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IP'J gloves a hard-hit ball after a head-first dive, scrambles to his knees and throws out runner. The Dodger star, who has won several Golden Glove awards, made only one error in 1968 and six last season. THE GOLDEN GLOVE The defensive skill of Wes Parker, the Dodger first baseman, is captured in these photos taken during a game at Vero Beach and put- together by Times artist Russ Arasmith. Parker CATCHER ANXIOUS TO BE TRADED Torborg Wants to Be No. 1 -With Anybody about it.

Once I get to be 30 or it will be too late." Torborg is a catcher whose defensive skills are acknowledged widely. He is a personable and polite young man who received $100,000 from the Dodgers when he came out of Rutgers University in 1963. And he wishes to be traded. It is a reluctant request, but one that has festered through all his days as the reserve catcher behind Roseboro and Haller and now, apparently, Sudakis. "Believe me," he said, "I'd rather be the No.

1 catcher for the Dodgers than for any other club and that includes the two teams in New York, which is my home. "However, it is evident, by theiv actions that I have been, am and will Tom Murphy Aiming to BUSINESS FINANCE CC PART II! THURSDAY, MAR. 12, 1970 Keep Cool have lo start concentrating. I have to stop letting the little things get me down. "So much of this game is psychological.

I think I came into spring training last year thinking it was easier than it was and by the time I realized that it wasn't easy it was too late lo rescue my year." He won five and lost six in the last half of the 1968 season and his earned run average for 99 innings was 2.18. The notices were all rave and the scouts and the hangers-on marveled at the young man who wore silk brocade Nehru suits off the field. Murphy laughs about that. "You'll find my press clippings from 196S," he says, "packed along with my Nehru suits from the same year in mothballs." He lives in Newport Beach "in a tiny liberal island in the midst of the conservatives" and when he talks about his life and his team he does Please Turn to Page 4, Col. 2 Champion Bruins Face Upstart 49ers Pacific 8 Prestige Riding on UCLA in NCAA Clash or BY JOHN WIEBUSCH Tlm Staff Wriltr MESA, Ariz.

The statistics seem to suggest that Tom Murphy's pitching last season was as wild as his wardrobe. The Angels' 24-year-old righthander led the American League in hit batsmen (21) and wild pitches (16) and there were whispers in the clubhouse that Tom Murphy's worst enemy was himself. i He lost 16 games more than any bitcher in the league except Cleveland's Luis Tiant, who lost 20 and in September, when it was almost over, he said, "There are smart pitchers and stupid pitchers and it doesn't take a genius to classify me." Murphy, a graduate of Ohio University, spent the winter thinking and searching and resting. And he talks now of a new maturity, of a new Tom Murphy. "The big problem," he says, "is simply that I tend to lose my cool too quickly.

Things upset me and CONTINUING FARCE BY BOSS NEWMAN Tim Slaff Writer VliRO BEACH first there was John Roseboro and then Torri Hal-ler. Now all the lime is being given to Bill Sudakis. "I am rooting for Sudakis," said Jeff Torborg. "If Sudakis is the catcher, theDodgers will be forced to trade me." It is Torborg's seventh spring as a Dodger and Wednesday was his first day in uniform. He stood by the baiting cage and discussed his holdout, a holdout that did not stem from a desire for more money but rather a passion to play as a regular.

"I am 2S years old," he said, "and I believe I have untapped potential. This is the time to do something Dodgers Find Their Kind of Ball: Get 21 Hits, 15 Runs Exclusive lo Tha Timai from Staff wrllir VERO BEACH Capped by Willie Crawford's home run, the Dodgers rallied for four runs in the ninth inning Wednesday and a 15-14 victory over the Houston-Astros. The game was marked by 38 hits as an experimental, high, compression baseball was employed as it will be in all Wednesday exhibition games this spring. The ball is called 5-X and has 5 greater compression than the regulation model. The Dodgers collected 21 of the hits.

Crawford and Bill Sudakis hit home runs for the Dodgers while Norm Miller and Doug Radar connected for the Astros. Wind Makes Judgment Difficult A wind of 20 milejs per hour blowing toward the outfield made it difficult to judge to what extent the livelier baseball contributed to the hitting barrage. "With the wind," said Dodger manager Walter Alston, "this wasn't a fair test. It's my opinion that since we're putting so much astroturf into our parks (six in the National League), we don't need a livelier ball." That opinion might not be shared by Andy Kosco, who had five hits, including two doubles and a triple. Three Astros Miller, Joe Pepitone and Jesus Alou each had three hits.

