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30 Hounded by His Heirs

Jack Nicklaus is still top dog on golf's pro tour, but a pack
of aggressive youngsters hopes to bring him to bay

34 Feasting on the Unfortunates

A Russian hockey massacre of U.S. amateur and minor-
league teams suggests a rematch with the big boys

36 The Man Who Loved Cat Killing

For his "guaranteed" hunts, Curtis Jackson Prock brought
jaguars back to New Mexico — in cages

38 Big Julie Is Doing Nicely-Nicely

Julius Erving is netting money and making friends on and

off the court, and his teammates are chipping in

Super Bowl VIII: Take Your Pick

42 Statistician Bud Goode's computer selects Miami Next week
50 Empiricist Tex Maule says it will be Minnesota
FANCY PASSING will be need-
ed from Fran Tarkcnton, or the
Vikings will be just another
passing fancy and the Dolphins
60 Joyeux Joint for Jumping Jacques
will have another Super Bowl
The steeplechase course at Pau in southern France is as victory. Tex Maule reports.
lovely and challenging as any on the Continent

THE COUNTDOWN to the

74 A Mountain with a Wolf on It . .
long-awaited rematch between
Ali and Frazier has begun.
. stands a little taller, or so believes the
. . man who guards
Mark Kram scouts the two
a dwindling band of red wolves in Texas
heavies in training and tells
which one will win, and why.

OFF TO A BAD START and

on to a good ending is how
Steve Williams runs the 100.
And how he docs run! Kenny
Moore visitsthe world-record
The departments holder. And how he does talk!

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Assistant Managing Kditora: John Tibby. Kay Cav Just one more big football game com- said. "Even boys and girls correlate, but
Jeremiah lax
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•I Director: Richard < .angel

riskiest of all editorial stunts by un- Goode had fed in all the relevant facts,
Gilbert Kogin, Kenneih equivocally predicting the Super Bowl it took the computer less than one sec-

w inner for you. ond to decide that Miami would win

a Phiniry. Whitney Tower. Well, that is what we thought we next Sunday , and by how much.
Kditora: Gwilym S Browi. Jnsrpli Carroll. were going to do until late last week. Being human. Maule took a little
J
Kirmtte, Gay Klnorl. Jie jare*. Ray Ken-
Ron
Peter Carry.
nedy. Curry Kirkpatrick. Jerry Kimhcnbautn. Virginia Actually, we now present a pair of pre- longer to come up with his own regres-
Krati. Mark Kraut. Mark Mulvoy. Pa Putnam. Morton
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. Jule
vin. J ee Mar-hall, Barry source but each arriving at a different human y, he was able to abandon one
M c Der mot Harolrf n K cm I llenn.in Wciskopt
of conclusions in favor of another
Tex Maule. the dean of
t . I

bottom line. set

Picture Kdilor: George |
RlraKlgonrl
Production Manager: < our pro football writers, finally as his analysis progressed last week.
Chi f of Research: \
switched to the Vi- Maule doesn't mind
Photography wm-um
tpKPPTV). l-ranlc Agolta.
: i

,. kings for reasons he computers, forgiving

Carolyn Keith, Theodore Slcphney,
tAmislantal Photographer*: Jerry (me nmre, *.erry explains on page 50. them even their vo-
Cranham. Koy De Carava. Janie- Drake. John II Hanlon.
VV idler loo— Jt Heinz Klueimeier. Ned lanfcr. Herb
.
Bud Goode, a Los cabulary-reason-
Seltarfinait. Krtr Schwcikardt. Shrilly .V Long, Lane
Stewart, Tony Triolo
Angeles statistician able enough, since he
Writer-Reporters: s.,,.,!, Pri.-gg, m r n. Jim Kanli
Jairry Keith. Pamela Knight. I.yn
!•
who believes mightily has himself contribut-
VrT-eitoth. Nancy VVtlltam-on 'Special ’

in computers (and ed to the esoteric lan-

Con*tance j utiti-. Ctinsi ai
understands them, guage of pro football.
Reporters: Sum.M Adam- Mnltael IIi'IN.ikio.
hand. Jane Gro—, Kent Hannon. Vnkre An For example, he in-
Angel Keyes, Denise Roger-. Sirplia D Alexandra moreover), tells us.
Staihoitlo-, William »» »•••.. I
beginning on page 4 troduced SI readers to
Art Department: liar rev -r a- Via. Ill, N.n han v mil. I
.
-

OIKECTOHVI. Ur emt an V NtuUey Color Oualtlyi. William i

why the Dolphins will "stunting," the now-

Bernstein. Kllen A KostrofT. I.inrla Kliwuit, Catherine
Smolich. Thomas Vlnk-I.aina-
win, and by how fashionable term for
Cop> Desk: Betty
much. Or at least his certain tricky defen-
hara W Murray. C .
Deirilrc Kami all.
Kotier I H VVilliani- computer does. sive maneuvers, after
Goode, reports Joe the Detroit-Green
Marshall, who wrote Bay Thanksgiving
Special Contributors: the story about him. Day game of 1962.
is fundamentally op- Nevertheless. Maule
Special Correspondents: Kleanore Milo-om posed to gambling believes there are ele-

, -/Ugr. Howard Weaver; Atlanta. and worries that be- ments in the game
I.ewr- Jimmy
Gru/ard. /tains. Bank-, Haltimnir. Joe
D'Adamo; Italna Rougr, Dan llanle-ty, Hn mineham. cause he predicts the outcome people that no machine can accommodate: the
Jimmy Bryan. Itovioa. Lev' Monahan. tuHah-. Dvck Jot in
-'fin t minir itv Gnu sthipler Jt., (‘hnr'.ullr, Ronald Green;
will take him for simply another line- inventiveness of a coach's mind, for in-
t'hrrato. VViliia: Cinnnnali. Jim Srholtelkotte,
Iiarle- Healoti. < olnmlnu. Kaye Kc— ler; Palla*. variables on
Sieve Perkin*; Urner. Bull Uowle, Hex doff Boh A-bille, maker. But he has spent years refining stance. can nullify the
Hrtrort. Jerry Green, (.,remhuio, Sun It Barrier; llair n-
hurt. John Travers; Hanoi“In, Jim Krliardnon; out ton. H his techniques with the computer (the which a game plan (or a computer pre-
Jack Gallagher f /n./iuri.i/io/i I >1. k Kenny. Jaekiom-illr.
based. Maule also believes
• .

Bill Ka-trlz An inn. < irv. Iheinlore O'l.eaiy; K notville.

; jargon runs to phrases like "'factor diction) is
Bon Byrd; Arlington. I-.I Ashford: i.r tilt Ko, i, Orville
Henry, Aoi Angr/ci. Jack Tobin; AoniiiMe. William I-
analysis,” "correlation matrix" and that balls do take funny bounces and
Reed. \temphit, Charles Gillespie; .t/rm-ir. tilenn KuvhhotT.
Miluanker, Boh Wolt. .Minneapolis. luck Gordon; Vmli can unprcdictably rise (or
rit/r. Max Vork. Xru Haifa, Bill Guthrie; Xeu thleam. "multiple regression analysis") and he that players
Peter Kinney: Oklahoma C'lv. Harold Nile*; Omaha. Hollis
l.imprccht; Philadelphia, Gordon I or l»’-: Phoenix. Frank could no more resist making a predic- fall) far from their normal levels. Put-
Gianelh, Pitlshhr eh. Pat l.ix'ing-ton; Poilland, Ken W heeler,
Port Totontend, Irmt., Dolly Connell'/; Pio.i.tenre. John tion on the Super Bowl than Carl tiler ting it all together. Maule tossed out
Hanlon; Roanoke. Bill Brdl; Salt l.akr Crtv. George K>r
union; San Antonio, John Janes. San l ireo. Jin k Murphy; could resist sacking Bob Griese if the his first notion, which was that Miami
San /• lannsco. Art KoxeiilJaiim; SeallU, Kmmett Watrnn;
South Head. Joe Doyle; Sparlanhuit. Andre liminn. opportunity arose. would win, and voted for the Vikings.
Aortn, Bob McCoy; SyroruH. Burl Valid"' V.-er, I
Bill
Iwvll.
McGrolha; Tampa, Tom Mi Kwrn;
I 'a Ir iii’lnn Martte /ml
i
Water, \>t
Interviewing Goode, says Marshall, His choice for Super Bowl Vlll was
i .

la: Montreal. Arthur Siegel. do, Rex Marl.eod; is a little like being in the company of thus consistent and predictable; the
Kiel. Eric Whitehead
an on-line, turned-on computer. "He's Maule Invariable, as he himself recog-
a nonstop talker to begin with and he's nizes, was at work. He has always
EditorialServices: Paul Welch ll>hcclur>. Carolyn R
Pappas, Norman Atrey. George Kara-. Rrniainin Light man.
Dons O’Neil always saying computer sorts of things picked the NFL (or, since 1969, the
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"And it’s the wrong time of year. This
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SCORECARD Edited by ROBERT W. CREAMER

vember. Under racing rules
cially

Jan.
ple
become a year old the following
.when it actually will be only a cou-
I

of months old.
it will offi-

"Besides, the shareholders in the syn-

dicate that owns the stallion wouldn’t
want it.”
SHOWS AND NO-SHOWS Florida wentdown to defeat. Only Geor- O.K. Now the only question is. What
The no-show controversy bubbles on. gia,with an edgy one-point win over should the foal be named? Trial Run?
The National Football League said that Maryland, salvaged anything.
the federal law requiring teams to allow Five defeats in six games is insufficient VAULTING AMBITION
local telecasts of sold-out home games evidence for a blanket indictment, of Devising and computer
utilizing a pro-
was responsible for 656.290 no-shows course, but for the moment it appears gram of mathematical equations, two
this past season, and argued that this that the rebel yell is "Ouch." Kansas State U niversity engineering pro-
caused an immediate financial decline in fessors have concluded that among track
the areas of parking and concessions and INF ANTICIPATING and field athletes, pole vaulters are un-
will cause a future decline in season-tick- Who Is this mare Secretariat’s name has derachievers. Dr. Philip G. Kirmser and
et sales. Proponents of the anti-blackout been linked with, she who is to be the Dr. Hugh S. Walker assert that the pres-
law. among them Representative Torbcrt mother of his first child? According to ent world record in the pole vault (18'
Macdonald of Massachusetts and Sen- Bill Taylor of Claiborne Farm, where 5 l/s") is far under what it should be. The
ator John Pastore of Rhode Island, Secretarial is at stud, she has no name, two believe a 20-foot vault is not improb-
claimed that the NFL was exaggerating only a number, and Taylor could not able, although they say the 20-foot vault-
the importance of no-shows and that the even remember her number. She is an
new four-year NFL television contract is Appaloosa mare, one of that exotic spot-
expected to total S220 million compared ted breed, and worth between S500 and
loSI84 million forthe four-year contract S600. Taylor is not sure how old she is

that ran through this past season. Pas- "Seven, eight or nine, somewhere in

tore commented on the "upgrading in there." he said — nor how many foals she
value" of the television contract, but ac- has had before.
tually the ratings for NFL. football, "I guess she's had four or five." he
which were off slightly in 1972, were said. "She’s been used pretty regularly
down a bit again this past season. as a nurse mare." Nurse mares are bred
Meanwhile, a San Diego football fan to any ragtag male in order to get them
named Don Peters has a suggestion that in foal so that they will be able to pro-

ignores the issue but could go a long way duce milk for thoroughbred foals whose
toward filling the empty scats left by no- mothers are unable to nurse them. The
shows, not to mention parking lots and Secretariat mare's earlier foals were sold
concession stands. He proposes that an as riding horses or to the University of
office, possibly staffed by volunteer Kentucky for experimental purposes.
workers, be established in each NFL city The average price was S50 to S60.
to function as a clearinghouse for no- What, S50 or $60 for Secretariat’s first
show tickets. Fans without tickets would child, evenan unfashionable, non-thor-
sign a waiting list, ticket holders not at- oughbred child? Taylor agreed that
tending the game would advise the cen- seemed low. "I had a mare once in foal
tral office, and the no-show tickets would to Buckpasser," he recalled, "and I got
end up with the no-ticket people. If the a nice piece of change for it. I think I

idea works, a lot of eager fans would fill soldit to a girl to use as a show horse.”

those cheerless empty spaces. It might be He thought the Secretariat foal might er will have to have a gymnastics back-
worth a try. make a useful hunter or jumper. ground and a new type of pole. "The pole
. Taylor was asked why the farm had needs to be more flexible than the fiber-
REBEL YELL not used a thoroughbred of no distinc- glass poles now in use," says Kirmser.
The Southeastern Conference, proud tion as a test mare, on the chance that a The professors also decided that the
bastion of Southern football, really took usable racer might result. "The test mare longer a vault takes —that is, the more
the pipe in postseason bowl games. The has to be real gentle," he explained, "so time the vaulter is off the ground — the
cream of the conference — Alabama, that the horse won’t get hurt. She must better the vault will be. "A good vault.”
LSU, Auburn, Tennessee, Florida and be very docile. Often, a young stallion says Kirmser, "takes from l.l to 1.2 sec-
Georgia — played and Ala-
in bowls, acts roughly and strongly, and thorough- onds from start to finish. A jump that
bama, LSU, Auburn, Tennessee and bred mares usually won’t stand for that. takes only .8 or .9 seconds is a poor jump.
continued

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We know a poor vault instantly. A good the four major bowls. More than that, pointed out that the popular Rams, par-
one always lasts longer.” however. Parseghian says this old idea ticularly now that they are w inning again,
It's difficult to argue with that. The should be fully examined and acted upon draw huge crowds to the Coliseum Sun-
higher a man jumps the longer it should once and for all. "Every year the same day after Sunday, whereas track meets,
take for him to get back down. It sounds thing happens," he says. "People start for the most part, draw sparsely.
a little like Calvin Coolidge's dictum: talking about a playoff and how difficult The limited spectator appeal of track
“When many people arc unable
a great it is to reach a significant pairing in a isevident on the other side of the coun-
to find work, unemployment results." bowl game. This year the Sugar Bow had l try. too.The Philadelphia Track Classic
the opportunity, but a lot of things had was bumped from a preferred Friday
GAME BALL to fall into place before it happened. night date at the Spectrum and had to
In thisday and age. when success in sport "What the NCAA or somebody settle for a Monday. The Monday that
is measured too often by the dollar sign, should do is hire a man to promote the was assigned— Jan. 28 seemed safe —
it is a pleasure to come across Robert idea among the college administrators. enough: there would he no basketball or
Vandcrbrook. a 22-year-old medical stu- coaches and bowl officials and find out hockey games that night, at any rate.
dent at Louisiana State University. Van- exactly where they stand on playoffs. Air Then someone realized it was the night
dcrbrook was in the stands at the Sugar this thing out completely. Let all the pro- of the Frazier-Ali heavyweight fight, and
Bow on New Year’s Eve and caught the
l posals and objections be heard. Finally, the Spectrum is a choice site for closed-

game-winning field goal kicked by No- one of three conclusions could be TV. In a spirit of cooperation, or
circuit

tre Dame's Bob Thomas. Afterward he reached. Playoffs can be held, or they perhaps desperation, the Track Classic
made for the dressing room and as he enough interest
can't be held, or there's moved up its starting time to get the meet
waited outside an exuberant Notre Dame to work out an acceptable format. It over before the fight began.
fan offered him S500 for the ball. Van- might take a year or two to do it but I Only 4.X00 tickets (priced at S5 and
derbrook said no. The father of Tom think it would be worthwhile." S6) will be sold for the track meet, all of
Clements, the Notre Dame quarterback Parseghian believes national titles won them in advance. The remaining 10,000
who was named Most Valuable Player in playoffs are more significant than (at SIO and SI5) vs ill be saved for light

in the game, heard the exchange and those awarded by voters. This is not to fans. Those who attend the track meet
asked Vandcrbrook what he intended to say, however, that he believes Notre can remain for the light, which makes the

do with the ball. "I want to give it to Dame's current championship status is track ticket an impressive bargain. Even
Coach Parseghian.” the LSU student even slightly tarnished. "We were able so, because Philadelphia light fans tra-

said. Clements got him into the dressing to win ours on the field," he says, "w here ditionally buy tickets at the gate, few are
room and to Parseghian. who very much it counts." expected to shell out for track tickets
wanted the ball, and asked. "What can ahead of time.
we give you for it?" Vandcrbrook said DOUBLE JEOPARDY
he'd kind of like a souvenir, so Parse- Some people like to bet on Some
horses. THEY SAID IT
ghian gave him another ball that had people like to bet on the economy. Some • Woods Hayes, Ohio State coach:
been used in the game, three jerseys (one people go for both. Calder Race Course "When we lose a game, nobody's mad-
for Vandcrbrook, one for his brother in Florida, in an effort to be all things to der at me than me. When look in the I

and one for a friend) and posed for a all gamblers, has installed a machine in mirror in the morning. want to take a I

photograph. its Turf Club that gives horse players swing at me. I'm only interested in pleas-
Later, Vandcrbrook was asked if it had quick information on how General Mo- ing one fellow, and that's Woody Hayes.
been a difficult decision, rejecting the tors doing while they arc watching the
is He's the hardest of all to please."
S500 offer for the ball. tote board to see how their colts or fil- • Augie Donatclli. retired National
"Sort of," he admitted, "but really I lies did. Too bad telephones are barred League umpire, asked if he had ever
w anted the coach to have it. If it had been at racetracks. Otherwise losers could re- made any bad calls: "Now. what the hell.
an LSU game and we had w on and had I coup — or get in even deeper by calling Do you think I'd admit to that?"
caught the ball. I'd have wanted to give their brokers. • Bob Kuechenberg. Miami Dolphin left
it to Charlie McClendon. It means a lot guard, on the hidden asset of playing w ith
more to the coach than it would to me." TRACK DOWN a steel pin in his broken arm: "The un-
The most famous, or at any rate the most usual thing is that ever since they pul this
ARA S IDEA historic, running track in the U.S. is the pin in I've been getting great reception
Notre Dame won college football’s na- one in the Coliseum in Los Angeles, on my car radio. I wonder what'll hap-
tionalchampionship for Parseghian with where the Olympic Games were held in pen when I try to get on an airplane.”
thatnarrow victory over Alabama in the .
1932 and myriad famous races have been • Don Canham, University of Michigan
Sugar Bowl and. later, over Ohio State run since. Now reports say that Carroll athletic director, on the financial future
in the final Associated Press poll. But the Rosenbloom, owner of the Los Angeles for college athletics: "There is not an ath-
Notre Dame coach believes the way it Rams, has asked authorities for permis- letic department in the country where

came about wrong.

is all sion to remove the track and drop the officials are optimistic about the finan-
Parseghian advocates a championship level of the field several feet so that more cial outlook five years from now. Not at

playoff of the top college teams at the seals can be constructed closer to the ac- our place, not at Notre Dame, not at
various bowl sites, with priority given to tion. It seems a shame but an official USC. To me. that's frightening." end
 Sports Illustrated
JANUARY 197* 14,

HOUNDED BY HIS HEIRS

At the heels of Jack Nicklaus as

the 1974 pro tour began last week

It you only looked at it casually, was an aggressive pack of young thing wrong with their game. If not their
I through the normal rain, sleet and putters, then their aching shoulders. But
players hoping to bring him to bay
wind of the Monterey Peninsula, or Miller, Weiskopf. Wadkins and Cren-
around the fireplaces where the usual by DAN JENKINS shaw, not just last week but last year
quota of actors and singers gathered to when they were "arriving," spoke a dif-
thank Bing Crosby for inventing golf, it ferent language. Their confidence prac-
seemed that another year for the profes- Johnny Miller and Lanny Wadkins and tically oozed.
sional tour began last week in pretty Ben Crenshaw', the best of the most re- ‘I'm playing better than I've ever
much the same old way. There would be centw agonload of child heroes to roll in played in my life," Miller said, prophet-
another S8 million out there to play for from Sesame Street. It was also conve- ically, just before the Crosby began.
at tournaments named for celebrities, ho- nient to dwell on
during the Cros-
all this Weiskopf said. "Everybody said I

tels. industries, amusement parks or by because for several days there was very ought to have a letdown after the British
some locale known intimately to its little golf played. Open, and my life would gel complicated.
friends as “Greater.” Like Jacksonville. Thursday's round was both washed I'm playing great. I don’t see why I ever
New Orleans or Greensboro. and blown away, Friday's was played in have to play bad. And I love attention.
This was not the case, however. There a damp, gray brcc/c and Saturday's was Man. so far I think the heat's fun."
was a new excitement in the air. a new jolted by rain, wind, hail and, finally, Wadkins said, "You can just get ready
sort of talk going around, and a lot of darkness that stranded 50 guys in the forme to win a major championship.”
fresh words were entering the vocabular- woods with the deer. The third round was And Crenshaw said, "I'm just gonna
ies Words like
of everybody concerned. played Sunday, though it was cold and make 30.000 birdies and see what
try to
Beman and Designated Open and Cren- soggy, but by Monday the greens had be- happens."
shaw and Mahaffey and some other come rivers and the final round was put Just behind Nicklaus but still slightly
words that have been around a while but off. Johnny Miller led by four strokes, ahead of this group of extra special tal-
suddenly are used with more frequency. but it looked as if it might take until Feb- ents are the palace guards, Lee Trevino
Weiskopf and Miller and Wadkins, for ruary for him or anyone else to win it. and Gary Player. Their games have not
examples. Three very big words. You ordinarily would not think that exactly gone south. And pressing Cren-
What the sport has on its hands is a Miller. Weiskopf, Wadkins and Cren- shaw closely in youthful potential are
new era. actually. And it looks as if it is shaw had much in common. Two of them John Mahaffey, Len Thompson, Tom
going to be every hook, slice or shank as are tall and two are short. Their ages Watson and Tom Kite, plus a few oth-
thrilling as the late 1950s. which brought range from 3 to 22. And they come from
1 more about.
ers the public will hear a lot
on the Palmers, Nicklauses, Players. Cas- Ohio and Texas and California and In no minor way, last year belonged
pers and Littlers, or the late 1930s, which North Carolina. But the things they have as much to Nicklaus as it did to these
turned out the Hogans, Sneads. Nelsons in common are the following: superb new stars who shoved their way into our
and Demarets. golfing skill and style, the ability to hit consciousness. Nicklaus, after all. won
Last week’s Crosby was a perfect time the tee shot about seven thousand miles, that record 14th major championship
to dwell on all this because the 1974 tour different but refreshing and distinctive when he took the PGA in Cleveland. But

was beginning with the best and most or- personalities, and a furious desire to beat he captured seven other tournaments as
derly schedule in history, the game had Jack Nicklaus— by wrestling or fistfight- continued

a new commissioner in Deane Beman, ing if necessary.

