The Oneonta Star from Oneonta, New York • Page 8

THEONEONTASTAR, Oneonto, N.Y., Feb. 23,1973 Running hoop tourney is an immense task Ballplayers' attorney optimistic By THOM MEREDITH I was very privileged to sit In on a press meeting Thursday afternoon In Hartwick Athletic Director Roy Chipman's office. The parley was held to discuss Ae upcoming NCAA basketball regional tournament. Hartwick, by gaining the number one seed in the Eastern regional (an area which, unlike soccer, encompasses State of New Jersey besides New York) will host the tournament lor the first time. As Jud Magrin has already stated in this paper, it's a great thing for the sports minded town of Oneonta and also, a lot of people have said, It's about time.

Hartwick has hosted the NCAA regional soccer tourney, at least first round games, since 1969, and the fine crowds and excellent relationship competing teams and the NCAA people have had with Hartwick and Our Town goes without saying. But if you think about It, Hartwick's basketball a under Chipman, has participated In the NCAA basketball regional three of the past four years and never really had the shot of hosting the event because Buffalo State always managed to gain the distinction. Well, now it's Hartwick's turn and everyone connected with the college Can Slate win a 2-0 game? "All kidding aside," said 0- State basketball coach Don Flewelling last night, "45 points might be enough to win over this club. Flewelling was alluding to the Dragon's opponents i since Fredonia State's Blue Devils are the nation's second stingiest team when it comes to holding down opponents. Fredonla's coach BUI Hughes Is an advocate of the slowdown offense, (to wit last week's 20-14 game with Ashland, one of the highest scoring basketball teams in the country) and if they get a lead the Blue Devils can make even the most patient of playen Jumpy with the tactic.

Another factor to be considered in the game Is the Dragons can move toward the top of the division in the State University Conference, If they win. Fredonia, 14-3 on the year and 4-4 in the SUNY, just about has to win this game If it expects to 'gain a bid to the NAIA basketball tourney. on the other hand, Is College Hoops Marist 115, New Paltz 92 Campbell 66, Pembroke St. 59 The Citadel 66, Wolford 56 Manhattan 97, Connecticut 87 SIAC First Round Albany, St. 73, Knoxville 65 Florida ASM 91, -Miles 77 Notre Dams 92, W.

Virginia 73 Dominican, N.Y. 52, N.Y. Maritime 40 Baruch 90, John Jay 64 Southampton 50, Dowllng 46, OT Providence 107, Assumption 87 Albany Pharmacy 97, St. Rose 59 Jersey City St. 87, Montclair St.

62 Stonehill 92, S. Connecticut 89 NE Louisiana 74, Mid. Tenn. St. 6S Memphis St.

93, N. Texas St. S8 Louisville 85, W. Texas St. 70 Fairmont St.

64, W.Va. St. 62 Wheeling 103, Wilberforce 66 Morris Harvey 103, W. Va. Wcsleyan 77 OHIO CONFERENCE North Division First Round Oberlin 74, Baldwin-Wallace 68 CIAA First Round Norfolk St.

97, St. Augustine's 67 OHIO CONFERENCE Southern Division First Round Capital 95, Denison 75 virtually out of any consideration for any post season bid but with 5-4 conference mark, it has a shot at the upper reaches of the loop. Added to those pressures is the fact that the Red Dragons have won the last three meet- Ings between the clubs by scores of 5H9, 44-42 and 47-46 last year. Hughes will start 6-6 center Ben Klrchufer and 6-5ers Jim Dailey and Bill Hess on the backline. At the guards for the Blue Devils will be their leading scorer, 6-2 George Cecola, hitting for about 14.5 points a game, and Bill Lawhon.

Flewelling plans only one substitution in his usual starting quintet of Larry Nowlln, Don McLeod, Jackie Dalton and Jimmy CoOn. Eric Halght, former standout at Delhi Tech, will start in place forward Steve Wolcott. Flewelling hopes the move will pay dividends in the scoring column. Haight is a good outside shooter and the Dragons are going to need a lot of outside scoring punch as they try to combat the Devils tough zone defense. Defensively Flewelling plans to full court, man to man press Fredonia into making some early mistakes.

