Sunday Gazette-Mail from Charleston, West Virginia • Page 52

Nov. 30,197 5 Sunday G'aseMe-Mael Cnarles'bn. ttest Virginia WVU Courting Alexander Early The very fact that South Charleston High School's great running back--Robert Alexander--is being honored today at the 17th annual Morgantown Touchdown Club dinner should give football fans a good idea of how highly the West Virginia Mountaineers rate him as a prospect. He's the first junior to be so honored at this dinner, which is held each year to honor the Mountaineer a a their subordinates. And chances are, he'll be the i player to be invited two years in a row as the Touch- downers most likely will have him back again.

To give you an Manchin idea of how well-planned this campaign is to sell Sir Robert on West Virginia is the fact that the Touch- downers are bringing in that talented toastmaster. A. James Manchin, to do the honors at the dinner. And if anyone can paint a pretty picture of Mountaineer football, the academic excellence of WVU and its other attributes, then A. James can.

He'll put aside all his junked cars, which he handles in his daily gathering of vehicles from the beautiful mountainsides of West Virginia, just long enough to pay respects to Bobby Bowden and his team in general and Alexander in' particular, who has already been described by WVU coaches as "possibly the best backfield prospect to come out of West Virginia high schools in a decade or Even A. James Would Step Aside Vince Gibson, the U. of Louisville football coach, is to be the principal speaker at the dinner, which will attract some 500 people to the Morgantown Elks Club. The affair begins at 6 p.m. If it weren't for Alexander, Manchin would be the chief attraction.

But A. James says he is perfectly willing to take a back seat in favor of the South Charleston hero. "I heard he is the greatest back since Kerry Marbury (of Monongah)," says Manchin, "so it is incumbent upon we West Virginians to convince Alexander that WVU is the place for him to play his college football." Manchin is not without coaching knowledge. He served seven years in the ranks and had as much to do with developing high school wrestling in this state as anyone else. He came up with Rupert High School's first team back in 1954 and also served coaching terms at such places as Smoot, Webster Springs, Hundred and Vienna.

"We used to wrestle on bed mattresses, but we got the job done," Manchin Marshall Grid Fans Left in Excitement Marshall football coaches are going all out in their recruiting program, now that the season has ended on an almost happpy note. Coach Frank Elwood's Herd gave Ohio U. a tremendous-battle last week before going down in the final game of the campaign. Their freshmen-dominated team left everyone with the conviction a there are some great days ahead--and this is not more of the old Marshall swan song "wait'll next Athletic director Joe McMullen's schedule for this past season didn't send up any rah-rahs from the alumni, but the Herd is slowly coming back to playing cards that will be extremely popular in Huntington. Games with Toledo.

Villanova. Miami. Ohio U. Morehead. Eastern Kentucky, etc.

are comming up. CHESS Here in Charleston, Marshall fans are extremely happy with the first year Coach Ellwood turned in. "They had a lot of freshmen who were s.o good that, we might not even have to sign many backs," said Dave Haden. president of the Kanawha County alumni assn. He and Joe Hunnicutt, who calls himself vice-president of the "Thundering Herd Second Guessers Society." reported that a new press box is being planned for Fair- fiel Stadium and that Marshall, at the moment, is looking ahead to the basketball season with a lot of optimism.

They are booked to play in U. of Maryland's invitational in 1980 and are also looking ahead immediately to their own invitational of 1975, which will bring in Fordham, Kent State and Xavier of Ohio to compete with the Herd Intercollegiate Tourney Planned At Ohio State The 1975-76 Pan-American Intercollegiate Championshp will be held at the Holiday Inn. 328 Lane Columbus, Ohio, December 26-30. The event is sponsored by the Ohio State Chess Club and the Intercollegiate Chess League of America. This 8-round Swiss system tournament is open to all teams of four players (two alternates optional) who are currently enrolled students at the same school.

Schools not already ICLA affiliates may enroll at the tournament. A large number of schools are expected to attend. State chess associations which have contributed or pledged trophies include the W. Va. Chess Assn.

