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Show sui Sunday Herald 14 Rivers idle IT E5 i by (ITURW OVERMAN During the last World Series, outfielder Frank Howard5 frankly confessed to us that he was very disappointed in his Dodgers doings for 1963, and that he doubted he'd ever reach his full stride in Los Angeles it wasn't only the personal angle that disturbed the slugger. We don't believe UCLA, undefeated king, of collegiate basketball, is that good. The Uclans maximized what they had, but what they had was a soft schedule which let them concentrate on two the L.A. Christmas Invitational big tournaments NCAA and the windup. Lack of height would wear them down in a tough conference. . . . John Havlicek doesn't get credit for it, yet he's ... ... By RAY SCHWARTZ Herald Sports Editor The Ladies Professional Golf Association's annual Utah tourney definitely will be held at the Riverside Country Club next August, it was reported Saturday. Bob Karpowitz, general chairman of the tourney, the biggest golf event ever scheduled for Utah County, said the board of directors of the country club has put its stamp of approval on the meet and given its golf committee the signal. Several weeks ago the Utah Golf Association had awarded go-ahe- ad rv & the man who replaced Bob M Cousy in Boston and lept the Celtics champions. Because he's 5 and can play up front or back-cour- t, 6-- Browns Cleveland :m - n - x - St ' . - a r a " ' If r' - s $W Jk,. I' he's regarded as a swing man. But Havlicek points out he played almost every minute (he was second only to Bill Russell in time on court and led the team in scoring) as a guard. . . . Why did he take a shot at pro football in '62 with the ' " the $12,500 tourney tolhe Riverside Country Club on a tentative basis. After members of the club's golf committee had gathered all the information on the tourney, they presented the facts to the directors who then formally approved it. "We feel extremely fortunate in getting the event for Provo," said Karpowitz. "It is without doubt the greatest golf plum that has ever been lined up for this area." Greatest Gal Golfers "Provo will get a chance to play host to and see in action, t yr - " ' c i4 - .s' f - ' w iv 1 i 4 i ;'o j s X , " ' - - s ' v , i ttt LPGA and 30 have "It's really a pleasure to host all been worked out, it was the LPGA," Karpowitz pointed reported Saturday. out, "because the women golfers are so appreciative of everyDefending Champion, Kathy Whitworth won the thing that's done in their bechampionship in Ogden last half. They're also more cordial, year and is expected to defend approachable and cooperative her title at the Riverside Coun- than a lot of the big name men golfers. try Club. "And you have less griping g Mickey Wright, and fewer eccentrices to worry a favorite in any tourney she enters, will be in the tourney, about. as well as most of the other "That's one reason why every big nanie women stars as Betsy body would like to have the Rawls, Marilyn Smith, Shirley LPGA and the UGA has such Englehom, Marlene Hagge, and a hard time finding a place for the Utah Open." Betty Jameson, Aug- - 27, 28, 29, West Cagers Quick Brothers Living Up To Names Lead SMU to 8th Loop Swim Title Long-drivin- Tip East 79-7- 8 Win By CAlEtLTON WILSON - United Press International i , f " -- f - ' s - " i , Kansas and Wichita's Dave Stallworth combined Saturday to power 8 the West to a victory team in East over a shorter the National Association of Basbasket ketball Coaches ball game. Murreli, voted the game's star of stars, gunned 20 points on a dazzling variety of shots to top aU scorers. Stallworth came through with a pair of free throws and a basket in the last minute and a half to seal the triumph just East when it out a with it great might pull surge. Stallworth was second in scoring for the West with 15 points. Cincinnati's Ron Bonham and Fred Hetzel of Davidson shared high honors for the east with 15 points apiece. They were followed by Duke's Jeff Mullina with 12 and Kentucky a Coton Nash .with 10. Oregon State's Mel Counts was top rebounder on th court with eight 79-7- All-st- ar (who -- - f Cleveland's Vic Davalil- John Havlicek lo was a leading contender for American League - ,V - W-'- ' fvi i - mW iv. , .,: i last spring and justified the rating with a .292 bat mark. But Pete Ward of the Chicago White Sox, another outstanding debutant, remembers him in another role. Pete struck out twice against Vic's slants in an International League game wmmm at Jacksonville, when the little Veneaueiou Wtta kA AWJ marily a pitcher. . . . Over his brilliant career, which has covered a LPGA TOURNEY CHAIRMAN Bob Korpowit dozen seasons, Whitey Ford has cultivated a repu will serve as general chairman of the Ladies Protation for