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Super Soph Has Jitters
As Western Ky. Falls
By United Pre s s International
Jim McDaniels’ debut in
Madison Square Garden didn’t
go exactly the way Western
Kentucky hoped It would.
The heralded 7-foot sopho
more may have suffered a bit
from “Garden jitters’’ as he
made only one of nine shots in
the first half and fouled out
midway in the second half as
Western Kentucky was routed
by Toledo 88-65.
It was the first loss of the
season for Western Kentucky
after five straight victories. The
Hilltoppers are ranked 14th in
the nation. Toledo is now 3-1.
McDaniels was one of the
nation’s most sought after high
school prospects when he came
out of Scottville, Ky. and
decided to enter Western
Kentucky.
In the second game of a
Madison Square Garden double
header, Bob Miller and Steve
Mix of Toledo stole the show.
Miller and Mix combined for 53
points with Miller gaining 16 of
his 28 points in the first half
and Mix scoring 16 of his 25
points in the second half.
McDaniels tried to make It a
game as he pumped in the first
Imperial
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14 points for the Hilltoppers in
the second half. But he then
fouled out and Toledo was in
charge the rest of the way.
McDaniels finished with 16
points.
Jerome Perry, one of the four
sophomores in the Western
Kentucky lineup, led the losers
with 24 points.
In the first game of the
Garden twinbill Dick Stewart
scored 30 points as Rutgers
romped past St. Louis.
Stewart and Doug Brittelle
combined for 31 of Rutgers’ 40
points in the first half as the
Scarlett Knights boosted their
record to 4-1. St. Louis is 1-4.
Tom Thomas led St. Louis
with 19 points.
GRIFFIN HIGH SCHOOL
Basketball Schedule
Dec. 13 Clarkston There
Dec. 17 Jonesboro Here
Dec. 20 R. E. Lee There
Dec. 27 - 28 - 30
Flint River Tournament
Jan. 10 Forest Park There
Jan. 11 Gordon There
Jan. 14 Milner There
Jan. 17 Towers Here
Jan. 18 Columbia There
Jan. 21 Pike Here
Jan. 24 Avondale Here
Jan. 25 Walker Here
Jan. 31 S. W. DeKalb There
Feb. 1 Clarkston Here
Feb. 4 Pike There
Feb. 7 Jonesboro There
Feb. 11 R. E. Lee Here
Feb. 14 Forest Park Here
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New York Giants and Washington Redskins have a
“Shoe-In” during National Football League game. On
bottom of pile somewhere is Giants’ Bobby Duhon, the
ball-carrier.
Ron Washington scored 30
points as Wichita State topped
lowa 93-88. Dick Jensen and
Chad Calabria led the losers
with 20 points each. John
Johnson, who was averaging 26
points a game, was held to 13.
Colorado set a team scoring
record while whipping Arizona
State 112-81. With six players in
double figures, Colorado broke
the school record of 99 points
set eight years ago. Cliff Meely
paced the winners with 22
points.
In other games, Providence
whipped Rhode Island 86-76,
Colgate beat Lehigh 98-83,
Texas A&M topped Louisiana
Tech 102-83 and Long Beach St.
whipped Oklahoma City 92-75.
I NBA Standings
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East
W. L. Pct. GB
i Baltimore 22 7 .759 ...
I Boston 20 7 .741 1
| Philadelphia 18 7 .720 2
I Cincinnati 17 9 .654
j New York 14 16 .467 B’/ 2
i Detroit 10 17 .382 11
! Milwaukee 7 22 .241 15
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Los Angeles 19 9 .679 ...
j Atlanta 15 15 .500 5
San Diego 14 15 .500 5%
San Fran 12 17 .414 7*/ 2
[Seattle 13 19 .409 8
Chicago 12 18 .400 8
| Phoenix 6 21 .222
j Thursday’s Results
I Atlanta 93 Seattle 91
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"BUCKEYE POWER" is what the big button held by sopho
more Jan Snee says in Columbus as students look to the
Rose Bowl game. Buttons, ribbons, lapel pins and other
gewgaws are being displayed.
Georgia, Florida
Sign Negroes
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (UPD—
Willie Jackson, a 210 - pound
fullback from Sarasota, will be
come the University of Flo
rida’s first Negro football
signee on Dee. 18.
Coaches said Thursday that
Jackson, who was voted the top
prep footballer in the Philadel
phia, Pa., area this season,
would sign during his Christ
mas vacation from Valley
Forge Military Academy } at
Wayne, Pa.
“He runs with real authority
and has outstanding moves,”
said assistant head coach Gene
Ellenson. “He’s a great pros
pect.”
