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9 i i i i 2 mvkins Conquers All Even Polio "i Is I By WILL GEIMSLEY AitorUlrtf Prrtf Sporta rlir WEST POINT, N. Oct. 17 The "go-go-go guy" of Army's top-ranked football team is a tall, crew-cut midwesterner who once seemed doomed to be an invalid for life. Tcte Dawkins of Royal Oak, stricken with polio at seven and a frail 110-pounder at 15, by sheer determination built himself up to become captain and star halfback of the team acclaimed best in. the country.

Dawkins is 6-1, weighed 197 and is swift as the wind. But his value to the 1958 Army team is measured more by intangibles. "This boy is a born leader," coach Earl (Red) Blaik said today. "He is only 20, yet very mature. He has given us inspiration and "I trust him with more responsibilities than probably any captain I have had in the past.

When I start listing the assets of this squad, one of the big ones is leadership." The blond, clean-cut halfback, modest although he holds highest honors at the Military Academy, scoffs at his own role in the team's success. He attributes the team's success to Blaik's leadership. I iwkins, who once thought he might never walk again, has carried the ball 261 yards in three games, an average of 6.9 yards a try, and caught passes for 202 more. He has scored seven touchdowns. He also passes left-handed.

At the Point, he holds honors no cadet before him, not even Gen. Douglas MacArthur, ever held at one time. He is captain of cadets, leader of the corps of 2,500. He is president of his class. He wears the gold star, symbol of academic excellence.

He also sings in the West Point Glee Club and plays four musical instruments. After his polio attack, Dawkins, son of a Detroit dentist, used weights to build himself up. He played baseball as well as football in high school. He was a standout defenseman in hockey last year although he never had played the game before entering the Academy. "He has tremendous drive," one of his teammates said.

"When Pete gets into' something, he wants to be the best and he'll work like the devil until he is ARJIY'S DAWKINS, LEFT, AND COACH BLAIK Morri is Wisconsin 7 Point I McLemore i i ii i i ii iioices in ames Ll Sports Editor Solomons Gets To Church Dm nice May Have A Fight The spiritual virus that struck boxing when Cus D'Amato put the heavyweight title in the closet that is to say, he refused difficult fights for the champion, Floyd Patterson appears to have made the whole body of the business very eak, indeed. It Is not at all surprising. In view of this circumstance, i SSMBMSHBlBWsnSfWaVHBa. h-it Top-Rated Army Plays 'Breather' ii iS ,1 I'nllfd Pma International NEW YORK. Oct.

17 Auburn puts its 17-game winning streak in jeopardy and Wisconsin it. Ri mat we hear the erumming of Chris Dundee's brogans, as he rushes to the bedside Just what are his intentions? well. let us say if Dundee cannot find a cure, he can be depended upon to make the final hours pay off, somehow. At the moment, Christopher has in mind to cash in on the sudden rise of foreign heavyweights, three of whom have practically wrecked the ranks of American challengers for Patterson's title. rr- in uaiui'i ana poiennal upsets.

Army's top-rated Cadets. 14 r.v I ui nunc uaiiic, are a choice over Virgmia, in what appears to be a "breather." lm C. Ll He cannot proceed, however, unless he Auburn, considered the coun- DUNDEE hears the result of a conversation in Encland. samp tn occur in Ko nevt try's No. 1 defensive team, soes for its 18th consecutive victory against a Georgia Tech team which has beaten Florida State, Tulane and Tennessee after an opening 13-0 loss to Kentucky I Auuurn is rated a seven point pick.

Wisconsin, the nation's third- HtrtV it." hours at a Blackpool church, a most unlikely spot, I might add, but then Dundee has made a buck in stranger places. Actually, the conversation will take place between Jack Solomons, the British promoter and Dundee's agent of the moment, and Bryan London, fist fighter. "I'm still trying to get London lined up for a show here against Willie Pastrano," Chris told me. "Solomons Is to try for London to come here in January or February, then the third match between the two can be held anywhere, in England or wherever they want When London won over Pastrano by TKO the other night, Willie's eye having suffered damage in the fifth round, all sorts of plans and schemes for Pastrano were thrown out of kilter. And, while Dundee denies he has any working stock in Pastrano, the Miami Beach promoter does take a more than casual interest in Willie's affairs.

