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"rii I Understand i 1 1 Ray W. Kellv i Phils Try to CLEARWATER. Ruthven is a problem. To his parents, he is a borderline black sheep, straying from the fold on some hairbrain impulse that surely will lead him down the path of ruination. To baseball people, Ruthven is as hard to understand as a Chinese crossword puzzle, a conglomera end up being sent to the "I don't know about I'm in a good frame of minors so be it.

the rest of the world, but mind." Vv Now, what's a mother to do with a boy like that? NOTES: Without the benefit of experienced track judges and timing devices, it would be hard to say whether Nellie Garcia or Jerry Martin, both Reading outfielders, is the fastest of the Phillies. Although neither faced each other in the annual Phillies' 60-yard Dash Derby, both excelled with times in the 6.5-second area. Larry Bovva. Alan Bannister and Billy Grabarkewitz were only slightly slower, with Dave Cash, Del Unser and Mike Anderson running out of the money. Catcher Bob Boone got the biggest hand of the day, winning the "big guy" heat with an impressive 7.4 sprint.

'cjx. tion of ability, intellect and candor that is as out of place in a dugout as a doorstop. No one seems to know "what's with that young righthander on the Phillies' pitching staff." All his folks know is that Dick is a very smart boy who could be well on his way to a brilliant career in biology. Think how Pete Rose's dad might have reacted if, just prior to signing with the Cincinnati Reds, Pete came home and said, "I've just been accepted as an understudy at the New York Ballet." i 1.7:! RUTHVEN COURIER-POST A ports If PS n1 1 H' i .1. j.

DISPLAYING his incredible stick-handling ability by faking Detroit goal tender Doug Grant to his knees, Flyer Simon Nolet Courier-Post Photo by Sam Kushiwr flicks the puck into the net for the second of his three goals in last night's 6-1 Flyer victory. That'll give you some idea how the Ruthven family greeted Dick's decision to leave college 15 semester hours short of a degree in order to become, of all things, a baseball player! 46 CAMDEN, N. Nolet's Hat Win "You have to understand my family," said the 22-year-old lad from Sacramento. "My dad is a civil engineer and my mom holds a master's degree. "Of course, then there's my sister, who is a nurse.

Throughout her entire schooling from first grade on I think she got one or two Bs the rest were As. "In our house, if you ever slipped down to a B-average you were flunking. Disgraced." Sparks got to have Nolet on the ice somewhere," Shero admitted. "He can score and we know he can score. "But what do you need on a hockey team to win? Sure, Nolet's a better hockey player than some of these guys like Don Saleski but somebody's got to get the puck and do the hitting." Nolet, in other words, is oniy a skater.

One of the best, By DON McKEE Courier-Post Staff PHILADELPHIA There was a touch of morbid humor in the Flyers' lockerroom last night. As Gary Dornhoefer, the injured winger, entered the room from his seat in the press box, he was greeted to a chorus of male voices chortling "Goodbye, Tne parody on the fans' Like a dutiful son, Dick brought home As by the bushel. But when he tried to talk about other As like the ones playing in Oakland the conversation was immediately steered back to As like in Aristotle. Furey Hawk Enforcer Against Pitt By. DON McKEE Courier-Post Staff PHILADELPHIA When you sit down to talk about physical players in the Big Five this season, the conversation is short.

There are only three genuinely physical players in Philadelphia this year Temple's During Dick's senior year in high school, the Baltimore Orioles drafted him. That went over big. You'da thought Al Capone was calling to say there was an opening in Chicago if Dick was interested. "You're going to college," ordered his dad. "Forget baseball!" Funny thing was, Dick really wasn't giving baseball serious consideration anyway.

Heck, he didn't even know what the draft was! "You've been drafted," said the Baltimore scout proudly over the phone. "Is that good?" asked Dick. Right then and there, baseball started wondering whether this kid, who could throw the darndest curve ball you ever saw, was some kind of nut. State) was 6-10, 265 and we beat them bad." "Kevin may at times look jwkward," said coach Jack McKinney, "with his flailing arms and legs, but he allows us to do different things on defense. He doesn't allow a "big man to get the ball inside.

