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18 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH. N. C. SATURDAY'. SEPTEMBER 6. 1969 Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eagles Clash Here Saturday Night McCullough May Be‘B!ur’ In Detroit-Philly Grid Contest BLOOMFIELD Hills, Mich.- That blur you’ll see during the Philadelphia Eagle-Detroit Lion clash at the Jaycee foot ball classic In RalelglYs Carter Stadium will be Earl McCul lough, one of the fastest men on earth (or on the moon, If you prefer). It took McCullough of the Lions just six of the fourteen regular season games to earn Rookie of the Year honors dur ing the 1968 season. At posh Cranbrook School, a private institution tucked away 23 miles from Detroit, the slen der receiver recalled his dis may when learning of his selec tion. *‘l was surprised. I say that because of two things. Mel Farr got it the v ear before and he's also from Detroit. I didn’t think they’d pick two in a row from the same team.” The second reason was Earl’s self-admttted poor play during the remainder of the season. Ke had caught five TD passes in the first six games, but was held scoreless in the next eight. He was said by Lion brass to be bumped, double-teamed, and tripled. He was said to be veer-, ing off his patterns and inex perienced, but certainty for stardom. No one said he had played the entire year, including the exhibition season, with a broken wrist. No one found out about it until March, when he had to have a bone graft. He had also suffered a leg injury in game number eight. ‘‘l don’t know if the injuries had anything to do with my poor play,” he offered. “Thera was no doubt I was picked on my first half-season perfor mance, because I was very disappointed with (he rest of the year. I hope to do better this year, a lot better.” The Lions lost their pre season opener to strong Kansas City of the AFL, but McCul lough has started out just like last year. He hauled in a TD pass from Greg Landry against one of the toughest defensive secondaries in the game. McCullough, who gave up a certain gold medal during the Olympics In Mexico for a pro football career, isn’t sorry a bout the decision. “It’s ail a matter of money,” he noted. "There’s none for a track man, and if you’re good there’s a whole lot for a foot ball player. I don’t think Pm MARCIANO KILLED IN PLANE CRASH - Newton, Io wa; Former world heavyweight boxing champ Rocky Marciano was killed late August 31, along with two other men - identified as Glen Beltz and Frank Far rell - when the single-engine Cessna 172 in which they were flying crashed about two miles south of here. Marciano, who would have been 46" on Sep tember 1, broke into profession al boxing in March, 1947, and retired unde fea ted as world champ in April, 1956. He was elected to boxing’s Hall of Fame in 1959. He was a native of Brockton, Mass. (UPI). Traable-free with a capital T1 If you ewn t rfcew towornower now, you probably’ know nil t bout ecpensivt repair bills and miserable sunnwr Saturdays. You're probably ready ior » trouble-tree TORO. &)«<* cn in snd sue or.*! ' ” ‘"c-vr if f ■ w Thafs the 1969 Whirlwind* by - ” '■’t" Pour Srrvirfng HILL'S, Inc. 1720 NORTH BLVO, PSi#nc 833-4884 ‘ n *» I?'*riff/ BPe a complete receiver now, but I hope to be. Some players have goals. They know when they feel they should be in their prime. Different people say a different number of years. I hope to doit by this year.” "In college, I was faced with only two or three basic defen sive patterns. Now there are five or six. It is much more complicated. Here the backs are more versatile. Like Balti more, they all know where they are supposed to be and work so well at it. It’s 1 ard to shake free. It’s like moving from checkers to chess, going from college to pros.’* In street clothes, the wiry speedster makes you wonder about the boasts of pro-football, the ones that infer it’s a “man’s game ” He is skinny, small, and light. How could he withstand the brutal challenge of the NFL? “When he catches the foot ball,” says coach Joe Schmidt, “they won’t be saying he’s hea vy or light. They'll be saying dapin, he’s fast.” “My smallness helps,” Me- sap 7 38i Ur~ •* r v%• Iv, —•• > - wji-” is kl % !®|l WILLIE DAVIS TIES RE CORD-Los Angeles: Los Angeles Dodgers’ outfielder Willie Davis at bat, singled sharply in the second inning against the New York Mets to tie the all-time Dodger Club record of hitting safely in 29 con secutive games. Davis single marks the long est hitting streak this vear in the Major Leagues. (UPI). " • The Sports Pa rade B> NEGRO PRESS INTER NATIONAL GUARD PELK CARACAS, Venezuela --Su per soccer star Pele and fel low members of his Santos team were closely guarded last week after Venezuelan terrorists threatened to kidnap members of the visiting Brazalian team. Even during a tour of down town Caracas, Pele, the world’s finest and highest paid soccer star, was accompanied b\ a guard carrying a machine gun. A KNOCKOUT MONTICELLO, N. V.—Joe Frazier, Philadelphia heavy weight recognized as champion in six states, was a knockout when he appeared outside the ring as a singe 1 last week, Fraizer and his combo, called “The Knockouts,” delighted fans in their night chib ap pearances a? Ktitsher's and there was talk that the group may be headed toward lucra tive lookings in Las Ve gas, Miami Beach, San Juan, Los Angeles and New York, AID SCLC PHILADELPHIA For the second straight year, stars of the National Basketball asso ciation donated their talents for the benefit of the Southern Christian Leadership Confer ence, in an All-Star Classic at the Spectrum. Aug. 22, Bos iris if sfciw a. 