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f- 4 i hY fulabclpfiia inquirer 36 FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1969 Classified Comics, Puzzles lyers Winless Streak 2lo Hit Williams Reported In As Senator Manager WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (AP). Tempestuous Ted Williams, the controversial slugger who once said "you couldn't pay me enough to manage," has been named manager of the hapless Washington Senators, the Associated Press learned Thursday night.

Blues9 Defense, Berenson Excel To Home Music By JACK CHEVALIER Of The Inquirer Staff The Flyers, with only six wins in their previous 39 games, decided to take drastic measures Thursday. So they w'TzrTfmWMm fired their organist, Larry Ferrari. To replace him, they 4 4. NBA Schedule No Fast Shuffle EDDIE GOTTLIEB grabbed the unsuspecting reporter by the arm and steered him from the newsstand to his office on the 18th st. side of the Sheraton Hotel.

"It'll just take a minute," Gottlieb said, a smile on his face. "I just want to prove to you that I don't write the schedule on napkins." That is a standard joke around the National Basketball Association, and Gottlieb doesn't really like it. So he reached into a briefcase and produced a fistful of yellow paper. The type of fine-lined paper peo Blues' defenseman Barclay Plager (right) clears puck after Flyers' Jimmy Johnson (20) fired short backhander that was blocked by St. Louis goalie Jacques Plante.

Garry Peters (15) can't get rebound in 2-1 loss. ple use when they want struct graphs and charts. schedule," Gottlieb announced proudly. "Right here. See that.

No napkins." The NBA schedule (82 games per team) occupies much of Eddie Gottlieb's time these 12,830 Fans, 25-Degree Chill days. He does it all. Greet Liberty Bell Opening game, it may De tne tougnest job in, the league, though Earl Strom might debate that. Strom, however, is paid to listen By JOHN DELL Of The Inquirer Staff Bell Park's "spring meeting" Ray Hottinger, who tried to stir up a Spectrum crowd of 9362 by playing the St. Louis Blues' fight song The music did nothing more than stir up the Blues, who skated off with a 2-1 triumph and now the Flyers have won only six of their last 40 Only in the expanded Nation al Hockey League could a team with such a record still have a shot at the lucrative Stanley Cup.

Despite the loss, the Fly ers remained safely entrenched in fourth place, the final play off spot, in the Western Di vision. BERENSON STARS St. Louis star Red Berenson set up veterans Ab McDonald and Jean-Guy Talbot for the tell tale goals in the second period. Goalie Jacques Plante and the Blues' swarming defense had the Flyers shut out until the final two minutes of the game when an Allan Stanley shot found the net. The home team then hustled all over the ice in a hectic attempt to salvage another tie, but Plante blocked three shots in the last 1:55 and that was it.

The Flyers took their 13th one-goal defeat of the season. "The Blues were just laying back and playing defensive hockey in the last period," said Flyer Coach Keith Allen, "and we had a million chances. But half our shots were blocked before they ever reached the goal." PLANTE GETS HELP The Flyers led in shots on goal, 30-28, and had several other drives carom wide of the cage in the first period. In the third session, St. Louis used a defense that looked like a collapsing zone as defensemen Doug Harvey, Noel Picard and Talbot gave Plante plenty of help.

One of the secrets to the Blues' success at home is organist Ray Kramer, who pounds out a cadence that puts the crowd in a hand-clapping, foot-stomping mood. Pittsburgh and Minnesota instructed their organists to try the same music and now the Flyers have joined the crowd. ORGANIST DOESN'T WIN' Yeah, we heard it," Berenson admitted. "It's spreading all over the league. But it's our fans who make the difference.

And besides, an organist doesn't win games The Flyers tried other innova tions, like putting Myron Stan kiewicz on the "French Line." replacing injured Dick Sarra-zin, but still saw their winless streak reach eight straight. They are now 31 points behind the runaway Blues. Just after Plante had made a save on Don Blackburn in the second period, the Blues put on a tnree-man rush that produced the game's first goal. Jim Roberts fed Berenson along the right boards and McDonald came along to knock in a re lmred What is labeled Liberty 25-degree winter chill and Dancer, won the outstanding A. BASKETBALL NATIOWAL BASKETBALL ASSX.

