The Kokomo Tribune from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 9

THE KOKOMO TRIBUNE KOKOMO (Ind.) TRIBUNE 9 Tuesday, April 1, 1969 BOB FORD McNulty's Desire Rubbed Off On These Wildcats WHEN CARL McNULTY went to Elwood to assume the duties of head basketball coach, the Anderson Sectional championship was something the good people of El wood only talked about. There had been a few Elwood teams come close, but none had been able to get the job done. Johnny Ward had some pretty fair- to-middlin' Elwood teams go to Anderson with good intentions, but the hill had always been just a little too steep to climb. It got so, in fact, that Elwood teams went to Anderson for the sectional knowing they couldn't win. It was a sad situation.

Then, along came a guy named Carl McNulty. He was the 6-3 "big man" at Purdue back in the early 50s. He terrorized the Big Ten for three years and still holds some rebounding records. Terry Dischinger, Dave Schellhase and Rick Mount have overhauled most of his scoring records. But he's still listed prominently in the Purdue record book.

Like Bill Garrett, the 6-3 All-American at Indiana University in 1950 and 1951, McNulty was forced to do things the hard way 6-5 and 6-6 and 6-7 centers became a little hard to cope with. Determination and desire guts, if you like had a lot to do with Carl qualifying for his All-America citaion. His attitude rubbed off on those kids at Elwood, and they steamed past Anderson and rubbed noses with a good Crispus Attucks team that went on to win the state championship. The last sectional he won before the one here this year was won at Elwood. He missed at LaPorte, where Michigan City pretty much had the run of things.

He missed at Warren Central, too, but not before his club chased favored Southport into an overtime. That was a year ago. Then came Kokomo. "When the people down there heard I was coming up here to coach, some of them wanted to know why considering the fact the new school was coming in this year. "They asked me 'how do you expect to go up there and win with the players being split I told them that Kokomo High School would still have a big enrollment, and that I knew those Kokomo kids.

"I never saw a Kokomo team in my life that wouldn't fight you every step of the way, I told them. That's why I'm going to Kokomo." AND AS HE CONCLUDED his first year as coach of the Wildcats, he's still convinced that "those Kokomo High School kids will fight you every step of the way." Kokomo YMCA Swimmers Place In AAU Meet FORT WAYNE Several swimmers of the Kokomo YMCA swim team landed positions in the 1969 Indiana AAU Indoor Swimming Championships here at Club Olympia last weekend. In the 10-and-under girls age group, Julie Stanforth was fifth in the 100-yard butterfly in 1:21.2, fifth in the 200-yard Individual Medley with a 2:57.1 time, and sixth in the 50-yard butterfly in :36.8. The Kokomo relay team of Marcia Shearer, Diane Shearer, Barbie Hope, and Stanforth placed fourth in the 200- yard Freestyle relay with a 2:17.2 time, and clocked in with a 2:42.8 time for a sixth place finish in the 200-yard Medley Relay. Tom Nelson placed third in the 100- yard freestyle in 1:04.2, and was fifth in the 50-yard freestyle with a :29.0 clocking to lead the 10-and-under boys.

The Kokomo relay team of Scott Foust, Mike Maddox, Mike Nelson, and Tom Nelson placed sixth in the 200-yard Freestyle Relay with a 2:11.1 time. 3 COACHES RESIGN By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mitchell High School's basketball and football coaches and North Daviess' basketball coach announced their resignations Monday. Bernie Burk, head basketball coach, and Will Cheesman, head football coach, both had been at Mitchell three years. The basketball teams had a 9-11 record last season. The football team was winless.

Bill Slatton, who coached North Daviess to the finals of the Washington sectional tourney, also resigned. He had been coach at Elnora, one of three high schools which consolidated to form North Daviess last year. He said he intends to continue teaching at the consolidated school. Bills Aren't Interested, Indianapolis Caps Ready To Deal Simpson's Way, and He Can Be Had Let's face the facts. Carl McNulty did one helluva job with his first Kokomo Wildcat basketball team.

