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Tiger Cub grapplers claim Columbus East Invitational title

“I really didn’t expect us to win” was Tiger Cub grappling coach Dan Layton’s reaction to his team’s sweeping Saturday’s Olympian Invitational tournament at Columbus East High School. Greencastle edged runner-up Seymour by one point, 106-105, to grab the top honors, followed by the host school with 90, and Brookville, 72. ■‘l can’t tell you how happy I am,” said Ijayton of the tourney win. “I just thought we’d go down there and wrestle mainly

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Richard Coon, Cloverdale 145 pounder, has his left arm slipped into a plastic wrap after possibly dislocating it during his match with North Putnam's Jim Tippin Tuesday night.

DePauw cagers to Butler

A Butler University team which defeated ICC favorite Evansville Saturday night on the losers’ floor awaits DePauw’s Tigers tonight <Wed.) for an 8 p.m. battle in Hinkle Fieldhouse. The Bulldogs will carry a 5-6 season mark and a 1-0 Indiana Collegiate Conference record into the 105th renewal of the DePauw-Butler series. The Tigers possess a 3-7 season record. Tonight’s game is DePauw’s first conference test.

Nuggets win 23rd straight at home despite injuries

DENVER (AP) - A series of nagging injuries failed to prevent the Denver Nuggets from posting their 23rd straight American Basketball Association victory at home Tuesday night. The streaking Nugrets, playing without veteran guard Mack Calvin, got standout performances from a pair of youngsters in rolling over the Kentucky Colonels 118-99. The victory, before a record home crowd of 7,428, gave Denver a 36-6 mark and a commanding lead over runner-up San Antonio in the Western Division of the ABA. No other ABA teams were in action Tuesday night. On Wednesday night, Denver travels to San Diego, Kentucky plays Virginia in Norfolk, St. Louis is at Memphis, New York at Indiana and Utah at San Antonio. Second-year pro Mike Green tossed in 27 points and rookie Jan van Breda Kolff added a career-high 19 for jdencer, which hasn’t lost on its home floor all season. Green, a doubtful starter because of an ankle injury, led both teams in scoring despite playing only 30 minutes. Calvin, missing from the Denver line-up since Jan. 3 with an injured finger, and reserve Pat McFarland, who has a twisted ankle, did not see action against the Colonels. Byron Beck was hampered by a swollen eye, but still scored 13 points.

for the good experience, and to prepare for the Sectional,” he further remarked after his team brought home the trophy from the triple-dual, or roundrobin tournament. The tourney, which Layton characterized as “one of the tougher tournaments in Southern Indiana,” say the Cubs with four grapplers who won all three matches; Tim Boling (119), Stacey Spencer (155), Steve Jackson (167), and Rick Ward (Hvt.), Jackson kept his individual clean at 10-0.

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Coon was carted from the floor on a stretcher, with the exact condition of his arm unknown at this time. (Banner-Graphic Photo).

Butler head coach George Theofanis has been complaining of his team’s paltry shooting, but the Bulldogs temporarily ended that refrain with .492 firing at Evansville in that 80-72 victory. Leaders in the Butler attack have been 5-10 guard Wayne Burris, 6-5 guard Jeff Williams, 6-3 forward John Dunn, and 6-7 forward Barry Collier. Burris, who had 23 at Evansville, is averaging 13.4 ppg. Williams and Dunn each have 12 and

