The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 23

li 7 TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL 11, 1967 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. THE ORIGINAL AND WORLD FAMOUS FINAL 5 DAYS WE FILE STATE-FEDERAL INCOME TAX While-U-Wait SO 00 ith Long TD Runs, 'Gnat' Northington RINEY'S GO GO ROOM DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE, KY. ALWAYS FINE ENTERTAINMENT Accuracy Guaranteed tr Up Making It on His Ability at Kentucky Batwaan Broadway and Chestnut SPORTS CENTER 621 So. 4th St.

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Breathitt, UK president Dr. John Oswald and head coach Charlie Bradshaw. Now, his race is not nearly as important as the spectacular way he is playing football. Playing defensive halfback during spring practice, he has scored three touchdowns during intrasquad scrimmages first on a 70-yard punt return, then on an 85-yard punt return and finally, last Saturday, on a 95-yard run with an intercepted pass. In other words, he is becoming such a pest that next season's opponents may spell his name G-n-a-t.

"He's got a lot of ability, a lot of I IBIS lip i football instinct," Bradshaw said. "He's got a lot of quickness, real fine body control and he's a contact player." Says Northington: "I'm getting along fine. Everyone used to ask me how it felt to be the first Negro to play here, but now nobody does. I guess they've just accepted it." Primarily an offensive back in high school and as a freshman, Northington apparently will be a defensive regular next fall. He has been able to adjust quickly to his new position, he says, because an indoor conditioning program last winter made him bigger, stronger and quicker.

Northington now is a 5-foot-ll, 170-pounder. Besides standing out on the field, Northington also is holding his own in the classroom. An honor student in high school, he now is making "average" grades in the college of arts and sciences. When he studies, Northington wears glasses because he is near-sighted. "He's a good student," Bradshaw said.

"He's very coachable and willing. He's always got a smile on his face." The way he is playing, Northington has plenty of reason to smile. By BILLY REED Courier-Journal I Times Stiff Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. Nat Northington is so gentle and shy that he positively shrinks from the idea of being a racial pioneer. Of course, he cannot ignore the fact that he and Greg Page of Middlesboro, constitute a minority of two at the University of Kentucky students, athletes and Negroes.

But, please, all he wants to do is play football and get an education, the graduate of Louisville Thomas Jefferson High will tell you. And Nat wants ability, not race, to be the criterion by which he and Page are judged when they break the color barrier this fall as sophomores in the Southeastern Conference. "I'm looking forward to playing," Northington said here yesterday. "I don't feel that anything out of the ordinary will happen next season. I just want to play and do my best." At UK, Northington seems to have won his case.

At first, the most important fact about him was that he was a Negro, the first to sign an athletic grant-in-aid with an SEC school. His signing was witnessed Great Clgarillos tipped or regular we're good at picking the right men for your work Call today for Loading help, Factory Workers, Warehousemen, General Laborers. Use our employees at economical rates. MANPSWER TIE WOlll'S IKEEST UNMRMT Kit ORGANIZATION Call 587-6945 go KING Van Buren Named Coach MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.

(AP) Steve Van Buren, former star halfback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League, was named head coach of the new Middletown team in the North American League yesterday. Van Buren was an assistant coach of the Philadelphia entry in the Continental League last season. LOOKING GOOD Kentucky's Nat Northington has I scored three touchdowns all on Jong runs during spring practice at Lexington. The 5-foot-ll, 70-pound halfback will be a "sophomore this fall. EDWARD Amerlct's Urgest Selling Clgir LINKER CIGAR Distributor Gay Brewer's 'A It's Grand Slam Fever what has become known as the Palmer-Jack Nicklaus era.

In beating out a Kentucky pal, Bobby Nichols, Sunday in an exciting head-to-head duel, Brewer ended a five-year dominance of the event by the Big Two. Nicklaus shot a second round 79 and failed to qualify for the final two rounds on the course he's supposed to have in his hip pocket. Palmer finished fourth, never really getting a good charge going. "We all still fear and respect Jack and Arnie," said Brewer. "But we know that any one of a couple of dozen guys can win any tournament if he gets hot.

Nobody has a monopoly." Here's the PGA money-winning list: I OWE TWO I AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) Now that Gay jBrewer has won his first major golf ibrown, the Masters, he has fallen to Ja common champion's ailment. He has igrand slam fever. "Sure, I'd like to win them all it's She dream of every golfer to win the big ones," the snub-nosed tour veteran fcaid yesterday. "I've never thought much about playing in Britain, but now it seems I have to go to the British Open." The British Open is scheduled July 13-16 at Birkdale, England, and Americans who play in it must rush right back for the Professional Golfers Association Championship at Denver July 20-23.

It's a grind, and Arnold Palmer, who has never won the PGA, announced definitely he won't make the overseas trip. However, Palmer and Brewer will play in the World Match Play Tournament at Wentworth, England, Oct. 12-14, was disclosed yesterday. U.S. Open to Be June 15-18 Brewer now is the only man this year with a shot at the so-called professional Iam which includes the British and U.S.

ppens, the Masters and the PGA. The next leg is the U.S. Open at Baltusrol in Springfield, N.J., June 15-18. Brewer, who has now established himself as one of the game's top stars, has to be one of the favorites. In fact, Brewer's spactacular triumph In the Masters, following closely on a near-record birdie binge in the recent Pensacola Open, accents the decline of mm Total $64,755.09 69,002.30 56,941.48 66,850.52 41,367.74 27,557.77 26,413.39 24,023.92 22,046.36 20,001.09 Golfer Officio Unofficial 1.

Gay Brewer $63,747.50 1,007.59 2. Arnold Palmer 61,273.21 7,729.09 3. Julius Boros 55,150.00 1,791.48 4. Doug Sanderj 51,741.50 15,109.02 5. George Archer 36,264.28 5,103.46 6.

Dan Sikes 26,879.00 677.36 7. Bobby Nichols 26,127.92 285.47 8. Bob Goalby 20,883.33 3,140.59 9. Berf Yancey 17,877.27 4,169.09 10. Ken Still 17,589.00 2,412.09 iifpiii Saddle Club Show Sunday The Penn Run Saddle Club will hold its first show of the season at 2 p.m.

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