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7 Pro Basketbali Merger Predicted If i. II won their sixth straight game last night, downing Oakland 119-110 before 5,885 at Indianapolis. Oliver Darden scored 22 points to lead Indiana, with teammates Fred Lewis and Jimmy Rayl hitting 20 and 19, respectively. Levern Tart, who had to sit out Tuesday's game at Pittsburgh because of a legal matter, scored a game-high total of 25 points for the Oaks. Elsewhere.

New Jersey's Americans had to go overtime to down the New Orleans Buccaneers 123-114. The Teaneck, N.J., game drew 1,357 fans. At Dallas, where 2,710 attended, a fourth-quarter rally brought the Anaheim Amigos a 116-105 victory over the Dallas Chaparrals. Les Selvage led Anaheim with 24 points and John Beasley paced Dallas with 26. And if the NBA-ABA merger develops, what of the San Franciso-Oakland interests? "We have a new 15.000-seat arena and a bigger population," says Hale.

Another charge that the ABA has no big men that it's a league for outside snipers who couldn't make the NBA irks Hale, too. 'Once you get past Walt Bellamy, Wilt Chamberlain. Bill Russell and Nate Thurmond, the NBA lacks the big man, too. It has taken the NBA 15 years to develop these guys. So how could you expect the ABA to do the same in this first season?" Hale believes the merger will te hastened by two factors: The bidding war for talent; "The graduation of Lew Alcindor at UCLA in 1969.

Tacers Win The Indianapolis Pacers Kentucky Colonels. Tipoff time at Convention Center is 8 o'clock. "This is a tremendous league," Hale went on. referring to the new American Basketball Association. I've no regrets leaving Miami.

We haven't played anyone we thought we couldn't beat." Various reports Irom NBA cities hint the 20-year-old league might expand next season, snatching Louisville and Indianapolis. Another NBA idea is to copy baseball and hockey, developing a farm system with minor league teams in the more fruitful ABA cities. But Hale will have none of it. "It's just been last year that the St Louis franchise was up for sale and there were no takers. Attendance in Chicago is down.

And I'd compare our league leaders (Indiana and New Orleans) with the NBAs two expansion teams right now." By DAVID C. ADAMS Courier-Journal ft Time Staff Writer All this talk that the NBA will swipe the ABA's two money-making franchises is for the birds, according to Oakland coach Bruce Hale. Instead, he foresees a pro basketball marriage before the rival leagues cut their throats in for talent. The National Basketball Association expanded this season to 12 teams, opening franchises in Seattle and San Diego. "Within two or three years." said Hale, "there'll be a merger.

This is common sense. No one can afford to pay those $100,000 contracts (which is wrhat Oakland reportedly dished out for Rick Barry)." Hale, a former high school coach in Indiana and college mentor at Miami (Fla.) and his Oaks will be in town tonight for their first game against the First line 100 level SNOW TIRE Dayton Thorofared. fmot MW ti at the few prfet. 4 fif nyteftr TIRE 7C Ice JUVUJ Gripping CTiinc Ava.lable 4.5013 Black Tubel.ss sffrrtM, WS1 CrA Awesome Eastern Keeps Improving Dayton Interurbon Tub Type) 4 ply nylon SIZE BLACK WHITE fed. Tax' 70,15 13.fS 1.1ft ftOOU 14.47 M7 TUBELESS 4 PIT NYION 45013 13.7S 15.13 1.10 775.14-77515 14.M 17.0 2.21 12514 17.35 IMS 2.31 Florida Club Ailing bm wins By DAVE KINDRED Cauriar-Journal 1 Times Staff Writer Any football team that starts 13 sophomores in its two units is in trouble.