Van Breda Kolff, son of New Orleans Jazz Coach Bill van Breda Kolff, had his best night as a pro on both ends of the court. He scored 11 of his points in the first quarter as Denver spurted to a 29-14 lead late in the periodn “Ever since I’ve been a pro,” the 6-foot-8 rookie from Vanderbilt said, “I’ve been trying to put everything together offense, defense, passing. Tonight I felt 1 accomplished that.” Nuggets’ Coach Larry Brown said it was obvious that van Breda Kolff “was doing what we expect of him. What wasn’t so obvious was the excellent defensive job on Louie Dampier.” Dampier was held to 13 points by Denver’s Ralph Simpson, who finished with 18 himself. Fatty Taylor also had 18 for the Nuggets. Dan Issel, held to four points in the first half, led the Colonels with 25 points, and Bird Averitt had 19. The loss, only the Colonels’ third in the last 15 games, dropped them one-half game behind first-place New York in the ABA East. NEW YORK Muhammad Ali, who regained the heavyweight boxing title by knocking out George Foreman in October, won the Hickok Award as the Professional Athlete of the Year of 1974, with home run king Hank Aaron finishing second.

The Tiger Cubs took on the host Columbus East team first, and came off the mats with a convincing 39-21 win. Kevin Johnson (98) pinned his oppinent, and Kirk Masten (105), followed with a 6-5 decision. Keith Pingleton (112) was pinned, but Tim' Boling (119) and Tom Roach (126) both decisioned their opponents, 7-3, and 9-5 respectively. Wendell Barger (132), and Kim Kimura (138) were pinned, but Lee Pingleton (145) and Stacey Spencer (155) pinned

Collier 10. Butler owns victories over Illinois State (79-78), Georgia Southern (86-81), Toledo (8270), Cleveland State (80-75) and Evansville. Notre Dame defeated Theofanis’ team 93-83 and highly touted Auburn escaped with a 74-71 triumph. DePauw meanwhile is still looking for some scoring punch. The Tigers’ current five starters are averaging a total of 38 points per game, led by Mark Emkes’ 10.9 and Steve McCabe’s 10.4. Reserves have been leading scores in two of the past three games as Coach Elmer McCall has played as many as 13 players looking for some firepower. Tonight at Butler he’ll probably go with McCabe, Emkes, Rick Huser, Tom Netzel and Joe Jessup, but some wholesale shuffling of personnel is not unlikely. The game will be broadcast by WGRE-FM (91.5), beginning at 7:50 p.m.

Dave Anderson

The role of destiny in the Super story of Mrs. Harris and son

SPORTS OF THE TIMES FRANCO HARRIS, DESTINY AND CYNICS By DAVE ANDERSON (C) 1975 New York Times News Service New Orleans--In their infinite wisdom, the coaches and scouts of the Pittsburgh Steelers were hoping to select Willie Buchanan, a corner back from San Diego State, three years ago in the National Football League draft of college players. But the Green Bay Packers quickly chose Buchanan, as the Steelers had feared would happen before their turn arrived in the first round. Now they were confronted with settling a disagreement over running backs between Chuck Noll, the coach, and Art Rooney Jr., the scouting director. Noll had been impressed with Robert Newhouse of the University of Houston but the club owner’s son was campaigning for Franco Harris of Penn State. “Newhouse is faster,” Noll kept saying. “Harris is big and fast,” Rooney said. Realizing that Buchanan might be gone before the Steelers could select him, Ronney had defended his opinion on Franco Harris with research. He checked out the careers of several small running backs, as Newhouse was, in contrast with big backs. ' “Little guys, like Mike Garrett and Dickie Post, might have one great year,” he told Noll, “but you never see a little guy put two great years back to back. The big guys do. The big guys have longer and more consistent careers than the little guys.” “All right,” Noll finally agreed. “I’ll go along with you on Harris but you better be right.” Art Rooney Jr. was right. Robert Newhouse has been a useful

their opponents in 1:10 and :50 respectively. Steve Jackson (16) recorded a fall, followed by Larry Myers’ 4-6 loss at 177. Randy O’Neal (185) won 4-0 , and Rick Ward (Hvt.) decisioned his opponent 11-6. “We knew the next match with Seymour was going to be a close one- and it was,” commented the Cub mentor on Greencastle’s loss to the Owls in the second match. Seymour took the win, 27-22. Johnson and Master both lost, but Keith Pingleton pulled out a

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Clover matmen edge Cougars, 29-28

ROACHDALE - Cloverdale’s varsity Wrestling team took a long time to do it, but they finally put away host North Putnam here Tuesday night, edging the Cougars 29-28. Coming into the meet with a 7-2 dual meet record as opposed to North Putnam’s 1-4-2 slate and having outdistanced the Cougars by points at the county meet the Clovers were considered the favorites here, but dropped the first two matches by a major decision and pin.

