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Independent from Long Beach, California • 57

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Independenti
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i -Tn games key matdmpls rtli guard, where he has as- Mootg nlT-America 2S Ed Ratiwf to Padflcl 8-5 Jrtm SBER FOOTNOTES: BeSviP' uiuojr, in wnr puy, coach Jerry start two burly forwards in. Jtouifartbe ttm PvicAudlter lu Tarkanian Jim Me- oSraaMic in Lonx Bench and 7' where the (Tigers have lost writer, who used to work in Cargo and 6-7, 235 Bernard ttvNCAA piayqBsbi.Snit Lake only oncein thetorlMt-44 -Sedotlrt en nave TOriuMan Is still undecided as to Ms alignment. The coritest will be tel- came, the aeon wu tied, at fiaUtime but will probably put dowa iJ at faite In SortMandon Jose told me it ia tougher phyrically- to jdqr in San-vised Jte Jbsea gym, hut mentally Channel and will -be it almost lw fr and will be it is almost impossible for KEZR-FM fa visiting team to do and wen by 11 Pacific coach Mck lew anorta tiw NCAA tournament tba tter enach told rov'd better beat me in yon Edwards fat Edwarda baa 206 Chuck Terry on Moon any-; Cargo and' i.i- rl i. 5. thing In A McWilliams on vama lu hMn Ihe Ugers have' wonSS iThe key here be Ter- disramd'udMmdleapped row athome.

rys abiiay to keep Mc- -fact, 'toce Pacff an-, adflc 3 rwa.r. There is something nounced two years 3 that It would John the ree- son to be cnnffaknt, be iaSM'L' at atocktoq CWe. t- The two ofiidali at Fridays with SaaJoae State, Hr, hows the weather' up there? Do you lav to dud far airpUnes? Vt. Cob I callyou next timo I peed to 'change a light bulb? El ceteraet cetera, ad nauseam. Stature and athletic ability in the masculine farm are, in our society, admired by women and envied by men.

But when a soplto blessed with ex-treme measures of bath, the Messing can become a QUU' v' Bifl lVii'liralwaatiiart attenttoiLlhft Isnt much he can do boatbeing fleet, lllnchci fldedskmwai mins iand he may tdl, wkattemtrfth.nddU dHcRke "Maybe you Just dont want to see your brother all the time. There's a bertain stage in your life alien you need a change from what youre doing. I went to -school with him my whole lifer and 1 didnt? eepts "I really like bung tall, he saysTd.like to -grow some more. Oh, I get the remarks, hut the peOple-L get-thosefronLjiave jm jmeaning jntnyjii ego APCAA -fiw this season hbout the' place they piay PadfiC.A-OentolcJglp one Soutidender-- hi that makes them un- John ctinnein. the best big MHtoili were overhead Long Beach 1 has v.

tn rn -I I beatable, Tarkanlan man in Tlger history, and e1 to call am ym-; Ker.55- flimeanta donpbnoktoj? Gopher atmOarby rvT 1 Em Bebeaen wereaua-' Mr- (tow and tighter, yf tan the HIh rti San San lost a' PCAA game (25) wm and the consMms has aP Tbe Tlgen are a talent 4 ed team and time match' ly 20 potato and "17 re Civlc wM the prtwhere upg rinmld decide if Cri bounds. Tarkanian will ask Nat Sthens and, aP nkrty to talL. its third PCAA title today. ternately, 6-10 Bob Lynn to AThe, Civic Is an unlikely. If the unbeaten titers neutralize the Big G.

ancient basketball arena top; Pacific today, every Tarkanlan feels the Hfe. Theyre just strangers When people, ask about my height Im nice to em: I give em's-emfle. Mv friends dont bother me about it. whldi tor and pended tor 'tim year. A Joee partiaan told tiiat to officiate bad but thel tartans became Lons Bench y-; shot mom free tfarowa and cored pdfata tan tiie Hne.

We bad eix goattendlns calls (five defenahre. one Tboae wen jniatokea made. Tarkaniaa told. The fouls were San Jof mistakes, Taitaniaa. said.

ending the eonvemtim know if I wanted to anymore. Walton still wQl not say whether, he made the proper deeiska In selecting UCLA. too early, he says. I probably wont know, until. Xm through here.

Everythings fine BILL WALTON also plays center for the UCLA basketball team and he was barely 19 yearsold, a xetoanjeam ana ms was iy A MW whats goingte happen -SophomorewhenAhiaseasoa itartedJThis presents three years TAX K- 2 ij -v 7' fx: 71 7 y' -V win to- Tarkanlan, nothing tan the The better team didn' night the 4Ber uid g. ter ms teams 73-73 win. Spar-. tan Dm-' brilliant wm. Bpv.tt did such Bat- 4, Jj, '( a14 year after IfiamL FUu.

np cdleglata hatoethaH Eirecart started slowly tidaiv and had trouble woric- Theiberebacb conttaued the spedal aervice conqe- tltam. I i 'j By BUCK LANIER Today Is ChamplonsMp Day in the lOth Golden' State Pro Rodeo la. tiw -Long BeadiArenaAi'-Tt The fim beglni. atSp.m., despite the 2:30 printed' on the Advance tickets: BDLLS BIGGEST PROBLEM In basketball, Cv cording to Wooden and confirmed by himself, is ad justing emotionally; to the abncimal pressuresof --his situation. -tA A -S Wooden youth and inexperience cans-, es" Mm to play with more emotion than reason at yjK-? Walton says, He means ttat'lf tilings aitrt going right; I get tipset and tids aggravates the stt nation.

