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Coach Whitaker
‘Stroud Is A
Fine Prospect’
Fairmont High School, whi
ch has produced some great col
lege football players, now has
two players in professional foot
ball.
Morris Stroud, a former Fair
mont football and basketball
star, was drafted this week by
the Kansas City Chiefs of the
A FL.
Fairmont’s other pro player is
Larry Rayfield Wright, who was
drafted two years ago by the
Dallas Cowboys.
Wright and Stroud are cousins.
Coach Hiram Whitaker, who
coached Wright and Stroud, said
today that they were among the
best athletes ever to play for
him.
“Stroud is a big, strong boy.
I have no doubts about h1 m
making it In professional foot
ball.
"He could have played profes
sional basketball. He was a fine
basketball player and captain of
the Clark College team.
"Morris, in addition to being
big and strong, has the helghth
and speed that the pros look for
in ends,” the Fairmont coach
said.
Wright and Stroud were team
mates at Fairmont.
"They weren't in the same
grade, but they were on some of
my football and basketball te
ams,” the coach said.
Coach Whitaker recalled that
Wright and Stroud played on one
Fairmont basketball team that
scored over 100 points.
"Although Morris could have
played pro basketball, I believe
he made the right decision in
selecting football. He should
make a great player,” he said.
Stroud played tight end at Cl
ark College. The Chiefs will try
him at the same position.
The cousins will be playing the
•ame spot.
Wright Is a tight end for the
Cowboys. He is used primarily
for his blocking ability.
Stroud Is the son of Mrs. Gr
ace Stroud of Griffin.
R. L Lee Clips
Spalding, 54-21
R. E. Lee beat the Spalding
eighth grade 54-21 Thursday In
a game played In Thomaston.
Darrell Jones scored seven
points for Spalding. Keith Tate
scored four, Charles Buckalew
three, Paul Porter two. Tommy
Lunsford two, Eddie Duke two
and Ray Gilbert one.
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Friday, January 31, 1969
Alcindor Heads
Toward Million
By GARY KALE
UPI Sports Writer
Lew Alcindor heads down the
homestretch tonight toward a
Porsches
Favored
At Daytona
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
(UPI)— Only the powerful Che
vy-Lola and Ford’s GT4Os were
given a chance to whip the
ghost white Porsche 908 s In the
grueling 24 hours of Daytona
Road Race this weekend.
The French government
backed Matra, a $200,000, one
shot entry counted on to put the
blue racing colors of France
back in contention, was demo
lished Thursday night.
The whippet-fast Matra Vl2
skidded in front of a Porsche
911 driven by Jim Netterstrom,
34, of Potomac, Md., on a
practice lap.
Matra driver Henry Pescaro
lo, 26, of Paris, walked away
unhurt after the end-over-end
crash down the pit straight.
Netterstrom’s Porsche careened
off the track but was not
seriously damaged.
The race, one of the longest
and toughest In America, has a
$86,000 purse. It is scheduled to
begin at 3 p.m. EST Saturday.
Last year, the Stuttgart
Porsche firm sent only three
2.2-litre Porsches here, and they
finished 1-2-3 with the nearest
competitor hundreds of miles
behind, at an average of 106.697
m.p.h.
This time, the Germans have
boosted their engines to three
litres. They have numbers on
their side also — five Porsches
to two Ford GT4Os and four
Lola-Chevys.
"The Fords, they are very
good,” said Peter Falk,
Porsche’s brilliant young rac
ing engineer. “But, I think we
shall win.
"I don't think the Lolas will
hold up,” he said.
Two of the Lolas are entered
by James Garner’s Hollywood
based racing firm, and one by
Roger Penske’s team.
possible million dollar pro
basketball contract.
For unbeaten UCLA, 14-0 this
season, the real drive for
another NCAA tournament title
and National College Basketball
championship starts with to
night’s opening of a 12-game
Pacific Eight schedule that
winds up the regular season
slate for the Bruins. California
provides the opposition for
UCLA, 2-0 in league play.
