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14 27 Pro Bouts at Ago 10 Ooai VogQ aCJY7 Miller Splashes; Gilbert's 66 Ledds side of the Bth fairway oa this long, otherwise dry and arid i mt desert layout. The errant shot on the final Bole lea to a norretioouo, triple-bogey seven that ruined Miller's round and gave him a score of two-nader-par By KEN SLNEI OKLAHOMA CITY CAP)- Seta OGrsdy can't go out for sports like ether athletic seniors at Northwest Classes High. Be's already turned pro. Pre how. that is.

A year age Seaa. new IS, became the youngest bantamweight professional. Now 27 consecutive victories later, he'a ranked ninth is the world by tht World Boxing Association and looking for the championship. He's aet for his first big-money fight, against Danny Lopes in Los Angeles Feb. 23, with a guarantee H.OM and a chance at a gate percentage that could mean C5.800.

Lopez Is the seventh-ranked feath-erweight in the world and rated Ka. I is the United States by Bing Magazine. The take-home pay front that will go a long way toward medical school, and' that's been his goal since the age of four. But sow rs possible he'll be a champion prizefighter before he's a doc tor The boy's handsome face basal a mark on it. He has never known defeat In the rrag.

He won all 17 amateur II of them by knockout, and already as pra he has knocked out 2J of his 27 opponents. Most of bis matches have been set np by his father. Pat. a leading boxing promoter ia Oklahoma, a state much less enthusiastic about prizefighting than it Is about college football. Because of the lack of Oklahoma support for boxing, Seaa probably is better known in Omaha, site of his next out-of town fight Jan.

22, which may whip up more local interest than bis Jan. 29 bout here. His opponents later this month have yet to be named, but it's the Lopez fight moat on Sean's mind bow. He'll be giving Lopez, a featherweight, more than five pounds, but st 'ts inches Sean has the reach He calls himself the Green Machine, 'and in green trunks he carries through the Irish motif. He drives a green -eo-greet Barracuda and sometimes gets one of his two sisters to keep him tompany running around the high school track the one named Rosie O'Grady.

The other sister's named Col Sean's home from school earlier teas most of bis schoolmates, because he gets an boor's academic credit in physical education for the time he's keeping his body ring-ready. That conditioning schedule gets him np at I.JS every morning for running around the track and calisthenics. Tbea after school be goes to his father's gym for shadow boxing and sparring with "partners. He's ready for the question of whether his father has lined Sean np with string of weak opponents so as to build -an impressive win record. "You can do that once or twice but sooner or later you're going to have to meet somebody.

He wouldn't do that to me. Be wants me to be champion as much as I want to be champion, says And Pat fat ready for the question whether his son risks injury ia the rug: "I Just tell them there's risk of injury in any sport, and there's a lot of things a boy could be doing, like taking dope or running the streets at night. At 19 p.m., Sean'a at home in bed. He's wore out from training," says Pat O'Grady. pace in the first round of play si en the 1178 pro tour.

STE-clT It was the first time since Jan. K. 1t74 that Miller iTr-failed to lead an Arizona tour VSLlSn. names. He fed or shared the lead ia the last competitive m1 I.

IK Sri. Laa(M NBA Players, Owners FdiJ t'ftRedcn Agreement NEW YORK (AP) Mem-' bers of the National Basketball Association's Board of Gover- I nors and Commissioner Larry met with representatives of the players' union Thursday in another effort to settle the controversial Oscar Robertson law suit- But they broke up after about an hour 1J minutes, ia sharp disagreement over the prog- i they had made, "We reached agreement on nothing," said Larry Fleisber, general counsel for the NBA Players' Association. "They (the owners) still are demand-' ing compensation for a player 1 (who plays out his option) snd -leaves a team (to sign with another club). "That's exactly what a judge found to be illegal in (pro) Minis yiam ions events. Last year be slaved the two tournaments with eight consecutive rounds in the 60s, was 48 nnder par lor the 144 boles and woa by a combined total of 23 strokes.

