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SECTION SPORTS BUSINESS Chicago Qitibune WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1967 0) VI I 0J uvu "-11 I Gophers Pick Kondla Mmt Valuableum STUNS CHUDM1S. 114-1U0 Pair of Aces MILLS FUHDClay Is 1-5 Choice Tonight N. B. A. Playoffs CENTER PACED EIG TBI WITH i ID REVEALED A Hawk Stalks a Bull Beaty, Bridges Are Vanguards of Defense Meets Folley In Ninth Defense of Crown 1 AT ILLINOIS LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS EASTERN DIVISION Boston, 140; New York, 110, Boston leads best-of-five series, 141.

Cincinnati, 120; Philadelphia, 116, Cincinnati leads best-of-five series, 1-01. WEST DIVISION PLAYOFFS Semi-Finals St. Louis, 114; CHICAGO, 100, St. Louis leads best-of-five series, 1-01. San Francisco, 124; Los An9eles, 108, San Francisco leads best-of-five-series 1-0.

76ers Dealt Tale of Tape BY ROBERT LOGAN Chicago Tribune Press Service St. Louis, March 21 The Chicago Bulls learned about a new, 1 J- 28.3 AVERAGE Joyner Selected by Hoosiers Disclosure Made pressure-packed season the bard CLAY FOLLEY 25 AM 34 210 Weight 200 6-3 Height -0Vj Chest normal 43V 44 Vj Chest expanded 80 Reach 77 IS Biceps 14Vi U'a Forearm 12H 34 Waist 34V4 25 Thigh 234 17 Calf 17 13 Fist 14 Official wei9hts to bo announced day of the fight. way nere tonignt when they were beaten, 114 to 100, by the St. Louis Hawks in the opener of the National Basketball association semi-final western division playoffs. The Bulls took a physical beating from the rugged, aggressive Hawks, who pulled away in the fourth quarter to wrap it up.

The new Chicago team was making its debut in the playoffs and absorbed a painful j9 (( -I I I i In i i I Honor Roll MINNESOTA Tom Kondla, center. INDIANA Harry Joyner, forward. MICH. STATE Matt Ailed, center. IOWA Gernr Jones, forward.

ILLINOIS Jim Dawson. 9uard. OHIO STATE Bill Hoskef, center. PURDUE Herman Gilliam, forward. WISCONSIN Joe Franklin, forward.

lesson, administered with lumps JJ 120-116 Jolt by Royals Philadelphia, March 21 (UPD Paced by the incomparable Oscar Robertson and the inspired play of Center Connie Dierking, the Cincinnati Royals dropped a bombshell in the first game of the National Basketball association playoffs tonight by upsetting the Philadelphia 76ers, 120 to 116. Philadelphia, which defeated Cincinnati eight out of nine times and finished 20 games ahead of the Royals during the regular season, led only in the early minutes. The 76ers were unable to overtake the Royals in a last period rally paced by Wilt Chamberlain who totaled 41 points. The blond, 6-foot-10 Dierking tallied 29 points and neutralized the 7-foot-1 Chamberlain on the Continued on page 4, col. 1 TOM KONDLA Gopher selection it and bruises.

St. Louis came out to show the upstart Bulls how the game is played when money is on the line. Bulls Heading Home The Hawks made their point, all right, and in so doing took a 1 to 0 lead in the best-of-five series. The scene shifts to the Chicago Coliseum Thursday night for the second game and the teams return here again on Saturday. It was not until the fourth quarter that the home team tucked it away, tho they trailed only at 2 to 0.

The Bulls staged frequent charges, twice cutting the deficit to one point, only to lose the momentum. The bruising contest unques AP Wirephoto Referee ruled Len Wilkens (14) of St. Louis was too aggressive in his bid for first period rebound on this play as Chicago's Don Kojis (10) was knocked to floor in last night's N. B. A.

playoff game in St. Louis. Erwin Mueller (14) of Bulls is at left, with Guy Rodgers (5) at right. by Dr. Henry Champaign, March 21 Special Dr.

David D. Henry, president of the University of Illinois, released more information today on the illegal athletic funds, and it turned out there were three of them instead of two as originally reported. The additional information came from a report of an investigation Dr. Henry ordered H. O.