As East upsets

Frazier named All-Star MVP

PHOENIX (AP) - Walt “Clyde” Frazier, the New York Knicks’ imperturbable guard, came out the biggest winner in the 25th National Basketball Association All-Star Game. Not only did he receive the game’s Most Valuable Player award for scoring 30 points ahd leading the East to a 108-102 upset victory over the West Tuesday night, but he collected $500.25 ... 25 cents more than any other member of the winning team. The extra quarter was the result of a “fun bet” Frazier had made prior to the game with the East’s 12-year-old ballboy. The youngster thought the West was going to Win and he put up his money against Frazier’s. And after the game Frazier was just as willing to take it, after some friendly razzing with the youngster. This was the second of Frazier’s two consecutive brilliant games at Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum, where a record crowd of 12,885 turned out for the glittering, nationally televised All-Star Game. Only last Saturday, in the Knicks’ final game prior to the All-Star break, Frazier connected for 43 points one short of his career high against the Phoenix Suns. The 30 points against the West, on 10-of-17 shooting from the floor and 10 of 11 from the free throw line, earned him his first MVP honor in his sixth consecutive All-Star start. Frazier has played on two championship New York teams, in 1970 and 1973. In the MVP balloting, he received 48(2 points, one voter splitting his choice between Frazier and Kansas City-

9-2 victory. Boling pinned his man to bring the score to 9-6 in favor of the Cubs, but Greencastle grapplers went on to drop the next four matches, and fell behind 21-9. Roach, Barger, Kimura, and Lee Pingleton were all beaten, Spencer came back with an 18-4 decision, and Jackson won 4-1. Myers was defeated 4-1 and O’Neal lost 5-3. Rick Ward won with a fall in 5:03. The score after two rounds was Seymour 75, Greencastle, 61, Columbus East 60, and

Jim Moore got things rolling for Chuck Martellaro’s Cougars with a 12-2 decision over Clover Keith McCullar at 98 lbs. and Brett Clones followed by pinning Jerry Haltom at 105 to give North Putnam a 10-0 lead. Dave Kiley’s Clovers brought themselves into the meet at 112 and 119 when Al Hice decisioned Joe Joyce, 9-0, and Bill Isaacs grappled to a 13-3 major decision over Steve Majors to set the team scoreboard at 10-7, Cougars. Cougar Kelly Sanders then

Omaha’s Nate Archibald, the West’s leading scorer with 27 points. Archibald wound up with IVz votes and his West teammates Rick Barry of Golden State and Sidney Wicks of Portland had one each. Barry scored 22 points and had game-high figures of eight steals and eight assists while Wicks, playing more than expected because starter Spencer Haywood was suffering from the flu and was forced to the sidelines early in the' third quarter, finished with 16 points. In addition to the play of Frazier and John Havlicek, who chipped in with 16 points, the East’s ability to contain the West’s big men was a major factor In its 16th victory against nine losses in the Series. The West’s three centers 7foot-3M> Kareem AbdulJabbar, 6-11 Bob Lanier and 610 Sam Lacey combined for only 15 points. Lanier, the MVP in last year’s 134-123 victory at Seattle, where he scored 24 points, managed only two this time. Each member of the losing West received S3OO. Prior to the game, NBA Commissioner Walter Kennedy announced the league would continue with its present line-up of 18 teams for next season instead of expanding to Toronto, as had been planned. He said, however, the NBA’s Board of Governors had decided that when expansion next occurs, Toronto Will be the first team admitted. Expansion for next season, he added, was put off because no group or individual formally had applied for the franchise, nor had the required $100,006 deposit been posted.

