Panama City News-Herald from Panama City, Florida • Page 23

NEWS-HERALD, Panama City, Sunday, June 18, 1972 STARTS FRIDAY NIGHT 26 Teams In Distaff Softball Tourney Twenty-six teams have been entered in the 1972 women's Southeastern invitational slow pitch Softball tournament to be held next Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Oakland Terrace complex. First round pairings include: Milton Pacers vs Tallahassee Merchants; Mobile Merchants vs Opelika, Tigers; Albany Confederates vs Crestview Western Auto; Milton Bennie's Rebels vs Panama City Wright's Uniforms; Atlanta Chevronettes vs Mobile Colts; Phenix City, Merchants vs Pensacola Suburban; Atlanta vs Raiders vs Panama City Shar- byes are Hinson, Atlanta Milton Modern Furniture; Talla- ron Insurance; and Albany Zep Angels, Calhoun, Atlanta hassee Scminoles vs Warner Stars vs Atlanta Footprints. Stars, Mableton, Hornets Robins, Robinettes; Milton Teams drawing first round and Chattanooga WFLI. Dutch Judo Coach Here To Aid GOOD FISHING! Florida game and fresh water fish commission officers are shown putting some of the 60,000 hand-length panfish into the Chipola river at Scott's Ferry. The occasion was a big fish fry addressed by Rep.

Don Fuqua. LUCAS VS PRO, TOO Dunn, George To Tangle A double main event headlines next Thursday night's wrestling card at Rainbow Garden. Dick Dunn, who lost his Panama City championship belt to Georgeous George, has challenged the Gorgeous One to a turn match with the title at stake. George was irked because Dunn won last Thursday's $200 bonus in a battle royal by throwing George out of the ring George contended Dunn threw Juniors In Tourney Junior bowlers of the Panama City area, both boys and girls, will go to Clearwater beginning next weekend to compete in the state championships. The local youngsters hope to return with some trophies.

Wednesday night mixed league bowling scores last week included Bill Robinson 207-525, Wally Atchison 551, Ruby Mashburn 566, Hunter LeSuer 201-570, Kay Muterspaugh 550, Al Muterspaugh 208, Don Morris 233-572, Milt Turnage' 541, Warren Gray 224-576, Jim Sterrett 200, Ray Atchison 201-548, Frank Dyer 202, Joe Horton 230-598. Junior bowling for the week of June 13 Girls Sylvia Anderson 152-410, Kathie Colson 148-408, Star Stultz 154-406, Carol Tipton 129-363, Jane Kirkland 128-363. Boys Greg Boiling 215-562, Delbert Markley 205-538, Gary Warriner 198-514, Terry Byrd 179-483, Randy Holt 170-483, Jackie Weeks 209-475, Ken Blackwell 171-463, Kenny Hartman 171-462, Johnny Gilbert 156-459, Geno Howton 162-422. Pin Pal league scores: Harold Buschmeyer 220-587, Jim Tarr 246-574, Warren Gray 563, Gene Fay 211-555, Ed Culpepper garet Buschmeyer 232-550, Faye King 190-517, Mary Nell Barnes 215-543, Paul Key 214, Jere Lawrence 207, Jim Poston 201, Mar- 190-514, Dot Lawrence 192-513, Madge Bladh 198-503, Jane Herring 202-500, Sara Currie 189-495, Donna Hardee 493, Betty Cope 181-494, Linda Newsome 184-492, Kay Muterspaugh 183-491, Louise Bradley 194-488, Lorraine Strickland 189-486 and Iris Porter 193. Mike Michalack of Tyndall's Rum Dums had high score last week with a 633 series, including a 244 game.

This upped his average to 190, passing Clay Morgan. Mary Waff of the Rusty Four kept a 'grip on the women's lead with an average of 176. Quigley, Davis Race Winners "Duck" Davis and Bill Quigley won in their classes in Saturday's cruiser race of St. An- Johnson Ailing HOUSTON (UPI) Deron Johnson, the Philadelphia Phillies veteran first baseman, returned home Friday for treatment of a damaged nerve in his right foot. Johnson, hitting only .172, was placed on the disabled list Thursday.

