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JL Latins Run the Show i Colts by the New York Jets drew 75377 spectators and a $33 million gate Clark said Commissioner Pete Rozelle agreed that improve on the accommodations weather and success we had in Miami But the owners felt the game had been held two years in an AFL town and should be tried again in an NFL The 80982-capacity Sugar Bowl is the home of the New Orleans Saints The first Super Bowl in the Los Angeles Coliseum and home of the Roms drew 61916 spectators in 1967 or about two-thirds capacity of the huge arena Rozelle said the move for 1970 does not set a pattern for the game and told Clark that Miami remained in the long-range Rozelle added that also think New Orleans is a great site The people there have shown tremendous interest in professional football This also balances out NFL and AFL cities for the four By BILL BRAUCHER Herald Sports Writer -Miami lost-the Super Bowl to New Orleans Wednesday Despite sellout crowds at the Orange Bowl the past two Januarys owners of the 26 American and National Football League teams voted to switch their 1970 championship game to the Sugar Bowl The move carried by a three-quarter vote of the owners in each league meeting at Palm Springs Calif and was a surprise in the sense that earlier polling had favored Miami feel so good It will be a long ride said Miami Mayor Steve Clark of his delega- tion which included City Manager Melvin Reese and Publicity Director Lew Price sentiments will not be shared however by South Floridians who can watch the game on television next Jan 11 without the necessity of paying The takeover of North American horse racing by Latin American jockeys is not new It went into the works a decade ago and has been advancing apace Seldom however has it been so evident as it will be Saturday in the Gulfstream Park Handicap when five of the eight confirmed riders will be talking Spanish to their mounts Panama Latin chief exporter of expert jockeys dominates as usual That country will have three in the saddle with Braulio Baeza on Funny Fellow Sandino Hernandez on Tropic King and Jorge Velasquez on Mr Brogann Puerto Eddie Belmonte will ride Nodouble and Fernando Toro has the mount on Yumbel The only stateside-born riders signed up so far are 19-year-old Craig Perret youngest in the race aboard Petit Due Bobby Nono on Hope and Hank Moreno on Out The Window up to $12 per seat or being confronted with a biacked-out sellout Clark basing his pre-vote presentation on the observation that nothing succeeds like success had been confident the game would return to the Orange Bowl Last 16-7 upset of the NFL Baltimore Twenty years ago you find a Latin rider in these parts with a subpoena But old Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons saw it coming a long time ago One afternoon at Hialeah in the late 1950s we raised the Latin question to Mr Fitz my he said be more Latin riders than Americans before too long The Latins are great riders Sure they have a little trouble with our language at first when giving them instructions and all but they get over that natural horsemen bright and Baeza: A Timely Catch JACK PRICE the doughty midwesterner who went on to big things with Carry Back before establishing his Dorchester Academy colt-training farm at Ocala entered a very mild demurrer quite agree with Mr Fitz that the Latins will take he said But he admitted the Latins were something else American kids get a few winners and their heads swell up and they even come out to work horses- in the morning Central and South American riders are just like the Cubans pouring into this country hungry and work 20 hours a day A lot of American kids that Trainer Elliott Burch had planned to use Manuel Ycaza on Fort Marcy in 100-grander at Gulfstream (before Ycaza was suspended Wednesday) and Burch too was an early booster of the Latins Another was owner Fred Hooper who hired Baeza after the brilliant youngster won 25 per cent of the races run in Panama in a single year had a fellow bring Baeza out to Barn at said Hooper put him on a horse and got a man who spoke Spanish to tell him to go a half-mile in 50 seconds We clocked him in 49 But I said to Chuck Parke my trainer tell the boy the time Let me ask him what he thinks it The New Orleans delegation including representatives from Mayor Victor Schiro to jazz musician Al Hirt made a strong case for the 70000-plus average