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and th throw Curry can Sews By AL LEVINE Miami Newt Reporter FORT LAUDERDALE So far. Craig Curry has lived up to expectations as a rookie quarterback In Dolphin clothing. He has shown, quickly, he has the arm and that he can use It. And use it. And use it.

His aim isn't bad, either. "A rookie quarterback wants to impress you right away and the only way he can do it is with his arm," said coach Don Shula. "Curry likes to put that ball up. "The other young quarterback, Jim Del Cairo, has had a year in our system. He's another guy who has always known the pass Monday, July 17, 1972 Section offense but this year he's working at using the running game to his advantage, which is what makes Bob Griese such a great Curry, the Coral Gables and Minnesota hero, had been working so hard at making an impression that he developed a slightly sore arm before last night's intrasquad scrimmage at Lockhart Stadium.

Nothing to idle him, mind you. Shula was to have reduced the roster today, mind you. In much the same manner that Del Gaizo established himself here a year ago, Curry made his mark last night as the defense dominated the offense, 26-12. Curry completed seven of 15 passes for 94 yards including a 41 -yard touchdown to rookie John Stewart. Ironically, Del Gaizo, the kid who won their hearts here last year, was just another pretty mustache.

He engineered one scoring drive Hubert Ginn ran in from the seven in the first quarter and was 7-for 21-pass-ing for 67 yards and one insult "Hey, Del Gaizo," one customer shouted toward the end of the controlled scrimmage, "we've got a shoe shine stand for you." How quickly they forget. At first glance, Shula was generally pleased by the hitting. The defense was awarded two points each of 10 times it stopped the offense on downs and three points each for Maulty Moore's recovery of a Curry fumble and cornerback Greg Johnson's interception of a Curry pass. "The defense prevailed and the offense's failure to hang on to the ball was a big factor," Shula said. "There were a lot of dropped balls and you expect this when people are fighting for a job." But it was a night to discover Curry.

Shula did not give Curry a deadline when he decided Craig's first opportunity to play for the Dolphins would be at quarterback. He had been drafted as a quarterback who perhaps could also play defensive back or wide receiver. His only consideration now may be as a quarterback, which is the way Curry wants it. "Curry displayed a lot of poise," Shula said after the scrimmage. "He called the plays on his own and showed good judgement in some cases.

He threw the bomb right where you want it." In a scrimmage last week, Curry collaborated with Marlin Briscoe on a 60-yard touchdown pass. That, too, was on the money, Shula said. So much for his arm. Shula took Curry aside at the end of Continued on Page 2C, Col. 4 Al MM a I Jz I.

I-" i I Craig Curry gets off a pass Dolphins cut 5 rookies Coach Don Shula today cut the Dolphins' roster to 72 by placing five rookies on waivers. Released were free agent tight end John Crisp of Connecticut; linebacker Walter Daggett of Memphis State; 17th round draft choice Vern Brown, a defensive back from Western Michigan; defensive back Reginald Booker of Cameron State; and defensive lineman Larry Hurley of South Carolina State. Offensive lineman Jim Langer has been excused from practice for a few days to return to Minnesota. His 14-year-old sister was killed in a car-train accident over the weekend. Miami News Staff Photos by GEORGE KOCHANIEC Rookie Ashley Bell (83), defenders collide, pass falls harmlessly Philbin, Reilly get to important stuff JOHN CRITTENDEN Sports Editor TV view of chess: it's a closed door Many Americans know nothing about the game of chess, but would like to understand a little of it, to better comprehend the cold war now going on in Iceland as Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky play for the world championship.

By JEFF KLINKENBERG Miami Newt Reporter Last week Walt Philbin and Lou Reilly had all kinds of things to worry about. It was their job to make sure nobody did bad things at Miami Beach Convention Hall during the convention. Philbin and Reilly are cops. On Miami Beach, Philbin is known as The Major and Lou is Detective Lieutenant Reilly. For the last 11 months they have been planning the security for the political conventions here this summer.

Now that the Democrats publicans and non-delegates are flying or hitchhiking back north. Reilly said he worked 80 hours last week and Philbin spent two days in the hospital. He went there for a check-up and was told he was exhausted. He got out of bed in time for George McGov-em's nomination. All this for a relative calm convention.

Larry O'Brien, the chairman of the Democratic Party, was talking about how smoothly things went inside the convention hall while Rocky Pomerance, the Miami Beach Police Chief, was explaining how nice things were outside. Philbin and Reilly are hoping things will go smoothly for their baseball teams this week. Dade Sport will be playing nine games in six days with little pitching depth and an 11-9 record going into the last week of the season. Hialeah is better off. Reil-ly's team will play seven games in six days and he's got pitching and enough pitchers to complement one of the better-hitting teams in the area.

