The Waco Times-Herald from Waco, Texas (2024)

May 24, 1968

Publication:

The Waco Times-Heraldi

Location:

Waco, Texas

Issue Date:

Friday, May 24, 1968

Page:

17

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All hre feature a full rvic guarantee with no limitn mil monfhi Of rood hazardi EVERYDAY PRICES COOPER STARIRE IMPERIAL NYLON TIRES LANDAU AND VINYL TOP PROTECTOR POLISH Police Book UCLA's Allen LOS ANGELES (AD or mer heavyweight champion Sonny Liston was past the sixth rung of his climb back up the ladder to boxing prowess today How many steps further up It a car i dam aged by a garage employee when he collides with a tree is the collision loss covered under Garage keepers legal liaballtyT NO amily Pack 12 pieces of chicken with frenvlf fries or 1 pt potato saladvpickle chips and thick toast NO 2 ns I BASKET r' 3 pieces of fish with french fries or potato salad tarter sauce and thick toast RESTAURANT Continuous Service Since 1932 Allah Conant PL 3 3615 Marjorio Sanger A crowd obviously curious to see what Liston had left If any thing numbered 10162 near ca pacity They paid 51SG53 o( which Sonny collected $12000 Here's what the fans saw In a bout that was hardly a highlight of boxing and drew a plethora of bones was: A Liston who wax either rusty or old or both displaying little of the Liston who terrorized the heavyweight ranks before his losses to Clay At 222 a Liston who out weighed his opponent by 30 MONTHS GUARANTEE AGAINST WEAROUT ON ALL STARIRE IMPERIAL NYLON TIRESI Exchange Price with Old Tires Same offer applies on all sizes of Cooper Tires Wilson says he got the idea from watching a game In which his team was driving for a touchdown shortly beforp halftime but failed to score before the clock expired Same thing happened in the fourth quarter Clocks lie theorized are supposed to add excitement Io a game you know seconds to play and many yards to go and all that Instead Wilson decided clocks ruin the game just when it's getting interested So he explained Io Michigan athletic director ritz Crislcr how each team should bn given the football 12 times to do with as they could and take the dadgummed clock which never works anyway off the premises to the day today That was improved on it Instead of three three inning sets he borrowed match play system If a team won an inning it was the To make sure it's pure every drop of Consumer's gas is filtered as it is pumped into your tank you get clean burning full power NOW JUST With REE ImtottotaM riAJ i eUeA nrrier 9 WATER JUGS Gallons with Pour Spout the Big Bear can Is i batable Tile 36 year old Liston tolled and labored and finally disposed 1 of Billy Joiner of Cincinnati In seven rounds Thursday night at the Olympic Auditorium Referee John Thomas halted the fight before the bell sounded for the eighth round It was Son ny's sixth straight knockout over nobodics since ho bowed out in one round in an attempt i Io regain the world title from Lewiston HIGHEST OCTANE A UP WHEN YOU GAS IN TOWN VE TOOUC BUY 10 GALI Set of 2 only 79 go down by fight time The bout Is scheduled for 9 :30 1 pm HUT It will be telecast in I some areas of the nation by Sport Network New York will be blacked out of the telecast The Garden hopes for a crowd of 15000 and a gate of $150000 which would get both oster ana the promotion off the finn i clal hook oster has taken 60 per cent of the net gate and tele 1 vision' and guaranteed Tiger! out of his percentage) No Money Down 24 Months to Pay irst Payment 45 Days or the Answer to Any Insurance Question Call ITZHUGH CO Diol PL 4 3553 NYLON OAM ON SEAT COVERS There Is no wish here to bang this noble head against any brick wall Noble heads almost always lose that assignment It's what happens when you go around elasting Icons The place for reform is reform school liven so there appear to be some dem good ideas In a couple of plans set forth by a man named Lee Wilson He lives in Detroit he has some schemes to improve both football and baseball and his proposals have met will: such widespread ridicule that lies even laughing at himself these days He needn't Baseball and football would he better ad vised to give some thought to Wilson's ideas Look what a few new additives have done for the price of motor oil What Wilson wants to do is change football from its present four quarter 60 minute format to 12 Then he thinks baseball ought to drop the Inning system and go over to a combination of tennis sets and match play He proposed this to the public in the May 13 iue of Sports Illustrated More privately Wilson prevailed on of Michigan people to try 12 inning football in a 1963 intrasquad game The psychology of plaids It's a psychological fact 'that bolder patterns and brighter colors can make you feel and look years younger So see our new plaids by Ham monton Park Dramatic black and white plaids amazingly colorful blues golds whiskey rones many more toive your psyche a real try on a few! that mount any ex tension until the Basketball fine but Wilson THE WACO TIMES HERALD Waco Texas Page I riday May 24 1968' He'll go In four or five rounds or the first time I get TIME By JIM MONTGOMERY 11 th Washington! 