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Pate 1 THE CUFRO RECORD Friday, Dec. 27, 1988
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Joe Namath Chosen
§MAFL Player of Year
T"ZZ- B> MkRTIN IADKR
ZZZZTJtEW YORK «’Pf*
pi . arihg to meet
: challenge «tf hi* coi >r-
rtUl Career, txiay was named i say it’s h great hon or.” said
m JiTc American Fhotlutil League’* ! the fi-2, 195-i»ound Namath when
^Player of the Year f r 19J8 by] informed of the award. "I hope
the
[ diutn Sunday for the American Namath. who came to
Joe Na-‘^“KU# Championship, with the i Jet* via Beaver Fulls, Pa.,
the svinner SoinK <>n to the Super and the University of Alaba*
Bowl. I ma for a reported $400,000 bo-
"It’s an understatement tolnus, completed 187 of 380 pass
attempts during the regular
. rT^Unitcd Press International. j you understand I'm not trying
Z Z. A panel of 30 spurt* writers to come across as the humble'
— * representing each of the league |KUy. But they the people should
— cities gave the New York Jets'; be aware that an honor like
ZZ-. ■ Cuarterback 14 votes, nlm ;st (this — and it really is a tre-
three times the number rceeiv- mendous one-is a team thing.
— «d by runner-up Li nee Alworth} "One guy can't do anything.
ZZ-. . M th,> San Diego Chargers, who : i don’t remember anybody on
drew five votes. a losing team getting to be
■ -------- Boh Griere of the Miami named MVP. So it has to be a
,„33;ilphips. Lon Dawson of the i team thing.”
— - • Kansas City Chiefs and Ed Rut- j . _
--'tewski of the Buffalo Bills
“'.'.drew two votes each while those
**-* .-.mentioned on one ballot \ ere
Gerry Philbin, Don Maynard
pnd George Sauer of the Jets,
-;__ John Hadl of the Chargers and
Gearge Webster of the Houston
Oilers.
Namath, who ranked third
• among AFL quarterbacks in
’ Statistics this year, provided
the leadership that carried the
Jets to the Eastern Division ti-
tle. the first crown in their his-
... ton-. New York entertains the i The United States regained the
■ - - Oakland Raiders at She a Sta- Davis Cup for the first time In
cumpaign for a 49-2 per cent
average. His aerials were good
for 3,147 yards and 15 touch-
downs as the Jets rang up an
11-3 record.
Sauer, who like Namath was
selected to the UPI All-Star
team, was his quarterback's
favorite target with 66 recep-
tion*, second in the league only
to Alworth, Maynard, a second
team all-stor was fifth In re-
ceptions with 57.
Sporfslfem
SPORTS PARADE
Sports Comments Etc.
Grid Experts Derided
For ‘Surprise’ Talk
By CLAIRK HOWERTON
The wind did blow out on
Mortgage Hill last night. What
few limbs on the Hui*ache trees
the cutting bugs had just par-
tially tawed through, bit the
dust ln»t night. When I left the
hill this morning for work,
MTH was out gathering fallen
limbs to be hauled off. . . must
be neat, you know. One of the
chore* each morning is gather-
ing up of beer cans and other
debris thrown from passing
cars by thoughtless motorists.
will look batter thanks to Dol-
lie’s generosity.
The Yoakum Holiday
ketball Tournament was
duled to begin at 10:30
morning with the holt
meeting Industrial. At
Bas-
sehe-
thls
team
noon
AFTER 5 YEARS
Americans Hold
Davis Cup Again
ADELAIDE, Australia (UPD -
ORGANIZATIONS
Meets 2nd ft
4 t h Tuesday
each month 8
p.m. Ameri
can Legion
Civic Center.
Calvin Webb, Commander
Jimmy Bulgerin, Adjutant
Meet! 2nd A
4th Thursday,
7:30 p.m.
N.Y-A. Bldg.
City Park
A. W Schaffner, Commander
Wilfred I wist. Quartermaster
All visiting members
welcome.
five years Friday when Calif-
ornians Bob Lutz and Stan Smith
thrashed Australia’s John Alex-
ander and Ray Ruffels, 6-4, 6-4,
6-, In what may be the last
a!l-amateur format of this 68-
year-old competition.
