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The Progress-index, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1968 Mary land Men for Optimistic Despite Opening Loss To FSU By The Associated Press The Maryland Terrapins are slowly but surely on their way back to respectability in Atlantic Coast Conference football, says Coach Bob Ward. The Terps, who didn't win a game last season, lost 24-14 to Florida State last Saturday for a record 13th straight loss and McCullouch Preaching Happiness By BUD McKIRGAN Associated Press Writer DETROIT Earl McCullouch of the Detroit Lions is preaching the gospel of happiness. "How sweet it is" and so on. And the rookie split end who runs 100 yards "in about 9.3" said today the Lions could go all the way.

Certainly there are some believers around the National Football League, particularly the Chicago who limped home Sunday after absorbing a 42-0 whipping at the hands ol the Lions. The oaiont of the victory was perhaps especially surprising in that the week before the Dallas Cowboys had demolished Detroit 59-13. of the Chicago quarter backs, Larry Rakestraw, notec after the defeat, "They've got a different team. Sure, Bill Mun son's an important factor, bu that McCullouch could be mos important. "With him out there, nobody will be able to concentrate too much on the quarterback or other backs." "We've gotten a big boost nov that we've got one victory unde our belts," McCullouch saic "And I think we could go all the Way.

"We've got men in needed positions to make a bonafide effor Mel Farr, Bill Triplett myself. More scoring power." The speedy end, who playec college ball at Southern Califor ilia, earned his high marks Sun day by grabbing two Munso passes. He praised Munson' accurate passing and leader ship. Munson appeared Sundav in his First game with the Liom, after being traded from the Lo Angeles Rams. He missed th Dallas game because of sore chest muscles.

the 15th in 19 games over the ast two seasons. The winless 1967 season was Yard's first at Maryland and he idmits "I thought it would nev- end. It was the toughest year if rny life." But hope springs eternal. "There's definitely more hope or this team than there was ast year after our first game defeat," Ward says. "We have more talent and the kids are Beginning to have faith in themselves." Although disappointed mostly vith pass protection and of- ense, he was pleased with the Terps' defensive effort against 'lorida State.

The Terp defense yielded 488 et yards but gave up one touchdown on an 82-yard pass and anther alter Florida State recovered a fumble on the Maryland .9. Another bright spot was the play of quarterback Alan Pas- rana, back in acaon after miss- ng the 1967 season because of a knee operation. Pastrana competed nine of 21 passes for 103 ards and a touchdown, despite continually rushed and thrown for a total of 53 yards. Ward praised two players Junior tailback John King, a transfer from Alabama Junior College, who gained 86 yards in 17 carries, and soph linebacker Gary Van Sickler. The Terp coach was optimistic on another that of injuries, which hounded him throughout the 1967 season.

"We came through the Flor ida State game without an in jury, the first time I can re member that we ever came ou of any game without at least one casualty," Ward said. Against Syracuse this Saturday, Ward will have at least hree additional players available. One of them, Roland Meritt, the ACC sprint champion, las been sidelined for two weeks with a dislocated finger. Elsewhere in the conference this week, coaching staffs are counting noses to sort out the niured. Surprisingly, most of teams came through Saturday's action in good shape.

Wake Forest has an open date weekend, but Coach Bill Tate ordered a full contact drill his Deacons, who played favored Clemson to a 20-20 dead- ock last weekend. Tate said the week's practice would be important. "We're going to learn block," he said. At Columbia, Paul Dietzel ivorked his South Carolina nmecocks on power plays inside the 10-yard line. In their 14-7 loss to Duke Saturday night, Gamecocks got inside the Blue Devil 20 on four occasions but couldn't score.

Duke, meantime, began preparing for the weekend game against Michigan. Asked if he would start rookie quarterback Leo Hart, who completed 11 of 14 passes in the first half against South Carolina, Coach Tom Harp said, "It would be a gross miscalculation of justice" if Hart didn't start against the Wolverines. North Carolina State, Virginia, Clemson and North Carolina took things comparatively- easy, but Coach Frank Howard gave his Clemson squad a tongue lashing for what he said was their failure to "hit hard" in the Wake Forest game. The Tigers play Georgia In Athens Saturday. Bowling Roundup BANTAM DUCKl'IXS Margaret Brown had high game and set for girls of 103 and 284 the Laurel Hill Bantam Duckpln League, and Scott Nugent with llj and Gary Farley with 305 led the standing: Colonial Heights Optimists, 7-2; Shorty's Tastee I-recz.

5-4; Petersburg Tire, Colonial Heights Laundry and Citizens Heine Insurance, 4-5; J. T. Morriss 3-6. POST 284, LEGION John Williams with a 218 game, and Bill Gentry with a 575 set had high scores on opening night in the Colonial Heights Post 284, American Legion, Tcnpin League. Team highs went tc White with a 746 game, and McGonlgal with a 1,927 set.