A sweep assures UCLA of the
conference crown since the
Uclans face each of the teams
in the league at least once.
Then it’s the regional playoffs
and a bid for an unprecedented
third straight NCAA tourney
championship.
An undefeated season also
enhances Alclndor's chances of
becoming the highest priced
athlete in professional sports,
not that he needs any additional
buildups after two All-Amerlca
seasons.
The fledgling American Bas
ketball Association’s very exis
tence may depend upon the
ABA securing Alcindor.
The ABA would provide
Alcindor with his million dollars
through a package deal calling
for a SIOO,OOO assessment from
each team in the league.
The National Basketball Asso
ciation indicated it wouldn’t go
that high, but If Alcindor joins
the NBA the remuneration
would be considerable.
UCLA would ruin California’s
hopes for a title by winning
tonight. The Bears are 2-1. Next
weekend will be the real test for
Alcindor and company when
they take on Washington and
Washington State, the Pacific
Eight runnersup with 4-1
records.
Spencer Haywood, who led the
U.S. to an upset gold medal In
the Olympic games, scored 31
points as Detroit surprised 11th
ranked Duquesne 76-66 Thurs
day night and handed the Dukes
their second loss In 14 games
this season. Jarrett Durham
topped the losers with 23 points.
Notre Dame, ranked 16th,
raised Its record to 13-3 by
beating Georgia Tech 71-52. Bob
Arnzen netted 25 points and
grabbed 11 rebounds. Rich
Yunkus paced the mismatched
Yellow Jackets with 15 points.
Bill Gerry’s 12-foot jump shot
with 12 seconds remaining
enabled Virginia to edge Mary
land 78-77 in an Atlantic Coast
Conference game.
Charlie Wilson scored 30
points as Oklahoma City defeat
ed Creighton 98-94. Bob Port
man's 33 points for the losers
gave him the school career
record as he passed the mark of
1,667 previously established by
Paul Silas of the NBA’s Atlanta
Hawks.
Elsewhere, Providence ripped
DePaul 83-62, New Y ork U.
whipped Lafayette 80-65, North
Texas St. smeared Drake 118-99,
Wichita St. nipped Memphis St.
71-69 and Brigham Young
routed Utah St. 113-82.
ARCHER SOARING
PALM BEACH GARDENS,
Fla. (UPl)—George Archer's
victory in the Bing Crosby
National Pro-Am this week has
sent him soaring to the top of
the pro golfers' money winning
list. •
Archer now has won $27,053,
about $7,000 more than runner
up Charlie Sifford.
PORTS
Atlanta
Will Field
Soccer Team
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UPl)—After
two years of reverses, the
North American Soccer League
has embarked on a program
that emphasizes junior competi
tion and international teams
and counts on the 1970 World
Cup Matches to help sell the
sport in the United States.
Phil Woosnam, executive
director of the NASL, an
nounced Thursday that repre
sentatives of the five teams
definitely in the league this year
had decided on a format that
will have each city represented
by two teams—one American
owned and one foreign.
The cities—Baltimore, Dallas,
Atlanta, Kansas City and St.
Louis—have posted bonds of
$150,000 each to guarantee their
participation.
NBA Standings
By United Press International
East
W. L. Pct. GB
Baltimore 36 15 .706
Philadelphia 35 16 .686 1
Boston 33 18 647 3
New York 36 21 .632 3
Cincinnati 27 24 .529 9
Detroit 22 31 .415 15
Milwaukee 15 38 .283 22
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Los Angeles 36 17 .679
Atlanta 33 21 .611 3*4
San Francisco 24 29 453 12
Chicago 23 31 .426 13*4
San Diego 22 31 .415 14
Seattle 18 37 .327 19
Phoenix 11 42 .208 25
Thursday’s Results
New York 109 Baltimore 106
Cincinnati 116 Philadelphia 115
Detroit 144 Seattle 118
Chicago 111 San Francisco 101
Friday’s Game’
Cincinnati at Boston
Baltimore at Philadelphia
Detroit at Chicago
Seattle at Atlanta
Milwaukee at Los Angeles
(Only Games Scheduled)
ABA Standings!
