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V7 1 They Won, But: Huskies Play Irks Dukeshire VI. IX v. -SPORTg ft 1L 1 v. 4 1 By BOB MONAHAN I- r. SPRINGFIELD Northeastern basketball coach Dick "Duke" Dukeshire was happy but far from pleased after watching his team beat Springfield in the semi-finals of the Northeast regional N.C.A.A.

college division semi-finals here Wednesday night. N.U. beat Springfield 93-80 eastern, 75-62, during th 1 AiJli' ft. mm THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 19CG ThirtySeven giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit CLIF KEANE iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiii Cloud Follows C's Sauldsberry It's getting so no matter where you go you come up with a cloud story. There's one in Winter Haven, and there's one at the Garden, and there doesn't seem to be any excuse for either.

The one in Florida is getting a lot of attention, but the one here isn't quite as important. TIES RECORD Bobby Hull, arrow, skates through Detroit's defense to score his 5'Oth goal and tie a record he shares with Maurice Richard and Boom Boom Geoffrion. Teammate Stan Mikita congratulates Hull. (AP, UPI) Hull First To Score 50 Goals Two Times CHICAGO (AP) Bobby Hull, the Chicago Black Hawks' Golden Jet, has the monkey off his back and is now ready to lead his teammates to the National Hockey League championship. (it lost to it 61-60 during the regular season) and meets Assumption in the finals tonight at Springfield's Memorial Field House at 8:45.

Assumption gained the final round by edging American International, 105-102. "Any time you win a big game like that one it makes you feel good," said Dukeshire. "But we really didn't play a good game. "Sure our shooting percentage was great 47 percent), but we weren't too good in the mechanics of the game. We made too many mistakes.

"We're capable of a much better game and we'll need it against Assumption tonight. They're a tough club." Assumption beat North regular season. "You can't single out sny one player for last night's win," said Dukeshire. "Everyone did a fine Job. But they could have been better.

"I was very pleased with Christopher (Art). He scored 24 points and was good on defense. "Mike Wallent did his Job very well. He was assigned to cover Paul Wagner and he held him to 14 points. Mike did an excellent Job." Wagner was Springfield's high scorer during the season with a 17.0 average.

N.U. Fate 40 It very definite tnat Kea Sox right hander Earl Wilson was given a tough time at Cloud Nine when he asked for a beer. But what about the cloud that has hovered over Woody Sauldsberry when he joined the Celtics, and "unjoined" them Wednesday .1 a I'll score," said Hull, "but I hope each and every one or them help this club reach the goal which is the championship." Aside from his goal, Hull also picked up a pair of assists to give him 87 points for the season, nine short of VKlW Woody hadn't played for three years or more when he Hull whipped home his 50th goal of the season Wednesday night to help lead the Hawks to a 5-4 victory over Detroit and give Chicago sole possession of first place in the N.H.L. as Montreal settled for a 3-3 tie with Toronto. Hull's record tying goal came at 5:15 of the final period and gave the Hawks a 4-2 lead but Chicago had to battle off a 4-4 tie to win it on a goal by Kenny Whar-ram with less than six minutes to play.

The victory enabled the Hawks to take the lead in the N.H.L. by one point over Montreal which has a Thurs- Maglie Corrects Stephenson Stride By ROGER BIRTW'ELL WINTER HAVEN, Fla. Sal Maglie, skeptical disciple Adolfo Luque, took a long look at two of Boston's question-mark pitchers and observed that he liked what he saw. matching the record of 96 set by Montreal's Dickie Moore in 1959. Chicago's next game Is at Toronto Saturday and the Hawks return home Sunday to meet Montreal in what could be a make or As things would have it, AS things riav-nipht oncnnntor noainc maae me long trip irom j.os RED AUERBACH Angeles to join the Cetlics, and if rust ever showed on an athlete, it showed on Woody's playing.