pitching genius. His mind is supposed to b Golf Association tourney which will be as effective as his limber left arm. And it did get fessional Riverside Country Club. him a dual job as pitching coach. But Whitey poohs held next August at the poohs the whole cerebral bit. Control, he points out, is the only difference in winning and losing. . . . "Sandy Koufax," he illustrated, "didn't get smarter. ar appeared Weber Star To Army's Rejection of Clay For Compete Game Proves Pain to Fight He got some control." . . . The barrage of criticism from around the country about pro football risking the dangers of overexposure with its multimillion television deals and double-headeBv HARRY GRAYSON has NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle Ntnamr Knternrise burned. . . . "There were more telecasts of pro footSports Editor ball games in 1960 and 1961," he points out, "than there will be this year" . . . because both CBS and NEW YORK (NEA) At first NBC were cutting in on NFL games in those pre- the Army wanted Cassius Clay. rs ... package days. Valery Brumel, the world's greatest high jumper, sidestepped with all the niftiness of an halfback when Harry Grayson braced him during his recent U.S. visit about the possibility of continuing his higher education at an American school as an exchange student. . . . "East is East, West is West," he countered, "and the best place is home." . . . But Valery does dig Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Connie Francis, and, hold your hats, Elvis Presley. He doesn't dig the Russian national drink. How many times has he tasted vodka? "You can count it on the fingers of one hand." . . . The country's most disappointing basketball team, NYU, has denied all season long that squad dissension diluted its talents . . . but last December the team captain and star, Barry Kramer, was so disgusted he told his father he was going to quit and had to be talked out of it. . . . Between you'n'me, the Davis Cup is being saved from limbo, literally, and not just because the U-happened to win it back last year. The venerable relic had been polished and buffed so mudi that some of the engraving had rubbed off, and a new polish-fre- e silicone finish was applied to eliminate the wear and care. All-Americ- an S. ... Feenster Sets BYU Mark For Shot, Put in Dual Meet I This became obvious when Selective Service gave Clay I mean Muhammad whoops ap- Ali, a second itude test. Had the Louisville Loudspeaker been an undesirable the military had an out the first time he flunked. There wasn't enough criticism to call for a rerun. wasn't heavyweight Clay champion when he took the initial quiz in Coral Gables, Fla. Neither had it been revealed that he was a working Black Muslim. He had not yet changed his name first to Cassius X and then Muhammad Ali. Anyway, Clay was counted out by the Army in Louisville for the second time. So the fight game and the public are stuck with him. Clay is mentally quick. You are never going to convince anvbody of his acquaintance that he couldn t serve in tne armed forces. Why, then, didn't the Army want him af- ter a second iook: pre-inducti- on only in time of war or national emergency." In the ternu- nology of the Department of Defense, these soundings are "mental tests," primarily to distinguish them from medical examinations. Clay's IQ as reported from he took at a Louisville high school in 1957 was supposedly which is considerably be-- average. Anyway, Clay is free to go on popping off and the Armys loss is boxing's pain. Sonny Liston has Cassius iay tiea up ior a rciuIU match. The strange things that hap- pened at Miami Beach on Feb. couia go on ana on uKe Patterson and Johansson, who set the profitable pattern. 96 Cagers Seek Berths On U. S. Team Olympic Berth DENVER (UPD Former We-ber State College star Jim Lyon has won a chance to compete for a spot on the U.S. Olympic basketball squad, Lyon will compete in the try- outs as a member of the nation-on-e ai AAU squad. Lyon, Wn0 played in the AAU tourna-7ment as a memDer of the den Sav-O- n Stores squad, was selected on the tourney team. The AAU payers will join representatives of the NCAA and theAIA for berths on the Ol vmnir crrnaH Trials will hplH f f Tfth,c TTnivorciv ; ew As fl collegian L led We tQ Bi ber secQnd lacg Sky Conference Lyon was selectee a guard on the squad. The other guard spots went to Larry Brown of the champion Akron team, Bill Bradley of Tennessee State and Charlie Bowerman of Phillips Oilers. A (UPI) outstanding individ stars ual from major and small The first reason would seem the Amateur Athletic to be that celebrities are a colleges, Union the armed forces and problem in the Army. They at will gather at St. John's Unitract too mucn attention even this week to battle for when they are capable or at versity 12 berths on the United States NEW total of big-nam- -- Javelin Terry Thatcher, inches; Jim .BYU, 232 feet Thornton, BYU, 204 feet 11 inches; Glen Smith, BYU, 203 Neil feet 10ft High jump 4 6 feet BYU, Inches; Roberts, Ron Haden, BYU, 6 feet 2Ya inches; Brian UUey, BYU, 6 feet 2 inches. Discus Reynolds, BYU,! 