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1 Pao 6 iff, THE C01RIERJ01R.NAL, VED.XESDAV, JA.UARY 21, 1976 'C 0 I 90-point game not entirely a farce; first 65 were legitimate trying 'Nancy was 'I told Billy he was coming out' 'Both coaches are to blame' to embarrass us' Pin Knot coach Clinton Cay Nancy (each Avery Hatfield Referee Curtis Reevet By ROGER NESBITT Courier-Journal A Timet StaH Writer A funny thing happened to Nancy High basketball player Billy Miller last Friday ieht when he was bearing down on a of 57 points in a game with litne. Knot he ended up with 90 points Jlanks to several assists from the Pine flayers. Writer broke the school record early in (JSEBfial period and had amassed 65 points Mr two minutes to play when the Pine JgjCplayers, upon an order from coach fiatnton Gay, intentionally threw the ball and the 64 senior center then scored 25 points in the game's final two minutes. Nancy won 145-70. Obviously, the question raised here is "why?" Explanations (take your pick) are given by Pine Knot coach Clinton Gay, Nancy coach Avery Hatfield and referee Curtis Reeves of Lexington.

Pine Knot coach Clinton Gay "We led after the first period and were ahead 28-27 in the second quarter when I called timeout. We had been assessed all nine fouls in the game up to that point and I complained to the officials (Reeves and Woody Randolph of Danville). "By halftime (at which Nancy led 46-33) I had four starters with four fouls aad. one with three. Our starters came out our gym.

We were down 15 points with five minutes to go and had the 'B' team on the floor. He left his starters in and was pressing us. I called timeout and asked him, 'How much do you Everyone in the gym heard me. He (Hatfield) replied, 'As many as I can get. "I don't and didn't want to take anything away from Miller.

He's a good kid. I didn't do that to get my name in the papers either. If I accomplished anything, it was to get our games officiated more fairly. We've won only two games the past two seasons (Pine Knot is 6-13 this year) and everyone expects us to lose including the officials. "This is my first year at Pine Knot and I'm trying to turn things around.

I did this for my kids and myself. I'd do it again under the same circumstances." Nancy coach Avery Hatfield When they (Pine Knot) started throwing us the ball, I had all my starters out except Miller. I called a timeout with two minutes to go in order to take out all of our starters. I couldn't take Billy out because he was at the free throw line. That was our last timeout so I couldn't call any more.

I told Billy he was coming out at the next stop in play. "As it turned out, the game wasn't stopped again. The last two minutes were "By the middle of the fourth period, Nancy was in somewhat of a press. Actually, they were disorganized. The Nancy players were all over the court trying to steal the ball.

It was no organized press. "Nancy had two starters in when the game ended Miller and the coach's son (Martin Hatfield, who, incidentally, had 37 points). I'm pretty sure of that point. Anyway, at first it appeared that Pine Knot was trying to throw the ball over the Nancy press. But the ball kept going to Miller.

"Finally, Miller ended up under the basket and Pine Knot kept throwing him the ball and he kept laying it in. "We could've forfeited the game to Nancy but we figured it would cause a real farce. There's two sides to this deal. The Pine Knot coach made a farce out of the game but, on the other hand, the Nancy coach could've pulled his starters. "I put most of the blame on the Pine Knot coach.

If this doesn't cost him his job he should be thankful. From an official's standpoint, I felt that there was nothing that could be done. It's the first time this has happened and I hope it's the last. "I feel sorry for Miller because he earned his first 65 points. As it turned in the second half and played poorly.

Nancy ran out to a 40-point lead so I put in my 'B' team with six minutes to go. "At that point Nancy's starters started pressing our kids all over the court and were running up the score. This angered me so much that with two minutes to go, I called timeout and told our kids to start throwing the ball to them. I figured if they (Nancy) wanted to run up the score, we'd let them. "I didn't tell our kids to throw the ball to Miller.

It just turned out that way. Miller was under the basket so our kids kept giving the ball to him on our in-bonnds plays. One of our kids said that Miller kept saying 'hurry, "There were two reasons why I ordered that. One is that the game was poorly officiated and the other was because coach Hatfield of Nancy was trying to embarrass us. He did the same thing in our first game with them this season at spent with Pine Knot giving the ball to Billy and Billy making layups.