The Americans disposed of
the inexperienced Australian
team in one hour and seven
don champion, is only 17 years
Speaking of litter bugs, I ace
signs all along the high road*
about fines for such as that but
I have never heard of anyone
being fined. There should be a
way to atop such practice*.
And while on the subject, we
will get to the more positive
side of the question. Mrs. Dol-
lie Nielsen has once more pro-
vided planting for the trash
containers on the downtown
streets. The Seven-Up Oompa-
old, making him the youngest j ny furnished the container*,
Australian ever to compete In'keeps them painted and trie*
the Challenge Round. However
lie has one of the strongest i (he merchanti regard to wa-
I tering the plants and more help
■ from pa&sersby than has nor-
mally been the case, the town
serves in amateur tennis.
Ruffels had never played be-
fore with Alexander and the
two were mismatched against
Smith and Lutz, the University advantage to 3-1.
of Southern California team-1 After Ruffels dropped his
mates who are regarded as the service again ,Lutz held to make
best amateur doubles team in i it 5-1 and then Smith clinched
the world. ; it on his service.
After taking the first two sets | This was the 20th Davis Cup
minutes. ............. , iU1!,
The straight-set triumph j ;n relatively short order, the victory for the United States,
coupled with singles victories by i U.S. required only 17 minutes to J only two less than Australia.
Arthur Ashe of Richmond, Va.,1 complete the route. Ruffels lostj In the meantime, delegate*
his serve on the first game of: from the Big Four of tenni* —
the third set and Lut2 made it the United States, Australia,
2-0 before Alexander held. ‘ England and France — were
Smith, tiie steadiest player on to meet here Friday night to dis-
and Clark Graebner of New
York gave the Yanks an in-
surmountable lead in the best
three-out-cf-five match series.
Uanado waa to meet Moulton
and Cuero’s Gobblers and the
Yoakum B team were to take
the court at 2:30 today. Goliad
and Gonzales five* were to
cioae out the first round at
four thia afternoon. At six-thir-
ty this afternoon, the losers in
the Ganado-Moulton and Yoak-
um-Ind us trial games will meet
and tha winner* in those two
contests are slated to meet at
eight in the final game of the
day.
The championship game Is on
the docket for 8 p.m. Saturday
night, Just after the third place
outing at 6:30. The consolation
winner will be decided at 4 p.
m. and sixth place at 2:30 Sa-
turday afternoon.
Luling has captured the Holi-
day Tournament championship
the past two years. In 1967,
Yoakum finished u the runner-
up and Shiner was third.
By MILTON RICKMAN
NEW YORK (UPI) -- The ex-
perts are working too hard.
They're knocking themselves
oue needlessly says Bill Nelseh,
the Cleveland quarterback.
H?’s talking about those ex-
perts who are bending all their
energy and getting overheated
trying to figure out what the than Ryan.
mean Nelscn will come into the
game with any one set pattern
in mind.
When the Browns talk about
their “new” 27-yenr-old quarter-
back privately, they agree he’s
not as good a passer as Frank
Ryan, the man he replaced this
year, but that he’s a better play
selector. He mixed ’em up more
Browns have up their sleeves
for Sunday’s NFL title game
against the favored Baltimore
Colts.
Nelsen, who ought to know
because he'a going to be calling
Cleveland’s signals, says any-
body looking for a lot of sur-
prises from the Browns , . .
or the Colts, for that matter ...
will go home disappointed.
•'Nobody is going to change
simply because of the impor-
tance of the game,” says
Nelsen. “You go with what
you've been successful with all
year long. It gets down to who’s
ready to play the ball game a
little more and who gets the big
break.
“Nelsen Is a play-it-by-cnr
quarterback.” offers another
Cleveland player. “If he conies
up to the line and gets a sudden
What the other Clevelnm
players particularly like nbou
him is his willingness t<
shoulder responsibility, hi* abili
ty to adjust to any situation ant
his obvious respect for theii
ability.
“He'll never chew you out on
the field," says on# of tire
Browns’ offensive linemen. “Hd
| may tell you something y iu ditfl
wrong on the sidelines but ho’IH
do it constructively and quietly!
