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St. Petersburg Timet, Wediwdoy, Junt 14, H72 3-C In Th A US. Tosses Prodigy Bobby To The Wolves xw-gSMIHW BORIS SPASSKY BOBBY FISCHER they'll meet on inhabited I Vf I i litest ten when he thinks about it "Stooges," he shouts. "The International Chess Federation and the American Federation are all stooges of the Russians." The conditions of the matches are such that "drawn" games will be allowed. To Bobby, this is an international mistake of the magnitude of not being able to bomb the enemy supply lines.

Bobby wants to play to win. But, of course, Amer-' ica is in a period of not being beastly to the Russians. Apparently, chess is a game in which it's easy to play for a stalemate. I say "apparently" because Bobby, explaining chess at the Dewar's Celebrity Tennis Tournament at La Costa the other day, has all the patience of Edward Tuller explaining the hydrogen atom to a guy with a bone in his nose. The Russian champion, Spassky, is "not in my class, real-.

ly," Bobby says. "I'm a better player, period. If we play 10 matches to win which is the way a match of this kind ought to beplayed. PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. IR Gary Player doesn't have a chance.

He's healthy. But the gritty little South African is one of the few top players hale and hearty as golf's walking wounded gathered for the 72nd United States Open Golf Championship which starts Thursday. Lee Trevino just checked out of an El Paso, hospital. Jack Nicklaus is on the mend from bronchitis. Billy Capser has some back trouble and a heavy cold.

Arnold Palmer peers uncertainly through new, large, round spectacles. Doug Sanders has a cold so bad he can hardly speak. Tony Jacklin admits to being travel weary. Jim Jamieson, who led for two rounds in last week's Philadelphia Classic, has a sore shoulder. But history vindicates that the halt and ailing have a habit of making superior showings in this most prestigious of all the world's championships.

Olin Dutra won the 1934 Open after almost withdrawing because of a severe stomach ailment. Ken Venturi had a doctor walking with him and was suffering from heat prostration when he won in 1961, Palmer tied Nicklaus in 1962 when he had three stitches in his hand from an accident with a car door. Craig Wood won with an in- jim murray Los Angeles Timet Service This report should properly go in the diplomatic pouch. Slug it "For Eyes Only" with one copy to the secretary of state, one to the President. Burn promptly after reading.

Get Henry Kissinger on it at once. The United States is walking into another Communist trap. It's going to be the same old story. It's going to be a con-' flict of their choosing, on their grounds, under their terms. It's going to be the same old crush, a conflict we probably can't win because a stalemate is almost built in.

It's going to have demilitarized zones, sanctuaries, the whole lot. International quicksand. It's the Bay of Pigs, Panmunjom, the sellout all over again. We're playing for a tie, as usual. And, a tie, they win.

The circumstances are these: The United States is probably the world's mightiest chess power. That's because we have -Bobby Fischer, the Brooklyn prodigy whose disposition would have to improve to be described as merely "irascible." Bobby is about to be sacrificed on the altar of diplomatic expedience, a tragic patriot in the mold of Douglas MacArthur, Gary Powers or the Lafayette Escadrille. We're sending him into battle handcuffed. Bobby has won all the skirmishes in this conflict. He routed a collection of Russian shock troops in Argentina a year ago with almost bored ease.

Now, helis to meet the Russian champion, Boris Spassky. Immediately, of course, the juggling started. The Russians tried to steer the ultimate conflict to the Tannenberg marshes, or anywhere in the world the terrain would favor them. They usually do. Bobby thought Las Vegas would be fine.

The Russians shuddered. They had, after all, seen "The Godfather." They suggested some venues where they think "moving pictures" are cave drawings in an earthquake. Bobby said, no, thanks, his camel was broke. The Russians compromised on Reykjavik, Iceland. For those of you bereft of an Atlas, this is a fog-shrouded, inhabited ice-! berg in the North Atlantic which is reachable only by nuclear sub or polar bear.

Bobby, who has all the warmth of the hooded cobra, sput- "I'm being dictated to by the Russian Chess Federation and my government is going along because, let's face it, we're in a program of 'detente' and I'm being sold out." Speaking of "selling out," Bobby also points out carefully there is no live television or satellite coverage out of Iceland and the prospect of 12 (of the 24) matches being "drawn" by the Russian would automatically leave him the world champion and the Soviets would get the bulk of the $160,000 prize money. Well, it's the same old sordid drama. Why aren't the students out burning their chess boards on the White House lawn? Where is Dr. Spock in this crisis? Shouldn't Bobby defect to, Canada? And where are the groups chanting, "Hell, no, Bobby won't go?" Can't Fulbright call a hearing? Was this one of the concessions Nixon made at Moscow? Is Joe Alsop just going to sit there? Not me. I'm organizing a "Free Bobby Fischer" movement right now.

