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8 A (Orlanho Srnttnrl Sunday, July II. 1972 f- A Match Hangs On Forfeit: Sister Goes To Fischer hotel, presumably in quiet observance of the Sabbath his religion recognizes from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. The feeling was that Fischer would not play the scheduled third game on Sunday. But no one knew for certain. There were other developments.

Americans here have been cabling friends in the United States, urging Fischer Wins Few Friends In Iceland REYKJAVIK (UPI) Bobby Fischer may have helppd the ales of chess sets in the United States but In Iceland, where chess is taken ceriously, he has few if any friends left. In contrast, Soviet world champion Boris Spassky has never before been more popular with Iceland's 210,000 chess mad inhabitants. Icelanders are beginning to ask themselves why they bothered to bid for the "chess match of the century," as the Fischer-Spassky world championship match has been billed. "IF WE had known Bobby Fischer well enough we might have thought twice before bidding for the match," said one official of the Icelandic Chess Federation. When the temperamental American failed to show up for the second game Thursday and the judge announced from the stage that he had forfeited the game, the spectators rose and applauded.

"Send him hack to the United States," shouted one voice in English from the gallery. From lag 1 Lombardy, were trying to find a way out. One official connected with the International Chess Federation FIDE said he thought it was impos-sible to take the point away from Spassky. Fischer said the noise from hidden movie cameras created "outrageous" playing conditions. An engineer tested the noise level of the cameras and found no difference in the sound in the empty hall with or without the cameras running.

THE ICELANDIC organizers earlier agreed to remove the television and movie cameras, although revenue from the rights helped to raise the total prize money to $300,000, the richest chess championship in history. Asked if Fischer planned to pack up and go home, Marshal replied: "No. Otherwise I wouldn't be here." Marshal arrived Saturday morning, joining another New York lawyer for Fischer, Andrew Davis. Spassky went salmon fishing to get away from it all. FISCHER, AS usual, was inaccessible.

He was closeted in his Winds Fell Ferris Wheel injured In accident. Carnival crowds had been warned to leave grounds just minutes earlier after tornado funnel was sighted few miles west. (AP) Huge ferrls wheel at carnival In northern Chicago suburb ofMorton Grove smashed parked cars when It was toppled by high winds that lashed area Friday night and early Saturday. Two men were Odds Are The Greek's Bets Are Right them to wire Fischer to stay In the match. The challenger Is reported deluged with cablegrams from all over the world.

WITH RESUMPTION of the match doubtful, chess experts declared that failure to continue play will almost certainly wreck Fischer's chess career. They cited parallels in chess history of players being barred from organized chess for not abiding by rules. Connally May Lead 'Demos For Nixon' Unit WASHINGTON (UPI) Former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally was widely regarded Saturday as the likely choice to lead a "Democrats for Nixon" organization to recruit votes from Democrats upset by Sen. George S.

McGovern's presidential nomination. A formal assignment for Connally, the only Democrat to have served in Nixon's Cabinet, is expected before the Republicans open their national convention Aug. 21 in Miami Beach to renominate the President. SPECULATION CENTERED on him after he emerged from a meeting Friday with Nixon saying that he would do all he could to persuade Democrats to back the President in November. At the same time, Connally was se McGovern Paving Way For Kennedy In 1976? Anderson contracted with Jimmy for exclusive rights to his oddsmaking about political issues and public figures for a sum "that's between Jack and myself." But Jimmy gives the odds to anyone who asks and even appeared on the Today television program last week quoting the odds on this and that.

HE LIKES people to ask him the odds, ask his opinion about anything. He likes to be recognized. "I called home one night and my eight-year-old kid told me 'Well dad, you finally made WHAT JIMMY made was the Ralph Dunagin comic strip "Duna-gin's World." His son thought he had made it because he was in the comics. But Jimmy knows he made It because the Orlando Sentinel originated strip circulates After all, The Greek smiled, that's what public relations is all about. From Page 1 bling law frightened him into going legitimate in the early '60s.

Now he just makes the odds, followed by other bookmakers, and circulates those odds in a newspaper column. "I started gambling in 1936 and I learned early in life that whatever odds someone else made up didn't have to be right. "But I found if I researched it and figured the odds, I'd know they were rigft," Jimmy said. BUT THE GREEK'S odds were not always correct take the time he lost $250,000 on a college football game or, more recently, when he figured George McGovern had a 5-1 chance against becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. "But I was right at that time.

That was in January and those were the odds at that time of McGovern getting the nomination." Before the convention, Jimmy made McGovern an 8-5 favorite to win the nomination with either of two running mates Sen. Frank Church or Rep. Wilbur. Mills. He rated either ticket as an equal 8-5 favorite.