I shirt playing without complete control ef my hope Tm eutgrewlng tt. Opponents already have challenged ajtton Most of tii; teams we play try to roui me but I dont retaliate becaise thati not the way 1 play. Musclings not my game. I Just have to keQ) 4 moving to Im not standing around in' pushing HmtriMMi with guys who are stronger than me.TM- not -saying ITi back. away frbm I-, play my best vdwn I dout have my emotions -undeMontroL fhrir domtaathm over the cowpokea atthethree-how mark.Tbe broncs have tossed 18 riders.

only five, Qoe who rode Saturday v-Mght to.the',delightof they 6,793 fang was Stove Col man; St Paul, Ore. Ha posted 64- Hg potato on 7 large Normally rational, observers, perhaps wiHt" Short memories, are ranking his tal-. eriti beyond those of Kareem Abdul--JaUbarjWhenhewai Lew Aldndor, and polished performers. It means notidng to says, or to anybody whs really understands the game of bas-ketbalL rm not trying te be anybody else. In other- wors, youTO trying to establish your 1 The younmdCr contribnted, 7S to Pactt.t(Jo tt iast four victories and has apparently found Ua place.

If Eddie can frustrate and bother Errecart tost enough to -36 1 take tiieni out cf tbnr offense. tiiat could be enough, said Tar- fcmill- iiif i Saturday night Saw a 20- A( Sbotto.td.tb, trad. drcutt SBosSbot Ma ted tlekd Mike ride his for the National Finals six -time Bolt, Boros -T j. 1. i :4 Mowrey, sjduning Brahma bull to a "TTljoint total and tiie lead through three sessions.

He9 tiie Man to beat to- day as the 42 bull 'riders deadlocked i on own identity? HfNot eveh thatTm Just trying to help establish anldentity, for-ouTrteaunI the next three 'years to be knmgn as Bill Walton team nd.stufflike that just want to be time good yeers of UCLA basfcetbaB. WILLIAM THEODORE WALTON has been characterised ws "erratic and difficult taqoptrol, 4 challeiige; even for the coaching ability of John Wooden But he is; an intelligent individnal hii 2.9 0, grade padnt average bn a political sdence major is i I i A smootii, Bpurring, 67-: point on. Billy Bayou Yave J. C. Bonine rt Hy- Brahmas the saddle Aoonc section.

I' Botdne won 821,000 fi towasaa, wws -Twv gw 1 MATIHai aiSUtTS rtfC. THEN IS the further oWepi of Wal; tons knees, which bear most celebrated case of :tendonitisiffmodera.times.-S,: 1 -I had knee tperatiou for tora.eartilage as a jr sophomore in Mgh sty. Tbit healed line and I dont have any trouble wita. tt; hut the tendonitis that I have uow 'Started eentaf year. Its gotten worse all nleng ij -j BRUINS- txg fartastffisto rrp-wr-3Tv.

Brine JIB Stwoenfts Shove the average of athletes in. Ms a8sure WaMbnlBiat ttejarndP class-nd he does not speak rashly, lAA tion is merer a complication of maturity in an un- tan uerson. and that Watton-4f he tali 5 usually tan and that Waltbn if he fbllows in on average. iTbo. fending diunnJuhusA; Boros and Tommy Bott went into a tworay tie for first Saturday at the end of 54 holes ta tiie 33rd annual sbipL.

Turners and: when he does the reply emerges rammc. from th. deittl I gg. Ms ionLInoclimanlie (Continued From Page M) man to beat to Ansou 0' 2r. Thurman, Fallon, -j-SSSlg year, tive Ixjsh kept tiis scoring dowh on Robert- view riding rut 'VIS Boros; of a V.

V. six- xling 91 ion'vtwo it. tiie steer wrestling-- and this mark could live loss for Notre Dame Mriinee Kttou wns fost- and ito 11th ta 14' games paced forytfae 4J170 tans thl, tfo Tha Irish have but the evening show sinv both times. UCLA. won tits previoua game, 114-56.

