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N.C.) DAILY TIMES-NEWS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, If you can answer all these racing questions, then you have a right to rate yourself as an expert on the sport. QUESTIONS: 1. Think back over the years and see if you can recall the name of the NASCAR driver who holds the record for the most Grand National races won in one racing season. Was it Marvin Panch, Red Byron, Tim Flock, Fireball Roberts, Fonty Flock, Herb Thomas, Ned Jarrett, Buck Baker or Lee Petty. 2.

Marvin Panch qualified at 84.905 miles per hour at the one-half mile Weaverville track, and the track claims it as a world mark. David Pearson qualified at 86.289 at Lincoln Speedway, and this, too, is claimed as a record. Which one is the true 3. What are the names of some of the top motor racing papers which can be bought by subscription or on the newsstand? 4. The seventh annual Daytona 500 will be run on Feb.

14. Was there ever a Daytona 500 run in which the first two finishers were clocked at the save average speed. If so, who were the two drivers? 5. Will Ferari cars race in the GT class this year? ANSWERS: 1. The man who holds the Alabama Loses Namath, But Texas Worried About Sloan Michigan, Oregon St.

Workout In Bad Rains MIAMI Alabama probably has lost star quarterback Joe Namath for the Orange Bowl football game here Friday night, but Texas isn't chortling. "We're more afraid of Steve Sloan," said Texas Coach Dan-ell Royal, upon hearing that Namath's fragile right knee had buckled on him again in Monday's practice. "This Sloan is a good passer and runner. He's the boy who brought Alabama through." Sloan, also handicapped by a ad right knee, probably will lave to carry the signal-calling nirden for the Crimson Tide if Namath's injury ties him to the sideline. This appeared likely today hree days before the night game between the nation's No.

1 and No. 5 ranked college elevens and Sloan himself is a doubtful quantity. Namath, called by Coach Paul Bryant "the greatest football (layer I ever saw, went down in ain while executing a simple handoff during a drill Monday. "Oh, no, not this," Bryant groaned, as the rugged 6-foot-3 passing whiz from Beaver Falls, was carried to the dressing room. Later, Namath was on crutches.

The injury threw a blanket of gloom over the camp of the Alabama team, rated a six-point Rose Bowl meeting Friday. The weather took a turn for the better for the first time in a week as Michigan held a two- hour practice session Monday. Oregon, meanwhile, practiced for only 40 minutes before coach Tommy Prothro called his boys in, saying he was displeased with their work. "We still don't know far along our boys are in preparing for the game," Michigan coach Bump Elliott told a meeting of the Southern California football writers Monday. "I like, the way it looks out there now, and hope it stays that way for "the rest of the week," Elliott said, looking out the window at the bright sun.

But midway through the afternoon practice session the sun went behind the clouds again. Overcast skies and a weeklong rain have bothered both! mark for most wins in a sea- favorite over Texas, which" was teams during their first week of son is Tim Flock, of the national champion in 1963 and'preparations. famed Atlanta racing broth- lost only one game on its 10-1 The forecast is for, more rain game schedule this year. 'in the next two with clear That was a one point setback skies expected Thursday and (JPI Telephoto) Ducats Being Sold New Era Opens In KC; Finley, City Speaking KANSAS CITY (AP) Charles 0. Finley, who considers himself a good salesman, has sold season tickets to each of the 12 city councilmen and he calls it the opening of a new era for his Kansas City Athletics.

Hanging over the city now is a goal of 5,000 season tickets to be sold in the next few months. The Chamber of Commerce and city officials pledged full cooperation in the campaign following an amicable meeting with Finley Monday. Finley, who made his fortune selling insurance, hadn't gotten to first base with his ticket drive prior to the meeting. Civic leaders were aloof because Finley was pushing a lawsuit that would give him an escape clause to move the baseball club to another city. At Monday's session Finley way to keep this club here is to support it." Then the councilmen signed their ticket orders.

told the council he was dropping the lawsuit. He promised that the club would stay in Kansas City for the three-year duration Virginia Mills, Curriii Hay Win At YMCA In the opening game of the YMCA Alamance Sporting Goods Holiday Basketball Tournament, Virginia Mills stomped Jack's Grill, 95 43. The winners dominated the boards and led all the way. Bill Eidson with 30 points and Bob Lawrence with 21 points topped the winners at the nets. Freo Webster led Jack's Grill with nine points.

