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C. R. (Dudy) NOBLE FRANK (Bruiser) KINARD I I I till 1 s.A"55 i -v vv v. EDWIN (Goat) HALE STANLEY ROBINSON 4 i 1 J- ft I 4 1 is JT cir Si'-' Miss. Sports Hall Of Fame Has 4 Greats Hale, Noble, Robinson, Kinard Charter Members COLORFUL PANORAMA ON THE 18TH AT AVGVSTA just as it was last year when Arnold Palmer sank a birdie putt to win the Masters.

Clarion-Ledger Color Photo by Claude Sutherland. Masters. This 18th green, where Ken Venturi is in the process of dropping a vital putt, is one of the toughest finishing holes on the circuit. It could well be the setting of a breathtaking climax today Thousands of golf enthusiasts swarm around the 18th green at the Augusta National Course and look on in awe as the world's top golfers parade before them in golf's most colorful classic The IP (DID 8 Player Takes 4-Stroke Lead In Masters Golf eiatiort'LeDget jackson daily news i Sunday, April 9, 1961 South African Has 206 Score; Palmer At 210 MASTERS AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) Thirdroon scores in the 25th Masters Golf Tournament on the par 36-36- 72 Augusta National course.

Gary Player 69-68-69- 206 Arnold Palmer 68-69-73210 I Paul Harney 71-73-68212 i xCharlev Coe 72-71-69-212 i Bill Collins 74-72-67 -213 I Jack Burkt 76-70-68 2U I Bob Rosburg 68-73-73- 214 Don January 74-68-72 -214 Doug Sanders 76-71-68-215 Ted Kroll 73-70-72 -215 I xJack Nicklaus 70-75-70-215 1 Ken Venturi 72-71-72215 I Jey Hebert 72-75-69-216 Sam Snead 74-73-69-216 Walter Burkemo 74-69-73-216 Peter Thomson 73-76-68 -217! Stan Leonard 72-74-71-217 1 Tommy Bolt 72-71-74 17 I Lionel Hebert 74-69-74217 I LEADERS 74-71-72217 Gene Littler 72-73-72217 Lew Worsham 74-71-73-218 Johnny Pott 71-75-72-218 Jack Fleck 74-71-73-218 Mason Rudolph 77-69-72 -218 Bill Casper 72-77-69-218 Roberto de Vicenzo 73-74-71-218 Antonio Cerda 73-73-72-218 Dick Mayer 76-72-70-218 Al Balding 74-74-70-218 Ben Hogan 74-73-72-219 Byron Nelson 71-72-78221 Fred Hawkins 74-75-72- 221 Wes Ellis 75-73-74-222 Mike Souchak 75-72-75-222 Bob Goalby 74-73-76223 Chick Harbert 74-73-76-223 Jerry Barber 74-72-78-224 Doug Ford 71-76-78-225 Dutch Harrison 74-74-78226 Miguel Sala 74-75-78227 x-Amateur Sports Hall of Fame, sponsored and prospects for scheduling major college and football games at Jackson's Mississippi Memorial Stadium, scheduled for conv pletion in August. Hederman and Hitt will speak on the stadium's construction progress, ticket information and other plans being mapped for the stadium's inaugural games on Sept. 23 when Mississippi State plays Texas Tech and Ole Miss clashes with Arkansas. Ole Miss is also scheduled to play Tulane in Jackson on Oct. 21.

Jackson Provine's I960 Big Eight championship football team will be guests of the club at the meeting. MEMBERSHIP DUES All present and past Touchdown Club members and those interested in joining the gridiron group are urged to attend. Membership Chairman Charles Henley announces that the $5 membership dues for 1961 are being accepted. Checks or money orders should be mailed to Jackson: Touchdown Club, PO Box 542, Jackson, Miss. The club is dedicated to the promotion of the game of football, good sportsmanship and the fostering of worthwhile activities for the advancement of Jackson and Mississippi.

Program Chairman Luther Smith is in the process of arranging an outstanding program for the club'i weekly fall Jr. 4 L. TD Club Slates April 24 Meeting A special spring meeting of the Jackson Touchdown Club fea Ml liiii turing a host of Mississippi football personalties is scheduled tor Four Charter Members In the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame were announced today by the Jackson Touchdown Club's Hall of Fame committee. Unanimous selections all, they include Edwin (Goat) Hale, legendary Mississippi College grid star of 1915-16 and 1920 21, Frank (Bruiser) Kinard, the Magnolia State's first all America player at Ole Miss; Clarke Randolph (Dudy) Noble, a 15-letterman winning standout and later coach and athletic director of Mississippi State and Stanley Robinson, Mississippi The high school will have five relays 440, 880, mile, sprint medley and distance medley, plus the 100 yard dash, 120-yard high hurdles and 180-yard low hurdles in the running portion of the program, as well as the broad jump, high jump, pole vault, discus and shot put in the field events. OTIIKR EVENTS Colleges and college freshman-junior college divisions both will nave ana reiays, wnue the jun'or high division has the 100 yard dash in addition to 440 and 830 yard relays.

