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C6 THE SUNDAY STAR-BULLETIN ADVERTISER November 1, 1964 JIM MURRAY SAYS: They're Handicap Their Effort Is 100 Percent tel reservations will be easy By JIM MURRAY Los Angeles Times News Service LOS ANGELES In addition to the normal traffic hazards of Los Angeles which include the freeway rush hour, the greatest motorized cavalry charge since Hitler's one you might have encountered on downtown streets a while back was a sidewalk army of young men in white and blue sweat suits. There were our marathoners, distance walkers and field men, getting ready for the non-Olympic aspects of Tokyo like taxi-dodging, traffic-light beating, pedestrian-avoiding and curb-hopping. You might have felt sorry they had to practice their art in a teeming, motor-logged, cement-encased city until you realized there is one group of athletes in the world who would envy them their ability to move about in an upright position and would gladly practice themselves on a subway platform at noon if nature would let them. These are the "Paralympians," the wheelchair athletes of the world, whose own Olympics will be held in Tokyo Nov. 8-12.

It is an event Telstar will not cover. NBC is not rushing crews and cables to the Orient. Ho- no need to go to scalpers. The 100-yard "dash" record is not 10 seconds flat. It is more like 20 seconds and it is a "roll." The time depends on whether the competition is four young men who have had feeling cut off below the 10th vertebra or the ninth.

This is the distinction between "Class 1" and "Class 2" contestants. "Class 3" are the lucky ones: They, only had polio. The "Wheelchair Olympics" are the invention of a German-named English doctor, Ludwig Gutmann, who realized that a postwar Europe, where the rubble was human as well as structural, a half a man with no interest in life could quickly become a whole vegetable. A competition among men who had rubber wheels for legs seemed less unworkable after seasons of wheelchair basketball in the United States had proved that sweat and speed was better therapy for paraplegia than wine and self-pity. I talked to two young Paralympians from the Long Beach area the other day, Frank Vecera and Bill Johnson.

"I am only half here," Frank Vecera confined. babies among us who want to overthrow City Hall just because our teeth hurt or our corns ache. They illustrate the classic difference between the optimist and the pessimist. The pessimist looks at the half glass of water and wails "It's half empty!" The optimist looks and is overjoyed. "It's half full!" When Frank Vecera says, "I'm half here," he is rejoicing.

Which should be enough to make the rest of us ashamed of ourselves. These were, by and large, energetic, lusty, almost violent, coltish young men before their accidents. The cautious do not get spinal cords severed. These accidents come in war, in speeding cars, airplanes, skiing down precipitious slopes, bob-sledding, hydro-planing young men who live life at the speed of sound. The urge to those lusty pursuits is not shortcircuited by the injury.

Only the ability. Therefore, these contests are as necessary to them as to athletes who compete in spikes instead of wicker bottoms. The shot-put record may be only 30 feet, the javelin only 60. The table tennis may fall short of cup play. But the effort is 100 per cent, even if the man isn't.

Match THAT around the better locker rooms. pulled him from the wreckage of a smoking car, he had screamed it at the doctor. He didn't smile for years. Now, he smiles most of the time getting in and out of his manually controlled Buick convertible, running his real estate and insurance business. Or throwing a javelin sitting down.

The payoff in paraplegia is loss of communication with your lower body. The enemy has cut between your infantry, or legs, and headquarters your brain. All lines are down in your battle to survive. No two injuries are alike. The payoff can also be impotence, sterility, or a simple loss of motor functions.

But it requires a whole new adjustment to life. If you have to lose half of yourself, you must keep telling yourself it is probably best to retain the half that can see sunsets, hear music, pet dogs, add figures and smile. But nobody calls you "Lucky." Men rail at fate when they lose their hair, an arm, an eye, or because they're not handsome, or tall, or they get hay fever, or are hard of hearing. Paraplegics are dealers in human bankruptcy. They're just glad if they get back 40 cents on the man.

They would make splendid citizens if only for the example they give to the cry- 11 Hf 'I 1 1. iT 1 ii ii i ii 1 1 1 1 ii mi in ji fHmni ij, 1 1 num i ijmj iiih Ukpgfcr 'immKmmmm' igpft All-Islands Nine News Pure-Breds Praised By ARTHUR ZANE Discussing the progress of pure-bred dogs in Hawaii with eminent experts Anton Kor- bel, Derek Rayne, the Major God-sols, Maxwell Riddle, the Albert Van Courts, and others who have judged here re Zane peatedly since the 1950s, all agreed they have successively noticed improvements in nearly all breeds. They also noted that the "5 J. to get. If you want tickets, A few years ago, when they Nicklaus Rallies To Tie Devlin SYDNEY, Australia (UPI) Jack Nicklaus of Columbus, Ohio, and Bruce Devlin of Australia were forced into a Sunday playoff for the Australian Open Golf Championship yesterday, when Nicklaus came from behind with a five-under-par 67 on the final round.