There have been four intercollegiate team championships since the title of the event was changed from North American to Pan-American, More than 100 colleges ahd universities have competed in least one of the past four tourneys. Chicago, Penn State, CCNY, Pennsylvania, Illinois Valley CC, Hunter, and Toronto were represented each year, Toronto, which had tied with Chicago in 1973. won last year's tournament with a 7'z- 1 2 team score. Chicago and Harvard, each e'i-l 1 followed, tieing for the U.S. collegiate championship.

Nebraska. Berkeley. Purdue, and Dartmouth had 6-2 records. 89 teams and 380 players from 29 states and Canada competed for a 84000 prize fund in 1974. The 1975 prize fund of $5000 should attract a record number of schools.

Much of the above story comes from the "ICLA Bulletin" a new quarterly publication, a journal of news, games and features of college chess in the Americas, edited by a who is a Executive Director of CONE (Chess Organizers of New England) and editor of their publication, "Amateur The Charleston, Elk River, and Kings Queens chess clubs continue to carry on witb their various activities. All three organizations welcome visitors and are looking for new members. The local chess group meets on Tuesday evenings at St. John's Parish House, 1105 Quarrier St. "Internatkmai Chess Tournament; The Hague, Hand, Edited aft published by Jiffies R.

Schroe Schroeder, ton. Cleveland, Ohio 44101, $3.00,22 paperback. This is another tournament from the past rescued from oblivion by Schroeder. All 45 games are here, with some annotations (by Dr. Alekhine, Tartakower, Mor- oczy.

etc.) Dr. Alekshine (8-1) won, one point ahead of Tartakower and points ahead of Akiba Rubinstein. The 10-player field also included a youngster named Max Euwe. There is much to be gained in pleasure and instruction from these games, A chess game is a complete entity, opening AND middlegame AND endgame. The masters and grandmasters of 50 years' knew that, too, and played accordingly.

NOTE: Schools interested in entering Sissonville High School team tournament Dec. 13-14 should call David Nunley at 984-3286. Frazier Chosen Top I.L. Manager NORFOLK, Va. (AP) Joe Frazier, who led the Tidewater Tides to the International League pennant and recently was chosen to manage the parent New York Mets of the National League, was named Saturday the IL's Manager of the Year for 1975.

Tidewater outfielder Mike Vail was chosen the league's most valuable player and Craig Swan made it a Tidewater sweep by being selected the most valuable pitcher. Frazier received 19 votes from league baseball writers and broadcasters in the manager of the yearballoting. Two votes were cast for Joe Altobelli of Rochester and one for Bobby Cox of Syracuse. The vote on the most valuable player was almost as decisive. Vail, who batted .342 for the Tides, who won both the regular season and playoff titles before bowing to American Association champion Indianapolis in the Junior World Series, got 12 votes to three for outfielder Royle Stillman of Rochester and one for outfielder Tony Armas of Carles- Griffin Favored In Heisman Again Brain Injuries Fatal to Boxer NEW YORK (AP) Ohio State's Archie Griffin, major college football's first yard ground-gainer, is favored to become the first player to win the Heisman Trophy twice.

The Heisman winner will be announced Tuesday and Griffin, a senior, hopes to break the jinx that struck four others who won the award in their junior seasons, which Griffin did in 1974. The four who failed to repeat were Army's Doc Blanchard in 1946. Doak Walker of Southern Methodist in 1949, Ohio State's Vic Janowicz in 1951 and Navy's Roger Staubach in 1964. The winners those years were, in order, Army's Glenn Davis, Notre Dame's Leon Hart, Princeton's Dick Kazmaier and Notre Dame's John Huarte. In their senior years, though, Staubach's team went 3-6-1, Janowicz' 4-3-2 and Walker's 5-4-1 while Davis had a big senior campaign after finishing second in the Heisman balloting the two previous seasons.

Missed All-Time Record Griffin fell 121 yards short in his bid to break the all-time collegiate rushing mark of 5,297 set by Howard Stevens in two years at Randolph-Macon, a College Divi- Defenders Save Roses For UCLA LOS ANGELES (AP) "With three minutes to go, I thought UCLA had fumbled us into the Rose Bowl," said California Athletic Director Dave Maggard. Then Maggard added the postscript that will keep his football team at home and send the Bruins bowling on New Year's Day: "But the UCLA defense did the job." That it did. Maligned for much of this football season, the Bruins' defense was put to the test countless times Friday night because the UCLA offense gave the ball away nine times--eight on fumbles. Particularly in the final minutes of the game, when Southern Cal had several opportunities to win or tie--either of which would have sent California to the Rose Bowl--the UCLA defense proved superior and the Bruins came away with a 25-22 victory and a Jan. 1 date against top-ranked Ohio STate.

