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SPORTS Sr. Pttmburg Times, Saturday, October If 44 Rockets To Test Blazer Defense Tonight on ie Wat Gr front RI MIRTON liai a '1 Jim Krliey Calls If A Day The ronsl.ml wTuhbins of the tides, the winds that never omm' for long the oiher erosions of 'nature's resilrss niowinents make many changes long our watei front scene. Hut now there is some-thing missing not related to those forces. Jim Kelley has retired from the tout house at St. Petersburg's ii Ik the league's leading ground gainers.

When the Blazers went to Hunlsville, the Rockets billed former lniverslly of end Joe D'Aurla as "the man of many spectacular It didn't mean much until Tatton rifled one D'Auria's way in the third quarter and the former Hurricane reached around behind defender Frank Vining and one-handed the ball for a healthy gain. The Blazers won't take the field tonight figuring their eighth league victory (against one 2121 tie with Lakeland) will come easily. This Hunlsville team (S2) plays the Blazers' own game score and score often. went back In front 31-21. Hunlsville scored one and when the game ended was on lis way in another what could easily have been the winning one as seven points would have put the Blazers under.

Hill had the ball at the Blaz er 32. On the last down of the game, John Yates, playing his first defensive role for the Blazers, turned the Rocket quarterback In after it looked for sure he had a touchdown path down the left sidelines. Tonight, the pair meet again, and the stage Is set for another high-scoring battle, flame time Is 8 o'clock at Northeast High School, Hunlsville Is loaded with Southeastern Conference football talent. It is as well- fered against Mobile. That means more duty for Hill and he was the guy who really got the Rockets rolling against the Blazers toward the end of their first meeting.

However, ration's Inactivity has to hurt the visiting Rock-els. Behind Hill, the Rockets list Bobby Skrlton, former niverslly of Alabama signal caller. Kenny Farmer, former Delta Stale star and teammate of Vincent's, is the Rocket answer to Jordan. Like Jordan, Farmer is a fine running back and dangerous pass-catching performer. At fullback, the Rockets offer Larry Rawson, a former Auburn hero, and backer up man, Hernest Stewart, one of By JIMMY MANN OfThfl Times Miff Ask anybody from Hunts-ville, and they'll tell you that Jimmy Jordan, Jack Pu-glisl, Mike Vincent and Charlie Casey heal them 34 28 last time the St.

Petersburg Blazers and Rockets played a North American Football League game. It wa six week ago and the Blazer defense appeared to take the night off Jordan ran three long-distance touchdowns the first half to build a 20- 7 lead, But soon after tlie second half began, the Rock-els, spearheaded by reserve quarterback Doyle Hill, took a 21- 20 lead. Then Puglisl, Vincent and Casey took over. The Blazers li 10? -4 Municipal I'iei JOHN YATES balanced a team as there is in the North American Football League. The Rockets rank third in both offense and defense.

The Blazers are first in offense, fourth In defense. JOE D'Al'RIA As far as the Blazers are concerned, it is actually bad news that Houston Patton, former Ole Miss quarterback, will miss tonight's battle because of a broken Jaw suf Bcst Bet Outbreak nf night Mtiook and red fish at Kedinglon Long IVr according to Jon F.ndl. Andy l.nonn rami up with three snook averaging right pounds. Arline Klglngrr got Iwn snook neighing six and eight pounds while Patricia (Pat) Fowler had two red about six pounds each and two snook, one six, one seven, So it Mas "Ladies' NIkM" at Kedinglon and the show may go on again today. Fresh ter Best Bet still Is lias at I Seminole.

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Ptttrtkurf Municipal Pitr MifS lia 11 $m4 tt am. Law Air War Expected In Spartan Game Tensi To Duel Namath In Baffle Of Unbeafens DENTON, Tex. The eyes of 1 Texas will turn skyward here tonight when Tampa's improving Spartans tangle with tal ented North Texas State in what should be an aerial battle deluxe. Tampa victories, all but one to Fernandez. Carlin and Love have been nominated for All-America honors and both are considered professional prospects.

Helping Fernandez in the receiving department are former defensive specialist Gary Rapp and Bucky Biallis, back from the injured list. CARLIN HAS thrown six touchdown passes in three liaa 1 14 am i am. ta alhar Tiat, Waalhar, Paa A Reason for such air power is its that Jesse Kaye of Tampa and Vidal Carlin of North Texas State will be doing the throwing. and Rookie of the Year honors aa the No. 1 Jet quraterbark.