Feature of the program will be the mile run for all comers, which will be open to any long hauling youngster wanting to have a whirl at it. Chances are excellent for the swiftest mile "in Mississippi history to come out of this run. College's beloved coach and athletic director for 36 years. After a state-wide call for nominees, the selection committee composed of Jimmie McDowell, chairman, Dr. J.

Harvey Johnston, J. E. (Squatty) Hall, Carl Walters and A. D. Morgan selected Mississippi's first four members of the Sports Hall of Fame.

Arnold Hederman, the sixth member of the committee, along with Walters, missed the meeting, but the latter sent in his ballot. since he was out of town. Jackson Touchdown Club President Curtis (Pop) Allen announced that the four men would be honored at an April 24th meeting of the Club and will be recognized at that time. STATEWIDE GROUP The committee also agreed that in the future a state-wide nominating committee would be established in view of the outstanding athletes in all sections of the state who have played a vital role in Mississippi being recognized as one of the top sports-minded states in the nation. At the same time, the committee agreed that the selection of Hale, Kinard, Noble and Robinson was "automatic." No Hall of Fame in Mississippi would be authentic without all four, the committee reasoned.

Kinard is a member of the National Football Hall of Fame and after winning All America and All Pro recognition he has been the successful offensive line coach of his alma mater. Ole Miss. Hale, rated by many "Ole as the greatest triple threat the South has ever produced, won All Southern honors in 1321 and led Mississippi College to sensational upset victories over Tulane, Florida and Ole Miss. Robinson, an All America nominees at Colgate, developed some of Mississippis finest athletes, including the famrd Hitt brothers, Harry Craft and also coached the will o' the wisp, Hale, after World War I. Noble is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, but was also a gifted all sports athlete as a member of State's great 1915 team which whipped arch-rival Ole Miss.

65-0. Hale, win l.v p'ayed for the nr his pro TijTS, coached at Ole -s'v'npi State, Mill-saps and Mississippi College as well as Pearl Junior College where he gained the reputation of a master physical conditioning field boss. When he was 40 years old, he would scrimmage with the varsity football team and is credited in some corners for State's upset win over Army in 1935. He recruited for Ole Muss such top performers as Charlie Conerly, Ray and Barney Poole and Doug Kenna among others. He was nom'nntcd for the National Football Hall of Fame for the second straight year in Jamiary.

Both Robinson and Noble playe1 a significant role in the growth Mississippi athletics as veteran af'letr rectors. Noble retired at Mississippi State two years anf) Robeson's retirement wa announced last week by Missis- sippi College to become effective Sept. 1. While the first four members chosen are all "Football Men," the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame is an All Sports affair. Monday, April 24, in the Victory Room of the Hotel Heidelberg at 6:30 p.m.

The feature event of the evening will be the presentation of the hi i mil i uii i i itt i-iini fit t.iBUfi mini pm raw I SECTION That list will be packed to even greater heights by teams from colleges, junior colleges and junior highs, giving rise to belief that before the deadline on entries April 15, there could be 100 schools represented. I SESSIONS The Jackson Daily New Relays will be held in two sessions, afternoon starting at 1 o'clock and night starting at 7:30. All preliminaries in the running events and all finals in the field events will be held in the afternoon, leaving the night session to finals in 23 individual and relay running events. Competition for the high schools will split into two divisions Class One for Big -Eight Conference members plus any schools which wish to run against' tTiose powerhouse teams, and Class Two for all other entries. By HUGH FULLERTON Jr.

Associated Prest Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) Gary Player, the little South African who came to learn and stayed to earn, took a four-stroke lead over defending champion Arnold Palmer Saturday in the third round of th Masters Golf Tournament. The day was marked by superb golf and super-sized crowds. Player, now a full-time performer and leading money winner on the American pro tour, shot a brilliant 32-37-69, three-under-par for the jam-packed par 36-3672 Augusta National Course. TEN UNDER PAR After three rounds, he had a score of 206, 10 under par.

Palmer, tied for the lead at the start of the round, had an erratic 36-3773 which gave him a 210 total. Although these two the big winners in money and tournaments this season remained out in front, they didn't lack chal lengers for the top prize, whicn may reach $20,000. Two outsiders in the 41-man field provided some extra thrills for a crowd estimated at over 30,000. Paul Harney, the slender slammer from Worcester, fired a 68 for a 212 total, and Bill Collins, the big Baltimorean, had a 67 for 213. Charlie Coe, the Oklahoma thin man who has won two U.S.

Amateur championships, tied Harney at 212 with a 69 in his bid to become the first amateur winner of the Masters. The huge galleries virtually assured a record payoff for the pro winner. Prize money for the Masters is based mainly on gate receipts, which never have been listed officially. Last year. Palmer won $17,500 from a total of over $80,000.