The big man just didn't have it any more, and the whole business ended Wednesday. It started at halftime when Arnold Auerbach met John Thompson, who has been sitting in the wings these many weeks since Woody joined up. "John," Auerbach told the big man, "be at the Cambridge Y.M.C.A. tomorrow morning for practice." The Garden was all a-buzz at the story. "Woody came late," a cop was supposed to have said, "and Auerbach bawled him out and told him to dress and leave the place." This wasn't so, but, and that "cloud" stuff comes up again.

Woody says he hurt himself the afternoon of Feb. 24th when the Celtics met the St. Louis Hawks at the Garden. He has something wrong in the lower part of his back. Hurts like hell, and just couldn't play.

"Did you tell Auerbach when you got. hurt," Woody was asked after the' Celtics had beaten the New York Knickerbockers, 140 to 104, before 6793. Toronto. Hul1 Put ln a stretch of five minutes and 28 seconds Hull, 27, is in his ninth If son was striding too much, directly forward. It could have been a psychological block.

A year ago last June, when Stephenson then with Seattle was blazing along with the most dazzling record in all organized baseball, he hurt his arm when, trying to avoid a sand pit in front of the mound in San Diego, he was striding far to his left RED SOX Page 41 "Stephenson and Bennett," said Magie, "They could be winners. Stephenson has a world of talent. Bennett acts like a pro. And they both want to pitch." Maglie had a long session with Stephenson. "I got him to rotate his hips just a little, put his forward foot down a bit more to the left (Stephenson's a right hander) and thus get his whole body a bit more into each pitch.

"I think that will improve his rhythm." Maglie thought Stephen without relief in the first period against Detroit. It wasn't by design, but because of penalties and Bobby failed to produce. He finished out the game with a total of 24 minutes and 29 seconds during which time he had seven shots on goal, eight misses and five deflections. HULL Page 41 season of play but already has become the first man to reach the 50-goal plateau twice and, with 13 games to play, is a cinch to not only break the record but -also put it beyond immediate reach. "He'll score at least 58 goals before the season is over," said Hawk Coach Billy Reay.

"I don't know how' many Pepitone Vows To Settle Down, Yanks Give Him Last Chance lllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIIll MILTON GROSS FORT LAUDERDALE Before newly-minted, freshly-remarried Joe Pepitone arrived here to turn over his new leaf, the suggestion was made that the old-line Yankees, who finished sixth last year partially Decause oi xneir nrst Baseman's delinquencies, form a sort of honor gauntlet between which he and his bride could march. "Let's all hold up bats crossed like they do for a West Point wedding and Joe and his wife can walk under them." It seemed such a fine idea until the suspicion arose that one of his more resentful teammates, who labels Pepi "Nope, told the trainer," said Woody. "Didn't tell Auerbach about it, just the trainer." Auerbach, who was sitting in his chair telling the New York writers that his team looked so good the last couple of games, was asked about Woody and what he knew about the back. "Hurt it, I guess," said Auerbach. "So Thompson is coming to the team.

It looks like Woody is out for at least a month, from what I hear, anyway." "Had he told you about his back before this?" Auerbach was asked. Auerbach half mumbled, "Mmm." "Had you thought of bringing up Thompson through the past few weeks?" Auerbach was asked. "Yes, I had," said Auerbach, and then he went on to talk about how well Johnny Havlicek was running again, and how it was quite a revelation having a lot of healthy men to put into the game once again. "No team would have beaten us the last two games," said Auerbach, though he didn't forecast a cinch win in the Eastern Division. "We hit a dead spot' in Baltimore, but we really bounced back against St.

Louis and this team tonight." Woody has no problem about being paid no matter what happens the next few weeks. The Celtics will keep him the rest of the season and through the playoffs. He'll get all his pay and probably will gt some kind of share in the playoffs. Auerbach will always be cute as to just how Woody became a member of the Celtics in the first place. Was it to do Bill Russell a favor? Why would a guy like John Thompson, as eager to play as anyone in the game, be sat down for a player who hadn't been in basketball for three years? The answer to that one retires with Auerbach.

