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Dayton Is Replacement Among 10 At-Large Selections Marquette Takes NIT Over NCAA Bid Jim Murray tl Angeles Timet At Princeton, N.J., Niagara vs. Ivy League champion, either Penn or Columbia. At Dayton, Ohio, doublehead-er, Jacksonville vs. Western Kentucky and Notre Dame vs. Mid-American Conference winner, probably Ohio U.

At Fort Worth, Tex. double-header, Houston vs. Dayton and New Mexico State vs. Southwestern Conference winner, probably Rice, At Provo, Utah, doubleheader, Weber State vs. Long Beach State and Utah State vs.

Western Athletic Conference champion, either Utah or Texas-El Paso. Starting times will be announced later, an NCAA spokesman said. Some of the games are expected to be played in the afternoon and be nationally By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The National Collegiate Athletic Association invited 10 at-large teams to participate in its annual championship in March Tuesday. But a 1 1 University, rated No. 8 in the nation, turned down the bid and decided to go to the National Invitation Tournament in New York in a dispute over its placement in the Midwest regional.

Unranked Dayton, 17-7, then accepted the NCAA bid, replacing Marquette. Although the NIT said it would make no announcement until Wednesday afternoon, Coach Al McGuire of Marquette said his team was taking the NIT over the NCAA. The NCAA invites 10 at-large teams, plus 15 conference champions, some of which have to be decided by postseason tourna in the Mideast regional which also includes the champions of the Big Ten and Kentucky, Southeast Conference champs, in the second round after a first round bye. In the Midwest regionals there are three members at-large, plus the winners of the Southwest Conference. "I am very disappointed," said McGuire.

"Our heart was set on going to the NCAA. I still can't figure it We have the finest record of my tenure at Marquette." McGuire said he told the NCAA committee that Marquette should have been put in the Mideast regional whether they choose teams by toughness of schedules, records or ranking in the Associated Press poll, "They couldn't give us a reason," said McGuire. ments. Kentucky, the No. 1 team in the latest Associated Press poll, already has qualified by winning the Southeastern Conference title and Western Kentucky has won the Ohio Valley Conference.

The NIT will invite 16 teams for its tournament in New York's Madison Square Garden, starting March 13 and ending March 21. The NCAA competition will be held on three successive weekends, March 7, March 12-14 and March 19-21 With the finals at College Park, Md. UCLA, 21-1 after suffering its first defeat Saturday, has won the NCAA championship three years in a row and is almost a sure thing to represent the Pacific Eight this season. St. Bonaventure, a leading independent with a 19-1 record and No.

3 ranking, was invited to the NCAA along with fifth-ranked New Mexico State, 21-2, sixth-ranked Jacksonville, 20-1, and eighth-rated Marquette, 19-3, which was replaced by un-rahked Dayton. Others receiving NCAA invitations included Notre Dame, 20-5, Houston, 20-3, Utah State, 18-5, Villanova, 17-6, Niagara, 19-4 and Long Beach State, 21-3. Although the NIT was not announcing the invitation to Marquette, privately it was not denying the news. McGuire said the decision of the NCAA to place Marquette in the Midwest regional was the basic factor in rejection of the bid. He said Marquette wanted to be placed in the Mideast regional at Dayton, Ohio instead of the Midwest.

The regionals will be played March 7. McGuire said Jacksonville and Notre Dame had been put Marquette defeated Kentucky last year before losing in over-' time to Purdue in the Mideast championships, In the 1970 Mideast regionals one at-large team plays the Mid-American Conference winner and another at-large entry plays the Ohio Valley Conference winner. The survivors meet the Big Ten and Southeast em Conference champs, who drew a first round bye. The NCAA later announced these first round pairings for March 7: At Philadelphia Palestra, Villanova vs. winner of Middle Atlantic playoffs this Friday and Saturday.

At New York, St. John's gym, St. Bonaventure vs. winner of Southern Conference championship tourney this Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Kalispell, Top the Predictors Hindi lam Head Polls Br THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The regular season is over for The Tribune this year is trying something a little different in the way of predictions.

The members of the Tribune sports staff present their individual predictions of the outcome of this weekend's four divisional tournaments. There is also a consensus vote and a spot for you to record your own picks to see how you fare. Points will be awarded (4 for a correct first-place pick, 3 for second and so on with one bonus point for predicting the exact order of finish). The point standings will be pub lished each week with further predictions on other tournaments up through the four state tourneys. The winners among the Tribune staff receives one used typewriter ribbon and a reserved seat ticket for the 1965 World Series.

