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TELL-IT-L1KE-1T-IS MAX DAYTON DAILY Mi US Mrrh 5. 19M 3-D TOURNEY DEADLINE Williams Is All You've Heard, IS TUESDAY, MAR. 4 iKVl 1 Tfi VSTl TTltPfl TTllVI TADLLNEforentcrinslhethirdannunlDanSal. TT JlJ-XvXi JLiJ TT I1Y XJMlMXJL 1111 tU JL A JLJLJL I vat(), Al.my basketball tournament is Tuesday. Mar.

4, at noon. The single-elimination tourney, which imludes six differ-ferent age divisions, will start Monday, Mar. 10. The six categories are 12-and-under, 14-and-under, 15-and-under, 15-and-under, 21-and-under and adult unlimited). All games will he rlayed at the Palvaun Army Com.

munity Center gym. according to Tournament Director Robert G. Crawford, and playing times will le arranged for those teams also playins in the city of Dayton tournament. Ft further information call Crawford at 222-9001 or 222-1435. "Besides, he's mellowed a little.

Like he's said, lie's growed up some." That, however, doesn't mean Williams won't be Williams. "Ted." said Fox. "still is going to be just like he was as a hitter a perfectionist." It could be his greatest as-seel, accord ins to Coach George Susce, who was with the Boston Ucrf Sox for five years with Williams. "IF WILLIAMS had wanted to lie a great doc tor he would have been a great doctor," the world what Williams is really like. "HE DIDN'T get along with the press as a player," Fox said, "but he never mistreated a player; he always tried to help even though he knew if he gave a hitter a tip he might be hurting his own team.

"I never found any player who said anything bad about him. And I don't think he'll lie impatient with players like some people say. He was a player once, he understands he'll treat them the same way he was treated. By MIKE RATHET POMPANO EEACH. Fla.

What is a Ted Williams? To the people he has fended, a Ted Williams is brash and cocky, rude and tactless. To the people he has befriended, a Ted Williams is flamboyant and attractive, lionest and generous, To Bob Short, the Washington club owner who lured him from his self-imposed e.ile, a Ted Williams is exactly what he has appeared to be both to those who have been offended and those who have been befriended. To Bob Short, he is simply a Ted Williams. "Ted Williams," says Short, "is a composite. He is the .400 hitter, two wars, 20 years in baseball, fishing, hunting, problems with the press, obscurity to fantastic fame." lenge thrown at him that he wasn't able to meet.

Why shouldn't he be able to meet this one?" said Susce. "and if he wanted to be a great lawyer he would have been a great lawyer. "There never was chal HE IS THEN exactly as has appeared in the more than 30 years since he burst on the baseball scene without a tie The great hitter, the guy who feuded with the press, the man involved in the spit-tins Incidents, but not to be forgotten player who stayed a game to give batting tips to opponents and spent countless hours working for the Jimmy Fund charity. "All that he is and. was makes the guy and the man I hired," Short explained.

"Take some of that out of the mix and he's probably not my man. "I want him lo be Ted Williams as a member of the Tell-ll-As-It-ls set, possibly 25 years ahead of his time." This is the reason that Short made him the first million-dollar manager in baseball history. And it's probably that appreciation, as well as the money, that is the reason Williams decided to foresake the privacy lie was able to get while fishing for the constant exposure he will have to endure while managing. SHORT, OF course, is a Williams fan. But Williams has many other fans, both those who remember him as the last of the .400 hitters, and those who are just making his acquaintance in spring training for the first time.

He is, to use a phrase thrown around all during Williams' first week, a breath of fresh air. Introducing Goodyear RE BUILT AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSIONS BILL (LEFT) AND JIM BUEHNER Ex-Gralis Stars Work About 40 Games LOCAL SCENE i i Mum Lw Inside the Goodyear transmission plant each transmission is completely cleaned, re-built, and tested under ideal working conditions. They are delivered from the factory to Goodyear Service Stores ready to install in your car. You Don't See Double; Officials Are Brothers By TOM CARROLL Daily News Sports Writer JVEXT TEVIE you're at a high school tournament game, take a closer look at the i cials. jr They might be the day night, just ahead of the LT varsity's TKO over More-head State.

