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run THE EVENING SUiS ection PAGE 1 BALTIMORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1969 WW mmfsm Bullet Five Does Colt Swoon 1 vQ i'A Jt'ffi mi Jk 111 I I 'I i I i ill "i I iff I I I rjf NJ I A i' 7 1 ii A 1 v. ir mmuwidiii miinirtinrtilW mini unwnrr nmn cWfciwwwftBwiwiM By Charles Rayman First the Colts. Now the NBA Bullets. Anyway, the Bullets weren't 18-point favorites against the far-from-super Seattle Super-Sonics last night. Fact is, the Bullets started the second half at the Civic Center 17 points behind and nearly won the game after holding Seattle to 40 points, 15 in the third quarter.

1 "I was sure we'd win the way we were going in the second half," said Jack Marin, "but we never could get in front. It's pretty tough after you're 17 down." Given Slow Treatment Sonic coach Al Bianchi, who blasted his club for not doing what he wanted a few days ago, figured his strategy had a lot to do with the upset, which is what Seattle's 98-94 win def WILL HETZEL Studies are punctuated by occasional columns to student newspaper, the Diamondback law- Mt V1 initely was. McLain '68 Athlete Of Year WILL HETZEL He prefers outspoken honesty to projecting an image WILL HETZEL Terrapin eager good bet to erase Gene Shue's marks SporU Editor if i THE EVENING SUN After all, the Bullets went into the game with the league's best record (35-11), while Seattle had one of the worst (15-36), including losses in 18 of its last 20 games. "We wanted to slow them down, kept them from running by picking up their guards close ByMikeRalhet New York Denny McLain Terp Cager Quick With Quips Wetzel's- Big Hang-Up: Tru the flamboyant Detroit pitcher who is equally at home standing on the mound or sitting at an organ, today was named Male Athlete of the Year in the an in hippie clothes. I associate guess you re going to get By Jim Hawkins Staff Correspondent ong hair with peace and every never did go in hand-clapping and rah-rah stuff not even in high school.

booed." Given an absolutely free nual Associated Press poll. Continuing recent domination thing good in this country." College Park Those Gallop Even without a hair-shirt or Bullet Box BULLETS Min FG FTRAlFfPI, Johnson 5-13 3 21 2 4 12 I.oueheir 43 10-23 1-9 3 5 27 Mann 40 7-13 2. 2 10 2 1 Monroe 40 8-25 8- 3 7 2 20 I'ns'ld 35 4-10 Mil 1 I I Scott 14 2- 4 2- 4 5 A 1 1.1 1- 1 0- 0 0 3 bills 12 0- 2 0- 0 2 0 1 0 Manning 1 1-1 0-0 1 0 2 Totalt 240 30-92 22-27 55 19 24 14 FG 39. FTb 82. SEATTLE choice (sans the strings of his "A lot of people have the im by baseball players year-end award, McLain became the ocks the length of Sampson's, pression every atniete is an ing Ghosts and Seven Blocks of Granite are gone "Tell it like it is" has replaced "Under a blue gray October sky." Hetzel is closing in on a couple gung-ho and doesn't care about anything else and that just of Shue's Sundry school scoring scholarship) Hetzel would love to be even more anti-establishment.

Would Like Beard "I would love to have a beard," he admits. "If I had my records, with a full year still And long-haired hippie-sympa-thizer Will Hetzel may soon isn't the case. I don't want to Mm FG FT Al PI Pt Harris 41 S-18 1-3 3 1 I IS ahead of him. fourth in succession and the seventh in the last e'ght polls to find himself sitting on top of the sports world. Schollander The Interloper In those eight years only Don Schollander, the swimming star of America's 1964 Olympic Kennedy 2S 2- 1- 1 4 0 4 5 Rron 8 1- 2 1- 1 3 2 2 3 project an image that is going to draw boos every place I play He's averaged 27.7 the last six erase crew-cut Gene Shue name! all over the place on Maryland's all-time basketball Mescbery 38 4- C- 8 13 1 14 Rule 48 8-30 4.

