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Federal Officials Mum Following McLain Testimony III DETROIT (AP) Pitching star Denny McLain spent about 45 minutes yesterday testifying before a federal grand jury investigating interstate gambling, federal officials said. U.S. Atty. James Brickley declined to reveal what McLain had said, explaining that he was bound by the secrecy of the grand jury proceedings. Brickley said McLain's appearance was voluntary and stressed that the pitcher was not subpoenaed to appear.

The Detroit Tigers ace hurler has been in hiding since last Friday, when he appeared before Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn in New York to discuss what Kuhn referred to as "off the field activities" of McLain in 1967. McLain was reportedly seen hurriedly leaving the Federal Building in Detroit after his appearance. James Ritchie, head of a special U.S. Justice Department task force investigating organized crime, said it was McLain's first appearance before the grand jury "We are cooperating fully with the baseball commissioner, and I consult with his office on a daily basis to discuss matters of mutual interest," Ritchie said, Fifteen persons have been arrested so far in a federal investigation into nationwide gambling that Brickley has said would involve prominent sports figures. Charges of violating federal gambling laws have been dropped against three of the 15.

Brickley said McLain "was very cooperative to Mr. Ritchie and to the Grand jury in furnishing information." "This is an independent investigation Mr. Ritchie has been pursuing for some time," Brickley added. McLain's wife, who has returned to the family's Lakeland, home without her husband says the pitching star "has done nothing to hurt baseball." Sharyn McLain was interviewed briefly by Bill Halls, a Detroit News sports writer, who met he at Detroit Metropolitan Airport as they both boarded thesame flight to Tampa, Fla. Mrs.

McLain did not say where she had been orwhetherornotshehad seen her husband. "Really, I can't say anything," she said. "We are behind Denny 100 per cent," she added after a pause. "He hasn't done anything to hurt baseball." Mrs. McLain was last seen Saturday morning when she left Lakeland suddenly, leaving the couple's three small children behind with a babysitter.

Mrs. McLain is the daughter of Lou Eoud- reau, former star short stop, for the Cleveland Indians and a baseball Hall of Famer. She was accompanied on the flight to Tampa by McLain's younger brother, Timothy. The Tigers open spring training at Lakeland Friday, but Tiger manager Mayo Smith said the reporting date on McLain's contract is March 1 and that he need not show up until then. McLain did not show up in Southfield District Court in answer to a summons yesterday.

The case concerns an eviction suit by his landlord alleging McLain is $2,450 behind in home rent. The matter has been rescheduled for Friday. Orland Ellis, an attorney representing McLain, told Judge Clarence Reid an out-of-court settlement was being attempted. The McLains rent a home in the Detroit suburb of Beverly Hills which is near Southfield. DENNY McLAIN Sports A Palm Reach Post Thiir.

Palm Beach Post, Braves, Expos Page C2 Miracle in New York Page Florida's: Thursday, Feb. 19, 1970 CI Miami Hires Shula Wilson Gets Ax 'ft I or '4 if 5 I 4 George Wilson out 7 i I MIAMI (UPI)-The Miami Dolphins fired George Wilson as head coach yesterday and named Don Shula of the Baltimore Colts, pro football's winning-est coach, to replace him under a lucrative contract that makes him a "substantial" Dolphin owner. In the biggest recent pro football shakeup, Shula moved into replace his old friend and head coach Wilson in a deal that will put him in a class with Vince Lombardi of the Washington Redskins and Ted Williams of baseball's Washington Senators, both of whom were lured with stock-ownership agreements. Neither Shula nor Dolphin managing partner Joseph Robbie would go into details of the contract, but it was reported to be a five-year deal under which the 40-year-old Shula will draw $70,000 annually in salary. Stock options under the ownership arrangements should push the money figure to around a half-million dollars for the deal.

"I look forward to the future with Don Shula as new coach and substantial and immediate owner of the Miami Dolphins," Robbie said in announcing the shakeup at a news conference. Robbie said he had broken the news to Wilson-who was not at the conference shortly before that that "George Wilson will have a place with the Dolphins, not only as long as I'm around but as long as he is here and the Dolphins are here. Robbie did not say what new position Wilson would be offered and the outgoing coach's immediate plans were not known. Wilson had been Shula 's head coach at Detroit before Shula moved on to take the top job at Ba ltimore in 1963. "It's a tremendous pleasure to come here and become involved in ownership and coaching with the Miami Dolphins," Shula said.

"I had some regrets attached to the decision to leave Baltimore." But he said the Colts owner Carol Ros-enbloom "was tremendous about the whole thing. He said he would never stand in my way." Shula will take over as both head coach and a vice president of the Dolphins, a team formed in 1965 as an American Footbal 1 League exp ansion team Wilson, who helped bring Shula into pro football, leaves after coaching Miami through its first four seasons. The team played its first AFL schedule in 1966. Wilson, 56, had an overall record of 15 victories, 39 losses and two ties at Miami. His son, George played for the Dolphins in 1966 as quarterback, but has since retired from football.

Shula brings a record of 74-25-3 with him to Miami, compiled during his seven years with the Johnny Unitas-led Colts. It's the most successful record in the game. Robbie announced the coaching change and said it came about after nearly a month of negotiating with Shula, whom Robbie never thought at first he could lure from Baltimore. "I had to know without the slightest doubt that Miami's people were totally dedicated to winning football, Shula said at last night's news conference. "The only way to produce a champion- it ft Don Shula in Ak l-' -V, Xi i'' I'll -i.