runner for the Dallas Cowboys but Franco Harris galloped for 158 yards as the Steelers won Super Bowl IX. “I’m not surprised,” his mother was saying Monday. “It is his destiny.” His mother, Gina Harris, was waiting to return to Mt. Holly, N.J. with her husband, after their Super Bowl weekend. Small and slender, she still speaks with the thick accent she had in Italy as a teenage bride of the black American supply sergeant after World War II ended. During the Nazi occupation she and her father often hid in the mountains above their town not far from Pisa. “One day we saw smoke in the sky above the next town,” she says. “We learned later that the Germans killed everybody in that town with machineguns, 600 people. Then the Germans burned the bodies.” Another time, during a Nazi bombardment of her town, she fled from a house where she had been staying. Not long after she had hurried away, an artillery shell exploded in what had been her bedroom. “It was not my destiny to die that day, it was my destiny to live,” she says. “I believe in the destiny. The destiny is there for everybody, just like Franco’s destiny was to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers.” And in their 42nd season, the Steelers finally were destined to win the N.F.L. championship for the first time. Some cynics quickly labedled their 16-6 triumph over the Minnesota Vikings Sunday as another dull and boring Super Bowl Game. It was often wierd, perhaps, but not dull or boring. At least not to those who belive that a pass-rusher can be as exciting as a passer. Joe Greene, the monster who moves like a mouse, once

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Brookville, 54. “We had to beat Brookville by at least 15 more points than Seymour scored against Columbus East.” “I knew we had a chance because they (Brookville) were beaten badly by both East and Seymour,” said Layton. The Cubs fulfilled Layton’s prophecy for victory, as Greencastle dumped Brookville, 45-18, and Columbus and Seymour were knotted at 30 each. Johnson and Masten started

put a temporary halt to the Clover charge with a revenge match 2-0 win over Jim Yeary, reversing his 126 lb, defeat at the county meet. Teammate Jeff Williams followed Sanders’ lead with a 41 decision over David Costin at 132 lbs. that widened North Putnam’s lead to 16-7, but Scott Ellsworth brought Cloverdale back to Within six when he decisioned Cougar Raymond Haulk, 10-1, at 138 lbs. Midway through the scoreless first period of the 145 lb. match Cougar Jim Tippin and Clover Richard Coon went flying from upright positions heavily to the mat in each other’s grasp, Tippin landing on top of Coon with the latter’s elbow caught behind his back. The match was quickly halted when the referee realized the elbow was injured, probably dislocated, and a six point forfeit awarded to North Putnam. Coon was administered to, taken to the sidelines and later carried away on a stretcher to the hospital, his condition not known at press time. The points the Cougars received from that 145 lb. match were the last they would get until the final match of the evening, Don Isaacs beginning the four match Clover surge to victory with a 7-2 decision over Cougar Bud Page at 155 lbs.

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the Brooksville match out on the proverbial right foot with pins. Keith Pingleton brought the score to 24-15 with falls against Barger and Kimura. Lee Pingleton and Spencer won, 10-7 and 3-0 respectively, while Jackson pinned his man in 52 seconds. Myers lost 7-1, but O’Neal came back to win 42. Ward finished the afternoon with his second pin, recorded in 3:02. The Cubs, now 4-1 on the season and winners of two tournament championship