He lost. THE ODDS against the Mc-Govern-Eagleton ticket winning in November are 4-1, Jimmy figured last week. He thinks the Republican ticket will get 362 electoral votes, "and that doesn't include Missouri, which the Democrats might carry because they got Eagleton on the ticket." Jimmy's favorite subject is not his oddsmaking, nor his 19-employe public relations firm, but Jimmy. HE'S FASCINATED by the attention people started paying him when nationally syndicated columnist Jack Anderson began writing about his predictions. continued health and good luck and providing Senator McGovern loses.

If by some miracle, he survives the hostility of the old-line regulars, the bitter cries of betrayal from radical youth and blacks every time he tries to take a reasonably moderate stand on defense or race, and the deep fears of his "radicalism" on the part of many mature voters, then the McGovern stamp will remain on the party organization. But behind it will be Kennedy money, Kennedy support and enough Kennedy people to make sure that McGovern never strays too far from what, for them, is home base. Even if McGovern wins one term, even if he wins two, there will still be Teddy, relatively young, vital and vigorous. This, in a sense, is one more burden the senator from South Dakota carries into the campaign, even though for the short haul he is likely to receive more genuine support from the Kennedys themselves than he will from most other elements among his backers. As long as he is the nominee, they don't want to antagonize him needlessly, any more than he wants to antagonize them, but if he loses Nov.

7, he can probably give up all hope of winning the nomination again in 1976. Ted Co. will start moving in on it the morning of Nov. 8. From Page 1 new faces, mostly young, in the McGovern campaign, an overlay of youth and idealism suitably scornful of "the old politics" and "the old politicians." This will not deter the old politicians one iota in their determination to recapture the party after what they expect to be inevitable defeat of Senator McGovern in November.

THEY ARE waiting in the wings for George and his uncomfortable coalition to go down the drain, at which point they expect to move in again Mayor Daley of Chicago, Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson, Ed Muskie, Wilbur Mills and the rest. And since by 1976 none of them will still be of an age or an energy to run again, there remains providing he stays in good health and out of further personal troublethe last remaining Kennedy of 1 the current generation. Ahead lie many more, growing and flourishing on the family tree and no doubt destined for many decades of sentimental appeal to Democrats and others in a basically sentimental country. But for now, it's Teddy. McGovern's anxious but futile attempt to get him on the ticket and the welcome he received from the convention ind icated dramatically that all he has to do is lift his finger and the crown is his.

THIS WILL be true, assuming verely critical of positions McGovern has taken on Vietnam, welfare reform, defense spending, draft resistors and other issues. When asked about the possibility of his heading a Democrats for Nixon drive, Connally carefully left the question open. AND His remarks after the three-hour session with Nixon at the Western White House in San Clemente, suggested that the two men had talked at length about domestic politics in their first face-to-face conference since Connally's return at mid-week from a month-long, round-the-world trip. CONNALLY MADE the journey at Nixon's request to outline administration foreign policy for officials in 17 nations and he went to California to report on the mission. Connally, a secretary of the Navy in the Kennedy administration, later served as governor of Texas and helped former President Lyndon B.

Johnson direct Texas politics for two decades until a series of setbacks in state primary elections last spring. Johnson, a consistent party loyalist in past years, has not made any public statements since McGovern won the nomination Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. Mother, 111 Children Find Home SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (UPI)-A divorcee, faced with eviction, has found a new home with a spacious backyard for her three children battling a fatal disease. Mrs.

Jacqueline Collum said Friday night that she would move Monday into a three-bedroom, split-level home and city firemen would transfer her household effects. The owner of her current home had told Mrs. Collum she would have to move out this weekend because he wanted the house for his family. Her three children have a mysterious ailment called Batten's Disease. There is no known cure, and those afflicted with it become blind before dying.

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Traugh met Wallace in Maryland last week and accompanied him to the convention. "I AM AMAZED at how well he held up at Miami Beach," the doctor said, pointing out that Wallace's pain has decreased in frequency and intensity. "I had to intervene on many occasions, or he would have sat and talked with people for hours. "His spirits have improved on a daily basis since he left Maryland and his family is responding beautifully. "He is one of the hardest working patients I've had.

He gives 100 per cent cooperation." TRAUGH SAID Wallace has felt some sensation in his legs, but described them as heavy and tingling and said he did not know what the feeling meant, BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Crippled Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace has begun four weeks of therapy and training designed to make him physically and ationally independent. Wallace entered Spain Rehabilitation Center complex Friday after spending nearly eight weeks at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md.

Wallace received a spinal injury in a May 15 assassina tion attempt while campaigning for the Demo cratic presidential nomination at a Laurel, shopping center. He is paralyzed from the waist down. THE GOVERNOR, who spent last week at the Democratic National ion in Miami Beach, will remain at the Spain Center until he is totally independent, Dr. George Traugh, a specialist in physical medicine, said. Traugh said Wallace would follow a normal hospital schedule and "will get no preferential treatment at all.

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