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(AP) -Journeyman Gibby Gilbert fashioned a sts-under-par that combined Thursday with a man-made lake to interrupt at least brief-ly-Johnny Miller's fantastic string of successes in the Tucson Open Golf Tournament. Miller, who bad won both the Tucson and Phoenix Opens the last two years, had a shot at the lead rata tote in the bright, warm, sunny day when be pumped his tee shot into a-lake that borders the right SWECRepsli Rcckhurst' For 72-69 Hod BOLIVAB Southwest Baptist College held off Rock-burst 72-41 in NAIA District II basketball action Thursday BighL Fred Towns contributed 27 points as SWBC moved to 1-4 oa the season and dropped me1 visitor to 4-1 --r SWTtr UA 3S-JS at In. termlssion and Rockhurst'n Mitchell, who finished with 17 points, and Dick Col- well, who also ended with 17, sparked a second half comeback that fell short. Tom Taylor had 1 1 points for the Bearcats. SM'BC plays st John Brown University Saturday Bight la its next action.

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TEAMS SOUGHT BUFFALO Two teams are being sought for the annual Buffalo High School Invitational Basketball Tournament Nov. 22-27. In the field are Lebanon, Skyline, Sedalia Smith-Cotton, El Dorado Springs. Parkview and Buffalo. Others interested are asked to contact Coach Floyd Willis or Athletic Director John Dun at 345-2221.

im Ct.E Cm citizeii lewis Quits Lincoln Post JEFFERSON CTTY Leo Lewis has resigned' as football coach at Used a I'alversity after. -three seaseas at tke MIAA school's belm.4 A former star halfback for the Tigers sad la the Caaadlaa Football Leagae, Lewis plans to remala as golf coach Sad physical edacatiea ta stricter. Be Joined the UacolB staff as assistant to Dwlgkt teed, now atk- k-tle direcUr, la MS. Iced said the search far a new neater weald begla Immediately. "Tke field Is wide pea," ke commented.

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Former Cardinal player Mike Shannon again will be a member of the broadcast team. 18 13 22 3a MOH 1MSOUOM MT. lYKY tUHOAT il nav racaaiaB mmm O'Brien'; seemed optimistic about a settlement. In a prepared statement, be said to part, "These complex problems not easily solved, but there has been progress on a number of items because of the healthy give-and-take attitude that prevailed, "Each side bow has a proposal from the other for study and discission snd we anticipate further developments within the next week. "The discussions dealt primarily with the draft, the option clause, compensation to a team for the loss of a player and settlement of the Robertson action.

There was no discussion of merger between the NBA and the ABA (American Basketball Asso- U.S. and Canadian teams drawn from the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association. "I see the itey element in this tournament as being the. best players from each country will be participating," said Lalonde. The top two teams in the round-robin affair will advance to a best-of-three final series, Lalnnde said the series wis place Sept' 1-17 and the sites wil be "a collection of cities thai 'don't 1 take too much traveling time." He did not rule out possible games being played at border points in the United States, such as Buffalo and 5 Lalonde aaid first place in the round-robin will be worth 1100,000.

second place $75,000. third place $65,000, fourth place $55,000, fifth place $50,001 and sixth $45,000. In addition, the winning team in the best-of-three final will receive $50,000 and the loser $23,008. Eagleson said he expects the tournament will be self supporting and should show a profit. The profits will be divided 50-50 between Hockey Canada and the NHL and WHA players' pension funds.

While no decision has been made on further such tour-, naments, Eagleson said: "We hope this will not be a one-shot affair." ciation." i O'Brien said representatives of the Board of Governors, which included at least one from each of the four divisions, would now discuss the matter with the other owners in their division. He said they would then report back to him and another meeting would be scheduled with the players' union, most likely by the end of next week. "They" don't ever went anybody to be free, and they want to own a player," said Fleisher. "That's the primary hangup. They refuse to give up.

Without settling that, it's not conceivable or worthwhile to try and go forward. "I think if we could resolve one issue, we could resolve the others." Representing the players' association were President Paul Silas of Boston, Vice President John Havlicek of Boston, Jeff Mullins of Golden State and Jim McMilllan of Buffalo. longer active, also attended. Members of the Board present were Mike Burke of New York, Abe Pollin of Washington, Bill Alversoa of Milwaukee and Dick Block of Phoenix. NBA Deputy Commissioner Simon Gourdine also was en hand, but owner William Wirtz of Chicago, who attended Wednesday's session, had to leave New York on other business snd missed Thursday's O'leory Scores 23 in Loss AMARILLO, Tex, (AP) -West Texas State's Dallas Smith scored 28 points and blocked seven Tulsa shots to pace the Buffaloes to a Missouri Valley Conference victory over the Hurricane Thursday night.

