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THE SUN B-7 Like Old Man River, Snead Keeps Rollin 9 Along By BOB GREEN' ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) When Sam Snead came wandering out of the West Virginia hills to try his hand at pro golf, most of the players now on the tour weren't born. "He's the most outstanding athlete the world has ever seen," Lee Trevino says of the old hill-billy, still sporting the spiffy Panama straw hat and the sweet swing that was his trademark four decades ago. And Snead, now closing in on 61, is a threat every time he tees up, even though he's competing against men less than half his age. "I think he'll win before we get out of Florida," said Jack Tuthill, the veteran tournament director for the Professional Golfers Association Tournament Players Division and one of the game's most respected observers.

Snead started on the pro tour in the dark days of Great Depression, when Arnold Palmer was 8 years old. It was the year Joe Louis beat Jim Braddock for the heavyweight championship; The Duke of Windsor married Mrs. Wally Simpson and Spencer Tracy won the Oscar for "Captains Courageous." A stringbean kid named Ted Williams was a hot prospect in the Pacific Coast League; Eoosevelt began his second term with John Nance Garner as Vice President, and civil war broke out in Spain. Don Budge was the athlete of the year; Ducky Medwick was the National League batting champion and Howard Hughes set a speed record when he flew across the United States in seven knurs, 28 minutes. Since that time, Snead has won a record S3 official tour events and seeral dozen other tournaments, the latest another National Seniors title about a month ago.

Last season, Snead played in only 12 official events but won more than $35,000. He took Jack Nicklaus through 63 holes before bowing in the Doral-Eastern Open, was fourth in the TGA National Championship he first won in 1943, eighth in the Walt Disney World and 10th in the Canadian Open. This season he challenged for the lead through three rounds and finally finished seventh in the Glen Campbell-Los Angeles Open, with a three under par 281 total. In his only other start this year, at the Jackie Gleason tournament Sunday, he tied for fourth with a six-under-par total and pushed his season earnings to $16,648. "The way he's improving," said nephew J.C.

Snead, himself the winner of three tour titles, "give him five more years and he'll be in the top 10 money winners." Tuesday, Feb. 27. 1973 ejMwewwfmifj nniiijewui 111111 Frayed Bruins Get A Needed Breather I I "I don't like long trips. There's nnt much to do on the extra day. Oh, it might be good when you have a player injured and he can use the time to recuperate, but I'd prefer to play them on Friday and Saturday nights." McGuirc Won't Coadi All-Slars MILWAUKEE (AP) AI McGuire, coach of Marquette's fifth ranked collece basketball team, yesterday formally declined to coach a U.S.

amateur team scheduled to compete against a touring Soviet squad this spring. McGuire had been chosen coach of the all-star squad by the Amateur Athletic Union. However, the National Collegiate Athletic Association had said last week McGuire and any college players participating in the canies would be barred from future NCAA activity unless the NCAA certified the tour. "The conflict between the NCAA and AAU must be settled and if I get out of the middlp it might be a little easier," McGuire said. "There's no conflict between Mar-oiirlle and the NCAA because of this situation." he said.

"I certainly appreciated being selected and it was a great honor, and under proper circumstances I'd be glad to do it." McGuire said that instead of coaching the all-stars, he probably would vacation in Tibet this spring. "Maybe I can recruit the Abominable Snowman," he said. if lei iV ttr'- Still a Threat at 60 during last weekend's Baseball Ceasefire Winning-the Hard Way Robert Vermeire of Belgium won Sunday's World Amateur Cyclo-Cross championship in London, carrying his bike a (Continued From 6) mrnt which they reached Sunday. However, it was learned that a minimum salary of $15,000 for hig leapie players was approved. That's up more than 100 per cent over the $7,000 bottom limit of 1967.

Player salaries may not be sliced by more than 20 per cent after poor performances, compared to 25 in the past. They may only be cut 3f) per cent over a two-year period, instead of 44. If a player is released during spring training he will receive a month's pay. Previously, he got nothing. If he's cut between the season opener April 6 and LOS ANGELES (AP) The pressure may not be noticed by the casual observer but the long winning streak of the UCLA basketball team has taken such a toll in recent weeks that head Coach John Wooden gave his troops yesterday off.

