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F-2 Thursday, February 20, 1975 HONOLULU ADVERTISER take over Miller he's 'ready to says tli ron EXECVTTXE Letter Day "It is not like him at all," Baylor football coach said, "not to let his grandmother know my life. When I'm up front, it's hard to get me off." Of the top 10 money winners on the tour last year, only No. 3 Hubert Green won't be here. Also present are Sam Snead, 62, who tied for second behind Dave Stockton here a year ago, and Arnold Palmer, winner of three Los Angeles Opens. A STRONG CONTENDER IS J.

C. Snead, Sam Snead's nephew who is "I HAVE some definite objectives this year," said Miller. "I want to make the Ryder Cup team. I want to be the leading money winner again and I want to win at least one major championship. "And I'm even surprised myself at how hungry I am.

People tell me I look too relaxed out on the course. But that's just my nature. One thing to remember is that I've been a front-runner all Grant Teaff where he is." LOS ANGELES (UPI) Jack Nicklaus, who has yet to win this year, and Johnny Miller, who has won three events, collide head-on today as the 49th annual Glen Campbell-Los Angeles Open unfolds over the testing Riviera Country Club layout. In their first meeting of 1975, Nicklaus, 35, and Miller, 27, tied for sixth place in the Bing Crosby Pro-Am at Pebble Beach, last month, nine Bern an Bing will handle it Grant had been worried sick about Bill Sims, who hadn't been heard from in two days. The coach might not have missed him except that yesterday was National Letter of Intent Day, and the coach had gone all the way to Bill's home in Hooks, to have a little chat about Baylor's football program and maybe meet the family.

Grant had been waiting in Hooks, matter of fact, since Monday. That was two days before National Letter of Intent Day, which is the first day a high school player could officially declare his intention to go to this university or that. As you can imagine, coaches love to put in the last word to a blue-chip athlete before the youngster signs one of those "letters." A blue-chip athlete is like a blue-chip stock, except that it's a person instead of a stock. (When Bruce O'Neil goes to the Mainland on recruiting trips, that's what he is looking for, blue-chippers.) Anyway, there was Grant Teaff in Hooks, wondering if anybody had seen young Bill Sims, the lad who had gained more than 7,000 yards in three years of high school and who was trying to decide whether to enroll at Baylor or Oklahoma, his two favorites out of all the schools that had tried to get him. themselves lOff to Norman VJ FORT WORTH, Tex.

(UPI) Professional Golf Association Commissioner Deane Beman said yesterday he had asked Bing Crosby not to discuss their current dispute over television revenue in the newspapers and said he expected a settlement of their disagreement. The Bing Crosby Pro-Am golf tournament, one of the major events on the PGA tour, has become the center of controversy in the past month because of a plan by the PGA to take a larger share of the television profits from the event. THOSE profits for years have been delegated to charity by Crosby and officials of his tournament and Crosby has said publicly he will not give up any of the money. "I have asked Bing not to speak to anyone but me about this," Beman said. "And I have told him that the best golfer, then you're talking about who's the best right now and that would have to be me.

Based on his career, Jack is a greater player than I am." Niclaus has played in only two tournaments this year while Miller, winner of eight events and a record of $353,021 in 1974, has played in five of the first six tour events. He won at Phoenix and Tucson and in Palm Springs, Calif. 7 SCRAP IRON Johnson spouts. Having lost a second round KO to Quarry in 1966 as the victim of a cut and a 10 round decision five years ago that he figures he actually won, New Iron is eyeing this one. "If I don't beat nobody else, I want to beat Quarry I want him real bad," Johnson says.

sports on i shots behind winner Gene Littler. "IF JACK starts to slip a little and I keep doing what I'm doing, I'm ready to take over," said Miller. "Look, I know what a lot of people think. Here's Jack, he's won 14 major championships and I've only won one, and until I've won about eight of them, some guys won't even want to discuss it. "But the thing is, if you're talking about who's stunned Mani Vaka here last year, put Johnson on a calculated training, reducing plan.

