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THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT, Orangaburj, S. Sundy, November 2, 1969, 13A PRO FOOTBALL PICKS Ernio Ladd Entertaining Such As Raiders, Chiefs Can Be Costly numbered by Green Bay grizzlies, Packers fighting for life in title chase. Los Angeles 20, Atlanta 10: Falcons have sharp talons even without Tommy Nobis in middle of defense, but Roman Gabriel Co. elusive prey. St.

Louis 28, New Orleans 14: watch out for those hairpin curves the rest of the way. Sunday's picks: AFL Oakland 31, Cincinnati 13: Bengals backup quarterback Sam Wyche, surprise league passing leader and No. 1 man, Greg Cook, slated to return, but Okaland's Daryle Lamonica has arsenal loaded with touchdown bombs. Kansas City 33, Buffalo 10: Miami put squeeze on O.J. Simpson last week; Chiefs' defenders, murder against running game, should keep him in bind.

Bost 16, Houston 10: Patriots due to win one after string of West, throws the AFL's top defense against a Buffalo attack that has sputtered through five losses in seven games despite the presence of O.J. Simpson in the backf ield. Home won't be much of a sanctuary for Atlanta or Cleveland in Sunday's National Football League action, either. Not with Los Angeles and Dallas, the league's unbeaten blockbusters, coming to town. Thus far, the big teams in both leagues generally have avoided the pitfalls of life on the road.

The pro picker, going along for the ride, is batting .760 with 57 right guesses, 18 wrong ones and three standoffs. But Happened To The near-misses and Oilers prime target for upset after tough struggle against Denver last W6CR New York 24, Miami 14: Dolphins catch Joe Namath on rebound from poor passing day against Boston; they've never beaten Jets. Denver 27, San Diego 21: San Diego still finding end zone difficult to reach, but Broncos must handle John Hadl-Lance Al-worth aerial tandem to keep score down. NFL Baltimore 28, Washington 14: Don Shula promised Colt shake-up after last week's collapse against 49ers 'Skins should feel Field Goal has 12 of 17 for .706. Gossett, who was 17 for 31 and .548 in 1968 also is 12 for 17 and .706.

In the AFL the drop is minor. Bruce Alford of Buffalo has boosted his figure from 14 of 24 for .583 in 1968 to 10 of 13 and .769 this season. Jim Turner of the New York Jets, who led the scorers with 34 of 46 and a .739 Tennessee Chews Up Georgia ATHENS, Ga. (AP) Sopho-more fullback Curt Watson ripped Georgia's defense apart Saturday as he led unbeaten Tennessee, the nation's number If I TheSansabeltall wasltetchwais. ff, I I band breathes with ycMi.

bends with lJ The figures show that the percentage of completions for field goal attempts has dropped from .556 to .459, an amazing 97-point decline in the National Football League. In the American Football League the drop has been much less pronounced, .587 to .546. In the NFL the only kickers Pro Basketball ABA Eastern Division Won Lost Pet. Indiana 5 I .833 Kentucky 5 1 .833 Carolina 4 Pittsburgh 4 2 .667 NewYork 4 .333 Miami 2 .286 Western Division Dallas 7 3 .700 Los Angeles 4 .554 3 .375 New Orleans 2 .250 Denver 1 7 .125 Friday's Results Kentucky 114, New York 112 Pittsburgh 134. Carolina 124 Dallas 123, Los Angeles 117 Denver 116, Washington 106 Today's Games Carolina at Kentucky New York at Miami Monday's Oam Washington at New Orleans.

GB 1 1 3 3', l'j 4 5 tremors on Baltimore turf. Minnesota 17, Chicago 7: Everybody's been eating the Papa Bear's porridge, and Vikings are extra hungry for Super Bowl sugar. Dallas 28, Cleveland 10; When Cowboys' attack against New York Monday night, Doomsday Defense picked up slack; Browns could get roped either way. San Francisco 21, Detroit 7: Steve Spurrier finally striking gold for 49ers, but Lions' offense impoverished without Munson, Farr. Green Bay 23, Pittsburgh 13: Steelers' Mean Joe Greene out Kickers? percentage last season has 18 of 25 for .720 so far this season.