You know they say T <ct he whal
is without sin cast the first!
idea the Statue of Liberty piny j stone* and you can see lie think*
would work, he’ll call it. With } that way bv the thing* ha ri ;c«
him, anything is game. He has 1 and says. He'd be a winner in
a tremendous amount of enthu-I anything he did because he’s
slasm. He just wants to go all j great competitor. That quality!
the time and has a way of firing j projects through the huddle.” J§
you up. Reminds you of the old ! Nelsen is aware of the stronglf
That could be taken to mean
the Browns will rely primarily
on hard, straight foatball as
they have most of the season,
although it doesn't necessarily able operatives in the league.
Bobby Layne.”
Sub Makes Good
The out-going, boyish-looking
27-year-old Nelsen came to
Cleveland from Pittsburgh In a ,____„___ ,
deal last May ami was ticketed j ‘Well, we have to stop I
principally for backup duty Kelly.’ Some people have
I behind Ryan. But Blanton
j Collier, the Browns* coach
personnel he has to work
and what’s more, he keeps ih#||
other team aware of it too. J§|
“I think," he says, "mar
defenses look at us and sa>v
but.
we still scored a lot of point*
against them. If they ooncen-;]
promoted him to the head chair trate on Leroy, they’re going to j
after Cleveland won only one of forget the likes of Milt Morin,
its first three games and Nelsen ; Paul Warfield and Gary Collins, *
blossomed Into one of the most i who has just come back to us.
Trevino, Bob Beamon
Make Top Headlines
l
Ashe best Ruffels and Graeb-1 the court, opend up his cannon-! cuss a formula for opening the
ner defeated Bill Bowrey In
blustry weather Thursday mak-
ing todays doubles match be-
fore a gallery of about 4,000
fans ir J the Memorial Drive
stands a must for the Austra-
lians. J
Two singles matches remain
Cuero Lodge No. 409 Saturday — Graebner versus
A. F. £ A. M. meets j Ruffels' and Ashe against low-
second and fourth \ ery — i but they will be little
Thursday each month j more than exliibition matches,
at 7:30 p.m. Visiting; u. S. captain Donald Dell
brothers are always refused to celebrate the Cup
victory Friday night and said he
would Ike to make It a W
sweep.
ball service to hike the U. S. Davis Cup to professionals
i welcome.
Glenn Coffey
W.M.
H. E. Weatherly
Sec’y.
HERMANN SONS LODGE
BTO. II
Meets every 1st Tues. of the
month.
For Membership See
President—Bennie B. Praus#
Secretary—Louis Buchhoro
Morrall’s Comeback
Baltimore’s Delight
NEW YORK (UPD - Earl i Steejer castoff, received three
the! votes as he guided the Brown*
Morrall came back and
Baltimore Colts are glad he did.
Morrall, who had considered
quitting football two weeks be-
fore the National Football Lea-
i gue season began thia year.
We’d Jove to win flve-nfi j decided to piay and )ed the NFL
because no American teamkas | ,n pass)ns and ^ t0 the
Western Conference champion-
managed this since 1948,
said.
Harry Hopman, the willy long-
time tegrn manager of Austra-
lis, attempted to avert disaster
by Inserting the untested Alex-
ander iif^his double lineup, re-
placing Bowrey.
Alexander, the junior Wimble*
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to their first divisional title In
three years.
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ship.
For his heroics and persever-
ance he was named the NFL’s
most valuable player of the
year by United Press Interna-
tional.
The 13-year veteran thought
of retiring after the New York
Giants, his fourth NFL team,
had traded him to Baltimore,
where he would play understudy
to Johnny Unitas.
Unitas was struck with
tendonitis in the pre-season and
Morrall felt he could help the
Baltimore club and changed his
mind about retiring.
He directed the club to its
best season record 13-1 and
topped NFL quarterbacks with
182 pass completions tor 2,000
yards and 26 touchdowns.
The 35-year-old Morrall re-
ceived 25 votes from the 48-man
panel of sports writers, which
includes three from each league
city, who regularly cover the
NFL .LeRoy Kelly of Geveland,
the league's leading rusher, was
second with 11 votes.
Bill Nelsen, a Pittsburgh
UT Kicker
Receives
Benefits
By ED FITE
DALLAS <UH> — Lee Trevino,
the Laughing Latin, and Bob
Beamon, a transplanted New
Yorker who. like Trevino, calls
El Paso home, gave the nation
its biggest Texas-flavored head-
lines during 1968.
