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The Columbus Ledger from Columbus, Georgia • 20

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ZO TWE COLUMBUS Ga LEDGER VtD NOV 16 1960 Sale of Athletic Stock The Scoreboard Set to St Louis irm Ss ASSN VOLUME DEALS OR NOVEMBER BREAKING ALL PREVIOUS SALES RECORDS OR NOVEMBER HERE ARE SOME THE REASONS WHY! ihhnm 2 OR 1 SHOE SALE MENS CASUAL SHOES SMOOTH LEATHER OR SUEDES A 4 MENS ELT HATS 999 his toes" answered See the new 1961 BOATS CHARGE IT AT WITH YOUR CARD AT JOHNSON DEALERS ONLY! 0 6 9 9 WRESTLING 99 bi ion 188 A father to make a son "Cut off Ben he introduced Wagman to Mac Beth and received $1250 for his part in the alleged scheme Silber said Wagman phoned him several times to arrange the in troduction Silber and MacBeth were fraternity brothers "He wanted me to introduce him to MacBeth for the purpose of holding down the margin on TAPERED BODY LONG SLIM LINES NEW ALL PATTERNS SIZES 6 TO 18 COMPARE AT 298 UP 9 0 0 i 1191 2 166 Come one come all to your Johnson dealer Nov 17th through the 20th 1 See sleek new hulls in shining new colors See amazing new materials and equipment See thrilling concepts in speed power and styl BOYS SIZES 2'A to 6 YOUTH SIZES to 12 Johnson wortfs Kirgest sellirig out board motor irst 7i quiet dependability ing See all this and more months ahead of the regular public showing So visit your Johnson dealer and bring the whole family Be the first to peek at the wonderful water world of 1961 CHRISTMAS PARADE SPECIAL IDEAL MARCHING SHOE COMPARE AT 895 WIDE OR NARROW BRIMS NEW ALL COLORS STYLES COMPARE AT 895 WARM QUILTED OR ORLON LININGS SHORT OR CARCOAT LENGTHS ORIGINAL PRICES UP TO 1 995 GREEN TAN GOLD GREY IDEAL SCHOOL PANTS LOW CROTCH SLIM LEGS SIZES 6 20 COMPARE AT 498 MANAGER PAUL RICHARDS of the Baltimore Orioles today headed for the American League meeting in Now York with a George Stoner 241 fi 233 224 George Shir houn 223 Harold ra mo ana zih via Sam Adams 214 4 17 17 19 21 2226 34 ViL BOYS NO BELT CORDUROY PANTS iiiiBSIBil POTPOURRI Stephens Melin Set for inales BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mel Melin of Washington State and Harold Stephens of Hardin Simmons the nation's total of fense and passing leaders in ma jor college football play their final games of the season Satur day Chances are neither will be on top when their rivals finish Melin with gains of 1487 yards to show for nine games faces the task of piling up enough yardage to stand off Bill Kilmer of UCLA now fourth with 1340 yards who will have two games to play after Melin is all through HORACE STONEHAM) own er of the San rancisco Giants said Tuesday the Giants are on the verge of signing a Japanese pitcher and third baseman The Japanese players would start with the Giants' Tacoma Wash club in the Pacific Coast League "I can neither spell nor pronounce their names" Stoneham said "But both are exceptional prospects" The Gi ants are currently on a tour of Japan THE ARENA Phone A 2 1238 ORM IT LONG TAIL BOYS SPORT SHIRTS COMPARE AT 425 TAPERED BODY LONG SHIRT TAILS NEW ALL COLORS SIZES outpointed iaani LARGEST EXCLUSIVE MENS AND BOYS STORE IN THIS AREA! Stf THE GREATEST SEA HORSE EVER THE 1961 75! ORMAL SALE of the Kan sas City baseball club io a St Louis syndicate head by investment broker Elliot Stein was scheduled today Probate Judge Robert Dunne ordered the sale Tucs for a reported $35 mil 1 i after an out of court agree I ment had been reached by co executors of the estate of Ar nold Johnson who owned 52 per cent of the club before his death last March 10 Mrs Warren Humes remarried widow of Johnson and the City National bank of co executors of estate had dis agreed