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THE EVENING SUN TS- SECTION MS- PAGE C9 BALTIMORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1975 Even Blades Don't Know One Another SPORTS EDITOR By Phil Hersh operation resembles a free-agent tryout more than a hockey Trainer Nick Garen grabbed uniform number 15 off the Blades' rack and shook his hockey team In mid-season. head. Nine of the players listed on the original Michigan Stags' The neatly sewn letters on the back of the jersey read roster are gone. Three other players who came to Balti "Chartre," as in Claude, who wore the uniform Tuesday more are now in the minors. 9 mer ymmmmm lassim lit til I if night.

General manager Skip Feld-man keeps the revolving door For tonight home game with the San Diego Manners spinning in an effort to find some people with either scor (8 o'clock) the jersey will read "Curtis." That's the way it had been until Chartre was ing ability or muscle. Few of the additions have either. MAXIE BAUGHAN Added to Colt staff brought up Tuesday. Different Combinations The problem is even more complex for coach Johnny Wilson. How can you form a team Claude played a tew snnis in the 5-2 loss to Houston, then disappeared into the night with a vow never to return.

Easy rome. easv eo. except for the when you can't even tell your trainer and some harried own players by the names on their jerseys? The coach tried eight differ Baughln Rejoins A Friend seamstress. "Get' me an up-to-date roster ent line combinations Tuesday nf this team." assistant trainer night, then admitted how little fimnn TCmbro asked a friend he still knew about men like vesterdav at 11 A.M. see-you-later Chartre and Bill Question is, does he want the DPI Telephoto Goldthorpe.

"How can you tell from one ntvfo-dat 11 A.M. roster or or two shifts?" asked Wilson the up-to-date noon roster? That's the way things are SEETHING REF Official Earl Strom lost his cool last night after fans poured beer on him during NBA game between Seattle and Houston. Among those keeping Strom from stands were referee Hubert Evans, Se attle coach Bill Russell and Archie Clark. without expecting an answer. mine with the Blades, whose Mariners Fourth The coach hopes to learn more from practices yesterday and today and the game to night with San Diego, the team which had Feldman as general manager until a couple weeKS The 18-Year-Old Martin Shows Arrogance, Too ago.

Despite four 20-goal scorers, the Mariners are plodding along in fourth place in the By Michael Janof skyi Maxie Baughan calls 0 his newest job "the ultimate; in coaching," so the Colts know their latest defensive coordinator has the right attitude. Company man, and all that. Baughan, whose professional playing career carried him from one coast to the other 'nd back again, yesterday became yet another in the long line; of nouveau coaches with the Coits. Sounds Like Coach He replaces Don Doll, who quit last week to join pon Shula's staff in Miami. I "Way I see it, this is a great place to come in," Baughan drawled at his comingv out party.

"We have the opportunity to build with youth, which is how the program here has been geared for the past two or three years." Already he sounds a West Division. Under the WHA playoff system, however, San to a quarter-final match with By Doug Brown Staff Correspondent Diego is in good position. knows as much about him as everyone else. who upset Karl Neiler, the fourth foreign seed, yesterday. With Russia represented for Nastase tomorrow night.

The top two teams in each of the three divisions make the Salisbury He doesn't look at the first time in the 77-year all like the other Billy Martin. playoffs, with the other two He is blond, blue-eyed and at Popular opinion is that Nastase, the No. 1 foreign seed, will meet Connors in Sunday's final. But tournament director Bill Riordan is beginning to spots going to the teams with This may be the last year that, the national indoor tennis championships are played here. The tournament has been a least 25 years younger than the manager of the Texas Rang the best records of the remain ing eight.

Only six teams cur Professor Discovers Heroes Only In Sports College Park Near the end of the 75-minute lecture, John Lucas stopped taking notes, raised his hand and asked a question of the guest speaker in English 479A. "Doc," said the Ail-American basketball player, "at the Super Bowl, the Pittsburgh players were allowed to be with their wives the night before the game and the Minnesota players were not "My question is, does this hurt an athlete's performance in a game the next day?" Most of the 120 students in the lecture hall laughed, but the speaker, Dr. Stan Lavine, answered it straight. "Studies show it's really not harmful," said Dr. Lavine.