In the two meetings with San Diego last year, Namath and Co. was crushed twice, 34-9 and 38-7. with John Hadl passing for the Chargers. Tensi cashed in on his big chance last Sunday when the Chargers, with Hadl at the helm, trailed the winless Miami Dolphins 10-6 at the half. The lowering former Florida Slate star, who had never thrown a pass in a pro game before, clicked on nine of 13 passe for 223 yards and four touchdowns in a 41-10 By The Associated Press Steve Tensi, the new pass-Wig star of the San Diego Chargers, will oppose famed Joe Namath of the New York Jets in a matchup of the American Football League's only unbeaten teams before a sellout crowd of 55,000 at Shea Stadium tonight.

The Chargers (400) are three point favorites to run their unbeaten streak over New York to 11 games sinre 19B1. The Jets have a 3-0 1 record after being tied by Boston, 24-21, last Sunday. Tensi, a 6-5, Til) pounder, was a member of San Diego's And Spartan Bobby Fernandez and Texas John Love will be doing the receiving. made. There will hf lime for hunting, kingfishing in the Gulf of Mexico with old friends.

But many hundreds of people, local residents and winter visitors who have been coming here for years will now find that things aren't quite games and Spartan boss Sam Bailey says he is not underesti JOE NAMATH also Dixie dandy. In other games lonight, the Boston Patriots are at Buffalo, and the Denver Broncos at Kansas City. The only National Football League clash tonight sends the Pittsburgh 1 against the Cleveland Browns at Cleveland. ALL HAVE BEEN highly ef fective and the ball could be in 'After 31 eiis nao railed it a d.ty. lie's only 5t ljut you can't muni nine Jy hy birthdays.

Take man who hfl uiiikol sevrn day a week, lfi hour prr day with duly a fraction of vacation time overall those year, he' a jood hit older than the Ixvik say he i. Young Jim Kelley took the bait hmiM concession over on Oct. 1 The wm is 31. know the business anyway, will be on his own until the city of St. retersbure can make up its mind what to do about the lu t'ure of the famous old pier.

His father sometimes refers to the young man as "Hurrl- cane Jim" because he was born during the 1M5 hurri- which swept St. Petersburg. Jim Sr. has weathered many a storm at the pier. Other times he's been caught in the elements as he fought to get bait for the next day while the city slept.

accumulation of lime spent at thit pier has left Jim with a lot of chores to do at home. Thal'a where we found him yesterday, fighting off a rnld, yet trying to get some repair work done. "I don't ever expect to go jfiark Into the bait business again," be said. "I got out with my sanity, my health a'nd made a lot of friends. It was hard, long work." The subject got around to the changes over the years.

Teople who have been here for 10 or 15 years may think that shrimp has always been the top bait around here. Not so. For those who live bait, the small white minnows were the bait until George Fogarty, as Kelley calls it, began to get Shrimp by wading out with a net. i "George started with a Heine net," said Jim. "Later, my partner.

Bob Linkenhnker, used the seine. It wan hard, often dirty work in cold, mis- -erahle weather. "Then Sutty Roberts and Wilson Hubbard's father it i upon the idea of towing a net with a boat to get shrimp for mating him. Bailey compares North Texas the air on at least 60 plays. to Tulsa and says the Texans Kaye has thrown six touch STEVE TENSI repeat performance? taxi squad last year while Namath was earning headlines down passes in the past two Winter League Standings ed.

Aussie Wins Bout are improved over last year when the Spartans upset them. Governor Armbro Captures Futurity LEXINGTON, Ky. If) Gov-ernor Armbro, showing two different styles, won the $61,602 Kentucky Futurity at the Lexington Trots yesterday in straight heats. The 3 year-old trotter, owned 1 Ml i Mi 4 .35 4 .35 5 4 .404 HaulonClnclnnal SI. Loon Saltimara Chicaoa (A) Minnatela Datreit Ntw York IN) Ol 1 1 1 I VI, JVi the same at the pier.

The Itest part of it has to be that Jim was able to walk away from it with his health and leave at the same old sla lion, his next of kin Hurricane Jim Kelley Jr. All Sorts Nancy Osgood, one of the more adept woman waders in the fishing set, had the surprise catch of her career a few days ago. She caught a mullet with a piece of shrimp MELBOURNE, Australia -Johnny Famechon, Australia's featherweight champion, easily Gogolak Disclosure Of Salary Ordered .17 7 .101 Boilon RISULTS YtSTEROAY Baseball Players Love Daytona Air DAYTONA BEACH I.TI -The Daytona Beach air must be good for baseball players. Three International League teams Rochester, Columbus and Toronto underwent spring training in the area. Rochester won the pennant, Columbus was second and outpointed Dos Santos of Brazil in a 10-round bout last night.

Famechon, who was born in France, weighed 125 pounds and Santos 124. Dtlroit 4. Baltimore 1 Homton-Cincinnall II, Minnaiala Bettan at St. Louii, pettponad, rain Ntw York (N) at Chicaja (A), peit- panad, rain CAMES TODAY Boston vt. Naw York (N), Al Lang FtaM, St.