Thursday's Results Chicago 120 Detroit 101 (Only same scheduled.) Standings Eastern Division W. Pet. .733 .672 .672 .610 .517 .393 GB. 3 4 Baltimore 44 New York 43 76EKS 39 Boston 36 Cincinnati 31 Detroit 24 16 21 19 23 29 37 74 13 Milwaukee 17 44 .279 27fc Western Division W. L.

Pet. .672 .603 .450 .443 .397 .349 .217 GB. 4 Los Angeles 41 Atlanta 38 San Francisco 27 San Diego 27 Chicago 25 Seattle 22 Phoenix 13 20 25 33 34 38 41 47 14 17 20 Friday's Games 76ERS vs. San Francisco, at the Spee trum. 8 P.

M. Milwaukee at Baltimore. Phoenix at Detroit. Boston at Atlanta. San Diego at Los Angeles.

(Only games scheduled.) AMERICAN BASKETBALL ASS.V. Thursday's Results Miami 131 Minnesota 125 New Orleans 116 Los Angeles 100, Oakland 122 Kentucky 108 (Only games scheduled.) Standings Eastern Division Western Division Pet. Pet. 'Worse' in Quebec Favell Recalled TWO weeks with the Quebec Aces didn't solve Doug Fa-vell's problem, so the Flyers recalled their slump-ridden goal-tender Thursday to put him on a rigid exercise program. "I think Favell's trouble is all in his head," Flyers' General Manager Bud Poile said.

"He's had too much free time to think about this slump, so we're going to keep him busy. "He's going to practice with the team and do some jogging on his own. He's going to play handball, which is great for a goaltender's reflexes. And we're putting him on a high protein diet." Favell, who attended Thursday nisht's Flyer-St. Louis game at the Spectrum, played 4V3 games for Quebec in the American Hockey League.

He allowed 19 goals for a 4.25 aver age. His mark with the Flyers was 3.49 for 19 games. "I was just as bad as I was here," Doug admitted. "In fact I Was worse. Everything's going wrong.

One time, I knocked in the winning goal myself." JACK CHEVALIER Canadiens Halt Streak With 3-1 Victory From Our Wire Services DETROIT, Feb. 13. The Montreal Canadiens ended De troit's four-game winning streak, 3-1, Thursday night before 15,317 the fourth-place Red Wings' second largest home crowd in history. Montreal moved within four points of the idle Boston Bruins, who lead the National Hockey League's Eastern Division and have played two fewer games than the Canadiens. Ralph Backstrom beat Detroit goalie Roy Edwards on a breakaway for his seventh goal at 12:44 of the first period.

Jacques Lemaire made it 2-0 with a left point slap shot that blazed over Edwards' left shoulder. Lemaire scored his 21st goal and clinched victory by deflect ing Jacques Laperriere's high drive past Edwards at 8:40 of the third period. Montreal 2 0 13 Detroit 0 1 01 FIRST PERIOD 1, Mont, Backstrom 7 (J. C. Tremblay) 12:44.

2. Mont, Lemaire 20 (Harris) 16:28. Penalties Backstrom M) 5:21. Popiel (D) 10:01. Ferguson (M) and Douglas (D) 12:02.

Harris 13:51. SECOND PERIOD: 3, Det, (M), Mac-Gregor 11 (Bergman, Stemkowski) 3:01. Penalties Savard (M) Popiel (D) 16:37. THIRD PERIOD: 4. Mont, Lemaire 21 (Laperriere) 8:43.

Penalty: Mahovlich c-i it in it 52 I Detroit 11-7 8 26 Goalies Montreal, Edwards. Kings Net 3 in 5:33, Clobber Rangers, 4-j LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Kings scored three goals in the first 5:33 and drubbed the New York Rangers, 4-1, to move within four points oi serona-piace uaKiana in me Western Division. Defenseman Bob Wall beat 1 goalie Gilles Villemure, substi-. tuting for Ed Giacomin, after 21 seconds of play. Eddie Joyal scored his 24th goal at 4:38.