Nicklaus tied Devlin at 287 to send the Australian Open into its first playoff since Jim Ferrier and Ossie Pickworth deadlocked in 1948 at Melbourne. The tie will be settled over 18 holes. Nicklaus had trailed by four strokes going into the afternoon round, played in rain and high winds. Devlin still had a chance to win on the last hole of the final round when he needed only a par for victory. But the Aussie blew his putt and had to settle for a bogey and a tie.

Ted Ball finished third with a 288, Allan Murray shot a 290, Bruce Crampton i had a 291 for fifth place. All are Australians. Ken Rosewall Beats Laver JOHANNESBURG (UPI) Australian Ken Rosewall yesterday won the world professional tennis champi onship challenge match when he downed fellow countryman Rod Laver 6-4, 6-1, 6-4, here at Ellis Park. men. Usually a squid will i first discharge a jet of wa-! ter before letting go with the ink but this one didn't adhere to normal routine.

Squid are highly prized by surfcasters as the finest of bait while on the other hand, it is a valued delicacy at teahouse parties when served with a miso dipping sauce. A glance at the counter of any fish market where squid are sold will quickly impress the viewer of the value of catching good-sized octopus. The best season for deep-sea octopi is reportedly late June to the middle of December although the experts prefer the months of September October i Satoru Doi displays cowrie shell and octopus. Deep-Sea Octopus Paralympie Team Will Show Here The United States Paralympie team, composed of 65 wheelchair athletes, will demonstrates its skills in Hawaii Tuesday and Wednesday nights before continuing a trip to To-: kyo for the annual International Paralympics Nov. 8-12.

Seeking its third straight Paralympics title, the U.S. team will exhibit its skills for the general public Tuesday night, at Fort DeRussy. Then, on. Wednesday night, 7:30, the team will play a basketball: game at Schofield Barracks'. Conroy Bowl.

HEADQUARTERS U. S. Army Hawaii is handling arrangements for the team, from the arrival reception at Honolulu International Airport tomorrow at 4 p.m. to the departure date Thursday. The U.S.

team will par-ticipate in more than 25 events in the Paralympics, including archery, basketball, club throw, discus, fencing, javelin, shot put, swimming and weightlift-ing. The team also includes women contestants and they, too, will compete in most events. Only amateur athletes' who are confined to wheelchairs because of physical' disabilities caused by war, illness or accident are qualified to participate as team members. Over 30 countries are expected to compete in the 1964 Paralympics. Counts Signs Celtic Pact BOSTON (UPI) Mel Counts, 7-foot center from Oregon State who starred for the U.S.

Olympic basketball team in Tokyo, signed a contract with the Boston Celtics yesterday. Counts, first draft choice of the defending National Basketball Association Champions, is expected to be used at center or in the corner by coach Red A COMPLIMENTARY entry of 31 dogs, one of the largest in recent years, will compete for honors under the discerning eyes of Don Burum, judge, at the Cocker Spaniel Club of Hawaii's specialty at Waialae-Kaha-la Shopping Center Sunday, Nnv. 8. This will be Burum's first licensed assignment and judging will start at 2 p.m. CH.

MAKIKI JO-TINA Sunblaze, ASCOB Cocker bred hy the Milton Changs, and for the past eight years the constant companion and pal of Jeanne Booth Johnson, Maui News writer, died recently at 142 years. The Changs, two of our keenest, fanciers of the breed, now live in Santa Monica, Calif. Blaze was their first home-bred champion and a big winner at local shows. WENDELL SAMMET of Bryantville, Alekai Kennels' Eastern manager and one of six panelists at the recent Poodle seminar in Cleveland, Ohio, will speak to members of the Poodle Club of Hawaii at the Hawaiian Humane Society, 2700 S. King on Thursday, Nov.

5, at 7:30 p.m. He will discuss "Sportsmanship and Ethics in Shows," one of the key topics at the seminar. THE FOXTERRIER Club of Hawaii's second sanctioned match, Plan will be held at Thomas Square Sunday, Nov. 22. W.

K. Jor-d a kamaaina Terrier fancier and judge, will pick the winners. For the benefit of exhibitors, a grooming and hand-dling class will be held by Midori Fujii, club president, at Thomas Square at 1:30 p.m. today. MISS JOY CURRAN, judge of Vancouver, B.C., will score the dogs at the Obedience Training Club of Hawaii's 30th licensed trial at Thomas Square Nov.

