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i fog 6 bmmtvin LaT-inronici, io Track Tennis Football Baseball Basketball Bowling Boating Hunting Fishing Golf A HUIi- WINNING 5 Qllarksijtllc nif-GIIjromcIe Sport Section 1 MOTS UT-TPA Prtts Awards 1968 Local, Regional, National And World no Mason Moves Around The Circuit Up With A 7Q Racer Quicksilver' Offense Slips Through APSU's SAN DIEGO, Hands By GENE WASHER Chronicle Sports Editor Austin Peay State University.playingoneofits best games all year, couldn't get a hold on Murray State's quicksilver offense and lost a 90-80 Ohio Valley Conference thriller here last night before a jam-packed house in Memorial Gymnasium. Claude Virden ripped the nets with 25 points as the Racers ran their conference record to 6-1 and maintained the co-leaderahip in the conference title race. with Gene Washer I 4 lose, but 111 tell you right now, you can't complain when the kids 7 give you an effort like they did tonight" WHAT SOME OTHERS ARE SAYING: Frank Boggs of Daily Oklalionian-Shelby Metcalf of Texas A gave the following statement when talking on the strains of coaching: "I get nervous and I'll eat Anytime I have any free time." He gains about 10 points a season, whereas most coaches lose weight. "When you coach for a profession," he continues, "you can't allow your frustrations to crowd you out of your wardrobe." ville's Mason Rudolph fired a two-under-par 70 yesterday in the third round of the Andy Williams' tournament here and gained on most of the field. Rudolph, who had back-to-back 74 's in the opening two rounds, was at 148 when the round started and about 35th place.

His two-under par 70 yesterday moved him in the top 20. "I played the front side real steady," he said. "I paired every hole except the 8th hole. There I hit a five iron about a foot and a half from the hole and canned it for a birdie three." Rudolph's back nine was somewhat more erratic. He bogeyed the 10th hole frofn the bunker, birdied the 11th home from eight feet aid bogeyed the 14th hole when he three putted from 40 feet.

At 15, however he ran in a 25 footer for a birdie three which moved him into 28th place. His birdie at 1 8 put him in about the 20th position. "The greens were a little bumpy. about the only (Continued on page 7) Robert (Moon) Liggon pumped in 26 points and dragged down 14 rebounds to lead Clarksville High School to a overwhelming 71-36 victory over Milan- last night before a surprising small group of fans in the Clarksville High School gymnasium. The Wildcats blasted out to a 32-15 first half lead after a slow first quarter start, then put up their tight defense in the second half and outscored the visitors 16 points to take the 35 point win.

"We played tremendous defense," Ben Fendley pointed (Chronicle Sports Photo by Gene Washer) yanks off a rebound as Murray's Claude Virden looks on. Austin Peay Blast! Press Maravich of LSU speaking on the same subject: "Everybody says relax, but how can you? They say go to the beach. I tried that. I went to the beach. The pretty blue water rolled in the palm trees swayed in the breeze, and I looked down and I've diagrammed some plays in the sand." Bob Hentzen of Topeka Capital-Journal: The Kansas football team's "12th man" woes in the Orange Bowl did not go unnoticed by Kansas State basketball fans.

After counting in unison as Kansas' players were introduced, the K-Staters unfurled a banner saying, "KU, Count Your layers" just before the tipoff. They also tossed a few oranges, but Kansas had the laugh with a win Jerry Uhrahammer of Eugene Register-Guard: Tex Winter, new coach at Washington after producing winners at Kansas State, has this to say about officiating: "My philosophy always has been that you've got to win in spite of the officiating. They'll make mistakes and you'll make mistakes. I don't subscribe to the theory the game is impossible to officiate. We should all guard against this-particularly coaches.

I think this is dangerous. I've heard a lot of coaches say this and it disturbes me. I don't think it's an impossible game to officiate. I think if we coacfi'il properly, it can make the official's job a whole lot easier. I think we are as much to blame often times in a game as anyone else." COACH HANK IBA: talking about the Olympics: "Winning in high school is nice.

Winning in High School is nice. Wining in College is nice. But when you win for the United States. for your country. Then they put you up cn that No.

1 stand, and you watch the American Flag go up the pole and it gives you goose Then there was the Indianapolis writer who wrote about a team losing a 15-point lead as "Disappearing quicker than Lipstick at a Love-in." Ray Marquette of Indianapolis Star: Confidence can be a two-edged sword in basketball. Herb Gilliam, Purdue's Mr. Everything in commenting about Rick Mount's amaxir.g accuracx from the field, says, "Every time Rick shoots, I have to fight myself to go up for a rebound, I'm sure the ball is going in the hole every time he shoots." Cats outscored the Milan team 12-0 to take a 23-13 margin. Then during the last two minutes of the third period and the first four minute of the finale, the Cats outscored the visitors 21-0 which accounted for the difference at the, enjd of the game. The Cats didrt't allow a single Milan player to hit in the double figures column.

