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TlMES Prep Schedule 2C Balmoral Park 3C Section Friday, January 13, 1969 Crown Point, Senators Covet Higher Levels jured last week against Haute Gerstmeyer but is expected to play. Coach John Molodet's Senators will be gunning for their fifth straight victory. Washington has been coming fast since the middle of December and should get a good workout against a Parker team considered one of Chicago's best. MUNSTER, handed a 62-50 setback by E.C. Roosevelt earlier in the week, Valparaiso Picture, 2C doesn't see action until Saturday night when the Mustangs tangle with Hammond Tech at home.

Tech will first have a rough engagement at Valparaiso Friday night. The Tigers too appear to be on the upswing with Cornelius (Bootsy) White getting some help from Orville Sanders and sophomore Leonard Elboar. Dallas Simmons, down with the flu the past several games, is also expected to be back in the line-up. Calumet puts an eight game winning streak on the line Friday night at Griffith. The Warriors have not lost a game since Nov.

26 when they were knocked orf, 74-62 by Munster. Bishop Noll will wait until Saturday night to try and get back on the winning track. Noll will play at Chesterton against the winless Trojans. The Warriors were licked by Gary Tolleston, 99-85, in their last outing. OTHER GAMES involving Calumet Conference teams finds Portage at Highland, East Gary meets Lowell, Chesterton travels to Merrillville and Wirt and West Side battle it out in Gary.

The Gavit Gladiators of coach Norm Banas will also wait until Saturday night to hit the comeback trail in a contest at Lake Central. Gavit has Inst four in a row, including two games in their own holiday tourney. Thornton and Bloom, two of Illinois' top ranking teams will be in action Friday night. Thornton will be out to protect its number one rating at home against Richards. Bloom, holding down the number 14 spot, plays host to Eisenhower.

In other games, Crete-Monee pays a visit to T.F. South, T.F. North entertains Rich Central and Wheaton is at llliana Christian. SATURDAY NIGHT Thornton moves to Hinsdale Central for an encounter, while Lowell will get a look at its new sectional site at North Newton. The same night Clark will make one of its few appearances in the Civic Center to tangle with Gary Wallace.

The Pioneers have won their last two contests. Morton Prepares Coach Joe DePeugh of Hammond Morton readies his. Governors for weekend games with Hobart (there) and Valparaiso (here Saturday night). From left in. front, Tim McGuan, Mike Marshall and Ray Bakker.

Roger Hankins and Wayne Bocken in rear. Namath Arm, Not His Lip, Concerns Colt Counterpart By TOM LANHAM times Staff Writer Crown Point High will be out to solidify its third place ranking in The Times Top 10 poll and also gain possible recognition in state wide polls this weekend. Coach Harry Allison's Bulldogs are 9-1 for the season and have won five straight since an 83-73 loss to highly regarded E.C. Roosevelt. Crown Point had rough going in the Hammond holiday tourney, edging Mun-ster and Hammond High to take the title, but came back strong to trounce Lowell, 89-76.

Tonight Crown Point entertains Lake Central, a team that has won only two games this season. Saturday night the Bulldogs play host to Whiting in an encounter that should be more of a test. WHITING IS 4-5 for the season but has a veteran team and one of the Calumet Region's best shooters inTimKlo-sek. Morton will have a rugged weekend as the Governors travel to Hobart Friday night and then entertain Valparaiso the next night. The Governors have been improving and were victorious the last time out against Gary Wirt.

Valparaiso is 5-3 so far this season and has one of its biggest teams. The Vikings bowed to number two rated Marion, 66-60, recently in the Elkhart Holiday tourney. Coach Hugh Dawson's Hammond High team appears to be hitting its stride but will get a severe test from Gary Froebel at the Civic Center Friday night. THE.WILDCATS should find things a bit easier though as they enter the second half of their schedule. Hammond High is 2-7 on the season but the defeats came at the hands of such teams as Indianapolis Washington, the state's top ranked team, Lafayette Jeff, Munster, Gary Roosevelt and Michigan City.