Basketball today is a lot faster and the players are bigger than in the Buehners Gratis days Jim was a forward-guard at 3-9, Bill a 5-11 center. The toughest tilings to call today? Goal tending, charging and blocking, both He is all over the field, talking with fans, advising players, chatting with cronies, giving orders to coaches, smiling, grimacing, twisting, turning, running, walking. er hers, Tim and Bill, who've worked together as a team (or the past 15 seasons. Carroll Jim Bueh- and Gerrnantown; a daughter, Robin, 15, a sophomore at Valley View, and another son, Ted, 12, a seventh grader at Farmersville Junior high. Younjr Ted is following in his dad's and his Uncle Bill's basketball footsteps, scoring 24 points in a junior high tourney game last week.

The youngster also placed third in the Mi-amisburg phase of last fall's area Pass, Punt and Kick competition. Bill has two. daughters, Andrea, 16, and Jill, 10, both students at the Seventh Day Ad-ventist school in Centerville where their mother, Janet, is a teacher. Dr. Robert Lucas, now superintendent at Princeton high school near Cincinnati, was the basketball coach when Jim and Bill Buehner were averaging 16 points for Gratis.

The brothers average about 35 games a season as a team and officiate at a half-dozen more with someone else. One of Jim's most recent assignments was as half of the team working the University of Dayton freshman game against Ohio university last Wednes- If Ah i fcjkA I I ner. who resides in Farmers-ville and is a salesman for Moore Business Forms in Dayton, is younger (38) and thinner (170 pounds) of the two. Brother Bill who resides, in Gratis and works at Frigidaire in Dayton, is 42 and weighs 210 pounds. They grew up in Gratis, played high school basketball and baseball there and are members of the Miami Valley Officials association headquartered in Dayton.

Jim has a son, Keith, 16, a junior at Valley View high school, the consolidation of Farmersville 11111111 1 LANE LINES TrSi Tough to Match, Impossible to Top By MAX MOSS, Dally Xews Sports Writer TRYING to make'-my job hard, huh? Tryinj to cause me to have a nervous breakdown or something?" Ray Nelson of the ABC's public relations staff joked over the telephone. If the picture is magnetic, that's exactly the aura that revolve around this imposing good-looking 6-foot-4 physical specimen who obviously still has a certain fascination for the women sitting in the stands. THAT MAGNETISM also transfers from Williams to his players as it did the first time he addressed them in a group in the clubhouse. "I looked around the room," said pitcher Frank Bertaina, "and there was just a little more respect there than for any other manager I've ever played under. I've never aeen a group of players so engrossed in what a manager was saying.

"He said basically the same things I've heard before; the same rules, but here was a man who is a magic name in baseball saying it and because he was saying it you felt there were more players going to follow the rules." THAT. SHORT said, will prove an asset in Washington, despite the that it is a center of diplomacy, and W'il-liams hasn't always revolved at that center. "While Washington is a scene of diplomatic action," Short said, "you get somebody who says it like it is, in politics or in anything else, they are like a breath of fresh air. "There isn't a Congressman or Senator who doesn't want to hear it like it is even though he may not say it like it is." So. Williams, according to Short, will be able to handle Washington, and, according to Bertaina, will be able to handle the Senators.

But what about managing? In the last decade most of the major league managers have been former players who were second stringers or minor leaguers on the theory that they had more time than stars to study other managers, learn the game and understand mediocrity. WILLIAMS' HIRING bleaks the trend, and even Williams realizes that he may have a problem or. two because he was a star. "The biggest problem for me," he admitted during his first week, "will be running the game from the manager's viewpoint when to pinch hit, when to warm up a pitcher. I'll expect my coaches to help me with much of that.