what was to be done with stock Mrs Humes wished to retain her stock and the bank wanted it sold to pay $15 mil lion in taxes and debts to John son's estate 4 Logan BY BOB MYERS LOS ANGELES TAP) Con sidering that some of his team mates were only 3 or 4 years old when he started in professional football Ben Agajanian must be regarded as an amazing article Now 41 and a trim 200 pounds" Ben is the place kicking specialist for the Los Angeles Chargers of the American ootball League He is the oldest player in pro ranks in the country and in his 18 years he has played in every major and bush league in the US Aggie shrugged off reports he might retire "Quit? having too much fun" he said Tuesday His greatest years in widely separated stretches were with the New York Giants in 1950 51 52 and 1955 56 57 and part of 1958 The Philadelphia Eagles Wash ington Redskins the Rams and the Los Angeles Dons of the old All America Conference Pitts burgh the Hollywood Bears (1942) Agajanian bas played for the best He decided early that he would last longer as a kicking specialist This year Aggie has kicked six field goals His three field goals one for 46 yartjs beat the Denver Broncos He lost all but the little toe of his right kicking foot in a freight elevator accident in 1941 Today he can joke about such a tragedy once asked him how placekicker out of his new three year contract in hispocket from the Baltimore Ori oles Richard named AL Mana ger of the Year was reportedly to have inked for $45000 a year and five cents a head for every person over 900000 attending Or ioles home games each year JIMMY BROWN is in his ac customed spot ground gaining leader of the National ootball League The former Syracuse star enjoyed the best day of th season Sunday when he clip ped off 173 yards on 28 car ries to boost his season's total to 694 yards on 123 carries for an average of 56 yards JIMMY TAYLOR of the Green Bay Packers who led a week ago has gained 661 yards on 143 attempts for a 46 average THE BOSTON RED Sox to day announced that coaches Bil ly Herman Sal Maglie and Rudy York have been signed for the 1961 season A TEAM RUSSIAN ping pong experts trounced a group of American stars Tuesday night in Baltimore and confidently predicted that the Soviet Union would lead the world in table tennis TONIGHT ALL STAR 393 yards rushing for a 52 yard average and has gone over for three touchdowns And he has kicked 8 points after touchdown out of 9 at tempts for a scoring total of 56 more than the rest of the Auburn team combined Despite his success Dyas is modest almost shy When a mixup in records made it ap pear that he had broken the career field goal records earlier than he did it was Dyas him self who corrected it Also A Scholar Scholastically he's as good as he is" on the football field the fourth ranking student in the school of science and literature and No 1 among those taking pre med His grade average is just shy of After he graduates next month Dyas plans to enter Medical college perhaps at Tu lane or the University of Ala bama But if he gets an offer from a pro foolbait team with a good medical school in its home town he'll consider that Other Southeastern Confer ence coaches have learned to respect him Said Paul (Bear) Bryant of Alabama is probably the greatest football player in America 2 OR 1 SHOE SALE MENS DRESS SHOES foolball games" Silber told the court "He told me most states lune laws about it and not to worry this one probably didn't have On Sept 23 the day before the game Wagman gave him $1250 and he and Wagman picked up MacBeth and drove him to a dark residential street Silber testified There Wagman gave MacBeth the $1500 he said MacBeth 21 a senior from Pen sacola told