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13. 194 Cnn SnrtLtr! Two In Row 'Punchless' Machen Moves In On Title New York (P. Without Giardello Defends Title Against Garter Monday Hardin, Hayy Deny iCoker Stars- Resignation Report (Trojans Beaten' 49crs Soek Longest Win Streak In Two Seasons Giardello. who won the title throwing a punch, veteran Eddie Machen has moved into a possible title fight with Ernie Terrell for the World Boxing Association's vacant heavyweight cham Decemlicr 7, 19t3, in Atlantic City, X. with a surprise vic Petroit vP.The San Fran- forts, a 14-3 loss to Baltimore Raleish, C.

Pete Cokef, a junior transfer from Dart mouth, scored 22 point ajytf collected 15 rebounds Saturrtoy nisht t0 lead C. State to a 69 interactional basketball victory over Southern California. Coker, a 6-5 formard. scored tory over Dick Tisor of Nigeria. cisco 49ers will be trying to put has fousht only twice since, both two weeks ago and a convincing 28 7 defeat of Los Angeles last weekend.

times winning nontitle fights from Rocky Rivero. By Ralph Bernstein Philadelphia V. More than a year since he won the middleweight titie, Joey Giardello makes his first defense Monday night. The 34 year-old champion risks the crown he fought 15 years to acquire against Ruben Carter, a hard punching rater-son, N. negro seven years his junior.

There will be no Annapolis, Md. Ai Navy football roaih Wayne Hardin and Naval Academy athletic officials yesterday jointly denied earlier reports that he has been fired or has resigned. They said his five-year contract, signed last January, is still under re negotiation and expressed hope it could be worked out to the satisfaction of both parties. "Both of us want to do a little horse trading, and we'll talk it out," Capt. William S.

Busik, director of athletics, said. The Lions still are nursing In all, he has Inrn to the 1 10 of the Wolfpark's first "ll slim hopes of getting into the i fisht will do $150,000 or better. Giardello of nearby Cherry Hill, X. earns 60 per cent of the gross, while Carter receives a flat $12,500 for his effort. The match brings up the oldest bromide in sports youth vs.

experience. Carter has had 24 fights. He's won 20 and lost 4, knocking out 13 of his victims. The No. 3-ranked middle-weight, Carter last December 20 knocked out welterweight champion Emile Griffith in 2:13 of the first round in an overthe-weight match.

ring wars 129 times, won 95, lost 22, and fought 11 draws. He was involved in one no decision National Football League's runner-up bowl. To make it, they must beat the 49ers while both Green Bay and Minnesota lose. points as State raced ahead for keeps in the early momenta of the game. It was the third straight victory for Press Mara-vich, who took over State's coaching chores after Everett Case retired last Monday.

Coach Jack Christiansen will television for the scheduled 15-rounder at Convention Hall. bout. The champion is not considered a knockout artist. He's had but 32 in his 16 year career. pionship.

Tony Maceroni of Providence, R.I., chairman of the WBA's rankings committee, said Friday the boxing body will recognize the winner of a Machen-Terrell fight as champion. And there are promoters in Chicago, Houston, Miami and San Francisco willing to put it on, said big Julie Isaacson, the manager of Terrell. The towering Philadelphia fighter is No. 1 on the WBA's top 10 list. The latest switch in the WBA's program to try and find a successor for Cassius Promoter Jimmy Riggio has scaled the house for a gross and predicts the start the same young backfield that sparkled against Los Angeles.

Rookie Dave Kopay and Gary Lewis will be the running backs, with veterans John Bro- Christmas Specials together two straight victories for the first time in two seasons Sunday when they visit the Detroit Lions. The improving 49ors are coming off two of their better ef- Soquel Grapplers Lose To Seaside Soquel High's wrestlers were beaten by Seaside in their first Monterey Bay League match, 41-16, in the losers' gym Friday afternoon. Dean McCreary moved up from the 138 to 145 pound division to defeat Dyer of Seaside 12-0. Charles Crompton maintained an undefeated record by pinning Mozal in the 154 pound class. John Pavlovich defeated Maxwell of Seaside, 3-2, in the 138 division, while Perry Keen pinned Bloomer for his fourth win in the 175 pound class.

