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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1966 PAGEL20 Clay Wants Every Fight To Be Historic One tt u- lent. "I'm lust so fast for a heavyweight," he went on. "Even By RAY HOLLIMAN ft IfV f) i a man who weighs 190 is too heavy for me. I spar with men who weigh 165 and outmaneuver them. I played with Patterson, Liston, all of them.

I'm. still trying to get three men on the same night, because no one man can handle me." Clay says it'll be even harder to beat him now because of the new "Ali Shuffle." "The Ali Shuffle Will make you hustle." That's the latest line from Clay the poet. "The shuffle will make a big difference in the future of boxing," Cassius predicted. "It confuses a man for one and a half seconds and makes him stop. He comes into hitting range, and He slammed his left fist into right palm.

Clay finally submitted to repeated urges to demonstrate the new step which resembles a vastly speeded-up version of the Mexican Hat Dance. I can't really do it 'til I'm under pressure with millions of dollars at stake and millions of people watching," he said. The step was born, he said, when a sparring partner trapped him in a corner during training one day. "I Just made it up on the spot," he said. Cassius evidently has forgotten the early retirement which he discussed so frequently during his first months as champion, but he still says he will quit if he's ever beaten.

"But the reason I say that is that I can't see anybody beating me," he said. The trip to Montgomery was the result of a tour of colleges throughout the South between fights. "These college people back in the woods never have a chance to see a celebrity," he said, "so I go out of my way to meet and talk to them." Did Clay have a favorite in the game Thursday? "Well I'll have to pull for Tuskegee," he said. "They've been feeding me and treating me real good." For once, Cassius Clay was a loser. Assistant Sports Editor Winning heavyweight title fights isn't enough for Cas-sius Clay.

He wants each one to be remembered, each one to have its particular place in history. That is the reason Clay, who prefers to be called Muhammad Ali, is expending extra efforts in negotiations with Atlanta to host his championship bout with World Boxing Association champion Ernie Terrell if and when such a match is staged. time I fight, I want 'it to be history, man," explained Thursday at a news conference in Montgomery where he watched the Alabama State-Tuskegee Institute football game at Cramton Bowl. "All my fights have been so far," he continued. "I was first to fight in the Astrodome at Houston, and we had the largest indoor crowd ever to see a heavyweight title fight.

And we had the largest outdoor crowds in both England and Germany, and I was in the first fight to be televised by Telstar. You just get an extra thrill out of it, man." Is Clay, the controversial figure from Louisville, still cocky? Yes. But he's a far cry from the arm-swinging fanatic of a few years back who, at once, bemused and enraged a country with his' wild antics and cries of "I am the greatest." "Are you still the greatest, Cassius?" a newsman asked. "Naw, I don't say it no more," Clay replied with a sheepish smile. "I let other people say it." He was subdued, at least relatively so, Thursday.

In fact, he opened the news conference with a short, halting speech and seemed to avoid the eyes of writers and photographers in' the room. However, it took only a few questions to return him to the confident Cassius of old. "Everywhere I go I'm trapped by the press," he said. Clay said Atlanta seemed receptive toward the idea of holding the Terrell fight in new Atlanta Stadium. "We're working on it," he said.

"We talked with the mayor and Advertiser Photos By Dave Battle THE MANY EXPRESSIONS OF CASSIUS CLAY DURING MONTGOMERY NEWS CONFERENCE 1. Studies Questions; 2. 'Nobody Can Beat Me'; 3. 'Trapped By Press'; 4. 'Bring On other officials, and they seem interested.

"I like to go into a new place," he continued. Then, with a wink, he repeated the statement made in Atlanta Wednesday. "People in these little country towns never get a chance to see a fight like this. It would make a lot of people happy. Besides, I like the South much better than the North.

The North is too hypocritical, and the South is warm and homely. I'd prefer to be sitting right here today than to be in New York or Chicago or somewhere." Clay, who defended his title often during the past year, was asked from where title contenders of the future would be coming. "Oh, there are others coming up," he replied. "There are some good young fighters, and there's Zora Folley who's never had a title shot. And (Floyd) Patterson and (Sonny) Liston are coming back strong.

