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16 DELAWARE COUNTY (PA.) DAILY TIMES Tuesday, January 18, IfTJ Good-natured Schott re- By GENE GOMOLKA Daily Times Sports Writer -CHESTER A story circulatfeg" St. James High that a sculptor could create a likeness of Ronnie Schott by merely setting off a dynamite charge against the side of a mountain. The resulting a profile, they say, would have the same features of the a basketball ace. "I've been kidded about my looks since my freshman year," Schott said breaking into a toothy smile that would make Bert Parks envious. look a little like my brother Art who was at St.

James before me. They used to call him 'Stone Face' or "THEN WHEN I came along, I was 'Little he said. "At first, just my friends nicknamed me that. Now everybody--including the teachers and coaches--call me 'Rock' for short." Schott takes the ribbing in good-natured stride. "Heck, some of the guys used to call me Schott said.

'Cromag'--he will tell you--is short for Cromagnon, an Upper Paleolithic European man who was tall with a large face and deep set eyes. "Maybe its because I'm part I i a Pennsylvania Dutch," he said. Anthropologists, however, will have to take a back seat to more modern-day Delaware John Lockerroom reflections SOME REFLECTIONS ON SUPER SUNDAY or as one woman interviewed on the television preview said, "now maybe, my husband will start giving me some attention again." Super Sunday? Well, it was hardly super. The Dallas Cowboys were. The Miami Dolphins were not.

For the spectators, it was like stopping for a Gino's hamburger. Acceptable, but hardly elegant. STILL, WITH THE weather outside not fit for man nor beast (only hardy ice skaters and hockey nuts), it was an enjoyable afternoon of football, in front of the bube. That is, until interview time in the lockerrooms when into the picture stepped Duane Thomas. Thomas very well may be the finest running back in pro football today (attests Jim Brown, anyway); his teammates say he is very intelligent.

But though he is a grown man physically and intellectually, he apcears as emotionally mature as a spoiled 7-year-old, whose mother won't give him any candy. FIRST OF ALL, I believe that if the CBS people (and I'm not including interviewer Tom Brookshier, who was just doing his job) had any intestinal fortitude, they would have told Duane Thomas to find his own television network! and his own audience to insult. All year, Thomas refused to talk to the news media and refused to pose for pictures. Now that it's all over, suddenly Duane Thomas is the all-magnanimous one. I don't buy that.

Professional sports is a cooperative business ventnre. The athletes need the press just as much as the press needs the athletes. Each one, in his own way, is trying to make a living. As a television viewer and a member of the press I consider Duane Thomas' "interview" insulting. HERE WAS A MAN who is part of a world championship team; a team that had suffered disappointments year after year and had finally broken the stigma which had dogged it relentlessly.

Perhaps Bob Hayes said it best. He pointed out that he had been a world champion before, (in the 1964 Olympics) but this title meant more to him because he had won it as part of a team, that 40 men together were sharing in it. Thomas was sharing in a moment that few professional athletes are ever fortunate enough to experience. No one expects him to jump up and down with delight or lead the Cowboys in "three cheers for Tom Landry." However, you can expect a man to be courteous or at least honest. If he just intended to stare incongruously at the interviewer, he should have had the 'honesty to say so before they put him in front of the camera.

DUANE THOMAS gain yardage because he is a great running back and because he has some great teammates blocking for him. The Cowboys are world champions, however, because their defense allowed one touchdown in three playoff games. Sunday afternoon, there were 39 guys who were willing to talk about their team, the game, and how happy they were. And there was one guy who had an "adviser" tel! how great he was. I don't buy that and I don't think the public does either.

If Duane Thomas wants to act like a spoiled child, that's Ms business but like a' spoiled child, he is best left ignored. Penn is 9th in cage poll NEW YORK (UPI)--The United Press International top 20 major college basketball teams with first place tes and won-lost records as of Jan. 15 in parentheses: (seventh week) Team 1. UCLA (35) (12-0) 2. Marquette (12-0) 3.

North Carolina (11-1) Points 350 311 267 Gerlingwins two; Pioneers go 0-2 ANNVELLE Bob Gerling, PMC Colleges' top hope for an MAC wrestling championship, scored a pair of decisions Saturday but the Pioneers dropped a pair of matches, losing to Delaware Valley, 41-6, and Lebanon Valley, 24-17. Gerling decisioned Roy Johnson of Delaware Valley, 12-0. 177 166 4. South Carolina (8-2) 5. Louisville (11-1) 6.

(Tie) Long Bch St. (14-1)130 (Tie) Ohio St. (10-1) 130 8. Southern Ca! (11-1) 103 9. Penn (9-2) 10.

Florida St. (13-2) 11. Virginia (12-1) SW Louisiana (11-1) 13. Princeton (10-2) 14. Brigham Young (11-1) 15.

