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RACINE SUNDAY BULLETIN Sunday, March 20, 1972 6C bby Rschieiir Awaite Chess Veoiidleftta the ball around until they get an opening. Like chess, like the mating attack." His brown eyes widened. He laughed. Back to the Spassky match. A place and exact time have not yet been set.

"But the buildup will be said Fischer. "Like the Ali-Frazier fight, though I don't approve of boxing; I think it's Immoral." He said, though, that he admires All as an athlete. Which other athletes does he admire? "I don't follow sports much, except when it's news like Lee Trevino, when he won these Opens and was on the covers of Time and Newsweek. But I like Willie Mays a lot. Like his basket catch.

He gives all he's got. He's not" one of those slaggards. He loves the game. "I grew up In Brooklyn, was a Dodger fan. I liked Don Newcombe because he was a good hitter.

He wasn't satisfied with being only a good pitcher, like most pitchers. "I like Joe Namath. I think he's got class: He sacrifices himself. A champion needs that. He's got these terrible knees and probably should be retired.

But when he plays he is not worried about being hit, getting the ball off is all-important. "Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit, the winning spirit. And once you make it, you've got to guard your reputation 'every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That's why I don't clown around.

I don't believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the world's chess championship, to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously." lis' jlflj kv IP WlraohatM Bobby Fischer is all concentration at the chess board (upper photo). Such is his dedication, In fact, that he even takes his chess board (lower photo) into swimming pools. NEW YORK j(NEA) "The Russians have been committing International crimes for so long spreading lies and political propaganda all over the world, cheating at sports someone has to stop them.

I've been chosen," said Bobby Fischer. "I Intend to teach them a little humility." The 28-year-old U.S. chess champion, Fischer, a high school dropout, will meet the world champion, Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, for the title sometime before June 30. The match will continue for 24 games spread over about two months. Ten cities have put In bids, the top ones coming from Yugoslavia (offering a total prize of $152,000) and from Argentina He and Spassky must agree on the site, if there is an impasse, the international federation will decide.

"The Russians didn't put in a bid," said Fischer. "They knew I'd never go theretoplay.4 know they'd be waking me up at" slxnnthTmon7ing to tell me my laundry was ready." It was now 2 in the afternoon, and in a midtown Italian restaurant, Fischer talked about the Russians over breakfast (he stays up very late going over chess moves in his hotel room). Now and then, he lifted large forkfuls of stringy spaghettini into his mouth. Bitter Attitude Just read an attack on me by Botvinnik, the ex-world champion, in a Russian magazine," continued Fischer. "He said he was writing it in the interest of truth.

He said I was capricious, conceited, paranoid, that I lacked principles and vwas not sufficient as a human being. He said he would, substantiate the charges, 'But what would be he said. I'm sick of their hypocrisy. "Like when I beat Petrosian recently in Buenos Aires. There was just this little squib in their papers about it.

But was a local championship that they put in headlines. If Petrosian had beaten me, then there would have been headlines." Fischer's bitter attitude toward the Russians is made up of three parts: money, recognition and fair play. He believes that, since the Russian government pays its chess players, he had been systematically excluded from earning money in world tournaments and exhibitions; that the Russians influenced unfavorable world opinion of him, and that he was the object of Russian cheating conspiracies in past tournaments. (Yet, his outspokenness, perhaps even more than his supreme skill, has made him the only recognized chess name to most Americans.) A Breakthrough "They would send top Russian players globe-trotting to play free in places where I was asking for thousands of dollars," said Fischer. "Well I've finally broken through this.

But for about a year and eight months in 1969 and 1970, 1 was pretty discouraged. I refused to play the Russians and they Jiave most of the best players in the world. For a time I was thinking of quitting International chess. But then I thought, what else can I do? hTe answer was, nothing." Fischer entered two other world championship tournaments. The first, he quit when he accused the Russian players of rigging games between them to give one of their own points with tics to beat Fischer's total.

Another time he walked out when he accused them of rigging the schedule. "They cheat in other sports not just chess," said Fischer. "The funniest if you think it's funny is with their women track athletes. Some women 1 They take male hormone injections." Fischer is angry because, he says, he has been the world's best chess player since he was 18, and has had little recognition and, especially, has not become wealthy as befits a xharnpiaa befits the world's greatest all-time player, according to a rating system of the international chess federation. Put Down Here "I was even put down in my own country," said Fischer.

"Americans really don't know much about chess. So they listened to other people. But I think if when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners. "The United States is not a cultural country.

The people here want to be entertained. They don't want any mental strain, and chess is a high intellectual form. Americans want to plunk in front of a TV, and not have to open a book. "But now, President Nixon Just sent me a letter saying that America is backing me. The United States is getting kicked around in the world.