Jim Spartano's a team, fresh off a big win over the Utica frosh, travels to Cortland to take on the freshmen of Cortland-Tompkins Community College. is determined to make the most of the opportunity. Chipman and the other members of his staff, namely assistant AD George Mitchell and assistant basketball coach Nick Lambros, as well as the public relations staff, know that basketball is a lot more In the limelight nationally than is soccer. Chipman, who understandably enough would like to concentrate on winning this tourmey with his fine Warrior team, has named Mitchell and Lambros co-directors of the regional event. This brings us to the problems involved in running a successful show like this one and how immense those problems are.

Unlike a lot of the dlctums in the NCAA soccer handbook which can be interpreted by the area chairman at times to mean just about anything, the basketball handbook AND the NCAA have very definite ideas about how to run a basketball tourney. For example, there are NCAA big-wigs to notify in Kansas City, SID's must be contacted to coordinate the sending and receiving of promotional and' statistical material to both the NCAA office in Kansas City and to the host school. Practice times must be arranged for the competing teams, and things like parking regulations, crowd control, tickets all the way down to keeping the participating teams busy during non-game days must be talked about. Add to this the fact that Chipman Mitchell and Lambros actually only know the identity of three of the six teams involved in the regional and It's sometimes enough to make them not want to come to work in 'the morning. This group, along with Joe Lehman and Capt.

Ashton of the Wick's PR office, must tackle the most difficult job of all: satisfying the needs, wants and desires of the working press, radio and TV corps that lets the rest of the world know about the tourney. The tourney dates of March 9, 10 are still over two weeks away but even today Chipman's phone will ring with someons wanting to know where a good restaurant is located so he can feed his hoop team. The aforementioned forces are at work already "getting it together" for the regional and you just have to feel 'that this tourney will be one of the best this state has ever seen. NEW YORK (AP) No comments about the proceedings but an expression of optimism came out of Thursday's baseball contract talks after which Marvin Miller headed for Los Angeles and a players meeting. Miller, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, said he will present to the players "an optimistic view of today's meeting," as he left for Friday's players' meeting following a two-hour session with John Gaherin, the chief negotiator for the club owners.

Miller said he would return to New York Friday night and meet again with Gaherin on Saturday. One source close to the talks Lion grapplers rate tourney nod Sparky waiils players to back game CINCINNATI (AP) Cincinnati Reds Manager Sparky Anderson says the one thing he'd like to see is "some players stand up and say that their goal is to protect the game forever." Anderson commented in a telephone interview from his California home as he awaited word on the baseball negotiations between players and management. He noted the Reds had been scheuled to open camp in Florida for pitchers and catchers Friday. "To be truthful," Anderson said of continuing player-management struggles, "I never thought I'd see the day when sports would come to this. "This game," he said, "it's 'been so good to me.

I mean, I just don't deserve all the good things that baseball has given to me. I just have a high school education, that's all. "There's a lot of guys, I guess, who feel they should have all they get out of baseball. They think they can do it without the game. But me, I can have no complaints." Anderson said he wishes players would show concern for baseball's long-range future.

He said he hopes any delay in the opening of spring training is brief. "That would be like running into bad weather," he said. "Lose a couple of days. All that would do is force us to double up." Anderson said there is another aspect players and management must consider. "The fans," he said.