Farber, vice president and controler of the university, to make in December after Mel Brewer, former assistant athletic director, revealed existence of the funds. The football fund was started in April, 1962, and the basketball fund in February, 1964. Called Mills Fund The third fund, until now unknown, was called the D. R. Mills fund.

Doug Mills was athletic director until he resigned last Nov. 23. The football fund had receipts in five years of and expenditures of The basketball fund receipts for the three years were $10,520 and expenditures were $7,043.96. How Fund Was Set Up According to the report, the D. R.

Mills fund was "established by a transfer out of receipts of the basketball fund and set up presumably so the director of athletics could put money in the football or basketball fund as the need might arise. "There were only two payments out of this fund. One was in the amount of $120 and the other in $100 and both were paid for expenses incurred in the administration of the athletic program." The report stated the last recorded entry in this fund was March, 1966, and read: "Receipts, $600; expenditures, $220; balance, $380." The report to Dr. Henry said Continued on page 5, col. If Minnea polis, March 21 Special Tom Kondla.

the leading scorer in the Big Ten despite playing on a ninth place squad, today was named Minnesota's most valuable player for the 1966-67 basketball season. Thru the selection by his teammates, Kondla becomes eligible for the Silver Basketball awarded annually to the most valuable player in the Big Ten by The Chicago Trib-vke. Averages 28.3 Points Kondla is a Junior center from Riverside-Brookfield High school in Illinois. He combined a feather-soft hook, an accurate long shot, and an assortment of close-in firepower to become the first Gopher to win the scoring title since Harold Gillen in 1917. Kondla finished the league campaign with 396 points 28.3 average, a Minnesota record for 14 Big Ten games.

In his last 10 games, Kondla scored 327 points, an average of 32.7 per start He tallied 32 points or better in all but two games in that streak. His single-game high was 37 against Iowa, and he followed with a 36-point output against Michigan. During the same 10 games, he scored at a .528 clip from the floor. His percentage for the entire Big Ten schedule was .489. New York, March 21 A confident but charitable Cassius Clay rules an overwhelming 1-5 choice over 34-year-old Zora Folley in the ninth defense of his heavyweight boxing championship tomorrow night in Madison Square Garden.

Folley, a rugged old warrior from Chandler, who has been knocking at the title door for 10 years without ever getting a shot, appeared relaxed. "I've got experience and a good punch," said the aging father of eight. "Cassius makes mistakes. I think I can take advantage of them. I think I have a real good chance to win." Fight time in the historic midtown arena, bracing for its first heavyweight title bout in 16 years, is 9:30 p.

m. central standard time. An estimated 16,000 fans are expected to push the live gate to $300,000, a Garden record. The fight will be seen on home television coast to coast, with WFLD channel 32 the Chicago outlet. The garrulous, 25-year-old Clay, who has treated past opponents with mixed disdain and sadistic savagery, has been unusually kind toward Folley.

Pays Zora Tribute "Zora is the best boxer among the contenders and deserves the chance," the champion said. "But I am the greatest." Clay refused to predict a knockout altho his trainer, An-gelo Dundee, forecast that the referee would be counting the final toll over Folley's prostrate form in the fourth round. "I'm not a knockout fighter," Continued on page 4, col. 1 Champ Moves to Evade Draft tionably was decided on the boards. St.

Louis finished with a whopping 79 to 55 edge in rebounds, enabling it to keep Cites 'Irreparable Top Celtic Goes Sprawling command despite poor shooting. HARRY JOYNER Hoosier pick of Guard Erv Inniger, who was sidelined by injury after 17 games. "Butch is a great, all-around basketball player," said Watson. "Our season was the result of a tremendous team performance, but it wouldn't have been possible without Butch. He was the one who usually picked us up when the going was toughest." Johnson was the Hoosiers' fourth ranking scorer with 233 points.

I Joyner at Indiana Bloomington, March 21 Injury1 if Inducted Cincinnati, March 21 W) Heavyweight Boxing Champion Cassius Clay asked the 6th United States Circuit Court of Appeals today to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent him from being inducted into the armed forces on April 11. That was one of two motions filed by Hayden C. Covington, New York attorney, in behalf of "Muhammad A 1 i otherwise known as Cassius Clay Jr." The other motion asked for leave to appeal a federal district court decision in Louisville, which denied Clay an injunction. The motion for leave to appeal the Louisville court's decision said Clay would suffer "irreparable injury" if he is inducted. It claimed Clay and his manager, Herbert Muhammad, had entered into contracts for a $250,000 heavyweight championship fight in Tokyo on May 27; a $10,000 exhibition bout in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 15, and a $200,000 heavyweight championship fight against Thad Spencer in San Francisco.

