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1. VficA FOURTEEN THE NEWS-PALLADIUM, BENTON HARBOR, MICH. TUESDAY, JUNE 1W2 Legal Showdown Looms-For Rival Hockey LeaEnies 1 MONTREAL (AP) The stage was set today for a likely legal showdown between the established National Hockey League and upstart World Hockey Association as the NHL's two newest franchises, the New York Islanders and Atlanta stocked their clubs in the expansion draft. General Managers Bill Orrey of the Islanders and Cliff Fletcher of the Flames were interested bystanders Monday as the 14 established NHL clubs ti died up their rosters in the in-tra-league draft. Eight players changed uniforms, the most notable being 42-year-old defense-man Tim Horton, claimed by Buffalo from Pittsburgh.

But the most significant draft may have been Toronto's selection of Larry Pleau from Montreal and the Canadiens' subsequent claim of Brad Selwood, as payment from the Maple Leafs. Both players have signed contracts with the New England and ask questions later. "I'm going to draft the best players I can," said Torrey. "The fact that they are available to me means they signed a standard contract last Vear. And that contract contained an option clause on their services for next season.

"It has their signature and if I have to, I'll go to court to get them to honor that contract." At about $300,000 per pick-both teams get 21 players for Whalers of the WHA as have several of the other athletes whose names appeared on the lists of draft eligibles submitted to Torrey and Fletcher Monday night. The announced signings 1f Pleau and Selwood with the WHA didn't seem to bother the Maple Leafs and Canadiens Monday and if their 14 big brothers leave any quality players who are WHA-bound open today, the Islanders and Flames are likely to draft first In exchange for Long, Chicago accepted Bill Orban from Los Angeles. Montreal took Selwood as payment for Pleau. The other clubs which lost players, accepted $40,000 draft price as payment. In other action Monday i Vie NHL Rules Committee decided to add a two-minute minor penalty on the automatic $200 fine assessed for any stick exceeding the allowable half-inch curve on the blade.

on whether they'll play for your team, too. Vancouver and Los Angeles chose two players each in Moo-day's draft, die Canucks picking Dan Tannahill, a 30-goal scorer with Boston's American Hockey League farm club, and Gerry O'Flaherty from and the Kings getting' Doug Volmar from Detroit and Barry Long "from Chicago. Pleau and Horton were the other players drafted. the $6,000,000 franchise fee Torrey and Fletcher aren't anxious to pick select players who have no intention of performing in the NHL. "But I know of at least one player," said Torrey, "who has been announced as going to the WHA who is, right now, negotiating with an NHL club." For the players, it's a seller's market.

For the buyers, it's a matter of drafting players hot only on the' basis of talent but Fails To Qualify For U.S. Open Birds Can Snead 'Jinxed9 Agaim Snap Slump compete at Philadelphia, where 105 golfers will vie for 21 placed. Included among the en Practice, Spectacles Fail Baltimore BALTIMORE (AP) Not even extra batting practice, spectacles for Boog Powell, or the arrival of usually friendly Minnesota pitching could snap the baltimore hitting slump. The temperature was in the high 80s on this hot, muggy day, but Snead refused to use that as an excuse. "I had no excuses," he declared, after flopping down on a bench in the scorer's tent.

"I just played badly. I've played 36 holes in one day before." So for Snead, the U.S. Open jinx continues. An Open also-ran 33 times, he competed in 25 consecutive Opens starting in 1937. His closest shot at a title came, in 1939 at the Philadelphia Country Club, when with victory in his grasp he bogied the 17th and then shot a triple-bogey eight On the final hole.

Ironically, there is one Snead who can compete at Pebble Beach. That's J.C., Sam's nephew arid a tour regular, who was exempt from qualifying rounds because he was among the 15 leaders on the PGA tour in 1971 under the USGA point system. Sectional qualfying for 115 spots unfilled in the Open continues today. A large field will Instead, the Orioles once again surrendered rather San Diego From Associated Press "That's about the worst I've ever played in my life," declared a very hot, very tired and very disappointed Sam Snead after failing Monday, in his bid to qualify for this year's U.S. Open.