Don Sutton, making his first start, Please Turn-to Page 5, Col. 1 CARDS SAY ALLEN AGREES TO SIGN ST. PETERSBURG IM Richie Allen agreed to terms with the St. Louis Cardinals late Wednesday night, an official of the baseball, team said. Jim Toomey, assistant to Cardinals general manager Bing Devihe, said he received a call from Allen's lawyer in Philadelphia saying that the first baseman would fly here today and sign his contract.

Allen will get $85,000, it was learned. Allen failed to appear at the Cards' camp Wednesday. This led to a "Show" Up or Sit Out" ultimatum from August A. Busch, the club wner. Busch said that the Cards planned to stick with their final offer.

"He'll report or not play at all for the Cardinals." always be the No. 2 catcher. am proud to have been a Dodger, but I want a shot at being somebody's No. Initially, Torborg made his request in a letter to vice president Al Campanis that was received in midwinter. Since that time, Campanis has made every effort to satisfy Torborg's desire.

The latest was a bid to send the catcher to the Angels in return for pitcher Clyde Wright. The transaction was blocked when the waivers on Torborg were claimed by Montreal and San Diego. Now Campanis is attempting to negotiate with the Expos, putting Torborg in a package that would Please Turn to Page 5, Col. 1 when that happens I lose my poise And the next thing that goes is my concentration. "The sequence goes like this: (a) minor mistake, (b) anger and lack of concentration, (c) major mistake.

Oh, and add (d) to that as in defeat." Lefty Phillips, the manager, agrees and he tells the story about the time when Roy Campanella saw Murphy pitch the night before the Oldtimers' game last year at Anaheim Stadium. "Murphy was the pitcher on the Saturday before the game," says Phillips, "and Campy happened to see him work. The next day he says me, 'That Murphy is some good pitcher but whenever he gets upset he tries to throw the ball too hard and he makes a He said it all after seeing Murphy once." The pitcher nods his head in agreement. "I am confident that I can be a winning pitcher in this league," he says, "but to do that I marched down the hill again. The Milwaukee contingent was reduced to looking at each other.

(United Press International reported Wednesday that Cronin has the nine votes needed to move the Pilots to Milwaukee, and the move should be announced shortly. The ironing out of a few minor details is all that remains). It was the calling of the Tampa meeting that never took place that was another example of the functioning of the geniuses who help to make major-league baseball the world's worst-run big business. In the full application of their wisdom they had brought off another event as empty as a rimless cipher. More Money Needed One month ago, there wasn't supposed to be a Tampa meeting.

On Feb. the A. L. club owners met and Cronin announced that all was well with Seattle. The league agreed to advance the ownership $650,000 to help pay the interest on a bank loan and other obligations, and said everything was now in order iti Seattle.

Cronin even installed an old and seasoned baseball man, former Yankee general manager Roy Harney, to boss the new show in Seattle. But in the succeeding weeks, the club owners began to hear disturbing re-Pleas Turn to Page 3, Col. 3 Seattle's Baseball Problem: An Enduring Mess for A.L. BY SHIRLEY POVICH Excluilva to Ttia Tlmai from tha Waitiington Poit JIM MURRAY Defining an My colleague, the book reviewer, Bob Kirsch, is concerned with the ecology of the written word. If you think the Santa Barbara Channel is loused up, you should see what our generation has done to the common noun, he suggests, in reviewing a book called "Language in America," which holds that the pesticides of parlance are really going to lead to a silent spring, to say nothing of the rest of-the year.

The temperature inversion is total, and the vowels and consonants are beginning to fall back in the form of semantic smog. The so cielal breakdown is not really in communication, it's in language. A sea of garrulity erodes the cliffs of comprehension. And I do not only mean in the stock Reader's Digest Our Confusing Language Department, the cliche "Bough, bow, prey, pray" inconsistencies of spelling and meaning. What's an 'Amateur'? Just picture, for instance, the English scholar of the year 4000 A.D.

wrestling with the 20th-century word "amateur." "Doctor, come here," I can hear him saying. "I find here a total inconsistency between the Funk Wagnalls notion of 'amateur' and the Big Ten's in the 20th Century. We assume for the moment the classic derivation, 'One who engages in a pursuit, study or science or sport as -a. pastime rather than a profession, or; one lacking in experience or competence in an art, science or sport1 is valid. But, we see 'amateurs' accepting college educations that are worth, by their methods of exchange, $10,000 in return for their sports skills.

