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AN ADDED MARYLAND STARTER—Miami.—Coach Jim Tatum’s son, Jimmy, sneaks into a prac-tice session and works out with the players as theygo through conditioning exercises in oreDaration for

tomorrow’s Orange Bowl game against Mississippi.Others in the picture are, left to right, Ed Vereb,Tatum and Bod Pellegrini.

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Tatum, who spends more time Insquad meetings than any coachin the country.

It’s been a long and somewhatunusual season for the Terps.There was great confidence afterthe 20 spring practice sessions,but before the first contact wasmade on September 1, TomSelep, figured to be another EdModzelewski at fullback, suffereda knee injury that sidelined himfor the season. |

So days and days were spentin converting Fred Hamilton, asophomore, into *the fullbackspot, where he has performedadmirably, with able backing byPhil Perlo in relief. The Terpswon the big one against UCLAand went unbeaten, winningshakily at times, but winningthem all and running theirstreak to IS in a row.

Monday's game is the biggesttest for a Maryland footballteam, more challenging than thelast Orange Bowl* game, theSugar Bowl, or UCLA. The Terpsare meeting the team wearingthe national crown, winner of29 in a row, a team that hasscored in 10S straight games, isunbeaten in 53 conferencegames, and which boasts fourunbeaten seasons in seven years.

If any television fans antici-pate a wild scoring spree withthe touted Oklahoma bocks run-ning wild and Maryland answer-ing with Ed Vereb and a passingattack, they probably are in fora disappointing afternoon.

Terps Bank on DefenseVictory means ever so much

more to Maryland than contrib-uting to a spectacular ball game.This might be a dull one fromthe spectator’s standpoint un-less he appreciates the finerpoints of defensive football, be-cause Maryland’s chances ofwinning unquestionably lie in itsdefense.

Play by play, man for manaud situation for situation,Tatum and his relentless chiefscout, Eddie Teague, have pickedOklahoma to pieces.' Os course,the thorough and able coachrof the Sooners have been doingthe same to Maryland.

Without a home-run type ofattack, Maryland’s touchdownsoften come hard. The defensenot only must contain theSoohers. but must turn the ballover to the offense in Oklahomaterriton*. by holding for downsif the Sooners gamble, as theyare known to, or by blocking akick, recovering a fumble or in-tercepting a pass, a departmentin which Maryland led theNation

Oklahoma averaged 328 yardsa game in rushing and Mary-land 196. an indication of howmuch the Terps apparently spotthe Sooners in backfleld strength.But the flashy figures rolled upby Tommy McDonald St Co. werenot mpde against defenses suchas Hfary land’s.

Pellegrini SharesBlocking HonorsWith Davenport

CHATTANOOGA,Tenn.. Dec.31 (jp>.—Bob Pellegrini of Mary-land and Bob Davenport ofUCLA were “perhaps the twostandout blockers” in the coun-try during the 1955 football sea-son. the Chattanooga Times saidtonight in announcing its 19thannual blocking All-Americateam.

The first team consists ofFullback Davenport, HalfbackPaige Cothren, Mississippi, andFullback Billy Pricer, Oklahoma;Quarterback Wade Mitchell,Georgia Tech; Ends Ron Kramer,Michigan, and Ron Beagle, Navy;Tackles Paul Wlggin, Stanford,and Art Hobert, Minnesota;Guards Herb Gray, Texas, andCalvin Jones, lowa, and CenterPellegrini.

The team was selected withthe help of a special board ofwriters over the Nation and re-leased by Wirt Gammon, Times’sports editor.

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SYDNEY, Dec. 31 UP).—Istvan Rozsavolgi defeatedfellow Hungarian Laszlo Ta-bori by inches today in amile run that was clockedin 4:07A

A strong wind and an ex-ceptionally slow first halfprotected John Landy’s Aus-tralian record of 4:02. AlexHenderson of Australia, wasthird.

