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v. DOG Phoenix, April 1)72 lien Storey fires 68 to take seniors lead i "FANFARE by Walt Ditzen Class, dignity that was Gil DAVE ICRS Roller Derby for baseball? ing to hit like one." That's when manager Leo Durocher barked a suggestion at Gil. "Son." said the always paternalistic Leo, "If I were you I'd buy myself a first baseman's glove and start working out there." In no time at all Gil was a regular. Roy Campanella was brought up from St Paul to do the catching. Bruce Edwards was switched from catching to third base and Hodges from catching to first base.

The Dodgers were beginning to settle into the pattern which was to produce "The Boys of Summer," the exceptional team that now has been graphically captured in Roger Kahn's extraordinary book of the same name. Hodges was the solid anchorman around whom the others revolved. He lent class and dignity and respect to his team and to his profession. As has been written and rightly so he had all the attributes of an Eagle Scout This was quite a man. Ironically, he was able to play golf on Sunday because the strike of the players had caused cancellation of the exhibition baseball game.

Normally he would have been in the dugout instead of on the golf course. But who knows? Death doesn't have to go looking for people. Some By ARTHUR DALEY New York Times Service NEW YORK There is a fundamental difficulty in writing about Gil Hodges. Voices In the backgroundkeep screaming for restraint and yet every Instinct is to succumb to temptation and spill forth the superlatives. Yesterday would have been his iSth birthday.

He didn't make it A massive heart attack felled him on Easter Sunday just after he had completed 27 holes of golf and death came with stunning swiftness. He was such a noble character in so many respects that I long have believed Gil to be one of the finest men I ever met in sports or out of it. As tributes poured in from all over the country that same estimate was echoed and re-echoed. As one who had known him for a quarter of a century I never have waivered in my admiration for the man. He had all the virtues and the only vice I ever discovered was that he smoked too much.

Few fans ever were more knowledgeable than the passionately devoted adherents of the 1 Dodgers, whose players were jealously acclaimed as the Beloved Bums. No player was more beloved than GiL At times the fans would spill out frustrations by booing some of their pets. But the large and muscular Hodges was a creature Dold drops to second after 73 By CARL SOTO CHANDLER Ken Story, a 60-year-old scratch player from Encanto GC, made a big move toward winning the Arizona Golf Association's seniors championship In his first by when he shot a 4-un der-par 68 second round yesterday. The 34-34 performance, that included five birdies, earned Storey a three-stroke lead over first round leader Fred Dold of Tucson National GC going into today's final 18 over the par-72 San Marcos Country Club layout Bemle Long of Arizona CC, playing in the 55-59 division, moved into third place behind Storey's 141 and Dold'S 144 when he carded a second round 40-33-73 for a 147 total. Defending titlist Ken Young of Valley CC used up 79 strokes and dropped back to 150, where he was tied at nine shots off the pace with Arthur Buck, Williams Air Force Base player, and Louie Estrella of San Barcos CC.

Storey, one-time national public links team player from Seattle, canned an 18-foot putt on the 185-yard third hole for this first birdie and had his long bogey on No. 4 when he pulled his tee shot under trees. He wound up his round with 6-foot birdie putts on the par-5 17th and 18th holes. Sixty-nine-year-old Dold couldn't buy a birdie In his second round 38-36 74. He bo-gied the first and fourth holes, then clicked off 14 consecutive pars in a steady display of golf.

Long came up with some fine back nine shooting for his 73. Bernle birdied 13 and 14 before carding a four on the 190-yard 15th hole, then holed birdied putts on the last two greens for his incoming 33. Finishing the day 11 shots "Interviews nixed by -runner Ryun Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. -World mile record holder Jim Ryun asked (he news media day not to seek interviews with him before races to permit his complete conccntra-" tion on the forthcoming Kan- sas Relays and 0 1 1 f. Trials.

Ryun made the pica at a news conference. "Competition is fun and at it's not fun," Ryun said. "It becomes a very un-" pleasant thing when people jn1ceep knocking on your door for Interviews. It takes away from your training ad your family, and that's not fun. 'By the time I get through talking to everybody, I couldn't care whether I run in i a race or not." He said he could be Interviewed following races.

'Rvun, attempting a comeback as one of the world's runners, explained that addition to his training, he is working as a graduate as-stant instructor at the Uni-yersity of Kansas. Ryun returned to his alma Jmater. six weeks ago to train wider the guidance of his I'icoach, Bob Tunmons of Kan-jrsas, who was present at the Miews conference. Ryun said he Is running 10Q 110 miles 'a week and that Sethis would drop to 60 miles the week of the Kansas Relays April 19-22. He run in the Cuuningham flile, a special relays event think my training Is -coming along real well," said 'Byun, has had disap-if pointing performances In, reticent meets.