We see Europeans accepting commissions In the army with commensurate pay for non-military skills like high-jumping and plate-throwing." At the rate things are going, I expect that the historians of the futore will have to wonder how som Russian got to be rear 'Amateur1 admiral with a discus or field marshal with a shot. The sad, or happy (depending on your point of view) truth is that the Greek definition of "amateur" is as obsolete as the age which spawned it. In an era of specialization, Ihe neurosurgeon can hardly find the time to become a high-hurdler on the side. To keep up with the law, you can hardly extract several hours a day to do interval running. To be sure, the four-minute mile was broken by a guy on his way to becoming a doctor, but that was 16 years ago.

It's a cinch the three-minute mile will be broken by a guy on his way to becoming a coach. At the very least, the "amateur" athlete is a kind of complicated sandwich-board man. Instead of stilts, he wears skis or spikes. He doesn't get on the victory stand wearing a hat that lights up "Eat at Joe's," but he holds up "Puma" or "Head" or a bottle of "Crocodile Juice." What brings this up is that Bob Dellinger at Petersen Productions has brqught forth an hour documentary titled, "The Amateur Athlete," which features Bob Sea-gren, the pole vaulter, with cameos by John Carlos, Bill Toomey, Ron Clarke and the last ofthe Russian spear-throwers, Janis Lusis. Not surprisingly, it demonstrates that the common characteristic of the athletic champion is the capacity for self-punishment, the stubborn ego which makes man want to leave his own monument behind, whether it's the 18-foot vault or the picture of a smirking lady the same drive' which has sustained painters and politicians, saints and savants throughout history.

Ghettos Spawn Champs The documentary is well worth the 60 minutes of your time it will take up, giving a unique peek at the mentality which makes man want to clear three times his height over a cross-bar or run faster than the capacity of his lungs to keep up. But it allows the athletes to argue again the discredited notion that money makes prowess. The opposite is all too clearthat privation scares up 100 times more champions than privilege. The ghetto has much heavier representation in the Olympics than, the Please Turn to Page 12, Col. 1 FT.

LAUDERDALE The American League's on-again, offagain Seattle franchise has achieved a form of stability. It is an enduring mess. For the reading public, the league's attempts to deal with the Seattle situation have become a continuing farce; for the Seattle fan community it is a sickening cliff-hanger, and for the A.L. club owners it is a headache and financial horror rooted in their own blunders. The latest comic-opera aspects of the whole business occurred Tuesday.

The 12 league club owners were summoned from the two coasts to attend a meeting in a Tampa hotel that would decide forever the destiny of the Seattle franchise. Heavily bankrolled delegates from Milwaukee were waiting to pounce on the final miseries of the over-extended Seattle ownership. Daley Illness Just an Excuse The meeting at Tampa never happened. At two o'clock in the morning, A. L.

president Joe Cronin telephoned the last club owner that it wouldn't. According to Cronin, Bill Daley, the chief Seattle stockholder, was ill. In Cleveland, Daley said ho was not ill and unaware he was being used to postpone the meeting. No new dale for taking up the Seattle problem was reset. The owners who had hurried to Tampa from as far as Tucson and California BY DW1GHT CHAPIN Tlmti staff Wriltr SEATTLE The dream will turn to ashes for a superior college basketball team here tonight.

Will it be the champion, regal, undefeated in tournament play over the last three seasons? Or will it be the challenger, an upstart respectful but not awed by the assignment at hand? UCLA or Cal State Long Beach? It's a classic match, a David-and-Goliath battle that has excited West Coast fans of the college sport as few games have in recent years. Pacific 8 prestige, the honor of the old league, is on the line against the fledgling Pacific Coast Athletic Assn. More important, it's the test of the best of college basketball against a squad that is bidding to become the best after only two seasons in the big time. The records are almost the same. UCLA is 24-2, Long Beach 24-3 after its victory in the first round of the regionals against Weber State last weekend.

The Bruins undeniably, have met the tougher opposition but the 49ers are a hot team now, quick and confident. All signs point to a sizzling struggle when the teams meet tonight at 9:05 at the University of Washington's Edmundson Pavilion Pitas Turn to Pat 6, Col..