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Matloon JOUIINAIGAZICTTR TucNilay, Nov. 7, 5 Howe, Hull Tied Fo First In Pro Hockey Scoring Race QUARTERBACKIHG" NEW YORK (AP) Veteran Gordie Howe of Detroit, belying By Bart Starr Of The Green Bay Packers his 39 years of age with one of his best early-season perform- 1 My Life Story Is Football Hockey Scores Editor's Note: Frustrations Probabty most of those enthusi-and heartbreaks came early asts who fill up the professional for Bart Starr in his football stadiums on Sunday afternoons But there were gio- feel that all of us were regulars By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from the day we first stepped ances, has moved into a tie with Chicago's dynamic Bobby Hull in the National Hockey League's Individual scoring race. The latest statistics revealed today that Howe, six-time scorning champion, has accumulated 16 points on 10 goals and six assists, Hull, the goal-scoring pacesetter with 11, has five Howe, in his 22nd NHL season, collected four goals and one assist in last week's games, Yvan Cournoyer of Montreal is third in the scoring derby with 14 points. He is followed by Fred Stanfield and John Mc-Kenzie of Boston, Andy Bathgate of Pittsburgh, Dave Keon of Toronto, Jean Ratelle of New York" and Alex Delvecchio of Detroit, all tied with 13 points. Delvecchio is the leader in assists with 12.

Ed Van Impe of on the football field. This cer rles, too. In this excerpt from his new book "Quarterback-ing," Green Bay's Starr tells of both. Gordie Howe Monday's Results No games scheduled Today's Game Oakland at Los Angeles Wednesday's Games Montreal at Chicago Toronto at Oakland Boston at New York Philadelphia at Pittsburgh Louis at Minnesota tainly wasn't the case with me. In fact, it was along haul before I ever made the varsity team right there at Sidney Lanier High School.

My problems came out early, for way tack there in the 10th grade I made up my mind I was going to become a quarterback. Having played halfback, this was a pretty natural desire be 3f i. Moore Dies I was giving up football. I can remember his exact words. He nonchalantly said to me son, it's all right if you do, but tomorrow afternoon I want you out back cutting down all the corn stalks In our garden.

Then I want you to clean up the area and get it ready for winter. Cut down all the old growth and police up real well." My Dad was a master sergeant in the Air Force, and the term "police up" became familiar to me. He knew that I hated this type of work, so, needless to say, I never got around to reporting to the garden. It was football for "me from that day on. It wasn't until my second year in high school that I got a chance to play.

Even then the opportunity occurred only because of an accident suffered by our first team quarterback. Jnjthe that year I must have played a total of about four or five plays. Then, in the fourth game, we i WINCHESTER. Tenir (AP)- cause most teams were running Bernie Moore, the retired Southeastern Conference com missioner and ex-coach who had from the Notre Dame box at that time, and I had enjoyed being a halfback, handling the ball on most of the plays. I Philadelphia is the.

circuit's bad man with 33 minutes in penalties. The Flyers also have the best goaltending record as Ber-nie Parent and Doug Favell have combined to yield an average of only 2.20 goals a game. built championship track and football teams at Louisiana State University, died Monday However, when I reached the 10th grade, Sidney Lanier High Bobby Hull at the age of 72. By BART STARR With Mark Cox My life story is have lived it, loved it, played it, sweated with it, laughed at it, cried with it, and rejoiced in it for as long as I can remember. Although I am naturally biased toward it, I honestly feel football is the finest sport in the world today.

My Dad tells me that he gave a football almost at the time I began to toddle around -the house. Originally it was one of those. tiny rubber ones. The size and quality of the footballs progressed right alongwith my growth throughlife- froriOhe days of losing my baby teeth until I became big enough to play with the standard size ball. It all started in our own back yard, where I was soon running, passing, -kicking, and tackling life of football moved into the corner vacant lot.