It's like when the new cars come out. They always do something to make them tier than they were the year before. There's always some thing new." This, however, was not a concession that the self-proclaimed "greatest" had a chance to be beaten. "I have such a way of styling my battle plan, I make them all look like nothing," he said, falling into the familiar Clay pattern. r-8 1 State ama Longhorns Down Texas 22-14.

To Capture Bluebonnet Bowl Berth AUSTIN, Tex. (AP)-Texas Rips Tigers By GRAFTON SCOTT JR. bama in the Orange Bowl. Bradley, the heralded quarterback who has been ham overran Texas asm 22-14 in gineered Texas on four scoring drives two touchdowns and two field goals by Conway, who set a conference career record with pered since the third game of the season by a knee injury, en-1 131 points. i 1 Gene Blanchard scored three touchdowns to lead the Alabama State College Hornets to a 35-14 homecoming finished with a 6-4 season record and were 5-2 in the conference.

completed its season with a 4-5-1 record, 4-3 in the conference. Texas, promised a Bluebonnet bid if it defeated the Aggies, scored in every quarter on a combination of running, passing and kicking to take its first bowl spot since Jan. 1, 1965, when it beat top-ranked Ala- fooiDan win over tne lusKegee institute uowen Tigers Thursday afternoon in Cramton Bowl. 1 I i The win gave the Hornets WHITT TRANSMISSION COMPANY SATISFACTION GUARANTEED their second straight Section championship of the SIAC and completed an undefeated 6-0-0 conference season. This win their traditional Thanksgiving Day game and grabbed a spot in the Bluebonnet Bowl at Houston Dec.

17 against Mississippi. Sophomore backs Bill Bradley and Chris Gilbert and senior placekicker David Conway paced Texas' victory, the Long-horns 51st in the 73-game series between the two-state supported schools. The triumph also could give Texas a three-way share of the Southwest Conference title if Texas Christian should upset Southern Methodist Saturday. The Longhorns, coming back strong with a patched-up lineup because of so many injuries, I STATISTICS STATE TUSKEGEE 22 First Down! 13 -15 Passes 12-31 125 Penalties 90 87 Yds. Pausing 571 277 Yds.

Rushing 84 4-31 Punts 4-32 -filth gave Bamo three straight victories over the Tigers in the annual Turkey Day clah. The Hornets hit paydirt in the AM a 0 0 8-14 Texas 7 7 2-22 Tex-Bradley 6 run (Conway kick) 1 run (kick failed) 61 pass from Bradley (Conway kick) Tex FG Conway 30 Tek-FO Conway 27 Tek-Safety Riggs tackled in end jone AM Curington 1 pass from Riggs Buckman pass from Riggs) ill '4 If i l. iimn Mi.iii.,mm,tcn BANK RATE FINANCING Jerry Gibton 209 Midiion Ave. (Monrjomery, Ala.) 241-0470 2502 N. Lumpkin Rd (Columbus, Ga.) 689-4764 Alabama State climaxed its scoring late in the final period ar Scott tossed to Miller on 25 yard pass play.

Mitchell kicked the PAT, ending the scoring. Gene Blanchard of Alabama State and James Lowe of Tuskegee were voted "Most Val first period as Blanchard scooted five yards to scon following a blocked punt by Bama's James Williams on the Tiger five yard The Tigers' Palmer Sullins was the victim of the blocked punt. Charles Mitchell added the PAT for a 7-0 State lead. It took only six minutes and 30 seconds to score. Tuskegee quarterback James Reynolds put the Tigers back in -the contest, sneaking over from the one-yard line to climax a drive which begun on AL LDEPTS.

263-6463 SILVER 263-2180 CHINA 263-2291 uable Players" by the coaches in the contest. This was Blan- KLEIN SON Jewelers CERTIFIED GEMOLOGIST AMERICAN GEM SOCIETY Three Floors of Distinctive Gifts chard's second straight year re ceiving the trophy. Coach Whitrey Van Cleve of -Staff Photos llr Dive Battll CASSIUS SHOWS THE 'ALI PUNCH' Big Right Hand Comes From 'Ali Shuffle' State has yet to lose to his for JaliMllinildlWtl.Mt. Tuskegee's 47. The Hornets held a slim 7-6 lead at the end of mer Tuskegee mates since coming to Bama in 1964.

