Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 17

1 wins amerson Tune CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Tuoa March lfi 3B Barrera-Luis Meet onight Tougli Cuban Promises To Be Test for Leftv The ability of Lefty Barrera to take and shake off a power punch on the chin somethin? many of his critics have Ion? held in doubt gets probably the most severe test of his boxing career tonight when he tackles hard-hitting Baby Luis of Mexico City in a 10-round bout in Memorial Coliseum Barrera despite credentials that include two state Golden Gloves titles a national Mule I Alvvny Starting Somelliing Elmer Tarbox and Mule Fraser were lolling in the Plaza Hotel toffee shop last week awaiting cessation of a heavy ram that threatened to wash out the famous Border Olympics They didn't slow down when a spoils editor Joined them for a flip of coffee and some conversation Mule was and has been the starter at the Border Olympics at his mercy as he held them In their blocks awaiting the starting gun Tarbox his assistant starter for a few years now certainly is no stranger to the athletic scene lie is one of the all-time athletic greats at Texas Tech And seeing as how he was a Tech man when the team was called the Matadors and the late match card promoted by Ruben Rodriguez is expected to attract one of the largest boxing crowds in history with Rodriguez anticipating a possible sellout of as many as 3600 Two 10-rounders and a six- Gloves crown and a berth on the 1960 Olympics team plus a professional record of 20-2 has not proven to some skeptics his chin is strong enough for the big leagues In almost 10(1 fights amateur and pro the Robsinwn flash has failed to go the distance only almost since the thing wasjand great rele Cawthorn was founded 30-ndd years ago Thethe coach conversation Just finest runners in the world atjnaturally swung over to Caw-some time or other have been thorn Don! Ifl Mr You Hiding "Mr (aw thorn was a strlrttircmrnt I called him and he disciplinarian" Tarbox said 'said he would meet me at the with respect In his voice He drove up in the the days of long hair he made longest sleekest blackest fadil- lac you ever saw "I looked at the car and then at Mr Cawlhnm and he hurriedly explained: now Elmer I have been having back A little later Ramsey Muniz Ius wear ours rropied short He wanted us to look as ferocious as possible I suppose "He wouldn't allow any of us to own automobiles and made us walk wherever we wmt lie wanted us to keep our legs in BABY IS (RIGHT) DISPLAYS THAT POWERFUL RIGHT HAND Lefty Barrera (left) Atnan Peck (center) view Cuban's chief weapon rounder are on the supporting once in the disheartening loss to Manny Elias two yeas ago lam'an Rematch when he failed to answer the1 In the semifinal Manuel (Son-bell for the ninth round of j'risas) Avitia of Monterrey Mcx-scheduied 10-roundcr ico takes on Benito Juarez of Only once in 22 pro bouts Ausin in a rematch of their has he been on the floor 10-roundcr in San An-dropped by a right hand on Barrera-Kidd card Danny Kidd in a San Antonio August Avitia won a close debout last August Barrera sur- csion-vived that third-round setback! The other 10 has veieran Tam-and stopped the Filipino pa Fla middleweight Aman an in the 10th taking on former Texas Hard Punrher light heavyweight champion But he probably has never Bowser of Austin met a fighter with the punch' The opening four-rounder at of Luis a native of Havana! 8:30 pm has Cuco Juarez of 'Cuba whom some rate among! Austin against Mike Marquez of the hardest punchers in the i FI Campo Marquez 1962 Na-featherweight ranks Emir Du-'lional Golden Glove runner-up verger Marino who adopted is in his first pro fight and is a Baby Luis as a ring name in I substitute for a substitute redeference to fans prob-l placing Sonny de Alajendro who 1st Year Coach Says He Is i i tt Already Villanova St John eteranyn shape at all times We a former great Miller football dare let him see us in a car player now performing at years ago I hap- lor walked up and began lo bat penrd to he going through Tus- the breeze Then came Gil ralnosa Ala where Mr Caw- Steinke the genial head