Pacific Daily News from Agana Heights, Guam • 39

PACIFIC DAILY NEWS SATURDAY JULY 8 1972-PAGE 39 Fischer Writes Presents Apology begin play on Tuesday The brief ceremony Thursday-night was the first face-to-face' meeting between to accept apology" Harry Golombek an official of the1 International Chess Federation-FIDE- announced that both players had agreed to REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer apologized in writing Thursday to Boris Spassky for that threatened their world championship chess match Subsequently Tass news agency said demands of the Soviet delegation have been -It was announced that the first game would be played uesday Fischer the American challenger and Spassky the Soviet world champion met Thursday night to draw for the first move in the $300000 series of 24 games Fischer drew the black pawn giving Spassky the first move with white and a slight advantage The draw was done the same way park-bench dress players would do it Spassky took two pawns one white one black juggled them behind his back then extended his closed hands to Fischer Without hesitation Fischer hunched forward and pointed a finger to right hand With a smile Spassky opened it Twins Fire Rigney Quilici Is Manager Fischer delayed the opening of the match which was to have begun last Sunday in a holdout for more money More prize money was donated but Spassky then demanded a written apology for conduct before the champion would play In his letter to Spassky Fischer called his attempt to grab a share of gate receipts petty dispute- over and asked the Russian Official Little League Playoff Schedule contenders in preparations the pre-game I Calvin said we are not selling any tickets and he wants to go with a local Rigney said He then went to the clubhouse to tell the players who had gathered for a practice session The 3 3-y ear-old Quilici has been with the Twins organization for 1 1 years He was a utility infielder with the Twins from 1965 until 1970 'Quilici played in 405 major league games and had a lifetime batting average of 214 In his best season 1968 he hit 245 in 97 games Rigney was in his 1 7th season as a major league manager He was named to the Twins post after the 1 969 season in a controversial shakeup after Martin led the club to the title Before joining Minnesota Rigney 54 managed the California Angels for nine years and the San Francisco Giants for five seasons He began his managerial career in Minneapolis with the old Millers of the American Association and then went to the New York Giants after the 19SS season Griffith said he had decided definitely to make the change only Thursday morning know had a couple sleepless Griffith told newsmen decided on my way to work that we stand another year like last The Twins finished fifth in 1971 drawing 940858 fans 4 the first time in the 11-year his-4 tory of the club that less than one million had gone through the turnstiles and down from a record 1483547 In 1967 M1NNEAPOLIS-ST PAUL (AP) Youthful Frank Quilici was named manager of the Minnesota' Twins Thursday replacing Bill Rigney who was fired by President Calvin Griffith most important reason' for making this change was that the players reacting on the Griffith told a hastily called news conference many were too The Twins who led the American West Division early in the season were in third place with a 36-34 record 9 12 games behind first place Oakland Griffith said he feared anoth--er fifth place finish for the Twins who returned from a road trip Wednesday after winning only once in six games just hoping Frank will have a little better luck the second half of the Griffith said think as far as I'm concerned we can have the Twins making a little said Quilici in his second year as a Twins coach -learned from a lot of guys including Calvin and our friend Billy Martin is that got to have a lot of pride got to get it all Martin current Detroit manager piloted the Twins to the West Division title in 1969 Rigney was not present at the news conference Earlier' he had told a newsman he had spent 90 minutes with Griffith being told of his dismissal as manager Below is the official schedule of the 1 972 Guam Little League Playoffs The Tournament is a double round robin with five teams to determine a winner to enter the Far East Little League Tournament being held here late this month Northam vs Central West Central vs Western July 1 3 Northern vs Central West July 1 3 Central East vs Western July 1 3 Northern vs Southern July 14 Central East vs Central July 14 Western vs Northern July 1 5 Central West vs Southern July 1 Northern vs Central East July Western vs Southern July 1 6 Central West vs western July 17 Central East vs Southern July 1 7 Central West vs Northern July 1 Western vs Central East July 1 1 Southern vs Northern July 19 Central vs Central July 19 Northern vs Western July 20 Southern vs Central West July 20 -Central East vs Northern July 2 1 Southern vs Western July 2 1 Western vs Central West July 22 Southern vs Central East July 22 Fischer walks down plane ramp 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