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Bruins Ou gunned A but Not Outscored pons Quick, Tenacious Drake Forces Champs to Limit for 85-82 Win CC PART III t. BUSINESS FINANCE FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1969 BY JEFF Timet staff PRUGH Writer LOUISVILLE It was the kind of evening that made people wonder: Will the UCLA Bruins play a stall-tempo game agaihst Purdue? They probably will stick to their run-and-gun as usual Saturday afternoon when the NCAA basketball championship race goes down to the final buzzer. But if the Bruins expect to wind up the Lew Alcindor with those three consecutive national titles everybody has been talking about, they better be sharper than they were against Drake's scrappy Bulldogs here Thursday night in the semifinals. UCLA won it after a frighteningly close call, 85-82, a victory which will send the Bruins into a rematch with Purdue, which demolished North Carolina, 92-65, in the first game. And when it was over, Bruin coach John Wooden was still trying to catch his breath.

"I feel like I've just had a reprieve," he said. "If John Vallely had not shot so well, we probably would have lost." It was a night when the nation's No. 1 team was outquicked and 'WE MUST PLAY BETTER VERSUS PURDUE': WOODEN BY MITCH CHOBTKOFF Tlmei Staff Writer Don Draper of Drake throw up a forest of arms in the NCAA semis Thursday night. UCLA won, 85-82. LEW HARASSED Lew Alcindor trouble getting off pass as Willie (33) of UCLA has Wise (rear) and outfinessed.

Eveiy time the Bruins turned around, had their pockets picked by a quick, tenacious Drake team that came very close to doing what people have been saying nobody can do beat UCLA at its own game. Drake's full-court press and sticky man -to -man defense caused 20 UCLA turnovers. And the Bulldogs beat the Bruins down court again and again. What began as an apparent runaway, soon turned into a see-saw game in which the Bruins had to pick, scratch and claw their way out of disaster. As it was, they needed every one of Vallely's 29 points a career high for the junior from Orange Coast Collegenot to mention Lew Alcin-dor's 25 points (and 18 rebounds), along with Curtis Rowe's 14 points (and 13 rebounds).

UCLA (now 28-1) shot a blazing 54 against a shorter Bulldog team that vividly resembled Wooden's sawed-off team that won the national championship five years ago. But Drake (25-5) forced the Bruins Please Turn to Page 11, Col. 2 no surprise to me that we came so close to winning. "We've been a good team all season, but we've been overlooked in the polls, we had a 19-4 record, but it wasn't until the last week of the regular season that we slipped Please Turn to Page (i, Col. 1 'Mighty Mites' Pace Kings to Win Over Red Wings BY CHUCK GARR1TY Times Staff Wrller Nothing added up at the Forum Thursday night, except the Kings' 4-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings.

The game-winner was scored by get this Dave Amadio. The last time he scored, it was the Kings' first year in the National Hockey League. He had gone .81 games without a goal, including 69 this season. But that wasn't the worst of it. When coach Red Kelly sent his starting line onto the ice to face off with Detroit's newest production line, there were those in the crowd of willing to call for the white coats right then.

There was Howie Menard (5-6, 160), Bob Wall (5-10, 180) and Howie Hughes (5-9, 180) going against Alex Delvecchio (6-0, 195), Gordie Howe (6-0, 205) and Frank Maliovlich (6-0, 205). The Detroit trio also held a 47-year edge in NHL experience and such a whopping edge in goals and assists this season it's almost too embarrassing to talk about 246 total points to 72. And the terrible thing about it all Please Turn to Page 6, Col. 3 PINK PIGEON SHATTERS RECORD WITH EASY WIN JIM MURRAY Rookie of the Year PALM SPRINGS Quite a few teams will start the season with a rookie at shortstop, an untried pitching staff, a hole in the right side of the infield. But only a very brave one will start with a rookie at general manager, an untried ivory, trader, a hole in the front office.

That's like starting through Indian country with tinhorn from the East, or declaring war with a general staff that hasn't shaved yet. But the Angels march in where fools fear to tread. Baseball is a general manager's medium. The franchise is no better than the man who puts it together. A good one is worth more to a club than a 20-ame winner.