Trevino brought a breath of
freshness and a lot of glib talk
the heat
gras*
to the golfing world when he
scored a stunning victory in the exploit* with a 16-pound Iron
U.S. Open and went on to be- ball known as the shot, **t an
com* the troubled PGA * No. j Olympic record in his specialty.
6 money winner with $132,127- j His toss of 67 feet finches,
more even than Amie Palmer, j however, was well short of his
Beamon, a comparative un-| world record of 71-5 1.4. It gave
known until he * started broad the U.S. the first of a long
for the University of string of track gold medals in
the Olympics, including one by
and had their scholarships lift-' liu* Boros survived
ed. But. he is still in school on j and treacherous high
hi* own. i roughs to win the title.
AAU Award TP Matson | Barber Dalles Winner
Beamon wasn't the only Tex.: And, Miller Barber, a veter-
an to make news in the Olym- an Texas-bred campaigner,
pics. j won the first Byron Nelson j sometimes
Former Texas AAM great. Classic in Dallas and went on
Randy Matson, who earlier in j to become the ninth-leading
the year had been voted the, money winner with $105,845. ‘ my*
Amateur Athletic Union's voted j Roberto DeVleenao won the
Sullivan Award for his 1967 i Houston Champions Tournament
and ffilly Casper won the Colon-
jumping
Texas-El Paso, produced two
types of headlines, but his tre-
Texas Southern Jimmy Hines
mendous world record leap of j with a 9.9-second world record
29 feet 2* inches In the Olym-! 100 meters dash and an upset
pic Games overshadowed the' gold medal victory by Doug
earlier headlines. j Russell of Midland and the
Beamon had been one of se- University of Texas-ArUngton m
Not to take anything away from
Charlie Haraway and Ernie
Green who do a lot for you
too."
Know Your OppKitfo#
Nelsen was among those who
had their nose* pressed to the
TV screen last Sunday when the
Colts beat the Viking* and he
noticed how many automatics
Minnesota quarterback Joe
Kapp called at the line of
srimmage. He also noticed how
the Colts coped with those
checkoffs.
"Everytime he Kapp tried
one, they jumped out of It and
_______________ maybe they stayed
1 in it .so you’re taking a gamble
l: no matter what you do," he
.! says. ‘'Whatever they show us.
the! I hope and feel our offense wfll
be able to go with most of our
plays.”
On the ball field.
^SSStbS*’^University fonHula*
of Houston knocked off UCLA "I try to be myself." he says
in mid-season and became th ;
nation's No. 1 cage team, then
lost to the same club tn the se-
mifinals of the NCAA Cham-
pionships.
In baseball, the Houston As*
*T try to get what I can out of
ballplayers. A quarterback has
to know his players. You can’t
J say certain things to some
[players and to others ym* can
say things. You’d never say
tree hosted tiie Major League j -Why did you miss that Work’
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPD - Texas
football Coach Darrell Royal
Thursday gave kicking special-
ist Happy Feller a belated
Christmas present, but prom-
ised all the Longhorns some
headaches on New Year's Day.
Royal watched Feller boom-
ing in field goals from 30 yards
out, then told the Fredericks-
veral Texas-El Paso Negro ath-
letes to boycott the school track
team's road trip to Brigham
the 100-meter backstroke.
Golf also had other Texas
headlines, including the staging
Young as a protest against al-jof the PGA Championships at
ieged Mormon racial practices, rugged Pecan Valley Gauntry
All were kicked off the team Club in San Antonio where Jtt-
Mustangs Differ
On Artificial Turf
HOUSTON «UPD — The South-* Hixson, the record setting
em Methodist Mustangs just
burg, Tex., sophomore “you’ll <*OM t know what to think about
First Place
Award
Best Radio
Editorial
Of 1968
GIVEN BY MB
KCFH RADIO
'MW
ARMACY
be on everything (full scholar-
ship) starting next semester.”
Feller came to the Longlioms
without a scholarship, and won
the place kicking Job in Texas’
second game of the season.
Since tlien he’s booted 30 at 32
extra points and eight of 16
field goals.
The headaches Royal prom-
ised are the Volunteers from
the University of Tennessee,
whom Texas will meet in the
Cotton Bowl in Dallas Jan. I.
the artificial turf of the Astro-
dome after holding their first
workout Thursday in prepara-
tion far the Astro-Bluebonnet
Bowl Tuesday night.