Maryland (10-2) 16. (11-1) 17. Hawaii (13-1) 18. (Tie) Minn (8-3) (Tie) Tenn (8-2) (Tie) Missouri (11-2) Coe and Goiner spark Celtics PARKSIDE Bob Coe and Gene Gomer each scored 15 points to lead the defending champion- Celtics to a 37-16 victory over the 76ers in thn Parkside Boys Club Basketball Fechison of Lebanon Valley, 4-0, and drew with Al Bartlebaugh, 1-1. Don Heyh'ng (118) decisioned Charles Knipe of Lebanon Valley, 7-0 and Shawn Pulford and topped Chet Mosteller League Lebanon Valley, 10-5.

I Dan Bramble had 10 points nmn i. ui for the 76ers. PMC heavyweight i Vandever decisiond PistonTs the as Joe Morgan Timmy Urbine (11) and Johi Donato (.10) led the attack. Greg Coe scored 11 points as the Knicks won their first game, edging the Lakers, 25-21. Bruce Culbert's 14 points led (134) won by forfeit.

I the winless Lakers. County historians who have taken a sudden interest Schott and his basketball conquests at St. James. SCHOTT, a 6-2 senior forward in his fourth year of vartlsy competition, became the first Bulldogs' player even- to score 1000 career points. He reached the magic mark Dec.

27 in a winning effort against Haverford in 'the Chester Kiwanis tournament. Since then he has boosted his total to 1145 with nine games left to play in the Jims' regular league schedule. If Schott continues his current 20.8 points-per-game average, he will complete his senior year with 499 points and 1332 in his career. A 499-point year by Schott would be short of the single- season St. James school record held by Tom Galia who scored 559 points in 24 games as a senior in 1959.

BILL LYNCH, a St. James star of the early 1950's, poured in 525 points In one season. Steve Courtin posted 427 points in his 1960 senior year. But none of Schott's predecessors was able to reach 1000 in his career. Galia finished with 949 to top Lynch who had 921.

Speculating further, should Schott score more than 482 points this season he will become the seventh highest scorer in Delaware County history with 1315 career points. THE 1315 mark would put Schott ahead of such notablss as Warren Clifton of Darby Township, Walt Carey of Darby-Colwyn, Jerry Foster of Chester and Jeff Petrie of Springfield. Petrie, now a professional player with the NBA's Portland Trailblazers after a i career at Princeton, had 1270 points as a Cougar. Schott admits he felt the pressure as he neared the 1000 plateau. "Before the season, I felt if it came, it came," he said.

"But as I got closer in the Haverford game, I tightened up. "I wasn't following through on my shots. It was like having a string pulling my arms back," he said. Schoit scored 35 points in the game to hit 1000 on the nose. ST.

JAMES coach Ed Givnish, who came to St. James three years ago after a 10-year coaching job at Archbishop Kennedy, believes Schott is one of the top players he has instructed. "Ronnie is a good college prospect but he'll probably have to make it as a guard," Givnish said. "There aren't any 6-2 forwards at the bigger colleges. "Besides being a good basketball player, he's a kid.

He has a lot of friends on and off the team and his teachers like him a lot," Givnish added. Schott, who lives at 1850 Larkin Road in Boothwyn, recalls making Holy Saviour's (Linwood) CYO team as a fourth-grader when all the rest of the players were two to four years older. "MY BROTHER Art was in eighth grade and the star of the team," Schott said. "He kept giving me the big brother brush But the coach (Ed McGlaughlin) asked me if I could make a layup and when I did it better than the other kids, I made the team." Schott led Holy Saviour in scoring while the team to the CYO championship in his seventh grade and into the finals against St. Joseph's as an eighth grader.

"I could have gone to Chichester High but I never considered any place but St. James," Schott recalled. Tony Famell was 'the Jims' coach when Schott appeared as a freshman prospect. The varsity unit included Dennis Malseed, a Dickens, Tom Ross and Mike McKinney--all juniors or seniors. But Schott made the first team and started in the Bulldogs' last nine games of the season.

I I i freshman year with 143 points, scored 319 as a sophomore and added 371 as a junior. Although Schott has attained the 1000-point mark, it does not appear he will achieve a four-year ambition to play in the Palestra. St. James, off to a favorable start in the Catholic League Southern Division, has lost its last four games and is mired in sixth place with a 2-5 record (9-6 overall). "I thought we could finish higher than fourth and make it," Schott said.

"I saw we were rated seventh but I think we're a better team than that." SCHOTTS versatility as an athlete, however, has already helped St. James reach one City title. With Schott in left field last the baseball Jims won the Catholic League championship then defeated Roxborough for tlie city crown. Around St. James there's a story that Ronnie Schott won't be remembered as just another pretty face.

