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Villaflor against Echegaray here An Ben Villaflor, the 19-year-old world junior lightweight champion from The Philippines, who has been operating out of Honolulu since early 1971. will make his first title defense on Aug. 22 at Honolulu International Center Arena. He will risk his 130-pound diadem against Victor Ech-egaray of Argentina in a 15-round bout. VILLAFLOR won the World Boxing Association's title last April when he deci-sioned Alfredo Marcano of Venezuela.

In his first fight since then, Villaflor TKOd Carlos Fernandez, a tough Mexican lightweight, in the third round. It was a non-title bout. Echegaray is rated No. 1 contender for the world junior lightweight crown by the World Boxing Association. He and his handlers are scheduled to arrive here two weeks before the championship bout.

The Argentine has been ranked as the leading title contender since early this year. The World Boxing Association issued an ultimatum before Villaflor fought Marcano to the effect that the winner must agree to defend against Echegaray within 60 days. Otherwise, the WBA said it would withdraw recognition of the Vil-laflor-Marcano fight as for the championship. Villaflor's manager Antonio Fojas immediately notified the WBA that the youthful Filipino southpaw would fight Echegaray within 90 days if he won. The" Villaflor-Echegaray title battle was originally scheduled for July 25.

but the bout was postponed until late August when Villaflor became ill with the flu and could not go through with his non-title bout with Fernandez on June 20. THE FIGHT was finally held last Wednesday evening. Villaflor did short work of Fernandez, belting him almost at will all the while the bout lasted. Fernandez fought back and got in several good licks himself, but his corner conceded to Villaflor at 1:37 of the third round. -by Andrew Mitsukado "4.

The Honolulu Advertiser A I iSS 8 I WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1972 hal wood things don rook so hot for Fischer Sport Editor more than ONE World Series Now, dyed-in-the-wool baseball fans will never admit this, but there IS more than one World REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPD World champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union capitalized on an error by U.S. Grand Master Bobby Fischer and gave him only hope for a draw last night when the opening game of the world championship chess match was adjourned after 4 hours of play. The adjournment until 5 p.m. (7 a.m. Hawaii time) today came after 40 moves of the first game of the 24-game match and gave Spassky, 35, who was playing white, a slight advantage with a bishop and three pawns.

Fischer, 29, had five pawns on the board. FISCHER appeared calm when he arrived eight minutes after the start of the match and was welcomed by the capacity crowd of 3.000 with a 30-second ovation. But as the game progressed, Fischer appeared angry with himself. When the game was adjourned with one-half hour of playing time remaining, Fischer's second, Father William Lom- bardy, said, "Bobby is fighting for a draw." But Robert Byrne another U.S. grand master, said, "Fischer is in trouble and he might lose." UNDER CHESS rules, either player after 40 moves may ask for adjournment in order to allow contenders and their seconds to analyze the game in detail and possibly find new solutions.

Seconds are not allowed to communicate with players during the game. Spassky asked for adjournment in yesterday's session. Although 30 minutes remained of playing time yesterday, when play resumes players will have an extra hour in which to complete the game, stretching the total time to six hours. FISCHER apparently errored on the 29th move when he took Spassky's king rook pawn and got his bishop trapped in See THINGS on C-8, Col. 1 For instance, there's the World Series df soccer; there's a world wrist wrestling championship.

There's that chess World Series going on in Iceland right now; and there's a World Series for beauty queens. For all I know, there may even be a World Series for hiccups. However, things are hectic these days in Kona as they get ready for another World Series: the 14th annual Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament that gets under way Aug. 7. As of this date there are entries from such far away places as Australia, California, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, Florida, Panama, Minnesota, Kenya, Tahiti, Guam and Mexico.

Peter Fithian, the man who originated the tour hibata snaps Nabalatan's string a classy 10 -round WMWWIW .11 nament and the permanent managing director, has been traveling around the globe for the pastil gl gyg months building up the interest in any place that'll CXCLof'tf listen to him. Advertiser Photo by T. Umeda A long left hand by Shibata finds its way through the guard of Nabalatan. head throughout the to the fight. But Nabalatan fought back courageously at every turn and forced Shibata to go all out to outpoint him.

In the second and eighth rounds, Shibata rocked Na- By ANDREW MITSUKADO Executive Sports Editor Speed and clean, sharp punching gave Kuniaki Shi-bata, former featherweight champion of the World Boxing Council, an impressive 10-round decision over Bert Nabalatan of The Philippines last night at Honolulu International Center. Shibata met a well-condi-t i and determined fighter in Nabalatan and in the early moments of the fight, he had his hands full, but class told in the end and at the conclusion there was not a dissenting voice as Shibata was declared the winner on a unanimous verdict. The setback was Nabala-tan's first defeat in Honolulu after eight straight victories. Attendance was 4,900. KENJI Yonekura, manager of Shibata, said in the dressing room after the fight that he would like to have Shibata fight Ben Villaflor, World Boxing Association's junior lightweight champion, with the 130-pound title at stake.

