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I EL PASO HERALD-POST Tuesday March 6 1973 He's Rich at 26 Section Page Seven Thought He Had Won Title Ex-Champ Vicencio Says He'll Return Murcer Youngest Yank eat1 1 United Praia internal i anal Bobby Murcer already has surpassed Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle his center field predecessors with the New York Yankees in one category anyway Murcer yesterday became the youngest Yankee ever to sign a $100000 contract when he agreed to terms for the 1973 American League season Murcer at 26 easily outdistanced the former Yankee greats to the $100000 plateau Odessa Billy Miller light welterweight from Temple Eloy Benitez welterweight from Amarillo Ray Phillips light middleweight from Ft Worth Johnny Johnson middleweight from Wichita Falls Ronnie Walter light heavyweight from Ft Worth and Barry Yeats heavyweight from Houston (UPI Photo) 73 TEXAS GG Here is the 1973 State Golden Gloves team that will represent Texas at the National Golden Gloves Tournament from left: Mike Ayala flyweight from San Antonio James Martinez bantamweight from Dallas Maurice Watkins featherweight from Houston James Cleveland lightweight from Vicencio who studies at UT El Paso as a freshman admitted that Watkins might have won the third round because the only round he faced me and we traded punches I thought I had enough points in the first two rounds to THE 9694 FANS seemed to agree with the runner-up boxer since they aired their displeasure by booing the split decision verdict Vicencio connected with some straight right punches in the first two rounds and then proceeded to counter punch the Houstonite in the third -round where Watkins looked the sharpest In other action involving El Paso boxers flyweight Jose Casares lost a split decision to David Valadez of Corpus Christ! in the semi-finals in an almost evenly matched bout TOMMY YOUNG of Fort Worth took a TKO win over-Joe Barraza in 1:33 of the second round in the bantamweight division It was also semi-final fight The El Paso party is return- ing home today players Sparky Lyle Fritz Peterson Roy White and Gene Michael unsigned Rusty Staub of the New York Mets also signed a blockbuster contract agreeing to a three-year pact worth $330000 Staub who met with general manager Bob Scheff-ing for five days was leading the Mets in hitting when he suffered a broken bone in his hand on June 3 He appeared in only 66 games missing from June 18 to Sept 18 BILL STEIN a pinch-hitting whiz for the St Louis Cardinals late last season continued his torrid hitting with four straight hits in an intrasquad game Bill Buckner boosted his hit production to six in seven at-bats with a double and two singles in a Los Angeles Dodger intrasquad game The Dodgers lost shortstop Bill Russell for a few days with sun poisoning Montreal announced the signing of pitcher Bill Stoneman who pitched his second career no-hitter last season leaving only Mike Marshall and Jim Fairey unsigned Mob Rules Big raffic Jam For Leadership in Juarez Shanahan and Dennis Dan have taken the greyhound win leadership at Juarez Race Track away from the mob and action a crowd of eight hounds boasted four wins each and shared the top billing But the two Lubbock kennelmates both newcomers to border dog racing were the only ones to add victory No 5 Shanahan was first to break out of the bunch notching his fifth win last Thursday Drawn into a second start on Sunday night with a chance to pick up his sixth win a a an instead finished sixth DENNIS DAN got his fifth win on Saturday night the follow-up to a third place the week before In the meantime three more hounds were adding their fourth win of the year to keep the runnersup ranks bulging with contenders The new four-time winners were Paso Doris BOs Jim and Coke Others with four wins are Judy BeS Free Par-menion Jim Carmen Girl and Paso Bambi THREATENING to charge into the win leadership picture at the beginning of her career is Cookie three times a winner in three career efforts TOP FIVB JUAREZ KENNELS Kennel Sims Davis