It said Clay stood to lose $460,000. The Hawks were missing, but they also were grabbing the rebounds, frequently stuffing them thru. In the process, the winners shoved Chicago out of position underneath. As so often happens, the more aggressive team was taking the most trips to the foul line. The Hawks had 58 chances at the free throw line and made 42 of them as against the Bulls' 26 of 37.

Sloan's Scalp Sliced An indication of the roughness of rebound scrimmages occurred when Jerry Sloan of the Bulls came down with the ball in the first quarter and was whacked by Zelmo Beaty, St. Louis center. Sloan had to leave to have four stitches taken in the back of his head, but returned to action. Beaty and Bill Bridges were the chief villains underneath, each grabbing 14 rebounds. When they got in foul trouble in the late stages, Paul Silas came off the St.

Louis bench to administer the crusher with the aid of another reserve, Rod Thorn. The visitors hit a cold spell early, scoring only five points in the first 6 minutes, 27 seconds of action. Fortunately, the Hawks were not making their shots, either, and had only a 13 to 5 advantage at that juncture. Don Kojis began to hit Continued on page 4, col. 2 t.l i '1 i i I i jf 1 il iiiiiiiiiii: piiii Believes in Finishinq What He Starts STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Special Harry Butch Joyner, Indiana's All-Big Ten forward and scoring and rebounding leader, tonight was named most valuable player of the Hoosier co-champions.

Jack Johnson, 6-6 senior forward from Greenfield, was elected honorary captain of the 1967 squad, first in Big Ten history to jump from last to first place in one season. Both honors were announced by Coach Lou Watson at the Kiwanis club basketball banquet. Joyner, a 6-4 junior from New Castle, topped Indiana scorers with 481 points, averaging 18.5 per game, and rebounders with 272, 10.5 per game. He was high scorer in 14 of Indiana's 26 games and top rebounder in 13. His .501 shooting average from the field was exceeded only by the .515 was so tired.

I was invited to have a glass, and I stayed there overnight." He rejoined the Japanese Olympic group the following day but the group left Sweden without reporting his return to Stockholm. Congratulated tonight on his "record" marathon time by a handful of sports writers, Kanakury commented, "Thank you. It has been a long race, but then I got myself a wife, 6 children, and 10 grandchildren during it, and that takes time, you know." tion in Sweden when he disappeared from the marathon in 1912. Police searched for him for weeks and hundreds of reports about "mysterious athletes" were investigated without result. The mystery was not cleared up until 1962 when a Swedish journalist discovered the runner had given up the race.

"It was a terribly hot day and during the race I saw a house where people were drinking orange juice in the Kanakury said. "I March 21 I Reuters I A Japanese marathon runner who disappeared during his event in the 1912 Stockholm Olympic games finally breasted the tape last night. Shizuo Kanakuri, white-haired and 76 years old, entered Stockholm's Olympic stadium to clock exactly 54 years, eight months, six days, eight hours, 32 minutes, 20 and 310 seconds. Olympic committee officials here said tonight they would record the result officially. Kanakury created a sensa UPI Telephotol Bill Russell, player-coach ox Boston Celtics, heads for floor after being knocked askew by Walt Bellamy (left) of New York Knickerbockers during Celtics' 140 to 110 victory in National Basketball association playoff game last night.

Qjtv ihsL UJjodiSL ihsL LONG AGO, we were on the critical side of tne tence when H. O. Fritz Crisler, then Michigan's football coach, was feuding with Notre Dame's Frank Leahy. We respected Fritz's brilliant coaching record, yet never could establish a rapport. This held over in the years when Fritz was the dominant athletic director Ten pass a rule to erase Combes' record as a character builder? Pro football ended a wonderful chapter when the Houston Oilers released George Blanda, the quarterback who made it big in the American Football league after being mediocre with the Chicago Bears.