I'm representing us, the entire free world, in fact, in a kind of grudge match against the. Communists." "Sure, it's a sport," he said. "And when newspapers put it in entertainment and art sections, that's downgrading chess, completely out of place. "You've got to be in top condition to play chess. You have to concentrate in a tournament for five hours at a time, day after day.

And when there's an adjournment, you've got to stay up late analyzing strategy. The tension and the need for stamina are brutal. One mental lapse and you're through. That's why a lot of great chess players are over the hill by 40. Too old for the strain.

"Spassky even has a physical trainer. I do my own physical conditioning. I don't eat fatty foods. I keep my weight at 180 pounds. I like to exercise with the Jack LaLanne Show.

He's got a fun personality. I play tennis, too. Not too good, though. But I like the new metal racquets. Now I can even get the ball over the net sometimes." He laughed.

"I've begun to bowl, that's a great sport. Jogging? No, jogging is too dull. Like Basketball "I'd compare chess to basketball. Basketball players pass 'f MM tlitlilll 4" Built WdinurfMjedives Ikrlly Suiidle to describe Mouse LOS ANGELES (AP) Wilt Chamberlain calls it Major and the Big Dipper's edifice in the Santa Monica Mountain community of Bel-Air has many groping for adjectives. "The House that Wilt Built, read a headline after the Los -Anrroloe olrora 7frmtl renter tioM an Anon hnitoo laet ilillBil tiiiiiy jm jilt iiiiw 11 rrrr.

pill. x- outdoors. The five-stories dwelling, where the 35-year-old bachelor lives with his housekeeper and three Great Danes, commands a panoramic view, the San Fernando Valley to the north and the sprawling lights of Santa Monica and West Los Angeles to the south. Purple Room Chamberlain has cured the ills of a giant living in the land of 6-footers where, for example, average. bath showers spray him around the navel.

His shower has six sprays covering all angles. And there's the purple guest room, velvet-covered sofas surrounding a waterbed, mirrored walls and psychedelic lighting. "I like to entertain," said Chamberlain, explaining why he built the home. Despite oversized features, Wilt wants average-sized persons to feel at home. Wilt can afford the home on the two-acre hilltop site because he commands a $200,000 annual salary from the Lakers.

Phoenix Suns owner Richard Bloch said his wife "asked me why can we have rooms like this in our house but I told her I'm only an owner." weekend-for 350 guests. House is hardly the word for the triangular-shaped, cavernous structure with a 14-foot-high front door. One guest compared Wilt's home with the mansion of Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner in Chicago, and said, "After looking at this pad, Hugh Hefner is a square." Skylight View On a clear night, the Big Dipper can see the Big Dipper while lying on his 72-square-foot bed in a room that occupies the entire second floor. A push of a button and a triangular mirror unfolds for a skylight view of the stars that make up the constellation Ursa Major. Another bedside button fills a huge pool of gold mosaic tile.

"Where's the diving board?" someone asked. It's Wilt's bathtub, not a pool. The swimming pool comes inside the living room, where guests can enter and swim underwater for several feet to get Saturday's Race Last at Sebring? sua fliat Wilt "Her mental discipline is marvelous," Mary said. "She is unflappable on the court, has superb control of both her emotions and shots. Although she must improve her service and learn to go to the net, I think she is ahead of Evonne at the moment.

With their first showdown spoiled by the gutsy Mrs. King, Evonne and Chris musV now wait until summer perhaps at Wimbledon in July or the U.S. grass court circuit later for a face-to-face encounter. It should be a dilly. Off the court, the two young effervescent and completely feminine but put rackets in, their hands ad they're as dif-, ferent as a graceful fawn and a rattlesnake, Evonne, a part Aboriginal who grew up in the little outback town of Barellan on the Murrimbidgee River, is loaded with natural talent.

Strikingly pretty with a skin the color of burnished copper, she moves around a tennis court like a ballet dancer, never making a jerky She doesn't run she glides and her strokes are flawlessly smooth. If she has a fault other than a timid second service This is the house that Wilt built. Wilt Cham- through an opening at the bottom of the glass berlain, that is. The Los Angeles Laker star wall. A triangular motif features the archi- reportedly parted with $1.5 million for this, tecture, with nary a square corner in the mansion high atop the Santa Monica Moun- house.

tains. Guests can swim into the living room AP wirephoio again all 4.5 miles of its battered runways and the mind-boggling corners and "esses" that Ulmann has added over the years. There is a new road course under construction near Tampa and some say the 12-Hour race may be moved there in 1973. Ulmann isn't saying, but he has placed the ultimatum before Sebring's town leaders again. Build anew, or lose the race: If this is the swansong of Sebring, Ulmann has gathered an impressive array of drivers and cars to help say goodbye.