He does a super job of fronting a low-post man." Partly due to Furey's selective pushing, but mostly because of St. Joe's delicate balance, the Hawks have an excellent shot at beating Pitt, a team of similar size that lives on quickness. Sees Trouble "I'd rather have played La-Sane," said Pitt coach Buzz Itidl. "St. Joe, with its patient, patterned offense, could cause us a lot of trouble." "The key," McKinney said, "is to stop them from fast breaking.

If they have to attack our defenses without the Flyers' admittedly, but he doesn't check the way Shero demands of his regulars. "I guess that's why I'm here," said Nolet. "To score a few when we need them. I don't like playing only when somebody gets hurt, but I have to make the best of it." Nolet had a private meeting with Shero about his status on the playoff-bound Flyers (they clinched a playoff spot break, I don't think they can beat us. "The best way to stop the break is to make your shots.

If you come down and shoot without thinking, take bad Miots, you're inviting a team to fast break. And Pitt has 6-6 guys come down the floor, stop on a dime, and stick the jumper." Another way to stop the break is get the ball off the boards. Furey, an expert at pushing big men out of position, will be a key there. He must keep Bolla off the boards to let the other Hawks grab rebounds. "Positioning is my whole game," Furey said.

"I'm sure not gonna block shots. I taught myself I can be effective just on positioning. "I've been playing a physical game all of my career. At Continued on Page 47-CoI. 2 ranks second on the all-time passing list at Stanford behind the immortal Frankie Albert.

Boryla broke virtually all of current New England Patriots' quarterback Jim Plun-. kett's passing records during his career in Palo Alto. Boryla, whose father, Vince, is nhe current general manager'- of the American Basketball Association's Utah Stars, played in both the Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine games this year after being selected as the top quarterback in the Pacific-8 conference. As a senior, he completed 140 of 256 pass attempts for 1,629 yards and 17 touchdowns. During his junior year, he threw for 2,284 yards on 183 completions in 350 attempts with 14 touchdowns.

Three years later, the Minnesota Twins drafted Dick and tried, where Baltimore had failed, to talk the Fresno State junior into giving up his studies. "By that time, I was thinking it might be fun to give baseball a try. But then I heard the Twins' offer. I told them to forget it," he recalled. When the Phillies used the 'special phase' of the.

draft to dump a pile of money into Ruthven's lap the next year, he accepted the bread and ducked for cover. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1974 farewell to Montreal coach Scotty Bowman was prompted by the quietest man on the team, Simon Nolet. The little-used wing, in the lineup only because of Dorny's broken wrist, blitzed a pair of Detroit goalies for his third National Hockey League hat trick in the Flyers' 6-1 win over the truly horrible Red Wings. "Maybe Dornhoefer will Joe Newman, Villanova's John Olive and St. Joseph's Kevin Furey.

A lot of people would close the list after the first two, but Furey, a 6-7 senior, has emerged as the Hawks' enforcer. The development is timely. St. Joe (19-10) will meet Pitt (23-3) tomorrow night (7:10, when Immaculata outpointed Montclair, 25-8, to break open the game. Theresa Shank added 19 points and 17 rebounds for the Macs, who now will test the winner of today's State-West Chester clash -tonight at 7 o'clock.

"I think maybe we took Glassboro a little bit lightly," admitted junior guard Marianne Crawford. In the beginning of the year we were running people over because we were in better condition and had all those combination presses. "All these teams have played us now, and everybody's improved since the beginning of year." Immaculata never could pull away from Glassboro, a team it whiped by 30 lira preseason tilt. The win was col Birds Obtain Mike Boryla llWlt rs. HllKH WMtJ 111 Trick have to play another position when he comes back," joked Shero, on a night when he wasn't particularly pleased, despite the easy win.

Nolet is no "joking matter, though. Far and away the best skater the Flyers have, and a master of one of the finest finesse shots in hockey, the veteran wing can't crack the regular lines. "In a playoff game you've Channel 48) in West Virginia's beautiful Coliseum in a first-round NCAA tournament game. Pitt has a football-styls center in 6-8, 225-pound Jim Bolla. Not Afraid "I'm not afraid of anyone," said Furey.