After all, just because chess players are a minority doesn't mean they don't have rights. 0 With 10-Foot Birdie Putt assurances he will compete. The volatile Super Mex, who won a year ago on the first leg of his unprecedented sweep of three national titles, was released from an El Paso, Tex. hospital Tuesday after being hospitalized since Saturday with what doctors describe as "the beginnings of pneumonia." He planned to fly in today. The favored Nicklaus, winner of the Masters and two other tournaments this year, says he is recovered from the flu and bronchitis which forced him to withdraw from surized golf Thursday through Sunday over a course that reeks with hazards and in weather conditions that change on the flip of an invisible thermostat.

"You can't press, you can't panic, you can't gamble to try to regain a shot that yon may have lost. I don't think there's a player in the tournament who will not have at least one double bogey. "To win here, he will have to block it completely out of his mind. Nicklaus, Player and Crampton do that better than anyone I know." G23333? CUSTOM UNITS NOW AVAIUIli: DATSUN OKI TOYOTA VEGA CAPRI PINTO MAVERICK MANY OTHERS I i ZZi At Pebble Beach the Memphis Open three weeks ago. He has been here for almost a week, honing his awesome talents for the struggle on the course he ranks as one of his favorites in the United States.

He won the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am on the same course earlier this year. Jacklin, Casper and Sanders also rank among the favorites. Palmer, now 42 and troubled by near sightedness, is at least a sentimental choice. But the old charger has been shut out this year. FATHER'S DAY SPECIAL Take Dad to see St.

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S. Op en, Be A Positive Thinker Word Going' Player Tunes Up jured back in 1941. And Ben Hogan took the title in 1950 on shattered, reconstructed legs only 16 months after a near-fatal automobile accident. So, should the ailing Tivi-no make it and he says he will he has some precedents working for him in his title defense on the picturesque Pebble Beach links a par 72 layout on the Monterey Peninsula. The 72-hole test begins Thursday with Nicklaus a heavy favorite and Trevino still a question mark despite TONY JACKLIN lists 3 favorites.

and salad. "There must be a period of readjustment. I had to come back to earth again." Jacklin returned to earth to win the Jacksonville Open and picketed more than $70,000 during the first half of the 1972 tour season. "I usually play well on good courses," he said. "I know every pitfall here.

I am aware that any hole out there can jump up and grab you. So I have begun to put myself in the right frame of mind right now. It's not easy. It's a long process. But the mind is the governor of everything." Jacklin said patience probably will be the crowning vir tue of the four rounds of pres iceberg of Iceland.

jailed amateur did compete for the United States in the Pan-American Games, winning a bronze medal. But he isn't as worried about that as how Hunter would take it if he is ruled ineligible. "The people who run the Olympics should realize times have changed," Lyle said. "I don't see why he shouldn't be allowed to compete. But the big problem is for Hunter not to let it discourage him.

"When I was inside I tried to fight in the Golden Gloves. The officials of the penitentiary said it would be impossible. But I kept going. Hunter's got to keep going. Yon can't give np.

If yon give up, when yon get out, you find yourself right back in. "If boxing's what, he wants to do, he's got to keep at it. He's got to keep pushing it He's got to keep punching." I fOs UPI term for manslaughter in South Carolina's Manning Correctional Institute, is going through. He has been down that road himself It was 10 years ago that the gang fight took place on the streets of Denver. There was a gun shot.

A body fell to the ground. The verdict: second-degree murder and a sentence in Colorado State Penitentiary. There Lyle found boxing and found that boxing provided an avenue to a new life. Seven years later he left the prison on parole, began organized boxing as an amateur and currently is 15-0 as a heavyweight fighting professionally. He knows Hunter has to be confused by what he terms the contradiction in a society that speaks of rehabilitation on one hand and on the other hand suggests Hunter's image might not fit the definition that an athlete must "live in the spirit of the Olympic rules." "He's got to be confused," Lyle said.

"It's got to be bard for him to be told about rehabilitation and on the other side question his image. I think the kid did a great Job and as far as boxing is con- Bobby Hunter: Tough Fight Ahead lyle's Yfeep NEW YORK III Ron Lyle, a professional fighter who has used his fists to make a life for himself outside penitenti- ary walls, sent this message Tuesday to jailed boxer Bobby Hunter: "Keep going don't give up. Anything they put in front of you, you've got to try to destroy. You can't give up got to fight to live." Lyle passed that message to Hunter after reading of the furor created by Hunter's anticipated participation in the Olympics and a statement by Olympic chief Avery Brund-age that Hunter might be barred. i Lyle knows what Hunter, who is serving an 18-year Baseball Clinics At Lake Vista A series of baseball clinics for boys of all ages will begin Monday at Lake Vista Community Center, 1401 62nd Ave.

