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Bristol Herald Courier from Bristol, Tennessee • 15

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SECTION i SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 3' 1961 At Darlington final Day Pace irst Week Of Drills twisls away from would be 4 is 1 In the afternoon session Wyatt Ladies Golf Tournament I Slated At Country Club Jr i 1 Li A Stuart Leads Pittsburgh Over Cards On Homers Ron Miller and Dick Crouch of the Herald Courier staff are at Darlington today and tomor row to give full coverage of the Southern 500 race and pre race activities Tbe first round of the Holston Hills Invitational Golf Tourna ment ended yesterday with a number of close matches showing up all the ay down the line in the flight play The match between 1 Bill Buch amian and Dr David Stanton in the championship flight proved: to be one of the most exciting of are battling behind Hal McHorris at center Bristol's Country Club will launch its Ladies Championship golf tournament this week with first round matches to be com pleted by Saturday Pairings for the three flights have been made and one of the most exciting tournaments of recent years is expected to be unveiled Hie eventual crown winner will emerge from the cham pionship flight which features eight top flight golfers' Here is the pairing for the championship flight Jean Ox ford vs Dons Hagy Nefl More cock vs Bracey Betty Callahan vs Palsy Wampler Bobby erris vs Ann Worrell irst flight Alma Broyles vs Pinky Worley Julia Gra ham vs Marge Mathesius Dot Oakley vs 1 Nancy Minnick Sara Burleson vs Geneva Bur roughs Second Betty Richards vs June Delaney Nancy Jane Parks vs Suki Beeler Mary Peck Bowman vs Margaret Garlow: rances Gilley vs Betty Robinson Third flight Ruth Green vs Mary Horner Vera Wright vs Jean" McIntyre lorence er ris bye Gwen letting burst of speed to pass five rivals and win first place money of $37506 ANDERSON Washington Redskins end Bill' Andersen dackler Bob reeman of the World Champion Philadelphia Eagles in last professionalexhibition game at International Speedway The highly favored Eagles won the game 17 10 Vandy Has Workouts NASHVILLE Tenn? Sept 1 CoSsich Art Guepe riday called highly successful the Van derbilt Commodores first day of fall practice The Vandys riday for their first day of practice had two workouts haying off scrimmage but doing some heavy blocking fieri cars were permitted to draw for starting positions at the end of the field Another new rule that drivers! must average at least 115 per hour for four laps around die mile and three eighth banked as phalt oval scratched tbiee driv ers whose care were too slow to make the minimum Red Hollingsworth of RossvilleGa whose Chevrolet hit the wall the day when Buchannan took a 1 up decision after being five holes down with six remaming to play Buchanman turned in a sparkling 34 on the back nine which was very instrumental in his being able to make up such a command ing deficit In another very close champion ship match Stuart Ellis barely defeated recent Abingdon Invitational Champion Leo Mor ris on a 1 up score Ellis turned in a birdie on the last hole to a par for Morris to cap the match Second round matches are slat ed to get underway today in all flights Losers in the first round matches of the championship flight will team up in four match es making up the first flight Here are today's championship flight and first flight pairings and tee off times Championship flight Hyatt vs Stuart Ellis and Bill Buchanoan vs Herb Smith: 1:05 pm Herbert Hooper vs Hun ley and Ed Ellison vs Roger Stewart: 1:15 pm irst flight Harold James vs leo Morris and Dave Stanton vs Gordon Poe: 1:25 pm Harold Laiihan vs John Simp kins and Peyton Terry vs Bill Rouse 1:35 pm Broglio in the seventh inning andjatski (7) WP aee (6 5) was charged with his sixth toss in McDaniel 10 6) Stuart 2 18 derisions l(23rd 24th) Stuart had put tlie Pirates ahead 4 0 with his 23rd and 24th home runs of the season In the first inning he blasted a three nm homer off Broglio and in the fourth he added another off Brog ho The Cardinals knocked Pitts burgh starter Harvey Haddix out in the fifth inning when they scored