The Vernon Daily Record from Vernon, Texas • Page 10

DAILY RECORD, July 12,1972 OUR BOARDINGHOUSE by Neg Cochran EDITORIAL COMMENT Par for the Course SIDE GLANCES GONNA DO YOUR 1 HOPE 50--MAVBE IT'LL WAKE IN MDUR SHORTS 5CVME OF I MAY WOT HAVE WOW, EH? WELL, WHEW I THE PINS OF A WR. AMERICA- THE KJEICjHBORS GET A I LL STILL BE STRIDING LOOK AT WHW ALON6 WHEW XOU LOUNGE BEEN HIDING UNDER JOCKEYS SUDDENLY DISCOVER SWEAT PANTS ALL THESE (T'3 AW EFFORT FOR MDU TO 7 I MONTHS IT'LL CERTAINLY LEO tT FROM CHAIR, OWE THEM SOME CUSHION TO "I HE THING TO TALK SEAT OF TH' MATTE TO BREAK IrtE BAPNm THE PEP, BoartKlj UHEN VflENTT BACK FOR THEIR by Crooks Lawrence HMMm.WAIT A MINUTE! WHAT HAVE WE HOW CAN 1 BUT EE 5URE I'M GAMBLING TMEVRB TELLINE gOCKV WOULP TRUTHfJ CAU.IN6* rVB FOUNP A KEY CHAW WITH A TOLP ME IT WRON0 NUMBER ALLEY OOP HOW DO YOU A NO SWEAT WELL, A THBtB, THE GYRO-UNITS THAT WELL, NOT EXACTLY, ADDED AND SOME FINAL THING BUT YOU DtG WHAT ADJUSTMENTS, HEtL BE ABLE CAN I I MEAN! TO WALK TO OOP'S PAD! A WALK? 31 Mani, SUPPOSE I GO ALONG WITH YOUR PLAN TO HIDE THIS BIG Cronkite by Howie Schneider BLTT PURSUIT OF BESfWWfWS TO ME DOUA) WASHINGTON COLUMN PRISCILLA'S POP U.S. Chess Player Checkmates Self By RALPH NOVAK lei WASHINGTON INEA) We have seen over the past few days the creation of something new in chess, the Fischer gambit. This is where you threaten to hold your breath until you turn blue pick up your chess board and go home unless you can have your own way. A true inspiration to the youth of America, Bobby Fischer has shown us that these tactics work in this greed- smudged real world.

performance, the prelude to the world chess championship match in Iceland, should not have surprised us. He has, after all. never said he was sensitive, poised, considerate, modest, generous, admirable or intelligent. He has said only (though many, many times) that he is the best chess player around, in Brooklyn, the United States, the world and, presumably, the universe. Let us assume that he is right.

The next question is, so what? Fischer seems to be operating under the belief that because we pay our athletes and entertainers outrageously large sums of money, we should do the same for chess players. From his point of view this is reasonable, of course. But from everybody it is super-arrogant nonsense. That we are foolish enough to sanction paying Tom Seaver $125,000 a year to throw baseballs is no justification for our being foolish enough to sanction paying Bobby Fischer $200,000 for shoving a bunch of toys around for a month. For one thing, there is the right theory.

For another, there is the fact that chess is not, either historically or intrinsically, an interesting spectator sport. Maybe at some future time there will be enough fans around to support chess in the fashion to which Fischer would like to be accustomed. But right now there are not. And no exploiting capitalist is getting rich on talent. This makes it doubly unfortunate that London investment banker James D.

Slater saw fit to add $125,000 to the world championship purse. For threats to quit the match bordered on extortion and his bluff should have been called. This would have been painful for costly preparations for the match Fischer held hostage. But it would have put Fischer, a fatuous, graceless man, in his proper place, that of someone who happens to be a genius at a trivial pastime. Now, though, we have the confrontation.

Fischer has at times tried to make his match with defending world champion Boris Spassky a Cold War kind of crusade, good old American versus godless Russian Communist. But he was not so dedicated to the crusade that he was willing to wage it for a mere $100,000. He was not so proud that he would not apologize to the Russians to save the match and his money. And he was not smart enough to realize that if he had just quietly won the championship, he would have earned the respect and. probably, the financial rewards he demanded so prema- THE BORN LOSER WOULD HOU IP I TrJCRASHlNfc Life To Live itm in Of Night would fill a cube only 33-feet on a the size of a three- American Style story house.

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