Don Cocroft, a consistent .750 kicker for Cleveland a year ago, has only six of 13 for .462. Jim Bakken of St. Louis has dropped from 15 of 24 and .625 to five of 13 and .385. Lou Michaels of Baltimore is off from 18 of 28 and .653 to only four of 12 and .333. Pete Gogolak hit with 14 of 24 and .583 last season but is kicking only .300 this year, perhaps due to an experiment with punting.

Percival, who saved many games for the Bears in 1968 with 25 of 36 for .694 has only two of nine and .222. Bob Etter of Atlanta, a .524 kicker with 11 of 21 last year, has three of 14 for .214. Green Bay based much of its "Pack Will Be Back" hopes on the kicking department which let them down last year. Mike Mercer hit with seven of 12 for .583 after he finally got the job last season. This year he has one of eight for .125 after a brilliant start in training camp.

EvenGeorge Blanda, the Oakland veteran, has felt the pinch declining from 21 of 34 for .618 to nine of 19 and .474. Gino Ca-pelletti, the Boston kicker who used to lead the league in scoring, has only four of 12 for .333 after making 15 of 27 for .556 last season. NEW YORK (API Standings of the field goal kickers as compared to 1968: NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE 1969 1968 Kicker, Team fg.fga.Pct..fg.fga.Pct. Mann, Det 7 9 .778 0 3 .000 Cox.Min 12 17 .706 19 29 .655 Gossett, L.A. 12 17 .706 17 31 .548 x-Mlngo, Pitt.

6 9 .667 Knight, Wash. 7 12 .583 Dempsey, N.O. 7 13 .583 Cockroft, Clev. 6 13 .462 18 24 .750 Baker, Phil 6 14 .429 19 30 .633 Clark, Dal 6 14 .429 17 29 .586 Bakken, St. I 5 13 .385 IS 24 .625 Michaels, Bal.

4 12 .333 18 28 .643 Davis, S.F 3 9 .333 9 16 .563 Gogolak, N. Y. 3 10 .300 14 24 .583 Percival, Chi, 2 9 .222 25 36 .694 Etter, Atl 3 14 .214 II 21 .524 Mercer.G.B 1 8 .125 7 12 .583 Mingo did not play In 1968. Dempsey and Knight are rookies. AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE Alford, Buf 10 13 .769 14 24 .583 J.

Turner, N.Y. 18 25 .720 34 46 .739 Muhlmann, Cln. 8 13 .615 Stenerud.K.C. .11 18 .611 30 40 .750 xKremser.Mia 6 11 .545 Partee.S.D 9 18 .500 22 32 .688 Blanda, Oak 9 19 .474 21 34 .618 Gerela, Hous. .9 21 .429 Howfield, Den.

5 13 .385 9 18 .500 Cappelettl, Bos. 4 12 .333 15 27 .556 Rookie John Gilliam, Cards' new pass-catching whiz, could prove devl-ish antagonist for skidding Saints. New York 21, Philadelphia 18: Giants' defense shackled Dallas for three quarters; before wilting: now it's Fran Tarkenton's turn to get untracked. SAHS CELT DSaGD. Tennessee Georgia First downs 17 10 Rushing yardage 386 158 Passing yardage 51 60 Return yardage 73 33 Passes 4 12 2 6-16 2 Punts 641 10 43 Fumbles lost 4 2 Yards penalized 35 53 Notre Dame Triumphs 1 (V Ascumcs Role Of Cad NEW YORK AP) Remem-ber Ernie Ladd? He was the 290 pound giant who, would pull apart a quarterback like a wishbone, and then wish li'lie could do it again, fit Big Ernie was one of the first the big name linemen.

Quarterbacks might have dreaded (shim, but the crowd loved him. Well, you can forget that Er-3nie Ladd, at least until next Sep-i ntember. He is now ERnie "the Big Cat" Ladd, Ernie Ladd the wrestler, Ernie Ladd the villain. Hi "I guess I might do things that bother the crowd," he said I-without cracking so much as a trace of a smile nefore he went into the ring against Baron Mi--iguel Scicluna at Madison Square Garden last week. "Rit ha incieto 1 UAK, 111 MUJiabtJj 1IU vtoves a loser, and I fighting to win." This might sound a bit i strange Decause trnie aoesn even know his won-loss record and the crowd certainly doesn't.

