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Independent from Long Beach, California • 37

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Independenti
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ryyvyvyyyyyywyyywyyywyyryv rrvirvinnnnryvwy1 X' -r -r- H.i--.- j- J. i i wt INDEPENDENT-MESS-THfGRAM D-5 Dan Parkinson Nwr.ftlM EXTRA -POLICE IN GARDEN Captures Two Riverside i vk Jheinost famous backfield in the historyoTcal- -RIVERSIDE (UPQ-Dan Parkinson 'Canada scored tovictorles- In die third Roads' Race; of Champions Saturday to flrstman acme three victories' in as many yearfc- Parkinson, 31, a-truddng executive, won the Sedans Class In a Flat Abarth with an average speed of 80849 mph over the 24-lap course: In die other races: beefed up for their return bout a-15 year pro career. HiT. record ie 74-19-3 including -Tt'JaukSaatL. 2 The clever lefthander, who hu become a million i jloge football, of course, was the FourHorsemen of, Notre Dame.

was comprised of quarterbackHariyStuhldreher, wfab wiighed only 154 halfbacks Don Miller, 160, arid 'Tim Crowley, island fullback Elmer Leyden, 162. Alf tint Miller, won all-America honors. --'Theaverage weight was only 160 pounds even ia comparison to a large percentage of high school, teams today in this age of Mgr heavy and quick football NEW (A There tCl be plenty of police in Madison Square Garden Monday night when 3-1 favored Carlos Ortiz risks his lightweight boxing 'title against Junior lightweight king Flash Elonle of Manila in a television'. 15-rounder. Both were happy to hear foe special force wiD be 4l Tolt of Tom Ortiz vividly remembers, foe last defense of his crown in Mexico.

Cityt Oct 22, against Sugar Ramos. After he stopped the Cuban exile on cuts in the fifth round end then refused a comrais -sioirotder to the bout, foe 30-year-okl Puerto JRican-bomJew yorkqr 33 gSK'S WaScN fAm Arbor. Mich ran aptpuqblM SjprWa tHMBg Since arriving at Notre Dame in lM4, Ara Parseghlan har looked back over the reeocds and hu found that Irish first-stringers have gained about 800 pounds In the pasTIO years. This means the average player la a good 48 pounds heavier. for instance, the heaviest man on the 1924 team nf.foa...Stm3iulf&J5iTj: praducttoR found himaeif in the midst of a riot Cokes Sees ajra with wise Divestments of his ring earnings, hu held foe junior lightweight 130 pounds title six years.

Ha has defended it 10 times. ORTIZ RECORD is 48 5-1, including 19 knockouts. He hu never been stopped. The Garderrpredlcted a ztr. crowd of lOJOOO to 12JKN) 1 will pay dose to $100,000 at prices ranging from $3.

to $20. A TM GLAD to be home, fighting in foe Garden again, said Ortiz. The Garden, however, wu foe alto of a riot on Aug. 5, 1965 when Elorde gained a split decision In a 10-rounder with Frankie Narvaez, another Ricanrbdnk New Yorker. This wffl be Ortiz, first lightweight title fight In New York and his first here' in five yean.

Ha won foe title from Joe Brown at Lu Vegas. and hu had eight title fights since then, including one with Elorde In Manila ago. Elorde wu leading when he wu stopped on cuts In the 14th round. He hu been stopped two other times in DALLAS (AV-Curtia Cokes, Dallu first boxing champion, makes the opening defense of his world -welterweight title here Monday night with France's chubby Jean Joaselln his opponent the name given to the linemen. He was center, Adam who weighed 187.

Our defensive tackle this year, Kevin Hardy, tips the Scales at 270 a difference of 83 pounds, says Are. In fact; the regular backfleid we used most of the season averages 37 pounds more than dm Four Quarterback Terry Hanretty Is 1W, halfhacks Nkk Eddy and Rocky Bleler arsr 106 and 188, and fullback Larry Copjar la 212. Thai'S an average of 107," Are goes on. J- The weight gain la even more, pronounced. -Where the Seven Mules averaged 174 pounds, this year's Notre Dame offensive line averages 225..: a gain of 51 pounds." if WOULD THE FOUR HORSEMEN make it today with tfieit lack of, size? Most-veteran coaches are inclined to answer with a flat nol risking the wrath of Cider Notre Dram fans, says Td certainly doubt it, too.

