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18 TBSE CABCUNUUI KALCIOB, N. C., SATURDAY. iSmiMBBB S. ll)A STUNNED BY RIGHT CROSS New (Means, La.: Curtis Cokes, right, of Dallas, Texas, stuns Manuel Gonzalez, of Houston, with a right cross in the 12th round of their welterweight championship fight here last Wednesday night. Cokes scored a unanimous 15-round decision to win the vacant work! welterweight title. (UPI PHOTO). Otis Taylor Best Since Alworth, Declares Chiefs Coach Hank Strom One of the finest accolades a young player can receive i- to have his name mentioned in the same breath ''-if!: •> sup' : -tvi'. Otis Tavku of the Kansas City Chiefs is one of tie • .select . Hank Strum, Kans=s cit head C( 1 ;ch, <alß !?■ - • ■■■: old Taylor, who played a sensa tional game in last Satur hay’s second r of the AFL’s first doubled' ..Ts at Ana!.' Calif., is "the finest flanker prospect to come into the AFL, since I ance Alwort’n!” The lonr-logged, sure-hand - ed pass receiver put on quite a show at Anaheim, as the Chiefs ' . ' . V V#. V “SAY HEY’’ WILLIE ON GOLF COURSE Hillsborough, Calif.: With the San Francisco Giants having an off day August 18, stai centerfiel ier and right-handed home run king Willie Mays went out for a round of gull at nearby Crystal Springs Golf course M., s, who broke Jimmy Eoxx'shome run record of 53d. is shown on puttim croon. (UPI PHOTO). Predict All-Pro Honors For Grambling Gridders BY COT.I E NICHOLSON GRAMBLING, La. (NPI) -- An indication of how the Gi am bling College football reservoir is overflowing into the Ameri can and National Leagues is il lustrated In the selection of four ex-tigers for All-Pro hon ors in current pre-season pre dictions. Two tackles, a corner back and a defensive end are visu alized for Mid-December head lines in forecasts by Sports Review, All-Pro Football an nual, Pro Football Almanac, Pro Football 1966, Times Pic ayune and the Pittsburgh Cour ier. Willie Davis, defensive cap tain of the NFL Champion Green Bay Packer, and Ernie Ladd, ■well-heeled 300-pound Houston Oiler tackle, are unanimous choices in the newspaper and magazine articles. Davis’ spirited leadership and his slashing, Grambling maneuvers have made him one of football’s greatest menace to quarterbacks. Ladd sub scribes to the same stature in the AFL. Junious Buchanan, Kansas City chief tackle, and Roose velt Taylor, Elder Statesman of the Chicago Bear secondary, are the other ex-Tigers en tranced in All-Pro spots. Buchanan, a 285-pound gi ant, has had opponents raving about his powehs since the Dal las Texans made him the No. v.on their ilaird straight pre season game, 24-21 over the San piiego Chargers. Otis did ev erything as he caught fivepass '•s for 144 ■ rds. He display ed his faking finesse, his speed and hi" sure hands as he en joved a great night. And he was on the receiving end of a 75- yard touchdown play which was nullified by a penalty! What made Otis’ big night oven more impressive was the fact that he hadn’t practiced for two weeks with the club. Tay lor joined the team just in time Frida- for the flight to South ern California after two weeks 1 draft choice in the American I vague in 1962. Taylor lias reached the pin nacle of success playing the toughest defensive position in pro football for the Bears as a right corner back. While he is just approaching his prime, Taylor has been selected on NFL All-Pro teams fur the past two yoai s. LennexYearwood Sets World Record In Relay GRAMBLING, I.a. - Gazelle gaited Lennox Yearwood, a Grambling College sophomore from the West Indies, was a member of the Trinidad and To bago team that set a world re cord in the mile relay Satur day in the British Empire games in Kingston, Jamaica. The speedy quartet covered the distance in 3:04.5 held joint ly by U. S., teams from Arizona State, Oregon State and the Southern University Track Club. Wendell Mottley, 440-yard gold medalist in the British Em pire games, anchored the team with a sizzling 44.5. Y'earwood led off with 47.8, followed by Kent Bernard, 45.7, and Ed Roberts. 