7 11 3 2 20 way I'd walk around all the time but if you're going to be honest I Tucker 225-8 1-2401 11 games, bringing his over-all to 21.9 just two-tenths below the Wilkens 47 7-18 8- 8 7 7 8 22 Halrston 10-VI-2081 Raulfman 1- 1 1-2 4 0 2 3 standard Shue set in 1953. And record roster. Way Out Front With two-thirds of the Terps' through the first 15 games he's Weeb Keeps Two Hats Totals 240 37-88 24-34 49 13 23 FGoo 43. FT 88. BULLETS 20 21 25 28-94 Seattle 31 27 IS 25-98 Referees Earl Strom.

Ken Hudson. Attendance 3.619. 1 season in the bag, 6-foot-7 Hetzel poured in 328 points to put him already is far ahead of his team self slightly ahead, of Gene's The announcement was mada' mates in almost every offensive New York (M Weeb Ewbank, pace when he scored a record 654 in 1954. coach and general manager of category. He's averaging 21.9 per game which is about what by both Phil Iselin, the president of the club, and Ewbank And Hetzel's honest about and keeping a man close to (Wes) Unseld," said Bianchi.

"We haven't had a lot of chances tc work on this because we've that, too. He expects to break but the terms and length of the Tom Milroy and Mickey Wiles, Nos. 2 and 3 in scoring are the Super Bowl champion New York Jets, will continue in both posts, it was announced today. them both. contract were not disclosed.

contributing between them and his. 178 rebounds equal a third of the team total. Yet he's already been booed ml v. more in Cole Fieldhouse here than Penn State, Princeton and been on the road, but I think we did a good job except for one span in the third quarter. "We kinda lulled the Bullets to sleep with our slow patterns, too.

We've got to play it slow, because we don't have the big rebounder." "Beat Selves" Shue J4lr.MKv v- South Carolina combined. Will Hetzel's big hang-up is telling the truth. "If someone asks me a ques Bullet coach Gene Shue tion I don't see any point in lying just to project some im wouldn't buy Bianchi's strat egy bit, not the way the Bullets age," he Raps ACC i played the first half. "I sure AI had strategy Last spring someone asked Hetzel what he thought about and I'm happy for him that it worked, but that didn't beat DENNIS McLAIN Adds new honor the Atlantic Coast Conference. Writing in the column he occa us, said Shue.

"We beat our-selves. Seattle usually gives up 116 points and we should have won since we held them to 98. sionally pens for the student newspaper, he replied: "It is team, managed to break baseball's hold on the award. But no Olympian from the high time that Maryland real 1968 U.S. team or iuch an out ized the ACC is a lost cause and should be abandoned entirely." standing' college' football player as O.

J. Simpson, the Heisman Which rendered him instantly Trophy winner from Southern popular in Chapel Hill and Durham and Clemson and other Super Joe Becomes N.Y.'s Top Celebrity New York In the closing moments of the Super Bowl game, when it was -apparent that Je Namath and the New York Jets were about to become the new pro football champions of the world, a writer from Sports Illustrated sitting next to me shook his head in amazement and said "This guy is going to be a sports celebrity now like we have never seen before." Yesterday I saw what he meaat. It was "Jet Championship Day" here and Namath and the rest of the Jets were saluted at a reception on the City Hall steps and at a luncheon at Leone's, where Namath was presented a sports car as the outstanding player in the Super Bowl. Close to 10,000 persons, many of them high school truants, crowded around as Mayor Lindsay presented Super Joe with a medallion. "We had a reception for the Astronauts two weeks ago right here on this same platform," said a man on the' mayor's staff, "but they didn't draw a mob anything like this one." At Leone's the kids had to be held off by the police as they tried to get at their hero.

"This is greater adulation even," said one longtime New York sports writer, "than Mickey Mantle ever got." "Nobody talks about Sandy Koufax any more, said another. Says Jets Knew They'd Win In less than three hours on the afternoon of January 12 the Jets changed the face of pro football by beating the three-touchdown favorite Colts, 16-7, in Miami. The game will never again be the Namath, of course, was the chief architect of that triumph of the Jets and the American Football League and the National Broadcasting Company. Moreover, Broadway Joe shaggy-maned, side-burned and self-confident almost to the point of arrogance is the very symbol of all this. He is the new hero of an American public that craves demigods.