"I read in the Somerset paper (The Commonwealth Journal) that Pine Knot says we were pressing them and running up score. Let me tell you something, we haven't pressed anyone all season. We never pressed them! In fact, they were pressing us and hell, we broke every press they threw at us. That's how Billy got most of those 65 points on layups after we beat their press. "We were in a 2-3 zone for most of the game and we broke the game open against their press.

We were so far ahead in the third period that their cheerleaders quit and sat up in the stands." Referee Curtis Reeves "I don't think that Nancy was trying to run up the score. First they were trying to get Miller to break the school record and then they were trying for 100 points. out, his performance is labeled as a farce. I saw Billy at a game the other day and he said 'what could I do?" Hatfield emphatically denied that he was attempting to run up the score in order to increase his team's Courier-Journal Times Litkenhous Rating. Whatever, despite the big win over Pine Knot plus a victory earlier in the week over Shopville, Nancy remained the ninth-ranked team in the 12th Region.

In fact, its rating slipped from 55.2 to 54.4. Kentucky High School Athletic Association assistant commissioner Tom Mills said that "as far as we know, nobody broke any rules in that Nancy-Pine Knot game. As far as I know there's no complaints about anything regarding that game. Apparently there was no reason for the officials to report anything to our office." Wrong place, wrong time Ex-Colonel Hamilton, adrift like others after club foldings, to become salesman wr Si www mwC 'zLr Back in 1968, Joe Hamilton signed a basketball grant with North Texas State coach Dan Spika. Joe, a onetime Louisvillian, played at old Dunbar High in Lexington, Ky.

should be afraid of losing a job like that. The guys that are playing now ought to be grateful. Unemployment is hell." After his last team, the Utah Stars, folded last month, Hamilton, who is married and the father of two, returned to Louisville. Soon, he will move to Chicago, where he will be the district salesman for a basketball shoe manufacturer. The first thing his new employer asked him, he said, was if "I was through playing." 'All a matter of breaks' "That's a hard question," he added.

"If I was 32 or 33 years old and my legs were going, it would be a different thing. But I'm 27 and I feel I've got four or five good years left. There are seven teams left (in the ABA), and I look at them and see guys who I think I'm just as good as maybe better than some. But it's all a matter of breaks it's all a matter of being in the right place at the right time." Ever since he was cut by the Colonels nine games into the 1974-75 season, Hamilton, who grew up in Louisville and then moved to Lexington and attended Dunbar High, has been in the wrong places at the wrong times. Even before Hamilton was contacted by Memphis, Tom Nissalke, the coach of the San Antonio Spurs, the team that had sold Hamilton to Kentucky, called Hamilton and offered him a chance to rejoin his old teammates.

"He called me on Monday," Hamilton said, "and told me he had a meeting with the Spurs' owners coming up later in the week. He said he was going to tell them they had to go to an 11- or 12-man roster if they wanted to win the championship. He said he would call me back on By Friday, however, Nissalke not only had lost his battle with the San Antonio owners. He also had lost his job. So Hamilton signed to play with a team in Munich, Germany.

A new league that also would haye teams in Israel, Spain, Switzerland and Belgium was being formed. The season was to have lasted 40 games, but the owners went broke after 35. "They still owe me $9,000," Hamilton said. "They still owe a lot of guys money. I and others on my team have a lawsuit going, but I don't believe we'll ever see our money." Hamilton came back to Louisville and soon received another call from Nissalke, who had surfaced in Utah as coach of the Stars.

He offered Hamilton a job. After 10 days in Salt Lake City, however, Hamilton was traded to Baltimore, the franchise formed from what remained of the Memphis club. Baltimore, Hamilton said, "was the rock bottom. It was the end. It was so bad we couldn't even get meal money.

