5 26-Post-Herald and Register. Beckley. W. Sunday Morning, July 10.1977 Ickx And Mass lire came loose as he was entering the pit straight. The top three cars faltered in the final five laps.
Haywood's car was second un- til a leaking tire that eventually went flat rendered the car nearly motionless. I'nitrd Press lutenutloaal Watkins Glen, N.Y. The favored Martini-Porsche 935 of Jochen Mass and Jackie Ickx won. the Six Hours of Endurance for the World Championship of Makes Saturday in convincing fashion. Mass, the German Formula One regular, and Ickx, the four time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans from Belgium, won by three laps.
Yet they lost five laps at one point with an un- I ft Molfl scheduled io minute pit stop. rl clw The victory was the fifth in as many races for the powerful Porsche team. Mass set a record for the fastest lap, at 107.32 miles per hour over the 3.377- mile. 11-lurn U.S. Grand Prix course.
Camps The Porsche domination was so complete in the 44 car field, which also included cars in two categories of the Sports Car Club of America's Trans Am series, that the top 12 finishers were all Porsche makes. George Follmer and Brett Lunger finished second, followed by Hurley Haywood and Bob Hagestad. Haywood and Hagestad had the lead at the halfway point when the eventual 1 2 finishers were forced to stop with unexpected problems. The Ickx Mass car came in with a Beginning tomorrow, the YMCA will- be spoasoring two athletic programs. A football training camp, featuring running, weight-lifting and training drills, will be held from July 11 through August 11 for junior high school boys.
The camp, held from 5-6 p.m. weekdays, is free to members. Non-' members will be charged $5 in advance and $7 at the door. Also being conducted will be an all- sports camp, involving competition and instruction in all sports. The camp will be broken down into two one-week sessions, with the week of July 11 being for 4th through 6th grade boys and girls, while the following week will be for 7th through 9th graders.
Fees for the all-sports camp are $15 in advance for members, and $17 at the The Brakes Failed On Ronnie Peterson's BMW 320T And He And David Hobbs Were Forced Out Of The Race Muhammad All: The Greatest? New York Social note: Muhammad All of Chicago. Louisville. Deer Lake, and Berrien Springs. departs Tuesday to visit friends in England. "In Newcastle." he said Saturday.
"There was this guy came over needs money for boys' clubs so I'm going over. Be back in about a week and I'fi start training for Shavers in about two weeks. I'm only running now. but in good shape, around 222. about a pound over fighting weight.
I'd been up around 235. 245. but not since my last fight. No. Red Smith (c) New York Times that the bout will come off as scheduled Earnie Shavers takes rio prisoners.
He in spite of the fact that an appellate has won 54 bouts as a professional, and court has overruled the commission, only twice in eight vears did not his vic- lawdv nn hwn l-wninp wrinht The fignt is the courts because Urn walk out of the ring. Earnie took a down' I'U in rs rinls ShaveR acce Un the Garden terms 10 round decision fr Vicente Mich whereTeot a farr? a 88 aS the telephone and Confirming the Hondon in 1972 and another from Henry a ra aside, followed by a brief silence. Then the familiar voice was back on the phone. -i -e The New York State Athletic Com- as a challenger for the championship of the world? Because he can knock out anybody who doesn't knock him outi and there is grave doubt that Muhammad Ali. in the 36th year of his life could knock out Herbert Muhammad.
mission and state and federal courts have ruled that Madison Square Garden has a valid contract for Ali to defend the heavyweight championship of the world against Earnie Shavers Sept. 20 and the Garden is proceeding on the assumption Why does Earnie Shavers now inherit the mantle of Jean-Pierre Coopman, Alfredo Evangelista and Chuck Wepner Very Best (Continued From Page 25) The North South game was just that talk to the modern generation until last year when the Charleston Lions Club and the West Virginia Coaches Association teamed up to stage the first such all star game in 21 years. The Fourth of July weekend contest, won in an upset by the North 8-6. drew about 8.000 fans' to Laidley Field, leaving about 4.000 empty seats. This year the only empty seats will be those ruled off limits by the Kanawha County Board of Education, and that's most of the seats in the big grandstand.
The board has been told by an engineer that people shouldn't sit above the 15th row because of structural unsoundness. The ruling comes at an inopportune time for the game sponsors. They have an all star running back Robert Alexander of South Charleston whose reputation alone would sell every ticket in the storied stadium. Plans to erect bleachers behind each end zone hit last minute snags, and as training camp opened the Charleston Lions Club was petitioning Kanawha County school officials to open up five more rows of the main grandstand. That would reinstate about 2,000 seats for the possible loss of 3,000 temporary bleacher seats, and allow a crowd of nearly 8,000 to view the game.
Ticket sales were approaching 5,000 as the training camps opened, according to Rat Thorn, the game's publicity director who teamed with Jerome Van Meter of Beckley as assistant coaches under South Head Coach Albert "Big Sleepy" Glenn in the first North South Game in 1934. "In the first game the boys came in about a week before Christmas, and we practiced on Christmas Day," Thorn related. "We played on New Year's Day. There was no snow but it was windy and about 15 degrees. "The South practiced at Laidley Field and stayed at the Holley Hotel.
The North team practiced in Clarksburg, under Farley Bell of Clarksburg Victory, and he brought his team to Charleston by bus the night before the game." E. F. "Irish" Garrity is another Charleston Lions Club worker who was in on the start of the original North South series. The West Virginia Sports Writers Hall of Fame coach and former West Virginia Wesleyan athlete said he helped Glenn "unofficially" coach the South the first year and eventually landed the South head job in 1936 which he credits for his securing the Charleston High School head coaching position. "Sleepy Glenn had said he was leaving Charleston, and I wanted the job," recalls Garrity, then coaching at Hinton, "but so did Russ Parsons at Oak Hill and Bill Calvert at East Bank." Newspaper balloting was a determining factor in choosing the head coaches in the early North South days, according to Garrity.
