swimming,
“But when I got to be 14 and 15,” he noted, “I’m traveling
around the world and my friends haven’t left the county. I
enjoy the swimming. It leads to a. combination of knowing
people and going
going to get any trips.”
Revenge-Seeking
Raiders On Verge
Meeting Disaster
By MARTIN LADER
UPI Sports Writer
Ever since Jan. 14, the
Oakland Raiders have been
priming themselves to win the
Super Bowl.
On that sunny day they lost to
Green Bay of the National
Football League, 33-14, at
Miami in the second grand
confrontation between the rival
leagues. The Raiders claimed
they’d take their revenge the
next time around.
On Sunday, Oakland may find
itself nothing more than a has
been in the American Football
League with hardly a chance to
qualify for another Super Bowl.
The Raiders entertain the
rampaging Kansas City Chiefs
and a loss would just about
knock them out of contention in
the Western Division.
The season started off accord
ing to plan for the Raiders as
they swept their first four
games to run their regular
season winning streak to 14
games, just one short of the
Sat. and Sun., Nev. 2-3, 196 k
league record. Hien they lost to
San Diego and lost to Kansas
City before b'- ting Cincinnati
last week, and today they find
themselves tied for second
place with San Diego, a game
and a half behind the Chiefs.
Kansas City, meanwhile, has
won six games in a row with
victories over Oakland and San
Diego in the last two weeks.
Another success over the
Raiders would send the Chiefs
into the homestretch with
strong momentum.
The Raiders, however, with
the home field advantage, are
favored by 2 1 ,' 3 points while San
Diego is picked by 16 points
over the Miami Dolphins.
The New York Jets, leaders
of tl>e Eastern Division, are
prohibitive 19-point favorites
over Buffalo, but the only Bill
victory this year came over
New York.
In other Sunday games,
Boston is favored by 3>/ 2 points
at home over Denver and
Houston is favored by 8 at
Cincinnati.