"Ever since the game," Joe was saying yesterday, "I've been reading all this stuff about how good I played. Well, I did play good. I won't try to tell vou I didn't. But a lot of guys played good. People in.

the know will tell you that winning the Super Bowl is a 40 or 50-man thing." Had Namath "guaranteed" a Jet win three days before the game to make believers of his own team-nates? Some say now that Namath psyched the Colts, oarticularly Earl Morrall, and psyched his Jet teammates to a super performance. "No, I didn't say anything before the game 3ust to give our players confidence," Joe says now. "They didn't need it. They all felt we'd win it." At one point yesterday the weak-kneed Namath hinted that business propositions including several from the movies could put a premature end to his footbi.ll career. This could be a salary ploy.

Joe thrives on all this and admits it. "I'm very happy with my life the way it is now, he says. Colts Had Letdown Kramer That was no crowd of teen-agers at Leone's. Weeb Ewbank, Namath's coach, was there saying, "Ten years ago I came to New York with a great Baltimore Colt team and won a world's championship, but beating the Colts this year was the greatest satisfaction of my life. Joe Namath? Give him time to throw, and he is the greatest." Johnny Sample, the Jet defensive captain, was also there.

Sample goes to the West Coast today for screen test, "The greatest moment of all," said an ex-Colt, "came when we presented the game ball to the American Football League and Pete.Rozelle couldn't look at me. He just dropped his eyes." Elston Howard, now a Yankee coach, was there, and so was Bill Toomey, the Olympic decathlon champion. And after the lunch I lingered with Jerry Kramer, the Green Bay guard whose book, "Instant Replay," is on every best-seller list. "I still think that the NFL is better than the AFL and the Colts are better than the Jets," Kramer said quietly, "but you know what I think happened 7. "I think that when the Colts beat Cleveland, they felt that they had accomplished what they set out to do.

They'd finally regained the NFL championship and got rid of all that frustration. Then they cculdn't reach the same psychological peak for the Super Joe. Super Jet. Superman, as Namath 13 called on the cover of thi3 week's Sporting News. Joe Namath is on top, painful as that may be to his detractors.

California, was able to oversna- ACC hotspots. "We just didn't play well and it wasn't a case of being tired. We played like a high school team for the first 26 minutes, and even when we cut into their lead in the second half, we didn't play well." Rally Cooled Off The Bullets outscored Seattle 20-3 in the third quarter to pull within four points of Seattle, at 63-67. They should have taken the lead, but had too many turn- But the home town hoot owls dow McLam exploits. Denny In The Money For the 24-year-olc right-hander conducted a delicate balancing act during the entire season.

didn't wake up until the school paper early this season recorded Hetzels ideas on the Bible pitching baseballs with one hand a Walt Disney fairy and playing the organ witn two hippies beauti He received acclaim for the for and other such subjects. Parents Advice I overs. mer, notoriety for the latter and money for both. "My parents always told me When the season ended, Mc to be outspoken," explains Hetz Lain had 31 victories-becoming el, a philosophy major now in the first pitcher to reach the the middle of final exams. "1 30-victory plateau since Dizzy just don't have the inhibitions Dean in 1934 and was on nis Bunpapers photo Childress about building an, image that way to a Las Vegas opening some fellows have.

dressed in mink. GENE SHUE EARL STROM KEVIN LOUGHERY GUS JOHNSON Bullet coach reacts adva-sely to call by referee and is hit by technical foul in first period "My brother (Fred, now with Milwaukee in the N.B.A.) was Morrall Gets Vote In the balloting ly sports writ always looking to build himself ers and broadcasters, McLain Dolled 108 first-place votes and an All-America image. He bent over backwards trying. It just doesn't matter that much to amassed a total of 517 points on the basis of three points for first place, two for second and one me. "We threw the ball away too much.