Patanburt, l( a.m. Time Wire Services A New York State Supreme by Armstrong Bros, of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, was timed in 2:01 2-5 and 2:00 2-5. x-Houitan-Cincinnatl vi. Datrait, Grant Sports In Brief Court justice ordered football Fit Id, Dunadm x-Winntiota vt. Biltlmort, Jack Runall Stadium, ciaarwattr Comics Page 8-B placekicker Pete Gogolak to reveal the salary he was paid by the Buffalo Bills and what he now is receiving from the New St.

Louii vi. Chicago (A), Payna Park, Sarasota, 10 a.m. Schtdulad far I p.m. York Giants. Toronto third.

Rochester and Columbus trained at Daytona Beach, Toronto at nearby DeLand. The order grew out of Gogo- lak's $300,000 libel and charac American contingent into the $100,000 United Nations Trot. Billy Wren, a University of Chattanooga football player ordered earlier this week to begin serving a 60-day workhouse sen ter defamation suit stemming from a television interview in DEEP SEA FISHING which he claims he was imper sonatcd. Questions to be asked Gogo lak, 21, about his salaries "may tence for assault and battery, was placed back on probation by Criminal Court Judge Campbell Carden. Scotland's Jim Clark and Mario Andretti, of Nazareth, Pa.

became doubtful starters in Japan's first Indianapolis- be some indication of his repu- GIANT GROUPER SNAPPER AM-a PM MAKI RESERVATIONS IARLT ALL DAY BOAT Frl. 7:30 AM until PM I HOUR HAU DAT TRIP iviar day I AM I I PM for bait. Mullet weighed about three pounds, put up a real tussle, too. It's hapjicncd before but rarely, all the same Nancy also landed a 12 pound snook last Saturday, using cut pinfisb for bait, while wading on the Sunshine Skyway flats east of the bait house. Snttok fishing must be good west of the bait house, too.

An unidentified "regular" who fishes from the seawall behind the bait house caught his 51st snook of the season there last Saturday. Harry Nichols, Tampa, caught a pound large-mouth bass last weekend on the St. Johns River. Itave McCoy was the guide. Host for the fishing expedition was Roger Morel of St.

Petersburg. All fished out of the Mac Papers lodge at We-laka. One of the two boats who "ran interference" while Bill Burke of Gulf port battled a 110 pound tarpon in Boca Ciega Bay has been identified. The good sea samaritan was a Mr. Plant of Vina del Mar on St.

Petersburg Beach. Moved here from New Jersey about a year ago. Sure brought his good manners with him. He style auto race Sunday when TETE GOGOLAK libel suit pending. A four-man team from the Half-Moon Rose Hall Club of Ja HUBBARD'S 8th ST.

PIER Ph. U0-S1I4 3J-f711 31-3171 PASS-A-ORIUI, ST. PITS KACH maica, won the pro-am four ball foursomes handicap golf tournament, one strike ahead of the Bellerieve Club of St. Louis. A team of 14 Venezuelan ama $2.50 rieiimi tation as a professional football ADULTS UJIIIIIUCHIIDREN SUNSHINE SPEEDWAY PRESENTS STOCK CAR RACES TONIGHT 8:15 FIGURE "8" LATE MODELS EARLY MODELS TONIGHT SUNSHINE SPEEDWAY player and his value on public MISS PINELLAS II appearance and in interviews.

teur gymnasts are in Miami to give exhibitions at Miami-Dade Junior College and the Univer Justice Rem S. Moule said. sity of South Florida at Tampa. Gogolak's suit is against The Philadelphia Eagles have WOR-TV. New York City; RKO-Gencral the station's parent corporation; the estate announced that offensive tackle Ray Rissmiller and guard Bruce Van Dyke have been of Clure Mosher, the late sports announcer who conducted the placed on the reserve list.

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CGS P. O. Box 3309 Tampa, Florida activated Ted Karras to replace injured guard Don Chuy. Oioial powar, radio, filh findor, 2 trip daily 1-12 noon, Pood George Magerkurth, a National taclcla oboord. League umpire for almost two decades, has died in a Rock TAMPA IAY EXCURSIONS, INC.

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1064, and Marty Handler of Syracuse, who allegedly admitted impersonating Gogolak. He has refused to answer questions about his salaries with the teams on the ground he did not claim to have suffered economic damage, but rather an invasion of privacy and by being portrayed on television by Island, 111., hospital. He was 76. Skybrook Schedules Weekend Horse Show a non sinietic, miaaie agea bait. That made sense to me.