"I'll hit. Bolla's size isn't that dominating. Steve Padukas (of Washington ored, though, by the fact that Miss Crawford had a temperature of 103, hadn't eaten properly in a week, and played oniy about half the game. Coach Cathy Rush elected not to show opposing scouts her devastating zone presses, either. "We'd run, get a break going," she said, "then relax.

We let teams get back in tne game all the time. I guess we don't have a killer instinct." The Macs played well early in the third quarter to expand a 33-25 halftime lead to a 50-33 margin, but Glassboro scored the quarter's final nine points, then the first three of the final period to make it a 50-45 game. "Against their zone, we moved beautifully," said Mrs. Rush, "We got the ball to Theresa Shank, which is what we last night with their 38th victory) two weeks ago. "That's between him and me," said Nolet, firmly.

"Look, you never get used to sitting, but after three years you try your best. They keep me here, so they must feel I can help. "We're in first place he must be right." Clarke Shines Shero was effusive in his praise of Nolet, who has dressed for only 40 of the Flyers' 62 games. "Simon's one of the best shooters in hockey," SheTO said. "He can shoot and pull (fake the goalie) with the best of them.

He's got the talent to put it in the net and his shots are very accurate. "If they're gonna have that one-on-one on television, they should have picked Nolet instead of Bobby Clarke or Rick MacLeish." Clarke, the Western Division's leading scorer with 72 points; fed Nolet once, Bill Barber once and MacLeish once. The team captain now has 16 assists plus 10 goals in his last 15 games. MacLeish scored himself, fed Nolet once and Ross Lons-berry once. 'I called Bobby and Rick in before the season," Shero recalled, "and told them they could score 100 points each this season but we wouldn't finish first.

"One of the reasons we're still first is that Bobby and Rick are team men. They could have a lot more points, but we'd have less points. I've never had a player come to me when we had a big lead, like Clarke does, and say 'don't send me out give somebody else a break. "I'll guarantee you Phil Esposito doesn't say that." Simon Nolet doesn't say anything. He's just happy to get on the ice with a hockey stick.

SLAP SHOTS One of the few shots Detroit goalie Jim Rutherford managed to handle before he was pulled after two periods, was Bill Clement's penalty shot the first a Flyer ever has attempted Score by periods: Detroit i oj FLYERS 1-4 First period 1. Flyers, Barber 23 (Clorke, Flett) 11:35. Penalties: Beren-son Clarke 3:28, Clarke 1:51, Watson 13:10. Second period 2. Flyers, Nolet 13 (Clorke, Barber) 3.

Flyers, Lons-berry 23 (MacLeish, Nolet) 9 02; 4 Flyers, MacLeish 26 (Blodon, Clarke) 5. Detroit, Gruen 1 (Berenson, Evans) 19:34. Penalties: Clement 0:35, Hughes 10:39, Flett 11:38. Third period 6. Flyers, Nolet 14 (unassisted) 7.

Flyers, Nolet 15 (MacLeish, Van Impel 14:24. Penalties-Johnston 1:21, Saleski 3:44, Saleski 9:15, Van Impe 16:41. Shots on goal by: Detroit 1g flyers 2 Gooltenders: Detroit, Rutherford end Grant; Flyers, Porent. Attendance: 17,007. "You're gonna have bad days sooner or later.

But we have enough determination not to get down on ourselves." There are still six more games whee the Macs' poise will be tested. In a vote taken prior to the game, the Immaculata underclassmen elected juniors Rene Muth and Judy Marra, teammates since their davs at Villa Maria Academy, the Mac co-captains for next season. Glnsboro Stat. ImmeeuUt, fturler Scopne Murphy Hevn 0 4 Srhrff 0 2 Shank 0 14 Crawford 4 Krah 1 1 Muth 0 2. 2 4.