runs after two men were out Two singles a double and a triple accounted for the runs St Louis tied the game at 4 4 in the sixth inning but base run ning mistakes cost two additional runs Carl Sawatski singled a run home but Stan Musial who Carry Back Turns In Top Performance UT Vols Report To all Practice KNOXVILLE Tenn Sept Seventy five Tennessee Vols either scrimmaged passed or punted riday in the first practice sessions of the fall pre paring a 10 game season winch opens here Sept30 against Auburn team reported in as good a shape as we could have asked" said Coach Bowden Wyatt few of the boys were over In the morning session offense and defcnse dummy sessions at three quarter speed were held After the scrimmage: Glenn Glass Mallon aircloth and Bristol Herald Courier BrktolVirginia Tennessean Damascus Walks Over PH Rebels Improving With Play i (Continued' from Page LA) by Bobby Walston That boosted the Eagles final lead to 17 10 The victory was the fourth in a iwCfor Nick Skorich in his first season al the helm of (he Eagles On the other side of the field Bill McPeak new head man of tiie Redskins' saw his tribes men beaten for the fourth lime in a row but1 gained 'satisfaction from the sturdy battle they waged Norman Snead the Redskins' highly publicized rookie quarter back from Wake orest was hold out of action until late the final quarter then made a brief but impressive appearance Snead showing great poise "and passing skill under pressure hit red Dugan for 18 yards tlie first time he threw the ball He took over with Washington trying to move from their own 22 where they had been pushed back by King Hill's booming punt This put the ball on the Redskin 39 and Snead immediately with Sam Homer VMI flash on a screen pass good for 13 yards to the Eagles 47 Here the Eagles put a defensive 'blitz' on the towering Snead and his next four passes fell incom plete when his receivers were un able to shake off de fenders' Die underdog Redskins: grabbed a quick lead as the rapid fire first half began? Tim Brown of the Eagles took the opening kickoff but fumbled and the Redskins gob bled up the ball on the 37 yard line ullback Don Bosselcr ripped for 13 yards on the first running play and on the third down quar terback Ralph Guglielmi hit Bos seler for a first down on the Eagle 8 yard line Tlie Eagles braced and on the fourth down Chuck Aveni booted a 13 yard field goal to send the Redskins out in front at 3 0 4 The Eagles took the ensuing kickoff and Sonny Jurgensen pass ed them to a first down on the Redskins 28 on completions to Pete Rezlaff and Bobby Walston Here the Redskins defensive unit stopped the march and Walston was wide on a field goal attempt from the 28 yard line The Eagles went out front for the first time midway of the sec ond period after the Redskins had broken up one threat when half back Jim Crotty intercepted Jer gensen's long pass on the one yard line On tins play a fight broke out between Eagle and Redskin line men but was quickly controlled after both benches had heen emp tied The Eagles made their touch down after Sam Horner had punt ed from his end zone out to the Redskins 41 yard line Redskins 3 7 0 Eagles 0 14 3 Redskins scoringM'ouchdowns: James (41 pass from Guglielmi) 5 gield goal Aveni (15 extra point) Aveni (place kick) Eagles scoring Touchdowns: McDonald (41 pass from Jergen sen) Retzlaff (34 pass from Jer gensen) field goal Walston (36 extra point Walston 2 place kicks) Cleveland si 4 Browns Rout Pittsburgh AKRON OhioJURl) 71 yard touchdown run and Milt passing sparked the Cleveland Browns to a 38 6 rout over the Pittsburgh Steelers Saturday in a NL exhibition 1 game Brown's run on the first play from scrimmage gave Cleveland a quick 7 0 lead The Steelers bounced back immediately as Bob by Layne fired a 44 yard scoring pass to Buddy Dial Layne's con version attempt was After an exchange of punts the Browns took a 14 6 lead on'Plum's 20 yard pass to Rich Kreitling Tlie touchdown wound up a 43 yard drive that took eight plays Cleveland took a 21 6 lead late in the second period when Bobby Mitchell scored on a nine yard pass from Plum That score cli maxed a 78 yard drive during which Plum completed seven pas