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Show Dflilv Herein 12 THURSDAY, MARCH 21, Uth County. Uui m Tayson Wins National League Expansion Issue Proceeds Very Slowly By MILTON RICHMAN UPI Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (UPI)-Ro- din, the French sculptor, once said there is beauty in slowness. He would've loved the people in the National League. By his standards, they're positively beautiful. Particularly the way they're going about .this business of expansion. Warren Giles, the National League president, says he wants the expansion procedure to be an orderly one. Fine. Haste makes waste and all that But there's a limit to how slow you can go before they order you off the road. The National League Is going about this whole thing at three different speeds: slow, slower and stop. luck for the other guy. No two National League' owners feel exactly tne same Some way about expansion. believe it's a mistake to go to 12 teams before 1971 no matter what the American League does. Some feel the right time is 1970. And others like Walter O'Malley want it done by 1963. O'Maliey was one of those on the expansion committee which met with Giles and National League attorneys in Miami Orem City Bowling Nevvell Tavson was a one-ma- n show in the Orem Men's City California with him in 1958, but he had a little more trouble with some of the others. "We respect him and his thinking," says one National Leaguer, "But he is only one owiier, and other people have Nobody in baseball wants to do anything wrong. And if they do they sure don't want to get caught at it. Could that be why they move so slow? money invested in this business besides him. There is that familiar type of thinking again and that's one of the reasons the National Jague isn t breaking any speed re cords expanding. There are other reasons, too but most of them deal with that same letter "I". Any corpora tion, for example, has to be careful which way it votes even non-in such a seemingly political matter as expansion. Gussie Busch of the Cardinals noi only has a ball club but beer company, too. Like CBS over in the other league, he has to think about public relations Provo Skiers Bowling Tourney held recently in the Miracle Bowl in Orem. He bowled a 700 series in the team event, 636 in singles and a 532 in doubles, all scratch scores to give him the title with a scratch score ts of 1868. Tayson won the singles competition with a 690 handicap score, followed by Frank Williams with a 678, and Ed Bunkers with a 676. Tayson also pac ed the Payson Tire Service to the team championship. skiers Provo area Several were; among the top finishers in the The doubles crown was won Intermountain Downhill and by Sheil Peery and Dick Black Slalom Championships held re- with a 1335, followed by Max Wake and Stan Roberts with cently at Jackson Hole. 1323 and Ray Witherell and e In the Downhill Intermediate with a 1261. Kemund Shurtleff Boys Division, Brad of a Tayson Tire Service won the finished onlv to team title by posting score of winner second behind the earn second place. Fifth place 3087. In addition to Tayson, team members include Toby in tiie division went to Craig Bath, Mickey Taylor, Larry Wellesley and tied for seventh Gray, and Fred Becker. was John ..iayes. Second in the team In the slalom event John event went place to Open Hearth s seven-tenthof Raves finished with an 8950, and third place a second behind the winner in to Blast Furnace No. 3 with division the intermediate boys 8939. to take a second place finish. Place High Wednesday. From the secrecy surrounding the session you'd imagine they were hammering out some highly technical solution to all the world s problems but they weren't doing that at all. Most of their uiscussion was devoted to setting up the rules for There's a reason for this expansion procedure. You have breakneck rush and it all has to to have rules, you know. You do with togetherness, a quality can't play the game without of which there is none among rules. also. National League owners. There's something on the O'Malley has made a noble All their thinking on expan- effort to convince 6ome of his books which rays no publicly sion Is predicated on on letter. colleagues it would be a grave owned corporation can engage That letter is "I". In other mistake not to expand by 1969 in any business procedure with the American deemed to be against all public words, everyone thinks only of along hi the himself. That s the reason for League. He dicta t have mucn interest. The boys the bottleneck. convincing Horace attorney general's office in To travel to Canada from It's a wonderful