Ha quickly adds that "I would like to point out that I nfrlifl they wouldnt make It as a unit, but any or all four of.fofc Horseman as well as the Mules might make it Individually. Its absolutely amazing how todays players at 230 oh up to 260 and 270 are Just quick and agile as the. ifeand 180 pounders were In foe old days." The deeds of the' Pouf HOrsemim; of course, reached a'climax when foe late Gnntland Rice wrote his famous lead after Notre Dame defeated Army In October of 1924 in New York's Polo Grounds. Ortiz will collect 40 per cent and Elorde 20 per cent-of all receipta. JIM FRIGOSr MSIMU SCHOOL mg gailtoa mu Its foe but chance Cokes hu seen in nine years of fighting for a real payday.

In Ms checkered career he retired twice because he couldn't get profitable fights. ToloofTopo tsu'iftgsvirae WMBwil CITY IASQALL -ii I I Cf. AN I0IAL CHUSTMAS tfT -aJ LAST 7 JACKY CUPIT waves hat to crowd and dances a little jig after sinking 20-foot birdie' putt in Cajun Classic Saturday. Cupit shot 65 to take three-stroke lead after 54 hdes. Grey Day for Ottawa AMY FCNPEa STKAISHIENCP SCORES SOAR IN WIND Suddenly he wu projected into the title picture when he met Manny- Gonzalez of Houston at New Orleans in what had started as an elimination.

But when Cokes beat Gonzales Aug. 8 at New Orleans, it wu billed fin: tire welterweight championship. Josselin, a 26-year-old native of Basancon, France, hu been fighting among foe pros for only six years but hu an impressive record of 42 victories and only two losses, with 27 knockouts. He had 117 fights an amateur. Cokes, 29, His won 46, lost eight and drew in two.

IT WAS THE THIRn. GAME ofthe season for foe getting enabled, them to. go" on todinctrfoe national Championship with a 104) record, tpidfag a 27-10 victory over Stanford in the Rose Bowl Actually, foe man who first tied the Irish backfield to the Four Horsemen was Notre Dames young publicity director, George Stridden The evening before the game, Stridder attended a movie, The Four Horsemen of foe Apocalypse starring Rudolph Valentino. next afternoon, a large group of. femous aporta writers of the era, Including Rice and Damon Runyan, marveled at the grace, rhythm end finesse of foe Notre ame backfield as the Irish cut down Army, 137.

iMfter-the game as foe writers started putting together their stories of foe game, Stridder, commenting on 5m outstanding play of the Irish backs declared they were SJuat like foe Four Horsemen SEVERAL WRITERS HEARD HIM say it but only Rke put it to use. Outlined against the blue-grey October eky, Rice wrote, foe Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore foeq- are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Ddrfh. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Leyden." After reading Rices story the next morning, Strickler wired a South Bend photographer to be at foe school ffoiiiiay when the team would start practice for the next game.

He then wired his father, in employee of foe university, to line up four horses. during -practice on Monday, Stridder had foe four fecksin horMback. And the re-ire stflrratsiiraeof theTnost amous sports pictureT" Cupifr Storms fro Lead 17 Under VANCOUVER, B.C. MB Saskatchewan broke loose with two touchdowns in foe fourth quarter to whip foe Ottawa Rough Riders 29-14 for its first Grey. Cup vie tory in Canadian Football League history here Saturday.

Ron Lancaster, a quarterback rejected by Ottawa line years ago and sold Saskatchewan. for $500, piloted the Western club to victory in a tough, defensive struggle. The score wu 14-14 it foe half. YANCEY had trouble with irons on foe back had three consecutive for a 38. Felug came up with tournaments only hole-in-one Saturday, but he wu back at 218.

Felus fired ace on the par-three 14th al67-yarder. -JOSSELIN said throui an interpreter, I came here to win, but he wouldnt predict Cokes wouldn't select the round but merely declared He aura made a long trip for nothing. LAFAYETTE, La. (UPI) The Cajun Classic golf tournaments honeymoon with the weather, ended Saturday's third round. A southeasterly wind sent acorea higher, but Jacky Cupit overcame foe elements to take over foe tournament lead.

Cupittumedin xieven-un derpar 65 for a three-round 19917 strokes under par. Chi Chi Rodriguez, with a 67 Saturday, wu one stroke behind Cupit-and second-round leader 7 Bert Yancey tuned in a 71 for a 203. Bob-G a lb yandJohn-Schlee, eadi with a foird- his and bogeys John the well his hpler Ray round, failing Floyd, who had a 72-69141 entering the third wu disqualified for to sign his scorecard. The tie remained until, with nine seconds gone in foe final Lancuter-tossed five yard pass to Hugh Campbell ami Jack Abends-chan. converted.

