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Show rsV',s i. f Exclushe Excerpt: John Wooden r r -- . So this is basketball? more than a game in Westwood from The b Westwood," and Jeff Chapin Prugh; Houghton Mifflin Co, $8 95. Printed bj permission of the publisher. of of an entertainment form m Southern California, where the amusement dollar can stretch only so Jeff Prugh You see them lining up outside Pauley Pavilion at 8 a m and sometimes two or three nights in advance. They are college kid- s- guys wearing jeweled headbands to keep their shoulder-lengthair in place, girls clad in trousers perfect for greasing cars, some very obviously wearing no bras They sprawl across the pavement in sleeping bags and olanhets. h And this is Basketball: Westwood, USA. Call it an obsession, a carnival, a fashion promenade, a social phenomenon. Certainly its more than a game. The Big Arena Such is life m Pauley Pavilion, the sacred temple, the sparkling, antiseptic, $5 million arena where eating and smoking are prohibited on the mam floor and where it seems that the visiting team is prohibited from winning (UCLA has lost only twice there both times to USC in seven years). A UCLA defeat '1T far. Our sty le is entertaining, he said. We have an ooliga-tionot only to try to win, but to entertain the customers, e penally here in Los Angeles, where there are so many other attractions. Seedy Benny collects wav. If you're too tight, you The Autograph Hound, by John Lahr; Alfred A. Knopf Co., Inc., 239 pp., ?6.95. The pressure builds from that roaring throng in Pauley Pavilion to wm another and Here at the swanky Homestead restaurant where the another. But Wooden says, No. I dont feel at all that I have to match what weve already done. I mean that sincerely. But each years a new year. Fashion Place Downtown Valley Fair 0 celluloid elite often come to eat, wmrks Benny Walsh, bus-bothe Autograph Hound himself. W ith 2,376 autographs collected over a quarter of a century, a room plastered 8x10 glossies with of the film great, Benny, a regular outside Sardis and along Shubert Alley, is above all a loser. Bk SB wall-to-wa- Appeals to Many He appeals to many young coaches. Rather than calling what weve achieved a dynasty, I He may be 62 years old, prefer to think of it as a says Joe Williams, but hes cycle. And I believe all cycles the most modern coacn in colcome to an end. But certain He stays legiate basketball things can make the cycle ahead of the trends. He extend longer than normal adjusts to the changes little things, such as attentiv-enee- s Some people talk about a to detail. Thing that UCLA mystique I dont think help a play er shoot better, rethere is a UCLA mystiaue as bound better, switch men on much as there is a John defense better. W ooden mystique. Hes taught Better Coach Now us all about quickness in I feel Im a better coach basketball from big men to now than I was last year. And guards, from offense to Im better m 1972 tnan I was in 1962. I like to think Ill be An Art Form better next year than I am To Wooden, handling now. But Im not better than players is almost an art form: the other coaches. Every You give them too much coach is better than he was m rein, and they go every which Foothill Olympus E 3 11, 197J autographs smother them. n By Dwight Chapin and ?"'B The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, March y tS," Ecerpted -- i,Vt ' Wizard Dwight "pS yr 1962. If you ore interested in reodmg the complete book, inquire of your librory or local bookstores The book may also be obtained by mail through this news paoer Send your check or monoy order to Newspaper Book Service, The Salt Lake Tribune, P 0 Box 11748, Chicago, III 00411 Important Add 65 cents to the price of each volume ordered to cover the cost of postoge and non d mg Send check or money order only, not cash. A This is Benny through one demented week m the seedy, a week- - of life; lonely triumphs and disasters. This is the week when things go out of control the job, the world, the whole precarious structure that keeps Benny Walsh together, that has been holding in check cancerous flowering the final, of his Notes On a Cowardly John Lahr paid tribute to the public and private life of his father, Bert Lahr, the last of the great clowns. Now in his first novel he writes of the far side of show business, of the Amencan way of voyeurism; the fans and the the worshippers, followers, and breathlessly watching waiting outside stage doors Tania Karol. everywhere. In Lion, almost defies the laws of nature. Not once in the last six years going into the season had John Wooden lost 1972-197- 3 Olympus Kills - Foothill Village Fashion Place Valley Fair - Ogden a game he needed to win. And if you throw out 1966, a year when Wooden was on the outside looking in, you have to go all the way back to March of 1963 the thrashing by Arizona State m the NCAA reto find him losing gional on a night when a chance for national truly preeminence hinged on the outcome W ooden Stratagem Now before anyone assumes that John Wooden is one of those winmng-every-game- tacticians, consider the following: John or Wooden discreetly plots for some of secretly wishes those defeats. now at Castletons He said so in an interview not long ago; Let me say it is very true that there have been occasions I havent done everything that I thought was in our best interest to outscore the opponent, in that particular game It doesnt mean I didnt want us to win. But sometimes I think we needed to be knocked down to win later on A Measure of Wooden ... ' the wonderful world of leg fashion that is . . . This, then, is a measure of John Wooden, coach and master psychologist. The worst thing you can do is hurry!" John Wooden fells to his UCLA Bruins. Be I quick! But, for gracious r sakes, dont hurry! . . . fashions a fresh young four-piec- e For everybody who plays for college basketball s migh-- ? tiest dynasty, those are words to live by. !; They are the hallmarks of Wooden Way, that helps the j sculpture a dynasty and keep , those championship flags and ; cards and fan letters coming 1 I ! ,1 '! spring in rich cocoa & cream ... Another of our newest multiples a versatile four-piewardrober styled especially for the young and youthful figure. The combination of rich deep colors is a delightful Spring treat Cocoa and cool creamy Cream, fashioned of comfortable 100 polyester knit. The plaid fitted blazer goes great over a sleeveless layered look top and cuffed pull-o- n pants. Or switch to the stitched-dow- n front pleats for city skirt with another smashing look. The complete ensemble, in sizes $SQ.GO. ce f?S Painstaking Preparation The painstaking preparation bv a Wooden team, he says, does not take as much time as that of other teams We do, however, get a he great deal accomplished, i 3, says Basically, Wooden prepares teams by following three tenets conditioning, fundamentals, and teamwork. v : his ; v 1 I ;I 1 Get em into condition and make our players believe they're in better condition than our opponents 2 Teach them to execute fundamentals properly our quickly In other words, m I do we every-dulls, shooting shooting, pass-- j thing quickly ing, and rebounding We play as a unit We 3 always try to think of passing " the ball before shooting it Wooden subscribes strongly of his college y to the teachings coach, Piggie Lambert, who the i his players taught i Lambert Theory. "The team that makes the most 5 mistakes will probably win. Superb quality pantyhose with new comfort and freedom, a new perfection of fit you've always wanted. 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