Third baseman Tony Sua-Continued on Page 4C, Col. 8 are through, Lou and Walt can start thinking about the really Important things In life, like who will win this week's American Legion games. Last week they worried about Zippies this week they will worry about whether or not they should, pull the starting pitcher, or, the real tough decision: should Felix Bustabad be lifted for a pinch hitter? It will be important stuff for Philbin and Reilly. Phil-, bin is the manager of Dade Sport Shop, fighting for a berth in the district's Legion playoffs which begin next week. Reilly manages Hiale-ah Coplan Pipe and Supply the class of Dade County whieh leds its division with a 15-4 record and is a sure thing to make the districts, maybe a sure thing to win.

Both are sre solid clubs. Both have the potential to make it to the state tournament in Tallahassee Aug. 12. And with luck, maybe one of them could make it to the Southeastern Regional Tournament in West Palm Beach Aug. 23.

But maybe that would not be so lucky. The time clocks Reilly and Philbin punch don't make allowances for trips particularly during the week of the other convention. The Republicans start wheeling and dealing on Aug. 21. "If my team makes it very far," said Reilly yesterday, "I won't be there.

I won't be able to make it. My coach will take over the club but I don't think they even need me." The same goes for Philbin. Hell no, he won't go. They haven't had a day off in two months and they won't get one until the Re Any competition between an American and a Russian for large stakes generates instant interest, no matter how unfamiliar the terrain. ABC-TV made a daring and public-spirited effort yesterday to report on the event in progress, and the game itself, but was almost completely frustrated when Fischer single-handedly Pulled the plug which turned off ABC's picture.

It was a selfish and indefensible gesture, which gained Fischer little if anything and deprived thousands of viewers of a first (and per BOBBY FISCHER JOE NIEKRO Sitting down on ffie job Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves ends up sit-ting on Chicago Cubs runner Joe Pepitone during an unsuccessful pick-off attempt during the eighth inning of game yesterday in Chicago. Aaron's tactics worked Pepitone couldn't get up in time to advance on the wild throw. The Cubs won the game, 5-3. Joe hopes perfect is sufficient See baseball roundup on Page 3C. Associated Press Wirephoto Til be better at 39 than 37' haps last) look at the drama of world chess competition.

Of course, chess will probably survive without television. It has up to now. Maybe the whole thing would have been just as confusing if Fischer had cooperated fully I'm not sure chess can be explained and examined in a single hour. But ABC-TV is to be congratulated for trying. On the first day of competition last week, Fischer, famous for his low boiling point and unusual demands, announced that the cameras which were filming the opening match were an unbearable intrusion.

They must be removed, he ordered, despite an earlier agreement which allowed them to be present. The cameras stay, Fischer was told. He didn't show up at all for the second game, forfeiting rather than play before the cameras. One camera, no spectators Tournament officials yielded yesterday and took the game backstage, where the competition continued, without spectators. The progress of the match was relayed to the outside world by one unmanned television camera, which swept slowly back and forth across the checkered board.

This left ABC-TV with no pictures to show and little action to report. The result was as inconclusive and uncomfortable an hour as the sports fan is ever likely to see on network television. Announcer Bill Fleming read a situation paper, a chess expert used a magnetized wall board to discuss strategy of the first game (which was finished last Wednesday, hardly an up-to-the-minute news item) and Fleming held a telephone receiver to his ear while a man in Iceland, barely audible, tried to explain what was going on behind the closed backstage door during the in-progress third game. To add to the atmosphere of uncertainty, the third game recessed without a conclusion, with the network experts expressing the opinion that Fischer was in the lead. The presentation was a disaster.

Television popularized golf as a spectator sport and is doing the same thing in much of the country where the game is seldom played for hockey. But TV has to have a picture. It can't work through closed doors. Two men in a studio reporting on an unseen event for television, those are simply prohibitive circumstances. ABC tried and lost ABC unquestionably knew it was taking a chance in trying to telecast the championships.

The real chess players were sure to be bored by the elementary strategy explanations. And to the uninitiated, no amount of introduction within the limited framework of an hour program was going to be enough. In trying to tell what was going on at the board, they lost me after about 30 seconds. Still, I am Interested enough in the competition to want to know more about it. Did Fischer really blow the first game because of a dum-dum move? Does he have a chance to win now that he has lost the first two games? Is it really possible to be aware of the tension involved by watching a moving picture of two men facing each other across a table? Filmed interviews, with an occasional picture of the competition in progress, might have made it more clear.