They had about 15 guys in camp, but they couldn't cut anybody because they didn't have money to send the guys home. When the team folded, we had to wait for a man to come down from the league office in New York and give us plane tickets home." Roomed with Issel briefly For four days, Hamilton roomed with Dan Issel, the superstar the Colonels had sold to the Baltimore Claws. Then, after Issel's wife, Cheri, arrived in Baltimore, Dan moved into a hotel for two days before moving again this time all the way to Denver. ABA president John Y. Brown who had engineered the sale of Issel to Bal- By KEITH F.

OVERPECK Courier-Journal staff Writer Shortly after Joe Hamilton was placed on waivers by the Kentucky Colonels in 1974, he was contacted by the Memphis Sounds of the American Basketball Association. "They didn't have any money, and they wanted me to go down there for the mini-munLsalary ($18,500 a year)," Hamilton sai recently. "I told them after playing irCffis league for five years, I wasn't goTganywhere for no Now, an abbreviated trip to Europe, two 'folded franchises and barely 14 months later, the 5-foot-10 guard with a 12-point career average can not find full-time work as a basketball player. For $18,500, he said, "You can have me any time, anywhere. "I couldn't get any job making $18,500 right away.

They could have me, and a whole lot of other players, for that. We didn't have any bargaining power after those teams folded. I can play. I proved that. But there are just not many places left." i Many familiar names missing Hamilton is among the legion of players whose careers were terminated abruptly when three ABA clubs died.

Mel Daniels, Rick Mount, John Roche, George Carter, Bob Warren, Goo Kennedy, Al Smith and Lee Davis are among the many familiar names no longer found in the box scores. "I really miss the game. It's a helluva job," Hamilton said, referring to the life of a pro player. "Work two hours a day doing something you love to do. Making good money and the travel, too.

It's a good life. I don't even consider it work. "You should always give 110 per cent of yourself on the floor because you timore, ordered the resale because he said the Claws had reneged on a promise to acquire other players of a caliber that would make the team a contender. "We sat around saying, 'Wow, what's going Hamilton said. "Stew Johnson and I just quit going to practice.

We knew what was coming." Had Eastern League offer Three days before the season began, Baltimore expired. Hamilton was taken back by Utah, while Johnson was drafted by San Diego, a team that was destined to fold a few weeks later. (Johnson then found work in San Antonio, but last week he was waived by the Spurs.) Hamilton said Utah "was one team I really didn't think would fold. The last day, Bill Daniels (the team's owner) came in after practice and said, 'Fellows, I'm sorry, but I just can't pay you. At loose ends again, Hamilton once more returned home.

Through the efforts of Colonels' general manager Dave Vance, he received an offer to play for Wilkes-Barre, in the semi-pro Eastern League. Meanwhile, Nissalke helped Hamilton get the chance to sell sneakers. "I guess I could go to the Eastern League," said; "They've got good teams up there. Some players get $200 or $300 a weekend, and they say they will help you find a regular job. It would be a way to stay in shape, then try out with somebody next season.

"But at some point you've got to say your playing days are over. You've got to make a decision. And I just had to go with the security of this shoe-selling job. I feel like I'm still good enough to play, but I'm retiring early. "I guess all that's happened to me in the last year kind of took the spirit out of me." Staff Photo Although only 5 feet 10, Hamilton could get up in the air as he shows in this view of a Kentucky Colonel game in 1974.

His pro career apparently has been ended by club foldings. Georgetown edges Franklin 76-73 SPORTS BEAT Stadium name clincher for Rice Special to The Courier-Journal GEORGETOWN, Ky. Georgetown Col-lege clawed from behind with 3:15 remaining last night and then foiled Franklin (Ind.) College's last-gasp bid in achieving a 76-73 basketball triumph. Two free throws by Dave Ruggles sealed the verdict with four seconds left after Franklin had given up the ball on a traveling violation while attempting to stall for the last shot. Georgetown (7-10) which hit 50 per cent but got five fewer field goals than the visitors, overcame a 17-8 deficit to lead 30-29 with 4:16 to go in the half and stretched its advantage to nine points.

