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New Orleans Wins Super Bowl After both sides made their presentations to the owners, they repeated their cases at a news conference. teams and 10 AFL teams. And there was some indication that more owners were beginning to sympathize with the other four Cincinnati, Denver, Miami and New York. In fact, it would no longer be surprising if the AFL unites together in seeking realignment in a form other than the plan that was recommended Monday on the first of the winter meetings. That plan calls for the addition of inter-league games in the present setup.

Whatever differences still exist among AFL owners though, their sessions had to be more cordial than the clash between representatives of Miami and New Orleans three hours before the Super Bowl decision was tion relating to newsmen what they had just told the owners. "We have the finest stadium and the finest accommodations, went their argument. They even had trumpeter Al Hirt as part of the group. When they were finished. Mayor Clark entered the room to tell his side.

Healy didn't leave. After Clark had made opening statements, Healy interrupted. "I have a letter from Gov. Kirk (Claude Kirk of Florida) saying Miami is a great supporter of professional football," the publisher said to Clark. "What was the Dolphins' attendance in 1966, '67 and '68?" "It didn't reach the attend ance of the Saints," Clark conceded.

But we have a great diversity of sports and good support for all of them. Take the University of Miami football "But the governorps letter said pro football," Healy persisted. "We're not talking about the Dolphins," Clark replied. "We're talking about the Super Bowl. "What was the attendance for the Palyoff Bowl?" Healy interrupted again, referring to the game between the runners-up of the NFL that's played in Miami every year.

"It wasn't that good," Clark said, "but it came between the Orange Bowl and the Super Bowl." we had in Miami," Rozelle said, "but we also think New Orleans is a great site. The people there have shown tremendous interest in professional football. This also balances out NFL and AFL cities for the four years." Rozelle said the move for 1970 does not set any sort of pattern for the game. "We've stayed loose on this since the first year." Following the 15-minute discussion and vote on the site of the game, the owners once again broke up in to separate groups to continue their studies of plans for the 1970 season. There were still at least four AFL owners who were holding out for realignment of the 26 teams as opposed to retention of the present setup of 16 NFL "And it rained that day," Healy added, then pulling out a folder asked, "Would you like to see the weather reports of Miami?" Before Healy had a chance to quote any of the reports, Clark said, "Gentlemen, we didn't interrupt when the New Orleans people gave their report, and we thought we could have the same courtesy." The slightly less than great debate then ended, but not before Gark got in one more remark: "If I knew my colleague from New Orleans was going to bring AL Hirt with him, I would have brought Jackie Gleason." PALM SPRINGS, Calif.

(AP) The 26 club owners of the National and American Football Leagues took time out from their 1970 realignment problems Wednesday to move the 1970 Super Bowl from Miami to New Orleans. By a vote that Commissioner Pete Rozelle said was not unanimous, the Super Bowl returns to an NFL city for the first time since the first game, which was in Los Angeles in 1967. The pro football title game between the champions of the two leagues has been in Miami's Orange Bowl the past two years. The 1970 game will be played Jan. 11 in the Sugar Bowl, which seats approximately 81,000, about 5,000 more than the Orange Bowl.

"We couldn't improve on what Certainly there was more cordiality among the AFL owners despite their differences than there was between Steve Clark, mayor of Miami, and George W. Healy publisher of the New Orleans Times-Picayune and chairman of the task force that is trying to get the Super Bowl for New Orleans. It started as a news conference with Healy and his delega Ed Plaisted The Palm Beach Posts Past Records Best Fishing Bet Speckled perch are still hitting in the Kissim-mee River near the north shore of Lake Okeechobee. Spanish mackerel continue to hit in Lake Worth nd at St. Lucie Inlet.

Bluefish are plentiful in both the St. Lucie and Indian rivers. Spring Training Slate BASEBALL TODAY 1: 30 Atlanta Braves vs. Kansas City at Fort Myers 1: 30 Montreal Expos vs. Houston at Cocoa.

Really Count 3 i Bocooooooooooooo Executive Sports Editor Thursday, Mar. 20, 1969 CI Bucks: Luck Of Coin Toss ROBERT LfPSYTE New York Times RALPH HOUK SAT QUIETLY by himself in the first base dugout at West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium and watched Tom Shopay and Jerry Kenney take batting practice before Wednesday's exhibition game with the Atlanta Braves. The New York Yankee manager's thoughts were hidden behind his sun galsses. Houk watched Kenney take his swings in the batting cage, while Shopay swung a weighted bat in the on deck circle. Ralph betrayed no emotion.

Obviously, he was studying each move of the young players and trying to resolve in his mind who will be the Yankee lineup on opening day, April 7. Kenney and Shopay have something in common besides being outfielders. They both played on the 1965 New York-Penn League pennant winners at Bingham-ton, N.Y. Jerry and Tom are the only survivors of that Class A club to make it to the big team's spring training this year. Kenney will probably start in center field for the Yankees this season.