lorida Coach Ray Graves and university officials he had been approached and they ad vised him to play along with the scheme He said he was given the money to see that lorida defeated SU by less than 13 points GAINESVILLE la (UPD ormer University of lorida stu dent Philip Silber testified Tues day he was present Sept 23 when Aaron Wagman handed lorida fullback Jon MacBeth $1500 to fix the lorida lorida State football game Silber said MacBeth looked at the fifteen 100 dollar bills and asked "Is this Wagman said jokingly just mo nopoly Silber told a six man circuit court jury Wagman 27 of New Ybrk is on trial for bribery Silber 19 also of New York pleaded guilty Mon day to conspiring to bribe and is awaiting sentence Silber the first witness testified MENS JACKETS WARM QUILT LINING BUTTON CU SLEEVE IDEAL WORK JACKET COMPARE AT 1298 MENS IVY or CONTINENTAL CORDUROY PANTS WITH OR WITHOUT BELT LOOPS SLIM LEGS LOW CROTCH GREY TAN GREEN LENGTH ALTERATIONS REE WAIST SIZES 28 38 COMPARE AT 695 jim Kemson 2RiPpy Green i58u i a i ikhi nil mi i Ont Johnny Morris 166 knocked out Oscar Burton IV 36 23 21 21 19 18 14 6 AVIN BI CITY TOURNEY Here arc the members of the Columbus Boys Club football team winners Tuesday night over South Columbus Boys Club 20 6 in the Bi City tournament title game ront row left to' right are Kenneth Beatty Jimmy Wright Don Keebile Milton Powell Jerry Arwood Johnnv Bran non Mickey Bentley Gordon Griffin Billy Rogers Don Chaffee and Janies Phillip Second 'row are Stanley Stevens Jimmy Smith Joe Plemmons Robin 'iAi BY REX THOMAS AUBURN Ala OPi The night before he set a new collegiate field goal record big Ed Dyas disappeared from the Auburn campus Spectators at a high school football game spotted him later the evening surrounded by seven small boys he had round ed up and taken to the game as his guests typical of the studious 20 year old pre medieal student whose spectacular performance on the gridiron against Georgia last Saturday won him acclaim as the Associated of the The 205 pound fullback from Mobile Ala kicked three field goals to give the Tigers a 9 6 victory over the growling Geor gia Bulldogs and establish a new national record for the most field goals in a college 16 Sure ooted Dyas Sure footed Dyas has booted 12 of them this year another collegiate record and has man aged to put the ball through the goal posts for a 3 point score at least once in each of Auburn's eight games Despite his kicking accuracy the mild mannered gridiron who will finish college 20000 MILE WRITTEN GUARANTEE RETREADS ullcopped with Dixiecop Premium Aircraft Rubber GOODWEAR TIRE COMPANY ISK TIRE DISTRIBUTOR 2517 Cusseta Rd MU 9 2123 Central 'C' Club Meeting Tonight The Central Alumni Chib will hold a meeting tonight at the Central Gym in Phenix City A film of the Georgia Auburn game will be shown and refresh ments will lie served LONG TAIL ORM IT MENS SPORT SHIRTS lMnnTM no ifdfc LOAERS OR LACE UPS ALSO CHUKKA BOOTS SIZES 6'A 2 WIDTHS IRST PAIR ONLY CLEARANCE AMOUS BRAND BOYS ALL JACKETS 1 5' 'U''1 CT cJa Ledger Sports Photo by Harvey Atkins Wells Harold Hagler Johnny Hurst Ronnie Beasley Doyle Allen Larry Hill James Powers and Pat Dona hue Third row are Bobby Johnston Joe Gibbs Wil ford Whatley Bob McGeehee Dennis Everton Allen Owens Jack Hood Butch Jones Douglas Hodges Ronnie Jones and Danny Morris Pictured behind the team are coaches John Collins left and Horace Claridy Preven in use for a full year Eight great new features for longer life and even bet ter performance that add suH mere to your boating pleasure ull 75 hp at only 4500 rpen Speedw rf over 40 mph on merry bon us Ultraquiet conetnsetion Key witch eko tric starting Automatic choke all gear