To be real frank about it, I wouldn't have given him a chance to win 10 of 25 games. He finishes 10-15 with a team that, if the truth were known, probably ranks among the poorest, personnel- wise, in the last 15 years. That's nothing against the fine kids he had on that team, either. He just didn't have any horses. Except for All-State candidate Frank Walters and senior Fred Springer, who came on like gangbusters, Carl McNulty was pretty well limited as to what he could do.

There were no Jim Ligons or Richie Scotts or Ronnie Hughes or Jim Rayls or Corky Williamsons or Junior Phipps or Mark Gabriels or Dale Wises or Paul Conwells or Jim Butchers on this year's team. Here was a case, by golly, of a bunch of kids listening to a sincere coach in practice and looking to an old head on the floor and going out and winning a sectional they probably weren't supposed to win. The caliber of competition they played during the regular season chances are made the difference in the sectional. They were accustomed to being knocked around by kids the size of Western's John Stratton and Mike Fulk, and they learned to do a little knocking themselves. Jerry Hoffmeister, a fine sophomore prospect, and Gary Williams, a junior who'll return next year, banged heads with some of the real fine ones in the state during the regular season.

They learned in short order that, if you'll pardon the expression, it's either kill or be killed. That might be putting it brutally a but it's the truth. Basketball games are won on those boards. And if you haven't got the stomach for a bloody nose now and then or an elbow in the gut man, forget about it. I know a few people who think that's nasty talk.

They don't the difference between dirty basketball and aggressive basketball. Let those naive sould take seats under the baskets at Hinkle Fieldhouse and watch how the big boys do that rebounding chore. A GOOD EXAMPLE of Carl McNulty's training, I think, was obvious regional Saturday afternoon when Carl's po' little boys beat a bigger and physically stronger Logansport team. They wouldn't quit. Man that's nothing but guts.

They had chance after chance to quit. They could have folded up when they dropped 10, 11, 12 points back. But they didn't. They kept seeing Carl's flashing eyes over there on the bench, and they somehow felt his fire and desire all the out there on the floor. I've often wondered since the state finals just how badly Marion would have beaten Indianapolis Washington in the finals if Carl McNulty had been coaching the Giants.

(That'll probably get me in trouble with my Marion friends.) I don't know for sure, but I'd guess that Carl is looking forward to next year. He'll have back, in addition to Hoffmeister and Williams, the likes of quick Jim Gaillard, and Bob Kenner, Brad McNulty, Jerry Price, Jim Semmes and Pat Dumoulin. They're returnees from this year's varsity. Think about Larry Gaines and Randy VanNatter and Tom Stockdale and some of the stickouts off the reserve team, then add sophomores-to-be like Barry Moore and Bruce Liggin and Dirk Hankins, and you might have the makings of a pretty decent representative next year. And who knows about who might move to town and decide to become a Wildcat? Rockets at Home By ERIC PREWITT Associated Press Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Will 0.

J. Simpson play minor league football rather than sign for what the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League are offering him? Chuck Barnes, who is handling Simpson's negotiations with Buffalo, answered that question Monday: "0. J. told me that if he were a bachelor coming out of the University of Southern California, he might take less than he thinks he's worth. But he's got a wife and child now." Buffalo has offered Simpson a five- year contract for $50,000 a year, Barnes said Monday at a news conference.

The Indianapolis Capitols of the Continental Football League have offered him a one-year contract for $150,000, plus a $250,000 loan for investment purposes. Simpson is asking Buffalo for about $600,000 in salary over four years. "The possibilities of Indianapolis are good," Barnes said Monday. But Barnes, president of Sports Headliners, requested and was granted an extension to April 15 on the deadline set by the Capitols for a "yes or no" decision on their offer. Al Savill, president of the Capitols, said Barnes wanted another opportunity to get together with Bills owner Ralph C.

Wilson Jr. to negotiate at length. SaviH's original deadline had been today. Savill released a statement saying, "I dp not want to subject criticism for having been used as a tool to get the Buffalo Bills up to the price O. representatives are asking." Wilson was quoted as saying last week that O.

J. should take the Indianapolis offer a he (Wilson) wouldn't match it. J. is plenty burned up about this." David Lockton, vice president of Sports Headliners, said Monday. "Of course, he'd rather not play in the Continental League.

