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Hockey TSeivs Crozier Disagree BENGALS-! BEARCATS- I DOLPHINS! 'ZT DHYAIQ- words Debut Here Toni College, The last two seasons, the Amerks have finished last In the AHL East Division. Crozier coached Rochester to three Calder Cup championships during his five years as coach there, including four years as general manager. He was undecided about his lines for i 's game, trying to fit in the three new Swords sent from Buffalo. They are veteran Reggie Fleming, center Tom Miller and winger Paul Andrea. A fourth player, Larry Maver- special incentive for Crozier and his captain, Keke Mortson.

When Vancouver of the Western Hockey League fired Crozier two years ago, Mortson suffered the consequences. "Joe was fired with 12 games left In the season," said Mortson Thursday after the team appeared at a luncheon at the Playboy Club. "I finished out the season. But next year when Vancouver went Into the National Hockey League, I was the only player they didn't invite to By JACK MURRAY Enquirer Sports Reporter The Hockey News predicts the Cincinnati Swords will finish last In their Initial season In the American Hockey League's west division. "We'll finish first," claimed Swords general manager-coach Joe Crozier Thursday in preparation for the AIIL opener against the Rochester Americans in Cincinnati Gardens at 7:35 today.

"We have at least 14 potential National Leaguers on this squad." Tonight's opener has A Case Of Hardship camp. "Two weeks Into the season they sent me to Rochester (their farm club) and I wasn't In shape," said the 37-year-old Mortson. "After a while they sent me down to Dallas. Vancouver gave me a lot of trouble because I was one of The Crow's boys." Meanwhile, Crozier was doing a radio program in Vancouver called Crow Knows." "Joe called me one day and had me on his show," continued Mortson. "I said I was still with the organization but doubted If I would ever play for them." Two weeks ago Mortson asked Vancouver for his outright release and it was granted.

"I showed up in St. Catherines (Ont.) and Joe signed me to a contract without seeing me play in two years." Mortson and Crozier will see a few familiar faces from that Canucks team which won the WHL championship, namely defense-men Doug Dunville and Dave Dunn, right-winger Duke Harris and goalten-der Lynn Zimmerman. Zimmerman will start over regular goalie Serge Aubry, who pulled a back muscle in a recent exhibition game. Cincinnatlans will get a look at one of the few Americans playing hockey defenseman John Cun-iff, a graduate of Boston Bony McDermott r.J l3UJ OuP 11 Swords To Beam Ten Games On Local TV WLWT will telecast 10 games of the American Hockey League's newest team, the Cincinnati Swords, during the 1971-72 season, the station announced Thursday. Only two of the broadcasts, however, will be live.

The first telecast will be Sunday at 11:30 p. m. It will be a delayed broadcast of tonight's season opener against the Rochester Americans at the Cincinnati Gardens. Sports announcer Dom Valentino will do play-byplay for all the telecasts. Valentino, who also does Cincinnati Royals basketball, has 10 years of broadcasting hockey experience, Including two years with the National Hockey League's Boston Bruins over WSBK and WCOP In that city.

The 1971-72 television schedule: October 10 11:30 p. m. Rochester tt Cincinnati (delayed). November 7 4 p. m.

Nova Scotia at Cincinnati (delayed). November. 14 11:30 p. m. Hershey at Cincinnati delayed).

November 21 4 p. m. Cincinnati at Baltimore (delayed). December 5 11:30 p. m.

Boston at Cincinnati (delayed December 12 2 p. m. Cincinnati at Cleveland (live). December 26 11:30 p.m. Cleveland at Cincinnati (delayed January 1 2 p.

m. Boston at Cincinnati (delayed). January 30 11:30 p.m. Tidewater at Cincinnati (delayed). February 27 2 p.

m. Cincinnati at Cleveland (live). WHAT A WEEKEND! He'll Face Orioles" McNally Saturday Dock 'Beds Down Opener ernes 20-game winner, Pat Dob- son, will be In the bullpen when the Series opens but could be his starter in Game No. 4. Ellis, who has been bothered by elbow trouble iru recent outings, was selected as Pittsburgh's starter by Manager Danny Mur-taugh after the Pirates clinched their first NL pennant since 1960 by defeating San Francisco 9-5 in the fourth playoff game Wednesday.

