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Raleigh RegisteiyBeckley, Wv -Va Wednesday By MILTON RICHMAN NEW YORK you play chess?" said Wes Parker, first baseman for the Los Angeles baseball's more active minds, "but I'm interested in the game." "You Playoffs And Dream Fulfilled the world pionship going on in Iceland now?" "Yes, rm Mowing it" "Because of this guy Fischer?" "He's the main reason, I suppose." "How do you feel about him, do you like him or not?" "I like him." "Why?" Wes Parker mulled it over awhile. "I like him because he has --s," said Parker, using a word which is perfectly okay in a baseball clubhouse but not in a family newspaper, a word meaning not only brass but much more, and one which describes Bobby Fischer, the pensive, seemingly strange chess genius from Brooklyn word you can think of. Here's a pale, studious, almost timid-looking 29-year-old one-time Boy Wonder who makes guys like Joe Namath and Dick Allen look like a couple of amateurs when it I comes to doing his own his own way and in his own good time. The opening match in Reykjavik Tuesday was a perfect example. Word had filtered down that Fischer was "go, go, go" for that first match with Boris Spassky, Russia's world champion.

Spassky was all set. Everyone in the Reykjavik Chess Hall was holding his breath as the Russian, playing the white pieces, made the first move, opening with the Queen pawn. The world championship officially was on. But something was missing. Fischer.

He wasn't there. What was before he had to make the first move. Fischer didn't set out to keep Spassky waiting. He didn't do it purposely. The official clock was ticking but be didn't care.

Bobby Fischer ALWAYS is late. He has been late for more important things than a chess match, E-yen a world championship one. And bet on it, he'll be late again. That's the way he is. Finally, after eight minutes, during which time Spassky get up impatiently and walked around, Fischer appeared.

He shook hands with Spassky and then sat down in his special swivel chair which he had flown in from New York for these championships. Fischer studied the board two minutes, then made his first move, knight to King bishop three. In Ms own mind, Fischer feels he's one little guy taking on the whole Russian government. He doesn't feel this way because of any politics, the usual politics between countries, that is, but because oJ chess politics. Regardless, he always played to win.

(Lagt a By DAVID WOLF (From "Fort He Hawkiw Story," by Dtvid Wott. vm by David WolL Published by Beit, Riaetiart and The physical and emotional train on an athlete during the playoffs is among the most intense in all sports. The -egular season is just a prelude champions are crowned in the playoffs. For Hawkins, there was dditonal challenge. The Suns rare matched against the powerful Los Angeles Lakers, with veteran superstars Jerry West, Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain.

Although Chamberlain has ilayed on only one NBA championship team, the most prolific corer in pro-basketball history venerated throughout the eague, especially, by black flayers. "He's admired because -more than anyone else he's lis own man," says Hawkins. 'A lot of players would like be able to say the things adjourned, meaning each man had made his allotted 40 moves in the five-hour time limit with no decision being reached When the game is resumec today, Spassky will have the upper hand although Fischer can still get a draw. In this first of 24 games Spassky played the way every body thought he would-conservatively. That figurec because if this whole busines winds up even, say 12-12, Spassky goes back home Russia the same way he cami to champion Fischer has the first move ir a second game though.

Watch him go! He'll play a different game. You can bet that, too. Wes Parker doesn't have be a chess expert. He's still got Bobby Fische he says, to knock their coaches played superbly averaging or call the NBA 'bush But they're afraid. Dipper isn't and he gets away with it." "They also envy him because of his wealth and fame," Connie adds.

"And there's his body; he's a giant even to us. Dipper is way over 7-2, he's near 300 pounds and he's still quick. To many black athletes, Wilt seems the embodiment of their dreams and ambitions. He has and has almost all the possessions considered important when one grows up poor. For Hawkins, the playoffs were added proof of his stature 25 points, 14 rebounds, and 6 assists and almost led Phoenix to an astonishing upset.

Phoenix was just not yet in the class. Several Phoenix players sat in the locker room at practice, discussing their opponents. The Suns' tone was almost fu. "They've got all kinds of personality problems on that team. Elgin really hates noted Goodrich, who had played for the Lakers.

