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Show Tuesday, Ociober 12,1871 Page €—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah Boat Customers HaveIt Easy Kiekhaefer Met ury, for ex- JACK WOLISTON By PAGE, Ariz. (UPI)—The boat ample, brought more than 100 and marine engine people have boating writers from the United time introducing next States and abroad to Wahweap hard a in the Glen Canyon Dam They Recreation Area it’s aes 7 toon and Nationalto present its 1972 in Arizona ee and inboard-outboard outboard it—and do they less, Neverthe models with quite a flourish. With fireworks exploding and One thing that stood out, rockets lighting the hot Arizona Mercury, iike many other sky, they sent their entire line engine and boat manufacturers, of 1972 Mercu‘ys scooting is going all-out to make things across the waters of beautiful easier for the people who buy Lake Powell—10 outboard mod- their products. els ranging in horsepower from Clam Shell Cowling 4 to 140; 8 stern drives, 9 to For example, onc innovation 325 horsepower, and 3 inboards, in the Mercury outboards is the 215 to 325. “clam shell” engine cowling. A push, two pulls and the cowling flifts off to expose the entire Masya GLU ey UL YN Aels ngeetolardsss) 0 AND FRIDAY STIL” 9 P.M, powerhead. And the engine has been designed for easier accessibility to the carburetor and the fuel ari ignition systems. Mercury's major improve- ments for 1972 in the outboard field are a completely redesigned 65 horsepower, three cylinder engine and a 140 haust tuning design Two carburetors on the 65 balance fuel-air mix while an improved exhaust system combines special porting and pulse tuning between cylinders with a tuned-length pipe system. The result, according to Merc engineers, is an extremely wide power band, producing rapid acceleration with unmatched top speed in cutboards up to 65 horsepower. Mercury racing activity is credived with developments that made possible the new i40 horsepower outboard. Design features inspired by the need to field faster, more powerful Se eee have been incorporated in new - Nielas rene the-line 140. (304 These developments include improved exhaust gas flow turough the drive shaft housing 3 to improve tuning; gear ratio increased to 14:28 and the SALE PRICE Se maximum recommended engine RPM increased to 5860. Mercury’s Good Season ;———— Mercury had a very successePT SALE PRICE ful 1971 season in the racing i $ field. In the Outboard World Championships at Lake Havasu City, Ariz. last November, BCROR IRE Rt) Regutar LRU SR Colt) (el AyNG it 116 BROOKS ROBINSON, whose glove has become so famous that it will enter the Hall of Fame after the World Series, came up with another brilliant play like this in yesterday's World Series to aid the Baltimore victory. Tale of Two Baseball Gloves to it. In the beginning, anyway, I saddle soaped my glove with By IRA BERKOW NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK — (NEA) I was surprised to learn that nostalgic about old gloves, his glove came in a trade. He and really doesn’t remember said ballplayers often trade how hegothis first one, when he nearreligious fervor I used the same glove for gloves, He got his from Dave was 11 or 12, but that it might about six years, while Brooks May, an outfielder and former have heen a Marty Marion or said that he uses one glove for Baltimore teammate whois now Bob Dillinger model, he wasn't only three or four years. He has with Milwaukee. “I picked it up sure. used six or seven in his 17 years and liked the feel of it,” said The Hall of Fame has asked Brooks for his present glove and Brooks. in the major leagues, J asked him if he does anything In my neighborhood in heis parting with it at season's specialto break them in, He said Chicago, guys never even liked end, Tuat’s another similarity no. While he uses one in games, Someone eise to put on their between us. I don’t have mine he uses three relatively new ones mitt. They thought an alien hand any more, either, I left it on a ia practice. By next year, one of would wreak havoc on the bus years ago. them will be ready for games pocket. action. He says this is the last Both our gloves had seen a lot of wear and tear. Brooks has year for his present one, “It’s got about 10 games or so used his for severalfull seasons, left,” he said,intimating that it several All-Star, playoff andwill see action in the World World Serie~ games, I think my uses werea little more varied. Series. I saw that the two middle Not only did I employ mine in fingers of his glove were bent park games, but for stickball, CHAPELHILL, N. C. (UPI) inwardat the ends, like arthritic too. Once it was run over by a digits, and that the glove had truck, which sort of ruined my —Eleven former University of been broken in in a roundish pocket for awhile, And once it North Carolina football players shape. I had tried to shape my was run over by streetcar, and Sundaycalled for the release of glove roundish, too, but I tried to that’s whenit first began to the full text of a report into the death of Tar Heel guard Bill work all my finger ends to be crack, even, spending hours at home I observed that the ieather Arnold. and on the field in a kind of strips connecting the upper part The former athletes, calling themselves “The Committee of of the fingers on Brooks’ glove nervous. but loving endeavor. were startling new in com- Concerned Athletes,” said a “I guess the fingers of my parison to the rest of the glove. faculty committee report that glove got that way from fielding He told me he restrings it exonerated the athletic departa lot of ground balls-and old himself periodically. I restrung ment of any negligence in age,” said Brooks, mine myself, toc, but with Arnold’s death was “laced with I noticed on the field that he, shoelaces, They didn’t hold that assumptions and conclusions too, worked at the fingers the well. about the situation which needs way I had. We both were not Brooks said that he is not a great deal of further abovespittingintothe pocket for sentimental about his glove. He examination.” greater sticking power. said that he has never been Spokesman for the group was Bill Richardson, all Atlantic Coast Conference linebacker and cocaptain of the 1970 North Carolina fosthall team. In addition to a full release the faculty committee’s report, the former players said the document should be sent to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) which — Brooks Robinson was talking abouthis glove, andI was telling him about mine. There are striking similarities. Both gloves have chdracter. His has gradually turned a tobacco-juice brown from several years of heat, sweat,dust, line drives andspit. His is cx cking in the pocket and Tipped inside from seasons of perspiration. The wool on the underside of the wrist flap is dark and shrunken. There is a small,dirty piece of tape along the heel and another piece of tape wrapped around a knot of leather behind the web. It reminds me of my old Peanuts Lowreyfielder’s model. FormerPlayers Seek Report On Grid Death I got mine whenI was 10 years old, in the spring of 1950 in Chicago,a gift from myfather, I oiledit immediately. I wanted it loose.I guess I got carried away, for I drenched it. Brown one minute, almost black the next. What surprised me about Brooks’ glove, whenI tried it on at his locker, was how stiff it was.“It’s hard because it’s old,” hesaid. “It loosens up when I start messin’ around with it on Merc-powered craft took the the field.” first four places, He told mehe neveroils the In the stern drive and a Rawlings KBG-3H “Pro inboard categories, MerCruiser glove, Model.” Once every couple of offered eight stern drives and months, though, he will apply e inboards. some MacGregor’s Leathertone == |Mix or Match Your choice of Regular or Snow Tires at one low price! 4 No o $60.00 to $65.00 coaches of holding practices un extremely hot and Arnold collapsed from a heat stroke during practice in 83 degree temperature and died 15 days later. The team was not : Pen given a water break that day. $50.00 to $55.0 YN aa i183 Regular Ae $40.00 to $45.00 Members of The Committee of Concerned Athletes read prepared statements citing instances of alleged maltreatment of inj players, unnecessary training rules concerning the private lives of players and the “‘big business” attitude of the UNC athletic Sy VNaddie ye warned humid days. department. reel EU!) The group also called for establishment of a grievance board to handlefurther investigations into the Arnold case and to examineother aspects of the UNC football program. 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