After a fine morning round of 69 in sectional qualifying at the Charlotte, N.C. Country Club, Snead ballooned to a 78 iri the afternoon round. His 147 total was 12 strokes back ot; Doug the top qualifier. More importantly, it was two strokes over the qualifying limit. So Snead, winner of-84 PGA-co-sponsored tournaments but not a single U.S.

Open, will be absent when the field of ISO tees off at Pebble Beach, Calif. June 15-18. Snead, who turned 60 nine days ago, had five bogeys on the front nine and his second round. But even with that, he would have managed to qualify if he was able to par the back nine. Instead, he bogied the 17th, then three-putted for a double bogey on the par four, 423-yard 18th.

trants are tour regulars such as Gardner Dickinson, Deane Be-man, Marty Fleckman, Dale Douglass and George Knudson. Among the golfers exempt from qualifying are Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Travino, Gary Player and Billy Casper. Sanders, the flashy dresser who won the Kemper Open on the pro tour this weekend, carded a 68-67135 to lead qualifiers at Charlotte. Other tour regulars who qualified there included Hubert Green, Don Rod Funseth, Lou Graham, Kermit Zarley, Dave Marr, Bob Murphy, Bob Lunn, Mason Rudolph, Dave Hill, Charles Sifford, Jim Jamieson, Bruce Devlin and Gibby Gilbert. Among the prominent names not to make the grade, along with Snead, were Phil Rodgers, Herb Hooper, Lionel Hebert and Bruce Fleisher.

The veteran Hebert suffered from heat exhaustion late in the day. Sectional qualifications were held in Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Cincinnati, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The only southwestern Michigan hope, Point O'Woods assistant pro Bob Meyer, failed to make the grade in Chicago. Meyer, who was medalist in local qualifying at South Bend, shot a 74-76150 at Midlothian Country Club and missed the cut by eight strokes. meekly at the plate Monday night as the Twins-won 3-2 on a sixth inning double by Bobby Darwin.

The vietory ended a four-game Minnesota losing streak and enabled the Twins to slip into second place in the American League West, five percentage points ahead of the idle Chicago White Sox. Both Minnesota and Chicago are four games behind the surging Oakland Athletics, who topped the sagging Cleveland Indians 3-2 on the 10th inning home run by Campy Camp-aneris in the only other major league game played Monday. Manager Earl Weaver of the Orioles, at a less to explain Baltimore's .220 team batting average as compared with last season's league-leading .261 mark, ordered batting practice Monday morning. Against Minnesota starter Dick Woodson, 4-3, and ace reliever Wayne Granger, however, the Orioles managed just five hits and two of those were bunts. Last season, Baltimore hit an amazing .312 against Minnesota pitching.

Veteran Brooks Robinson did slam his first home run of the season, in his 158th trip to the plate'. The Orioles have now lost six of their last seven games to fall 3'2 games behind Detroit in the American League East. Powell's, Baltimore's erstwhile slugging first baseman with a .152 average, was hitless in three trips to the plate Mon-" Draft Pick NEW fORK (AP) David Roberts, a third baseman at the University of Oregon, was selected by the San Diego Padres today as the No. 1 selection in the regular phase of the annual major league baseball free agent draft. Roberts hit .410 in 37 games with 12 home runs and only one strikeout in 144 at-bats.

The Padres, whose 1-100 record was the worst in the Na tional League in 1971, got first choice in the two-day summer draft. Cleveland, picking second, selected Richard Manning, a shortstop at La Salle High School in Niagara Falis, N.Y., who hit this past, season, Philadelphia then picked Larry Christiansen, a right-handed pitcher from Marysville High School, Washington, D.C. The current draft is the 15th in major league history and sometime Wednesday the selection in that period will be made. Some 20 per cent of the high school and college players drafted eventually reach the major leagues. Three players drafted last year and nine drafted in 1970 currently are (m major league rosters." 'The 24 teams pick in reverse order of their 1971 finish.