S. Clinics will be held every Monday and Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. through Aug. 9. Lou Sabin, head coach at Lakewood High School, will be chief instructor.

Boys must bring their own gloves and shoes, but bats and balls will be provided by the St. Petersburg Parks and Recreation Department. The only re-. quirement for participation is membership at a city commu- nity center. For more information, call Larry Moser, 894-2111, Ext.

275. Moser is also looking for a baseball team of players be- tween the ages of 18 and 22 to play in the new college league that opens Sunday. Bruins' McKtnxit May Coach WH A Team i PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Veteran National Hockey star Johnny McKen-'. zie of the Boston Bruins will 1 be the new player-coach of the Philadelphia Blazers of the World Hockey Association, I it was reported Tuesday. The Evening Bulletin said a nine-year NHL veteran, would announce his signing today.

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MM PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (A England's Tony Jacklin stood on the practice green at Pebble Beach Tuesday and between eight-foot putts, talked glibly of golf pressures, isolation booths and positive thinking in connection with the 72nd U.S. Open Golf Championship. "The guy who wins here this weekend," said the dark-haired onetime steelworker from Scunthorpe, "is the one who will be able to take a double bogey or a bad round, shake it off and forget it. "The three men most capable of doing this, I think, are Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Bruce Crampton.

They have a way of putting themselves in an isolation booth and not allowing themselves' to be shaken up by a sadden turn of bad luck. "You have to rate these guys as favorites here for that reason. I don't look for an outsider to win. It'll have to be a man of experience, a positive thinker, one in complete control of his emotions." Jacklin, 27, a pro since he was 17, became the first Briton in 18 years to win the British Open in 1969 and the first in half a century to capture the U.S. Open at Hazel-tine in 1970.

He is one of a star-studded international field of 150 teeing off Thursday over the par 72 seaside links with occasional fog, whirling 30 miles per hour winds and rocky beaches. After his historic double victory in tiie space of 12 months, young Jacklin went into a sharp decline, winning only $19377 in 1971 102nd in the official PGA list "It was a natural letdown," the handsome Englishman explained. "When you go into a restaurant and eat a big steak and salad, you don't walk right out and go into another restaurant for another steak Razor is electro plated with 23 karat gold Razor handle has florentine finish Permanent gold finish metal dispenser cover Leather grained vinyl covered razor case Packaged with five TRACntwin blade shaving cartridges Only 366 Sharks Worry Chef On Swim cerned and I imagine it helped him. "I know if I was in his shoes the first thing I would think about is why. Here I am trying to better myself, trying to get back into the system.

I'd have to ask why I don't deserve the chance." Lyle recognizes the fight Hunter has in front of him to receive sanction to compete in the Olympics, even though the' sharks." Poenisch's intended route would carry him northeastward through the straits and then up. the Florida coast along the Gulf stream up to Fort Lauderdale. It's a distance of 200 miles. His projected time for the swim is 45 to 50 hours. "Since there are no real records for ocean swims," he said, "I'll "lie setting a record with every stroke.

But, if I didn't think I could make it, I would have stuck to baking cookies." Poenisch's 25-year-old wife, Faye, will feed the 5-foot-ll endurance swimmer his self-concocted "tiger juice" from the companion boat It is a combination of skim milk powder, black strap, unsul-phured molasses and some ingredients that are my secrets. lyiWilli) Recherft $5.94 196-2657 lowest Prices! Ayen Auto Air S00 St ll FRIDAY MIGHT AT AL LANG FIELD 1 I 11 JUNE 16 Mann -mf I Moittr of Ctrtmtnits 1 I rMilnIHMMSU.CR10-TV) 1 WEBB'S CITY APiA, Fleer Gillette Introduces The New Deluxe TRACE "Razor The Perfect FORT LAUDERDALE ffl A crusty, 58-year-old one-time cookie chef from Ohio embarks today on an ocean swim through the shark-infested waters between Cuba and Florida. "Swimming at night worries me most," says Walter Poe-nisch, a muscular 224 pounder. "Splashing along atop the water means only one thing to sharks food. I just hope I am not suddenly on their menu." Actually, the native of Grove City, Ohio, will thrash through the Straits of Florida protected "I hope and pray" by a 20xl5x30-foot shark cage.

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