coach thorn was living after his Texas College Followed Instruction to the letter Steinke was bubbling with rn-l In his first class the professor thusiasm over a lad he had realizing his charges were not! signed recently from Dunbar at thc mcnia tegaB Temple a Negro high R'hooll "This boy weighs 266 pounds pMlaij1-B hi is teaching methods and I'm going to play him at i "This is a lecture course You Itncliacker I think Can you im-jdonl have to do any talking 1 agine a 206-poundcr being agile do it All you have to do is enough to tie a linebacker?" jwnle down what I Muniz came up with a story Iioul a lad who signed with a I A few minutes later the pro-college more or less famous began calling the role picking up athletes who don't athlete dutifully wrote down think too rapidly I all the names railed NEW YORK (AP) St John's and top-seeded Villanova Bv ROB GREEN I Dave Stallworth a veteran 6-innw head into the national Kan (AP) Gary'foot-10 center in Nate Bowman finals with a 21-7 Thompson is completing hisjall around strength and a good record first full season as a head bench He went through the "I say too much about moved into the semifinals of the National Invitation Tournament was originally scheduled to replace L'il Joe Bamentes of Dallas Rarrientes had contract ably throw up their hands at the square one claims to have scored 23 knockouts while win- ning 25 of 30 bouts in three' conflicts and fought last night Dallas instead of here to- years first month and a half of the our second-semester team" the Tnmaw niM season with a 12-2 record and stocky dark-haired coach said "We certainly don't have the talent or depth we had at the! seeded New Mexico 61-54 behind was at or near the top of the national rankings all the way coach but he doesn't consider himself a freshman and definitely does not like the tag rookie "I figure I've been through enough this season to make any- One Less In 1964 night Sixteen games into the schedule things changed One season one a said the coach ended and another began Sud-of the Wichita Shockers basket- dcnly he had no All-America no ball team "And I can't lie a 6-foot -10 center no bench no brothers Ken and Bob McIntyre after Villanova edged Manhattan 73-71 on Bill Melchionni's jump shot and free throw in the last minutes St John will play the winner of Tuesday night's Army-Western Kentucky game while Villa-nova takes on the Detroit-New York University winner The semifinals will be played Thurs day After Three Tries Mathews rookie anyhow This has been two seasons: two separate distinct seasons" There's plenty of evidence to support the argument Consider he started the season with an All-America in ranking and really not much of anything but a bunch of kids with a lot of desire So they went on and won the Missouri Valley Conference title and the NCAA Midwest Region' al championship anyhow and Want to Diet Again SPORTS start of the season" Thc division of two seasons was triggered by two factors Stallworth's eligibility expired at the end of the first semester and Bowman became ineligible through scholastic difficulties With those two out Thompson had to deplete his bench to fill the starting roles "Now we have five guards out there" he said The tallest starter Ls 6-5 Dave Leach The rest range down to 5-10 John Criss In crucial situations the starters sometimes go all the rn way as they did in the 54-48 vie-! ll'torill 1 (Mill lory over Oklahoma State in the! i 'll At regional finals Ill 1 ClllllS Match The starters are 6-4 Vem Smith and 6-3 sophomore JamielICTORIA -Del Mar and Thompson at forwards taachlctoria College split 3-3 in ten- at center and 8-1 Junior Kelly nis matches here Monday Pete and Criss at guards £rnesf JJodri8Jifz of ar Jamie Thompson was a dis- defeated Doug Winters 6-4 6-3 tinct surprise He made his first Parker of Del Mar lost ALK-g Alice scored two-White scored Probst with a sin-start after Stallworth and Bow-to Gene GlUey 6-D- nms jn the bottom of the sixth gle David Garcia got first on man departed and has averaged Bill McCandless of Pel Marjjnning Mondav to nip Miller! an error and Elley scored almost 19 points a game to Larry Watkins 