CHESS CHAMP SERVES: Bobby Fischer, American chess master who will meet Boris Spassky of Russia for the world championship this July in Iceland, hits serve while competing in second annual sports celebrity tennis tournament at LaCosta Country Club in California. His partner is Gail Goodrich of the Los Angeles Lakers. The tournament was won by Hank Greenberg and USC basketball coach Bob Boyd. (AP Wirephoto) i tit-" 4 a AMERICAN LEAGUE East Pet. GB S85 Former U-M Cage Aide Now Pioneer At Arizona Detroit 24 17 Baltimore 21 II Cleveland 20 20 Boston 17 22 New York 16 24 Milwaukee 15 23 .500 .500 .436 .429 3Vj 6 7Va Li Vx West .690 .600 4 .595 4 .455 10 .409 12 .405 12 Oakland 29 Minnesota 24 Chicago 25 California 20 Texas la Kansas City 17 llllllllll "I've had my assistant going back East to look at players who are only high school juniors." Snowden has a reputation for knowing, and working with, quality athletes.

He has coached such major league baseball stars as Willie Horton of the Detroit Tigers, and Alex Johnson, former American League batting champ. In football, he coached Ron Johnson, and in track he coached Henry Carr. Snowden realizes accusations will be made that he is going to get all of the great black athletes simply because he is black. "That's just not so," Snowden said. "In fact, I sometimes feel I have to work harder to get the black athletes.

Blacks historically have been wary of peddlers. I come along, and I'm a kind of recruiter they've never seen before, and they're particularly wary." REMODEL NOW! Iiiilllll Monday's Results Oakland 3, Cleveland 2. 10 innings Minnesota 3. Baltimore 2 Only games scheduled Tuesday's Games California (Wright 4 2 and Ros 10) at Detroit (Lolich 13 and Coleman .7 4), 2, twi night Minnesota 61) at Baltimore (Palmer 6-3), night Oakland (Blue 0 2) at Cleveland (Col. bert 0-3), night Milwaukee (Brett 2 5) at Kansas City (Murphy I I).

night New York (Peterson 3-7) at Texas (Bos man j-S). night Boston (Siebert 4-2) at Chicago (Wood t-3). night Wednesday's Games California at Detroit, night Minnesota a Baltimore, night Oakland at Cleveland, night Milwaukee at Kansas City, night New York at Texas, night Boston at Chicago NATIONAL LEAGUE East RESIDENTIAL day. He wore glasses for the first time on one at bat, and struck out In Cleveland, the homer by Campeneris extended Oakland's winning streak to four and dealt the Indians their 10th loss in 12 games. Reggie Jackson hit a two-run homer for the A's, giving him the league lead with 11, while Eddie Leon's homer tied the score for Cleveland in the eighth, 2-2.

John "Blue Moon" Odom, who needed help from Darold Knowles for the final out, was the winner and is now 3-1. The loser was the Cleveland workhorse, Gaylord Perry, 9-4. i ,11 Banquet Tonight To Fete Athletes AND COMMERCIAL Carptntry Mosonry footing Plumbing PlattTtng thttrital CAU GENERAL BUILDING MAINTENANCE 92441S1 III1I1I1IIIIIIIIIU Pet GB TUCSON, Ariz. CAP) Fred Snowden, the first black to be named head basketball coach at a major conference university, has a special reason for trying to get the' faltering University of Arizona team back on its feet. "If I am able to put together a quality program." Snowden said, "one of the greatest enjoyments would be the knowledge that I was opening the door for all those black coaches who are out there right now doing their homework." Since resigning his position as assistant coach at Michigan two months ago, Snowden has been busy recruiting.

Former head coach Bruce Larson resigned after finishing with a 6-20 record last season. Snowden announced earlier. tin the week that Jim Rappis, a 6-foot-3 guard from Waukesha, Was the fourth "blue chipper" to sign a letter of intent to 'attend Arizona, a member of the Western Athletic Conference. Helped by the lure of a new field house for the 1973-74 season, Snowden has brought three other high school players to Arizona. He says all are capable of making the varsity during their freshman year.

They are 6-8 Al Flemings from Michigan City, Ind. and 6-2 guard Erick Money, from Detroit, both high school All- -Americans, and; 6-5 forward Cornell Norman, who won all-city honors in Detroit. "We're recruiting as though we had lost every kind and were starting from scratch," Snowden said. "Every time I W. 31 27 24 19 17 16 New York Pittsburgh Chicago Montreal St, Louis Philadelphia Los Angeles Cincinnati Houston Atlanta San Oiego West .705 -67J 3' 2 .571 6 .442 11' .376 14' i .34 15 .609 .600 .571 .465 6'i J50 ll'i .333 13' i GREAT START: Mrs.

