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EAGLE GRIDDERS PREPARE FOR 1968 SEASON ROUGH SLEDDING AT A&T , —A&T lineman Paris Favors, ! Athens, Ga. (center) and Ike j Golden. Reading, Pa. (right) ! ■ Hk Jfl Ht mm ■lrl'KKl F 3 " Sr P t^JKi ' S ' \ ) 1 \ A 1 r * j *' B HOPE TO REVIVE A*T FOOT- State University, outlines sea- Groomes. The Aggies were BALL FORTUNES Hornsby son's expectations to assistants scheduled to begin practice in Howell (center), newly appoint- Willie Jeffries, Matt Brown, Greensboro early this week, ed head football coach at A&T Murray Nee Iy, and Mel Nothing But Work Prtted For 1968 A&T Football Team GREENSBORO, - There may be a question about how the 1968 A&T football team will fare during the coming season, but there is no ques tion about how hard the Aggies /"are going to work preparing for the games. "I can't make any predic tions about what we will do," said new coach Homsby Ho well, "but I can tell you that we are going to work hard." Shortly after 65 candidates reported for duty last Thurs day, (August 29), Howell an- nounced three-a-day practice sessions, beginning with an eye opener at 5:30 a. m. The idea is not only to beat the heat, but to get the jump on the rugged nine-gune schedule the Aggies face this fall. Howell said he hopes to begin his rough work the mid dle of next week after NCAA's required period in shoes and shorts is over. A&R will open its season by entertaining strong S. C. State in a night game here September 28. The two teams have not met since 1960, but the Bulldogs had one of their finest teams last season when they compiled a 7-1-0 record. Following the game against S. C. State, the Aggies must take on CIAA foes Johnson C. Smith, Norfolk State, Mary land State, Winston-Salem, Morgan, Virginia State, and N. C. College and national small college power Florida A&M. Homsby maintains the cau tious outlook he has had since he became the Aggies' head Coach last March. "We are in dire need of some good, big interior linemen," he said, "We have some good backs. If we can find four or five linemen who are ready to play, we can hold our own." Heading the 26 iettermen in the Aggie camp are All-CIAA halfback Willie Pearson, defen sive halfback Merl Code, quart erback Jerome Turner, ends Billy Gaines and Don Thomas, and running backs Tommy take their turns on the Aggies' blocking sled during opening practice session here last week. Blue Aaron Patterson, and Ric hard Armstrong, and guard Jimmy Smallwood. Assisting Howell at A&T are Murray Neely, Mel Groomes, newcomer Willie Jeffries and Matt Brown. Tennis' Player Being Groomed For Star Role LYNCHBURG, Va.,-Under Whirlwind Johnson, Juan Far row, next door neighbor, is being rapidly prepared to be the next "Arthur Ashe." Juan started tennis at 7 years old, started winning championships at 9 years old. Now at the ripe age of 10 has amassed an amazing record for 1968. Starting in Sugar Bowl Tournament where he was the first Negro to break the color line, he was defeated 6-1; 6-0 by Steven Miller of New York, although playing in the under 12 he was taught a precious lesson of ball control. In March, he traveled to the Lakeland Junior USLTA In vitational and defeated J. P. Hoplin, Elizabeth, New Jersey 6-1; 6-1 uncer 10 champion ships and lost Ben McKnown, Lakeland in 3 sets in semi of under 12. Since the Lakeland Tournament, Juan has been consistent winner in the under 10 where he has never been defeated and has also won un der 12 Championships in sin gles and doubles; winning the under 10 in the Dixie Invita tion at Tampa, Florida and reached the finals in the under 12. ' Won 10 singles in USLTA over Cariton Harris, Burling ton, N. C. and the under 12 from Bill Stephazin. Won 12 doubles with Stephazin. Won Home Beneficial 12 singles from Hank Harris in Richmond, Virginia. Won the MALTA under 12 In Norfolk from Hank Harris. Getting free ride is halfback Maurice Cherry, Portsmouth, Virginia, Twtn^ Defeat Detroit DETROIT - Rookie Graig Nettles slammed his fourth home run in three days, a three-run shot in the sixth in ning that gave Dean Chance and the Minnesota Twins a 3-1 victo ry over the American League leading Detroit Tigers Sunday. The loss, coupled with Balti more's 3-2 victory oyer