"I REALLY didn't have too much trouble with him except about soda pop. He loves that stuff and will drink gallons of it if you let him," Tyler says. "We argued a little," Joh ison remembers, "but it's good to argue with your man sometimes. I knew he was right. I feel better and I think I'm a better fighter now." Although he hasn't' fought since last Sep-! tember, Johnson claims he's still got plenty of ring mileage.

Tyler says Johnson has clocked over 100 rounds in the ring in the last few months, acluding Buys like (Ken) Norton." "I'VE BEEN working for this fight for over six weeks. I'm gonna be ready for this one and Quarry better be ready for me," for youngsters 3- 3-2, Kahala 3-4-1, Kamehameha 3-1-4, Hick-' am and Pearl City 2-3-3, Wahiawa 2-4-2, Shafter 1- 4- 3. Local tennis tCHOFIILD BARRACK! SINIOM Finals -over Lowell Hu-Certton Koe def. Gil RodrigueiDon Andrews, 4-4. 6-3.

45-over John Vee-Merold Kwan def. iston Wratt-Don Andrews, 6-2, e-4. But nobody had seen hide nor hair of Bill, Grant was told, ever since he had gone up to visit Oklahoma University at Norman over the weekend. His grandmother didn't even know where he was. Monday and Tuesday came and went, ushering in yesterday, which was National Letter of Intent Day, and Grant Teaff was still hanging around Hooks hoping nothing had happened to Bill Sims.

"I was afraid he might have had a car wreck on a country road somewhere and nobody could find him," said Grant. "It is not like him at all not to let his grandmother know where he is." You can imagine Grant's relief, then, when the little snookums finally did return to Hooks yesterday. He hadn't been in any automobile accident at all, praise the Lord, and he wasn't hurt and he wasn't hungry and he wasn't going to Baylor. Young Sims said he had "just felt at home up there" in Norman and that he would sign a "letter of intent" for Oklahoma. "It'd take a miracle to make me change my mind now," Sims said yesterday at school.

"If I could play for two colleges, I would." The story did not indicate whether he had bags under his eyes. Tough luck for Grant and he wasn't accusing anybody of anything, but I get the idea he was a bit upset over the whole situation. I'm no dummy, I'm no dummy, no more than Grant Teaff. A blue-chip kid disappears for a weekend in Norman, the weekend before National Letter of Intent Day, and he comes back saying he felt just like home up there, and his grandmother didn't ever know where he was. You've got to wonder what it was he was up to and just hope his grandmother never finds out.

Car wreck on a country road my foot. It's just downright terrible what must go on at universities in the days and nights leading up to National Letter of Intent Day. And all for the sake of building up athletic programs. Maybe the NCAA could pass some more rules. As it is now, you can only pay for a blue-chipper's visit to your campus once, I think, and you can't buy him a car or promise him a cut of the television package or change his grades.

But you can make him feel at home, which is the loophole I fear is being used. I don't know exactly what it is they hit you with over there to make you feel at home and forget to call your grandmother, but, hot damn, don't you wish you were a blue-chipper? Bench has one Jerry Quarry, who will fight Scrap Iron Johnson Tuesday night at the H.I.C., gets a few words of wisdom from his manager Gil Clancy at a Kalakaua Gym workout yesterday. Quarry's comeback foe Just call him 'New Iron' college basketball off a sudden-death triumph in last weekend's Andy Williams-San Diego Open. Snead beat Bobby Nichols and Raymond Floyd in a three-way playoff. After his San Diego win, he admitted it wasn't easy to live in uncle Sam's shadow.

"People think I'm somebody 1'irt not," he' confessed. "I feel I haven't gotten a fair shake on a lot of things. But I've learned to live with it." I will not speak to anyone but him on this matter because he is the only one who can deliver. "We are very friendly and cordial and we are not personally at odds over this. I am looking forward to sitting down and working this out and I do not have a negative thought at all on this." Beman said the television revenues should be delegated as the players see fit.

