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T't To Fight or Not to Fight, That's the Question Clay Misses March Draft; Bout Up in Air A Folk Hero 'ig pion's reclassification Louisville, draft by a'l-Y to 1-A by his draft board board, hast week. Clay was quoted as making him subject to military saying "I'm a member of the service. Black Muslims, and we don't go revocation of the license. revocation of the license. "This is all becoming a kin- Kerner indicated that dergarten situation," Radzienda he would be satisfied with a for.

said. "In my opinion, if the mai apology from Clay, but commission rejects the fight, we'ji nave to wait until Friday the attorneys for Terrell and to see what develops," said Clay would have a legal reason Triner. Kerner said at a news confer- to no wars unless they're de- clared by Allah Himself. I don't ence in Springfiled, 111., that Clay's statements were have no personal quarrel with those Viet Congs." for disapproval. The Nevada State Athletic Daley joined the clamor, say Clay also was quoted as say 'This country is ngnung ror CHICAGO (AP) Heavy-! weight champion Cassius Clay informed Illinois officials Monday he would come to Chicago Friday and apologize for his "unpatriotic remarks" which threaten to cause cancellation of his tifle fight here with Ernie Terrell.

In a soap opera atmosphere, the case against Clay was continued to Friday after Gov. Otto Kerner, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and other Illinois political figures urged the Illinois' Athletic Commission to call off the March 29 bout. In the meantime, the chairman of tire champ's draft board ing that "I had hopes the fight ing that through the taxes col-jfreedom all over the world. And Commission announced in Las Vegas it had reprimanded Clay for his statements concerning wouldn't be held in Chicago and lected on every fight he has the part of this freedom is for a government piuts up eniwtjn man 10 say wnai ne warns.

his nnssihI(1 inft11PHnn Mn tho Triner and commissioner JoeIA v. money to buy three jets. Army. Robichaux, said they would withhold any decision until Clay appears Friday. "We believe his statements are a disgrace to sports, boxing in particular, and detrimental to I'm confident the commissioners will take the proper I am sure they will respond to public opinion all over the state and the city." "The record here," Daley said, "is such that we could well do without the fight." Commission Chairman Joe It has been established to the satisfaction of most that Cassius Marcellus Clay is not a deep thinker.

His mind, though as agile as his body, does not reach out beyond the limits of a 24-foot ring and always returns quickly to the one topic he finds truly interesting himself. In these circumstances, it is hardly surprising that he feels that Selective Service is picking on him when it rules him eligible for the draft, like any other healthy, 24-year-old, unmarried, male American citizen. Cassius does not regard himself as just like any other. If he appeals his reclassification to 1-A as he and his lawyers say they will, he will be the first boxing champion to do so. It will not enhance his image as an American folk hero.

Cassius has never shown immoderate concern about his image, being highly satisfied with the one his mirror shows him. However, if he should manage to squirm out of military service, he would be missing a rare opportunity. In the Army, he would have everybody on his side for the first time in his life, the whole country is rooting for him to win big in Viet Nam. "I want to hear from him in wall). in-a uwiu wim "iau- ii 0i person and judge for myseM just; youth of Amenoav said Vice Chairman George This was corrected by the Pentagon, which stated the price of a jot ranges from $2.5 million to $10 million.

Triner told a news conference that Clay "said he would appear before us at noon Friday to apologize in person. So as of right now, the license for the fight has not been revoked and Foley how sincere he is in apolo At Louisville, the chairman Lruuusvuie, said uiay win gizing," said Robichaux, of Cassius Clay's draft board not be called to service before Triner then announced that Clay said the heivyweight champion the; scheduled fight as he is not called him from Miami and told included in the March auota. him he would aDoIoeize to the Robichaux earlier told The Associated Press his decision really had been made two weeks ago when he and the defuutely will not be called to service before his scheduled "Kerner asked the commission governor, the commission and it remains status quo." March 29 fight with Ernie Ter to reconsider its decision to li- to the public "for having hds big Lou Radzienda, one of the board voted to licanse the fight Cassius Clay cense the bout because of what mouth to make the statements he -called Clay's "unpatriotic that he did." I remarks" following the cham- After being reclassified from three commissioners, said that and indicated he would not nothing would change his mind change it. A majority vote is and that he would not vote for'needed by the commission for rell at Chicago. J.

Allen Sherman, chairman of Local Board 47, said the quota for March was received Monday and Clay would not be included in it. Sherman said the champion had 10 days to appeal the change. Sherman also said federal law required that a person not be notified to report for service during this 10-day period. The March quota will be filled before the period ends, he said. Clay and his attorney have said an appeal will be filed.