To us, any open space was a potential playing School had gone to the' formation, and I realized immediately that I wanted to be aquarterbaclL: I didn't even make the var Starr As A Youngster Bart Starr was quite a punter In his sandlot, high school and college days. This picture shows him when he played with the VFW Post No. 96 team of Montgomery, Ala. sity my first year, although I was immediately convinced that were playing a fine team "from I "should have. My spirits sank lower and lower as the first few weeks went by and my ac-, Arrives Sunday new (AP) Mexico's Elevation CouldAddJlrne Dante Tuscaloosa, and' our quarterback broke his leg.

gave me the opportunity I needed to moveuTto theutartin -quarter back spot, and you may be sure that I bore down as hard as I tivities were confined to the scrub team, where we would Cane, 230-pounJ Italian heavy' run the opponents' plays against weight hopeful, 'arrived in New the varsity during the week. York Sunday to complete knew how to hold the position preparation for his 10-round We did have a few games of bout with James J. Woody Fn i our. own against some smaller through the remaining year and a half of my high school days. We.

didn have an organized ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Tests by two Albuquerque physicians on top American swimmers show that Mexico City's could add time one to two seconds per 100 meters to their performances in the 1968 Olympic day night. One of the great early thrills in my life occurred that junior sive studies on effects of altitude on swimming perform year in the final game of the schools'- and one of the saddest experiences in my life occurred in one of those contests. I dropped a punt which enabled our traditional rivals to beat us, and I cried my heart out for an hour afterwards. ances, say that their predictions season when we were playing a team with the same name as are nearly paralleled by per Dr.

Roy Goddard of the Love team or any type of organized play at that point in life. We didn't have a coach or even a nickname for our team. We would just gather a group together after school and on Saturdays, and play as long as we could move. In fact, I can recall one of my early- frustrations JnJifecmirr ring when anyone would build a our own Sidney Lanier High lace Foundation and Dr. Fran formances by U.S.

swimmers in last months' Pre-Olympics in cis McGill.of the University of We won most of our games New Mexico, who made exterv the Mexican capital. STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY-80 PROOF JAS. BARCLAY LIMITED, PEORIA, ILLINOIS School from Ga. This was an impressive high school football team that had enjoyed a great season. One of its favorite plays was a bootleg in-nvhich the-quarterback-liter ally hid the ball from the de- played against these smaller school -varsities and a large school scrub team or two, but I new-Honsroirwof our-emptyf wMzsHRim stl11 couldnfadjusrTo playmg" lots.

AH too often we would chop aii with the scrubs instead of the Lfease, He did this so adroitly Bor we really couldn't tell when heiiad thr -ball and when he uiuy nave we lutai iccu i had ft toe. halfback. i i'T I amt-annOTCHi ta my- Dad ihat mar Mr; I ness. Not many -years past- that stage, we made our. first or ganized team a group of youngsters sponsored by the of Foreign Wars in 15 MontgomeryAlar Vty.1 To us, the biggest part of the whole deal was that everyone on i maneuver that we decided" to try it ourselves We moved down near their goal line in the third quarter, and I decided this was the time to try it.

Emulating the other quarter-backL IJtucked the ball down against my leg, rolled out to the right, and threw a pass into the end zone -where oneof-our ends was. all by himself- He caught the ball for the score, and we went on to win the game and close out an undefeated season. Copyright (c) 1967 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. Reprinted by per-mission of the publisher from "Quarterbacking," by Bart Starr with Mark Cox. Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

TOMMORROW: A freshman quarterback, for Alabama who led his team 'to an Orange Bowl record. ---'it JoMwii0Wim Yrf4 1 mil l.iillll ili-l the-team had a uniform. -This was a real milestone in our lives. We couldn't have cared 'less that they" fitted us like so many flour sacks, because every one of us imagined that we were equipped as well then as the Green Bay Packers are today. From there our group prh gressed into an organized program of junior high school football.

I was a halfback and really Joved the game. We learned agreat deal wasn't too difficult because we had nothing but desire from which to start. We had a good coach, and as I look back on it, he did at excellent job of teaching us the game. Naturally, the next, stop was '( I Claim Record DONCASTER, England (AP) Two Doncaster area basketball teams have claimed a record of playing contmuously for 28 hours. All-American Prepster Bart StarTat the High School All-America game in Memphis, in August, 1952.

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