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fPa.) Times-Mirror, Dec. 11, 1963 Arnold, 12 Others, Honored in State Poll Handicap Stop Star End By DAVE FAY T-M Sports Editor He had just been awakened when he first heard the news. He was resting for last basketball game against Youngsville. Rest is very important to young athletes, especially this onel His mother said that she told him that she had some news for him after she woke him. "I remember he just hung his head, as if waiting for something bad.

When I told him he just looked at Bob mother had just informed him that he had been voted an honorable mention berth on the 1963 Associated Press All- State Football Team. The star end for the Warren Dragons was one of 13 ends across the state picked for either one of the top four teams or an honorable mention spot. quite an honor, and the first time in some years that a Warren County boy has been so honored. More than 100 sportswriters and sportscasters, all members of the Associated Press, picked the top four teams and honorable mentions from over 500 youths nominated from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For Arnold, this is sort of a special award.

Few people, outside of close friends and classmates. realized that the 17-year-old senior is suffering from diabetes. The illness was not discovered until last June, less than three months before football practice got under w'ay. was about ready to throw in the towel when he learned he had Arnold's mother said just after she was told he Dan Parker THE BROADWAY BUGLE Whether the Army could have scored from the two-vard line on fourth down with 12 seconds left in Saturday classic is beside the point. (In points as well as a touchdown would have been needed to give the Cadets victory over Navy.) But Army was at least entitled to a fair chance.

This was denied them when the officials either failed to hear or ignored the Rollie appeal for timeout until the Navy cheering sections deafening roar was stopped, so the signals could be heard. had made the team. She was of the first persons told. Mrs. Arnold recalls how Bol was taken to a doctor in Erie.

was real she said. The doctor proved to have more than just advice about the sickness. cited another case of a boy who was more seriously handicapped than Bob and who is playing she said. (the doctor) provided an inspiration for Bob and that was all he Arnold was a big question mark in the plans of Fred Bell at the start of the season. It was not definitely known whether he could play ball.

Finally the okay came through and he was on his way. he got in shape he played real good ball for Bell said yesterday. good and steady on defense and a fine pass catcher," the head football coach said. Arnold called the defensive signals for the Dragons, played defensive end, linebacker and halfback. Immediately after scoring 16 points in the Dragons' victory over Youngsville last night, Arnold was asked how he felt about receiving the award.

He said he was surprised but Then he stopped for a minute. Tears welled in the eyes and he looked down. After a minute. he looked up and said: I wash my Dad could see this, he always wanted a football player in the father died about a year ago as a result of a heart attack. The honor student and three- year-letterman is undecided about which college to attend although he said he tends to favor Grove City.

He is also filling out an application for Davidson. And what does this young man who overcame the handicap of diabetes want to be? Why a medical physician, of course. the BOB ARNOLD ABOUT TO SCORE and the handicap never showed Tommy McDonald, Philadelphia star and his Patrice became parents of a daughter at the very hour Jerry Waldman purchased the club for $5,500,000 Thursday Stanley Woodward, former sports editor and columnist, is sports director of new radio station WINE of Brookfield In column, I intimated that if Joey Giardello was on his feet at the finish, Dick Tiger would lose the title. Well, what happened. The decision seemed fair enough and a return bout is now in order.

Billy Pickett, the boxer who was fined heavily and ordered out of England after attacking a minor girl, has been sent packing by his American manager, A1 Bachman If Floyd comeback campaign been ruined by his hilarious exhibition of pratt falls on skis in Sweden, nothing can kill it. A boxing manager who saw his performance on a TV program Thursday night, said Floyd wind up with glass ankles to go along with his china chin, it will be the eighth wonder of the Harry Cohen of Oakland, bi other of ex-fighter Mickey Cohen, Los Angeles hood, now serving a 15-year sentence for income tax evasion in Atlanta Federal Prison, where he was savagely beaten by a fellow prisoner several months ago, is entreating friends to write Attorney General Robert Kennedy, urging clemency for Mickey whose health, he says, has been seriously affected by the prison attack. Cohen was lined in addition to his jail sentence Radio Station WPTR of Albany is organizing 'a 1 to Goose Bay, Labrador, for its basketball team and staff of entertainers to supply cheer for the servicemen, with the Air Force providing transportation. The 63 All-State Team French Dressing In Three Rivers, Quebec, promoter Regis Levesque introduced a type of Sunday night entertainment new to this French-speaking province a week ago in the form of a mixed boxing-wrestling show Chic Caldeiwood, 27-year-old British and Empire light-heavyweight champion, jeopardized his promising ring career recently in Selkirk, Scotland, when he took his pound of flesh and bucket of blood with left hooks from a fellow Scot who welshed on a debt, and, along with his revenge, drew a three prison sentence which called for forfeiting his titles and turning in his boxing license Freddie Gilroy, who gave up his British and Empire bantamweight titles because of weight trouble, had to pay promoter Jack Solomons $6,000 to compensate him for promotional losses he suffered through the resultant cancellation of a title defense bout California sportswriters are agitating for the San Francisco Lakers and the Los Angeles Dodgers to change their nicknames to conform to the locale to which they moved long after acquiring them. William Ford, new owner of the Detroit NFL franchise, is the grand nephew of E.