Shopay will probably return to Syracuse in the stance Maroselli, nodded at Kennedy and took their places at each side of him. Kennedy coolly picked up a beige telephone and began to speak "I have two cards on my desk. One has Phoenix written on it, one has Milwaukee. I will pick one, and that team will have the privilege of calling the flip or passing and allowing the other team to call. Understood?" Through the window of his office on the 23d floor of 2 Pennsylvania's Plaza, Kennedy watched the Hudson River rolling sluggishly under the late morning sun.

Directly beneath the window, the top of Madison Square Garden looked NEW YORK The commissioner, J. Walter Kennedy, was vamping till ready. "When I was 10 years old," he said, "I loved to watch Marshall Montgomery. He was on the old Keith circuit. He could smoke a cigarette and talk while he was drinking a glass of water." On the polished brown desk in front of him lay two slips of white paper, his eyeglasses, and a large water glass bearing an engraving of a horse being stung on his croup by a mosquito, and the word name of a social club.

"Don't we have any National Basketball Association glasses?" asked the press agent, Haskell Cohen. "NBA Properties hasn't signed a contract for glasses," said Kennedy, swallowing from the Skeeter glass and putting it under his desk, out of range of three television cameras. Two trim, lively secretaries, Helenmarie Bums and Con- NCAA Semis Tonight Wi icy lym -H SOLAITA KENNEY SHOPAY i i in-. Vt' vr" International League for more seasoning as a left fielder. Wednesday afternoon both started in the outfield.

Both Yankee players had outstanding rookie seasons with the Binghamton Triplets in 1965. Kenney hit .312 and Shopay And they both had late season flings with the Yankees during 1967. Last season Jerry was in the Navy and Tom was having a .245 year at Syracuse. Both New Breed Players Kenney and Shopay are Houk's new breed of Yankees. They aren't sluggers.

They hit, run and can bunt. Jerry is doing well this spring after being converted from shortstop. He is batting .345. So is Shopay. Tom is hitting .300.

Unfortunately for Tom, a native of Bristol, Houk remembers last year's performance rather than this spring's. "Tom is having a good spring," said Ralph, spitting out some tobacco juice on the dugout floor," but he had a bad 1968. You've got to give him credit. He's bounced back well. "I haven't made my mind up yet what players I will keep this season.

We won't make the final decisions until we break camp next month. However, I don't think you can afford to make such decisions strictly on what kind of a spring a player has. "Take Tony Solaita for instance. You newspaper guys have written a lot about him this spring. He's having a terrible spring.

His batting average is .125 since he sprained his ankle and he's having trouble getting around on the ball. But you have to go on reports and he did hit 51 homers last year in the minors. "I am pleased with Kenney's ability to play center field and Bobby Murcer's play at third. My concern this spring is pitching. I have three starters but I need two more.

Pitching will be the key to our pennant hopes." APPtwttly Ray Hazard Ken Johnson Wednesday at Municipal Stadium. Atlanta catcher is Bob Didier. CLOSE CALL New York Yankee Nate Oliver falls down to avoid being hit by a pitch from Atlanta Braves pitcher Cepeda To Face Brave New World LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -Mighty UCLA and the awesome Lew Alcindor are lop-sided favorites to win a record third consecutive NCAA basketball championship this weekend. The Bruins are a 13-point choice over surprising Drake in the nightcap of Thursday's semifinal round doubleheader.

North Carolina and Purdue are rated about even in the opener at 7:40 p.m., EST. The winners advance to the title game at 4:15 p.m., EST, Saturday. The format, playing Thursday night and Saturday afternoon, is new this year. Previously, the semifinals were played Friday night and the finals Saturday night. All games will be televised nationally by NBC-TV Channels 5,7.

UCLA'S Bruins, dubbed by Drake Coach Maury John "a super team with several super stars," take the nation's top ranking and a fantastic record of success into the semifinals. They've won four of the last five national titles, including in a row. And, since the 7-foot-1 Alcindor appeared on the scene, they've lost only two games in three seasons. Alcindor, possibly the most outstanding collegiate player in the history of the game, has compiled an equally outstanding personal record three times All American, twice Player of the Year. They're physically healthy and, according to Coach John Wooden, mentally and emotionally ready to make their bid to become the first team in history to win three consecutive national titles.

"Our biggest problem is final exams," Wooden said Wednesday after the team arrived from Los Angeles. Drake, North Carolina and Purdue also made late afternoon arrivals and each took a one-hour workout. "It's our first practice since before the regionals," Wooden said. "We've had final exams and had to lay off. I don't think it will make too much difference.