The second game of the night was close until the last few minutes of the game with Currin by Arkansas. Alabama hadn't figured to run against Texas, the country's sixth strongpst team on defense against rushing. Its principal hopes lay in Namath's accurate arm. The 55-man Texas squad flew again for the game. Neither team has played in the rain this season.

Michigan playee Ohio State in bitter cold and wind on the final day of the regular season, while the Beavers played during a brief show- into town Monday. Phil Harris, in their game at Colorado, a 190-pound wingback, is the Prothro said he wouldn't have main casualty another knee I held practice at all Monday if' haskpThTlTcnmnetition returns racp and Rnva! said ho the rain haH basketball competition returns, ers. Tim won 18 Grand Nationals in 1955. The runner- up is Ned Jarrett who, in 1964, came in first in 15 GNs. 2.

Both are true records. Weaverville holds the mark for paved tracks, and Lincoln for dirt tracks. 3. Illustrated a News. Competition Press.

National Speed Sport New. Southern Motor Racing. Southern Motor Sports Journal, Motor Sports News. Motor Classics. 4.

Lee Petty and Johnny Beauchamp finished in what appeared to be a dead heat in the 1959 500 at Daytona International Speedway. A study of photographs decided the race in favor of Petty. Both were clocked at an average speed for the race 135.521 miles per hour. 5. Manufacturer Enzo Fer- season before each took the his Orangemen meet rari says he will not compete chance to show what he in the 30th renewal of the in the GT class this year, only Sugar Bowl classic Friday.

Nebraska, under sophomore The last time Syracuse played Bob Churchich, rolled to a 9-11 a Southeastern Conference team record. was 1953 an Schwartzwalder Texas Ail-American Linebacker TOMMY NOBIS Is Welcomed To Miami By Orange Bowl Queen LINDA EGLAN'D; The Longhorns Face Alabama of its stadium lease. "I hope the attendance will be enou th we for many years." Finley said. -Duke Vs. Wake Big Four Basketball Set For Greensboro GREENSBORO Big Four ament showdown was Wake and Hay winning over Spoon's Grocery, 90 80.

Jim Dpnnan and Bill Gentry led the winners at the nets with 29 i apiece, while Twig (Showboat) 'Wiggins topped the floor play. saia John Garrison led the losers Two Pro Grid Teams Mayor Ilus W. Davis 1 1 VJICtl 1 the litigation clears i 29 ints way for us to participate in The se rni finals will be a paign etwe played tonight at the YMCA. sell 5,000 season tickets. The Dairy meets Virginia Mills at 7:00 p.m., and Earnhardt Salad plays Currin and a in the second game.

The public is invited to attend. A small admission will be charged. Hawks Drop Ax On Pilot Ajjaiii case and Royal said he the rain had continued. wouldn't know until late today whether Harris would be ready I NEW ORLEANS (AP) Ben to play. DALLAS (AP)-There's a difference in their ages and experience but the quarterbacks of the Cotton Bowl game have a great deal in common when it mmpq to playing football.

It was the third game of the Schwartzwalder, paratrooper who the onetime guides Syracuse on the gridiron, is a man with a mission. He wants to prove to the world that the brand of college football played in the East is up to par with the kind played in Dixie. He'll get his chance when to North Carolina soil after a two-week absence Saturday night and it could well be a preview of next March's ST. LOUIS (AP) Ben Ker- championship the Atlantic showdown in Coast Confer- in Formula 1 and prototype. NOTE: If you have any questions regarding racing, address them to Racing Quiz, care of Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Fla.