RON SCHOTT point producer 1000-Point Club Player Points Brent Kitching, S. Hill 1,565 Horace Walker, Chester 1,523 Emer. Baynard; Chester 1,482 Chas. Coleman, Darby 1,444 Ray Edelmah, Haverford 1,443 Gene Armstead, P'crest 1,393 Warren Clifton, Darby 1,314 Walt Carey. D-C 1,283 Jerry Foster, Chester 1,281 Jeff Petrie, Springfield 1,270 Paul Kelso, Darby 1,254 Gary Kasmer, Darby 1,253 Art Hyland, L-A 1,206 Bill Curry, Upper Chi 1,204 Paul Bartkow, Sun Val.

1,199 Harold Booker, Darby 1,195 Curt Formal, Rid. Twp. 1,183 Ron Schott, St. James 1,145 Bill Cubit, Sharon Hill 1,114 Lou Bcnn, Radnor 1,097 Frank McKone, Col. 1,091 Mike Mai-shall, Chester 1,090 Bruce Miller, NP 1,089 Eric Scott, Ridley 1,077 Ted Crary, Springfield 1,072 Doug Kistler, Radnor 1,050 Barry Osborne, Chi 1,049 Alonzo Lewis, Darby 1,048 Joe Harper, NP 1,044 Jeff Barrett; Clifton 1,042 Tom Hauer, Sharon Hill 1,037 Rod Howard, 1,032 Ron Herbster, Swartli.

1,031 Allen Sack, Chi 1,031 Dave Tarr, Penncrest 1,028 Mike Hauer, Bomier 1,018 Frank Corace, Bonner 1,012 Oliver Smith, Darby Twp. 1,010 Tony Williams, Darby Twp. 1,007 Bisons calling CHESTER --The Bisons' of the Chester Rec Control Pitch Softball League are looking for players. Anyone interested should attend the team's first meeting at Es's Bar, 3rd Lamokin at 7 p.m. Jan.

26. LOS ANGELES (AP) Basketball all-star games are usually high-scoring affairs because the players are most often chosen on the basis of their ability to put the ball in the basket. It's no different this time around. Tonight's 22nd annual National Basketball Association All- Star game features 28 of the league's top players and its 16 Georgia defense beats Rupp By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "Georgia came to play and win we just came to play." That, according to Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp, was the main difference in Georgia's 85-73 upset of his Wildcats Monday night. But it wasn't the only difference.

"They apparently know more about defense than we do," said college basketball's winni-, ngest coach. Georgia also made fewer mistakes. "We threw the ball away two times in the last 40 seconds," said the venerable Rupp. "We dug a well for ourselves at 18-2 but managed to come back only to blow it at the end." South Carolina, the country's 'ifth-ranked team, nipped St. Bcnavenfcure 61-59 and No.

19 Tennessee smacked Florida 6110 in games Monday night involving top 20 clubs. Georgia, behind the accurate shooting of center Tim Bassett and forward John Fraley, took a 13-0 lead at the start and ran to 18-2 well into the first half. The Wildcats made two ral- Jes, one halfway through the irst stanza, and the other late the second half, but couldn't pass the Bulldogs. Bassett and Ronnie Hogue cored 27 ooints apiece to lead Georgia. Tom Parker had 22 or Kentucky.

South Carolina, down by 17-1 the beginning, had to wipe jut a nine-point deficit in the ast 10 minutes to beat St. Bonaventure. Brian Winters, a ophomore reserve, got two rucial field goals and two free Jn-ows in the Gamecocks' wining drive. Mike Edwards broke Flori- as' game-long lead with a free irow and scored 18 points verall as Tennessee celebrated ts return to ranking status a victory. Florida led from the start un- 1 a technical foul was called its bench midway through he second half.

Edwards hit rom the foul line to tie it at 46 nd teammate John Snow then ut in a 10-foot junto shot to ut the Vols ahead 48-46. They ever relinquished the lead. Ernie Fleming and Harold scored 29 points each and eon Benbow tossed in 28 as acksonville smashed Alabama 20-65. The Dolphins' fast break ut out a 66-30 halftime lead. ivy top scorers.

The West is a heavy favorite by virtue of having nine of the top 12 scorers in the NBA on its side. Despite all that Western Fire power, the East has its pluses. In the backcourt, the West sends Los Angeles guards Gail Goodrich arrd Jerry West out, but the. East has Walt Frazier of New York and Atlanta's Lou Hudson. At forward, the West has 6-8 Bob Love of Chicago and 6-8 Spencer Hay wood of Seattle, 'but the East counters with John Havlicek, a 6-5 Boston sparkplug, and Bill Cunningham.

