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Bj7 1 Mm ip2 Pi lotq lvUyi4w I llVr rfiet Att ete LnQflyBS IIH16 th Africans Split on Olympic Games Issue BY STANLEY MEISLEB same uniforms, march un mittee to rescind its deci- for the rest of. South sports must be separated Africa to accommodate from politics, insisted that der the same flag, and sion before October wpuld weaken a wing of Vorster's party known as the the 'Ifs' her." So far, Ethiopia, Algeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, Gambia, the United Arab Republic, Mali, Somalia, Guinea, and Syria have announced they will boycott the Olympic Games now that South Africa has been allowed to take part. The Kenya National Council for Sport will meet today to make its decision. For Kenya, the decision Difficult Decision may be difficult. Kenya's team would field Kipchoge Keino, the world's second-fastest miler, and several other long-distance runnersall used to high altitudes somewhat like that of Mexico City.

If Kenya took part, it might bring back a number of medals. A few weeks ago, Mai Whitfield, the Olympic gold medal track star who now works for the U.S. Information Service, urged Kenyans to take part in the Olympics no matter what the Olympic Committee did with the South African application. Whitfield, who said that "Verligtes" (Afrikaans for the enlightened ones). They are the people who urge the South African government to soften its race policies somewhat, who continually reassess the contradictions and problems of their country's apartheid laws, and who want South Africa to break its isolation and join the world community.

Vorster made his concessions under their influence. But the subtleties of Internal South African politics make no impression on many independent nations of black Africa. "The so-called concessions are just rhetorical nonsense, said an editorial in the Sunday Nation of Nairobi, Ienya. "The South Africa government should allow competition between the various racial groups, and abandon its racial policies. "Otherwise, it will be difficult, if not impossible, Dust Off BY MILTON Wt StH IT.

LAUDERDALE, The one word that'll be used most often throughout Florida the next two months is the word "if." It'll be used a lot in Arizona and California also because some clubs are training there, and it's rather traditional that whenever a manager gets stuck in the spring he always falls back on "if." Ralph Houk, who welcomed the first contingent of Yankee players for the start of training here Monday, is exactly like any of the other 19 major league managers. He has any number of ifs on his roster. That's Way It Is "We can get back Into contention if a few of our youngsters like Bill Robinson, Steve Whitaker and Mike Ferraro come through," says Houk. "I know these are all ifs, but n.Unf It'ieaViall anri That Stiff Wrtttr SALISBURY, Rhodesia The current clamor over South Africa and the Olympics can be stripped to one issue. Is there any hope left for peacefully drawing South Africa out of its racist isolation? Those who still have hope felt comfortable with the International Olympic Committee's decision last week to let South Africa take part in the Olympic Games in Mexico City this October.

In their view, the decision strengthens the hand of those white leaders in South Africa who are trying to change the racial policies of their country, at least a little. But the decision is abhorrent to those who have given up hope. In their view, the decision strengthens the hand of a racist government that, no matter how flexible, intends to maintain forever the basic race laws and policii- of South Africa. Political Issue In South Africa, participation in the Olympics has become a major political Issue. Prime minister John B.

Vorstqr has been attacked in scathing terms by members of the right wing of his Nationalist party for making concessions on race to the Olympic Committee. The concessions may seem meager to the outside world: Vorster promised that South Africa, without changing its race policies at home, would send an Olympic team of athletes of different races who would travel together, stay together, wear the Walter Winchell all sports actually come down to in the final analy- says: "Let Executive (Bow you why it eoitt lesi to lease your new car than to buy it, and how much more convenient it can be!" PHONE TODAYl EXECUTIVE CAR LEASING COMPANY Boulevard, Los Angalet 5000 Is Onnei Cnntt Ki 7-3011 7807 Santa Monica la The Valley ST 3-3220 OL 4 sis." Houk is right. That's what baseball is all about and so are all the other sports. That's why 18 of the 20 major league managers generally look back at February in October and say, "If I'd have only known then what I. know now." Take the White Sox for example.

A vear ago, their manager, "Eddie Stanky, came to spring training, and knew he had the kind of Bruin Netters Sweep Gauchos UCLA's Gary Rose, the No. 1 1-r a i men's singles player in the U.S.-, scored a 6-3, 6-2 victory oyer UC Santa Barbara's Don Neil Monday as the Bruins swept to a vic- tory in their season tennis opener at Westwood. SINGLES Gry Host def. Dan Nell, -3, 6-2; Roy Barth def. Wayne Bryan, -0, 6-0; Steve Tidball def Bill Steiner, 6-3, 4-3; Tom Karp def.

Ted Camp-; bell, 6-2, 6-1; Ed Grubb def. Jerry Hatchett, 4-0, 4-2; John Houghton def. Norm Chrlpt, 6-1, 6-1. DOUBLES Barth-Tidbsll def. Neil-Campbell, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4; Rose-Houghton def.

Steiner-Brvan, 6-3, 12-10; Karp-Grubb def. Jamie Miller-Hatchett, 6-0, onProSports MOSCOW (UPI) The first Soviet athlete to call for openly, professional sports in Russia changed his tune Monday. Yuri Vlasov, the former Olympic heavyweight weight lifting champion, wrote In the newspaper, "Young Georgia" (Molo-daya Gruziya), that "it is unworthy of a human being to practice professional sports." This was a switch from an article which Vlasov published in 1966, in which he said a top amateur athlete must, in effect, devote his life to his sport and should not be forced to hold down another job besides. "Sooner or later," he said then, "major sport must separate from ordinary sport. Sporting events wiil be planned as entertainment I think the time will come when it will be recognized that sport is a profession.

