MUOMHIH
(plchrisi Crashes AFL
fishing Record, Gets
Hayer Os Y ear Award
WHO YORK (ANP) Cookie
CriKhgjm 334-pound fullback and a
vet s® ®* Cwadlan pro football,
wajgpted tba Player of the Year
In IK American Football League
fat a new league record by
becamlGv the Bret man In the two-
JWtoop to amass over 1,000 yard*
In bteeking the AFL ru*hlng ra
rer**, Gilchrist a bruising runner
who ha* been likened to the Cleve
land Browns’ Jim Brown, chalked
up UN yards on 314 carries to
nopo, csrt Dallas’ Abner Haynes, and
Houston’s Charley Tolar.
la the balloting tor Player of the
Yea? by a committee of writers of
tharggoelated Press. Gilchrist. 27,
gam seed II of 94 votes cast Len
Dawihst Dellas’ Quarterback, was
second with • votes.
Knpwnlng his struggle to gain
Patterson Says Contract
CONKERS, N. Y. (ANP)— De
thrpJ}Rd. heavyweight champion
Floyd who has been in
seclufipn sine* losing tha title to
Sonny Jftston in Chicago last Sept
25, returned here last week to
spend the Christmas and New
Year’s Day holidays with his fam
ily expressing confidence he'll get
a ret®# title bout with Liston in
April.
T§LJ Scores
4§kWin On
Western Tour
HbfIXULU (ANP)—The visit
ing tSnosaec State University, led
by BYNobby Edmonds, scored its
foufUQßralght victory in a seven
g*me'4eur es Hawaii by outclass
ing MuJI University of Japan, 95-
64. In a basketball game here last
w#4k.
Edmonds netted 18 points while
Playing only 14 minutes, as Coach
Harold Hunter started with his
first fleam and then used seednd
tringdfs against the short Tokyo
team.
So outclassed were tha Japanese
that Tennessee State sped to a 22-6
lead hi tha opening minutes of the
contest Tha second-stringers were
then brought in and State coasted
to a 45-84 half-time lead.
Tha Meijl team rallied in the sec
ond half to within seven points of
tying the score, but the Tigers
counter with IS quick points to
clinch the victory.
(Jerald Durley and Loe McKnlght
wore runners-up in the scoring for
TSnnesoe State, tallying 14 and 12
points, respectively.
Keishiro Notoe and Ypshitake
Egawa tied for Meiji scoring hon
ors with 18 points each.
Following the victory over Meijl
Tennessee State was i.-heduled for
tougher competition against a U.S
League team. Subiac.
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Staid guard George Kirk, chitchat the bell lightly in hk hand
Suridg the third game at the 27th annual All-Collage Beeketball
TouAiament in Oklahoma City, Okla. Dec. 27th. Center-forward
Ray Wohord (11), of the Unirereity at Toledo, it on the floor.
Memptue State mm 76-61. {UPI PHOTO).
stardom, Gilchrist, elated over the
Player of the Year honor, said:
*T have no college education so
it’s been a question of money with
me ill along. I had to battle all the
time for the kind of pay I felt I
ntwL*
The Bols picked up Gilchrist list
August after he was waived eut of
the Canadian League for a report
ed 330,000 salary. Ha has repaid the
club three times that amount by
his outstanding play during the 19-
SI season.
He came to the Bills with the
reputatiuon of being hard te han
dle, which was probably the reason
he was waived out of the Canadian
League. He had gone to the Cana
dian League fresh out of high
school. He said ha had approached
the Brown* for a Job and was told
to go to Canada tor seasoning.
Scoffing at reports that Lts
teai may pass him up te fight
either Harold Johnson es luge
mar Johansson, Patterson sold:
“In spite es all tha stories a
beut my return fight with Bon
ny, the faet remains that Son
ny and 1 have a solid contract
tor a return match.
“Sonny wants the return fight
wants to keep his word. And 1 want
It because that’s the only way I
can win back my championship."
Until recently, Patterson, who has
been training secretly, was virtual
ly silent about th* return bout.
TSU Outhustles
Saint Mary’s In
Basketball Duel
HOUSTON (ANP)—Led by Mau
riee Battista and Charles Matthews,
th* Tigers of Tans Southern Uni
versity outplayed and outhust' d
St Mary’s University hare last
week to score their fifth basketball
victory In tha newly born seasot.