R. Bryant, former father-in-law of Harry Fortesque Wismer, toast of the Titans, who claims he has option to buy back 1,120 shares he sold to Mr. Bryant in 1948 when he was revealed as a stockholder in the Washington Redskins as well as the Lions Don Scott, 265-pound tackle, dropped by the Giants eailiei this season because of high blood pressure is now dishing it out at the Tampa, Steak House as a waiter while studying for his degree at the University of Tampa One of his co-workers at the sirloin salon is Chuck Andrews, a star forward on the Tampa varsity basketball team A dark secret in Harry life will be revealed this week when the Houston Colt 45 home town in Texas will give him a The secret? The name is Throckmorton If Barry Schallenberger, rookie pitcher for Cincinnati, is battered too hard at the training camp Tampa next Spring, his pretty wife, Linda, a nurse at Tampa Hospital, will be close to admin- ster first aid By DAVE LEHERR Associated Press Staff Writer HARRISBURG (API Bill Stetzar was named to the 1963 Associated Press All-Slate Scholastic football team years after his dad. The 6-1, 215 pound tackle from West Scranton was the leading lineman in this year's poll of nearly 100 sportswriters, sportscasters and coaches. His father, Chris, now a mechanic in a plant which manufactures shells for the Army, was a back on the 1940 team, (he second one picked by the AP.

Chris played for Scranton Tech. Meanwhile, a pair of fullbacks, Bill Rettig of Butler and Bob Baxter of Neshamin.v, who boast a combined total of more than 2,200 yards and 183 points, dominated the backfield balloting. Bob Bazlayk, sensational passer, and Mike Condo, speedster halfback from Bald Eagle Area complete the dream backfield. Harvey Colston. leading schoolboy scorer this year with 166 points, just missed first team honors.

Rounding out the team are Bazylak's favorite target, Jim Beirne, and John Zeies of Phoenixville at ends, Tom McGrath of BuUer the other tackle. John Kerns of Altoona and Greg Stine of Philipsburg-Osceola at guard and Craig Heimer of Lock Haven at center. Ail are seniors. Rettig, Butler's picture-painting fullback, was the most valuable player this year, gaining 1,112 yards and scoring 14 touchdowns to lead the Tornadoes to the finals of the Class A A tace. But Butler lost 14-13 to West Mifflin North in the championship game.

His counterpart from the East is Baxter, a left footed kicker who boots extra points as well as he runs touchdowns. The Neshaminy star won three games with his kicking alone besides scoring 14 touchdowns and 15 PATS. Some 500 youngsters were nominated for all state honors this year. First Team Beirne, McKeesport and John Zeles, Phoenixville. Tackles Bill Stetzar, West Scranton and Tom McGrath, Butler.

Kerns, Altoona, and Greg Stine, Philipsburg- Osecola. Heimer, Lock Haven. Quarterback Bob Bazylak, McKeesport. Backs Bill Rettig, Butler; Bob Baxter, Neshaminy, and Mike Condo, Bald Eagle Area. Second Ends Tim Plodinex, Aliquippa and Tom Doman.

Lancaster Catholic; Tackles George Katz- enhach, Philadelphia Roxborough and Craig Stone, Central Dauphin; Guards Bill Shalon- sky, Minersville and Dave Ledger, Canon-McMillian; Center i Home Ashby, Philadelphia Central; Quarterback Dave Stofa, Johnstown Bishop MoCort; Backs Harvey Colston, Middletown; Frank Ryan. Chester St. James and Roger Grimes, Cornwall. Third Ends Gaird Zuazig, Huntingdon and Bob Longo, Baldwin; Tackles Mike Hill. Gov.

Mifflin and Scott Mathieson, Greenville; Guards Tim Heffner. Sinbury and Ted Verlihny, Pittsburgh Catholic; Center Walt Suhy, Aliquippa; Quarterbacks John Pergine, Plymouth-Whitemarsh and om Burger, Lancaster Catholic (tie Backs Chuck Landolfi, Ellwood City; Harry Orszulak, West Mifflin North and Larry Johnson, Corry. Fourth Team Ends Ed Codispot, Butler and Ron Wasilewski, Mount Carmel; Tackles Greg Shelly, Souderton and Frank O'Staffy, Farrell, Guards Hollis Caleb, Coales- viUe and Nick Caramano, Uniontown; Center Jime Huckleberry, Gov. Mifflin; Backs Mel Frye, Altoona; Charlie Banks, Meyersdale; Dan Lucyk, Mahanoy Area; Charles Young, Freeixjrt. Honorable Mention Ends Carlton Chandler.

Chambersburg; Gary Steele, Woodrow Wilson; Dick Beitsch, Rochester; Boh Arnold. Warren; Frank Hare, Central Dauphin. 7 Junko, Trinity; Rich Jakobuvics. West Mifflin North; Irv Wright, Norristown; Larry Goss, Chief Logan; George Daney, Avella; Ernie Schoeneberger, Bethlehem; Jim Barber, Corry. Guards Hilbert, Erie East; Ken Stowall, Harrisburg Harris; Alton Skelly, Fairview; Mike Tomeo, Ellwood City.

Centers Jim Lavrusky, Monaca; Dave Casmay, Phoenixville. Quarterbacks Karl Tribelhorn. West Mifflin North; A1 Katsock, Plains; Gary Forte, Tunkhannoek. Scott, Greenville; Bennet Gregory, Uniontown; Butch Griffith, Upper Merion; Norris Vactor, Washington; Mickey Depp, Punxsutawney; Ken Creamer, Clarks-Summit; Barry Werkheiser, Wilson Borough; John Mikovich, Girard; Bill Dushnev, Blakely; Mike Raklewicz, Kingston. How It All Got Started By GEORGE A.

SCOTT Editor, Clearfield Progress CLEARFIELD, Pa. was 25 years ago, in Clearfield, that the annual custom of selecting the Associated Press All- State high school football team originated. Clearfield High School was champion of the Western Pennsylvania Football Conference in 1939 and was host to Blythe Township, the eastern conference tit list, in the annual East- West playoff game that was held after 1939 and then the post season contest was abandoned. Herb Good, then the scholastic sports expert for the now- defunct Philadelphia Record and now a sports writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, was one of several sportswriters covering the game and mentioned that he was planning to select an all-state team for the Record. you pick one for he asked the AP staffer covering the game.

It sounded like a good idea. Compared with today's careful screening of players by AP sportswriter Dave Leherr and sports editors of AP member newspapers, selection of that first AP all-state team in 1939 might be considered rather haphazard. The AP staffer, who had been covering the scholastic football all season, talked with coaches on hand for game, consulted with as many sportswriters as possible without conducting a formal poll, and relied on his own knowledge of outstanding players of that year. The first AP all-stale selections were announced Dec. 12, 1939 with this first.team lineup: ends, George Wilkins, Kingston, and Waller Griffith, Pottsville tackles, Mike Jarmoluk, delphia Frankford, and George Gagliardi, Jeannette; guards, George Pavalko, Blythe Township, and Larry Fellicetti, Pittsburgh Carrick; center, Bob Orlando, Erie Strong Vincent; backs, Joe Andrejco and George Cheverko, Hazleton, Bill Miller, Clearfield, and Joe Pasearella, Bradford.

All-star teams are selected on the basis of what the players did, not what they might do later on in college or professional competition. Nonetheless, the caliber of 1 hat first all-slate team was demonstrated by at leasl a half dozen of those selected. Jarmoluk starred at Temple University and later captained the Philadelphia Eagles pro team; Pavalko was a firs! string guard at Villanova; Orlando starred at Colgate; Andrejco and Cheverko, famous paced Fordham University to victories in the early World War II years; Miller was a regular for both Pennsylvania and Princeton due to wartime training and transfers. Memory doesn't recall the post-high school careers of the others. Just as this team may miss a future college star or two, so did the first AP all- state.