The paroneal nerve has bothered him since the last week in April and he has been able to play in only 36 games. drew's Bay Yacht Club skippers. The results: Class A First, "Duck" Davis, Islander 30 Mark 2, Super Duck; second, Sid Daffin, Morgan 27, Faith; third, Bill Tharpe, Pearson 30, Fiesta. Class First, Bill Quigley, Columbia 26, Lady second, Bud Kenney, Morgan 22; third, Bob Kee- 1 Columbia 31, Fiddler's Green. him through the ropes and not over them as required by the rules.

In the other main event Ken Lucas and the Wrestling Pro, who have been feuding for some time, will tangle. Each claims he has a score to settle against the other and that should insure plenty of action. Bad Boy Hines will team up with the Blue Yankee in a tag team match against Frank Dalton and Armon Hussian, the big Egyptian. Hussian made a big hit in his appearances here and fans have asked for his return. Dalton is also a popular figure with local fans.

Greg Peterson will wrestle Bobby Boyer in the opening match at 8:15. Peterson won his match here last week on his return to the local ring after a long absence. Chess Champ Lauds Fischer MOSCOW (UPI) Boris Spassky, the world chess champion, said Friday he felt sorry for American challenger Bobby Fischer because of his "persecution mania" but consi- 1 dered him a "remarkable" player without whom the world jof chess would be "very dull." "If I had the freedom to i choose my challenger I would ask for Fischer," Spassky told a news conference. Their world championship matches start July 2 at Rekjavik, Iceland. Spassky, 35, was reluctant to comment on the 29-year-old Fischer's boasts that he would win the championship and his accusations that the Russians had plotted to deprive him of the title by arranging to hold the games in Iceland.

But, after repeated questioning, he said Fischer's "remarks make a strange impression. He appears to have a persecution mania and thinks Soviet chess players want to harm him. There is nothing to it and I feel sorry for Fischer." Spassky also defended Fischer against charges of an overriding interest in making money from chess. "In my opinion, although he is anxious to make money out of chess that is not the only thing he cares for," Spassky said. "His talk about money may be only an effort to assert his individuality in a country like the Unite.1 States where there is a lot of money." Spassky refused to predict the outcome of their matcn.

"I GO not know who will win but I am certain it will be an interesting and important event," he sa'd. Wnen the two grand masters met in West Germany in 1970 Spassky won three games and the other two were drawn. Mollis Joins Troy's Staff TROY, Ala. Joe Hollis, formerly a football and baseball coach at Coffee High School in Florence, has been added to the Troy State coaching staff, Tom Jones, TSU athletic director and head football coach, has announced. Hollis, a 1969 graduate of Auburn University, will join the Red Wave ranks as a graduate assistant, while working on his masters degree in education, Jones stated.

Scheduled to report to Troy State in July, Hollis will assume duties in working with the offensive backs and receivers under another new Red Wave coach, Bob Boothe. Hollis will also assist Boothe in coaching the Troy State baseball team in the spring. A native of Florence, Hollis is a 1965 graduate of Coffee High School, where he was All-TVC in football, basketball and baseball. His senior year, he was the captain and quarter- Back of the state championship grid team, as well as being voted Most Outstanding Athlete. NEW YORK (UPI)-As the only non-Japanese ever to win world championships in judo, Anton Geesink of Holland raised the gentle fighting sport to a truly international level.

His significance in judo can be measured even further by the fact that, although he is coach of his own nation's Olympic team, he has come to the United States during this Olympic year in an attempt to help raise the caliber of the sport as it is played here. The mission denotes a spirit of internationalism that might be matched if U.S. Olympic coach Hank Iba were to go to Moscow to give the Russians some pointers on playing and Ghancey Team Cops Dogfite Ed Chancey, Bemie Deleman, George Pelt and Bill McNeil won Sautrday's golf dogfight at Panama Country Club with plus five. Chancey won points at minus eight and Cecil McClung was second at zero. Also point winners were Bill Lowther and Woodie Smith, at plus four, Hurler Signs BOSTON (UPI) Al Dopfel of Massachusetts Institute of Technology signed a contract with California Friday and will report to the Angels' Shreveport, Texas League farm club Monday.