"I'm making pro- ress. I like to think I have IJLShe ability to run the mile un-tier 3:50." A day at the Sport of Skeptics ball that went for a single. He thought that ended his hopes but the Dodgers kept hitting and he got another turn at bat This time he connected for a fourth homer, the first man to do so since Lou Gehrig 18 years earlier. "As far as I can see," needled his pal, Pee Wee Reese, "All you did was prolong the game." "That I did," said GU blissfully. By the time the experts were beginning to compare the powerfully built Hodges with that other model of durability, strength and greatness, Gehrig.

"I appreciate the compliment," said Gil in his sly little fashion, "but Gehrig had one advantage over me." "What was that?" he was asked. "He was a better ballplayer," said Gil, ever the realist. Yet Gil was amarvelously deft practitioner at first. It was odd in a way because Branch Rickey, the all-seeing and all knowing one, had detected a flaw in the Hodges throwing style when he first saw him as a shortstop. So he suggested Gil switch to catching.

It was done. Furing the 1948 season the Brooks opened with Preston Ward at first base. "Preston Ward can run like a frightened fawn," wrote Bill Roeder one day. "His trouble now is that he's start MacArthur Park across the finish line, and racetrackers fieure his claim to fame might just be as part of a show parlay. In 1972.

Glauburg kept sending Solar Salute out in three year old stakes. Six times he ran, six times he won. It tied his record at Santa Anita but the trackmen kept pointing to better horses in the barn. No one agreed with them more than Lou Glauburg. When the Santa Anita Derby came up, Glauburg noticed that MacArthur Park would stay in the barn, and that Royal Owl was training like a pug who keeps getting knocked down in the gym.

"I'll only enter him because Royal Owl doesn't look sound to me," he announced before supplementing Solar Salute to the race for $5,000 (naturally, no one thought to nominate him earlier.) Solar Salute won the Santa Anita Derby and $88,000 Saturday. He beat Royal Owl by nearly six lenghs and a horse called Quack by nearly one. It was the seventh straight race won by Solar Salute this year. You would expect trainer Glauburg to begin noticing how much he looked like Man O'War, or to be squirting champagne in his hair, or trying to decide what suit to wear in the winner's circle at Churchill Downs this May. ARIZONA nn itsi fin ULl AT TURF WW IT IS TIME to acknowledge the wisdom of a sizeable segment of our population.

For eons, countless sages across the land asserted that nothing could replace baseball. And, sure enough, it has. This Is merely insignificant prologue, you understand. By July of 1973. the entire hemisphere will be on strike, although the actual scope will be difficult to assess because the pickets also will be on strike.

Sport will continue to occupy its special niche. As of today, everyone everywhere will know of the baseball strike (they might have recognized it sooner, but during exhibition baseball it is next to Impossible to tell whether a player is striking or not). But other strikes are certainly imminent. Only this week, as nothing was replacing baseball, another figure was (if you'll pardon the expression) making his move. That American chess grandmaster, Bobby Fischer, stymied his kmg-awaitcd showdown with Russian Boris Spassky with a financial demand.

(Note: It has long been known that chess players have an even more inadequate pension plan than baseball players). Fischer demanded that he and the Soviet ace share in profits of their match in ADDITION to receiving prize money. This unearthed an entire new lode for attorneys. By the time Fischer and Spassky do meet, their new contracts will demand a setting befitting a match of such magnitude. Say, the Los Angeles Coliseum.

There is some bunor, thank God, in most every crisis. example, Western Union was on strike last year, the word 1 got was that President Nixon personally arbitrated the Issue and had sent an absolutely agreeable plan of settlement to the company's leaders. But Western Union didn't receive his telegram. Jocko Conlan, the Valleyite who called a few strikes In his time, was directly in the midst of a baseball umpires' strike in 1964 "We met in May in Chicago," Jocko recalled, "and voted to go out on strike July 4. 1 was against the strike, thought it was a mistake and said so.

"I didn't get any place with them (the rest of the umps). If you've ever been in a meeting with 20 umpires you know NOBODY gets any place. There 20 different motions and 20 different seconds." The strike did not materialize. As of yesterday, Roller Derby had volunteered to fill base ball's television void by staging its scintillating matches on the tube. There apparently is no unrest in Roller Derby.