Philadelphia's contribution to the 7 p.m. contest. The big difference in the two teams is at center, where th.2 West boosts 7-2 Karee Abdul Jabbar and 7-1 Wilt Chamber- All-Star game lain. The East lacks a great center and will start Boston's 6-9 Dave Cowens, a second-year in the NBA. The backup man is Baltimore's Wes Unseld, who at 6-7 was named the NBA's most valuable player as a rookie three seasons ago.

But many, including Atlanta coach Richie Guerin, feel the Hawks' Walt Bellamy should have been named to the squad. "Yes, I feel'it's a great injustice," said Guerin. "He's having a fine year, an exceptional year." He called Bellamy's omission a "gross oversight." The teams are chosen by sports writers and broadcasters and then additions are made by all NBA coaches JIT a Vote. Penn drops four spots in cage poll By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UCLA, Long Beach State and Southern California are within 25 miles of each other and not very far away in The Associated Press college basketball poll, either. The fihree schools give the Tcp Ten a distinct West 'Coast flavor today -with UCLA in its am i ar 1 position Beach, No.

4 and Southern Cal in the eighth spot. TOP TWO RUSHERS in the National Conference of the National Football League, John Brockington (left) and Steve Owens, are ready for annual AFC, NFC teams begin practice A I all-star clash with American Conference's best Sunday in Los Angeles. Brockington gained 1105 yards for Green Bay, Owens picked up 1035 for Detroit. panel of broadcasters gave 1 first-place votes and 818 points after the beefy arums ran their record to 12-0 with victories over Stanford and California. wLo Beach, seventh last week three spots on the strength of two victories and an overall 14-1 mar k.

Thl 49ers garnered 511 points and took over the spot occupied last week fay south Carolina which dropped to No. 5. Southern California moved up wo positions after beating Cali- Coaches enjoy Pro Bowl duties LOS ANGELES (AP) Dick Nolan and DonMcCafferty find only one thing wrong with' coaching the world's finest football players: It lasts only a week. The opposing coaches for Sunday's 22nd annual Pro Bowl at Memorial Coliseum started the week Monday, Nolan sending his National Conference allstars through practice at UCLA and McCafferty drilling the American Conference team at the Urrivesity of Southern California. "The difficult part about it is we just have one week," said McCafferty of the Baltimore Colts.

"We have to get so many things in." San Francisco's Nolan 'said: "These are great athletes, they pick things up qu ckly. You only have to tell 'em one time." Yet with' only one week prepare, Nolan said, "you can't put in a whole offense that you'd use for a normal McCafferty said tho AFC team will use Baltimore's system and the players will have to study hard. It's different in terminology and numbers. We'll do the best we can "We'll have a flexible off McCafferty said. "Maybe we'll have too many plays." Neither coach is worried about his starting limeup or reserves.

"It doesn't make any difference who starts," McCafferty said. "They all will play. The coaches did a good job selecting the team." Nolan said his starters and substitutes are "equally as good as the other. It's not ifko having a regular team and having a reserve who's below a starter in ability." The coaches aren't wo-ried about motivation, either, and they agree that the $2,000 apiece for the winners and $1,500 for each loser is of secondary importance. "Money is nice to have," said Nolan, "but being chosen to play is the big thing." Both 1 agreed that the Pro Bowl has taken on added significance since the merger of the NFL and the American Football League.

The NFC won last year's first Pro Bowl since the merger, 276. Neither Nolan nor McCafferty sees his Pro Bowl assignment as the Super Bowl consolation prize, with the coaching jobs going to the losers of the National and American conference playoffs. "Naturally, I'd like to coach the Super Bowl," McCafferty said. "But it's an honor to coach in the Pro Bowl." "It means tha twe missed the Super Bowl," said Nolan coaching the NFC team for the second straight year, "That's the game you want to get to Coaching this game is the second biggest thing to going to the Super Bowl." Jas glnia. 8 team Which Deceived other firsUpkce vote remained the nation's No 2 team with 722 points.

The undefeated stayed the No. 3 with 652 points. dropped down one 6 despite win jwice, Ohio State moved up two uo NO. 7 after beating Mi-h 'gan; dropped to No 9 and Penn, which lost to Prfn ton, skidded four spots to Wo. 1.

UCLA (40) 2. Marquette (1) 3. N. Carolina 4. Long Beach 5.

S. Carolina 6. Louisville 7. Ohio State 8. USC 9.

Virginia 10. Penn 11. Florida St, 12. SW Louisiana 13. BYU 14.

Princeton 15. Villanova 16. Marshall 17. Minnesota 13. Hawaii 19.

Tennessee 20. N. Illinois 12-0 12-0 11-1 14-1 8-2 11-1 10-2 11-2 12-1 9-2 13-2 11-1 11-2 14-2 11-2 12-2 8-3 13-1 8-2 10-1 813 722 652 511 434 445 274 2 2 205 204 166 121 103 89 47 45 41 31 18.