Was First City Pin Champion in '33 By DERRY EADS The 40th annual City Bowling Tournament which begins Saturday at Bowlero Lanes had a simple beginning Back in 1933 the bowlers and there too many of them in that first tournament were all in the same class There were no handicapped scores which meant that the city champion as has always been the case had the best scratch score Sims Davis was the first city champion And if people are thinking that the scores way back in 33 were pretty low as compared to 73 let me change your thoughts Sims bowled a 650 series for three games (a not too bad 216 average) CARL KAUFMAN and Walter Allen won the doubles title with a 1128 total while Given Shoe Co won the team title with a 2881 The all-events competition was added in 1934 and Kaufman won it with a 1820 Brooks was the singles champion (621) Acme Laundry won the team title (2799) while Jones (235-627) and Barela (582) took doubles with a 1209 Moore Champ in '53 Twenty years ago Jim Moore won the Class A singles with a 259-659 series while Antonio Medrano swept Class at 595 DeLaro easily won the team title at a low 2681 Harry Felker and James Bell won Class A doubles while Stearnhagen and Harold Mueller notched the Class doubles IT WAS just five years ago that John Ehlers won three individual titles in the 35th annual tournament hosted by the El Paso Bowling Assn Ehlers won Class A all-events with a 2074 handicap total singles with scores of 224-222-266-7 12 and teamed with Jim Miller to take doubles with a 1378 Guy DeLuca was the city champion though with an all-events scratch total of 1994 (221 average for nine games) Roy Bowling Supply rolled a 3234 to win the team event Kary Won Last Year Last year Louis Kary won the scratch all-events title Other champions were: singles Jim Enoch (Class A) Joe Berger (Class B) Bill Plummer (Class C) and Carlton Gillet (Class D) all-events Wallace Hargrove (Class A) Louis Kary (Class B) Walt Higdon (Class C) and A1 Ronek (Class D) Lalo Ortiz-Frank Serna (Class A) Luis Constadsa-Ralph Brewer (Class B) Javier Saenz-Armando Pacheco (Class C) and Charles Gleghorn-Milton Henry (Class D) team Pete Joseph's Pro Shop (Class A) Sunrise Chevron (Class B) Southwest Acoustical Co (Class C) and Foodway Food (Class D) THE DEADLINE for this tournament was extended until Thursday An expected 200 teams will be entered in this tournament The schedule for the tournament: March teams at 1 and 7 pm with singles and doubles at 4 pm March 11 teams at noon and 6 pm Singles and doubles at 9 am and 3 pm March teams at 4 pm Singles and doubles at 1 pm and 7 pm March teams at 9 am and 3 pm Singles and doubles at noon and 6 pm placed It securely if only for the time being in the grasp of Lubbock Kennel Heading into last who saddled three winners a second and two thirds in seven tries Racing resumes at Sunland on Friday with two switches in format Friday programs will now get underway at 7: 15 pm instead of 7:30 pm and the agenda will be expanded from 10 to 11 races First post on Saturday and Sunday will continue at 1:30 pm The top event is $5000-added El Paso Times Handicap at six furlongs JOCKEYS DiMaggio was 35 when he reached the figure and Mantle was 31 LAST SEASON Murcer like Mantle a native of Oklahoma hit 292 with 33 homers 96 runs batted in and a league high 102 runs scored He was named to the AL All-Star team The Yankees also signed pitcher Steve Kline 16-9 last season to a contract estimated at $40000 leaving four up to $500 per win SEAGREN SAID he think the new pro track tour will sap the potential pool of athletes for Olympic events might make the Olympic committee take a more realistic viewpoint regarding the financial status of he said the tour can attract enough European competitors and I think it can and will then the change might come in time for the 1976 Seagren said he will be using his standard pole in the Portland meet or the stick banned in Munich at the 1972 Olympics He said it is no different than other poles except it is lighter THINK 20 feet can be made using existing poles and he