88-55. TSU boasted a 5-3, won-lOst
record after th* victory.
Battista was the game’s top scor
er, with 30 points and 17 rebounds
Matthews scored 19 points. Hank
Cox of St. Mary's scored 15.
The Tigers sped to a 48-34 half
time lead and then kept the lead
throughout the remainder of the
contest
KEEPING THE BUSINESS IN
THE FAMILY
RALEIOH, N. C. Hoke Smith,
66. announcing his retirement re
cently said 35 years as a stats rev
enue agent bad given him a cer
tain understanding of moonshin
ers.
They are a “special breed of
people who wouldn’t commit any
other type of crime,” be said.
“Whiskey making is a family
trade. It’s been handed down from
generation to generation."
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TWO POINTS Paul Hogue (14), of the New York Kmckerbocken, gum# the bell In fore
hfO’pointer December 25th, ae Len Chappell (left), end Joe Roberta (12), of the Syracuse Hals
watch. Syreeuae won 123-111, in the second game of $ holiday double header before 17,169 lam in
New York's Madieon Square Garden. (UPI PHOTO).
Walt Bellamy, Prized Hoop Star, Leads
Chicago Zephyrs Into 2nd Yr. Campaign
CHICAGO (AMP) Th* Chicago
Zephyrs, • torn composed Ur**ly
ot s few sOssonOd veterans, s lew
starry-eyed rookies, a newcomer
coaeh to the National Basketball
Assn., and one of the greatest store
in pro basketball, has been waging
a frustrating campaign In the NBA
tor the past two years.
On the team’s roster are such
capable veteran performers as
Texas Southern’s Woody 80ulds
berry and former Dufcuksne star
Sihugo Green; and a quintet of
promising rookie stars in Terry
Oischihger of Purdue, Charles
Hardnet of Grambllng collate; Bill
McGill of Utah, Don Nelabn of Id
wa and Mel NowOU of Ohio State.
The caoch is Jack McMahon, who
coached last year in the Amerieyi
Basketball League.
But the big star and prise of the
team Is Walter Bellamy, former In
diana university All - American,
who has been "carrying" the team
from the day it played its first N
BA contest.
A star of the U. S. 1960 Olympic
team. Bellamy come to the then
Chicago Packers with outstanding
credentials. So far. Big Walt has
lived up to all expectations, and
more. In his first year in the NBA,
the 6-11. 380-pound Bellamy sur
vived the traditional “baptism of
fire" and emerged at season’s end
as the unanimous choice for "Roo
kie of the Year” honors. To gain
such salutation. Walt played *en
sational basketball. He was a ter
ror both on offense and defense.
He outscored such great stars as
Elgin Baylor of the Los Angeles
Laker, Oscar (“Big O”) Robertson
of the Cincinnati Royals and Bob
Pettit of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Wilt Chamberlain alone, the great
est scorer in basketball history,
tooped BeUamy In scoring. Walk’s
1.495 points was the second highest
total ever racked uo by a first year
man in NBA history.
p-n—ny also outreboundsd all
other players, except ChemberlMn
and the great Boston Celtics -tar
Bill Russell; so outstanding was
Big Walt in all-around ability that
he was selected for NBA’s Western
Division All-Star team last year.
Excepting Chamberlain, no other
player achieved so much in his
freshman year in pro hall and Bel
lamy did an that dakpHe fl>e fact
that he had the Zephyrs Ml Me
back. He has still another value to
the Zephyrs and the NBA.
Like Chamberlain and Pussen.
Bellamy is a terrific box office at
traction. Without him the Packers
last year would have folded finan
cially like a punctured aeeordiaa.
He is the team’s bread and butter
Scholarships
©
Established
By Pepsi-Cola
NSW YORK the outstanding
players of 1968 hi the National and
American Baseball Leagues, and
the National and American Pant
ball Leagues, will have 969660
Scholarships donated in "their
names to the colleges of their
choice" by Peed-Cota cemaany.
Baseballs’ Most Valuable Players
-Mlrkr Mantle. Yankees and Mau
ry Wills. Dodgers, and Pro-Foot
baOers’ Players of «»* Year - Y. A.
Tittle, Giants, snd Lenta Bawcau.
