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HEARTLAND! Lx-Mars Williams, iviusiai, Dcrra, mays "'Ci? The Morning After Greats To Be AtA-Bowl 13 me Tom McEwen i JTry Tribune SDorts Editor I His son, Tim Bcrra, a wide receiver at Massachusetts, will play for the North In the game. Musial and Williams will be interviewed on the Mizlou national television network. MAYS RETIRED at the end of the World Series. Please Sec Page 7, Col. 1 dent's Council on Physical Fitness.

Williams was a Boston Red Sox star for 19 years and the last .400 hitter among major league batting championship qualifiers. He managed the Texas Rangers through the 1972 season. Berra, manager of the National League champion New York Mcts, will be pressed into an appearance as the result of coming to the Tampa Stadium game as a spectator. will receive a service to America award from the bowl. Musial and Williams, both of whom are members of Baseball's Hall of Fame, will appear as part of the bowl's halftime show theme physical fitness.

MUSIAL, senior vice president of the St. Louis Cardinals for whom he played 22 years, has been a member of the Presi By JIM SELMAN Assistant Sports Editor The name of the game is football, but among those honored during the halftime show of the Jan. 6 Lions American Bowl will be four of the greatest figures in baseball Willie Mays, Stan Musial, Ted Williams and Yogi Bcrra. Mays, it already has been announced, The Hruin From Tampa The Tommy Curtis you saw on television or read about figuring so big in UCLA's maul of North Caro- Una State last Saturday began his basketball ing on the outdoor courts around Booker T. Wash- ington grade school right here in Tampa.

Then he graduated to the indoor court at George Wash-! I (ngton Junior High, which used to be old Jefferson High, from there to Tallahassee for his Leon High Schooling up there and then to UCLA and the absolute zenith in college Why, Tommy Curtis hasn't played in a losing basketball game in five and a half years. eminoles He's been involved in 61 straight wins, 44 with the UCLA I varsity and 20 with the UCLA freshmen. nn lop JL PfTP" 1 ftf -ktisJ-A Vizf 'A I't iSS, if -mm. wit At i 11 V7! I wr I igers MONROE ADAMS Tribune Sports Correspondent TALLAHASSEE Florida State's six-cylinder basketball team took a giant step toward national recognition here last night with an 88-80 triumph over 12th ranked Memphis State-Never readed throughout KJTIIE TAMPA raiBLNE the contest, the Seminoles utilized a sticky man-to-man defense to thwart the Tigers' big guns and Coahc Hugh Dur-ham's opportunists then proved their versatility when their two big men, Lawrence McCray and Greg Grady, got into early foul trouble. Switching to a tight zone, the Seminoles found substitute Zack Perkins a timely defender as he controlled the defensive boards to keep the Tigers in check.

'The only Tenncssean to penetrate the Seminole defense with any consistency was freshman gunner Dexter Reed, who ripped the nets for 28 points to lead all scorers for the night. SECTION CLASSIFIED WEDNESDAY DEC. 19, 1973 is the nifty UCLA guard who brought the ball down and seemed always as cool as if he were back at i George Washington playing a pickup game with his good 'J friend Eddie McMillan. And now isn't that something? THOSE TWO out of that old gym, Curtis a starter and star on the best college team in the world, and McMillan in 'the same town a starter as a rookie for the Los Angeles Rams, just named to the NFL All-Rookie team. "We see each other all the time," said Curtis, by telephone from the UCLA gym where practice goes on.

While jyou and I may have figured that win over N. C. State that put down the uppity Wolfpack may have been deserving of a iholiday, "nope, Coach had us right back out at it. We can't ilet up. Everybody wants some of us," said Curtis, who says when he's asked where he calls home, "no question about it, il say.

it." During his growing up years around Booker the rec-, reation was pickup basketball games "and we played. Man did we play. the time. And it was there, right there, then later over at the old Jefferson gym that I fell for this game," and began learning to play it so brilliantly. Against NC State in that dream game that chopped off the Wolfpack win streak at 29 and extended UCLA's to 79, Curtis, who wears No.

22, scored 12 points. Tommy Curtis was UCLA's second high point man in the big one. He was fourth high in the game. -5 He played 32 of the 40 minutes. i Thrive On Pressure I "NO, I NEVER got tired.

I. was ready for it. We all were. 'It meant a lot to us. "I think we even showed Coach something this time.

"We won with our big man, Bill Walton, on the bench for 21 minutes and we won big. We showed we could handle things." Curtis said the truth is the Bruin players never gave a thought to losing. "FRANKLY, I thought we would tear them up," he said. of the others thought it would be close. "I thought it would be T)ig because of our depth.

I knew Keith Wilkes would come through for us, and he did," with 27 'points. we approach pressure situations with the thought jthat all it does is make you concentrate more. Little things (become important, so you pay close attention. Pressure is a jheautiful thing for that reason," said the 21-year-old who was Iborn in Albion, but moved with his parents here when jhe was five months old. HIS MOTHER is the former Johnnie Rogers, whose dad was a founder of Central Life Insurance Company.

That fam-', ily is from Bradenton. His dad, Tom Curtis, and his uncle, Ulysses Curtis, both played football at Florida A M. Ulysses played with longtime iTampa high school coach Abe Brown, now dean of boys at (Chamberlain. Ulysses was an All-American Rattler and one of the first blacks signed to a contract with the Canadian pro "league. But Tommy and his family moved to Tallahassee from Tampa when he entered the ninth grade and was just beginning to blossom as a basketball player.