A poor one, or an inexperienced one, is more damaging than an outfield that drinks. Richard Bishop Walsh Jr. is not exactly a bubble-gum hero in the annals of He has made few if any headlines in the Sporting News His Jast previous job was head of a national soccer league, an enterprise that had to call in the Red Cross by mid-season. As a recommendation, it was about as good as a parole. But to the public, the surprising fact about Dick Walsh coming to the Angels as general manager is the fact that, 12 years ago, he was president of the Angels! Those, of course, were the Dodger-owned, minor league Angels, a hunk of distressed human real estate shortly to be torn down and shipped in hunks to Spokane, while Walter O'Malley erected a new modern baseball edifice in Los Angeles.

Worked for Rickey Dick Walsh will not have to be shown a baseball or told which way a guy runs when he hits a fair ball-Walsh put in nearly 20 years at the toughest apprenticeship a man can have in the grand; old game he worked under Branch Rickey, and he was Walter O'Malley's "No" man. He started witli the Dodger organization fresh of World War II in which he enlisted as a private and came out a first lieutenant leading infantry in the final island hop to Japan. A mediocre baseball player who lost his speed sliding through Philippine swamps in boots that weigh more than anvils, Dick was a tough, taciturn guy who went through life as if he were flushing machinegun nests. Branch Rickey and Wid Mathews first took a liking to him and put him to work in the furnace room of baseball at Ft. Worth and Danville, 111., where he was alternately a guy who raked the on-deck circle and acted as a certified "gopher." was the guy who would go fer coffee, go fer telegrams, go fer broken light When Rickey dusted out for Pittsburgh with a million dollars of O'Malley's money, Walsh was called to Brooklyn as assistant farm director.

He was so efficient and so silent that some thought he was as mechanical as a scoreboard. "You wind him up and he does everything," explained one member. Naturally, no one thought to promote him. But, in 1956, he became traveling secretary pro-tem on a trip to Japan. O'Malley took notice of him for the first time.

In 1957, when O'Malley traded Ft. Worth for the Wrigley-owned Coast: League Angels, he sent LOUISVILLE It was four years ago. A towering basketball star from New York announced his intention to enroll at UCLA. A lot of people immediately conceded the Bruins three consecutive national championships. So far, Lew Alcindor has lived up to expectations.

He has led UCLA teams to two straight titles. The current edition is one victory from another. On Thursday night, Lew Alcin-dor's team played another game and won for the 87th time in 89 tries. And 18,435 people left Freedom Hall believing that UCLA might very well have lost, and quite conceivably will meet defeat here Saturday afternoon. UCLA was a three-point winner over Drake.

Purdue was a 27-point winner over North Carolina, which had been highly-regarded. And so the stage is set for Saturday's title-' game of the 31st annual NCAA basketball tournament. What They Say "We'll have to play a lot better if we're going to defeat Purdue," said John Wooden. "We're anxious to play UCLA again," said Rick Mount, the Purdue star. "We plan to run with them.

Running is our game," said George King, the Purdue coach. But then Wooden and Maury Jones, whose teams had just played a thrilling, 85-82 contest, wanted to reflect on what had just transpired. It was UCLA's 28th victory against one loss, but as was the case against California, against Washington, and against USC, a great escape was required. "Drake rattled us," Wooden said. "We probably had more turnovers than we've had all year." The Drake coach, whose team had overcome a jittery start it once trailed 11-2 to twice take leads in the second half, expressed his disappointment of the outcome.

"My kids had the feeling they outplayed UCLA," he said. "It was NFL OPPOSED AFL Owners Seek 26-Team League ith 4 Divisions BY BOB OATES Tlmis Stair Writer PALM SPRINGS It was like this on the desert Thursday night: For debating purposes only, most of the football owners have agreed to the principle of total realignment. The debates, which are persistent but amicable, have shown that the 26 owners are not yet, however, on the brink of an agreement to reorganize into a new 26-team league. It is still being said, therefore, that the most practical arrangement would preserve the framework of the present American and National Football Leagues playing interlocking schedules. An AFL plan, introduced Thursday at a joint meeting, shuffles the pro clubs into two leagues with four divisions (including two seven-team units and two six-team divisions).

The NFL prefers the present alignment of 16 NFL and 10 AFL clubs for what commissioner Pete Rozelle said are three reasons: (1) It has smaller divisions; (2) It provides for home-and-home scheduling within each division; (3) It retains the benefits of AFL-NFL rivalry. Please Turn to Page 13, Col. 1 ABBOTT Wrllir the grass course in 1:58 15 that converted the $57,050 Santa Barbara Handicap into a showcase for her brilliant speed. She beat Desert Law by a sizeable six lengths, with favored Gamely fading to third after her fruitless pursuit for more than a mile. This is the sort of thing Pink Pigeon had done before and her new American record arrived just a week short of the anniversary for her 1 18 miles in 1:45 45, a clocking that stands as the fastest of all time.