44.8, to complete the of ,\ir Force Reserve duty. As Taylor readies himself for his sophomore season in the American Football League, he ■.lives that he has a lot to learn. But he is gratified by one thing. "I can feel that the other players have confidence in me. They’re depending on me. I can’t think about any thing else except to repay that confidence with a good game.’ 1 Otis has come a long way since he was an AU-State quar terback for Worthing High School in Houston, Tex. He re mained a quarterback until well into his freshman season at Prairie View a&M College of Texas. Otis was changed to end when the coaches noticed that he warmed un by “catching” the football instead of passing it. They also took info cognizance his speed and sure hands when deciding on the conversion from quarterback. Otis responded with 42 touchdown catches in four years and capped off his collegiate career bybemgnam ed to the NAIA All-America Team. Drafted fourth by the Chiefs, Otis was brought along slowly last year by Stram. When Chris Burford was sidelined for the last three games last year, Tay lor came into his own. He snag ged 1C passes in those three games for 238 yards and three TDs. It enabled Otis to finish 23rd among the league’s pass receiv - ers with 26 catches for 446 yards (a 17.2 average) and five TDs. However, Taylor was sec ond in total catches among the league’s rookies, just three be hind New York’s George Sauer, Jr. Bisons Begin Pre-Season Grid Drills WASHINGTON, D. C. -Some 35 players, including 10 letter men were expected to report to Coach Tillman Sease at 9 a.m. Thursday, September 1, when the Howard University begins pre-season drills for its 73rd year ol varsity football. The Bisons will work out twice dai ly in preparation for the season opener, a Central Intercollegi ate Association contest with St. Paul’s College, September 24, at Lawrenceville, Va. The Virginians will be the first ol eight opponents for the Bisons this year. Other CLYA foes on tire 1966 schedule in clude Delaware State, Hamntori (Va.) Institute, and Livingstone of Salisbury, N. C. Non-conference games are scheduled with West Virginia State, Fisk of Nashville, and Morehouse of Atlanta. Four backs are among the lettermen who will be on hand Thursday. They include half backs James Dean and Henry Edwards, fullback Wayne Davis, and quarterback Walt White. Dean, Edwards, and Davis are Washingtonians, and White is from Philadelphia. The returning linemen who earned their letters last year include centers Johnny Butler (210, M aeon, Ga.) and Leon Johnson (214, Washington); guards Clyde Mason (192, Balti more) and Bob McFadden (221, Washington); and ends Harold Orr (200, Richmond, Calif,)and Dwight Petit (170, Aberdeen, Md.) The Howard coach, who is be ginning his fifth year at the Washington school, is expected to place freshmen in some of the starting positions. It is almost certain that the tackle spots, vacated by last year's vets, will be filled by freshmen. record effort. Yearwood plans to return to Grambling on Sept. 19. SP 0 Til GHT 0N v L SPORTS H hv Charies J Livingston -—'/ NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL GREATEST RIGHT-HANDED HITTER Fabulous Willie Mays of the pennant-chasing San Francisco Giants has cracked Jimmy Foxx’s career home run record of 334 to become the greatest right-handed hitter in base ball’s history. “Say-Hey” Willie tied Foxx’s record by rifling an eight-inn ing homer over the fightfield fence in the Giants wind-blown Candlestick park in San Fran cisco. His historic homer paced ■ the Giants to a 3-t victory 1 over the Saint Louis Cardinals and enabled his pitching team- ( mate, Gaylord Perry, to regis ter his 19th season victory. With the 535th career homer which also was his 30th of the current season-Mays moved into second place in the major league’s all-time homer race. Babe Ruth, the great “Bam bino’' of yesteryears, holds the record with a prodigious total of 714. Many experts believe that Ruth’s total is beyond Mays; that the “Bambino's” mark will never be broken by Mays or anyone else. However, one can never be sure what Mays will not achieve. Given the chance