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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, December 17, 1968

Lew will want to play with the best

NEW YORK (UPI)—The com. missioner of the National Basketball Association e xpressed confidence today that UCLA All-America Lew Alcindor will want “to play with the best” and, therefore, will sign with the entrenched pro circuit instead of the rival American Basketball Association.

Walter Kennedy, the NBA commissioner, said Monday that the NBA would conduct its draft of college players in the same manner as in the past. Kennedy made his remarks in recogni. tion of reports that the NBA might offer special inducements to Alcindor to prevent the 7. foot, 2-inch star from signing

“BUCKEYE POWER” >s what the big button held by sophomore Jan Snee says in Columbus as students look to the Rose Bowl game. Buttons, ribbons, lapel pins and other gewgaws are being displayed.

Standings | A1 Tucker

NEW YORK (UPI) — The United Press International top 20 major college basketball teams with first place votes and won-lost records in parentheses.

(Second week)

Team Points

1. UCLA (35) (3.0) 350 2. North Carolina (4-0) 284 3. Davidson (3-0) 172 4. Cincinnati (4-0) 154 5. Kentucky (3-1) 141 6. New Mexico (5-0) 135 7. Villanova (4-0) 134 8. Notre Dame (3-1) 113 9. Kansas (4.1) 79 10. Santa Clara (5-0) 78 Second 10—11, St. Bonaventure 52; 12, Purdue 41; 13, New Mexico St. 25; 14, LaSalle 23; 15, Houston 20; 16, Illinois 15; 17, Columbia 13; 18, Tulsa 12; 19, Western Kentucky 8; 20, Southern California 7. HJenpin Tales/ i BY SAM LEVINE ■■ ■Til Editor. The Keyler NOT ONLY is Carmen Salvino of Chicago a fine bowler, but he’s also a good coach. In a recent professional tourney, Dick Ritger of Hartford, VVis.. was having difficulty with his approach. Salvino straightened him out. The next week, in a second tournament. Ritger edged out Salvino for the 16th and last qualifying spot in the finals — by one pin — and then continued on to nab the $3,000 top prize. * * « BOWLING, undoubtedly, is one of the oldest of all games.

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According to a professor of Egyptology at the University of London, implements for playing a game similar to modern tenpins were discovered in the grave of an Egyptian child. The date of the child’s burial has been authentically placed at 5200 B.C. * * * IN A SPECIAL match in Detroit, Motor City stars Johnny Crimmins and Walter Schackett fired simultaneous 300’s for a one-game score of 600. P.S. They won the game.

announces game change A1 Tucker, Cloverdale basketball coach, reports the Friday night game with Need more will be played in the Oolitic gymnasium to help facilitate the large anticipated crowd. Washington still No. 1 INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Big George McGinnis and his un. beaten Indianapolis Washington teammates showed the Indiana high school basketball world why they’re No. 1 Friday night. The Continentals, voted the state’s top prep quintet in the first UPI coaches’ board rating of the season this week, over, powered Lawrence Central, 10152 as McGinnis scored 54 points for a school record. All eight of the “top 10” teams in action Friday night scored victories, some almost as impressive as Washington’s lopsided win, their fifth of the

campaign.

Second.rated Marion broke the game open in the second period and rolled over Kokomo, 93-58, in a North Central Conference squabble. The fast - breaking Giants, with transfer student Danny Gunn leading the way with 25 points, outscored the Wildcats in the second stanza 27-13 to take a 49-28 lead at halftime and increased it to 7443 at the third stop. No. 5 Indianapolis Shortridge steamrolled over city rival Wood, 99-51 in another awesome power show. Defending state champion Gary Roosevelt, ranked fourth, defeated Hammond, 77-54, with a balanced scoring attack. The Panthers led only 13-12 at the first stop but outscored Hammond 28-18 in the second period and 22-8 in the third. No. 6 Michigan City beat South Bend Adams, 78-53, and No. 9 Richmond, the only team in the top 10 besides Gary Tolleston which has lost a game this season, defeated NCC foe Muncie Central, 79-71.

