Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1964 — Page 6

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Duke, UCLA Meet Tonight In NCAA Final KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPD—UCLA’S quick, deft Bruins, only the fourth team in history to carry an untarnished record into the NCAA basketball championship finals, must conquer Duke’s talented inside-out-side power tonight to become the third undefeated national champion. UCLA ran its victory string 4 o 29 in a row with a rallying 90-84 victory over Kansas State in Friday night’s western semifinals after Duke’s Blue Devils had used the inside-out-side tandam of Jay Buckley and Jeff Mullins for a 91-80 defeat of Michigan for the eastern title and 26-4 season record. UCLA and Duke meet in the title game at 10 pjn. EST, while Michigan and Kanaas State play for third place at 8 p.m. EST. If Coach John Wooden’s Big Six Conference champions overcome their recent tendency to blow leads and defend their No. 1 season ranking, they will post the second best title record in history. North Carolina won on this same Municipal Auditorium court in 1957 with a 32-0 record, while San Francisco won the previous year with a 19-0 mark. Ohio State made it to the finals undefeated in 1961 here, but bowed to champion Cincinnati. Wooden wasn’t completely satisified with his team’s performance. “The team played much like it has lately—not too well but with a lot 6t courage,” he commented after blowing two seven-poiijt, first-half leads to trail by as much as six points at 69-63 in the last half. “It seems we can’t stand prosperity,” -he said. “We get a lead and let the opponents catch up. We got ourselves in a spot again, but we struck in there. . .and all I ask is one more time.” But Wooden was also proud

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Pirates Hope For Comeback This Season (EDITORS NOTE’ This is the sixth of 20 dispatches on the 1964 prospects of the major league baseball teams. By LEO H. PETERSEN UPI Sports Editor FORT MYERS, Fla. (LTD— The Pittsburgh Pirates are perfectly willing to forgive and forget — forgive some of thennewcomers for not coming through immediately and forget all about last year. Pittsburgh tumbled all the way to eighth place last season in the first year of its rebuilding program, only because a number of players counted of the fact this team won, despite the "bad night” suffered by “one of our very best players,” Jack Hirsch. Picks Up Slack Unsung Keith Erickson, a 6-5 junior forward with a normal 10-point average, picked up the slack with a 28-point night to go with All - America guard Walt Hazzard's 19 points. K-State Coach Tex Winter, who got 29 and 24-point performances from Willie Murrell and Jeff Simons, blamed a three - minute drought during which UCLA outscored his Wildcats 11-0 to erase a 75-70 K-State lead and turn it into a 81-75 UCLA lead with just 4:25 left. “We had our golden opportunity, but we couldn’t hit,” he said. Duke got great contributions from Buckley — 25 points and 14 rebounds — on the inside and 21 points from Mullins outside; cashed in even more on 13 rebounds from 6-10 Hack Tison, and really won the game on the tremendous clutch outside shooting of guards Buzzy Harrison and Denny Ferguson to turn back Michigan in the opener before 10,731 customers. Michigan's sophomore flush, Cazzie RusselL won opening night scoring honors with a 31point output, txit the Big Ten

upon to come through fell short of the mark. It was quite a comedown from the Pirate glory days of 1960, when they won the National League pennant and went on to take the World Series from the New York Yankees. The Pirate fortunes ebbed after that, so finally after the 1962 season, when Pittsburgh finished fourth, they made their big move. It turned out to be disastrous. The Pirates disposed of three fourths of their 1960 championship infield. Donn Clendenon at first base’was a disappointment as a fill-in for Dick Stuart, who went to the Boston Red Sox and wound up winning the runs batted in championship of the American League with 118; Dick Schofield fell below expectations in taking over for shortstop Dick Groat, who had an outstanding year for the St. Louis Cardinals; and rookie third baseman Bob Bailey was anything but the sensation he was tagged to be when the Pirates let Don Hoak go to the Philadelphia Phillies. Others Fell Short There were a number of others who didn’t perform up to the standard anticipated for them. “But that’s all over,” insists Manage- Danny Murtaugh. “This is a new season and we all realize we have a lot of catching up to do for last year.” “And we’re out to do it with the same players. We may not be good enough to rank in the contending class, but we are good enough to make amends for our 1963 showing.” Murtaugh still thinks Bailey is a star of the future; that Clendenon, if he can cut down on his strikeouts, will become “a fine power hitter” and that Schofield “will be a major league shortstop.” That takes care of three fourths of the Pirate infield. The other fourth is in very capable hands — second baseman Bill Mazeroski. Colleae Basketball NCAA Tourney Duke 91, Michigan 80. - UCLA 90, Kansas State 84. Hockey Results Muskegon 11, Fort Wayne 5. co-champions were on the short end of offensive rebounds 19-11 and committed 20 errors to Duke’s 10. Even with Bill Buntin posting 19 points, that was too much of a margin to overcome.

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Murtaugh will have in his outfield veterans Roberto Clemente in right and Bill Virdon in center with Willie Stargell, another 1963 disappointment in left. “Stargell is going to get every opportunity to be our regular left fielder and I think he will make it and hit from 25 to 35 home runs for us,” Murtaugh contends. Try Others Abo But then he let one cat out of the bag—he said he also w«e

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going to give his three third base candidates, Bailey, Gene Freeze and Gene Alley a shot at left field. Murtaugh admits catching could be a problem. He plans using the aging Smoky Burgess in “only one or two games a week’’ so we can have his big left handed bat on the bench.” That leaves the No. 1 job open to another 1963 let-down, Jim Pagliaroni, part of the Red Sox payment for Stuart. Behind them, fight-

ing for the third job, are Ron Brand, Orlando McFarlane and Elmo Plasket. It falls far short of being an all-star catching trio. Says Pitching Set When it comes to pitching, MurtaUgh’s face lights up. “The only thing we might need,” he said, emphasizing “might,” “is a left handed relief pitcher. “We have outstanding pitching depth,” he claims. “A lot of things killed us last year but

pitching wasn’t one of then.” For starters there are left handers Bob Veale (5-2) and Joe Gfbbon (5-12) and right handers Bob Friend (17-16), Don Cgrdwell (13-15) and Don Schwall (6-12). Little Roy Face (3-9), a righty and Al Mcßean (13-3) a lefty,j head the bullpen corps. “Therje are seven mighty good pitchers,” Murtaugh claims. He isn't counting on the veteran right hander, Vern Law, who was 2-0 last season, but

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hasn’t been effective since arm trouble caught up with him after winning 20 games in 1960. “I’ve never seen him throwing so well,” says Murtaugh. “If he should come back—and mind you, we are not counting on it—he could be a big plus in our pitching.” So pitching may not be a problem. Power, defense and speed could be through, so the Pirates may have to forgive and forget again.