ABC tried to produce some answers, but could offer only a dragging hour of studio conversation when Fischer turned off the pictures. The tournament is scheduled to continue for a month or more, but there was no announcement by ABC yesterday about making a second try at a report from Iceland next weekend. I can't blame ABC for not wanting to have that door slammed in its face again. I can't help but wonder if Fischer would have been so sensitive about the intruding cameras if, instead of losing the first game, he had won. RED SMITH New York Timet it i h1 The Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio Righthander Joe Niekro was just as surprised as anyone else when he pitched a perfect game yesterday for the Toledo Mud Hens just one day after the Detroit Tigers handed him his walking papers.

"I just came down with the idea of pitching a good game," Niekro said after his 2-0 no-run, no-hit victory over the Tidewater Tides. 'T never expected anything like this. I hope this opens some people's eyes." The win gave the Mud Hens the second half of a doubleheader. The Tides took the first game, 4-0, behind the pitching of Buzz Capra, another major league dropout. "I'm glad to be back down because this will give me more of an opportunity to pitch," Capra said of his recent transfer from the New York Mets.

He added the Mets had told him he would only be with the International League a short time. Niekro's performance was the league's second perfect game of the season, both of them in Toledo. On June 30 Rich Hinton of Syracuse hurled a perfect 5-0 game against the Mud Hens. Niekro arrived in Toledo yesterday morning and signed his contract with the Mud Hens less than one hour before he walked to the mound. His record with the Tigers was 2-2 with an ERA of 4.07 in 31 innings of work.

NEW YORK It was 20 years ago, give or take a week, when spectators in Helsinki saw Floyd Patterson leap like a springbok gazelle, throw a punch with both feet off the floor, and swat a young man from the Netherlands on the chin. They gathered the Dutchman up in a basket, and Patterson went on to the Olympic championship in the 165-pound class. Sixteen years have passed since Floyd won the heavyweight-championship of the world as a professional, 13 since he regained it and 10 since he lost it again. Wearing all his yesterdays like sackcloth, this 37-year-old man of peace sat in a windowless room on Long Island the other night saying he now felt sure he would need only two more years to reach his peak as a fighter. Minutes earlier, he had punched the face off Pedro Agosto, a mild truck driver with a broken hand whom Dr.

Edwin Campbell had excused after six rounds because of a cut beside the left pact on my head." "You weren't even puffing at the end," somebody said. "I was puffing mentally," Floyd said. He had worked hard, bouncing on the balls of his feet as he circled left, throwing punches in volleys that seemed as fast as those same hands 13 years ago. The blows were sharp rather than heavy, at his best, Floyd relied on cumulative effect to stop an opponent rather than a single knockout punch. Blood smeared the left side of Agosto's face.

The right side darkened and a purple welt swelled under the eye. Working that hard on a punching bag would have left anybody puffing. Agosto isn't a punching bag, exactly, but the difference is negligible. He is a part-time fighter who gets his eating money out of a municipal job in Oradell. N.J.

Judging fmm the tenor of ringside comment, Oradell must have been well repre- Continued on Page 2C, Col. 4 On two of the three official scorecards, Patterson had won all six rounds with Agosto. The other judge had Patterson ahead, 5-1. When he was champion, Floyd was often self-critical; grading a performance, he would give himself only 60 or 70 out of a possible 100. "Were you satisifed this time?" a man askel.

Floyd nodded. "I was satisfied." "I thought it was a good performance," the man said. "Thank you." Floyd's small, tidy features were composed. He was bent forward in his chair and his chin was a leaky faucet drip-ping sweat. They asked whether it was a punch or a butt that had split Agosto's face.

"Let's put it this way," he said. "I didn't feel any im got him into a chair on top of it but even from there his words were barely audible. "Did he say," an incredulous listener asked a neighbor, "that he wants to fight when he's 38 and 39 because he'll be better then?" "Yes," Floyd said. "Experience. I feel better than I did five years ago.

I'm better than I was with Jimmy Ellis in 1968. I'm faster than I was with Bonavena. Since I started my comeback two years ago I've fought better every fight, nine fights. So what will I be two years from now?" "About 39," somebody said. "I'll have every move," Floyd said.

"I know it. I'm more confident of that than Clay is of his ability." eye. Now as the press crowded close in a cell beneath the stands of a stadium left over from the world's fair, Patterson talked about his date with Muhammad AH in Madison Square Garden six weeks hence. "The only reason I took the bout this year is I might not get it next year," he said. "If I was positively sure I'd get the chance next year, I'd wait.

Not that I don't have confidence now, but I'll be better at 38 and 39 than at 37." "Hang the almanac's cheat and the calendar's spite," Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote defiantly. "Old time is a liar we're twenty tonight!" But Floyd Patterson wasn't defiant They had shoved a table against the wall and a Ji.