There had been stories that the rest of the N.B.A. owners were miffed at Auerbach for signing Woody in the first place, and that the Celtics would suffer for having crossed them by bringing Sauldsberry back to the N.B.A. They can forget that one now. But there was that cloud when Woody showed up and another when he was lopped from the squad, and there is that Cloud Nine in Winter Haven. JOE PEPITONE on his hands and some of the ointments that he rubs over his aching body, but reached over and completely mussed Peppy's coiffure, leaving the grime and grease on it.

If it were anybody else but Mantle, Peppy might have swung, but at Mickey, who is a hero-figure even in his own clubhouse, Peppy just looked somewhat forelorn, mostly annoyed. "Dammit," said Mickey, "that's what you deserve." "We're hoping," says Keane, "that Pep means what he's been saying this Winter." On a Yankee promotional tour recently, with Keane on the platform, Joe made a public confession. 'I didn't give 100 percent in 1965," he admitted. "I know the manager was surprised to hear me say that," says Joe, "He's got to prove to me he's a careful ball player instead of a careless one," says Keane. "He knows the other players don't like it any more than I do.

But there's no malice in this boy, no real badness. It's just time he grew up. He's past 25. He proved how good, he could be two years ago by knocking in 100 runs and hitting 28 home runs. That's a major league star.

That's a ball player who can make real money real quick if he doesn't waste what should be his most productive years." "Man," said one of the most serious of Peppy's teammates, "that gold's laying there in front of him for him to take. He's get to support two wives and he damned well better take it." "I know what a fool I've been," Joe said, as he introduced me to the former Diane Sandre, an off-Broadway actress. "With this wife I'm not looking for trouble anymore." Late yesterday Joe set out to prove it. He had his hair cut, not quite butch, but not quite Beatle either. "You know what it cost me, $6.50 for this styling," Joe moaned.

Bills, bills, bills, but Diane liked it. The Yankees gave Pepitone something else. They got him a lawyer, are trying to pay off his debts and this advisor, whom Pepitone describes as a trustee, and not a keeper, actually has him living on an allowance, "so much a week for myself," says Joe. This was only part of it. The Yankees tried to trade him, but 'Joe's reputation as a bad one had gotten around.

The other clubs would give so little value that Houk finally called Peppy in and started shooting at him with somewhat more deadly aim than the neighborhood friend, who accidentally put a bullet through his stomach and out his back when they were kids. Nobody now wants to say exactly what it is that Houk said, but Peppy says, "he told me the facts of life and gave me real hell. He reminded me how much real money I could be making and how little I was because my attitude was lousy. He told me I was getting one more chance and, believe me, I'm not going to blow it." Twice last year Pepitone was fined by Keane. Once was for reporting late for batting practice.

The other Peppy won't say, but there were things worse than fines. There was the resentment by some of the other Yankees who tried discipline from within, which used to work, but didn't with Joe. There was the ribbing he took, some good-natured, some with forked tongue and bared teeth. Personally the Yankees like Peppy because he's good-natured. He doesn't mind being the butt of a joke, but there was one dav when Joe stood in front of the mirror for more than 10 minutes combing his hair, this way and that, patting it like a woman primping.

Finally he seemed pleased with his effect. Mickey Mantle had watched it all. He had grime tone an idiot, would loosen his grip and let the bat crash on the bridegroom's skull. In that event there would be a messy wound and Joe would have to delay going to the barber to have his long, teased and pampered hair cut more in the style that suits the fancies of manager Johnny Keane and general manager Ralph Houk. Somehow they equate Pepi-tone's indifference on the field and recklessness off it with the amount of time he's spent before a mirror combing his thinning locks.

