Banner Graphic, Volume 5, Number 328, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 March 1975 — Page 3

A present day Fabulous Five?

SAN DIEGO (AP) - This year’s Kentucky basketball team could be the greatest in the school’s history. Who says so? No less an authority than Adolph Rupp, who led the Wildcats to four national championships. “This team is one of the finest teams I have ever seen in my lifetime,” said Rupp, “and they could blow out some of my national championship teams.” Hesitant to make comparisons, Rupp nevertheless concedes that the 1974-75 Wildcats have more depth than even his most famous aggregation—the legendary “Fabulous Five” of the 19405. “Kevin Grevey is a far better shooter than any we had on that team,” the old master noted prior to Saturday’s NCAA championship semifinals at the San Diego Arena. ‘‘This Kentucky team is much bigger, more physical. Remember also my “Fabulous Five” only shot 32 per cent from the field for the season.” Joe Hall’s team is shooting 52 per cent. Rupp made his comments Friday while watching Kentucky’s muscled team work out in preparation for Saturday’s game with Syracuse. UCLA

Michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Freshman Harley Danner led Michigan’s gymnastics team as the Wolverines all but wrapped up its 12th Big Ten championship Friday at Crisler Arena with the completion of the compulsories and half of the optional events. The Wolverines piled up 312.15 points while second place Minnesota trailed with 292.5 and defending champion lowa was third at 185.35. Illinois was fourth with 274.2 followed by Indiana, 260.55; Wisconsin, 255.20; Michigan State, 245.7, and Ohio State, 245.55. After scoring 205.05 points in the compulsories Friday afternoon, the Wolverines added 107.1 points in the evening’s three optionals to increase their lead.

Milwaukee in do-or-die situation

By The Associated Press “Detroit’s got to lose a game,” said Milwaukee Bucks’ Coach Larry Costello. “If they do and we win all ours, we’re in. If they win them all, we’re out. It’s that simple.” Detroit plays at Golden State tonight and at home against Chicago next Wednesday. If the Pistons split those two games and Milwaukee wins its last five—including two meetings with the Pistons—both teams would finish with 40-42 records. The Bucks then would earn the wild card playoff berth in the National Basketball Association’s Western Conference with a 5-4 edge in the season

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met Louisville in the other semifinal match. The “Fabulous Five” consisted of Alex Groza at center, Wah Wah Jones and Cliff Barker at forwards and Kenny Rollins and Ralph Beard at guards. They compiled fancy records of 36-3 and 32-2 while winning national titles in 1948 and 1949. This same team also won an Olympic gold medal for the United States and later joined the National Basketball Association as a unit called the “Indianapolis Olympians.” Rupp also won national titles in 1951 and 1958, but none of his other teams were as well-known, nor as well-remembered. Rupp proclaims that “There’s never been a defensive player like Rollins. He was always assigned the hardest offensive player. And Beard was another one.” But, “The Baron” concedes, “They were not nearly as physical as Kentucky’s present two guards—Mike Flynn and Jimmy Dan Connor.” If the “Fabulous Five” and today’s Kentucky team played, who would win? “It would be interesting,” says Rupp, “but I wouldn’t want to coach that game. I love the kids from both teams.”

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The final three optional events were set for today with the individual championship finals set for 3 p.m. Heading into today’s action, the Wolverines had leaders in five of the six events and three of the top five all-around performers. Danner, a hometown freshman from Ann Arbor, lead the all-around competition with 75.3 points while teammate Pierre LeClerc and Bruce Keeshin were third and fifth, with 71.95 and 71.6 respectively. lowa’s Bill Mason was second with 73.35 points and Minnesota’s Jeff LaFleur was fourth at 71.65. In the events in which compulsory and optional competition is complete, the Wolverines will have two men in the finals in each event. The top

series. Friday night, Milwaukee trounced the Portland Trail Blazers 128-105 while Detroit was idle. Elsewhere, the Houston Rockets downed the jcleveland Cavaliers 112-105, the New Orleans Jazz stunned the New York Knicks 111-102, the Boston Celtics defeated the Chicago Bulls 97-92, the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Kansas CityOmaha Kings 114-103, the Seattle Super Sonics shaded the Golden State Warriors 96-92 and the Buffalo Braves turned back the Philadelphia 76ers 115-104. The Bucks were led by by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s 38 points and Gary Brokaw’s 24 in