and very clearly Jack Nicklaus had some They also fall into a nice group that
keen-eyed competition moving up on might be labeled the non-moaners. Most New wave includes Tom Weiskopf, the British

him in the form of Tom Weiskopf, who golfers tend toward pessimism and com- Open champion (top). John Miller. U.S. Open
has entered the superstar category, and plaint. and there is nearly always some- winner(center), and Lanny Wadkins. pending.
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CHASING JACK continued

well,counting the World Cup in Spain ered that in the 15 events both entered,
when he teamed with Miller for the good Weiskopf finished ahead of Nicklaus
old U.S.A. nine times.
Nor were the other crowd pleasers idle. "I didn’t know that,” Weiskopf says,
Player won on three different conti- "I gotta tell the Bear he’s over the hill.”
nents — as usual —Trevino sneaked in a Johnny Miller did it all pretty much
couple of victories in Florida, Billy Cas- in one week, or in one day, when he shot
per, who seemed not to be around much, that 63 at Oakmont and won the U.S.
got a win. Arnold Palmer even won a Open. Well, let’s say two weeks, for he
tournament. But none of these made the nearly won the British Open in a battle
year, or caused the excitement and antic- with Weiskopf.
ipation about the future. The same was true of Crenshaw. He
Weiskopf’s streak over an eight-month exploded at the end, coming out of the
period was the biggest news. It turned PGA’s qualifying school to win the first

him into the player he had shown so tournament he entered, and then follow-
much promise of becoming. It gave him ing that up with a near-miss, second
a major title, and thus a loftier social sta- place at Pinehurst.
tus on the circuit. It also gave him more Wadkins was a little different. He won
unofficial money —close to $350,000 two tournaments, all right, but he was
than anyone had ever won in a single also the practice round champion of the
year, including all of Nicklaus’ best Western world, and his pleasingly cocky
years. It made Weiskopf a career million- attitude, matched with this, earned him From Texas comes a not-so-Bantam Ben.
aire (by world golf standards) along with the reputation among the other players
Nicklaus, Palmer, Casper, Trevino, Play- as a mini-tiger.
er and Bruce Crampton. “All through my streak," says Weis-
"Maybe that’s why everybody thinks kopf,“Lanny was beating my brains out
I’m a better guy now,” he jokes. on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday."
Weiskopf’s streak never really got the Wadkins is also a fairly good needier.
attention it deserved. Starting in mid- He went up to Arnold Palmer at one
May and ending in early December, here point last year and said, "You must have
in order is what he did: been a hell of a player in your day.”
Won Colonial, finished second in At- For of these bright talents, and the
all

lanta, won Kemper, won Philadelphia, old standbys as well, there is a new stage
Open, fifth at
finished third in the U.S. for their act. There are still eight tour-
Akron, won the British Open, won the naments named for show-biz types, and
Canadian Open, finished third at West- four namedfor companies, and two for
chester, sixth in the PGA, third in the hotels and two more for amusement
U.S. Match Play, won the World Series, parks, but it will all come to a sensible
finished third in the John Player Classic conclusion by Nov. 3. Good. Two
in Scotland, finished third at Cincinnati, months off.

third in the Piccadilly, and won the South Five tournaments have been lost — St.
African PGA. Louis, Robinson, the Match Play, the At-
The startling statistics one can get out lanta Classic and the L&M Open but —
of all this are just thatWeis-— startling. what has been gained is a solid plus.
kopf won seven of those 16 tournaments, Besides the new Tournament Players
never finished worse than sixth, was 14 Championship, which is being called the
times in the top three, and won in four "backup PGA” and which will be ro-
different countries. tated around the country, and besides the
“The British Open was the big thing," rebirth of the National Team Champi-
he says, "but next best thing was beat- onship at the Walt Disney World layout
ing Jack a few times.” in Orlando, golf now has a thing that is
Weiskopf and Nicklaus had quite a likely to gain the name of the Designat-
battle, thinking back on it; the champir ed Open.
on was out there punching with a tough There will be three Designated Opens
contender. Jack won four tournaments this year, at Colonial in Fort Worth, at
Tom was in, and Tom won three tourna- Kemper in Charlotte and at the World
ments Jack was in. They each got a major in Pinehurst. A Designated Open is
championship, and they each wound up something that everybody who matters
with some kind of Golfer of the Year to the public "must” play in, or they will
award. But probe deeper and it is discov- be sent to prison by Joe Dey, the out- Burly Leonard Thompson banked $91,158.

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going commissioner, or Deane Beman, as an amateur, and, incidentally, a man

the incoming commissioner. who had never joined the PGA.
Why those three tournaments? "Look,” Beman said. “I’m sure some
‘‘Because they are well-run events on of the guys are disappointed, and it was
great golf courses,” Joe Dey explains, hard for me to give up playing. I think I
referring to Colonial, Quail Hollow and know what’s good for the game and
Pinehurst. what’s good for the tour. I’m going to
The hope of Beman, as it is of Dey. be fair and go by the rules. I hope to
is that there eventually will be 10 Des- earn the respect of the players, if I don’t
ignated tournaments; class events, in have it now.”
other words, putting up a minimum of Beman paused, then added: “I’ll say
$250,000, and for which a Nicklaus and this. I hope there aren’t too many fellows
a Weiskopf and a Trevino and a Palmer out here who are that deeply disappoint-
will be guaranteed to the sponsor. ed. Because I am the commissioner.”
Obviously, a lot of tournaments are Joe Dey couldn’t resist a little joke,
never going to be among and
the elite having not quite retired as yet. He smiled
might feel like stepchildren, and might at theyoung man who will replace him.
maybe —decide they do not even want to “Deane,” said Dey, “actually, you're
be tournaments anymore. Immediately, still just a commissioner trainee.”
one would have to wonder about Mem- And Joe Dey thought of something
phis. It falls exactly between Colonial else. He looked across a room in the Del

Tom Watson Is a two-time almost-wlnner. and Kemper, two of the three “musts.” Monte Lodge at Johnny Miller and Ben
Memphis is not a “must.” If Memphis Crenshaw. He looked out the window at
draws anybody other than Harry Vardon Pebble Beach, which holds its charm even
and Old Tom Morris, the sponsors will in a dark sky. And he looked back at a
deserve a ticker-tape parade. confident Deane Beman.
Beman says, “We have to be progres- “My goodness,” Joe said. "This game
sive and we have to be realistic. We want is in splendid shape.” ehd
good tournaments on good golf courses,
and to get that the sponsor wants a good
field. I think we’ll always have the small- John Mahaffey was the Sultan at the Sahara.
er tournaments, enough at least, because
they want the circus to come to town once
a year."
One thing the pros did not particularly
want was Deane Beman as commission-
er. Or any other player. They were al-

most unanimous in the feeling that the

selection of a player or former player as
would be difficult because it
their leader
would be impossible for that fellow ever
to gain the respect of the other players.
For more than two months they all

talked about replacing Joe Dey with a

"high-powered businessman" who could
them what to do and make them like
tell

it. How hard the PGA looked for such a

person is not known, but the only peo-
ple who were actually interviewed by the
1 0-man board were Deane Beman, Dan
Sikes, Jay Hebert, all players; Jack Tut-
hill, the PGA tournament director; and
g lawyer and a broadcasting executive
whom Dey prefers not to name.
In Beman they chose a young man, 35,
a man who won a tournament last year,
a man who admitted at Pebble Beach that
he had never made many close friends
on the tour other than Bert Yancey, a
Bets are that Tom Kite will soon fly high. man noted more for his accomplishments
FEASTING ON THE UNFORTUNATES
its appetite for three squares as hearty as its hockey talent, a Russian team shows in a devastating American
visit why the Soviets should forget the small fry and arrange a rematch with the bigs by MARK MULVOY

he making and eventual unmaking of tour and they doubt that only
left little Vsevolod Bobrov rested his best forward
T Russian hockey players roughly par- three North American clubs the Boston — line, including Right Wing Valary Khar-

allels their progress in picking up certain Bruins, the Montreal Canadiens and a lamov, the swiftest Soviet, and played his
words and phrases of the English lan- —
new Team Canada would be in their Kid Line of Vyacheslav (Fast-Relief)
guage. As rookies the Soviets learn how class. The Selects arc all-stars from the Anisin, Yuri Lebedev and Aleksandr Bo-
to say “Hi” and “Boo-by Orr.” On their Russian major league and their average dunov instead. The kids combined to
next several trips to North America they age is less than 24. On New Year’s night produce goals the first three times they
master the tricky terms "room service" in Colorado Springs they toyed with took the ice. Lebedev got the hat trick
and “three Cokes cold.” Once they be- Denver University 9-1, then flew west to and the potent Soviet power play need-
come veterans of the international cir- play three teams in the professional ed only eight and then 1 1 seconds to score
cuit, they discover the magic word Western Hockey League. In frigid Port- goals the first two times San Diego play-
“Smirnoff,” as in vodka on the rocks. land, where the noisy home crowd kept ers went to the penalty box. Late in the
When that happens, though, they might yelling, “We gave them the wheat, you game the Selects were ahead 8-3and
soon find themselves coaching peewee give them the chaff," the Selects gave the seemed quite content not to run up the
teams in South Moscow or Siberia. Buckaroos the business, scoring eight score, but a San Diego defenseman
By Russian standards the Moscow Se- goals, hitting the post five other times and aroused them by taking an unnecessary
lects — really the Soviet Team
National then securing their 8-3 victory by orga- swipe at Anisin. In an angry exhibi-
playing under an assumed name— may nizing a pentagonal shell around center tion of powerful finesse, the Russians
still be in the Boo-by On and room ser- ice and playing keepaway with the puck whipped in three goals in the final 85
vice stages of hockey development, but for most of the last 10 minutes. seconds to win 11-3. Two nights later,
last week they put three more teams on For the Selects’ next game in rainy San weary and overconfident, the Selects
the rocks during their eight-game U.S. Diego, their third in three nights, Coach caught a fired-up Seattle Totems team

As San Diego Goalie Jim Makey bats down a Russian shot, Red Wingers Aleksandr Volchkov ( 9) and Konstantin Klimov ( 12) zero In on rebound.
 5

and were beaten 8-4, but their U.S. rec- land Coach Ron Stewart. "The trouble
ord was 6-1 and their point was made. so lovely that our guys tend to do
is, it’s

What the Russians were accomplish- just that —

stand around and watch.”
ing was a strong case for a return to the Hockey aside, the most striking change
best competition this continent can of- in the Russians since the Team Canada
fer. ’“It is clear that we have outclassed series involves their physical and mate-
this kind of opponent,” Bobrov said in rial presence. When they arrived in Mon-
San Diego. “There is only one league left games with Team Canada,
treal for the
for us now: the NHL. We must grow, the Russians all had short army-style

—
they must grow and the only way for haircuts and wore gray,
brown and navy-
both of us to grow, to advance in hock- blue clothes. On
the West Coast last week
ey, is to play each other. It is imperative they could have passed for any NHL
that we play six or eight games at the team away from home. The players wore
least against the NHL next year." Boris their hair long, with sideburns plunging
Kulagin, who is the technical brain be- several inches below the bottom of the
hind the Selects (Bobrov represents the ears. Kharlamov one day sported a ma-
political front), agreed. "We both will roon suit with wide lapels and a belted
boil in our own syrup,” he said, puffing back. Captain Boris Mikhailov showed
a U.S. cigarette, “unless we play each off a pair of plaid pants with high cuff's
other immediately.” The postmortems and a tailored double-breasted blazer.
merely increased the serious hockey And they all wore shoes or boots with
fans’ feeling of frustration, because two Valary Kharlamov was the dressiest Red. elevated heels. It is quite possible the de-
Soviet teams had been scheduled to play cline and fall of the Soviet empire has
a total of eight games against NHL clubs begun.
weeks ago. Those plans were scrapped
six at a motel lounge told him it would cost Thanks to the sponsoring Amateur Ice
when ) the Russians refused to pay tax-
I 523 over the counter. Hockey Association of the U.S., the Rus-
es on their share of the profits — poten- On the tactical level, Kulagin has in- sians did not lack for the little niceties.

tially a 5250,000 slice —and 2) the In- troduced several effective changes. “We While in the U.S. they ran up daily hotel
ternational Ice Hockey Federation’s will never abandon our collective game,” bills of more than 51,500, including al-
mysterious Bunny Ahearne, speaking he said, “and we will never become a most 5 ,0001 some 530
for food charges —
from his base in hockey-loving Eng- bunch of fighters and wrestlers and ka- daily for each of the 29 members of the
land, threatened to withhold his official rate choppers like they have in the NHL. party. “The first thing they do when they
sanction. We are seeking an in-between. We want check into a hotel is call room service
Since losing to Team Canada's NHL to be stable in our nervous system, not and order some hors d’oeuvres and vod-
All-Stars 15 months ago in the most madmen.” This year, Kulagin says, there ka,” said Walter Bush Jr., president of
thrilling hockey series ever played, the has been twice as much body checking the Minnesota North Stars and an or-
Soviets have reorganized. This process in the Russian major league as ever be- ganizer of the tour. In Minneapolis, Bo-
began with a purge of some top-level per- fore and more individual play, too, par- brov persuaded Bush to take him shop-
sonages. Hockey boss Andrei Starvoitov ticularly on defense, the one area in ping one day, and when they had finished
followed Anatoly Tarasov, the successful which the Soviets still have discernible Bobrov owned a new set of hub caps, a
former national team coach and “father problems. “One Boo-by Orr would take dozen polished dashboard knobs and
of Russian hockey,” into obscurity. Sev- care of that for us,” Kulagin said. "What new hot-rod sidewalls for his old car back
members of the national team,
eral older we need are more mobile defensemen. in Moscow. “He bought everything ex-
notably Defenseman Aleksandr Ragulin They do not participate enough.” cept gas,” Bush said. Toward the end of
and Forward Anatoly Firsov, were, as Kulagin has also altered the Soviets’ the tour Bush tried to save meal money
Kulagin said, "given the farewell treat- attacking pattern, the better to utilize a by booking the Russians on a dinner
—
ment” removal to minor coaching po- flock of left-handed shooters. Of the 1 flight from San Diego to Seattle. When

sitions. With Ragulin, alas, went the free- forwards who dressed for the games in Bobrov discovered that a Boston-New
spirited hijinks that usually marked the Portland and San Diego only one. Cen- York NHL game would be on television
Soviets’ visits to the U.S. Last week the ter Vladimir Petrov, was right-handed. that night in Seattle, he rescheduled the
players were kept under close scrutiny in- To accommodate his lefties —the Khar- flight for midafternoon and planned a

side their hotels, and the coaches sched- lamovs, Yakushevs and top rookies such tremendous team dinner after the game.
uled long tactical meetings between PS Aleksandr Volchkov and the members Meals and massacres that was the —
meals. One night Aleksandr Yakushev, of the Kid Line — Kulagin has introduced gist of the Soviet story. Their financial
the Selects’ best left wing and probably an exciting new counterclockwise offense take from the visit will be only about
the most complete left wing in all hock- in which the two wingmen constantly cir- —
525,000 minus what Bobrov has to pay
ey, did try to purchase a bottle of vodka cle around the net at full speed and wait for a new pair of shin pads for Goalie
for a birthday party — his own — but he for passes from their centerman. “What Aleksandr Sidelnikov. Make that 524,-
lost interest when the cocktail waitress they do is lovely to watch,” said Port- 700, Comrade. end

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THE MAN WHO LOVED hunter.
to
He has had enough experience
know how challenging a big-game
hunt can be. Yet on the morning of Feb.
17, 1973, within a few minutes of his ar-

CAT KILLING rival at the Apache Creek country, he had

a jaguar in the sights of his rifle, and an

instant later it was dead. "A bell should

At $3,500 a crack. Curtis Jackson Prock guided “guaranteed" jaguar hunts have rung right then,” Bator said later,
“but sometimes it will happen for you
where no jaguars had been seen in 60 years by ROBERT F. JONES
that —
way only rarely, to be sure but —
it can happen. Then, only about an hour
n an era when hunting is under the century —
and the most recent of these later,by darn if we didn’t have a bobcat
I gun, the last thing the sport needs is took place before 1910. But Prock was bayed. I shot it. That afternoon we got a
the sort of outdoors immorality revealed right. There were jaguars in New Mex- mountain lion. Three trophy cats in
last month in Boise, Idaho. It was the ico simply because Prock was releasing one day's hunting. When the agents be-
final of
chapter a tale of illegal, cold- them from cages under the rifle
virtually gan checking with me on the details of
blooded slaughter that would have made sights of his enthusiastic hunters. the hunt, and I became aware that it had
an Esau blush. The victims were a black The locale where the cats were said to probably been ‘canned,’ I was as sick at
leopard and four spotted jaguars, all of be pocketed was the high country around my soul as a hunter could ever be."
them caged and illegally smuggled into Apache Creek, about a day’s drive south- Bator has a photograph of himself and
New Mexico, then released before the west of Albuquerque. In early August Prock posed beside the carcass of the jag-
guns of hunters who had been told they 1972 Prock began bringing clients into uar. The two men have assumed the tra-
wer shooting "wild varmints.” theApache Creek country, and jaguars ditional mien of the successful hunter,
Before Judge J. Blaine Anderson in the began to die. On the 10th and 11th of though Dr. Bator looks a bit worried.
U.S. District Court in Boise, the perpe- that month, according to the indictment, Perhaps it is because his freshly slain
trator of the misdeeds, Curtis Jackson one Rodolfo F. Barrera, a wealthy busi- tropical cat is lying in about four inches
Prock, 60, of McCall, Idaho and Belize nessman of Monterrey, Mexico, paid of fresh-falJen snow.
City, Belize, pleaded nolo contendere to Prock for the privilege of zapping two Another client of Prock’s was Bill Bee-
conspiracy, one of six counts contained cats there. Over the next seven months be, an outdoors writer from Santa Mon-
in an indictment issued by a New Mex- seven more jags were taken, as well as ica, Calif. Beebe hunted black bears with

ico federal grand jury. The other five three cougars and two bobcats. Enforce- Prock last April in Idaho, near the
counts were dismissed on a motion by ment officers of both the New Mexico guide's ranch. His partner on the hunt
Assistant U.S. Attorney Wilbur Nelson. Department of Game and Fish and the was Bill Poole, a big-game enthusiast
Prock, one of the West’s most re- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service uncovered who makes his living as the owner and
nowned hunting guides, was an organizer evidence that some, if not all, of the cats highly efficient skipper of a long-range
of "guaranteed" hunts in which the price were trapped and illegally imported. party boat.
of a jaguar ran to $3,500. Until recently Prock’s clients have told investigators The first day Beebe and Poole sat in
Prock conducted what are assumed to be a chilling story of how all this occurred. Prock’s truck while his dog pack howled
wholly legal jaguar hunting operations The cats that finally appeared as targets vainly after a bear it could not tree.

