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PAGE SIX Sports Parade By OSCAR FRALEY §| i. United Press Sports Writer I • New YORK (ID Big Neil- Johnston, pro basketball’s leading scorer for the last two years, today credited a sore furm with making all his sports dreams come true. 1 Johnston, scoring star of the Philadelphia Warriors tn the National Basketball Association, came out of no- Jvhere to become a court ace. Originally he had been train ed by his hopeful father for a big league pitching career. ‘ “The sore arm changed all that,” Johnston grins hap pily down from his rangy six feet, eight inches. He was in the Philadelphia Phillies farm system just •three years ago, a promising fast ball pitcher who was a Pnus player signed while still a sophomore at Ohio State. s father was happy but Neil wasn’t. ■ Dad’s Dream 1 “It was my dad’s dream to see me play big league •oaseball,” the lantern-jawed Johnston recalled. “He would see me play one baseball game than 50 basbetball parries.” i So Neil went his father’s way, pitching at Terre Haute 1949 and 1950 and posting an 11-12 record in each of ■chose years. In 1951 he was moved to Wilmington of the interstate League and there his arm started “tightening up.” I “They sent me to Tri-Cities in the Western Interna tional League in 1952 but the arm was gone,” the tower ing blond explained. “I was a fast ball pitcher without a Jast ball.” I That gave Johnston his “out.” Unable to pitch, he maneuvered a meeting with Eddie Gottlieb, owner-coach the Warriors. Gottlieb took one look, whipped out a jape measure and found that Neil was six feet, eight inch es instead of the six, six which he told Gottlieb he stood. ' Best Course j “Maybe some people think I was taking a second best bourse,” said the young man from Chjllicothe, Ohio, “but actually I was always more interested in basketball than } was in baseball.” | 1 He had played a bit of basketball at Ohio State be fore becoming ineligible by signing a baseball contract, put he was rusty and, in addition, the Warriors had the sensational Paul Arizin. Thus, that first season, despite height Johnston stood in Arizin’s shadow. • i By then‘Arizin was called into service and since then bhnston has come into his own. “And he’ll be even greater in the next few years,” lottlieb lauded. “He learns fast and he works hard to orrect his faults.” There are those in pro basketball who snicker at bhnston’s “awkwardness.” But nobody among the oppo- Ition laughs at the way he pours the ball through the I Gets Points 1 “Awkward or not,” Gottlieb declared, “he gets his Dints on accuracy with a fine hook shot and a good out- ? ide lot. And Neil has more moves and deception than ny big man I ever saw.” He’s durable, too, this slow - speaking, fast-moving lan who was honored by the New York writers Monday is the outstanding pro player of the year. In two years FREE TRACTOR TOTAL PRICE $265.00 One John Deere Two-Row Tractor ’ Delivered Free Os Charge With The Equipment Below: 1— John Deere Two Row Cultivator T John Deere Two Row Planter 1— John Deere Two Row Fertilizer Att. IcUH NACMIERY CO. Si ' ' ■ . ] Benson Hgwy. Dunn, N. C. NOTICE The first meeting of the Board of Equaliza tion and Review of 1954 will be held at 10 o'clock a. m. March 22, in the courthouse in Lillington. The following townships will be heard: Buckhorn, Hector's Creek, Black River, Neill's Creek, Grove, Duke and Averasboro. Only property owners whose veal estate Wmliim Imua rlinnntirl w,:ll U* » j “5 viQVe do neara. SERIES C. JOlillOll Tax Supervisor Hnmiitt PncMihr namerr county he has never missed a game and in 72 games this year he averaged 46 minutes per contest. Another thing which makes him happy is Gottlieb’s admission that even when Arizin comes back there will have to be a place for Neil. Maybe his dad isn’t happy, but Johnston is one pitcher who is delighted that his throw ing arm went bad. SPORTS SHORTS CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (01 Out fielder Ted Williams leaves Sancta Maria Hospital Here today on the first step of the long road back to active duty with tire Boston Red Sox. Hie slugger -‘ill wears the elaborate cast whici, encases the ail ing left collarbone he fractured during the opening of spring prac tice at Sarasota, Fla., but this en cumbrance soon may be removed. SUMMIT, N. J. (IP Welter weight champion Kid Gavilan of Cuba, interrupts training for his middleweight championship fight with champion Carl (Bobo) Olson at Chicago April 2, today to fly out to Chicago for a day’s work out before going to South Bend. Ind., Wednesday night to receive Notre Dame University's “athlete of the year award” of 1963. Gavi lan returns here Thursday to re sume training. NEW YORK (ffl Welterweight contender Billy Oraham of New York will enter Flower Hospital today for an appendectomy. The operation will cause a cancellation of a bout with Vinnie D’Andrea at Johnstown, Pa., March 25. NEW YORK (01 Matchmaker Teddy Brenner of Brooklyn's East ern Parkway Arena today aban doned plans to revive the bantam weight class because of Nate Brooks' superiority and the lack of public Interest in the division. Mon day night young Brooks of Cleve land, North American bantam champion, won a “shut-out” non title decision over ex-champ Henry (Pappy) Gault in a TV 10-round er. None of the three ring officials gave Gault a round. DENVER (W H>e lesser lights of the National industrial Basket ball League see action today In a continuance of first round play in the 47th annual National AAU basketball tournament here with the featured game expected to be the clash between Kirby Shoes of Los Angeles and Allen Bradley of Milwaukee. BOSTON m Tony DeMarco. 