attitude. You Stoneham, the same fellow he Washington always keep their Detroit, Mich., one nas to go to move out to eyes peeled for that south. know, hooray for me and tough convinced six-tent- trouble r "" J" MOW " : AS 'f " GaSRl&: I "" Wi TIME ' (5319 " 0 I ; U L tt y- Y r :' l j j ; 111 llMlU AWAi 0NLY Yastrzemski's Home Robbed 100-ya- rd 200-yar- d (UPI)-Some- body 400-ya- rd 500-yar- 200-ya- rd 200-yar- n, see us 1 800-yar- rn- - I : for j 'psyched up,'" he says. "I remember standing on the blocks and the next thing I knew I was in the middle of the than a backstroke (more quarter of the way through the race) when I looked up and saw the big clock over the pool. It was the same one that fell during workouts and I remember thirking I hope it doesn't fall again.'" Later in the summer, at the World Student Games in Tokyo, Russell set two world records and tied another, though all have since been surpassed. More recently, March Russell won two gold medals at the International Swimfest in Bremen, Germany. He won the in an backstroke American record of 59.0 seconds and swam the backstroke leg on the wmiiing Dirdley relay team. And he finished second to teammate Mark Spitz by .i of a 3, er butter-fp- y second in the and to Greg Buckingham in individual medley. the Russell bettered the world record with 2:10.9 in the medley, but Buckingham did the same distance in 2:10.1. "Anybody can be a winner, can lind somebody he can er 200-met-er beat," says Easterling, "but it takes more to be a champion." Russell has proved he is a winner and a champion and the next time he goes home to Midland, Tex. you can bet his mother will have some new numbers for that footlocker. ESTIMATES! I All Quality I I Fencing Priced J a 000 see the picture I 1 t ' j Rght! II estvvay Fences.. Prove That a fence can be Beautiful! Pl m 1 ' xmum tile Insulite Plain White 100-ya- 7-- I 1 n 100-ya- rd 200-yar- 1 l H Du-an- By TOMMY GEDDIE says his coach, Don Easterling. ARLINGTON, Tex. (UPI)-W- hen "He's national caliber up to 200 Doug Russell "went away yards in every stroKe except the to college" in 1965 his mother breast and hes a good taped the numerals "50.C, 1:58 breaststrcker. and 46.0" on lis footlocker. "There are other swimmer .00 se that can stav with him in one nr They represented cond ui the butterfly, jtwo strokes, but nobody can 1:58 in the d individual stay with him in all four strokes," says Easterling. medley and 46.0 in the he doesn't says freestyle, an accumulation of Russell two NCAA swimming records remember much about his first and one world mark. race in international competi"I want you to get those tion at the times before you graduate," his games in Winnipeg, Canada, Mrs. Jane last summer, where he won two mother, Betty gold medals. Russell, told him. In that race, he took the Now Doug is a junior at the Texa of University rt Arling- Pan-A- individual ofmedley in 18a record 2:13.1, ton, and has twice won two gold medals in international competi- seconds short of the world mark. tion and earned "I was real high, really events. in eight rating Russell was entered Thursday through Saturday in the NCAA college division meet in Atlanta, where he is defending champion in the butterfly and individual medley as well as swimming a leg on the LYNNFIELD, Mass. medley relay winning finally found Carl team. hit Yastrzemski's weak spot This year he was to compete him when he's not at home. d in the freestyle, the Police reported that thieves d broke into the Yastrzemski freestyle, the 1L. JAA while the home American The Aztecs founded Tenoch-titla- relay and the d freestyle League's most valuable player later Mexico City, in relay. was down at the Boston Red 1325. After the college division Sox camp in Winter Haven, Fla. meet, Russell will compete in A "" report precinct blotter IJ":...:L.:'":.ll"l". "l,L. '.""Jl the university division finals in Monday said two color televi Hanover, N. H., and his next sion sets and acar were stolen. goal is the Olympic games this summer in Mexico City. Italy is about 760 miles long "Doug has got to be one of and 220 miles across at its tne best athletes in the world," widest point. ,?Jk . , 11 l:l':'1'JU,J::.u'::':1' FiCE! J 1 " T f i Hit CSSS :":'.L Earns All America Rating In Eight Swimming Events vou 9 fiske if! a new advance in instamafic cartridge loading automatic photography ACOUSTICAL 14 CEILING TILE a. PRE-FINISH- MAHOGANY Scotts EarlyBird SALE! 29 4x8-f- t. ENDS MARCH 31st .......... SHEET 4x7-f- t. M SHEET Qft, PLANKED AIAHOGANY DRIFTONE 4--ft. x SHEET COLOR 49 t. 4 .... 4-f- x7-f- t. t. 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