The Daily Herald from Provo, Utah • 14

Pssfe 14-THE HERALD, Provo, Utah Sunday, March 5, 1371 To Young Bobby Fischer, Chess Is A Sport, and He's the Champion Outdoor Roundup By CASEY SOWN tournament for five hours at By IRA BERKOW NEA Sports Editor basketball. Basketball players pass the ball around until they get an opening. Like chess, like the mating attack." His brown eyes widened. He laughed. Back to tne Spassky match.

A place and exact time have not yet been set. "But the buildup will be terrific," said Fischer. "Like the Ali-Frazier fight though I don't approve of boxing; I think it's immoral." He said, though, that he admires Ali as an athlete. Which other athletes does he admire? "I don't follow sports much, except when it's news like Lee Trevino, when he won these Opens and was on the covers of Time and Newsweek. But I like Willie Mays a lot.

Like his basket catch. He gives all he's got. He's not one of those slag-gards. He loves the game. "I grew up in Brooklyn, was a Dodger fan.

I liked Don Newconibe because he was a good hitler. He wasn't satisfied with being only a good pitcher, like most pitchers. "I like JoeNamath. I think he's got class. He sacrifices himself.

A champion needs that. He's got these terrible knees and probably should be retired. But when he plays he is not worried about being hit, getting the ball off is all-important. "Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit, the winning spirit.

And once you make it, you've got to guard your reputation every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That's why I don't clown around. I don't believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the world's chess championship, to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously." a time, day after day.

And i when there's an adjournment, you've got to stay up late analyzing strategy. The tension and the need for stamina are brutal. One mental lapse and you're through. That's why a lot of great chees piayers are over the hill by 40. Too old for the strain.

"Spassky even has a physical trainer. I do my own physical conditioning. I don't eat fatty foods. I keep my weight at 180 pounds. I like to exercise with the Jack LaLanne Show.

He's a got a fun personality. I play tennis, too. Not too good, though. But I like the new metal racquets. Now I can even get the ball over the net sometimes." He laughed.

"I've begun to bowl, that's a great sport. Jogging? No, jogging is too dull. "I'd compare chess to NEW YORK (NEA Dripping wet which made his long, bony ace look even longer hunched and barefoot and blue-robed, Bobby-Fischer came out of the shower to answer the door. One o'clock in the afternoon, but his small hotel room was dark behind him. Curtains were drawn.

No lights on except for the one from the bathroom. "Sorry," said Fischer, to his expected visitor, "just got up a few minutes ago. Be with you right away." He padded back to the bathroom, closed the door. Pitch black. The visitor stood for a surprised moment in the darkness, then fumbled along the wall for the light switch.

Mysterious and controversial, famous and infamous, one-time child prodigy and ft. Bobby Fischer Tuning up. Highway Death Toll Is High for Animals The springlike weather has given some real relief to our wildlife. This is especially true in northern counties where winter got an early start with the heavy snows of last October. Starvation losses will be highest in these counties.

They will be confined mostly to the deer herds, with heavy losses already reported from Box Elder County in vicinity of the Raft River mountains. Conservation officers statewide continue to report excessive game kills on our highways. This, too, is mostly concerned with deer though elk, pheasants and other wildlife are victims of the earlier heavy snows which force them into our canyon bottoms and afcng valley roadways. Anyone who tends to make light of game kills by vehicles on our highways might weigh the following. Several years ago a year long count was kept of deer kills by vehicles.

The toll, or total, then was just under 2400 animals. It is safe to assume the figure is higher now if only because of more and improved roads and the faster speeds allowable on them. And a reminder to all of us to keep a sharp eye out for wildlife, particularly during the early morning-evuiing hours. Maybe two to three thousand deer doesn't seem like many compared to the average 92,000 taken by regular license hunters ever the pasty twenty years of either sex hunting. On the other hand the road kills are four to six times greater than the estimated total hunter kill of deer back in the good old days of the 1912 season.