Ted Trvinp msiip it. 3-0 Rookie Gerry Desjardins, the last goalie to shut out the Ran- I worsiey. I isnt. "You never hear the owners complain about the schedule, do you?" Gottlieb said. "That's because they got nothing to complain about.

They're the ones who approve it." The subject of scheduling is a popular one around the NBA. Players, coaches and writers are constantly moaning about a schedule which includes six games in seven days in six different cities. Or a night game in one city and an afternoon game someplace else the next day. Or a night game on one coast and then a long cross-country trip for another game the next evening. EDDIE GOTTLIEB, the theory goes, is a sadist.

Or, according to another theory, Eddie Gottlieb is having something a little stronger than coffee during those late-night sojourns in his office. Once, Eddie Gottlieb used to own and coach the old Warriors. "Don't tell me about traveling headaches," he said. "One night, we're scheduled to play in Rochester. In the morning, we're sitting in a plane at Newark Airport.

The plane isn't moving. George Senesky looks at his watch and says if we don't do something soon, we are going to be in trouble. "So we get off the plane, hire three cabs and drive to Rochester. We get there at 8:15 for an 8:30 game. Lester Harrison was the owner in Rochester.

Lots of times he'd come up to you and say, 'We got a big crowd in the lobby, we're going to hold the game up 15 minutes so they can get This night 1 figure he'll hold the game up so we can practice. But no, he comes out to me and says, 'No warmups, no nothing. We got to start on They blasted us right off the court." People keep approaching Eddie Gottlieb. They ask him why he doesn't shorten the schedule and why he doesn't schedule teams for a series in a town instead of one-night trips. "I don't know why they blame me," he said.

"I only make the schedule up with the dates I'm given by the teams. IH tell you something, no sched I I I I The appointment of the for- mer Boston great matched the recent coup by the football Redskins in grabbing the fabulously successful Vince Lombardi as their coach. FANTASTIC OFFER The 50-year-old Williams, last of. baseball's .400 hitters, accepted what he called "the most fantastic offer I've ever received" from the Senators' new owner, Bob Short. Terms of the contract were not disclosed, but a source close to Williams said he signed a long-term pact.

The source said it was a price Williams "just couldn't turn down." "Any club with a chance to get Williams would be out of its mind not to get him," Short said. SUCCEEDS JIM LEMON "I cannot immediately deliver a new team, but it is possible to get a storybook manager." Williams replaces Jim Lemon, who was dismissed two weeks ago, after one season as pilot, on Short's first full day as owner of the last-place Amercan League club. Only six years ago Williams was quoted as saying: "I held no managerial ambitions as a player and I have none now." TWO OFFERS REJECTED He said he had turned down two offers to manage, both presumably from the Boston Red Sox, with whom he spent his entire major league career as an ouuiewer. Williams was believed to be in Fayetteville, N. but was not available Thursday for com ment.

Williams joined the Red Sox in 1939 to begin a stormy ca reer that lasted through 1960 but was interrupted twice for a total of almost five years by war service as a Marine pilot FINISHED WITH FLOURISH He finished his career with a 450-foot home run (his 521st) in his last time at bat with a life time batting average of .344 that included 1839 runs batted in and six American League batting titles. Williams first retired after the 1954 campaign, but changed his mind a month after the start of the 1955 season and hit a home run in his first game back. He quit for good after 1960 to devote most of his time to his fishing enterprises, serving as an occasional batting instructor for the Red Sox. WILLIAMS PLEASED Williams, a member of base ball's Hall of Fame, told The Washington Daily News he had met twice with Short, a Minne apolis millionaire. "This man is one of the most exciting individuals I've ever met," Williams said.

"We talked of lots of things baseball, Washington, D. C. He really poured himself into it. "It pleased me that he thought I could actually do something for Washington, the nation's capital." Bulls Defeat Pistons, 120-101 CHICAGO, Feb. 13 (AP).

