The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 19

DEEP KNEE BENDS WILL DO IT EVERY TIME Tuesday, January 16, 1968 San Mafeo-19 I. Secret to Packers' Success No Secret By MILTON RICHMAN UPI Sports Writer NEW YORK (UPI) The secret of the Green Bay Packers' success stares everybody right in the face, yet nobody ever really notices it. Actually it's not even a secret. Vince Lombard! talks about it publicly from time to time but hardly anybody ever pays much attention. Hardly anybody outside the Packers.

Here's a hint about that thing which makes Green Bay go: Dick Williams used it to win a pennant with the Red Sox last season; Cassius Clay is a-fanatic about 'it and credited it for having kept him unbeaten; Red Auerbach preaches it to the Celtics all the time, and Carl Yas- trzemski says it made him a new man. Got the answer yet? No? Well, here's the final hint: A few of the Packers happen to be bald but not a single one is fat. The secret of the Packers' phenomenal success is conditioning. With all this high sounding ho- cus-pocus about blitzing, keying and following the game plan, it turns out that what the Packers really do best is follow orders. They never have that extra beer or piece of pie.

One guess who gives them the orders? When all is said and done, it develops the world champion Green Bay Packers are nothing but a bunch of weight watchers. They have been since 1959. By one of those curious coincidences that's when they first started winning. By a bigger coincidence yet, that was the year Lombard! first took over. Walk up to any member of the Packers and glance at his waistline.

Look Ma, no-fat! Then take a look at some of the New York Jets, for exam- ple. Alongside the Packers, they look like the married men against the single men. The Jets shouldn't really be singled out although if you haven't seen Sherm Plunkett, their unhurrying 320-pound piece of blubber, then you've never really seen a dream walking. Ralph Houk keeps scratching his head wondering what went wrong with the Yankees the last couple of years. Like the reason for the Packers' success, one of the reasons for the Yankees' failure is anything but a secret.

They just went to fat. One day last summer a member of the Yankees looked around the clubhouse and shook his head. "Not too many of us are in what you'd call tip-top shape," he said. He wasn't talking about injuries, either. Again it may be as unfair to single out the Yankees as it is to point a finger at the Jets because the awful truth is that most baseball players are in such horribla condition they put in for a two-week vacation if they have to run out a triple.

The Red: Sox were an exception last year. Wiliams said fat. men wouldn't play and they didn't until they got down: to where he felt they should. He meant it and he made it stick. With the Lombard! (Continued on Page TRACK FEUD Game Ban On Ryun NEW YORK (AP) Jim Ryun of Kansas, the world's fastest miler, and Dave Patrick of Villanova, presently rounding into the best shape of his sub-four- minute-mile career, may run the mile against each other February 9.

The race would probably be the high point of the 1968 indoor track and field season. And it could--in theory at least- cost Ryun, Patrick and some 200 other athletes a chance to go to the Olympics. The Jack Christiansen CONSULTANT Christiansen Gets Job At Colorado St. FORT COLLINS, Colo. (UPI) Jack Christiansen, the former coach of thB San Francisco Forty-niners, rsturned to his collegiate home Monday at Colorado State University to serve as a consultant for the school's athletic program.

Christiansen played college football at CSU in 1948-50 before becoming a defensive standout with the Detroit Lions. Amateur Athletic Union fired the latest round in its interminable battle with the National Collegiate Athletic Association Monday. The target was the Feb. 9 track meet in New York run by the U.S. Track and Field Federation, an arm of the NCAA.

The meet, called the Madison Square Garden Invitational, will feature mostly college stars, such as Ryun, Patrick, long-distance champion Gerry Lindgren and pole vault record-holder Bob Seagren. But three of those scheduled to run--Tonimie Smith of San Jose State, Charlie Greene of Nebraska and Wade Bell of Oregon--are no longer eligible for college competition, though they are still at their respective schoob. The AAU maintains it must sanction any meet in which non-collegians participate. The Federation will "absolutely not" ask for such a sanction, a spokesman said Monday. Col.