of sticking around for another six or seven years, he may well top Ruth’s mark. To excell Ruth, however, Wil lis, who, except for his rookie year in 1951 (when he hit only 20), has never hit less than 29 in any season, would have to hit about 10 more homers this season and then hit 30 or more each season for the next six years. Quite a task! Can he do it? That is the big question which only time can answer. But I’ll wager that even if Willie tapers o f i in his remaining major league years, he can overtake Ruth, provid ing, of course, that he plays about s-->ven more \oars. When Willie clouted homer number 535 last week, the par - tisan Candlestick Park crowd of 24,178 stood and roared a great ovation for him. Years to come, those in the crowd, as in the one to witness ldm surpass Foxx, will be able to tell their children about the cherished moment when th-y. watched Mays become the greatest right-hander in base ball. Foxx him soli was a good sport about Mays tying his record ihat had stood for years. He wired his congratulations to Vv illie, and declared: “I hope he (Mays) hits COO. For 25 years, they thought only left-handers could hit the long ones. They even teach light handed youngsters to hit left (switchhit).” “Why, I hit 300 before any other right-hander could hit 400. I’m happy that another right-hander can prove he can hit.” Amen. Though it took Foxx, the former great Philadelphia Ath letics and Philadelphia Phillies star, 20 years to amass his 534 homers, it has taken Willie just 15 years of major league campaigning. And adding Wil lie’s homers in the minors and with the Birmingham Black Ba rons of the Negro American League before he entered or ganized baseball, the “Say- Hey” kid must have clouted close to 800 homers, to say the least. Actually, Mays, up to last week, had amassed the 535 homers in just 13 years of major league campaigning, because he missed most of the 1952 sea son and all of 1953 while in military service. Despite the fact that Willie insists that he does not go after records, but just plays to win, his chief hallmark is achieving the exceptional. Many experts tab him as the greatest center fielder in baseball history, and the greatest all-arounder the game has seen. One facet of Willie’s success is that he is equally effective a hitter against left-handers, as against right-handers. Wil lie eats lefties for breakfast, and therefore doesn’t have to be a switchhitter, It is significant, therefore, that he clouted his 335th homer against a leftle. Al Jackson of the Redbirds, a fine pitcher in his own right, had the dubious distinction of serving up the historic homer to Mays. At the time, the spotlight was on the Dodgers left-handed slugger, Duke Snider, as the game stellar centerfield. But Mays quickly took over the plaudits from Duke. As Mays hit the majors wtfh a bang, the working scribes were tell ing their fellow writers that they had better “run over to the Polo Grounds”, if they really wanted to see a kid (Willie was then 20; he is 35 now) play centerfielder. “Man,” said one scribe, “that guy plays the shallowest centerfield over, has a rifle arm, runs instinctly like a deer and hits with both accuracy and power. He’s a beauty.” And Willie has lived up to all his early press billings. ”o has led the National Lea ■ ir homers four times ■ • 1; ' " hen he hit 51, 1962, when b !i. ' '964, when he clouted 47, and his best season last t ear, when he hit his career high of 52. He twice won the league’s Most Valuable Player award. Records, however, is not Wil lie’s prime objective. “Once you start going for records,” he said, “you start pressing too much and don’t achieve anything.” But whether or not Willie goes after records, he achieve them just the same. What a ballplayer' Mays is to baseball what Leonard: DeVinci was to tech nology. He is the nearest thing to the perfect ballplayer. Say-Hey: THE SPORTS PARADE BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL AARON INCIDENT ATLANTA - Led by Sen. Leroy Johnson, a number of prominent Atlantans have joined forces in demanding the suspen sion of a white city