Agreed? And it is time for that team's coach to check the bus schedules out of town if five of his starting players suffer injuries that keep them out of a game against the nation's 12th-ranked team. Agreed? That's the way it has been at the Tjniversity of Florida this season. And, moreover, coach Ray Graves wasn't kidding back in August when he said his team would be well off if it won five games out of 10. Record Surprising 5-2 But when Kentucky goes to Gainesville ttis Saturday, it will be up against a team that is NOT floundering, but instead, has won five of its seven games and could wind up in a bowl game. What happened? "Our sophomore offensive linemen we have four starting improved a lot," (iraves said by phone yesterday.

"They do a good job when they know whom to "Yes, our line Is one of the reasons. Qur pass protection has been very goods And our defense has been good, too. "These kids are young we started 13 sophomores against Auburn (a 26-21 loss) and they made mistakes. But they didn't give up, and that's why we're winning." -Statistics also tell why Florida is winning. The team is first in the Southeastern Conference in pass offense (193 yards a game), second in total offense (378 yards) and first in total defense (giving up 216 yards).

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So against Kentucky, Florida will use Harmon Wages at quarterback. Wages was No. 1 in fall practice, then was hurt in the season-opener and eventually was dropped to the team for breaking curfew. Florida fullback Graham McKeel is not likely to play Saturday, either. He was hurt against Georgia.

So far, 25 of Florida's original top 44 players are either out for the season or have missed one or more games. Kentucky's major problems against Florida will be moving the ball (Florida is No. 2 on pass defense, No. 3 on rush defense) and containing Florida's tailback Larry Smith and flanker Richard Trapp. Trapp Holds SEC Record Smith gained 78 yards against Georgia, giving him 565 yards for the season.

And Trapp, who set an all-time SEC record last year with 63 catches, caught nine for 171 yards against Georgia and now has 44 for 576 yards. Florida opened its season by beating Illinois 14-0 and Mississippi State 24-7. After a 37-6 loss to Louisiana State, it beat Tulane 35-0 and Vanderbilt 27-22. Then came the Auburn and Georgia games. son with a home game Saturday against Emory Henry.

Five of the players have been suspended from the squad for breaking training rules, and the sixth No. 1 ground-gainer Willis Tolliver has quit the team. "The five who broke training are fine boys," said coach Les Craft. "It's just one of those things that happens sometimes." Among the offenders was sophomore quarterback Tom Maxwell, who set a school record in a 40-13 loss to Samford several weeks ago by passing 287 yards. He'll be replaced by Grant Robinson, a freshman from Lexington Bryan Station who has seen little offensive action.

He has attempted 14 passes and hit on four. The others who were suspended are defensive starters: ends Roger Simmer-mon and Bobby Daugherty; middle guard Henry Hays and halfback Jim Porter. "The greatest thing we'll be giving up is depth," Craft said, "because most of the boys who will fill in for the regulars have seen some starting action at one time or another this season." Georgetown will take a five-game losing streak and 2-6 won-lost record into the finale. But Craft is not disheartened. Randall Scores 32, But Spencerian Rolls Spencerian College's basketball team defeated Presbyterian Seminary 101-55 last night, despite a 32-point performance by the losers' Bert Randall.

Leading Spencerian to victory at St. George gym were Gerry Newson with 23 points, James Sanders with 19 and Dale Cooksey with 16. GBflOC) Cooper 1 1 -I it' i Krfii'irffr il'l'l mmmltluMfui Daytonet, POPULAR PRICED REPLACEMENT TIRE $15L4 51783 600650x13 Ftd. Tax $1.80 Georgetown Suspends 5 players, Tolliver Quits By GARY SCHULTZ Courier-Journal 4 Times Staff Writer The sky seems to be the limit for the 1967 Eastern Kentucky University football team. Owner of a 7-1-1 won lost-tied record and ranked third in one small-college poll, Eastern is in this enviable situation: "Rather than slowing down, we seem to be getting better every game," declares coach Roy Kidd.

You'll find few coaches who can rightfully make that kind of statement this late in the season. It just doesn't happen that way. "A team usually reaches a peak earlier in the season and then levels off," says Guy Penny, the man who coaches the team Eastern plays Saturday Morehead. 'Hardest Working Bunch' But Penny agrees with Kidd. "Eastern is still gaining momentum," he says.