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IT ISN’T ALL HARD WORK—Miami.—Mainland’s football players aren’t spend-ing all their time in Miami practicing for the Orange Bowl contest with Okla-homa. This picture shows several of them in a playful pose with Lynn Brown(left) the Orange Bowl Queen, and Gloria DeHaven, the movie star, now a stu-dent at the University of Miami. The athletes are Center Bob Pellegrini over

i the ball (cocoanut), with Quarterback Frank Tamburello and Halfback EdVereb behind him.—Star Staff Photos by Randolph Routt.

Gaffney Aims to BreakStar Games 600 Mark

WILKINSON TERMSTEAM READY AFTERLAST HARD DRILL

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MIAMI, Dec. 31.—T0 the! surprise of no one. Coach

Bud Wilkinson of Oklahoma| said. “They’re as ready as

we can get them,” after theSooners finished their lasthard workout today for theMaryland game.

Oklahoma will work inthe Orange Bowl Stadium

i tomorrow for 20 minutes"just to get the feel of it.”

i Wilkinson said.| Trainer Ken Rawlinson

said everybody was in goodcondition, although JayO’Neal, second-string quar-

! terback. will have extra| taping on his left ankle.

He has a slight sprain butwasn't showing any effectof it today.

jGardini to Quit

MONTE CARLO, Dec. 3 UPl.—Fausto Gardini, top Italian ama-teur tennis player, said today|he planned to quit International'competition because of business.Gardini also said he was aboutto become engaged to LilianaForti, dark-eyed daughter of aMilan industrialist.

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IBragg. a newcomer to that se-i, lect circle. Only five in history;

t have reached the 15-foot mark.' Cornelius Warmerdam and Don

. Cooper being the others.Len Truex. a winner and rec-

! ord maker in The Star Gamesof 1954, set a Chicago record in jthe mile, 4:10.3. His mark here

‘.was 4:13.4, but that was reduced,‘ to 4:09.5 last year by GunnarNielsen.

The receipt of Fritts’ entry,along with Gaffney’s from JackPyrah, the Shanahan Club coach,adds interest to the high jump.Fritts will be remembered for hisappearance in 1954, when hedrove from North Carolinathrough a snow storm, as auto-matically disqualified for his latearrival and then proceeded tojump 6 feet 4 without a warm-up. That was two inches betterthan the winner. Ken Wiesner ofthe Navy.

i Other highlights of the meet| will be the mile run. the sprint,

[ series, the 1,000-yard run, the!high hurdles, relays and National:AAU Indoor women’s champion-!

| ships.Tickets, priced at |2, $3 and,

$4, are on sale at The Star, either;tat the business counter in thelobby or Room 200, and at the

! Fairway Sports Store. 1328 Gstreet N.W.

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Joe Gaffney. who practicallyowns the event, has set hissights on Art Wint’s record time*in the 600-yard run, one of thefeatures of The Star GainesJanuary 21 at the NationalGuard Armory.

GalTney of Evanston. 111., and- Victor Fritts, the popular high!

t jumper who Is now teaching!> school in Harrisburg, Pa., both!

- will compete for the Shanahan |- Catholic Club of Philadelphia.,

I one of the stronger Eastern in-!1 dependent athletic clubs.

i Wint was one'of the stars ofthe 1951 Games. Three years

f after his Olympic 400-meter vic-jc tory. the standout from Jamaica

1 set the Star Games record of; 1:12.0 for the 600 yards.a John Voight of Oklahomat A&Mwon in 1952, but since then¦ Gaffney has made it his personalbusiness to win and he has been

¦’ getting closer to Wlnt’s recordion each occasion. He won in:

, 1:16.3 in 1953. 1:14.0 in 1954 and1:12.7 last year,

i Seta Chicago Recordt The University of Chicago!

• Holiday Track Meet Friday j’ night offered Gaffney and other'Star Games entrants their first

. competition of the Indoor sea-son. Gaffney served notice thathe is In top shape by winning the;440 in 60.2 seconds, a meet rec-ord by one-tenth of a second.