The standing: McGoniga). Meade and Humphries, 3-1; Founlaine, Titmus and Johnson, 2-2; Underbill. White and Wray. 1-3. I'ltlXTKHS LEAGOB Joe Morris with a 170 gamt and 64 set had high scores for women he Petersburg Printers League, ami arry Oliver with ISO.

and Jim Dy. on with 514 led the men. SATL'IMIAV MTK MIXED Com Kanes 1 182-493 scries and Robert Tiimey's 19S-541 set lecj jowlers of the Saturday Mte Mixed jeague The Bombers posted high team game of while the Top Cats 2,159 led all team series. Standing: Little Spins, 8-0; Top Cats, 7-1; Uoir.licrs, 6-2; Hascals, 4-J; Four Stoogers, 3-5; Spiders, 3-3; Team No. 5, 1-7; Kight Balls, 0-8.

New Mountaineer Fieldhouse Work progresses on the new West Virginia University field- house at Morgantown. it will be the home of the university's basketball team and will seat 15,000 fans. It may be ready for the "69-70 season but its at- ficial opening is set for the first game of the '70-71 season when West Virginia meets Kentucky. (AP WIREPHOTO) Owner Of Damascus Okays Invitational Run LAUREL, Md. (AP) The owner of Damascus accepted an invitation today to compete in the Washington, D.C.

International, setting up a possible rubber match with Dr. Fager for American Horse of the Year honors. Laurel Race Course, site of the $150,000 International on Nov. 11, announced the acceptance by Thomas Bancroft, husband of Edith W. Bancroft, owner of Damascus.

Dr. Fager, who has split four meetings with Damascus during the past two years, also was invited by the American Selection Board to represent the United States against foreign entries in the turf race. John Nerud, trainer of Dr. part owner and Fager. who has 9 8th Anniversary Special Compare the firmness and comfort with mattresses selling for much more i complained that Damascus needs his stablemate Hedevar as a pacesetter to kill off the opposition, didn't readily accept the bid.

After the selection board of racing writers rejected Nerud's conditional acceptance that Dr. Fager wouldn't run on a soft said he would withhold his decision for the time being. Under the conditions for the International, each 4-year-old colt would carry 127 pounds. Golfers Swing Around World WASHINGTON Golf, onetime sport of kings, is now played by 15 million enthusiasts from Australia to Zambia. More than half the world's golfers are in the United States where the golfing explosion has been triggered by more leisure time, higher incomes and earlier retirement.

The nation's 9,000 golf courses collectively cover an area larger than the entire state of Rhode Island, the National Geographic Society says. Many housing developments are centered around the golf course. Communities have been known to build the clubhouse first. COURSE Dedicated golfers don't have to leave home to play a quick 18. A new indoor course combines movie screen, color slides, electric eyes and computer.

Players tee off a mat of artificial grass and drive the ball against a golf course scene projected on a screen 17 feet away. The computer calculates distance and yardage, then automatically selects the next slide view toward the green from Russell Inks Pact, Acfmifs To Problem By DAVE O'HARA Associated Press Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) Big Bill Russell, awarded a package Major League Leaders By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MKRCHAXT3 DUCKl'lX Joe Funal with a 163 game and 401 set had high scores in the Merchants Duckpln League, while Her muda Memorial with 620 and lad team highs. The standing: Vcpco Stars, 9--! Bermuda, S-4; Pepsi Cola, 7-5; Gales uel, 6-6; Tastee Freez and Tom Peanuts, 3-9. FRIDAY NIGHT LA1HKS Cora Kanes rolled a 457 series am Frances Jones posted a 166 game to pace bowlers of the Friday Nile Ln dies Ten Pin League. Team high were rolled by Team No.

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3. 5-3; Elmo's. 3-3; Team No. 2 5-3; Team No. 4-4: Leete Tire.

4-' Team No. 1, 2-6; Team No. 1-7. Rigney Signs New Contract With Angels ANAHEIM (AP) Bill Rigney is sticking with the slumping California Angels, and with his longest contract since the American League club was formed in 1961 with Rigney as field manager. The 50-year-old skipper was rehired Monday.

Informed contract of more than $400,000 to continue as player-coach of the Boston Celtics the next two years, predicts another championship but admits he has one problem. "I have a fat center," Russell said in chiding himself Monday before he signed his contract. Russell, who will be 35 in February, is about 20 pounds over his playing weight of 220 but plans to round into shape quickly. "We open a 12-game exhibition schedule against Atlanta in Salem, Tuesday night," he practice every play games at Combines law prica with famous Siramons quality. Adjusio-Resi inr.erspring coils.

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Lebanese players were so eager to have a course near hilly Beirut that they dynamited fairways out of solid rock, trucked soil from miles away, and flew in special turf from abroad. Signs on golf courses in Zambia and the Congo warn: "Elephants Have the Right of Way" and "Beware of Snakes and Crocodiles." The most unusual and exhausting test of a golfer is claimed by a course near Dhahran, the American oil town in Saudi Arabia. Fairways and roughs are all sand. The "greens" are sand on which oil has been poured. Red balls are used.

