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lotfgnsefatttim West's Shot oris Beats Royals PART in BUSINESS FINANCE L.A.'s Mr. Clutch Strikes Again in 106-104 Thriller cc MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1965 SID IIFF BY DAN HAFNER Times Staff Writer Anytime Mr. Clutch has the ball in the closing sec onds of a tie game, you know the Lakers have another victory in the bag. Jewel of the Desert Jerry West, also known as PEP, NOW 42, TO TRY RING Mr. Clutch, banged in a 20-foot jump shot with eight seconds to play Sunday night and it gave the Lakers a COMEBACK spine-tingling 106-104 victory over the Cincinnati Royals.

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Smith Misses Cincinnati had one more shot at a tie, but Adrian Smith, a real sharpshooter in the first half, missed a lo footer and Gene Wiley col lared the rebound as the buz zer sounded. The victory means the Lakers, winners of 12 of their last 14 games, need three more victories or St. Louis defeats to nail down their third Western Division title in four years. While West made the key Native Diver Goes for Third Straight Today BY BION ABBOTT Times Stiff Writer Dazzling Native Diver, already a two-time stakes winner this winter, will call on all his speed and stamina today to try and make it three straight in the $25,000 San play, it was a magnificent performance by Elgin Baylor that made it possible for the Lakers to be in their fa vorite position. "And don't forget Wiley," said coach Fred Schaus, look ing like a man who had been through four straight hair- raisers.

"He's been something else for the past six weeks. Bernardino Handicap that FOUL PLAY Cincinnati's Wayne Embry whacks Lakers' Gene Wiley on shoulder as he tries to take ball away in game Sunday night at Sports Arena. Ref Earl Strom makes foul call. Lakers won, 1 06-1 04. Times photo by Art Rogers King Hailed "If this thing had gone in launches the final four days of the Santa Anita season.

With personal pilot Jerry to overtime, I don't think I would have been able to Lambert at the throttle, Na FIRST REGIONAL FOE stand it." In addition to Wiley, who pulled down 16 rebounds and made 12 points, Schaus also singled out Jimmy King for UCLA Beware: Brig ham Young Tough and Loaded for 'Bruin' Shockley Ends Holdout, Joins Angels Today BY JOHN HALL Timet Stiff Writer doing the best possible job of slowing down Oscar Rob ertson. This was not one of Big O's the field. In fact, four of the better nights, but part of the University of San Francisco. (The Dons will meet the Cougars' first six players are shooting better than 50. As reason was that first Dick Barnett and then King winner of the Colorado State-Oklahoma City game tonight a team, uyu is ranked PALM SPRINGS The hounded him as closely as the law allows and even in tive Diver will attempt to lift 128 pounds and run away from eight rapid rivals in this mile and one-sixteenth fixture.

So far this season thera hasn't been anyone able to keep up with the swift 6-year-old son of Imbros. Won Opener Native Diver went wire to wire to whip Viking Spirit by 2Vfc lengths in the opening-day Palos Verdes Handicap, making an off track look fast with his six furlongs in 1:10 15. He followed this success with a solitary romp in the Malibu Stakes, leaving Candy Spots panting 3V6 lengths behind in 1:21 25 for seven furlongs. It finally took a slight training injury to stop Native Diver but he's back at his blazing best now if recent fourth nationally (.488) field goal percentage. Angels chased the last ghost closer on occasion.

The Cougars' offense is But the hot shooting hand of Smith sent the Royals out their best defense in Nor of Bo Belinsky out of town here Sunday with word that the Costen Shockley holdout man's opinion. in front after a fabulous 10 "When thev get the re points by Baylor had the Lakers even for the first is at an end. Shockley, the bound, they're gone," said at Lubbock, in the other first-round game.) In other words, the Bruins, who are still thawing out after surviving USC's deep freeze tactics (52-50) Saturday night at the Sports Arena, better not look ahead to a regional rematch with the Dons. Reserves Good, Too The Cougars are deep, too, slugging first sacker who Norman. "They're not afraid four minutes.

to throw the long, full court BY MAL FLORENCE Timet Staff Writer "They're one of the outstanding teams in the country. They run, jump and shoot well and are a good board team." Michigan? Not on your life. Brigham Young University. This was Bruin assistant coach Jerry Norman's report on the Cougars, who'll confront UCLA in a first round NCAA western regional game Friday night in Provo, Utah. As it so happens, "friendly" Provo is BYU's home court, a comfy place where the Cougars have been unbeaten in 16 straight games this season.

