Sunday Gazette-Mail from Charleston, West Virginia • Page 39

--Jan. 2, 1972 Sunday Gazette-Mail r-Charlejton, Okay, so) you're, some New Year's resolutions; huh? Of course, it's like six-two-and-even -that they- won't be kept. But it's always fun to' make them. Wouldn't it be nice if they were on the level, though? Some of them might go like Jack' Lengyel: To continue waving that magic wand over Marshall's not-so-young Thundering Herd, getting miracles out of a gang of kids who forget to be scared. Huff Levine Rich Meckfessel: To hold property destruction to a minimum at the Civic Center as he leads his Morris Harveys to a WVC has- i ketball championship.

Carl Tacy: Not to expect every coach to be a graceful winner. These are. trying times, you know. Lelaod Byrd: To maintain all the high dignity in running the WVU athletic program that meant so much to predecessor, Red Brown, a real class guy. Bobby Bowden: to dig Into his reserves to get the kind of depth the scholarship fund is providing for WVU football.

Joe McMollen: To 'restore Marshall to membership in the Mid-American Conference one of the goals he set for himself he became A. D. Sonny Moran: To finally realire the kind of a team his coaching talents have always produced in the past when he had his own time! to develop his players. Bob Levine: To establish starting times for Charlie baseball games and then stick to them! Ward Goodrich: To capitalize on the groundwork for local baseball as laid down last year by Jim Mills. Welcome to oar town, Goodrich family.

Frank Vincent: To resist strongly any pressure for CHS gridders to (1) play Blnefield (2) make up a 10-game schedule. (Play it cool, kid). Jack Justice: To stay after the city to continue, its maintenance work at Watt Powell Park and never to give any more thoughts to leaving our town. if if Hank Ellis: To start another run of 300 basketball victories by taking one, of those, nice, coachjng, offers along. Retton: Tocutout that' ''hey, we're that good" talk when rating his Fairmont Falcons.

There will be other Tom Janickis coming along one of these days. Sam Snead: To play like he does in the National' Open and thereby let someone else win the West Virginia Open. Barney Thompson: To make like the Sam Snead of 35 years ago in his debut on the play-for-pay circuit. Don Arthur: To'finally convince the powers that be that he's a far better football coach than they give him credit for being. Bill To keep right on being a do- gooder, for the'youth of Charleston and to get due recognition for same.

Sara Huff: To get back into football and to lose some of bitterness for the way he was treated by a cruel athletic committee at Marshall. Scott Gordon: finally bag the West Virginia Closed championship, even though they're still trying to make it second fiddle to a silly 16-and-under girls tourney which has little local interest. Hal Greer: To think enough about his native West Virginia to remember the name of its governor and to redevelop a long lost trait humility. i Hugh Bosely: To please forget the way Wit fred Hetzel Used to pitch 'em in. Time takes' care of everything.

Goodrich Phillips: To bring back the gold! to the W. Va. Tech "brass Bears" by making another splurge 'for WVC honors. Charlie Cobb: To be recognized as a guy who gets more mileage out of a football squad than any guy around and with less help. Colin Cameron: To recruit another Eddie Lee, but not one quite so old.

Ron Tsuchiya: To develop some Olympic prospects in coaching MH and Greater Charleston swimmers to unexpected heights. Sam LcRose: To tie the can on Charleston High for the first time in history. (See Don Arthur for formula). Homer Criddle: To "whip" those "boosters" who plague the progress of football at South 1 Joe Cielensky: To call off the dogs and let someone win the State basketball title for a (CCHS has bagged four in row); ilk- Steve get a little more muscle for GW footballers from the gang Bill Jones is sending over from John Adams. Bill Jarrett: To develop another Raymie Clure to throw the football for; his Generals.

Preach Wiseman: To find a pair of garters to keep his socks up during the excitement' of a basketball Leon McCoy: To play Ceredo-Kenova in football. Gary Lashinsky: To expand the'racing oval at Ona to attract more Nascar races. Don Stover: To convince fellow coaches that double headers at the Civic Center will pay off. Lou Romano: To keep right on developing the best cage teams in West Virginia, and with little guys, like Lou John 'Sheriff' Tiano: To take his scalpel to. the basketball court and 'show those guys-he is still a top-notch official.

George Springer: To 'give the press a break and keep them out of the remote corners of the Civic.Center when IriNew By Steve. Cady New y.ork..Times.,.':'. NEW YORK-It's a hew year for OTB, but the are still unsettled; "Offtrack betting," says Ernest Morris, "is essentially a scavenger business. It'sells tick: ets to a show produced and paid i Rnss Wehrle: To keep, on bugging the school board about' its Laidley night game policies and to continue to stand up and be counted when the chips are down. Tony Constantine: To stay in there and fight WVU battles despite, his retireinerit from sports' writing, which starts luck to Tony, a first class guy and a football And all of us: To try to do to others as we would have them to do us and be not discouraged if they fail sometimes.