7-5 6-4li0-9 a non-district baseball White then scored on another The big test Coach Thompson Del Rafael Macias beat game error as Curtis Cloud went to said came in the Feb 6 game Don McCleary 6-2 6-4 er briefly in the sec-'Iirst- Wth runners on first and at St Louis the first after the) Rodriguez and Parker defeat- inning but Mice came third Robert Cinlo singled in departure of Stallworth anded Winters and Gilley 6-3 6-4 'back in its half to score five two runs Bowman Wichita won it 72-64 (McCandless and Macias lost to Alice scored three runs in the By JOt: REH IIIER hatting slump It was something WEST BEACH Fla (AH far worse 1 don't think they've Eddie Mathews hopes he doesn't: invented the word yet for what I have to go on a diet this year 'went through" He went on ihrre last year It! "I tried just about everything didn't help He still couldn't huto snap out of tt" he said "1 his weight took hours of extra batting arv ny I VMf II) wanted to get down to 'practice I kept changing bats IjifsICIiVlr IiliJl' ItU I where I could say 1 was hitting all kinds of batting above my weight" Mathews(slanccs I even took to bunting said rather sadly "But HAnd I talked to Just about ev-couidn't lose w'eight fast ery body trying to find out what enough Or maybe the average I was dong wrong Nothing went down faster hrlped My low weight was 192 Snapped Out of pounds That was around the Then without notice Ma-niddle of June My batting av- thews suddenly snapped out of rrage tlirn was two points low-: it His batting eye returned His er a solid 190" jtiminf which had been so far For 12 years Mathews was off came back Almost over-1 50 opuy regarded by Mr and Mrs Carl Rosen's one of the leading power hitters night he became the old Ma-rw stabIe hat he WM not of the game A Mt-hamled hit-(thews the kind who used ter the Milwaukee Rraves'jbreak up games with extra base slugger has hit more home runs hits than any active player in the game with the exception of loral Bov Letter Dependability Wins Aqueduct NEW YORK (AP) Dopcn- Lincoln Downs nhbdUbto not1 l0 named for any of the Triple1 Gobbler captured the ujCrown races got up in thc finalte at Lincoln Downs for his strides Monday at Aqueduct end second straight victory beat stablcmate Bcaupy by Timed in 1:00 3-5 for the head in the 329450 Swift Stakosfurlongs Just Gobbler paid the 1965:3360 1220 and $220 was ttie ame where: Watkins and McCleary 6-4 MTL- Mike Soiller walked bollom he fjflh t0 tle UP at big answers were on the! thf Mar boys ndBm HarlunsanJames Tyron MlJer hke in toP of line he said "We put a girls teams go to S9n snfnnin ua i in the fifth with one run alley mark against the Billik- i College Wednesday San Antonio got on via fielder choices to load for match-lb- bases Richard Garza sin-Rut SCOITd fivcms and came off 7-0 We had'eSi our answers We had to out- bottom of the sixth and the Bucs gted and all three runners wre t0 jn lhe fin al mnmg an error White hit three singles to lead Keys lhe Bucs Ken Phillips added a Buchanan hit double lice was led by chanan's triple MK-to Hank ad dlk SUyi A (ulver Alf But last was not a opening day feature of No York thoroughbred rorlog Park Dry Bill owned by Joseph hustle and out-think the opposi-l tion Finding out we could do so Golf Center Mates lo I hot goo to to ooo Woman' l'lav Tolav the big reasons we went on to1 win the Valley title" I There will be a women's blind triPle 10 core Ke-5' 1 fl In a Garza scored on which also allowed David to get on Bradley 1 in year thews year Worst Ever "The first two months were the worst I ever sient i baseball" he said "Never before had I excnencrd anything like CULVER Ind (Sp) Clyde Alexander and Virgil Crane of Corpus Christ! hare been awarded varsity swimming letters at Culver Military Academy $1140 and $750 Beaupy Clyde is the son of Mr andjconsidrrrd the better half of the bogey golf tournament at the! Miller scored two the next Miller 012 031 0- 9 9 5 I aw-il Iiii Win ai I Corpus "christi Golf Center to-Jinning and then went on a ram-Aiu-e 050 032 x-10 7 3 laOtall Jlclll 99 Ills dav starting at 9:30 am in the fifth to score five Curtis Cloud and Louis al- All women area