Norman, who scouted CASA GRANDE The Angels have it nice at Melody Ranch in Palm Springs. The Yankees live it up at the swank Yankee Clipper, a resort hotel in Ft. Lauderdale. But the San Francisco Giants have them all beat. Smack in the middle of the desert between Phoenix and Tucson, they are ensconced in the lap of luxury.

This isn't a training camp, it's a country club. It's a posh, high-rise motor hotel, surrounded by a motel, a championship class 18-hole golf course, a nifty ball park and four other manicured baseball diamonds and a large size swimming pool built in the shape of a baseball bat. An observation tower, that looks like the flight deck at International airport, stands in the center of the diamonds and makes it possible for Giant coaches to look at 400 ball players at one time. The elegant complex is located a few miles from Casa Grande and is called the Francisco Grande Motor Inn. The new high-rise part was only completed and opened last November.

Uninhabited Sand Dunes Horace Stoneham has invested over $4 million in It. All this was uninhabited sand dunes before the Giants moved New York to San Francisco. Unlike Walter O'Malley, who hung on to his ramshackle abandoned naval barracks in Vero Beach when the Dodgers came to Stoneham decided to go western all the way. Francisco Grande is far removed from the temptations of a big city. It's 76 miles to the nearest dog track.

There are no distractions for the players. They get air, sunshine and exercise. The players occupy the two original motel units that were built just three years ago. Their wives and children who are under school age are here for 10 days at no expense as guests of Stoneham. At night, the place to go is the Desert Sky Lounge, on the ninth or top floor of the inn.

From its picture windows you can see much of Arizona. Lit up at night, the inn can be seen by motorists from 30 miles away. Rooms at a Premium The resort was loaded when we arrived and the only unoccupied space happened to be a penthouse apartment on the eighth floor. So here we are. We may have to be bailed out when the bill arrives, but this is the next thing to living in the Waldorf Towers.

Our sitting room is so large you could play tennis in it. The bath looks like something that might have been designed for Cleopatra. You walk up and down tile steps to get into it. It resembles a setting from a Cecil B. DeMille spectacular.

Our veranda looks down over the ball park, all five diamonds, the golf course and in the background to the gigantic Desert Carmel Land Development headed by Pat Boone and Ben Cheney. Cheney is an Oregon lumber king and the largest minority stockholder in the Giants. He makes his winter home in Scottsdale and works out with the ball club. He's the same size and shape as Chuck Dressen. He has his private plane parked in a nearby runway.

Lots Selling 100 a Month Lots in Desert Carmel are selling at a rate of 100 a month, says Cheney. In five years, he estimates, there'll be at least 500 homes completed. "In five years they'll be making an offer to Charles O. Finley to move his franchise," someone ventured. "It's all right," threw in a New York scribe, "but it's still a long way from Broadway." Rosy Ryan, the former Giant pitching star, is the vice president and general manager of this and most of Stoneham's properties.

Rosy pitched on four straight pennant-winning teams when John McGraw was manager in the 20s. He can remember when the Giants trained in Texas. The roof of the hotel leaked and every time it rained they had to move the bed to a dry spot, if they could find one. It's still that way in Dodgertown. The inn is the only building over two stories high in all of Pinal County.

"They thought we were insane when we built a high rise with all this empty space around," chuckles Ryan. "But the fact that it is so conspicuous is its biggest asset." In the old days, Rosy recalls, the players used to sit around the hotel lobby, spit tobacco juice, and talk baseball. Now they read the Wall Street Journal and play a round of golf. There are no cuspidors. Doubleday Would Be Amazed A player was grateful in Rosy's time to make $4,000 a year.

Now the Giants pay Willie Mays over $105,000 and Juan Marichal signed recently for $52,500, a new Giant salary record for a pitcher. General Abner Doubleday would be amazed at what he started. The inn has one thing in common with the luxury hotels in Las Vegas. Every time you touch something it draws sparks. People from El Centre have been here looking over the setup.

They're interested in duplicating it for the Angels. Herman Franks, the new manager, doesn't believe in overworking the hired hands. They go just two hours Please Turn to Pf 2, Cel. 1 trie Koyals moved to a nine-point advantage in the was obtained along with southpaw hurler Rudy May second period and only some in the Belinsky deal with pass, either. They hurt your offense because sometimes you have to drop people off the boards to protect against the fast break.

So, anything accurate firing by West kept the Lakers from falling far behind. As it was, going into according to Norman, in Please Turn to Pg. 5, Col. 1 Please Turn to Pg. 3, Col.

