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Building Supplies Moves into First-Place Tie ROACHDALE- Roachdale Building Supplies moved into a tie with Roachdale I.G.A. in the American Conference by defeating I.G.A. 126-104. Dave Williamson had 30 points for the winners and Rick French ad-

McNeill does it all as Kings can 76ers

By 808 GREENE AP Sports Writer Larry McNeill went wild against the Philadelphia 76ers, hitting career highs in scoring and rebounding. But he was more impressed with what happened on the other end of the court. “No question this was my best game,” the National Basketball Association sophomore said after leading the Kings to a 100-87 victory over the 76ers. “But I’m more satisfied with my defense. That’s What I’ve been working on.” In the only other NBA game Monday, the Boston Celtics ripped the Detroit Pistons 114100. ‘ In the American Basketball Association, Virginia defeated San Diego 107-92 and Utah clipped the New York Nets 111106. McNeill played his college ball at Marquette for Coach A 1 McGuire, which explains his defensive outlook. Last year,

ding 25. Rich Cravens paced the losers with 24. Sonny Reed Stars 137, Spears Car Wash 121 Sonny Reed set a new league scoring mark by pouring in 55 points in this one. Dan Mitchell added 31 while Larry Tidd’s 42 were high for Spears. Hendricks Telephone Corporation 125, Ba inbridge 114 H.T.C. continued it’s Winning ways with a balanced scoring attack. Ron Richardson had 38 points for H.T.C. with Ron Simpson adding 30. Bain-

Boom Boom Geoffrion quits Flames

ATLANTA (AP) - Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion, who used his colorful French-Cana-dian personality to sell hockey in the Deep South, resigned as coach of the Atlanta Flames Monday night, vowing never to divulge his reason. “It’s a personal thing and that’s all there is to it,” Geoffrion said. “You can ask me any kind of question you want, but you’ll never know why. I’m not going to answer any questions about why I resigned.” Cliff Fletcher, general manager of the National Hockey League team, said Fred Creighton, a veteran minor league coach, would immediately replace “The Boomer” as Flames’ coach. Geoffrion will remain with the

Kings Coach Phil Johnson would bring McNeill off the bench to harass an opponent attempting to pass the ball inbounds. Monday, it was the 76ers who were looking for somebody to harass McNeill. The search was unsuccessful. Against Philadelphia, he scored 26 points and hauled in 18 rebounds as the Kings posted their first victory over the 76ers in four meetings this season. With McNeill working the inside and Nate Archibald driving through and shooting over the 76ers, Kansas City-Omaha jumped out to a 20-15 first-peri-od lead. The Kings outscored the 76ers 8-2 to open the Second quarter and never trailed. Doug Collins led Philadelphia with 24 points. Celtics 114, Pistons 100 JoJo White scored 29 points as the Celtics ran off their 10th consecutive victory and their 20th on the road against only three losses. The loss snapped

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team as an assistant to Fletcher. “It’s a sad day for me,” Geoffrion said. “I have to have to make this decision. I got more pleasure out of coaching the Atlanta Flames for t x k years than I did playing for the Montreal Canadiens or coaching for the New York Rangers. “But even though I love the game so, I have my reasons and I had to make the decision, and I guarantee you that Cliff won’t regret it.” The 44-year-old hockey Hall of Famer was a popular sports figure in Atlanta, Where he constantly helped lure large crowds to watch an expansion team. The Flames set an NHL record of 78 points for a firstyear expansion club in 1972-73