Delta* -Itoxam." ate the iiilglanta
of the first such srtislarthipa by
Pepsl-Cota in eooparation with tee
aSmsß player hes derfgnsted
the “rrrTtT MJdo ehotee” Pspst
th**lndividuals name by mutribte
tag to the arhalarshtr fund of the
railage sainted by him. Bmh sat
lege wm be eoMy rsspnwStblc for
the sward es the 6MQJ9 athetorabig
an tea basis es seed.
playtr.
ArP the Zephyrs Masts truely
grateful tor *ll this? It hardly
seems so. Pint of ail, Bellamy, de
spite hit super-human efforts in
leil-CL had t* bargtin hard and
long for ah estimated 698.000 con
tract for 1968-63, rassgtr in edra
pariton to ills contributions to the
team, playwtae and monaywlia.
But the Zephyrs quibbling over
the salary terms Wat but an indi
cation es a further stroke of ingra
titude. Recently, Gen. Manager,
("Frantic") Frank Lan# and McMa
hon, both at whom war* fgr from
the scene when Bellamy was help
ing the team to survive its first
year in the ffBA, took it upon
ihemstlva* to level unfair criti
cisms at Walt for what they indl
rated was his tellur* to match his
'961-68 scoring output. Btth said
they were puzzled because Walt
had dropped slightly off his per
came scoring pace of 80 potato to
about 14 In the first month of plap.
since both are newcomers to the
NBA, their alarm in this rsapeet
*s to setoo extent understandable.
But tee manner In whleh they
have attacked Bellamy is not only
unkind and ungraceous, but tttol
trsMe.
These gentlemen, who really owe
their Jobs to Bellamy, went about
attacking the Zephyrs' star ta an
underhanded manner. Instead ex
pressing confidence ta Bellamy’s
ability they proceeded to lsmbsst
him In the press, while subtler ex
pressing puzzlement. Why, Lon*
even went so far as to say it would
bo all right with him If McMahon
had benched Bellamy prior to •
recent gatae.
This wts the tear peus es the
whole deal.
What kind as a basketball team
Is It that permits s general manag
er to quarterback the team, as
Lane’s statement eesmsd to indi
Dick Tiger Signs For
Return Bout With Fullmer
LAB VBGAS. Nee. (ANp)
Wtrid Bearing Ask. middleweight
champton Disk Tiger es Nigeria
tori weak kept his pledge to give
Gena Fullmer at West Jordan. U
tth, a return bout when he signed n
ton tract with Fullmer ter the re
match here, Fob. 31.
The Nigerian fighter gam IkD
mar a Md Matins ta wlaaiflg the
title tram Mm in a 16-round bote
ta San Francises last Get. 31.
Coach Banks Hat 42 Reasons
Why Morgan Won CIAA Title
BALTIMORE. MA—Far the past
sateen quartarteehe who are trying
to figtea ate haw Mags State
Conag* wen the CIAA Champion*
ahta Catch Zart Banks css supply
“ferty-twe goad masons" in a mat
tor as secants.
tea 4| masses me endows grid
star rattles ads am the members as
the w squad, who. ta Banks’ spin
ton. “isairvi the real credit far
-The hips dtdtt.” Coach Banha
ftht mdkn
helped, hut to was the beys who
played. AB teo way. hem tM M
tartaa raaMaai’ teMri that wan
Ora trite «r m-
Tha BsarVfrite- rito 13 to ta wan
2|s T Mte'vßte>ia%toto < Caatea
cate he Was attmptlng Why should
Lan* feel teat He should advise his
coach on Bellamy?
Is Lah* attempting to dictate to
McMahon T What’s behind It all?
Apart from the unfair criticism.
Lens snd McMahon, to admitting
that taty couldn’t understand Bel
lamy’s scoring difficulties, were
also displaying ignorance of NBA
baskcttel! stratogetas. Every dis
cerning fan know test Walt to be
ing double team unmercifully this
season and that that to tee reason
he to not attempting more shots.
Another strategy used by opposing
coaches to to etog up tea time-limit
ed froo-throw lsn* to terse Nig
Walt outside where ha usually
nicks up two and occasionally terse
defenders. The result is that ha to
forced to teed off mare often than
normally.