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with an ABA team. Among those reports was one that Alcindor might insist on playing with the New York Knickerbockers inasmuch as he played for Power Memorial of New York as a high school star or threaten to sign with an ABA team. “I can’t imagine him doing such a thing,” said Kennedy. “But even if he does, we will not conduct our draft any differently than we have in the past.” Kennedy was asked about reports that ABA teams might pool their resources in order to sign Alcindor into their league. “I’ve read that but I can’t believe it’s so,” said Kennedy. “Of course, I can’t be sure. But I can make an observation. “Last year at the time we signed our No. 1 and No. 2 draft choices, Hayes and Westley Unseld, they made an unsolicited observation that the reason they signed was that they were sure they had enough talent to go far in pro basketball and they wanted to play with the best by signing with the NBA. “Alcindor has the potential to be a great one, too, and I’m sure he’ll feel the same way,” Kennedy concluded.

FOLLOW THE LEADER That’s what it looks like here as three St. Louis U. players follow the "leader,” Dave George of Rutgers, who has the ball. Action is from N.Y. game. UCLA still top team by national poll

By STEVE SMILANICH UPI Sports Writer NEW YORK (UPI) - The UCLA Bruins didn’t get beyond their practice gym the past week but still drew unanimous

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By Walter L. Johns, Central Press Sports Editor ITEMS OF SPORTS INFO picked up here and there and strung along the typewriter . . . Alabama, which plays in its 22nd Bowl in the Gator affair Dec. 28, has the best football record of all major colleges since 1960, now standing at 79-8-3 . . . Astro Turf now has been installed on eight football fields . . . The Tournament of Roses was founded believe it or not —by a hunt club in. Pasadena. Calif., with the first held in 1890 . . . Two halfbacks on the Dayton U. football team, Bemie Kress and Bob Madden, handled the ball on 448 plays this past season without a fumble! . . . Illinois hunters got 7,866 deer during the recent season . . . We like Ara Parseghian’s suggestion that a penalty be put on missed field goals . . . Like putting the ball in play at the spot the field goal was missed, not on the 20-yard line if it goes over the goal line . . . Georgia, in the Sugar Bowl, was the No. 1 defensive team against scoring in the nation this past season, permitting only 9.8 points per game average . . . Dick Dell, co-captain of Michigan’s tennis team for 1969, is the younger brother of the U.S. Davis Cup captain, Don Dell . . . Tony Hinkle is in his 40th year as athletic director and coach of most everything at Butler U. . . . A real two-w r ay player this past college season was A1 Brenner of Michigan State . . . He made one All-team as a safety on defense and the second unit as an end on offense . . . The fellow’ w r ho selects the horse race winners in the Toronto Daily Star, Tom Bird, is the only blind racing selector in America.

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GOOD QUOTE from Blanton Collier, coach of the Cleveland Browns . . . “You can accomplish anything you w r ant as long as you don’t care who gets the credit.” . . . Racing season ended at New York’s Aqueduct the other day, but the wait w’on’t be that long . . . The new season starts there March 10 . . . The leader of the major college football scoring, Jim O'Brien of Cincinnati, and the small college division, Howard Stevens of Randolph-Macon, both recorded the same number of points, 142 .. . The Cincinnati Bengals’ coach. Paul Brown, had all his players attending a movie night before their games, home and away . . . The Detroit Tigers, the 1968 baseball champs, report for Spring training at Lakeland. Fla., Feb. 22 . . . Mississippi's appearance in the Liberty Bowl game last weekend was the Rebs’ 24th game with TV exposure ... Of all things . . . North Carolina State band director Don Adcock fretted before the final game with Florida State . . . Not about his team, but his band . . . "I'm really w’orried about this game,” he said, “this will be the best band we’ve been on the field with.” . . . Joe Paterno, Penn State coach, and leading his Nittany Lions into the Orange Bowl, has one goal to make Penn State the nation’s No. 1 grid pow’er.

