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Show Arizona Routs Sports Redskin Five Mirror Special to The Tribune TUCSON University of Arizonas Wildcats led from wire to wire In whipin a regionally telecast ping Utah, WAC basketball game Saturday after-roo- By John Mooney Tribune Sport Editor The victory put the surprising When I covered the For ment. A veteran is Insured for benefits for the player five-ye- ar $25,000. Health and his family up to $13,000. " And the major league players, most of them, anyway, arent satisfied and demand more. 1 ' A Minimum $10,000 The 25th man on a major league ter is guaranteed a year. Probably only a $100,000 a year class, lars are making less Consider salary ros- of $10,000 a dozen are in the but few of the reguthan $20,000, eitner. this is for playing baseball from February-Marcspring training World Series, at thriugh the a maximum of five hours a day, counting baiting practice. 4 Consider, too, that the longevity in faseball is much longer than in Ine more yiolent sports of football or basketball. h ,,And the pressure on the ball player, game in and game out, cant compare to the concentration necessary in sports such as golf, bowling or tennis. In no pro sport is the longevity longer, ihe pressure less demanding and the player demands more excessive than in baseball. t Its no wonder the baseball owners have placed their backs against the wall arid threatened to leave their ball parks dlosed for the 1239 season, rather than bow to these demands. JEAnd the general public supporting ball players, either through attendance at the games or purchase of the products advertised on TV commercials tfat pay the freight, can't be blamed for fong just a little cut of sympathy for the in this demand. players 4 No one brgtuclges anxone getting his frue worth, hut bascbr.il as a game has fleccme too much of a pension for the about tins penpublic to get too enthu. ?u non plan strike. 4 J- - Observation V ard While some of our politicians down in hisfrorry about going tory, they've flunked economics. 51-4- 2 49-4- 2 Gun Top ?bt Roger Detter was the gunner in the first half for Arizona State, gathering in 18 points, but Seabern Hill came to life in the second half to end up with 24 points. Ron Johnsor, who hit 11 out of 11 from Box Score See Iage For Box Score See Page R-- Col. 8 the foul line, picked up 23 points for the Sun Devils. Detter ended up with 24 points, giving Arizona State three players bracket. in ihe Paul Ruffner with 24 points and Kari Liimo w'ith 22 led the Cougars with Doug Howard getting 15, ten of them in a row midway in the second half, and Lynn Parsons addtd another 13 for BYU. Col. 8 B-- was out in front by 14 after six minutea of the second half and won breezing, as Coach Bruce Larson cleaned his bench. Utah even became so demoralized that the Redskins had six men on the floor for several seconds, but it didnt make any difference, the Arizona subs continued to pull away. zone deArizona, using a match-ufense, stymied the Ute hot shooting attack and the Wildcats owned both bankboards, to cut down Utahs dreams. Arizona led and kept a even with the lead, playing in the final minutes. Utah was ice cold in its shooting, with only 10 of 37 field goal attempts successful in the first half. The victory boosted Arizona's record to 13-- and dropped Utah's to Arizona canned 49 percent of its field goal shots while the Utes fired an anemic 27 percent for the night. filmitt Juggle Defense p BYU started out in a zone defense, but Detters shooting soon made it imperative to change to a man for man,, but then the Sun Devils broke the back of the Cougars with some quick plays. BYU lost Howard and Marty Lythgoe' via the foul route, and Arizona State saw Bob Edwards waved to the bench with five fouls as the officials had a field day with their whistles. fast-brea- k 72-4- 4 third-stringe- Associated Press W rephoto 7-- 5 Utahs Greg Clark (25) makes a move to halt driving layup by Ari- - Top Scorer pen-Sib- man qualifies for $500 A bronthly at age 50, $1,287 monthly if he waits until 65. Fringe benefits, the last time I scanned a pension plan for the majors a couple of years ago, included a $50,000 Jjfe insurance policy for veterans of more than 10 years, while still on the playing foster and $25,000 after baseball retire- 49-4- 40-2- vrvice age 50, $528 monthly if he ard $643 monthly if he 49-3- 6 eight-poin- 32-2- ! 52 200 Then right near the end of the half, Warner got a bucket and Parsons banked in a but pair of field goals to make it Gerhard Schreur, collected a field goal at the for the Devils to make it half. The Sun Devils were incredibly hot in the first 10 minutes as they shot 67 percent from the field. They werent exactly cold in the entire half, finishing up with 51 percent. w'ith the Sun Devils ahead 32-2- Now, major league baseball players ie threatening a strike unless the pension fund Is increased. And baseball by far the best retirement program In all sports. - Consider the baseball pension (or a fclmte or so. at as the game total points would indicate but Arizona State had no trouble in maintaining the edge. As a matter of did BYU cut at fact only once t that early edge even the slightest bit. The Wildcats led by eight points most 10 minutes as Utah couldn't get its shots to drop through. Then Arizona pulled out, before the Utes hit a little streak and closed the gap to on the shooting of Mike Newlin and Craig Clark. But Foster broke the game open as the Wildcats tossed in eight straight halftime edge. Arizona points for a Pension Fund Rift in. pensions victo- It W'as art more than of the first per and Marty Marion, the best pitcher, catcher and shortstop, respecitvely, In baseball, were threatening to strike unless paid $13,300 a year. waits til hes waits until 65. 