By United Press International
Ea»t
W. L. Pct. GB
Minnesota 26 19 .578 ... ’
Kentucky 25 21 .543 I*4
Indiana 25 25 500 3*4
Miami 20 24 .455 5Va
New York 12 34 .261 14*4
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Oakland 37 5 .881
Denver 28 19 .596 12
New Orleans 23 24 489 16*4
Los Angeles 21 24 .467 17*4
Dallas 18 23 .439 18*4
Houston 13 30 .302 24'4
Thursday’s Results
Denver 128 New York 103
New Orleans 120 Miami 103
Oakland 146 Indiana 143 (ot)
Friday's Games
Los Angeles at Kentucky
Houston at New York
Miami at Dallas
(Only Game’ Scheduled)
Buster Smith
Elected New
BR President
Buster Smith was elected pre
sident of the Griffin Babe Ruth
League Thursday at a called
meeting.
He succeeds Leon Hubbard,
who resigned because of busi
ness reasons.
League officials set May 10
as the opening date for the 1969
season.
Tryouts 'will be held April 14-
18 and the draft is tentatively set
for April 18.
A committee was appointed to
study the feasibility of organiz
ing a league for boys 16, 17 and
18-years-old here.
The committee will study sim
ilar programs in other cities and
make a report to League offic
ials on Feb. 13.
Clive Rush
New Coach
Os Patriots
BOSTON (UPl)—Clive Rush,
an offensive specialist who
bears the personal stamp of
approval from "Broadw’ay Joe”
Namath and champion Super
Bowl Coach Weeb Ewbank, is
the new coach of the Boston
Patriots.
Rush's appointment to suc
ceed the deposed Mike Holovak
was made official Thursday just
three weeks after his name was
first mentioned as the most
likely to succeed as boss of the
Boston franchise.
Irish Dump
Tech, 71-52
By United Press International
Georgia Tech has discovered
that the athletic hospitality of
Notre Dame is no better in
doors than it was outdoors.
Tech took its football team,
admittedly not one of its better
ones, up to South Bend, Ind.,
last fall to meet the Fighting
Irish. The trip was a 34-6 dis
aster.
Tech went back Thursday
night with its basketball team,
admittedly not one of Its bet
ter ones. The result was the
same — slaughter, by a 71-52
score.
The contest was the only one
>n a scanty Southeast schedule
that has two games tonight.
Louisiana State and Pete Mara
vich hope to regroup at the ex
pense of a mediocre Pittsburgh
team in Baton Rouge, and
Miami eagerly entertains Ha
waii, a touring group that has
boosted the confidence and rec
ord of most of its mainland op
ponents.
Notre Dame controlled the
backboards 41-36 and outshot
Tech 47 per cent to 45 per cent
in winning its 13th game in 16
tries. Tech, hoping to reach the
break-even mark, fell to 7-9.
The 16th-ranked Irish took
the lead with only 13 seconds
gone and never were headed,
holding a 33-20 halftime ad
vantage.
Bob Arnzen scored 25 points
and Bob Whitmore 18 for the
winners. Tech's sophomore ace,
Rich Yunkus, was high man for
the loserr with 15 points.
Baseball
Studying
Rule Changes
NEW YORK (UPI)—A nine
man committee, headed by one
o$ baseball Commissioner Wil
liam Eckert's chief assistanta,
meets today to consider possible
experiments with new rules
designed to produoe more action
on the field.
One such proposal would
‘allow a team to plnch-hlt for the
pitcher every time the latter is
due to bat and another would
eliminate the four intentional
wide pitches when a batter is
being given a deliberate base on
balls.