Don Hull, executive director of the AAU, said that any athlete competing in the meet will be reported to the International Amateur Athletic Federa- ion, which in turn will suspend lis eligibility for international events such as the Olympics. "It would be automatic," Hull "The IAFF has told us specifically that in their judgment all athletes competing in open competition not sanctioned )y us lose their eligibility." As a practical matter, it is extremely unlikely that things would ever get that far. If 200 American athletes, includ- Former College of San Mateo golfer Dick Lotz of Hayward won't run into this kind of trouble in the Kaiser International Open at Silverado Country Club in Napa, which is not bordered by an ocean. PRO-AM TOMORROW Lotz is shown here searching for his ball in the Pacific Ocean which borders the eighteenth hole at Pebble Beach, site of the final round in the Bing Crosby Pro-Am. (Times Photo by Willie Kee) Kaiser Open Field Set The world's professional golf spotlight shifted from scenic Pebble Besch to the fertile Napa.

Valley yesterday with the final 31 "spots in the first annual $125,000 being accounted for. A total of 128 golfers marched over the Silverado South and Kennedy municipal courses with the final score reading 97 disappointments and 31 smiles. Among those securing berths in the rich tourney, which opens tomorrow at Napa's plush Silverado Country Club, were Jim Wiechers of Atherton and Charlie Lcider, head pro at San Mateo's Crystal Springs. Wiechers, a newcomer to the play-for-pay. ranks, carved out a nifty 36-35--71 over the Silerado South course to finish One stroke behind leader Don Miller of Cleveland, who fashioned nines of 33-37 for a 70.

Tying Wiechers on the Silera- do course were Ken Burnette, Monte Sanders, Barry Meerdink and Larry Wise. Leider toured the Kennedy Muni fairways, making the turn with a torrid 34, but blowing to a 38 on the back nine to finish with a 72 one stroke better than the cutoff at 73. The qualifiers also included touring pros Bob Duden of Portland, Oregon, who carded -a 73, and Chris Blocker, who finished with'-a 71. The Pro-am competition will be held tomorrow, with the voluminous field getting down to the i competition on Thursday. Among those exempt from qualifying because of their finish in the Crosby was Dick Lotz, former College of San Mateo golf star, and former San Ma- tean George Archer.

Lotz finished 20th in the Crosby, while Archer was a stroke (Continued on Page 21) STILL AILING SOBERING THOUGHTS Raiders Vow To Do Better By RON REID Times Sports Writer Sobered by the realization of their deficiencies, the Oakland Raiders came home from Miami yesterday with the promise to do better for a small contingent of the faithful who greeted them. Only 15 Raiders returned to the Bay Area following Sunday's disappointing 33-14 loss to the Green Bay Packers hi the second annual Super Bowl, as 11 of their number headed north for Jacksonville, site of the AFL all-star game next Sunday. Conclusions to be drawn from the Packers' easy triumph for the world championship of professional football are many, but the primary one is that the American Football League has not yet reached the level of excellence enjoyed by its older rival, the NFL. While the Riaders did not plaj their best game, as they did ear Her in the year against San Die go, Kansas City and Houston, i seems inconceivable that Oak land could ever beat the Pack ers at least this year, they might make it more respectable. It should also be pointed out however, that few teams in tht NFL could have knocked off the team Vince Lombard! has fash ioned, were more than $100 rid ing on the outcome.

The Pack ers play best when the stakes are highest. Lombardi and all-his players felt that the Raiders were a bet ter Super Bowl-'opponent than the Kansas City' Chiefs, whom they met last year. In the in augural world title game, you may recall," Kansas City collapsed after Willie Wood made a third-quarter pass interception off Len Dawson and was never in the.contest thereafter. Sunday's game was similar in that Herb Adderley intercepted a Daryle Lamonica pass in the ROYALS TONIGHT Warriors Need Win UL irieu viuc pxcaiuciiL of university affairs, said Christiansen would spend the next two days meeting with the administration and athletic department to review the university's total athletic program and give advice for improvements and changes. Marschner also said other coaches and athletic directors from colleges around the country would come to CSU during the next few weeks to evaluate the university's athletic program.