on his ranch in Belize. There he guided for Prock’s hunter were probably either "Prock told us not to worry, there were
such well-known outdoorsmen as Joe trapped somewhere in Latin America plenty more bears around,” Beebe re-
Foss, former governor of North Dakota and then smuggled across the Mexican called. “At four the next morning C.J.’s
and commissioner of the old American border (in the case of the jag), or brought wife Dorothy came pounding at the door
Football League, and John Connally, in across state lines (as with some of the of our motel room. ‘Comeon,’ she yelled,
former governor of Texas, on cat hunts cougars and certainly the leopard). In ‘C.J.’s got a bear treed.’ ” According to
that inevitably produced. Then, on one case an agent in Spokane discovered Beebe, he was a little suspicious when
March 30, 1972, the jaguar was declared that on Oct. 30, 1972 Denver Hammons Mrs. Prock told him that C.J. had the
an "endangered species” whose hunting (who was named one of Prock’s co-con- bear cornered about four or five miles
was forbidden worldwide except under spirators) appeared at the Southwick An- down a dirt road on the outskirts of town
the most stringent of licensing proce- imal Farm in Blackstone, Mass, and and to look for his truck on the left-hand
dures. That closed down Prock’s Belize picked up a jaguar, a grizzly bear, an arc- side of the road.
operation — at least temporarily. tic wolf and a black leopard, along with They found Prock, all right, and a bear
Soon afterward, wealthy hunters who two cougars. He paid for the animals cornered in a stand of lodgepole pine. Bill

contacted Prock began hearing strange with a S3, 900 check signed by C. J. Prock. Poole killed it. An hour later the dogs
and exciting yarns of wild jaguars on the To anyone who has ever hunted wild bayed another bear, and it was up to Bee-
loose in southern New Mexico. Accord- game, the ease with which Prock’s "guar- be to shoot it. "I did,” Beebe recalls,
ing to Dr. James S. Findley, curator of anteed hunts" went off should have been "but I’m not a damned bit proud that I

mammals at the University of New Mex- as suspiciously smelly as a week-old wolf did. When it tumbled out of the tree I

ico's Museum of Southwestern Biology, carcass. Take the experience of Dr. Ar- saw that its hide was badly rubbed. In
there have been only three authenticated thur Bator of East Lansing, Mich. Bator April a bear should be fresh out of hi-

sightings of jaguars in the state in this is an optometrist and an inveterate sheep bernation, with a hide as thick and glossy

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as an Afghan rug. I wondered then about formerly assistant chief of wildlife en- the same time forbidding Prock any fur-
the scrapes — that they might have been forcement for the New Mexico Game ther guiding in Arizona.
the result of caging. And just as I never and Fish Department and now an admin- Despite Prock's past performance.
had the guts to say no and let that bear istrative staff officer with the U.S. Fish Judge Anderson was remarkably lenient.
go, I never had the guts to ask Prock if and Wildlife Service. During his nearly He fined Prock $5,000 and sentenced him
the bear had been a released animal.” 19 years with the department Mauldin to a year in prison, plus two years pro-
One hunter who did have the guts to was the busiest buster of game-law vi- bation, on the conspiracy charge then —
say no to a Prock setup was Roy L. Gou- olators inNew Mexico’s history. But the suspended all of that sentence except for
lart, a real-estate magnate from El Cajon, Prock case was probably the biggest a $2,000 fine.
Calif. On the morning of Feb. 19, 1973 and surely the most scandalous of his— “You bet your life I'm mad," ex-
Goulart was offered a shot at a jaguar career. It came to his attention after a claimed Rick Smith, the young Albu-
cornered by Prock ’s dogs in the Apache federal wildlife agent in Spokane, Dale querque-based Assistant U.S. Attorney
Creek area. Goulart refused the shot: the Horne, discovered some jaguar hides sent who had prepared the original indict-
cat was too small for his taste. Prock was from New Mexico in the inventory of the ment and who had rather naively gone
dismayed, but that night he brought an- Knopp Bros. Taxidermy Studio. Horne along with the plea-bargaining settle-

—
other cat this time a good-sized one knew there were no wild jaguars in New ment by which Prock avoided trial on the
into Goulart's sights. Goulart took it. Mexico and the investigation came into five charges involving the cats them-
Like so many of the men who hunted with Mauldin's hands. selves.“The $2,000 fine works out to less
Prock, Goulart had been told that the Under the Lacey Act, which prohibits than the sales taxes Prock would have
matter of licenses and permits had al- interstate transportation of unlawfully paid for that amount of hunting. If I'd

ready been taken care of out of their taken wild animals, Prock was liable to said no to the plea, and even if we had
down payment. After all, with a $3,500 a $10,000 fine and/or a year in prison for lost on all six counts, still we would have
price tag on a jaguar, one assumes that each of his alleged violations. On the con- punished him financially —just in the le-

the nitty-gritty details of the hunt have spiracy charge the penalties are the same. gal costs — far more than this fine does. I

been looked after by the guide. In point Moreover, courts usually look sternly at feel terrible about it.”

of fact, Goulart had no license, and thus second offenders: Prock had been con- What makes not only Smith but ev-
his name appeared in the indictment, victed of a Lacey Act violation in Ari- eryone else involved in the investigation
though not as one of those indicted. zona on June 19, 1964 when a U.S. Dis- feel even worse is the fact that the New

Most of the detective work in the case trict Court judge fined him $300 and Mexico Department of Game and Fish
was performed by Nando Mauldin, 46, suspended a 90-day prison sentence, at spent between $10,000 and S20.000 on
the case, not including In-
ILLUSTRATION BY ,e N vestigator Nando Maul-
din's time. Citing the “ex-
tremely flagrant nature” of
the crimes, the depart-
ment’s director, Ladd S.
Gordon, said, “We recog-
nize that the courts are
under certain constraints,
but we in the wildlife pro-
fession feel that the most
effective way to minimize
these serious types of vio-
lations lies in considerably
greater penalties being as-
sessed.” Gordon left un-
stated the fear that every
outdoorsman who respects
game and the game laws
must feel: If a man like
C.J. Prock can get away
with that kind of game law
violation with a mere slap
on the wrist, what incen-
tive is there for investiga-
and men like
tive agencies
Mauldin and Horne to
continue their work? And
what real hope is there left
for endangered species like
the jaguar? end

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BIG JULIE IS DOING NICELY-NICELY
Julius Erving is netting money and making friends on and off the court, and his New York
teammates are chipping in and supporting him with winning ball by PETER CARRY

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN 0. HANLON

 ulius Erving was near the front of the to do, something most would consider Turk lives in North Carolina and com-
J line as the New York Nets snaked uncool immediately before a game. He mutes to nearly every Net home game,
out of their dressing room in the Nassau was talking animatedly and signing auto- and with good reason. “I love to watch
Coliseum and jogged down the tunnel graphs for a boy and his father, a small Julius play because he’s so unpredictable

heading for the gleaming floor where they man wearing a black velvet yarmulke. Er- I never know what he’ll do next,” she
would play host to the A BA's Eastern Di- ving had never met them before, but says. “But I love him because he’s so re-
vision-leading Carolina Cougars one when he heard that the rabbi had driven liable and calm. He never gets mad, and
night last week. But by the time the Nets 150 miles from upstate New York to ful- when sometimes I get angry he settles me
began their layup drill Erving (see cover) fill his boy’s fondest Chanukah wish —to rightdown. He’ll say real quietly, 'Don’t
was no longer with them. He could bare- see Dr. J. play — Erving, quite naturally you get no attitude now.' ”
ly be made out in the dim passageway for him, could not resist stopping to chat. More through his demeanor than his
doing something pro players rarely deign Amenities completed, he rejoined his words, Erving has been saying the same
teammates, slammed a few perfunctory thing to his fellow Nets, particularly the
pregame dunks, did a quick sideline cri- survivors from last year’s squad that
tique of Center Billy Paultz’ father’s slumped early and finished out the sched-
basso profundo rendering of The Star- ule playing as much against one another
Spangled Banner (“Not bad at all, but I as against their opponents. Indeed, Er-
could teach him a few things about pro- ving’s quiet congeniality may be as im-
jection”),and then went out and put on portant as his 27.6 points, 1 1.1 rebounds
another ho-hum performance against and 4.6 assists per game and his 50%
Carolina. He scored 23 points. He shooting average, 108 steals and 120
grabbed 12 rebounds. He stole the ball blocked shots. “Believe me, I know from
three times. And he tipped in the decid- experience, it’s one heck of a lot easier
ing basket as the Nets won 99-96, knock- when your main man is a good guy,” says
ing the Cougars out of first and moving Net Coach Kevin Loughery. "I was in
themselves within a half game of the new Baltimore when Wes Unseld got there.
leader,Kentucky, in the hottest three- It didn't take the players long to figure
team race in the pros. out that on top of being a great player.
Yes, Julius Erving has brought his Dr. Wes is a great man. He turned the Bul-

Nicely-Nicely routine back home to lets’ whole attitude around by just being
Long Island. He has done nicely on the there, and Doc has done at least as much
floor, where he has led the youngest start- for us.”
ing lineup in the pros — average age 22.6 Two years ago the Nets rallied late in
years — back from a skitterish start and the season and advanced to the final
into title contention. He has done nicely round of the playoffs. But last season be-
ofT it as well, charming the clergy, his em- gan on a depressing note when Net star
ployers, the recently re-elected Nassau Rick Barry was ordered by the courts to
County Executive (whom he endorsed af- return to the NBA Warriors. Things went
ter extracting pledges for recreational downhill from there. A six-game losing
programs for his hometown of Roose- streak in November led to a rancorous
velt), and even the Madison Avenue team meeting. Then one player took him-
types who are after some endorsements self out of the lineup with an injury some

of their own. Naturally enough. Dr. J. of his mates felt was more imagined than
now spiels for Dr Pepper. real. Next a rookie center flatly said he

However, Erving has obviously saved would rather not play at all than be
his best charm job for the young woman By the close
forced to operate at forward.
who was constantly in his immediate vi- New York had drifted to a
of the season
cinity last week. 30-54 record and General Manager-
“What’s her name?" he was asked. Coach Lou Carnesecca had announced
“Turquoise.” his resignation.
“Who?” With that, Owner Roy Boc went for
“You know, t-u-r-q-u-o-i-s-e." allthe youth money could buy. He signed
“Oh, it’s spelled just like the color." 33-year-old Dave DeBusschere to a 10-
"Yeah, and so is her last name, year, 5750,000 generalmanager contract
b-r-o-w-n.” and then gave him a year off to finish his
The smashing Ms. Brown is accus- playing career with the Knicks. A five-

tomed to confusion over her name. year deal lured Loughery away from
“Most people just call me Turk,” she Philadelphia. At 33 he was the youngest
says."But one of Julius’ friends has trou- coach in the pros (a distinction he lost
ble remembering names. He calls me inNovember when Kansas City-Omaha
Aqua.” named 32-year-old Phil Johnson to suc-
continufd

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BIG JULIE continued

ceed Bob Cousy) and had less than a half of the species East Coast guard. Twelve Williamson, who is built like a corner-

season's experience. In a role that was of the 27 pro coaching jobs are now held back. A high-scoring gunner in college,
more Loughery
custodial than creative, by men of this ilk. Four of the five coach- Williamson has played with a discipline
had guided the 76ers to five wins in their of the ABA are
es in the Nets' division on offense and concentration on defense
final 31 games last season. former guards who learned the game unusual in one so young.
Shortly thereafter, Boe shipped about within about 100 miles of one another. And since the losing streak the rest of
SI million to Virginia and Atlanta to se- it looked like Murph’s fine breeding the Nets have been showing only the
cure the much contested rights to Erving. might be wasted on the Nets when they most casual deference to Erving’s offen-
Then he signed the 23-year-old ABA slipped into a virtual replay of last sea- sive prowess. In half of New York's last

scoring champion to a S2.5 million, eight son in November. After winning four of 12 games Dr. J. has not been the team’s
year contract. Boe added round sums for its first five games. New York dropped high scorer and his average is dropping
a flock of rookies including 6' 9" For- nine in a row, fell into last place, eight toward the 25-point figure he thinks
ward Larry Kenon, 21, of Memphis State games from the lead, and called another would be best for offensive balance. Ken-
and 6' 2" Guard John Williamson, 22, team meeting. It was then that the mood on, an unabashed shooter, has averaged
of New Mexico State, who have become which Loughery credits Erving w ith set- 16 points a game, but it is Paultz, a
starters even though they both should ting held fast. The meeting passed with- 6' 1 1" mound of a man, who has devel-

now be college seniors. out incident and two days later the Nets oped into the Nets' second best offensive
Hiring undergraduates is hardly a new broke their losing streak. Shortly there- threat with a 17-point average.
procedure for the Nets. Not one of New after they won nine straight. Since halt- Even though Loughery can still safely
York’s first five — Erving, Kenon, Wil- ing its run of losses, New York has tak- describe Paultz’ physique as "lacking
liamson, the 25-year-old Paultz or 22- en 21 of 28 and has been in or just out of definition,” the Net center no longer
year-old Guard Brian Taylor complet- — first place for the past month. looks quite as muchlike Baby Huey as

ed his college eligibility and not one was “The reputation of the Nets last year he did when he came into the pros three
drafted by the Nets. Erving and William- was that if you got up on them early seasons ago as an indifferent player. One
son came into the ABA as free agents they’d start squabbling among them- thing definite about Paultz is that his tal-
and the remaining three were selections "They were losers.
selves," says Erving. ents are now as well rounded as his mid-
of other teams that would not or could From I knew I was coming
the minute section. Except for his fine outside shoot-
not sign them. As the league's richest here was preparing myself to stop that
I ing touch, he is not extraordinary in any
club, New York could and did. from happening again. I knew I'd have phase of pivot play; rather he has become
Still the assembling of prime, young leadership responsibilities, not as the des- so thoroughly adequate at all that he now
talent has rarely yielded an instant win- ignated leader that’s the role of the ranks no worse than third best among
ner in the pros. Even after they had team captain. Bill Melchionni— but on ABA centers.
brought together the then-young group a different basis. All five Net starters were in double fig-
‘
of Willis Reed, Walt Frazier, Bill Brad- ‘There has to be criticism among play- ures in their three games last week. Af-
leyand Cazzie Russell, the Knicks need- ers on a team, but I guess what I've tried ter the win against Carolina, Erving
ed two seasons, a coaching change and a to do is make it constructive and cut broke loose for one of his increasingly
major trade (DeBusschere) before win- down on the meaningless griping at each rare big bursts (34 points) in a 109-92
ning their division. Boston, after draft- other. I don't think you should cuss at a home triumph over Denver. But the next
ingDave Cowens, and Milwaukee, after guy for missing a pass. You should boost night at Hampton, Va., New York
adding Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, each re- him up by saying something like, ‘It’s all showed why it still faces a stern test try-
quired a year of seasoning before becom- right. We’ll get it next time.’ ing to overcome its two experienced ri-
ing first-place clubs. “And when something goes wrong in vals, Kentucky and Carolina (both the
That the Nets are already threatening a game or there’s a flare-up at practice I Cougars’ starting forwards, ailing Billy
to become a division titlist is a marked know' it’s easier for me to be the one who Cunningham and Joe Caldwell, have
achievement for Loughery, a cigar- apologizes. A guy who the public doesn’t played more pro seasons individually
chomping Irishman from the Bronx who consider such a big star might feel, than the entire Net starting lineup). In
was known in the NBA during his 11- ‘Damn, I’m not gonna bow down to the losing to the Squires 112-109, the Nets
year playing career as Murph. He was blankety-blank just because he’s the big were prone to two failings common to
also distinguished by his toughness— in shot around here.’ But for me it’s no young teams. Unable to fast break, they
one playoff with the Bullets he wore a problem to go over and say I’m sorry." had to rely on their set offense, an el-
plastic plate strapped under his jersey to Something the Nets are not sorry ement of the game which demands more
protect a collapsed lung and a couple of about is two tactical moves Loughery consistent teamwork than they have de-
—
broken ribs and by the fact that he was made in the game that ended the losing veloped. And the defeat was their 13th
the highest scorer in NBA history never' streak. He junked the pressing defense in 24 road games— they are a sizzling
named to an all-star team. he had used to good effect with the 76ers. 14-4 at home —
which is just another ex-
As a player, Loughery was readily He felt it was wearing down the Nets’ ample of a young club not traveling well.
identifiable as a prospective coach. He slender guards— Taylor, Melchionni and Still, New York's schedule from here in

was a backcourt man who invariably John Roche— often causing the team to is heavily weighted in favor of home
turned “th’s” into “d’s” and always in- blow big leads in the second half. And games, which could be just enough ad-
cluded an “s” on the end of the second to beef up the backcourt, he replaced vantage for everything to work out very
person plural pronoun. Clearly he was Melchionni in the starting lineup with nicely-nicely for all the Nets. end

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fA
 Maxim (Bud) Goode, resident In the last three years he has picked 17 philosophically opposed gambling.
M eet
of Studio City, state of California,
continent of North America, planet
of the 20 winners
and in the last
in postseason playoffs,
two years he has beaten
In making its

points to an unexpected Viking weak-

to
prediction the computer

Earth —a Hollywood press agent loose in the line 10 of 13 times in the playoffs. ness, the defensive line. Goode is not
a Twilight Zone of numbers. In defiance That degree of accuracy surely sug- surprised. Last year only two teams got
of all oddsmakers he says Miami will beat gests supernatural assistance. In fact, the to the quarterback fewer times than Min-
Minnesota in the Super Bowl by nine forces of Goode consist of IBM 360-91, nesota and Goode was saying, “Color
—
count ’em nine points. one of the world’s largest computers, the Purple People Eaters puce.” This year
Don’t scoff. Goode (it is pronounced which he calls "Cal.” Electronically the Vikes improved their sacks by 43%
goody) correctly predicted the winner in speaking. Cal says that Miami will beat but only rose to 16th. Miami, on the oth-
75% of last year’s NFL games. Early the spread —seven points —on Sunday er hand, tied for second in sacks. Color
season he forecast that Cincinnati
in the in Houston. So put your money on the the Dolphins royal aqua.
would make the playoffs, an expectation Dolphins, and while you're at it place Perhaps Minnesota’s lowly ranking in

based on the Bengals upsetting both the a bet for Goode, who prefers to kick a sacks reflects nothing more than Coach
Vikings and the Browns, which they did. gift horse in the mouth. He is, alas. Bud Grant’s preseason intention to con-

DOING IT BY THE NUMBERS

Statistician Bud Goode uses one of the world's biggest computers to pick football games. In 1973 the IBM 360-
91 had the Dolphins by seven in the Super Bowl. This year it likes them by nine by JOE MARSHALL
centrate on stopping the run. But if that of statistical factors, such as rushing, mation meaningful. He has shown us
was their aim. the Vikings failed miser- passing, interceptions, field-goal ability how to look at all these statistics and
ably. yielding 4.4 yards per rush. Only and speed, which account for the out- which arc the most important for pre-
Chicago, Philadelphia and New England come of any game. To determine these dicting and explaining. Why that’s so
gave up more. Miami was tied for sev- factors Goode had to do get ready — rare in sports I don’t know. It's a kind
enth in this category, yielding less than —
now a factor analysis, a program de- of technique that's been used in other
four yards an attempt. signed to reveal the hidden pattern of a long while. Sports is years be-
fields for

To make matters worse for Minnesota, primary factors in a body of data. Each hind the times."
Miami was second in the league in 1973 factor is totally independent so that So are and sportswrit-
football coaches
with an average of five yards per rush. strength in one does not mean strength ers. according to the computer and its

"Larry Csonka provides the power and in any other. Using the one or two sta- spokesman. Goode. With his Mr. Peep-
Mercury Morris has more moves than a tistics that related most strongly with ers' look he might be mistaken for Stu-

water bed." says Goode, citing Csonka's each factor. Goode came up with a list dio City's resident bird watcher, but
third straight 1.000-yard season and of 14 important statistics. These he put loose Bud Goode's tongue and he be-
Morris' gaudy, league-leading 6.4 yards into a second program, a multiple-regres- comes overwhelming poking holes in the
a carry. Furthermore, the line that sion analysis, which assigned a weight to cliches of the game with reckless aban-
opened holes for those two allowed few- each statistic for the purpose of maximiz- don. "Too often communication is a
er sacks than any other in the N FL. while ing predictive accuracy. A I00 r ; corre- one-way street." he says. "Fortunately,

the Vikings' front gave only mediocre lation with points was not possible but. with me that’s usually enough."
protection to Fran Tarkenton. Goode says, the 14 statistics account for One of computer revela-
his favorite

Dolphins and
In passing, however, the 96 % of scoring, which means he can tions is that there no relation-
is virtually
Vikings are almost identical. However, come close to predicting or —
more accu- ship between average yards per rush and
Minnesota's John Gilliam, who has av- rately —explaining the outcome of any average yards per pass. In other words,
eraged over 21 yards a reception the past season. Last year, for instance, he missed you don’t need to "establish the running
two years, statistically upstages Miami's the total points the Redskins allowed for game" before you can go to the air. Ac-
Paul Warfield. the whole season by one and the points cording to the computer, if you can pass,
The computer does reveal subtle indi- they scored by 13.The ability to explain you can pass. This year's Redskins
cations that Minnesota's defensive line statistically the outcome of the regular ranked dead last in yards per rush yet
weaknesses are misleading. For instance, season makes Goode's computer a sound they tied Miami and Minnesota for fifth
although the Vikings allowed fewer tool to predict the outcome of the sea- in yards per pass.
points than any other team in the league son's culminating event. Last year the For scoring points one of the most im-
except, of course, Miami, they gave up computer picked the Super Bowl right on portant statistics is yards per pass at-

quite a few field goals. This suggests that the nose — Miami by seven — although tempt (sacks count as an attempt with,
they grew increasingly stingy as the goal because of a calculation mistake Goode of course, minus yardage I. Basically, one
line neared. Given Garo Yeprcmian's released the figure as eight. additional yard per pass attempt adds
range and accuracy. Minnesota will have If nothing else, the computer is totally two points per game to a team's offense.
to get stubborner sooner. The Vikings objective. It doesn't know Alan Page This year's eight playoff teams ranked in

did. hold Dallas to 3.6 yards a curry in from Howard Cosell. One week a key- the top 1 1 in both points and average
the NFC Championship game, but the punch error told it that Dallas averaged yards per pass attempt. Yet how many
loss of Calvin Hill, the conference's 51 first downs for every punt. Without times do you hear yards per pass attempt
second leading rusher, may well have blinking a light, it predicted the Cowboys cited? It is not even on the list of 75 sta-
contributed to that. would beat the Redskins by 73 points. tistics that the NFL publishes each week.
-

And, after all. can anyone stop Miami .’

