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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS 25 NICOSON PICKS 'HIS' TEAM Monday, on 28, 1971 'Big O' Tops All-All-Stars By DICK MITTMAN, Sports Writer LOUISVILLE-The love affair between Angus Nlcoson and the Indiana High School All-Stars has come to an end, sadly, on a 110-91 losing note, Nick now will devote all of his intense energies to the advancement of Indiana Central under the NCAA banner. But as Nick said farewell to his last All-Star-squad In the visitors' dressing room at Freedom Hall Saturday night, memories of other teams dating back to 1952 flitted through his mind. In these games he has coached some of the finest young talent ever put on a basketball floor. Early last week Nick was asked to select his all-time All-Star squad. He put much thought into this project and arrived at a super unit that has everything except the really big man.

The years 1966-68 were excluded since he was on leave of absence during that period. Here, then, are the 10 players he considers the best he ever coached lit li If a I 1 1 La 3 WW, -1 i v3nr a squad. "Of course, they are judged, too, on what they have done since." Nick named Robertson, who plays with the National Basketball Association champion Milwaukee Bucks, as captain of his team and listed Oscar and Dischinger as the Stars-of-Stars, All but Sexson, Plump and a sophomore-to-be at Purdue, have played professionally. In the following capsule comments he explains the attributes of each: SEXSON He was a good team player, a little like Oscar. He didn't have quite the speed, but he had quickness to get position.

He was an all-round player with leadership ability. BRYANT He was a good leader, a high scorer with a good outside shot. He got his share of rebounds and had a tremendous attitude. PLUMP One of the control boys, he was best under pressure. He was quick and scrappy, something every team needs.

He was a great competitor. ROBERTSON I think he comes the closest to being the complete player. He does everything. He makes his teammates look good. DISCHINGER He played both ends of the floor as well as anybody I've.

seen. He had the only perfect fast break I've seen. He rebounded in the All-Star game, wheeled out after hitting the guard on the side. The ball went back to the middle, back to the side and back to Terry underneath for the basket and it never hit the floor. BONHAM He had an average game in Indianapolis.

He came down here and reversed that. He definitely decided to play both bankboards. In that game he decided he had to work. This is one person the Ail-Star game helped find himself. VanARSDALES They were physically strong, competitors, team men and very good.

They were as good a one-two punch on a high school team as you'll find. They played every game to win. They had a tremendous attitude and always have been gentlemen. KELLER He is a competitor who produces under pressure. He's very unselfish.

I don't know anybody who loves the game of basketball more than Billy Keller. He is a gentleman in public and has represented Mr. Basketball In a fine way. McGINNIS He's a physically strong man with lots of raw ability. He hasn't learned to use his teammates, but when he does he'll be great.

He has as much potential as any boy ever on the All-Stars. KENDRICK He's an individual player, who has tremendous moves. He also has ability as an assist man and is a good jumper. He loves the game. Nick considered this year's team and, at one point, felt it was the best for teamwork he had had.

But after the loss he decided to withhold judgment, although he called them "a great bunch of ball players." As a last question Nicoson was asked who among his 10 all-time All-Stars he would start. "Bryant, Oscar aw, I can't do that. It was tough enough picking the 10 best," he said. Well, at least we know two of the all-time starters. 1 Joe Sexson Hallle Bryant Bobby Plump Oscar Robertson Terry Dischinger Ron Bonham Tom, Dick VanArsdale Billy Keller George McGlnnis Frank Kendrick "It's a difficult Tech 1952 Attucks 1953 Milan 1954 Attucks 1956 Terre Haute Garfield 1958 Muncie Central 1960 Manual 1961 Washington 1965 Washington 1969 Tech 1970 task," he said of naming such STARR STILL SHINES I I L.L.

bMIMLJ T' Bart Is Back With rOCOHOS 10 be Same oid optimism 'Survival Of Fittest' different. You know, some of By JACK GRIFFIN loose baseball. The spectator made the scramble even quicker when On-cinnati pitcher Clay Carroll approached. Cincinnati beat the Atlanta Braves in yesterday's game, 7-5. AP.

