Red Bluff Tehama County Daily News from Red Bluff, California • 5

VT 4 'r- i- 'rf- H- Tueidoy May 2 1967 RED BLUFF DAILY NEWS-5 NBA IFId (Up Between the LINES By Don Myrkk Name Players Quit Draft Ranks Thin By GARY KALE UP1 Sports Writer NEW YORK (UPQ and San Diego finished scraping the bottom of the National Basketball Association barrel today and waited to collect additional mediocre talent in Wednesday's draft of college players With only a handful of star material available from toe 1966-67 college crop Seattle and San Diego will pick sixth and seventh in the first round of toe college draft They get no privileges as expansion clubs in toe opening phase except for that concession Detroit chooses first and a Sonlcs can talk him into playing WINGS WHEELS The topsy-turvy world of Mira Slovak one of the most famous speed and acrobatic flyers in the world will perform exhibition flying this Sunday at the Wings Wheels Air and Road Show Spectacular at the Vina Raceway Wings Spectacular At Vina Raceway This Sunday In case of rain wings Wheels will be held on the following Sunday May 14 Too Many Slow Balls That old remark by an umpire In baseball that beat die hours' is going a bit sour as baseball games take longer and longer to play There was recent doubleheader in Cleveland that started at 1 pm on a Sunday afternoon and wound up at 9:15 at night under the lights That was a bit unusual perhaps but not that unusual for the way players play and managers manage today pne never knows when anyone's going to get home Including the umpire The Yanks and Red Sox played an 18-inning marathon the other day This one took five hours and 50 minutes Washington and Chicago went through a 16-innlng affair that lasted 4:08 Detroit and Kansas City had a double-bill in KX that took over three hours tor each game A check of some of the time spans in some of the games played so far in this young season shows that more than 15 of them took three hours or more to play As if to show it can be done quicker the Cards beat the Giants here on the coast in a game in which the Cards scored six runs and the time was 1:55 Maybe you've watched some of these longies on TV or been at the game yourself What do you see? That's right Frequent change of pitchers Pitchers taking their good old time Picking up the resin bag Adjusting their caps Digging new holes tor their spikes Looking to first Throwing to first Holding conferences with the catcher And the batter Digging in Adjusting his clothing Putting dirt on his hands Talking to the catcher Doing calisthenics before he steps in Stepping in and out Conferring with his coaches on signs Changing bats Some of this can be eliminated no doubt Biggest problem of course is the wildness of pitchers Many times the count goes to 3 and 2 Few batters hit toe first bill pitched They're looking the pitcher over Replacements And warm-ups on the mound after the pitcher has been throwing in the bullpen tor several minutes Managers walking out to talk to their pitcher to give the next one time to warm up Umpires are at fault too They're supposed to keep toe game moving Some do some don't And these are toe guys who said can't beat the hours It toe NBA needs shorter seasons and playoffs baseball needs shorter hours Soccer Has Great Potential They're really putting toe foot in football in toe United States this year as soccer toe national sport in over 100 countries makes its debut May 26 with a sanctioned league of 12 imported teams representing 12 UJS cities in a 12-game season This is the United Soccer Association and it's one of two soccer loops planning to give toe real 'football game a chance to catch on and while doing it catch enough television money to make it a paying proposition in toe years to come The other soccer league is the National Professional League which failed to get the sanction of the United States Soccer Association but plans to go ahead anyhow Football and baseball biggies are involved in toe United Soccer Association with teams in Los Angeles San Francisco Houston Dallas Cleveland Chicago Detroit New York Boston Washington Vancouver and Toronto For the first year's play these franchise holders are importing European and South American teams to represent toe American cities and you'd have to have a scorecard to remember the names Chicago's team is the Cagliari of Italy Cleveland's is toe Stoke City Potters of Staffordshire England Vancouver has toe Sunderland team of England Los Angeles the America's of Mexico San Francisco's representative is ADO of Holland Washington comes up with Aberdeen of Scotland and Toronto toe Hibernians of Scotland New York's club is toe Serro