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Fischer Finds Solitude Amidst Bustle At Resort Hotel Friday, March 24, 1972 Poughkeepsi Journal 7 GROSSINGER, N.Y. (AP) Bobby Fischer, America's hope for the world chess championship, rushed into the vast, brightly lit dining room at Grossingcr's, a giant resort tucked away in the Catskills. He's been ensconsedfor three weeks at the hotel, a sprawling cluster of recreational facilities, Ping Pong tables, pin ball machines, Pepsi dispensers, indoor miniature golf courses, swimming pool, ski slope and convention rooms. At age 29, he's poised for a crack at the world title in chess, a goal since the beginning of his brilliant, but uneven, career. "What time is it?" he asked sitting down at a small table.

He was pale and his eyes were darker looking than usual. His hair was damp and neatly combed. He wore a blue suit and black tie, printed with galloping red stallions. He'd made the 8 p.m. dinner deadline by one minute.

"He usually comes flying in, the last person in the dining room. He's always on the run," said the dining room hostess. If i 's running, it's partly from the tension. He challenges Russian Boris Spaasky for the title in a grueling 24 game match, beginning June 22, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The international chess world has shown extraordinary interest in this match.

Some seven i bid for it. Usually, there are only two or three bids. Prize money for the match is set at $138,500, with 72 V4 per cent to the winner. Fischer beat Tigran Petro sian, Russian ex world champion, in the semifinals. If he beats Spaasky he will become the first non Russian to hold the world title in 25 years and UPI Telephoto BOBBY FISCHER GARDEN L.

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"The whole theory of a hotel is a giant communal enterprise. But Bobby remains a solitary figure," says a hotel representative. Solitude can be hard to find in tnis active, noisy noiei, exuding "fun time frolic and joie de vivre." A long time meeting place for celebrities, potentates and politicians, it caters to conventions and arranges special singles weekends. But Mscner linos soiuuuc, threading his way through a group of commercial photographers, with their blue, convention name tags. They have gathered after dinner around the grand piano to sing, "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now." He walks by their exhibits of complex camera equipment and past the bar where guests are busy drinking Russian vodka.

When Fischer is more relaxed, he's good company quick, funny and interested in other people. But this weekend, he wasn't giving interviews. He mostly stays in his room, saying in a soft voice, "I gotta study. I gotta study." Many hotel employes see him as a loner withdrawn, nontalkative, absorbed in his work, but still polite. He asked the maitrc d'hotel how much he should tip.

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He says skiing is too much trouble, but he plays table tennis, bowls and goes to the movies occasionally. He often enters the Olympic size indoor pool at the last hour. "He's got it down to a science, like everything else he does. The pool closes at 6:15. He waits until 6:05.

Heswims three or four laps and leaves," says life guard Eddie Torres. Fischer also is the last one out of the men's health club "He's always in a corner, to himself," says Mike Farcus at the club, adding that Fischer can be a sore loser at tabic tennis, slamming down his racket when he losses. "It's usually 2 p.m. when he gets up," says Lillian Sterc, staff chambermaid. "I knock on the door at 1:30 and then sit and wait on the stairs until he comes out He's polite and nice.

And he's very good looking," she says, breaking into giggles. Why did Fischer come to Grossingers? It's a scene from his younger days, for one thing. "This was the first hotel he ever stayed at," says an employee. His mother, Regina Fischer, brought him to the hotel when he won the U.S championship at age 14. Today, Fischer is staying as Students Turn Salesmen In Club Program The Sales Executive Club of the Hudson valley is sponsoring a "salesman for a day" program today.

Approximately 50 students from the State University College at New Paltz, Dutchess Community College and Marist College are taking part with representatives of 30 firms in the area. The students are accompany ing sales representatives on their calls as a means of be coming acquainted with the sales profession. the guest of the hotel. If he remains in his rom in the two story Tudor style cottage until June, he'll have the longest run of any guest on record. "I've met the greatest figure skaters in the world.

Florence Chadwick trained here. I've known great golfers like Sam Snead. They were as dedicated as Bobby but they've had other interests," says Paul Grossin ger, chief i of the Grossinger Corp. Fischer does have other interests. He knows pop music.

He likes the Motown sound. He's bought a camera. He reads news magazines and has been know to buy Playboy. He asked how many girls were coming to the next singles weekend, perhaps just out of curiosity. But for now his big goal is keeping fit for tie title.

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