The record also shows that Pittsburgh won the game. This may seem like an extraordinary dialogue between a student and guest lecturer in a college English class, but then at the University of Maryland English 479A is an extraordinary class. The precise name of the course is Sports Culture, USA, which is being taught or three credits for the first time this semester by a full professor in English, Dr. Neil Isaacs. The underlying thesis, according to the course description, is that contemporary American society is pervaded by the awareness, the values and the structures of sports.

Life More Than Sports Event The underlying thesis is that sports have become such an integral part of our culture that college courses such as Dr. Isaacs's are being given to examine the phenomenon. There is a course called Sports in American Culture being presented this semester at the University of Maryland Baltimore County by Lee Low-enfish and Charles Woolston. Dr. Isaacs brings to his classroom such guest speakers as Dr.

Lavine, who is team doctor for the Bullets and Capitals in Washington and for the Maryland Terps. Other lecturers include the Bullets' Mike Riordan, Maryland athletic director Jim Kehoe and Washington Post sports writer Gerald Strine. "I don't teach a party line in this course," says the bearded Dr. Isaacs. "All I want to do is get the students to ask questions about the impact of sports on our society.

"You can't reduce everything in life to a sporting event, but we tend to do that. There's our obsession with winning at all costs, a morality that tolerates any means to an end, and which produces a "We see this on all levels of our society. Little League parents become rabid. I remember when I was a teacher at Tennessee seeing the president of the university greet high school football prospects. He never helped to recruit teachers." We're No.

1 Is Dr. Isaacs saying that this is our national mentality, that our country conducts itself as if it were in a ball game? "We (the U.S. like to say we are the only undefeated team in the history of the game war being the biggest game of all," he says. "We always hear our leaders saying they don't want the U.S. to be a second-rate power meaning we've got to be No.

1. In the space race, we had to be first on the moon. I doubt if we could have sold the program to the taxpayers if we had conducted it in concert with other countries." Dr. Isaacs believes sports is the only institution in our society providing heroes today. No heroes in politics? Certainly not after developments of the last couple years, and show business? "Our biggest heroes are in sports, not show business, and sport, after all, is our national entertainment," he says.

'Teople like Joe Namath and Muhammad Ali. These are our heroes. They get top dollar in TV commercials. "And isn't it interesting to see how many show business people go out of their way to associate themselves with sports? You get the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby golf. You could hardly count all the TV and movie stars at the Jimmy Connors-Rod Laver match.

Those people are smart-Sports are where it's at the days." These things concern Dr. Isaacs and he wants his students to examine them, but when class is over, as the students file out, he speaks to one. "We going to win Saturday, Luke?" he asks. "Yeah, we'll win," says John Lucas. Dr.

Isaacs is as caught up in the sports craze as any of us. history of this tournament, Kakulia, a 27-year-old electrical engineer, is his country's last hope. It was Alex Metraveli, not Kakulia, who was expected to ers. great success since Bill Rior rently have more points San Yet aside from the name, question that. He thinks it may be a Connors-Vitas Gerulaitis final.

dan brought it here from New Diego's 54. Two Top Scorers there is another similarity. York 12 vears ago, and even set this far. Metraveli, Rus thoueh ticket sales are some 30 "I do have a better (easier) Tennis' Billy Martin has a certain arrogance about him sia's best and the No. 3 foreign per cent ahead of last year, he draw," Gerulaitis admits.

"I'd The Mariners have two of the league's top ten scorers in Andre Lacroix and ex-Clipper Wayne Rivers. Lacroix led the which may have come faand- thinks it's 50-50 tne event win rather play Nastase in the seed here, was eliminated two days ago, however. coach. Aides Under Alien in-hand with success, perhaps return. "It's very much in doubt.

When Connors was 'asked WHA in total points two years from being acclaimed as the best junior player in the world. ago and assists last year. semi-finals than Connors although I have beaten Jimmy." Connors breezed past Thomas Koch last night toward a quarter-final date tonight with Teinuraz Kakulia, the Russian what he knew about Kakulia, he grinned impishly and said, "I know he's a Russian." Which means that Jimmy Those are the kind of names Garen would like sewn on Fassbender Loses And here he is, 18 years old Riordan says. "Our contract is up, for one thing. They've been trying to get it away from us for three years.