2 10. 2 I. 0 14 14 3 1 11 4 14 unninoham 4 Srhmmck 3 Tote it 12 11 17 Tot.lt eintosr 1( Hnmaculata 'ij I 17 11 44 1 "My family and I don't get along much anymore," said Ruthven. "They still think I should have my head in a college textbook." Funny thing the Phillies sometimes wonder if -the kid hasn't done too much reading. He says a lot of things that make some of the tobacco-chewing farmboys shake their heads in disbelief.

Like, when he starts looking a gift horse in the mouth. "I suspect the only reason I made the team last spring was because I pitched well in that game being televised back to Philly," he says. "I had mixed emotions about going to the big leagues on that basis and I told Danny Ozark about them. I. told him I didn't want to go if I wasn't, really ready." Courier-Post Photo by James Stewart "LEGGO OF IT!" says Holy Gross' Brent McWilliams (31) and Holy Spirit's Mike King as they battle for ball during last night's tourney game.

Holy Cross won, 73-64. Immaculata Struggles to Defeat Glassboro The Philadelphia Eagles today obtained Stanford University's Ail-American quarterback Mike Boryla in a trade for undisclosed future draft choices with the Cincinnati Bengals. Boryla, who celebrated his 23rd birthday March 6, was the Bengais' fourth round draft choice an the 1974 NFL college player draft. Eagles head coach Mike McCormack cited his experience as Boryla's head coach in the most recent Senior Bowl game as the prime reason for making the trade. "When the opportunity came to get Mike after working with him in the Senior Bowl we could not afford to.

pass it up," McCormack said. Mike, a 6-3, 205-pounder, wanted, but when they went back to a man, we stood still." Glassboro got a steady effort from Mickey and Ann Murphy, a pair of Gloucester Catholic grads, and a life from soph Elaine Shinnick of Sayreville. "Elaine's a great outside shot," said Prof coach Pearl Kowalski. "The 30-footer is within her range it wasn't just a phenomenon today." With ailing Marianne Crawford back in the game for the last seven minutes, Immaculata pulled away as the 5-6 soph from Archbishop Pren-dergast worked the ball inside to Miss Shank (5-11) and Rene Muth (5-11). "We had a lot of anxiety today," Miss Shank admitted.

"Tfhe pressure of the tournament with two freshmen start I For a kid fresh out of college ball, Ruthven was dazzling on more than a few occasions before a mild case of mononucleosis, followed by a series of muscle pulls, dampened his rookie (6-9) season. He could really come into his own this year. I But Ruthven does very un-baseball-like things and then tells his teammates about them like reading books on art (ones without pictures). Or taking a dock apart and putting it back together to see how it works. Or making observations that pitchers aren't supposed to make.

Like, "I really think it's great to strike out a hitter with a changeup it makes them look so silly." Icks-na on the aing-up-cha. You don't say things that! "Look," said the lad with the blond hair and mustache to match. "The most important part of baseball is the mental process. If a man worries, he. can't pitch.

By DON McKEE Courier-Post Staff NEW BRUNSWICK Im-maculata's basketball team exudes a confidence, a poise, and a sense of casual well-being normally associated only with Arab oil magnates or holders of early tickets to the Frank Sinatra concert. That assurance has carried the Macs to a pair of back-to-back national women's titles, and it served them well again yesterday. Immaculata scuffled past youthful Glassboro State, 65-57. in Rutgers' gym here in the opening round of the Mid-Atlantic Regional tournament. It was not an impressive performance.

The Macs bopped Montclair State, 66-51, this morning as Mart ScharfHscored 11 of her 16 points in the third quarter ers being No. 1 there's been a lot of talk, a lot of buildup this year. "I had no. qualms about it, though. I knew it would break.

That last quarter was the best we've run the all year." The Macs (13-1) had their 35-game winning streak broken by Queens two weeks ago, a loss that shocked them back to reality but which also pointed out the improved competition everywhere this year. (Queens is in the New England Regional.) "In a way. it's good we lost," said Miss Crawford. "If we had won. it v.ould hive overshrrtowed all the mistakes we make.

"We dojlrt feel that no on CI hrJ "I know I can pitch in the majors. But, If I'm inconsistent because of 'my Inexperience and.