"I don't want to see them hurt. They've been so great through all this. I don't want to see them lose interest." Anderson was the National League's manager of the year last season when the Reds wor the NL pennant and lost the World Series to Oakland in seven games. said he-felt Miller wu looking for a good sampling of the players' mood in holding the meeting in Los Angeles. The meeting was the first of seven sectional briefings announced by Miller Feb.

following a players association executive board meeting at which the players called for a resumption of negotiations and the opening of spring training. Negotiations resumed the next day but spring training remained closed except for some non-roster players working out at several camps. Miller said the sectional meetings with the players would not be held If spring training opened or if he was busy negotiating and for this reason Miller's trip to Los Angeles was seen as a pulse-feeling of the situation since negotiations are scheduled to be held again Saturday for the seventh time in eight days. The next two scheduled sectional player meetings are for Chicago Monday and Houston Wednesday. The other four meetings are set for after March 1, the official opening date of spring training under individual player contracts.

The association has said it would consider it a lockout if the camps do not open March 1. Being negotiated are three- year contracts on the Basic Agreement, which covers active player-owner relations, and a pension-benefit plan, with the two thorniest issues being arbitration of individual contracts and the reserve clause, which binds a player to a team until he is traded, released or retires. Any agreement on the reserve clause probably will only be in the area of establishing a study of the controversial rule. The players originally asked for a one-year study while the owners have proposed a- three- year study. One result of the failure to.

reach a settlement has been the cancellation of several exhibition games set for the first week of March. Player contracts state they do not need to play In exhibitions until they have been in camp at least 10 days. Most players begin training before March 1. Devils lead NAIA defense Gay Brewer appears deep in thought as if trying to figure how to hold his lead in Gleason Golf Classic at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He shared early lead at the end of yesterday's round with Forest Fezler.

(AP wirephoto) Fezler golf leaders FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) Old pro Gay Brewer and obscure, tour' sophomore Forest Fezler matched five-under-par 67s and shared the lead Thursday after the first round of Jackie Gleason's rich golf classic. The 40-year-old Brewer, who makes a habit of winning big money events, and Fezler, who has never won anything at all, were two strokes in front in this event which carries more than $250,000 in prize money and has the official title of Jackie Gleason-Inverrary-Na- tional Airlines Classic. Lee Trevino made his first challenge of the year in the $260,000 tournament. The British Open champion--never a factor in the seven-week West- era swing--had a 69 on the 128-yard Inverrary Golf Club course.

He was tied for third with Gibby Gilbert, a tour regular from nearby Hollywood, with rookie Tom Kite just one stroke further back at 70. Tom Weiskopf, the defending champion, was one of a half dozen at 71. Others Included Doug Sanders, Johnny Miller, Al Geiberger, John Garner and Bob Barbarossa. Ski report Perfect error An outfielder gets an error when his perfect throw hits a base runner, provided a runner gets and extra base on the throw. PITTSBURGH (AP) Sixteen teams and 160 wrestlers from across the East visit the Pitt Field House this weekend for the 69th annual Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Associ- tion (EIWA) Tournament.

Penn State, loser of only one dual meet this year, rates as the favorite, followed by defending champion Navy and perennially tough Lehigh. Princeton, Army and the University of Pittsburgh, host team, have outside chances for the title. teams in the tournament are Cornell, Yale, Syracuse, Penn, Columbia, Rutgers, Harvard, Colgate, Franklin Marshall and Temple. In addition to the team title, 10 individual crowns are at stake. The top four place winners in each division quality for the NCAA tournament March 810 in Seattle, Wash.

There will be no returning champions in the tournament, hut six runners-lip from last year's meet in Philadelphia will participate. They are Tom Teagarden of Penn State at 118 pounds, Bob Medina of Penn State at 134, Ross Chafin of Navy at 146, John Chatman of Pitt at 158, Terry DeStito of Lehigh at 167 and Tim Karpoff of Yale at heavyweight. Penn State rates as the favorite even though Navy has won the team title four of the last five years. The Nittany Lions downed Navy 24-13 in a dual meet this season, and they've won ten in a row since losing to Michigan 31-6. "Michigan is one.

of the best teams the country and we were't ready to wrestle a team that was in midseason form," says Penn State Coach Bill Roll. "We wrestled poorly and Michigan wrestled well," he added. "We just got clobbered, but we aren't nearly as poor as we looked against Michigan." Braves to move games BUFFALO (AP) The Buffalo Braves of the National Basketball Association confirmed Thursday that nine of their 41 home games next season will be played in Toronto. The Canadian games will test the viability of professional basketball in that metropolis of 2.1 million, a club spokesman said. Maple Leaf Gardens has expressed interest in acquiring an NBA franchise in the next league expansion.