There's been a bitter political battle, and it was only through the threat of litisation that we got it this In any event, Baughan's signing perpetuates his longstanding association with Colt head coach, Ted Marchibroda. The two were assistants under George Allen last year in Washington and have worked together for seven of the last Blades' uniforms, names the last Christmas Day, the quarter-finals of the Sunpapers- average fan can recognize. That would make it easier to sponsored U.S. Indoor champi identify with a last-place team. onship with people like Jimmy year." ICE CHIPS: The Blades' Connors and Hie Nastase.

Palmer, Singleton Sign nine years. ,5 final attendance figure (3,522) He is not impressed, much for Tuesday night's game was less awed. He chopped down While Frank Cashen mulled over pending arbitration Germany's Jurgen Fassbender 1,400 greater than- the first figure announced. The lower figure represented counts from yesterday, 7-6, 4-6, 6-2, and as Only- eight reserved seats are left for this weekend's matches Juan Gisbert left but one clue when he took off for his native Spain two days ago, enabling Alex Mayer to advance to the quarter-finals by default. He told the referee Baughan was primarily; a player last year, though he worked from time to "tifWe with the linebackers.

He began his career with the champion 1960 Philadelphia Eagles and played there for five years. In 1966 he was traded to Los Angeles and fol only five of the eight turnstiles he stretched on a bench in the locker room, an ice bag on his hip, he made little jokes about Tonight is Valentine Date night. Any female accompanied by a male will be admit missing freshman classes at UCLA. cases and the city mulled over the latest attempt to sell the Orioles, Jim Palmer and Ken Singleton signed 1975 contracts. That makes 13 Birds guaranteed to open spring training in two weeks, with nine others awaiting the results of salary arbitration.

Palmer, the 1973 Cy Young Award winner, was 7-12 last year after four 20-win seasons. Singleton, acquired from Montreal along with Mike Torrez in the Dave McNaily deal, hit .276 last year with 9 home runs, 74 rbis and 92 walks. He has a lifetime average of .277 in four National League seasons. his knee was bothering him. lowed Allen to Washington in ted at half price Family night rates will be in effect for "I brought some work with There a man here who Saturday game with the Chi strings rackets from noon to me to do on tne roaa, some books to read," he said.

cago Cougars. The head of the 1970. But after a year he retired to become defensive coordinator at Georgia Tech. Two Continued on Pg. 14, Col.

3 midnight. Says he averages a dozen a day and that some family pays full price, and all other family members are admitted at half price. players like their rackets re- Martin's Grand Slam "Yeah sure," another player strung after only three sets. Abner Kaplan: A Small Bird Stockholder What's The Little Man To Do? hooted. "And I bet you're going to take some field trips, too." A thin smile appeared on that face which looks so terribly young.

His sophistication seems contradictory, but understandable considering he was the youngest player ever to compete in the U.S. Open (at 15), that he played at Wimbledon at 16 and beat Stan Smith at 17. Prefers Nastase Last year he pulled a grand slam, winning the Orange Bowl, Wimbledon, Forest Hills and national junior championships. With nothing more to conquer as a junior, he now moves up most immediately Howard Shockley Victim Of His Own Problems ABNER KAPLAN asks. "Let's say he sells to the local.

interests for $12 million and the judge appraises- the team at $13 million. That's a difference of $1 over the total number of shares. So how, much would it take to pay off stockholders represent-1 ing 'more than 100 shares? Kaplan is willing to kick in the Other local minority stockholders are, he says, all with the idea to keep the Orioles in Baltimore. Kaplan would like to think Hoffberger is civic- minded enough that he would sell with his heart, not his head. Came Out Wondering Still, he wonders.