156 feet: Mike Feenster, BYU, 151 feet 11 inches ; Austin McNaughton, BYU, 140 feet 7 5 Phil Inches. , Tripls- fnch, BYU, 15.2; Howard Parker, BYU, 15.5; Dave Crow be a hot potato and then some. Wartime is one thing. Peacetime is another. Every thing Clay did would be news and he loves to stir it up. If he were particularly erratic, the work of the men he was with would be much less effective. The Army, tends to shy away from such types. This is one side of the coin. You get another slant when one close to Selective Service tips you that Clay received a score of 13 in ms original interrogation. That, according to authorities, would put him in the lowest 13 per cent of the population. A score of less than 10 would have automatickitally disqualified him for chen police or anything else. Those who score between' the BYU, 15.6. 10th and 30th percentile 2ft inches. Pole vault Paul Skowron 14 BYU, feet; Jim Pritchard BYU, 14 feet, Rex Wood, BYU, 14 feet. Mile Dick'Krenzer, BYU 4:15.3; Ray Barrus, BYU, 4 16.3; Tom Bailey, unattached 4:27.7 (unofficial third place finisher); Tom Neus, BYU (official third place finisher, no time given). 440 Bob Tobeler, BYU. 48.2: Russ Pierce, BYU, 49.8; Tom Agston, BYU, 50.0. 100 Tim Russell, BYU, 9.8; Roger Lake, BYU. 9.9 Richard 10.01. 120 high hurdles .880 1:56.2; 1:57.3; 1:57.4 220 Larry Zimmerman, BYU, Pat Hel-- additional! tests. The Merchant, BYU, men in this marginal group Larry Austin, BYU, who attain certain minimum scores in these studies are Mike Coley, BUI Jim Russell, BYU, given BYU, 22.1 accepted. Kelly, BYU, 22.3; Roger Jump 8, Og-lo- w all-st- all-st- ar ar The broth- in the swimming pool. Both Richard and David Quick won individual champion ships of the Southwest Conference in leading Southern Meth- - Football Coaching Changes Told For Weber State OGDEN (UPI) Changes in football coaching assignments at Weber State College were announced Saturday by ath letic director Reed Swenson. Swensonl said Ray Rhead, who hajs coached several sports at weber the past two years, will step out as end coach to devote more time as an instrucnor in physical education. Freshman Coach Bud Belnap will be elevated to backfield coach and former back coach Dick Williams will move to end coach LeRoy Overs treet, who handled the line last sea son, will take over the freshman duties and head coach Wally Nalder will assume responsibility for the Weber line. Howard Expected At Dodger Traininq Camp VERO BEACH, Fla. (UPI)-Fr- ank Howard, the reluctant of the Los Angeles hitter power Dodgers, was expected to arrive at the Dodgers' spring training camp Saturday night. Howard, who announced earlier this spring that he was retiring from baseball only to change his mind this week, notified the Lodgers he would arrive from lis Green Bay, Wis., home ,Satui day night to negotiate contract terms. effort odist University to its 8th con secutive title. Their coach, A.R. (Red) Barr of SMU calls Dick and Dave Quick "a great pair of boys." Dick, a junior, will be SMU's team captain next year and the coach said his inspirational leadership alone would be well worth a scholarship if the swimmer never enrace. another tered Dave, a sophomore bent on an electrical engineering ca reer, is a sprinter who Barr said "it not a practice swim- Walter Quick, live three blocks rom the SMU campus, but the brothers have dormitory rooms on the same floor. They dress differently, belong to different fraternities, double date only once in a while, and study different subjects. Studies Late Engineering at SMU for Dave is a five-yecourse, alternating eight weeks of work and eight of study in a "coop program." His exams kept him up at night and interfered late mer." with training for the NCAA Dave Likes Competition meet. But Barr still rates Dave an "The tougher the competition, the better he is," Barr ex- edge in taking NCAA individual honors. plained. 