Up, Over, Empty-Handed ATLANTA An unidentified boy scrambles up the bullpen wall after an unsuccessful attempt at grabbing a Gary Nolan Philosophical MOUNT POCONOS, Pa. (AP) Tigerish Mark Donohue and the Unser brothers, Bobby and Al, head a field of 33 starters for the inaugural Poconos 500-mile championship auto race that old pro Joe Leonard says will be a "survival of the fittest." The lineup for the $430,000 "Indianapolis of The East," scheduled for July 3, was com- pleted in final time trials yesterday at the new $6 million Pocono International Donohue, the 32-year-old Brown University alumnus whose baby face and easy-going manners belie his exploits on the track, put his Roger Penske-owned McLaren on the pole at a 10-mile average speed of. 172.393 miles per hour. His fast lap of 172.967 mph will serve as the track's 2.5 mile standard, though most drivers say it may be years before anybody equals it. Bobby Unser, oldest of Mom Unser's driving sons, put together four laps at 171.847 mph to get the middle spot in the them here," said seasoned Johnny Rutherford.

The Fort. Worth, driver his Patrick Petroleum Offy in 15th position at 165.809,? It is the same car with which he narrowly missed winning the pole at Indianapolis last year. What the drivers don't like about the track is its three-cornered design and the fact that each turn has a different radius and a different degree Hank Aaron in the closing innings. Nolan was not around at the finish. He was lifted in the ninth after surrendering a single to leadoff hitter Ralph Garr and then giving up a double to Felix Millan.

For 6 innings, however, Nolan flirted with the record books, sending the Braves down in 1-2-3 order. A downpour in the sixth halted the game for 40 minutes, raising a possibility he might get credit for a five-inning game, but the rain ended and play resumed. Felix Millan spoiled the perfect game with a clean single to left with one out in the seventh and Aaron ruined the shutout with his 21st home run of the season. Nolan was asked if the rain-imposed delay bothered him. I'Naw, I don't think so," he "I don't want to make any excuses.

I wasn't throwing quite as good." Box Scores Page 29 ATLANTA (AP)-Cincinnati pitcher Gary Nolan was philo- sophical about losing his bid for a perfect game yesterday. "I never came close to a no-hitter before, so why should I this time?" he asked. "I just hoped they wouldn't bunch them too much and win the game." The Atlanta Braves did bunch their runs but they didn't win. Cincinnati took the 7-5 decision yesterday despite a pair of two-run homers by the greatest years I guess I ever spent were those under Lombardi. So many things you learned.

"He was a most unusual man," said Starr, "and sometimes misunderstood. I know he is credited with saying, 'winning isn't everything, it's the only "I suppose in the stories, the legends they tell about Lombardi would sound like the way he would say it. But it wasn't what he really said. The real statement is, 'Winning isn't everything, it's how you react to There is an evangelical charm to Starr, if such an expression is permitted, about this quiet gentleman who works in such a violent world. Not many men can wear so well.

Starr does because his beliefs are real and deep, and they are those of an honest man. "Lombardi always taught us that pro football wasn't the end, only the means to an end," Bart said. "Life ii just not football alone. You'd these things, year after year, and then suddenly one day you'd tell yourself that these are true, they are real." His words come easily, not because he is glib, but because they come honestly from within him. "Don't make any mistakes," Bart said.

"Lombardi never accepted compromise, with himself or his players. He would drive us all week until there was nothing that could be unexpected, and the playing on Sunday would be the easiest part of the week." ot banking. Chicago Sun-Times Service CHICAGO-For a while, Bart Starr talked about football because that's his bag, and anyway that's what most people expect him to talk about. "I wanted to come back this year," Bart said. "I really did.

It isn't that I felt I had to prove anything to myself. The biggest reason I wanted to play this year was Dan Devine." Bart is 37 years old now, starting his 16th season as quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. That's a lot of years, and it's a lot of bumps; and a guy could be forgiven for ask-, ing out. A few years ago, it was his ribs. A multitude of 260-pound linemen had beat such a tune on them that they turned the color of twilight.

And last year, it was his right shoulder. "A little piece at a time, they put me back together," Bart said. "Maybe I'm being overly optimistic, but I feel good now. I'm really looking forward to this year. "And it's because of Devine.

It's funny, too. I don't really know the man yet. Only met him a couple of times. But I like his sincerity, his freshness, the way he surrounds himself with class." Devine was picked off the campus of Missouri to replace Phil Bengtson, who tried to walk in the footsteps of a legend called Vince Lombardi. He didn't quite make it.

But Starr wasn't sorting out head coaches, putting one against the other. "You don't do things like that," he said. "Each man is front row in Dan Gurney's sonite-Eagle. He also had a lap at 172-plus and admitted "anything beyond, that takes real guts." Al whose two straight Indianapolis triumphs and 15 championship wins have brought him $750,000 in prize money in less than two years, qualified his Johnny Lightning Special at 170.365 to gain the outside berth. The second row will be anchored by Leonard, a 36-year-old veteran from San Jose, who was clocked at 169.533 and admitted shakily, "That's absolutely all the nerve I have.