The group, led by Charles
Segar of the commissioner’s
office, will discuss the possibili
ty of some of the ideas being
tried in exhibition games. Some
clubs in the international and
Eastern Leagues want to try
them during the regular season.
Wolman Working
On Conditional
Sale Os Eagles
PHILADELPHIA (UPl)—The
wording of a conditional sale of
the Philadelphia Eagles by
owner Jerry Wolman stood
today in the way of a
bankruptcy plan to save his
tottering financial empire.
Leonard Tose, buyer-desig
nate, said the first Pennsylvania
Banking and Trust Co. insisted
the agreement include a clause
guaranteeing that ownership of
the National Football League
team would be decided one way
or another by Aug. 1, 1969.
Under Wolman’s plan, Tose
would loan the $15.5 million to
Wolman with the entire stock in
the club put up as collateral
until Aug. 1. If Wolman is
unable to pay off his debts by
then, he would retain omer
ship. If Wolman still were in the
red, Tose—with NFL approval—
would become the team’s new
owner.
Tose said the bank’s attroneys
and outside counsel agreed
"that there’s nothing in the
agreement that would guarantee
settlement by Aug. 1, 1969 even
if Jerry didn’t make it.”
SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER
NEW YORK (UPl)—The se
cretary of the Royal and
Ancient Golf Club of St.
Andrews said Thursday he
expected a "substantial number
of top Americans would com
pete” in the 1969 British Open
at Royal Lytham July 9-12.
Keith Mackenzie said he
expected top flight players like
Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus,
Billy Casper and Lee Trevino to
compete in the tournament.
McCandless
To Coach
At Princeton
PRINCETON, N.J. (UPI)—
Jake McCandless, a defensive
star at Princeton in the early
19505, Thursday was named the
school’s new head football
coach, replacing Dick Colman,
who resigned after last season.
McCandless, a n assistant
coach at Princeton under
Colman for 10 years, Is
expected to continue using the
Tigers’ single wing attack.
Princeton is one of the few
colleges in the nation which still
plays oat of the old formation.
Princeton went through its
first losing season since 1962
last year.
Nicklaus
Williams
By JOE SARGIS
UPI Sports Writer
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (UPI)—
Jack Nicklaus stood at the head
of the pack in the second round
of the $165,000 Andy Williams-
San Diego Open golf tournament
today, which surprised no one
except Jack.
Nicklaus made his debut on
the 1969 PGA tour last week at
the Bing Crosby National Pro-
Am. He got off poorly but
recovered in the late rounds to
trail winner George Acher by
four strokes.
"I started to feel it coming
lack,” said Nicklaus of his
closing round 70 at Pebble
Beach. "I hoped to make steady
improvement in the San Diego
and go on from there.”
Dow Finsterwald, who was
voted the best player on the
Clyde Callaway
Bowls 258 Game
Clyde Callaway bowled a 258
game Thursday in the Commer
cial League.
Other top bowlers were:
J. W. Bevil, Jr. 201, J. W. Be
vil Sr., 213, Don Boardwine 201
and 211, David Hightower 217,
George Sprayberry 217, Kerry
Smith 222 and 203, Rudy Kolou
sek 209, Artie Steele 219, A. J.
Turner 231, George Evans 202
and 202, Jack Selby 201, Charlie
Vaughn 201, Red Trenton 204,
and Bobby Folds 208.
Robert’s Package store beat
Collins Squire Shop 3-1, Smith-
Keene beat Nix Garage 3-1, Sm
ith Welding defeated VFW 3-1,
Commercial Bank beat Dunn’s
Tree Service 3-1, and Moose and
Drug and Surgical tied 2-2.
Orrs Beats
Beaverbrook
The Orrs boys defeated Bea
verbrook 17-11 Thursday in the
Bob Cousy League. Orrs beat
the Beaverbrook girls 20-16.