A mart studious seech weutd
have discerned this to M tea erase
of Bellamy’s scoring difficulty and.
Instead es pooping off ta public,
work patiently and confidently
with the hard-proseed player to
devise a counter strategy to halt
teo ganging up on Walt. This has
been don* before, particularly ta
the easts of Chamberlain and Bay
lor.
The Zephyrs bosses, however,
seem to be preoccupied With trying
to taake Disehlngor the new darl
ing of the team. Although Terry,
with tee a**istance of BeUamy has
been playing oustandlngly of late,
to recalled here teat he filled note
ably ta a tew of his home games
and no one popped off about It
Regardless of what McMahon,
Lane and others say sbSut Bella
my, however, right thinking and
observing fans will continue to
praise and regard him as oh# es
the truly great stars Os tee NBA.
they may wonder, though. If
Bellamy’s wall deserved salary in
crease to not the coal Mato ter all
the furor about Me scoring.
in the return bout Which will M
televised throughout tM United
States with the Las Vegas afM
blacked out far a rad his es SM
miles. Tiger and Fullmer w|lJ each
rceeivs *80.009 plus *6 par esttt of
tM live fata.
Tiger to a rugged Mnar-puttchar.
while Fullmer to a fl Is-swinging
slugger. Their return bout might
receive into toa-te-toe slugfeet
Tiger has already Mat rated tM
fever!t# to win and Mop Ms title.
season retard, tap Haadtaf agrauf
th| 1* teens* ta tM toep- and un
disputed claim to tM CIAA dia
dem. TM loot Morgan champion
ship was wen ta 1(60. eo-shared
with Delaware State and North
Carolina Callage.
Net since 1*46. when them wa*
a BeoeeveK Brawn, greet tackle es
•to New York Giants, to palto* «M
Boar Une. had a Morgan eleven writ
a trite outright.
Morgan’s return to tM shanrifaa-
MM circle tea dam tested tar a*
many be^inributod^to
believes.
But SM team ttorif was taa motor
reason, M thinks.
Franco** first attempt at spas*
exptoratton srfll b* to IML VMn
its fieri fpasa satellite will M toft
ad Ram tM Sahara
NCC Cagers Claim Balance;
To Work For Championship
DURHAM— Balance is the key to
the current success of North Caro
lina College's basketball team. The
Eaglet have a 4-4 overall mark and
9-3 record in Central Intercollegi
ate Athletic Associate play.
The NCC eager* lack height and
4 sure-fire prolific scorer and tha
players hive sensed this fact and
operate accordingly. That is team
work. Throe of the five starters art
scoring la double figures, with Joe
ferker. 64 forward. Aulander.
loading tha pack with a 13.7 aver
ts*. Hi's followed by Albert Con
ner, 3-1 guard, Winston-Salem and
Ted Manning, g-8 center, Baltimore
Md„ with 13. T and 11J marks re
' ROBinHOt'l UNION nIGH SCHOOL, WinterriUa, J. W. Maya, principal, Vanity bsSk&HH
team and Homacowdni Queena. (See story bekm).
Winterville Basketeers And Queens g
BY J. B. BARREN
WINTERVILLE - Photograph
•bOvd shows the W. H. Robinson
High School Basketball (Varsity)
team and their Homecoming
“Qusdns" during their "Homeeom
lag" which was won by teelr open
ante, the Savannah High School of
the Gritted community near Kins
ton. by a score et 61-87.
During halft-im* Mrs. M. B. Hen
dSraOn, (at 14ft) was crowned queen
of tea Alumni by her daughter.
Mrs. Henderson was a member of
teo claw of 1640 and to the mother
Os ton children.
Gloria E. Leggett, a senior, was
crowned "Mias Hometomlng 1968“
(right).
Members as tea team Handing
with Coach R. T. Harrell (back
row) are E. Whlthurft, E. Lyons,
C. Sugg*. H. Hammond. (Middle
row) Mrs. Hsndarson Alumni
Ouasn; J. Vines, C. CegdeU. O.
White. J. Waller and Miss Leggett
Homecoming Queen; (Front row)
D. Whitehurst, J. McLawhom, M.
Taylor and O. Edwards.
Junior Varsity playsri (not
shewn) art J. Vines. J. King, W.
