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6 Ludington Daily News, Friday, June 30, Today's Sport Parade Reykjavik Not Fischer's Choice For Chess Matches By MILTON RICHMAN play for the Winnipeg Jets next Fischer originally planned to help him relax, Fischer won't. "Spassky wasn't even there his desire to beat Spassky. Dewars Sports Celebrity tennis Bob Bovd the basketball By MILTON RICHMAN NEW YORK (UPD-The more Bobby Fischer 'thinks nbout it. the more it bugs him. Why Reykjavik, Iceland? "Why not Rome?" Fischer would like to know.

"Why not Paris, Oslo, Zurich, Dallas or New York? Or even Moscow Any large city where there's people, activity and decent restaurants would be fine. Some place at least where there's something to do at night." Bobby Fischer. America's 29- year-old chess genius, has a theory about why Reykjavik was picked as the site of the 1 championship which starts this Sunday. The Russians are the ones who picked Reykjavik. Fischer thinks the Russians have a motive.

He thinks (hey want to "hide" the championship because he feels he's going to take it from the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky. What's more, Fischer thinks the Russians know he's going to do it. In his own way, Fischer is a demonstrator. He has been demonstrating the way he feels about having to play in Reykjavik by taking his good old time getting there. Has a Reason This has shaken up a lot of people but Fischer had a reason for his actions.

Call it one- upsmanship if you like. Boris Spassky needn't worry about Fischer not making it for their first match Sunday though. Bobby Hull may or may not play for the Winnipeg Jets next season and Rick Barry may or may not play for the Golden State Warriors, but there is no way Bobby Fischer ever is going to miss playing for the world championship of chess. Even in Reykjavik. Mainly because he thinks he's going to win.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's right, and that has nothing to do with chauvinism. Spassky is good, but Fischer is belter, and when the tall, curly-haired New Yorker is right, he's like Joe Frazier and Tom Seaver when they're right. Meaning nobody's going to beat him. Fischer doesn't hold back. He is exceptionally outspoken and honest, and when you hear his objections to playing in Reykjavik, they do make a good deal of sense.

Fischer has been there, so when he talks about Reykjavik he isn't doing so from hearsay but from personal experience. He says there is so little to do there, particularly at night, a guy can go out of his ever- loving mind. He's a Loner Not that Fischer is a rounder. If anything, he's much more of a loner, but there are times he would like to become part of the general mix, or at least observe it, and how can he possibly do that when there is no general mix He also says the television coverage will be limited. If he beats Spassky.

he doesn't see why it should be some kind of secret. Fischer originally planned to go to the world championships with only one other person; Spassky is already in Reykjavik with what amounts to an entourage. Fischer significance into that also because the championship goes on for some time and while Spassky will have people to talk to and help him relax, Fischer won't. Fischer doesn't think any, of these things are pure accidents. He sees them all as part of a general program by the Soviets to try to beat him psychologically.

"The world champion has the right to pick the site of the championships," says Fischer. "Spassky wasn't even there when the international governing body chose the site. A Russian delegation was there and they picked the site." A Political Mafttr Fischer feels the championships have become a political matter. That annoys him. But it hasn't lessened any of his desire to beat Spassky.

Fischer has a lot of that same "killer instinct" Jack Dempsey had when he was fighting. Some of that instinct shows up even when he's not sitting at the chess board. Earlier this month, for example, he competed with 15 other top athletes in the Dewars Sports Celebrity tennis championships at LaCosta, Calif, and it was a little funny to watch such headliners as Rick Barry, Deacon Jones and Elgin Baylor all ask Fischer for his autograph. In the finals of the tournament, Hank Greenberg, the baseball Hall of Famer, and Bob Boyd, the basketball coach at Southern California, beat 0. J.

Simpson and Gail Goodrich for the title. Bobby Fischer was among the losers. "Next year," he said. "I'm going to win." He said it as if he meant It, too. Smith Annoyed By Galleries No.