146. of Boston won a second round technical knockout over Wilbur Wilson, 148, also of Boston, in the main event of a Boston Garden card that drew 10.289 fans Mon day night. Referee Mel Manning stopped the fight at 2:35 of the sec ond after the favored 21-year-old DeMarco had jarred his Negro op ponent with a smashing left hook. NEW YORK (W Nell Johns ton, the Philadelphia Warriors' for mer baseball pitcher who now hurls strikes at the basket, was officially crowned today as the National Bas ketball Association’s regular-sea son scoring champion for the sec ond straight year. Final official statistics credited the 6-8 pivot man with a grand total of 1.759 points for the regular season—a lead of 376 points over runnerup Bob Cou sy of the Boston Celtics. NEW ORLEANS (ffl Hie Sugar Bowl said today that Notre Dame and Holy Cross, National Invita tion Tournameiit champions, have accented Invitations to plav in the annual Sugar Bowl basketball tour Goinq Fishing or Hunting? Hardware Co. BUNN, N. C. FOR ALL YOUR FISHING AND HUNTING NEED* Tftß PAIL’S RECORD, DUNN, N. C. nament here Dec. 29-39. Two other teams are to be selected for the four-team tournament after bas ketball Chairman Claud Simons re turns from scouting NCAA finals at Kansas City this Friday and Saturday. MONTREAL (W Hie Detroit Red Wings and their bellwether Gordie Howe still ruled the Na tional Hockey League’s team and Individual standings today as the six clubs headed into the final week of their 70-game schedule. The Red Wings were beaten twice dur ing last weekend by the fifth place New York Rangers but still man aged to clinch - their sixth straight NHL championship with 85 points, eight more than the second place Montreal Canadiens and nine more than the Toronto Maple Leafs. NEW YORK (IP George (Red) Sullivan, sharpshooting center of the Hershey Bears, needed only six more points in the American Hockey League season scoring mark of 118 points. Sullivan picked up eight points last week in games played through Sunday to gain a clear-cut lead over all other top scorers. Os his total of 112 points, 30 have come on goals while he has racked up 82 assists, bettering the old league mark of 76 held by Ab DeMarco. NEW YORK (m The Holiday Festival Tournament today snub bed all but one New York college and turned to powerhouse teams from elsewhere In the nation In picking the field for Its topnotch basketball carnival next Christmas week. Instead oi picking three lo cal teams in the eight-team field, as had been the case in previous "Festivals,” the selection commit tee named only St. John’s from the local squads. Air Force Cm tinned frm Par. One) column In Congress by Rep. Fran ces P. Bolton TR-O). An Interna tionally circulated magazine then used the figure, apparently on the basis of Mrs. Bolton’s mention. A couple of weeks ago a British Sunday newspaper with a cumula tion of some five million asked the Air Force about It and got a flat denial. But It went right ahead and claimed there were 70,000 illegiti mate babies. Evidently it takes more than an Tito Ihterviewed MARIHAt mo, president of Yugo slavia, poses tor Lee Ettelson, ex ecutive editor of tha Chicago American, at an Interview in Zag teb. Tito indicated that he favors a seat tor Rad China In the United Nations. He said, however, that tan wouldn’t guarantee that such recognition of Communist wpuld necessarily end hostilities in todo-Chlna or settle the Korean vnM*n. (International) Quality DUNN, H, C, Fled To Freedom wwmgr j SAFE in West Berlin, LL Ivano vich Grigoryev, Russian army of ficer, tells newsmen how he and a girl friend decided to escape the Red Zone while bringing a Com munist soldier to headquarters. Instead of returning, they took shelter in tha British sector and were picked up by the authorities. The lieutenant and "Fraulein X” sought asylum but their prisoner chose to return. (International) official statement to kill a rumor like this,” Baker said. SUIT VALUES TAILORED TO FIT EVERY BUDGET **— l —. jiH \\’ C / I H Ik ir’ Hjb m C VIBi I //£}JL y/i INC I Hi Ay 0 I I Ifn m ! Church To I iCulfanM (MB SSI* ml ed at the Godwin and McMillan Churches and pioneered a new work, the Grove Presbyterian Church on the Jonesboro Road. The building for the new work was constructed In 1918. j During his pastorate here, Dr. . McQueen was one of the most hon ored men in the church. He ser ved one term as moderator of the Presbyterian Church senate, two 1 terms as a commissioner for the chufth General Assembly of the U. S., and for 25 years headed the Home Missions Department of the j Fayetteville Church District. I Not only was he active In his jown community, but Dr. McQueen was also active in other works. He served for 25 years as a member of Number One in power Come Drive CHRYSLER 235h P . Anything less is yesterday’s car COATS MOTOR CO. Coats, N. C. TUESDAY AWERttOON, MARCH 18, 1154 the Flora Macdonald Board of i Trustees, and was for a number of vears chairman of the Board of Trustees of Dsvtdaon College. ' The Rev. Ricnard R. Gammon succeeded Dr. McQueen as pastor of the local Presbyterian Church I in 1948, the first new pastor the church had had in 39 years. Following the Sunday morning services, Rev. Gammon will present Dr. Roy L. Pridgen, dentist of Fay etteville, who will present tile oil painting in honor of bis parents. The portrait was painted by Con nelly Pridgen, also a member of the local family and one of the State’s most outstanding portrait painters, from a picture taken around 1940. Guyton Smith, member of the Presbyterian Church Board, will accept the painting on behalf of the church and will place it in the church parlor. Rev. Oammon will review the work accomplished by Dr. MoQueen and pay tribute to his service to the church. The portrait will be unveiled by , a son of the painter. HostM* mo Kao* *a Yoar Do* with Gita A Groodaft Irao* Friendly Badao*j fMjbbon and Yoogf CM* sad Social 7 FaUmlMtall fir owsaJaa a ft TWa Birth of a Bob* Sixteenth Birthday* Y-f g—us rAimnssnoaoMßii Chan** of roaidoaaao Arrival* *1 Nawaaaaaaa ti Mr*. R. J. Denny U7B DUNN, N. C.
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