T)ut he struts onto the mat in those red trunks and begins gouging the eyes of the hero, the boos ring in his ears. "You bum," he can hear them cry. "Go back to football." Well, Ernie might next Sep tember the left knee he had 'surgery on last January makes It possible. Right now, he's sit- ting out a year from his defen-I sive tackle spot with the Kansas City Chiefs of the American jj Football League. But don't wor-5 ry about Ernie.

He isn't suffer- tag. i "I've been wrestling for six I years now during the off-sea-: son," he said, "and it's been good financially. 1 "I'm one of the few wrestlers I who can work on a percentage," he added with typcially Ernie Ladd modesty. I started out making four, five hundred dollars a week, then it went up to 900. Now if it's under 2,000, I think something's wrnno When you consider Ladd only works two or three times a week, being a bad guy hasn't I been so bad at all.

And most 3 wrestlers don't split their earn-I ings with an agent or a manag- er. "Some guys have managers because they can't bargain," he said, explaining his own high I their I tore, valued' nsT" I With the help of his football fame with the fans many of the wrestlers had never heard I of him Ladd might even get himself a shot at one of wres- tling's two champions, Bruno Sammartino. Win or lose, it means more money and, as jf Ladd says, "I'm good enough to take care of Ernie Ladd and his I opponents." Ladd, now 30, learned his professional wrestling 1 techniques back when he was with gthe San Diego Chargers in his pearly 20s. "I was told I had good moves, was quick and I had good Strength, so why didn't I try it," recalled. At the time, Ladd was a helpless quarterback's t-jworst friend and he was never to underestimate himself, "I thought I'd kill someone," Jhe said, "but they told me not to jjworry.

And some guy who gweighed 100 pounds less than time rubbed my nose in the mat many times I couldn't see. i 'It took a couple of months to me how to defend myself, then I learned some By the time knee surgery ijcame, he didn't mind trying his at wrestling full time, at jleast for one year. "I want to see if I can survive without But also I feel I'm a domi-jjcnating athlete. I like to punish a guy and the last few years I couldn't punish because my legs bothered me." He insists his knee is okay 3 now. It would have to be if he is correct when he says wrestling is more strenuous, and wres-t tiers more injury-prone than football players.

"I can take a defensive line xone by one in the ring and have I them all so tired they can't move," he said. "And guys get injured wrestling all the time, ijjl've pulled my left shoulder out of place twice and stitches in my head." But Ladd, one of several players who wrestle during lithe off-season or full time, still get away from football eight years in the pros, several of them as an All-Pro. When a friend came into the barren locker room with a new football magazine, Ladd jumped it like he would a quarter-Si back. He leafed through it, com-tmenting knowingly on the pictured on the pages, football stories. "I've flown in to see some of Kansas City games and sat ion the he said, "but, known, last Sunday I saw Philadelphia play and it was the time in eight years I had in the stands." cjj Ernie Ladd, the villain, sound-i'ed as though he missed being on field, wearing the pads and 'cleats.

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i tm 47 NEW YORK (AP)-There's no place like home unless you're expecting a visit from the Oakland Raiders or Kansas City Chiefs. The American Football League's Western Division powerhouses travel East Sunday for games at Cincinnati and Buffalo, respectively. The entertainment costs should be too high to handle for the struggling Bengals and Bills. The Raiders, 6-0-1, take on a Cincinnati club that won its first three starts, then lost rookie quarterback Greg Cook and went into a four-game tailspin. Kansas City, 6-1 and one-half game behind the Raiders in the Whatever NEW YORK (AP) What has happened to the field goal kickers? Mac Percival, who kicked 10 straight for the Chicago Bears last year is two for nine.

Pete Gogolak, the New York Giants' soccer style ace, has only three of ten. His brother, Charlie, is no longer with the Washington Redskins. Sports Car Club's Big Event Slated DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Some call it the Olympics of auto racing, others refer to it as the World Series of sports cars. To the Sports Car Club of America, however, it will be the culmination of more than three million miles of racing in literally hundreds of amateur events during 1969.