ATHENS, Ga. (UPD — The
first Negro to be signed to a
grant-in-aid at the University of
Georgia is a long distance run
ner who starred on track and
basketball teams at Athens
High School.
Track coach Forrest Towns
Thursday announced that Maxie
Foster recently signed as a
scholarship member of the
track team. He is now a fresh
man at the university here.
“Maxie has worked hard all
fall and he’s done a fine job,”
Towns said. “He will run on
the mile relay team for sure
when we open our indoor sea
son Jan. 25. There’s a good
chance he’ll run the quarter
Arthur Ashe
On Top In
Tennis Ratings
NEW YORK (UPD—Arthur
Ashe, who elevated U.S. Davis
Cup fortunes to Challenge Cup
status, stands atop American
tennis rankings today.
The U.S. Lawn Tennis Associ
ation’s ranking committee re
commended Ashe to be the
nation’s No. 1 amateur player in
the men’s division for 1969.
Voting on the recommendations
take place at the .USLTA’s
annual meeting in Clearwater,
Fla., Feb. 8 and usually follows
the committee’s suggested rat
ings.
Ashe, an Army Lieutenant
from Richmond, Va., is ranked
second internationally. He won
the first U.S. Open champion
ship this year.
Clark Graebner of New York,
1968 Wimbledon semifinalist and
Ashe’s Davis Cup teammate,
stepped up from fourth to the
No. 2 spot in the USLTA
rankings. Ashe was No. 2 to
Charles Pasarell of Puerto Rico
this year. Pasarell dropped to
seventh place in the recommen
dations.
Others in the top 10 recom
mendations were: 3. Stan
Smith, Pasadena, Calif.; 4. Cliff
Ridhey, San Agnelo, Tex; 5. Bob
Lutz, Los Angeles; 6. Ron
Holmberg, Highland Falls,
N.Y.; 8. Jim Osborne, Honolulu;
9. Jim McManus, Berkeley,
Calif., 10. Gene Sbott, New
York.
Lutz and Smith were top
ranked in doubles. They won the
U.S. Open and Amateur and
Clay Court championships.
Volunteers,
Oklahoma
Play Tonight
By United Press International
Tennessee kicks off the Vol
unteer Classic by meeting Ok
lahoma tonight to enliven a rel
atively inactive week among
Southeast college teams.
The Vols (1-1) take on the
Sooners (2-1) in the second
game of the tournament at
Knoxville, Tenn. Texas meets
Southern Illinois in the opening
game.
Miami is at Alabama in the
only other game on the major
schedule tonight.
Thursday night, Southern Mis
sissippi beat East Tennessee
State 93-75 to win the Southern
ers’ own invitational tourna
ment at Hattiesburg, Miss.
West Texas State trounced
Illinois Str *.e 91-67 to take third
place in the tourney.
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NEW ORLEANS—(NEA)—The coach, with hat tilted, tie
askew, cuffs on pants rolled up, was delivering a half-time
pep talk that could have moved mountains. His football
players hung on every stirring word as he reached a
quivering crescendo, then bellowed, “All right, let’s go out
the second half and WIN.” He took two steps toward the
locker room door, turned, and his mouth dropped like an
elevator. The players weren’t herding and howling behind
him. The players simply sat there.
“Ah, coach,” said center Joe Wendryhoski of the New
Orleans Saints, “do we have to go?”
Then the players broke into laughter and laughed so hard
they fell off the benches, and the locker room literally
shook with the laughing bodies.
A practical joke was played on the “coach,” who is real
ly actor John Randolph. The Saints were only rehearsing
a scene here for the movie “Pro.” It is a serious film—
despite the off-camera frivolity—starring Charlton Heston
as an aging quarterback who refuses to accept his de
clining skills.
It is so serious, in fact, that Heston suffered a hairline
rib fracture when a pass rusher, coming at only three
quarters speed, rammed a stray helmet into the actor’s
side.
“I have to look at it as a fortunate accident,” said Hes
ton, eating lunch on the set in shoulder pads and cleats.
“One of the players said, ‘Welcome to the NFL.’ It brought
me two-and-a-half miles into the team. And a lot closer to
understanding what professional football is all about. Main
ly, I’ve learned that pain is the name of the game. To
succeed at this game, one must have a willing disregard
for the consequences.
“I’ve worked harder for this role than for any other. I
studied how to be a quarterback for eight months. I had
coaches at Southern Cal work with me and also Bill Kil
mer, the Saints’ quarterback. The job of the pro quarter
back is fantastically difficult.
“Mechanically, you’ve got to do about 20 things in about
four seconds. Keep fingers stiff before receiving snap.