We've reached a point that we hadn't attained in some time." like a giant trampoline. "The card says Phoenix. What is Phoenix's pleasure?" Kennedy nodded at the phone. Richard Bloch, president of the Phoenix Suns, had said he would make the call. "I'm going to flip a 1964 Kennedy half-dollar no, not a Walter Kennedy half-dollar, in my right hand, catch it in that hand and turn it on the back of my left hand.

I'm going to put the phone down because I can't do it with my feet." In Milwaukee and Phoenix and other places where professional basketball is played, a breath was briefly held Wednesday at 11:10 New York time when the pleasant-faced commissioner, a former mayor of Stamford, put on his eye-glasses and flipped. The coin, which be said was from the first mint run, had been presented to him by Sen. Abraham Ribicoif, whose campaign he had managed. The coin popped up, and hung suspended in the mind. The winner of this toss-up would have first pick in the NBA draft, and first pick this year means Lew Alcindor.

The winner might also have the opportunity of testing the financial determination of the rival American Basketball Association which believes Alcindor can lift it into the big-time. The ABA has publicly offered the Manhattan-born, 7-foot-2 inch star the team of his choice, and announced that a collection would be taken among all its owners to meet his price. Earlier this year, the chairman of the NBA 's Milwaukee franchise, Wesley Pavalon, sneered at the ABA offer and flaunted the collective might of the state of The Milwaukee Bucks are a publicly-held corporation. But today, in the light, bare offices of the old league, the tone was cool. No one player, Kennedy kept insisting, could mean the success or failure of a league.

The NBA would be very happy to welcome the young man into the company of "the rest of the greatest basketball players in the world." No one would approach him, however, said Kennedy, until after his team, the University of California at Los Angeles, played its last game uf the season, next Saturday night. "The coin has come up tails." Kennedy put his hand over the mouthpiece. "You should hear the cheering, It sounds like election night." He looked relieved, and he smiled at the phone. "Is that understood by all parties? good. anything else?" He replaced the phone, and beamed at the group shuffling on his blue plush rug.

Slowly, his smile faded. There was a strained silence in the room until someone finally said, "So? Who got him?" "Oh, I'm terribly sorry," said Kennedy, "Didn't I say?" "No." "Phoenix called heads. Milwaukee got it." Kennedy stared at the coin, at his eye-, glasses, at the slips of paper, and then began flipping again, for television, for latecomers. On and on until Constance Maroselli said, "You always keep getting tails." N.Y. Nips Atlanta By BOB BALFE Sports Editor There's only way to play Frank Fernandez when he comes to bat the third time in a game at Municipal Stadium.

The proper defense is a step-ladder for the left fielder at about the 390-foot mark. Atlanta forgot the game plan Wednesday and so the Yankee reserve catcher put one out of the park, exactly as he had done nine days earlier in a simUar situation, and this time it gave the Yankees a 3-2 victory over the Braves. Tom Tresh was on base after a single, and the two-run homer made Pat Jarvis the loser, after Ken Johnson had pitched the first five innings to a 1-1 standoff with Fritz Peterson. Johnson was impressive, yielding three singles, two of them plus his only walk for a Yankee run in the second. Jar-vis was tagged for four hits in three innings, but Fernandez' clout was real trouble.

Yankee Manager Ralph Houk liked what he saw of Peterson, southpaw winner of 12 games last season. In two earlier tests, both against the hard hitting Baltimore Orioles, Peterson was a five-run, 11-hit victim, but he had the Braves helpless for five innings, only Clete Boyer managing to hit safely. That was a single, but in the sixth Boyer unloaded a triple with Hank Aaron on base after a double, and that tied the score momentarily. DIAMOND DUST The 1,408 turnout marked the only time park officials could remember that a team drew more in a second appearance here in spring than in the first game. The Yankees pulled 390 fewer when they played here previously.

Orlando Cepeda is due to make the scene this morning, in the 9:30 a.m. practice squad. N.Y. IAIMIHII BRAVES Ab II Ollvtr2B 4 0 0 0 AIOUCF 50 11 Michael 2B 0 0 0 0 Mlllan 2S 3 0 0 0 Kenny LF 4 0 10 Aapromonte SS 2 0 00 M'jrler 36 4 0 1 0 H. Aaron RF 3 110 Pepltona IB 4 0 0 0 Brltton 0 0 0 0 Roblmon RF 4 I 0 LF 4 0 1 0 Three Starters Selected By MILTON GROSS Narth American Nawtpapvr AINanca ST.

PETERSBURG Orlandito if three and for two and a half of this year Us father was a Cardinal. It doesn't take a kid long to learn how to mimic Bob Gibson and others be has come to know. "Show how BoL pitches," said Orlando Cepeda to his son. The little boy left the littered breakfast table, picked up a baseball glove, took the ball his father handed him and for a moment he was Bob Gibson on the mound. "He knows something has happened," said Orlando, "but he doesn't understand yet.