2 Please Turn to Pg. 6, Col. terchanging three guards Philadelphia, came to terms with general manger Fred Haney via phone from his home in Georgetown, Del. The tardy 23 -year -old home run king of the PCL told Haney he was finally on his way, and he's expected in training camp here this and three forwards. The post position belongs to 6-8 John Fairchild, a talented gunner who rarely fouls out.

"He's a great jump shoo ter," said Norman, referring to Fairchild. "He accurate from anywhere from 18 feet BYU, the Western Athletic Conference champion, as it beat Wyoming and New Mexico at Provo last week Shockley, who bombed 36 homers and drove in 112 runs with a .281 average for Little Rock last year, was the last on in and he's a good board man. We'll have a tough time stopping him if he's end, said the natives are a hot." unsigned member of the An gel varsity. bit irked that the regionals are being billed as a show Fairchild is averaging 22 points on the season and has down meeting between se "I'm looking forward to Please Turn to Pg. 4, Col.

4 cond-ranked UCLA and the hit on 51 To of his shots from U.S. FORTUNATE TO GAIN MEXICAN SOCCER STANDOFF on a penalty shot by Salva Although clearly out played most of the 90 mi dor Reyes. U.S. goalie Ger 21 and must win all three games to advance. Despite controlling the ball, the Mexicans just couldn't get in the clean nutes, the United Sates earned a 2-2 tie with Mexico ley, attempting to elude Mex in the Section 11 division of ico's Aaron Padilla, knocked him out with a solid elbow smash to cause the penalty.

After the game Gerley said the World Soccer Cup elimi nations at the Coliseum Sun shots at the goal. They took day before an exuberant he hit Padilla on the chest throng of 22,570. The two teams tangle a 1-0 lead in the first half on a nifty 25-yard shot by left half Jose Gonzalez that arched just over the fingertips of "He put on an act," Gerley charged, "the penalty was again Friday night in Mexi too severe." U.S. goalie Victor Gerley. It co City.

It is a three-country division also involving Honduras, with the double round robin survivor advancing in to brackets that will ulti In the final five minutes the Mexicans had several chances to pull out a victory. The ball was continually in U.S. territory and, on one occasion, they had three straight shots on inbound shots from the corner, but all mately wind up in London next year with 16 of the 76 competing countries playing for the cup. mm" "tWM fffaBvf BBBBBfaF jaBBBBBBBfjBBBV BBBBBBHHHEBSflKfejr.i narrowly missed. Mexico has already beaten The U.S.

missed the servi came after 35 minutes of play. The Americans tied it up at 1-1 four minutes into the second half on a score by outside forward Wolodymir Schmotolocha an indirect free shot after an interference call near the goal. The U.S. took a 2-1 lead after 13 minutes of the second half as outside left Helmut Bicek of the L.A. Armenians booted in a 5-yard shot in the midst of a scramble.

A desperate long shot had bounced off the ankle of Mexican goalie Tony Carba-jal and Bicek powered it in through two other ces of veteral Al Zerhusen, Honduras, 1-0 and 3-0, so the pressure is still on the U.S. After Friday night's match in Mexico, the Yanks face who was forced out with an ankle injury suffered during Honduras on March 17 and training last week in Bermu da. The lineups: TODAY IN SPORTS UNITED STATES MEXICO Tony Carbaial Arturo Chaffee Martin Ibarrecne Vic Gerl-v Andy Ciotka T.bor RuniecSo Fred Cameron HORSI RACING Senta Anile, 1 p.m. GOLF UCLA v. Cal State Lot AnsMes, Bob Kehce Bel-Air CC, 1: p.m.; USC vt.

Valley State, Wilthlre CC. 1:30 p.m. Gustavo Pen G. Sepulveda Felipe Ruvakabe Jose Gonzalez Cornel Know Goal RB LB RH CH LH OR IR IL CF OL WRESTLING Pasadena Arena, 1:15 SLIDING SAVE Mexico's Guillermo Sepulveda slides into ball to boot it away from Helmut Bicek of USA in World Cup soccer game at Coliseum Sunday. Also pictured is Mexico's Arturo Carbajal.

Teams played to a 2-2 tie. Isidore Diaz p.m. W. Schmotolocha I Adolf Bachmeier, Alex Ely I Ed murphy Helmut Bleed1 Mexico scored its tying ICS SKATING Soorts Arena. World Jose Luis Amsin Salvador Reyes Aaron Padill CMrnpwn, flr, tfing exhibition, Jg-minute mark Times photo by Art Revert.

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