The 1-18 senior also pulled down eight rebounds, seven in the second half, as the Buffaloes ran their record to 18-1 with their seventh straight victory. West Texas held only a $7-32 ttalftime lead but finally put the game away by scoring nine straight points midway through the second half. The Buffaloes held a 20-point lead at two different times in the second half. Tulsa's Dsn O'Leary led all scorers with 23 points while teammate Leon Alvoid had II. Tulsa is now 1-2 In the conference snd 4-7 for the season.

West Texss is 1-1 ia conference play. It1 3 -SlSJ football," Fleisber added, referring to a federal Judge's ruling ia Minneapolis on Dec. 30, which declared illegal the National Football League's so-called Rozelle Rule which bound a player to a team. The Rozelle Rule said that a player could become free agent by playing one year beyond his contract. However, if that player signed with another team, his old club had to be compensated by the new team with ftsjers or draft choices.

or both. "As long as there is this demand for compensation, the case cannot be settled," said Fleisber. While Fleisher appeared pessimistic following two days of meetings the first session Wednesday lasted ftfe hours- thevUaited 'States. Czechoslovakia, Fiat and. Sweden and Canada the six countries entered in the The federal minister said the schedule snd sites for the round-robin have not yet been decided.

Alan Eagleson. appointed by Lalonde as tournament chairman, said a decision on the schedule and sites is expected by Feb. 12 when the tow nament directorate meets again during the Winter Olym-'. pic Games in Austria. The tournament pill feature national teams from the four European countries along with Charley Winner Tckes Pos With Bengals CINCINNATI (AP) The Cincinnati Bengals hired a second former head coach Thursday to assist new Coach Bill Johnson for the 1S7I National Football League season.

The new assistant is Charley Winner, former coach of the New York Jets. Last week the Bengals hired former Philadelphia Eagles Coach Mike McCormack. "I'm glad to be on Bill Johnson's staff." said Winner, fired in midseasos by the Jets. Winner, who will coach the defensive replaces Chuck Weber who resigned. "Bill Johnson and I are par ticularly pleased with the ad- i ditioit of Winner to eur said Brown in a prepared release.

"He has worked for the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Jets as head coach and with the Washington Re-dkins as an assistant specializing in defenses-Winner hid a record of J5 30 with the Cardinals from 1961 through 1978. He was an assistant at Washington in 1971-72. He joined his father-in-lsw, VVtt'b Ewbank. with the Jets In 1973 and.

became head coach with New York in 1974 finising the season with a t-7 record. 108K TO NEW YOK HOUSTON am The Houston Astros Thursday sold pitcher Jim York to Syrscuse, the AAA International League arfilite of the New York Yan-keen, fur an undisclosed sum money. TORONTO (AP) Canada's health minister, Mare La-' londe, announced Thursday that six countries bsve bow officially agreed to participate in Canada's invitational hockey tournament next Sep-1 tember when a total of 1465,000 ia prize money will be available. Lalonde made the aa-' nouncement at a news cob- ference attended by hockey of- ficials from the Soviet Union, Bowling "7 BOUOAT UNBS wed om vins aimmi timtact tn. Or, Ptanr Ml w4 SMS.

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jto rain checks. miralteKon not includad. OZlfuC OYCWSnCS is now offering a new winter-spring semester. Classes begin Monday, January 12, and lasts thru May 7, 1 976. 1 58.51 mitt A) sat: IM-a-Lasa an tm4 IM.

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Xegular 29.90 St Ed 32.00 fits most crto'm saws. Bring your sow In and wet try to fit it. 10 ONLY Licking $ded lit; i In liberty Tournty f. MOUNTAIN VIEW De-v fending champion Licking has been seeded No. 1 for the fifth Liberty High School basketball tournament Jan, 19-24.

The schedule Jan. II finds Van Buren challenging Lick-; ing at I p.m. and No. 4 Thayer battling willow Springs ai I. It's second-seeded Liberty vs.

Cabool at 139 p.m. and I- third-rated Summersville vs. Eminence at Jan. 21 to wind up the first round. i Officials re Ry Blrdsong, InctiHfas Removing pan, (Waning fttnw or acflMm, odtutnng bands ana) knkoga as iveulntd, canning pan and mptoo i ing with naw gotka.

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