Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 June 1973 — Page 7

Friday, June 29, 1973

Bannar-Graphic, Greencastle, Indiana

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NBA Commissioner Says League Has No Drug Problem

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Commissioner Walter Kennedy of the National Basketball Association says the league has no drug abuse problem and would intervene if a team tries to “whitewash” a violation. Kennedy submitted a report on drugs to the NBA Board of Governors that opened a threeday meeting Wednesday at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The report carried no recommendation and, Kennedy said, brought no noteworthy response from club officials and owners. “Actually," the commissioner said, “the drug abuse program we have now is an ongoing one. We will enlarge on it to some degree. In what direction, I don’t know.” Should a problem with drugs develop, Kennedy said, “Our office would be involved from the start. 1 don’t think there’ll ever be a whitewash.”

Based on two meetings with Rep. Harley O. Staggers of West Birginia, chairman of a special House aubcommittee probing alleged use of drugs in professional sports, Kennedy told club owners that the league already had met “several” of Staggers’ request, which were made to all pro sports. He said he pledged to Staggers the cooperation of the league and its plavers. But he said neither the owners nor the players have stated a position on Staggers’ proposed urinalysis program to detect drug usage during the season and periodically during the off-season. “This matter will be discussed and further discussed,” said Kennedy, declining to give his opinion. He said he did not ask for comment on his report “because drugs will be brought up again at our late summer meeting.”

On other matters, Kennedy said he expected the owners to take no significant action regarding a merger with the American Basketball Association because necessary premerger legislation appears a long way off. Expansion also has been shelved pending Congress’ merger action but Kennedy said the owners may alter their “wait-and-see” attitude because “We have a number of valid requests” for franchises. He would not identify any city involved. The NBA also announced record attendance for 1972-73 of 6,833,521, an increase of 3 per cent over the previous season. The league’s 28th season will have 687 regular season games, starting Oct. 9 and ending March 26, with each team playing no more than eight preseason games due to an agreement with the players association.

Two Area Athletes Attend Summer Cage Camp At DPU The fundamentals of good basketball are being imparted to these Greencastle youngsters at DePauw University this week where they are students of some of the Midwest's most successful hardwood coaches. The young men are enrolled in DePauw’s fifteenth annual Basketball and Sports Camp which began the second of two duplicate one-week sessions Sunday, June 24. When the sixth through ninth graders complete the week of activity with an honors picnic June 30, they will have been exposed to basketbaU's finer points offered by DePauw’s varsity coach Elmer McCall, coach of two Indiana high school champions, plus Butler University's head coach and the head coach of Hammond Clark High School. In addition to acquiring basketball savvy during daily instructional sessions, the campers engage in supervised bowling, swimming, tennis, and ping pong as well as competitive intramural basketball in the evenings. Their camp home is a DePauw fraternity house. Their camp counselors are DePauw undergraduates. The DePauw camp is one of the oldest in the Midwest and is limited to 60 boys. Pictured here with Coach McCall prior to a camp session are: Left to right, Doug Scaggs, Route 2, and Jay Fogle, 624 E. Washington St., both of Greencastle.

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Borg Continues Brilliant Play In Wimbledon Tourney

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Bjorn Borg, Sweden’s boy wonder staged another smash hit performance Thursday and reached the fourth round of the Wimbledon tennis championship. His victim this time was Karl Meiler, West German Davis Cup star. Borg, playing here for the first time, finished in top form to win 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6.

6-3 after a seesaw center court duel at the All-England Club. As usual hundreds of teen-age girls cheered their blond idol. Three American men won second-round singles matches. That meant six of the 21 Americans who set out in the men's singles were safely in the third round. Thirteen of the 27 American women starters also move into the last 32. Alex Mayer of Wayne, N.J.,

Texas Rangers, Fans Wowed By David Clyde’s One-Hitter

ARLINGTON Tex. (AP) In the future, Arlington Stadium may be referred to as “The House That David Built." “We needed something like this to stay in business," Texas Ranger owner Bob Short said Wednesday night after his 5100,000 bonus baby, David Clyde, wowed a sellout crowd of 35.698 with one-hit pitching over five innings. The Rangers went on to defeat Minnesota 43.

While Clyde’s major league debut wasn't a 100 per cent artistic success, it filled the stadium for the first time in two years. “Isn’t it ironic that it took an 18-year-old high school pitching star to pack the house even when the debut of major league baseball two years ago wouldn't do it?” said Short. “Of course, the kid is from Texas and was perhaps the most highly publicized draft choice in major league history.”