Chicago, trimmed the Tiger;;' margin over the second place Orioles to seven games. Chance checked the Tigers on six hits and struck out seven in squaring his record at 14-14. Nettles, recalled by the Twins from Denver of the Pacific Coast League Se»t. 1, slammed one of loser Earl Wilson's pitch es into the facing of the second deck in right field. The blow fol lowed singles by Cesar Tovar and Frank Kostro. The 24-year-old rookie hit his first major league homer off 28- game winner Denny McLain Friday night. He slammed two off Pat Dobson as the Twins beat Detroit 2-1 Saturday night. Detroit took a 1-0 lead in the fifth when Gates Brown, making a rare starting appearance, belted his fifth homer. The loss was Wilson's 12th in 24 decisions. MINNESOTA DETROIT *t> r h blab r h bl Tovar cf 4 110 MAullffe 2b 3 0 0 0 Kostro If 412 0 Stanley cf 4 0 0 Netles rf 4 T 1 3 Northrup rf 4 0 0 0 Holt rf 0 0 0 0 Cash lb 4 0 2 0 Allison lb 4 0 0 0 GBrown If 4 111 Rollins 3b 4 0 10 Mathews 3b 4 0 10 Renick ss 0 0 0 0 Freehan c 3 0 0 0 RonClark ss 4 0 0 0 Matchick ss 3 0 10 Look c 3 0 0 0 Wilson p 3 0 10 Quillcl 2b 3 0 0 0 DChance p 30 0 0 Total 33 35 3 Total 32 16 1 Minnesota 000 003 000—3 Detroit 000 010 000 1 Minnesota 3, Detroit 5. HR—G.Brown (5), E—Cash. DP—Minnesota 1. LOB— Nettles (4). IP H R ER BB SO D.Chance (W. 14-14) 9 6 1117 Wilson (L.12-12) . 9 5 3 3 0 9 WP—Wilson. T— 2:04. A—27.777. Williams Wins Coharie 'Golf Title with 145 CLINTON George Williams of Clinton fired a 74 here Sunday to win the first annual Coharie invitational golf tournament by four strokes. Williams, who had a 71 Saturday, was tied with Tommy Turlington going into the 16th hole. He had a birdie there while Turlington took a double bogey and that decided tb e championship. Williams ended up with a 36- hole score of 145, Turlington had 149, and Tom Semaske was third at 152. NCC Mentor Says "Ifs" Key to Team's Chances for Good Year North Carolina College's jhead football coach George ouiett is not trying to rewrite Rud yard Kipling's poem, "If", but the first-year field boss does cite "ifs" as being the key to Eagles' chances for the 1968 gridiron season. An assistant coach at the Durham school for five years before taking over this year for James Stevens, now acting athletic director, Qui ell summed up his prosepcts for the 1968 season with a lot of "if" clauses. "If the boys are able to mas ter a new offense, if they can shake off a defeatish attitude, if they can adjust to new con cepts of coaching, if the squad stays free of injuries, and if the ball bounces our way and we get the breaks, we may have a pretty fair season." Quiett, who took over the reign as head coach May 7 (after spring practice), greeted 52 candidates for pre-season drills August 30. During the first three days of practice, the Eagles worked out in shorts and practiced three times a day. Wednesday, they put on heavy equipment and began two-a-day drills. Among the 52 hopefuls re porting, 23 are bona fide let termen and an additional 14 freshmen. The lone loss from the 1967 squad is linebacker William Stanton. Included in the list of return Three Aggie Grid Lettermen Lost to Team for Coming Season GREENSBORO-New A&T football coach Homsby Howell figures that something good has to happen in the Aggie football training camp soon. So far, that has not been the case. First Howell lost vet •yrT-- eran tackle Warren Frye for the season through an injury. The past week he learned that three other lettermen will be scholastically ineligible this season. They are Lorenzo Pearson, a halfback; and Rey Parks, a 240-pound tackle. All three players had been expected to bolster A&T's offense. "We have got something to talk about, "said Howell, "and that is that our morale is high. We know that we have a lot of work to do but this is a good group to work with." [ ' Having just gotten into con tact work, Howell has been experimenting with four dif ferent quarterbacks. Taking their turns at signal calling are sophomore Jerome Turner, the only returnee from last year, Stanley Jacobs, a trans fer student; and freshman Chuck Middleton, Hopkins, S. C. and Hank Walker, South Hill, Va. Turner, a native of Pitts burgh, saw limited duty as quarterback last season and Jacobs played college ball in South Carolina before serving in the U. S. Army. Many of the early drills have been spent stressing de fense. Howell has been work ing with a defensive unit con sisting of ends Billy Gaines and Don Thomas, interior line men Lester Moore, William Smart, James Willie, and Henry Hipps, and a back field of vet George Williams 71-74 US Tommy Turlington 71-71—149 -Tom Semuske 74-7*—152 Robert Josey 77-77-154 Flnl flight Sidney Apple 7« *6— isa Don Carrlco 6«-«0-l5S Fess Turlington 79-79—151 C«pt. Cor bin Cherry 79 10—159 Second Flight Purcell Jones •? 79—141 Fenneil Smith 11-41—142 X. Brown 11-(3—164 Frank Barfield 13-M—l4s Third Flight Charles Russell li 71—162 Jack Williams 14-79-163 j Herman Thomas «5 10—1451. Davis Lee 15-44-169 Faurth Flight Charles Tart 92-41 —l7] Tom Kelly 17-19—174 Larry Thomai 95-W—l7l Gerald Qulnn 90 44-171 Filth Flight Walt SkKlmore 94-91—11] Earl Stolon 93-93—114 John S. Wells 97-19—144 Marshall Williams 97-9S Ifl Fair to Open GRAHAM The annual Alamance County Veteran's Fair will open tonight at the new fairgrounds here. The fair will continue through Saturday. ing monogram winners is the passing combination of quar terback Herman Mathews and split end Julian Martin. Last fall as sophomores, the M and M duo was one of the most fearsome ones in the CIAA Conference. Mathews complet ed 78 of 159 passes for 1,169 yards and five touchdowns. Martin, named to the all-con fernce first team, was on the receiving end of 30 receptions for 737 yards and four TDs. The return of halfback Ollis Carson is certain to help the Eagles' running game Along witb running backs Gilbert Smith, Roger Foust, Thurman Jones, Roy Anderson and Willie Taylor, NCC hopes to improve its running attack. All-CIAA tackle Douglas Wil kerson heads the list of veteran linemen returning. Harold Beatty, William Royster, Lon nie Paige, Thomas Cameron and James Smith are other top linemen back. Defensive backs Frank Bullock, Ronald Upper man, Mike Johnson and George Smith should give the Eagle forces an experienced secon dary Among the top freshmen re porting are Michael Galbreath, Jarvis Martin, Frank Simmons, Otis Alston, Daniel Hyman and Eugene Thompson. Quiett has been real imprsessed with the play of halfbacks Alston and Hyman during punt return drills and the line play of guards Martin and Thompson. eran Merl Code, Wendell Bar tee, Daryle Cherry, and Doug Westmoreland, a transfer stu dent. The Aggies' offensive punch is expected to come from vet eran backs Richard Armstrong, Tommy Blue, Maurice Cherry, Paul Renwick, and Fred Robin son. The Aggies will continue their three-a-day practice ses sions intil classes begin Sep tember 16. A&t will open the season by hosting South Caro- lina State in a non-conference night game in Greensboro Memorial Stadium on Septem ber 28. --Servicemen (Continued from front page) at Sheppard AFB, Tex., for specialized schooling as an air craft maintenance specialist. Airman Parker is a 1966 graduate of Richlands (N.C.) High School. Samuel F. Stephenson, broth er of Garland Stephenson, Hillsboro Road, Durham, has been promoted to technical sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Sergeant Stephenson, a com mand post technician at Robins AFB, Ga., is a member of Headquarters Air Force Re serves. The sergeant is a 1950 grad uate of Durham High School. His wife is the former Joce lyn M King from England Captain Jack C. Bethea. son of Mrs. James C. Williamson of 1216 N. Roxboro St., Dur ham, has received his second award of the U. S. Air Force Commendation Medal at Kelly AFB, Tex. Captain Bethea, a signals in telligence officer, was deco rated for meritorious service. He was cited for his outstand ing professional skill, know ledge and leadership. The captain, who was com missioned in 1963 upon com pletion of Officers Training School at Lackland AFB, Tex., has served a tour of duty in Vietnam. -RCA (Continued Irom front page) stages to $3.35 an hour. The RCA project is part of the TEST series of the Presi dent's JOBS program, aimed at mobilising the resources of pri vate business and the Federal Government to help find Jobs and provide training for the h*rd-©ore unemployed in or near ghettoes. To facilitate this goal, training facilities