Two players, Steve Short and Steve Irby pumped in nine points each. I STATISTICS But' it was the speed and the quickness that Murray unleashed during the second half that did the Govs in and ran the Throoughbred's conference record to 6-1 and helped them maintain the co-leadership in the league title race. Elsewhere in the league, Western, the other co-leader, defeated Middle Tennessee 85-79. "You guys really got after them out there tonight. That's the way to battle.

You lost to a great ball club out there tonight," head coach George Fisher told his players at the end of the game." "They are by far the best team we've played," Fisher said later. "And I thought we played one of our best games. Nobody likes to Clarksville did commit more than their share of floor errors, 21, but Milan had 11 more than that, 32. The Wildcats are now 17-2 for the year and meet Todd County Kentucky Tuesday tyght.on, the foad, defeated Todd Central 64-48 at Clarksville, but are expected to have much harder time over in Kentucky. One of the two Cat losses this year have come on foreign soil.

streets with open trucks call Fisher was especially pleased with the performance of H.R. Roberson, whom he put into the starting line-up just a couple of games ago. 'Boy was he ever great. He really got after some people out there tonight," Fisherexclaimed. "And most everyone did a good job." Fisher explained the key points in the game this way.

"Murray came back at us with a. 1-3-1 zone and flared a man off it gambling that we wouldn't hit and that they would get the rebound and fast break. It worked." "That's right we gambled," said Racer mentor Cal Luther. "We came back in the 1-3-1 zone after the half and it helped us get out in the lead. It 's a gamble but it worked." Man, oh man, did it work.

Whipping the ball around like the Harlem Globtrotters, the Racers were as quick as a duck on a Junebug. And they picked up basket-after-basket -oh the fast break-that in itself broke Austin Peay's back; 1 Virden did a fantastic job, however, pumping baskets when it counted. Once during the second period after the Governors as melted away a 16 point lead a Virden came down court and pumped in two tough 16 footers. It put the Racers back in front by 13. Austin Peay made another run at them later in the finale, coming within five points twice 79-74 and 83-78.

A mistake by the official score keeper kept the' Governors from getting even closer. Terry Young was fouled with 3:33 left in the game. He should have had the one and one as it was Murray's seventh team foul. But the official score keeper said the Governors weren't in the one-in-one. A it turned out Young hit the first shot, then the Govs stole the ball twice using the full court press and made points off both steals.

That put them (Continued on page 7) FOR YOUR FREE COPY OF "STOCK DIGEST" r- Earnings, Dividends, and price actions of 2,400 Stocks MILLIARD, LY0IIS CO. Member New York American Midwest Stock Exchanges Box Clarksville, Tenn! Phone 648-2279 Call Pete Mahurin or Bill Munday I Call or mail this coupon I I i page booklet with earn- inga, dividend, price act- ions and other current dat- on over i inn Issue. Name Austin Peay's Howard Wright lost the contest 90-80. out after1' the contest which gave Clarksville it's 17th victory of the season. "I though we rushed our jshooting some, which accounted for our low percentage from the field.

But we had a heck of a night on the boards. Charlie Bryant did a good job, Coming in as, a -r1-Clarksville hit only 37.3 per cent from the field on 34 of 91 attempts, but outrebounded their opponent 68-33. While all that was happening, they held Milan to only 47 shots and allowed them to hit only 17 of those, for 36.. 1 per cent. While Liggon was the 10 22 7 8 16 21-71 8 13-36 FT 0- 0 1- 0 2- 1 0-0 2-1 6-1 0-0 0- 0 x-x' 11-3 27.3 FT 2-0 1- 0 2- 1 1-0 1-1 0- 0 1- 0 x-x 8-2 2S.9 RB 14 5 13 2 8 11 68 RB 5 8 3 2 7 1 1 6 33 xx PF 1 3 2 0 0 2 1 1 10 PR 5 0 3 0 1 0 1 10 XX TP 26 0 15 6 13 11 4 2 71 TP 8 2 4 4 9 0 4 36 XX Team 4 7 10- 27 11- 71 24 20 Vookies 10, Williams Warren 5, Steele sent the Wildcats ahead by 10 and it was never in doubt again.