of Uruguay the Shamrock Rovers of Ireland Dallas has toe Dundee United of Scotland Houston toe Bangu of Brazil and Detroit the Glentoran of Eire To put this all together toe United Soccer Association has hired a former baseball man Dick Walsh formerly in toe Dodgers' organization as commissioner Named last winter been planning traveling and working his head off to get the show on the road The schedule calls for six at home and six away matches playing in baseball stadia and other sites Many of toe matches will be played at night with gate ticket prices scaling down from $5 Historians say soccer dates back to toe 11th century in England with a Danish skull as the first 'ban' spread over toe world but never became popular in toe Canada and Japan although American football and rugby are all part of it Soccer doesn't take as much outlay as some of the other sports but it will cost a hefty hunk of dough to get it going in the United States Soccer players in many countries are national heroes and some are reported to make as much as 5200000 a year in salary What toe promoters are looking for is toe television accent for it is estimated that last July when toe World Cup soccer final was televised to the via Telstar toe world viewing group numbered around 400000000 THd Other Football Game The Major League baseball season has Just got off toe ground and already many of the fans are talking football Release of the National Football schedule with its new alignment of four divisions toe Central and Coastal in toe Western Conference and the Century and Capitol divisions in toe Eastern Conference plus the addition of a 16th team New Orleans adds to toe Interest which has been growing each year The official schedule doesn't start until September 17 and goes on into toe new year with the various playoff games but pro teams now go to training camp in early July and pre-season games start August 4 with toe Green Bay -College A 11 -Stars in Chicago Of particular interest in the 48th year of the NFL are the playoff games which start Saturday December 23 with toe NFL championship game scheduled for Sunday December 31 and toe Super Bowl and other post-season games alter that According to toe new setup each team will play home -and -home games with each other member of its division single games with each team in toe other division in that Conference and a single game with each team in one division of the other Conference tor a total of 14 games All teams in a division' will play identical schedules for the first time Something new has been added in Green Bay in toe form of an 'electric blanket heating cables installed under the sod in Lambeau Field to make the field playable late in toe year And toe Packers have a December 17 finale against Pittsburgh at Green Bay toe latest finish for the Packers at home in their history Several new coaches will be making their debuts this toll They include Tom Fears of the New Orleans Saints Jo Schmidt of toe Detroit Lions and Bud Grant of toe Minnesota Vikings New Orleans and New York will switch positions in 1968 New Orleans now will be in toe Capitol division and the Giants in toe Century division change next year will conduct a full day of racing with time trials starting at 8:00 aon and eliminations at 1:00 pm It is expected that many strip records will fall as top machines and competitors being attracted to this double sport event All classes including fuel will be run under AHRA sanction Static exhibits of fly-in antique and experimental homebullt airplanes as well as antique automobiles will be on display in an area adjoining the spectator area A large election of trophy awards will be made to winning entries in the various divisions of ground exhibits Vina Raceway is located midway between Chico and Red Bluff three miles east of Vina Junction and US 99E Fly In visitors are asked to use the extreme west side of the field as the east side will be closed to all aircraft except participating planes General admission is $2 and children under 12 are free NAL Standings foregone conclusion the Pistons are eyeing Jimmy Walker of Providence as a backcourt companion for NBA rookie toe year Dave Bing Following the Inverse order of finish from worst to be st wl 11 be Baltimore Chicago Los Angeles and New York but Los Angeles had to send its No 1 pick to Detroit when the Rudy La Russo deal backfired Then Seattle and San Diego St Louis Cincinnati San Francisco Boston and NBA champion Philadelphia close out toe first round picks The major names sleeted by the Seattle supersonics from pro player draft were Tom MescheryofSanFranclsco and Richie Guerin of St Louis The San Diego Rockets