199-9- 4 ry- untracked. World Series Bat it Isnt just the real veterans who profit from base balls pension largess. .' After five years in the majors, a player can start collecting $250 monthly Sun Devils rolled away for a 4 tri St. Louis, Morton Cooper, Walker Coo- Now, a ball player with 20 years of in the majors, can, at the age of 65, collect $18,000 a year from his baseball pension, which is $5,000 more than $he top players were demanding for playing baseball 25 years ago. Consider, too, that the most any ball n player contributed in his cash to his was $2 a day, or $350 a year. Couple of years ago, the club owners even relieved the players of that modest contribution of $2 a day throughout the Season. .! Try to figure what you, as a businessman or laborer, would have to contribute in, annual payments to Insure an $18,000 pension at the age of 65. Wild- 2-- 2 just 1944 8-- 0 3-- 0 Four years later, when Stan broke into the Cardinal lineup to stay, he hit a drive and slid into third with a triple. ' As he dusted his uniform, Coach Mike Gonzales beamed, "Stan, eef I heet like you, I play baseball for nothing." i Musial snapped, "As a matter of fact, I do. f In 1931, when Pepper Martin, the Wild Hoss of the Osage, dominated the 1931 World Series with his hitting and run-inhe drew a $3,000 salary. Coming closer to modem times. i Arizona State took TEMPE, ARIZ. an lead in the first two minutes here Saturday night and the rest of the game was just an exercise in offense as the Utes into a spot in the standings. Arizona jumped off to a 12-- lead on the shooting of Mickey Foster, Rommy Lee, and Jim Hansen and the Utes never Musial Cardinals, waa a $100,000-a-yea- r ball player. But, in common with all rookies of 30 years ago, Stan signed his first contract for a pittance ), Special to The Tribune cats in undisputed first place in the WAC race with a mark and dropped the It nuy be ironical major league baseball faces a wholesale player strike in tie same year Stan (The Man) Musial enters baseballs Hall of Fame. In his peak years with the John Mooney to play ball. Sun Devils Snare Game With Cougars, 109-9- 4 - Soars Foster was high scorer on the floor with 12 buckets in 18 shots from the field and 28 points. Newlin led the Utes with 26, only Ute in double figures. Utahs defense accomplished one it held Bill Warner to one basket thing and six points. Warner had been the top gunner for the Wildcats. But Lee picked up the slack with 20 points and 11 of the 13 Wildcats to see action scored. After Newlin, Utah's scoring dropped off to nine points by Jim Mahler, eight for Ken Gardner and six for John Hunter. Eaton Refuses Panther Post WYO. - LARAMIE, (UPI) Lloyd Eaton, head football coach at the University of Wyoming since 1967, announced Saturday he had decided not to accept the head football coaching position at the University of Pittsburg. Eaton, who has been at Wyoming since 1956 when he was an assistant to head coach then Bob Devaney, announced his decision late Saturday afternoon following a closed-doo- r meeting with university officials here and witn his assistant coaches. The announcement came after week-lonspeculation following a visit to the Pennsylvania school campus by Eaton and two of his assistants. "Its the type of thing that every coach likes, Eaton said, however, after being offered the Pitt job. The Panthers, once an eastern gridiron power, have seasons. "It was had three straight a most difficult decision, but we as a staff have decided to stay in Wyoming." Eaton said. "It was a tremendous challenge, but we feel we still have work we want to do here." Eaton's Wyoming teams have comrecord, including a piled a mark in 1967 when the Cowboys went to the Sugar Bowl. Three times his teams have won the Western Athletic Conference championship. Wyoming athletic director J. "Red" Jacoby said, "We aie most happy that Eaton and his excellent staff ate still with us. Tnev are all dedicated to the game of football and especially to Wyoming football." Eaton became the fourth coach to be offered the Panther job since Dave Hart resigned under pressure Nov. 25. zonas guard Mike Welton in WAC contest. Arizona led Utes all way. Evens Record The loss for BYU puts the Cougars at in conference play. for the season, Arizona State, with two WAC wins this in the conference. week, now stands However, ASU is the only team in the conference to lose at home so far this season, so the Sun Devils will have to do especially good when they do hit the Seagren Sets Vault Record - Pole ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (UPI) and vaulter Bob Seagren vaulted 17-Australia's Ralph Doubell finished the run in 1 :47.9 Saturday to set new indoor world records at the Albuquerque Javcee Invitational Track meet. Seagren. now with the Southern California Striders, broke his own record of 17- set here in 1968. Doubell, an Olympic gold medal winner, shaved one second off the time of 1:48.9 set by Dave Patrick of Villanova in 1967. Earlier, University of New Mexico senior Webb Loudat finished 15 yards ahead of Kerry Pearce of Australia in the mile run. Albuquerque's mile high altitude appeared to give an edge to athletes used to competing in rarified air, as Oregon's 5 . 