The Biomedical Statistical Package is Usually, poor teams average four
One of the most startling facts the com- used to analyze business, economics, psy- yards per pass attempt, middling teams
puter showed is that Miami ranked dead chology. sociology, even history and lit- six and strong teams eight. The impor-
last in total offensive plays yet led the erature. but to Goode's knowledge it has tant point for the purposes of predicting
NFL in average gain per play and tied not been used in sports. Dr. W.J. Dix- and explaining is that the difference be-
for fifth in scoring. Apparently the only on. a onetime chairman of the statistical tween four yards and eight is I00 It is
f
, .

thing that can put a halt to the Dolphin computing section of the American Sta- the differences that predict. Goode has
offense is the end zone. tistical Association and father of the used develop the House-
this statistic to

outcome of Su-
In order to predict the Biomcd package, has watched Goode's wife's Rule for Understanding Football.
per Bowl VIII Bud Goode used two pro- work. "There are a lot of people called She need only remember the numbers
grams from something called the Bio- Statisticians in sports," Dixon says. four, six and eight. At halftime she asks
medical Statistical Package, a set of "Record keeping is a one-upsmanship her husband the passing yardage and at-
computer programs developed at UCLA game in itself. A whole culture of num- tempts for each team and with a little

for the application of statistical methods bers has grown up around sports where short division can almost always tell him
in medical research. With the aid of the it hasn't elsewhere. We don't, for in- who is winning, without wasting a mo-
computer he created a correlation ma- stance. count the number of times Mar- ment in front of the TV set.

trix, a table that essentially showed the lene Dietrich fell into the pit. Bud has Discovering the importance of this sta-
relationships between all football statis- done something revolutionary in making tistic is one of Goode's proudest achieve-
tics. Hidden in that matrix was a pattern this tremendous volume of sports infor- ments. "When I die," he says, "my
continued

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SUPER BOWL continued

tombstone can say, 'Here Lies Goode. Even Goode might be forced to place a tures out with computerlike speed. By
He Told The World About Average wager if he thought Bud Grant was go- 1958 he was producing about 1 00 a year.
Yards Per Pass Attempt.' " When Min- ing to keep gambling on fourth-and-one. In the late '50s he joined John Gucdcl-
nesota traded Quarterback Gary Cuozzo The slide rule has not always governed Art Linklettcr Television Productions as
to St. Louis for Gilliam in 1972, Goode Bud Goode’s life. The only constant in a press agent, handling, among other
looked at the numbers. Noting that Gil- his 50 years has been the Los Angeles shows. Art Linkletter's Houseparty and
liam averaged a very high 19.9 yards a area. His father Henry was a musician People Are Funny, Jack Linkletter’s On
reception and Cuozzo only 5.01 yards an who for a time earned a living playing the Go and Groucho Marx’ You Bet Your
attempt, he proclaimed that the trade mood music for Tom Mix during the Life. He remained with Guedel and Link-
"makes the Brinks robbery look like making of his silent films. Young Bud's letter until 1971, throwing himself into
small potatoes." In retrospect that may firstmemories include a Mother Goose Hollywood publicity work with uncom-
have been an understatement. book with Mix' autograph in purple ink. mon vigor. He once threw himself out
Goode rails against the way the me- During the Depression Henry Goode of an airplane to help promote a segment
dia mislead the public. For example, the eked out a living as an artist. Bud be- of On the Go, but he was less successful
computer says that throwing intercep- came a "beach rat" and now claims to in that venture than in others — he broke
tions is about three times more disastrous be the world’s best 50-year-old body surf- his right leg in three places.
than losing fumbles, yet the two are con- er. Money was scarce. One summer Bud In the meantime he began to get back
sistently lumped together under the gen- paid his camp fees on Catalina by diving to statistics. In the early ’60s he picked
eral heading "turnovers." Notably, both for the coins passengers pitched off the up part-time work with a computer ser-
Minnesota and Miami finished below av- boat running to and from L.A. "When vice bureau by promising to promote it
erage in recovering opponents' fumbles. it comes to money. I’m very tight," he through sports stories. Goode called a
Miami, in fact, ranked last. On the oth- says, and by way of illustration he tells press conference and, using a simple set
er hand, the two teams tied for fifth in of the bone-handled knife he dropped of statistics, correctly predicted the out-
interceptions, each averaging I Vi per into Lake Arrowhead when he was sev- come of the Rose Bowl. Before long the
game. Since no team intercepts half a en. At the age of 15 he returned to the Los Angeles Herald Examiner gave him
pass in a game, this statistic, according lake, dived in and retrieved it. column space and with his computer he
to Goode, points to Minnesota's best At Occidental College he planned to began to write a weekly sports feature.
chance for an upset —stealing two pass- major in physical education but World Eventually he was syndicated in 26 pa-
es to the Dolphins' one. In similar situ- War II intervened. With his swim fins in pers including The Washington Post, The
ations the team that got the odd inter- tow, Goode enlisted, wanting underwa- Minneapolis Tribune and The Dallas
ception won about 80 rj of the time. ter demolition. He ended up a junior gun- Times Herald.
Again, the difference between one inter- nery officer. Still he managed swims off Armed with computer printouts, he
ception and two is 100*'; beaches all over the South Pacific; twice couldn't resist cornering coaches. At a
For some teams, fumbles can be a sign he even got in a dip during lackluster reception in Anaheim before the 1967
of power. The number of rushes a team invasions. All-Star Game, Hank Bauer, then man-
makes bears a very strong correlation to These military heroics ended in sick- ager of the Baltimore Orioles, was being
won-lost percentage, and the more you ness. While at sea he developed a blood asked what had happened to the pitch-
run, the more you fumble. Furthermore, infection and was brought home. Fever ing staff that had taken him to the pen-
number of rushes is one of several sta- had scarred one of his heart valves and nant the year before. "The pitching is

tistics that relate to both offense and de- Naval medical examiners said it would off," was the best Bauer could offer. As
fense. Indeed, it helps a team’s defense crystallize and give out in 25 years. Goode tells it. "I piped up in my trem-
more than its offense. The more you run, Goode was retired with full disability. ulous voice, ‘Do you think your it's

the more you score but, more important- He returned to Occidental, took a pitching control, Mr. Bauer?' ‘What do
ly, the less opponents will score. "Don't course in statistical measurement and you mean?’ Bauer asked. 'Well, when
go to the air to play catch-up," says caught the bug. He went on to get a mas- you won the pennant last year you
Goode. "Colleges do that and it's un- ter’s in psychological measurement and walked about 8',' of the batters. This
American. It teaches boys to lose." began work on a Ph. D. in psychometrics year through the first half of the season
Field goals also relate more to defense at USC you've walked 1 1 . Over the course of
than to offense. Goode explains that fact Now it would be easy to imagine how 6,000 batters a year that’s 180 extra base
by pointing out that to the computer any Bud Goode got from there to here. But runners and if one-third of them score

score is a potential go-ahead score. Op- Goode is not as predictable as his com- that's60 runs.' 'Yeah,' said Bauer, ‘come
ponents tend to panic when they fall be- puter; instead he got married and became to think of it, it seems like we're walking
hind or see their leads cut into. They pass a magazine writer. During the "50s he more. Where did you get those figures?'
more and run less, which leads to more wrote personality features for such pub- ‘Well, you see, Mr. Bauer, I've got this
interceptions and thus fewer points. In lications as Pageant Coronet, American
, computer Bauer's face turned a deep
'

effect, a field goal makes it less likely that Weekly and Photoplay. Not that he red. 'Computer! I don’t need any damn
an opponent will score, which is the ba- didn’t betray some of his statistical lean- computer to run my ball club,’ he roared.
sis of Goode's first and only law of foot- ings in this enterprise. He developed a 'I have been in baseball 22 years.’ 'Well,'
ball. "If in field-goal range in a fourth- card file —a data base, he might call it I 'my computer has only studied
said,
and-short-yardage situation, always today —on how to build character in a baseball for 30 seconds.’ " And that was
but always— go for the three points." magazine article. And he cranked his fea- as far as he ever got with Hank Bauer.
continued

44
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SUPER BOWL continu'd

“He was fired a year laler," Goode adds. As a start, National Football League
When he piped up in his tremulous Properties hired him to create the statis-

voice to George Allen, then coach of the tical charts in this year’s Super Bowl pro-
Los Angeles Rams, he got a more grat- gram. He has concentrated on sports,
ifying response. “So you’re Bud Goode,” particularly pro football, because he can

Allen said. "I clip and save all your col- get needed exposure from it, but he has

umns." For the rest of the Allen years in explored other areas, such as Supreme
L.A. Goode made two or three visits a Court decisions, economics and even rec-
season to the Ram offices. “He can tell ipes. "The Kitchen Computer" would

you what's wrong with your team," ad- produce recipes for the women's page
mits Tom Callin, an assistant coach still each week that would minimize the food
with the Rams, “but you can’t go get budget while maximizing vitamins and
what you need at the drugstore." On one minerals. "Research shows that the av-
r more than
occasion Goode told the coaching staff erage housewife spends 50 1
,'

that the answer to their problems was of- she needs to for food and doesn't give
fensive downfield speed. "Bud, you tell her family a balanced diet," says Goode.
us where we can get some and we'll give One presumes this is during those times
you a 510,000 finder’s fee," said Offen- when she is not dividing passing attempts
sive Backfield Coach Ted Marchibroda. into passing yardage.

So how has Bud Goode managed to The cartoon on page is Goode's

this

keep out of the public eye? Fate inter- first attempt to convert his mass of num-

vened in the form of Monday night foot- bers into a form more suitable for tele-

ball, which delayed the distribution of vision and newspapers. Next season

league statistics by a day and a half. By United Press Features will syndicate the

the time they got to Goode there was not cartoon as a weekly series. A computer
enough time left to feed them to the com- at CalComp, an Anaheim company that

puter and get the results to his news- also does Goode's printouts, draws the
papers before the next game. He lost his cartoon, which was designed by Bernard
syndication. And then he died three Gruver, in 10 seconds by analyzing the

times. numbers fed into it and comparing them

His 25 years were up. In the meantime, to canned numbers in its memory. Each
however, an operation had been devised of the parts of the cartoon's anatomy
So he went about
for cases such as his. toes, feet, legs, arms, nose, eyes, etc.

worked on
finding a surgeon. His barber represents a variable. For instance, if a
Los Angeles’ Doctors Row. an area clut- team’s yards per pass attempt is less than
tered with high-rise medical buildings. 5.0 the left arm points downward with

The barber would ask all his clients, a yo-yo football. Goode calls that a "yo-
many of them doctors, who the best sur- yo passing attack.”
geon for the operation would be. Goode The drawing produces a gestalt ef-

called this his Barber's Poll, and when fect —the viewer perceives the total, not

the results overwhelmingly pointed to just the parts. "It’s a sort of Dow-Jones
one man. he arranged to be operated on average for sports,” says Dixon, "al-
by him. The operation is successful in all though the Dow-Jones is much simpler.”
but three of 100 cases and with odds of The problem with predicting the out-
33 to I Goode felt comfortable. Three come of a single football game such as

days after he came out of surgery, how- His recuperation lasted six weeks and Sunday's Super Bowl is the effect of what
ever, his heart began hemorrhaging and was followed by hepatitis, which side- statisticians call error variance —other-
he had to be rushed back in. This time lined him for five more months. That wise known as luck. A computer is bet-

the anesthetic didn't put him all the way brought him to the end of 1972. In the ter suited to explain what did happen
to sleep. Although he was paralyzed and meantime the last of the Linkletter- than to predict what will. "Two quick

couldn't talk he hadn’t lost his hearing Gucdcl shows was taken off the air, so mistakes like the Rams made in the play-
and feeling. “Open him up," he heard Goode decided to make his avocation his offs in Dallasand it’s good night nurse,"
one doctor say and then he had an ex- .vocation. says Goode. "It’s tough to win a game
perience he would just as soon never re- “I want to marry statistical method- if you give the opposition 14 points and

peat. “Arc you plugged in?” a doctor ology to the speed of a computer," he start four minutes into the contest." But
asked somebody Goode could not see. says now, "for the purpose of bringing if M innesota and Miami play true to their
"Hell, don’t know where anything
I reliability into the analysis and interpre- 1973 form. Don Shula’s Dolphins will be-
goes.” came the answer. It was at this tation of the news." Goode envisions a come the first team since Green Bay to
point, Goode says, that he began to re- day when he will operate a computer ser- win back-to-back Super Bowls and they
figure the odds. His heart stopped twice vice providing reliable information in will do so convincingly. Would you be-

during the second operation. many different fields to all media forms. lieve nine points?
CONTINUED

49
 SUPER BOWL eontinued

ago a Swiss newspaper,

N ot long
ing to determine the fallibility quo-
try- masterpiece of misdirection, just the kind
of thing to foul up a computer's predic-
tient of the modem computer, stuffed one tions. which are based on the laws of
with all the information available on probability. Incidentally, for years Dal-
transportation and population in the las has fed game analyses into its own
years just before the development of the computer to turn up frequencies on of-
automobile. The computer arrived at the fense and defense. The Vikings invalidat-
conclusion that by 19X0 the streets of the ed those frequencies by reversing the keys
major cities of the world would be six upon which they were based.
feetdeep in horse manure. When the Cowboys defeated Miami in

The computer that arrived at the con- the 1972 Super Bowl, they did it by cut-
clusion that the Vikings will lie buried ting offNick Buoniconli, a middle line-
six feet —or nine points— by the Dol- backer who
is even smaller than Jordan

phins made its decision on better feed- and like him mobile and dependent on
in. But there are factors that still do not quick reactions and the protection of the
fit comfortably into a computer, and defensive line for his effectiveness. If the
most of these favor Minnesota. Vikings could handle Jordan and confuse
The Dolphins, a team built on preci- the machinelike efficiency of the Dallas
sion performance and the law of aver- defense, it is conceivable to noncomputer
ages, might have been put together by a reasoning to feel they may be able to do
computer; certainly it is a team easily un- the same thing to Miami.
derstood and interpreted by one. Most of Certainly there is little to choose phys-
the ponderables point to a Miami victory ically between the teams, whose key peo-
Sunday. But some things cannot be pro- ple are shown on the following pages.
grammed, such as Garo Yepremian's Neither is likely to overpower the other,
feeble pass attempt in last year's Super although if the game were to turn on pure
Bowl, which gave the Washington Red- physical strength, Minnesota has the
skins their only touchdown and Bud edge where it counts most in both lines.

Goode's computer its exact margin of The Purple People Eaters have been ma-
victory — seven points. ligned this year because they were a bit

Nor could any computer have taken leaky against the run. but they often have
into account Carl Eller's emotional dis- concentrated on the pass rush, which

YOU CANT play in the locker

Viking playoff game with Washington
three weeks ago. Eller
room at the half of the

knocked down a
creates openings for the
Against Dallas, they whipsawed a good
offensive line both ways.
ground game.

PROGRAM blackboard, excoriated his teammates

and inspired them to demolish the Red-
Finally, there is the devious plotting
of Grant and his assistants, which com-

THE HUMAN
skins. "It was a surprise," said Minneso- pletely befuddled Dallas. The Dolphins
ta Coach Bud Grant. "It didn't last long, may not be so easy to fool, but you can
but it worked." depend upon Minnesota to come up with
And the single most difficult player to variations on its accustomed themes de-

ELEMENT run through a computer is Kran Tarken-

ton. the Viking quarterback. In playoff
games against Washington and Dallas
signed to upset the most sophisticated
defense or the most advanced computer.
Computers are only as good as the in-
he was as unpredictable as ever, scram- formation fed them— horse manure in,

bling away from a heavy rush to com- horse manure out. The human element,
plete key passes. One of those comple- as often as not, decides football games,
tions- to John Gilliam for a big touch- especially big ones like the Super Bowl.
down against the Redskins — came on a Remember brash Joe Namalh and the
scramble that would have burned out the Jets the year they upset Baltimore?
memory banks in any computer. Tarken- The Broadway Joe of 1974 could be
ton ran right, left and right again, finally Fran the Man. Vikcs by four.
lofting a soft, perfect pass into the back
of the end /one to Gilliam, who had twice
broken his pass pattern.
Recalling Yepremian’s feeble pass Something else a computer might have Gnese rarely calls his

attempt, Eller's histrionics and the overlooked was Gram's game plan, de- own number, but this

unpredictability of Tarkenton, our signed to negate the abilities of Lee Roy draw was good for 17
Jordan, the Dallas middle linebacker yards in the AFC title
resident expert picks the Vikings
who makes most of the tackles for the game, and could work
toy TEX MAULE club on running plays. The plan was a against the dikes' rush.

50
Warfield can turn short

passes Into long gains,

as he did by Juklng
Nemiah Wilson. And
what's thrown up he
brings down (below).
foreman gives the Vikes

unaccustomed outside

speed, while Reed (be-

low) Is more dependable

than before. Both backs

can catch the ball, too.

This can't be said for

Morris, who's replaced

on passing downs, but
Merc takes off with new
finesse up the middle,

stamping ground of .. .
54
. . . Larry Csonka. here runs the same old plays.

in noble repose in Oak- The Vikes will be look-

land's end zone. Miami ing for Zonk's counter.

55
Jeff Wright, Eller and
Nate Wright collar Rob-
ert Newho use. Statis-

tically undistinguished,

Minnesota's defense
excels Inside the 20.

NFL Defensive Player of

the Year Dick Anderson

(40) knocks the ball free

from Marv Hubbard on a
key fourth-and-one play
In the AFC title game.
Minnesota's front four Gang tackling Is the mark
has 41 years' pro experi- of the furiously pursuing

ence. It counts, as Page Dolphin defense. Below,

demonstrates In this Stanfl/I. Den Herder ( 83)
sly attempt to strip the and Buoniconti swarm
ball from Larry Brown. all over Charlie Smith.

The S3 Defense is named

for Bob Matheson —
here he's sacked Ben-
gal Ken Anderson — who
plays end or lineback-

er on third-and-long.

57
If8 up to him—Francis
Asbury etc. No way
Vikas win without Fran

having a big day, but Mi-

ami's light, mobile Una
might chasa him down.
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 JOYEUX JOINT
FOR JUMPING JACQUES
The steeplechase course at Pau, in

sight of the towering Pyrenees, is

one of the treasures of France.

he outside world was little aware of When you add the traditional le President." Other than that, all is sub-
T the Pyrenees-Atlantique region of fox hunt and the national stud, dued. Even the fans, who might num-
France before 1814. when some of the ber 2,(XX) on Wednesdays and 4.000 on
the place really begins to jump
Duke of Wellington's officers began rat- Sundays, go about the serious business
tling around the country doing their of belting without so much as a loud
warmups for the Battle of Waterloo. One cheer or an audible criticism. Jockeys,
of them, legend has it. was so carried no great celebrities at Pau. are often seen
away by the sight of the lovely, rolling Major Guy
only. and. says an exhilarated carrying their own tack before saddling
land that he said, in effect. "Chaps, this Cunard, England's living point-to-point up.
place is a blast, Jolly perfect for hunting chase master, "dangerous." There is far more noise, if only for the
and racing, too. It's just like England!" Cunard really is referring to the once* baying of the hounds, at the weekly Sat-
That didn't exactly do it. It was an- a-day cross-country chase, a terrifying urday hunt, which has been a Pau fix-

other 50 years before a good 3,000 Eng- three-mile grind across slightly uneven ture and something of an American prov-
lishmen had pushed their way 90 miles terrain and over 25 jumps that range ince almost from its inception in 1840.
inland from the watering spots of Biar- from what the English call a plain fence Masters of the fox hunt have included
ritz and St.-Jean-dc-Luz on the Atlantic (about 5' 5") to an open ditch, a stone James Gorden Bennett. Neilson Win-
coast and settled in Pau, a somnolent and wall, several brooks, a double-bar jump, throp. W. K. Thorn. C. H. Ridgeway
ancient provincial capital with an abso- a 1 5-foot-wide Oxer (double hedges), the and, from 1910 to 1940, Fredrick H.
lutely dazzling viewof the Pyrenees. The traditional French Bullfinch (slanted Prince, a Chicago and Newport meat-
birthplace of Henry IV, Pau is a resort mound topped by what look like fagots), packing gentleman who believed a re-
town with summers and winters that are a devilishly tricky Irish bank, an even spectable hunt never got under way be-
as soft as dulcimer music, and through trickier in-and-out jump and the usual fore 12:30 p.m. Gone now are the pink
it runs the Boulevard des Pyrenees, an water jump, least of the hazards. A one- coals and the ladies mysterious in their
elevated promenade begun by Napoleon third survival rate is about par for the veils galloping side-saddle past working
I in order to give everybody a belter look course, although, surprisingly, there arc farmers, but under Baron d'Arisle, mas-
at such marvels as the Picd'Anie and the few serious injuries. The three steeple- ter since I960, the spirit is there. The hunt
Pic du Midi dc Bigorre. 50 miles away. chases and three hurdles on the same card rides off at half past noon, crossing corn-
It was in Pau that the sport of Le Stee- are. comparatively, cakewalks. fields and the open ditches of old, allow-
ple had its humble French beginnings 30 1 All of this takes place before a strik- ing ample checks to remount the fallen.
years ago. While stecplcchasing dies in ingly handsome, three-year-old glass and It ends two hours later at a country inn
the U.S. Saratoga alone of major U S. concrete grandstand that, with its mani- in time for the traditional post-hunt
tracks presents jump races, and at last cured walking ring and neatly arranged breakfast, a six-course, three-hour gas-
summer's 24-day meeting it staged only receiving stalls, has helped turn the old tronomic romp.
15 of them— it thrives in France, where Hippodrome de Pau into a mini-Long- If and hurdles are not horses
the hunt
there are almost as many jump riders as champ. The country turf enthusiast, enough, there is always Haras de Gelos
flat jockeys, a season that runs year joined occasionally by swellsdown from outside of Pau, one of 23 national studs.
around and 211 courses for jumpers. Paris, sips his Bcaujolais or Bordeaux Napoleon bought the fine chateau for the
None of them, outside of Auteuil’scham-. three floors above the action and waits, stud in 1807 and it has been a republi-
pionship layout in Paris, is as challenging somewhat apprehensively, for his spe- can undertaking since, providing thor-
to horse and rider as Pau. cially tossed omelette mix t ruffes, the oughbred stallions as well as heavily mus-
The testsat Pau come in various forms: while casting his eye out over the splen- cled workhorses, Arabians. Anglo-Arabs
hurdles, steeplechase jumps and cross- didly appointed downs. Wandering and w ild-eyed Welsh ponies at astonish-

country obstacles, 40 in all, laid out over through the stands and restaurant is a ingly low cost to all comers. Pau, pro-
a dozen and a half different courses. The steady parade of elegantly dressed stew - nounced like the Southern po' boy, is

season is from mid-December through ards who, for reasons unexplained, al- plain rich.
mid-February. Wednesdays and Sundays ways seem to be addressed as "Monsieur Whitney Tower
 '

n'

- - •
-
-

Circling clockwise against

a soft, winter backdrop

of hardwood and spruce,
steeplechasers go over
a fence on the elegant
pinedotted Pau course.