In other action, Scott Duncan (95) was pinned by Dansby, Paul Planton (103) was pinned by Enders, Wes Leeper (112) was pinned by Harvey. Championship Fever Strikes In Charger Training Camp 13 games with the Chiefs and Clay, the champion it stripped of recognition, was made because Cleveland Williams was shot in a scuffle Gillman would like to make it 12 out of 14. "We've never had anything but tough, hard-fought games with the Chiefs. It's such fine with police in Houston re cently. This knocked Williams out die at quarterback and Bernie Casey at flanker.

The rugged defensive unit that held Baltimore to 49 yards rushing and Los Angeles to 15 will be intact against the Lions as both teams play their last game of the regular season. The Lions, 6-5-2 on the season compared to San Francisco's 4-9, boast one of the NFL's toughest defenses with Alex Karras and 300-pound Roger Brown anchoring the defensive front four. Milt Plum, suffering through an erratic year at quarterback, had a fine day last Sunday as the Lions knocked off Baltimore 31-14. Detroit also features a topflight corps of pass receivers in veterans Gail Cogdill, Terry Barr and Jim Gibbons. of a January fight with Ter rell for the WBA's football and our people come up to the kickoffs so beautifully that it's a pleasure as well as Ill great challenge to play a Machen lost to Floyd Pat team the caliber of the Chiefs," terson in Sweden last July, Just Arrived a huge stock of golf equipment Gillman said.

San Diego, Calif. (tfi Championship fever appears to be developing in the training camp of the San Diego Chargers, but the symptoms so far are mild. The Chargers, who already have the American Football League's western division title, meet the Kansas City Chiefs here Sunday and have one game remaining with Oakland before the championship bout, Dec. 26. They're taking one game at a time, but even coach Sid Gill-man appeared outimistic about his team's chances to repeat as league champions.

"Our people are doing a lot of things real well right now," Gillman said. "They're practicing well an dthey're executing well." The Chargers have won 11 of "We want the fight made Charger fullback Keith Lin coln, who starred in last year's in January. The winner is to fight the winner of the championship game, indicated the team is ready to do it again. George Chuvalo-Floyd Pat A FOOTBALL FAMILY Louisville, Ky. W) The foot terson fight scheduled for to give the Sportsman's Shop the largest supply of golf equipment in the Monterey Bay area.

You'll find everything from starter sets to multi-power, pro-quality sets now on hand. New York Jan. 29, or Feb. ball picture at Male High School or whoever the WBA desig resembled a family album nates," said Maceroni. Baylor's Don Trull set several "I think we're just starting to reach our peak.

Our defense has been fantastic, our passing is there and the last two games our rushing went better. I think we might put it all together for the championship game." "We've got to get ready for it, There was Coach Charlie Kuhn and the coach's younger brother, Dave, an assistant coach; son, Chuck, a reserve quarterback, passing records last season and only one out of every 26 passes Former infielder Nap Reyes now scouts for the Milwaukee Braves. ir'i riSlSj'il f'i iijJjUbLtAllw and nephew, Paul, a fullback was intercepted. we can't let up," Lincoln said. Gillman revealed that quarter back Tobin Rote, who is retir Kroydon $57.00 matched set.

Chrome plated, PAUL HARNEY ZZ? Signature. $68.00 matched set by Kroydon. BOBROSBURG EE. 5 IRONS Chrome plated, ing this year, will start in the Millionaire Horse Kelso Has Fan Clubs More Loyal Than Dodgers game with the Chiefs. Sunday has been declared $44.95 $54.95 $64.95 'Tobin Rote Day" at San Di 7 IRONS Swing balanced, ego's Balboa Stadium and it will cane fibres and, on race days, $90.00 professional matched Kroydon set.