Saturday night's top clash could be in East Chicago where Washington battles Chicago Parker. Wayne Williams, Senator center, is still nursing a sore ankle in- Trojan Aces Make Deals LOS ANGELES (AP) 0. J. Simpson acquired a manager and Steve Sogge acquired a baseball career Thursday. The two stars of the University of Southern California's second-ranked football team appeared together at a news conference to talk about the turns In their destinies.

Simpson, whose spectacular rushing won him the Heisman trophy, said he's signed a 'total management" contract with Sports Headliners, of Indianapolis. It will handle all his affairs, including negotiations for a pro contract. Simpson is expected to be the No. 1 draft choice this year. Sogge, Trojan quarterback, is less known as a baseball catcher.

But he's a good one and the Los Angeles Dodgers signed him to play with their farm club at Spokane. Sogge said he signed as a free agent to what he called a very fair contract. Terms were not disclosed. Said Dodger player personnel director Al Campanis: "He's an outstanding receiver with a good arm. For a catcher he can really run well." The firm Simpson signed with is headed by Charles M.

Barnes, a 1953 Southern Cal graduate, who manages a flock of other sports figures. Jl LJ SIFFORD 63 GRABS LEAD LOS ANGELES (UPI) The cast of leading characters in today's second round of the $100,000 Los Angeles Open has something old, 45-year-old Charlie Sifford, and something new, 22-year-old Grier Jones of Wichita, Kans. Sifford, first Negro to win a major golf tournament, came in with a first-round 63, eight under par, Thursday for a three stroke lead after 18 holes of the 72-hole tournament which ends Sunday. Jones shot 66. Hodges, Pet Keep Sharp 0 and touchdown passes this season in leading the Colts to the National Football League championship and into Sunday's Super Bowl game against the Jets.

He was voted the NFL's player of the year and architect of the Jets' AFL championship drive, Morrall said: "I haven't seen too much of him. I've read a lot. He gets a lot of publicity. From what I've seen on television and films, he throws quick, gets back fast, gets rid of the ball." Morrall said he couldn't recall ever putting a rap on another player. "As I say, he can talk.

It's up to each individual what he does. I don't have to believe it." The Colt's passer said that as a team, Baltimore doesn't pay too much attention to things like this, in case Namath's blast at him was meant to be psychological. Rough Drills Concluded FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (UPI) The rough stuff is over. The Baltimore Colts and the New York Jets will use the final 48 hours before Sunday's Super Bowl game in Miami to brush up on strategy and sharpen their mental edge.

On the matter of game psychology, New York coach Weeb Ewbank has a couple of complaints. One is that he has to keep the reins tight on his Tigers so they won't be ready too soon. The other is that nobody seems to take the Jets seriously as a threat to knock off the National Football league Kings for the first time in three Super Bowls. Colts coach Don Shula, whose team is the three-touchdown favorite, says his preparations are drifting along cooly: "We're not chafing at the bit yet. We don't want that until Sunday." And the Colts one and all speak nothing but praise and respect for Joe Namath and the Jets.

It would be unsporting, of course, to knock them, but it would also be foolish for Baltimore to risk getting overconfident. Still, impressions get around, with a large amount of help from the oddsmak-ers. "If you listen to people talk, it would be foolish for us to dress. But we're going to," Ewbank fusses. Baltimore licked Cleveland 34-0 in the NFL title game.

Ewbank said, "No AFL team was licked that badly in the Super Bowl. Yet they don't downgrade the Browns like they do the AFL." ihiiT New York Mets manager Gil Hodges his pet Pekingese keep sharp for new baseball season with odd game of baseball in Gil's New York apartment. Hodges is recovering from heart attack. He said there was some logic in the reasoning that Namath might be trying to bolster the Jets' confidence by downgrading him and the rest of the NFL champions. Morrall had kind words for the man he supplanted at quarterback for the Colts, the brilliant John Unitas.