PHOTOGRAPHS
8Y JERRY COOKE

Spills like this one over the

Passage de Route are the
price of Pau which, along
with the Auteui/ track in

Paris, is the most chal-

lenging on the Continent.

 Led by Baron d'Ariste. the Satur-
day hunt, a tradition that goes back As much a social as sporting event,
,

130 years, starts In leisurely fash- the hunt ends two hours later in a

ion at a civilized hour. 12:30. cornfield, from which everybody re-

pairs to a country inn for brunch.

A uniformed groom shows a stallion

to prospective breeders at the Har-
as de Gelos. one of France's 23 na-
tional studs, not far outside Pau.
 Although it raises visions of head-
long splashes, the water jump close Seven presiding commissioners, all

local gentry, follow the races from

to the stands is more a stimulus to
the stewards' pavillion before re-
graceful exercise than a danger.
tiring to a dining room in the rear.

Seldom crowded on weekdays, the

Hippodrome offers ample space for

bettors to study form and plot trip-

lets ( three top finishers) in the sun.
 have taken up
Satellites
where Noah left off.
The Ark may be obsolete,
but there's a new way to help
preserve the species against
flood— and a host of other
perils.
It's the watchful eye of the

satellite,keeping vigil over our

planet and its ecology.
These orbiting sensors see
into the ocean depths. They
monitor our waterways not only
for flood control but for pollu-
tion.They check on the health
and composition of our forests.
They track storms to help curb
the threat to life and property.
RCA built the first U.S.
weather satellite—TIROS— in
1960. Since then, we've created
78 other successful satellites
tor a variety of missions.
They’ve logged 60 billion miles
in orbit.
And they've grown increas-
ingly sophisticated. Our latest
satellites not only stand watch
on the global environment, they
even take earthly temperatures
from hundreds of miles in space.
Fittingly enough (because
they're named for our customer,
the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration)
the new series is called NOAA.
Electronics is creating new
ways to make life better. And
RCA, which helped create the
technology, is still innovating
the electronic way.

The electronic way

 PEOPLE

Curl Gowdy's big play was in the ney plucked them off. He pol- masked in the candlelit Lancas-
Rose Bowl game, but he had oth- ished one, framed it on a velvet ter Room, some of the would-
er ideas of whal made a perfect base and sent it to the White be drivers were true motoring
holiday in Los Angeles like do- — House, which responded with a types, but more of them were jet-
ing an orchestral sportscasi. letter from President Nixon in setters and members of royalty,
With the shouts of spectators which the President said that this gathered to celebrate Stewart’s
still ringing in his cars, he an- would become a "unique addi- retirement from racing.
nounced the first movement of tion to my collection of sports
Beethoven's Fifth played by the mementos." Still in Gaffney's The career of Fordham Univer-
Los Angeles Philharmonic or- own collection are four Secretar- sity’s Ramses XXIV has always

now. Andante
chestra. Let's see iat shoes discarded after the Bel- been interesting, if somewhat un-
to allegro, intercepted by the mont Stakes. Jockey Ron Tur- predictable. A year or so ago, the
fugue. . . .
cotte had asked for them the mascot aroused no little sympa-
same afternoon he won the thy when it was announced that
It may have been the toughest stakes but Gaffney had already he would have to undergo sur-
question Maryland's All-Amer- polished them off. gery on an infected horn. The
ica, Tom McMillen. had to an- summer of '73 was spent as
swer when he applied for a She calls herself "Howard Co- usual on a farm in Connect-
Rhodes Scholarship. “How sell Woman" because she "tells icut.But by December Ramses
good is the Georgetown team?" it like it is," says Karolyn Rose, had gained so much weight that
asked Rev. Robert Hanle, S.J.. wife of the National League's keeper Orestes Lope/ prescribed
chairman of the Rhodes Com- MVP, Pete Rose of the Cincin- more exercise and less food. The
mittee and also president of nati Reds. Karolyn will soon be weight gain was explained when
Georgetown, which the day be- doing her own sports show three Ramses XXIV gave birth on
®
fore had lost to the Terrapins by times a day, five days a week over New Year's Day. Asa UPI re-
115-83. ‘‘Coach Driesell tells me radio station WNOP in New- porter put it, ewe never know. es. What has Howe done to de-

to talk highly of the competition port, Ky. She may be right when serve all this punishment? Noth-
because we'll have to play them she claims to tell it like it is. Coach Maynard Howe of the ing. really. "The trouble is,"

again next season," said Tom When she was asked, "How do Maine Yankees, a junior hockey he explains, "the league picks
diplomatically. After the inter- you like football?" she said, league team, probably needs our coaches who were formerly out-
view McMillen called Lefty "I‘m sick of it!” good wishes for the new year standing hockey players." They
Driesell and asked him, ‘‘Coach, more than most. Back in bad arc easy targets.

why did we have to beat George- When Jackie Stewart and his 1973 he was assaulted by an an-
town so badly?" No sweat, wife Barbara arrived at the Sa- gry opposing coach in a game at ®After years of skiing, Vice
though. McMillen got his schol- voy London they were greet-
in Manchester, N.H. In Berlin, w hose in-
President Gerald Ford,
arship, anyway. ed by some 400 guests all tricked N.H.. fans mobbed his play- sport— swimming, golf,
terest in

out in black caps and goggles, ers' dressing room, and Howe and football— is now well
tennis

Johnny Unitas has retired his the Stewart trademark. The real wound up with bruises and bro- known, continued during his
Colt No. 19 jersey to the James Jackie Stewart came in as him- ken glasses. In Billerica, Mass., family holiday in Vail, Colo, the
Lawrence Kcrnan Hospital for self, as did Princess Anne, in a North Shore player hit him and skiing lessons he began two years
Crippled Children in Baltimore. a glittering gown. Later, un- there went another pair of glass- ago. "I’m probably somewhat
It is mounted, covered with better than an intermediate but
glass, and an inscription reads, certainly not an expert skier," he

‘‘In appreciation for making it said. The Veep is cautious on the

all worthwhile." Unitas might slopes, preferring style and form
have added ‘‘and possible." It to great speed. "After all. I'm
was a hospital physical therapist, 60," he said. “I look reasonably

William Neill 111, who kept the well and can ski anyplace, no
famous sore right arm and shoul- matter how steep or how rough
der working all those years. it may be." It almost sounds like

prophecy.
Janies Gaffney, former exercise !

boy at Meadow Stable, dcvcl-

1

Lloyd I. Miller, newly appointed

oped a kind of shoe fetish when ambassador to Trinidad and To-

he used to hold Secretariat while bago, may not be superstitious
the horse was being shod. As fast but seems a natural for the job.
as the blacksmith tossed the old A horse he owns won SI 75,820

shoes onto the scrap heap. Gaff- in 1972. name of Star fcnvoy

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college basketball Barry McDermott
f

And the beat goes on in Music City

Alabama came to Nashville with one loss and high expectations of handing Vanderbilt its first defeat of the
season. But unloading a bag of tricks, the Commodores magically rose from the dead and won a thriller

here was a novel, thumping beat in through this season they keep win- do except milking the cows, so we played
T Music City
this particular Nashville
last Saturday night, but
Sound was nei-
ning,” he wheezed.
is if

Vanderbilt's chances to remain un-

seven or eight hours a day.”
The teams had entered the game with
ther nasal country & Western nor rau- defeated could hardly have looked worse. burgeoning reputations. Alabama was
cous strobe-light rock. The cacophony The team was dow n by 1
1
points late in 6-1 and ranked seventh in the nation,
was strictly of college basketball Van- — the first half and fallingapart like a news- while Vanderbilt was unbeaten in eight

derbilt going against Alabama, a game paper left out in the rain, but struggled games and ranked 10th. This was the
played at a whirling rpm on the turntable back to a 37-37 tie at halftime, enticing SEC opener for both, and past perfor-
of the Memorial Gymnasium. Alabama embarrassingly into seven offen- mances were as meaningless as chaff in
By a critic's standards, the perfor- sive fouls. “It's kind of a rinky-dink the wind. Apprehension settled in the re-
mance had everything: a surfeit of South- play," said Vandy Captain Jan Van Bre- spective camps early in the week.
eastern Conference drama, big plays, ral- da Kolff, “but if that's what it takes to “We realize now that Skinner is a bet-
lies and enough action to tie slip knots in win. you have to do it." ter coach than we thought he was,” com-
the tongue of the glibbest disc jockey. Running out of
tricks. Vandy trailed mented Van Breda Kolff. His father.
Vandy made more comebacks than Sina- Alabama 69-62 with 2:40 left on the Butch, is the coach of the Memphis
tra.Often the Commodores were mori- clock. “Instead of quitting then, we just Tams, so Jan is well schooled in the
bund: their breath would not have fogged pulled together," said Van Breda Kolff. rudiments of the game. Although he is
a mirror. But at each seeming demise they "This team has character. We always 6' 8', he played guard his first two years

rallied, just as they had predicted they seem to win the close ones.” at Vandy and is the best passer on the
would. Somehow, some way, Vanderbilt There were 26 seconds left and Vander- team. "The first couple of years here. I
won 73-72, with sophomore Butch Fch- bilt was still down by one when Feher wondered at times. We used to blame a
er the chief resuscitator. He shoveled in missed the second of two free throws. Al- loss on the coaching staff. Now if we lose,
the winning basket with 13 seconds re- abama's Charles Russell, a first-team we're going to blame it on ourselves.
maining, a wild, charmed shot decidedly junior college All-America last year and We're more together this year."
short on form but more than adequate on his team's leading scorer and rebounder "On paper. Alabama docs look bet-
results. Afterward, Alabama looked as if in the game, ball. Only
grabbed the ter." agreed Compton one day last week
ithad stopped to sniff a boutonniere and Vandy 's ubiquitous
for a second, though. after practice, “but 1 think we’re a smart-
had been squirted in the face with water. Terry Compton it away. Leon
tipped er team. The game is going to boil dow n
The standing-room-only and partisan Douglas blocked Van Breda Kolff ‘s shot to whoever wants it the most, to who gets
crowd was euphoric, and no w onder. The but Compton again stole the ball, nudg- those loose balls.”
Commodores stole the ball four times in ing it to Feher, whom Skinner calls "a It was a jaunty prediction destined to

the final 2Vi minutes, twice in the last 25 good garbage player." Seconds later Feh- become hard fact. T rue. Vanderbilt made
seconds, while Alabama handled the er was scavenging for the victory. nine more free throws than Alabama, but
thing as were ticking. Even so the
if it “That's a terrible way to lose a game," that could be a mark of its savvy as much
Crimson Tide had two prime chances to moaned Alabama Coach C. M. Newton. as its home-court advantage. The team
pound the final nail into the Vanderbilt Russell all but shut out Compton, made 14 more than Memphis State, and
coffin, but each time they hit their thumbs Vandy’s top launching pad, during the that game was in Memphis. Two of its
instead. Ray Odums blew a clear layup
1
first half, but then Compton loosened up players are enrolled in pre-med, a few
with than a minute remaining and
less and scored 16 points in the second. The others are in engineering or sociology;
Charles Cleveland, the team’s best shoot- Vanderbilt senior grew up on a farm out- there are no physical education or teach-
er, broke wide open but missed a piddling side Horse Cave. Ky., a town that boasts ers colleges atVandy, no Canoeing I or
jump shot with two seconds left. Vandy 2, 1 00 citizens and a cave on Main Street. Badminton II to sugar the athlete's aca-
Coach Roy Skinner has now won five As a stripling he practiced his basketball demic load, and Skinner has been able to
games by four points or fewer, and when on a goal nailed to a tobacco barn. “Dur- squeeze only one JC transfer into school
itwas all over he looked like a rag hung ing the winter we moved it inside," he ex- in his 14 years there.
up to dry. “The only way can make it I plained. "There weren't many chores to For most of this season everything has

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 seven players were raised in the state and Carolina basket. "Maybe these games aren’t
each of the starting five was the most counting in the conference standings, but
valuable player in his respective high they do count," State Coach Norm Sloan

school tournament. Everyone of conse-

said before the game. “Our alumni assured
me of that several limes, telling me how long
quence, except senior Ray Odums, re-
to play my starters, what to do here and
turns next season.
there." Once-beaten Wake Forest edged
This is hardly to say that the future is
Duke 64-61 to reach the finals, where
not now
at Alabama. Newton is stirring Thompson made the move of the year to pull
three newcomers into the nucleus of the Wolfpack out of a 24-24 tie and send it

Douglas. Cleveland and Odums and by on to a 91-73 victory. He stole the ball, drib-
the end of the year, perhaps when the bled quickly up the floor, took off near the
NCAA Mideast regional is held at Ala- foul line for the basket, in midair changed

bama, the team will show it. Russell is im- hands with the ball by going behind the back
proving game by game and so are fresh- and finally flipped in a lefty layup from above
the rim. Thompson hit 19 of 26 shots and
men T.R. (Theodore Roosevelt) Dunn, a
had 10 assists and 40 points in the two games,
starter at forward, and 6' 8* Rickey
making him a tournament MVP for the sec-
Brown, a spindly youngster who can play
ond week in a row. Carolina took third place
either center or forward.Both the fresh- 84-75 over Duke.
men were frustrated by Vanderbilt’s ag- Maryland, ranked highest of the three
gressive defense. “They took away our ACC teams in the country’s top five, bombed
inside game,” acknowledged Newton, Richmond 96-60 as Tom McMillen became
"although we did outrebound them by the Tcrps’ leading scorer of all time. Clcm-

a comfortable margin. And the charging son was a 29-point victim 89-60 precisely —
fouls hurt us. Guys got awful cautious. Maryland's average margin of victory since
Overall,we ought to be good enough to UCLA —as Len Elmore and McMillen held
seven-footer Wayne (Tree) Rollins scoreless
win even with all of that."
in the second half.
But the doctors of Vanderbilt attacked
Meeting familiar foe Marquette in Colum-
Compton scores over Cleveland as game- the game as if it were a calculus problem.
bia was South Carolina, which had not lost
winner Feher (31) jockeys with Russell. Every time the thing looked beyond solu- at home in 27 outings since its infamous fight
tion, they got together and worked out a with the Warriors on national TV two years
new formula, finally mystifying the oppo- before. The game was televised again, and
sition. “It looked bad for a while, didn’t near the end looked as though the Game-
it
been dandy at Vandy. The only discor-
it?” Compton said later. “I guess you’d cocks' streak would die. Brian Winters
dant note was struck over the Christmas
call it luck, to come from behind like that missed a onc-and-one free throw that would
holidays when a thief broke into Skin-
against a team as good as Alabama.” have broken a 58-58 tic and Marquette got
ner’s house and stole his television set the rebound and began playing for one shot.
That’s Vanderbilt, awfully lucky this
and too bad Compton was not around But Maurice Lucas was called for an offen-
year. Just like all the other undefeated
to filch it right back. The coach is a small, and soon Winters had another
sive foul,
teams, the ones that can be counted on
thin man with ruddy skin. His voice, like chance. "I consider myself a good shooter,"
one hand. and
most everyone’s in Music City, sounds Winters said later, well he might. His
like Gomer This season he has al-
Pyle’s. 20-foot jumper went through at the buzzer

ternated four seniors and three sopho- to hand Marquette its first defeat.
While Vanderbilt was knocking off Ala-
mores in the lineup. They are called “the
splendid seven.” but lately that sobriquet
THE WEEK bama, Glen Hansen and Collis Temple were
doing something Pistol Pete Maravich nev-
is outdated. by KENT HANNON
er did at Louisiana State and something the
Bob Chess, a 6' 9' junior, has been giv- Tigers had done only twice in 39 years; beat
ing Van Breda KolfT some help at center, Kentucky. LSU trailed 40-36 at halftime, but
and against Alabama he came off the Paired in the same Temple ignited a 22-to-8 burst in the first

bench to slow down Douglas, the Tide’s SOUTH bracket of the Big Four five minutes of the second half. He had 22
sophomore center who is one of the best tournament in Greensboro, North Carolina points for the game and Hansen 30 as State
young big men in the country. "I just State and North Carolina went at each oth- won its seventh straight.
thought he was big, but he can get up and er in the first round as though it would be Austin Pcay dropped three games in four

reject some shots,” said Compton about their only meeting of the year instead of —
days to Missouri 88-86 and Southern Mis-

Douglas. “I wouldn’t doubt that he’s

"merely the first of three —
and possibly four sissippi 79-75 in the Senior Bowl and to Jack-
games. In the end State prevailed 78-77 on sonville 93-70. Winner of the Senior Bowl
probably the most valuable player in the
the varied contributions of Monte Towc, Da- was South Alabama, which upset Missouri
league.”
vid Thompson and Tom Burleson, whose 74-64.
In a short time, Newton has changed stair-step physiques begin at 5' 5*/i and as- Centenary nipped Arkansas 98-96 at the
the description of Alabama basketball cend through 6' 4' up to 7’ 4*. Burleson led buzzer, Virginia Tech gobbled up Eastern
from futile to fantastic. His first team the three with 22 points and 14 rebounds, Kentucky 92-65 and edged St. Bonaventure
won only four games in 1969; the last two Thompson had 20 points and Towe dropped 77-75 and Stetson handed Virginia the
have combined for 40 victories. His first in two critical free throws that offset the last ACC’s most embarrassing setback in years
continued

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL continued

78-76 as Cavalier stars Gus Gerard and Wal- es concerning the basketball team reportedly as the Titans won 95-83. Their new Coach
ly Walker Touted out with five and 14 points had nothing to do with either of the Pon- Dick Vitale claimed that Wells needs tough
respectively. dexter brothers, Roscoe or Cliff, who com- competition to excel. Against Duquesne,
bined for 39 points against L.A. State. which must not be tough enough, Wells con-
1. MARYLAND (B-1) 2. N.C. ST. (7-1) Houston captured its own Bluebonnet tributed only 15 points, but Detroit won
Classic for the 11th straight time by nudg- 80-72 and is now 10-1