PAUL HARNEY S3 be the last home appearance for the 36-year-old veteran. rates not only a yellow ribbon 8 IRONS in his hair but an understudy. John Hadl, the starting quar Without Fail, a colt of the same terback for the past seven dark brown coloring, gets to do 3 Editor's note Kelso, the most famous race horse since Man o' War, has been Horse of the Year five times, hat never been beaten at two miles and almost certainly will win over $2 million. Along with that includes a stand in, a sweetheart, fan clubs and a following more loyal than Dodger rooters. games, asked Gillman to put Rote in.

the Walter Mitty bit in the stall with the five-time Horse of think of punishing the sometimes temperamental star of Bohemia Stables than he would of igniting his backyard barbecue with his bankbook. Sired in old Kentucky, Kelso was born in the spring of 1957 on Mrs. duPont's Woodstock Farm in Chesapeake City, Md. He is the Son of Your Host, an obscure California sprinter who courageously managed to stand at stud after breaking a leg, and the duPont mare Mid of "This was Hadl's suggestion, Laminated Walnut Heads, sporting, whinnying, breezing, galloping, pounding down a darkened track before a deserted grandstand. This is the world as it unfolds itself each day to Kelso, the only millionaire in the land who gets up with the birds.

It is a world where he is lavishly loved and awesomely respected, a world where people regularly put their money where their mouth is. It is a world he has come to dominate as has the Year gold plaque on the Signature matched $40.00 set by Kroydon. nrni i leather and I hope Tobin has the great est day of his life," Gillman said. door, posing prettily for the tourists while the star gets his $29.95 DUD KvJOuUKVjr 3 WOODS grips rest. Too precious to be entrusted to the capricious company of Soquel Tops other horses, Kelso leads a lone ly life, relieved only by the con Flight, a high-born filly whose daddy was Count Fleet, the stant devotion of Charlie, a lop-sided stable dog of depressingly Triple Crown winner, and whose grandfather was Man o' War.

Kroydon professional $50.00 matched set. Dark walnut, laminated heads. PAUL HARNEY "per 3woooS $39.95 Kroydon professional $65.00 matched set. Hand rubbed Walnut Heads, PAUL HARNEY handles 4 WOODS $49.95 Kroydon Power-zone matched $60.00 set of 2 woods, 5 ironi FRED HAWKINS $49.95 diverse pedigree, who sleep Track legend, which is a tout's Ry Hugh Mulligan Laurel, Md. kV.

Breakfast time in Shed Row. Picture it, if you will. Luster of starlight on the frost-covered stable roofs, soft as the sheen of fine old pewter. Steam rising from the freshly turned straw bedding. Grooms going about their rounds in the saffron glow of an electric heater, hauling water, pitching hay, straining under a sack of feed.

Trainers deep in the recesses of each night in his stall and barks belligerently at all who eye view of history, has it that the yearling crop of four fillies venture close. no horse since Man o' War. There are those among his frantic followers who would consider him greater than the fabled Big Red. Like comparing Dempsey and Louis, or Jones and Palmer, arguments of this sort tend to be more emotional than enlightening, largely because time and changing circumstance have rendered the conditions of competition pretty much irrelevant. and two small, scraggly colts was so unimpressive that year SC Cardlets In Tourney By Bill Lovejoy Sentinel Sports Writer Salinas.

With a downpour of points in the fourth period, the Soquel Squires whipped the Santa Cruz Cardlets, 5342, in the Salinas Lightweight tournament Saturday night. Santa Cruz also lost Friday night at the hands of the Gil- I Vfrl'Hil'fcfcUgL-J $29.95 Now Available: 3 Kroydon Chrome Plated Matched Irons, Kroydon Wood and Bag ONLY Man o' War won 20 of his 21 starts, losing only to an upstart named "Upset." Kelso has had 56 races, won 36, placed second 12 times, been third never, and out of the money only 8 times. at Woodstock that is was decided as an economy measure to geld the two colts and train them along with the fillies. Kelso made his debut September 4, 1959, at Atlantic City, N.J., lining up against a field of 12 maidens, horses that had never won a race, for a purse of $1980. Hp romped home by a length and a quarter, paying $14.

It was a historic day. Never again would he win as little or pay as much. As a 3 year-old, Kelso missed the mass adulation that comes with the Triple Crown events. He was munching oats in a barn at Monmouth Park when Vene- a stall fussing over a leg wrapping, a poultice or a liniment rub. Jockeys, diminutive and determined, bent over their coffee mugs and form sheets at the crowded counter in the track kitchen.

