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Sonny’ Dove’s associates
" recall his sense of pride
TANK MCNAMARA
By Milton Richman
DPI Sports Editor
NEW YORK — Sonny Dove
as so proud, you could almost
tv it cost him his life.
He took great pride in the
let (hat he was among the best
asketball players St. John’s
Jniversity ever had when he
rformed for the Redmen
om 1964 to 1967, and was
)od enough to play profession-
ly five years — two of them
|ith the Detroit Pistons of the
■BA and three with the New
Irk Nets of the ABA.
I He loved music almost as
uch as he did sports and
lought the ideal job would be
art sportscaster and part disc
bkey. He had half of that com-
Ination nailed down doing the
e. it had iolor commentary for St. John’s
ogersolBmesover radio station WNYE
late. Bid had gotten feelers from a
d he had Borida radio station concerning
cisiont ffis becoming a DJ.
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second time this season last
Wednesday night, Dove could
scarcely conceal his elation. He
worked the game with play-by-
play man David Halberstam,
then predicted St. John’s would
be in the NCAA finals two
months from now.
“David, we’re going to Albu
querque!” he told his radio part
ner happily.
St. John’s may make it, but
Lloyd “Sonny” Dove won’t. He’s
gone at 37.
Scuba divers from the Police
Department’s Harbor Unit went
into the icy waters of Brooklyn’s
Gowanus Canal and pulled him
out Sunday night. The cab he
was driving had plunged
through a drawbridge that was
open to let a ship pass through
and the protective gate was not
working. A flagman with a lan
tern was trying to stop traffic but
Dove apparently didn’t see him.
Dove, too late, tried to apply
his brakes but his cab skidded
off the bridge into about^25 feet
of water. He was declared dead
at Long Island Hospital at 3 a.m.
With the paralyzing blizzard
that blanketed the city with 20
inches of snow over the
weekend, he might’ve kept his
cab garaged, except for a radio
appeal he heard.
“This is directed at any cab
driver who can move his cab,”
Teddy Ippolito, president of the
Associated Radio Meter Taxi
Owners Council, said. “Please
get it on the streets and help the
people in this snow emergency.”
Dove went for his cab.
“He loved people, but I’ll tell
you how proud he was,” a fellow
driver from his garage said.
“Driving his cab in Brooklyn,
he’d pull it over to the curb
sometimes if he’d see some kids
playing basketball in a
schoolyard. He’d get out and
shoot a couple of baskets with
the kids, and then he’d thank
‘em, but never tell ‘em who he
was.”
For some reason he didn’t go
around advertising the fact he
had been driving a cab — he
probably didn’t want anyone’s
sympathy.
Most of Dove’s associates and
friends at St.John’s had no idea
he was moonlighting as a cab
driver.
“He never told me what he
was doing at first, but later said,
‘David, I hack once in awhile,”’
Halberstam said. “I told him it
certainly wasn’t anything to be
embarrassed about. He was
making a living in an honest
way.”
More than once, Halberstam
revealed, Dove would come to
work a St. John’s game on radio
and looked as if he could use
some sleep.
“I knew what he had done,”
his partner said. “He had work
ed all night driving his cab. It
was hard to meet a more dedi
cated person than Sonny. He
never complained, either, no
matter what he was called on to
do ... he never grumbled once.”
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Yarborough crashes car, loses pole position
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match, FIT kicked our tails,” he
said. “It was a real pleasure pick
ing up just enough points to tie
them and then to win with only
four more 10s than they had.
“It’s the closest match I’ve
ever shot in. And it was the best
score that an A&M team has shot
in the last five years, perhaps the
highest score ever.”
Woodard was also pleased
with his personal performance.
“Out of 20 kneeling shots, I
had only four that were not 10-
ring performances,” Woodard
said. “Even though we shoot 20
shots, we have to take each shot
as a separate match distinct in
itself. When I can eliminate
those four bad performances
then I’ll be shooting up to my
capabilities. Near perfect.”
Park’s improvement has been
a major factor in the team’s suc
cess, Woodard said. Especially at
this match.
“Glen is finally shooting
scores he’s mentally capable of,”
Woodard said. “He just needed
to know that he can stand still, be
calm, and take only the best
shots. I don’t think he’ll be satis
fied with second place.”
The team travels to Fort
Worth this weekend for the
NCAA qualifying sectionals and
Woodard says the goals of the
team are simple.
“It seems as though we’re
peaking exactly when we need
to,” he said. “Sure, we want to
beat the other teams there, but
we’re more concerned with
shooting a qualifying air rifle
score for the NCAA champion- •
ships to be held in March. And
that, I think we’ll do.”
Now you know
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VS DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —
J u ice he had a chance to count
' fingers and toes and found
Jy were securely in place, Gale
thorough figured he wasn’t
such bad shape after all.
Only his heart was broken.
Yarborough roared around
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Beedway faster than 200 mph
singlesplalonday during qualifying runs
on, rawB this weekend’s $1 million
l, Tomjti)aytona 500. His 200.503-mph
ao. Then leking topped all Grand Na-
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rinit' ini the pole position for the
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le on his second and last
a fouHiftalilying lap, Yarborough lost
Jed in i) prol of his car, flipped and
Ttshed into a retaining wall,
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fh bruises.
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After a quick inspection, Yar
borough decided the Monte
Carlo was beyond repair and
ordered an alternate car from
his shop in Charlotte, N.C.
Under NASCAR rules, a driver
must race the car he qualifies so
Yarborough surrendered the
pole to runner-up Ricky Rudd.
“I’m a little sore and a little
disappointed, but it could have
been a whole lot worse,” said
Yarborough, who counted a
bruised elbow and shoulder as
his worst injuries. “We were just
running too fast for the track.”
Novy, Yarborough i^ in the
same boat with 74 others trying
to gain one of the remaining 40
starting spots for the 25th run
ning of the race. Only Rudd,
who clocked in at 198.864 mph,
and Geoff Bodine, who orginal-
ly was third but moved up to
second with Yarborough’s with
drawal, qualified Monday.
The starting field behind the
Rudd-Bodine front row will be
determined in qualifying runs
today, Wednesday and
Thursday.
Neil Bonnett was the fifth
fastest qualifier Monday, but his
Chevrolet was the fastest car lat
er in the day as he won the fifth
annual Busch Clash.
Pole-sitter Bill Elliott finished
third, Harry Gant fourth and
David Pearson fifth. Defending
champion Bobby Allison left the
race on the fourth lap when he
crashed his Chevrolet into a wall
on the inside of the 2.5mile
trioval. He was not injured.
Thousands put
their fingers on it...
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Virginia Stenberg, head of
Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Lib
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comments on 140,000 questions
received during the year.
The queries often indicate
new trends just starting, Sten
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She credits nostalgia and
growing popularity among col-
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