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The Central New Jersey Home News from New Brunswick, New Jersey • 28

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23 THE DAILY HOME NEWS NEW BRUNSWICK, N. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1BJ Kcriskins vs. Lions SPORT SLANTS by Pap1 To Induct Seven Into Pro Hall of Fame Shrine on Sunday ed 1922 and 1923 seasons. Movies of some of the Inductees will be shown in a televised pre-game program. coll, Bob Waterfield, Steve Van Buren and Guy Chamberlin, 72, player-coach of the Canton Bulldogs during their undefeat 9, 1963.

The seven Inductees are Dr. Dan Fortmann, Sid Luck-man, Otto Graham, Paddy Dris- Coach Bill McPcak's Redskins pulled in yesterday, with fullback Charley Taylor slowly recovering from a chipped right ankle, quarterback Sonny Jur-gensen with a pulled groin muscle and end Angelo Coia with a pulled muscle. Taylor, National Football League Rookie-of-the-Year last season, was injured in the Redskins' pre-season opener against the Philadelphia Eagles. Expect 17,000 About 17,000 fans are expected to attend the game, which provides revenue to operate the Hall of Fame. More than 129.000 persons have visited the football shrine since It was opened Sept.

To Strengthen Security Procedures at Freehold cewstsrsNrmMEel Js SU4KST or -TIP rofcrvrfi. 9 fLr i i ir DESIGNS 4tf" HIW Sf HVWfW Provoke Wins St. Leger; Engelhard Horse Third DONCASTER, England (AP) Provoke trounced the heavily favored Meadow Court by 10 lengths in the St. Leger yesterday, bringing off one of the big- CANTON, Ohio (AP) The Washington Redskins, limping at key positions, have arrived early for their National Football Hall of Fame game against the Detroit Lions Sunday. The game caps a weekend program during which seven former football greats will be inducted in the pro football shrine.

Bring In Your Plans, Sketches, Ideas Free Estimates, Free Plan Service! OPEN THURS. 1 1 pi rmmm LOT 1 QMS HO MONEY FREEHOLD (AP) The New Jersey Racing Commission has ordered a strengthening of securi ty procedures at Freehold Raceway. The commission held a closed meeting yesterday after which it said it had "reviewed racing conditions at Freehold Raceway prompted by persistent rumors that some drivers were not complying with the rules of racing." The commission said in its statement: Smislov Gains Lead In Chess Tourney HAVANA, Cuba (AP) Vas-sily Smislov of Russia took over first place in the Capablanca International Chess Tournament last night after he and Ramir Jolmov played a draw at 22 moves in a lOth-round match. The match between Bobby Fischer of New York, the American grandmaster, and Borislav Ivkov of Yugoslavia was postponed until Friday because of the inability to establish telephone and teletype communications between New York and Havana. Fischer is playing from New York.

Fischer and Ivkov had been tied with Smislov for first place with seven points each. Smislov now has 714. Boston Red Sox Coach Pete Runnels compiled a .291 batting average for 1,779 major league games. BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY, 85 PROOF Say HI yHr-i mm ii i SOMERVILLE LUMBER BUILDING DEPT. 1480 ROUTE 22, SOMERVILLE, N.J.

Gntlmtn: I am intwnttd in your Special Winter Building Program. Phase forward litorotur. DOWII TILL 1 P.M. CALL i NAME. ADDRESS.

rTIUINt LUI LUV.AIIUIN i TILL 9 -SAT. 1 JUST EL 6-1975 FOR APPOINTMENT Only 5 minutes from New Brunswick, South Bound Brook, Franklin Twp. Route 287 to Route 22 East, we're at exit. sztmssssssx Best Average At Firestone Is Player's AKRON, Ohio (AP) Gary Player has the best World Series of Golf average at the Firestone Country Club, where he once remarked you could almost hear the rough growing. The par-70 course has a prereuisite for accuracy and Player has averaged 71.4 strokes, per round in 18 rounds at the club.

This weekend he'll be one of a select foursome who will shoot 36 holes for a total purse pf $77,500. Jack Nicklaus, Masters' champ, has averaged 72 strokes a round at Firestone for 24 rounds. He is the favorite against Player, U.S. Open champ, Peter Thomson, British Open titlist and Dave Marr, PGA champ. Marr and Thomson are newcomers to the World Series tour- ney, which Nicklaus has won twice me last tnree years.

The Series is only for winners of the four major tournaments. Top series prize is $50,000, with $15,000 for second place money, $7,500 for third and for fourth. Nicklaus won in 1962 and 1963 but did not qualify last year and Tony Lema walked off with the titl It was in 1962 that Player, while waiting for a shot, said he was sure he could hear grass growing in the rough, The final six holes on Saturday and Sunday will be televised (NBC) from 5 to 6:30 p.m. New York time. Mizerak Beaten In Billiard Match NEW YORK (APWoe Bal-sis, the world's champion, won his eighth straight game last night in the New York State Open Professional Pocket Billiards Championship at Broadway Billiards.

Balsis, of Monersville, defeated Jimmy Cattrano of Flushing 150-71 in a game lasting seven innings. In another match, Basil Mini-kene of Amityville, N.Y., defeated Steve Mizerak of Perth Amboy, N.J., 150-126 in a game that went 15 innings. I I. Jersey Bell "As a result of this review there has been no specific action taken against any individual by the commission at this time. "However, the current inquiry has caused the commission to insist upon a strengthening of security procedures and to direct racing officials to continue a close surveillance of the conduct of racing to insure that it re mains at all times above suspicion." Dismissal Approved The commission added that it had ratified the track's dismissal of veterinarian Dr.

A. L. Go-rowoy "as being in the best interest of racing in the state of New Jersey." Thomas J. Brogan, chairman of the commission, declined further comment on Gorowoy. Earlier, Brogan had said maj Gorowoy was removed because his name was not on a list of officials the raceway has sent to "the commission for approval.

Brogan said the commission's inquiry would continue. He said the commission had found no evidence that the raceway's daily double and twin double had been mishandled. The other commission members are Hugh Mehorter and Richard Mulligan. Also present at the meeting were state Deputy Gen. Jahos; Perly Gale, an investigator for the U.S.

trotting association, and state police detectives George Smith and Robert Green. Britain's largest 2 nMlAU ENFIELD IMPORTERS, N.Y. New enjoy 03.,. sic of the British season is raced over the odd distance of 1 aula, 6 furlongs, 132 yards. Provoke, under the colors of J.

J. Astor, won $118,800. Meadow Court, owned. by Bing Crosby and Canadians Max Bell and Frank MoMahon, counted the Irish Derby among his victories and was one of the strongest St Leger favorites ever. Provoke and Meadow Court pulled away from the field with five-sixteenths of a mile to go and the huge crowd waited for the odds-on choice to take command, i Instead, Meadow Court turned into a struggling runner up despite the strong urging of lies- ter Piggott while Provoke and Mercer galloped away.

The spectators were spellbound at the upset, and Provoke passed the winning post with hardly a cheer raised. Provoke likes a soft track and Meadow Court obviously doesn't. "There were no excuses for him except that the ground was against him," Piggott commented Two Driving Titles at Stake At Wall Stadium WALL TOWNSHIP Wall Stadium swings into its final stock car racing card of the season this Saturday night with two of the divisional point titles still "up for Four others were clinched in the two night racing cards over the Labor Day weekend. Still undecided is the point championship in the modified driver's division, where Bill McCarthy of Freehold holds a 32 point edge over runnerup Jim Hoffman of Englishtown, and the sportsman car owner's division whre Parker Bonn's number 65 GMC-powered six-, cylinder racer holds a 44-point -lead aver the number 38 sport man of Dan McLaughlin. Bohn wrapped up the sports- man division driver's title over the Labor Day weekend, his sec- ond driving crown at the Route 34 oval.

He won the modified di- vision title back in 1953. Two other driving titles were clinched over the weekend. George McDowell scored a pair of feature race victories his eighth and ninth of the '65 campaign to mathematically clinch the novice division championship. McDowell, from Pine, Beach, won a 25-lap and a 50-'. lap race to wrap up his first driving crown.

Ed Leip of Trenton capped a brilliont season when he won both foreign compact features over the Labor Day weekend and sewed up the divisional crown. Leip, who won seven out of eight features for the popular compacts, wound up with a total of 440 points. Runnerup Dick. Lewis of Cream Ridge had one feature win and was second be-; hind Leip five times. His final" point total was 396.

