The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 39

1972 3jKton-w2i Earl Wilson Baltic of Chess Giants ANDY V.AYV Ily KIX; SMYTH '3 NEVE3 BEEKll 1 I THE SAME SINCE Bobby Is Often THAT DAV-TRIP He's Looking To the Heavens T' BOULOGNE I ii NEW YORK How long are those lovely raindrops of Hurt Uacharach's going to keep falling on our heads? Guy Lombardo's gambling more dangerously than the Las Vegas high-rollers on the answer. If it rains all summer, he could lose much of the $1.2 million production cost of his "Tho King and playing III AND LOIS Ily MOKT WAI.KFJI ami I)l! IlKOWM: A Spoiled Brat Larry Evans, former U.S. cfiess champion, writes about th4 ways Bobby hscher has hurt himself on the road to his challenge for the World Championship next week. Ily Larry Kvana In 1958 Bobby Fischer antagonized many of his earliest and most enthusiastic backers by refusing to play for the U.S. squad at the chess Olympiad held in Munich.

Fischer, who was then 15, insisted on his rights as US. champion, refusing to yield first board to Sammy Reshevsky, who was then 47 and the darling of the old guard. Two years later his mother picketed the White House, chaining herself to the Rate to call attention to the need for funds to send an American Olympiad team to Leipzig. In the finals Fischer was high scorer on first hoard; Russia's then-world champion, Mikhail Tal, barely escaped with a draw against him. Acutely embarrassed by his mother's militancy, Fischer withdrew further into his shell.

Shortly thereafter she joined a group of idealists on a peace walk to Russia and married one of the marchers. She and her husband later moved to England. Meanwhile his sister, Joan, tall, pretty, sensitive, married a scientist and moved to California. mi i i If; VOU SURG MADE VDUF? PIE- I BED IN A HURRy- IT'S yW AW, TOGETHER NCT DID -s HI outdoors at Jones Iicach. "They could wipe us out," Guy said at the beach after flying from the Gold Cup boat race in Detroit.

"Second year we wore here we lost 17 years ago, 1955, the year of the five hurricanes. VV played about three nights, closed the whole month of August." He brightened remembering "the first year wo played 'Sound of Music'." "Didn't have one rain. I always thought it was because of the nuns in the show." JSAKNKY GOOCLK AM) SNUFFY SMITH By IASWKII, AIN'T VG ERGOT SiS yjp TQM TQKF I 1 OL' BULLET HOME I 7 Aim i run nrsr II somethin; DOC? GUr LOMBARDO Gambling on the weather about rain lnsur- How HERMIT-LIKE AND INSULATED from people, Bobby surrounded himself with chess books and electronic equipment. He seldom traveled without a transistor radio. With the apartment in Brooklyn all to himself, Fischer slept late, studying as many as 50 foreign chess magazines each month, dabbling in palmistry, listening to rock 'n' roll, relaxing with Ping-Pong, bowling and swimming.

In 1961 Mrs. Jacqueline Piatigorsky, a wealthy chess patron, put up a purse of $8000 for a match between Fischer and Rcshevsky to decide once and for all who was the better player. With the score tied, Fischer forfeited the match by not showing up for the 12th game. The schedule had been altered to Sunday morning Instead of Saturday night, to enable Mrs. Piatigorsky to attend a cello concert given by her husband Gregor that evening.

A late riser, Fischer asked to have the game postponed until Sunday afternoon, explaining that he just couldn't play good chess in the morning. This time Reshevsky stood by the letter of his rights and refused to agree to a postponement. HIUNCLNG UP FATHEK By BILL KAVANAC1I and HAL CAMP i rrr YKJ fr-i 1 I I I I i WE WONT HAVE TO WORRY MEELQCK 15 A you 1 SILVERWARE I ABOUT BUR6LARS WHILE LN TO HOUSE DOlNg? ance? "Too expensive. We hope for a break from the weather forecasters, just so they don't make up any stories." Of course, Guy is in no need of welfare. CBS just renewed him for another New Year's broadcast (his 41st year).

Nevertheless, as reader Chris Shawn suggests, "This may be the year that was called off on account of rain THE MIDNIGHT EARL: A heckler threw a 12-letter word at Johnny Carson at the Las Vegas Sahara. "Nobody calls me that," said Johnny, summoning a security officer who ejected him Carroll O'Connor in his popular act at the Vegas Riviera uses the line: "If anything happens to Kissinger Nixon becomes President!" Janice Harper, back from doing the Tonight Show in Hollywood, figures she flew about 11 hours and 5000 miles to sing a medley lasting three minutes. Jack Paar was asked to name the most courageous creatures he encountered on his foreign trips. He said, "The people who dodge the taxis In Rome" Joey Bishop climbed into the ring with Muhammad Ali at Caesars Palace and said, "OK now I'll throw punches and you recite poetry!" TIGER By BUI) BLAKE FISCHER MADE UP with Mrs. Piatigorsky, but for a long time he and Reshevsky were not on speaking terms.

Although Fischer's integrity and refusal to compromise have sometimes cost him dearly, his defiance of chess authorities and his demands for better playing conditions have raised the professional standards of the game. "I'm tired of seeing chess players treated like bums," he says. In 1967 Prince Rainier requested two American grandmasters for an international tournament in Monaco. There was one condition: one of the two had to be Bobby Fischer. Fischer won the tournament but made himself unpopular by acting like a prima donna.

Two years later the Americans received another request for two players. Again there was a condition: neither of the two should be Bobby Fischer. In 1968 officials at the chess Olympiad in Lugano refused his demands for special lighting and a private playing room away from spectators. Fischer was so annoyed that he deserted the American team and holed up "to plot my revenge if I ever come back." He visited his mother In England and then moved to Los Angeles, where he brooded and stayed out of active competition for 18 months. King Features Syndicate, 1972.

Tomorrow: Evans sees Bobby getting only a little more mellow. TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Joan Rivers, who's learning to cook, complains about cake recipes: "When they tell you to add an egg, they never say whether It should be boiled or fried." WISH I'D SAID THAT: From Jack Douglas: "WTio said, 'I'd rather be right than President'? Every loser." REMEMBERED QUOTE: "When you see how some people work, you wonder what they'll do when they retire." I 66tt peAMur vs( TZmvx--; iVv TK ir ABCHIE By BOB MONTANA TREWpeople pot provesV is it everone sofAEBOW stoleEZI THE RIGHT PEOPLE ARE 1 WORKING? WAS HONEST ABOUT AAY CAR JLZA 6-29 i I MR. LODGE AMOUNT BASICALLY PAYING FOR, PARKS IN THE IN A BOX HONEST PARKING. i SYSTEM" THEY 5. tT CK I I I N''v I rtA.it I PARKING LOT LEAVE fT ffj (Bg 1, Eik I Crossword Puzzle 36.

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Perhaps professional guidance is needed to rout emotional or mentally rooted blahs. Is cheadng In school really harmful? Yes, extremely so. It is not that a child receives a better mark than ho has worked for, or that he is promoted only because ha cheated. The real damage is done to the youngster himself. Ho will find it easier to cheat again and again.

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