Promoter Sam Ichinose said that the fight could not be made for the immediate future inasmuch as Villaflor is scheduled to defend his crown against Victor Echegaray of Argentina on Aug. 22 and, if successful, the Filipino battler will not have to risk his title for another six months. Villaflor, who witnessed the fight, said he was impressed by Shibata. "He's good," the champion said. Possessing fast hands, Shibata pounded Nabalatan with sharp rights and lefts balatan with straight rights to the decked chin and all but his Filipino adver "I think we'll have about 70 teams this year limited to that because that's about the number of good boats we can come up with no charter," says Dick MacMillan of the Hawaii Visitors Bureau, one of the sponsors of the event.

the top anglers will be there That means about 210 fishermen, some of the them the best anglers in the world others who couldn't catch a minnow 'in a goldfish bowl. If you'll recall, one of the biggest fish ever caught in the tournament was hauled in a couple of years ago by a young man from California. "The biggest fish I ever caught before," he said when interviewed after hauling 'in a 600-pounder, "was a two-pound trout." So the biggest fish in this event don't always go to the best fishermen who'll be there, but who sometimes come away empty-handed. Among the greats will be Peter Goadby of Australia, considered in global fishing circles as one of the top three anglers of big fish in the world. Goad-by has been a regular for years in the tournament, but it wasn't until last year that he landed anything big enough to be counted.

Another visitor w'ill be the Duke of Manchester, from Kenya, Africa, who now seems to spend more time in California than on the one-time Dark Continent. The Duke has remarried and the word is that all of a sudden he's 10 years younger than he was 14 years ago. So, look out marlin! There is so much 'interest in finney circles in this event that top fishing writers from all over the Mainland will be here. These included Lupe Sal-dana of the Los Angeles Times; Jim Brezina, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner; Hal Lyman, Salt Water Sportsman; Frank Moss, Sports Fishing Magazine, etc. a believer in comfort Of course, we'll have all the top Hawaii anglers right in there pitching, too.

There'll be Gordon Morse and Allen Chang on a boat named Holo-Holo Maru, which isn't as big as a 500-pound marlin. Freddie Rice will be there. He's the one who takes off from the Kailua-Kona dock with the rest and then does his fishing just South of Tahiti, making a slightly late check-in each night. Some of the most elegantly named boats in the world will be in action, too. The names I liked particularly in the past included Aquahollics II, Gin Dan Kim and Bloody Merry.

Most of the visitors from foreign lands use charter boats some being happy with what they get, but some being somewhat disenchanted, expecting a 200-foot yacht and winding up with a row boat. However, one man who won't have any complaints this year is a fellow named Caughlan from Perth, Australia. This man goes first class: he's shipping h'is 40-footer here for the five-day tournament. Just to make sure he's comfortable. blooded courage.

It was Shi-bata's biggest round. Nabalatan caught Shibata several times with telling lefts to the chin and shook up the former 126-pound champion. But -Shibata was quick to retaliate each time. Nabalatan took the sixth and ninth rounds when he threw caution to the wind and carried the fight to Shibata. The Filipino lad pounded away with sharp lefts to the head and convincingly outhit the Japanese gladiator.

WE GAVE Shibata the first two rounds, the fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth and tenth cantos. The third round was even. Shibata overcame Naba-latan's advantage in height and reach by squaring off close to Nabalatan. All through the fight he stood his round and punched away. did Nabalatan and it made for one of the best fights seen in Honolulu in some years.

Despite the vi- SeeSHIBATA on C-4, Col. 6 sary. Nabalatan was hurt, but he refused to go down and each time came back fighting. IN THE second round, Shibata blasted Nabalatan with a series of rights to the jaw and chin and had Nabalatan reeling, but Nabalatan recovered fast and toward the end of the round, he was forcing the fighting. Shibata exploded three straight rights to the head in the eighth and Nabalatan almost hit the deck.

The ex-champion rocked Nabalatan with another right and forced his southpaw opponent backwards with still another right to the chin, but Nabalatan hung on in a spectacular display of red- second loss for Jesse NAGOYA, Japan (UPI) Hawaiian wrestler Jesse Kuhaulua yesterday suffered his second, defeat against eight wins when he was the victim of higher ranked sekiwake Takano-hana's arm throw on the 10th day of the 15-day sumo tournament at the Aichi Prefectural Gym. The 28-year-old Jesse, better known as Takamiyama with No. 4 maegashira rating, maintained a share of the tournament lead with No. 1 maegashira Yutakay-am. Jesse launched a powerful thrusting attack and forced the 22-year-old Takanohana back.

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