"I've been stupid, what can I tell you?" says Pepitone, who seems as truly penitent as anybody could be who's received a parole he never expected. "I was a foul-up," he said. "Last year I just didn't want to play ball. I'd get out there and all I could see coming at me was bills, bills, bills, that I couldn't pay." As Joe has described it since taking the vows, "I tried to do too many things too soon. I tried to live in a higher class than I was getting paid.

I was living like I was making $80,000 a year instead of the $23,000 I got last year and they were good enough to give me again this year." Auburn Shows Bounce In State Tourney By KEN SCOLA After fifty seconds of the Auburn-Lynn Classical State Tournament game Wednesday night, Auburn trailed by two goals. 8 of 14 Bruins' Games at Home By TOM FITZGERALD Like charity, success for a hockey team should begin at home. Thus, it might be considered encouraging that of the 14 games remaining on the schedule for the Bruins, eight will be played on their own ice at the Garden, starting with the return engagement with the New York Rangers this evening (8 o'clock). Anything resembling con- There has been a glimmer- they certainly remain pretty 4. a I.

ii li I i I i i iir ill -li rtlTM i i li mmm Hint inHium sistent showing over this nnal Ing flicker of optimism, how-stretch would greatly bolster ever, provided by the show-faith in the program of re- ing 0f Milt Schmidt's club pallid in comparison to such records as the one by the 1929-30 Bruins team which demption instituted by Hap smce the first of the year. Emms. won 22 straight games at Certainly, there has been a Before there can be any real shan contrast with the first home, I 1 a hope for a brighter future. Hp was coaching his 10th straight state Tourney team, a squad that had taken the Central Mass. League title with a 20-1-2 slate and a team that had produced 80 goals during the season.

'That first period gave me more gray hairs," said Longueil, after Auburn had rallied to defeat Classical 5-3. "We've never been behind by more than one goal this season and I didn't know if the fellows would be able to it out." Graves, who had three assists in the game, scored a goal in the second period and Bragg got his second tally of the night, also in the second period. "Graves could play on any college team in the country. He really picked "up the slack for us tonight," Longueil said. HOCKEY PareU After the six-minute mark Auburn was down three goals and Coach Dick Longueil's mind began, to wander.

He thought back 13 years to Dec. 12, 1953, when he had refereed a Classical-Auburn exhibition game. It was the first time these teams had met. Lynn Classical won that game. 17-0, and not one shot was taken on the Classical net.

Despite that showing, Longueil became the Auburn coach the following year. He was worried that history might repeat itself when Auburn perked up and Tom Bragg scred on a power play. Then with 1:05 left in the period, Dick Ringgard scored and just six seconds before the session ended, Dave Young tied the game. Both late-period Auburn scores carre off deflected Don Graves' shots. The goals put Auburn in the earr.e and brought mind back to the Arerou half of the season.

Even those who are wil Of the 16 games they played ling to concede that the Bra in Boston out of their fist 35, the Brums must exploit more fully that advantage of home surroundings which is probably more marked in professional hockey than in most other sports. Unless you can achieve a definite record of superiority over your visitors, you're going to have a pretty dismal time against them on their own ponds, an elementary fact of life that the Bruins have been proving with lamentable emphasis for too mar.y years now. ins have become a much livelier, more combative and more interesting team in the Garden since January, still may be justfiied in pointing with shudders at the road record which this season can rank with some of the horrors "the B's have compiled over the past half dozen years or so. BRUINS Pax 48 the Bruins won only three, while tying two ond losing 11 to collect 8 of 32 points for a percentage of .250. Of the 11 they have played here so far in the second half, they htve won seven, tied one and" lost three for 15 of 22 points and a percentage of Those statistics should offer some basis for optimism among the fa-tMuL although NOT SERIOUS Mel Counts, after scoring 14 points against the Knicks, caught a stray finger in left eye.

Dr. John Doherty takes a look. Coshtigian Photo).