are often located in these areas. ! ' SECTION Local Junion Development Team Dominates Local Tournament 'lmpossible! He moves with the grace of a floating cloud' were some of the statements describing little 14 year old John Harding Lu cas, Jr., as he methodically mowed down his more mature opponents in the Durham City- County Tennis Tournament on Duke University Courts here last week. John is just the most out standing member of the great est junior tennis team ever assembled in this area. Other members were: Bonnie Logan of national fame in the Junior and Women's competition; Mike Ruffin who is feared on the state and national level and Ben Page who plays close on the heels of Ruffin and Lucas. Coach Carl L. Easterling calls putting together this team his best effort in 33 years of coaching. Every one of the team members was involved in one or more championships last week. John Lucas won outright or shared in six titles. He downed three formidable op ponents enroute to the men's singles crown, and he also cop ped the "18 and under" and the "16 and under" titles. He teamed with Ben Page to win the 18 doubles and with Mike Ruffin to win the Men's Doubles. Then Miss Bonnie Lo gan and John capped the ac- tion packed week by beating KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY | | |'TAYLOR 1 1 I itpLi - 8§ m««rO«I. KY*'' LOUISVILLE. HI. CMftTRIBUTCO at NATIONAL O'STiLLfS PRODUCTS CO OLD TAYLOR 86 PROOF THE OLD TAYLOR DISTILLERY COMPANY, FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY SATURDAY, SEPT. 14, 1968 THE CAROLINA TIMES— Miss Mira Boone and Dr. L. K. Heath. By far the rrtost talked of match of the week was the final Men's Match against top seeded D. C. Smith, former number one player of Prince ton University. Lucas won this one 15-13, 6-3. Bonnie Logan won in all of her entries. She downed Mira Boone 6-2, 6-0 and joined Catherine Gable to beat Lind Rawlings and Mira Boone to win the ! Women's singles and double respectively. $lO Parking Fee Asked In Detroit DETROIT , Detroit's parking lot impresarios appar ently are pessimistic about the approaching World Series that seems increasingly likely to take place in the Motor City. Detroit's Tigers last were in a World Series in 1945, and park ing lot operators apparently are assuming the Series won't be back again for another 23 years after this one. Parking lots, particularly those close to Tiger Stadium, announced planned rate in creases. One small but handy ball park car lot has indicated it would charge $lO a car ea£h game. Price hikes at other downtown lots were reported planning to increase rates to as much as $5 Ronnie Sox Wins Draff Race Title BRISTOL. Trnn - Ra ilic Sox of Burlington. N C.. Hay Alley of Los Angeles and Ted Austin, of Akron. Ohio, captured top honors Sunday in the All- American Drag Race Champion ship at the Bristol Dragway be fore a crowd of 32,000. Austin won the jet car compe tition, completing the two-day meet undefeated in Walton Ar fons' Green Monster car. Austin beat Bobby Patroe of Akron in the finals even though Patroe had the top speed of the meet at 252.11 miles an hour. Alley won the factory experi mental and fuel cars competition, beating Don Bic gers of Kansas City iirthe final run. Both drove 19fi!l Barracu das. Gene Snow of Fort Worth Tex., had the top fuel car speed during the' two-day meet, hitting 193.96 m ph. in a 1968 Dodge. Sox won the ?uper- stock crown bv beating Dave Lyall of Lincoln Park, Mich., in the fi nals. Sox had the top speed in his division, putting his 1968 Plymouth down the quarter mile stretch at 131 19 jrn.ph. Lvle drove a 1968 Ford Cobra jet. Motorcycle driver E. J. Potter of Los Angeles hay a run of 163 m.p.h. in an exhibition, crack ing the world record for a 1; pse time run on a quarlor-miie strip for motorcycles. He completed the distance in 8.82 seconds beating (heboid record ol 9 32 I for (he occasion. Major hotels and motels ap parently have resisted the temp tation to cash ttie same way. But some downtown hotels, however, already report capaci ty reservations for the expected games against the St. Louis Cardinals on Oct. 2 and 3, and, barring a four-game sweep, 1 again on Oct. 5, 6 and 7. 3B
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