26. This will be her second assignment here in two years the best indication that local trainers like her judging. dogs are better conditioned or, in show parlance, "put down," better controlled, and shown to greater advantage by the exhibitors. THESE VALUED opinions are a tribute to the local fanciers. Separated from Mainland United States by more than 2,000 miles of ocean, handicapped by a four-months quarantine on incoming animals, and also by the cost of importing breeding stock to the Islands, our dog breeders have truly done a remarkable job in spite of these obstacles.

Congratulations, everyone! ride for Tongg Ranch. Gerald Wong, Lou Staski and Dr. Masato Hasegawa will be in Pupukea's lineup. Sunset will have Tuna Sampaio, Tommy Campos i and Bob MacGregor in the saddle. Riding for the Wai-i kikians will be Fred Dailey, Bim Wilson and Sammy Delgado.

He smiled when he said it. 4 f- shell, so that they can be driven home by a quick jerk of the line when the fisherman feels that the octopus has wrapped itself around the cowrie shell. As soon as the hook is imbedded, the octopus is hauled to the surface as quickly as possible and on to the deck of the boat before it can wrench itself free. Once on board, it is whisked into a live-bait tank or some other container before it can discharge its ink sack and spatter the entire boat. On the last of the three which Doi brought up, we were not fast enough.

I asked him to hold the squid for one last picture and he almost got a black bath when it let go. THIS INK is the means used by the octopus to protect itself when attacked. By discharging the ink, the water is clouded and its movements are hidden till it can escape. Deep sea squidding often results in the fisherman getting spattered in the face with this nasty fluid while struggling with a freshly caught speci- ins Shell i Kelso Captures $108,600 Race NEW YORK (UPI) Kelso, displaying more power and speed than he did as a 3-year-old, smashed the American record for two miles at Aqueduct yesterday when he won the $108,600 Jockey Club Gold Cup for the fifth straight time and became the world's leading money winner. The mighty gelding romped home by five and one half lengths in to lower the American record he set back in 1960 when he won the race for the first time.

The son of Your Host, who may be near the end of his racing career, clipped one-fifth of a second off the standard and he picked up a winner's purse of $70,590. That raised his lifetime earnings to $1,803,362, topping the previous high of $1,749,869 won by Round Table before he was retired after finishing second in the Jockey Club Gold cup of 1959. i Cowrie has an irrestible weakness for cowrie shells and all that a fisherman has to do is drag a cowrie shell slow- ly along the bottom. The moment that the shell is Seen by the octopus it i reaches out with first one tentacle, then with another, and finally all of the tentacles curl about and close ly hug the shell, hanging on tightly even when being hauled to the surface. The late Edward Hosa-ka in his "Sport Fishing in Hawaii" long my bible in writing of fishing notes that in some parts of the Pacific no hook is used with the crowrie shell.

However, in Hawaii, it has long been the practice to add a hook and use a weight of some type on the bottom of the rig so that it will stay upright when dragged across the ocean floor. In olden times a stone was used. Nowadays a carefully shaped piece of lead has taken the place of the stone and a pair of needle-sharp metal barbs or hooks, placed close behind the Likes By BRUCE CARTER Many months ago I did a Sunday article on spearing octopus commonly! called "squid" in Hawaii. I had spent a Sunday over the reef at low tide and watched my partner search patiently in ankle-deep wa- I ter with spear extended I sometimes using a viewing glass when the water was deeper for tell-tale signs around holes in the coral which would indicate that a squid was hiding therein. Although this form of squidding over the reef is by far the most popular w'ay of catching squid, there I is another method that is less well known but often results in larger specimens.

This involves fishing from boats in water from 75 to 150 feet for deep sea octopi. Last weekend it was my pleasure to see this method in operation a technique devised by the ancient Ha-waiians and still practised in modern times demonstrated for my camera by veteran Waianae fisherman Satoru Doi on his sampan Siesta. THE DEEP SEA octopus 2 Polo Matches Today At Kapiolani A Waikiki Polo Club dou-bleheader will be played today at Kapiolani Park. ongg Ranch and Pupu-kea clash in the first game at 2 p.m. while Sunset Ranch and the Waikikians will play the nightcap an hour later.

Tenney and Ruddy Tongg and Charley Pietsch will Y. A. TITTLE: I PASS For 49ers On Long Pass Sub w-ould have been suicide to stand my ground, so I scrambled out to the right. I got away from two tacklers and looked downfield for Soltau. There he was, cutting across the middle and wide open, too! I reared back and threw a long pass, maybe thirty-five yards or more, toward Soltau, a beautiful pass.