ses in a row The Browns made it 28 6 with 50 seconds left in the first half when rookie Tom AVatkins from Iowa State took a flip and raced 22 yards around left end The score was set up by 58 yard pass to Ray Renfro after Cleveland blocked a Steeler field goal attempt The Browns made it 35 6 in the third period when Russ ichtner intercepted a long pass and re turned it 28 yards for the score The Browns wound up the scor ing in the final period when Lou Groza added a 41 yard field goal to his five conversions i k1' 1 Bristol and the surrounding Appalachia area' stands to lose the 1962 Tn Staies Coaching Clinic due to lack of financial sup port behind the project (Moe) Curcio Virginia High athletic director who dreamed up the project and ramrodded the June Clinics the past two years made the announcement yesterday "We'll have to drop the clinic due to lack of local Curcio said He added that lie would notify the 1962 clinic per sonnel this week The third annual clinic would have had the best staff (hat Curcio had yet assembled or football he had Vince Lombardi head coach of the pro fessional Green Bay Packers Paul (Bear) Bryant Jack Mallenkorpf Purdue Marvin Bass University: of South Carolina Carroll Dale offensive end of the Los Angelesi Rams and Casto Ramsey of Emory and Henry Basketball clinics would have been in charge of Kenjucky' Baron Adolph Rupp and Harry Lancaster his freshman mior along with Bob Coleman head coach of the Virginia High Bear cats 1 ru NEW YORK (UPD Carry Back' drove from sixth place at the top of the stretch to edge Garwol and Beau Satur day and win the $57700 Jerome Handicap in one of the most thrilling races ever seen at Bel mont Park A holiday crowd of 34168 fans remained spellbound for several moments after the completion of the mile event in which the first six horses finished within a quarter of a length of each other However a tumultuous ova tion greeted Carry Back as he was led to die winner's circle end there were few in the crowd who doubted that they were gaz ing upon the 1961' of the as well as undisputed 3 year old champion The speedy youngster with the Tiny Lund Sets in a Chevrolet and Reed in 1959 also in a Chevrolet Roberts Baker and Jim Pas chal of High Point are the only three drivers in the field who have started all 11 previous Southern 500s Paschal's highest finish was third last year Marion Meet 2nd Round Set Today DARLINGTON Seqit 2 (LPI) Transplanted Iowan' Tiny Lund of Cross averaged 126711 miles per hour in a Pontiac Saturday to top 17 last day qualifiers to raise the field to 41 cars for 12th annual Southern 500 mile stock car race The 265 pound native of Harlan Iowa who now divides his time between stock car racing and his fishing camp on Lake Moultrie will be making his sixth start in the Labor Day race His best finish was 19th last year The 41 starters will be the small est field in Southern 500 history and is three shy of the new maxi 1 mum of 44 as National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing roled that only 44 qualifiers could start Heretofore driven? of unquali Wasp Staff Pleased With 1st Sessions Expect Good Year Emory and Henry's Wasps fin ished their first drills with a 70 minute scrimmage riday and then allowed the rest of the weekend off There were four touchdowns scored during the scrimmage The 'Whites composed of letter men scored twice with Harry Yost carrying it across both times One score came with Hughes Yost Overstreet and a morning practice run A Burton in the backfield The Cfflne jn afternoon but better had replaced Hughes and Burton The Blues had a good drive of 50 yards only to fumble on the 2 The Reds and Golds two teams nf freshmen and sophomores both scored once The Reds scored on a 12 yard keeper play by Atkin son while the Golds composed of a backfield of Ronnie owler Nagle Cook and McCoy tallied with Nagle going the last 7 yards The staff is fairly well pleased with the first weeks work There has been a lot of hustle and hard work on part The only injury the first week was a brok en nose to Sammy Endicott Perhaps the biggest battles for starting' jobs have been at quar terback between Juniors Jimmy Hughes and Craig Barbrow and reshmen Atkinson