Walking out of Friday's meeting, he felt hollow; something gnawed at him: "We went into the meeting feeling a lot more optimistic than when we came out. We sincerely felt that Mr. Hoffberger wanted the team here, but afterward we weren't so sure. ijj "We felt disappointed that he stressed heavily his reliance on legal counsel, that he's got to do what his counsel says. This left a good many of us concerned.

i "Of course he's got to listen to his people, but what's the big gamble? Compared'to the larger interests (Hoffberger, Zanvyl Krie-ger, Abe Krieger and Jack Dunn control nearly 90 per cent of the club), how much can they be sued for?" What Can He Do? Abner Kaplan is caught up in his own enthusiasm. If only he owned more stork if only minority stockholders could affb policy if only i4 "What can we do?" he asks. jjjj he answers. As long as 20 shares of something amounts to slightly more than nothing, the Abner Kaplans of the Oriole conglomerate can do little monr than sit in at stockholders' meetings, ask queii tions and hope the team they love won't tak a oneway ticket out of town. By Michael Janofsky In the Oriole corporate structure, Abner Kaplan is a face in the crowd, a tiny voice that is heard barely above a question asked at a stockholders' meeting.

He is a minority stockholder in the Baltimore Baseball Club, which is controlled by the Baltimore Orioles, which in turn is controlled by the National Brewing Co. And Jerry Hoffberger is chairman of the board of all three. Wouldn't Be Criticized Abner Kaplan's impact on the destiny of the Orioles is closer to nil than minimal. If the Birds are sold to the so-called out-of-town interests, and Baltimore loses its baseball team, he will not be held up to public censure. He will bear no brunt of public disdain.

Nine years ago he bought five shares of the Orioles as a gift for his youngest son; a few years later he bought 15 shares more. Even before his first purchase, he was a season ticket holder and has been ever since. He remains the consummate fan. But Abner Kaplan, a soft-spoken man who works for the state employees' credit union, is. worried about the team he has supported for the better part of a decade.

If the Orioles go, he'll feel the loss in his gut. Plan Has A Gamble "I think I stand for the way most of us minority stockholders feel," he says. "If Baltimore loses the Orioles, it would be a disaster." But Abner has a plan, a risky one, but a plan nonetheless. It involves a gamble. He and everybody else know that if the owners doesn't accept the most lucrative offer, regardless of its origins, Hoffberger faces a threatened lawsuit from out-of-town interests who own "more than 100 shares," as Kaplan remembers Hoffberger saying at last Friday's stockholders' meeting.

It is hard to imagine how "more than 100 Salisbury, Md. It puzzles his fans. It frustrates his coach. It saddens his teammates. Salisbury State's Howard Shockley simply isa't the same basketball player who last year was the leading scorer in the state with a 25-point average, and the top freshman re- By Doug Brown Staff Correspondent sophomore, only 19 years old, but still People dig for reasons.

The loss through graduation of Tom Torrillo, highly skilled at feeding Shockley, is one. And opponents are wise to Howard after a year of observation. Family Problems The underlying reason, it is generally agreed, is that personal problems prey on Shock-ley's mind. He is poor. His parents have broken up.

"They split over Christmas," he says. "My Mom took my younger brother and sister and went to live with my older sister. She left one brother at home 1 think he's 16. "My father works at night shares," which is presumably less than 200 shares, could prevent Hoffberger from selling to a Baltimore-pledged group. But legally they could.

The Ralph DeChiaro Mayor Schaefer Maryland Sports Fans group, or parts thereof, has reportedly offered $12 million. A New Orleans outfit supposedly bid $14 million. Hoffberger has stated only the threatened suit has prevented him from selling to the local interests. Would Make Up Difference "I say, go ahead and take the gamble," says Kaplan. "Sell to the local group." And here's the catch: If the suit follows, a judge will ultimately appraise the club to determine if, in fact, Hoffberger has shortchanged anybody by selling to one group for less.

If the judge says the club is worth more, the suing parties must be compensated. "So how much can they sue for?" Kaplan as a janitor in a chicken processing factory, so my brother is home alone, 30 miles from here in Snow Hill. We talk on the phone almost every night. I think about this constantly. "My older brother is in Virginia and he said he would come back after my parents split up but I don't think he will now." Coach Disappointed Coach Ward Lambert knows about Shockley's trauma.

He understands, he sympathizes. Yet he still can't conceal his disappointment. "It's disappointing because you know what he could do," Continued on Pg. 10, Col. 3 i bounder in the country at 19.3.

Great Expectations Now he is a 15.8 scorer and 16.5 rebounder. Salisbury's record is 4-16 and, with five games to play, it absolutely has no chance to match last year's 13-14. So much was expected of Howard Shockley. He is only a.