\A/rQT again, the West was ing Florida State 79-74 and Rice played a
VV L0 I knee-deep in snow and up- small part in raising Hawaii's gaudy record 1. NOTRE DAME (7-0) 2. MARQUETTE (10-1)

sets, two of them in Fort Collins, Colo., to 1 succumbing to the Rainbows twice
1-0 by

where Colorado State got hot in near-zero in Honolulu, 109-75 and 99-71. Weber State rA QT Syracuse came to New Bruns-
temperatures and stopped Arizona State and split two Big Sky contests, losing to Gon- LnO I wick, N.J. looking for its 14th
Arizona. The cactus powers might have an- zaga 66-58 and beating Idaho 78-73. Oral consecutive victory over Rutgers, but the
ticipated trouble. Never in 20 years had it Roberts Coach Ken Trickey, a man given to contest quickly developed into a game of
been safe to play a Jim Williams team there. such pronouncements, thought so much of threc-on-thrce playground ball and the Scar-
Last year, for good example, Arizona lost a the 10-2 Titans’ 87-74 triumph at Peppcrdine letKnights reclaimed their home turf 93-79.
share of the Western Athletic Conference that he said, “I think we will win all the rest Their trio of 6' 5' starters— Phil Sellers, Mike
championship at CSU one night, and on the of them.” Dabney and Vinnie Roundtree combined —
next heavily favored Arizona State escaped for 82 points: the Orangemen's Dennis Du-
with the title on a last-second basket. The 1. UCLA (9-0) 2. LONG BEACH ST. (10-1) Val, Jim Lee and Rudy Hackett got 67.
Sun Devils were less fortunate this time. It Another streak was chopped down when
was Colorado Slate’s Rudy Carey who Canisius clobbered Villanova for the first
scored the late basket as the Rams won 74-72. MIDWEST supposed to win any time since 1963 in the National Invitation
Arizona, which opened this year's sea- WAC and we've won nine already," said Michi- Tournament. Larry Fogle and Kenny Kee
son by romping over Wyoming 93-77, found gan’s joyous Johnny Orr following his team's were nearly as productive as the Rutgers
Williams' 2-3 zone defense too tough to 73-71 upset of sputtering Indiana. Picked to three, Fogle pouring in 42 points and Kee
crack, even for its scoring machine, which finish eighth in the Big Ten, the Wolverines sinking 8 of 22 from the floor for 39 points
1

was averaging 88 points a game. Ram For- looked at least that bad, trailing the Hoo- in the 127-99 rout. “I knew Kee was up for
ward Tim Hall outshone Wildcats Conicl siers 41-26 at halftime. But Campy Russell this game," said Canisius Coach John Mor-
Norman and Bob Elliott by getting 24 points rang up 20 points and 14 rebounds and rison, which he must have been; he hit his
and 19 rebounds in an 85-67 ambush. New brought Michigan back into the game be- first 10 shots of the second half. Fogle made

Mexico (12-0), which plays both Arizona fore fouling out with 3:37 left. Three other 17 of 25 shots and snatched 16 rebounds.
clubs away this week, matched the Rams’ Michigan players were burdened with four "We were in a wind-down offense,”
with 98-9 and 84-75 victories over
fast start 1 personals, but twice the team benefited from moaned Temple Coach Don Casey moments
Utah and Brigham Young as Bernard Har- the new four-point rule that allows an of- after the Owls’ Jerry Baskerville had let fly
din scored 50 points. ficial to award two free throws for a delib- with a long, hurried jumper that missed and
Southern Cal, happy to be meeting Wash- erate foul on a scored basket. Freshman Li- Manhattan had won 68-66. "We were sup-
ington State in its new 12,000-seat coliseum onel Worrell's two-pointer and Guard Joe posed to let the clock run down to 15 sec-
instead of tiny Bohler Gym, discovered Johnson's two free throws held off the Hoo- onds and then call time with the score tied.
something else was new in Pullman: fresh- Purdue was defeated early in the week
siers. But the shot went up." In the end it was two
man Steve Puidokas. The 6' 1 1 Vi' center f rom atUtah 87-75 despite Center John Garrett’s pairs of one-and-one free throws by Man-
Chicago put in 22 points and grabbed 14 re- 32 points but returned home and edged hattan's Charlie Mahoney and not 25 points
bounds as the Cougars stunned the Trojans Michigan State 77-75 as Garrett scored 12 by Temple's John Kneib that made the dif-
71-56. Alas for poor Washington, there were of his team's last 1 4 points, including a game- ference.
no such miracles in the offing when it met winning layup. Wisconsin, which has grown A broken play produced a winning bas-
UCLA in Seattle. The Bruins jumped to a up to an 8-1 record by digesting opponents ket from La Salle's 6' 10' Joe Bryant in a
20-6 lead in the first six minutes and proceed- like Rollins, UC Davis, North Dakota St., 67-65 squeaker over Niagara. The shot (“I
ed to make mush of the Huskies 100-48. DePauw and UW Milwaukee, stomped all was really looking for somebody to throw
“I’m sure there are other things I could have over Northwestern 87-53. to," Bryant said)wiped out a series of come-
been doing tonight that might have been a Memphis State, experimenting, benched backs by Niagara, which was crippled by 32
more enjoyable," said Washington
little freshman Dexter Reed for the Bradley game turnovers. Penn, switching tactics and rely-
Coach Marv Harshman. Stanford was the even though Reed leads the learn in scoring ing on a deliberate offense instead of the fast
biggest loser in the Pacific Eight's first week, and assists. Coach Gene Barlow claimed he break it had been using, turned back Prince-
falling to Oregon 48-47 and to Oregon Stale needed senior leadership, but when that ton 69-59 in its Ivy League opener. "Patience
56-53, while Oregon was the biggest winner. failed, in came Reed to score 20 points. State isthe key word for us now," said pleased
The Ducks also beat California 54-42, aided ran away in overtime, 88-76. Coach Chuck Daly. His 6' 8' sophomore
by a cheerleader w ho batted a stray pass in- Louisville won a Missouri Valley show- John Engles sounded less happy, noting: "I
bounds, giving Oregon a quick basket. down with Tulsa 78-75 in a battle between was like a robot out there."
Long Beach State won its 70th consecutive its Junior Bridgeman (22 points) and the Providence humbled Catholic University
home game, this time over L.A. State 93-76, Hurricanes' Willie Biles (23). Tulsa, which 104-69, but Center Marvin Barnes admitted
then had potential No. 71 postponed when meets the Cardinals just once this season, after his team's 22 turnovers, "It's harder
Fresno State was stranded, a victim of a rare took 37 more shots but connected on only playing against little guys like that."
California snowstorm. More disturbing to 33%. New Mexico State downed Wichita Pittsburgh's fortunes are improving on the
Long Beach State was the fact that the and outmuscled St. Louis 74-58.
State 71-63 basketball court as well as the football field.

NCAA placed the school on a three-year pro- Owen Wells of the revitalized Detroit Titans The Panthers clawed Virginia 81-70 with Bill
bation for recruiting violations in football refused to be intimidated by Canisius' Larry Knight dropping in 34 points.
and basketball, which will keep it off tele- Fogle, the country's top scorer and second
vision and out of postseason play. The charg- leading rebounder, outpointing him 36 to 30 1. PROVIDENCE (9-2) 2. SYRACUSE (7-2)

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL John Underwood
Dame), 43 first downs achieved and,
most significant, 738 total yards accumu-
lated against defenses that were the burly,
beastly equal of any in college football.
None of the pro playoff totals were close
The average
With contempt for caution to that last figure.
six playoff games was 557 yards, all teams
for the

basically doing the same thing, out of the

so-called pro-set offense.
The bowls on New Year's weekend served as an example of how exciting
The most obvious difference in concept
the game can be when the offense is wide open and mistakes be damned is thatboth Alabama, with its Wishbone
attack, and Notre Dame, with its mul-
eorge Blanda, the wise old quarter- teams Notre Dame and Alabama— of sets and men-in-motion wing-
G back. said after watching the Ala-
bama-Notre Dame Sugar Bowl game on
like
not because
because its
more passes are thrown but
offenses are better conceived
tiplicity

T strategems, are four-back offenses. The

halfbacks and the fullbacks run and catch
television that that was the way football by more imaginative men. Men who dare and sometimes throw. Even the quarter-
ought to be played, “a great game, wide to be different, who are not so wrapped backs run and run and run. And
. . .

open,” and that by comparison the pro up in precision and technical efficiency sometimes catch. The pros are two-back
game, his game, is “stereotyped” and that they forget the name of the game is offenses, with a passer. Period. And even
“getting dull.” Blanda implied that to to make yards and points, not to keep when came down to that nittiest of all
it

bring the pros to parity in decibels of ex- from making mistakes. the gritty moments over the bowl week-

citement will require a greater infusion If anything, the college game is more end, Notre Dame with its Irish up at its
of forward passes, and in the wire-ser- run-oriented than the pros. In the Sugar own goal in the I Ith hour, there was one
vice dispatch that featured his views it Bowl, where the ball seemed to be flying more surprise to be generated.
was pointed out that even Ohio State's around all night, only 27 passes were Bear Bryant said much later that Tom
Woody Hayes, celebrated advocate of thrown, fewer than in any of the six NFL Clements’ clinching third-and-eight pass
the flat football, ordered more passes playoff games over the two-weekend pe- from the end zone was not just a bril-

than Miami threw in its AFC champi- riod. The reason the Sugar Bowl prin- liant call but came off a well-executed
onship victory over Blanda's Oakand cipals seemed so wild and woolly is that misdirection play in the backficld that
Raiders. their offenses do not depend on flight further camouflaged Ara Parseghian’s in-
George can be forgiven for he prob- alone to save them from tedium, and the tentions. Two scoops for the price of one;
ably has not seen much college football wonders they performed in this show- surprise on top of surprise. “A great
lately, being busy on fall weekends ex- down for the national championship play,” said Bryant.
ercising his 46-year-old right leg. But the made for drama and suspense nc> Super The Ohio State-USC Rose Bowl game,
fact is that college football is more ex- Bowl has come close to matching. Forty- meanwhile, produced not only a 42-21
citing —most especially as played by seven points were scored (24 by Notre score but 855 total yards, or a whopping
300 more than the pro average. It is well
to point out that unlike most of the breth-
ren, USC threw the ball around a lot in
that game. The Trojans relied more on
Pat Haden's passing this year (college
coaches adapt to what they have) when
John McKay realized he had lost the
blocking fullback (Sam Cunningham,
now a Patriot ) and the blocking tight end
(Charlie Young, now an Eagle) that
made running game so successful last
his
year, and because he thinks Haden is
“the best passer I ever saw.” McKay let
Haden throw 39 times on Ohio State, and
Anthony Davis once, but interestingly
enough when it was all over the “pas-
ser” they talked about was Cornelius
Greene of Ohio State, who had thown
only 38 all year, and then completed six
of the eight he tried against USC. It must
have been a traumatic experience for
Woody Hayes, allowing Greene all those
passes. He said afterward that they had
"worked, worked, worked on our pass-
FROM HIS END ZONE, NOTRE DAME'S TOM CLEMENTS THROWS HIS GAME-SAVINO PASS ing" for the Rose Bowl.

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 down against Alabama all year), but
Hunter seemed to be the only one in the
park who knew what he was doing on
the play. No great blocks were thrown.
No wild, clawing pursuit made. Both
sides seemed to be watching for just the
right moment to spring into action. And
sinceno one sprang, Hunter did.
But the most obvious Alabama gaffe
was the 30-yard pass to Tight End Dave
Casper that put Notre Dame in position
for its final winning field goal Casper was .

not only covered, he was boxed in at the

Alabama 15, and Tom Clements’ pass
was a Roman candle. Either of Casper’s
two Alabama escorts Ricky Davis or—
—
David McMakin might well have made
the interception. “Somebody should
have been all over his neck,” growled
Bryant. But Davis, behind Casper to the
Alabama side of the field, said he “knew
David was in position to make the play,”
and held olf. And McMakin got fooled
by the chill wind buffeting the ball and
The reason Greene was so effective, of holes with snapping pursuit and shut him “completely lost sight of it.” All Cas-
course, is that he also fed, fed, fed the down. Penn State still won 16-9, but the per did was step right up and have him-
ball to his sophomore Tailback Archie only peoplewho would argue that the self a reception.

Griffin (149 yards) and freshman Full- unbeaten Nittany Lions are in a class At the finish Notre Dame, a team of
back Pete Johnson (94 yards and three with Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma immense poise, had regained the edge it
touchdowns) and ran, ran, ran himself or Alabama live in Pennsylvania. held earlier and was in control. If it was
for 45 yards. For sheer beauty, however, The Alabama option is the “triple” a game either team deserved to win, then
there was no play to match the 47-yard out of the Wishbone, and though the certainly Notre Dame deserved it, and
touchdown run by Griffin that put USC Wishbone is still an innovative offense now makes a handsome national cham-
away for good in the fourth quarter. The the dimensions it has already displayed pion. Because Oklahoma was on proba-
long broken-field run is, after more than seem endless. Parseghian said before- tion, and thus kept from showing its stuff
a century, still the most exciting play in hand that Bryant’s infusion of exotic pass in a bowl, and because Ohio State so
football. patterns made him “uncomfortable” in dominated USC in the Rose, it will be
John McKay says he would love to preparation for Alabama. “I wish they bandied that a reasonable doubt was left.
spend his retirement years coaching de- were more conservative,” he said. USC players and coaches opted for Ohio
fense in the NFL, since “you never have The Sugar Bowl chess game was ter- State and Oklahoma in post-bowl com-
to face an option play there,” and the rific, especially if you had an inkling be- ments, but theirs isan objectivity worth
option as a viable, expandable weapon forehand what the teams were trying to questioning. An abiding animosity exists
has become the most difficult thing to de- do. Notre Dame, for example, uses so between USC and Notre Dame.
fense in college football. All the major many different defensive alignments it The Irish appear a better team than
bowl teams used it, in varying doses. took Alabama a full period to get sorted Ohio State if only because they are more
Even David Humm, the closest thing to out. When it did the Tide took such com- well-rounded. Oklahoma comes closer to
a pure passing quarterback performing plete command that it seemed Notre Notre Dame’s completeness. Oklahoma,
over the New Year’s weekend— pure pas- Dame would not only fall but be tram- Notre Dame and Alabama were, in
sers being passe in college football — ran pled to death. But in a game like this, 1973, as lovely to look at as any teams
sixtimes and was the second leading with the stakes so high, the errors that who ever played the game, and the plea-
rusher for Nebraska in its 19-3 Cotton decide it (errors decide every game sure is just beginning, for all three are
Bowl victory over Texas. The Cotton was whether the stakes are high or not) are loaded with young stars. Indeed, the
the most one-sided bowl, although Tex- often errors of omission. The first of two whole of college football is in glowing
as led brieflyand had a tie at halftime. that beat Alabama came during that long health, its fans alive and not kicking. The
LSU Quarterback Mike Miley came period of dominance during the second colleges drew record crowds for the 20th
within nine yards of equaling Heisman and third periods. After pulling ahead straight year, and in terms of producing
Trophy winner John Cappelletti’s 50- 7-6, Alabama let A1 Hunter return the the kind of drama that could even lure
yard net in the Orange Bowl, and did so kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown. “Let" —
people including George Blanda
in half the number of carries. LSU strung is a word advisedly used and not meant from their New Year’s Eve parties, they
out the Penn State line almost every time to detract from Hunter’s feat (it was a were an entertainment of consistently
Cappelletti touched the ball, jammed the feat, the only kick returned for a touch- high order. *no

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At the invitation of United States Steel...

C. Jackson Grayson,Jr.,calls
I urge business and labor to form ance of work in the plant or office. It
an American Productivity Center. means developing individuals whose
The proposed Center will be lives can be productive in the fullest
devoted solely to helping business and sense.
labor increase our country’s productivity, The Center will seek to achieve a
but in the broadest sense of that word. major increase in each of these facets
To most Americans, productivity of productivity —not separately but
improvement means producing more interdependently.
and better goods and services, a grow- Productivity improvement, spear-
ing standard of economic life, a way to headed by such a Center, is crucial. For
fight inflation. It is these things. we are moving from a nation of abun-
But more. Much more.
it is dance to a nation of growing scarcity.
It is human dynamism as well. The Center will be non-profit.
For increased productivity also Privately financed. Impartial. Outside
means improving the nature and quality of government. Staffed by experts in
of life for each human being. It means both capital and human productivity.
motivation, dignity and greater personal It will gather data about produc-
participation in the design and perform- tivity from all sources. It will develop

"... increased productivity also

means improving the nature
and quality of life for
each human being”
C. Jackson Grayson, Jr., Dean of
the School of Business Administration,
Southern Methodist University,
and former Chairman of the Price Commission.
for a new productivity center.
new ideas and techniques. It will seek to productive society.
increase national understanding of the Two hundred years later, we need
importance of capital and human pro- rededication to that dynamism. The
ductivity through educational programs Center could be a bicentennial gift from
and communications media. American business and labor to the
It will search for new measurement American people.
tools. It will help business and labor And so I propose that when the
launch programs of their own to boost American Productivity Center is dedi-
productivity. cated on July 4, 1976, we symbolize our
I find it almost incredible that such dedication with the actual signing of a
an institution does not exist today in the document— a Declaration of Inter-
United States. Japan, Israel, Germany— dependence.
each has a large one in active operation. By this act we will recognize that
In 1776, the 56 Founding Fathers labor and business can no longer con-
signed a Declaration of Independence tinue their adversary relationship, that
that made it possible for generations of all of us are inseparably linked in the
Americans to work in a free system and productivity quest.
to create the world’s most dynamic, Let us select 56 Americans from
labor, youth, business, minorities, senior
citizens, immigrants, all segments of
society, to sign our new declaration
which will embody the same spirit of
anticipation, faith, conviction and com-
mitment of our forefathers. With the
Center's help, America can move forward
to new peaks of productivity. The Center
should be created without delay.

United States Steel is proud to

have contributed many of the more
productive innovations that are in com-
mon use throughout the steel industry
today. Most of them have enabled us to
provide our customers with better
products and services. This, in turn,
boosts productivity in their plants as
well and ultimately provides better
values in the public marketplace. United
States Steel Corp., 600 Grant St.,
Pittsburgh, Pa. 15230.
So believes Glynn Riley, who — in the shadow of Spindletop, among

the oil and rice fields near Galveston Bay —protects and preserves
the final redoubt of the red wolf by EDWARD HOAGLAND

Dogs are believed to have originated vival of wolves is important takes hold,
from Old World wolves 15.000 to 30,000 the enormous inertia of tradition that so
years ago, so wolves are dogs off the res- far has worked to all but wipe them out
ervation and dogs are reservation wolves. will operate to save them.
Dogs are good with children because wild But the plight of the southern red wolf
wolves are good with their offspring. cannot be alleviated so easily. The red
Dogs whimper and cringe when disci- wolf evidently isn’t just a subspecies of
plined because of the innate pack disci- the gray, and “endangered” means
pline of wolves, although at other times something different when applied to it.
dogs are stoical and cheerfully accept the A form of life a million years in the mak-
ups and downs of life with a master just ing is on the verge of disappearing so —
as wolves accept the fortunes of the pack far gone now that any effort to protect it

they are a part of. Like dogs, wolves bark must involve not only shielding it from
in alarm and rush at an intruder near the man but also from encroachment and hy-
den, and mark their passage through life bridization by coyotes. Red wolves,
with semantic squirts of pee. which are big-eared and short-coated,
If we like the idea of having a few pri- slender, spindly, stilt-legged for coursing
meval wild “dogs" living off the reser- through the Southern marshes or under
vation, northern gray wolves would re- tall forests, have always impressed ob-
quire only a nod from the voters to get a servers as being rather rudimentary and
foothold in parts of their old range — in unemphatic for wolves, fragile in their
Maine and Wisconsin, for instance. social linkups, not very clever, easy to
Brought in, they would soon be at home, trap. (Their name "red” does add a ca-
parceling up the timberland, one wolf to chet and, now that they are regarded as
each three hundred or so deer. In Que- the most endangered mammal on the
bec and Minnesota they are thriving, continent, conceals their ineptitude from
and if ever the novel idea that the sur- everybody but their friends.) Behavior-
conltnued

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ally they resemble gray wolves; ecolog- mile —a red wolf again is in between, wolves met their end in good order as a
ically they are more like coyotes. They needing five square miles to find his food species, not mating with coyotes as they
howl like wolves and snarl when threat- and 10 to 40 to stretch his legs with oth- were superseded; but on the Edwards
ened, instead of silently gaping the mouth ermembers of the pack. Plateau in southwest Texas, where the
as coyotes do. They scout in little packs, By the late 1920s the red wolves, which same blitz of pioneering settlers from the
unlike coyotes, which generally have once had ranged from Florida to central East was followed by an invasion of coy-
stripped away the pack instinct for bet- Texas and north to the Ohio River, were otes from other directions, for some rea-
ter secrecy in crowded country and bet- gone everywhere east of the Mississippi son the demoralized wolves accepted the
ter efficiency at hunting small game. A and no other predator had replaced coyotes as sexual partners and created
grown male weighs perhaps 60 pounds, them, but west of the Mississippi coyotes with them a hybrid swarm. This swarm
between a coyote’s 30 or 35 and a gray from the Great Plains slid right in after moved eastward slowly, irresistibly, ab-
wolf’s 80 pounds. But skinny and stream- the shattered wolf packs stopped defend- sorbing the few remaining wolves of
lined as he is, the red wolf can live on a ing an area. The coyotes could withstand Texas’ Hill Country. They bred with true
coyote's diet of rabbits and cotton rats, the settlers’ trapping and poisoning cam- wolves, coyotes and also with wild-run-
and where a gray wolf would need about paigns a good deal better, and the log- ning domestic dogs —anything they met
10 square miles of temperate territory to ging-blitzing of the old forests actually and couldn’t kill —becoming ever more
feed himself —coyotes can get along, dis- benefited them. In the Ozarks and the adaptable, a swarm of skilled survivors in
tributed as densely as one every square bottomlands of the Mississippi River red a kind of canine Injun territory situation.