"He always has. within the Connie That makes him mad." 'Dipper doesn't like West either-- and the feeling is mutual," said Jerry Chambers, another ex-Laker. They all pretty much dislike each other. But, the one nobody likes is Happy Hairston." "How come?" asked Connie; "The man plays good, but all you hear is mat he's a bad dude." And Wilt hates him When Chamberlin sets up on the same side as Elgin, Baylor hasn't got any room to drive. It ruins his game and he's always mad about it Wilt knows.

Woodrow Results Team Three beat Team One 109-101, and Team Two topped Team Four 64-50 last night in the Woodrow Wilson Summer iasketball League. Charlie Gillian Xobert Elliot Elicky Vance Tommy Jones Johnny Gautier Totals Team One fg m-f a tp 16 2-3 3 34 19 14 239 4 1-2 1 5 11-2 0 3 8 0-2 0 16 48 5-13 101 Team. Three lion Napper Kobert Happer David Robinson Pat Ward James Nickleson Totals Team One learn Three 1-2 0-0 4-6 0-0 0-0 52 5-8 0 43 418 130 0 414 9109 20 24 37 20--101 232425 34--1M Team Two Kenny Tax. Glen Davis Tom Happold Mike Motley Wesley Baninger Mike Cavendish Totals 2-3 112 2-3 1 14 0-0 0 12 3-5 319 0 4 1 3 0-0 1-1 8-12 6 64 Team Four 5 5 5 7 3 1 25 Chip Xeatley. Henry Coaltrain Bob Robinson Freddie Wright Robert Henderson James Bandy Totals Team Two 13 15 Team.

Four 0-2 3 It 0-2 3 li 0-0 0 I 1 0-2 2 1 0 0 0 0-2 3 0-8 11 5 21 12--5f Jim Gflcrest (left), swim, coach at Black Knight Country dub, instructs Beth Pugh and Doug Daniels on proper take-off as the two practice for i meets. Pugh and Daniels were chosen swimmers of the week at BKCC for, according to Gilcrest, 'tod work in practice a outstanding performances in the. meets." Pogh is the 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.

S. Pugh Jr. of 108 Lan- caster St She will be a fiinth grader at Beckley Junior High this fall. tfie 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Daniels of 119 Quesenberry wfll be a junior at Woodrow Wilson. LUaCll BKCC Swimmers Notch 5th Consecutive Triumph GIRLS BREAST (50) Too APR fBKCC) en rRTTflTl Tom Clarke broke two records one in the butterfly and the second in freestyle -at Hawks Nest Monday as the Black Knight Country Glub swim team' won its fifth meet against no losses. The final score was 338-105. Clarke, swimming in the lo- 14-yearold age group, set new marks of 1:08.9 in the butterfly and 1:18.6 in the freestyle. Fred Werdine, Hawks Nest set a club record of 40.0 in the 9-10- year-old butterfly.

BKCC won four 01 the five relays, with the only loss coming in the 15-17 mixed relay. Black Knighf next meet will be at Glendale Thursday. Nest) Kevin Lee 49-6 (BKCO Scott Long (BKCC) GIRLS 9-10 BACK OO) Sibbie 36.1 Joann Fish BOYS H-12 BACK Clarke 48.9 (BKCC) Turner GIRLS 11-12 BACK (50) Kitzie Thompson 51-0 (BKCC) 1 Hanyette Fish 1:52.4 (HN) 1 Frank Pugh 20.1 (BKCC) 2." Robie Richmond (BKCC) GIRLS 3 Lynn Warren 1. Cooper 1:43.9 (BKCC) I. Sibbie Long (BKCC) BOTS 11-12 (IW) IM 1.

David Clarke 1:36.2 (BKCC) I. Danny Warren (BKCC) GIRLS 11-W 1. Kitzie Thompson CBKCC) t. Ann White (Hawks NesO BOTS 13-14 (2W 1 Tom Clarke 3:05.06 (BKCC) Bfll Turner (BKCC) GIRLS 13-M 1. Lesley -Smith 3:37 Nest) J.

