The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 36

face DR Sunday Feb 3 THE FItFSNO BCE 3 1 Togetherness: Key To FSU's Diamond Hopes (depending on is doing the hitting) and we have the capability of being a pretty good defensive team hope hitting-wise' to be a productive team that we won't be a spray-hitting team or a Punch-and-Judy team schedule as usual is very tough but our kids always seem to get up for teams like USC Cal and huff and rumors persisting that other Bulldogs were not satisfied with a number of things The gripes apparently have been "ironed out" "Overall if I were an outside person looking at our team" continued Bennett "I would have to say pitching will be our strong point our speed will be mediocre By Eddie Lope What's this Boh Bennett head liascbull roach at Fresno State University taking a low-key approach to the 1974 season? Yes the usually vocal former Roosevelt High School and FSU catcher has tucked in his ears tighter than a turtle crawling through a gourmet's dining room "I'm not going to make any predictions any he said softly "It all depends now on how a group of individuals can get along with each other I think we have a lot of ability but it will dejiend on how they get along together" FSU was beset with some dissension last season resulting in one star pitcher Brad Duncan quitting in a Burton shortstops Kenn Cunningham and Ridi1 Metzger third baseman Doug Elf a converted outfielder and outfielders Mike La Bare and Steve Lackey catchers Kieling and Russell are good hitters Kieling a pood line-driver and Russell with power Russell might wind up as our designated hitter Right now the starting edge would go to Kieling should add leadership to the infield and by moving in Elf well have more experience Sie-hert and Burton have been working hard outfield should be strong Dyes has been striving to get a better jump on the ball and correct throwing problems He's also improved as a- base-runner Lackey is improved because of his determination and hustle He was probably the most consistent hitter during the Winter Low-key or not Bennett is anxious for the season-opener at UCLA on Feb 8 The Dogs will not bow at home until Feb 22-23 'against Stanford The schedule: Fk At UCLA Fed At NorthrMgf Feb At Stanislaus -Ftb At UC Berkeley Feb At San Franciico State Feb 19-At UC Davie Feb Stanford Feb UC Davie Mar At Stanford Mar Sacramento State At Cal Polv-San Lule Obispo Mar UC Berkeley Mar At St Mary's Mar Cal State Hayward Mar At Sacramento State Mar San Francisco State Mar At San Jose Stole Aar At Pacific Aar Son Dieao State 1 Aar Son Jose State Apr AtPadfic Apr At Hayward Aar Cal State LA Apr Stanislaus State Aar At Long Beach State Aar Pacific May UC Santa Barbara May At San Jose State as the PCAA favorite: do- fending champion Cal State Los Angeles jiext and UC Santa Barbara having a good shot at the pennant too One thing the PCAA is doing this season is scheduling more each Northern PCAA member will meet each other seven times and each Southern school will play each other six meaning there will be some PCAA action on' Tuesdays as well as weekends There are 16 returning lettermen on Bennett's squad He is knee-deep in pitchers and second basemen Topping the talent are all-PCAA right-hand pitch er Dan Grimm 8-6 overall and 3-2 (270 ERA) in the PCAA and right fielder Andrew Dyes 408 hitter' for the season and 394 in the PCAA with 23 runs-batted-in along the route Pitchers include letter-men Steve Behlen 3-6 left-hander last year Warren Brusstar 5-4 righty Monte Wood 1-1 lefty Ritchie Smith 5-3 lefty non lettermen Mike Murphy Dave Jackson and Greg Watte and freshmen Jeff Ross (Cubberly Palo Alto) Brad Kelley (Cupertino) Don Babbitt (Dublin) and Bob Parodi (Lake Tahoe and formerly of Dos Palos) Ross is a southpaw feel got four very good freshman pitchers said Bennett "And very pleased with Grimm who with Behlen and Brusstar should form a very good nucleus Grimm definitely will be a strong bidder for All-American honors and a sure high draft choice "Our pitching will be the Andrew Dyes a 408 hitter last season figures to be Fresno State's chief offensive weapon in 1974 The power-hitting right fielder drove in 23 Bulldogs' Big Bat runs in the PCAA a year ago and will head a Bulldog lineup which Coach Bob Bennett feels will have considerable punch Bee Photo NFL Bargaining World Middleweight Bout Will Be In Tent Gridders Prepare Strategy UCLA We always work very hard to compete at this level our conference (Pacific