"John helped a lot. He's a great team man. We talk during the week before a game, watch films, and he gives his advice during a game." Morrall added: "It's tough on him, Unitas. Anybody who is a competitor finds it hard to be on the sidelines. But, his arm has been bothering him.

It's a great tribute to him the way he has helied me. He's done everything he can." Morrall was a baseball and football star when he attended Michigan State University. He even had a chance for a professional baseball career. "I saw baseball could be a long struggle," Morrall said. "In football I would know if I could make it in nine weeks, by the endofthe exhibition season.

My chances in football looked a lot better. I could have drifted in baseball's minors for years." Cubs Regain Submariner CHICAGO (UPI)-Submarine righthander Ted Abernathy was back with Chicago today as guardian of the Cubs' bullpen. Chicago acquired the 35-year-old reliever from the Cincinnati Reds Thursday, but had to. relinquish three minor league players in the deal pitcher Ken Myette, catcher Bill Plummer and infielder-out-fielder Clarence Jones. Abernathy notched a personal high of 10 victories in his 17 decisions with Cincinnati last season when he appeared in 78 games.

The much-traveled Abernathy has a major league career record of 42-53 with five teams. He began his big league stint with Washington in 1955 and posted a 5-9 mark. He was 3-13 in three other seasons with the Senators before being dealt to the Cleveland Indians in 1963. Abernathy was 9-8 in two years with Cleveland and 4-6 with the Cubs the following season when he was named Chicago's of the year." The big right-hander was traded to Atlanta for Lee Thomas in 1966 and posted a 5-7 mark with the two clubs. Cincinnati acquired him in 1967, a year in which he was 6-3 and had a 1.27 earned run average.

Myette, 21, split half his 10 decisions with Tacoma of the Pacific Coast League last season. Plummer, also 21, batted .291 with the Cubs' Arizona entry in the instructional league this winter. Jones, 27, hit 24 homers for Tacoma in 1967. Trucks Named SEATTLE (UPI) Virgil Trucks, 50, a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers in the mid-1940s, will scout Western Pennsylvania for the Seattle Pilots of the American League this year. MIAMI (AP) Earl Morrall isn't interested in Joe Namath's lip, just his arm.

Morrall, the Baltimore Colts quarterback, said he had read Namath's reference to him as a sixth rate quarterback. "He can express any opinion he wants," said Morrall. "That's his busi-ness. "I don't worry about other quarterbacks. All I'm interested in is the other team's defense.

That's what you have to beat. Actions speak louder than words. It's what you do on the field that founts." a NAMATH, quarterback of the American Football League champion New York Jets, rapped Morrall earlier this week. Namath said there were at least five quarterbacks in the AFL better than Morrall. The 34-year-old Morrall threw 26 Cats, Illinois Meet on TV CHICAGO (UPI) The Big Ten's two winningest basketball teams, Illinois and Northwestern tangle Saturday to find out which Is for real in the highlight of a four-game conference schedule.

Their meeting, on the Wildcat floor, will be the feature of the Big Ten game of the week television show and, but for Purdue's triumph over the Illini Tuesday would have been of more importance. The Boilermaker victory ended a 10-game winning streak for the Illini and left them with a 1-1 mark in the league But Illinois, with a 10-1 record, still boasts the top overall performance in the conference and in Northwestern will be meeting the team with the second best record. THE. WILDCATS have a 9-1 mark and a nine-game winning streak. In addition, Northwestern stands 1-0 in conference play and will have the home court advantage for the TV struggle.