Burlington Boy Junior Champ PINEHURST Steve Walker son of Shamrock Park professional Calvin Walker, won the Division title in the Donald J. Ross Junior golf tournament here over the weekend. Walker and Jim Player Jr. of Florence, S. C.

were tied after regulation play of the finals. The Burlington youth birdied the third hole of a sudden-death playoff to cop the championship in the 12-15 age bracket. Arkansas under five-year senior Fred Marshall, never lost a game. Churchich got to show his would prefer to forget that game. Alabama stunned the Orangemen 61-6 and walder's words in Eastern Central Builders Wins Three Points LEAKSVILLE a Builders moved to within three and one-half points of first place in the North Carolina Travel League here Sunday afternoon.

The Burlington team blanked Luck's Beans of Asheboro 3-0 in Sunday's match. Central Builders' next match will be Jan. 17 event. in a position round Graham Girls, Alumni Vie Tonight HAW RIVER The Graham varsity girls' basketball team takes on the Graham Alumni here tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Former All-State star Jeanne Swanner and All-County star Diana Epps will lead the Alumni.

stuff when the regular quarterback, Fred Duda, went out with college football back 10 years." an injury. That decade is up and Marshall, who had become 'Schqartzwalder says his team the startmg quarterback on the'knows "they'll have to play well basis of what he did in spring to hold up their end." training, was terrible in the first On Syracuse's great sopho- game against Oklahoma State. more halfback, Floyd Little, He suffered a shoulder injury, jn much of the Orange to be sure, but that was part of the excuse to hold him out of the second game against Tulsa. This and the fact that he had been too tight, had overshot his receivers and had gained only seven yards running with the ball. Coach Frank Broyles wasn't going to put him back in because of the possibility of wrecking his football career.

Two bad games in a row would have meant the finish. Then Broyles tried him against Texas Christian in the third game of the season and he came through. He ran, passed and directed Arkansas to a 29-6 victory. Ronnie Waldo, Rice's sophomore quarterback, led the Owl baseball team in hitting last spring. From then on there just wasn't any doubt about wl would be the Arkansas quarterback.

Marshall compiled 1,094 yards in total offense, passed for four touchdowns, scored three and made the All-Southwest Conference team. Churchich was untested the day he was called upon to take over for the injured Duda. But that didn't last long. He got the Cornhuskers swinging down the championship lane. He scored four touchdowns, passed for seven, ran for 152 yards and threw for 893.

this past season, against Kansas. PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -It's getting to a point where every minutt counts for Michigan and Oregon State as they continue football drills for their hopes for a Sugar Bowl victory. Little, a bow-legged 193- pounder, picked up 828 yards in 149 carries for the best performance by a sophomore in Syracuse history. That means he was better in his first year than Jimmy Brown and Ernie Davis.

little says being bow-legged helps his balance. "Other gays hit you from the side, one knee hits the other and they go down but my legs won't straighten," Little said at Syracuse's training camp in Pensacola, Fla. The New Haven, product scored 12 touchdowns ence. Nationally eighth ranked Duke and improving Wake Forest will clash on the boards of the Greensboro Coliseum in their traditional holiday battle, beginning at 8 and the game will bring together two teams that have dominated the ACC title picture for the last five years. One or the other has captured the coveted championship of the ACC during that five-year span, and in addition the two old rivals have met in the finals of the title tournament four of those five years.

Duke has won the last two, beating the Deacons each time. Wake was the chipion the two years before that, beating the Blue Devils once and Clcmson once after the Tigers had put out Duke in a major upset. In 1960, the first season for Vic Bubas as Duke coach, the Blue Devils also won the title, and their victim in the tourn- ATLANTA (AP) All-America tackle Jim Wilson of the University of Georgia is reported to have played his last season of er, the St. Louis Hawks owner football eligibility under a who chan Coaches wit thc same ease that New Years res- contract with the olutions are broken? is ready to Boston Patriots of the American. begin 1965 with a new one.