Even that will change, alas, when some of the skaters discover their benefits are less than those of other actors. apart from the common herd. Not once was he booed during his dozen years at Ebbets Field. Cil went hitlcss in the 1952 World Series and no true Dodger fan even grumbled at him. He continued into a horrendous slump in the spring of 1953 and still there was no mutiny.

That produced the classic incident of the priest (licensing with a Sunday sermon, merely asking his pari shioners to keep the commandments and say a prayer for Gil Hodges. They must have prayed hard. Gil hit J02 that season. His place in baseball history is secure because he performed the managerial miracle of leading the New York Mets to the championship of the world in 1969. Scoffers had been saying for years that the Mets wouldn't win a pennant until man walked on the moon, then presumed to be an utter impossibility.

Both Impossibilities happened in swift succession. Gil also carved another niche in baseball history for himself. In a game during the 1950 season the big first baseman swung freely in his first three times at bat and was pleasantly surprised to see the ball land in the seats for home runs. Each was more or less an accident. Suddenly overeager in his next at-bat, Gil swung from his heels and produced a dribbling ground Football coaches have been known to make dour predictions, but they make sure their charges know they are kidding.

No, it's horse trainers who are the real Ned Sparkses of the business, glum, pessimistic, fearing the worst. The Sport of Kings is the sport of skeptics. I have never heard of a horse trainer who could properly be described as optimistic, who had anything but the most suspicious view of his animals. Caligula had more respect for Christians than trainers for horses. To a man, they regard them as lazy incompetents, four-footed juvenile delinquents who constantly fail to live up to their potential.

They know them for the perversed creatures they are. A warden has more faith in a lifer than they in a horse. The horsemen knows his clock-breaker can suddenly get in the race and begin jumping shadows, bumping fences, propping, shying, lugging in, lugging out, bucking, bolting, biting, bleeding, breaking a leg or a cinch or a bettor. In other words, a congenital low-life, an equine Mr. Hyde.

But this is usually before the race. In the winner's circle, every horse becomes Man O'War. The trainer pats him on the nose, feeds him sugar, and tells everybody he knew he had it in him all the time. Like the father who had to browbeat his kid to keep him In college, he forgets all about it at graduation. Lou Glauburg has trained a lot of bad horses in his 30 years around a racetrack.

So he knew better than to throw his hat in the air or run up to the $50 window when they handed him a skittish colt named Solar Salute, a horse that seemed to run out of sheer terror and to tremble a lot. Mostly, Solar Salute chased the horse called By JIM MURRAY Los Angeles Times Sen ice LOS ANGELES Gloom and self-doubt are not ordinarily the arsenal of management in sports. The prizefight manager is usually of the "he-can't-hurt-us" or "we'llm i r-da-bum!" persuasion. The baseball manager is of the "they-pull-their pants-on-one-at-a-time" or "they-have-us-to-catch" school of leadership. DePaolo still cashing win Associated Press LACUNA HILLS, Calif.

-Nearly half a century separates Pete DePaolo from the winner's circle at the Indianapolis 500, yet the spry 73-year old Southern Califor-nian says he's still reaping the benefits of that victory. "Yes, I would say winning that one race 47 years ago turned my whole life around," DePaolo said. "I'm still capitalizing on it. My contacts in the automotive Industry afterward allowed me to pursue a long, rewarding career in the industry." In fact, he said, last May he was invited to speak at 25 meetings in Indianapolis. DePaolo earned only $20,000 one-tenth of today's purse for his first place finish In the 1925 Indianapolis 500, but today is a high salaried manufacturer's representative for American Rubber Plastic Corp.

bf La Porte, Ind. But DePaolo's real love still lies in auto racing. He related how prior to last year's running of the 500 he was asked to sing the traditional "Back Home In Indiana." Stanley Cup pairings favor Bruins, Hawks Associated Press times there's an appointment in Samarra. Trainer Glauberg behaved after the races as if he had made a terrible mistake. Did he plan to go Kentucky now? Someone wanted to know.

Glauburg sighed. "I guess I'll probably have to go," he said reluctantly. "I told the jockey (Lafitte Pincay Jr.) 'Looks hke we'll have to go over the mountain with him Well, didn't he want to go? "Well, I have 37 other horses here, you see. But I don't guess I could just send a stable manager with him." Wasn't he impressed, then, with his horse? "Well, I thought Royal Owl was just setting him up to run over him, that he was just saving it up to run over me. I think if Royal Owl had had another race, he might have beaten me." You mean you think Royal Owl is a better horse? an astonished voice wondered.