Bob Boozer, Clem Haskins and Jimmy Washington combined for 29 points in the third quarter Thursday night, sparking the Chicago Bulls to a 120-101 Na tional Basketball Association victory over the Detroit Pistons. The Bulls, shooting 60 percent from the floor in the first half to take a 52-47 edge, could not pull away until Washington began finding the range. Washington scored 13 points in the third quarter, nine of them in the first 4Vfe minutes to build up a 71-57 lead. Haskins and Boozer then took up the scoring tempo, and the Bulls cruised ahead by 90-66. DETROIT CHICAGO 1 1 7 T' Haiiston 3 2-3 8 Boozer 8 4-4 Discb'ser 4 3-3 11 Wash'gton 8-10 20 Bellamy 5 3-7 13 BoerwTtle 4 3-4 Bing 4 1-2 9 Sloan 5 4- Komivea 4 Haskins 8 5-5 "I 1 uisen z-5 6 Weiss 1 1-1 Miles 3 4-5 10 Love 5 0-1 Moore 3 3-4 9 Kewmark 4 0-0 McLemore 3 0-0 Pedersen 0 0-0 Walker 3 7-8 13 Clemens 6 1-1 Cam bee 3 2-2 8 Totals 37 27-39 101 Totals 47 26-32 120 4 Detroit 24 23 19 35-101 Chicago 22 30 38 50-120 Fouled Out None.

Total Fouls-Detroit 26. Chicago 23. St. John's Wins; Calvin Held to 29 JAMAICA, N. Feb I3ii (AP).

Ninth-ranked St. John's University (17-3) humiliated Niagara, 97-60, Thursday night and held Calvin Murphy, the nation's No. 2 college scorer acTSu Carnesecca used'! three men to guard Murphy, I i 1 I I 1 Si 4 Ke's'ou Is fit Setier Jftond $5000 division of the Indepen- to con "The Every i SANDY PADWE I I 1 'A. to gripes. Eddie Gottlieb i I I I I I 1 things, hockey, ice shows up the basketball dates.

'3 see a professional basket- through a deserted airport l0t thingS' 1 opened Thursday night in seasons and tastes, Stanley 12-mile-an-hour wind hit the Egyptian Upsets Mark Cox in Indoor Tennis SALISBURY. Feb. 13 (UPI). Young Egyptian champion Ismael El Shafei continued in the role of spoiler in the 1969 United States men's indoor tennis championships Thursday when he blasted the second foreign seed, Mark Cox (No. 1 in England), 9-7, 6-4, and gained Saturday's semifinals.

Torben Ulrich, the 41-year-old ex-Danish champion and fourth foreign seed, won the right to play El Sahfei by beating 23-year-old Ove Bengtsson of Sweden, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. BATTLE OF SOUTHPAWS In Tuesday's second round El Shafei eliminated defending champion Cliff Richey, the fourth domestic seed and America's fourth-ranking player. In Thursday's early going, El Shafei appeared to be having as much trouble returning lefty Cox's serve to his backhand as be had predicted. But El Shafei, also a southpaw, with a sharp- iy nocKing suce service, was in trouble on his own serve just once in the first set as he hammered 11 aces. COX SERVICE BROKEN El Shafei broke Cox in the 15th game of the first set with a backhand.

lob to the baseline and then served out the set. They exchanged breaks twice in the second set before El Shafei broke Cox in the ninth game with a good lob and a backhand passing shot from 30-all. Ulrich ran down everythins Bengtsson had to offer and won the long rallies in the second match. The bearded Dane gave tne 6-foot-4 Benetsson trouhle with his service by crowding the backhand. "St.

Joseph's is a better club when they move," Gola com mented on the Hawks' success in most games since they took up a running offense following a midyear exam break. John Bch. Penn State coach. didn't think much of Gola's observation. "If St.