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where three Innings ahead of California going into the eighth the game would be over and Baltimore would have a 3 and 2 victory every game would be close right up to the Wilson points out "because it would end as soon as winning became impossible for one or an added frill Wilson fought of letting a team tion its turn at bat Thus if the Red Sox got eight runs in the second inning they would simply let the White Sox stay at bat (three outs at a time) until they either tied the score went ahead or rah out of innings Should the White Sox come up with nine runs (which is mathematically if not physically possible) the Red Sox could then elect to go back and take their turns at the plate Baseball has shown no interest whatsoever in any ideas They even try it in an intrasquad game Well got some worthy notions The thought here has long been that basketball in stead of disqualifying players for five fouls should put the offending player in a penalty box for two minutes a la ice hockey and make his team play short handed But we dream of proposing this Get you laugh ed put of town plus some bruises on the bld noble head lHunds unable to truly finish off in classic fashion an obviously overmatched Joiner And Joiner a slender jour neyman boxer who looked more like a middleweight compared to the Big Bear able to sting If not hurt the once awesome Lis Iton I The referee halted matters because Joiner was apparently so behind on points he could never catch up To observers it appeared both Sonny now fighting out of Las Vegas Nev and the 30 year old neither rounds Liston marked his right eye CONSUMERS IS NOW EATURING THE COOL SET RUNS WIDE LOW AND HANDSOME MAN SHOP only 39 Al Most Popular amily Drire ln Restaurant Corner of West Warn Drive and Valley Mills Drive Across from Westview illage OR ORDERS TO 753 5371 753 5372 754 5120 NO 2 amily Puck 8 pieces of fish 4 shrimp 4 oys ters with french fries or 1 pt potato salad 4 pieces thick toast and 7 oz tarter sauce 3 STEAK INGERS 5 pieces of chicken fried steak whh french fries or potatosalad pickle chip and thick toast NO 3 STEAK INGER 1 amily Pack 24 pieces of chicken fried steak with french fries or 1 pt potato salad 4 pieces of thick toast and pickle chips DELUXE 6 VOIT exchange 9S With inUallafian HtEE NOW ONI Only or Marijuana LOS ANGELES (AD Lu cius Allen star guard for national championship basketball team was booked with four friends Thursday night on charges of possession of marijuana police said Police Sgt John Colella said officers detected the odor of marijuana after halting their speeding car in an alley in cen tral Los Angeles It was one year to the day that Allen was arrested at his West Los Angeles apartment and charged with possession of marijuana a charge which was later dropped Booked with Allen were Me lanie Martin Alla Bullen Bonnie Jean Goss and John Woodlcry Police said all were UCLA students in their early 20s Allen is 20 On May 23 1967 Allen was ar rested when police said they found marijuana in a car owned by Allen Be was later released on $1100 bail and the charge was dropped after a closed hearing in municipal court When Allen was arrested last year Coach John Wooden took no immediate action saying it still was the off season BUCKETTB AIRB Mak Your tynd eel Ywngl Dick Tiger Defends Title Against Bob oster Tonight $8610 But No Disease Michigan tried it The varsi ty whipped the scrubs 25 0 and nobody paid much at tention to the new system ongratulations Wilson" Crislcr said have just discovered a cure for which there is no Still there seems to be an argument for 12 inning foot ball It would ruin the ball conirol approach hereby one team gets maybe 80 plays and the oilier one only 35 and those last second come backs would be just as grab bing In the bottom of the 12th Having failed to dent foot ball's traditional approach Wilson turned to the ailing national pastime problem he writes it doesn traordinary New 1968 Volkswagen1 774 GEORGE GRUBBS VOLKSWAGEN 4824 West Waco Drive PR 2 7940 AT CONSUMERS I REE TIRE! 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