Chuck Hixson and Mike Rich-
ardson, two at th# Pony stars,
say they are well satisfied with
the turf but the third man.
Danker Jerry Levies, could do
without It.
“I don’t like It,” he said. ‘1
don’t like the feeling of the
turf or the lighting in the sta-
Royal showed films of the Tern! d|tunl- J1 irn.pr^” me af
nos see team to bis squad for the &^- * ^u*t lhe good 0 d nat
KCFH
first time Thursday night and
scheduled more film watching
sessions for Friday morning.
He told the Longhorns Thurs-
day the schedule for the next
five days will be “100 per cent
football,” then flashed a “hook
'em horns” hand signal to em-
phasize his point.”
The Longhorn coach was par-
ticularly impressed with the
performance of tailback Rich-
mond Flowers of Tennessee
from his study of the volunteer
films.
“Speed like that can really
hurt you,” Royal said. “Any
time a guy can not a 9.4 hun-
dred, he’s hard to keep up
After an Mbminoto workout
Thursday-the first since a five-
day Christmas layoff — Royal
said his squad is hi “pretty
shape.”
“The timing was pretty good,
and they were moving
good for the first day
holiday,” he said.
The Horns will continue daijf
workouts and film-watching hi
’Austin through Sunday, then
j will leave for Dallas tor the final
; two days* sharpening up for
bowlappei
grass.
The shifty Levias said it is
also hard tor him to get his
footing on the Astroturf but
Richardson said he won’t have
to worry about the ’little
bumps and hills.”
•It’s smooth," he said, “I
really don’t notice that much
difference between it and the
real thing.”
passer, felt the same way. “It
seems like a finely cut and
well taken care of field."
The SMU linemen experienc-
ed some of the minor problems
usually connected with the turf.
Sam Morgan, the team physi-
cian, said many of the front
men complained of burns from
grinding into the turf and some
of them got blisters because
the new shoe* they wore were
the wrong size.
Players wear a special type
shoe on artificial grass. The
shoe has twice as many cieats
but they are smaller.
Head Coach Hayden Fry
griped about the lighting too
but the stadium light* Were
only on at three-quarter power
for the workout.
Fry said his team was heal-
thy but he plans to isolate
them to keep them that way.
He doesn’t want the Hong Kong
flu or any other kind interfer-
ing in a bowl game.
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All-Star Game in tbe Astro-
dome and the National League
edged the American League 1*
6 before 48,321 fans and an es-
timated 80 million television
viewers In prime nlghtime
hours.
In pro football, the H uston
Oilers collapsed early in the
season and finished a poor run*
nerup to th* New York Jet* in
the American Football League's
Eastern Division, but the Dal-
las Cowboys waited until almost
the last minute to collapse,
fewKMjn Bfii
The Cowboys posted their
best season ever, 12 win*
against two losses and won their
division title (or the third year
In a row, then stumbled igno*i
ruinously against Cleveinad in i
the first round of the playoffs, j
In college footbaR, Texas i
bounced back from a tie-loss,
start to sweep its final eight
game* and tie Arkansas for the
Southwest Conference title and
earn a trip to the Cotton Bowl.
Arkansas went to the Sugar
Bowl and Southern Methodist,
which made headlines with its
sensational passing game built j
around Chuck Hlxon and Jerry
Levias, finished third and was
invited to the Bluebonnet BfWl.
In the small college ranks. I
Texas AAI won the Lone Start
Conference with a 9-1 record
and was ranked No. 5 national-1
ly, but lost in the NAIA nation-
al finals to Troy Ala. State. ?
In pro boxing, world Wrilt***
weight champion Curtis Cokes
of Dallas made two successful
title defense*, stopping Willie
Ludick «< South Africa in
rounds fat Dallas In March
outpointing Ramon Lacrux of
Argentina in 15 rounds in New
Orleans in October.
or ‘How could you drop that
pass’ to some people. They'd go
to piece* and never catch an-
other pass or throw another
block tor you. It's really a case
of just knowing some of them
things and putting them togeth-
er.”
Nelsen has been putting it all
together pretty good until mw.
He get* another chance Sunday
when the Cleveland Browns
learn whether this was a banner
year tor them or merely a so-so
one.
They’D let you know after the
halt game.
You deserve
the beat
....nothing fess !
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