"WITHOUT the players signing their rights away for television, there would be no TV," Beman said. The players have directed the television rights should be divided among all of the tournaments. "There are years when a tournament is not televised but that tournament still shares in the television money. I am not going to change that policy and it has the support of all the players." Clemson 85, Georgia Tech 49 Jacksonville 74, Florida St. 71 Williams Mary 47, VMI 66 American U.

68. LaSalle62 SOUTHWEST Colorado 90, Oklahoma 67 Oklahoma St. 95, Iowa St. 70 Houston 90, St. Mary's (Tex.) 77 Oklahoma St.

95, Iowa St. 70 WEST Nevada Vegas 123. Pepperdine 86 Pro tennis VIRGINIA SLIMS (At Detroit) Second round Evonne Geolagang del. Lesley Hunt. 6-3, 6-4; Margaret Court def.

liana Kloss. 6-4, 6-3; Olga Morozova def. Briget Cuvoers, 44, 6-4, 4-4; Francoise Durr def. Betty Stove, 4-7, 6-3, 6-1 Raquel Giscafre def. Marlta Redondo, 7-5, 7-5; Marcie Louis def.

Janet Newberry, 6-3. 4-4. WCTRED (At Fort Worth) Third round Harold Solomon def. Stan Smith, 6-1, 6-1 Cliff Richev def. Cliff Orysdale, 3-6, 7-6, 6-3; Dick Stockton def.

Paul Gerken, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; John Alexander def. A. Amrltrai, 6-3, 6-1 Jlrl Hrebec def. Eric Van Dillen. 6-4.

6-7, 4-4 1 Tom Edlefsen def. Marty Riessen, 7-5, WCT GREEN (At Barcelona) Third round Biorn Bora def. Sherwood Steward. 6-4, 3-6, 7-6; Kim Warwick def. Hans Karv, 6-4, 6-3; Bob Hewitt def.

Chris Mottram. 7-6, 6-2; Jose Hl-gueras def. Bob Giltinan, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4; Arthur Ahse def. Paolo Bertolucci, 6-2. 4-0 Onny Perun def.

John Ltoyd, 6-7, 4-3, 6-3. BOCA WEST (AbBoce Raton, Fla.) First round Jimmy Connors del. Bob Kreiss. 6-4, 4-3; Jan Kodes def. John Yuill.

7-6. 7-6; Van Winitsky def. Mike Machette. 4-1, 5-7, 6-2; Charlie Owens def. Juan Gisbert, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.

WCT BLOB (At Handle La Costa, Calif Second round Ray Moore def. Jaime Flllol, 6-4, 6-4; Roscoe Tanner def. Ove Bengston. 6-3. 6-1; Alex Metreveill def.

Charles Pasarell. 5-7, 7-6, 6-2; Ismail El Shafei def Chlco Hegey. 4-3, 6-2. Scropiron JOHNSON 1 delacy SPORTS EDITOR day left maybe two or three might be a nice number," the two-time most valuable player said. "We've got to be concerned about the population explosion, you know." Bench says the hasty marriage announcement he didn't meet Vickie until last Dec.

2 makes it appear he suddenly decided to chart a course of marriage. "NOT SO," he contended. "I've been ready for this for quite some time. I'm ready to settle down and I'm looking forward to the new kind of life I'll be leading. "It's been a turnabout from the way I've been living, but the transition should be easy because it's what I want.

"I don't like to compare the past with the present. I enjoyed the way I lived but I know I'm going to enjoy the future. I'm ready for this step." Bench's best man will be Dean Ingram, an old friend and business associate from Oklahoma City. FORD REBATES 5200 to 5500 Delivery must be made by February 28, 1975 EAST Pittsburgh Niagtra 65 Clarlona7, AHIanc67 Wavnasburg96, Wntmlnstar (Pa.) 74 Gannon 75, Voungstown 64 Brook Ivn Collage W. Pratt 82 MlllarsvlllaSa, Mantflald 76 Suffolk 60.