Coast Athletic Association) makes it imperative that we play a strong schedule because the conference itself is very competitive" Bennett previewing the PCAA prospects looks to all-veteran San Jose State Irish Stop Stubborn Davidson SOUTH BEND Ind (AP) John $humate scored 26 points and Gary Brokaw added 24 pacing No 3-ranked Notre Dame to a 95-84 victory over Davidson in college basketball Saturday The Irish had pulled away to a 22-point lead mid-Way through the second half but the Wildcats fought outscoring Notre Dame 12-1 at one to close to 79-72 on a field goal by Larry Ho-rowitz with less than four minutes to go Davidson was still behind only 91-84 with less than a minute re-mailing before being forced to foul to get the ball But Brokaw hit' vital points down the stretch to keep'the Irish out in front Shumate carried the Notre Dame attack at the start of the second half scoring 11 of the first 16 Irish points It wasn't until Dwight Clay the outside shooting hero of the Irish victory over UCLA two weeks ago hit five straight bombs that Notre Dame pushed ahead comfortably at 74-o2 Davidson kept close except for two dead streaks the first in the opening half when they fell quickly from' a one point deficit midway through the half to trail 45-32 at halftime Horowitz paced the Wildcats with 18 points followed by Greg Dunn's 16 Teenager Borg Whips Moore For Oslo Title OSLO (AP) Bjorn Borg Swedish teenage idol won the men's singles title for the second straight year-in the Scandinavian Open Indoor Tennis Championships with a 2-6 6-4 6-4 6-1 victory over Ray Moore of South Africa Saturday Borg 17- who earned 82650 dropped the first set when Moore broke his service in the fourth and eighth games But he came back strongly in the second set after a service break by Moore in the fourth game The Swede broke liack immediately after a double fault broke service again in the ninth game and blanked Moore on his own service in the 10th to win the set Don Grimm key to the season This is fourth year with me as a starter and-he has improved every year I think as good as any collegiate pitcher in the country and will take his place along side of our other two All-Americans Larry Gonsalves and Dick Ruthven and Brusstar have made very good progress during the summer bullpen we feel is going to be strengthened greatly because of our junior college righthanders Gary Starling of Merced and Lee Smeath of Foothill (a sophomore) and left-handers A1 Quadras of Reedley and John Fitzgerald of Shasta (a soph) Other veterans include catchers Ron Kieling (a soph) Dave Russell and Mike Edmonds first base-men Ron Siebert and Dean cash Delon thinks lie can pack the 11500 seat tent at prices going up to 8140 at ringside and 'has sold the television rights around the world Napoles 33 will be trying to become the first welterweight since Emile' Griffith beat Dick Tiger in 1966 to become middleweight champion Ray Robinson and Carmine Basilio did it in 1954 and 1957 but in all three cases a younger boxer was going after a man on the edge of a decline Longer Reach Monzon is two years younger than Napoles but more than that he has five inches in reach over the Cuban-born Mexican The difference in weight at the weigh-in should be about five or six pounds with -Monzon coming close to the' 160 pound limit and Napo-liesat about 154 Monzon who won the title from Nono Benvenuti of Italy in 1970 went to Rome which he calls his good luck city for a week of workouts Mass who last year was the youngest skater ever to enter the senior event at age 11 The winner will succeed Janet Lynn who signed a pro contract with the Ice Follies lust June for more' than SI 5 million Other top competitors of the cahumpionships include Melissa Militano of New York City and Johnny Johns of Detroit who will be skating together in sen Miami Feb 25-March 1 and the general membership meeting of the players will be held in Chicago March 2-6 The basic contract under which the players have operated the past four years covers everything but individual salaries which are negotiated by each player The collective bargaining agreement covers such items as minimum salaries pensions insurance meal money and preseason and postseason compensation "These are going to be tough negotiations" said Ed Garvey executive director of the NFLPA impossible to- be optimistic but then we're not PARIS (AP) A circus tent pitched in front of a subway entrance in a forlorn Paris suburb' is the scene of Saturday's world