News-Pilot from San Pedro, California • 12

Crusty Brundage defends ideals WSjLP I LOT Spm'ts Tues July 18 1972 Bernie Evans Grid start little more than incubators for the pros producing halfbacks pitchers and basket-stuffers hyprocritical and He disdains hard liquor smoke or drink He prides himself on his knowledge of wines Asked what he regarded as the highlight of his 29-year tenure as IOC president Brundage quickly responded: growth the massive growth of the movement We have grown in importance and magnitude We are almost too He said he would like to see the elimination of the Winter Games and of certain team sports such as soccer basketball and ice hockey Brundage insisted that such team sports as football basketball and ice hockey are so heavily pro-indoctrinated that they have become businesses instead of sports and us a lot of shoulders and hands that reflect the days when he pushed a wheel barrow and mixed concrete He has retained the athletic build of younger days when he was best all-around athlete and a frustrated nonmedalist in the decathlon and pentathlon events in the 1912 Olympics at Stockholm He succeeded Gen Douglas MacArthur as president of the US Olympic Committee in 1928 and in 1952 became head of the IOC Throughout he has remained a staunch defender of the ideals of Baron de Couber-tin who established the Modern Olympics in 1896 Olympics are important everywhere except the United he said gloomily here everything is commercial we are interested only in professional sports We are becoming a nation of Brundage said colleges are By WILLGRIMSLEY SANTA BARBARA Calif (AP) has a right to get into the Avery Brundage said leaning back in his red leather swivel chair and letting his eyes gaze out over the Pacific not a right a privilege Olympics are not just a competition to see who can run the fastest or throw the farthest not a world championship unique an ideal They can't be changed by At 84 scarred by a thousand battles and preparing after 20 years to step out as president of the International Olympic Committee the crusty Chicago millionaire is still unbendable in his defense of the purity of sports and the sacredness of the unsoiled amateur are two kinds of he added who are interested in sports for sake and the ones inter ested for financial reasons Why should the pros want a medal? Let them hold their own world championship if they wish The Olympics will always remain amateur" Years of vilification have stiffened rather than softened this crochety controversial Colossus of Olympic idealism Painted as a tyrant an unrealistic old man still living in the Middle Ages he has been in a dozen languages legacy is a clear conscience and a thick Brundage said in a recent interview He was sitting in a sparsely furnished first-floor office of the Montecito Country Club one of the few properties he has retained Brundage lives alone in a newly-constructed penthouse atop the club His wife Elizabeth died a year ago They had no children The penthouse is barren not fully decorated with papers and Olym pm to handle his voluminous correspondence He also has an office in Lausanne Switzerland the IOC base but much of his work is done in the first-class lounge of trans-continental 747s He is constantly on the move averaging three trips around the world a year can only sleep three hours at a Brundage said of my best work is done in the middle of the night I usually go to bed at around 1 am and up at For a man 20 years beyond the normal retirement age Brundage is a remarkable figure Straight as a poker he walks with a brisk step He seems to have an inexhaustible source of energy and vitality He expressed his viewpoints in strong ringing tones A six-footer balding with horn-rimmed glasses perched on a bulbous nose he has a thick 17-inch neck powerful pic effects strewn all over the place The shelves of a huge cabinet which once strained under the weight of priceless jade and other Oriental art treasures were empty Over the years Brundage amassed one of the biggest collections of Chinese art He gave the entire collection valued as between $30 million and $40 million to San Francisco which placed it in a special museum at Golden State Park About six times a year the bustling globe-girdling Olympic boss sneaks away to this quiet pleasant resort once the playground of millionaires to get his breach and stoke up for new wars to fight His US headquarters is atop LaSalle Hotel which he recently sold for $10 million There he maintains two shifts of secretaries one reporting at 9 Ram QB suffers lung collaps Gabriel recovers Baseball standings American quickly I failed to report to the Washington training quarters Duncan will be fined $100 a day unless he produces a valid reason for his absence Cincinnati Bengals Coach Paul Brown heartened by the experience and depth of his First reports indicated Ga- team called session briel could be out from five jjest first jgy weve had Gabriel had been firing passes in the first drill of veteran players at the Long Beach State College training camp when he said: think I can practice any longer Fischer has chess win REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) It was the greatest triumph in his career yet Bobby Fischer missed the moment by arriving late The end of the third game begun Sunday and adjourned until Monday was swift German referee Lothar Schmid and Spassky were alone on the stage with no sign of the American when the clock passed 5 pm Schmid opened a large brown envelope read the move Fischer had scribbled down Sunday night when the game adjourned and moved bishop The crowd held its breath and waited for Spassky to sit down For 30 seconds the Russian stood