and Ron Bales Bales has looked good with passing At fullback Skip Leadbetter and Burton a sophmore are having a dog fight They both ran and blocked well in the scrimmage but it was lit tle Mike Sarver a freshman rrom Bluefield who caught the coaches eye with his defensive work There are boys trying wa tn fill the miard positions SPORTS AND CLASSIIED Special To The Herald Courier GLADE SPRING Va Sept 2 Damascus Indians powered by fleet hard running Tommy ran cisco tomahawked the Patrick Henry Rebels 33 14 on Dunn ield last night in the initial footballgame for both teams rancisco? one of the highest scoring backs in Virginia scam pered for three touchdowns awl added two extra points as the Tribemen hewed out their victory I 4 Captain Mike Cheek quarter back accounted for the other two Damascus touchdcwiK with fullback Tom ritz adding an ex tra point Tommy Lane and Joe Gentry lugged the two touchdowns across for the young Rebels Tlie extra points were added by Lane and quarterback Ernest Yeatts ISgr'rtVzw tf "xa PLAT Bristol Country Club Is gettmg rady for the Ladies Club Cham plonship Tournament which will be played this month Going over pairings fqr first round' play are! left to right Piikey Richards and Club Pro Bob Cross Mrs Worley and Mrs Richards are serving ai the Tournament Committee 00g At sports With Gene Thompson I'' "O' Barna Squad Practicing TUSCALOSA Ala Sept 2 UPD Coach Paul Bryant broke his 72 football players into two groups for practice sessions as fall practice began here today The team worked in shorts in the morning and pads in the aft ernoon as they tried out a new field went through some things trying to learn Bryant said looked real eood co ing through the learning stuff brothers George and rank We didn't do at full speed Canale practiced punting tins morning were no intmics that Lconccntrated on passing know he said had a few! is a P11 of the game we want sprains at the opening session last tt said Wyatt begm year doing (he half speed drills ning his seventh season as Vol that we ere doing today" head coach Ralph Iluneycutl the former center from Appalachia was hobnobbing with flankman Bill Anderson and quarterback Ralph Guglielmi of the Redskins yesterday while awaiting last night's kickoff with th? Eagles Anderson like Iluneycutl played his football at Tennessee? where he was a reverse running wingback With the he has developed into one of the National ootball League's top ends Guglielmi who is being challenged for the Redskins quar tcrback jon by Norman Snead Wake orest flash is a former Notre Lamo star Carl Murphy Big Stone Gap sportsman anrl Chauncey DcVault who coached Huneycutt at Appalachja joined Ralph in welcoming Anderson and Guiglielmi to Bristol All America Award rank Quilici classy infielder for the Wytheville Twins has been awarded a ring by Coca Cola in recognition of his All America rating in college baseball prior to playing tn the Appalachian All Rookie League Quilici who hails from Chicago won All Amcrica recogni lion as shortstop for Western Michigan College The award to Quilici made during a special night at Wythe ville was presented by Bill Wilkinson sales manager of Dixie Coca Cola Company Quilici batted at a 350 clip for Lu nOtUwU 8 IwHISe ndS Slilvu IO IXMIUS VUUU all the Minnesota Club Off To A Good Start SV The J9l51 High school football season 'got off to it hangup slart in the Bristol area and the Twin two entries failed as expected Clayton Powers' Tennessee High Vikings walloped oiitman? ncd Halls High of Knoxville a 41 0 romp while'Jerry Wat fo xl's Virginia High Bearcats dropped a 20 0 decision to Taze ell's favored Bulldogs Tennessee High was impressive in spots but Powers' andliis staff still have plenty of work to do before their young Vik ings butt heads will much tougher Greeneville in their Big Seven debut here riday night Halls like Knoxville Bearden which was methodically mas sacred 60 0 by Bill Jasper's Kingsport Indians' simply was' over its 'depth against a Big Seven Conference power like the Vikings Tennessee High ha 1 many on offense and two many on defense for the Red Devils Virginia High played commendable ball as' Watford made his coaching debut for the Bearcats