championship middleweight fight between the ti-tleholdcr Carolos Monzon of Argentina and Jose Napoles the world welterweight champion It Is a strange setting for two boxers who may well be the best pound-for-pound fighters in the business But it is the best solution Alain Delon the movie actor turned boxing promoter could come up with after being unable to reach agreements with officials of regular arenas For The Money Although both fighters will have to use circus trailers as dressing rooms neither seems to care much Both are in Paris for the money Staging the fight in either Buenos Aires or Mexico City would have meant tax problems and insufficient revenue in hard Duane Thomas Wants Off Redskin Bench In 1 974 WASHINGTON (AP) -The pro football union began making final preparations Friday for negotiations with National Football League owners on a new collective bargaining agreement which expired Thursday Negotiations will open here March 16 but several meetings are scheduled before then as both sides hammer out their basic stands The team representatives of the National Football League Players Association hold a meeting next week to elect a president vice president and other-members of their negotiating team The club owners meet in Women Aim for 4th Week In Basketball Fresno Women's Muny Basketball Leagues sponsored by the Fresno Recreation Department will continue into their fourth week of play Games are played Wednesday and Thursday nights at Fort Miller Junior High gymnasium -The National League will start league play this week Numbered jersey's will be required The last day to add or drop players from the roster will be Friday This wcek's schedule as follows: American League Wednesday 7:00 pm SK's vs Homers Heroes: 8:00 pm: Basketball Jones vs National League Thursday 700 Zlfreds vs Bump City 8:00 DeBudio DcFeTidis vs VMC Garcias Concrete bye in everyone's interest not to have a strike or a lockout but it's pie in the sky to speculate how negotiations will go -Garvey said of the owners are saying we're tougher than yotf are and dangerous talk We hope that they are not the Garvey and other union staff members met Thurs- day in Washington with representatives of the NFL Management Council the negotiating arm Theodore Khecl labor attorney for the council John Thompson executive director of the council and Sargent Karsh Washington counsellor the council "We proposed that the because I outplayed everybody else on the team" The Redskins acquired Thomas from the San Diego Chargers during preseason training camp even though he sat out the 1972 season in a dispute with management He had been traded after the 1971 season by the Dallas Cowboys also in a dispute with the club Thomas spent his comeback year as a member of Washington's specialty teams and as a mopup running back late in the game while the Redskins defending National Conference champions made it into the playoffs but lost to Minnesota in the first round of-the divisional finals "I-kncw I was goinglo he said thinking about the trade that Figure Skater McKellen Will Defend US Title negotiations' be opened to the public including the press" said Garvey "We want the people to see how it goes We want the public to see who is being reasonable" Garvey said the four-year contract negotiated in 1970 has proved to be a blessing in disguise for the union although it seem that at the time thought it was a great loss then but it has worked to our said Garvey have been able to build an organization We have moved our office to Washington and we have built a permanent full-time staff established brought him to Washington for a No 1 and No 2 draft choice not a matter of think I would play I knew I would play I think of any other reason why they got me if I wasn't to play" The Redskins used Larry Brown and Charley Ilarra-way as their two running backs was concentrating primarily on the system and the plays" he said of last season there was a certain level of futility in not Thomas is looking to next season with an open mind buoyed by what he learned this past year "I don't think about what I didn't do but what I'm going to be said be there when camp opens" be completed Sunday Cathy Priestner of Canada won botlTIh? 