Bob Cummings then really turned things around for himself and the Clovers in his 167 lb. match, for behind 7-1 in the Second period he put a quick move on Larry Tippin and stuck the Cougar with 41 seconds to go in the session, bringing Cloverdale to within three at 22-19. 177 lb. county champion Darrel Brouhard then went to work on Dave Tippin to give the Clovers a. one point lead when he wrestled his way to a 10-0 major decision. To Tippin’s credit, he was on his back most of the final minute but would not go, limiting the Clovers to four rather than six points. Tom Cummings iced the Cloverdale victory at 185 lbs. when he pinned Trent Hopkins with 31 seconds to go in the second period, leaving Cougar heavyweight Steve Norton’s pin of Bill Henson in 1:04 still one point short of bringing North Putnam a tie. Kiley termed the win “a demoralizing victory. Maybe that’s just the thing we needed. It may show the kids they can’t jast walk out on the mat and expect to blow them out.” “67 decided the whole thing,” said Martellaro, who was “pleased overall with the kids. I’m impressed with our kids; they never quit.” Kiley was likewise impressed

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swooped in on Fran Tarkenton as if he . were a pogo stick. He leaped high with an arm upraised as the Viking quarterback retreated one way, descended, then leaped high again as Tarkenton scooted another way. To the purists, that’s exciting. So was the collision when Glen Edwards, the Steeler’s strong safety, jarred the ball loose from John Gilliam, the Vikings' wide receiver, for an interception by Mel Blount at the Steeler goal line. If one play symbolized the Steelers’ victory, that was it. By their nature, Super Bowl teams perform somewhat conservatively. That’s why they qualified. But a relentless defense and a relentless running game, which the Steelers won with, isn’t dull or boring. It’s really football the way its inventors designed it to be played. In the evolution of the N.F.L., perhaps too many people believe the Super Bowl should be a montage of the Weekly TV highlight—every play classic and memorable. Perhaps all the instant replays have produced a sophistication that football is better off without. And all those people here Sunday with the black-and- Steeler woolen ci.ps didn’t seem bored. Their team had won, and that’s what team games are all about. Gina Harris wasn’t bored either. Her son had won an ]American Motors automobile from Sport Magazine as the game’s most valuable player and now she hpes to go to New lYork next week for the award. “For breakfast at Tiffany’s,” she said. She probably considers it her destiny.

tropheys will get a chance to return to Columbus next year to defend their title. “It should be just as close next year as it was this year,” said the Tiger mentor of the meet which Saturday saw only a total of 15 seniors take to the mats. “I feel we can be just as strong next year,” he added. The Tiger Cubs will take on Plainfield’s Quakers Thursday night at Plainfield. Starting time is 6:30 for the junior varsity, with the varsity taking to the mats afterward.

with the Cougar effort: “They did a good job.” Of Cummings’ turn-around effort at 167 Kiley said, “He’s that kind of kid; he just comes up with things like that,” Overall, the Clover mentor was not as displeased with his troops as his “demoralizing victory” term might indicate. “We fared well. We’re doing alright, using more stuff.” The stuff of moves, which the Clovers will well use a week from Saturday at the conference meet, where once again they will meet up with the Cougars. The seeding for the WCC meet is scheduled for Monday at South Putnam High School. R esults 98 lbs. • Moore (N) decisioned McCullar, 12-2 105 lbs.- Clones (N) pinned Haltom, 5.53 112 lbs. Hice (C) decisioned Joyce, 9-0 119 lbs. - B. Isaacs (C) decisioned Majors, 13-3 126 lbs. Sanders (N) decisioned Yeary, 2-0 132 Is. - Williams (N) decisioned Costin, 4-1 138 lbs Ellsworth (C) decisioned Haulk, 10-1 145 lbs. - J. Tippin (N ) won by forfeit over Coon 155 lbs. - D. Isaacs (C) decisioned Page, 7-2 167 lbs. - Cummings (C) pinned L. Tippin, 3:19 177 lbs. - Brouhard (C) decisioned D. Tippin, 10-0 185 lbs. - Cummings (C) pinned Hopkins, 3:29 Hwt. - Norton (N) pinned Henson, 1:04. Final score - Cloverdale 29 North Putnam 28

match for a 7-2 decision to start off the four straight Clover wins that brought them their 29-28 victory over the Cougars. (BannerGraphic Photo).

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