Don’t dip your knees before taking the snap. Correct place
ment of right foot upon taking first step back. Don’t bump
into your backs. Go six-and-a-half yards back, not five-and
a-half. Don’t look at the tacklers, but through them and
the blockers. Keep receivers in view.
“And the pressures are, of course, multiplied in a game.
With the pass rushers and the huge crowd, it’s like passing
up a barrel.
“Yet there are thousands of athletes who can do the
mechanical things perfectly—you can hardly consider me
one of them—but it is the ability to do this stuff under
pressure that separates the true pro.”
The film, according to both Heston and director Tom
Gries, attempts to view the game of football from the
standpoint of what it means to the men in it. Gries said,
“There has never been a movie with football as a subject
that has truly depicted the way it is. This film is the first.
It is unique.
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Sim Byrd To Toss
Bombs At A & I
By RANDOLPH PENDLETON
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPD
—Troy State of Alabama pits
the phenomenal passing of
quarterback Sim Byrd against
a rugged Texas A&I defense
Saturday in the 13th annual
NAIA small college champion
ship game.
Officials of the National Asso
ciation of Intercollegiate Athle
tics expect a record crowd of
some 15,000 for the 1:30 p.m.
CST game at Montgomery’s
Cramton Bowl. Largest previ
ous crowd for an NAIA cham
pionship was 13,260.
Byrd, who led the NAIA in
passing this season, connected
on 221 of 344 passes for 3,028
yards and 34 touchdowns in
leading the Red Wave to a 9-1
season. He also punted for a
45.4 yard average.
Troy averaged 42.0 points per
game, losing only to the Univer
sity of Tennessee Martin
branch by a 12-3 score.
The Red Wave rolled to a 63-
10 over Willamette of Oregon in
its NAIA semifinal playoff
game, also played here.
The Texas A&I Javelinas
(Spanish for wild hog), who are
10-1 for the season, have yield
ed only 7.8 points per game and
have shut out six of their oppo
nents.
The Javelinas boast a well
balanced attack led by sopho
more quarterback Karl Douglas
who has passed for 1,472 yards
and freshman tailback Henry
Glenn who has run for 703, av
eraging 5.8 yards per carry.
Spelling Douglas on occasion
Umpires Status
Remains Question
BOSTON (UPD—The status
of umpires Al Salerno and Bill
Valentine remained a question
mark today following the first
meeting between American
League officials and representa
tives of the Umpires’ Associa
tion.
< American League president
Joe Cronin fired Salerno and
Valentine near the end of the
1968 season, saying they were
not doing an adequate job. The
two maintained the dismissals
stemmed from their efforts to
organize the umpires.
This question was one of
several discussed behind closed
doors Thursday for two hours
and 37 minutes. Both sides said
afterward they were pleased
with the progress made but no
one would discuss particulars.
Cronin was accompanied at
the meeting by aide Bob
Holbrook and league counsel
Alexander “Sandy” Hadden of
Cleveland.
Attorney John Reynolds of
Chicago represented the um
pires. With Reynolds were
umpires Jim Honochick, John
Flaherty and John Rice, all
directors of the association.
While that meeting was being
held, chairman Frnak Thomp
son of the House Labor
Subcommittee said in Washing
ton that he would conduct
hearings in the near future on
whether federal labor laws can
be applied to professional
sports, especially the field of
union organization.
Thompson, a New Jersey
democrat, also repeated an
earlier request that Cronin
reinstate Valentine and Salerno.
“I remain very concerned
about the situation because I
am a baseball fan who would
hate to see the game harmed
and because I believe that
working men should not be
arbitrarily fired for trying to
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at quarterback is Gene Walko
viak, a scrambler who has run
for 423 yards and passed for
179.
The A&I defense has allowed
only three touchdown passes this
season, but will be sorely test
ed by Byrd and his corps of
fine receivers, led by flanker
Danny Grant, who has caught
69 passes for 867 yards and 12
touchdowns this season.
Byrd has thrown 12 touch
down passes in his last two
games.
improve their condition by
forming a union,” he said.
O’BRIEN TO U.S.A.
ADELAIDE, Australia (UPD
—Australian Kerry O’Brien, a
fourth place finisher in the
Olympic 3,000-meter steeple
chase, will compete in three
indoor meets in the United
States, it was learned Thursday.
O’Brien competes at Oakland
on Jan. 24; Portland, Ore., Feb.
1 and Los Angeles, Feb. 7 and
8. and Toronto, Canada, 14.
SCHEDULE APPROVED
NEW YORK (UPD—A 234-
day racing schedule beginning
on March 30 and ending on Dec.
6 was approved Thursday by
the New York State Racing
Commission.
The dates will cover the
state’s three major tracks—
Aqueduct, Belmont and Sarato
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