policeman charged with pointing a pistol in the face of Mrs. Barbara Aaron, wife of the Atlanta Braves great righfielder, Hank Aaron, and calling her “nigger”. Sen. Johnson was joined by members of the Metropolitan Atlanta Grass Roots council in demanding the firing of patrolman L. Wayne Bedgood for threatening to blow Mrs. Aaron’s brains out in the incident last July 30, outside the Atlanta stadium. GOLD RECORD SUTTON, Mass. - Bidding tc move to the top in golf as she did in tennis, former Wimbledon women’s singles champion Althea Gibson of Englewood, New Jersey, set a new course record at the Pleasant Valley Count!?-. Club here last week. She shot a sizzling six-under par 68 to better the course's record In one stroke and take the opening round lead in the Lady Calling l. a stern Open Golf tournament. However, she ul timately finished in a 24th place tie in the tournament won by Kathy Whitworth. KENYA’S KKINO TOPS CLARKE KINGSTON, Jamica - Ken ya’s great distant 1 ' runnerKip hoge Keino add Ito his already glowing prestige by out cl a sing yustialu’s Ron Clarke in a three-mile race in the British Empire Commonwealth games in Jamaica’s N itional stadium last week. Keino and Clarke battled each other down to the last lap before the Kenyan won in a burst of sp md in 12,57.6, that was only seven seconds behind Clarke’s own world record. A capacity crowd of 30,000 cheered the long-strid ing African to victory. WOMEN’S GOLFERS GUEST CHICAGO - Joe Louis, ex world heavyweight boxing champion and an avid golfer himself, will be the special guest of the Chicago Women’s Golf club at a press Incheon hosted by the club this Friday to announce the 40th annual United Golfers association’s Open tournament at the Chevy Chase Country club golf course, August 22-26. Held at the downtown Marina City restau rant, the lucheon precedes a dinner-dance hosted by the CWGC at the Chevy Chase club, August 24. PAIGE VS. CLOWNS CHICAGO - Ageless, tireless Leroy (Satchel) Paige returns to the scene of his past major league glory Friday night when he and the New Y'ork Stars take on the fun-making, barnstorm ing Indianapolis Clowns at Co miskey Park. One of baseball’s greatest pitchers, Paige once hurled for the Chicago White Sox several years ago. SIFFORD WINS $1,400 CLIFTON, N. J. - Charlie Sifford, Los Angeles pro, col lected one of his biggest pay checks of the 1966 golf season last week. The long-teeing Sif ford received $1,400 for finishing in a five-way, eight place tie with a total of 287 strokes, in the Thunder bird Open tournament won by Mason Rudolph, who carded 278. FIGHTER OF MONTH NEW YORK - Two-fisted, hard-fighting Emile Griffith of New York retained his middle weight title recently and was quickly named the “Fighter of the Month” by Ring Magazine. However, the Ring withdrew recognition from Griffith as welterweight ruler because boxing rules prohibits a fighter from holding two world titles at the same time. SURPRISE LAS VEGAS, Nevada - Eddie Cotton, 40-year-old journey man from Seattle, Washington, surprised light-heavyweight champion Jose Torres and the fistic experts by holding the champion to a 15-round decision In their title fight last week. The Convention Hall crowd booed the unanimous, but close decision after the fight that was not expected to go the limit because of Torres’ vaunted punching power. CRITICAL AFTER STABBING ARCHIE MOORE VISITS USS ENTERPREF - from. American Savings ABC (Any Boy Can) program "mix it up” during an exhibition boxing match which climaxed their dem onstration of the \BC program aboard the USS Enterprise. Former champion Archie Moore (in white shirt) serves as referee for the match. The match was held on the flight deck, and drew an enthusiastic response front the sailors. Although these students have only been in a boxing ring once before ir. * eir lives, Archie’s expert coaching has made them both good boxers and good citizens. Howard's ‘Sonny' Goodman (lited By US College Sports Publicists CHICAGO - Ernest E. (Sonny) Goodman, director of public re lations at Howard University, Washington, D. C., waspresent ed the Arch