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Joseph's (Pa)73 MIDWEST Akron97, Buffalo State 40 Olivet 84, Alms 7 Miami (Ohio) 52, Kant State SO Oakland 94, Northwood 81 Michigan 64, Duauesne 74, OT St.Norbert67,Loras73 Kansas St. 45, Nebraska 64 Dayton 78, Xavler (Ohio) 67 i Missouri 87, Kansas 72 -Bowl i no Green 64, W. Michlan 64 Toledo 90, Michigan 80 SOUTH Maryland 70, Virginia 51 Norttt Carolina State 92, Duke 78 Georgia Southern 98, Mercer 71 Berry 84, Piedmont 70 St. Augustine 94, Livingstone 92 UNC-Ashevllle 73, Mors Hill 48 Guilford 94, UNC-Wllmlngfon 72 Towson State 95, Johns Hopkins 61 Wake Forest 78, Davidson 49 By FERD LEWIS Advertiser Sports Writer It took a while, but Scrap Iron Johnson has gotten with the ecology program. He's been recycled.

"I'm New Iron now," proclaims a beaming George Raft Johnson, better known to fistic followers as Scrap Iior. WHAT MAKES New Iron new is the scrapping of some of his old iron. About 20 pounds to be exact. "He was just too heavy. He was carrying around a lot of weight that he didn't need.

It wasn't doing him any good," manager and confidant Walt Tyler says. Johnson dropped from 235 to 216. Ther is, however, enough of him left for Jerry Quarry to recog-. nize when they meet in the main event on Tuesday's boxing card at the H.I.C. Arena.

Tyler, who managed Mike Weaver when he New net league The Hawaiian Tennis Association is sponsoring a Hawaiian Junior Tennis League of 10 teams which were stocked in tryouts on their "home" courts. Each team has up to 10 players from ages 6 to 14. Matches are held once or twice a week. Standings after eight matches (won-lost-tied): Honolulu 6-1-1, Hawaii Kai 4-3-1, Waialae and Kailua Advertiser photo by C. Okamura Johnson, Tyler says, is.

living proof that you can teach an old fighter new tricks. "This guy should have gone a lot farther by now than he has," Tyler says, shaking his head. "WE'VE worked with him a lot and have some new things to show Quarry. We've got a new punch that we didn't have before." While falling short of calling it a secret weapon, Tyler says "It was good enough that when Norton saw it he thought it was something." Korosetta Kid, the durable Samoan who took a bloody loss by decision to Canadian Bob Bozic some months ago, meets Reco Brooks in a heavyweight eight-rounder on the same card. Brooks beat Ron Stander three years ago.

Virgilio Amano and Hideo Kobayashi meet at 122 pounds and Kid Panbalag and Shinobu Fujita clash at 125 in a pair of five-rounders. radio, TV most fantastic restaurant! OCIAMIA AMINICAN BIITAUNANT 21-t7l bachelor CINCINNATI (UPI) "Absolutely no cold feet or second thoughts." Johnny Bench declared yesterday, just two days before his marriage. "No regrets in any shape or form." "Of course," he added with a slight grin, "it may be a little different come Thursday night's rehearsal. "No," he said after a few seconds thought. "There won't be any real second thoughts.

This is just what I want." BENCH, the 27-year-old slugging catcher of the Cincinnati Reds, will marry Vickie Chesser, a 25-year-old New York City model, here tomorrow night. The event represents one of the sports world's most eligible bachelors biting the dust. But Bench says he is not only looking forward to marriage, he wants to get started raising a family in the near future. "There were four kids in my family, but I think TODAY (Radio) 3:30 p.m.-First of four ILH Class A and AA tournament games from H.I.C. Arena, KORL (650).

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