McCarthy clinched modified car owner's honors last week at the Shore avol. His Pon-' tiac powered Flying Zero is 71 points out front of the Ford-powered number 11 of Hoffman. With 50 points going to the winner of this Saturday night's feature event, the Fly-, ing Zero is McCarthy, however, needs to finish only 17th to clinch the driver's crown for himself. Boxer's Condition Shows Improvement LONDON (AP) A hospital spokesman reported a slight improvement today in the condition of Mexican boxer Jesus Saucedo, who remains in a coma. Saucedo, 23, was carried out of the ring on a stretcher after being knocked out by John O'Brien of Scotland Tuesday night in a preliminary bout to the Vin-cente Saldivar-Howard Win-stone featherweight title fight.

"He is still semi-conscious but the slight improvement in his, condition has been maintained," a hospital medical bulletin said. gest upsets in English horse English horse racing history. The 28-1 longshot and the 411 favorite made a two-way race of it in the closing stages of the 189-year-old classic, run in a steady rain over a soggy turf course. But it was a one-horse show in the final furlong as jockey Joe Mercer hustled Provoke to the runaway triumph. Solstice, United States-bred 100-6 shot owned 'by Charles Engelhard of New York, was five lengths back in third in the field Jets Put Huarte On Taxi Squad NEW YORK (AP) John Huarte, the high-priced rookie quarterback, was passed over by other American Football League teams and put on the New York Jets' taxi squad yesterday.

The Heisman Trophy winner from Notre Dame was placed on waivers Tuesday but was not claimed by other AFL clubs within the 24-hour limit. Presumably, the large financial commitment made to Huarte by the Jets was more than a rival team wanted to take over. Huarte signed for a reported $200,000 in bonus, salary and fringe benefits. Two other Jets rookie flanker Bob Schweikert and center John Schmitt also were waived by the league's seven other clubs and will join Huarte on the taxi squad. The taxi squad is a reserve unit that practices with the regulars but is not eligible to play.

The Jets did not recall three additional players trimmed in the final roster cutdown defensive tackle Gordy Holz, offensive halfback Dave Fleming and defensive tackle Charlie Ragus. They claimed defensive back Ray Abruzzese and rookie linebacker Al Atkinson from the Buffalo Bills. This put the Jets one above the 38-player limit but they are expected to put defensive back Jim Hudson, now hospitalized with pneumonia, on the injured deferred list. Terrell Will Meet Clmvalo In Title Fight TORONTO (AP) Ernie Terrell, the champion from Chicago, and George Chuvalo, Canadian titleholder, signed yesterday to fight in Toronto for the World Boxing Association's version of the world heavyweight boxing crown. Irv Ungerman, Chuvalo's manager, said the fight would be in the Maple Leaf Gardens Oct.

25 or Nov. 1. The exact date, he said, would depend no closed circuit television arrangements. "Terrell will get 35 per cent, Chuvalo 25 and each will receive a guarantee of $45,000," Ungerman said. Terrell won the WBA title last March when he defeated Eddie Machen of Portland, in Chicago.

The WBA had declared the title vacant after Cassius Clay was suspended for agree ing to sign to fight Sonny Liston in a rematch. The WBA does not recognize rematch bouts. Clay knocked out Liston in the first round to retain the title recognition in all areas except WBA territory. Five Toppers Win Playoff Title The pennant-winning Five Toppers won the playoff title in the Raritan Valley YMCA Sum mer League last night by dis patching the Flippers 62-60 on a field goal by Ernie Krege-loh with five seconds to play. Russ DiAngellello led the win ners with 20 points, while Bill Welsby and Jim Fuhri each contributed 14.

Frank Fitzgerald of the Flip pers took game honors with 32 points. Bob Joncas scored 18 for the FUppers. -r fv vx 1 A 1 i 1958: A color phone- i I I I 1 i 1985: A color phone- 59.00 $4.00 i Who says the cost of everything has gone up Over the years, we've worked hard to hold the line on the cost of phone service. Usually we've succeeded. And sometimes, as In the charge for color telephones, the price has dropped.

Then dropped again. The cause? Improved efficiency. A continual search for "a better way to do the job." Plus a lot of plain, old-fashioned hard work work that's still going on today. UX AND NORMAL VISIT CHARGB APPLY..

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