Bubba has all praise for Charlie

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UPI Sports Writer NEW YORK (UPI)— Have you gotten a load of Charlie Smith lately? No, not the one the Yankees peddled to the Giants the other day. The one doing a job on defense for the Baltimore Colts. What’s that you say? You don’t know any Charlie Smith with the Colts? Sure you do. You know ol’ Bubba Smith now, don’tcha? That’s the same guy, Charlie Smith. Only nobody ever calls him that. Everybody calls him Bubba. Remember him with Michigan State, how he disintegrated the opposition so regularly that all the football nuts in the country began going around babbling, “Kill, Bubba, Kill!” Charlie Smith...sorry, Bubba...doesn’t hear that so much anymore playing defensive end for the Baltimore Colts. “I still hear it In spots but not like I did at Michigan State,” says the 6-foot-7, 295-pounc colossus already showing dis. tinct All-Pro signs although this is only his second season in tht NFL. “Who knows, maybe one day they might be saying it again,” reflects Bubba. “I hope I can turn into the type ballplayer that'll cause them to say It. Maybe when I get a little more experience.” Getting Experience Some of those people on the other side of the line who have tried containing Bubba this season say he’s soaking up experience so fast he’s likely to

be a 10-year man by the Super Bowl Game. Performing at one of the toughest positions in pro football, a position at which Deacon James set the pattern and then supposedly threw away the mold, Smith has become one of the key figures in what is generally regarded the top defensive unit in all football. Bubba attributes his remarkable improvement to one thing: unity. “What is unity?” he said, trying to interpret it in a pro football sense. “It’s something that has to grow. You just can’t say, well, man, we’re gonna have unity. It’s something that has to form by playing together. Pro-Files

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support as the No. 1 basketball power in the land. In balloting by the United Press International Board of Coaches, John Wooden’s idle charges received all 35 first place votes for the second straight week and compiled a perfect total of 350 points. Points are based on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. UCLA, winner of its first three games this season, returns to action Friday night on its home court against Minnesota. On Saturday night the Bruins are at home against West Virginia. The Uclans easily outdistanced North Carolina in the weekly balloting. The Tar Heels, holding the runnerup spot for the second straight week, pulled a batch of second place votes to wind up in the No. 2 spot with 284 points. Davidson, unbeaten in three games, held the No. 3 position with 172 poins, followed by Cincinnati, Kentucky, New Mexico, Villanova, Notre Dame, Kansas, and Santa Clara. St. Bonaventure held on to the No. 11 position, followed by Purdue, New Mexico State, LaSalle, Houston, Illinois, Columbia, Tulsa, Western Kentucky and Southern California. While North Carolina actually lost ground in the race with UCLA, slipping from the 309 points the Tar Heels had the previous week, The Southeast, ern power held ground in the position battle as No. 3 Davidson dropped one point from a week ago. The biggest gains during the week were made by Cincinnati and Santa Clara. Cincinnati moved from eighth to fourth spot with a total of 154 points while Santa Clara, winner of five games and champion in the Cable Car Classic tournament, reached the No. 10 spot after being ranked 15th the previous

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INDIANAPOLIS (UPI ) $200,000 easily, including a reAmerican auto racing enjoyed cord $175^39 f or winning at one of its most successful sea- Indianapolis, while Pearson’s sons in 1968, with record payoffs total earni ng S were $118,492. He j * k.,* **w» nrfvc won 10 races on the stock car

and few fatalities, but the pros and cons of turbine racing remained a hot potato issue. Handsome Bobby Unser became the new champion of the Indianapolis 500-mile racing fraternity and promptly captured the national driving crown of the United States Auto Club in the closest finish ever, and Dave Pearson won NASCAR’s grand national, stock car racing’s No. 1 title, for the second time. Internationally, suave Londoner Graham Hill, a former Indianapolis “500” winner, copped the coveted Grand Prix world championship for the second time, climaxing a brilliant year of Formula I competition. But former world champion Jimmy Clark, the flying Scot who scored one first and two seconds at Indianapolis, crashed to his death in a relatively minor Formula n race in Hockenheim, Germany, in April, and Britain’s Mike Spence was fatally injured in a practice spin at the famed 2V2 -mile Speedway oval here in his first attempt to win the Memorial Day classic.