Happy New Year to everyone CHESS Fields Wins Rapid Transit Tourney at Charleston Club By Edward M. Foy James Fields, scoring 5 to 0, won fine Holiday Rapid Transit Tournament during the Charles' ton Chess Club's regular ineetiiug last Tuesday evening at; 'Si. John's Parish House. Kenneth Wines and Mark Smith for second place with 4 to 1 re- cords. Don and Mark Smith directed this ten-seconds- per-move event.

Other scores: Ed Graham, to Vernon Jones, BiU Hold- tea, and Frank Berger, each 3 Frank Clay-and John Young, to Don Griffith, Stephen Smith, Hank Chinn, and Mflte Cornell, each 2 to Winston Adkins, Scott Wharton, Robert Skeen, and Robert Stewart, 1 to Thomas Burgess, There was a pretty good turn-out for this tourney, although not every player completed the full five rounds; In reviewing the chess scene Jfor last year, Robert Fischer's incredible performance in -Candidates Matches stands out, by far, as the notable 1971; topping off 6 to 0 shutouts in the quarter and -semi-finals final-match with a to victory over ex- world champion Tigran Petro- sian. Turning to the national scene -we find that Walter Browne and Larry Evans tied for first place Helmers Hits 20 Xavier Win to 2 performance in a field of over-400. There was no S. Championship tourney in 1971. Charles Szasz won the Virginia joil the few who have scored 6 to 0 in this annual event.

Steven Gerrard, Larry Scites, Jack Molino, and Joe Norton tied-for the junior championship, a scoring 4 to 2. George Washington won the state high school team title and Jorge Ribeiro-for the second "straight year- won the individual high, school IU chess Dr. Cornelio No- tasted lasco of Montgomery a the highest USCF (national) rating. Mark Smith won the Charleston Chess Club championship; In other local events, Hank Chinn, Dr. Cornelio Nolasco, and Jim Angel won, respectively, "the Capitol Open, the Charleston Open, and the Kanawha Valley Open.

One of the biggest West Virginia chess events of the year sponsored by the W. Va. Chess AH 12 KVC Teams Play I nlft JLJ.lJ.i5 With the holiday tUcked away for another year; the 12 Kanawha Valley Conference teams get down to serious action this week. Eleven''games are scheduled this week as all 12 KVC teams return er at the Civic Center. Dunbar will tangle, with Charleston and St.

Albans squares off against Stonewall Jackson. Charleston's-Mountain Lions again rule the KVC as the only unbeaten team. St. albans hasn't lost in the Valley, but tasted an opening game loss to Huntington. THE STANDINGS Assocation, was held at Morris Harvey College in Charleston: Grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia a dl 52 opponents in a simultaneous exhibition, winning 41 games, drawing 8, and losing but 3.

Other West Virginia chess events (not necessarily a complete list): Jorge Ribeiro (5-0) won the Huntington Jack Molino (Wz to won the Tuin the 72nd U. S. Open with lOgndie-Wei Open; Charles Szasz and David Marples (each tied for first place in the Ft. Pleasant Open; and laeger High School won the South West Virginia Chess League championship as well as the team title in CINCINNATI (AP) Jerry the Greenbrier Military Institute sHelraers scored 20 points-- six 'coming in a I'ate flurry-- to pace jhbt-shooting Xavier over Yale Saturday in college bas- Helmers sank two field goals two free throws to help fVier break from a 63-61 margin 5:25 remaining to a 69-63 bulge three minutes later. The Elis were led by Scmt 'Michel with 17 points and Mike 13.

Open. Chess had a pretty good year in West Virginia in 1971. One 1972 objective should be -to- incorporate the chess hi the extreme southern part of state withxthe "official" programs in the rest of the state. An especially god way might be to accept Concord College's offer tc host the 1972 West Vh, ginia Chess Championship tournament. St.

Albans 3 Dunbar 3 Dufont 3 Stonewall 2 NItro 1 Hoover 2 So. Charleston 1 East Bank 2 Slssonvills 0 Catholic 0 Oeo. ff Thrt Over-All 0 Offtrack Betting FORECAST For by the horsemen and tracks. It is like a plant' pest, which Feeds on the plant and kills it in the process." According to Morris, president of the Council of New York State Harness Tracks, offtrack betting' has had "catastroph- Belmont. ic" effect on track attendance been a major loser.

At the and wagering, state pari-mutuel tax revenue and horsemen's purses. "OTB has produced no revenue for New York City," he says, "and the state, the tracks, horsemen and even the city itself are in the red by millions." Says Howard" J. Samuels, president of the Offtrack Betting Corporation: "From the day OTB came into being last April 8, we have been blamed by the industry for every dip in rack attendance and handle. We think the public should look at all the facts." In what amounts to a numbers game, both sides are marshalling their facts and figures the debate. The racing industry puts the blame squarely on of track citing a depressed econbmys'and other 'actors, says, "prove it." In every case, including Roosevelt Raceway," tracks did much better, before OTB than after.

