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Show Gabelich To Try For Water Speed Record LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Gary Gabelichlikes to move fast and it doesn’t matter to him if it is on land,in the water or through the air. The 30-year-old pilot, who Friday set a land speed record of §22.407 miles an hour at the Bonneville Salt Fiats, told a news conference Monday that his next goal is to break the water speed record of 285 miles an hour. Gabelich, who is a former test astronaut, said he plans to build a hydrofoil-type boat of aluminum and honeycombed steel for the assault on the water sj eed record. ‘And confidence radiated in the face of the Long Beach, Calif., speedster as he said, “T'dlike to 80, from 300 to 350 miles an hour.” Gabelich is no newcomer to water speed marks, He said he once drove a boat more than 200 miles an hour and feels with the type of craft he has in mind he can crack the record. Gabelich, when he finishes touring on behalf of the sponsors who made his last speed mark possible, now plans Bouton Now Hurls TY Word ‘Curves’ : By MURRAY OLDERMAN NEW YORK—( NEA). it was, said Jim Bouton, like a kid being asked to come down from thestands andgo in andpitch a World Series game There he was, first day on the job as a sports broad- caster, actually a few daysearly so hecould find out what he was supposedto do, and a bulletin on theteletype said the commissioner of baseball was holding a special press conference on Denny McLain. “Why don’t you go down there, Bouton, and see what you can get?” Why not? Oh, there was one major problem. “I didn't,” said Jim, “know howto use a microphone.” they showed him which end was upand how to keep the “7” for Channel 7 always facing the camera. And, presto, Jim Bouton was a professional TV man. The pay, he admitted, is not bad. About what he made as a major league baseball pitcher last season, $27,000. Thehours are not bad either. He’s on camerafor a total of 20 minutes a week, or about $25 a minute. Theirrepressible spirit of Jim Bouton, called ‘‘Bulldog”’ when he was a pitcher, is nurtured by this new career. He B= has progressed from imitations of Crazy Guggenheim, when he wasin the pinstripes of the New York Yankees, to -offs on Howard Cosell, his teammate in the blue blazer of WABC-TV, New York. (He echoed the sonorous tones of Cosell in announcing the end of the recent World Series, then asked puckishly, ‘Can you believe anybody reallytalks like that?”) “They hired me,” he admitted frankly, * “because they were looking for a jock . and I wrote a book. Ah, yes, the book. ‘Ball Four’’—18 weeks on the hest- sellerlist and you can see it cradled fondly to his cheek in TVpromoadscreated by Doyle Dane Bernbach, Inc. Bouton mugged through several expressions—stoic, skeptic, sneerer. “Did it in eight takes,”’ he said. The book has led to everything in Jim's currentlife, including, some say, his divorce from baseball. The idea that he wrote it for money strikes himas ridiculous. “Most you canfigure a book will sell, even if it makes the best-seller list, is 50,000,” he explained. “So we get a buck a book (split with his co-author). Wesold somerights to Look for $13,000, with $1,000 commission to the agent. Then some more newspaperrights. Best I hoped to do was $35,000. ‘That's not much money,’ my dad said to me, ‘for Miami Thinks Of Dropping Basketball Black Freshmen helped me in that, too,” he added, “because it taught me POCATELLO (UPI) — Three black freshman football players were reinstated on Idaho State University’s frosh team Monday. ISU Sports Information Director Glenn Alford said head football Coach Ed Cavanaugh made the decision that the three were “victims of circumstance” and were involved unnecessarily in a varsity dispute. ‘The dispute began after black players skipped practice, apparently to complain about the fact that twoblack players lost starting positions. lives, Weeb Ewbank of the Jets kept him waiting two hours for a taped interview and then said nothing. * ‘I'd rather,” said Bouton, “interview a handball player at the YMCA. He’s moreinteresting.” There's only one drawbacksofarto thi, newlife, pointed out by Bouton’s wife, Bobbie. “Michael (age 7) 7 can’t join the Indian Guides she said, ‘because Jim’s never homeat night. this year,” At Clinic aah oT — Cassius fight,” Quarry said later. and the 24th knockout, and the round, he looked down and *2w loss left Quarry with a 37-4 the blood spotting his trunks record. None of the trouble that and shoes and felt it running had beca predicted for the fight down his face. me materialized, and, if standing at the end of the third “A Gayis back ict of his punches were missing andne Sens Jerry and then he came across with Quarry in three rounds in his that right and caught me by a first fight in 3% years, Clay quarter of an inch. expects to have “a whole lot “IT didn’t know I was easier time’ against hea- bleeding,” he added, “and when vyweight champion Joe Frazier, Teddy said it was over I just maybe sometime around Fe- wanted to keep fighting.” Butas the 25-year-old Califoralmost everyining was there nian struggled to get across the for Clay Monday night—the ring to where Clay was “snake bite” jab, the footwork and even the mouth that caused him so much trouble during his career—but something was missing, too—the timing on a lot of his punches. “Tt felt like it was gushing,” any thing, the crowd was simply Quarry’s Cut Required 11 Stitche. to Close Quarry’s blond-bearded cheek he said, “and I knewthen the too enthusiastic as it pressed fight should have been stopped around the fignters and neariy I walked over and told Clay drowned themout at the sostfight interviews.” he's a good fighter.” “Count Your Money” Quarry was Clay’s 30th After it was over, Clay's consecutive professional! victory trainer “Bundini” Brown kissed All threeofficials gave the 28year-old deposed champion ATLANTA (UPI) — Jerry every round, but it took only one punch, a snaking right hand Quarryis glad it’s all over. Although he fought with his that opened a blood-gushing, 11stitch cut over Quarry’s left trainer to continue his bout eye, to makeall the difference. with Cassius Clay Monday Quarry struggled with his night, he admitted later it trainer, Teddy Bentham, to should have been stopped when continue the fight at the end of it was. the round, but agreed it should have been stopped later in the 4 techinical "nockout dressing room. “Frazier’s gonna be easier than Quarry,” predicted Clay, THE HERALD. Prove, Utah—Page 9 and said, “Well, the better man won, but we didn’t really get to find out becausc of the cut. Just count your stitches and count your money, You done got a whole lot of that.” From more than 205 closed circuit television outlets and a “But then I felt the blood. It sellout crowd at the Municipal Auditorium, Quarry wil receive felt like it was gushing.” “The blood was in his eye,” about $500,000 while Clay's Perez said. “He couldn't see, I share comes to around §1million, and Clay’s bout with wouldn't want to take the blame for the damage that Frazier promises a lot bigger payday might have resulted.” Benthamsaid he could have mind was to get back in there because I'm a fighter patched himup, but bythe 10th round, the cut would have been all the way down to his chin, It required 11 stitches to close over Quarry when he opened a deep c ver the 25-year-old ft eye still unmarked after 139 Calif “I’m glad it's over,” Quarry Whentrainer Teddy Bentham amateur and rofessional fights. “Frazier's a lot easier to signalled to referee Tony Perez said. “I don’t like the result, hit. I could go again in six to halt the fight, Quarry blew but I'mgladit’s over.” Quarry said he had not been weeks against Frazier, Oscar up. He jerked away from his Bonavena, anybody, but I don’t handlers and stormed to the hit a solid shot and thought the know what's next. Right now center of the ring. Though cut had been opened by a right I'm going hometo my wife and blood was coursing in three that grazed him by only a streams down the left side of quarter of an inch. daughtersto relax.” his face, he wanted to continue. “He did just what I Frazier Isn't Free “He did the right thing,” a expected,” He said. “He's just Frazier, however, isn't immediately free to fight Clay. First smiling Quarry said later, as fast, but he’s not a punishing the current champion must calnily talking in his dressing nuncher. I knew I was going to defend his title against light- room, showing disappointment lose about four or five rounds, heavyweight champion Bob but no dejection. “I came back but then I was going to make a of it, I just never got the Foster in Detroit on Nov. 18. and didn’t know I was bleeding, ome ce,” “He hadn’t hurt me the whole and all that went through my Frazier Seeks Bout With Clay EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. (UPI) —Joe Frazier's manager said Monday that he hoped a heavyweight championship match between Frazier and Cassius Clay can be arranged for next February. “T'm giad to see Clay win and I hope that we can get together soon,” said Yank Durham, who was telephoned the result of the fight by associates at the site where Frazier is training for a Nov. 18 title defense against Bob Foster. ISU Reinstates appearances, and now this sportscaster’ s job. “The book Bouton operates strictly on the local level, as part of the Te Lecture 1970 B.F-Goodrich copies to date and thai his share would already be $100,000? Of course, there were other spin--offs, such as TV 11 p.m, newscast, doubling on the 6 p.m. show every Monday. He writes his own material. He’s inte the whole bit— voice coaches, cocktail parties, the credit card routine for lunch. He hasalready learned how the other side of sports Jack Kraft Clay Wins TKO Over Quarry to drive Formula Vae cars One cf the winningest at Willow Springs, Calif. “T want to be the first man to basketball coaches in the nation, Villanova’s Jack Kraft, will be hold both the water and land guest lecturer at Brigham speed records and live to tell Young University’s eighth anabout it,” he laughed. And if Gabelich shows the nual basketball clinic next same determination in shooting month. The Cougars’ annual cage for the water speed mark that he displayed in setting the land clinic is set for Nov, 14 in the Speed record, he expects to Wilkinson Center, and all interested members of the succeed. Tt was not until his 18th and coaching fraternity are invited 19th attempts that ae was able to attend. Kraft, whose Villanova teams to break Craig Breedlove’s land speed mark of 600.601 miles an have gone to nine post-season hour in his 38-foot racer named tournaments in nine years, will present two lectures during the the Blue Flame. With the Bonneville Salt Flats day-long workshop. The first course nearing the end of its lecture is scheduled for 10 a.m., season, he bettered 617 miles and a second will follow after an hour on his first run and lunch. In addition, the clinic will then pressed for more speed on the required second run to recognize the coaches of the reach a top speed of 627 mph. state’s three high school “We knew we could do it,” he championship teams; Dick said. “It was just a matter of Milne of East (AA); Don Layof Dixie (A); and Vernon Roundy time,” of South Sevier (B) Under Jack Kraft the Villanova Wildcats have won 184 games while losing only 67, and his teams have been invited to the NIT five times and to the NCAA four times. His teams have been listed in the top ten three times. Some <i his outstanding players at Villanova include Wally Jones, Jim Washington CORAL GABLES,Fla. (UPI) and Bill Melchionni. —University of Miami basketCoach Kraft is also known for ball players are on strike until his zone-defense which has the university makes upits ranked Villanova among the mind on a recommendation to nation’s opdefensive statistics drop the sport from its consistently. intercollegiate program. “We cannotjustify practicing inder the presen circurnstances. Therefore, we will not participate in practice until a’ decision has been reached,” said team captain Willie Allen in a statemen: read at a Mondaynews conierence, “We hope that the final decision is to keep the basketball program going,” the players said. The strike grew from last week’s recommendations by a special committee, named by University President Henry King Stanford, that basketball be dr ily because of the lack ‘of @ gymnasium at the private university, Stanford said Monday he lad passed on the recommendations of the committee to.a faculty senate committee and also was awaiting reaction from student governmentleaders. the gamble you're taking.’”” In alienating the baseball ‘‘establishment,” that is. 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