coaching basketball. Judo again becomes a regular part of the Olympic program this year after a trial in 1964, and American chances for even a bronze medal are rated as almost non-existent, The judo champions at Munich, Geesink predicts, will be Japanese and for the first time-Russian. "It is unbelievable that a country like the United States, which is very, very strong in swimming, boxing, basketball and even has sent men to the moon-has not developed judo players," said Geesink, his voice rumbling from a solidly muscled 6-foot-5, 285-pound body. Around him at a table in the bar of the New York Athletic Club sat a dozen American black belts, some of them prospects for the U.S. Olympic team.

They all drank beer. None of them smoked. Judo was a relatively isolated sport in the United States until about a decade ago when Geesink was winning his three world championships, the second of them at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, and sending the Japanese into a state of national humiliation. But even the big Dutchman was surprised to learn that its popularity here has grown so rapidly that now, with 110,000 registered players, judo is the United States' third most popular Amateur Athletic Union sport behind only swimming and track. Almost all of the teachers have immigrated from Japan.

"There are two very bad things, though, with judo in America," Geesink said. The sport here and in some other countries as well, he explained, is too often taught in the rigidly formal manner established when judo was developed in 19th century Japan from the techniques of ju-jitsu, a martial art dating from before the 16th century. For one thing, he said, many promising players are discouraged by usually minimum six- month periods of time in grade required for promotion through each of the six student ranks below the black belt, which itself has 10 degrees. "There is not sufficient motivation or satisfaction for players who train hard, learn quickly and then must wait for promotion," he said. "Many develop to a point and quit." The tournament opens Friday at 6:30 p.m.

with play on four fields. Friday night games are also slated at 8 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday's play will begin at 8 a.m. and continue all day, with the last games slated for 9:30 p.m. Finals are set for Sunday at noon, 1:30 p.m.

and 3 if necessary. It is a double elimination tournament, with Panama City's recreation department in charge. The field is considered the fastest in the history of the tournament. Panama City's teams, Wright and Sharron, are leading the local league. Troy Garners Star Runners Andy Merchant Gets All-Star AUBURN, Ala.

Auburn's Andy Merchant, three-time AUSEC catcher, has been named to the District Three All-Star team, which gives him an excellent chance to make All-America. Merchant had the highest batting average on the all-star team at .400. Andy also set sev eral Auburn school records for hits and extra base hits in a sea son. He batted over .400 twice in his career and his career bat ting average of .387 is a new Tiger standard TROY, Ala. Five more outstanding high school track runners have been corralled by Troy State (Ala.) head track coach John Anderson for the 1972-73 edition of the Red Wave.

Charles Oliver, a 1972 graduate of Jordan High School in Columbus, is slated to then I run for the Red Wave next season. Danny LarWn, of Annapolis 'High School in Annapolis, has been added for the middle distances. William Brady, of Essex Catholic in Newark, New Jersey, has been clocked at 4:18 in the mile and 9:35 in the 3,000 meter steeplechase. Roger McClain of Pensacola Woodham will run the hurdles. Barry Lispy, of Levit Town, New York, will also run the distances.

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Sen. Marlow W. Cook, who chaired the hearing, said he favored putting all the sports problems under the jurisdiction of one body rather than fragmenting them. "Maybe it's time to admit that sports is different than it was 10 or 20 years ago and it's time to drag it kicking and screaming into the 20th Century," Cook said. Cook has sponsored a bill to establish a commission within the Commerce Department to regulate sports.

"We can put all this together and'focus our attention on these problems before they arise," Cook said. "This commission could be the initiator rather than waiting for litigation to come up." Under the terms of Cook's bill, the commission would have the authority to promulgate rules in the areas of televised sports blackouts, drafting procedures, the sale and movement of team franchises, and player contracts. Rep. Sam Steigcr, testified that he wasn't eager to see another federal agency created. "Anything the federal government touches it messes up," he said.

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