Joseph's fol lows that advice, to run, they'll be running to their own destruc tion," Bach said, adding that South Carolina became the only team to beat La Salle by holding the ball. "They said in football this was the year of the Lion," Bach said, referring to Penn State's 11-0 football team. "In basketball it's the year of the Explorer. La Salle is the best team we played, and I'm not taking anything away from Temple." La Salle beat State, 70-55, in bwund after Bernie Parent Louis 27 16 12 70 156 mi harness racing's man for all race on the program. A biting goggled faces of the drivers, on the backstretch and a thini blanket of snow covered the infield.

But there was warm enthusiasm in the crowd of 12,830. The patrons stayed snug in the enclosed betting areas most of the night, although a number of hearty souls couldn't stay off the cleared apron when the races were run. EARLIEST OPENING The crowd welcoming Lib erty Bell's seventh year of oper ations, wagered $905,786 on the first of 74 nights of the meeting that will run through May 10. The earliest opening ever for the track fell below the Feb. 22 1968, figures of 14,305 fans and $996,751 wagered.

That date, also a Thursday, was below the all-time opening night record of $1,175,711 and 22,989 fans on Saturday March 4, 1967. The weather really wasn't that bad. "I've trained in much cold- er weather," Stanley Dancer said after he drove Pride of Hanover to a three-length victory over Montase ir the sec- denCe Pace. Mike Organ Struck the Win- ning chord with Liberty Knight in the first section. Liberty Knight returned $18.60 for a $2 win wager.

Breaks had a bearing on both sections. Stanley's victory was made easier when his son Ronnie's mount lost the lead by going off str ie going into the turn rwr- "I doubt if I could have beaten Ronnie if he had not had a break, Stanley said, "the horse was running well." ROBERT EDEN BREAKS Stanley held the lead until Ronnie drove Robert Eden past him on the first turn. Stanley traveled in second place until Robert Eden broke, just as fourth finishing Fireaway was making a move on the rail. As Ronnie struggled to make his charge behave, Stanley's Pride of Hanover went back into lead and stayed there, as a favorite should A three-horse break coming Continued on Page 40, Column 3 off Feb. 28-March 1 at ther Palestra.

The MAC decided to bar its best team from the playoffs, since they are held solely to Ineligible semester, which ends in June, Szczesny scored 12 points in a Sail' 7i.c7 Villanova. He was not eligible to play in the Explorers' 96-72 defeat of American U. on Wed nesday, lie had season averages of 8.1 points and 6.8 ule in sports is harder to make up than this one. I'm familiar with all the other ones, too. "Look," he continued, "each team has certain days it prefers for home games.

New York likes Tuesday night and Saturday night for example. Well, there are lots of things that enter in what days you play. Hockey established certain days of the week for its games long before basketball did. And a lot of our teams share buildings with hockey teams. "Then there are other problems.

A building can't exist on hockey and basketball alone. So they book ice shows, boxing, circuses, tennis tournaments. When wocKea iierenson's shot. Mc Donald 3 16th goal came at 4:18 WAiaurM U.L,y DEFENDER St. Louis turned a 3-on-l break against JOG Wafsnn intA ire ea i I cruised down the left side this time, faking a shot and dropping ia pass to Talbot in hte center.

you get done with all these then you start making t4w wz. jjcji i Talbot's low 25-footer went between Parent's skates and quickly bounced in and out of the net. Most of the Flyers' 15 drives in the final period were screen Continued on Page 38, Column 7 Miami 27 25 .519 N. Orleans 27 27 Kentucky 26 26 .500 Dallas 23 26 New York 14 37 .275 L. Angeles 22 30 .423 1 Friday 17 33 -340 1 Los Angeles at New York.