Jerry Wellbourn, former Ohio ;State star, who beat out Don;Las for The Star Games pole!vault honors in 1954 at a timewhen Bob Richards was nursinga bruised ankle, did the same inChicago. Wellbourn went up to14 feet 6. bettering the lneet rec-ord by an inch, while Laz, oneof three active 15-foot vaulters.couldn’t get over 14 feet. Bothwill be on hand for The StarGames, along with the other 15-

_ footers, Richards, and Don,

Tatum Bolsters DefenseOn Goals, Conversions

but Is a terrific ball handler.Jay O’Neal, Oklahoma’s sec-

ond-string quarterback, gained106 yards on the ground, whichis more than Maryland’s FrankTamburello and Lynn Beightolcombined. The comparisonmeans little because the Okla-homa quarterbacks operate dif-ferently.

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NOTES All' other dancingceased at the Maryland players’party Friday night when HowieDare and Nick DeCicco, a third-string guard, took turns jitter-

Ibugging with Miss Georgia, oneiof the Orange Bowl court prin-cesses. Both Howie and Nick areipros at this type of dancing.jTatum said he wasn’t going to,iwaste any more tape on Dare’sknees after seeing him dance,j. . . Everybody in the lounge;sang “Happy Birthday” lastnight to Swede Eppley. chair-man of the Maryland AthleticCouncil, who readied 60.

The Bowl game, the NewYear's holiday, and in generalithe biggest season in the historyof Miami and Miami Beach haveresulted in “no vacancy” signseverywhere. The Miami paperssay there's never been such ademand for rooms.

The special train carrying the{Maryland band, and rooters ar-rived today and the band barely.had time to learn its positioniin tonight’s Orange* Bowl pa-irade.—WHITTLESEY.

Purdue Rally BeatsPrincton, 73-61

LAFAYETTE. Ind., Dec. 31 UP)—Purdue beat Princeton. 73-61,in a New Year's Eve Basketballtilt when a early Tiger leadcouldn't stand up under theBoilermakers’ classy second halfrebounding.

John Devoe of Princeton was'high witb 23. one more thanPurdue's Lamar Lundy.

Princeton pulled ahead earlyand with six minutes remainingin the first half led, 30-19. Pur-due fought back to chop themargin to 33-29 at halftime.

Bf » SUr Stag CorrMpondnt |MIAMI, Dec. It.—Maryland

spent more’Time than usual to-day at brushing up on defenseagainst field goals and extrapoints after Coach Jim Tatumtold the Terps Ma conversion ora field goal could decide theOrange Bowl game.”

But it’s highly unlikely that itwill be a field goal. Marylandhasn't kicked one since theClemson game of 1954 tnd Okla-homa hasn't had to go for thethree-pointers.

In the point-after-touchdowndepartment, Oklahoma has!kicked 63 per cent and Maryland59 per cent this year. The most iconsistent Sooner has been Full- jback Billy Pricer, with 15 out of;19. Bob Laughery tops the Terps '

with 14 out of 20. Laughery;missed on three field goal tries.

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The fact that Oklahoma hasttapered off faster in practice!than Maryland, which ran farmore full-speed drills here thisweek, must mean the Sooners areready, acaprding to two visitingcoaches who have had teams inthe Orange Bowl.

“Bud Wilkinson drives a teammore than any coach in foot-ball,” a winning Orange Bowl,coach said today. “Don't befooled by those quotes of his.”

Wilkinson has stressed the in- jformality of the Oklahoma prac-,tice sessions, the day-to-day op-'erations Instead of long-range;plans, etc. “Don’t buy that.”said a coach who respects Wil-kinson. "He's merciless.”

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Both Dickie Lewis, the fresh-man quarterback, and Bob Ru-itevlyan, who is being held outof varsity play this year, werecongratulated by the Marylandcoaches for their fine work in:emulating Jim Harris, the 170-pound Oklahoma quarterback.

Harris is the most dangerousrunner Wilkinson has had atiquarterback. He averaged 5.8yards per run as a sophomoreand 4.1 this year. He threw only j20 passes and completed eight, j

ALSO ELIGIBLE FOR OLYMPIC TRIALS

Big Prize List AwaitsGolden Gloves VictorsBy DICK O’BRIEN ,

The 1956 Golden Gloves tour-nament. sponsored by The Star,

jagain will offer a dazzling prize(list to the victors in three classesof competition. The tournamentwill open Saturday night. Jan-uary 28. with a preliminary

| round at Fort Myer.No. 1 in the prize parade, of

course, is the opportunity forthe senior winners to competein the Eastern Golden GlovesTournament of Champions inNew York with the furtherchance of landing a place on the

i Eastern squad which annuallyjmeets the Western Golden

' Gloves Champions.