said know i I can ciear it but somebody Seagren said his lightweight pole is made of fiberglass experimented with new materials fiberglass in combination with carbon fibers It work the carbon and fiberglass bond and poles kept coming FORT WORTH Junior Vicencio El featherweight was surprised he capture the state Golden Gloves title against Maurice Watkins in the state meet here last night But he was not disappointed be back next said the 21-yeer-oId El Pasoan who was the 1971 state featherweight champion THOUGHT I had won the first two he said was back pedalling heavily and I connected with solid NIT Gets 73 Of 76 Teams Right Away By JACK SAUNDERS NEW YORK (UPI) This 36th National Invitation Tournament should perhaps be called the New York Invitation Tournament The NTT selection committee added 10 more teams to the 16-team field yesterday and the local influence was hard to miss 16-8 Fairfield 15-9 Manhattan and 15-10 Rutgers were chosen for the March 17-25 tournament and added to previously-tabbed Notre Dame 15-11 but with many New York-area alumni gave the NIT four teams that would not likely see post-season action if the tournament were not held in New York OTHER SELECTIONS included 18th-ranked New Mexico (21-5) Oral Roberts (21-5) Marshall (20-6) Louisville (22-6) Southern California (18-8) Massachusetts (19-6) and Missouri (20-4) VIRGINIA TECH and American University were invited last week There are only three berths left to fill with many good teams to choose from Duquesne Florida State Princeton Texas and Santa Clara are unlikely to be named because runners-up from the Atlantic Coast Conference Southeastern Conference and big ten are considered virtual shoo-ins for NIT berths St Joe Lydia Caging Results Marasca and Carajal defeated El Que Que 70 and Slacks won from Contractors Equipment 69-55 in the St Basketball League In Lydia Patterson League IDC defeated Restaurant 55-40 and Magnificent 13 whipped Selle Inc 66-63 High scorers: Ken Koval 2 George Duchane 17 Richard Esper 26 David Weick 50 Tom Paul 21 Manny Cereceres 16 Larry Chapman 21 Ron Phillips 32 99 Robinson Hi-Ptains Mcdlin Paso Sun City Track Cycle Results Bob Woleslagle won first place in Open Expert at the Motorcycle Races at Sun City Speedway Tom Wahler was second and Bo Jones third in the event Tim Cottingham outdueied Jim Kilcrease and Larry Comey for top honors in the Open Novice In other races: Mirt-Mkei: 1 Jodie White 2 Mika Satterfield 3 Brad Brawn a a Puff: 1 Annl Davis 2 Rhonda Qulllin I Ooany Borlin 100 Novice: 1 Mika Polhomus 2 Jim Sweeney Randy Stone 100 Expert: 1 Bab Sweeney 2 Dave Hermessy 3 Bobby Woleslagle 125 Novice: 1 Alex Pastrana Bill Wooldriage 1 Kei O'Nell I2S Expert: 1 Lenny Wilson 2 Ken Thom berry 3 Greg Murphy 2S0 Novice: 1 Alex Pastrana 2 Tint Cettlagham 3 Louis Goode 2SD Expert: 1 Tern Wahler 2 Wade Wagner 3 Joe Pearce 1 THE FINAL UT-E1 Paso sophomore Ed Lynum puts In an easy layup In the final seconds of play to finish a 044 come-from-behind victory over NIT-bound New Mexico Saturday bucket capped the Miners 16-2 surge over the Lobos in the final 1:94 of play in the final Western Athletic Conference game for both teams The Miners finished the season 16-19 (Herald-Post Photo by Bill Thompson) Jockey of Week Nicodemus Had Great Stretch Mascaras Saves Face Silver Mask The silver mask of Mil Mascaras became tattered but remained in place as the muscleman from south of the Border out-smarted and out-maneuvered the Venezuelan toughie Ciclon Negro in the top main event of last wrestling card at the Coliseum The Mexican movie itar-wrestler who was mobbed in his comer by admirers seeking autographs before the match took an apparent easy first fall from Ciclon with a flying drop kick to the chin in 5:34 CICLON RAGED back and punished the masked man for 19 minutes before taking the second fafl with a reverse body slam Mil mask became loosened during the third fall but he with a tricky flip off the ropes and a roll-over body press which garnered him the win The Fargos precipitated another small riot among the fans as they