Braves owner Paul Snyder, whose Buffalo franchise now includes Toronto territory, commented, "I'll do anything to help Toronto get a franchise. What's good for Toronto is good for all of us." The dates and opponents for the Toronto games have not yet been announced, but one of the contests will be a preseason exhibition. KANSAS CITY (AP) West Georgia College and Fredonia State, N.Y., havce maintained their leads in offense and defense in the weekly National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics team basketball statistics released Thursday. West Georgia has averaged 97.8 points per game in posting an 18-3 record. Kearney State, was second at 97.5 in a 12-7 season.

Fredonia State, 12-6, had yielded only 50.3 points per outing, followed by 53.2 by Wisconsin-Green Bay. Marymount College of Salina, continued with the largest winning margin of 23 points per game in a 22-2 campaign. Wisconsin-Green Bay also led in team field goal shooting, hitting better 54 per cent. Athens, was the leader in team free throw percentage, topping 78 per cent. LeMoyne-Owen of Tennessee remained No.

1 in team rebounding by claiming better than 65 per cent, compared with 63 per cent of Bethel, Tenn. Siisqueltaniia basketball DELHI Mokay Hood Ciort Turner FRANKLIN (9 fl tp 9 6 24 Silt! 16 8 7 23 DeAndroo 2 0 4Houcl 4 3 15 Taylor Grout Burgin Robinson Geertgeni Brydftn fg ft tp 12 5 2 1 5 5 0 10 3 3 4 0 8 3 0 6 0 0 0 4 1 10 3 1 7 0 0 0 Tatoli Delhi 'B' Fronklin 1 21 103 36 12 84 18 23 38-103 IS 16 20 20- E4 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Here are ski conditions reported Thursday to the New York State Commerce Department: Code: base; powder; mm, machine made; pkd, packed; gr, granular; frz, frozen; set, settled; Is, loose; corn; wb, windblown; sc, spring conditions; ltd, limited; pr, poor; fr, fair; gd, good; ex, excellent. Adirondack Ski Center Saturday and Sunday 15 to 20b 3p ex. Big Tupper 4 to 20b Ip gd-ex.

Garnet Mt. 18b 4pkd ex. Gore Mt. 2 to 20b Ip gd. Hickory Hill 20b Ip ex.

Hidden Valley 15 to 20b Ip ex. North Creek Ski Bowl 5 to 25b gd-ex. Oak Mt. 17 to 23b Ipkd gd. McCauley Mt.

10 to 15b 2p gd. Royal Mt. 4 to 36b 1 to 2p ex. Snow Ridge 16b ex. Taconic Trails 5 to 30b 4 to 5p ex.

West Mt. 3 to 48b Ip gd-ex. Whiteface Mt. 2 to 40b 3p gd- ex. Woods Valley 3 to lOb gd.

Catskills: Belleayre 8 to lOb 1 to 2p gd- ex. Big Birch 8 to 30b 2p gd. Big Vanilla 12 to 26b groomed gr gd-ex. Catamount 4 to 20b 1 to 3p Catskill 4 to lOb 5p ex lower ltd. Fahnestock 18 to 30b 2p gd- ex.

Grossingers 42 to 52b 1 to 2pkd ex. Highmount 2 to lOb Ip gd-ex. Hunter Mt. 20 to 60b gd-ex. Kutshers 20 to 36b 1 to 2p gd- ex.