The heat is so terrible on the I treeless desert fairways that golfers carry their own water supply to survive all 18 holes DEATH TO BALL STEALER As an organized sport, golf goes back to Roman times when soldiers batted stones around with club-shaped sticks. The game as it is known today was popularized by the Scots in the 15th century. The first balls or "featheries" were handmade leather pouches stuffed with goose feathers The balls were so highly prized that in 1637 a teenager in Banff, Scotland, was hanged for stealing one. Golf baH thieves continue to plague the sport Golfers in India are advised to hire two caddies. "The second, whom you hire for a dime," explains a guidebook, "protects your ball from thieving birds and hungry monkeys who tend to snatch unguarded balls and devour them." BILL RIGNEY sources said he will be paid The a year.

Angels also announced said. "We'll morning and night. That should get us into shape." The Russell, who has led Boston to 10 National Basketball Association championships in 12 years with the club, signed a two-year, no cut contract worked out by his attorney, Morris Kirsner, and Celtics General Manager Red Auerbach. The contract, provides for slightly more than $205,000 a year. Russell received a substantial pay hike for leading the Celtics to the title in his second year as player-coach last spring.

His old contract called for a reported $150,000 a year. Asked about the Celtics' chances for another title this season, the player who revolutionized pro basketball with bis brilliant defensive play said: "We should continue to do business as usual. This is one of our better teams in the last five years. It could be a real good one. With any kind of luck, we should wind up in first place." American League Batting at bats) Yat- trzemslcl.

.290. 93; Yai- trzeraski. S7; Stanley, 87; Tovar. 87. Runs Baited In K.

Harrelson. 109; F. Howard, 105. Hits Campaneris. 172; Tovar, 164.

Doubles B. Robinson, 35; R. Smith, 33. Triples Fregosi, 13; JlcCraw, 12. Home Runs F.

Howard. -43: Horion. 36. Stolen Bases Campaneris, 57: Cardenal. 39.

Pitching (15 Decisioons Me- Lain. 31-6, 1 15-5, .750. strikeouts McLain, McDowell. 271. National League Batting (425 at bats) M.

.333. Beckert. 95; Perez. 93. Runs Batted In McCovey, S.F..

102; B. Williams. 8S. Hits F. Alou.

Atl, 204: Rose. 203. Doubles Brock, St. -16; Bench. 39.

Triples Brock. St. 13; Clemen tc, 11. Home Runs McCovey, S.F., 35: Banks. 32.

Stolen Bases Brock. St. L. 60; Wills, 51. Pitching 115 Decisions) 17-5.

MarlchaL S.F., 26-0: .765. Strikeouts Gibson, St. 257: Jenkins. Chic, 249. Smallest Republic To Compete SAN MARINO Tiny- San Marino is sending five athletes to the Olympic Sieve Staples led the boys of thi Jr -Sr.

Duckpin League with a 131136 series while the girls were pared Mary Landers (103 game) and Lynn Hendrix (274 set). Standing: Athleiio 8-1; Ettrick Legion Post 13s, 5-4; Jimmy's 4-5: Welding, 4-5; Hilltop 3-ti; Ettrick Athletic 3-6. Hart, Burgner: Receive ACC Player Awards GREENSBORO. N. C.

Sophomore quarterback Leo Hart of Duke and junior guard Gray Burgner of Clemson have been named the Atlantic Coast Conference offensive players ot the week. The Atlantic Coast Sportswriters Association made the selections. Hart, from Kinston, N. C. was playing in his first varsity advertising but more for the than the medals.

This is the first time that the world's smallest and most picturesque republic has entered Ihe Olympics outside of nearby Italy. "By this we hope to draw some world attention to San Marini," Luigi Lonfermini, sports and tourism commissioner, the local equivalent of a minister, said today. "We have never had a good opportunity for propaganda in America before." San Marino's budget is kept in the black by revenues from tourism and postage stamp sales. Lonfermini does not expect football game when lie led the Blue Devils to a 14-7 upset over South Carolina last Saturday night in Columbia, S. C.

Hitting on 12 of his first 14 passes, the 6-foot-3, 194-pounder finished the evening with 16 completions, good for 214 ayrds and a touchdown. Burgner replaced Ail-Amerir can Harry Olszewski at the left guard for the Tigers and came up with a near perfect performance for the first time out. He graded tops on 55 of the 61 offensive plays in which he participated. The 6-foot-4. 198-pound junior is from Chattanooga, Tenn.

His blocking was an important factor in Clemson's come-from-behind tie with Wake Forest. Hart did not win the job as starting quarterback for Duke the five men to bring home any Until a week ago, and then by medals. San Marino had 10 ath-1 default when David Trice was letes, including a girl, in the injured. I960 Rome Olympics. Burgner won the lineman But San Marino has bold! award over Henley Carter, plans for the future.

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