Factory teams from Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Lola and Gulf Research Racing will headline the classic battle for SEBRING, Fla. (AP) The 12 Hours of Sebring, America's oldest and now its longest road race, plays for perhaps its last time at Sebring Saturday unless a few miracles are turned. Alex Ulmann, who brought the first Grand Prix to the United States, has said many times he'll quit using the old airport course near this central Florida town. "If the community wants the race, a new course will have to be built," the father of U.S. road racing said last year.

"I'll not race at the airport again." Nonetheless, Ulmann and his entourage of European and American racing teams will use the old airport circuit Polish Games Chris AAust Dots Net Australia. Nancy Richey Gunt-er topped Mrs. King 7-6, 6-1 for the $11,000 first prize. "Evonne has great natural ability," said Jack Kramer, former world champion and pro promoter. "She reminds me of Hoad because she makes hard shots look so easy.

She has such natural talent. "But she must put more spin and pace on her second service and she must tighten up her forehand before she can really dominate the field. I think Chris could beat her now." Kramer said Miss Evert, a the prized sports-prototype win. Professional teams also dominate the Grand Touring and Touring classes, with a major tire-battle shaping up in the former and wider participation from several car makers spotlighting the Tour-. ing, or TransAM class.

Ferrari has entered a three-car team of 312P three-liter prototypes for Mario Andretti-Jacky Ickx, Brian Redman-Clay Regazzoni and Ron Peterson-Tim Schenken. Ferrari won both earlier races in the 1972 manufacturers' series, in Argentina and at Daytona. Alfa Romeo's forces include four TT33s for Pete Revson- women's tennis during the next Aboriginal Rolf Stommelen, Vic Elford-Helmut Marko, Nanni Galli-Andrea de Adamich and Tonie Hezemans'Nino Vaccarella. Jo Bonnier will team with Reine Wisell in one Lola-Cos-worth T280, with Gerrard Lar-rousse and Chris Craft in a second team car. The unknown quantity is the scheduled debut of the Gulf-Mirage, a three-liter, V-8 Cosworth-engined entry from the garage of John Wyer, who gave both Ford and Porsche two world championships each.

The new Mirage was undergoing final testing in England last year, and if it makes Sebring it will be manned by Derek Bell and Gijs van Lennup. 1 NEA Photo decade. Evonne, 20, is a part Fit for a King Isvonne, Sough DALLAS (AP) Evonne Goolagong Is so relaxed she can almost go to sleep while waiting to receive a serve. Chris Evert is so disciplined she can hit a quarter on a court from 40 feet and leave 15 cents change. These two lasses from opposite ends of the world and with sharply contrasting games and personalities seem certain to dominate women's tennis during the next decade.

But both must polish up some rough spots, critics say. "In the mental approach, Chris is well ahead of Evonne but Evonne has a physical edge," says Billie Jean King, America's long time top-ranked ace. "If they met today, would have to pick Chris." It was the scrappy, determined Billie Jean who personally foiled the first confrontation of these two blossoming stars in the $30,000 Maureen Connolly Brinker International Championships, which ended here today. She first won a historic quarter-final duel from Miss Evert, the 17-year-old schoolgirl from Fort Lauderdale, and then in the semifinals beat the 20-year-old Miss Goolagong, the reigning Wimbledon queen from cautious back court competi-' ladies are similar in many re-tor, must become more ag- spects bright, easy talking, it lies in her tendency at times to lose concentration. When she does this, she laughlingly says, "I went; walkabout," an Aboriginal ex- pression meaning that she fell into a dreamy trance.

"I start well and then seem to fizzle out," she says. I "People tell me I lack killer; instinct. How do you get It?" Before her final match at; Wimbledon last year against Margaret Smith Court, she was caught singing to herself in the dressing room. She' slept almost all day last week before her big match against I Mrs. King.

"I'm lazy I love to sleep," she says. Reared on grass courts, she is an attacking player. She serves and moves to the net. Jler volleying is sensational. Chris Evert, on the other hand, is strictly a back court player.

Slender, her dark hair parted in the middle and 'caught at the nape of the neck, she stands on the back line and fires shots off her racket as if they were bullets from a high-powered rifle. Coached bv her father. Jim Evert, she is an unemotional, well-disciplined robot who keeps' 'moving and returning the ball as if powered by some inner coils and wheels. gressive if she is to move to the top and stay there. "She must move in closer on receiving service," Jack said.

"Otherwise, her opponents will continue to pull her wide and leave her susceptible to a backhand placement. With her two-fisted backhand, she can't get back in court in time." Another veteran observer, Mary Hardwickei fdrmerly Britain's No. 1 player whose career matches with France's Suzanne Lenglen, Helen Wills Moody and the late Maureen Connolly, also is high on Miss Evert. Evonne Goolagong, left, of Australia and 17-year-old Chris Evert of Fort Lauderdale, seem certain to dominate t-.