Unser in Record

The lone casualty on US AC’s big-car racing circuit was Ronnie Duman, killed in a 150-mile race at Milwaukee in June. Two other Grand Prix veterans were killed in Europe. Italy’s champion Lodovico Scarfiotti was killed in trials at Berchtesgaden, Germany, while Frenchman Jo Schlesser met death in the Grand Prix of

France at Rouen.

Unser, a member of a famed racing clan from Albuquerque, N.M., won the “500” at a record average speed of 152.882 miles per hour, the first time a turbocharged, four.cylinder Offenhauser rolled into victory lane. He won three other major events, all in the early part of the season, to nose out two-time champion Mario Andretti for US AC laurels by a scant 11 points, 4,330 to 4,319. Unser’s 1968 earnings topped

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When Bubba Smith was signed by the Colts and reported to them last year a lot of people said goodbye, Billy Ray Smith. Billy Ray is a 10year veteran, 33 years old and a defensive tackle. A lot of people thought Bubba Smith was going to ease out Billy Ray Smith at defensive tackle. But Billy Ray suddenly became a better tackle the moment he saw Bubba there. He held on to his position, Bubba took over one of the defensive end positions and now there are no two warmer friends. “They don’t come any better than Billy Ray,” says Bubba. “He helped me tremendously. How? A lotta ways. He talks to me a lot during the game, you know, watch this, watch that, keeping me conscious of what’s happening all the time. He’ll say ‘watch the trap, Bub. Don’t let the quarterback get outta the pocket, Bub.’ He’s constantly helping me like that.” Knee Slowed Bubba What is not generally known Is the depressed state Bubba fell into last year when he came up with a severely sprained knee during training that kicked up again later and kept him inactive a good part of the season. Bubba kept sitting, sitting and sitting some more. It got him down so much he thought about quitting football.

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circuit, including the “Rebel 400” at Darlington. Bobby Isaac was second for Grand National honors and Richard Petty third. NASCAR paid out $3,643,473in 1,065 events, including $1,264,659 in Grand National competition both records. Not a single death marred NASCAR racing, which attracted more than 7 million paying customers. Turbine Won Pole USAC purses totaled $2,437,197 in 151 races, of which$1,686,840 was paid out in the championship division. Both were also records. There was another “first” in the Indianapolis “500”—one of Andy Granatelli’s turbines won the pole position as the fastest first-day qualifier at a speed of nearly 172 mph and a sister car driven by Hill was the second fastest. A third turbocar also made the 33-car lineup and for the second year in a row one of them was nearing victory when it failed. In 1967 former “500” winner Parnelli Jones, leading by nearly a lap, was sidelined four laps from the finish when a $6 ball bearing failed. This time Leonard led by 7 seconds with nine laps to go when his turbine simply quit running. Two near misses in a row resulted in more pressure from piston racing groups on USAC and its rules committee promptly recommended that turbocars be banned effective Jan. 1, 1969.

The board of directors, which reduced turbine engines by about one-third after Granatelli’s initial success in 1967, refused to go along, however, and voted another reduction in engine size, this time 25 per cent, following an intensive study. Steam Car Coming? Granatelli, who fought the first engine reduction in a lengthy court battle and lost, called it a “sorry maneuver” by the rules makers, embarking on a policy of “banning successful innovators.” He said, in effect, the latest reduction was the end of his turbocars at the Speedway. Meanwhile, another racing enthusiast planned to build a steampowered machine for the next “500,” and both USAC and NASCAR predicted continued success. Obviously referring to some controversies, USAC’s director of competition Henry Banks nevertheless called 1968 his group’s best yet. “We made some mistakes but I am certain we will profit from them,” he said. “The future for USAC is very bright and with the loyal support of our members and the fans, next yea*and years to come will guarantee the growth of our club and of the sport of auto racing.” NASCAR President Bill France was equally optimistic. He said construction of two major Speedways in Michigan and Alabama will assure continued growth of stock car racing. “I look for NASCAR to have its greatest year in history in 1969.” he said.

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