The Frenchman is rated No. contender for the title World Boxing Aun. style and hu some strong credentials. He knocked out Brian Curvis-ift-lS; rounds aftuGur-f- Stable re- vb-lud taken out Jose Sta StaWe it to r.rShicUer today is sporta editor of foe Chicago Tribune. 'ff VINCE McNALLY, FORMER general manager of foe Philadelphia Eagles, spent four years under foe influence Knute RockneTTTind wu i sophomore quarterback behind Stuhldreher in 74.

'm "Rockne wu a fantastic coach and a fobuloua TanhI miii, dim Tennis Roundup but- Cokes. Kiwe-op-twiDM -cur TIMNIS TpURNAMINT Craig, Lori Lead round 71 and total 205s, were Aquatic wiuD Harfiriffis: Curtis claims, however, that-hejwai-dezzied-by-foe television litfifo his first fight on foe screen and heiJhCuM fdd ua few aeaaona badt when the Eagiea played -foe-Ramaut factJtoJggt.JP!l AMoglst before foe American people knew the meaning of fltoWud? Yancey la trying to tie Billy Casperrecbrdofwinning Craig Weaver won the backstroke and Lori -VICTORIAa-UM-TSIINIS-CHAM MON SHIPS -jhave beaten Stable'. -Tgnon won the 50 breutr fo tournaments in a season. Wirt Ray RmMil He took foe Memphis, Azalea and Portland opens. Saha Winter League ijT3.

m. (Amtralla WainaWi M. W. SIl AT Alaxandar (Naw Sm stroke to lead foe Long Beach Aquatic Club swimmers in he Arcadia Novice Invitational swim, jneet Other Long Beach Aquatic finishers: Si'll osuueneerw I -Jm recalled stroke of Rockne psychology fost bfoukht the Four Horsemen- and Seven Mules together. Vine denied the famed story that foe Mules outpolled foe Horsemen, 7-4, in a vote over which segment was more iippmfrtit, but intimated there wu tome strong feeling foe two fictions.

DAY, mi CALLED a scrimmage ami matched foe Horsemen and foe second-string line ud I foe Mules, with foe second backfield. rye never temi uytojjjf ffigw Neitiier alde could do anything. Afterward, Rockne gSted them together and said Now, you see, one can do foe lob without the With his quarterbacks at hla home Dieaday Mghto. Mve ua game situations and then ask each, of ua what -Jay we would calL Then be would correct us. rr.Later in.

the. week, we'd go Into a meeting with the Mills 1 73 Keeps Ladies Golf Lead Ga(UPD wu Rockne the psychologist! Vikings Run 3rd and 9th Steady Mary MiRs, her crumbling on foe last thru holes, a one-over par 73 Saturday for a 217 and one-stroke lead after the third round of thfe $10,000 Titieholdera Ladiu Golftomv nament. YiAR -WRITTEN GU ARAIITS1 Beach. City College1 two men iniah in the 10 Neil Dlggan of Hafr took individual honor host Plate College won lntteflni team title ft RUW MO MAMf jqwiflrafinmi pWaMaSSMt iMMim cmpcbui mtm Sw ewee maim wiu MreStwB cB wwywi mum QStuKMjnUn vu mv MV i mm muA vat VWGl OP THB FAINT MfMI Of MM OF MnSmm ft TMMDfT IS OWUMM SO MLXTIfUO IT TOBJIUiaM OP NNTB op moim tmgetmm ee gam nmm let vsacnm pm feumMein the California Junior College emu' country championships Sk a Four Shora Goifing Honors of Virginia Jim Crooker, BUI Wallace, Norm Meago: and Ed Sim kina finished In a 'tie for first place in the: weekly Virginia Country Club sweepstakes Sal nasiBf i 4 the sophomore im-k-foom England, euHyout ktanced foe large field with 18-econd winning margin. Alpizar and Dale rMilletta: finished third afed nintfo.for foa Viking, who JniaHed fifth.

Results: i U', WWSi ML 1M ajhfilMkeSsLIajblall asto 2S24 lur Aadtoio, loaf leech 433-Mil 2035 LCosu, Nerlfc Lem BeulTGAMni Soccer Chb Home Long Beach-Soccer Chib returns home today to play the Temple City Soccer Chib atHeartweU Park. Kick off la 2 pjq, -'Ov 't -r -V v. "TT 1 1 7. 'k 1 4 1 IV "V.i'.'V. t.Vta a aa.

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