Ward Award of the College Sports Information Dir ectors of America during the organization’s annual meeting at the Blsmarck Hotel ia st week. The award, named for the late sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, cited the Howard pub licist as one "who has made an outstanding contribution in the field of college sport*-informa tion, bringing dignity and pres tige to the profession,” Other top awards presented by COSIDA went to Fred Russell, sports editor of the Nashville Banner, an 1 John Underwood of Sports Illustrated. Russell re ceived the Jake Wade Award for his "outstanding contribu tion in the communications me dia to the field of intercollegiate athletics.” Underwood was named recipient of the organi zation’s Backbone Award for displaying "solid judgment and unusual courage on taking a stand on intercollegiate athle tics htch ' vailing opinion and public sen timent.” Specifically, Under wood was cited for his article, "The College (Football) Game is Best.” Goodman was the ninth pub licist to receive CoSlDA’s top award since its establishment in 1058. Former winners in clude Lester Jordan of Southern Methodist University, John Cox of Navy, C. Robert Paul of Pennsylvania, Harold Keith of Oklahoma, Fred St abley of Michigan State, Wil 'S Hallock of California, Nos West of Geor gia Tech, and the late Don Pierce of Kansas. A 1017 graduate of Howard, Goodman lias been a member of the University’s public rela tions staff for the past 16 years, and has served as director of public relations since 1964. He has been a member of CoSida since its beginning in 1955, and served as a member of the or ganization’s executive commit tee from 1961 to 1965. For the past three years Goodman has been chairman of CoSIDA ’s con stitution committee. In 1965 a new constitution was adopted by the group, and just last week new by-laws were adopted to meet the requirements for incorpor ation by non -profit organiza tions in the State of Illinois. A native of Baltimore, where he received his early education, Goodman is a former athlete who has been active in the field of sports information since his college days. In addition to his duties at Howard, he serves as chairman of the public relations committee of the National Col legiate Athletic Association. He holds membership in the DETRPOT -- Doctors at a hospital to which he was rushed last week battled desperately to save the life of Murphy Summons, dribbling ace of Har lem Globetrotters basketball team, after he was stabbed in the heart in a tavern brawl precipitated by an argument between his wife and another woman. Summons was given less than a 50-50 chance to live following a delicate opera tion in which four stitches were required to close the wound in his heart. WRITERS HONOR COACH CHICAGO - Eddie Robinson, Grambling college mentor for the past 25 years, was one of two prominent coaches honored recently by the Football Writ ers Association of America. Robinson, the man credited with "turning Grambling into an aca demic football factory,’ was honored along with head coach Jess Nealy of Rice. SPORTS COURSES LUSAKA - Mai Whitfield, Olympic medallist, currently stationed in Kenya conducting courses in physical education, recreation and sports, has just completed a two month instruc tion program in Zambia Lusaka, Ndola and Fort Jame son. The courses are intended to improve the various coach ing programs in the schools, clubs, and with teams. National Press Club and Capi tal Press Club, both of Wash inton, American College Public Relations Association, Educa ># -•'HV tSBV 1.. W: 1 Wb| wx/wiau ar.KiES LITT LE LEAGUEK Williamsport, Pa,! Blaine Strain, of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, is all smiles as he "totes” a bag of safot; helmets from the practice field The Canadian Little Leaguers met the American Leaguers in Sacramento, California last week. (UPI PHOTO). Seagrams Extra 0 ts Gin $370 L-* $940 w 4/5 QT. Mm PINT i Seagrams 1 : ' Extra 'Dry 1 ertVr At/* As jfS wait** tm ****/»£»*? SB If| SCAGRAM-OISTILLEItS COMPANY, N, Y. 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