Give it a try, just for fun. TnthlMt Pitcher The thing about Dennis Dale McLain, the former star of I the Detroit Tigers, is that he was a two-bit pitcher. Well, he might even have been a six-bit pitcher, but that, of course, depended on the opposition. This put McLain up in some pretty good company. Not exactly Sandy Koufax, to be sure.

Koufax was a 90-cent i pitcher. There never has been a dollar pitcher. And, before you get the idea I'm putting down Denny McLain, you should know that Willie Mays was only a dime ballplayer in his best days and that Henry Aaron is the only other dime ball- player around. Mickey Mantle was a nickel ballplayer. All this small change has to do with why the commissioner of all baseball had to unfrock Denny McLain the other day.

My friend, Jimmy (The Greek) Snyder, who will make you a price on the end of the world, patiently explained it all I to me. Jimmy The Greek is the guy who makes the Baltimore Colts 17 points over the New York Jets. Jimmy doesn't book. The government ran him out of that pastime by tak- ing 10-cents off the top of every buck and telling him he had to do with carrier pigeons who stayed in the state line. So Jimmy makes a line for newspaper men which is kind of like Keates and Shelley doing cigaret jingles, but odds- makers have more respect for the government than college kids-and if I were a college kid I'd give THAT a lot of I thought, because that would indicate to me the government I was an out price against anybody who didn't have his own army, and maybe against somebody who did.

Mound Vocal Point i Jimmy explains that betting in baseball lis on the pitcher. "You make a bet, you designate the pitcher. You say, 'I take the Dodgers if Drysdale With Drysdale, you had to lay 60 or 65-cents. That meant you had to bet $1.60 against $1.00 on an otherwise even game. Only, bookies don't mess with bets under $100 usually.

So, when we say we're talking about $60 minimum. When we say a guy bets '50 dollars' we mean $5,000," This is not to be construed as a betting manual, The point to be made from all this is that the news that a pitcher even KNEW a' bookmaker could send baseball's pulse soaring. The suggestion that Denny McLain was in partners with one could cause it to faint dead away. The last ballplayers to go in partners with a bookmaker were the 1919 Chicago White Sox. Arnold Rothstein, who died from an overdose of bullets 10 years later, cut them in on a parlay he was running on the '19 World Series.

You can see where, if the gamblers figure the other ballplayers, even the sure Hall of Famers, can contribute no more than a nickel's worth to the price where a pitcher may double the punters' ante, a pitcher would be a nice guy to have in your pocket. It's like having a horse who can talk. What puzzles Jimmy The Greek in the McLain case is that, usually, by the time authorities act, it's an old story to the books. Chances are, they have closed the books on the guy in question years ago. But Jimmy The Greek heard nothing worse about Denny McLain than that he was an even-money organ player.

A guy who wins 31 games would seem to be of little use to a handbook. Now, guy who could LOSE 31 games 2 Denny hasn't told his side of the story yet although teammates point out Denny hasn't kept this silent this long since he had his tonsils out. Looking at Denny'g books, he looks like an easier hit than a country bank. Either the guys were past-posting him, or his dockers were on Daylight Saving Hme. Anyway, the guys down on the corner are pretty sure Denny wasn't booking.

You got to get a federal license to deal that game. And, while you might figure you could handle baseball's action, you can't lay off J. Edgar Hoover's play. Montana high school basketball teams, and the 12th weekly As sociated Press power poll re flects the final standings across the state. Kalispell, which finished on top of the Class AA standings, was voted the No; 1 team in the weekly poll by the state's sports writers and sportscasers and Tournament Consensus Your Picks Hingham, which won its dis trict, received the nod for the top spot in the Class balloting.

Kalispell was a unanimous Rich John Farrell Barber Mayo Ashley choice in the AA voting. The only change in the top five was Sentinel, which moved up one spot from last week. Eastern AA at Great Falls 1. G. F.

Bison 1. G. F. Bison J1 G. F.

Bison 'It G. F. Bison 1. 2. C.

M. F. Central's. C. M.

C. M. Russell 2. 3. G.

F. CentrJjS. Lewistown 13. Lewistown 3. G.

F. Central 3. 4. Billings West 4. C.

Russell 4. G. F. Central 4. Lewistown 14.

CLASS AA (9) (19-1) 90 (17-3) 81 (15-5) 65 116-4) 63 (14-6) 53 Ill-D) 38 (12-8) 38 (12-7) 33 (11-9) 21 IB-12) 8 Billings West (8-12). 1. Helena 2. Kalispell 3. Anaconda 4.