But if Buffalo won't make a satisfactory offer or at least trade him to another team, he will. "Wouldn't it be a shame if 0. J. Simpson had to play in the minor leagues to get the kind of money he's worth." Lockton, when asked if Sports Headliners had been in contact with pro football commissioner Pete Rozelle, said, "Well, indirectly." He would not elabo- rate. The Indianapolis team plays in seat Bush Stadium.

It averaged about 6,000 fans in seven games last year. "If we can average near capacity, we'll get our investment in 0. J. back. I think we could," Savill said Monday.

The CFL currently has a salary limitation of $5,000 per team per game. The Capitols are offering 0. J. over $10,000 per game. CFL Commissioner Jim Dunn of Indianapolis said Monday, "For 0.

we'd bend some rules." Dunn added that the CFL does not pretend to be of major league caliber, but he said its football is better than most fans realize "and O. J. Simpson would be the shot in the arm to make us nationally recognized. Wilt's Batting Again Los Angeles super star Wilt Chamberlain (13) bats a rebound out of the hands of San Francisco Warrior Rudy LaRusso (35) in first half of National Basketball Association playoff game at Oakland Monday night. At right is laker Bill Hewitt (30).

The Lakers won the game, 11598, and trail by one game. (AP Wirephoto) Lakers Do It All In 115-98 Victory Over Warriors In A Case Of 'Have-To' By RON RAPOPORT Associated Press Sports Writer OAKLAND did all the things we had to do," explained Wilt Chamberlain. Dominating the boards to the fullest extent of his 7-foot-l ability and scoring more than he had in the first two playoff games together, Chamberlain led the Los Angeles Lakers out of the valley of disaster and back into the middle of the National Basketball Association playoffs Monday night. Stunned by two straight Western Division post-season defeats to the San Dabelow 1st in Junior Olympic Archery Shoot The American Archery Council sponsored the llth annual Indoor International Championship World's largest archery tournament at Cobo Hall in Detroit, March 29-30. Also included in this event was a special Junior Olympic Tournament with 250 youths participating from the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

Don Dabelow of Galveston, Ind. won first place in the Boys Cadet Division, scoring 520 of a possible 540 points. Dave Harper of Portland, was second. Francisco Warriors on their own court, the Lakers broke a close game wide open in the second half and breezed to a 115-98 triumph. That made the Warriors lead in the series two games to one, with the next game set for the San Francisco Cow Palace Wednesday night and the fifth in Los Angeles on Friday.

In Western Division playoff actionto- night, Atlanta, which has won two straight from San Diego, meets the Rockets in San Diego in the Eastern Division, Boston, with a 3-0 lead over Philadelphia, meets the 76ers on the Celtics' home court. New York, leading its series with three wins over Baltimore in as many playoff games meets the Bullets next in New York on Wednesday. There were no American Basketball Association games on Monday night's schedule. Playing quite unlike the team that had brought the Lakers to the brink of elimination, the Warriors may have suffered a fate even worse tan the loss of the me. The status of their hot-shooting guard Jeff Mullins is now in doubt for the rest of the series.

Mullins collided with Laker forward Bill Hewitt just 37 seconds into the game and was out for the first quarter. When he finally returned, it was with his left knee and he played only half the game, scoring seven points. NBA RESULTS By Bos- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NBA Playoffs Division Semifinals Monday's Result Western Division Los Angeles 115, San Francisco 98, San Francisco leads best- of-7 series 2-1 Only game scheduled Today's Gaines Eastern Division Philadelphia at Boston, ton leads best-of-7 series 3-0 Western Division Atlanta at San Diego, Atlanta leads best-of-7 series 2-0 Only games scheduled Wednesday's Games Eastern Division Baltimore at New York, New York leads bcst-of-7 series 3-0 Western Division Los Angeles at San Francisco Only games scheduled "It's touch Wednesday," and go if I can play diagnosed Mullins, who suffered a severe charlie horse with some internal bleeding. He will undergo Ireatment with team physician Dr. James Raggio in a San Francisco hospital today.