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came from behind to beat Roberto Chavez of Mexico 7-9, 6-1, 9-7, 6-2; Jeff Austin of Rolling Hills, Calif., downed Petr Kanderal of Switzerland 9-8, 6-3, 6-3 and Norman Holmes of Melbourne, Fla., outlasted Frantisek Pala of Czechoslovakia 8-6, 2-6,6-0,1-6,. 7-5. Already in the third round are Jimmy Connors of Belleville, N.J.; Pancho Walthall of San Antonio, Tex., and Bob McKinley of St. Ann, Mo. No. 5 seed Rosemary Casals led the American women’s fine showing with a 6-3, 6-1 triumph over Jill Cooper of Britain. For the second straight day, a crowd of 28,000 turned out. Fans were wedged shoulder to shoulder in the standing room around the center court, and latecomers could not get anywhere near the Borg-Meiler match. Joining Borg in the last 16 were Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia, the No. 2 seed who outstroked John Yuill of South Africa 6-1, 7-5, 6-2; Roger Taylor of Britain, seeded No. 3, who beat Jiri Hrebec of Czechoslovakia 6-1, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, and Vijay Amritraj of India, who overcame Britain’s John Lloyd 7-5,6-4, 3-6, 2-6,7-5. Hie Nastase of Romania, the top seed, had no match Thursday but went to see a specialist about his back trouble. Nastase visited the doctor although he said he no longer was in pain and had no thoughts of quitting the tournament. In addition to Miss Casals, Julie Heldman of New York was also victorious, scoring an easy 6-2, 6-1 decision over Marijka Schaar, the ambidextrous Dutch girl. Other Americans among the day’s winners were Kate Latham of Palo Alto, Calif.; Janet Newberry and Patti Hogan of La Jolla, Calif.; Valerie Ziegenfuss of San Diego; Kristy Kemmer and Pam Teeguarden of Los Angeles; Margaret Michel of Pacific Palisades, Calif., and Mona Schallau of Iowa City, Iowa.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Harlan Fengler, longtime chief steward of the Indianapolis 500mile race, reacted Thursday to continuing criticism of his starting of last month’s race saying the field might be better aligned if he had the power to levy stiffer fines. Fengler, 71, when asked if he is planning to resign his job of 16 years, replied, “That’s an unfair question.” The occasion for the interview was the one-month anniversary of the aborted start of the 57th Indy race in which driver David “Salt” Walther was severely burned in a mul-tiple-car accident only about 100 yards from the start-finish line. Talking to a reporter from

the Indianapolis News via telephone from his home in New London, Ohio, Fengler said, “All the drivers have to do is go up where they belong and behave themselves.” He added, “Obviously, people are going to criticize the chief steward no matter who he is.” Fengler is allowed to fine drivers who move out of position before they reach the starting line only 5100. A.J. Foyt, Peter Revson and Steve Krisiloff were handed such fines for being out of line on the aborted start. Fengler asked Dick King, director of competition for the sanctioning U. S. Auto Club, to assess further penalities. But US AC has not acted. Fengler said, “When I take a

“Big George” Pays Penalty With Pen

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) George McGinnis of the Indiana Pacers of the American Basketb a 1 1 Association admitted Thursday he has “paid” a rather unusual fine levied by a Noblesville, Ind., judge. McGinnis was stopped in Noblesville recently after a day of boating in nearby Morse Reservoir when a Noblesville policeman noticed his boat trailer didn't have a license. McGinnis said the trailer, boat and car all had been registered aand licensed but he

Dancer's Image Loses Five-Year-Old Kentucky Derby Controversy Ends

LOUISVILLE Ky. (AP) — A stormy five-year-old controversy surrounding the winner of the 1968 Kentucky Derby has died quietly as the deadline passed for further appeal of a ruling that denied the gold winner’s trophy to first-place finisher Dancer’s Image. “It’s a settled issue," Bob Gorham, resident manager of Churchill Downs, said Thurs-

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look at the field and at the time I say they are ready to go, they are ready to go, but then it changes. I tell Pat (starter Pat Vidan) to let them go just before the green light near the entrance to the pits.” “You have to let them know in advance. But when the flag drops, the situation changes.” Fengler added. “The start on the last day (May 30) was pretty good. There was all this talk, but nothing went wrong. This jumping the flag has been going on for years. This is a contest, but I’ll never understand why they want to win it in the first turn.” “The thing on Salt Walther

came after the green dropped. 1 haven't seen thing, in films or pictures.

flag convinced me anybody touched any- him. He just veered to his that right.”

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had neglected to put the tag on the trailer. He was issued a ticket and instructed to return at a later date after the license bureau verified his trailer registration and license, but the 6-foot-8 pro star failed to keep his court date. When he did appear two days later, the judge sentenced him to two hours of autograph signing. McGinnis confirmed the story, saying, “Yeah, I did sign a few autographs."

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day. Gorham said the gold winner’s trophy will be engraved and presented to Mrs. Gene Markey’s Calumet Farm, owner of second-place finisher Forward Pass, as soon as some paperwork is finished. The awarding of the trophy to Mrs. Markey will conclude one of the longest-running controveries in the history of thoroughbred racing. The deadline passed this week for further court appeals by Peter Fuller, owner of firstplace finisher Dancer's Image. “I think it’s a closed book,” Stuart Lampe, one of Fuller’s attorneys said Thursday. “We fought a long, hard battle...He (Fuller) lost and he's a good loser and that’s it.” The circuit court dismissed Fuller’s appeal of a Kentucky Racing Commission ruling that awarded the $5,000 Derby gold trophy to Mrs. Markey. The controversy over the 1968 racing classic began after it was discovered that the Fuller colt ran while under the influence of the drug phenylbutazone, an analgesic forbidden for use in races under Kentucky racing rules. Dancer’s Image was barred from participation in the Derby purse and first-place money was awarded to Forward Pass. Fuller said Thursday afternoon that he had spent more than 5200,000 in legal fees on the Dancer’s Image case, but added: “I don’t regret it. I did my best, the horse did his best.” “He won the race,” Fuller added. “As far as I’m concerned, he’ll always be the winner.

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