Railbirds silhouetted against the slow breaking dawn, timing the workout gallops in shivering silence. There is beauty here, too, as well as the boisterous business of making one horse go faster than the other. Now seven years old, going on eight, Kelso was thought to be on the verge of retirement when he finished next to last in Los Angeles this summer, then ran 15 lengths behind Gun Bow in the Brooklyn nandicap. lie confounded the doom sayers by coming on to break a track record at Saratoga, break his own two-mile mark at Aqueduct and set a new American record for the milc-and-a half at Laurel. If he runs again, he is sure to be the first $2-million horse.

If he retires, he will deprive jockeys of their permanent alibi for failure. "Kelso was just too good for us," sighed the Japanese jockey after the International, with never a care for the nine other horses that finished i On the face of it, Man o' War 'would seem to have the decided roy Ponies, 61-41. High point man for Soquel was Rill Thompson who tore up the court for 14 buckets bringing his total for the tourney to AJAY GOLF CARTS edge; except that Kelso has carried top weight more often over long distances against wave after wave of the finest available handicap horses. A few weeka after he won the International "tf New Morning mists rising from the infield crass. Ground fog 30.

Hot hopper for Santa Cruz was Everett Yee who hit for 14 field goals. He grossed 35 points for his labors in the tournament. Soquel used an effective full court press to stymie the Card-let attack. Squire coach Floyd Slyder shrouding the tote hoard inhere at Laurel race course, ti a Way was posing for the ghostly garb. Dew glistening on against a field that included the photographers after the Ken-the turf course, iridescent gems formidable Gun Bow and some jtucky Derby, and he didn't get to be dispersed by the first of the world's best horses, the to see Bally Ache win the flying hoofs.

And everywhere great gelding was named Horse I Preakness. or Celtic Ash the; in front of him. the sounds of dogs harking, ra- of the Year for the fifth straight Belmont. All three would have dios blaring and horses stirring, time. No other horse ever won i cause to remember him.

He said, "The entire team was very good on the whole, there were reallv no outstanding Individ-' uals." Card mentor Jack Al.ina com honor more than twice. I This means that Kelso, year I sot goif? WOODS ANO r- Kelso has got to the point where his only point of reference is himself. Last month as a single star rode over the barns at Laurel, a groom from another stable, faintly reeking of another fine old Kentucky product, made his way down the long row of sheds. He stood in silent awe for a long, long time before the stall with the big gold plaque on the door. "My God." he finally whis won his first start at Monmouth by 10 lengths, his next at Aqueduct by 12.

Then, after a loss in Chicago, he went on to win 11 straight. The streak which won him his first Horse of the Year title as a 3-year-old, included equaling Man o' War's record for the mile-and five-eights and beating Nashua's two-mile mark. More important, in his fourth year, it included a sweep of the Metropolitan, Suburban and mented that his team was killed on rebounds and bad passes. In Friday's encounter, excel- lent outside shooting spelled victory for Gilroy. High point man for Santa Cruz against the Ponies was Steve Ghidinclli with 19.

follow- ed bv Bill Yue with 10 after year, has dominated the best that the American stud book could throw at him in all, some 60,000 thoroughbreds. He has won at every, thing from six furlongs to two miles, on grass, in the mud, in slop six inches deep, toting as much as 138 pounds, to accumulate record lifetime earnings of $1,803,362, topping fiscal field in which Man o' War falls even to make the Special Christmas Golf Set-at a special Christmas once A tmeelh rolling cart, hrd ut, tKyi n.w and rich looking t.aton A lighrwtight comp.ct rl with duf.blo U.tur.i nd iUk I'yl-rig mod.rn ti tomorrow. 814.5 SVV.it.M. Self C.rl, Tubular contiruclion. 10" IDEAl IA0IES' CART JUUt id.

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"Isn't he the most powerful thing you ever saw?" The fart that he was looking at Without Fail only confirms the living legend of Kelso. With an understudy, yet. mmm a half or better, he is probably jviously pulled off. Arraro, the distin N.ckiaut Cnampionahip goal FREE! Sea Our Complete line of MacOregor Coif Sets and Aik About Our Trade-in, Trade-Up Program guished author, commentator and arbiter etegantlamm of all matter pari mutuel who was aboard for 10 of these rides, lays unequivocally, "I have never ridden a better horse the greatest horse that ever lived. At two miles he has never been beaten winning the Jockey Club Gold Cup five straight times a grueling test that only the great Nashua managed to win twice, the second time setting an American record that Kelso has twice since beaten.

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