VAt one time I had seven shrimp boats working. "When I started selling iT.ehrimp, there were only three four in the business in FU Mwllas County. Now there are Ic ver 100 in the county and general bay area. At one time 'we sold most of the shrimp in state of Florida. Other places didn't know they had shrimp." i Jim Kelley has soon the hal-j-cyon days for fishing on Tampa Bay.

He's bowing out at a time when the bay is pol- luted and the catfish abound by the millions. I Catfish Not that there aren't some occasional good runs of fish at the pier. The silver trout were in fine this spring. And the mackerel responded, too. but there has been a general decline.

He blames it on the con-' dition of the water and the catfish. "Tampa Bay is still full of 1 tarpon but the catfish won't c. leave you alone," says Jim. "Dredging and filling has taken its toll, too. Old timers 'like myself can remember going down to the Bayhoro beacon off Bayhoro Harbor Vand getting 150 pounds of 'mackerel and kingfish of a morning in season.

The water was wonderful in those days. Fish came all the way up the bay." Been a lot of changes in tackle, we asked Jim? "Sure has." he said. "First they used Japanese cane for rods, then Burma but of course everyone now is over to fiberglass. I'sed to be that the finest leader Mire one could get was No. 5 hut now that is rarely uvd, out of date, and out of favor." Before Jim Kelley tmik over bait and tackle concession II 8t Municipal Pier, Roy Crook and Alec McRae preceded him.

Since then, for years, in fair weather and foul, Jim has been there. The eternal quest for bait is ever. In timp, Jim Kelley will get all the house r' person. mm i A weekend horse show sponsored by Skybrook Stables gets under way this morning at 4001 34th St. at 9:30 Final events are scheduled for Sunday, beginning at 11 a.m.

The morning performance today will be given over to com 49th ST. N. ULMERTON RD. A A Mill Rise, a California coll moved to the British racing scene this year, was scratched from the Prix de L'Arc de Races Each Night 8:00 MATINEES SATURDAYS 2:00 P.M. SPECIAL MATINEE WED.

OCT. 12 petition for student classes. The afternoon show beginning at noon signals the start of competition in 27 classes for experienced riders. was skippering a sauooai when he went to Burke's aid. Saturday hunters at Avon Park lose out for the hunting season.

Due. to stepped up training missions being flown in the area. Saturday hunting is out but Sunday hunting will be in. Portions of the Avon Park range were scheduled to have opened Saturday, Nov. 12.

"L'nraveling The Ever glades Furor" is the subject of an article in the current (October) issue of Field Stream magazine. Ed Ruckow of the Palm Beach Post-Times authored the piece. The problem has been in his own backyard. He gives both sides of the story in what makes pretty grim reading. Force 12, publication of the St.

Petersburg Power Squadron, notes a communication from an anonymous contributor. It reads: "It has been suggested that one of the first things to do after running aground is to lower the Power Squardon ensign." Don't laugh, everyone. You may be next. You can tell the fall kingfish season is approaching, lcw Leene at the Tackle Shack, South Pasadena, is kept busy these days as summer's hat-lered, neglected tackle is pre pared for the invasion of the kingfish. the No.

1 favorite of Suncoast salt water fisher SEE JACK ARNOLD I DALE SONNY ALDERMANN DAN DAUGHTREY BUTCH JOHNSON AND MANY MORE. Triomphe, Europe's richest horse race. The Frizette will have its 19th and richest running at Aqueduct when nine 2-year-old fillies clash at one mile. The stake carries an added value of $75,000 and will be worth The winner will DAILY DOUBLE 1-2 RACES A U. S.

41 COME PLAY AT GLEN OAKS GOLF CLUB 1S4S COURT CLEARWATER RACES FREE TO LADIES TUESDAY NIGHTS earn $95,425. Noble Victory, holder of seven records including the fastest i mile ever trotted in competition, is the odds on choice to I beat seven top draw er rivals in I the J.iO.000 Gotham Trot at ACRES OF FREE PARKING VALET PARKING IBM. Yonkers Racewav and head the TUNE TO VYLCY FOR TRACK WEATHER INFO. DEEP SEA FISHING El CAPITAN I KINGFISHER SAILS DAILY I A.M. 1 P.M.

NITE FISHING '3" Every Saturday Night Kingfithar, 710-11. 00 Midnight JOHNS PASS BRIDGE $051 ph. jtj.aioo ii-arii AvH ia at JaHm Hu GRAY LINE BUS ST. PETE TO TAMPA AND RETURN LEAVE AT 6:30 P.M. 100 CENTRAL AVE.

MATINEES AT 12:30 Solunar Tables IK Extern SHrrturd tmi. Datt A M. P.M. Oct. Day Minar Maier Minar Malar i 5,,, 'H .15 :35 P.M.

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