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Tennis Talk. by Kay Gibson 1 he uvathor has not been too cooperative during the frw weeks but tennis is still played. Peit Hudson Pensacola-Court Briefs) and Andy Montonin were here tor tennis, steaks, and more tennis. Ditto, Marine Lt. Jim McCabe.

ex Trinity nelter, and Gloria Jean Sullivan, former Junior Girls National Champion. Jim is completing i training at Pensacola NAS, and Gloria is currently employed in Pensacola. We are happy to have Candy and Tom Edlefsen back safe and sound from their South American tour. Tom is taking a well deserved rest before resuming training for the New Orleans Sugar owl Championships December 28th-31st, but will be practicing and playinz exhibition matches in the local area for the next two weeks. Sterling is entered in the Junior division again this year (14 and Under Age Group) and will play doubles with Billy Clarke from Kansas City, Mo.

The Junior Championship is a National Invitational Tournament with more a 350 entries from the US, Canada, and Mexico, and will be played outdoors at the New Orleans City Park Tennis Center. The Mens Champi6nship is limited to 12 of the top amateurs in the world and will be played indoors at the Tulane Gymnasium. Now you know where we will be during the Xmas Holidays. Congratulations to prominent business and civic leader Roger Clary for his decision to put tennis courts at the Silver Beach Motel. Roger also owns the Howard Johnson Motel in FWB but says that he doesn't have space for tennis courts there.

in the finals of recent St. Petersburg Invitational. Wendav McColskev Bov, 'u 3nd Under Tyler Weeks won the in a "i and BrUCe Cat WHS 3 finali St in the Boys 16 and Under. A Pensacola junior tennis team coached by Charlene Grafton will play our local junior team in Pensacola, Dec. 21st.

There are openings for both boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 18 on the team who have had previous tennis experience, and those wishing to try out for the team are urged to call Mrs. Strickland 242-7717 or call me, Ray Gibson at 242-8249. The Davis Cup Challenge Round may develop into a battle between youngsters at Adelaide, Australia December 26. 27, and 28. Both Ashe and Graebner are on the ailing list and may not be at their best for the US, while Bowery 'and Ruffels the top Australians have already been stopped by a pair of teenagers, John Alexander 17, and Philip Dent 18.

Stan Smith 21 and Bob Lutz 20, our fine young doubles team may be called upon for singles duty also. Bowery and Ruffels will probably get the doubles assignment with Alexander and Dent playing the singles. Donald Dell, our US team captain, is not expected to announce his choice until the last minute. Incidentally, Tom had an easy win over Bowers' in Puerto Rico earlier this year 6-4, 6-1. We attended the Greater Pensacola Tennis Association Annual Meeting and dinner party at Dick and Sally Turner's home in Gaberonne, Saturday night and enjoyed and excellent get to-gether.

Also from FWB were Kenny Marcus. Candy and Tom Edlefsen. Jourdqn Featured On of Fla Team Florida's track team opens their 1968-69 indoor track season when they travel to Monroe. to take part in the Northeast Louisiana Indoor Inv i a i a Saturday, December 14. Coach Jimmy Carnes plans to field a squad for the meet which will feature some of the best track powers in the South.

Leading the list of Gator stars is high jumper Ron Jourdan. The junior from Pensacola holds the school record with a leap of In a pre-season intra-squud meet this fall he jumped a fantastic 7-1. Florida's two-mile relay team is the defending champions and is favored to repeat. The relay foursome is made up of school record holder in the 880. Bob Lang, newcomers John Parker and Eamonn O'Keeffe and veteran Dan t'lvnn.

Lang, junior from Winter Haven, holds the school record with a 1:49.9 clocking. He has run a 1:49.8 in pre-season trials. O'Keeffe a treshman from Dublin. Ireland, has run a 1:150.6 and holds many national Ireland records. Pole vault star Mike Flanagan, who has jumped 16-6, will miss the meet with a pulled thigh muscle.

The Gators will pin i hopes on sophomore Joel Sarrett. who has been 150 in the pole vault. a John Morton will be vying for top honors in the shot put. Morton who is considered one of the finest discus throwers in the has heaved Former Coach At Auburn Died Sat. HOLLYWOOD, Fla.