"Oh, yes." said Glauburg. "Don't you think so?" "Not unless they're passing out the wrong charts," someone observed. "He's just a nice average horse," went on Glauburg, talking of the Santa Anita Derby winner who had just run the third-fastest Santa Anita Derby In history. "It's hard to find anything outstanding about him." DOWNS rs ii PARADISE POST 1:15 PM: MAD 942.1101 off the lead were Whitie Reed, 75-77-152, and two-times seniors' champ Bill Jordan, 76-76-152. R.K.

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10 ood ovor. Ground is exploded for Kills1 stadium BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)-A stick of dynamite was exploded yesterday in a suburban Orchard Park field, marking ground-breaking ceremonies for Erie County's new 80,000 seat football stadium. The (21.3-million arena, expected to be completed by Aug. 1, 1973, will become the home of the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League.

1 ONLY CALVERT I EXTRA TASTES SOFT. CALVERT EXTRA. THE SOFT WHISKEY.i BtCNMO WMVM OOTWI WAtH NCUTAt PIRIISlfTlCAlVrTT OUT. CO LOUIftVILU, RT. IncTRA 1 8' Ft Boston and Chicago are expected to take advantage of a new format for playoffs as the postseason bid for the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup begins tonight.

Contrary to past years, the Nos. 1 and 4 teams in each division meet in the first round, which could cause sweeps, while the Nos. 2 and 3 teams take to the ice in toss-ups. The Boston Bruins, No. 1 in the East, open their best-of-seven series at home against Timmons said he is intensi-Jying Ryun's practices, more 4cpeed work is being added to Utne programs and additional printing Is being worked into the daily schedule.

SSBeale sights Son auto lead Associated Press EE WINCHESTER, Beale of Toledo, Ohio, win-EVr of the auto sprint feature EiJaster Sunday at Rossburg, OhIo, will try Sunday to over-JTijake Sam Sessions of Nash-EEVille, in the United rotate Auto Club's sprint dlvi- 1 ion siancuiigs. vc The action will be on the ECWinchester track, oldest on JXJthe circuit where Beale set a record of 16.41 seconds Eiw.662 m.p.h. for a half-mile fclosed course last September. The Sunday program will j2S)e the first of the sprint sea-con on a paved track. Beale, wessions and Gary Bctten-JJSJiausen, Tinley Park, 111., each jjpyias won a sprint feature on wflirt.

KANSAS CITY (AP) -EESQuarterback Lcn Dawson put Jjgyn end yesterday to specula-Ewion he might retire from pro J5JootbalI and signed a new Hwo-year contract with the Kansas City The announcement was riade at a news conference by the 36-year-old Dawson wna unieis wacn nanx Doctor is out Idaho (AP) -ITrhe. University of Idaho SDpened spring football prac-ttice' yesterday the tt .4 aervices of Frank Doctor, who was the, leading ground gainer for the Big Sky champs last season. Doctor, a powerful junior i M4 Jr 3f4i Sports briefly the Toronto Maple Leafs, who finished No. 4, and Chicago's Black Hawks, who ran away with the West title, take a home rink advantage and a couple of stingy goalies against the Pittsburgh Penguins, who barely squeezed into the playoffs. In the other East game, New York opens at home against Cup defender Montreal while in Minnesota, the North Stars meet the St.

Louis Blues. All four series are best-of-seven. club at Albuquerque to reduce the National League team to the 25-player limit. Catcher Joe Ferguson of Tempe and pitcher Jose Pena were optioned and outfielder Larry Hisle was assigned outright. Yanks postpone NEW YORK (AP) The New York Yankees announced yesterday that tomorrow's scheduled openings baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles has been postponed out of respect for Gil Hodges, the New York Mets' manager who will be buried tomorrow.

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Medic dies SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) Dr. E. F. (Fritz) Roth, 79, Stanford University's football team physician for 35 years and a pioneer in surgery for 'athletes, died here Monday after a lengthy illness.

Roth, a graduate of Stanford medical school, was team physician from 1925 until his retirement in 1960. He was also one of four founders of the Palo Alto Medical Clin-k. LA ships I LOS ANGELES (AP) -Three players were sent by the Los Arigeles Dodgers to their Pacific Coast League 1 i HURRY THE MODEL YOU WANT MAY STILL BE AVAILABLE ONLY AT PARADE TO 802 Mill TEMPE Open 'til 9 P.M. 967-3381 1f? AVCK'JX A CZLL.