It Compiled by STAN SUTTON From Associated Press Dispatches Football has not been a laughing matter recently at Rice University so when new coach Homer Rice was introduced yesterday he injected a bit of humor. The former coach at Fort Thomas Highlands High School in Kentucky said it was a difficult still led 46-37 at halftime, but Franklin tied 56-56 at 12:55 and went ahead 65-62 with 6:04 remaining. Herman Saffold then hit two free throws at the ,3:15 mark, putting Georgetown up 70-69, and added a field goal. Jim Parrish, top scorer with 26 points, then also got a Georgetown field goal, making it 74-69, before Franklin rallied to within 74-73 and gained possession again with 24 seconds left. Franklin (9-5) got 74 shots but hit only 31.

It sank 11 of 16 at the line while Georgetown, which connected on 26 of 52 from the field, sank 24 of 31 free throws. Wayne Wisman got 25 points and Kay Heuchan 21 for Franklin. Georgetown had a 42-37 edge in rebounds with Skip Redmond, who scored 20 points, the leader with 15. Saffold got 12 rebounds and Franklin's Daryl Sea-wright grabbed 11. AT GEORGETOWN 74 (46-30) Parrish 26, Redmond 20, Saffold 16, Ruggles 10, Alcorn 4, Murray 0, Back -0, Bumgardner 0.

FRANKLIN 73 (37-36) Wisman 25, Heuchan 21, Seawright 15, Austin 8, Cragen 2, Pritchard 2, Humes 0, Baron 0, Hensley 0, Hackett 0. Attendance 1,000. roll call Associated Press decision to come to Rice, "but when they said they'd name their stadium after me, I couldn't turn it down." The pun about Rice Stadium was the only levity of the news conference surrounded by rumors of how previous coach Al Conover came to Meets the press Tennis star Chris Evert smiles at a question during a news conference Monday in Washington. Chris was awaiting an upcoming tournament in the nation's BASEBALL NEW YORK METS Signed pitcher Jon Matlack for estimated $80,000. BASKETBALL BUFFALO BRAVES Guard Randy Smith named to play for East in NBA All-Star game Feb.

3. NEW ORLEANS JAZZ Forward Ron Behagen to miss four weeks of play with fractured cheekbone. TENNIS UNIV. OF HOUSTON Announced that Ricardo Ycaza, Ecuador's No. 1 Davis Cup player, will enroll this spring.

HOCKEY CINCINNATI STINGERS Signed Terry Ball, former NHL defenseman. FOOTBALL MOREHEAD STATE Running back-linebacker Terry Howell of Raceland, center John Moses of Lex-Ington Tates Creek, end Bruce Hill of Bishop David and running back Kenny Turner of Richmond Madison signed OVC letters of intent. DENVER BRONCOS Linebacker Randy Gradishar added to American Conference team for Pro Bowl. ABA All-Stars lineup (To play Denver Nuggets at Denver, Jan. 27) STARTERS Julius Erving, New York Nets; ArtiS Gilmore, Kentucky (unanimous choices); James Silas, San Antonio; Brian Taylor, New York; Billy Knight, Indiana.

RESERVES Marvin Barnes, St. Louis; Bill Paultz, San Antonio; Maurice Lucas, Kentucky; Larry Kenon, San Antonio; Ron Boone, St. Louis; George Gervin, San Antonio; Don Buse, Indiana. edly describes Svare as bumbling and inept, taking order from Chargers owner Eugene Klein. The NFL Player! Association will decide Thursday on whether to strike the Pro Bowl Monday night in New Orleans' Superdome, according to the group's executive director, Ed Garvey.

Any boycott would be triggered by the failure of the league to make payments to the players' pension fund for the two years that the union and the NFL have been without a contract with the NFL, Garvey said. Joe'9 future up to Jets Joe Namath, who has said oft' national television that he would enjoy playing for the Los Angeles Rams, hasn't mentioned the idea to his employer, New York Jets president Phil Iselin. "Sure, if he wishes, we would be willing to trade him, granting we get what we wanted," Iselin commented. Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom insisted that the Rams could not initiate any move even if they wanted to without risking a slap from the NFL for tampering. Another rub is Namath's reported $450,000 salary under a contract with another year to run.