(AP)-Funeral services were held here Tuesday for Jack Meagher, former football coach and athlet-ic director at Rice and Auburn, who died Saturday at age 73. Meagher played football at Notre Dame under the late Knute Rockne and later coached at St. Edwards University and Rice i i in Texas before going in 1933 to Auburn, where he was head coach and athletic director for nine years. His Auburn team defeated Michigan in the Orange Bowl, 7-0. in W38.

Meagher became coach of the Miami Seahawks in the old All- America Football Conference in 1945. He died in Jackson Memorial Hospital at Miami after a long illness. Requiem mass was held and burial was in Hollywood Memorial Gardens. Survivors include his widow. Mrs.

Lydia Meager: five sons, one daughter and 31 grandchildren. IE WSPAPEsfl H1V the shot 57-6. Long jumpers Ron Coleman and Mike Burton should score well in their speciality. Coleman has leaped 24-5, while Burton holds the school record with a 24-6 mak. Following the Northeast Louisiana Meet the Gators will have entries in the Sugar and Orange Bowl Invitationals.

Russell's ro Picks By MIKE PASSELL Los Angeles ovei Baltimore Unless the officials only give the Rams three per series. Chicago over Green Bay The Bears need this one for the title and the Packers just aren't what they used to be. Minnesota over Philadelphia- -The Eagles seem to have finally found their groove, but the Vikings are fighting for the title. San Francisco over Atlanta -Another vote against Norm Van Brcekiin. New Orleans over Pittsburgh -A packed house in New Orleans spells trouble for the Steelers.

Dallas over New York Just antother tune up game for the Cowboys. Cleveland over St. Louis The Cardinals are the last team to beat the Browns, the Browns haven't forgotten it. Washington over Detroit -Should be a i defensive duel. San Deigo over Oakland The Chargers turn out to be the Chiefs' best friend.

Kansas City over Denver With the title within their grasp the Chiefs won't blow this one. Houston over Boston Should be a good dull game. York over Miami -However, this is a good spot for an upset. Season's record: 89 right, 33 "wrong, .729 percentage. CLEVELAND (AP) The Cleveland Browns said Thursday all reserved seats for the National Football League's Eastern Conference playoff against the Dallas Cowboys have been sold.

Standing room tickets are now being sold. This would mean a crowd of over 80,000 at Municipal Stadium Dec. 21. The 1966-67 UCLA basketball team turned In a perfect 30-0 record, scoring 100 points or more in 12 games. A i KruK: i I A i i l.i.

Cecil Phillips Slams In One According to Municipal assistant golf professional Roii- iiv a Cecil Phillips. 4 Ever- Ereon Street. Field, joined an exclusive Wednesdav afternoon. i i siiodr tc i i i I numbci' SVM-II is 1IV luim. bor seven tee the a i mink-ipui goli eou.se.

i i i i ed his ses-en ire-ri. 1 uam a a i Mark stroked a hole in one. 1: a 1RJ in his own truly a sesei: seven, BASEBALL WHEELS CONFER--It was a big week of baseball talks In San Francisco. That's where owners and other officials began their meeting for the Major and Minor League sessions. Three of the wheels are shown as they talk baseball, what else? They are from the left Cap Harada (Giants), and two other fellows who used to play a little baseball at one time, Joe DiMaggio (Oakland), and Stan Musial (Cards).

Chicago Bears, Child's 111 Fortune Rebounders By JERRY LISKA Associated Press Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) A remarkable rebound from ill fortune seems to be hitting the Chicago Bears and taxi-squad graduate Clarence Childs at the same time. Earlier rocked by season-ending injuries to Gale Sayers and Virgil Carter virtually their entire offense the Bears Sunday can emerge the poorest if proudest percentage divisional titlist in National Football League history. And 30-year-old Childs, a New York Giant castoff also spurned by the St. Louis Cardinals, could be an llth hour hero of the amazing Bear conquest of adversity. Chicago can take the Central title at 8-6 by beating Green Bay here Sunday.

Even a closing defeat, if Minnesota also loses at Philadelphia, would give the Bears the section crosvn at a paltrv 7-7. Childs has handled the ball Hank Armstrong Now Intolerant ST. LOUIS (AP) Few people can tell a better success story than Henry Armstrong. And tew people can tell a hard-luck story he cannot top. Balding and graying, but still charged with the confidence and energy that won him the world featherweight, welterweight and lightweight championships in two years, Armstrong holds forth as assistant director of the Herbert Hooever Boys Club in North St.

