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JET STAR HIGHEST PAID PLAYER EVER Namath Inks $500,000 Contract Elsewhere in nro football, the HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) T. .1 1 ball history. Namath appeared at the conference "with Jets' President Phil Iselin and Coach Weeb Ewbank and vowed to "contin- ue playing as long as I am able to contribute to the team. Even if injured, I'd have another operation and then come back," Hampered by injuries most of his pro career, Joe 19 Jets games in the past two seasons.

In 1970 he was sidelined with a broken wrist and missed most of last season after reinsuring his left knee when he missed a tackle in the Jets' first exhibition game. Namath has said recently he would participate in training camp routines, but would not play in exhibition or regular games without a pact. He said he should be' paid more than any other quarterback because "I can play better than anyone else." Asked if the terms of the new agreement fulfilled his wish, Namath don't know. I've never seen anybody else's contract." Chicago for an unannounced draft pick. Houston dealt tackle Gene Ferguson to Oakland for wide receiver Rod Sherman while the Raiders made a host of -transactions which included sending linebacker Duane Benson to Atlanta for a future draft choice, Oakland also received wide receiver Gloster Richardson from Dallas, running back Jeff Queen from Sarf Diego, quarterback Don Milan from Kansas City and defensive end Otis Sistrunk from Los Angeles, all for future draft selections.

a. joe iamaui is me nignesi paid quarterback in pro football, he's not telling anyone-r-at least Dot the general public. "Nof figures will be given. I wdon't think that's necessary," the New York Jets' quarterback told a press conference Tuesday after he signed a two-year contract with the National Football League team. sources said the pact is worth $500,000 making the flamboyant Namath the highest pay" player in pro foot-- 1 I i an Diego's Svare .1 DID IT AGAIN iU Last vear's ro-rhamnions in the Kings Berrjen Hills Country Club turned in identical 62 scores place horfors.

tying again for the championship were the Stuart F. Meek, Jr. (left) and Mr. and Mrs. Don TeRoller Has Made-15 Johnson Withdraws Gage Resignation, Becomes AD Swabs named Wood to his staff.

"We've got weapons," Svare says now. "We've got an arse-' nal. That's aI we want." But the 41-year-old coach faces other problems. He's got to get the controversial Thomas to play and he must iealvith the eccentric Rossovich. He may have problems with Gar- rett if the ormer Heisman Trophy winner on the bench.

The list goes on, but the cool-headed Svare knows what he's up against, and his comments on trading for Thomas probably sum up his whole approach to the season. "Sometimes you've got to roll the dice," Svare said. "You don't always win. There's an old saying, 'If yoiTcan't stand the heat, get out of the I like the heat. I like the pressure.

It's why I came back to coaching." NATIONAL LEAGUE East W. Pet. G.B. 0 3 .425 Pittsburgh New York Chicago St. Louis Montreal Philadelphia Cincinnati Houston Los Angeles Atlanta San Francisco 53 42 51 47 47 48 43 50 35 42 .558 4Vfe .520 10 .495 12Vi .442 15V, .341 75t .411 .545 4 J10 9' .449 13' 455 15 .392 21 West 58 37 54 45 49 47 44 52 45 54 ,38 59 San Diego Tuesday' Results New York 3-1, Philadelphia 2-4, 1st game 18 innings San Diego 9-11, Atlanta 0-4 Montreal 3, Chicago 2, 10 innings Cincinnati 3.

Houston 1 St. Louis 7, Pittsburgh i4 San Francisco 4, Los Angeles 3 Wednesday's Games Philadelphia (Champion 4-11) at New York (Seaver 12-8), San Diego (Norman 5-7) at Atlanta (Niekro 9-9), cs Cincinnati (Nolan 13-2) at Houston (WH-, son 4-7). Pittsburgh (Ellis 9-4) at St. Louis (Gibson 11-4), San Francisco (Stone 4-7) at Los Angeles (Sutton 12-4), Chicago (Hands 8-7 and Pappas 4-7) at Montreal (Torrei 12-5 and McAnally 1-11), 2, twi-night Thursday's Dames Chicago at Montreal, Philadelphia at New York Pittsburgh at St. Louis, San Diego at Atlanta, San Francisco at Los Angeles, Only games scheduled offensive and defensive backs.

Russ Burgman will be the head freshman coach. Dowagiac will play a junior "varsity schedule, but the jayvees will practice and scrimmage with the varsity. champion Shelby 68-61. Bangor ended up a 21-2 with the state's No. 3 Class ranking from the Associated Press, lf Johnson has never had a losing record in eight seasons as the head Bangor coach.

He-has compiled 'an excellent 120-45 record which includes seven straight district tournament titles and four consecutive KVA conference crowns. He has been at Bangor a total Bartels Winner WATERVLIET Dave Bartels of South Haven won Tuesday's six-mile race sponsored the Watervliet Track Club in '32: 28. Bangor's Pic Petelle was second in 32:32, while, Larry. Queens tournament at Sunday to rejjeat for the firslt teams of Jim Small and Mrs. (right).