California and UCLA both had 6-1 Pacific-8 Conference records, but the Bruins beat the Bears 28-14 and that gave UCLA the trip to Pasedena. Defense Surprising Maggard had hoped to view a USC victory. "I told J.D. Morgan before the game that I didn't think his defense could stop USC," he said. "But the UCLA defense really surprised me.

They played very well in the clutch. They have improved greatly since early in the year." UCLA will meet an Ohio State team which defeated the Bruins 41-20 last Oct. 4 here. At that time, UCLA Coach Dick Vermeil said that despite giving up 41 points, he was pleased with his defense. It has since been borne out: the Bruins had not permitted 20 points to any other team this year, and wouldn't have permitted 22 Friday night had it not been for the offense's generous give-away program.

John Sciarra, who some have said is the nation's finest quarterback this year, passed sparingly, completing only three. But two were to tight end Don Pederson for touchdowns, strikes of 18 and 19 yards. They gave UCLA a 25-14 lead and Ricky Bell's second touchdown made the game close in the fourth period. But had not the UCLA offense fumbled 11 times, losing eight, the game might have been a runaway. Bruins 414 Yards The Bruins had 414 yards in total offense while Bell; the nation's leading rusher, wound up with his 10th 100-yard game of the year and 136 yards rushing.

But he fell six yards short of Ed Marinaro's NCAA record for most yards rushing in one year. The fumbles were rare for a UCLA team which uses the high-risk Veer-T offense. But when it counted, the UCLA defense turned in perhaps its best performance of the year. "Anyone who thinks our defense isn't good is crazy," said a most vocal Sciarra. "We played good defense from the second quarter on," said Vermeil.

"There's no question we're a better team since we played Ohio State. I'm glad we turned it over and got it out of our system. We'll represent the Pac-8 as well or better than any other team." Maggard, resigned to a season that is over for the California team, said, "I think we would have played Ohio State as well as anybody." UCLA's defense made that only a bit of final conjecture. Newcombe to Face Rosewall in Finals TOKYO (AP) Defending champion John Newcombe and veteran Ken Rosewall will play an all-Australian men's singles final Sunday in a $100,000 international tennis tournament. Newcombe, the defending champion, advanced with a 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 semifinal triumph over Australian Tony Roche on Saturday while Rosewall beat Stan Smith 6-3, 7-5 on Friday.

Francoise Durr of France moved into Sunday's women's singles final against defending titlist Chris Evert of the United States, beating Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia Saturday. Miss Evert ousted Olga Morozova of Union Friday. sion school, and two years at Louisville. Griffin finished the 1975 regular season with 1,157 yards on 245 carries. Last year, he carried 236 times for 1,620 yards.

And his record streak of gaining more than 100 yards in 31 consecutive regular-season games--he also missed in last season's Rose Bowl--ended in the 1975 finale when Michigan held him to 46 yards in 19 rushes. Offensive backfield players have won 38 of the 40 previous Heisman Trophies, prsented annually by the Downtown Athletic Club of New York "to the outstanding college football player in the United States." This year probably will be no exception. Griffin's main competition is expected to come from running backs Ricky Bell of Southern California, Chuck Muncie of California, Tony Dorsett of Pittsburgh, Joe Washington of Oklahoma and quarterback John Sciarra of UCLA. The only linemen ever to win the Heisman were ends Larry Kelley of Yale in 1936 and Hart of Notre Dame in 1949. The 1975 Heisman winner will be honored at a dinner in New York Dec.

11. LAS VEGAS (AP) Lightweight boxer Roy Holloway of Los Angeles died Friday night of a brain injury suffered during a ring mishap. Holloway died of severe swelling of the brain stem after being knocked out in a fight Wednesday night, a spokesman at Valley Hospital said. An autopsy has been ordered. Holloway struck his head on the press table when he was knocked out of the ring in the 10th round of a fight against Maguel Mayon.

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