The NorthsideBristol school I was beaten by a sounder and more seasoned ball chibAOne major difference was experience at quarterback where Taze well's Don VanDyke did a smooth smart job of operating Bob Millers spit Walter Skeens and Gail Arnold had their first try at running now Arkansas type attack and both should improve Arnold was at the controls when the 'Cats made their only sustained advance in the fourth period'1 But passing and ball handling wilLhave to improve before the Bear cats take on the Gate City Blue Devils here Saturday night One thing hovever was pleasing to Bearcat fans Down' by two touchdowns at halftime Virginia' High refused to qon rede defeat and nlaved its host ball in the last fwn niiarters' which meets the Vikings timed up flouting Newport 18 0 on the running of David McCaslin Leroy Gray 1 and Kent Reulcy Gate City pointed for the Bearcats with 7 conquent of St Charles during which Bill Valley Elliott Smith and Given Winegar played stout roles Hobnobs With Redskins DUHVll 11) WAV iCanio rMCK nna second time Barbrow and Lead 1 couy avirage owiy 114903 I George Green of Johnson City term could coax only 114576 out of his ord and Also brook at Macon Ga averaged only 114167 in a ord Actually only 15 cars quali fied the last day as two drivers Ed Livingston of Charleston elected to stand on their ri day time trial speeds which were too slow for riday but got them into the field Saturday A new record was set for Dodges with Hunt of Atlan ta Gaf averaging 121988 That erased a five year old record of 118117 held by rank Mundy also of Atlanta Lund's qualifying average was nearly two miles per hour slower than Wednesday's record 128680 average by pole position winner ireball Roberts of Daytona Beach la also in a Pontiac Dave Mader of Birmingham Ala in a Chevrolet was Satur day's second fastest qualifier at 125578 I The final day's qualifying put nine Chevrolets three Pontiacs three ords a Dodge and a Mer cury in 'tlie field This brought the field to 12 ords 12 Chevro Ze WA and Johnson Pontiacs two Plymouth have left Right now Curtis Camp Mercur? aod bell and Dave Burton have fhpv are 'Last years winner was Buck mstde track they Baker vbo Dressed bv Stultz and fresraneni Bill Bryant Jerry Beck and Don ve a Orryder this ypar Baker also won in 1953 in an Olds 1 Rhea Another high spot in the scrim mage was the play of Bob Tucker Baker Roberts and Jim Reed who moved from guard (0 center Peekskill are the only and Bob Tate a fine leader who Southern 500 winns in Hal iWrWnrris the field Roberts won 19o8 in Redskins Speedway Game ST LOI IS 'UPD Dick Stu art connected for two homers and drove in all five runs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5 4 vic tory over the St Louis Cardinals Saturday Tlie loss was the first suffered by the Cardinals at home in 14 ball games Pittsburgh was the last club to win in St Louis when they slaughtered the Car dinals 19 0 during their last visit Elroy ace who came in to pitch tlie last three innings for Pittsburgh was the winner as he held the Cardinals to two hits It was his sixth victory He struck out two and walked none Pittsburgh pushed the AM IM ilsA eighth innins after Iosins a four ihad reached first base on a walk I rtn 4 mawi 4 1 unpretentious breeding appearedjrun lead Dick Groat opened the I far out of contention in eighth Eighth wrth a double just past tathl? when eH of b(aR place as the field reached the third base bas He moved three quarter mark But once third on a sacrifice aid scored Pittsburgh 5 9 1 again faithful to his many sup on Stuart's broken hat infield hit Sf Louis OOO 031 4 11 0 porters Carry Back started to which was deflected by Cardinal Haddix Labine 5) Shantz (6' move strongly at the far turn relief pitcher Lindy McDaniel ace i7 and Burgess: Brogljo and then produced an amazing McDaniel took over from EmieMcDamel (7i and Schaffer Saw 1 21 iL rL tin rei rn Crowd Of 8500 Sees I I fj" 'j t'Ki i Ends 1 i i SBk irr JTrrir SklMEJ a iii 'v i vr ran' rotu 'MvwiMM jra Zd f' I a a nb edL A 1 1 a X' WW toft ICT 1 i 1 it 7 a i 1 IkJL' i i 1 hlv' 1 a i 1 i 18 jpuil' i Mirfir iirJb: ft 1 l'M Wtt I 1 fw MMK.

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