500 in 4398 seconds and the 1 000 in 1:3734 and was the leader at the halfway point of the women's sprint series with 92650 points Sylvia Burka of Canada was second with 94250 points and Lori Monk of the United States was third' with 94600 points following a second-place finish in the 500 and a third in tlie 1000 before coming to Paris He' said he was over all the side effects of a severe flu at-i tack which led to the fight's postponement from it? originally scheduled date Dec 8 Looks Listless The Argentine's big difficulty in his last two defenses against Jean-Claudq Bouttier in Paris and Grif- fith in Monte Carlo has been the middle rounds in which he looked listless and very much a boxer who can be hit Bouttier was too overwhelmed by his own nervousness to take advantage of the situation and Griffith now 35 ran out of stamina in the 10th round But Napoles with his shrewdness and ability to dazzle the judges is anoth-' cr story Monzon's record is 81 wins three losses nine draws Napoles has lost six out of 78 fights his knockout total is 52 against 56 for Monzon Both fighters are believed to be getting around $150000 each for the bout ior pairs Miss Militano won the event with her brother last year while Johns placed third with another partner Both are veterans of world team competition About half the proceeds of ticket-sales and ABC! broadcasting rights will un- derwrite the travel expen- ses of the US championship team to Munich The remainder will be equally divided among the varities of three local sponsors temational Softball Conference will compete in the World Tournament Aug 16 inSunCityAriz Arrigonei said teams win be organized as interest dictates with the Travel League ending up with about 10 teams Teams must put up 8100 forfeit fees and 850 entrance fees to participate For further information contact Arrigoni at 264-8452 or 846-9446 WASHINGTON (AP) Duane Thomas says he should have played for the Washington Redskins last fall and not spent the 1973 season as a spectator on the bench However Thomas the controversial but talented National Football League running back said he is ready and willing to play in 1974 Ip an interview in Dallas with the Washington Post Thomas said: didn't play and we didn't win not a physical reason that I didn't play nor was it a mental reason as far as knowing what to do" said Thomas in one of his rare talks with a newsman it been my team I would have played not because it was my team but l50Umeter in two minutes 3585 seconds Another American Leah Poulits was second with 96740 points She was runner-up in the 500 in 4473 seconds and fourth in the 1500 in 2:3603 Japan's Marik Sugawara winner of the 1500 in 2:3094 was third over-all with 96883 points The final two events the 1000 meters and 3000 meters will be held Sunday PROVIDENCE RI(AP) Olympic medalist Cordon McKellen will defend his title as senior champion this week when 150 skaters compete in the US Figure Skating Championships a springboard to the world championships next month in Munich Germany McKellen of Lake Placid NY is the only 1973 champion returning for this year's competition making the other divisions wide-open races The four-day program opens Wednesday at the Providence Civic Center Winners in four divisions senior men senior ladies senior pairand gold dance will move on to the world' championships March 5-9 Competitors in the senior competition include 17year-old Dorothy Hamill of Riverside Conn and arch-rival Juli McKinstry of Colorado Springs Colo who finished second and third respectively last year Also entered is Priscilla Hill of Ijcxington Top Softball Team Will Go To Arizona US Speed Skaters Lead Swiss Race DAVOS Switzerland (AP) Sheila Young and Peter Muller led an American domination Saturday in the opening events of an international skating meet run in conjunction with the Swiss national sprint championships aliss Young was the leader with 95890 points following two events of the fourevent series after winning the 500-meter race in 4394 seconds and finishing third in the Muller grabbed the lead in the men's four-sprint competition with 83305 points He won the 1000 in 1:2537 and was sixth in the 500 in 4062 seconds Fppv Bleeker of The Netherlands took the 500 in 4018 seconds but Japan's Masaki Suzuki runner-up in both the 500 and 1000 was second over-all with 83345 points The sprint series consisting of two races each over 50 and 1000 meters will An organizational meeting for the Northern Soft-ball Conference Travel League will be held Tuesday at 7:30 pm at Denny's Restaurant Freeway 99 and Olive Avenue Frank Arrigoni the conference commissioner said all interested persons including players managers and umpires should attend Winner of the Travel League which was sanctioned List spring by tlic In-.