The deadline is Feb. 28. If "an appeal is received, Sherman said, induction will be delayed longer. mm www Hf few! Ik 1 Judging from his published squeals, Clay believes in personal interpretation of the oath of allegiance. He also believes that military service is for the poor, not for young capitalists who can earn a fortune by just being in the same ring when a Sonny Liston chooses to quit.

He has said the government should not draft him because he pays enough taxes in a year to buy a couple of jet bombers. Let the working stiffs in lower tax brackets carry arms, it's probably all they're good for. He has also implied that in his opinion the Army is picking on him because he is a member of the Black Muslims. He says Muslims don't believe in war unless It is war declared by Allah himself," who, of course, speaks through the Muslim leadership. "I don't have no personal quarrel with those Viet Congs," the young patriot said.

"These Viet Congs are fighting a very nasty war over there. There's a lot of people getting killed. Why should we Muslims get involved?" wwm Star-Gazette A I rf ft I 4fJ I I jlni la 1 vv Why, indeed, unless they are also Americans prosper-in a land where a man may join any sect he chooses. ELMIRA Tuesday, Feb. 22, 1966 Page 14 Norm Van Brocklin Dick Kazmaier Charlie Conerly Pete Pihos Baseball Balks At Delivering Financial Secrets It should be understood that it was not on Clay's account that the Army dropped its standards below his intelligence quotient.

Nor was his reclassification purposely timed so he could be called up before his March 29 date with Ernie Terrell. As the Army pointed out in the "fact sheet" issued to explain the rejection of Joe Namath, the $400,000 quarterback, "physical standards, as applied by the Armed Forces, represent our best professional knowledge and we apply them equitably to all persons. It would be discriminatory to take action in Mr. Namath's case that would differ from that taken in the case of any other individual." This is equally true of mental standards. Cassius isnt the only otherwise qualified young man to flunk the intelligence tests.

The Kansas City Athletics have a player whose I.Q., his draft board believes, should be stuffed and mounted. When the rock-bottom grade acceptable was 31, this lad scored 7. Clay's score wasn't made public. It was too low to meet the standards when he took the test but high enough to qualify him when the requirements were lowered. He and anybody else in the same bracket were properly MILWAUKEE, Wis.

(AP) Basebal contended Monday its financial records were trade counsel for Wisconsin, told the court that baseball has already supplied some of the material. "But what we're really want ing and need to properly try this secrets that couldn't possibly be made available to Wisconsin in its antitrust suit against the Braves and the National case is to show how they handled the book value of franchises themselves and how they League. The argument came at handled depreciation and amortization, player acquisition ex hearing before Circuit Judge Elmer Roller on Wisconsin penses and contracts, he said. Stafford said the financial Albie Booth Jim Crowley Aaron Rosenberg Lynn Waldorf motion that the books be or facts were of "great significance in the question of expan dered opened for the case which goes to trial Feb. 28.

The action resulted from the transfer of the sion" and whether Milwaukee was a good baseball town. Braves' franchise from Milwaukee to Atlanta. He said some information has 9 Are Former College Players 14 Named to Grid Hall of Fa Judge Roller huddled with at been supplied by the New York, Los Angeles and Houston franchises, but none on the teams torneys for a two-hour hearing in his chambers on a technical point and then reserved deci that are the least prosperous." "It is very important," he sion Monday night on opening Conerly, Yale's Booth and Ore From the before-1910 group ship, in 1947. the books. He told a newsman gon's Van Brocklin were Dick were quarterback John McGov- There is always an outcry when a young man of prominence is rejected for service, especially an athlete fit for combat in sports.

In spite of its hasty explanation of the Namath disqualification, the Army is still hearing about Joe. To lower physical standards could be dangerous. With reference to Namath's trick knee, the Army pointed out that "in Viet Nam, the life and safety of his comrades should depend on Namath performing his duties under extremely adverse conditions." Mental standards are not quite the same thing, a fact that has been recognized by lowering the requirements. As a commander mapping broad strategy in the jungle, Cassius might leave something to be desired, but he is smart enough to dig a latrine. Cassius says his appeal will be based on his religious beliefs.

"This usually means the objector is a pacifist, although Cassius didn't use the word. Just as well he didn't. Some smart aleck who had watched him in with Liston would be sure to say, "I knew that all along." said, "that the court know the he would rule today. ern of Minnesota, halfback John Like Van Brocklin and Pihos, Conerly went on to gain fame in the National Football League, health of all the teams in the National League. the court Houghton Hubbard of Amherst Kazmaier of Princeton, Jim Crowley and Rip Miller of Notre Dame, Pete Pihos of Indiana, Aaron Rosenberg of Southern "Not one member of the center Frank Juhan of Sewanee can know whether the Braves but selection to the Hall of NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.