This year the Western Gloverswill invade the East. The annual

>East-West tournament will beiheld in Madison Square Gardenin late March. The Easternchampions and their alternatesagain will train for 10 days adBear Mountain for this event.

;Last year, three WashingtonGlovers made the jaunt to Bear 1Mountain and two of themwalked off with national titlesin the meet in Chicago. Theywere Johnny Home, light-

i heavyweight, and Walter Taylor,a lightweight.

This year the National cham-pionship tournament in Bostonwill qualify its winners for thefinal Olympic trials, but failureto win in Boston does not pre-clude final defeat fAr any of theWashington contestants. Theystill will be eligible for the East-ern Regional Olympic trials inthe last go-round for a spot inthe final Olympic trials.

Washington’s Norvel Lee, whowon the Olympic gold medal inthe 175-pound class in the 1952games and also the Val Barkeraward as the outstanding boxer,used all of these avenues to gain

Ithe final Olympic trials,j The senior winners will be re-warded with the coveted GoldenGloves and jackets for their ef-forts, while the runnersup willget silver gloves. Sub-novice andnovice boxers will come in fortheir share, too. both on an in-dividual and team basis.

The Fred A. Hartley Trophywillbe presented to the outstand-ing novice boxer while the James

;A. Sullivan Memorial Award isto be given to the outstanding

sub-novice. The Hartley Trophyhas been in Golden Gloves com- ;petition in this city for 20 yearswhile the Sullivan Award wasestablished following the deathof amateur boxing's great sup-porter several years ago.

The Star will award a trophyto the winning senior team andia wrist watch to the outstandingsenior boxer. Additional awardswill be medals to be given by theAAU to the winners and runners-up in the senior division.

This week will find the sub-novice, novice and senior boxersbearing down at their respectivetraining grounds.

Ready to welcome sub-novice.;i novice and senior performers willI be the Metropolitan Police Boys'

, Clubs, the Twelfth street YMCA;| Catholic Youth Organization,, Merrick Club, National Guard.

. the Olympic Club at the Boys’AClub of Washington, the North.

west A. C. at 419 Ninth street’ and the Northeast A. C. at Fifth.(and Neal streets N.E.

The sub-novice division is forbeginners who have never be-

’ fore competed in a sanctionedamateur contest; the novice per-

’ former is one who has not won’ more than two bouts in sanc-

tioned competition, while thesenior division remains un-

l; restricted. •‘ Entry blanks continue to be' 'available for all Glovers, attached

’ or unattached at The Star Sports: Department. ’ The only require-

r ment is that each boxer be certi-- fled as an amateur by securing‘ his AAU card at the Boys’ Club

i of Washington, Seventeenth andMassachusetts avenue S.E., be-

tween the hours of 11 a.m. and>lB p.m. daily.

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pike many bowlers. Frank Mic- ,1alizzi, the national lduckpin champion, accepted instride the annual Bowlers Victory ;iLegion Tournament. It was “forIa good cause”; it offered equalopportunity for all because of fullhandicaps: the entry fee Was ionly a dollar and this constitutedthe ione expense,what with onlyleagjue games counting. :In short,ithere was no valid reason for notentering.

But Micalizzi's attitude haschanged. He now is an avid sup-porter of the tournament.

“To enter it.” he says, “is a{downright patriotic duty.”

On five occasions this winteriMicalizzi has visited Veterans''Administration Hospitals. Undersponsorship of the BVL, he gaveexhibitions at three in Massachu-setts, one in Maryland and onein Virginia. Providing such per-formances by “name” bowlers,,tenpins and duckpins, is one ofmany activities carried on by the iBVL that require money, all con-tributed by bowlers, largelythrough tournaments.

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“I never realized what theBVL meant to those fellows