attendance drawn by the Saints for regular-season games in contrast to 30000-odd averaged by the Dolphins in the Orange Bowl Clark called the argument irrelevant to the Super Bowl game itself and suggested to the owners that you try out a substitute tackle when you have one tried and Clark also found himself in an imbroglio with George Healy Jr publisher of the New Orleans Times-Picayne and chairman of that Super Bowl delegation It started as a news conference with first Healy and then Clark repeating their cases to reporters before results of the vote were known When Healy finished Clark began But Healy remained in the newsroom After opening statements Healy interrupted have a letter from Gov Kirk (Claude Kirk of Florida) saying Miami is a great supporter of professional the publisher told Clark was the attendance in 1966 and reach the attendance of the Clark admitted we have a great diversity of sports and good support for all of them Take the University of Miami football team the letter said pro Healy maintained not talking about the replied Clark talking about the Super was the attendance for the Playoff persisted Healy referring to the NFL runnerup game in Miami that Clark conceded it came between the Orange Bowl and the Super it rained that Healy added you like to see the weather reports of Miami and the rainfall Before Healy could get going on the figures Clark said we interrupt when the New Orleans people gave their report and we would expect them to show us the same That ended the debate but not before Clark added I knew my colleague from New Orleans was going to bring Al Hirt with him I would have brought Jackie Top St Pete Netlcrs Fall ST PETERSBURG (AP) Top-ranking foreign tennis players knocked one another off Wednesday as two top seeds fell in the Invitational tournament No 3 seed Mark Cox of England dropped a 6-1 2-6 6-4 match to Hans-Joachim Plotz of Germany Mike Belkin No 4 seed from Vancouver Canada and defendirg champion lost to Gerald Battrick of England 6-2 6-4 Arthur Ashe No 1 seed from Richmond Va advanced to the third round without taking to the courts He had a first-round by and a second-round default from Ove Bengston who was ill Boxinjj Apent Dios NEW YORK (AP) Lew Burston 74 a manager and international boxing agent for many years died in a hospital Wednesday of a heart attack He had been ill for some time Staff Photos by JOHN WALTHER Arts and Letters (L) Take Back Seat to A1 Haltab Joe Robbie ieomplete mixture Robbie: We Will Realign By BILL BRAUCHER Herald Sports Writer Joe Robbie lost a round Wednesday in Palm Springs Calif when the Super Bowl was moved to New Orleans But the persistent president of the Dolphins predicted he will win the fight for complete realignment of the American and National Football Leagues think going to be realistic realignment meaning a complete mix ture of the leagues as the original merger agreement called Robbie said from Palm Springs Robbie said sentiments in both the AFL and NFL are shifting toward reorganization of pro structure based mainly on geographical locations in the meetings which began Monday and will resume today At the olitset of the talks only Robbie Paul Brown of Cincinnati and Gerald- Phipps of Denver were outspoken advocates of realighment as opposed to interleague play starting in 1970 with each league maintaining separate identity AFL is close to presenting a solid front for said Robbie hope I can come home with such an agreement this weekend Of course specific details will still need to be worked Robbie was over loss of the Super Bowl in the sense that a Dolphin season ticket included an opportunity to buy a seat at the pro championship game while it was held at the Orange Bowl what happened may mean that eventual position as a permanent Super Bowl site has been he added majority support in both leagues was for Miami but the owners relented mainly on the argument that New Orleans deserves to have the game once Robbie added not sure that the Super Bowl leaving us will have that much effect on our season ticket sales I think the victory increased interest in our The Dolphins are running solidly ahead of last comparative season sales According to ticket Turn to Page 2D CoL 3 erby Letters I asked Baeza and he said That sold me I asked Ycaza and I think Ycaza is as good a rider as there is in the world what he thought of Baeza and Ycaza said Mr Hooper he was better than I was in I figured