golfers areruns- de David Uarcia (3): Billy invited to enter They will tee Bernard Probst and Roger Ciik Ronnie Wishert (3) Billy off after registration I Kilty each singled Robert Taylor (5) and Bert Harkins ORANGE GROVE Alexander 45enlry returned $1140 and $750 Ayer and ridden by Tom Sisum Dj(iwon his second straight and third of the Sunshine Park meeting by coming from off the pac for a one-half length decision Candy Fair ran the six-furlongs paid $320 $340 iwidy Fair returned Jet Roman another half-length back was $320 It I hope I never have lo go Mrs Glenn through again through gh something like that Hewitt Place I thought I was all of Mr and gh It wasn't an ordinary 1 217 Amistad Virgil is the sonjTim's Stingray was another lVi sr Mrs Virgil C'raneilengths back in third and paid ri UndJOCi Avalos Wins 1st Bout Loses 2nd in National over and $640 and $420 to show Oaklatvn Forrest surged through victory In the Oaklawn Lingle Runs Fastest 1000 in Milwaukee (Sp) -Elmo Jackson of Corpus Chris-ti had the tiest catch of the day as he hooked a three-pound la'! ounce bass to win that division at the Lake Corpus Chris-tt Fishing Rodeo He turned in his bass at Brown's Harbor Clyde Day of Natalia Texas won the catfish division with an 11-pound yellow cat He turned in his fish at Mac's Lagarto Store Mrs McKinney of Mathis turned In a one-pound erappie at Camp Hell to win the day's honors in that di vision Park Lindsay's Aleeee the stretch for $5000 feature at Tark The other half of the Lindsay entry Miss Glamour Gal took show honors liehind Bailey's Little By Little Aleeee covered the six furlongs of fast track in 1:11 Thc Lindsay entry paid $520 $320 and $360 little Ity Little returned $760 and $58(1 winning one of three sections ofsecond with a top effort of 6-the 600 in 1:106 Carson edged foot-10' Dale Stovall of Air Force Acad-1 The old meet mark of 6 feet "as set by Boh Angeles in 1962 IFF record was Roger Kerr of Iowa in 1963 by Alonzo Litt lejohn of West- Oklahoma State's NCAA two-or" Mtchigin in 19t3 lltSMUU RESULTS nulTrelay champions shattered! Newly crowned NGAA cham-another meet and I'STFF 'P I arbe Greene of Nebraska record by romping to a 30-yard equalled meet by victory over Ohio University in 'winning the 50-yard dash in 5 amfcnofm (ornia John Uelses of laSallena Male Kan and Henry Wadsworth of West-imwed a bid for a ub-four I I i ii niimilA arrint iHK 6) Iha' 11A High School A Ufa I Milltr Aromai Pan 4 SI John Soft lawn I Professional MfllBT LiOlUM Italians Uncage II Inninst Radon LM Angcln A4 PhiledtloSio 1 New York NS New Yak A4 MhiiwmIg 1 Cnhlnnall I St Ltwil A kaniat City 4 Dtliail 4 MilwaukM A laltlmof 1 Lot Angtltii Houtlon 1 Pilltboroh It Chicago A) MILWAUKEE (AP) NCAA champion Robin Lingle of Missouri turned in the fastest 1000 of the winter board circuit with a blistering 2:073 effort Monday night in the 14th annual Journal Games designated as the US Track and Field Federation indoor Championships The slender Lingle romping on one of his favorite tracks caittured the meet and I'STFF title for the third straight time while pulling away to a 20-yard victory over Dennis Carr of Southern California Wisconsin' set laps front to stay flash gradually pulled away to win in easy fasiou Peterson ilted under the pace he initially set and finished third Newly crowned NCAA champion Charlie Green of Nebraska equalled the meet record by winning the 50-yard dash in 52 seconds Midshipman CP Gray of Navy equal Uxl thc USTFF rerorif of 6 1 seconds in capturing the 50-yard high hurdles Dave Dick of Air Force Academy toppled a hurdle and settled for second Pat Ponmhroy of Tennessee was third and Larry IJvcrs of Villanova fourth Steve Carson of Iowa State set a meet and' USTFF record la IxMioir of Indianapolis and also outpointed Clellan Perryman of IzHiisvtlle Ky Garay 134 outpointed le Warren of Toledo and Jerry Miller of Billings Mont The other four Texas fighters Gene Guess of San Antonio light-heavyweight Mark Tessman of Houston welterweight Jesse Valdez of Houston and heavyweight Lynn Farr of Texarkana will appear on the Tuesday night program Liuisvillc Marcus Anderson defending featherweight