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3 trzm THE CUUUKK.juniXAL LOUISVILLE, KY. SATURDAY MARCH 13. I71 Southern Cal blocks UCLA path firing open today at six-sites Associated Press College basketball? Man, we've got it. From coast to coast today, the chips are on the line in a list of crucial games that will be instrumental in the eventual crowning of a national collegiate champion. The NCAA Tournament, which will conclude in the national final two weeks hence in the Astrodome in Houston, gets underway at six sites.

Two of the games, both in the Mideast Regional at South Bend, will be nationally televised 3 in Louisville). Marquette will meet Miami of Ohio at 2 p.m. and Western Kentucky will play Jacksonville at 4. In addition, pre-tournament showdowns are scheduled in two conferences. UCLA will play Southern Cal in a final regular-season game in Los Angeles (Channel 32, 5 p.m.).

If UCLA wins, it will move into NCAA play to defend the national crown it has won the past four years. If it loses, a playoff will be needed Monday night to decide the Pacific-8 NCAA representative. Powerful Sidney Wicks, the guy with the baleful glare, will be the one to watch in the UCLA-Southern Cal game. Above all the members of the nation's top-ranked team, he poses the major problem for USC coach Bob Boyd. "I've felt for the last two years," says Los Angeles Laker general manager Fred Schaus, "that Sidney was the best forward in college basketball and I'm not so sure he isn't the best forward in all of basketball." The praise comes high and from all areas.

Even the man who will try to slow Wicks, USC's Ron Riley, admits Wicks "is one of the quickest men for his size I've ever played against." At 6-foot-8 and 235 pounds, Wicks is a muscle man but his great assets are timing and jumping ability. With them, he can literally jump over taller people, then spin up a variety of shots. And the stare? He won't admit it's just an act but to those who believe he means it, that stare is scary. That and the Wicks reputation intimidate more than the man himself. Souhern Cal's top guard combination of junior Paul Westphal and senior Dennis (Mo.) Layton can shoot the ball, play defense and run the fast break.

Senior forward Chris Schrobilgen is a good rebounder and defends tenaciously. Forward Joe Mackey is a dead-eye shooter and center Riley is a great re-bounder. But Wicks is the man to beat. And if he's stopped, there's always Curtis Rowe, Wicks' running mate at forward and the gv; coach John Wooden says "has never played a bad game at UCLA." In addition to the two games at South Bend, these games are on today's NCAA schedule: East Regional Ivy League king Pennsylvania vs. independent Duquesne at Morgantown, W.Va.; St.

Joseph's, the Middle Atlantic Conference champion, vs. Villanova at University Park, and Southern Conference titleholder Furman vs. independent Fordham at St. John's, N. Y.

Midwest Regional Southwest Conference champion Texas Christian vs. independent Notre Dame and independent Houston vs. independent New Mexico State at Houston. West Regional Brigham Young, Western Athletic Conference champion, vs. independent Utah State and Big Sky winner Weber State vs.

Long Beach State at Long Beach. dy! NCAA NCAA tourney pairings JJoigt fl 'unfurls' Jjy 15 lengths EAST REGIONAL C5 Penn. March 13 West Virginia Duquesne Ack Ack gets his chance today in rich Santa Anita Handicap No. Carolina State, March 18 Atlantic Coast Conference St. Joseph's Ho.

Carolina Sfafe March 29 it March 13 Philadelphia Villanova Wi No. Carolina Sfafe, March 18 Furman March 13 New York Fordham Houston MIDEAST REGIONAL March 25 I EASTERN I Western Ky. Saturday's seven-fuflong Bay Shores Stakes at Aqueduct. "If everything goes well," Watters said, "he'll go in the Bay Shore, the Gotham (April 3), the Wood Memorial (April 17) and then to Kentucky for the Derby on May 1." 'Shoe' to ride Ack Ack Another of the nation's thoroughbred stars will be in the spotlight today when Ack Ack goes postward in the Santa Anita Handicap. Not since the redoubtable Round Table went to the post in 1958 has any starter in the "Big-'Cap" commanded as much attention as Ack Ack, now owned by the Forked Lightning Ranch of Buddy Fogelson and his actress wife, Greer Garson.

Bill Shoemaker, who was aboard when Round Table won his test under high-weight of 130 pounds, also will ride Ack Ack, who is similarly weighted. "The Shoe" will be seeking his seventh Santa Anita Handicap triumph. Ten others also are entered in the famed lyvmile race, which will have his 34th running, and Ack Ack's task looks tough despite his three victories in four starts at the meeting to date. Cougar II main threat March 13 Noire Dame i it Jacksonville From AP and Special Dispatches Mrs. Stephen C.

Clark Hoist the Flag, last year's juvenile champion and winterbook favorite for the Kentucky Derby, made his sophomore debut in an overnight race at Bowie Race Course yesterday and won by 15 lengths in the fastest time of the meeting. Running the six furlongs in 1:10 35, Hoist the Flag was untouched by jockey Jean Cruguet's whip while carrying 122 pounds. He worked out seven furlongs in 1:23 15. The son of Tom Rolfe Wavy Navy was 1-9 on the board and paid $2.20, $2.20 and $2.10. After breaking last in the five-horse field, Hoist the Flag sprinted to the lead in the first sixteenth of a mile and it was merely a matter of how far he would pull away before reaching the finish.

Bay Shore next objective Ford Stable's To The Man finished second at $2.80 and $2.10, and Backsliding was third at $2.10. Hoist the Flag was first in all four starts at Belmont Park last year, but was disqualified in the Champagne Stakes after scoring by three lengths over Limit to Reason. Trainer Sidney Watters Jr. said Hoist the Flag will be shipped to Belmont Park over the weekend to prepare for next Georgia, March 18 Kentucky Miami 0. -'March 13 Noire Dame Marquette Georgia March 20 1 n.i Houston Georgia, March 18 Ohio State MIDWEST REGIONAL NATIONAL March 27 TCI) NATIONAL PLACE I CHAMPION March 13 Houston "Hotre Dame Wichita Sfafe, March 18 Second top weight of 125 pounds goes to Mary F.