right then I had myself Ycaza Cot the Message NOT a great deal has been made of it but Baeza is the only jockey besides Bill Shoemaker to lead US riders in earnings in the last 11 years Shoemaker was No 1 seven straight years starting in 1958 Baeza grabbed the lead in 1965 and has been on top ever since General emergence of the Latins is no mysterious thing Primarily their size is more conducive to the trade than most North Americans The Latin nutritional level is often low and most natives simply do not grow as large as the North Americans When they do get a chance to make money on a horse Latins try harder because they are hungry- Ycaza tried so hard for years that he was constantly being suspended (one of exquisite ironies is that far more riders are set down for trying than for not trying) This lasted until May 30 1967 when he rode Dr Fager in Garden Jersey Derby Ycaza won but was disqualified and subsequently lost the mount on the 1968 Horse of the Year Manny finally got the message He was not suspended again until 20 months later when Top Knight was disqualified in Bahamas Stakes Feb 5 Wednesday he was set down again but at least the frequency is decreasing Bill Shoemaker By DAVE HOOPER Herald Turf Writer Pelican unheralded A1 Hattab whose name been mentioned in the same breath with Top Knight Drone Beau Brum-mel Dike and Arts and Letters became one of the horses for the 1969 Florida Derby by winning the Fountain of Youth Stakes Wednesday A1 Hattab which means woodchopperin Arabic chopped down 1-2 favorite Arts and Letters by two lengths to pay $920 as third choice of the 16276 in attendance at Gulfstream Park A1 clocking of 1:42 3-5 for the 1 1-16 miles was the fastest Fountain of Youth since 1960 although two seconds slower than the 22-year-old stakes record held by Atomic Power Pacemaking Ad Majora tired to third in the 1 1-16-mile final Florida Derby tuneup three-quarters of a length behind Arts and Letters but four lengths before Beau Brummel Virginia Delegate was another nine lengths farther back in the field reduced to five by the scratching of Immediacy and Funny Singer As so often happens in a small field the supposed horses permitted a longshot to set a ridiculously gate Beau Brummel and Arts and Letters Ad Majora who prefers the first mile best completed three-quarters in 1:12 2-5 when the action finally began to pickup behind him A1 Hattab whom jockey -5f slow pace which brought about a questionable result Ad Majora was allowed to loaf on the lead through fractions of :24 3-5 for a quarter mile and :48 4-5 for a half mile A1 Hattab was next followed by Virginia Dele -Vfe ii ttC Ray Broussard said could have taken the leader at any time moved to Ad Majora at the top of the stretch and found little resistance as he mo ed by to take the lead Once ahead there was little doubt Al Hattab was going to stay there although Arts and Letters rallied pow-erful'y through the stretch But the bid was tardy and does not speak well for the pace judgment of Bill Shoemaker who came 3-000 miles from the West Coast to find a Derby mount After the Fountain of Youth Shoemaker said starter sprang the gate a little quick on us My horse was going forward and backward and really settled down When the gate opened he was leaning backward and we were off bad decided to take back then and let him gallop continued Shoemaker want to rush to the leader early Shoemaker who bumped Jean Cruguet off Arts and Letters asked the Rokeby Stables runner to run from last at the end of the back-stretch Arts and Letters required an eighth of a mile to pick up Turn to Page 8D CoL 3 Diane 3 Tries for Diane Crump is named on three horses Tou Ritzi (first race) Blinking Bulldog (third race) and Zenas (ninth race) on Gulfstream card Barbara Ader a 30-year-old mini-skirted exercise girl is the latest local woman jockey applicant Miss Ader who has exercised horses for 19 years frankly states girls are not fitted to be jockeys either mentally or physically ut since the others are do ing it I might as well At least I have the VERNA LEA FARM owner Gene Goff whose Nodouble is co-favorite at 5-2 with Funny Fellow for 1 '4-mile Gulfstream Park Handicap arrived in Miami from his Fayetteville Ark home Wednesday morning Goff was pleased with apparent liking for Gulfstream displaced in a seven-eighths mile workout in 1:25 2-5 Tuesday morning They Who Lauph Last Lauph Best Broussard Al Haltab strike like poses i 1.