Dallas at Minnesota. Houston at Miami. Indiana at Denver. (Only games scheduled.) HOCKEY NATIONAL LEAGUE Thursday's Results vf i vr Vrve 1 Montreal 3 D-troit 1 1 lius noswc, ew lorn (Only games scheduled.) Standings Western Division l'Tnie. 2027 1 46 128 170 FEa 29 15 39 tu 1,9 Pittsburgh 11 36 8 30 131 190 Boston 33ViS9Bi2 78 217 143 Montreal 33 15 8 74 200 154 mew XOrK 29 22 63 157 137 i i.

bZ 15 Toronto 24 17 11 59 162 143 Chicago 25 25 6 56 205 185 Friday's Games (No games scheduled.) AMERICAN LEAGUE Thursday's Results (No games scheduled.) Standings Eastern Division W. L. T. P.GF.GA. Hershey 27 19 5 59 711 (,7 6 so 182 186! Springfield 18 27 7 43 182 194 Continued on Page 38, Column 4 Only 500 tickets are available; for the doubleheader, which matches -Temnle and Ridpr first game "The last Piece of Pie we'u Szczesny Broken-nosed Stan Wlodar- czyk, 6-6, will be the only first- line center available when La to Dail d0wn the Big Five championship against St.

Joseph's on Saturday at vt in7Anh i the Palestra. Ed Szczesny, 6-8, has been placed on academic suspension for the current Calls It 1 11 (liSCt ib(tbl i Cannon Guides Players Toward Big 5 But you have to remember that each team wants certain days for its home games. It's impossible to grant them their preferences and not come up with some situations when a team is playing five straight nights or playing an afternoon game after a night game. (iTOU ask about a series of home games like in baseball. Well how can you have that? With expansion, you only play a team three or at the most four times at home.

What happens if you schedule a series of three games and on the first night one team gets beaten by 30 points. Are those people going to come out again the next night? "In scheduling," Gottlieb continued, "you can have anything you want. The question is whether the owners think it is economically feasible to have it. So you'd have to ask them if it would be economically sound to cut the schedule. All I can tell you is that when I first heard the proposal I was still active.

I told the players we'll cut the schedule If you'll take a proportionate cut in salary. "I think the players are being paid well enough to accept a few bad breaks in the schedule. So a couple of mornings they have to get up at 7. What's going to happen when they retire and they have to get up at 7 for work every day? "I give these teams about 90 percent of the dates they prefer. But if these are the dates they want, then they have to take the hardships of the travel that goes with it" gers, wasn Deaten until Jim tne Big Five, when he was get" is the tag La -Salle; determine the conference's Neilson scored with 4:11 to go as local Player of the week Coach Tom Gola put on the representative in the NCAA in the third period.

Desjardins a.tbf Hewb The Explorers, who rateWnament. La Salle cannot made 36 saves. 1 5 luncheon at in the AP poll and a Postseason tournament New York l-i fva rrDT Tl because it is under suspension Los Anse'es 3 0 1-4 I "From a Dover's VlfWTXlint im tfte UPI PU' WU not be for violating TMPAA first perio-1. la, wan (Menard. Piayer Ior violating IN CAA rules.

Roife) 2. la. joyai 24, unasisted) when I speak, I always tell the for the Middle Atlantic So, La Salle is concentrating school) kids to work at Conference's championship play- on the St. Joseph's game. JOHN DELL i Of The Inquirer Staff i.arry cannon, a JLa Salle star; Hound anri nlav rJofonco olcn can talk and talk he did 'about! i i i i uie uooK.5 ana uiev Set a u-- chance to play in the Big Five to do so.

It's indescribable." oaiu Cannon and his teammates on the nationally ranked Ex Lrauiionai rival nconh'c i tradiional rival St. Joseph's. La! aaue is -u in Big Five play and could win the championship out- right by defeating the Hawks, a i i.io- "ii major ana LA) minor, major 1:30. Peterg (LA) second period No corinf Penal- es-Flemin (NY) major and Menard (LA) major :21. Lemieux (LA) minor.

major, misconduct :38. Anderson (LA) a nrf r. 1 A T.AC 1 1 1 1 12:50. Amadio (LA) Sometimes when you ball team trooping wearily tmJZn And 3 l0t of 0wners' pdminS fori fvY1; Penalty Palestra meeting with Shots on oal New York 16-11-10 37 Los AnKeles-13-11-11-35. 3.0 Goalies New York.

Villemure. Los Ahseles. Desjardins. A 7891. Continued on Page 39, Column 3 woo nas a 33.4 average..