i It ill tell you. Colts Notes Ed Fisher, the 27-year-old offensive guard with the Dayton Colts who now heads Recreational Projects, the team's guiding light, may lose a number of his players Flanker Chuck McElligott and center Cal Wi throw have signed with the San Diego Chargers of the American Football league: quarterback Pete Mikoaljewski, who was headed for the Chargers, is getting a tiyout with the Cleveland Browns of the National Football league and kicker Merle Zody has signed with the Green Bay Packers of the NFL Fisher, a 1360 graduate of Chaminade who. switched from halfback to quarterback when of years of footall at is now president of Recreational Projects and as such is retiring as a player He's the fellow who was married, to the former Marilyn King of Oklahoma, in a halftime ceremony during the Colts-Lacka-wanna game here last Sept. 11- Fisher presently controls 65 per cent of the Colts' stork, after uying out Boh Smith, who served as president of Recreational Projects last fall. Prime job is to find a home field for the Colts next fall "We'll continue in the Midwest Football league," Fisher says of the undefeated defending champions, "but we're still talking with people about a home field" Fisher also says he's in no hurry to find a coach "We really don't need one until the day before practice starts." he said "We have feelers out to several individuals in the area and wouldn't mind getting Ed Mc-Cracken back 'we've made him what we felt was a pretty good offer but the next move is up to him" McCracken, who guided the Colts to the MFL championship, then retired with a game to go, says he hasn't given up the idea of fielding a team of bis own The problem with him.

too, is finding a place to play VThe people who come up with a home field may be the first to field a team," McCracken says Fisher. or Recreational Projects, has the league franchise, however Others with the Colts last year who. Fisher says, are be Featuring Ray Nelson of. the ABC public relations staff joked over the telephone. GOLDEN 'That other question was bad enough but this time forget it," he said from the aDne County ial coliseum in Madison, COMPLETELY RE-BILT TRANSMISSION! events, and team-held up, he would have been in line for $4,200 in prize money, assuming equal splits with his Tall Timbers Supper Club teammates and his doubles partner J.

C. Smith. Somehow that doesn't seem like much, compared to the $48,100 that any kegler could walk off with in the Petersen. Course, the ABC, the prestige event of bowling, is catching on money-wise. This year, thanks to an increase in entry fees, the fund reached a record high of $658,499, the largest in the history of the sport.

And don't be surprised if fees are increased again next year for the tourney in Nashville, bumping the totals more Comes Close Bustsr Holly came close to becoming the 10th local bowler to roll a perfect game this season this last week but a stubborn 10-pin forced him to settle for a 299. Bowling in the Industrial Owl league at Dixie, Holly finished with a 704 series. Other honor efforts: Robert Hyatt's 644 and Williams Irvine's 633 at Crossroads, D. Owens' 607 at Hoover. Miller's Century patch 133-253 at Capri.

John Wantz, Sentury patch 162-268 at Fortener'j NOW. SAM LEVI.NK of the Cleveland Kegler says 129 is the lowest score he can come it TRANSMISSION TROUBLES? Expert DIAGNOSIS SERVICE 9S "My whole attention in this game has been from a hitter's standpoint that's where my strength lies. But a batter also has to know pitchers. He then should be able to help pitchers, to tell them how best to work on a hitter and set him up." And that takes care of just about the most important aspects of the game. Coaches like Nellie Fox, who played against Williams, can take care of the rest, and help tell Wis.

Moss This reporter had queried Nelson about Daytonian Bud Ekberg's performance in the opening days of the ABC tourney in Madison last week end. Has any other bowler eer led all four major categories of an ABC? "Course, if it has ever happened before," Nelson said, emphasizing that he couldn't find, out for sure, "it would probably have been early in the tourney. But, there's one thing for sine: Ekberg can't be topped." THE EAKL1LR question that had "stumped" the jovial Nelson concerned the date of Jan. 13 and the four SOOs that have been rolled here on that date in past years. Could any other city match that, not necessarily on Jan.

13 but on any one date? Of course, despite the ABC's massive record files. Nelson couldn't come up wiih an answer to that inquiry either Going into today's bowling in Madison. Ekberg was still leading in two divisions. His 705 in singles was still the only 700 shot there and his 1,960 all-events total was easily No. 1.

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