Jl 1 APWirepholo Florida State's Willie Williams (32) Goes Up To Grab Rebound Artis Gilmore of Jacksonville, leaps in vain in background ship team is to build from the bottom to the topof the organization." said Simla. "I'm satisfied that Mr. Robbie is as determined as 1 am to mold a championship team and will take the necessary expense in pursuit of that goal I'm also satisfied that the rest of Miami's owners are solidly behind him." "I wouldn't be truthful if I didn't admit that the money was an important factor. But it certainly wasn't the decisive factor in my final decision. Simla said.

He said he was "leaving a great organization in the Colts. They've treated me very well. "I had every reason to expect they would continue to do so, and I had to make darned sure I knew exactly where I was going." Shula took the Colts to the Super Bowl in Miami in January of 1909, only to lose to the New York Jets and become the first National League team to be beaten by the American League in the super game. Wilson had one of his worst years at Miami during the past season, when he set out with the announced aim of winning half the Dolphins' 14 games but wound up with a 3-10-1 record. The only poorer year was the first, when Miami won three and lost 11.

College Basketball Jacksonville Trims Florida State, 85-81 Earle Dixon led with 11 rebounds for the Hurons and Mcintosh connected on another 10. High scorer for Detroit was Frank Russell with 15 points. The Titans now have a 6-17 record. Although Bob Lanier was held to just 16 points, St. Bonaventure rolled past St.

Francis of New York. It was the lowest scoring game of the season for Lanier, whose previous low was 21 points against Duquesne. Lanier played 35 of the 40 minutes and hit seven of 14 from the floor and two of six from the foul line as St. Francis used a collapsing zone against him. Ohio University outscored Marshall 11-1 within 1:56 in the last half to take control in.

rolling to its win, despite a 36 point performance the Thundering Herd's Russell Lee. The Records JACKSONVILLE (AP) Sixth-ranked Jacksonville slammed its lone conqueror, eighth-ranked Florida State, in an 85-81 basketball rematch last night in the jam-packed Jacksonville Coliseum. The victory ran the upstart Dolphins' record to 20-1 and the losers are 20-3. Florida State downed Jacksonville 89-83 on its home floor last month. Meanwhile in other games, Ohio University bombed Marshall, 100-86, St.

Bonaventure rolled past St. Francis, 87-57, and Eastern Michigan routed the University of Detroit, 98-77. Substitute Chip Dublin combined with the giant 7-foot-2 Artis Gilmore and seven-foot Pembroke Burrows to twice turn off FSU rallies and keep Jacksonville in control through most of the second half of the hard-fought battle between the two highest ranked teams ever to represent Florida colleges. The capacity crowd of 10,050 rode the Dolphin stars off the floor on their shoulders as the players held up one finger, signifying "We're No. 1." The game was pressure-packed from the start.

Both playing dogged defense, although Florida State waited until the final 10 minutes to haul out its potent full court press. By winning, Jacksonville probably assured itself of a berth in the NCAA tournament. Selections will be made Feb. 24. the date of Jacksonville's next game.

FSU never led in the second half but pulled into a 59-all tie with 10:35 left on three straight shots by Willie Williams. But Williams fouled out at that point. He hacked Gilmore, who led a fast break against the FSU pressing defense and was about to score when Williams slammed into him. The loss of Williams' 6-foot-7 size left Dave Cowens as FSU's only really big man, and he couldn't cope with both Gilmore and Burrows. But the sparkplug play of the six-foot Dublin and the clever moves of Rex Morgan meshed the attack to perfection.

Gilmore was high scorer with 19 points and was only slightly off his nation-leading rebound average of 23.1, with 21. The mobile giant also blocked eight shots. It took Cowens with 14 and Williams with 11 to beat Gilmore's rebound total. Cowens led Florida State scoring with 20, Williams had 19 and speedy Skip Young 17. Eastern Michigan ran off nine straight points in the opening half and then coasted to victory over the University of Detroit.

Eastern shot 55 per cent from the floor as Earle Higgins dropped in 28 points and Ken Mcintosh added 26 for the Hurons, now 16-6 on the season. Don Simla 1963- Baltimore (NFL) 1964- Baltimore (NFL I 1965- Baltimore (NFL) 1966- Ba ltimore (NFL) 1967- Baltimore (NFL) 1968- Baltimore (NFL) 1969- Baltimore (NFL) 8- 6-0 12- 2-0 10- 3-1 9- 5-0 11- 1-2 13- 1-0 8-5-1 FLORIDA STATE JACKSONVILLE George Wilson 1957- Detroit (NFL) 8-4-0 1958- Detroit (NFL) 4-7-1 1959- Detroit (NFL) 3-8-1 1960- Detroit (NFL) 7-5-0 1961- Detroit (NFL) 8-5-1 1962- Detroit (NFL) 11-3-0 1963- Detroit (NFL) 5-8-1 1964- Detroit (NFL) 7-5-2 1966- Miami (AFL) 3-11-0 1967- Miami (AFL) 4-10-0 1968- Miami (AFL) 5-8-1 1969- Miami (AFL) 3-10-1 1957 NFL Championship: Detroit 59, Cleveland 14 9 9 Cowens Williams 7 5-5 19 6 3-4 15 fl Macklin Gilmore Morgan cdking Blevtns Nelson Dublin Burrows Baldwin Totals 8 4-7 20 8 3-4 19 7 3-3 17 2 2-2 6 2 0-0 4 4 3-3 II 0 0-0 0 1 0-0 2 I 0-0 2 33 15-19 II 45 81 4 6-7 1964 NFL Championship: Cleveland 27, Baltimore 0 1968 NFL Championship: Baltimore 34, Cleveland 0 1968 Super Bowl: New York 16, Baltimore 7 Cable 0 0-0 0 30 25-3? 15 Totals Florida State 3 Jacksonville 44 41 IS Fouled out Florida Slate, Williams. Jacksonville, none. Total fouls Florida stale 20, Jacksonville 14 A 10.050.