Van Cleve is a graduate and former player end coach at Tuskegee. Charles Shade, Tommy Fred the first period, Football Scores PRO NFL Dallas Cleveland 14 San Francisco 41, Detroit 14 The Hornets made another erick, Ralph Patterson, James MOTORCYCLE RIDING MANIACS FROM HELL TEAM UP WITH THEIR PAL FOR THE MOST BLOOD CURDLING SHOW EVER TO DRENCH THE SCREEN WITH BLOOD! Williams, John Pugh, Audrey marker in the. second period with Johnny Pleasant plunging Larkins, Johnny Flenn. Roger over irom the two-yam stripe after ecoverv of a Tiee fum- HlcKs ana Joe Bel1' among oth aiier a recovery oi a nger mm nntctanrf mo nn the ers, were outstanding on the ble by John Pugh, on the Hor line for State. The Hornets were undefeated Hi in conference play last season when they first won the title.

AFL Buffalo 31. Oakland 10 COLLEGE Oklahoma 10. Nebraska 9 Texas 22, Texas AM 14 VPI 70, VMI 12 Chattanooga 27, Austin Peay 17 Jacksonville State 4), Arkansas 30 Morris Brown 14, Clark 12 Villanova 16, George Washington 7 Morgan State 65, Virginia State 0 Quantico Marines 30, Lamar Tech 26 Presbyterian 28, Newberry 7 Catawba 21, Lenoir Rhyne 11 Guilford is, Appalachian 13 North Carolina College 12, N.C. Tennessee 83, Kentucky State 0 Middle Tennessee 21, Tennessee Tech 14 HIGH SCHOOL Ensley 28, Jones Valley 7 Tuskegee i 0 0 All. State 7 7 14 7-35 Scoring Touchdowns: State -Blanchird net 49-yard line.

Passes by Horry Scott and Charles Mitchell to Grant Clark and Ralph Miller, mixed in with the running of Blanchard, Pleasant and Sylvester1, Scott, put the pigskin at the Tiger two-yard line. Mitchell's second PAT kick was good, giving State a 14-6 halftime spread. Bama pushed across two more touchdowns in the third period, both by Gene tlanchard (Huns 7 Pleasant. (2 yd. run) Miller (25 yd.

pass from Scott). Coming Wednesday Montgomery Premier! Jef Drive-In Theatre Tuskegee -Jenkins (55 yd. pass from Reynolds) Reynolds (1 yd. run). PATs-State-Mitchell (3 kicks) Scott (pass to Clark).

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Sylvester Robinson tossed You've been looking for something better? Well. it is! to James Lowe for a two-pointer. VPI Trounces Keydets, 70-12 ROANOKE, Va. (AP) Tail back Tommy Francisco scored timepiece that keeps time through the vibrations of a tiny tuning fork. The tuning fork splits each second into 360 equal parts.

And keeps time so accurate, we guarantee monthly accuracy within 60 seconds-which averages out to about 2 seconds a day. Every second counts during December days. Because what happened last year could happen again. So run in before we run out. A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to Christmas last year.

We ran out of Accutron timepieces. So the customers who came in at the last minute had to settle for a conventional watch. Some didn't. And we know why. All conventional watches-wind, self-wind and electric-keep time by the gyrations of a balance wheel.

It splits a second into 5 parts. But Accutron is not a watch. It's a precise six toucnaowns rnursaay as Virginia Tech's Gobblers took out their frustrated bowl ambi-tions on outclassed Virginia Mil- SUPERIOR QUKm STATISTICS VMI VPI First downs 9 22 Rushing yardage i 44 3S0 Passing yardage 141 15 Passes 11-30 13-24 Passes intercepted by 1 2 Punts 8-35 4-37 Fumbles lost 2 0 Yards penalized 51 60 itary Institute, bombing the Keydets 70-12 lor the most one sided victory in their 62-game tootball rivalry. The Gobblers rolled up 35 points before the Keydets made a tirst aown. Francisco rolled up 133 yards in 32 carries and scored on runs ranging from 1 to 26 yards.

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