Despite the odds favoring the Orioles to win their third World Series in six years with a team many consider as good as any ever put together, the Pirates were relying on an estimate by veteran second baseman Bill Mazersoki that the current Pittsburgh team Is better than the 1960 world champions. Mazeroski, who hit the yi st BOY, BALTIMORE (AP) Baltimore Manager Earl Weaver selected consistent left-hander Dave McNally Thursday as his starter for Saturday's World Series against the Pittsburgh Pir-a and controversial right-hander Dock Ellis, who immediately went Into his room-uggling act after arriving here. Ellis, who last Monday blasted the Pirates for pinching pennies, was one of several Pirates who flew in on the team charter plane Thursday to find their hotel accommodations unsatisfactory when they landed in downtown Baltimore. "It's the same old thing," said Ellis. 'Td like to get out of here and go some place else, but there's no other hotel space." "I'd like to Invite you all up to my room," outfielder Willie a 1 1 offered, "but I can't there's someone up there sitting in the bed and smoking." Despite the unhappiness of some of the Pirates, there was nothing the Pittsburgh organization ty, was sent by the Sabres to Salt Lake City.

The team rosters: CINCINNATI ROCHESTER No. Player Pm. 1 Serge Aubry 2 Dave Dunn 3 Doug Dunville 4 Bob Malcom 5 Bob Walton 6 Garth Rizzuto LW 7 JimWiste 8 Don Cherry 9 Tim Sleeves 10 Dan Sequin IvY 11 D. Westbr'ka RW 12 Duke Harris RW 14 Brent Taylor RW 15 Doug Brindley 16 John Cuniff LW 17 Ken Block 0 18 Bob Blackburn 19 Barry Wilcox LW 20 Bruce Bullock 21 R. Lemieux 22 Gary Bredin RW 23 Ed Hatoum RW 24 Jack Stanfield LW 30 Zimmerman No.

Playar Poi. 1 Ray Reeson 2 Mike Keeler 3 Keke Mortson 4 Ken Murray 5 Steve Cuddit 6 Jack Taqoart 7 Chris Evani 8 Deadmarsh 9 Hughie Harris 10 Craig Ramsey 11 Jim Nichols 12 D. Rombouah 14 Randy Wyroiub 15 Bob Richer 16 Tom Miller 17 Rick Dudley 18 Paul Andre 19 R. Fleming 20 John Gould 21 Terry Ball 30 Rocky Farr rays taken of his ailing right hand. The X-rays proved negative but showed Powell has torn fibers in the back of his hand, which may handicap him but won't stop him from playing.

Weaver, concerned by the fact that the Pirates displayed power from both sides of the plate in beating San Francisco In the National League playoffs, finally 'settled on a left-right-left rotation of McNally, Jim Palmer and Mike Cuellar for the first three games. There had been speculation that Weaver might go with Palmer in the opener to offset the Pirates' right-handed hitting sluggers. "Pittsburgh has a balanced attack from either side of the plate," said Weaver, "but there seemed to be more reasons for pitching a left-hander. I'll tell you why after the Series. "If we're successful It will seem logical as hell.

If not, I'm going to be second guessed anyway." Weaver said his fourth Froehling," said Nastase, one of the world's top players. "Graebner has beaten me five of the six times we've played. Tiriac has never beaten him." Turville, a St. Petersburg, attorney, said the decision was one of the toughest of his life, but he had to pick Froehling on current form. "Both Dennis Ralston (the U.

S. coach) and I have been very impressed with Frank's play," Turville said. "In practice, he's beaten Graebner eight of the 10 times 'v played." Graebner, renowned as a clutch player who has never lost a Davis Cup Chal-1 Round match, shrugged off this reasoning. "My record against these two guys (Nastase and Tiriac) is a mile long," he said. "And I've beaten Froehling the three times I've played him this year in tournaments.