Saturday's crowd appeared the biggest aver to see the Masters. Estimates ranged anywhere from 30,000 to 40,000. The spectators got their money's worth as Player, a slim, grim ISO-pounder who says he won't crack under pressure, charged into the lead. MEETS CHALLENGE Palmer challenged with birdies on the first two holes, but Gary met the threat by knocking a stroke off par on each of the same holes. Then, as Palmer's game began to falter, Player shot Into the lead with a four-under-par 32 on the front nine.

Gary survived a stretch of three straight bogeys and fought his way back into a four-stroke lead at the end. Palmer, still not entirely out of contention, ascribed his difficulties to lack of concentration. "I couldn't think; I couldn't putt; I couldn't do anything right," he said. After an encouraging start on the first two holes, he bogeyed the fourth and fifth; made the turn with a scrambling par 36 and hit two bogeys and only one birdie on the back nine. Player, after going over par on the 11th, 12th and 13th holes, got a fortunate birdie at the 520-yard 15th when his second shot hit a spectator and bounded onto the green.

Then he played a superb tee shot at the 190-yard, over-water 16th and holed his putt for another birdie that gave him a comfortable lead. On the 15th, it appeared some one in the crowd batted Player's ball with his hand while it still was in the air. Under the rules it had to be counted as "rub of the green" and he played the ball from where it stopped, getting down in two putts for his birdie 4. If the ball had gone the way it appeared headed he might have taken a bogey or worse. "I certainly don't feel I'm going to win just because I have a four-stroke lead," Player said after the round.

"You can lose four strokes four holes here." Player very nearly proved his point on the back nine. He was off the green on the 445-yard 11th, one of the hardest holes on the course, ran his third shot feet past the cup, and then missed his putt. He three-putted the short 12th for another bogey, then put his tee shot onto the bank of winding Rae's Creek at the tricky 13th and barely escaped with another bogey. That left him only two strokes ahead of Palmer going to the 15th. The defending champion also bogeyed the 13th, but got a birdie at 14.

The incident could mean a lot of money to Player, who already has won more than $25,000 on the winter golf tour this year. He's been shooting the kind of golf that makes a four-stroke lead going into the last round look comfortable. He has had rounds of 69-68-69. f.va But big, flower-deoked Augusta National wasn't as tough a course HALF-MILERS COMING TO CAPITAL Top five finishers in the 880-yard run at Friday's Canton Rotary Invitational track meet ail will be going for greater glory in the Jackson Daily News Relays April '21 a Newell Field. The hot half-milers include: front (left to right), Paul Lipscomb, Jackson Provine; Nolan Cullen, Jackson Murrah; back Richard Dunn, Forest Hill; Bob Kelly, Yazoo City and Tommy Dykes, Vicksburg Cooper.

Dailv News Staff Photo by Lee Baker. ENTRIES CLIMB ABOV 50 FOR DAILY NEWS RELAYS initial members of the Mississippi by the Touchdown Club. Receiving certificates will be Hall of Famers Edwin (Goat) Hale, Coach Stanley Robinson, Frank (Bruiser) Kinard and C. R. (Dudy) Noble.

The evening's program will also include Head Football Coaches Wade Walker of Mississippi State, Thad (Pie) Vann of Mississippi Southern and Johnny Vaught of Ole Miss. STADIUM SITUATION Along with Zach Hedcrman, chairman of the Mississippi Memorial Stadium Commission, and Dick Hitt, stadium manager, the coaches will discuss the problems as usual Saturday. The weather was warm and mostly sunny, and there wasn't any strong wind. Collins, one of the last players invited, turned in the best 18-hole score of the tournament, a 67, after making a belated change in his putting grip. That brought him into contention after starting the day nine strokes behind.

Harney, who began seven strokes back, made his big gain with a 33 on the back nine, Coe fired a round of 34-35 69,, holding his place as leading amateur. In all, 13 scores of 70 or better were posted for the day. SCORES Alabama Miss. Slate 2 Ole Mils 6, LSU 1 Miss. Southern t-7, Wheaton, III.

0-1 Delta St. 9, Jacksonville St. I Miss. College 2 2, William Caray 10 By LEE BAKER Daily News Sports Editor And still the entries for the first Jackson Daily New- Relays keep coming in. With the addition of teams from Brandon of the Little Dixie Conference, Vicksburg Culkin and Byram of the Capital, Union and Canton of the Choctaw, Raleigh of the Rebel and Gloster of the Tangipahoa, the list of high school entries now has moved past the 50 mark.

LOOK FOR 60 Other schools over the state have shown intrer.t In the April 21 higlight of the track season in Mississippi, so that Meet Director Jim Merritt of Jackson Murrah High now expects at least 60 teams to be on hand for the afternoon and night affair. is.