It was the fifth aucces- to the Shrine college basketbatL -Btfi yeamnd e-half SMar, a startiag effenrive tackle on the fpotben team, hey ldayed basketball together at Helix High lu At tfMslMtgfaning, bn tried tn talk me' into C0m-: thrpe-undw par 69 on the PGA National Golf Chibs -East to catch up with Balls 212 totals another part win Vm and-aTiattvrof-SanusF- me at all, jriwther Tm playihg or not doing any- thing. Other times they hint all the time. If Im sti-ting downtbey hurt -He Is art particularly concerned that the knees could limit a briMant eareer. They sre just oae factor In a futare fall of anknown wonders, Ill just play one, game ata time, Bill says, a. an.

ni 'Hm. i Lsrrie eoxouNDamuLTS ing to UCLA, says Bill, who had his choice of more tiian a JuuMhel schoolsr But then he reek; tct'Z: won only once and lost five times at home. UCLAs Henry Bibby led the Bruins ta scoring with 15 potato while -Walton bud i 12-gnd Farmer, 10. Novak was MTtor the Irish with 16 and Tpm Tdara had i passed It the top perform-A ances ln the riding events Sperialty acts were tops again: ax were the downs and the skilled work in di-i the Brahma bulls after ycowbojra Vwere Navy rodeo riders fl: llJ FULwaa tha leader at the end of the first, rounds, and shot' a one-unT-: A Sam Snead of WMtorSd Wday Shared' tha 1eadrv'Jj wasat-73 7 -SV" "i y' -V i mm )y v. 0 4 Maitmruns ,1 in are bolding a HOB mar-n" ovtfrthe MgrtaeSfln 215 total and thhd v-r 1 ka could see no other way 7 down the about one ndhute remain-.

By BARRY UNGLES i' 'v i i-- Rising yonn.g. middle- Tie didnt know what he in the roubdand again; weight Ifike fQxon went on yas doing out tiierdltod with about 20 seconds left PefMdlng chanqiiun Ray Tj nownjuu course Saturday ghouid have called; the Martin 19 i4i consecutive Wu when -he was upset ele-s7 1 weT ia fight after tiie first Dayis then pinned Nixon -ftarry knock-by tiii hardpunches of exidainedy.Latka- 'Itavis, lo6ingonatedinical iLkept telling, him to put knockout in thefifth round up hl hands ytoA protect jatto finally an end -to against the ropes and let rf hard punches fly Into this Irishman, before shots Saturday to wta. his seoictti motdT iu a row at wnfsmriTi JK' Hah Ownai, i i.v mai Aessi hadbnlytwo both at the wtoi Ms fort ind against Angdei Eikl Bldg: 1 (ka md(. U. mirvli OKB8H 'V" Martin, trailed York? aging puncnei oyivHinitartedi taxing mP: RcrtidonAVf BoicrbfiYcar.

miasedy shot Martin: the fifttaf; Nixon, from the fight early, in. the tMrdr Sa Sin with fiftik OMo. nlemwd the rest, of the ta-; citMhia''wai knocked Ik mmafa lartfn, fjt Venezuelas Vincente cleared the rest of theta-; -tknocked 3koun4 as he openeda large yenesueias-- knockout' Me. and hrtt going to wta(; down three: times in the nsh over Nixons left eye Pauj: holds the match 150-75. gtmaad (before a a beo ptaied the DaJ' the Worid foxing Ft -Joe Bahsof George Latka put a stop to.

old against the wem nirth Jr- a knodt- of tiw light heavy- anotiwr farmer Cham the. bout with Just seven Nixon came back in tae Nton -weight chamjdonship, has last 100 balto seconds fourth round with a been voted WBA Boxer of to defrat Dan Gaxtoer. of The dhiwd responded to of good jater but the fifth In the amateur prelimi--the i 0 AAF a Newark, Jr A the decision by Latira with all Davis naries. Paul Tiblet scored Rondon. who became Nixon a decision over Raul Ensi- 'f knocked.

champion in 5 1971; when he stopped Jim- 0 chorus of boos. But 'j 'i- Davis Vi; 30; Lonnie i 0 whipped Dennis Mandno; my Dupree, defended his v- title 'four times during the year. His next bout Will be March' 9 Jn Bfiami Beach weight and John- 7 against Bob Foster, who to A ny Dunn grabbed a champion 1 decistanbver Johnny the World Boxing Councfl. AAP 3:17 JL The lh j.shatrpe Aln tiw middl-' The WBA also selected A a -v Wu In other matches, Danny: Diliberto, Miami, def. Lou Buter North Hollywood, Jimmy l'-'- Hfflitta def.KajEUoFumi- (UPW New Mexico won.

S53 Japan, 150-m. righJ la late matches Saturday nighL former winner Ed highly rerded Texas-El Kelly of Las VegM topped Paso Ronnie AQencSrtanE nif-indoOT '-track Torrance 4. defeated Th Lobo, boolted ifTvoltao of Lax. Vegas, 15066: and Jimmy of -Albuquerque beat Jim triple Jump, Scranton, gu with 68 pohds. tuned ta Barnard! shot put tamwdght chamjdon, his successful defense in against topratod contokt-, tt it Jesus Plmentd.

who.captured the sports infornuition chrer atCerritos -College; with a toss of 63 l. 1 tij ,9 1 finished second ih I- The 20auut Artoona was thirdwithS urnament began'; Friday? New Mexico fand continues through team nipped: UTEP li tato "ts -I .1 .0 r-T-eevlew'teW tlMh a 1', -7 v. vi.

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