champion was an impressive winner and flyweight Allan Latlimore Kansas City's colorful fireplug won twice as the tournament got off to a rousing start Monday night Fort Worth Kansas City Los Angeles and Minneapolis were the top teams on the 67-bout csrd completing the Irst two rounds In the four lightest classes A crowd or about 4000 was on hand The bigger boys will fight Tuesday night Anderson was the only de fending rhamplon on the card '11i0 Kansas lily and Lo Angeles trains eacn moved four men Into Wednesday's quarter finals Fort Worth and Mlnneap-olli three each Kansas City fighters were the most imprcs sivc winning all six bouts four by knockouts Anderson a sharo 5 foot l0 body puncher baffled Wayne Steiner of Minneapolis before stopping him in the third round with a furious barrage Latlimore sloped Andrew White of St iAuis a four-time Air Force champ owning a cut over his left eye in 55 siwxids of the first round Then he swarmed all over Walter Henry of Buffalo NY winning by decision Kansas City's Johnny Ciqie-land a third-round TKO winner Levi Robertson of Buffalo who owns a wicked right hand and Bob Rodrigquez of Minneapolis looked the best of the bantam weights Marcus Anderson shared attention in the 128-pound class with Kansas Donald Parker who won twice the second time by a knockout and Janies Anderson of Kl iznits the 1961 national champion who stopped Tony Gonzales of Denver (he 1964 semifinalisl Thc top lightweighis were Fr ankio Anderson of Kansas Cllv who scored a first -round knock out in 42 seconds with a terrific right hand and Perry Bennett of Strcalor III the 1961 national champion KANSAS CITY IB Jesse Avalos of Corpus Christ! won his first fight Monday night but lost his second to Clyde Tyler of Huntington W' Va on a derision in lhe 30th National Golden Gloves Tournament here Avalos almost lost his first fight on a Judges' score card Avalos fighting with (lie Fori Worth team was first announced as tieing outpointed hv Gilbert Trujillo of Rosewell NM in what would have been a major upset It was announced later that one of the Judges' euixls had bien incorrectly marked and the decision belonged to Avalos Avalos won the state title by whipping the 1964 national 118 pound champion Manuel Navarro In Fort Worth Flyweight Fred Garcia of rialnview bantamweight Kddic Gonzales of Plainview and light weight Ray Garay of Houston won Iwo fights each Monday nlglrt in Hie iiiening rounds of the tournament Garcia 111 knocked out Gary Smith or Louisville in 1:27 of the first round In the opening round then stopped Jimmy Wll-son of Wichita Kan In the second round of the seewtd Gonzales 116 outpointed Nate winner on the basis of fewer misses with Uelses and Wadsworth tying for second John Rambo won the high Jump with a meet and Federation record uf 6 feet 114 Inches Steve Herndon of Missouri was charge lie gradually opened a substantial lead but his kick gave out and he managed only his second 4:017 performance of the season the fastest of the winter board circuit BuIImui Wins Fort Worth Boxing Match FORT WORTH ill Sevcro Balboa was the only Corpus Christ! fighter of three to win here Monday night BuDNia 146 out pointed Mike taint) 152 In a six-round fight Hubby Garza 133 of Corpus Christ 1 was lieaten by Floyd Molina 133 of Foil Worth In a lightweight bout by a decision Joe Rarrientes 134 of Fort Worth dcdsloncd Tito Guillen 134 of Corpus Chrisii Curtis Cokes lau-e a lop con-lender for ilic world's weller-weight elnimplnnship relumed lo boxing with an impressive victory via a technical knockout over rugged Marshall Wells of Houston It won him the Weller weight Championship of Texas 2 IUSERALL GAMS SET HERE TODAY Two baseball games are scheduled for today in Corpus Christi high schiNil circles In a 4 gHiiie at Caba-niss Field Kay takes on Hee-vllle while al the same field at 7 pm Carroll engages Corpus Christi Academy A NEW IMAGE in CorpHi Chriili Centurv Paoers Inc 4)51 laldwin Corpu Chnsli Paper Div Magnolia Paper Div ibwiifw J' TU1-72J1 dnlnbulor ta NatavwHv tar llea and aM CLARK HOOK rHAMINrt fQCIlS CONCtNT RATI I OWL CLIkNLR NL VAN-SOL alLA AkO Ok A AiAjdl Mi ON Oki ON Okk Al.