shift forward neutral reverse seven other new 1961 Sea Horse from 3 hp to 75 hp each one made meet a paructaar power need! io Pa John: 1 1OIK joey Giamnra i aihoun Detroi Agajanian Has to Be Amazing Pro Player zvn" atCOND PAIR PAIR JL V7 ONLY (2 PAIRS ONLY 1195) LACE UPS OR LOAERS BLACKS BROWNS AMOUS BRAND NAME SIZES 6'A to 12 MANY WIDTHS IRST SECOND PAIR yVD PAIR OR Xtfal ONLY (2 PAIRS ONLY $1395) Six Man Tag' Match Slated BIG ED DYAS IS SHY SCHOLAR WHO IS WRECKER ON GRIDIRON NATIONAL BASKETBALL Results Detroit 11ft lincton itd nt Cincinnati 124 Philadelphia 115 Los Angeles 123 New York 108 Schedule St Louis at Boston Cincinnati at Syracuse Thiladelphia at Detroit ED DYAS in 3 1 3 essentially a field goal specialist Although an injured knee kept him out of except for field goal and extra point kick for the first three games Illis season Dyas has gained Braddock IV LO ou ipo imed )IT mu A NG outnoi lgs Angeies io I A JA LA HN Pittsburgh 159 Detroit Pro Hockey NATION HOCKEY LEAGUE Results Detroit 3 Chicago 2 Schedule Detroit at Toronto Boston at New York Pro Basketball WHITE BUCK BLACK SHOES Silber estifies He Was Present When Wagman Tried to Bribe Jon VILLAGE CLASSIC illage Bowling Center Pinbusfers Pickups Village Beauty Salon Village Bowling Center Sullivan Drugs Kmgpms Wolverines liers Wholesale CigInc Tllpcdav Pinbusters 4 Pickups 0 Vil lage Beauty Salon 4 Wolverines 0 Vil laxe uowung uenier 4 tiers rung pins 3 Wholesale Cig Inc 1 i Top Ten Games Hnii Jismwr am Shines 22fi: Jatyips Cal Harold Reynolds 221 Evan 214 oweiaon Driggs 215 Top Ten Series Phil Chamberlain 641 Evan Holland 633 George Stoner 622 jack Walsh 616 Sam Adorns 601 Otto Jones 591 James Calhoun 590 Edward Burkhart 582 John Nielson 574 Charles Taylor 799 SIZES 4 12 4 SIZES 14 20 Here Tonight Three all star wrestling bouts are slated for Valley wrestling fans tonight at the ront Sticet Arena starting at 8:30 Big Dan Miller former football star at Ohio State University and also inter collegiate amateur wrestling champion goes in to main event a six man tag team match Miller who weighs 240 pounds and is from Columbus will have as his teammates Tiny Evans 275 New York and Chief Little Eagle popular Indian wrestler Chief Little Eagle is from Still water Okla and weighs 230 pounds This will be the first local match for the Osage Indian in several months and it is expected that he will receive a warm wel come from his many Columbus wrestling fans Opposition Slate reddy Blassie Jack O'Riclly and Pretty Boy Nelson will fur nish the opposition for the popu lar trio in the tag match Blassie 230 St Louis will con tain his team Miller will captain the opposing team O'Rielly who is from Australia and weighs 235 and Nelson 235 from lampa lorida with Blassie are expected to be a hard team to beat but that is just what Miller claims he and his team will do when the six gladiators get together Promoter red Ward said he expects the six man tag team match to be the most excii match of the year including me one held here two weeks ago which kept the fans on their toes all of the way The bout is slated for the best two of three falls with a one hour time limit ight Results BOSTON Toin MoNecIev 198 vi Boise TTCPi I Buffalo Vhite Ph DETRO nocked LAK 8 4 WWW v' 'if AY i Thursday through Sunday a XaAx Ear' fife J99 ii i i i 00 'TJ Ok Atfl K99 Q99 "99 31 yyl x' 1 I XOw I 1 'll i 1 1 1 i kT 4 4 "A igsn iX a 3 Iff I mi'WHWB kl lJVXlHKi30 WTW WJ JJIM VADk SSS1 V4LIN IWffiTOMWMWJk P3T S3Brr7 MmiMi HI MIMIBHIVB 'M'lnwnuil WMH CWWimr rvnxwrrr ml www vi 1 I wu ja an nwj a an a a ww a ww mm an naa a waa a wm naaaa mjwmi i wa wm a ww I 11 llw A Mil wrestiM 1 i.

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