Especially since Willie is a marketable fighter, one of the few such of the domestic breed. "People who say the fight wouldn't pull here are wrong," Chris complained over a couple of teoid notice hp -if. of The News ranked team, has piled up 101 points against a combined total of six for three opponents but is picked by only seven points over Iowa. IRISH OVER DIKE Notre Dame is expected to rebound from the loss to Army by Miami, recently. "Pastrano thinks he got a fast decision, he is a popular beating Duke handily in the day's top intersections! contest.

In other iniersectionals, sixth-ranked Navy plays Tulane, North Texas State Bluer in cngiana ana mere are all sorts of reasons why this Oct. 17, 1958 Pazc2-C mis win oe a gooa tignt The question, of course, is whether London U'hn onto tviQf. ried tomorrow, will think so. In anv ivnf i tn ci. is at Brigham Young, the Air Force Academy plays Stanford.

Nebraska is at Syracuse, and Pitt I mvr- mil I l. ovt uutu- mons at the church and Jack is supposed to let Chris have is favored over West Virginia. me vtum pi omo. Foreign Market Better Ninth ranked Louisiana State, with a suprising 4-0 record, has Obviously, the recent rise of IinHnn nri ti, son, who decked Eddie Machen. and an important Saturday night date with Kentucky, the team that beat Georgia Tech and is con the decision over Zora Folley, has shaken American promoters if imc mmiing since wax hcnmeiing won the title.

Times have changed. Even with the title, Schmeling could oniy in mis country Johansson, in Sweden, and Cooper and London, in England, are In a much better posl-tion, since there appears to be more interest in boxing over Surprise! Florida, Vandy To Wage Defensive Battle sidered top grade stuff despite a 2-2 record. Ohio Slate Is a heavy choice over Indiana, fifth-ranked Michigan plays tough Purdue, Minnesota meets Illinois and Michigan opposes Northwestern in the other Big 10 games. Oklahoma figures to get back on the winning trail against Big udu ever Deiore ana there's less here apparently. Patterson's inactivity confuses the whole picture.

Until it is cleared, however, Pastrano, Folley and Machen must go afield for competition and a payday. And, unhappily, they didn't VERNON DOZIER School Head Dead At 57 Th Axnrlalrd Prem BARTOW, Oct. 17 Vernon E. Dozier, 57, supervising principal Mumblcr's Boy Eight opponent Kansas. Colorado a rock-like aspect to the middle By F.

T. MacFEELY The Ammlatrd Prena GAINESVILLE. Oct. 17 It is at Iowa State and Missouri at of the Vanderbilt line. Tackles KnW that U.

hnr nivA i it Well, Vandy Is tough In the line too. The Commodores are prouder of their two fine guards, Billy Grover and Georee Deide- an uul naray iojk out ot the which will be in Florida Field at the 2:30 p.m. kickoff. They reason Vandy is an offensive team because the Commodores have one of the best cassinrr Kansas State in other Big Eight coiumn ior toaay. 1 suppose it is safe to report Mumbling Sam figures to be a hard-knocking de games.

ua. iovn ana nas a new and, apparently, fresh rich than they are of the backs. fensive struggle when Florida and oi anow area public schools and president of the Florida High School Activities governing body of stale high school sporu), died here yesterday. He suffered a heart allark They think Deiderich will make and ends are short on experience but have been improving steadily through the first four games. The scores of those games Vanderbilt football teams tangle Oregon plays Washington State quarterbacks in the Southeastern Conference in Boyce Smith plus All-America this year.