"I think the second year is $500,000 instead of $450,000," Rosenbloom said. "We are not in a position to pay that, kind of money, never would be. It would hurt our football team." Drop-kick bonus studied The NCAA Football Rules Committee is expected to consider this week a rule change awarding more points for drop-kicked conversions and field goals. The group also may consider rules to break ties and may try to enforce rules against the use of the head in blocking and tackling NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle will meet with a group of Southern senators Thursday to discuss a franchise for Memphis. Rozelle is well aware of the threat of antitrust legislation hanging over professional football's head Lloyd Nordstrom, majority owner of the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL, died yesterday while vacationing in Mexico.

BASEBALL Stars to shine over AL The American League's 197(3 schedule will feature a record 640 night games, president Lee MacPhail announced. The season opens with New York at Milwaukee April 8 and ends Oct. 3. The Yankees will play the first game in heavily renovated Yankee Stadium on April 15, against pro sports calendar KIAC basketball STANDINGS Team KIAC Overall Team KIAC Overall 1. Pikeville 17-1 4.

Grgetown 1-3 4-10 2. Camp'v'le 4-1 8-5 5. Union 1-4 4-13 3. Berea 12-4 5. Cumberl'd 1-4 5-12 Top Scorers Players, College Games Points Avs.

1. Mike Sammons, Union 16 395 247 2. Jim Parrish, 1 eorgetown 14 31 22 3. Greg Bardin, Campbellsvllle ..13 272 20 9 1 Campbellsvilla .13 242 18.4 5. Fred Walker, Pikeville ..18 327 18 1 6.

Dallas Leake, Berea 16 280 17.5 7. Duane Dunagan, Camnbellsvlllel3 224 17 4 8. David Perkins, Cumberland 14 238 17 0 9. Terry Hawkins, Pikeville 18 284 16.7 ,10. Tyrone Dunn, Pikeville 18 290 14.1 Top Rebounders Players, College Games Rebounds Ave.

1. Fred Fredrick, Pikeville 18 228 12 7 13, BeXea 11.6 3. Bill Nichols, Berea 14 183 11 4 4. Duane Dunagan. ampbellsvillel3 139 10.7 5.

Dan Moses, Pikeville 18 192 10 7 4. Steve Banks, Cumberland ....14 171 10.6 7. Skip Redmond, Georgetown 16 158 9.9 8. Charlie Turner. Bt.ea .12 '115 9.6 9.

Chuck Williams, Georgetown 13 122 9.4 JO. Ron Cartwright, Campbellsvillel3 121 9.3 American Basketball Association Team W. L. Pet. Team W.

L. Pet. Denver 31 11 .738 Indiana 22 20 .524 New York 27 12 .692 St. Louis 19 25 .432 San Antonio 23 17 .575 Virginia 34 .128 KENTUCKY 23 19 .548 Monday's results No games scheduled. LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS KENTUCKY 118, St.

Louis 100. New York 134, Denver 123. Tonight's games New York at KENTUCKY; Virginia at Indiana. National Basketball League leave. Conover re- Homer Rice signed Jan.

2 after rumors circulated that a Rice backer paid him $27,000, equal to one year's salary, to resign. School president Norman Hacker-man, asked about this story, said: "The alumni will always have a say at Rice, but not beyond the normal amount." A former assistant head coach at Kentucky and Oklahoma, Rice compiled an 8-10-1 record during two seasons as head coach' at the University of Cincinnati. He left there in 1968 to become athletic director at North Carolina. Rice reportedly had been interested in the Rice coaching position only if it included the athletic directorship. The athletic director at Rice is A.

M. (Red) Bales, who interviewed other coaching applicants, but not Rice, and who was not present at yesterday's news conference. Bales is scheduled to retire in two years. Strain hired, Svare fired Former Kansas City Chiefs coach Hank Stram finally became coach of the New Orleans Saints when he signed a five-year contract worth "in excess of $1 million." "Hank and I have been talking for four months," said Saints owner John Mecom Jr. Quarterback Archie Manning cheered the selection.

"I'm really excited. I've always been a fan of his, going back to my days at Ole Miss. I think Hank Stram can do the job here," Manning said Harland Svare, general manager of the San Diego Chargers, was fired and promptly blamed a psychiatrist's book about him. The still-unpublished book, written by Dr. Arnold Mandell of the University of California at San Diego, report National Hockey League CAMPBELL CONFERENCE Patrick Division Smythe Division Team W.