tabbed Paul Neumann of San Francisco as me of their better-known choices This trio may never reach the stage of wearing expansion uniforms however Mescheryls a Peace Corps candidate Neumann announced his retirement to become freshman basketball coach at Stanford and Guerin decided to retire as a player and devote full time to coaching the Hawks Guerin has twice come out of retirement to become a player-coach for toe Hawks so Seattle selected him Just to force him into permanent retirement now have to do all his coaching from the sidelines There's still a big question mark whether Meschery really plans to retire and a Seattle spokesman said he thinks the AUTO INDUSTRIES HIGHWAY SAFETY PERSONAL COMPRE HENSIVE LIABILITY in ONE Low Cost PACKAGE POLICY Substantial Savings -m W-MM HERCHEL JONES I AIM REPRESENTATIVE 216 South Main St S27-062S COMMITTEE Four racing pylons on the corners of 300 asphalt acres of Vina Raceway will barely separate toe ground and air action as Wings Wheels debuts as the first speed and sport double header Sunday May 7 Mira Slovak noted speed pilot of boats and planes along with some of the country's most skilled aerobatic and racing pilots will supply toe wings to the show while some of California and Oregon's hottest drag racers will add the wheels Midget biplane racing around the 2 12 mile closed course will give spectators the closest view of this type of event ever witnesses as toe course completely encircles toe viewing Early entries in the midget biplane racing include Bill Boland of Carmichael Bud Smith of Fair Oaks Clem Fisher and Fred Rlchmacher of Reno competitors in the National Air Races held last year at Reno Pylon races are scheduled for 11:00 am to be followed at 1:30 pm with an exhibition of sport parachuting presented by toe John Harrison team of the Sacramento School of Sport Parachuting The team will be demonstrating precision maneuvers and landings through use of the newest innovation of steerable parachutes Aerobatic flying will commence at 2:00 pm with some of toe nation's best Mira Slovak will be lying his Czecko Slovakian built Buker-JUngmann aerobatic biplane Slovak world famed for his harrowing night flight from behind the Iron Curtain while piloting a Communist air liner is currently holder of crown in Unlimited Hydroplane racing In 1964 Slovak downed all competition in winning toe Unlimited Division at the National Air Races in Reno Following his appearance at Vina Raceway Slovak will again be preparing to take his seat in Bill Harrah's to defend the crown during the 67 hydroplane season Equally spectacular aerobatic flyers' taking part in Wings Wheels are Dm Tosten of Cloverdale who will be performing in his fully aerobatic (Show Room Stock) 150 HP Champion Citabrla Will Green of Novato a veteran of the old Air Circus days will be doing aerobatic antics in his antique Brewster -Fleet biplane powered by a five cylinder Kinner engine Representing that growing rank of will be Tom Gil lland of Santa Rosa doing unbelievable maneuvers in his experimental homebullt Jack Gardiner and his open seat tandum pusher called will be on hand to take passengers on a free ride over Vina Raceway Gardiner and Breezy stole the show when they provided a preview to toe fans on opening day For the sport fan who is more automotive minded Vlna's dual lane quarter mile drag strip Baseball Standings NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE Monday's Results Baltimore 8 Cleveland 7 night NY at Minn ppd cold Boston 4 California 0 night Today's Probable Pitchers all times EDT New York (Peterson 0-1) at Minnesota (Chance 2-1) 9 pm Boston (Fischer 11) at California (Lopez Ok) 11 pm Baltimore (McNally 1-0) at Cleveland (Slebert 1-1) 7:30 Pm Wednesday's Games New York at Minnesota night Boston at California night Baltimore at Cleveland night Washington at Kan City night BOWLING MONDAY 760 SCRATCH LEAGUE WON Foster's Freeze 52 Foremost Dairies 50Vi Metherd's Saddlery 47V4 Cooper's Union Oil 46 Ben Franklin 46 HP Edwards Con 43V4 Jack's 41 Lou's Cafe S3V4 High Team Game: Ben Franklin 849 High Team Series Ben Franklin 2396 High Ind Games Helena Keeler 207 Ray-ma Williams 198 Betty Beik 197 High Ind Series Marie Bartlett 567 Roberta Foley 524 Sally Noren 517 Monday's Results Plttsbrugh 8 St Louis 5 night Plttsbrugh 8 St Louis 5 night Only game scheduled Today's Probable Pitchers San Francisco (Perry 1-1) at New York (Fisher M) 8 Pm Houston (Cuellar 1-1) at Philadelphia (L Jackson 2-0) 8:05 Pm Wednesday's Games Cincinnati at St Louis San Francisco at New York night Houston at Philadelphia night Los Angeles at Pittsburgh night Chicago at Atlanta night MEMBER li.