Nate Thurmond led the Warriors with 22 points, but lost the rebounding battle to Chamberlain 28-20. Wilt scored in the first game of the series and only in the second, but threw in 22 this time around, only three less than team leader Jerry West. Trailing 45-43 at the half the Lakers broke up the game in the third period with 41 points, 13 by West and 10 by guard Johnny Egan. Then when the Warriors narrowed the gap lo nine points in the final period, the Lakers reeled off 10 straight points, six by Hewitt, to settle things. "The ball seemed to go in this time," said Laker Coach Bill Van Breda Kolff.

"It didn't in the first two games. We were up for this game. We had to be." Warrior coach George Lee said his club had suffered a natural let-down af- iler the first two upsets "The fourth game is the big one," he said. "Big for us and big for them." Hoosier Clyde Lovellette Holds NCAA Finals Record San Diego Will Try To Get Run Game Unleashed Against Hawks Try Tribune Want Adsl By RON ROACH Associated Press Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) Outscrambled twice, the young San Diego Rockets again try to run against the Atlanta Hawks tonight in a National Basketball Association playoff. But first, Rocket Coach Jack Me Mahon said Monday, his players must get the ball more often to his fast- breaking rookie guards and freshman center Elvin Hayes.

The Hawks won the first two games in Atlanta, 107-98 and 116-114. If Zelmo Bealy and Bill Bridges continue to dominate the backboards the Rockets may find themselves trailing 0-3 in the best-of-7 Western Division semifinals. "Atlanta's the most physical team in the NBA," said Stu Lantz, San Diego's rookie guard. "If they run with us, they can't beat us." Coach McMahon's game plan always has been to run. but as he said with frustration: "Why aren't we running? We're not getting the ball." The Rockets, in their second year of NBA action, have won all four meetings with the Hawks in San Diego's International Sports Arena, while dropping all six games in Atlanta.

"The home court should be an advantage," McMahon said. "It hasn't been proved in the playoffs, though, except in our scries." Besides getting more rebounds, McMahon's concern also is the hot shooting of Hawks' Lou Hudson, who scored 39 points in the opener last Thursday. The Hawks also like to give the ball to Beaty outside and force Hayes to guard him away from the bucket. Then they feed the ball to the bull-like Bridges underneath. Hayes outplayed his center opponent, Beaty, in the first two games, scoring 31 points, but dropped to 15 last Saturday night when he was hampered by stomach cramps.

A healthy, sharpshooting Hayes and continued sharp efforts by young Rick Adelman and Lantz, plus a solid performance by veteran Don Kojis and "we can beat Atlanta," said McMahon. Coach Richie Guerin of the Hawks plans to keep his men hitting the boards. "More rebounds, more shots and more points," said Guerin. By CARL JONES Torre Haute Star Sports Writer Written for Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP)-- Which player holds the individual scoring record for the final four games of the NCAA basketball tourney? Purdue's Rick Mount, you say? Wrong.

Guess again? Lew Alcindor of UCLA? Wrong again. Well, then it must have been Houston's Elvin Hayes, right? Wrong once more. Oh, yes, how could I have forgotten? It had to be Princeton's Bill Bradley who scored 58 points in a single game, right? Wrong again. No, it was none of those above--mentioned prolific scorers. The record of 141 points for the final four tourney games happens to have been set way back in 1952 by a Kansas pivotman named Clyde Lovellette.

Name sound familiar? It should; he's now, of course, Vigo County sheriff. All who saw Clyde play for Terre Haute Garficld in 1947 and 1948 will remember that he was quite a shooter, but it simply amaging that a record sci 17 years ago can still be on the NCAA books. The record has withstood onslaughts from the likes of Wilt Chamberlain, Don Schlundt, Tom Gola, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, Jerry Lucas and Cazzie Russell, besides those already named. The record book shows Lovellette started off the 1952 tourney with 44 points against St. Louis, and then followed up that performance by tallying 31 against Texas Christian, 33 against Santa Clara and 33 against St.

John's in the title game. Lovellette and the Jayhawks beat St. John's 80-63 for the championship. The game has changed considerably since 1952, and the popular conception is that the shooters have gotten better and better. But nobody has succeeded in topping big Clyde's 141-point total.

Fight Results By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS--Jean Josselin. 151, France, outpointed Eddie Pace, 151, Los Angeles 10. SAN DIEGO-Luis Rodriguez, Miami. knocked out Rafael Gutierrez, 158" 2, Mexicali, Mexico, 6. i..