'He won't even know who the , The brothers are not copy cats. They have different inter- defending champions are and ests apart from swimming, and will go after them like any specialize in different pool other swimmer," Barr said, exevents. plaining it's Dave's first such Dick won the indi test. vidual medley title in the conThe brothers learned to swim ference meet, with a time of in Austin. Tx.. whn thev wpt 4:30.8. He also swam the but about 8 years old but moved to terfly lap on the medley relay Wichita, Kan., for their first teams. Ht is an inch taller at real competition. Their father, 6 feet than Dave, weighs 175 a tire company official, sought and wants to coach swimming out coach Barr when transwith his physical education ferred to Dallas with his high school age sons. training. Dave, 182 pounds, has the Barr suggested they swim at conference records of 22 sec Highland Park High School, and free- it was the natural thing for onds flat in the 48.4 and seconds the them to go on to college cain style, He reers practically next door at shaved freestyle. of a second off both SMU. Still in high school is marks set a year earlier. Dave their sister, Carolyn also swims the freestyle lap on (Kitten) Quick. the medley relay and anchors You might know she is anthe freestyle relay for SMU, other quick swimmer, one of Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. the best in Texas. ar . 400-ya- rd 50-ya- rd 100-ya- rd two-tent- hs old vw ; V Brown Block 'I AM MUHAMMAD ALI' Russell, Jeff Mullins, Jim Barnes, Lucious Jackson and Dave Stallworth are scattered on the eight teams in the com petition. The trials will be held from Thursday to Saturday, April with each of the eight squads playing three tunes. A champion will be crowned Sat urday night, but his will be a mere sidelight to the true purpose of selecting a representative Olympic team. The picking will be done by a Olympic committee, which in addition to the squad also will choose sue alternates. Olympic Coach Hank Iba will sit with the committee in making the final selections. There will be three teams representing the NCAA, two each from the AAU and armed forces and one from the NAIA. Four games will be played on each of the three trial dates. Spring Classics It used to be that shoes were shoes. Period. But that was before Roblee brightened the picture d models specifically by creating rugged, Roblee for college men. With you get the look of a heavy shoe, but not the weight. And the special low price provides only the minimum of anguish to your college budget. man-style- 2-- 4, 20-m- an 12-m- an COLTS SIGN BETHLE p Beth-l- e, The others, including Clay, HOUSTON (UPI)-R- oy 330 intermediate hurdles a are judged to be poor training power hitter would more who be men Mike Douglas, BYU, 38.4 risks, from the Bahama Islands, has likebeen signed by the Houston Ralph .Brinkerhoff, BYU, 40.6 difficult to train and less Richard Bloomburg, BYU, 41.2 ly to perform satisfactorily Colts. outvTwo Mile Bethle, a Ray Barrus even in a nontechnical occu BYU, 9:26.4; Ron Morgan pation. This group, mduding fielderwill be sent to the Class as A States vilje club of the WestBYU, 9:32.6; Darrell Beardall Clay, is put in Class ern Carolina League. service Ace King, BYU. (No time). "Qualified for military Lake, BYU, 22.5. old 6-- 2, 1-- Y, - are ar - tr YORK least team. A new school record and two Weber, 44 feet 4ft inches; Alan A man who is such an Olympic basketball e as Walt stars Such sfieldhouse records were set by Robinson, BYU, 44 feet 3ft avowed attention grabber and Bill Bradley, Cazzie BYU in a dual track meet inches; Dick Sonder, 44 fee as unpredictable as Clay would Hazzard, with Weber State Saturday afternoon. Mike Feenster set the school record in the shotput event with a throw of 55 feet lVt Inches. New fieldhouse records were set by Emmett Smith in the broad jump with a leap of 24 feet 6 inches and Dick Kren-ze- r in the mile run with a time of 4:15.3. No team scores were kept. The results: Mike Feenster, Shotput 55 IV inches; 2. feet BYU, Roger Anderson, BYU, 52 feet 5ft inches; 3. Phil Reynolds, BYU, 49 feet 10V4 inches. ' Br oadjump Emmett Smith, BYU, 24 feet 6 inches; Lloyd Hales, BYU, 22 feet 6 inches; ,Ace King, Weber, 22 feet 2 inches. all-st- DALLAS (UPI) ers Quick live up to their name 54-ho-le ma 1 , In Th , Ky. (UPI) Murreli Willie State's - Medal Play Tourney LPGA is a mzi . play tourney with a pro-adivision, according to the meet chairman. A total of 40 women proa and 1.40 amateurs will compete for top honors. The pro-a-m division will run at least two days and possibly three days, it was reported. The tourney chairman pointed out that it will take cooperative on the part of many to persons put the tourney across, but he said he was confident the citizens, of the area will really be behind the great sports event. some of the greatest women golfers in the world." Karpowitz said Provo was able to get the tourney because the Ogden Country Club course, on which it was played last year, is undergoing improvements and will not be available this year. "And," he added, "once a course get the LPGA, it has the option to hold each year after that. So it is possible the tourney will remain in Provo for several years to come." 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