(AP)-Nine former college football players, including Charlie Conerly, Albie Bootih and Norm Van Brocklin, were elected Monday to the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. Former Coach Lynn (Pappy) Waldorf and four football pioneers also were elected. framed besides Mississippi's and quarterback C. Everett Ba were put upon in Milwaukee. league will consider making California and Chuck Carney of con of We sley an, It should be spread upon the Fame is based solely on collegiate performance.

Illinois. available the information requested," said Earl T. Jinkin- Conerly was a triple-threat record so that the court can single-wing tailback who led decide whether this is a good son, Braves' attorney. They were selected from play Mississippi to its first South baseball town or not." He said the state was seeking ers who competed after 1910. eastern Conference champion Jinkinson said the state is to probe into "matters never seeking to delve into the inter Van Brocklin, now the coach of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings, divulged to anyone." "The court," he said, "can led Oregon to its first undefeat nal fiscal affairs" of the league's teams "without any justification Whatsoever." realize how sensitive this information is." ed season in 1948.

Pihos returned from service in 1945 and He contended the state mo The slate, in a motion filed tion came too late and even led Big Ten champion Indiana Bobsled Racer Killed In Mishap at Lake Placid in scoring. were the material made available it would contribute noth last Thursday, asked the court to order the league to make available profit and loss statements and balance sheets for Crum Rolls Tasty 640 at Paramount Booth, Yale's Little Boy Blue. ing toward proving "whetner played i halfback from 1929 the National League has con the past 10 seasons. through 1931 and still holds the The state also asked for data spired to boycott the city of Eli single-season scoring record Milwaukee." on television and radio receipts, crewmen like dolls on the track LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) of 138 points.

Kazmaier also was an Ivy Leaguer and won the revenue from concessions and "The material is not availa as the sled continued- down the Sergio Zardini, a former world Don Crum certainly didn't go on the line ready to go. He withdrew and Zardini's crew moved into position. Zardini, a veteran interna player salaries. course and across the finish Heisman Trophy as the top ble," Jinkinson said, "and could not be made available under the time remaining before trial." line. piayer in the country in 1951.

to pieces in the Paramount Mixed League as he put together games of 211 and 235 for a Willard S. Stafford, special Wilma Cody wasn't far behind in the Dixie Moose Mixed with a 544. Irene Hunsinger" blazzed an eye-popping 245 to capture high game honors. tionalist from Italy now living in Race -officials and spectators Montreal, was driving in the rusned onto the course, cover 640 series. ing the bleeding men with blan Crum's effort on behalf of his Diamond International Trophy Race, a day after he had piloted kets.

Pepsi Cola squad earned him his two-man sled to the com Zardini was dead on arrival at Crowley was one of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen and Miller was one of the Seven Mules, the fighting Irish Rosenberg played guard op honors on the bowling card. Joe Punzo had a fine 242 sec a local hospital. bined North American and National AAU Senior' Bobsled Championships on the same course. ond game in the Dixie Mixed Two of his crew members, Paul Levesque of Montreal and A loop to pace the field with wMe Southern California won Mike Young of Toronto were Federal Court To Judge Braves? HOUSTON, Tex. (AP)-A fed-to stop the transfer of the ball champion bobsled racer from Italy, was killed Monday when his 800 pound sled crashed on an icy curve during four-man competition on the Mt.

Van Hoeven-berg course. Two of Zardini's sled-mates were injured, and two other men were hurt in an earlier accident on the same 180-degree curve, named the Zig Zag. All fdur injured were reported in satisfactory condition'. Ironically, Zardini and his crew started their tragic run down the dangerous course earlier than they were scheduled pushed up in the time scbeduJe because an American listened to the pleading of his wife not to a 623 mark. 29 of 30 games.

Carney was an The course had been made hosipitalized and reported in sat- Jo Sabran led the ladies with outstanding end on Illinois teams from 1918 through 1921. lslactory condition. Robert Storey, the fourth memSxir, walked a 525 on a final 203 performance, and Swede Leyedal had Waldorf, currently director of even more treacherous by recent sub-zero temperatures, track officials said, so that sleds tended to slide sideways through the curves on the one- away lrom the crash. player personnel for San Fran top single at 243. Helen Nichols paced the la Cisco in the NFL, coached Uni Zardini, competing for Italy, eral district court here was club.

asked Monday to rule in the le- The National League ap- versity of California teams in mile run instead of riding with dies in another Dixie Mixed circuit as she rolled a steady 550. piloted world chamipionship sleds in both the two-man and three Rose Bowl appearances. it. gal battle between Milwaukee proved the transfer in 1964. The and Atlanta over where the Na-jBraves are scheduled to open tional League Braves will play play in Atlanta April 12.