It is a lawful occupation, a calling." No Support Vlasov received no noticeable support from other Soviet athletes or sports officials, who thrive in international amateur competition through a well-developed "sha-mateurism." Top Soviet athletes often hold well-paid token jobs and spend all their time in training. Vlasov did not say why he had changed his mind. But he noted that the rising standards of amateur sports "predetermine a gradual profession-alization of sports. "This process bothers everyone to whom the ideals of amateur sports are dear," he said. "Something must be done to curb this process." Vlasov, who has retired as a weightlifter to devote full time to writing, said that "precious human energy should not be wasted on muscle-building.

Professional sports turns a man into- a muscle machine. COACHES Continued from First Page 11 gold medals at Innsbruck, Austria, four years ago, got only five in the latest Olympics, along with five silver and three bronze. Tass, in a long comment on Grenoble, stressed the theme that competition in winter sports is getting tougher. "Not a single Winter Olympics has reflected so vividly the progress of winter sports in many countries," the agency said. "Grenoble scored a record in the number of countries winning gold medals.

"In the next few years, winter sports will undoubtedly spread to still other countries, and the struggle at the Olympics will become even more bitter." Hairpiece New 1968 ins RICHMAN Writer hitters who couldn't put a noticeable dent in a jar of cold cream. Nobody had to tell him that He knew it himself. "We tried to get some hitters during the winter, but we couldn't," he said one year ago. "Who did you try to get?" Stanky was asked. "We tried to get Carl Yastrzemski from the Red he said, "and we negotiated with the Yankees for Roger Maris." The White Sox came up empty both times, but as long as managers like to employ the word if, just imagine how much difference Yastrzemski would have made to the White Sox last year.

Or. even Maris. Hank Bauer, Baltimore's manager, gets sick whenever he hears the word if. If" Jim Palmer, Dave McNally, Wally Bunker and Steve Barber hadn't come up with sore arms; if Frank Robinson hadn't been hurt; if Boog Powell hadn't skidded all the way to .234 Sometimes the whole thing works out different-': ly, though. Like in.

Jim Lonborg's case. He a 10-10 record with the Red Sox in 1966 and as he prepared for the 1967 season with them in Winter Haven 12 months ago, he said, "If everything goes right, there's no reason in the world I shouldn't win 15 games." Barn Burner Lonborg short-changed himself seven games. But -here it is another spring and he's faced with still another if. This one has to do with the knee he injured skiing. Lonborg's boss, Dick Williams, also relied on the word if last spring, only in his particular case everything worked out perfectly.

"If we can work bur-selves into shape and start the season physically sound," he said during spring training, "we can make some hay." nothing. Williams and his Red Sox came up with a real barn burner. There were no ifs about it. That Old fk did win feiPti Imfe id Kenya should not give up a chance to help black Africa make a strong showing at the Olympics. Moreover, he added that black African athletes, could do more to show their superiority over white South Africans by beating rather than boycotting them.

But emotions are high. And it would be difficult for Kenya to resist any rush by black African countries to demonstrate, through their boycott, that they see little hope for peaceful change in South Africa, no matter what concessions Vorster makes to the Olympic Committee. FREE SAMPLE FOR CIGAR SMOKERS ONLY! 1.1 nil THE GREAT NEW CIGAR TREAT POSITIVE PLEASURE Delightful tasty wonder smoke with unique removable "quill-tip." Ask for Bra- 2il Nips, if not in your area they will be soon. Mean-While, write forFREEsampla. PAN AMERICAN CIGAR COMPANY Dapt.

NH, Hobokaa, NJ. welcome price compete in the same events. But the right wing, known as the "Verk-ramptes" (Afrikaans for the constricted or cramped one), looked on these concessions as a wedge into the apartheid laws and customs of South Africans. To them. it was another in a series of dangerous changes of policy made by Vorster in the last year to improve South Africa's standing with the rest of the world.

Possible Reaction As Andre Nel, the pseudonym of a brilliant and liberal South African journalist, summed it up in the Durban Sunday Tribune, "If there was one aspect of his (Vorster's) 'outward' policy which stuck in the craw of his ultraconservative right wing even raoe than the presence of black diplomats, it was the thought of mixed sport." Nel added that, "if the bid to have the ban on South Africa's participation in the Games lifted had failed, the chorus of I-told-you-so from the right would have been deafening and far-reaching. "Because the Verk-ramptes would then have been able to claim that concessions to the outside world did not get South Africa anywhere, that the 'outward' policy as a whole should be abandoned in favor of retreat behind the traditional battlements." In the same way, any pressure that might persuade the Olympic Com IMPORTED BY AND 41 uULI 7 I Jt I Meet Hiram Walker's Special Canadian. It's special, all right! Distinctive. Perfectly balanced for modern tastes. Attractively priced to sell sine Dy siae witn aomesuc 1 whiskies.

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The French gendarmerie, 6,705 strong from all parts of France, get a special award for not arresting a single journalist, athlete or official, not even the combined bobsled teams at Alpe d'Huez who protested the firing of a "Bunny" for falling in love with an Italian sledder. Come to think of it, the bobsled teams get medal, too, for registering their protest; by carrying a Renault car into the lobby of the press center and leav- Ing it there in. protest. France gets the Maurice Chevalier Medal because the girl was reinstated. 12.

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