L. T. Pts. Team W. L.

T. Pts. Phila. 29 7 8 66 Chicago 18 II 15 51 NY Is'lndrs 22 12 8 52 Vancouver 14 19 8 40 Atlanta 23 19 6 52 St. Louis 17 21 5 39 NY Rangers 17 23 4 38 Minnesota 14 27 2 30 Kan.

City 11 30 4 WALES CONFERENCE Norris Division Adams Division Team w. L. T. Pts. Team W.

L. T. Pts. Montreal 33 6 72 Boston 25 10 9 59 Los Ang. 24 21 2 50 huffalo 26 13 5 57 Pittsburgh 17 23 5 39 Toronto 20 16 49 Detroit 14 26 5 33 California 17 24 4 38 Washington 3 38 11 Monday's results No games scheduled.

Last night's result Wales Conference All-Stars 7, Campbell Conference All-Stars 5. Tonight's games Chicago at New York Rangers; New York Islanders at Washington; Vancouver at Minnesota; St. Louis at Kansas City. World Hockey Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Division W. L.

Pet. Team W. L. Pet. .558 .683 Washington Cleveland Atlantic Team Boston x-Phil.

Buffalo New York .634 28 13 24 15 26 18 22 23 .591 Atlanta Z4 19 23 20 21 19 19 20 19 21 .535 .525 .487 .475 .489 New Orleans Houston WESTERN CONFERENCE Division Pacific Division W. L. Pet. East Division w. L.

pet. Team W. L. T. Pts.

Team 18 23 .439 Golden State 31 10 23 31 .756 .571 Midwest Team x-Milwaukee Detroit Kan. City Chicago tennis scoreboard .500 W. L. T. Pts.

18 23 2 38 16 25 2 34 Division W. L. T. pts. 31 17 0 62 27 16 2 56 16 23 .410 Los Ang.

14 29 .326 Seattle 11 30 268 Phoenix Portland Team x-New Eng. Cincinnati West Team x-Houston San Deio Minnesota Cleveland Indianapolis Canadian Team Winivpeg Oueliec 22 22 17 23 14 27 21 20 3 45 19 1 39 rVviion W. L. T. Pts.

11 15 0 .4 20 19 4 44 20 17 3 i .425 .372 Lest nioht's same not Included. x-Cal5ary 24 17 2 50 x-h-ldmonlon I IB 97 2 I x-Phoenix 19 17 3 41 38 IT I) Monday's result Houston 115. Washington 96. LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS Buffalo 112, Phoenix 103. New York 107, Portland 104.

Cleveland 98, Boston 85. Detroit 114, Washington 107. Golden Slate 116, Kansas City 103 Monday's results No games 1 LAST NIGHT'S RESULTSill New England at Phoenix. Toronto at Houston. l.l lil If us 1ko India-New Zealand Davis Cud series at Auckland Onny Parun (Nil d.

Anand Amritrai 4-1, 9-7, 6-4; Viiay Amritrai (I) d. Brian Falrlie 6-3, 10-8, 6-1 (New Zealand wins 3-2 and gains Eastern Zone final against Australia). Washington (D.C.) Tournament First round: Chris Evart d. Kathy Kuvkendall 6-2. 6-1 1 Francoise Durr D.

Valerie Ziegenfuss 6-2, 6-1; Natasha Chmyreva d. Marcie Louie 6-3, 3-4, 6-3; Terry Holladav d. Irish Reidel 4-4, 6-2; Nina Jausovet d. Jo Ann Russell 6-2, 6-3; Betty stove d. Isa Fernandez 4-0, 6-4.

Atlanta 100, Chicago 84. New Calgary at Edmonton. l1 Tonight's games Cleveland at England at Houston; Calgary at Winnipeg; San Du Philadelphia at Milwauke. games Pnoenlx at Boston; Buffalo at eso Tonight's a at Minnesota; Indianapolis at Queoec. Atlanta; Chicago at New Orleans; Seattle at Detroit..