"They just seem to keep improving." Why? "It's because the kids work, work and work." says Kidd. "They're the hardest-working bunch I've had since I've been at Eastern (four years). "The feeling seems to be, 'We can do better than "The competition for the various positions has made each boy do his best. I can think of only a couple spots where we have players who have their jobs pretty well sewed up. "The first-stringers know if they don't make the grade, there's somebody waiting for a chance to prove he can." Kidd feels some of Eastern's success is the result of a weightlifting program he began this season.

"Three days a week we have the boys go through about a half-dozen elementary things with weights," he said. "They don't lift a lot and we don't have them spend a great deal of time on it. "But this has helped us keep our muscle tone, something that seemed to be missing last year. I can recall a couple IV Basketball Taking Shape By BOB WHITE Courier-Journal a Times Staff Writer BLOOMINGTON, Ind. If Indiana University basketball coach Lou Watson had to name his starting lineup now two weeks before his team opens its season he'd name: Harry (Butch) Joyner and Earl Schneider at forwards, Bill DeHeer at center and Vernon Payne and Joe Cooke at guards.

"That's the group I'm working with now," Watson commented yesterday after watching his 15-man varsity squad go through a 60-minute scrimmage at the IU Fieldhouse. "Of course, our biggest problem right now is to find seven or eight kids we can depend on for most of the playing," he said. "And that's pretty tough because three or four of the boys I have in mind for reserve roles are equal in ability." Schneider, a 6-foot-4 junior from ville, probably will have the toughest job of keeping "his starting position until Indiana's season opener here Saturday afternoon, Dec. 2, against Northern Illinois. Pushing Schneider is 6-6 sophomore Ken Johnson of Anderson, who is a demon in the rebounding department.

Charge accounts invited marfest way to vision III glasses from Southern Optical rnVJUIMJIIWuV yflrr: I 1 times when we had kids lose as much as an inch and a half in their arms." There probably is no one who would like to see Morehead upset Eastern more than Nick Denes, the Western Kentucky-coach. A Western victory over Murray Saturday and a Morehead win over Eastern would result in a tie for the Ohio Valley Conference championship between Eastern and Western, Denes believes it could happen. "Nobody should undersell this More-head team," he said. "They have a good game in their system somewhere. Remember last year when they went to Richmond and beat Eastern? "I'm not just wishfully wishing.

I honestly believe Morehead has a chance to win." Eastern Kentucky Third in AP Poll From AP and UPI Dispatches There's nothing new about the small-college football polls this week. San Diego State is No. 1 in both the Associated Press and United Press International ratings again, and North Dakota State is No. 2. Moreover, for the second straight week, Eastern Kentucky's Ohio Valley Conference leaders are third in the AP poll and 11th on the UPI honor list.

While North Dakota State (90) has completed regular-season play and is now waiting to play in the Pecan Bowl at Amarillo, Dec. 16, San Diego State and Eastern face possible stumbling blocks Saturday. San Diego State, winner of 24 consecutive games, meets Montana State (7-2) which has won seven in a row is ranked fifth in the UPI poll. Associated Press Team, Mt Place Vates Record Points 1. san Diego state.

(5) 1-9 2. North Dakota State. (2) 9 0 J. Eastern Kentucky (2) 7-1-1 4. New Mexico Highlands (1) 10 5.

Wavnesburg 1-1 6. Texas at Arlington 8-1 7. Northern Michigan 9-0 I. Texas Ail (1) 8-0 9. Southwest Texas State 9-0 10.

Morgan Stale 7-0 116 96 United Press International Team, lst-Piace Votes Records Paints 1. san Diego state uu 2. North Dakota State 9-0 3. New Mexico Highlands (2) 1-0 4. Northern Michigan (1) .9 0 5.

Montana State 7-2 6. Santa Clara 7-0 7. Texas at Arlington 6-1 8. Southwest Texas State (1) 9-0 9. West Chester State 6-0 10.

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