Midway In the second period Kentucky led by 20, 77-67, and ing scorer with an 18.2 average, was held to seven points. He got his first basket from the floor with 5:46 remaining. Tennessee otffshot Auburn from the floor, 52.1 per cent to 39.6. Von Clarksville High School Milan Hlgrt School Clarksville Robert Liggon (f) Craig Stanfill (f) Joe Jones (c) Donnle Long (g) David Wllee (g) Charlie Bryant John Wheeler Gary Sewell Team Rebounds Team Totals Percentages Milan Richard Frlte (f) Marcus Warren (f) Steve Short (c) Hal Homes (g) Steve Irby (g) Telen Smith -Terry Warren Team Rebounds Team Totals Percentages Milan CHS 1 FG 30-13 3- 0 17-7 9-0 14-6 11-6 4- 2 3-1 x-x 91-34 37.3 FG 13-4 6- 1 7- 4 6-2 10-4 2- 0 3- 2 x-x 47-17 36.1 Milan-Phillip Whitkey 1, Rickets 3, 0QE9 standout with his 26 point total, Joe Jones" chipped in with 15 points and David Wilee had 13. Jone raked off 13 rebounds for the Purple and Gold.

Liggon got 12 of his 26 points in the linal quarter, hitting on six of 10 field shots. Clarksville. battled ahead in the first quarter and managed to keep a one or two point lead until the second period began. During one stretch in the second period, just before the half, the Clarksville's Joe Jones gets had a 25-point bulge with three minutes left when substitutes took over. Thorpe Weber led Vanderbllt with 22 points while Tom Hagan added 18, Rudy Thacker 16, and Ralph Mayes 14.

Kentucky opened the scoring on a 15-ooter by Pratt, who hit the same shot 30 seconds later to make It 4-0. Kentucky never trailed. The victory was Kentucky's eighth without loss as the Wildcats seek to defend their South eastern Conference crown. Vanderbllt Is now 6-3 in SEC play. Olocount MAIN ST.

ERIN Blankenshlp 2, Holmes 1. Clarksville High School-Crotzer 4, Sewell 20, Hawk 12, Blackwell 4, Parker 2, Huddleston 6, Sinks 2, Outlaw 4, Johnson 12, Young 4, Cooper 1. (Chronicle Sports Photo by Mike Collins) down after a loose ball but Milan's Steve Irby makes the pick-up. New Mexico 68, New Mexico State 66 Monmouth 76, Carleton 74 University of Pacific 82, Seat tle 81 Oklahoma State 64, Kansas State 59 Baylor 71, Rice 68 Haerford 75, Dickinson 69 (Continued on page 7) ground when he hit his first seven shots rrom the field. His first miss came with 4:50 left in the first half.

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Geo. Washn. 88 Ohio U. 110, Marshall 94 Tesas 65, Texas 57 By BOB COOPER Associated Press Sports Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -Fifth-ranked Kentucky staged a brilliant display of passing and shooting Saturday night as the Wildcats rolled 103-89 over Van- derbllt.

Three of Kentucky's players scored In the 20s Dan Issel at 28, Mike Casey at 24, and Mike Pratt, 23. Pratt got Kentucky off the East Tenn. Takes Tech COOKE VILLE, Term. (AP) -East Tennessee's Bucaneers scored a 84-C3 Ohio Valley Con ference victory over Tennessee Tech's hero Saturday night. Guard Harley Swift led the Dues with 22 points.

Scoring high for the losers was Ron Sutton wltli 15 points. The shooting percentages told the story of the game with East Tennessee firing a hot 54.9, Kentucky Tennessee Licks Auburn in the first period, but saw that cut to six just after Intermis sion, 4G-40. Pratt's jumper from the side and a fast-break lay-in by Larry in the first half and at one point the Vols trailed the Tigers by six points. But Tennessee kept connecting from long range and pulled ahead, 29-26, just before Intermission. Auburn tied the score twice in the second half, 55-65 and 57-67, but could never forge Into the lead.

Bobby Croft was Tennessee's leading scorer with 18 points, connecting on six of 10 floor shots and six for 10 at the free throw line. Harm got 17 and Bill Justus 14. Carl Shetler led Auburn with 16, hitting six' of 11 floor shots and four for four at the foul line. Bill Alexander was runnerup with 15. John Mengelt, Auburn's lead I '---V! iiv jUt Yes, Vo Arc Open On By ESCAR THOMPSON Associated Press Writer KNOXVILLE, Term.

(AP) -Bill Harm came through with a 20-foot jump shot and two foul shots in the last two minutes to break'a 57-67 tie and give Tennessee a hard-earned 64-69 basketball victory over Auburn Saturday night. Tennessee's triumph, coppled with Vanderbilt's loss to Ken-lucky, boosted the Volunteers Into second place behind the undefeated Wildcats in the Southeast ern Conference title race. The victory gave Tennessee a 6-2 SEC record and 11-3 over-alL Auburn Is now 4-6 In the league nd 8-7 for the season. Auburn's clinging man-to-man defense gave Tennessee trouble r.lasrftn Dempster Dumpstert containers reasonable rates and fast service on commercial residential trash removal now using packer trucks for a cleaner Clarksville. No more littering the GAS-OIL-TIRES-REPAIRS today for service commercial rates pro rated 41-AN.

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