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Montgomery: 'days like this only come natural'

By HERSCHEL NISSENSON AP Sports Writer The highlight of this story comes to you courtesy of the hero, Bob Montgomery of the Boston Red Sox: “This reporter drove in six runs with a homer and a triple,” he said, telling it like it is. Montgomery, a journeyman catcher who’ll be 31 next month, is faced with the task of filling in for Boston’s injuryprone Carlton “Pudge” Fisk for the second year in a row. Friday, he belted a three-run triple off Chicago’s Wilbur Wood in

Rookie cans 28 points plus... ■ Lucas, Spirits plaster Pacers

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Lightly impressed Maurice Lucas massaged a bruised left leg and reflected on his best night Friday in the American Basketball Association. “I was just getting my shots and hitting them,” insisted Lucas, a deadpan Spirits of St. Louis rookie who canned 28 points and snared 22 rebounds against the Indiana Pacers. But while Lucas, who also contributed six assists, shrugged off his performance in a 125-96 Spirits victory, Indiana

gymnastics title

eight averages in the compulsories and optionals of each event qualify for the finals. Michigan’s Randy Sakamoto, Charles Stillerman and Danner stand first, second and third in floor exercises while Keeshin is tied for seventh. Wolverine Joe Neuensuander of North Farmington and Indiana’s Landy Fernandez lead the rings with 9.2 qualifying averages. Michigan’s LeClerc is third, and Kurt Golden was fifth. In the pommel horse, Illinois’ Howard Beck was the top qualifier at 9.225; Bob Siemianowski of lowa was second while Jerome Poynton and Rupert Hansen were third and fourth for Michigan. Michigan State’s Steve Murdock was seventh. In the events where optional

breaking a five-game losing streak and pulling within 3V2 games of Detroit. Rockets 112, Cavaliers 105 Houston pulled into a tie for second place with Cleveland in the Western Division as Calvin Murphy tossed in 28 points.. Jazz 111, Knicks 102 Pete Maravich scored 32 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead New Orleans’ comeback victory. Celtics 97, Bulls 92 Boston’s Dave Cowens pumpedin 19 points to lead Boston. Lakers 114, Kings 103 Gail Goodrich scored a ca-reer-high 53 points, 36 in the

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the sixth inning and a three-run homer off Jack Kucek in the 10th, leading the Red Sox to a 95 exhibition baseball victory over the White Sox. As usual, Montgomery dropped into the press room at Boston’s Winter Haven, Fla., training camp following the game to get the line score and tape a radio show for the folks back home. “Shucks,” he kidded, “days like this only come natural. Just look at the homers I hit and the runs I’ve driven in in my career.” For the record, Montgomery

Coach Bob Leonard did not. “The big guy’s just been super against us,” declared Leonard, who had watched his Pacers absorb their worst loss of the season. “I’ve said before he’s got all the potential, and tonight he proved it. “We couldn’t seem to do anything right,” Leonard added in an understatement describing the play of travel-weary Indiana. “But this team of rookies is just beginning to come around,” he predicted of the

competition was to be completed this morning, Bob Darden of Michigan was the leader in the high bar, Michigan’s Richard Digras was leader in parallel bars and LeClerc was the leader in vaulting.

Colonels pull closer to Nets

By The Associated Press Artis Gilmore and Louie Dampier, the long and short of the Kentucky Colonels, are keeping their team in hot pursuit of the front-running New York Nets in the American Basketball Association’s Eastern Division race. The 7-foot-2 Gilmore and 6foot Dampier combined for 14 points in the third period Friday night as the Colonels broke away from the Virginia Squires

second half, to lead the Lakers past the Kings. Super Sonics 96, Warriors 92 Tommy Burleson scored 22 points to Lead Seattle Braves 115, 76ers 104 Bob McAdoo’s 27 points paced Buffalo’s victory. SAN DIEGO (AP) - Denny Crum, who learned a lot of basketball under John Wooden, got a tip from his old boss in dress etiquette Friday. As the Louisville Coach took his team off the San Diego Arena court after practice, UCLA’s Wooden stopped Crum and buttoned his jacket. Then they both went their separate ways.

has 16 homers and 98 RBI in 235 major league games. With Fisk sidelined for lengthy periods last season with groin and knee injuries, he got into 88 games and hit .252 with four homers and 38 RBIs. This time, Fisk is out until mid-May at least with a broken arm and Montgomery is due for plenty of action. He seems ready with a .371 spring batting average, 13 hits and nine RBIs. “I don’t really give it any thought, other than to feel sorry for Pudge,” he said. “In this business, you just go out and do the job.”