The university will open a new football stadium next fall and two years ago built a new auditorium-gymnasium m- plex. ng Ryun, were declared ineligible for the Olympics, the halls of Congress would surely shake such an extent that matters would be put right. Still, the situation is serious and the next move apparently vil! come from the federal panel that for more than two years has trying to settle the dispute. Theodore Kheel, the lawyer and labor negotiator who heads committee, Monday reacted the AAU pronouncement by saying the decision of his committee "will be down before eb. 9 and we think- it should cover this or any.

other situa- ion." CINCINNATI (UPI) The San Francisco Warriors could use a victory at Cincinnati tonight to gain key ground on St. Louis in their eternal quest to Box Score Boston San Francisco Howell 2 2-2 6 LaRusso 9 9-12 27 anders 5 3-3 13 Lee 1 1-1 Russell 2-3 12 3 4-5 Jones 1C 7-7 27 AHIes 3 1 3 7 i 4 4-t i 6 1-3 IT a i 9 10-11 2B Hetzel 9 7-7 25 Nelson 0 0-0 i 7 3-5 Yi Jones 4 2-3 10 1 1-2 3 'hncker 0 0-0 0 Totals 40 31-37 111 Totals 3826-34102 Boston 19 36 27 29--111 San Francisco 23 30 24 25--102 Persons! fouls: Boston Hcwell 3, Sanders 4, 3, S. Jones 4, Graham Havlicek 4, J. Jones 2, Tnacker San rancisco LaRusso 6, Le 4, Thurmond 2, Attles 4, King 2, Hetzel 3, Mullins 5. Total Boston 25, San Francisco 6.

Attendance: 5,731. GIANT POWER PLAY U.S. Backs Open By WILL GRIMSLEY Associated Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) The United States apparently is preparing to join the other major lennis-playmg nations-- Britain, France and Australia-- in a giant power-play to force open competition. "These are the four countries who founded the International Lawn Tennis Federation," Robert Kellher of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association told a press conference Monday, "They are the only ones who have ever won the Davis Cup.

If they stick together, they should carry the day." The British, in a. bold and rebellious move, already have announced that, effective April 22, they will abolish the distinction between amateurs and professionals and stage the a Wimbledon tournament as an open event. The ILTF has warned that, if they do, the British will be suspended from all international competition and barred from the Davis Cup. The British say they're going ahead. Meanwhile, there's considerable behind-the-scenes maneuvering in France, Austalia and the United States.

"I have been going around the country-talking to the various sectional (associations," Kelleher said. "The Texas and Western Associations are in favor of letting our compete at Wimbledon. They oppose abolishing the distinction between amateurs and professionals. "The Northern California Association (San Francisco) wants to go all the way with the British. I am here talking to the Eastern and New England Asso-.

ciations, the two biggest. I find many in favor of giving open tennis. a chance." catch the Hawks in the Western Division chase. St. Louis now leads the Warriors by 3Vi.

games in their -t a battle which haf raged all season while the rest of the division struggles to play .500 ball. When Boston dumped San Francisco 111-102 at home Monday it left the Warriors at 31-17. John Havlicek, who always scores more than his share against San Francisco, hooped 28 to lead the Celts pslst the Warriors. The trying for their third straight over the mighty hub club, led in the early going and still. had a 77-75 lead late in the.

third stanza. But Havlicek led a -p i splurge and 'the Warroirs never got closer'than' four points after Sam Jones had 27 for Boston and Rudy' LaRusso and Fred Hetzel hdoped 27 and 25 for San Francisco. Hialeah Is Boycotted HIALEAH, Fla. (UPI) Florida horsemen began carrying out their threat today to boycott Wednesday's scheduled opening of the rich Hialeah race track. The entry box for Wednesday's 10-race card was opened at 8 a.m.

EST, and two hours later', track officials said no horsemen had responded with entries. The track had on file 12 entries received through other channels, presumably by mail for the opening day stajces race. Shipes Fight Ducats On Sale Ticktes are now on sale for the a Shipes-Pulga (The Flea) Serrano fight, to be held January 24 at infe Oakland Auditorium. Shipes, who lost the welterweight championship to Curtis Cokes, is currently in the midst of a successful comeback. Reserved tickets are $3, $4 and $5 and are on sale at the following ticket outlets: The Ringside, 431 lift Oakland; Leamington Hotel, 19th and Franklin Oakland; East Bay Boxing Club, 1225 16th Oakland; King's Liquors, 2940 Sacramento Berkeley, and Bennie Ford's Golden Glove, 321 Ellis San Francisco.