triumphed over the tough Mexican team of Goliath and Black Gordman GORDMAN AND Goliath demolished the Fargo Brothers to win the first fall in just 0:07 but the Fargos bloodied and almost out of control battled back in 3:36 to take the second fall John Fargo clinched the third fall and the win by leaping off the middle rope onto throat to end the battle after 7:34 In earlier matches Ricky Romero and The Beast battled in and out of the ring for 15: 10 with Rapid Ricky emerging the victor London's Les Thornton and Nick Kozak drew in a hard-fought scientific match after 20:00 of action Massive Moose Marowsky bested pro-football player Stan Hansen The Chicago White Sox reported no progress with their six holdouts but did trade rookie infielder Jim Redmon to Nitaku of the Japanese league Bowie Boosters Slate Meeting Bowie Boosters will meet at 7 pm tomorrow at the school cafeteria Tickets for the Bowie All-Sports banquet will be issued Boosters club will donate shoes and jerseys to the Bowie baseball team Manny Morales president will preside Bliss Golfer Has 2nd Hole-in-One A McCIuskey sank his second hoie-in-one recently at Ft Bliss Golf Course McChiskey seed the 188-yard No 6 hole with a five-iron He was playing with Raul Navarette A1 Navarette and Lito Olacaba revino 2nd On List NEW YORK Bud Allin winner of the Florida Citrus Open last weekend has climbed 23 places to No 6 on the weekly Professional Golfers Assn money list AHin earned $30000 for his victory pushing his earnings for the year to $45042 Bruce Crampton continues to head the list with $77561 followed by Lee Trevino with $68275 and Jack Nicklaus with $65248 Rounding out the top 10 are John Schlee ($48017) Rod ($47976) Allin Orville Moody ($42998) Bob Dickson ($42538) Grier Jones ($40647) and Gay Brewer ($39027) im mod complete shop in Pom by oppoMmont SCttNIlFlC HAIR CARE CENTfRta a piilil Seagren Says IT A Won't Sap Olympic This man can't even lift 100 pounds But he's not interested in building muscles he's interested in conditioning! Ha Joined with the large group of buaineaa and professional men who aren't interested in building big muaclea but are in (created is keeping physically fit You con join with him 1b a personalised program to fit your peclfig needs at the EXECUTIVE HEALTH RESORT DIAL 772-7447 By JAMES BUCHANAN PORTLAND Ore (UPI) bad for a bunch of over-the-hill said pole vault-er Bob Seagren of pro debut meet this past weekend at Idaho State University in Pocatello Seagren said reports that the professional International Track Assn circuit would retire a bunch of aging athletes hold water in face of the facts three new world It is eypected the IT A will start its own record books since the AAU governs amateur sports only The ITA moves to Los Angeles March 24 for its second meet and the former Olympians and world record holders on the pro tour compete here March 30 SEAGREN WON at Pocatello with a vault of 17-6 shy of his 18-5 3-4 best think I can clear 18 feet with no trouble by the time we get to he said In addition to Seagren the Portland meet will boast Jim Ryun and Kip Keino as part of the stable of 50 or more pros for cash prizes of remember Jerry performance in the stretch aboard Kid in Sunday's Cabin Fleur Handicap at Sunland Park for a long time Nicodemus brought Kid from off the pace and out-dueled Revolution and Bobby Harmon in a fierce battle the last few yards to the wire The performance earned Nicodemus Jockey of the Week honors BOTH NICODEMUS and Jim Bannowsky rode six winners over the weekend Nicodemus had six winners with 13 mounts He was 6-2-2 overall Bannowsky had 24 mounts while compiling a record of 6-1-1 Niccdemus' ride aboard Kid was the clincher so far ps the honors were concerned Don Lewis booted in four winners to keep an eight-win lead in the standings Harmon also had four and he tied Richard Bickel for second TRAINER of the Week honors went to Montgomery New LUV Vi Toe Fleetside sdko transmission 1600 lb ply tires all vinyl interior heater liETiTTOffiJ? 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