1 Wimbledon Seed Struggles To Victory Major League Leaders Class A All-State Baseball Team WIMBLEDON, England all champions, Stan Smith needs a proper arena in which to display his talents. The top seed at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships and favorite for the $13,000 dollar prize has not had a square deal at the 86th renewal of the world's premier tournament. He struck the first ball in center court but since then has played out in the where the gallery stands massed together in the alleys leading to the other courts. Smith struggled into the last 16 Thursday with a 6-3, 7-5, 3-6. 9-7 victory over compatriot Alexander Mayer of Woodmere, N.Y., a man ranked 30th to Smith's No.

1 in the national list. The 6-foot-4 Army corporal said: "It was difficult to concentrate with all those millions of people jammed around the court. You heard the cheers from center court and scores of other matches and it was hard to think of the job in. hand. "But that's a problem we have -to live with, I guess.

The tournament referee (Capt. Mike Gibson) told the seeded players he'd play us on the lesser courts in the first week so those fans without seats could see us in action." Patrons who had to pay five dollars a ticket were disgruntled that Gibson had elected to play only four singles matches on the center and No. 1 courts, which have a total 24,000 capacity. Many ripped up their pasteboards to plunge into the throngs that all but choked the alleyways between the lesser courts. Smith's fourth round opponent, Ian Fletcher, the eighth-ranked Australian, is a brand new assignment for Smith, who has never before met him in a singles match.

Experienced observers who have seen both the top seeds in action believe that Romanian Hie Nastase, the volcanic second seed, looks a much better prospect then Smith for nabbing the men's singles title. Where Smith has creaked ponderously through his last two matches, Nastase produced one of the finest exhibitions of touch tennjs ever seen in the center court to obliterate New York's Clark Graebner. Today's card calls for completion of the top half of the men's fourth round and the women's third round. A's Swap McLain For Cepeda By United Press International Leading Batters National League g. ab r.

h. pet. Cdeno, Hou .62234683.342 Mota, LA 511582654.342 Snguiln, Pit 61 238 27 80 .336 Alou, St.L 602312876.329 Oliver, Pit 632603984.323 Brock, St.L 66 286 36 92 .322 Torre, St.L 64 245 36 79 .322 Santo, Chi 461682854.321 Clmente, Pit 53 215 41 68 .316 Lee, SD 57 209 28 66 .316 American League g. ab r. h.

pet. Shnblm, KC 49 154 20 51 .331 Riidi, Oak 612474079.320 Braun, Min 47 150 14 48 .320 Pnieia, KC 63 247 39 77 .312 May, Chi 63 227 42 70 .308 Mabefy, KC 62 199 23 60 .302 Allen, Chi 65 226 42 68 .301 Otis, KC 60 227 22 68 .300 Carew, Min 63 237 24 70 .295 Oliver, Cal 66 261 30 76 .291 Bllngs, Tex 54 179 20 52 .291 Home Runs National League: Bench, Cin 20; Kingman, SF 16; Aaron, All 15: Stargell, Pitt and Colbert, SD 14. American League: Jackson, Oak 15; Cash, Det 14; Allen, Ohi and Epstein, Oak 13; Harper, Bos, Killebrew, Minn and Duncan, Oak 10. Runs Batted In National League: Bench, Cin 59; Oliver, Pitt 49; Stargell, Pitt and Kingman, SF 47; Watson, Hou 46. American League: Allen, Chi 48; Mayberry KC 44; May, Chi 42; Oliver, Cal and Jackson, Oak 40.