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 A tiny, ragtag remnant of the red wolf if a younger generation coming into pos-
population survived in coastal Texas and session of the key spreads of property
Louisiana between the Brazos River and wants to be rich in money instead of open
the Atchafalaya; however, biologists did spaces and maybe live elsewhere, it will
not discover it until 1962. Not until 1968 spell the end of the red wolves.
was any organized recovery effort initi- Part of a wolf-seeker’s regimen is to
ated and not till 1973 was enough fund- visit mansion houses, therefore, and ev-

ing ($40,000) provided to really begin. erywhere one encounters gracious living
seemed unbelievable that these last
It in the form of magnolias and spacious

uncompromised packs should have been acreage patrolled by black cowhands.

found in the Gulf Coast prairies and salt Peacocks, guinea hens and fancy geese
marshes instead of to the north in the stroll the grounds, 10-foot alligators lie

piney woods and hillbilly thickets always in private pools, and there are big-kneed
listed as their home. Could they be liv- cypresses, pet deer in live-oak groves,
ing in the vicinity of Houston, Galves- oaks festooned with Spanish moss. Quail
ton and Beaumont, an old, industrial, and mourning doves, mimosas, pecans,
heavily settled section of Texas? Houston water oaks, four cars in the garage, cool
is Texas’ biggest city; Metro Houston patios with iron grillwork, long lawns,
grew by 600,000 people during the 1960s little lakes, and girls and their daddies
to a total of two million. Vet the wolves (girls so pretty Daddy doesn't quite know
had ranged within Harris County itself, what to do with them). Texas is a good stands a little taller, and that a wolf rep-
and beside Galveston Bay and, over in place to be rich in, and these men give resents everything a man wants to be:
Jefferson County, through fertile rice one to understand, with conscious iro- "He's free, he’s a traveler, he's always
fields, some of the state’s earliest
next to ny, that they were conservationists be- on the move, he kills his food. He’s worth

oil such as Spindletop. They

strikes, cause they were conservatives and it 300 deer.”
numbered only a few hundred and were would only be when new views took com- Riley has none of the pained air of a
often poor specimens because the marsh- mand that the ecology of their grasslands late-bloomer; instead he is simply differ-
es, though rice-rich and oil-rich, are would be disrupted — smiling, because of ent in this age of Ph.D.s, and suggests
muggy and mosquito-ridden to the point course a visiting Northern journalist was that his own head someday ought to be
where a calf may smother from the balls likely to represent those new views. nailed to a museum wall alongside the
of insects that fasten inside its nose. In red wolf's. He is a consummate trapper,
Chambers County alone there are 10 cat- Glynn Riley, the federal red-wolf biolo- has killed “a jillion" coyotes for the gov-
tle ranches of more than 10,000 acres, but the small town of Liberty
gist, lives in ernment, and thus is as skillful at pol-
the only cattle that can survive the bugs and grew up in Wortham in the East Tex- iticking with the old ranchers and trap-
during the summer and the windy win- as brush not very far away. His father did pers as any government agent could be.
ters, standing for months untended in the a bit of trading in scrub horses and cows, Although his supervisors include some of
chilly water and the storms, are an in- and even when there wasn't any money the same men responsible for decimating
digenous mongrel Brahman breed. Para- in the house it was a good life for a boy. the w olves of Texas in the first place, he
sitessuch as heartworms, hookworms, He's 38, and has that cowpoke look of gets along with them as other conserva-
tapeworms, spiny-headed worms infect not putting much weight on the ground tionists and biologists have not been able

the wolves and mange plagues them; the when he walks. His face is trim and small, to — in the short, meager life of the pro-
sawgrass rips their fur until their tails his body slim, his hair curly and neat and gram there have been transfers and a
are naked as a rat's; the spring floods his voice mild, so that just as, like many great deal of criticism. Indeed, not being
drown their pups. wildlife men, he prefers being inconspic- a cosmopolitan man, his worst difficulty
Texas has considerably less state- uous, nature has given him the where- has probably been in dealing with what
owned park and recreation lands than withal. He has yet to finish college, hav- should be his natural constituency, the
New Jersey and, for its size, remarkably ing dropped out several times, and is a conservationists "up East," that formi-
little federal acreage, too, because one of country-religious man. Although he is dable big-city crew of letter writers whom
the terms of its annexation to the Unit- subject to more than his share of pro- other scientists have rallied effectively to
ed States was that the Federal Govern- fessional frustrations, if he is speaking the cause of the gray wolf, polar bear and
ment acquire no public domain. This bitterly and doing a slow burn, suddenly Indian tiger.

means that the fate of the wolves final- — in mid-sentence he will undergo a change Riley is in the position of knowing
ly protected by statute for the first time and say of the other individual in an al- more about red wolves than anybody
in 1973 —
is tied up with the rate at which tered tone, “But bless his heart.” In the else, yet watching a succession of
inheritances arc taxed and the local tax same folksy way, he says, “The good schooled young men arrive to make their
rate on land. If a handful of ranching ol- Lord gave the wolf 42 teeth to eat with." academic names studying the animal be-
igarchies along the coast fare badly, if He broadcasts wolf howls from his tape fore it vanishes. They must turn to him
their oil runs out or the assessors decide recorder on the telephone to interested for help, as all the cameramen and jour-
to put the squeeze on them in favor of callers: “Sounds like a pack of Indians." nalists who show up in Liberty do, and
new industry or summer development, or He says a mountain with a wolf on it he has evolved a quietly noncompetitive
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 Riley with a tranquilized red wolf, one

of only 200 or so that remain in a few coastal counties of Texas.

view, putting the fun of his work above ing down to feel the marks by a wolf’s
left whereas the cat family will scratch first,
the rivalries of a career. His own trap- toes. He bent right to the ground to smell and neither is much interested in the oth-
line is a private place: he traps a few its scenting-station —
a wolf’s squirt er haunts, but to trap either beast he will
wolves in order to attach radio-collars to smells milder, not as musky as a coy- use the smells of an interloper —wolves
them for tracing their life histories, and ote’s — to distinguish how much time had love to cross into the territory of anoth-
traps calf-killing wolves when the ranch- passed. The far-flung splatters of tracks er pack and leave their mark to razz the
ers complain, transferring the best of were a layout to him. He loves toes, hop- residents, like kids painting their colors
these to a zoo in Tacoma, Wash., where ping with his hands, his fingers in the toes, on the walls of a rival school.
they are kept as breeders for possible re- and never now encounters a coyote or a Riley carries hurt wolves to a veter-
stocking in the future. Mostly he traps wolf that he can’t trap if he chooses to. inarian friend. Dr. Aaron Long, in the
coyotes, though, especially for prophy- Usually he chooses not to, unless he town of Winnie. Long pins together any
lactic purposes along the edge of the Big wants to move them around, but in any broken bones (wolves will tear off a
Thicket where the small tracks of the hy- part of Texas he can envision the land splint) and administers penicillin and dis-
brid swarm already have met and min- much as the coyotes do, knowing almost temper shots and worms them. He is a
gled with the bigger tracks of the wolves immediately where to find their prints man who “likes old things,’’ and is the
in this final redoubt. and how to catch those toes. He is like a angel of the program, having put thou-
He took me walking with him in the managerial cowboy, with wolves and sands of dollars of his own modest funds
Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge next coyotes for his cows. into the work. He has a scrunched-to-
to Oyster Bayou. We saw snow geese, His traps have toothless offset jaws and gether, matter-of-fact face, the mouth
wheeling in platters by the thousands, a long swiveled drag to minimize the creased for smiling, and propagandizes
which answered us at dawn when we damage done. He attaches a bit of cloth for Riley as he makes his rounds among
sounded a siren to try to get the wolves steeped in tranquilizer for the wolf to the cattlemen. The only other strong ally
to howl. We saw coots in the ditches and mouth so that it will relax. Sometimes, of Riley’s I was able to find in Texas, in
an alligator so big it looked like two, half too, he removes a spring to weaken the much meandering, was Hank Robison,
in, half out of the water, and pelicans fly- bite and adjusts the pan until the jaws who sells ballpoint pens and cigarette
ing, and wavy lines of white ibis and cor- close at a touch so that not the slender lighters in Houston. As a crusader and
morants, and roseate spoonbills like- leg but the resilient paw is pinched. He lobbyist, he has worked to get the state

scoops of strawberry ice cream high in boils the traps in a black dye, then coats wildlife bounties removed. Otherwise the
the air. There were abundant tracks of them with beeswax, and has a shed full leading naturalists of Houston seem to
otter, mink, raccoon, possum, armadillo. of dark bottles of wolf, coyote, bobcat have been remarkably indifferent, if not
Otters lope in a way that even in the form and ocelot urine, with bits of anal gland actually hostile. The city zoo has not even
of prints communicates their speedy chopped in, or powdered beaver castor bothered to exhibit a red wolf, for ex-
eagerness. or beaver oil, two universal lures. Wolves ample. (The zoo director says he could
Riley himself walked rapidly, hunker- scratch at a scent post after wetting it. build good quarters for only $7,000 but
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 Bodl EM8
Jock itch (or chafing, rash, itching, sweating)
that the local millionaires would find

shouldn’t be treated lightly. the project “controversial.")

Parks and Wildlife Department over the
The Texas

years has taken what might politely be

called aminimum of interest. The best
blood enzyme studies of the wolves have
been done, not at a Texas medical cen-
ter. but in Minneapolis. Even the Office
It your groin, thighs. j

or buttocks suffer from of Endangered Species of the Interior

redness, rash, chafing, Department in Washington. D.C. has
soreness, excessive been slow as a taffy pull about the
perspiration, or Jock Itch
problem.
(Tinea cruris), then you
Like old-time trapping. Riley’s is a
need medicated Cruex".
Cruex provides fast lonely business. His best friend lives 600
relief. soothes itchy,
It Since Cruex is a spray- miles to the west, a legendary tracker
inflamed skin. Absorbs on powder, it penetrates working anonymously in equally benign
perspiration. Helps into hard-to-get-at places
fashion w ith Texas’ handful of mountain
cushion against further so you avoid the sting and
irritation. And. because ^owDeJ burning of rubbing, lions. When the two of them do manage
to get together they can hardly contain
it's medicated, Cruex is dabbing, or smearing on
strong enough to help ointments, creams, or their pleasure. They open those pungent
prevent the fungous powders. brown bottles, bobbing their heads above
can develop
infection that Get relief— fast. Avoid
them like w ine experts, breathing the dif-
when these annoying embarrassing itch, too.
symptoms are improperly With Cruex. Soothing, ferent bouquets, years in the brewing,
treated. cooling Cruex. and amble into the skull shed for some
taxonomy. Wolves have more forehead
in their skulls than coyotes, but dogs,
Cruex.Guaranteed to work or your money back. which arc dish-faced, have more fore-
head than wolves. Wolves have bigger
teeth and a proportionately longer, nar-
rower braincasc than coyotes or dogs,
and the sagittal crest along the ridge of

f howto the skull

cles attach is
where their powerful jaw mus-
more pronounced.

repair Here in coastal Texas the pioneers found

practically an old-growth forest of big sweet gums,

elms, loblolly pines, hackbcrry trees and

everything beech and oak. Wild violets and black-

berries grew where the trees gave out. and
for just then a prairie extended toward the sea,
consisting of blucstcm bunchgrasscs, ln-
two dollars diangrass, gamagrass and switchgrass,
with tall bluebells and milkweed stretch-
Paul Sandoval (our lovable promotion manager) has really
outdone himself this time. He's uncorked HAVERTOOLS, ing blue and w hite during the spring, and
undoubtedly his greatest accomplishment to date. Because with buttercups and Indian pinks under these,
HAVERTOOLS you can repair practically everything. Overcome
but broken by occasional sand knolls
by the spirit that is the constant delight of our customers (and a
source of scorn and derision to Fred Spanberger. our doughty con- covered with yaupon and myrtle brush,
troller). he's offering it today for just $2 surely the bargain of the
. . .
where the wolves denned and hid out.
year. Let me tell you about HAVERTOOLS: there's a handle with four differ-
ent regular and Phillips screwdrivers, a hammer, a set of four spanners, two
Then came a marsh of spunk weed. cat-
double wrenches, a 4-inch Crescent, a vial with assorted bolts, and even a tails, cut-grass and the same spartina that
polishing rag to clean it all up. So you see, contains practically all you might
it
the first colonists on the Atlantic fed their
need, except perhaps for an electric drill, which Paul somehow neglected to
include. Paul will also send you our colorful 64-page Catalog and he'll throw livestock. A bayshorc ridge fronted the
in a $2 Gift Certificate that you can apply to your next merchandise purchase. Gulf, beyond which the wolves, w hite pi-
So, if you want a nice set of tools, fill out the coupon and mail it to us with oneers and Indians crabbed and beach-
your check for $2. Paul will send HAVERTOOLS right out to you and he’ll
even pay the postage. combed. collecting stunned redlish and
oysters after a storm. In the bayous mul-
DoK, Paul, old amigo- send me HAVERTOOLS -pronto! My S2 check is enclosed.
let seethed, with gar and bullheads; a

wagonload of geese could be shot almost

any winter night along the tidal ponds.
haveriiill’s
The wolves fed on deer and on sick ducks
_Zip_
SI0JJ4

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B@(S'£M2 continued

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They still do eat birds, mainly cripples
music. AM-FM stereo receivers . .

from the hunting season. Instead of dccr, speaker systems record players
. . .

they chew on stillborn calves and the . tape decks

. . stereo headsets.
. . .

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water rodent weighing 15 or 20 pounds,
five limes as large as a muskrat, and lo-
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Nutria were introduced from Argentina
its habitat and diet.
to help stop Athlete’s Foot
to Avery Island. Louisiana by a natural-
ist in the 1930s but escaped during a hur-
ricane and wandered clear to the Rio
than any other remedy.
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breed prodigiously and eat a lot of rice.

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guered alligator as well as the red wolf.
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85
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Bowl
Medal.

But Riley has faith that here in Jefferson male. We were beginni ng to converse, but
and Chambers counties his lone trapline I left it to answer another wolf howling
can stem the tide, that rabies or a poi- in the distance. This second individual
soner won't wipe them out in the mean- and I talked back and forth until I start-
time. When he worked farther west in ed to wonder; the sound jerked and
Lubbock, doing rabbit counts and kill- creaked, awfully low in pitch, almost like
ing coyotes, he used to watch the bad- a windmill. Indeed, that's what it was—
Typical
reverse of
gers and the coyotes turn over cow chips I'd left a real wolf for a windmill!
medal depicts in a partnership to catch the beetles un- One morning soon afterward was vis- I

teams' helmets mAm derneath; once he saw a coyote take a with a rancher who said he wanted

w
iting
and the Vince Lombardi Trophy. to kill all the turkey buzzards in the sky
jackrabbit away from an eagle, its chest

Super Bowl fur shining nobly in the sun. He used

drive a hundred miles or so to chat with
to as well as the red wolves. There are plen-
ty of buzzards: we could see about 15
an old wolfer who had shot roosting on poles and trees. Just over-'
VIII Medal... the last gray
night the rain ditches had but sud-
western lobos at their watering holes. filled,
o matter the winner, you’ll want to
N treasure the memory of this great
"We thought there'd always be another denly the sun broke through the clouds,

contest in Houston between the two wolf. We didn't know they would ever lying at a cannon's angle, the kind of sun

"Super” teams of the National Foot- play out," the man said. that made you answer to it, changing, ir-

ball League-as commemorated in pure Red wolves have a higher, less emo- radiating dead as well as living things.
silver medallic art. tive howl than gray wolves and don't Greens bled into blues and reds, white
The Super Bowl VIII Medal is the blend with each other quite as stylish- was black and black was white. Then, in
first in this Official NFL silver series ly but do employ more nuances and per- this incredible intensity of light, what the
to be offered singly-and it absolutely sonalities than a gabbling family of coy- buzzards did, following some lead from
will not be sold as an individual medal
otes. A coyote’s howl sounds hysterical, an elder, was all at once to spread their
after the deadline. You may acquire
amateurish by comparison, or like "a wings, holding them outstretched stock-
the medal for only $25.
prolonged howl that the animal lets out still to dry. What we were witnessing was
Like its magnificent predecessors,
and then runs and bites into small not unfamiliar: everybody has seen pic-
the 50mm Super Bowl VIII Medal will after

depict the theme of the NFL champ- pieces." Riley goes about, looking at the tures of a totem pole topped by a raven

ionship game. Designed by NFL artists, feet of wolf-chewed calves to see if they carved with its wings outspread— the
the medal will be sculpted and struck had ever walked or were born dead. Ev- Earth's Creator, according to the maker
on mirror-proof-
in frosted coin-relief erywhere he stops his truck to look at of the totem pole. Ravens are the buz-
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finish
tracks — at the short feet of feral dogs, zards of the North. What we were privy
ling Silver™ by MintAmerica. Each
medal comes in a padded display case.
dumped sick originally from hurrying to — 15 buzzards spread-eagled, metal-

ONLY 1,000 MEDALS PER NFL cars along the interstate; at the wide feet colored, in a violent sun —
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individual. A
corporate order is strictly of a true wolf. For the record, too. he col- a woodcarver. a vision any warrior
to

limited to 10 medals. lects skulls and skins "off the fence,” would have died for, if in fact his excite-
Make your reservation application wherever ranchers still poison them. ment didn't render him invincible. Fif-
now to avoid disappointment. Post- I found two likely-looking wolves dead teen images of the Creator in a rising sun
mark deadline: midnight Jan. 31 1 974. ,
on the highway as I was leaving Texas, would have propelled a great chief into
GUARANTEE: If not fully satisfied, you and once, alone one night along Elm Bay- his manhood, after walking naked for a
may return medal(s) and all items within
21 days for full refund, provided they are ou, I howled up a wolf a quarter of a mile month. An end or a beginning, certain-
sent via insured mail and in original condi-
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SKIING— ANNEMARIE PROELL-MOSER won her

third straight World Cup downhill at Pfronten, West
Germany, edging teammate Wiltrud Drexel by

FOR THE RECORD

1.32
seconds. In the men's slalom at Garmisch-Partcn-
kirchcn. CHRISTIAN fNEUREU HER
upset It-
aly's Gustav Thoeni to give West Germany its first
men's World Cup triumph of the season.
A roundup of the week Dec. 30-Jan. 8
OTTO TSCHUDI of Norway won the giant slalom
and 54,000. defeating France's Alain Pen* in the
530.000 Benson & Hedges Grand Prix at Ml. Snow.
PBO basketball— NBA '
Were going to be one professional history orthe sport to win the 5100,000
Vt. In the slalom SPIDER SABICH defeated Aus-
tralian Mike Schwaiger.
of the better teams around eventually, but we're just Midas Open in Alameda. Calif. Ritger outrolled Bob
trying to get it together this year." claimed Detroit Strampe of Detroit 247-227 to win S 4.000 The tour-
Coach Ray Scott, "Eventually" became "right nament was highlighted by a perfect 300 game from
1
SOCCER— ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY won its 10th
now" for the Pistons last week as they won three of Jim Stefanich of Joliet. III. NCAA Championship in the last I 5 years with a 2-
four against three division leaders, downing Mid- overtime decision over UCLA.
west monarch Milwaukee 98-91 and 106-9’ and harness racing -Owner-trainer John Walker Sr.
Boston 106-101 before bowing to Capital 9} 90. SWIMMING Australian JENNY TURRALL. 3, set a
drove STAR SHOT (513) to victory in his first race,
1

Dave Bing was the Detroit pilot and Bob Lanier world record in the women's 800-mclcr freestyle,
the 538.758 Florida Breeders Stake for 2-year-old
the power of the Pistons" attack: Bing had 64 points beating the mark of Italy 's Novella Caligaris by 2.9
trotters at Pompano Park. The Blare Hanover colt
seconds with a time of 8:50.1 in Sydney. Turrall's
in the three wins and Lanier 8.1 points and 42 re- won by two lengths over Arthurs Freight in a slake training partner, Sally Lockycr. 14. finished a stroke
bounds. Milwaukee still led Chicago by i /i games
and Detroit by seven, despite losing two of four
x
record time of 2:07 H
for the mile race.
back at 8:50.3. also under the old record.
games and two starters (Oscar Robertson and Bob HOCKEY NHL: Amidst murmurs of despair by
Dandridgcl to injuries. The return of injured strong-
tennis I VONNE GOOLAGONG defeated Chris
Ranger players and the full-throated derision of 6 0 to win her first Australian Open
Evert 7-6, 4-6,
man Wes Unsold, who had 18 rebounds and held Madison Square Garden throngs when the team was
Bob Lanier to four points in the second half, against championship after reaching the final for the fourth
at home, the New Yorkers lost three of four and straight year. JIMMY CONNORS became the
Detroit, helped Capital maintain a three-game lead tumbled into a third-place tic with Toronto in the
on Atlanta in the Central Division. The Hawks won fourth American to win the men's title since 1946.
East. Montreal routed the Rangers 7-1: in Phila- beating Australia's Phil Dent 7-6. 6 4. 4 6. 6- 3.
three of five behind their two nominees to the East- delphia the Flyers rode Dave Schultz' hat trick, his
ern All-Star team. Lou Hudson and Pete Maravich. NHL first ever and the team's first of the year, to a In the first tournament devoted solely to mixed dou-
Another Eastern All-Star. Boston's Dave Cowens, 4 2 win over the Rangers; then back in Fun City. bles. the 560.000 International Mixed Doubles
showed why he beat out Buffalo's Boh McAdoo for Championship in Dallas. BILLIE JEAN KING and
Host, Ml rallied from it 2 deficit to frustrate the New
the starting center spot with 25 points and 24 re-
.1

Yorkers 4 2. Interspersed in these gloomy proceed- OWEN DAVIDSON defeated Rosie Casals and
bounds as Boston beat Philadelphia 106-97. The ings. New York did have tome fun against Minne- Marty Riessen 6 2. 4 6. 6 3. 6 4. King and David-
Celtics then, for the second time this year, lost two 3. Well, at least the Ranger defensemen had son each received a record 510.000 first prize w herc-
in a row. to KC-Omaha and to Detroit. Cowens as for winning the Wimbledon and U.S, Open mixed
later tallied six of his 21 points in overtime to boost titles last year King and Davidson shared a total of
Mea while.
..