Sentinel Kalispell Helena Sentinel Butte 1. Kalispell I. Helena 3. Bozeman, i Sentinel 1. Kalispell 2.

Helena 3. Sentinel Anaconda or Bozeman Western AA at Butte 1. Kalispell 2. Helena 3. Bozeman 4.

Great Falls 5. Sentinel 6. (Tie) GF Russell Anaconda 8. Lewlstown Hellgate 10. GF Central Others receiving votes: (8-12) and Butt Central Clan 1.

Hingham 2. Park City 3. Busby 4. Outlook 5. Saco 6.

Lavina 7. Manhattan Christian 8. Stanford 9. St. Leo's 10.

(Tie) Willow Creek Fcoid 1. Sidney 2. Laurel Eastern A at Laurel 1. Sidney 1, Sidney jl. Sidney 2.

Glasgow 2. Laurel 2. Laurel 3. Laurel 3. Glasgow 13.

Wolf Point 4. Miles City 4. Billings Cent.4. Glasgow (7) (23-m (1) (23-0) (21-2) (21-2) (19-3) 3. Glasgow 13.

4. Wolf Point (20-2) 26 (13-10) 18 BIG SERIES Jean Minyard of 1703 Fox Farm Road rolled one of the top women's games of the year in Great Falls Monday night in the Rivcrview Mixed League at Pin 'n' Cue. Mrs. Minyard, who carries a 161 average racked up a 672 series with games of 216, 219 and 227. With her handicap this gave her a 750 total.

(Staff Photo) (18-5) (18-5) 118-3) (20-3) 1. Deer Lodge Anaconda C. 3. Whitefish 4. Col.

Falls Anaconda C. Whitefish Poison Col. Falls 1. Anaconda C. 2.

Whitefish 3. Libby 4. Poison Western A at Missoula 1. Anaconda C. 2.

Whitefish 3. Deer Lodge 4. Poison Others receiving votes: Twin Bridees (18-5), Ennis (16-8), Froid (20-3), Belt (20-3) and Alberton (19-7), Ace Red Hurler Breaks Arm in Fall Off Roof By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Left-hander Jim Mcrritt, Cin Kuhn crease headed also said he plans to in- Henry Fitzgibbon. "The in vesti- sonncl pi a ycrs umpires and reached a height wkre it la his staff, gative staff will include in its club people," Kuhn said. "Gam- necessary to maintain this type by former FBI man investigations all baseball per-' bling in this country has of vigilance." JJMEyes Baseball Season, MISSOULA The University of Montana baseball team, regarded as a contender for the 1970 Big Sky Conference title, opens its season March 19-21 at $30,000 pact, leaving 20-game winner Dave McNally still outside the fold, along with regulars Frank Robinson, Boog Powell and Dave Johnson, who are winter trade, and Billy Williams, joined Chicago Cubs pitchers, catchers and other early arrivals as they went through their paces at Scotts- cinnati's winningest pitcher in 1969, headed toward spring training in Florida Tuesday with his right arm in a cast the result of a freak mishap 3,000 miles from his destination.

due to reoprt Wednesday. Kranepool accepted an esti IT'S EASTERN DIVISION CLASS AA dale, Ariz. At. St. Petersburg, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn visited the Merritt, 17-9 last season, fell mated $40,000 contract.

Ron Swoboda, reportedly seeking $50,000, is the lone unsigned Met. the annual Banana Belt Tourna ment in Lewiston, Idaho. The Bob Gibson, ace of the St. Mets' spring camp and said he would permit Detroit's Denny McLain to meet with his teammates in the Tigers' clubhouse at Lakeland, while the embattled pitcher is under from the roof of his West Covi-na, home last Thursday as he attempted to dislodge his son's kite and fractured his right elbow. He is expected to keep the arm in a cast for about a week, but it was not known how long the injury will keep tourney will be followed by the Boise Classic at Boise, Idaho, on April 3-4 and then a 20-game Louis Cardinals' mound staff, checked into their St.

Petersburg, camp, having been given permission to report late. Southpaw Steve Carlton, slugger Rich Allen and speedster Lou schedule of 10 doubleheaders, ON him out of action. The team will play five home games at Campbell Field this spring. Temporary bleachers Among the Reds' other prob lems, as batterymen continued ffimf (O) mm to work out at their Tampa, "I have ordered Denny to disassociate himself from professional baseball entirely, so any meeting in the clubhouse would be out of order," said the commission, who plans to visit as many of the 24 major league clubs as possible before the start of the season. will be installed at Campbell Field.