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JU-" li brichamcity.lt. Stll-Ji MOUNTAIN HOME. ID 13 1 I 5 395 N. 2nd East rB- jSTSCJfiO A REXBURG, IDAHO current U.S chess champion, Bobby Fischer lives in hotel rooms. He has no permanent residence.

For now, this Park-Sheraton room is also his training field. Some time before June 30, Fischer will challenge the reigning world chess champion, Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, for the title. "It will be," Fischer will say later, "probably the greatest sports event in history. Bigger even than the Frazier-Ali fight. It is really the free world against the lying, cheating, hypocritical Russians." Fischer's live-in training field is spare.

Two single beds, one rumpled, take up much of the space. A TV set in the corner. An alarm clock on the bedstand. No clothes are strewn about. On the made bed is a small, open satchel, in it are some papers and four magazines: U.S.

News World Report, Esquire, The Plain Truth (a Bible-oriented news magazine) and Playboy. On the desk are the tools of his trade, the tools of his single passion, the tools that, as the New York Times music critic has written, Fischer employs with a genius that is as unique as Beethoven's; on the desk is a chess board. The is actually a kind of soft plastic, the chess pieces are wooden but almost weightless. Convenient to carry wherever he goes. A book of chess moves called "Chess Informant," in seven languages, is open.

There are marks alongside some of the games, and marginal notes. Fischer stays up late going over past games, historical games, Spassky's games. Quickly, he puts on a dark maroon suit, white shirt and a maroon tie that says "Playboy" on it and is interspersed with bunny symbols. All dressed, he returned to the bathroom, then popped out a few minutes later. His face was covered with shaving cream, "Say, would you mind putting the chain on the door.

The maid or somebody might walk in," he said. Shaved, he showed upon requojt a particularly "dumb" move he saw in one of the games from the book. "But don't write what the move is," said Fischer. "I don't want to leak anything to the Russians." His fingers are long and he jabs a piece down, making the others twitch. He was also proud of the chess set.

"Look at these pieces," he said. "Smooth and light, no hard edges, beautifully carved. The best set for playing that I've ever seen. Here, feel this knight." He talked about chess as a sport. "Sure, it's a sport," he said.

"And when newspapers put it in entertainment and arts sections, that's downgrading chess, completely out of place. "You've got to be in top condition to play chess. You have toconcentrateina Antelope Planted One by-product of the heavy snows over in Daggett County and on the adjacent plains of Wyoming was a recent plant of 150 antelope in the flat country some 25 miles south of Price. Several hundred of these animals had concentrated in the Clay Basin area and were fast reaching the starvation point when our Wildlife Resource people set up the traps (a net corral), caught the animals and trucked them to their new homesite. Hopefully these antelope will take hold and increase to the point of allowing hunting in future years.

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We thought that we were doing pretty good until a group of boys with their scoutmaster cut some holes close by and started to fish in the same manner. Couple of hours later they all left with their limits of eight fish each and, as one of the veteran anglers in our group remarked, "Those kids just haven't learned yet how hard these trout are to catch." Chances are the ice will be thick and firm at upper lake where we were for some time yet. Feller hits a decent weather day as we did it makes for a fine outing. Fishery biologist at Dutch John, John Varley, told us fishing pressure was the lowest ever this winter and some of the best creel returns he had checked over the years. He mentioned Sheep Creek Bay and the vicinity of the Lucerne Valley ramp areas as being real productive and said the lead headed jig flies were also taking fish.

Lots of moisture in the ground from the earlier snows so the best advice is to stay on or near the oiled roads. Most of us now use spinning gear and monofilamen line. If it has had good care the line may last a second year of use but at the relatively inexpensive price a new line can be our best insurance against losing the big ones. A good practice after any amount of use is to run the line through your fingers as a positive check for rough spots or fraying. And by all means cut off two or three feet of the end of the monofil each time out fishing.

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