Michael (Dianna) Sexton, 23," of Buchanan lifts ball from cup on No. 4 hole at Brookwood golf course where she shot hole-in-one Monday during the first round of golf she ever played. Holding flag is her husband, Brookwood's new club pro, who has never matched his wife's feat. Mrs. Sexton was playing with a set of clubs just given her for her birthday and used a driver on a par three, 125-yard hole.

(Staff photo) ABA Owner Denies 'Takeover' By NBA 21 27 26 20 16 17 San Francisco Monday's Result 1 Whatovor the Whatovor tho The top senior athletes from Berrien county's 15 high schools will be honored tonight at the 23rd annual Berrien County Sportswriters Award banquet at Tosi's restaurant Highlight of the banquet, sponsored by this newspaper, will be presentation of the Sportswriters Award to the athlete selected as the most outstanding in the entire county during the past school Nominees for the award, currently held by Craig Riley of Niles, are John Hunt of Benton Harbor, Mark Nisbet of St Joseph, Gary, Etter of Lake Michigan Catholic, Bud Shafer of Lakeshore, Mike Strong of Coloma, Mike Leith of Watervliet Roger Bailey of Eau Claire, Bob Luther of Galien, John Raff of New Buffalo, Willie Rittmon of Bridgman, Dave Stark of Brandywine, Jim Quran of Niles, of River Valley, George Dreitzler of Buchanan and Greg Toney of Berrien Springs. Selection is based on each athlete's contribution to his school's entire athletic program over his high school career, with emphasis on his senior year. Previous winners of the award include Don Hopkins of Benton Harbor, Eau Claire's Rich Haskins, Joel Carlson of Coloma, Tim Klein of Niles, Benton Harbor's Ellis Hull, Kent Ingles of Galien, Terry Palleschi of St Joseph, Alex McNutt Benton Harbor, Bridgman's Randy Pschigoda, Marty Tretheway of Lakeshore, John Dase of St. Joseph, Jim Stouffer of St John's, Bill Ford of St John's, St Joseph's Jason Harness, Casey Clark Of Berrien Springs, Don Arend of Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs' Glenn Briggs, Richie Morlock of Watervliet, Paul Weber of St John's, AnciTRodgers of St John's and Buchanan's Dale Rifenburg. Pittsburgh at San Oiego, ram Only game scheduled Tuesday's Games Houston (Roberts 3 3) at Philadelphia (Fryman J-J), night Atlanta (Reed 34) at Montreal (Mc Anally 1-51.

night Cincinnati (Nolan 7 1) at New York (MtAndrew 4 1), night Pittsburgh -(Moose 3 2) at S.an Oiego Wtirby J4, night Chicago Hands 4 1) at Los Angeles (Downing 121, night St. Louis (Wis 4-S) at San Francisco (Stone Ml. nigtit Wednesday's Games Houston at Philadelphia, night Atlanta at Montreal, night Cincinnati at New Vork. night Pittsburgh at, San Diegb, 7. twi night Chicago at Los Angeles, night St.

Louis at San, Francisco ft Right on the Jab In Your Offlc Prevent attains and scrotchtt on desks and air office fuml- hire with' custom-cut -glass tops. has been meeting secretly with NBA commissioner Walter Kennedy. The report said they have reached agreement to allow six or seven ABA clubs to enter the NBA Squires administrative vice president John Kerr said "we have no knowledge of any new plans for absorption by the NBA. "Earl (Foreman) talked to Kennedy and Munchak 'and both of them said they didn't, know anything about it," Kerr said. RICHMOND, Va.

(AP) Earl Foreman, owner of the Virginia Squires of the American Basketball Association, said Monday reports thatjhe ABA will be absorbed by the National Basketball Association were the "babbling of idiots." A story in the Greensboro, N.C., Daily News, citing an unidentified source, said Monday the ABA would cease to exist after NBA meetings June 15-16. The same report said the ginia franchise was "heavily in debt to the ABA and may not be accepted" into the NBA. Foreman said this was a "mis-. understanding" by the people who are saying it." The Daily News sjory said Carolina Cougars owner Tedd Munchak, on behalf bf the ABA, get a kid, I start recruiting again as if that next kid I want is the first One on my list. "And we're not just recruiting for now." he continued.

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