(Staff photo) of- ll years as an instructor in the business education department. Before "taking nvpr as head rnarh hp was jayvee coach two years and eighth grade mentor one season. Johnson has also been the freshman football coach the past couple of seasons, but he is now dropping that sport because of the added athletic director duties. In Distance Run Strasser of Hartford was third, John Nelson of South Haven fourth and Vic Mainwaring of Watervliet fifth. Hartford's Jerry Strasser nun uic 1'2-IIHlC picuivuuii run.

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OPEN DAILY Cleveland Browns acquired defensive tackle Jerry Rush from Detroit for a future draft choice and the Baltimore Colts dealt safety Tom Curtis to Los Ange-Jes an undisclosed draft pick. Philadelphia swapped linebacker Tim Rossovich to San Diego for the Chargers' 1973 first-round draft choice and sent guard Dick Hart to the Jets for an undisclosed future draft choice. Pittsburgh traded tackle Clarance Washington to AMERICAN LEAGUE East W. L. Pet.

G.B. Detroit Baltimore New York Boston' Cleveland Milwaukee 55 41 573 52 43 48 -45 47 47 43 52 38 5 .547 J14 5V .500 7 .453 ll'A 17 West Oakland Chicago Minnesota Kansas City California Texas 40 38 53 43 48 4S .412 .552 4 .514 JB9 13 .454 15Mi .402 20V2 44 50 44 53 39 58 TMtoay't Results New York 10, Boston 4 Cleveland 2. Baltimore 0 California at Chicago, rain Minnesota 3, Texas 0 Milwaukee 9, "Detroit 0, 4 innings Oakland 4, Kansas City 0 Wednesday's Games Kansas City (Orago 7-12) at Oakland (Hunter' 13-4), New York (Kline 10-4 and Kekich 10-9) at Boston (Peters 1-2 and Curtis 4-4), day night, Baltimore (Palmer and Harrison 0-3) at Cleveland (Dunning 0-0 and Wilcox 4-11), i. twi night. California (May 4-7) at Chicago (Lem-onds 1-3) Milwaukee (Lonborg 9 5) at Detroit (Coleman 12 8), Minnesota (Corbin 44) at Texas (Paul 3-3), Thursday's Games Minnesota at Texas, California at Chicago, Milwaukee at Detroit, Baltimore at Cleveland, New York at Boston Only games scheduled and varsity kicking coach.

Coin, who also played linebacker for the Big Ten champion Wolverines in 1971, was brought into the Dowagiac football program by new head varsity coach Jeff Green. Coin teach physical education. Green was a graduate assistant at U-M the past two years while getting a masters degree. Coin's other Wolverine accomplishments include school records of 13 career field goals, 8 season field goals and longest field goal of 42 years. He also led Michigan in scoring last fall with 79 points and ended up splitting the uprights over his entire U-M career on 70 of 72 PAT tries.

Dowagiac won't have any new varsity assistants, with Clair Wilhelm handling split, receivers and defensive ends, Jim Gibson the offensive and defensive lines and Dick James Tarns Sign Ford MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -The Memphis Tarns of the American Basketball Association announced the signing Tuesday of forward Bob Ford of Purdue. USED TIRES! WHITEWALLS and BLACKWALLS Good Selection of sizes good tread left AS LOW AS MITIIIUTOR S-111S BaetM NirSH IJLjuLJCjlJL I SAN DIEGO (AP) No mat-, ter what happens to the San Diegp Chargers, no one will ever accuse Harland Svare of being afraid to make trades. What remains to be seen now is how effective the San Diego head coach is in blending tlje talent he's acquired into a team that can challenge traditional nnu'prhniisps Oaklanri nH Kan sas City in the American Football Conference West. Svare' four trades in the past two days brought to 15 the number of swaps he's made since taking over the Charger, coaching reins with four games to go last season.

The players who have recently donned Charger uniforms have significantly bolstered San Diego's defense, which last year was third worst in the NFL in terms of yardage given up. TIGERS (Continued from Page 37) more foolishness took place. "Five more minutes and the game isn't played. That's what the umpires said," Tiger Manager Billy Martin said of the fifth inning stall tactics. "But Umont did.

the right thing. I didn't say a word because Frank was right. He's a good umpire." Skip Lockwood then flied out' to" end the inning and the Tigers were retired jn order in their half, making it an official game. One inning late, the game was called. The Tigers ifianagea1 only one hit off Lockwood.