Red Smith Another thirdbaseman recommended for shrine

ONE FOR THE SHRINE By RED SMITH (c) 1975 New York Times News Service New York - Fred Lindstrom, the youngest man ever to play in a world series, served for 12 blameless seasons with the New York Giants, the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, and when the Cubs gave him his release, after 1935, he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Casey Stengel, the Brooklyn manager, realized that Lindstrom was slowing down but reasoned that if he had anything left at all his presence would improve the team, which was distinguished chiefly by a talent for low comedy. Lindstrom himself had remarked on the Dodgers’ gift for slapstick years earlier when he was still a Giant. Sitting in a friendly game of five-card stud one evening, he was raised by John Drebinger of the New York Times. Drebinger had just been assigned to the Giants after considerable exposure to the Brooklyn variety of baseball. When he tilted the pot Lindstrom called. “Three kings,” Drebby said, turning his hole card. “Oops, this is a queen.” “Once a Dodger, always a Dodger,” Fred said, raking in the money. Lindstrom came to the majors as a thirdbaseman and was soon recognized as the finest this side of Pie Tray nor. He resented it when the despotic John McGraw moved him to the outfield without consulting him, yet he became equally proficient there. For the Dodgers he started the 1936 season in left field. In the Second game, Van Mungo had the Giants beaten with two out in the ninth when the batter popped a short fly to left. Lindstrom collided with Jimmy Jordan, the Shortstop, two runs scored and the Giants won. “I have been in this league 12 years,” Lindstrom said, “and that never happened to me until I put on a Brooklyn uniform.” “It seemed to prey on his mind,” Tommy Holmes wrote, describing the Incident in his book, “Dodger Daze and Knights.” Inside a month, Lindstrom quit baseball. His legs might have been gone, but not his pride. Baseball’s oldtimers’ committee meets this weekend to consider candidates for the Hall of Fame whose playing days ended too early for them to be eligible for election by the hational membership of the Baseball Writers Association. It is more or less respectfully suggested that the old crocks take a long look at the Credentials of Fred Charles Lindstrom, a retired postmaster of 69 now living in New Port Richey, Fla. Third basemen already enshrined in Cooperstown - Home run Baker, Jimmy Collins, Traynor and McGraw himslef -- would be pleased to welcome into their company. When Freddie Lindstrom, an 18-year-old schoolboy from

Detroit’s seven-game home winning streak. Don Nelson added 19 to the Boston total, including the 10,000 th point of his carer, while Bob Lanier had 27 and Dave Bing 26 for the Pistons. Squires 107, Q’s 92 With George Irvine pumping in nine straight field goals, the Squires pulled away from San Diego in the second half for an easy victory.

Marian closes to within two poll votes of Muncie North

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - It’s no fun being chased by Giants. Just ask Muncie North’s Titans. And that huffing and puffing the top-ranked Titans are hearing these days is the sound of Marion’s second-ranked Giants breathing down their necks in this week’s Associated Press Indiana high school basketball poll. Marion chalked up a pair of impressive victories over the weekend, knocking off Anderson Madison Heights and defending state Champion Fort Wayne Northrop, while North did in Portland with a heavy dose of Sam Drummer. AP’s statewide board of sports writers and broadcasters took a look at the results and nearly put the top two teams into a tie. Each team drew six of the 16 possible first place votes and North polled 222 of a possible 240 rating points—only two more than Marion. It could hardly get much closer for the 14-1 Titans and

and last season reached the playoffs, losing in the first round to the ultimate Stanley Cup-champion Philadelphia Flyers. The team is in a fight for a playoff berth this season, currently last in the four-team Division 1 race, only one point behind the third-place New York Islanders. Atlanta has a 22-20-10 record. Geoffrion’s over-all record as Flames’ coach was 77-92-39. He also coached the New York Rangers during th 3 1968-69 seasons, compiling a 22-18-3 mark before resigning because of a stomach ailment. He did say Monday that his health Was not a factor in his resignation.

Irvine finished with 18 points while David Vaughn and Mike Jackson led the Squires with 23 and 22 points, respectively. High for the Q’s were Bo Lamar with 22 and George Adams with 20. The victory was Virginia’s third straight after losing 15 in a row. Stars 111, Nets 106 Utah, behind Ron Boone and rookie Moses Malone, broke a

the 15-0 Giants as all of Indiana’s prep teams move into the regular season homestretch, with only three weekends remaining. And, another undefeated club, Indianapolis Tech made its move, breaking a tie with South Bend Adams and coming up in sole possession of the No. 3 spot with its 17-0 record. Adams, now 16-1, slipped to fourth, Only three points behind Tech and only 12 ahead of No. 5 Hammond, 15-1. Gary West lost a five-pointer to Gary Emerson in its Only outing last week and slipped all the way from No. 6 to No. 14 with a 14-3 record. Martinsville took advantage of that, moving into the vacated No. 6 spot, followed by Emerson, East Chicago Washington, Mishawaka and Michigan City Elston rounding out the Top Ten. Emerson bounced up from 11th, Washington held firm and Mishawaka broke out of a tie with Elston for that ninth position. Lebanon led off the second 10, followed by Rushville— jumping all the way from 16th, undefeated Floyd Central, West and Penn. Rounding out the rankings are Winchester, Loogootee, Peru and North Judson in a tie for 19th and, his week’s only newcomer, Fort Wayne Elmhurst. The only loss from last week’s poll was Tell City, a loser to Unranked Vincennes Saturday night. Loogootee fell back from the 14th spot after being hit with a forfeit by the Indiana High School Athletic Association for failing to play its Friday night home game against bitter rival Shoals. Loogootee Officials said they feared crowd control problems and refused to play the game. That dropped them from the ranks of the unbeaten after 14 consecutive victories.