Boston over Philly 108 102. Trailing Boston in the Boston rebounded fron I defeat by Los An- only S3. 250.
Atlantic Division. New York ran a winning streak
gclcs (only the Bruins' .econd loss in 19 games) by
to five with a 92-81 win over Capital. Then the
trouncing California 8 Then the boys from Bean-
.
mileposts - SIGNED: As manager of the New
VIRDON,
I

Knicks lost two in a row, to Philly 78-75 and Buf- town collected a tic and two more wins to open up > ork Yankees. BILL former Pittsburgh
falo III 110. In the Pacific. Los Angeles downed Pirate skipper, to a one-year contract after the Yan-
an eight-point lead on Montreal. The Canadicns
Golden State 14-1 1 and opened up a three-game
1 1
won two of three, including a 5-3 whipping of Van- kee contract with Dick Williams was invalidated by
lead on the Warriors, w ho have lost 9 of their last 12. American League President Joe Cronin. Virdon led
couver in which Yvan Cournoyer added two assists
ABA Kentucky moved back into the divisional lead to his 300th career goal In the West. Philadelphia the Pirates to the National League East title in 1972.
by bullying weaker teams in the East, beating last- went undefeated in lour games and widened its lead but was fired last September with the Pirates only
place Memphis twice. 145 101 and 125-102. and over Chicago to four points. Si. Louis nudged ahead two games out of first place.
Virginia 10- 109. The Colonels at that point were
1 of Atlanta into third place with strong wins over DIED: ART HUR
DALEY. 69, sports columnist for
taken 00-92 by ndiana. but remained one-half game
1
I Montreal. 8 4, and California. 4 Wayne Merrick I
I hr Ven- York Tima, in New York: of an apparent
ahead of Carolina. The Cougars, loo. had field days (three goals) and Glen Sathcr were the Blues' heart attack. A graduate of Fordham. Dales joined
against Memphis and Virginia, winning 35 18 arid I 1 the Thiirs in 1926 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
122-104. but ran into trouble against legitimate con- for excellence in reporting in 1956.
tenders. New York (page JS shot 57' in the first
I
,'
WII A: Toronto had a torrid week, winning three of
half and caged the Cougars 99-96 as the Doctors J threeand moving within four points of East leader
apd K (for Kcnon) combined for 45 points. Then New England, which Inst three of four. I he Toros
West leader Utah downed Carolina 100-98. New shellacked Minnesota 9 3. crushed Winnipeg 5 2and
York, only one game back in the East race, received shut out Cleveland 3 0. No bull about the Toro trio
superb play from Erving (34 points. II rebounds, of Wayne Carlcton (four goals, four assists), Rick
sis blocked shots) again in a 102 92 whipping of Scutes (two goals, five assists) and Wayne Dillon
Denver, but stumbled 12 109 to Virginia as George
1
(four goals, three assists). Quebec had a beastly type
Gcrvin held Dr. 5 to 19 points while scoring 25 him- of its own in Alan (Boom Boom) Caron, who upped
self Indiana ran its win streak to five and trailed his season's goal production to 22 with four in two
Utah by two in the West. Third-place San Antonio games But the Nordiqucs still were fourth. Houston
won two of four as William (Bird) Averin let fly for led the West by one point with Minnesota in second.
88 points. And in the All-Star clash the East whipped the West,
which had a case of the nines Bobby Hull and Gor-
bowling DICK RITGER of Hartford. Wis took die Howe both wore their own inimitable number.
first place in the highest scoring finale in the 15-year Final score: 8-4.

FACES IN THE CROWD

BRAD ROWE. 13. an MICHIKO (Miki) GOR- RUDY FASSL. 71, of
eighth-grader at Taft MAN. 38. of Los Ange- Cincinnati, rolled the
Junior High School in les, set a world best lime third league-sanctioned
Crown Point. Ind.. led for women in the 26th 300 game of his career
his cross-country team Western Hemisphere while completing a 744
to a 15-0 record. Rowe, Marathon in Culver scries. Fassl, who start-
who started running City. Calif. Gorman ed bowling in 1927 and
competitively just last completed the course in has 14 perfect games to
year, had best perfor- 2:46.36 to lower the his credit, is averaging

mances of 4:41 for the 1971 record by :04. fin- over 200 this year and
ishing 49th in a field of is a member of the city’s
mile and 7:31.5 for the
mile and a half. 600. most of them men. bowling hall of fame.

CINDY BROGDON. ajll- TIM WOODWARD and ADAM TANOUS. cighth-

mor at Greater Atlanta graders on the Portola Valley (Calif.) School
iGa. Christian School,
I
soccer team, combined for all the Panther goals
is currently averaging in a 3-2 win over Jordan School, establishing a

29.7 points through 1

U.S. junior high school record of 32 consec-
games as a rover on utive victories. Woodward, who scored twice,
the school’s six-woman and Tanous have accounted for 30 of the 53
basketball team. In the PVS goals this season. Woodward, the inside
left forward, is the Northern California career
past two years Brogdon
has twice been selected scoring leader with 50 goals in 45 matches over
MVP in the state tour- three years. Tanous, who plays inside right for-
nament. ward. has a career total of 16 points.

89
 th
19 h ole the readers take over
O.J. & CO. MASTERS OF THE RING was most interested in the so-called experts'
Sirs; Sirs: opinions on the 10 greatest alltime heavy-
O.J. Simpson is finally receiving some of It is interesting to note that in your story weights. I note that all said "experts" were
the credit he deserves ( Vintage Juice IK 64 on the heavyweights ( The Power and the do- white. Funny thing about that, the veal ex-
. . and 2003, Dec. 24). but what about the ry of the Champ, Dec. 24) three of the four perts in the ring, like the guy in there throw-
rest of the Buffalo Bills.' experts listed Ezzard Charles as one of the ing the leather, almost always wind up being
two years the young Bills under the
In just top six of all time. Only Nat Loubet, who black. Thai's why the black man has held
leadership of Coach Lou Saban have moved admits to favoring oldtime lighters (there are the heavyweight championship all but four
from the bottom of their division to a 9-5 seven pre-1930 fighters on his list), omitted years and eight months since June 22. 19.37,

record (their first winning record since him. I have been touting Charles' skills for And the black man could have taken the
1966), second place in the AFC East and years and I am happy to see a majority of same championships long ago. before the
within a hairbreadth of the playoffs. Go this particulargroup of experts agrees with turn of the century, if the likes of John L.
ahead and use the Bills' easy schedule as an me. Strangely enough, E//ard was probably Sullivan and Jim Corbett had not been afraid
excuse for their nine victories, but what the very best light heavyweight who ever of the likes of Black Peter Jackson. Let's face
about their impressive wins over powerhouse lived, although he never held that title; any- it. baby: I have researched that subject more
teams like Kansas City and Atlanta'? one who disagrees might ask Archie Moore, years than l care to admit. And one thing l

Buffalo has been ridiculed long enough in who was so good in the mid to late 940s no- 1 discovered long ago: a good black man can
the NFL Now the Bills are beginning their body would go near him. L//ard did. three beat a good white man any day in the week
climb to the top. There is no reason why any- times, and he beat him three times, the last and twice on Sundays.
one should be laughing at Buffalo anymore. time 11948) by a knockout. This little-known Truly great heavyweights come along
Sandy Bar an fact,by the way. generally stumps even about once in a decade. Taking each and ev-
Chccktowaga, N.Y. knowledgeable fight fans who. when asked ery one of the 25 men who have held the
the question, invariably say. "Moore musla heavyweight championship from Sept. 7,
Sirs’. killed him." 1892 to date, you can count the best on your
Ron Fimritc is to be congratulated on his Tony Nath u two hands, or less. And now for the shock-
excellent article. O.J. is truly an asset to the Howard Beach. N.Y. er: nary a one of them was white. A great
game of football, and he will have defensive champion lakes his opponents as he comes
linemen and backs at his heels for many years Sirs: He does not hand-
to them, as Joe Louis did.
to come. The Juice deserves a lot of credit, Cus D’ Amato's statement that boxing can pick the washouts, the setups and the no-
not only for gaining 2.003 yards rushing in be divided into two periods, "the old and bodies, asall of the white heavyweights who

one season along with his other ballcarrying rathei primitive days and the modern era of have passed themselves off as champion have
records but, as Quarterback Joe Ferguson superior techniques that began with Joe Lou- done.
says, for giving credit where credit is due. is and Sugar Ray Robinson." is a blatant The 15 white men who have been called
Simpson is not a Naniaih or an Ali who will misconception and an injustice to the box- heavyweight champion since 1892 held the
tell you why he is great. Instead, he will tell ing artists of the early 20th century. The two title about 40 years combined. They defend-
you w ho opened the hole. lighters he speaks of would be the first to ed the title a mere 46 times, by carefully

Mark Miihr disagree with D'Amato. avoiding the black man. or any fighter who
Woodridge. III. To back up my claim quote from Sugar I could give a good account of himself. The
Rav, Robinson's autobiography with Dave It) black men who have held the same title

_
Sirs: Anderson, in which Robinson cites his early close to 40 years defended it 71 times, and
May I interpose nay. interject a still, boxing education at the old Grupp’s Gym- for the most part against all comers. They
small voice from the past? In all of the hoop- nasium in Harlem: "I really had gone to col- gave white hope after white hope a shot at
la over O.J. Simpson's 2,003 yards break- lege at Grupp's, My professors were the old- taking it back, but the w hite hopes could not
ing Jim Brown's record of 1 .863 1 must speak timers who hung around there. Famous old and still cannot cop the crown. To paint the
of another legendary hardnose, the old fighters like Harry Wills. Kid Norfolk, Pan- picture even brighter (in this case blacker),
Washington Redskin Cliff Battles. His rec- ama Joe Gans. And some not so famous ones in heavyweight championship matches be-
ords stood a long time. Of all the great run- like Soldier Jones. All they did was talk box- tween blacks and whiles, of the 57 chances,
ners past and present he was, in my estima- ing and all 1 did was listen." Joe Louis whitcy has won seven while blackie has tak-
tion, Slasher, Dasher. Dondcr and Vixen all learned his "superior techniques" from Jack en the other 50. Of the seven limes the white
rolled into one. He backed the Skins' line; Blackburn, a boxing master who was con- has beaten the black man, six times the black
he did their punting: he threw and complet- sidered a top professional from 1904 to 1909. man was already old and over the hill. The
ed halfback passes; and. in the words of the The techniques of great boxing arc old: it is exception occurred in 1959 when Ingemnr Jo
immortal Sammy Baugh. "He followed in- the modern boxers who arc superior. hansson chilled Floyd Patterson. But Patter-
terference second to no man ever saw." I If the great fighters of today such as Jose son came back to retake the title a year later
Grantland Rice mentioned him among the Napolcs and Bob Foster had been compet- and became the first and only man to hold
best ever. ing half a century ago, they would merely the title twice.
Records arc made to be broken, as O.J. be considered two among a host of other out- However, in all fairness, I cannot be proud
says, But for a man who played only six years standing. highly qualified ring technicians. of George Foreman for not defending his ti-

in the NFL, was three times all-league and Michael Silver tle more. A black champ is supposed to be a

the leading ground-gainer twice, one hears Jamaica, N.Y. lighting champ, in my book, and Foreman
remarkably little today of the fabled Bobcat is not living up to the black champ's fight-
from West Virginia Wesleyan. Sirs: ing image.
Dam Grubi got a real bang out of reading about the
I Leonard L. Copeland
Ml. Sterling, Ohio heavyweight boxing champions. However. I Boston
continued

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Sirs:
Had I read your article about profession-
al boxing in a copy of Mad, I would have

THE ITALIAN MARTINI. commented on what a great job they had

done satirizing man’s extreme cruelty
and ignorance. However, since 1 found the
article in SI, I can only suspect that you are

Use a couple of drops of glamorizing what you seem to believe is a

sport. When two men get into a ring simply
anisette instead of vermouth, to knock each other's brains out, it is not

and the perfect martini gin, sport.

Paul Burglin
Seagram's Extra Dry. Fairfax, Calif.

Sirs:
You've done it! You've really done it! The
Power and the Glory by Ernest Havemann
was one of your incomparable articles. What
took so long?
There is just one thing that Mr. Have-
mann left out. There is an old saying that
"as heavyweight boxing goes, so goes box-
ing." This could be changed by bringing
other illustrious fighters to the public’s at-
tention. There are many. You could do some-
thing about that. What do you say?
Steve McCormick
Hornell, N.Y.

GOOD SCOUT
Sirs:
I surely enjoyed Liege Lord of the Latin

Hopes (Dec. 24) by Frank Deford. Howie

Haak and I worked for Brooklyn and Pitts-

burgh for more than 10 years.

As Mr. Deford pointed out, Howie has
one of the great retentive minds, which is a
must when it comes to scouting. Every boy
of ability a scout sees will reflect some other
player who has met with success in profes-
sional baseball. This triggers the scout'smind
and makes him aware that he has a prospect
in the boy. The degree of the prospect is then
figured by comparing his physical tools to
those of the player of reference. The ability

to put this all togetherand project how far

it will carry the boy makes a scout. Howie
Haak is one of the top men in baseball. I

owe what success I have had to him and to

Mr. Branch Rickey Sr., the man who set up
the system.
The scouts arc the backbone of every base-
ball organization. It is nice to sec one of the
forgotten men recognized.
Ross (Rosey) Gilhousen
Western Director of Scouting
Kansas City Royals
Santa Ana, Calif.

AT THE NET
Sirs:
Joe Jares’ article That Rumanian Black
Magic (Dec. 17) was frosting on the cake to
anyone who watched the Grand Prix finals
of the Masters Round Robin. Quite the best
tennis article on a tournament I’ve ever read.
To be fair, Jimmy Connors must have same-

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thing else going for

game and his fiancee.
him besides

Dick
his tennis

Jost in
lips
Janesville. Wis.

Sirs:

Once again you have failed to rccogni/e

too sore
Tom Gorman as one of the stars of tennis.

for a stick?
You only briefly mentioned his name, even
though he beat Nastasc. think Gorman's I

and sportsmanship deserve more.

fine play
Don F.\r\i r
Camano Island, Wash. Use soothing Blistex ointment.
TITLISTS It smooths on easily, doesn't irritate.
Sirs: Yet it's real medicine. Gentle but
_
I was most distressed to note your failure effective for quick relief.
to cover the Dee. 8 NA1A championship Used early and often it aids in
game in Shreveport. La. The Wildcats of Ab- preventing unsightly cold sores
ilene Christian College waltzed to an impres-
sivc42 14 victory over Elon College of North
and fever blisters. Try it.
Carolina, as Abilene Christian's freshman Soothing, cooling Blistex.
All-America tailback, Wilbert Montgomery,
broke NCAA and NAIA single-season rec-
ords with 37 touchdowns.
Brent Harshman
Abilene, Texas

Sirs:
Outside of always guessing right about
UCLA vs inning the NCAA basketball cham-
pionship, your track record for picking win-
ners of nationaltitles has not been very im-

pressive.We were very pleased, however, to

seeyour prediction (Scouting Reports, Sept.
10) about Louisiana Tech capturing the
NCAA championship come tl-ie
Division II

Obviously, SI was aware that wc had some-

true.

shaver
-
thing special in Kuston this year.
Walter Jakiila, D.D.S. tl lat went
James Florence, D.D.S. tea the
IV1 cd can
Ruston, 1_a.

PRIDE OF SAGINAW
from nose to neck, and main-
Sirs: full speed to the end— long

Obviously high school football doesn’t enough to do the complete job.

rank with the pros, but maybe you will
We could go on about the virtues
of the Monaco, but (as with so
agree that the following is an exceptional many things) you have to try it
to really believe it ^Send for your
event. What
perhaps the best high school
is
Monaco today in full confidence.
football team Michigan has ever had. Sag- Put to the test for two weeks,
it

inaw's Arthur Hill, has recently completed be delighted with the comfort,

a spectacular season. Not only did the team

—
and convenience and the inde-
it will give you from water, soap,

win all of its games, it was never scored upon. When Astronauts Shepard and Roosa returned batteries, electricity, styptic pencil and all

The offense added 443 points to the perfect

from their historic Apollo-14 flight, they were other paraphernalia of conventional shaving •
as clean-shaven as when they left 9 days If you decide the Monaco isn't the best shaver

defensive effort, for an average of 49 in each earlier. (Mitchell decided to grow a beard!) ever, send it back to us for prompt refund.
The reason? The Wind-Up Monaco shaver, If the Monaco served the Apollo-14 astronauts
of the nine games (more than a point a min-
selected by NASA to keep them comfortable so well, think what it can do for you under
ute). The lowest output was 34 points, while and clean-shaven on their long journey. much less trying conditions. Once you've
twice the team scored more than 60 points. •The first secret of the Monaco's marvelous tried it you'll never let it go.
performance lies In Its shaving head. Three Please send me:
This shutout season is unequalcd in Mich- continuously self-sharpening blades revolve Monaco Shaver-Standard Model $22.95
igan Class A football since 1933. at such a fast clip that they actually give
Monaco Deluxe-Model-Anatomique $24.95
72.000 cutting strokes per minute. And the
Arthur Hill's climb to the top is very sim- guard Is so unbelievably thin (5/100 of a mm Special Trimming Head (optional) $6.95
ilar to a Horatio Alger story. In the three about the thickness of a cigarette paper) My check, plus $1 for post & ins. is end.
that pressure is unnecessary. Just touch the (Calif, res. add tax.) Guaranteed 1 year.
years from 1968 to 1970 the Lumberjacks'
shaver to your face and guide it in circular
record was 1-25-1. Then George Ihlcrcame motions for the smoothest shave ever.
to Saginaw, and with him as head coach Ar- • The second secret is the power plant. The
palm-shaped body of the Monaco is filled with
thur Hill put together a 21-5-1 record from a huge mainspring, made of the same
1971 to 1973. The Lumberjacks now have a Swedish super-steel used in the most expen-
sive watch movements. Just wind it up and
rontinutd the Monaco shaves and shaves. From ear to haverhills SI0II4
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19TM MOLE

17-gamc winning streak to start the season

with next fall.

Don. Scovill
Saginaw, Mich.
it tastes
expensive MULTIPLE OFFENSE
Sirs:
...and is.
As a graduate of Wesleyan University in

Middletown, Conn..
with the piece entitled
I was able
"Name
to cmpathi/c
of a Name" Gmi ^emU HoUmi
in the Dec. 17 Scorecard, describing the 7 days/ 6 nights $259.50*
per person, double occupancy
frustrations of Miami University alums.
Wesleyan, a member of the Little Three,
;
8 Championship courts. 6 lighted.
clustered around a unique new Pro
along with Amherst and Williams, is usu- !

'
Shop. 4 practice alleys. Matchless
ally rccogni/eil as one of the nation's finest
accommodations. Fine cuisine. Su-
liberal arts institutions. Few people, howev-
perlative recreation.
are as well acquainted with Wesleyan as
Maker's er.

they are with our rival schools. Part of the

I

Price includes: court time, a lesson,

@Mark problem is that Amherst and Williams have
contributed such pro football players as the
i practice alley time with balls, twin
room with patio, all breakfasts and
WHISKY Cowboys' Jean Fugett, the Dolphins" Doug dinners, transfer to from airport,
Swift and Jack Maitland, who played for the all taxes.

Super Bow champion Colts and later for the

l

•$229.50 -April 14 thru May 25. 1974

Patriots. It doesn’t help any that the man
who is one of the finest players in the his- Write for Tennis Brochure and Literature
tory of Little Three football. Tight Lnd Stu Reade Whitwell. Vice President
Made from an original old style Blackburn. Wesleyan class of ‘by, spurned
sou r mash recipe by Bill Samuels, the pros to join the Peace Corps.
fourth generation Kentucky Distiller. But an even bigger thorn in our side has THE WIGWAM
been the do/cn i*r more Wesleyan colleges
preceded in title by the name of a state, such
Star Hill Distilling Co ,
Loretto, Ky..
as West V irginia, Nebraska or Kentucky.
Ninety Proof- Fully Matured.
The best solution for this problem was pro-
posed by a student several years ago in a dis-

Learn LANDSCAPING cussion about alternative

school's very large endow ment. The board of
uses for the
CHANGE OF
trustees, it was submitted, should use Wes-
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you should get the kind
you can live with
of comfort
a long, long time.

ludy. how do you like

Daddy's new 98 Regency . Judyf , Judyf
Don't settle on any new luxury car
until you settle into this one . .

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