Spirits. “It’s getting close to playoff time and they want to get something going.” St. Louis Coach Bob MacKinnon, who saluted his team’s rare cohesiveness, acknowledged as much. “We played good defense tonight. We pitched out and got the ball upcourt,” MacKinnon said. “Tonight we came close to what we’ve been trying to do.” The victory tightened the Spirits’ hold on third place in the ABA’s East Division and represented their widest winning margin in an off-and-on year. “We’ve played some real good games,” noted Lucas, a member of a team which has lost 50 of 80 games, “but we’ve lost because we just couldn’t keep the pressure on. “Tonight we were all moving well,” he added. “It wasn’t that we were just coming down the floor, dribbling and shooting.

en route to a 110-88 victory. That triumph, combined with the New York Nets’ 111-106 loss to the Sounds at Memphis, lifted Kentucky within IV2 games of the Nets—and left them just one game back in the loss column. The defeat was the 64th of the season for the Squires, an ABA record. Two nights earlier the Squires set another record with

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Montgomery had to share batting laurels Friday with Juan Beniquez, who had two doubles and three singles and doubled home the tying run with two out in the ninth. Baltimore’s hot-hitting Don Baylor is outdoing Montgomery. Baylor slammed a two-run homer, his eighth of the spring, leading the Orioles to a 4-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Baylor, who also doubled, boosted his hitting streak to 14 games and raised his home run total to eight and his batting average to .547. Elsewhere, Doc Medich of the

Everybody passed off and had a hand on the ball.” Except for ragged minutes beginning and closing the second quarter, the Spirits were at their season’s best while tuning up for next month’s post-season action. Seventy per cent shooting harvested them a 30-30 standoff after 12 minutes, but a series of errors dropped them behind by 42-32 before they unwound. With a lift from reserve Don Adams, the Spirits then surged on top by 58-49 late in the opening half and rapidly pulled from a 60-56 edge at intermission to a 72-58 command early in the third period. “Sometimes shooting is just how you turn your hand,” said Lucas, who converted 13 of his 14 field goal attempts and both of his foul shots. “It doesn’t always work the way it did tonight,” he conceded. “Some nights it seems like there’s an invisible lid ”

their 29th home-court loss. Their record is a dismal 15-64. All of which has led a frustrated Virginia Coach A 1 Bianchi to remark, “We could take two girls from Immaculata (one of the top women’s college basketball teams) and win more than 15 games.” Gilmore had eight points and Dampier six in the third quarter, when Kentucky outscored Virginia 26-16.

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New York Yankees continued his hot pitching while Cincinnati’s Gary Nolan and Texas’ Fergie Jenkins took their lumps. A pair of knee cases, Detroit’s Willie Horton and Minnesota’s Tony Oliva, did some lusty hitting. Medich allowed three hits and one run in seven innings as the Yanks beat the Atlanta Braves 4-1. He had allowed only two runs in 28 innings. Bob Oliver’s tie-breaking two-run homer was the big blow. The Yanks got some more good news when outfielder Bobby Bonds’ sore shoulder was diagnosed as a strained muscle. The team doctor predicted Bonds would return to full-time duty before the team leaves Florida. Detroit pummeled Cincinnati’s Nolan and two relievers for 18 hits in a 7-4 triumph over the Reds. Horton collected three singles and a solo homer while Johnny Bench accounted

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for three Cincinnati runs with a pair of homers. The Houston Astros rocked Jenkins for 11 hits and eight runs in the first three innings and drubbed the Rangers 15-10. The Astros got 22 hits, led by Greg Gross, who went three for three and drove in four runs. Oliva hit two doubles and a single and Vic Albury became the first Minnesota pitcher to go seven innings as the Twins defeated the Montreal Expos and Dave McNally 5-1. Oliva, who has been used sparingly, boosted his batting mark to .346 as the Twins sent McNally to his third straight setback. John Lowenstein’s two-run pinch single off Oakland rookie Mike Barlow in the ninth inning rallied the Cleveland Indians to a 9-8 victory over the A’s. A pinch single by Winston Llenas with two out in the ninth inning enabled the California Angels to edge the Milwaukee Brewers 3-2.