880-yar- d won nine out of 10 games played in official WAC play. Arizona State jumped away quickly to lead and then, with 7:45 to go in an but the half had a edge at the Cougars sneaked back a tiny bit and at the half. trailed It was Detter who killed the Cats in the first half as he scored a bundle. 18 to be exact, before he was rested for the final few moments of the first half. 0 35-2- 51-4- 2 600-yar- d 440-yar- two-mil- of the meet. Tilt 102-9- 2 Special to The Tribune West Texas State's candidate Simmie Hill scored' far this season, the home team has Ruffner Loads Cats Ruffner kept the Cougars alive as he collected 13 points, 11 of them in a tow midway in the first half, but he had to leave three fouls with considerable time to go in the period. BYU had two little rallies in the first half, the first coming right on the heels ASU lead, when Lythgoe, of that Miller and Liimo hit consecutive buckets to cut the margin to 35-2- 36 points and led his club to has. ketball victory over Utah State Saturday night, despite a outburst by the Aggies' Marvin Roberts. Hill poured in 13 field goals and 10 foul shots as the Texas crew picked up its 12th X'ictory of the season against two defeats. Utah State drops to for the season; and this was the Aggies' fifth loss of the season at home. West Texas State led throughout the game, and it was only the individual efforts of Roberts that kept Utah State in the game at all. 102-9- 0 Not Enough Roberts scored 23 points in the first half, and grabbed 16 rebounds; but it wasnt enough as West Texas State held the lead at intermission, Roberts, early in the second half, canned a jumper to tie the score at 50-4- For Box Score See Page 89-7- West Texas used a defense in the first half, and it enabled Roberts to score from underneath. Then in the second half West Texas switched to a e zone defense, and this cut off everyone from scoring except Robman-to-ma- n two-thre- erts. Drifts Outside The fabulous USU sophomore drifted outside and started firing away from there, and he managed 20 points in the second 20 minutes. e The zone defense was also to help out Hill. The leap-e- r had three fouls called on him in the first half and thpn picked up his fourth early in the second half. This defense moved Hill outside, and away from the contact underneath the basket. It enabled him to operate more effectively. Mike Mitchell supported Hill in scoring with 20 points, and Dale Blaut added 19 points. two-thre- Rams Surprise Pokes, 78-6- Penny's Bi"D Chance 8 Hits Weather Snag LARAMIE, WYO. Colorado (AT) a tough zone defense and stifled Wyoming in the second half to capture a Western Athletic Conference basketball victory Saturday night. The Cowboys, almost invincible at home, shot only 27 per cent from the field in the second half as CSU's Cliff Sheggog and twins Lloyd and Flovd Kerr his consistently for the Rams. Wyoming closed the gap to within five points with four minutes remaining. Wyoming took the fust half lead on shooting hy Carl Ashley and Boh Wilson but the Rams came out in a zone defense after intermission and put on the clamps. CSIJ went ahead for good with 14 minutes on a jump shot by Arrhte Weems. Floyd Kerr had 19 and Sheggog 17 for CSU. hnd 22 and ilsnn 17 for the C- . State University applied - g Col. 8 But from then on, with Hill dropping in shots from all over the floor, it was all West Texas State. The Texans held 11 point leads twice in 'he game, once at and again at 10-- 0 BlueTIJUANA, MEXICO (LTD eyed Penny Ann Early, the female jockey who has been waiting for months to compete in a for real hotse race against a man, will have to wait another week. The blonde Chicagoan was scheduled Alvaro Pineda, to compete against in North America jockey for the past two years, in a feaiuie match race Sunday at the Calient e rate track heie. How oxer, track officials decided to postpone the race one week became of poor weather conditions cau-o- d by rain all week. The tegular Sunday race card will be run as scheduled who Miss Early is the pert has longed to compete against men but who has found that the men don't share her enthusiasm. B-- 53-5- g second-rankin- In LOGAN So Another local runner, Tomas Ericson, University of New Mexico, took the run in 1:10.6, after world record holder Martin McGrady withdrew from the meet at the last minute. Lois Drinkwater of the Phoenix, Ariz., Track Club set a meet record in the dash with a time of women's 56.3 seconds. The Pacific Coast Club's e relay team won that event in 7:37.7. Page 8 Texans Topple Utah State road. Wade Bell finished last after leading in the early laps of the mile. Kerry Pearce, an Australian who competes for Texas-E- l Paso, was beaten by Loudat in tne last lap. Loudats time was a slow 4:13.3. Five scratches dimmed the luster Section B 9-- 9 1 17-- 5 Sunday, January 26, 1969 78-6- V 'J . r r Stt-urda- y fit?.? -- WCit4 Taul Kuffner of BYU, with a pained expression on his face, conies down with a rebound in the game PrtM Wlrftplttt with Arizona State. ASUa Tom Douthit and BYUs Kari Liimo look on. The Sun Devils won came, 102 9. ev |
