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Gateway City Ready for FAMU~Bethune Grid Battle The Florida Classic Committee rounded up the general plans fox the second annual sports extra vaganza to be staged in Jackson ville’s special Gator Bowl Sat urady, Oct. 20. The classic will pit the Florida A and M University Rattlers against the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats. The Fam-U Rattlers won the contest 32-0 and hold a four to one record over the Wildcats. Dr. H. Jimmie Green, of the Jacksonville Citizens Committee, presided over the meeting. Ac cording to the reports made at the meeting a two-mile long parade will begin <at 8:30 am. Sat u-rady on Julia Street. The parade will contain four floats, four bands, and five con vertibles. The famous Florida A and M University 132-piece, and the Bethune-Cookman College marching bands will high light the parade. Matthews-Giibert and the New Stanton High bands of Jacksonville will parade also- The alumni associations of the two schools and the institutions will enter floats. The convertibles will carry the officials of the com mittee and the two schools. The school queens will riiie floats. The parade will form on Julia Street and proceed South on Julia to Adams, West on Adams to Clay, North on Clay to Ashley, West on Ashley to Davis and State Sts. The parade marshall is Claude Hilliard. The game will be broadcasted over Radio Station WPDQ, Jack sonville with the roundup around 7:45. Kickoff time for the game has been set for 8 p.m. Other committees making re ports and chairmen were: Public relations, Ken Knight; housing and food, Miss Clara White, and the committee on any local per tinent matter, Miss White. The committee has gone to spe cial efforts to get restaurants to remain open after the game and hire additional help in order to accommodate the expected over • flowing crowd. Housing arrange ments can be made at the YWCA and the Clara White Missions be ginning Friday. BOWLING NEWS .. By ESTHER PRATT Youngsters „ Bowling Clinic Committee had a meeting Mon day night, Oct. 16, 1956. Election of officers were held. Officers elected were: chairman, Wilton Cox, vice chairman, Bruce Mc- Card; secretary, Miss Esther Pratt; treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Fergu son; business manager, Robert Ferguson. This committee is off to a good Start. Questions that were asked and answered. Ages of the child ren will be from 10 to 14 years. We will train 16 children in our first session. A date will be set In our next meeting when we are to start the children in training. Palm Bowlettes ladies league boiled Sunday at 4 p.m. This league is open for membership. Come and join the fun. Tropicanna League bowls Tuesday night. Game time 8:30. A three game total scores: Mrs. Dotty Mclntosh, 387; Alene Hud son, 317; Ida, 275; Mrs. Rochelle Choten, 337; Mrs. Fannie Mae Booler, 394; Mrs. France Morgan, 337; Mrs. Mary Reid, 280; Mrs. Virginia Ferguson, 317; Miss Gr.ce Wade, 123. Results high set Mrs. Rochelle Choten, 418. High game, Mias Fannie Boaker. Pari American Airways league bowls Thursday night. Game time 8:30. This league is still open for membership. Tropical League bowls Satur day night. Game time 9:00. Re sults out of 2 games standing are: Team No. 2 won 7 lost 5. Team No. 4, won 6, lost 6. Team No. 1, won 6, lost 6. Team No. 3, won 5 lost 7. Individual high set, Ted Potter, 519. Individual high game, Wilton Cox, 180. The mixed doubles have had its second week in league play. This league is still open .or .a dies and couples. All who are in terested in mixed leagues bowl in’ are welcome to come and join the fun. Game time Sunday at 5:30 i?.m. at Palm Bowl. Vote November 6 sd* t I Jpv V Jk. SiSks * l? ■ ■ * ■ iWfjfrv •v.., 1 AT ROCKLAND OCT. 26, 27, 28 The famous Top Notes, formerly of New York City, and directly from the Singapore Lounge, Miami Beach, will be featured at Bill Rivers’ Rockland Palace on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 26-28. Included in the group are, front row: Howard Hill, guitarist, Paula Leneir, vocalist; Nick Nichols, vocalist and Broadway Entzminger, tenor sax. Back row, Milton Hayes, drummer; Curt Harmon, pianist and vibra harpist, and Noble Samuels, bass. The group will present two shows nightly, 11:30 p.m. and 1:30 a.m. Admission will be advance SI.OO and door, $1.25, with taxes included, and for table reserva tions patrons may call, FR 3-2408. RODRIGUEZ BATTLES TAGUE AT BEACH Martin Rodriguez, crowd pleas ing Cuban featherweight and rugged Russel Tague of Daven port, lowa, will clash in a 10- round return fight Tuesday night at the Miami Beach Auditorium. In their first contest which pro duced lively action from the be ginning to end, Tsgue won a hair line decision but only because Rodriguez was penalized severe ly for punching low. Since the first meeting Tague has gone on to defeat Lulu Perez and Rudy Ortega. In four local starts Russ has lost only to Willie Pep. Rod riguez, a former ranking con tender, owns a fine ring record and has scored victories over such fighters as Ike Chestnut, Lauro Salas and Baby Ortiz. Promoter Chris Dundee said he hoped to match the winner of the bout with Willie Pep *at the Aud itorium within a couple o 4 weeks. Both youngsters are expected to arrive for training this week end. The Pigskin Huddle BY ANP THIS WEEK'S GAMEB (OCT. 20) Maryland State at N. C. College Fayetteville at St. Augustine’s Shaw at Johnson C. Smith Langston at Southern Texas Southern at Lincoln (Mo.) Hampton at Virginia State Wiley at Alcorn Fla! A&M vs. Bethune-Cookman Jacksonville Fisk at Howard \&T at Winston-Salem Paul Quinn at Miss. Vocational Tougaloo at Philander Smith St. Paul’s at Biuefield S. Carolina State at Ft. Valley Tenn. State at Central State Tuskegee at Morehouse Oct. 19 at Columbus, Ga. Morgan at West Va. State Delaware State at Lincoln (Pa.) Morris Brown at Grcmbling Oct. 22 at Shreveport, La. Jackson at Xavier Norfolk State at Livingston | JOIN THE NAACP! Clearly finer in the bottle... Clearly finer to your taste f a * ©1956 SCHENLEY -DISTILLERS CO.. N.Y.C. BLENDED WHISKEY. 86 WOOL «% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. THE MIAMI TIMES—‘The People*’ Newspaper” SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1966 ♦ MAYS TRAMPLES ATTUCKS 31-0 By ANDY The Mays High Rams unleash ed a savage ground attack* Friday night as they chalked up victory Number two in defense of their 1965 Indian River Conference Chamoionship as they clipped the wings of the Attucks Hign 31-0. ; , The Rams went on a five touch down scoring spree with David “Bullett” Carcon getting three, and Frankie “Lons Gone” Glenn and Herbert “Slow Freight” Pratt garnering one each. 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