As for practice, I will only say there was some dirty laundry, but I won't say any more." With Froehling a question mark a man who can make a goat or a hero of his captain the Yanks must rely heavily on a former University of Southern California ace. The Open champion will attempt an Iron man role, playing both singles and doubles over the three-day period. He will team with 20-year-old Erik Van Dillon of San Mateo, in Saturday's doubles, meeting Nastase and Tiriac. In the final singles Sunday, the order will be reversed, with Smith opposing Tiriac and Froehling meeting Nastase in that order. Ax DECATUR, 111.

Nate Williams was taken by the Cincinnati Royals In the special National Basketball Association hardship draft. When Nate heard the good news, he rushed out to have his new Thunderbird washed. Rich people don't like dirty cars. If it seems incongrous that a luxury car owner would qualify as a hardship case, the appearance Is deceiving, another part of the NBA's Catch-22 philosophy. Williams comes from a broken home, the eldest of a litany of seven children.

His mother used to be a nurse in Oakland, but found that Ronald Regan's welfare roles provided a better Income. It just proves that anybody can drive a Thunderbird In the land of equal opportunity, especially If they can rebound and play defense. "You Just tell them that you'll pay for it when you sign (with the pros)," shrugs Nate about the superstar automobile financing play. "And the banker was from Logan, Utah. It wasn't a gift, I'll tell you that." In Logan, "Hardship" Williams was as well regarded as fresh air and polygamy.

While a sophmore, he and Marv Roberts helped Utah state to a 22-7 record and as a Junior his school had a 20-7 total. Unfortunately, Williams did not share Logan's enthusiasm. He wanted out. ENTER LEWIS SCHAFFEL, hip, young New York legal mind, long hair and friendly manner. He and his partner, Jerry Davis, are part of the newest addition to their profession's lexicon.

The latest breed is players' lawyer-agent-negotiator. They figure out the deferred payments, the tax shelters, the Interest rate. "We had been talking along different lines at school last year," says Nate, perhaps alluding to the exodus of college players to the American Basketball Association. "He knew about my financial status. He knew about my family and everything.

After he found out about the hardship thing, he said I could probably qualify. So I put an application in and I was accepted." Lew Schaffel is the agent for Austin Nate Archibald, Sid Catlett and assorted others. There is suspicion about the way he spells his first name. If he changes It to Kareem, then we will know. THE WILLIAMS FAMILY moved from Monroe, to Oakland when Nate was In the ninth grade.

His mother made the three-day drive twice, hauling the children to their new home. In Oakland, Nate attended famous McOlymonds high school, the same school that spawned such pro athletes as Frank Robinson, Bill Russell, Vada Plnson, Paul Silas and Joe Ellis. The city also was becoming a culture for black revolutionaries. The Black Panther party was formed there. In fact, Bobby Seale's sister taught at McCly-monds.

"If you're black and live In Oakland, you can't help but know them," says Nate of the Panthers. His mother fought to keep the family together. She worked as a nurse, but the futility fainally overcame her. "The 'way to get off welfare is to get out and work," says Williams. "But that's the hard thing about it.

Jobs are hard to find. She could make more on welfare. Common sense would say, why work when you can get more money doing something else, and you don't do anything?" Williams says he Is going to help his mother and family, but It Is a sensitive thing. "I don't care what people think, I dont make the kind of money wfoere I can support my six brothers and sisters and my mother," says Nate, who Is married and has a young boy himself. "If I did that, I just couldn't afford to live.

The Royals don't pay me what they pay some people, you know. But I help them as much as I can. Now I have a family to support myself." WILLIAMS HAS LOOKED very good. He has speed and Jumping ability, and above average shot, and he claims the characteristic of an athlete: great hands. After a slow start, while he adjusted to playing forward and to the pros, Nate has fitted In well.

