The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 5

Spassky Reported Nervous and Upset On Eve of Chess Match REYKJAVIK, Iccland (AP) Bobby Fischer like the site, the money or living with the Chinese. He objected to the lighting, and the playing table. He wanted police protection and fresh orange juice. He demanded a German sports car with an automatic transmission. He like the chess board, either, but Icelandic and Russian officials had beaten him to the punch with their own objections on that point.

Fischer has gotten most of what he wanted, and today at 1 p.m. he will emerge from hs moody seclusion to play Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the world championship of chess. The match, in 24 games, ought to last about two months, and in it two men will be matching their wits in the kind of intense commitment and be and on the eve of the match. The money involved is out of all proportion to anything ever known in the long history of chess. Just nine years ago Tigran Petrosian got the grand total of $2.500 for beating fellow Russian Mikhail Botvinnik for the title.

The prize money now being offered is in the neighborhood of $300,000. The winner will get five- eighths of the $125,000 offered by the Icelandic Chess $78,125. In addition there are the 50.000 British by London financier James Slater for Fischer to end his holdout over money. Divided on the same basis as the official purse, it would mean $75,000 to the victor. FILM RIGHTS Then there is the share from the sale of concentration that few other en- vision and film rights.

Organ- deavors require. izers estimated Fischer and RICH CHANCE Spassky would have another At stake for Fischer, a 29- $55.000 to divide. It could be year-old American, is a chance more if sales increase, to be rich, and to gain the alle-l Added up, it meant some- giance of the American public thing like $180,625 to the winner for the game which has totally and $119,375 for the loser, absorbed his intelligence. Paul Marshal, law- For Spassky, 35 years has said that Fischer and the men behind him, Soviet would probably become a mil- national prestige is involved. lionaire if he won the cham- Since 1948, Russians have pionship.

He could then demand dominated the game so com- his own price and could count pletely that no foreigner, until on a large income from book 11 Fischer, has ever made it to sales and commercial endorse-i-p the finals. Experts on Soviet ments. life consider chess to have be- the money's not impor- come a pawn of Russian policy, Marshal says. The fact that the challenger wants respect on his own is an American at the peak of his powers may help explain This, he explains, was behind why Spassky was reported to holdout and late arrival to the match which was to have begun July 2. motorist Hurt Thou8h Fischer wanted t0 IIIWIWII9I nun play New York where hc An area motorist was injured could live an air-conditioned late Sunday night in a two car life, he agreed to Iceland.

This jj accident at Routes 100 and 23 has been presented as a con- in South Coventry Township. cession by entourage. George Libert, 20, 1100 He to 10 Schoolhouse Road. North 'and, but he refused to move in Coventry, was taken to Medical Center North in a Good Will Ambulance and treated for lacerations of the forehead and A Pottstown woman was left shoulder and a bruised arrested Saturday night at back. on charges of malicious State Police said he was mischief lodged several weeks traveling east on 23 at 11:45 ago.

p.m. when he entered the in- Police apprehended Marshall, 0-3 W. Walnut Penn Village, at the East High Street restaurant on a warrant at sworn out by Jack Ledford. Ledford charged that the with the Chinese. Allocated a town until the Chinese moved S63-a-day suite in out.

biggest hotel, Fischer boycotted All that was left to do in the the place because the newly ar- hours before the match was rived Chinese diplomatic repre- to make a new chess board, sentation was staying there. He shorten the playing table and stayed in a villa on the edge of redo the fluorescent lighting above the stage at the seat sports palace where the match will be played. Sigurdur men were hard at work making their fourth chess board for the match. TTie last one was ceptable because the squares were too large The new one will have alternating 21 4 -inch squares of Italian marble and green Lancashire slate. The final revisions, ending weeks of controversy, appeared well on their wav to completion, to the relief of the Icelandic Chess Federation, which is committed to pay out more money than the nation allocates to its defense.

The Rev. William Lombardy, a chess-playing Franciscan priest who will second Fischer, sat on stage Monday night as workmen scrambled to lighting panels. only a he said with a smile. Woman Arrested tersection with Route 100 and hit a car driven by David A. Axelrod, New York City.

Damage was estimated $3.300. Trooper Terry L. Landis, suspect damaged a boat in his Downingtown Barracks, cited back yard. Libert for a traffic violation. She was arraigned before' Ridge Fire North Cov- Justice of the Peace Jack R.

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