by the board and looked at the pieces Then he calmly stopped the clock to his right He tipped over his king indicating he resigned was another Thomas Bill Thomas the No 1 draft selection from Boston College who yet signed a contract Lou Michaels who hit on eight of 14 field goal attempts after being persuaded out of retirement last season failed to report to the training site and Coach Dan Devine said the team probably would waive the veteran place kicker Michaels was listed behind rookie Chester Marcol and sophomore Tim Webster on the preseason depth chart five years of Duane Thomas the elusive fleet-footed running back who sparked drive to the Super Bowl championship last season was still missing from the camp Also absent weeks to the entire season Later reports however said the former North Carolina standout could return to action within a month In absence the signal-calling burdens have been delegated to reserves John Walton and Jerry Rhome Elsewhere around pro football Speedy Duncan the leading punt returner last season was the only veteran who of the right lung a condition caused by rupturing of a small air cyst at the top of the lung The attending physician who asked not to be named said the condition could afflict any healthy individual regardless of physicial activity MEANDERING right around the corner for Marine League preps Some ML grads will participate in this North-South Shrine game at the Coliseum while many others will see duty in next Lions All Star clash atElCamino College The underclassmen who will fill the shoes of those gridiron graduates will soon be competing in various passing leagues The Harbor College passing league gets underway at the Wilmington campus tonight San Pedro High School initiates its physical fitness program for varsity and Bee gridders at 6: 30 pm August 7 Bobby Fischer is either one of the wisest strategists around or one of the most rude and ungrateful Ken Patera top weightlifter observed that psychology plays a vital part in dictating success or failure during a weightlifting meet Perhaps Fischer feels even stronger about psychology and chess There could be a rigid pattern behind the tantrums and delays If not the case Fischer seems to have a deep-rooted emotional problem In either case his antics have focused more attention on chess than most people would have imagined Armando Muniz recorded a second-round knockout his last time around but looked like a rugged amateur in doing the damage Still a headliner Muniz defends his North American welterweight title July 31 at the Anaheim Convention Center His probable opponent is Raul Soriano When he was last featured in Anaheim Muniz was destroyed by Emile Griffith Armando has been catching too many punches in each of his bouts The likeable boxer may be slipping from here on out The Harbor College passing league is one of the biggest if not the biggest in Southern California More than 500 players will be participating in the league which begins tonight The league will run six weeks through August 30 when the bracket champion meets the bracket kingpin Harbor College and Southwest College will eah have two entries in the league Single entries include teams from San Pedro Banning Carson Narbonne Gardena Locke Rolling Hills Palos Verdes Fremont Los Angeles Jefferson Manual Arts Crenshaw Washington Bell Westchester Bishop Montgomery Dorsey Jordan and Morningside Harbor College football coach Harold Daniels is supervising the league A team wins when it collects 40 points Teams can net two points for an interception or a touchdown and a single point for a completion of 10 yards or longer Competition will last from 6-8 pm every Tuesady Wednesday and Thursday The United top drag boat drivers will be in Southern California August 4-6 at Long Beach Marine Stadium for the nationals If you like speed the boats will be trying to break the world record of 20246 mph set by Mr Ed The Los Angeles Rams are beginning to resume their visits to the Majestic Cafe once again And things change when the Baltimore front office moves into the Rams organization Colt executive Don Klosterman a good friend of Lou Mascola has been a visitor to the San Pedro restaurant The Olympic Auditorium celebrates the 30th anniversary of promoter Aileen Eaton Everything at the concession stands beer hotdogs popcorn etc will go for 15 cents Arturo Pineda and Pedro Lovell will be featured in separate bouts on the anniversary card Monday's Results Boston 4 ANGELS 1 Oakland at Milwaukee ram Baltimore 3 Texas I Detroit 3 Chicago I Only games scheduled Games Baltimore (McNally 10 7) at Texas (Hand 7 6) night Chicago (Lemonds 1 3) at Detroit (Cole man 11 8) night Oakland (Horlen 2 I and Hunter 11 4) at Milwaukee (Stephenson 2 2 and Lon borq 7 4) night Minnesota (Corbin 5 2) at New York (Kline 8 4) niqht ANGELS (Ryan 11 6) at Boston (Culp 5 8) night Cleveland (Perry 15 7 and Wilcox 6 11) at Kansas City (Splittorft 9 5 and Dal Canton 5 3) niqht Wednesday's Games Cleveland at Kansas City Baltimore at Texas Chicaqo at Detroit Oakland at Milwaukee Minnesota at New York 6NGEU5 at Bpston UCLA's Nater quits US Olympic team HONOLULU (AP) Center Swen Nater has quit the US Olympic basketball team US Olympic basketball chairman Summers says Lovitto 2-4 RAM QUARTERBACK ROM AN GABRIEL 11V PAY WE? kennedy Cardenas Yastrjemski Cater 2 HR Fisk (14) BALTIMORE TEXAS ab bi Bufford If 2 2 0 0 DNelson 3b Oates 5 0 10 Kubiakss Grlch ss 3 0 11 Mmcher 1b JPowell lb 4 0 10 Maddox pr Belanger ss 0 0 0 0 Billmqsc BRobinsn3b 4 0 2 1 Bnttnerrf Crowley 3 0 0 0 Ford If 7 Baylor pr 0 10 0 Lovittocf DJOhnson 2b 3 0 0 0 Randle 2b Blatrcf 4 0 0 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