The before-1910 choices will four-man competition at Igliis, Austria, in 19S7. He also drove There is a wooden supsrstruc- baseball this season Sports Slate ture at the top of the Zig-Zag to Italian sleds that finished sec be inducted into the hall in a special ceremony in New York this spring. The others will be inducted at a dinner in New ond in the two-man and fourth The injunction petition charged that state, county and city officials in Wisconsin have conspired for political reasons prevent sleds from going off the track. Zardini's sled struck this compete on the treacherous ice. go," Joe McKMip's wife begged as the Lake Placid bo'bsledder and his crew were in the four-man in the 1964 Win The City of Atlanta and Fulton County Recreation Authority have asked for an injunction to stop the other National League York Dec.

6. MS Batketball Padua at Notre Dam Elkland vs. Galeton at Cowanesqua Northeast at Athena -r railing, scattering the four ter Olympics at Innisforuck, and for the bemeM of a group of Austria, and won the 1964 North American championship at Wisconsin citizens seeking a'waveriy at sayre National League franchise at Rh- Wre5tiino teams from complying with a Anm ft tVia Lake Placid. Harrelson Leads Golf keep the Braves from moving, Anil ttirllB oetS Braves to remain in Milwaukee. Zardini came to Canada two AMERICA'S LARGEST SELLING BRAND years ago.

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Pudgle's Pizza at p.m. at the Avilla Ski Lodge near The suit alleges there is a plot to hold the Braves "as hostages in Milwaukee" until the National League will grant an expan The suit noted that a state court in Milwaukee has temporarily enjoined the Braves from Montreal. Sivim Mark KIMBERLEY, South Africa playing at Atlanta and that a sion franchise to Milwaukee and Shortly before Zardini's fatal (AP) Ann Fairlie, a 16-year- flight down the ice, Gil Jones of Boat Owners Attention! old South African high school Pittsburgh and his No. 2 man, "I felt a lot more rested than on Sunday and that made a big difference," Harrelson, who trailed Dark by one stroke at the day's start, explained. "I felt confident in my game, and I'm going all the way," Harrelson said.

"I would have had a four-under-par round" if hand't missed several easy putts." state court at Atlanta has enjoined the Braves from playing home games any place but Atlanta. The suit, pending before Federal Judge James Noel, was Paul King of Masseoa, N.Y., student, set a world record of 1:8.6 for the women's 110-yard backstroke Monday night. were mjured when their sled overturned on the same curve. Phil Dupree and Steve Du- Miss Fairlie, who never has MIAMI, Fla. (AP) Defending champion Ken Harrelson of Kansas City fired a one-over-par 72 to go with an opening round 76 for a 148 total and a five-stroke lead at the half way mark in the National Baseball Players Golf Tournament Monday.

First round leader Alvin Dark, Harrelson's manager, slumped to a 78 for a 153 total. Tied for third at 157 on the City of Miami Country Club course were the California Angels' Albie Pearson, Cleveland's Ralph Terry and Baltimore's Dave ill It your outboard motor ready for the fishing season? Bring it in for servicing points, plugs, carburetor, water pump and lower gear easel SPECIAL PRICES UNTIL APRIL pree, the other crew members, been beaten in a major in Houston apparently be-defeated 13-year-old Karen I cause of the ease of serving le-Muir. also of South Africa, a 'gal processes on out-of-state supply enough players for the team. It also charged that if no new franchise is granted the alleged conspirators hope to drive the Braves into bankruptcy so that the owners of the Braves will have to sell out to Wisconsin interests. The Braves have lost $3.6 million in Milwaukee in the past three seasons and also would have a big loss if compelled to play there again this year, the suit said.

Following the first five were close finish. Christine Caron of France was third. escaped injury. In an Ironic twist, course officials had been considering a memorial race next week for a bobsledder killed during the world championships at Cortina, Italy, West German Anton Steve Cosgrove, Baltimore, 158; Billy Herman, Boston, 159; Sam Ellis, Cincinnati 160, and Buster Narum, Washington, and Bill Miss Muir established the pre W. H.

PETERS Auto-Marine defendants in Texas. The Recreation Authority floated a bond issue to build an $18 million stadium in Atlanta for the Braves and contends it is being financially hurt by efforts vious record of 1:08.7 during the English Swimming Cahmpion- Mazeroski, Pittsburgh tied at ELMIRA 3019-21 LAKE ST. Johnson. 1 161. Pensberger.

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