Jones' Cougar II, a Chilean- Missouri Valley Conference Houston Associated Press bred who, with Shoemaker up, has won two grass stakes at Santa Anita this Tierbx candidate InwetUOSltX winter. Others include Clement L. Wichita Hate March 20 A ivinner? Don't bet on it! Jlarch 13 Houston New Mexico State Samuel Hirsch's Figonero, 122, and Mrs Wichita Sfafe, March 18 Kansas J. Agnew's Terlago and Robert K. Miller's Hanalei Bay, 117 each.

Cougar II will have the services of Laffit Pincay leading rider at Santa Anita. THE BRIGHT OUTLOOK enjoyed by jockey Johnny Rotz aboard pacesettijig Ellen's Voyage at the turn for home soon faded in yesterday's first race at Aqueduct. Projective, on rail, was the winner under Mike Venezia while Ellen's Voyage finished out of the money. WEST REGIONAL Brigham Young Houston March 25 WESTERN CHAMPIOK March 13 Utah State gets win on aisquaiijicaiion HALLANDALE, Fla. (AP) Beach Bay held off favored Impetuosity to finish first by a half-length in the feature race at Gulfstream Park yesterday but was disqualified for interfering with the place horse.

Impetuosity, a Kentucky Derby nominee, became the official winner with Beach Bay second. Prince of Truth closed fast for third and Derby candidate Sids Bid finished fourth. Impetuosity, ridden by. Eric Guerin, paid $7, $3.80 and $2.80. Beach Bay returned $4.20 and $3.20, and Prince of Truth paid $5.60.

Time for the seven furlongs was 1:22 45. Ufah, March 18 Pacific-8 Conference Weber State Kosf er-Swope Buick Utah March 20 March 13 Utah Long Beach State Utah, March 18 Pacific U. KENTUCKY'S LARGEST BUICK DEALER Gate opened for mass signings? Judge throws out NBA 4-year rule MARCH IS THE MONTH OF THE LOS ANGELES (AP)-A federal judge said yesterday he has issued an order in the Spencer Haywood case invalidating the National Basketball rule against signing college athletes before their class graduates. U.S. District Court Judge Warren J.

Ferguson ruled the NBA's four-year rule violated the Sherman Antitrust Act and said he will enjoin the league from enforcing it. The ruling could have widespread repercussions for professional basketball and football. Ferguson said the order, recorded in the court minutes Wednesday, grants OVC honors Mac, Oldham; Western places three on team SKYLARKS READY FOR DELIVERY 13 qualified professional salesmen to kelp you! Haywood's motion for a summary judgement against the NBA. The order was sought by a battery of attorneys representing the Haywood interests, among them Beverly Hills attorney Frank Rothman. Haywood, being sued by Denver of the American Basketball Association in a breach of contract suit after he jumped that team for Seattle for the NBA on Jan.

2, in turn filed an anti-trust suit against the NBA. It concerned the NBA's rule that no college player can be drafted until his college class graduates, a four-year period. Denver had signed the 6-foot-8 Haywood out of Detroit University as a financial hardship case following his sophomore year in college, and his college class won't graduate until June. Signed as hardship The breach of contract suit is to start Monday here, with the anti-trust suit to follow. Rothman explained that the judge's ruling has no bearing on the anti-trust litigation.

"AH that remains of the antitrust action is to determine the amount Haywood has been damaged," Rothman said. Rothman earlier represented Haywood before the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that the controversial star could finish the season with Seattle. Haywood, the Most Valuable Player and Rookie of the Year in the ABA last season, had signed with Denver for $1.9 million, and then later claimed that only a small portion of the money promised him was in cash. He refused to play early this season until the matter was settled, and then chose Seattle.

He has been in and out of the Seattle lineup since then, according to several court rulings that first sidelined him and then the Supreme Court decision that allowed him to play. Because we're the No. 1 Buick VOLUME DEALER conference team. Murray State placed Les Taylor and Jimmy Young and all other OVC teams, with the exception of East Tennessee, had one player honored. They were George Bryant of Eastern Kentucky, Jim Day of Morehead, Larry Noble of Austin Peay, Wayne Pack of Tennessee Tech and Ken Riley of Middle Tennessee.

Underclassmen on the team are Bryant and Dunn, both juniors, and Pack and Taylor, who are sophomores. The unit includes the league's top four scordrs, paced by McDaniels with a 29.2 average going into today's NCAA Tournament game with Jacksonville at South Bend, Ind. Special to The Courier-Journal 1 NASHVILLE, Tenn. Western Ken-tucky's star 7-footer, Jim McDaniels, and its coach, Johnny Oldham, swept Player of the Year and Coach of the Year honors in the Ohio Valley Conference in the annual poll of coaches. The results of the poll were announced here yesterday.

McDaniels, who joins fornjer Western standout Clem Haskins as a repeat winner, was a unanimous choice in the balloting. It was the fourth time in all that Oldham has been voted the top coaching honors. His championship team at Western this season was his sixth in the conference. McDaniels, Jerry Dunn and Jim Rose from Western were named to the all- Buick SKYLARK 4-DOOR SEDAN Automatic transmission, power steering, radio, whitewall tires, tinted glass, wheel covers, protective side mouldings, custom window mouldings and deluxe carpeting front and back. DELIVERED WE OFFER YOU Biggest Selection it Lowest Prices it Longest Trades i ON RIVIERAS.

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