Sam Galloway (BKCC) -J WOE 3S) 1 Taria Ahmed 31.5 (BKCC) 1 Brian Jones (BKCC) GIRLS I BACK (25) 1. Alexander Zambos 30.6 (BKCC) Greg Lee (BKCC) Alary Beth Knapp 1:39.6 (BKCC) Bin KnaPP (BKCC) (25) Fred Werdine 37.6 (Hawks Nest) Yvonne Cooper 42.1 (BKCC) 1. Chuck Turner 38.7 (BKCC) Kitzie Thompson 35.5 (BKCC) Ann White (Hawks BOYS 1S-14 FREE (100) Tom Clarke 1:0855 (BKCC) Patsy Fish 1:19.6 (Hawks Nest) Ann Robinson (Haks Nest) BOTS 15-17 FREE (100) Jerry BlackweH 1:14 (Hawks Nest) THE "NEW" Connie Hawkins has gained an Afro nair- cut and recognition as one of the NBA's since joining the Phoenix Suns. "Tiey say Happy talks behind people's backs," said Jim Fox. "I know Silas added.

"West acts "like he digs everybody, but he don't dig Hairston. After I had that fight with him the other night, West comes over to me and says, 1 wish you'd busted his Paul Silas nodded toward the fatigued Hawkins, a i against a wall, towering above a knot of reporters, after the last game. "That dude, he's the biggest reason for everything we accomplished. What he did this year was amazing. Man, Ms whole life is amazing.

When I try and imagine what he's gone through a proud man like Hawk, being an outcast, playing with the Globetrotters I feel I'm gonna break down and cry. I don't know how Hawk kept his sanity. But he did and now he's proved he's as great as they say." Connie was still just 28 years old. But 1570-71 was his 10th season as a professional. "He's played so many said trainer Joe Proski that winter, 'they have to take a toll.

He never had any 25-game college seasons. He was playing 250 a year "with the Globetrotters. All that pounding up and down or concrete in the playgrounds, all the traveling ii the bushes with the lousy food and the injuries that never got treated right -Hawk is a very old 28." For the first time, Connie was forced to consider possibility that his greates games might already be behin him-- lost in the obscurity a Brooklyn schoolyards or empty Minnesot arenas. One evening we borrowed a friend's car and drove to Bed- Iord-Stuyvesant. temperature was in the 90s.

The sidewalks and stoops were crowded. Soul and gospel blared from open windows. Beneath the pak glow of Hie street lights men clustered, shooting craps. Down the block from Connie's old apartment on Lexington Avenue two btond-wigged prostitutes, their legs tooth-pi: leaned against a building. a stoplight, Hawk stared at Oro a heavy-set junkie who sat on stoop, his head rolling unevenly from side to side.

"That guy used to be one of the quickest, toughest guards that ever played at Boys High," Connie sighed. Hawkins was quiet, pensive. He looked out at the squalid streets and finally said, "It gets worse. Every time I corne back. Man, so many guys I grew up with never made it out of here.

Some people do. My sister Lena and my brother Randy are working with the Black Coali- tion. My brother FredpVt daughter, Pat, is national champ in the hurdles. But two of my brothers got no work. They're men, they've got pride.

They want jobs, but they can't find anything. "The drug thing is just swallowing people he continued. "Remember a Wright, that great forward for Lane? He played with us ia the schoolyards. Me and him were in a picture in TV Guide, our senior year. Now he's dead.

An overdose. The same with Theodous, the kid I used to pitch pennies with." The schoolyard was empty. Connie sat down on a splintery woodea bench and leaned forward, his long fingers clasped beneath his chin. Hawkins was silent He watched a police car roar down Lafayette Avenue, its red light whirling, its siren crying out in the night Then Connie spoke, the words came slowly, chosen with care: "It was worth it. The NBA was my lifelong dream.

After all those years all the work people did to clear my name. I know some people think I've slipped, that i'm not the Connie Hawkins they used to know. Well, next season, I'm gonna prove them wrong." Hawk paused again. His large, sleepy eyes stared out at the asphalt courts where he first learned to go one-on-one. "You know, in a way, it really doesn't matter," he said.

"Whatever I've got, whatever'S left of my game, I want to play it against the best" (END SERIES.) YOUR INCOME- your most important asset. Protect it with DISABILITY INCOME INSURANCE PAUL O. BURDETTE the rush? He had an hour After that season, Hawl me in New York Gty ANNUAL SALE JULY Frank PuKh 27,7 (BKCC) 2. Robie Richmond (BKCC) GIRLS 3 BREAST (25) Lynn Warren 32.4 (BKCC) David Nuttelt 52.6 (HN) 2. Tom (BKCC) GIRLS BREAST (50) 1 Yvonne Cooper 50.7 (BKCC) 2.

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