Pitching National League: Nolan, Cin 10-2; Seaver, NY 10-4; Blass, Pitt 9-2; Button, LA and Torrez, Mont 9-3; Jenkins, Ohi and Carlton, Phil 9-6. American League: Lolich, Det 12-5; Perry, Clev 12-6; Wood, Chi 12-7; Holtzman, Oak M-5; Palmer, Bait 10-4; Bahnsen, Chi 10-8'. GRAND OLD FOURTHS by Alan Maw By United Press International The 1972 Michigan High School Class All-State Baseball Team: First Team Position, Player, School Pitcher Glen Thorpe, Lake Orion Pitcher Mark Weber, Swartz Creek Catcher Kirk Erickson, Lake Orion First Frantz, Livonia Franklin Embree. Harper Woods Bishop Gallagher Ewers, Coldwater Gallegos, Lansing Waverly Outfield Al Weston, Park Outfield Demris Lee, Flint Northern Outfield Lynn Vandcrsteen, Grand Ledge Second Toam Baden, Detroit Western Planner, Harper Woods Noire Dame Young, Midland Dow Harrington, Lansing Sexton IF Larry Westdorp, Grand Rapids Catholic Dasen, East Lansing Ballard, Midland Grenkoski, Midland Dow OF Bob Wagner, Portage Northern Jarvi, Flint Central Third Team Mlot, Dearborn Fordson Loveless, Ionia Sitka, Royal Oak Kimball Urchike, Flint Beecher Pruitt, Flint Central Perikno, Livonia Bentley IF Terry Fillmore, Warren Woods Gentz, Livonia Bentley Boutin, Melvindale Damiani, Birmingham Brother Rice Honorable Mention PITCHERS Bill Przygocki, Bay City Central; Tom Clem, Grosse Pointe North; Gary Thick, Lapeer; Bob Klompar- ens, Midland Dow; Kim Haberland, Bay City Handy; Lon Holiday, Benton Harbor; Craig Sikkema, Kalamazoo Central; Al Ollenburger, Lansing Everett; Carl Norris, Hastings; Eric Swanson, Coldwater; Tom Sandgren Muskegon Mona Shores; Jim Kniivila, Holt; Tom Hamilton, Portage Central; Dennis Brown, Portage Central; Bernie Hunting, Rockford; Ken Wood, Livonia Churchill. CATCHERS Mike Dukes, Howell; Gary Razmus, Grand Rapids Central; Dennis Green, Flint Beecher.

FIRST McDowell, Sterling Heights Stevenson; Kim Rowekamp, Kalamazoo Central. INFIELD-Dick Gaver, Adrian; Bob Hart, Saginaw Arthur Hill; Dave Partlo and Greg Swanson, Clarkston. OUTFIELD Marvin Geary, Walled Lake Western; Bruce Ball, Kalamazoo Central; Grant Shook, Coldwater; Tom Frick, Saginaw Arthur Hill. NOTE: The All-State team was compiled by a 10-coach panel, which sifted recommendations from coaches throughout the state. DWriboMd Syndicate- ATLANTA (UPI) Atlanta Braves' first baseman Orlando Cepeda learned Thursday he'll be going back to the bay area where 14 years ago he started playing baseball with the San Francisco Giants.

Cepeda, who has been plagued with sore knees, was traded to the Oakland Athletics by the Braves Thursday for pitcher Denny McLain, the onetime 31-game winner now working out his problems in Birmingham, and an undisclosed amount of cash. Both players expressed satisfaction with the deal. "That's super," said McLain, "That's just great. I'm 100 per cent armwise and my weight's good. I just want to prove that I can pitch again." The Braves said McLain will start July 4 against Chicago in Atlanta.

McLain, 28, won the Cy Young award twice, and his 31 victories in 1968 provided the biggest season for any pitcher in 30 years. At Birmingham he was 3-3 with a 6.32 earned run average. Cepeda had been bothered by his knees and appeared in only 28 games this season, hitting .298. Asked about the trade in San Diego, where the Braves were, "I'm happy to be going back to the bay area. I started playing there, I have a lot of friends there so I think I'm very lucky.

Jt could be worse." Cepeda said he expected a trade. "I knew it would happen. With the money I have been making, and with me not able to play the way I want to, and with some good young ball players on the team, I knew that they were going to do something with me," he said. He said he is pleased with the trade because, "I wasn't too happy with Atlanta, not with the management because they have been good to me, but with things in general." Physically Cepeda said he feels fine. "My knee is not the way I want it to be but they are coming along.

If my knees get well I have many years ahead of me. I feel very good physically, my reflexes are sharp and everything is going well for me." FOXBORO, Mass. (UPI)Ron Gardin, a defensive back, Thursday was traded by the New England Patriots of the National Football League to the Pittsburgh Steelers for a future draft choice. BOSTON (UPI)-Defenseman Paul Hurley, who spent the 1972-72 season with the Boston Braves of the American Hockey League, Thursday signed a contract with the New England Whalers of the new World Hockey Association. MILWAUKEE, Wis.

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