"I was pretty nervous at first from not playing with the guys," he points out. "I didn't go to rookie camp. Plus, all my years in college and in high school, I was able to put the ball on the floor. Cousy has a rule that forwards dont put the ball on the floor. "To me, I think It takes away some of my game when I can't handle the ball.

Nate sounds as brash as Norm Van Ller when he was a rookie and showed up to announce that he would break into the starting lineup. Nate has a goal, also. He wants to make the ail-rookie team, an attainable object If only he plays enough. "I'm really a rookie," says Nate with a smile. "Next year I'll be a rookie.

So he should play me more freely this year." Brown-Forman Distillers Corp.At Louisville In KentuckyC 1967. Challenge Round Opens Today team can overpower you, where we had to finesse and do little things better in 1960." That Pittsburgh power, represented by guys such as Stargell, Bob Robertson, Richie Hebner and Roberto Clemente, may very well be the key for the Pirates since they come into the Series much like Cincinnati did last year, with their pitching seemingly disintegrating. The Orioles, who knocked off the Reds in five games, are in the exact same shape they were last year, with a 14-game winning streak going in after, a season-ending 11-game streak and three consecutive playoff victories over Oakland. The long-range weather forecast called for sunny skies with temperatures in the low 70s for the opener. STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKV W-- Mi ,1 i i tip i jf I 'j Goivdy To Do TV For World Series NEW YORK (AP) Curt Gowdy will provide the television commentary and Jim Simpson the radio broadcast for the World Series starting Saturday, the National Broadcasting Co.

said Thursday. Bob Prince of Pittsburgh and Chuck Thompson and Bill O'Donnell of Baltimore also will share the broadcasting on radio and television. game-winning homer that wrapped up the i960 Series over the New York Yankees in the seventh game, left no doubt about how he felt when he said: "This team Is much better all around. It's stronger. It has more power.

This ST 'l 1 i i mm-. CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Friday, October 8, 1971 25 mmmmmmmmmmm could have done to accomodate the players, hotel space being at a premium in a city with a limited number of rooms available. So while the Orioles spent the day loosening up at Memorial Stadium, Ellis, Stargell and Co. spent the afternoon juggling rooms as beat itihey could to accommodate themselves as much as possible. The established as early 5-3 favorites to win the Series, also had problems weaver hesitating before setting up Jila pitching rotation and waiting for a doctor's report on slugging first basemani Boog Powell.

Powell missed the Orioles' workout to have X- ner The Americans' chief hope, Stan Smith, the Army GI who was runner-up at Wimbledon and winner of the U. S. Open, opens the best-of-five match series against Elie Nastase, the No. 1 Romanian. Nastase hasn't lost a match in sweeping past six rivals en route to the Challenge rounds.

In the second match, Froehling, the 6-foot-5 can-nonballer who quit com-p 1 1 1 1 tennis for five years starting in 1965, opposes Ian Tiriac, the 31-year-old mustachioed Romanian bull who says he plans to win the Cup and then retire. "I was really surprised when the Americans picked AP Wirepholo Gets 1r Grae CHARLOTTE, N. C. (AP) Non-playing United States captain Ed Turville took the big gamble and named fellow Floridlan Frank Foehling HI instead of Clark Graebner for the No. 2 singles berth against Romania in the 60th Davis Cup Challenge Round, starting today.

The Romanians were delighted, Gaebner was bitter. Turville was adamant. "Froehling has been superb in practice," the captain argued. "We had no other choice." If the gamble fails, the 71-year-old silver trophy, symbol of International tennis supremacy, may go to an Iron Curtain country for the first time to mm a -a v. -i fmfmH; fi If tf- tMkZdA 11 1 Relaxing Before The Familiar Pressure Begins Brooks Robinson, the most valuable player of last year's World Series, relaxes In a whirlpool bath at the Baltimore Stadium Thursday before a workout In preparation for the 1971 World Series opening between the Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates Saturday.

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