USOC head blasts new Olympic group NEW YORK (AP) The Committee for a Better Olympics is being used by a few persons who are seeking dictatorial power over amateur sports, Philip. Krumm, new president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, charged Thursday. Denying reports that the USOC supports proposals'made by the Committee for a Better Olympics to restructure 'the Olympic body, Krumm said in a statement: "I have followed with interest the work of this self-appointed committee and have come to Foreman wins Hickok belt NEW YORK (AP) George Foreman, who gained the world heavyweight championship by stopping Joe Frazier in the second round of their scheduled 15- round fight at Kingston, Jamaica Jan. 22, has been named January winner of the S.

Rae Hickok poll in the race for the Professional Athlete of the Year award. Foreman was an overwhelming winner, receiving 146 of 155 first-place votes and a total of 450 points. Bruce Crampton, winner of two tournaments on the pro golf tour, was a distant runnerup, finishing with two first-place votes and 150 points. this conclusion--well-meaning individuals are permitting themselves to be used as an administrative tool of the NCAA and the continued insatiable quest for dictatorial power over amateur sports by a few." The Committee for a Better Olympics announced last Monday a draft of a 10-point plan that would reconstruct the nation's Olympic program. The program, drawn up at a two- day meeting in Chicago nf 64 delegates including 12 Olympians, called for a new USOC organized along state lines and with a greater representation of active athletes.

Krumm said that the restructuring of the USOC called for by the committee indicated "a lack of information and understanding of the membership requirements of a national Olympic committee laid down by the International Olympic Committee. "This committee has disregarded the primary organization rule namely, the United States of America members of all international sports federations must have a voting majority in the Olympic Committee." Golfs Gary Player 'glad 9 hospital days are over NEW YORK (AP) Golfer Gary Player says he is experiencing a "painful recovery" following major abdominal surgery and removal of a baseball-sized cyst from his leg. "I'm glad it's over. I put it off so long," said the man Vno has wone all of the world's Big Four golf championships. "I'm only sorry it kills the start of my golf schedule in America." Player said he definitely will miss Florida stops on the rich United States tour, is doubtful to defend his title at the New Orleans Open in late March and "just hopes" to be fit for the Masters in Augusta, April 5-8.

"I've done beautifully In Florida tournaments and won a ton of friends there," he said Thursday by telephone from a hospital bed in Pretoria, not far from his expansive ranch. "The thought of missing New Orleans hurts, too, since I won there a year ago. But you can't play games' with nature. I'm just thankful everything is going to be okay." It was two years ago that Player developed a large cyst behind his left knee. It bothered him, especially when it was necessary to play 36 holes in a day.

By last June, Player became worried. He consulted a doctor in Florida who told him cur- gery was needed. He advised Gary to finish the season and have the repairs made when he returned to South Africa in the a for a three-month break from the U.S. tour. But when pain from the cyst eased, Gary procrastinated.

He never liked the Idea of anyone putting a knife to his body. He was scheduled to enter "The unique two- day competition in which ended last Tuesday. Player prides himself on physical fitness, doing roadwork even when quartered at posh country clubs.for tournaments, and he had his head set on winning the multi-game Superstar event. But the cyst flared up again and Player reluctantly withdrew from Superstars and entered the Pretoria hospital In early February for surgery. Just when he was recovering, Player winced with another pain.

A blockage was dis- between the kidney and bladder. Gary had felt the pain before, but it always wore off. He was hospitalized again last Monday for major surgery from which he now is recuper- ting. Chances are, he won't even feebly swing a golf club until well Into March. Sam Houston tops ratings NEW YORK (AP) Unbeaten Sam Houston State was a near-unanimous choice Thursday as the No.

1 team in the NAIA basketball coaches ratings. The Bearkats, 23-0, received 28 of 29 first-place votes and 434 points. Augustana, whose only loss in 23 games was to Sam Houston Slate, collected the other firsl-place nomination and was second in the poll with 400. Stephen F. Austin, 24-3, remained third with 350 points, followed in order by Marymount, 22-2; St.

Thomas, 21-3; Kentucky State, 20-4; Fairmont State, 18-4; Blucfleld Stale, Alcorn AM, 21-3, and Wisconsln-Eau. Claira,.