Ted Gibson scored seven po
ints for Orrs and David Thaxton
made four. Richard Asmer scor
ed eight points for Beaverbrook
and Mike Head made three.
Cherrie Newmans made eight
points for the Orrs girls and
Vicky Adams made six. Cindy
Mixon was high scorer for Bea
verbrook with H points. Susan
Phillips made three.
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SWD Tonight
The Griffin Eagles go after
victory number 12 tonight when
they travel to Panthersville for
a region contest against South
west DeKalb.
The Eagles carry a six-game
winning streak to DeKalb Coun
ty-
Griffin defeated 55-49 here on
Dec. 7.
Coach John Harris would set
tle for another six point win.
Richie Guerin
Faces Arrest
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) —
Richie Guerin, player-coach of
the Atlanta Hawks, must ap
pear In court here March 15,
the next time the Hawks are in
town, or face arrest on a crim
inal complaint filed by sports
writer George Kiseda of the
Evening Bulletin.
The summons listed no charg
es but described briefly a post
game incident in which the 5-
foot-9, 149-pound Kiseda said he
was grabbed by the coat lapels
and shaken by the 6-foot-2, 220-
pound basketball star.
Kiseda said Thursday the in
cident occurred when he en-
Leads
Open
tour way back in 1958, made a
great stab at the lead. He
finished a stroke behind Jack
and at the start of the second
round they looked like the ones
to beat for the $30,000 top prize.
Larry Ziegler, Dave Eichel
berger and Gene Littler were a
stroke farther back at 70 and
Jim Colbert, Hugh Royer and
Jerry Abbott were tied at one
under 71.
The even par-72 group includ
ed 18 players, among them
Alameda Open winner Dick
Lotz. Billy Casper, Bruce Devlin
of Australia, Crosby runnerup
Bob Dickson, Kaiser Interna
tional winner Miller Barber and
South Africa's Harold Henning.
Crosby champ George Archer
was in a big group tied at 73,
U.S. Open champ Lee Trevino
was at 75 and PGA champ
Julius Boros, making his 1969
debut here, and Masters champ
Bob Goalby were at 76.
Charlie Sifford, who launched
the 1969 tour by taking the Los
Angeles Open, was at 78. Sifford
took two weeks off the tour
following his LA victory be
cause of the flu.
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However, SWD has a good team
and the Griffin coach is expect*
mg a tough game.
Griffin will be at home Satur
day night against Clarkston, a
team they beat on the road in
December.
Coach Joe Burson’s girls are
expected to win their third st
raight game tonight. They ran
over Southwest DeKalb 39-25 in
the first meeting.
tered the Hawks’ dressing room
for the customary interviews
following Wednesday night’s
loss to the Philadelphia 76ers.
Guerin had told Philadelphia
sportswriters they were not al
lowed in the dressing room but
Kiseda said two Atlanta writers
and a sportscaster were pres
ent.
“Out. Out. Get out of here,”
Kiseda quoted Guerin as shout
ing.
As the Philadelphia writers
were leaving, Kiseda said he
shouted over his shoulder at
Guerin: “Bush.” He said Guer
in grabbed his lapels as he
reached the corridor and shook
him.
Guerin told a corridor news
conference later that Kiseda
"has written a couple of things
about what I have said in the
huddle. I want to have the pri
vacy of the dressing room.”
Kiseda said Guerin "is so
loud that he can be heard half
way across the floor. All you
have to do is to be in the same
building with Richie Guerin at
halftime and you can’t help but
hear his tirades.”
PLAYERS HONORED
NEW YORK (UPl)—Mickey
Lolich of the Detroit Tigers and
Ernie Banks of the Chicago
Cubs will be honored at the
annual dinner of the New York
Chapter of the Baseball Writers
Association of America Feb. 2,
it was announced Thursday.
Lolich will be cited as the
outstanding player in the World
Series while Banks will receive
an honor for his outstanding
relationship with the press.
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