Oaks Host Chaparrals OAKLAND (AP) The Oakland Oaks will attempt to end a four-game when play the Dallas Chaprrals tonight at the Oakland Coliseum Arena. Oakland's" latest loss was by Anaheim', 130-123. Dallas has a 21-16 mark and is in third place in the Western Division, games, behind first place New Orleans. Oakland has a 15-26 record and is in fourth place, games out. Triandos Named New Cal Aide BERKELEY, Calif.

(AP) The new assistant baseball coach at the University of California this spring will be Gus Triandos, who played seven years with the Baltimore Orioles and was on the all-star lineup as a catcher in 1955 and 1956. TONIGHT Toronto To Battle NHL All-Stars TORONTO (UPI) There will be a minute of silence tonight in Maple Leafs' Garden before the start of the National Hockey League's 21st all-star game. It will be the most somber event in the history of league in observance of the first fatality ever suffered in the NHL. Bill Masterton of the Minnesota North Stars difid Monday after being injured Saturday night when he fell and hit his head on the ice. The tragedy has dampened the esthusiasrn somewhat for the annual all-star game pitting the i Stanley cup champions against the stars of the rest of the teams in the league.

This year the Toronto Maple (Continued on Page 21) fourth quarter for a 60-yard touchdown return that killed the Raiders for good, even though Oakland scored again later. The entire third quarter, however, was lethal for the Raiders. With Bart Starr running the Green Bay offense in his usual magnificent fashion, the Packers ran 24 plays for a touchdown and Don Chandler's fourth field goal to a for the Raiders. At the end of that period, Green Bay enjoyed a 26-7 lead and Oakland faced the dubious chance of scoring three tunes in a single period against the best defense in football. The Packers may have set the stage for their third- quarter mastery just after the first half ended.

The Raiders had overcome one psychological blow by scoring on a 23-yard pass from Lamonica to Bill Miller min utes after the Packers had taken a 13-0 lead and seemed ready to begin a rout. The 13-7 deficit after that play appeared to be the one the Raiders would take with them to the locker room, and one which they could come back from. But a questionable official's call, on a 9-yard pass from Starr to Boyd Dowler, gave Green Bay another shot at a field goal with six seconds left and Chandler booted it, from (Continued on Page 21) Bruin coach year's offense conceded, this is based around. "In last Friday's against California, we attempted to get the ball into Alcindor 48 times. We succeeded 47 times and 31 of those times the play resulted in a score," Wooden said.

The injury, on a rebounding )lay, was the second this year. Last Dec. 22, as the Bruins were demolishing Bradley, 109- Alcindor also suffered an eye injury and was removed 'rom the game. At first, Friday's injury was considered slight. After a check at the Stanford medical facility, he agile All-American sat out of UCLA's 75-63 triumph over Stanford--the first game he has missed at UCLA.

Alcindor had suffered extreme jain and blurried vision Sunday night. "It wouldn't be fair to him or. our team to play on national "'V and before that large rowd--if he's not all right;" (Continued on Page 21) Only non-stop flights to Three jet-prop flights leave daily throughout the week. Afternoon flight is non-stop. Morning and evening flights make brief returns available.

Cost? Just $16.50, round-trip excursion fare, each way, plus tax. Welcome aboard! Leave Arrive PHONE 9:30 AM 1:40 PM 7:35 PM 11:23 AM 2:55 PM 9:09 PM 761-1000. YOUR TRAVEL AGENT THE HOTLINE Pacific Air Lines Bruins Prep For Houston Sans Alcindor LOS ANGELES (AP)-Unveil- isg their "rion-Alcindor offense," the UCLA Bruins are preparing to play Houston in a crucial basketball game next Saturday without their injured star Lew Alcindor. The center, who suffered an injury to his left last Friday in UCLA's 94-64 victory over California, is undergoing treatment jat the Jules Stein Eye Clinic at the UCLA Medical Center. Alcindor is well" and may be released within a day or two, the clinic spokesman says, but Bruin Coach John Wooden is taking no chances even though he's not sure big Lew won't play.

"We haven't practiced the (high-post, if we can get him the ball, I don't think there are college players who can stop him from scoring." In Houston, the top rated Bruins face the nation's No. 2 team. If UCLA has to play without Alcindor, Edgar Lacey, a i-foot-6 forward, would probably move to the high post. Wooden said Lacey is the team's best defensive player anl would guard Houston's Elvin Hayes. "I think we'd have a fine team without Alcindor even if we hadn't had him all year," Wooden said.

But the 20-year.