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Sports Palm Beach Post-Times 0 Pari-Mutuols SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1974 SECTION State 5 Finals North Shore 64, Bartow 54 By CHUCK OTTERSON Poll Sports writer JACKSONVILLE North Shore, the team that was supposed to be a year away, speeded up the time table last night and captured the Class AAA state high school basketball championship. A Coliseum crowd of 6,000 watched the Mustangs race to a 19-point lead midway through the final period and coast to a 64-54 victory over Bartow. "It's been hanging in the shadows since November," North Shore coach Floyd Andrews said. "It was out there but we didn't know if we could do it. I guess we proved tonight we could." Sparked by the rebounding of 6-foot-7 sophomore Gerard Nelson and the all-round brilliance of senior Conrad Jones, the Mustangs scored 12 straight points early in the fourth quarter to take a commanding 57-38 lead.

They led by 18, 64-46, when Andrews cleared his bench with 1:52 remaining. Bar tow scored eight straight points against the Mustang reserves to make the final margin more respectable. "I couldn't really feel satisfied ihat we had it won until the time had gone under two minutes and we had a comfortable lead," Andrews said. "I've seen so many games go back and forth. Turn to MUSTANGS, E8 Chipola 81, Palm Beach 78 LAKE CITY Chipola Junior College, once ahead by 20 points in the first half, had to fight off a strong Palm Beach Junior College rally last night to hand the Pacers an 81-78 defeat and win the Florida Junior College Conference state basketball title.

"It's disheartening," said PBJC coach Bob Wright. "You always feel that way after a loss. It's disheartening in the sense that we didn't win when we had a chance. "But we showed our ability to come back. We were down in every game up here and we won two.

We really surprised these people. We're trying to build pride, hustle and the desire to win at PBJC and that's what we showed here." PBJC outscored the winners 74-56 from the field but was outscored 25-4 at the foul line. The Pacers were called for 31 personal fouls to Chipola's 13. Chipola led only 9-6 after five minutes but ran off seven straight points for a 16-6 advantage. The lead grew to 29-16 with 8:13 left in the first half and 37-18 at 5:46.

With 3:33 to go, PBJC trailed 41-21 but finially mounted a rally. Behind the shooting of Donald Burns and William Hall, the Pacers pulled within 46-34 at halftime. Turn to PBJC, E2 ft Bruins Zip Into NCAA From Poit Wirt StrvlcM LOS ANGELES UCLA jumped to a commanding 47-13 halftime lead last night, and went on to rout cross-town rival Southern California, and win the PAC-8 Division Crown and a berth in the NCAA regionals. Bill Walton led the Bruins by controlling the backboards and scoring 26 points. 9 4 4J- 'j AP WlrtplwtO fjf Bartow's Ken Leverett Beats North Shore's Calvin Nicholson for Rebound '3f Nelson's Lesson Helps Rodriguez i Gleason Classic," Rodriguez said.

"Byron watched me putt on the 15th and 16th holes and noticed I was doing something wrong. "When I finished Byron came up to me and asked if I wanted a putting lesson. I had also asked Marty Fleckman, who was playing in the group behind me, to help me. Marty told me to play the ball more forward and Byron told me to put my weight back on my heels." The important suggestion was the one made by Nelson, since it has enabled Rodriguez to stroke his putts more solidly. Turn to RODRIGUEZ, E5 By TOM SEARS Poll Sporti Wrlltr MIAMI Two weeks ago in the final round of the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic, television announcer Ray Scott was involved in a controversy with Lee Trevino.

Scott requested Trevino to wait 20 seconds before stroking a key putt because the network was doing a commercial. Yesterday, another television commentator, Byron Nelson, was mentioned prominently by another golfer, Juan (Chi Chi) Rodriguez, after Rodriguez shot a six-under-par 66 in the third round of the Doral-Eastern Open. There was a difference, though, between the regard Rodriguez held for Nelson, a member of golf's Hall of Fame, and the manner in which Trevino spoke of Scott. Rodriguez, a 38-year-old native of Puerto Rico, credited a putting lesson he received from Nelson for his 66, which matched Jack Nicklaus for the day's low round and moved Rodriguez to eight under par for the tournament. "The first day I had a 72, the first time, I didn't break par since the first round of the illy Crisis in Colleges 'Slave Market9 for Athletes Today's Game Atlanta Braves (Roric Harrison, Phil Niekro, Jack Aker) vs.

Los Angeles Dodgers (Tommy John, two pitchers to be announced) at I em Beach, 1:30 p.m. StaH Pkote by Ron Smith Dodgers' Ken McMullen Forces Ron Swoboda at Third First in a Series By JOSEPH DURSO (c) Now York Tlmas Newt Service NEW YORK America's campuses, rocked by unrest in the 1960s, are being shaken again by a new crisis: a frenzied "slave market" in recruiting and paying college athletes. Many educators warn that the crisis is approaching a scandal, and they attribute it to a national mania in the 1970s to "win at any cost." But the cost is spreading far beyond the 50,000 athletes and coaches who are staging 32,000 basketball and 3,000 football games this year, or the hundreds of millions of dollars the games will generate. 1 5S Casanova Runs While Evans Hits College Sports: Big Business By LARRY MLYNCZAK Pott Sports Writer While the Atlanta Braves were beating the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4-3, yesterday in Municipal Stadium on Darrell Evans' home run in the 10th inning, a lone figure was running along the warning track. It was the first workout of Braves' catcher Paul Casanova.

Casanova missed the opening of the Braves' camp for pitchers and catchers three weeks ago. He was expected to arrive Monday, but was still absent. then I'll show what Casanova can do." An All-Star catcher with the Washington Senators in 1967, Casanova hit .216 in 82 games last year. He invested $35,000 and the Chicago White Sox' Pat Kelly and the Cleveland Browns' Leroy Kelly invested $20,000 each to buy the nightclub Discoteca La Pelota. "A lot of what I invested went into decorating," Casanova said.

"I did the decorating and you've got to see it to believe it. Turn to BRAVES, E6 "I had important business to take care of in Venezuela," the Cuban-born 32-year-old said. "We opened a nightclub in Caracas 11 days ago and I just couldn't leave. There were too many important things to take care of. "Yes, baseball is important, too.

But this nightclub will be my future. When I retire, and I don't know how soon that will be, I'll have to have something to turn to. "Besides, I didn't think I'd be the starting catcher, anyway. "I want a chance to play, though, and -Keeping Posted- Sports on the Air The cost, the educators say, is being paid in the growing corruption of high-school students, in a distortion of the role of sports in education and in the moral climate surrounding all the schools. 2 p.m.

Ooll Final round ot the Doral-Eastern Open (10-12) 4 p.m. Pro Tennis World Cup from Hertford, Conn. (5-7) 4:30 Wide World ot Sports Ontario 500 auto race (12) 1 p.m. CBS Sports Spectacular (4) 1:30 p.m. Baseball Atalnta vs.

Los Angeles at Vero Beacn (a) 2 p.m. Hockey St. Louis at Minnesota (7) Turn to MONEY, E5..