He was His name is Leo Siewart. a 21-year-old middleweight hnm Tli 1. 1 .1 tomorrow afternoon. and Southern California meets all-SEC last season. California in the top Pacific Con the conference's top runner in halfback Tom Moore and another That would surprise most of the This pair, alone with centers year ago, but has been working actively since the first of this show the defensive emphass, ex terence games while Texas, which topped Oklahoma, 15 14.

last Homecoming crowd of 40,000 of the besi in fullback Jim Butler. Ben Donnell and Joe Bates, give year. Saturday, opens its quest of the Survivors induce his i I I "ft cept in the Georgia game when Smith's passes to Lewis Akin opened a three touchdown' "deluge" and a 21-14 Vandy victory. The Commodores' other victory Olga; a daughter, Delores, a student at Erskine Colletre in Smith niuMiuirr Buvrmsrs as a lorm- er All-Army champ, when laboring with the Engineers. "It's a strange story," declared The Mumbler.

who never has dealt me any other kind. "Years ago," he went on, "I was hustling Augusta, at a place run by a Greek named Jack Ross There was this battle royal and Ross tried to tell me about one of the fighters, Sidney Walker. Yanks, Braves Pay OK, But, Oh, Those Pirates! southwest Conference title as a two-touchdown choice over Arkansas. Homecoming If vou can't hp in Carolina; his father, W. G.

Do-zicr of Sarasota, and four brothers, W. P. of Tamm was 12-8 over Missouri. They Lamar of Sarasota, Horace G. of played a 0-0 tie with Alabama Napicrville, III.

and Arthur r. nf and lost to Clemson 12-7. Marianna. tnltrd Pr.ua International ting instructor, George Sisler. Florida Is recognized In all "So I looked at the guy and he's just trying to Ret out without epttinir kilt Man NEW YORK, Oct.

17 The PASTRANO Sisler, a Hall of Famer, is not No Money Down Gainesville, we'll take you there through words and pictures this weekend in The Miami News. he Jeft the club June 14; three quarters of a share ($6,569.33) to Dickson, who joined them Aug. 22. and full shares to Yankees sliced their World Series melon like world chamr.ions. but quarters to have a fine defensive line anchored to Vel Heck-man at tackle, Asa Cox at guard a regular member of the Pitts mis going every direction, with five little Ruys In there swineins.

Via kPr Innk. feu'5 ln burgh coaching staff but he puts FHA TERMS they're pikers alongside the in long hours teaching Pirate bat and Capt. Don Fleming at end. SIS ters how to hit, is immensely pop ular with all of them and the size Maintaining their traditional Trucks and Duke Maas, who were obtained from Kansas City on June 5. The Braves listed financial awards to several non-olavers.

in Two factors, then will decide whether these tough lines will fight it out or if the offense can of his share was a token of their World Series generosity, the Yan appreciation. kees cut in such part-timers as Maf'lie. Vireil Trucks and break through and shine. One is whether Smith's passes find Flor- "I think this is the first time Murry Dickson for huge chunks a batting coach ever was so ap cluding door men and parking lot attendants at Milwaukee's County Stadium. STEAK HOUSE PRIVATE CLUB monager available.

Excellent manaaerinl back in tue division ot the series spoils ida's secondary as porous as it has been. preciated, Frick said. "I think made public by Commissioner it's a fine thing." Ford Frick yesterday. Frick also said he thought both 5," "Well, that Sidney Walker (urns out to be Beau Jack who turns out to be champion of the world The Mumbler'. voice trailed off to a gurgle, thinking of .11 that money "Now, I'm up in Atlanta recently, promoting, as you mav have heard, and this friend brings up this Leon Stewart who turns out to be Beau Jack's cousin.

He already can hit' box, punch, move anything, you name it. MUmb'er CrWed' gl BcaU Jack Better late than never. Even if 15 years later. Just when the new flash will blast off is uncertain. Tha Mumbler is trying to line up a few turkeys even now.

Miami's Barracudas, members of the Florida Amateur Foot-DaJl Conference, have another round with the Ft. Lauderdale team that bounced them last week. The knocking will be available tomorrow night at Curtis Park, on northwest 20th Street, and the modest bit at tha gate will help defray expenses for uniforms, for the 40 players. All told. 32 members of the the lanKees and Braves were lii Yankees will each collect a full "very generous" with their splits share cf $8,759.10 in the mail today while- 31 members of the losing ground.

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