Cannon, L. Harper, R. Ellis, M. Is
ler, J. ClarJ, R. Bryant, B. Dancy,
M. Mobley. J. Hart, B. Gorham, B.
Cox and T. Hinas.
John D. Hill, Alumni president
crowned Mrs. Henderson. Referees
for the two games wars F. R. Sand
ers of Orsenvlllo; and Athonlel
Parker of Kinston.
Principal May* has been at Rob
inson Consolidated High School for
twenty years. He states an enroll
ment of over one thousand students
with 800 of them ta the high school
Kentucky
IBGentleman .
KENTUCKY STRAIGHT
■OUHEON WHISKEY
n.
m PROOF BAITON DISTfIIINQ COMPANY
use "e555M». t 0
* ■ ’’w'.l'T.-.t' • I’.YKS' 1 : .h
spaetively. Meaning and OuaHr
are treahman. while Parker is I
Junior. ;
As a team, the Eagle* are asarlag
70.8 point* per game and have con
nected on 335 Bold goal* out 816
attempt for a shooting
of 40.6. NCCs opponeents arc av
eraging 74.1 points par pas and
have a 45.1 Bald goal accuracy re
cord.
Durham’s Gustav Jonas has fee
best Individual Bald goal Shooting
percentage. In night gamga ha has
hit on S 3 shots out of 87 attempted,
for an average of 49J per sent
Curtis Watkins, 64 forward. Be
rlin, follows Jones In this depart-
dept. Mayo backs Coach Harrell la
teaching th* beys good sportsman
ship whether thSy win or lam a
contest This evidenced by tha tact
that there was hardly a “boo” giv
en the winning visitors at any Urn*.
The Robinson Tigers played well
and were good losers.
Attendants or runners-up to th*
Homecoming Queen wen: Mimes
! Boxing Champion Sonny Listen
i Asks Court To Free Fight Pnroo
NBW YOfUC (ANP)— Heavy,
weight ohooplon Sonny Liston,
through hla attorneys, last weak
took advantage of a stipulation
made in the Internal Revenue Bu
reau recent suit freezing *1.379,-
617 from the purse of the Sept.
36 Liaton-Floyd Patterson Heavy
weight championship fight to de
mand his share of the purse.
Liston asked the oourt for an
order directing the government to
"forthwith pay over $307,000 due
him but Impounded In the total
puna aeiaed by the IRB In the
suit for taxes against Champion
ship Sports, Inc., promoters of
the title bout held in Chicago.
The IRB said In He suit that
the more than $300,000 difference
between the full amount <61.379,-
617) and the alleged taxes due
could M sought by either of the
defendants If a claim could M es
tablished. Both Liston, who won
the title by flattening Patterson
ment with a 6U pm«Bt team
He’s hit on » out «C 49 imjgf,
Omar hm tbs hm> Bag WBj
Raaular season nlav rssumsa gaa
4 whan th* Eagles Journey to task-
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T rinds *Snnm MUdrod IdßiaAi
lots Blount aac Kama* Mm —
Officers of th* Ahßßal AmaSh
Ben (which tnrtdentiy I* vdry jfif
tie the school, awarding to Ifc
ye) are John B. HU. pr#M*9t
Mia* Helen Barrett vise president’
Miss Bora Bobbins, secreury; Mm
Shirley Fraemaa, assistant ssmeta*
ry; and Miss Rosa Barrett, trims
tee. -ir
(ta 3:06 ot the Aral rotted, sad
, Floyd wars namag a» defendants
: along with other CPBX —ante.
i not only alataSd tela
$307,000 as hla "aala and apclu*
Hve property" but said ta tea rp
quest for tea oourt orfterteM tea
government want beyond tea anapa
of ita authority ta Dearies Me
puree. Ha claimed tea hem teas
"unlawful" under tea Federal mv
enu* Coda at 1664.
Thera have Man varying up stag
that Liston has motived between
$60,000 ta 1100,00a as Ms team
from tea Uvs gate and MriAriga
and movie pool of tea flriMr
The first Negro slaves knOWU ta
M brought to the United MMa
landed at Jamestown, Vt, ta Mta
They arrived an a Dutch Grip-
Can you print your fingers riLlf
bow depth under the aurifew
your farm pond? If yOu eOT We
time to fertilise the pend. ------
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