Chicago’s South Side, joined the Giants irt 1924 he was already a professional seasoned by two years under Roger Bresnahan in Toledo. He was a rangy athlete, fast and light, with a great arm. Late that season Heinie Groh tore up a knee and Lindstrom replacing him, found himself in the pressure cooker of the World Series. In seven games he batted .333 and handled 23 fielding chances without an error. In the fifth game he made four hits. Nobody has ever made five in a World Series game. His seven assists in the second game stood as a record until Mike Higgins made nine in 1940. Even though Lindstrom and Frank Frisch made 10 hits each and Bill Terry batted .429, the Giants lust to Washington, and the kid was the victim: In the 12th inning of the deciding game Earl McNeely hit an easy grounder that struck a pebble and bounced over Lindstrom’s head, and the winning run scored. From that beginning, Lindstrom compiled a lifetime batting average of .311. In 1928 he hit .358 but didn’t lead the league because Rogers Hornsby hit .387. Lindstrom’s 1930 average of .379 still is tops in the league for all righthanded batters except Hornsby. (That year Terry won the championship with .401). Freddie made 231 hits in 1928 and 231 in 1930. Since man learned to walk on his hind legs, only three have made 230 hits twice, the others were Hornsby and George Sisler. If that, doesn’t impress the antiques who meet and vote this weekend, they might consider that Ted Williams never made 200 hits in any season; the year he batted .406 he made 185. Hugh Duffy’s preposterous average of .438 was accomplished on 236 hits. All those mentioned, - Hornsby, Sisler, Terry, Williams, Duffy, are in the Hall of Fame, naturally. In his last year with the Giants, Lindstrom became the team’s leader, not because he wanted to be but because he alone had the guts to talk back to McGraw - actually, to scream back - when the crusty tyrant’s failing health compounded his natural irritability until his abuse was unbearable. Even so, Freddie expected to succeed McGraw; when the manager resigned abruptly and Terry got the job, Lindstrom said bitterly that it had been promised to him. That may have been the only time in his life he was truly bitter. Usually he could ride with the punch, like the time the Giants Were playing a springtime exhibition in Oakland and McGraw was Sunning himself in the bleachers. In a box seat near the Giants’ dugout, Mrs. McGraw wondered whether her husband meant to stay for the whole game or catch an early ferry to San Francisco. Thinking Lindstrom could get the answer when he returned to center field, she called to him but he didn’t hear her. When at last she got his eye and he came over to the box, she said: “Freddie! Why don’t you pay attention?” ‘‘Good God! ”he said. ‘ ‘Are you giving signs, too ?”

three-game losing streak despite a 40-point performance by New York’s Julius Erving. Boone scored 30 points and Malone added 29 while pulling down 18 rebounds. The rookie, who graduated from high school last spring, was honored with a Moses Malone Night and responded with a 19-point second half. The Nets pulled to within 107106 with six seconds left

1. Muncie North (6), 14-1, 222. 2. Marion (6), 15-0, 220. 3. Indianapolis Tech (1), 17-0, 220. 4. South Bend Adams (1), 161, 197. 5. Hammond (1), 15-1, 185. 6. Martinsville, 15-1, 119. 7. Gary Emerson, 15-2, 100. 8. East Chicago Washington, 14-3, 91. 9. Mishawaka, 14-3, 50. 10. Michigan City Elston, 142, 49. 11. Lebanon, 14-2, 47. 12. Rushville, 15-1, 41. 13. Floyd Central, 15-0, 39. 14. Gary West, 14-3, 38. 15. Penn, 14-1, 32. 16. Winchester, 14-2, 25. 17. Loogootee, 14-1, 23. 18. Peru, 13-2, 19. North Judson, 16-0, 19. 20. Fort Wayne Elmhurst, 132, 16. Other teams receiving votes: North Central (Marion), Vincennes, Glenn, Columbus North, Lakeland, Columbia City,South Central, Lafayette Jefferson, Evansville North, Princeton, Gibson Southern, Clay City, Center Grove, Northwestern (Howard), Rossville. HOCKEY ATLANTA - Atlanta Flames’ Coach Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion resigned and will be replaced by Fred Creighton, coach of the Flames’ Omaha farm club. GOLF HONOLULU - Gary Groh, an obscure 30-year-old whose last big check was $4,000, fired a four-under-par-68 in the final round to capture the $44,000 first prize in the Hawaiian Open Tournament by a stroke with a 14-under-par 274. TENNIS ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Second-seeded Jaime Fillol of Chile squeaked by Ove Bengtson of Sweden 7-6, 4-6, 6-3 in the first round of the $60,000 World Championship Tennis St. Petersburg Classic.