With invitations already a the mail to more than 800 drivers, the American Road Race of Champions represents the largest and most significant auto race on the non-professional level in the U.S. It will be run this year on Nov. 25-30 on the 3.1 mile asphalt road circuit at Daytona International Speedway. Its purpose is to bring together top finishers in the 21 racing classes of the SCCA's seven geographic regionsNortheast, Southeast, Central, Midwest, Southwest, Southern Paif ic, Northern Pacificto decide national champions in each class. Each driver earned his expenses-paid trip either by winning his class championship or by finishing among the top six competitors in his divisional points race.

Priority went to the top three finishers. Thus, only the fittest survived 'the year-long elimination system. Among the 400 or so drivers who are expected to accept invitations, are doctors, lawyers and dentists. Others are businessmen, salesmen, mechanics, college students. Some have grey hair, others aren't old enough to shave regularly.

One who made it this year is a housewife. Elouise Norris of Oklahoma City will be back for her fourth straight ARRC competition in a little D-Sedan Mini-Cooper. No one will snicker when she shows up, either. She took second place in the Daytona finals in 1967. Last year, 357 competitors drove nearly 44,000 miles during the five-day meet.

They consumed $52,000 worth of tires, 5,500 gallons of gasoline (more than the average motorist would buy in eight years) and 2,200 quarts of motor oil. Four general categories of racing vehicles will be involved: Production sports cars which range from the ear-splitting A-Production Corvettes and Cobras, to the legions of chugging H-Production bugeye Sprites which go amazingly fast for their size. Sedans of all sizes from the Class A Mustangs and Camaros to the Class Mini-Coopers and Abarths. Formula racers, the open-wheel, open-cockpit replicas of the exotic Grand Prix machines. These are classed from the 5-liter Formula A racers down to the evenly-matched Volkswagen-powered Vees.

Sports racers in four classes A through according to engine displacement, and including the powerful Group 7 cars that run in the $1 million professional Canadian-American Challenge Cup series. These machines are capable of nearly 200 miles per hour on Daytona's long straights and banked turns. While many of the drivers may dream of being discovered by a Dan Gurney or Roger Pe-nske and being drafted to the majors, most of the invitees are just enthusiastic hobbyists with a penchant for high speed and twisting turns. Stevens Wins In 10 SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -J Godfrey Stevens, former South American boxing champion, KammprpH out a unanimous 10- round decision over Don John-1 son of Los Angeles Friday night who have improved on their 1968 percentages are Fred Cox of Minnesota, Bruce Gossett of the Los Angeles Rams and Er-rol Mann of Detroit, a part-time kicker at Green Bay last year with no success, who has done much better with the Lions. Cox had a .655 percentage last year with 19 of 29.

This year he At A Glance NBA Eastern Division Won Lost New York 9 1 Philadelphia 4 2 Milwaukee 6 3 Baltimore 4 4 Detroit 2 4 Boston 2 4 Cincinnati 2 4 Western Division Los Angeles 5 2 Chicago 3 San Francisco 3 2 Atlanta 4 3 Phoenix San Olego 1 i Seattle 1 6 Pet. .900 .667 .667 .500 .333 .333 .250 .714 .625 .600 .571 .375 .143 .143 GB 71 1 1 2Mi 4 4 Friday's Results Chicago lit, Baltimore 109 Boston 118, San Olego 113 Seattle 129, Cincinnati 121 Milwaukee 129, Philadelphia 125, over time Today's Games Cincinnati at Los Angeles Seattle at Atlanta Monday's Games New York at Milwaukee season and dropped the Middies to 1-6. Reserve sophomore quarterback Bill Etter gave Notre Dame's capacity homecoming crowd of 59,075 its greatest glee. Taking over in the third period, Etter scored on a 15-yard sweep and minute's la fef zipped 79 yards for Notre Dame's longest touchdown run of the campaign. The Notre Dame defense now has held opponents to 14 scoreless quarters in the last 16 played.

In all, five different players scored. Denny Allan was the only other one to score twice. He drilled across from the one the second period after taking a 56-yard pass from JoeTheissmann longest aerial-play of the season. Later he recovered a Theis-mann fumble in the end zone for his second TD. Also in the first half, starting quarterback Theismann cruised 46 yards to score and hurled a 35-yard payoff pass to Tom Gatewood.

