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t *>*'**?╟≤$ Vi VvVv LOS ANGELES EVENING & SUNDAY HERALD EXAMINER D. 540,793 SUN. 529,466 Sammy Lee and! Vicki Draves, who once represents ed the U.$. in Olympic diving/ will be together again tomorrow night at the Sportsmen's World Awards Banquet at Sands Hotel in Las Vegas* Sportsmen's '**>V;* ' ' _ ;v- - ?√ß - - V' World Fete By JIM PERRY The dinner at the Sandfe Ho- ' Herald-Examiner Staff Writer tel Ml be Shown on delayed / LAS VEGAS, June 27~For tape by KTTV (Channel 11) dal Iffiaion w, the gam- both Su"d^ Iff 7 f 8:30 . ?? p.m. and a week from tomor- ; Nuig mecca becomes the at 6 p m Jsports capital of the world. More ta uh, / e a d i n g " ?╟╓ ?╟ Eleven of the greatest ath- sports writers and sportscast- letes in history will be hon- ers including Herald-Examin- - ored at the third annual City er cpo/.s editor Bud' Furfflo, of Hope Sportsmen?╟╓s World made the selections. . Awards Presentation. ' Off i c i a Is of the World ?╟úVictor,?╟Ñ the gleaming gold . Awards - Presentation are Na- statuetle porfr aymg~an athlete titmal Chairman Jesse Owens, ?√ß in triumphal salute, will be co-chairmen Irv Terry and ?╟≤ handed to the following stars: Rudy La Russo and Sports- , .Boxer Rocky Marciano, men?╟╓s club executive director ?╟╓ afito racer Pete De BaoB. di- ?╟≤ :?½av-ld MarmeL . ",'ver Dr. Sammy Lee, quMer- ' Proceeds from the event go ?╟≤ hack Sammy Baugh, piteher to the City of Hope, a pilot Bob Feller, hockdyfyingman medica^center which occupies ; Ted Lindsay, decathlon charm acres in Duarte, pion C.K. Yang, tennis gpeat The City of Hope depends Don Budge, basketball All- upon voluntary support to ?╟≤ American Paul Endsaeotfc, pole meet its budget and recently vaulter Cornelius Warmerdam launched a f i v e -p h a s e, ; "and golfer Lloyd Mangrum. $10,000,000 expansion pro* ~ ^ gram. .Certainly there can be no debating the quality of athlete debating the quality of athletes Marciano won all 49 of his professional4 /bouts and be- came the- only undefeated heavyweight champion in his- ;tory. ^ De Paolo, rwho helped put the, roar ; into the Roaring Twenties, was the first driver tb ]top'' in?·l0-" an hour mark at Indianapolis. Dr, Lee, a native California ! an? won Olympic Games div- j | ing championships in 1948 and 1952., Ig m Baugh, Sling in?╟╓ Sammy, played 16 years with the Washington Redskins and six times was the NFL all-star quarterback. Feller, the incredible Cleve- land Indian right-hander, won 20 or more games six times in his career. Lindsay played on three Stanley Cup winners in Dev l troit* and was named to the National Hockey League all- star team eight times. Yang, the UCLA Bruin from Formosa, won the. 1964 Olym- pic Games decathlon champi- onship. gjj|?║ Budge led the United States to its 1937 Davis Cup victory and became ilie first man ever to win the Grand Siam?╟÷ Wimbledon, uJS| French and Australian championships?╟÷a year later. ' , Endacott, who became a h i g h 1 y succes^' business- man, eariie cl M-American basketball honors at the Uni- versity of Kansas in '1922 and 1923. _ S-sfX' Warmerdam ^was j the first man ever to vault 15 feet and eventually raised his world mark to 15-7%?╟÷without a fi- breglass pole, of course. Mangrum,- the squire of Ap- ple Valley, was golf?╟╓s leading money winner in 1951, five years after* he won the Nation- al Open in a playoff frcyn Vic j Ghezzi and Byron Nelson: