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Islanders face scouting job By HAL BOCK Aiioclated Press Sports Writer WESTBURY, N.Y. (AP) I New York's newest National Hockey League team will be I called the Islanders and will I have Bill Torrey as its general manager. v. The announcements were made Tuesday by President Roy Boe, who also displayed I 'the- team colors and emblem the first time at a poon I press conference. Torrey, formerly an executive vice president with the Oakland Seals, now called Cali- Golden Seals, left immediately after the luncheon for Boston where he began his work for the Islanders by scout! the game between the Woodward Bruins and Seals.

With seven weeks remaining in the current NHL season, Torrey: indicated he would be spending much of his time on the road, scouting prospects himself.and trying to assemble a scouting staff for the infant NHL entry. "We have a. time factor," said Torrey, standing next to a giant replica of the orange and blue VWe'll have to draft the best players available to put a representative team on ice next season." Torrey ihdicated that the Islanders would stress younger players in their draft which will take place in mid-June. "Let's be realistic," he said, "I think anybody expects us to be contending right away. I think we'd be better off drafting younger players who are likely to be able to give us more than a year or so of service." The new GM said the Islanders might not choose a' coach until the end of 'the current NHL season.

The team, along with the new Atlanta entry, begins play next season. "We'll have a man before the Will TV sports cost in future? retires CINCINNATI (AP) Woody Woodward, veteran shortstop for the Cincinnati Reds, announced Tuesday his retirement from baseball to enter private business. Woodward will Join a Tall-' ahassee, land develop. nent company. He called it "a business opportunity I cannot pass up." Woodward, 29, was in the major leagues nine seasons, first with' the Milwaukee, then Atlanta Braves and finally with Sthe Reds for the last years.

In the last couple of seasons, he shared the duties with Dave Concepcion. He hit .242 with the-Reds and his major league; lifetime average is .236. Reds General Manager Bob Howsam'said, "We are sprry to -lose Woody because we feel he had something to add to our club. But we understand the fine opportunity which has been presented to him and we wish well in his endeavors." w.a retirement leaves the Reds with two shortstop- candidates for the 1972 season, They are Concepcion and' Barrel Chaney, who has seen limited action in the last couple of seasons. By RALPH BERNSTEIN Associated Press Sports Writer.

(AP) Pay television will be an important part of all sports within 10 years, Bill Giles, a vice president of the Philadelphia Phillies. Giles says Minnesota and Milwaukee in the "American League are going into pay TV in some degree this year and he's certain there will be much more of it in the future. Pay television is a system whereby a viewer would pay a fee for the privilege of tuning in a game on his set. It's-sort of like going to the movies, only the show is at home. Giles says that he has been studying.pay TV and its application to baseball for several months.

"We've had some proposals from various outfits about this cable TV, and I would say that. within 10 years pay TV, will be a very important part of all sports, not only' of baseball," Giles says. Giles isn't knocking free television of baseball, at least not. the beaming home of road games. "I Jhihk; road television a great asset to a bill club," Giles, says.

"Televising your road games keeps your players in front the public. You reach so many more people with television than you do with the live- gate. You're able to promote your individual players and you're also able to promote your promotions." Giles isn't as thrilled about television of home games. "I'm not a great believer in home says. "I think home TV does hurt the gate some degree.

We televise our Sunday home games and occasionally a Saturday afternoon game and I think it does take a little away from the attendance." Ochoa greeted MADRID, Spain (AP) Francisco Fernandez Ochoa, gold medal winner in the sla- at. the Sapporo Winter Olympics was given welcome when he returned home Tuesday. An estimated 10,000 persons mobbed him at the airport where he was hoisted on the shoulders of his fans after accomplishing Spain's greatest. ski feat. Spain entered only three competitors in the 1972 Winter Games recently completed.

draft," he Mid. "But there Isn't really any great rush. We have a number of people In, mind who we think are potentially the type we need for our situ' ation. We'll be an in- experienqed club and we'll need a man who can teach and develop players at the NHL level." Torrey, who was born and raised in Montreal, across the street from the Forum, home of the NHL Canadiens, has been operating his own promotion and advertising firm in Pittsburgh since leaving the Seals two years ago. Torrey, who is 37, signed multiy'ear contract' with the Islanders and said he looked forward to returning to the NHL.

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