Andy Huff got into the act with a 7-yard touchdown rua Angeles and then held on for a 17-7 victory. Bob Berry, sidelined with an injured thumb one week later in the Atlanta-Baltimore game, was dumped 10 times by the Rams' front four, Los Angeles has gotten to opposing quarterbacks 29 times in six games while Ram quarterbacks have been spilled only eight times. The Rams slipped by winless Chicago 9-7 last Sunday on three field goals by Bruce Gossett. Quarterback Roman Gabriel suffered his first interception of the season and hit on only 11 of 23 passes for 115 yards against the Bears. Lemmerman got his baptism as a starter against Green Bay last week and connected on only nine of 19 passes for 104 yards in a 28-10 Packer victory.

It was Atlanta's fourth defeat in six games. SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -Notre Dame ran up a total of 285 yards in five scoring drives for a 33-0 halftime lead, substituted everybody in the second half and continued the avalanche to crush Navy 47-0 Saturday. It was the second worst drubbing Navy ever absorbed in its football history; a 54-0 blasting by Michigan in 1925 being the record. The victory left the lOthranked Irish 5-1-1 for the Fords Get Set For Isaac.

JEFFERSON, Ga. (AP) -Ford will send three factory cars against Dodge's Bobby Isaac Sunday in the Peach State 200 at Jefco Speedway. Time trials for the race, which carries a purse of more than $8,700, begin at 1 p.m. with the race start at 2:30. Some 28 entries have been received, with Ford entering three-time Grand National champion David Pearson, NASCAR Grand National champion Richard Petty and LeeRoy Yar-brough, who has dominated the larger tracks this season.

to) USE OUR REAR ENTRANCE. OFF STREET PARKING three power, to. a 17-3 Southeastern Conference football victory over the Bulldogs. Watson, who gained 197 yards on 27 carries, scored once on a three-yard burst when the Vols exploded for two quick touchdowns in the second period. Watson also broke loose on runs of 48 and 49 yards as the Vols awesome game punished Georgia's highly regarded defense.

Watson's running mate, tailback Don McLeary, scored the other Vol touchdown on a one-yard plunge and gained 100 yards on carries. The victory, Tennessee's sixth of the year, snapped Georgia's The victory, Tennessee's sixth of the year, snapped Georgia's 15-game home field winning streak and came before their largest crowd ever, 59-781 who sat through a steady drizzle that fell throughout the game. While Watson and McLeary were leading the Vol offense, Tennessee's defense blunted everything Georgia had. The Bulldogs got two chances in the first period by recovering fumbles at the Tennessee 28 and 10 yard lines, but managed only a 21-yard field goal by Jim McCullough. George Hunt kicked a 38-yard field goal for the Vols in the fourth period.

Tennessee 0 14 0 3 17 Georgia 3 0 0 03 Ga FG McCullough 21 Tenn McLeary 1 run (Hunt kick) Tenn Watson 3 run (Hunt kick) Tenn FG Hunt 38 A 59,781 Catamounts Win BURLINGTON, N. C. (AP) Western Carolina and the clock stopped a last ditch touchdown drive as the NAIA's sixth-ranked Catamounts edged the Christians 17-13 in a football game Saturday. Elon had driven 45 yards in the last two minutes but the clock ran out and a fumble prevented the Christians from scoring. The lead was swapped throughout the game.

The Christians got the first score on Grove Helsley's 28-yard field goal. He kicked another one 20 yards in the fourth period to put Elon ahead 13-10. Western Carolina Elon Elon FG Helslev 0 7 3 717 3 0 7 313 WCU Luckadoo 2 run (Corley kick) Elon Arrington I run (Helsley kick) WCU FG Corley 20 Elon FG Helsley 20 WCU-4c Intosh 21 run (Corley kick) Falcons To Give Rams A New Backfield View Ax ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) The Los Angeles Rams, driving steadily toward a National Football League Coastal Division championship, send their fearsome Foursome defense against a different set of Atlanta backs when the Rams and Falcons collide here Sunday. The undefeated Rams, 6-0 and holding a three-game lead in the division standings, will get their first look at Bruce Lemmer-man, No.

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