Three other teams are unbeaten in Big Ten play and one of them, Purdue, is idle until Jan. 25 due to examinations and a semester break. The other pair, Michigan and Ohio State, face easier tasks Saturday. The Buckeyes, 7-2 for the season and 1-0 in the Big Ten, will be at home against Wisconsin, 5-6 and 0-2, while Michigan, 8-3 for the year and 2-0 in the league, will be at Minnesota, which has lost its only league game and is 6-5 for the year. In the fourth league game, Indiana, 4-7 and 0-2, travels to Iowa, 0-1 in the conference but 6-4 for the season.

Junior Tourney NEW YORK (UPI The 1970 U.S. Junior Amateur Championships will be played at the Athens, Country Club 1 from July 28-Aug. 1, the U.S. Golf Asso-J ciation has announced. The tournament is open to boys under 18.

The 1969 competition will be at the Spokane, Country Club. Joe Dares 'em to Shoot Broadway "Shoot if you must," said Barbara Frietchie. "Shoot all you please," says Quarterback Joe Namath of the New York Jets. But whether you call it "corny" or "carny" (for theoldtime carnival buildup) Broadway Joe's snide remarks about his QB rival, Earl Morral, and his reported curfew violations have brightened up the pre-burial wait in Miami. The odds-makers say Namath and the Jets will be fried, fricaseed and otherwise manhandled in the Super Bowl.

It is J.W.'s private, and possibly kiss-of-death hunch, however, that the Jets will improve over the Super Bowl showings of Kansas City and Oakland who fell under the Green Bay guillotine. But whether it's 40-0 Baltimore or 31-30 Jets, Namath will have kept his name in big type all week. What's more, the 800 plus writers assembled in Miami will have been rescued from the boredom predicted for a week of watting for what the pigskin pundits have agreed will be no contest. And won't it be something if Broadway Joe makes all the experts eat their words and without any Hollandaise to make it pleasurable. RUMORS ARE circulating that Turkey Creek golf club in Gary will become a Jewish private club Interesting and welcome if true but J.W.

puts it in COULDN'T HAVE, been too many cheers up this way when the South Bend Regional winner was ordered back to the Lafayette Semistate after 15 years Any team from that area, even in its "down" years can be more difficult than those from the leaky roof circuits. Geography's no help, for that matter, to Calumet area toughies like Crown Point, Munster and Calumet who'd be Regional shoo-ins at a half dozen or more places In Hoosierland But just three more also-rans in Lake County unless their coaches can come up with water-walking type miracles against Gary and East Chicago powerhouses. For communications purposes it's the Big Ten or Western Conference But the real name is Conference of Faculty Athletic Representatives" used at the first formal gathering in 1896 Illinois, Purdue and Indiana are 1-2-3 in the all-time Big Ten basketball standings The Illini percentage is .595, Purdue has .540 and IU, .536 Moderns may be surprised to know that Purdue has won less than half its Big Ten football games (158-174) even though they'd figure IU's 91-217 record a cinch for last place Ohio State's the all-time leader with 201-95 and a percentage of .679. the same category with those other golf club sales rumors of the last decade (1) Inland Steel to buy up Lake Hills and (2) East Chicago Elks to take over South Shore on Cedar Lake. The hunch here is that Lake Hills, considering its group ownership subdivision possibilities and closer proximity to John Whltaker big population will be the first to change hands.

Coach Harv Schmidt of Illinois didn't say "wait'U we get you in Champaign" the other night after Purdue "bathed" his unbeaten Illini, 98-84 in Lafayette They don't meet again until next year on the Sucker State side Maybe it's just as well the rivalry has a year to cool Schmidt has revived Illini student interest to such an extent wild-eyes demonstrate at every home game and always against the visitors What a far cry from the days when Illinois reportedly provided model conduct examples! MORE COMING FOR BOWLERS Calumet Region bowling fans will receive extra attention in The Times during coming weeks. Beginning next Wednesday, the Bowling Times column will make its appearance on a twice a week basis. In the past the column has run on Sundays only. Now it will have its usual place in Sunday's edition and also appear on 1 AAA.