OTB has focused tracks, the state: takes approximately 41 per cent of the money National Football Crown Seen for Colorado in 1972 HOUSTON v(AP) Charlie! Davis, talented tailback, sees footballj us wan relax and enjoy championship, in the inro increase as proof that offtrack a i doesn't necessarily Jchampionshi hurt. A 1972 crystal However, it overlooks the fac-j' "That's what'we're shooting tors that the rela-'for and we believe we have the lively stronger, performance byjteam tq do it," said Davis, who the harness track in a pair of touchdowns L.I. First, Roosevelt offered the night to lead Colorado big-payoff "triple" in 1971; to-a 29-17 victory over'Houston type of wagering OTB was not in the 13th annual Astro-Blue- equipped to handle. Second, the bonnet Bowl. Long Island.track depends less "And we play both Nebraska on New York City Oklahoma at home' in than Yonkers, Aqueduct or Davis -added.

Those "It's too early to talk about next season," Crowder said. "I this victory a Davis, a sophomore speedster from Texas, gained 202 yards on 37 carries, both Astro-Blue- bqnnet records, and was voted the game's most valuable back. But it was Colorado's safety- man-punter John Stearns who made the game's two must crucial plays midway in the fourth period. With Houston trailing 23-17, OTB's argument about eco- Buffaloes TMt season. only defeat the the Cougars drove to the Colo- nomic conditions doesn't stand up too well.

When money is tight, people' often turn to the latest victory for a while before track as a means of getting some. Even in bad times, racetrack business has not slumped. So far, New York State has thinking about next season. Wade Gains Finals In Aussie- 1 (AP) Virginia Wade of Great wagered there, including most Britain, plagued by errors in of the breakage. Of the offtrack the first two sets, rallied to de- handle, the state gets only 2 ea Kerry Harris 7-6, 3-6, 6-0 in per cent off the top, plus a fifth of the net revenue--whenever that starts flowing.

NOBODY HAS YET determined how dollars the many millions state 'has lost revenue because of OTB. For a 17-week period of thoroughbred women's -singles semifinals match Saturday at the Australian Open' 'Tennis Championships. Miss Wade's opponent in Monday's final will be Wimble- of and Belmont Park (June 21-Oct. 16), the loss was estimated at $2,079,990 an admissions-tax decrease of $62,146 (based on a drop in attendance of 234,780 patrons) part- 1 I 1 patrons) and. part- track $948 mutuel tax reyeniie result York State of a decrease -miffipn in velopment betting Comparable In its betting Comparable season state revenue there at' million, after allowing for the state's per cent cut of offtrack action.

It claims the horsemen lost Roosevelt's overall betting Yonkers $101,605 in admission However, Colorado coach Eddie Crowder wants to 'savor the don champion Eyonne Goola i gong of -Australia, who de- rado nine yard line where they faced a fourth and six situation. Quarterback Gary Mullins passed to tight end Riley Odorns. Stearns knocked the ball away at the last second. Colorado failed to move and Stearns, back to punt, fielded a low snap and decided to run. He'gained 12 yards and a crucial first down.

From there the Buffs moved to their clinching touchdown on Quarterback Ken Johnson's keeper from the one with less than four minutes remaining. "I looked up and saw nobody there so I ran," Stearns said of his decision not to punt. "They had the return on. So I just took off." It was the third time this year Stearns has run from punt formation. He made a first down against LSU but failed against Iowa State.

racing at Aqueduct, Saratoga, feated pafColeman "of Australia 6-2, 7-5. taxes; Westchester $16,934 in admission Vtaxes; the and De- Fund $75,334. its pre-OTB period, the New York Racing Association the drew 29,959 more customers than it had during the comparable period in 1970. In its post- OTB period, starting June 21, it drew 446,771 fewer customers than it had in. the same span 743 in purse money; the city of during 1970 for a no.t loss of 416,812.

Roger Jesse displays the new 250 from Yamaha Yamaha 250 DT2- MX Motocross in West Virginia Hailerl as the best 250 motocross cycle on the market. the only DT2-MX in the state is on exhibit at Travelma'ies, 210 Virginia St. W. Noted for its abilitv to resoond to the rider's commands, this'cycle features a 2-stroke. 246 cc, 7-port, Torque.

Induction, Single engine. Lightweight FRP fenders, special handlebars, unique muffler design, comfortable seat, double shock absorbers and easy-tp-operate 5-speed transmission make this Yamaha the choice of champions. See it today at Travelmates, Inc. --Adv. George Washington '-vs.

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