On this historic occasion she went just as fast and a little farther. No World Record Her new mark for 1 14 miles will not go into the books as a world record because the. first one-eighth of a mile winds down off the picturesque Santa Anita hillside. But this is only the second time any horse ever went so far so fast. Noor set the accepted global standard of 1:58 15 over a lightning-like Golden Gate dirt course.

Pink Pigeon did, however, erase the names of Round Table from the Santa Anita course record and Batteur Foxx from the stakes record. Both shared the old American mark of 1:58 25, Round Table setting the standard in 1959 and Batteur Foxx equalling the time in the 1965 Santa Barbara Handicap. Afterward, Pierce admitted he was as surprised as everyone. Please Turn to Page 12, Col. 5 BY BION Timet Slid There was some suspicion among the 20.0S4 spectators that Pink Pigeon might have been bewitched Thursday at Santa Anita.

After all, there was a professional practitioner of the art, Elizabeth Montgomery, waiting for her in the winner's circle. And it didn't take Pink Pigeon much longer than a couple of concentrated blinks of the eye. But anyone familiar with the rapid 5-year-old roan daughter of T.V. Lark knew she needed neither a broomstick nor assistance from television's Samantha. Pink Pigeon simply struck out on her own, with Don Pierce going along for the ride, and the result was a record-shattering 1 14 miles over Diane Crump Boots in Pair of Winners MIAMI tfl Diane Crump failed to win the feature race at Gulfstream Park Thursday which happens to be news because if she had gotten home with Zenas in the ninth event she would have become the first girl ever to ride three winners in one day at an American race track.

Diane, a slim, 20-year-old blonde, broke the race track sex barrier last Feb. 7 when she rode Bridle 'N Bit at Hialeah, the first girl ever to ride against men at a major American track. She had failed to win a race until Thursday, but she wasted no time finding the winner's circle. Rides $43 Winner She brought in Tou Ritzi, which paid $43 in the six-furlong first race, coming on from ninth place along the rail to win by VA lengths. She saved ground all the way and whipped Tou Ritzi with every stride from the eighth pole to the wire.

Diane came right back in the five-furlong third race to win with Blinking Bulldog, a 2-year-old filly. She broke the horse alertly, made the lead turning for home and drew out to win by 5M lengths. Blinking Bulldog paid $13.60. Both horses are trained by Don Divine, who holds Diane's contract. Miss Crump works at Divine's bam at Gulfstream every morning, grooming and excercising his horses.

Zenas was way over his head in the ninth race and Miss Crump finished last as Brookficld Farm's Interaction came from far back to outfinish Sui Generis by a length in the 1 1-lGth mile turf race. Favored Brash Man finished third with Mt. Vesuvius fourth. Andretti Takes Rap at Women Race Drivers SEBR1NG, Fla. (UPI) Mario Andretti, a slight dark Italian with the nose of a prize fighter, and pretty blonde Donna Mae Mims, both agree on one thing: "These women haven't any business out there," snapped Andretti, one of the world's top race drivers.

"Their minds are off over there somewhere. They're going to get somebody hurt." "I guess maybe we really shouldn't be out there in our car," Miss Mims, one of a three-woman team driving an Austin-Healey Sprite, said thurs-day. "But our car is in a classification that's allowed on the course, so I figure that makes it OK, "It's such a sweet car," she bubbled, "but the little thing won't go over 120 to 125 miles an hour." Practice runs and qualification for the arduous Sebring 12-hour endurance race were scheduled to begin Thursday. Up until now none of the entries has been allowed on the twisting, 5.2-mile road course. Please Turn to Page 12, Col.

6 Healey is Liane Engeman of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Co-drivers are Janet Guthrie (left) of Great Neck, N.Y., and Donna Mae Mims of Pittsburgh Walsh out to pave the way with the community for the Great Migration west. Please Turn to Page 12, Col. 3 WATCH THOSE CURVES Proving it's a woman's world, those distaff drivers get ready for trials in 1 2 hours of Sebring race. Seated at wheel of Austin-.