Anyone who can run 170 or better in the race is going to leave me behind, because I ain't going to play." Leonard's second-row partners will be Mario Andretti, the local favorite from nearby Nazareth, and Gordon Johncock, of Mount Pleasant, Mich. The course, carved out of a former spinach field in the scenic Ponocos Mountains, has drawn praise from only a few and a mixture of awe and criticism from many. "I don't take nerve pills, but if I did I'd gulp a few of fOvS Mark Donohue Another 'Sticky o) OVER 100 CARS TO CHOOSE FROM "THE this-wi leader ppy go POCONOS LINEUP FIRST ROW Mr Donohui, Offr Wl.M BobB Outer, Olfy 171.M7 Al Uflstr, Fort 170.MS SECOND ROW JM Lcnrd, fori Ut.JM Mario Annnttl, Fort U.51o Gorton Johncock, Olfy Itf.OM THIRD ROW Feter Revson, Offy 1M.W7 A. J. Foyl, Fort lM.iM Georgi Snider, Fort UMH 1 t' A By WAYNE FUSON, Sports Editor TIMEOUT! FOURTH ROW Cl Yortoroojh, Fort H4.JM Dick Simon, ort IM.057 Johnny Rutherford, Offy H5.809 FIFTH ROW Gary Beftenneusen, Offy US 363 Lloyd Ruby, Fort 1M.2M Donnie Allison, Fort MS.I7 SIXTH ROW Bill Vkoicn, Offy H5.IM Demy Zimmerman, Offy 165.007 Roger McCloskey, Fort H4.IS SEVENTH ROW Welly Di Offy Jimmy Cerulhert, Fort 1M 3M Bud Tlngelltad, Offy lej.lll EIGHTH ROW Steve Krisiloff, Offy 1J.7M Benl Warren.

Olfe Ie4.7l THIS CAR IS EQUIPPED AT NO EXTRA CHARGE WITH: I5 Oil U4.241 Jim Mellon, Fort NINTH ROW Art Pcllert, Fort Bill Simpson, Olfy Bill Peiertevin, Offy 10TH ROW Grtn Weld, Offy Sem Sessions, Offy John Mehler, Ford NTH ROW Bon Hirtey, Fort Jim McEireefh, Fort Jin HurtueiM, Offy 141.177 H1.1S4 WEEKEND notes on a reporter's cuff: "Sport is one of the few bits of glue that holds our society together," said Vice-President SPIRO AGNEW the other day. "Its objectives are clear and it's an area where the desire to win is not only permissible but encouraged and where a man can learn to lose without being destroyed by the experience." End of today's philosophy lesson. Fast Black Sheep rlD YOU SEE that BRETT LUNGER, ad-mittedly the black sheep in the DuPont family, is making a name for himself driving race cars. The 26- year-old maverick will pilot a Lola in the races next weekend at the Mid-Ohio course near Lexington. It's not just a lark with him.

A victory could give him the driving lead in the Continental sporty car series. Lunger, whose mother, Jane, Is a descendant of the founder of the DuPont studied political science for three years at Princeton, and spent 13 months as a U.S. Marine lieutenant in Vietnam before his racing venture. He'll need that political science if he ever makes it to the Indianapolis Speedway. Anti-Theft steering column lock Cornering lights Day-night inside rearview mirror Electric clock Glove box light (automatic) Hazard warning (lasher ANY I WAY I l.7! uo.

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If any pro can top that one, please stand up! Better Fishhooks? POR YEARS they've been attempting to build a better mousetrap and fishhook. Somebody has come up with one, made of "tough Lexac polycarbonate," which, the manufacturer claims, will withstand 300 pounds of tension and remain flexible enough to put back in shape by merely using the thumb and forefinger. If It gets dull you can sharpen its point on a match-book striking surface. Oh, there are all kinds of advantages, ac cording to the tub-thumper. But there's one puzzling point that 300 pound tension.

Does that refer to the weight of the fisherman? Basketball Coach GARY, Ind. (AP) Tom Nicholas has been named head basketball coach at Hanover Central High School, replacing Jim Forrester, who resigned in March. YOU LOOK AT a it." Head restraints (front seats, 2) Heater-defroster Inside hood release Luggage compartment light (automatic) Map light Power disc brakes-front Rear speaker 6 way power seats Climate control A4 am a. Tire Cool Customer ALL CARS READY FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 22 71 DEMONSTRATORS WITH SPECIAL DISCOUNTS ILLY COOLER, 9-ycar-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

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He playi holes 1, 2 8 and I in lrss than 30 itrokes. (He could beat some golf writers A 9. a I. Jl A.