'The Shaw University Bears football team began prepara tion for the 19*39 football sea son on September 2, with the first day being designated pic ture day, according to Dennis Jefferson, head coach. The entire evening session, beginning at 4 p.m. at. Wash ington School’s practice field, was devoted to taking pictures and conducting interviews with the coaches and players. Cullough insists. “When they take a shot at me, they take their best. If they miss, I may be gone. But if the> hit, I’m okav. ! might be a little skinny (s’li”, 175 lbs.), but I’m not brittle.” McCullough lias already pro ven his after-burners are as good as the best of the NFL, He slipped by Herb Aderley, the prototype of corneri aeks in pro-football, and Bob Jeter, a near equal if net a carbon copy, in the same game for TD snares. .And he wasn’t c- er. a pro yet, but. a starter or. the ‘63 all-star team. Being able to jock and out run the best defensive speed sters around puts McCullough in class with only one other player. There’s an inevitable comparison to the little guy and Dallas’ Bob Hayes, who did get a gold medal a*. Tokyo in ‘64. Can McC ull ou g h out-leg Hayes? “Yes and no,” wisely relates Earl. “I can beat him running the hurdles, but in sheer speed, he’s probably faster.” ton’s player-coach Bill Russell; I Will Chamberlain, Los Angeles Lakers; and Lew Alcindor, Mil waukee Bucks, saw action, HIGH IN' MONEY Mil \\ Al'K* : l.ee Elder, the Black golfer who rose from the ranks oi the caddies to be come one of the sta; s of the Proi'es-ional Golfers Associa tion, last week finis! ed third and high in the money, when he card ed a six-under-par, 72-hole total of 280 strokes in the SIOO,OOO Greater Mil aukee O pen Golf tournament. Elder fin ished behind Ken Still, the win ner, and Gar;. Plater, in the contest oter the 7, 075-yard course at North: Shore Country Club course. SCORED FIRST TOURCHDOWN AS PRO - (Browns-Packers) Cleve land. O.: Ron Johnson (30), Cleveland’s No. 1 draft choice, scores his Ist touchdown as a pro in Ist quarter action against Green. Bay. Dave Robin son (89) Packers LB, tries in vain to get Johnson. (UPI). FISCHER STOP MCCUI LOl’CI! - T;i:v ■*' 11.,.: Redskins defensivehalf back Pat Fischer makes the slop n Lions split end Earl McCullouch (25) after a first half Detroit completion. (UPI). Marty Goal, Miss Logan Win At AT A ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Marty Goo!, of Detroit Michigan and the Motor City Tennis Club de feated Tyrone Mapp of Bai - bados West Indies and N'ev York City, 4-6; 6-3; 10-C; 6- 4; for the 1969 American Ten nis Association’s Men’s Singles Title. Bonnie Logan of Durham, North Carolina and Morgan State College annexed her sixth Women Singles title by defeat ing Sylvia Kooks of Detroit, Michigan 6-1; 2-6; 6-2. The ATA National tournament was held August 18th-23rd in St. Louis, Missouri and played at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center. Players representing clubs and associations from across the country participated in record numbers for the 53rd Annual tournament. On his way to the finals, Goo! defeated defending champion Robert Bin ns of Cleveland in the serr . - MAKES FINGERTIP G i - Buffalo, N. Y.: Baltimore receive r Willie Rich irdson, 87, makes a fingertip catch oi an Earl Morrall pass in the second quarter of play August 22. Defending for Buffalo is Booker Edgerson, 24. Baltimore defeuied Buffalo 20-7. (UPI). finals, in what turned out to lie one of the most exciting and thrilling matches of thetourna rn eat. Gool's slashing, we 11 placed service and net play was too much for Mapp and turn ed out to be the difference in the match. Mapp has been one of the outstanding ATA play ers of the 1969 season. Miss Logan, in winning her sixth women’s singles title, lit erally blasted Miss Hooks off tire court in the first set of their final match but the always cool, hard hitting Miss Hooks turned the tide in the second set only to be outclassed in the third and final set by Miss Logan. Miss Logan has been an alternate on the 1969 Junior Wlghtman Cup Team. A re cord number of entries in all events, a number of outstand ing matches of tennis facili ties unlimited caused 1963 to be one of the the best ATA tournaments in history. The association voted to return to St. Louts in 1970. Edgar Lee of Washington, D. C. defeated Colonel William Campbell of Colorado Springs to regain the Senior Men’s Singles Cham pionships a title he has had ten times. 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A flying trip by North Carolina press into the Lions’ training camp here at plush Cranbrook School in the Detroit suburbs also revealed the Gary , Indiana native and brother of Ted Karras, who also toiled in the NFL, to be a comedian at heart. "I have this little skit, you see, which is humorous,” he told the group explaining his “thing” about being funny. “It led to my being put into sev erval segments of Daniel Boone.” Karras plays a constable in eight parts of the Boone show which stars Fess Parker, 6*6”, and Jimmy Dean (occasionally), 6’4”, and jokes when he says, '•They actually put pads on me and made me wear elevator boots when working with those guys.” The likeable orator of also had a leading role in “The Paper Lion,” a movie adapted from the test seller by George Plimpton. “I had a great time doing the film and the TV stuff, but foot ball is my life,” Karras offered and although with some of his usual wittiness, set about to lightly explain the game. "The dirtiness in gone in pro football. Sure, it used to be around, but no longer. The tracks arc- so much quicker now; it doesn't pay to try to take a cheap shot at them. It breaks up your defensive network and you are only hurting the team. You can no longer use a shoulder to tackle a big, fast back. Now you use the first thing you can; that's usually your head. That’s, what happened to me. I used to* be six-foot-six. They used to push shoulder pads as the most protective equipment. Now it’s helmets.” “A lineman is like a wrestler. He plays leverage. Y’ou always have to be lower than youtx, opponent. On passing plays l go to the sides. I don’t like con tact. I learned early that I wasn't as strong as some. When a man Iras a gun, you run.” "How much time left to play? I don’t know anything about that. I play from day to day. Right how I am worrying about the next practice.”
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