The Shreveport Journal from Shreveport, Louisiana • 11

NEWS WITH PICTURES THE SHREVEPORT JOURNAL SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CITY LA WEDNESDAY MARCH 29 1972 A ELEVEN rinriinnrLrr is Bobby Fischer in the American Chess Champion In Training for Title Match 1 THESE POLYESTER KNIT SUITS ARE RIGHT FOR EASTER THE PRICE IS RIGHT NOW! '-'1 If" iv fM Two models two contemporary looks both tailored in polyester knit and priced at only 4988 each! Combo model features wide lapels belted back deep vent and check coat with solid flare pants or choose the yarn dyed woven stripe coat and pants with wide lapels belted back and inverted center pleat Either or both natural for Easter and after Sizes 38 to 46 regular and long alterations free! KwftS? mm wh THE NEW HEEL DEAL TALL HEELS FOR MEN AT TALL SAVINGS 1- GItOSSINGER NY Bobby Fischer hope for the world chess championship rushed into the vast brightly lit dining room a giant resort tucked away in the Catskills been ensconsed for three weeks at the hotel a sprawling cluster of recreational facilities Ping Pong tables pin ball machines Pepsi dispensers indoor miniature golf courses swimming pool ski slope and convention room At age 29 poised for a crack at the world title in chess a goal since the beginning of his i 1 1 i a but uneven career time is he asked sitting down at a small table He was pale and his eyes were darker looking than usual His hair was damp and neatly combed He wore a blue suit and black tie printed with galloping red stallions MADE the 8 pm dinner deadline by one minute usually comes flying in the last person in the dining room always on the said the dining room hostess If running partly from the tension He challenges Russian Boris Spaasky for the title in a grueling 24-game match beginning June 22 in Belgrade -Yugoslavia THE INTERNATIONAL chess world has shown extraordinary interest in this match Some seven countries bid for it Usually there are only two or three bids Prize money for the match is set at $138500 with 72Ms per cent to the winner Fischer beat Tigran Petrosian Russian ex-world champion in the semifinals If he beats Spaasky he will become the first non-Russian to hold the world title in 25 years and the first official American holder This is it This is the big one for a man grown up obsessed with the complex moves of 32 chessmen around a checkered board FISCHER USUALLY dines alone in banquet hall filled with family-size absorbed in his wvk but still polite HE ASKED the maitre how much he should tip When left to decide for himself he gave the man $108 and said to spread it around to the others He got $55 back a gentle says the maitre -If the conversation lags he gets up and says He makes very few concessions to the social amenities which is refreshing in this says a hotel employee HIS REGIMEN is and private He does physical fitness exercises in his room bu work out at the hotel health club He but usually when no one else is around polite when guests come to say but keeps to hi He says skiing is too much trouble he plays table tennis bowls and goes to the movies occasionaly He often enters the Olympic size "indoor pool at the last hour GOT it down to a science like everything else he does The pool closes at 6:15 He waits until 6:05 He swims three or four laps and says life guard Eddie Fischer also is the last one out of the health club always in a corner to himself says Mike Farcus at the club adding that Fischer can be a sore loser at table tennis slamming down his racket ahen he losses A Y2 pm when he goes says Lillian Sterc staff chambermaid knock on the door at 1:30 and then sit and wait on the stairs until he comes out polite and nice And very good 1 i he says breaking into giggles Why did Fischer come to Grossingersi a scene from his younger days for one thing was the first hotel he 1 ever stayed says an employee His mother Regina Fischer 'brought him to the hotel when he won the US championship at age 14 REGULAR VALUES TO $1998 Heels lifed from Western cowboy boots and tamed for walking tall in the city get in on this new way of walking get in on the savings Thursday only at Bealls Three new styles in brown black and white or two-tone suede Bobby Fischer tables fake flowers joking conventioneers families with sullen-looking teen-agers and bubbly children in pink crocheted outfits whole theory of a hotel is a giant communal enterprise But Bobby remains a solitary says a hotel representative Solitude can be hard to find in this active noisy hotel exuding frolic and joie de A long-time meeting place for celebrities potentates and politicians it a to conventions and arranges special singles weekends BUT FISCHER finds solitude threading his way through a group of commercial photographers with their blue convention tags They have gathered after dinner around the grand piano to sing Wonder Kissing Her He walks by their exhibits of complex camera equipment and past the bar where guests are busy drinking Russian vodka WHEN FISCHER is more relaxe good company quick funny and interested in other people But this weekend he giving inter- 'views He mostly stays in is room 'i saying in a soft voice gotta study I gotta Many hotel employes see him as a withdrawn Hi 1 DAY ONLY My- 1 'k MljvV 'i! 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