Louis. Henry, one of the world's greatest boxers, says club rules permit him to instruct his kids in just about every sport, except boxing. The club stands on the site of Sportsman's Park, home of the St. Louis baseball Browns in better years. Now the area is a decaying, predominantly Negro area where frustration too often is a simple fact of life.

But Armstrong is intolerant of defeatism. "1 had an idea when 1 svas a kid I was going to make it." He made it, through sheer will and determination. Now he is trying to instill that same desire in youngsters, to bend the twig so the tree will grow straight and tail into the sunlight. He has sympathy for militants, but disagrees wjth their methods. "I don't believe in fighting fire with" fire.

I believe in the Christian attitude," Armstrong declares. Armstrong also charges youngsters with some of the responsibility for their own opment. "You set the pattern." he says, "But parents can go just so far. You've got to want to be something. You've got to have the desire." Boggy Tech Whips Jeff Davis 95-70 The Lanny Heath coached Raiders from Boggy Tech ustled, outshot.

and outrebound- ed the Rebels from Jeff Davis Junior College Thursday night 9S-70. OWJC started slow and the Rebels from Brewton, Alabama were actually leading 17-12 after the first fi.ve minutes of play. Then Jim Campbell, former Niceville High a scored eight straight points and the Raiders were never headed. According to experts at the game. Bob a i and Jim Campbell were fantastic on de- fense, stealing the ball, and running the Rebels i the boards.

The score at half time was Boggy Tech 46 and Jefferson Davis 31. High point men for OWJC were Jim Campbell with 21, John McDaniel hit for 16, Johnny Ponds who played very little in the second half, had 15 points and seven rebounds. Jimmy Self, former Pensacola great, was high for the Davis ball club with 24 points. Officials for the game were Rick Ricketson. Jogging Joe Adams, and Jim Richards.

Dolphins To Attend PC Races The Dolphin's Motorcycle Club will go to the races at Panama City a The Races are sponsored by a motorcycle dealer In P. C. The first group of Dolphins will leave the clubhouse which Fullmer On T. ROME A Italian fight fans will see Saturday's Nino Benvenuti-Don Fullmer middleweight title fight live on television just as Americans will via the Early Bird Satellite. Promoter Rino Tomassi and the government-run network agreed Thursday on an undisclosed price for the I a i a television rights for the San Remo championship 15-rounder.

Fullmer, of Salt Lake City, is getting his first shot at the i The bout will be shown in the United States on ABC's Wirie World of Sports program. Starting time is about 20 p.m. EST. Supermarket Growth ENGLEWOOD CUFFS. N.J.

I number of new supermarkets i i United States increases 5 per cent annually, according to researchers at Ferolie Corporation, a leading food broker. There are about 38,000 supermarkets operating in the tion today, the researchers say. is located on Beal Parkway at Mary Esther cutoff, by 10 AM and the highway between Fort Walton Beach and Panama City will be combed for empty beverage bottles. The Bottles will later be sold and the money will be used to purchase club patches. There will be no more meetings of the Dolphins i Wednesday, 8, 7 PM at which time all members are urgd to attend.

Also the mat is out for all prospective members and visitors are welcome. only four times as a kickoff return specialist since his promotion from the taxi squad three games ago. That was two games after the brilliant Savers suf- tered a shattered knee against the San Francisco 49ers Nov. 10 But on those four kickotf returns, Childs flitted a total of 220 yards, including runs of 88, 56 and 53 yards. The 88-yard jaunt came last Sunday against Los Angeles, the turning point in the Bears' 17-16 upset of the Rams and perhaps the key to a shot at a $25,000 per- player pot of gold in the string of title playoffs.

"I was hoping Dick Butkus would toss that ball to me." Childs said of his sprint to the Ram 2 which set up a touchdown which moved the Bears ahead 10-7. The Ram kickoff after Los Angeles took a 7-3 lead in the second quarter was grabbed by the retreating Butkus. who whirled and handed the ball to Child'j. Coach Jim Dooley of the Bears picked up Childs late last summer. "We had him in mind as a backup defensive back," Dooley explained.

"But when Sayers got hurt, we needed a kickoff return man who could put at least some of the pressure on the other team that Sayers did so spectacularly. "Childs has been great on such short notice and he has class, on and off the field. That was a really big play he made for us in Los Angeles." I I A CHRISTMAS FROM FIRST CITY of FORT 135 PERRY AVE. S.E. FT.

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