Mickey Stanley's leadoff double in the sixth. Milwaukee drove rookie Bill Slayback frorr the mound in the first scaring two runs on four hits. The Brewers scored four times in the fourth on Joe Lahoud's two -run homer and a two-run single by Dave May. Cleveland's Perry tied Detroit's Mickey Lolich as the only pitchers in the majors with 18 victories and got all the offense he needed when Buddy Bell smacked a two-run homer off Baltimore's Dave McNally in the second inning. New York's Mel Stottlemyre and Boston's Sonny Siebert battled through five scoreless innings before Roy White singled in the Yankees' first run and then stole home for a 2-0 lead.

They added five more in the seventh and Bobby Murcer crashed a three-run homer in the eighth. Stottlemyre blanked the Red Sox until the ninth, when they erupted for four runs on six hits before Fred Beene came on to eet the final out. Oakland's-1 Ken Holtzman stopped Kansas City on three hits for his 14th triumph. The A's scored in the third on Sal Bando's two-run single off Paul Splittorff and Reggie Jackson hammered a two-run 435-foot homer in the fifth, his 21st. Minnesota's Dick Woodson hurled a three-hitter against Texas for his first major league ed a two-run triple for the Twins in the third inning and Bobby Darwin walloped his 14th homer in the fourth.

WHILE QUANTITIES LAST! And the offense, which last season relied heavily on the fine passing arm of quarterback John Hadl, now boasts a legitimate rushing threat with the addition of Duane Thomas and Cid Edwards to a backfield which already features Mike Garrett. At defensive end Svare has brought in veterans David Jones and Lionel Al-dridge, while drafting rookie Pete Lazetich of Stanford. At defensive tackle he's added George Wright, Dave Costa and Greg Wojcik. At linebacker he's acquired Ed Philpott. He also has picked up Tim Rossovich, who can play any of those positions.

The defensive backfield is unchanged but is reported much improved under the tutelage of rookie assistant coach and former All-Pro Willie Wood. Svare ARRESTED: Chicago Bulls guard Norm Van Lier was arrested Tuesday for allegedly leading a group of fist-swinging blacks an attempted takeover of the local police station at Midland, Pa. He has been booked on several charges, including assault of a police officer. (AP Wirephoto) Pistons Get Stu Lantz For Walker DETROIT (AP) The Detroit Pistons have obtained veteran guard Stu Lantz from the Houston Rockets in a one-to-one exchange for their own Jimmy Walker. "We are looking for somebody to give us additional speed and defense in the backcourt," said Pistons Coach Earl Lloyd.

"We think Lantz will do that for The 26-year-old Lantz has been a starter with the Rockets for the past two seasons, averaging 20.6 points per game in 1970-71 and 18.5 points per game in 1971-72. Walker, on the other hand, was the Pistons' No. 1 draft choice in 1967 and in the last three seasons as' a starting guard, he averaged 20.8, 17.6 and 21.3 points per game for a career average of 16.1. He felf into disfavor, however, with Pistons officials, over erratic play and temperamental behavior. DENTIAL RESIDENTIAL INDUSTRIAL Chain Link FENCING! FABRIC OR INSTALLED 6tt Owr Prices FREE ESTIMATES CALL 429-1504 NELSON'S ACE HARDWARE $cttal.

hnA vj?) BANGOR Norm Johnson will be back on the Bangor basketball bench this winter The highly-successful Viking coach has withdrawn his resignation while accepting the additional job of athletic director. "At the time I resigned I was having a lot of stomach trouble," explains Johnson. "A check up revealed nothing was It was just a nervous stomach' like coaches have." Other reasons listed, by Johnson for his change of heart were the solving of some of the school's black-white problems, the encouragement to return offered by the administration and the excitement of trying to continue Bangor's winning ways with a young and inexperienced ballclub. Johnson, 33, announced his resignation in February after Bangor lost its first game with all-state center Walt Cloud sitting out. a two-game suspension.

Bangor went on to the state Class quarterfinals before to eventual state Our life. In DOWAGIAC Dana Coin, a at the University of Michigan last faH, is a new member of the Dowagiac coaching staff. The Pontiac native, who set a NCAA record last year by hitting a perfect 55-of-55 extra point kicks, will serve as a Chief scout, freshman assistant Plaza, Plangger Teams Triumph Plaza nipped Angelo's 4-3 and Plangger's toppled Gillespie 10-6 in the Romeo Softball tournament Tuesday. Phil Hild had a double and a single and Mike Angelo two singles for Plaza. Joe Angelo was the winning pitcher.

Wheeler swatted two doubles and Sager two singles for the losers. Winning Plangger hurler Rich Plangger helped his own cause with a three-for-three effort two singles and a double. Leo Floyd contributed a home run. Gillespie clouted a triple, Morrison a double and Ticknor two singles for the losers. RADIAL-PLY General Calibrated JET-RADAH 4-Ply Rayon Cord Belt 2 Rayon Cord Radial Plies Famous Dual Tread Design Stylish Slim Whitewalls RADIAL TIRES art dsslfntd to provitft lon miltate, ttrtnfth.

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