It's going to be strange to him when he sees The Yankee starters to date are Stan Bahnsen, Fritz Peterson and Mel Stottlemyre. Bahnsen, a righty, was 17-12 last year while southpaw Peterson was 12-11 and Stottlemyre, a righty, was 21-12. Peterson, a native of Rockford, 111., had been shelled in two earlier starts by the Baltimore Orioles. Wednesday Fritz got credit for the Yanks 3-2 win over the Braves after working six innings and allowing only one run and three hits. Mickey Scott, 8-6 for Binghamton in the Eastern League last year; the veteran Al Downing, 3-3; John Cumberland, 10-7 at Syracuse; Bill Burbach, 9-9 at Syracuse and the veteran Joe Verbanic, 6-7, are the leading contenders for the two other starting jobs.

Downing is the big unknown pitching quanity. The 28-year-old lefty arrived at Fort Lauderdale Monday and spent the last two days working out. "Al is 10 days away from pitching In a game," said Houk. "I haven't even seea him throw yet." Al Downing would just as soon forget 1968. He was bothered by arm trouble after a 14-10 season with New York in 1967.

He was placed on the disabled list in May and finally sent down to Binghamton for work with the Triplets. But Houk can't forget that in 1964, Downing led the American League with 217 strikeouts. If Downing can come back this year, Houk knows his Yankees will be a pennant contender. period to an extremely happy phase of their lives, and worried and wondered what the next phase would be like. It's a mess in so many ways for Ana, who barely speaks Engiish, had to adjust to San Francisco and then to St.

Louis. There were tears in her eyes as she folded clothes into the bags. Now there is to be Atlanta. "It takes so long to get used to a city, to make friends," she said as her husband translated. "This club here," said Cepeda, "we have so many friends.

It was a shock. Nobody wants to get traded. We have such happiness in St. Louis, but what can you do? I'm prepared mentally for this, though. I had the feeling.

You can tell how things used to be, how they have been since I got here. Things were kind of cold not with Red (manager Red Schoendienst) or the players, but other people around the club. It is tough to leave a ball club like this, very hard." It was so hard that Cepada did not go to the clubhouse Monday to pick up his belongings. He asked Guillermo Mosiancz, a rookie first baseman and fellow Puerto Rican, to bring them to him at the hotel. "I didn't want to have to say goodbye to all the guys," said Orlando.

"What could I say to Hoot, Curt, Lou, Timmy? They're all my friends. We have such a good team. We have such fun together It is not easy. It is just as well Cepeda did not go to the park. He is extremely emotional, sentimental to an extreme.

What he would have seen might have made him break down, just as he did when the Giants gave him away for Ray Sadeckl two pennants, one world championship and one most valuable player award ago. Cepeda leaves with sadness, too, but no bitterness. "I don'i know why they traded me. I'm only 31. Maybe they figure I'm over the hill.

When they trade you they don't want you. I just got to start over and be ready," he said. "Maybe I get my old roomie again, Felipe TOP.KE CEPEDA Train SS 4 110 Bovar 38 Farnandal 3 I 1 2 T. Aaron IB Shopay LF 1 0 0 0 Jaryli 4 0 11 a 10 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 0 Palaraon 2 0 11 Lum RF 1 0 0 0 Oarrldo SS OrHno PH Scott 0 0 0 0 B. Johnson 2B 1 I 0 Hamilton 0 0 0 0 Dldlar 3 0 10 me in the other uniform.

He loves Hoot and Lou (Brock) and Tim my (McCarver) and Curt (Flood). Now he'll see other faces. He'll feel funny, but he'll have to get used to It." This was in room 203 of the Sheraton Inn, here where the St. Louis team quarters and where Cepeda was one of them until 9:30 p.m. Monday night when he was to.d General Manager Bing Devine that the cards had traded him to the Braves for Joe Torre.

"It's a mess, isn't it?" said Orlando as he surveyed the confusion of the tiny room. The twin beds were piled with suitcases, clothes and family necessities were strewn all over the place as Ana, Orlando's wife, packed to leave for West Palm Beach, which put a Totaii lllMK Johnton 1 0 0 0 Rule Kits Sebring Go SEBRING (UPI) A new safety rule for International sports car racing temporarily sidelined a number of cars entered in the 12-hour Sebring endurance race scheduled Saturday, but all were expected to be approved by the Wednesday night deadline. Only five of the first 15 cars presented for inspection were approved Tuesday and parts to correct problems were due here Wednesday on a rush shipment. Chief technical inspector Monty Thomas said the new rule requires the main battery cable has to have a complete cutoff to disconnect the entire electrical system for fire safety reasons. Thomas said the rule requires the cutoff switches both inside and outside the car, and plainly marked.

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