The old grandstand was training camp, were nine destroyed last summer in a fire. unsigned players, including National League batting champ Brock still had not signed with the Cards. The New York Yankees listed Bobby Murcer, Jerry. Kenney and Horace Clarke as official holdouts after the trio failed to appear with other regulars at Fort Lauderdale, for the full squad's first workout. Third baseman Coco Laboy was the last of the regulars to sign as the Montreal Expos Pete Rose, regulars Lee May, Johnny Bench and Tony Perez, Grizzly diamond coach Lem Elway says his team has the potential to win the Big Sky and holdout pitcher Jim Makv crown.

"All they need is self- ney. Pitcher Clay Carroll and outfielder Ted Savage agreed to assurance and some early terms Tuesday. wins," he said. Other signees included right Hear all the exciting play by play oction, live and direct from C. M.

Russell High School on KKGF, 13 Radio Starting Feb. 26 at 2 P.M. Brought to you by the following sports-minded Great falls hander Jim Palmer, 164 last The schedule: March 19-21 Banana Belt Tourney, also began full-scale drills at West Palm Beach, Fla. Tony Taylor signed with Philadelphia but Deron Johnson had not been season, with Baltimore's Ameri Wilt to Work Out LOS ANGELES (AP)-The Los Angeles Lakers announced Tuesday night that center Wilt Chamberlain will be starting working out with the club March 5 and may play the final four or five games of the season in preparation for the National Basketball Association playoffs. can League kings, and first baseman Ed Kranepool with the Lewiston, Idaho: April 3-4 Boise Classic, Boise, Idaho; April Montana Tech, Missoula: April 15 Carroll College, Helena: April 22 Carroll College, Missoula; April 25 Montana State, Brae-man; April 29 Montana Tech, Butte; May 2 Montana State.

Missoula; May Idaho. Moscow; May 11 Gonzaga, Spokane; May 16 Idaho State. Mis world champion New York heard from as the Phillies worked out at Clearwater, Fla. Outfielders Johnny Callison, acquired from the Phils in a Mets. Palmer reportedly signed a soula; May II wener stale, Missouia.

CMR, GFC Vie on Mat Tonight because of a scarcity of wres Falls High finished its season Central Bank of Montana AC Supply Corp. Coca-Cola Bottling Co, of Great Falls Schiff's Shoes Montana TV Appliance Suhr's Mayflower Moving tt Storage Firestone Store 1st Westside Not'l. Bonk Rivervicw Union 76 Cleaners Petite Shoppe Rainbow Electric Bimbo't Pizza Rice Motors Montana Photo Great Falls North American Van Lines Robbies Restaurant White Refrigeration Nchon-Scoficld Notional Laundry Barnes Buick Mirode Mile Drive-In Feiden's Flowers Electric City Linoleum Yaw Photo McDonalds Hamburgers a Russell's heavyweight, pinned his man in 20 seconds to win the honor in the Billings Senior meet. Fred Paoli, another sophomore and a 165-pounder, beat Butte's Sam Milodragovich to win wrestler of the wefc award for the Russell Bulldog match. Taylor is hoping to make the Mustangs the victims who will last weekend.

Russell coach Howard Taylor will give the wrestlers he plans to take to the state meet a full workout. "Everyone is healthy," he commented. Against Billings schools last week "several wrestlers turned in impressive performances," Two Great Falls High Schools -C. M. Russell and Great Falls Central will finish up their regular wrestling seasons this week.

Central and Russell collide tonight at the CMR fieldhouse in the Rustlers last tuneup before the state tournament March 6-7 at Helena. The varsity meet is set for p.m. Junior varsity and matches are scheduled for 6 p.m. Central will close out its sea tlers in the 185 and heavyweight divisions. But coach Bill Thomson said he is pleased with the way a couple of wrestlers have been coming on.

"Butch Kaste beat the Bison's Mike Klinke 3-1 and Paul O'Leary drew 2-2 with Jay Swarthout, one of the tougher wrestlers in the state," Thomson sail Thomson said he is planning no lineup changes. YOU'VE GOT THE ELECTRIC CITY TURNED ON even the Rustlers' season mark at 9-9, and a problem the Mus he said "Tim Leonard, a 175-pound D33Q RADI0 1310 on Your Did WITH sophomore, looked good against tangs have might make it easier. Central will forfeit 10 points West and earned wrestler of son against Missoula Sentinel 'the week honors. Amos Knap- Saturday at Missoula. Great Wednesday, February 25.

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