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The Herald from Jasper, Indiana • Page 11

Publication:
The Heraldi
Location:
Jasper, Indiana
Issue Date:
Page:
11
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Page 12 The Dubois County DAILY HERALD, Jasper, Ind. Tuesday, July 11, 1972 Fischer Choice Of Experts As Chess Title Match Opens By IAN WESTERGREN REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) challenger Bobby Fischer was the favorite of the experts in the match of the today but thousands of chess fans gave their almost undiluted backing to the Soviet Boris Spassky. Fischer stayed in seclusion but Fred Cramer, vice president of the U.S. Chess Federation and one of assistants, said is go, go, JULY CLEARANCE On All SUMMER FABRICS Now In Progress Up to off Cotone M2 Jockton St JAim 412 3313 OKN WEDNESDAY I FRIDAY Till I PJL Fischer expressed dissatifica- tion Monday with arrangements in the hall where the match was to be played. Cramer said, does not like the lighting, the board $nd the pieces, the location of the television cameras and some other minor details, including the thickness of the window The first of 24 games in the $250,000 world chess championship match was scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.

(1 p.m. EDT) after two weeks of uncertainty and controversy. An unofficial poll among chess experts assembled in Reykjavik showed the 29-year- old Fischer the favorite. But most of 210,000 chess- mad citizens were behind Spassky. Only a few weeks ago the fans of Iceland were with the unpredictable American but he lost his popularity quickly when he demanded more money and failed to show up in time for the scheduled July 2 start of RED SPOT FLOOR PORCH ENAMEL For interior or exterior floors of wood, concrete or linoleum.

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LOREY FURN it ACROSS FROM POST the match. While Fischer was in New York demanding more money, Spassky was walking the streets of Reykjavik patting children on the head, conversing with local chess players and piling up points in the prematch popularity contest. The prize money was raised from the original $125,000 to $250,000 through a wealthy British banker named Jim Slater who came up with more cash to save the match. Fischer has a higher points rating on the international scale than Spassky. The 35-year-old Leningrad resident is defending the world title he won from fellow countryman Tigram trosian in Moscow in 1969.

Spassky told newsmen in Moscow before leaving for Iceland he would prefer to stay home wine and playing chess with my then play for the world title. President Losing Sleep Over Democrats By EUGENE V. RISHER SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. Nixon had a television set installed in his office but looked at it only sporadically as the Democrats went about the business of picking his opponent. President plan to lose any sleep this week over the Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler told newsmen.

He said Nixon will follow developments on television time but will get most of his news from the newspapers. Nixon, who has been quietly planning his own re-election strategy with top aides during a two-week working vacation here, scheduled a session today with his budget manager, Caspar Weinberger, to talk about what surely will be one of the issues in the forthcoming political by the Democratic-dominated Congress which the White House feels aggravates inflation problems. Several ranking administra- The IGA girls were runners-up to the Holland Dutch Girls in the Interleague Slow-Pitch Softball Tournament that was held at Huntingburg this past week. IGA lost in the title game by the score of 6-5. FINANCE finished runner-up to DeKalb of Holland in the men division of the softball tourney at Huntingburg.

DeKalb trimmed Finance by a score of 10-5 in the championship game. tion officials last week accused the Congress of engaging in an election-year spending spree without regard for the inflationary consequences, and failure to act on much needed domestic reforms. The President himself joined the chorus of criticism against the Congress in- signing a bill Monday to tighten controls against seaway oil spills. He said he had submitted STARTS WEDNESDAY SAVE 30 to On Young etc. TROUSERS All Colors Styles Casual or Dress Nationally Advertised SHIRTS SHIRTS SHIRTS Sport Dress Famous Makers 30 to SAVINGS All Colors Stripes Plaids Solids Hip-Hugger PANTS FOR LADIES At Special Low Clearance Prices 710 MAIN STABLE more than 20 other environmental measures to Congress, and the ports and waterways safety act was the first one approved.

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