Football League, the Atlanta' Kerner dropped the ax Mon- Constitution said in today's edi- day on Harry Gallatin and tions. The Constitution quoted Pa- Forest In the early skirmishing this season both the Blue Devils and Deacons have shown signs that they will not abdicate their position of ACC dominance easily. Duke is 3-0 in the conference coming into the Greensboro headliner, and Wake Forest is 3-1. Both Wake Forest and Duke will return to action on the road earlier in the week be- our files the contract of Geor-Jtime was short, realizing he had named veteran Richie Guerin as player-coach of the National trio's President William H. Sul-j Basketball Association club.

livan Jr. as saying: "We Gallatin must have known his fore their game here, an annual duel the two following the demise of the Dixie Classic. Wake Forest is competing in the Gator Bowl tournament in Jacksonville, tonight and Wednesday, while Duke travels to Ohio State Wednesday. Loctil Elks Gain To 34 Victory The Burlington Elks basketball team rallied from a three- point defficit at halftime to hand the visiting Raleigh Elks a 45-34 defeat here yesterday. Jay Wrenn led the winners at the nets with nine points, while Saturday night's game in the local arena stacks up as a major scoring battle pitting Duke's Bob Varga and Jack Martin against Wake's Bob Leonard and Ronny Watts.

is averaring 20 5 points. Marin 183. with Leonard hitting 19 7 a game and Watts 196. Tickets are going at a brisk pace and will remain on sale at the Coliseum box office and Thalhimer's-Ellis Stone downtown at regular hours during the coming week five coming Sellars' Girls Play Tonight A basketball doubleheader is on tap at the Sellars-Gunn Gymnasium tonight at 7 o'clock when the school's girls team takes on Randolph High. The Sellars squad engages the Randolph team in the second game.

Shirley Allen, a senior who is averaging 20 points per game, is expected to pace the local girls. In their last game, the Tigerettes downed Little River of Durham by a 44-25 margin. They are tied with Central High of Graham for top place in conference action. Johnson Will Pilot Ford At Daytona In February DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Jun- all NASCAR drivers to watch.

iackle Jim Wilson. We been leading the Hawks for signed him with no coercion and I seasons. Kerner has had ninefTom Ross and Ronnie Morgan he indicated to us that he oaches in the 10 seasons the chipped in with eight each. The tended to play in Boston this club has been in St. Louis, and victory ran the Elks record to year." (none has lasted that long.

'4-1 on the season. Last Saturday afternoon Wilson signed a professional contract with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. Wilson told the Constitution: "They told me that I could sign an undated agreement to play with them and that they would not date it until after Georgia's 1964 season ended, and in that manner. I would be able to complete my career at Georgia 1 signed this agreement which was not dated and I did not consider it a valid contract. I signed with San Francisco on Dec.

26 and intend to play with them." University of Georgia officials! said at Athens they wanted to! investigate the matter fully be fore commenting. Thousands Of Taxpayers Lose Money Every Year Because Of Filing Incorrect Tax Returns KNOW YOUR DEDUCTIONS! income Tax Course Begins January 4 7 Day and Night Classes BURLINGTON BUSINESS COLLEGE DIAL CA 6-2262 ior Johnson, generally recognized as the hardest charging stock car driver of them all, will seek his second win in the Daytona 500 when that fastest, richest late model race is run at Daytona International Speed- Johnson holds the record for a 100 mile race at Daytona International Speedway. He set the mark 170.777 miles per- hour in a Dodge last February. Johnson's ride in a Ford here I way on Feb. 14.

i next February will be the first The North Carolina flyer will time he has driven a Ford in be at the wheel of his own 1965 the 500 since 1959. FANFARE Ditzcn Ford. On his official entry Johnson is listed as owner and Herb Nab as mechanic. Nab is one of the sports top master me- lanics, and is the man who et up Freddie Lorenzen's car 1964, and also in 1963 when reddie won more than $100,000 i purses. The 1965 race will mark Johnn's seventh straight appear- nce in the Daytona 500.

He ran the inaugural 500 in 1959 and II succeeding years. In 1960 he ras first across the wining line in a Chevrolet that ras readied by Ray Fox. One of thc most exciting of More than 80,000 fans saw the 1964 running ot the 500, and ad-j vance ticket sales indicate that an even larger crowd will be on hand on Feb. 14 when a field limited to 50 of the world's fastest late model stock cars goes to the post. The 500 is the major event of the annual Daytona Weeks." National Basketball Assocation By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday's Results Detroit 123, New York 117 Boston 133, Los Angeles 112 Cincinnati 113, San Fran.

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