The New York journals, which seldom get excited about anything from west of the Hudson, printed rave notices about the play of Walt Frazier, the 6-foot-3 guard who led Southern Illinois to the National Invitation basketball tournament championship. Bill Rigney, manager of the California Angels, observes: "Leo Durocher now manager of the Cubs was the world's worst coach. He tried to run the club from third base by shouting instructions." will be different. We couldn't maneuver last season because we never had a left handed relief pitcher to stick in there in the late innings." HAVE YOU EVER SEEN a better high school basketball player than Dave Robisch, the 6-foot-9 ace who paced Springfield to third place in the Illinois prep tournament? Robisch's coach, Verdie Altizer, admits "we've had feelers from more colleges than I care to number." Just so those colleges don't have slush funds, coach! After Jockey Don Holmes had ridden Ask The Fare to victory in the Louisiana Derby a head in front of Diplomat Way, newsmen asked Charley Parker, the owner, if he had given the jockey any pre-race instructions. "Yes," nodded Parker.

"I told him to win." While there still is excitement about prep basketball, let us remind you that two decades ago history was made by Champaign 111. High school by getting to the finals for three consecutive years. The Champaign coach in that glorious era? Harry Combes, the gent most recently the victim of the Big Ten's vindictiveness. Puzzle: How can the Big the United States government." Pro basketball's Lennie Chappel frankly says "I've been in about 10 fights in games and I think I've thrown just one The Indians' Rocky Colavito: "I'm hitting pretty good, my legs feel strong, and I've had no trouble with my shoulder or back." Colavito's most prized possession among his many trophies is the $1,800 memento given him by Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics.

Wes Santee, former distance champion, tells Bloomington's Fred Young this about young Jim Ryun: "He is rather conceited, but confident because he has done the job. Ryun's like the Green Bay Packers in the Super bowl. I see Ryun running the mile in 3:47 or 3:46. He is capable of it, physically." Santee thinks that Ryun still must become more aggressive. Mayo Smith, new manager of the Detroit Tigers, reminds all that even tho the White Sox have Smoky Burgess many other clubs also have capable pinch hitters.

The big thing in the game is not the pinch hitter, believes Smith, "but the bullpen." He adds: "If the Tigers are to make a run for the pennant, it's the bullpen that'll have to help us." Grady Hatton, manager of the Houston Astros: "Things in the Big Ten and we sometimes listened sympathetically to the Michigan minority that flayed the Fritz. But prejudices can be changed and this has happened in the case of the man who, for so many years, was blasted as the "czar" of the Big Ten. It isn't a matter of public record, and the Big Ten has not publicized it, but when the conference's athletic directors assembled so long ago to debate the Illinois slush fund scandal the one man who had enough integrity to stand up for the Ulini was H. O. Crisler.

At 7 The rtfad to success is rough And filled with joy and sorrow; Help! Help! Even bankers will admit there is no business like dough business. Hugh Gesshugh. The Wake Depends Help! Upon Its Friends Help! Fritz Crisler he was counted MOON 1Y1ULLITJS HEY, PLUSHIE" NOW THAT 'YOU'RE FOOTLOOSE I LATCH ONTO Vf A EXTRA-TICKET JUST IN CASE- Ofe EC soon After sH 5WTS THIS, C5UESS YOO'OBE INTERESTED NVY SET-WELL-QUICK NOTES IKTH'STA5 NEXT WHEN 90 ARE MOST BENEFICIAL. It really isn't quite so tough If somehow you can borrow. Skipper.

Communication When "sayingnothing" speaks so well Why bother finding words to tell? Lucille Veneklasen. Punishment Punishment's a cripple But sure as you're alive He may take long in coming But he always does arrive. Carice Williams. Ten Years Ago Today North Carolina defeated Michigan State, 74 to 70, in the semifinals of the N. C.

A. A. basketball tournament in Kansas City. if WILL EMMY HOSPITAL, The Big Ten, of course, with its usual double talk, announced that the director's indictment of the Tninj was unanimous. It was, tho only by formal vote after majority decision was reached.

At the first count, the vote was not unanimous. Fritz Crisler had had courage to vote the right way. BEST ORATION FROM the spring training camps came from Herman Franks, manager of the San Francisco Giants, who confided to reporters: "I haven't any big problems if Juan Marichal ends his holdout. I was sorry to see Sandy Koufax retire, but Marichal is a great pitcher." Chub Feeney of the Giants declares that in dickering salary with Marichal he feels "like the corner cigar store bargaining with PLUSHIE'? P4.