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SANTA ANA, CALIF. REGISTER (EVENING) D. 90,000 JUN2 8 1969 Sammy Lee Among 11 Feted Tonight At Vegas Awards I Santa Ana?╟╓s Dr. Sammy Lee, one of America?╟╓s most outstand- ing Olympic Games performers, will be among those honored tonight at the third annual Sportsmen?╟╓s World Awards ban- quet at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev. Others to be saluted are Sam- my Baugh, football; Don Budge, tennis; Peter De Paolo, auto | racing; Paul Endicott, basket- ball; Bob Feller, baseball; Ted Lindsay, ke hockey; Rocky | Marciano, boxing; Lloyd Man- jgrum, golf, Cornelius Warmer- dam, track and field, and C.K. Yang, s p e c i a 1 international award. This year?╟╓s show honors 4?╟ championship performers whose performances and exem- plary personal conduct have served as an inspiration to peo- ple in all walks of life,?╟Ñ accord- ing to the citations. A native Californian, Dr. Lee first rose to sports fame when he won the National AAU out- door platform diving champion- ship in 1940, representing OccL, dental College. He won gold medals in diving at both the 1948 and 1952 Olympics and in 1953 was awarded the James E. Sullivan Award which annually goes to the American athlete ?╟úwho did the most to advance the cause of good sportsman- ship.?╟╓* After serving in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, Dr. Lee began his medical practice in Santa Ana, where be is an ear- nose-throat specialist. Expected ^attract a capaci- ty crowd of 800, tonight?╟╓s show is to be .syndicated for national television. Proceeds go to sup- port the City of Hope in further- ing its program -of patient care, research and medical education against catastrophic diseases. GLENDORA, CAUF, PRESS TW. 4,690 Linkletter Hosts Sport World Fete t ?╟Ñ -rnMn Art Linkletter r TV penjnal- ity, host, raconteur ami author will be master of ceremonies for the third animal Spofte- meh?╟╓s ^fqjdd Awards event at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, June 28. Twelve all-time athletic ?╟úgreats?╟Ñ of the past will re- ceive the coveted ?╟ Victor?╟╓ stat- uette in tribute to their exem- plary conduct as champions on and off the fields of athletic competition. PS! * The Sportsmen?╟╓s World Awards are sponsored by the Sportsmen?╟╓s Club for the City of Hope with proceeds going to support that free and nonsec- tarian medical an research center in its battle against cata strdphic disease. Linkletter, who MCd lpst year?╟╓s presentations, is one radio and;television?╟╓s most pop- ular^ and ch&abie hosts. Best known for his chores on ?╟ ?╟ HduLjg Party?╟Ñ and the long-runnihff ?╟úPeople Are Funny,?╟Ñ he is the author of the best-selling ?╟úKi|sf Say the Darndest Things?╟Ñ and, more re ce n 11 yjj 4?╟ Linkletter Down Under,?╟Ñ based on his ex- periences in Australia. The Sportsmen?╟╓s World Awards show will be syndicated for national television by Metro- media Producers Corp. The honorees and other distin- guished guests ar#> being flown to Lair Vegas' by xrans Worldl ;Airlines, bifida! carrier for the} SportsmerrH^rld Awards. 1J