He was on a crack Tallahassee Leon team that lost only (six games in his time and was recruited directly by UCLA. Hc played on the UCLA freshman team that went 20-0, but was rcdshirted after that a year. Remember, the Bruins were national champs then too, and have been for seven straight year's. ft AP Wirephoto New Line Of Work For Redskins9 Juraensen? Devils Want LARRY WARREN led the Seminole scoring with 22 and Otis Cole got 21. Korida State had difficulty Please Sec Page 6, Col.

fi against the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC playoffs Saturday. Regular quarterback Bill Kilmer has been hospitalized the last few days with a stomach ailment. Washington Redskins quarterback Sonny Jurg-ensen uses a snowplow to clean the practice field Tuesday prior to workouts by the Redskins in Washington. Jurgensen might open at quarterback Sign ans Spart mMp. From ames iT4.fi, i.

a m. f. It McCrone were five players from Jacksonville Raines, runnerup for the state big school grid championship. It was the biggest single, collective coup for the Spartans in their 40 year football history, veteran observers of the Spartan program believe. By BILL K1RBY Tribune Sports Writer In what appears to be a first, the University of Tampa yesterday signed five football recruits from the same school at the same time.

Signed by Tampa aide Ron 1 I Revenge TEMPE, Ariz. ur Some players on Arizona State's football team are more than a little upset that Pittsburgh's Tony Dorsett bumped Sun Devil running back Woody Green off the All-American team. Green, an All American last year, wound up on the second team this season, while the freshman from Pittsburgh made the first team. In the third annual Fiesta Bowl Friday night, Arizona State players hope to do something about that. "We want to give Woody a little running room," says junior offensive guard John Houser.

"We think it's a great injustice that he didn't make the All-America first team. "I think that the guy on defense are anxious to get a crack at Dorsett, too," he says. One of those defensive players is Bob Breunig, a 235-pound linebacker who says the defense will be waiting for Dorsett in Friday night's game. Meanwhile, Dorsett is capturing most of the headlines here. "I know there's a lot of people who aren't sure about me," he said, "but I don't think it should matter if you're a freshman or not.

If you have the ability, that's what counts. I want to prove He IIa9 A 3.9 Average AT UCLA, Curtis is studying social psychology and says average is a nifty 3.9. I "The team average is 3 2 or 3.3, all 12 guys, and I think one of the reasons for its success," he said. "I'd say 'the team average academically probably is as high as any this side of the Ivy League." I But, Curtis plans to go into real estate. He has a docfor-iinclr in L.A., "and in fact I'm already Tack Wins In Sn real estate out here.

Eventually." said Curtis. "I'd like to have offices in Tallahassee and Tampa." iber In addition, Tampa also signed two other state players. Yesterday's new Spartans include: Gregory Stalling, linebacker, 6-2, 205, Raines; Mike McLaughlin, free safety, 6-0, 175, Raines; Sylvester King, defensive tackle, 6-3, 260, Raines; Darryl Whitmore, tight end, 6 4, 150, Raines; Andy Randolph, defensive back, 6-0, 185, Raines; Rich Peach, fullback, 6-1, 228, Rockledge; Buster Clark, tackle, 6 4, 230, Melbourne. Tampa has now recruited 17 players which coach Dennis Fryzel regards as one of the best talent hunt starts ever. Most impressive statistic among the Raines bunch is that of McLaughlin.

The fast defensive back intercepted 16 passes this past season, returning four for Stalling led the team in tackles. Peach rushed for more than 900 yards for a school record. Twice he returned kickoffs for long yardage touchdowns 94 and 96 yards. Peach also is a standout Please See Page 7, Col. 4 ty i Curtis is a splendidly literate young man.

Here last summer he was guest speaker at the Hillsbor- L7 flugh Community College basketball banquet, charming and impressing the crowd. The talk came during a visit with his basketball playing cousin, Jimmy Ransom and his aunt, Hallique Rogers. He acknowledges he may have the only in the world named Hallique. HE'S PROUD, and rightly so, of the great win over NC State, and almost as proud of the 66-65 win earlier in the year over aroused Maryland. Maryland had the ball with 20 seconds to play, but couldn't get a shot off.

Curtis was guarding the Marylander who had the ball and whatever hope his team Okay, Tommy, UCLA has won 79 in a row now and seven straight national titles. What about the future? -AP Wirephoto Please See Page 2, Col. 4 "KANSAS CREATED 52 turnovers in their other 11 games, but Monday we gave them only one," Holtz said. He praised David Jaynes, Kansas' All-American quarterback, who hit 24 of 38 passes for 218 yards and one touchdown. Jaynes broke the Liberty Bowl passing records with his performance.

"Jaynes is a fine quarterback. He read our defenses well," Holtz said. Kansas Coach Don Fam- Plcase See Page 2, Col. 6 MEMPHIS, Tenn. North Carolina State Coach Lou Holtz says the Wolfpack came through with a total effort in their 31-18 victory over Kansas Monday night in the Liberty Bowl football game.

"That's something we've tried to get all year, Holtz said. "Our kicking game was superb. So was the offense and defense." A key to the game, he said, was minimizing Kansas' big play defense. Florida's Gene Shy Scores University of Florida basketball player Gene Shy (23) goes high and scores during the Gators' game against Central Missouri State University in Gainesville Monday night. The Gators routed Central Missouri 109-72.

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Numbers in St. Bahia room. CARON spent yesterday trying to drum up the money and came up with $6,700. But it will take another $30,000 to keep liie team alive. "Raising $30,000 will allow or they could go out of business.

That was the word last night from Paul Caron, general manager of the Southern Hockey League team, at a hastily-called press conference at the Bayfront Center's By JIM HENDERSON j. Tribune Sports Writer JST. PETERSBURG The Stincoast Suns are putting out an urgent call for help. And it i URGENT! Stated plainly, the Suns need $30,000 by 9 p.m. tonight i.