No one was sharp," added Shue. "We all knew what we needed to do, but we just didn't do it. "Seattle should really feel lucky and happy, but I really don't want anybody to be happy at our expense." There's no truth to the rumor that Bianchi had the win stuffed and mounted because expansion team wins over the Bullets are rare. This one was only No. 2 in 20 tries by the new teams.

Failure to foul out Lenny Wil-kens, ho played ten minutes with five personals, was one reason the Bullets didn't win. Wilkens scored 22 points, 15 in the clutch and quarterbacked Seattle's lullaby attack. The Bullet crowd was disappointing. A turnout of 6,640 would have put the club ahead of last year's total home attendance of 171,146, but only 3,619 fans came out. Ballplayers Set Feb.

3 Talk To Map Course Of Action Since the turn of the century, every Bobo Zyllwallski has theo for third. Only three other athletes re retically approached every atn letic encounter as if it were Ar ceived more than 200 points mageddon. To Hetzel, Maryland versus Virginia in basketball gridder Simpson, pitcher Bob Gibson of the Si. Louis Cardinals and quarterback Earl Mor In a prepared statement, Mill offer to increase contributions to isn't much more important than er charged the owners with the pension fund by $1 million rall of the BalUmore urns, tne a Friday night date with a Vir mounting a national campaign for a total of 55.1 million. Marvin Miller, executive only pro football p'ayer abie to crack the Top Ten.

gima co-ed. Basketball 'Nice' New York Major league baseball players will hold a special meeting in New York February 3 to decide whether to carry out a threatened strike for higher pension benefits. The players voted 461 to 6 last week to reject the club owners' director of the Major League to undermine the Players' Association. He said, "If ever there was an industry hell bent on its Vote Before Super Bowl The noil, however, was taken Baseball Players Association, announced yesterday the situation had reached an impasse own destruction it is, unfortun "Basketball is very nice thing," Will will tell you. "I mean, if you do a good job it can be very satisfying.

But I before the Super Bowl game, ately, that of the 'great national Continued on Page 7, Col. 1 and that several players from each club will attend the Feb. 3 meeting to determine a course of action. Orioles To Be Clockwatchers NBA Standings Manv toD stars, including Wil clock on the scoreboard, with batter within 20 seconds after EASTERN PIVISIOV W. L.

Prt.B hd It's been a well-kept secret, lie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Bob Gibson and Carl Yastrzemski, have endorsed the Association's receiving it If the rule is vio but major league baseball in someone in the press box or the third base umpire operating it by a remote control device lated, the umpire calls a oau. BILLETS 12 .745 Philadelphia 31 14 Boston 3 1 SO 4 New York 3J 20 5 WESTERN DIVISION W. L. Prt.BTld lot Anrelel 33 IS .673 Atlanta 31 IS Jtn Chirazo 23 28 .440 11'4 San Francisco 20 28 .411 12', San Diego 2 29 .408 11 Seattle IS 3 Jftt H'i Phoraii 9 40 .184 24 policy of not signing 1969 contracts until a satisfactory bene "We should have the clock by tends to enforce its long-ignored 20-second rule for pitchers this year. similar to a television channel Cincinnati soring training," says jacK fit nlan is worked out.

switcher. Detroit .4" Milwaukee IS 35 -3 21 Dunn, Oriole vice president in The Orioles already nave "Some clubs haven't ordered Last Night's Result charee -of business affairs Spring training is scheduled to begin next month and indica ordered a 20-second clock. the clocks," Dunn says. "They "We 11 use it then ana, as lar Seattle. BIHETS.

9. rhilao'phia, 140; New Vork, 137; tions are that unsignea piayers plan to have the third base um The gist of the rule is that as we know, it's to be used ail Detroit, 118; to Angeles, HJ. Atlanta. 175; Phoenix. 17.

Chicago. 95; Boston. 4. Ballet's next home garni aturdij Ti. AUau tw OTertime.

will not report unless a pension pire keep trade witn a stop with the bases empty, the pitch year." Tonleht's Games lit (arnei KhedulcO agreement is reached. The Oriolej plaa to put the er must deliver the ball to the.