Just as I turned the ball loose, I got the hell knocked out of me. I was flipped clean over backwards. As I hit the ground, I heard the crowd cheering a San Francisco touchdown. "Nice going, Gordy," I said as I got back to my feet. But when I got to the sideline, everyone was congratulating Pete Schabarum, our flanker back, and shaking his hand.

"What's going on?" I asked Cason, who had been sitting on the bench. "You just won the ballgame for us, that's what," he answered. "Yeah, I know, but why is everyone congratulating Schabarum?" "He caught your pass," said Jimmy. Then it dawned on me I had missed Soltau, had thrown the ball a good two yards over his head, and Schabarum had caught it. He had caught it on his fingertips on the dead run, and he had kept right on going into the end zone! Of course, after the game the writers said it was the prettiest pass ever thrown in Kezar Stadium.

I was embarrassed. In all truth, I hadn't even known where Pete was when I threw the ball. It won the game for us, and that's what I had been anxious to do for the team. I wanted to win for them as Albert had won for the past six years. (To he Continued) the next game to Philadelphia by 24-14, and we came home from a road trip three weeks later with a 2-2 record.

I was still riding the bench when San Francisco played Los Angeles in the fifth game of the season. The Rams of 1951 were one of the greatest pro teams ever assembled. They had speed, power and wonderful passers in Bob Waterfield and Norm Van Brocklin. They also had three of the game's finest receivers, Elroy Hirsch, Tom Fears and Bob Boyd. But we beat them by 44-17 that day.

Albert was tremendous; he drove the Rams crazy. The San Francisco defense was hot too and it picked off six Ram passes. Los Angeles came back and whipped us, 23-16, on three field goals by Waterfield a week later and so we had a 3-3 record when the New York Yanks came to Kezar Stadium. I mention this game because it was a turning point in my career with the Forty-Niners. The Yanks were a weak ball club but they jumped us and they were ahead by 14-12 when Shaw put me in the game in the fourth period.

There was no alternative but to throw the ball and score in a hurry because time was running out. In the huddle, I looked at Gordy Soltau, our left end, and asked, "Can you beat your man to the inside?" "I'll try," he said. "Okay, then, the snap number is on three. Let's pull this one out!" I DROPPED back to throw but the Yanks had a defensive rush on and they broke through my blockers. It San Francisco had come off a poor year in 1950, but in 1951 we had a good football team.

A lot of new guys had come in. including Billy Wilson, one of the greatest ends I have ever seen, and we finished with a 7-6-1 record, a big improvement over 3-9. When the regular season started, Frankie Albert was doing most of the quarterbacking. I didn't get into the opening game, a 24-10 upset of Cleveland, but I didn't mind. I had resigned myself to a certain period of waiting.

Albert had six years on me. More important, he had the confidence and the faith of the San Francisco players, I felt sure I would be a better quarterback than Frankie someday, but it would take time and patience. I must confess that I learned very little from Albert style of play, I mean the mechanical aspects of his game. He was an individualist, an off-the-cuff quarterback, and I knew it would be a mistake to attempt to adapt my style of play to his. Besides, he was lefthanded and he did everything backwards.

But what I did gain from Albert in those early months was an appreciation of his approach to the game. He was daring, unafraid to take a chance. Pressure did not wilt Frankie Albert; he thrived on it. He had fun playing football and he made the game enjoyable for the rest of the team, even when it was for big money. ALBERT HURT his shoulder in the opening win over Cleveland and could barely lob the ball.

But I was still trying to learn the Forty-Niner offense and Shaw did not have enough faith in me to let me run the show. So Frankie kept playing. But he couldn't throw, and we lost (Installment No. 8) By Y. A.

TITTLE (N.Y. Giants Quarterback) As Told To Don Smith I have always come to play, and I came to play at San Francisco in 1951. Of course, Frankie Albert was still No. 1 with the Forty -Niners, and that's as it should have been. Frankie was older and he was in his sixth season.

It was going to take a lot to move Albert out of his position, and I would have to bide my time. I was a better passer. Albert, though, was a superior quarterback in every other respect including the one most important to a professional football team he knew how to win. When I signed with Tony Morabito I told him I was coming to San Francisco to play, not to ride the bench until Albert got so old he had to retire. "You'll get your chance," Tony had said, and his word was good enough for me.

ALL THROUGH the training period at Menlo Park that summer I looked better than Albert in practice. I guess this was because I was passing well. But even my passing couldn't shake his status as the San Francisco quarterback. I would still have to prove I could win before the Forty-Xiners considered me anything more than a baldheaded guy from Baltimore. My chance to prove this was delayed by a bad muscle pull the second week of camp that sidelined me for two pre-season games..