Buried in thp honorable mention list that year was one That was Charlie Trippi, who went on to win All-America honors at Georgia and a great career in the National Professional Football League! How do I know all this? I was Ihe AP staffer, then working in Philadelphia bureau, who came to Clearfield to cover a football game and wound up picking the first AP all-state team. 12 Co. Boys Get Honors In District Almost forty per cent of football pi ay ere receiving Region al Honorable Mention awai'ds from District 10 in the 1963 Associated Press All-State football poll are from Warren County. Warren County gridders polled an amazing 37.5 per cent of all positions in the District 10 line-up, announced today. Warren Area High School led in the 'balloting with four representatives.

Northern Area and Sheffield eacli placed three boys in he category while Youngsville placed two. Of the 32 boys cited or honors, 12 were from Warren bounty. Two of the boys selected for legional Honorable Mention hon- ir were strong candidates for state honors. The names of two -bucks, Kui'z of Warren and of Youngsville. turned up the second ballot which voters sed to pick the final teams, i apparently received nough support to remain in con- intion.

Seventeen schools from District were represented. Only one ther school in the district placed many as three boys on the luad and that Oil City. The Warren gridders are all tking the college course. They 'e Kurz, 17-year-old senior, back- eld, Dick Thompson. 16-year-old nior, end; 1 rank Kent, 18-year- senior, guard; and Ken olfe.

16-year-old junior. Representing Sheffield are sen- rs Gerry McGuire, fullback, id Dave Swartzfager. guard, so junior center Frank Lloyd. From Youngsville are Chuck -Tuple, 17-year-old senior quar- ter back, and Phil Baker, 17-year- old senior halfback. Northern Area is reprosented by 'Ross Porter, 17-year-old senior end; Ernie VanHouten.

18-year- old senior fullback, and Al art, 18-year-old senior halfback. Porter has received from Washington Jefferson. Ly- coming and the University of Pittsburgh. The other two ders are undecided about he future. Northern Aera coach Norge Luvison said that Porter has "been one of our finest defensive nel.

Because of a leg injury in his sophomore year he has never i eaehed his full offensive potential. Doing a lot of switching aught have hurt him. He is a good team Luvison called Van Houten "one of the best running fullbacks in the history of Northern Area." Van Houten see too much action on defense. Al Stewart helped us win a lot of ball games in the past three said Luvison. calling him "one of our finest all-around ball players.

quick and takes advantages of any situs Lion Youngsville officials termed Sample "probably the most coachable kid we ve ever seen always giving 100 per cent effort from the start of practice to the finish and from the start of a game until the final gun The officials said that Baker's most outstanding ability was his drive and desire. "If he was 20 pounds heavier he would be the best halfback in the the official said. Both boys plan to attend college, Baker going into electronics and Sample into business. Here is a school-by-school summary of District 10 and other area schools which had boys receiving honors: MEADVILLE: Bob Crispin, Ken Palmiero. SHARPS VILLE: Terry Lipak.

CORRY: Jim Barber, John Butters. FRANKLIN: Terry Snyder. GREENVILLE ST. MICHAEL: Bill Murrin, Mike Oeremuga. GREENVILLE: Jim Cook.

OIL CITY: Al Wal'd, Ted Stoudt, Chuck Venturella. GROVE CITY: Greg Sturgeon, Chuck Chanadet. EVANS CITY: Bill Binder. RANDOLPH: Lee Hoover. McDOWELL: Jim Mosher, Jerry Rife.

ERIE EAST: Gary Dance. REYNOLDS: Paul Smargiasso. KANE: John Kulka. Fred Carrow, Andy Erickson, Bob Bloom quist, Jerry Rook. Dick Weaver.

RIDGWAY; Jim Stanley. End Dick Thompson End Ross Porter Guard Frank Kent Guard Dave Swartzfager Center Frank Lloyd QB Chuck Sample HB Chuck Kurz HB Ken Wolfe Results Hockey NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE No games Tuesday Gaines Detroit at Toronto Chicago at New York Games New York at Montreal Chicago at Boston AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE Results Quebec 6, Pittsburgh 4 Games Providence at Buffalo Springfield at Hershey FB Ernie VanHouten HB Al Stewart HB Phil Baker FB Geny McGuire.