Harold "Punchy" Neely, who was to become the Republican candidate for governor of West Virginia in 1960, was the captain of Garrity's 1935 Hinton team. "'Punchy' got the boys together and made sure plenty of ballots were sent in from Hinton," Garrity said. "The thing or Ali. The only one of today's ranking Against this consummate boxer, Ali could wind up with his comely nose buried in resin. When he was young and could have outpointed or stopped Shavers.
Ali had no time for lubberly nobodies who could punch. In those days Shavers was knocking over characters named Young Agabab and Richard Gosha and his name was a household word in Ohio not because of those achievements but because he was owned and operated by Dean Chance, a pitcher who had beaten out Sandy Koufax for the Cy Young Award. Few of the top heavyweights ever had time for Shavers. Ron Lyle and Jerry Quarry knocked him out and he flattened Jimmy Ellis, but he never got George Foreman in the ring or Joe Frazier or Ken Norton or Duane Bobick Norton-Young. Norton got a half- million and Bobick S250.000, and both camps deemed it a lovely payday National Broadcasting Co.
bought the show for home TV. The bloated figures for Norton-Young proved that the collapse of the Don King-ABC United States championship tournament did not impair Don's gift for milking wealthy backers. King is the promoter of record but when ABC guarantees the purses, the network becomes the actual promotor. Congressmen have been questioning the propriety of a network acting in this capacity. Comparing the Norton-Young and Norton-Bobick figures raises even more pointed questions about the network's sanity.
Ostensibly, Norton and Young are not fighting for money alone but also for a shot at Ali and his title. This must give both the eerie feeling of having been there before. Still, if fighting and beating Ali is old stuff to them, their meeting is a boxing first in one respect. Never before have two men qualified for one match by getting robbed. Hagan Tourney Slated This Month The Beckley Regional Walter Hagan Golf Tournament will be held Thursday July 28,.
1977 at Grandview Country Club in Beaver. This event, which serves as one of the 10 qualifying sites for the State Tournament, benefits the local unit of the American Cancer Society. It is planned to have a shotgun start on the nine hole course at 1:30 p.m. The field will be limited to the first 16 4 man teams to apply. Applications will be available at all local golf courses.
An entry fee of $25 per man covers greens fees, prizes and the presentation party to be held at the club following play. The low teams in both the scratch and handicap divisions will continue on to the state tournament at Glade Springs Aug. 23. It was also announced today that the annual Junior Golf Championship of the West Virginia Golf Association will have a new trophy starting this year. The champion of this annual event will be the recipient of the Fred Burns trophy.
Burns has been the executive sports editor of the Huntington Publishing Company, and prior to his ment, served as me golf editor ot The Herald Dispatch. His writings on golf have made him one of the leading golf journalists in the nation and a founding member of the golf writers of America, one of the leading fraternities of journalism. One of the most recognized leaders of amateur golf in the United State, Burns is now serving as the tournament director of the West Virginia Amateur Championship. This year's event will be held at the Kanawha Country club in South Charleston. West Virginia.
The practice round will be on Monday. July 25, 1977, and stroke play for 36 holes will be on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 26 and 27, 1977. Applications have been mailed to all member clubs of the association. The field is limited to the first 100 players between the ages of 13 and 17- Players may not have attained their 18tli birthday by midnight of July 27, 1977. Applications may also be received by writing to Jim Ward, junior tournament director, 3506 Norwood Road, Huntington, West Virginia 25705.
GOOD if YEAR became quite a contest between heavyweights whom he has fought is Parsons, Calvert and me. Each of us Jimmy Young, and Jimmy tried him twice with no great success. In their first encounter, Young lasted less than a round. In their second he got a 10-round draw. That draw isn't the reason American wanted to replace Glenn at Charleston High.
"The balloting became so heavy that they quit counting ballots and started weighing them. To make a long story short. 1 won and I feel it was an in- Broadcasting Co. is paying Young $1.5 fluencing factor with the Kanawha million to box Norton 12 rounds or less County Board of Education in my get- on Nov. 5.
but the fact that Jimmy is ting the Charleston High job." getting that kind of money tells And. Garrity's South team battled the something about the people who North to an 0-0 tie. promote fights these days. Sam LeRose of St. Albans recalled his ABC is giving Norton S1.75 million, pleasant North-South experiences.
The making a nut of S3.25 million for the retired coach was an assistant under main event alone. If Mike Jacobs heard South Head Coach Eddie Bartrug of St. figures like those in a dream, he would Albans in 1947 when they directed a 26 drop his teeth. According to the Ring 13 over the North, coached by Record Book, Jack Dempsey's purses Carl Hamill of Weirton and led by such from the time he won the championship stars as Bob Gain of Weirton and Bill in 1919 until 1935 were a shade under Leskovar of West Fairmont. S2.7 million.
LeRose coached the South to a 40 2 When the first Ali-Frazier match on victory in 1955, the most lop sided closed-circuit did a worldwide gross of game in the series and the last game un- $20 million, boxing lost all respect for til the Bicentennial when the coaches the dollar. This $3.25 million production' association and Charleston Lions resur- is a non-title match of unexciting boxers reeled the dormant series. The South in the tennis pavilion at Caesar's Palace ted with 14 victories to the North's five in Las Vegas, which seats about 4,000. and three ties when the series was Chances are three-quarters of the resumed. tickets will be given away to marks who "It does a lot for those kids because will show their gratitude at the craps they look forward to going there," table.
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