"No, I don't normally give them a day off aftpr a two-game road trip," said Wooden. I noticed after the game Saturday night that the players were a bit drawn, taut, and their tempers were frayed. So were the coaches', and 1 felt a rest at this point would be good for them." Wooden said the tension in his players was apparent after the game and, "I wouldn't say it didn't continue to show itself on the flight home. "For the first time this season, I felt that some of our players were showing signs of either mental, emotional or physical fatigue and a few days' respite should be beneficial to our chances in tournament play," he added. Wooden's 23-0 Bruins throttled Oregon 72-61 and Oregon State 73-67 in two rugged contests last Thursday and Saturday, respectively.

Wooden inscribed the Oregon game as "rough" and the Oregon State game as "There's a difference," he noted. Wooden had been quoted after I he Oregon game as saying that the rugged nature of the Duck defense "wasn't basketball," but yesterday he declined to elaborate. Regarding the longer-than-usual road trip necessitated because the Pacific-8 wrestling championships were in Oregon, Wooden said: call "no shows?" What difference does it make to you if the people come to the stadium as long as they buy the ticket? A. To the NFL, today's "no show" is tomorrow's lost fan. Even the possibility of local TV of home games would give him an overriding reason to stay home, above and beyond weather factors, team performance and the availability of two other attractive NFL games on TV in his home.

But "no shows" affect others too the taxpayers who have built public stadium where parking and concession income has been projected to pay off civic debt. Each "no show" represents approximately a dollar and a half in parking and concession expenditures. The overall loss in such expenditures was more than one million dollars in 1972, according to the NFL survey showing 624,686 tickets purchased and not used. Despite ideal weather conditions, 8,476 tickets purchased for Super Bowl VII were not used. The January game was televised locally in Los Angeles on an experimental basis after all 90,182 tickets were sold more than 10 days in advance.

Q. With all the money ($1.6 million per club), why is it so important to sell out? A. Television revenue constitutes on the average only about 31 per cent of an NFL team's annual gross income. What is most important is that fans, as many of them as possible, attend games Their presence vitally affects the competitive atmosphere NFL Issues Statement on TV Blackouts She Dives Over Barriers By DAVE BRADY Gannett News Service WASHINGTON Anticipating a backlash in the off-season void, when the fans are not distracted by the title races, the National Football League has issued a "yellow paper" reiterating its television blackout policy. "Our mail, media comment and public discussion of the NFL's policy of not televising games played locally indicate that most people understand our basic position," the preface set forth, "even if many fans do not agree with it." "In recent weeks, however, we have noted a lack of knowledge of the history of the policy, and also some recurring questions that need answering.

Going back' to 1950, the NFL cited the Rams permitting their home games to be televised in Los Angeles with a sponsor agreeing to underwrite the club's attendance based on the previous season's average. "Despite the Rams' performance (a 9-3 record and the Western Conference championship) and the relative infancy of television," the position paper said, "regular season home game attendance dropped by 46 per cent and the sponsor bore a heavy financial penalty." The league then implied that it was a natural consequence the next year to face up to the realities of the new medium: "Recognizing both constructive and destructive potential of television, NFL member clubs adopted by-laws prohibiting telecasts of outside games into a AP Wirephoio Siu ad Eyen I'airuay PGA tournament at Inverrary May 15, he nels Iwo months' cash rather lhan one. After May 13, he will get the full season's paycheck instead of the old 30 days' pay. Miller said he would visit each major league camp for explanation of the contract and that only a "full vote of players can make acceptance official." However, if the player reps strongly endorse the deal as expected, the full vote becomes a formality that simply must be completed before the old contract expires March 31. Neither Milirr nor his counterpart from the owners' side, John Gaherin, would reveal any portion of the agreement.

pointed before. At lfi, she was the top diver in her age group and easily qualified for a team that toured Europe. She competed and trained In California after her family moved to Lincoln, Neb. "The West Coast representatives thought she was in the Midwest and the Midwest thought she was a California diver," Ilodionoff said. "They said, 'Oh gosh! We didn't But for Susie it was like being hit by a truck.

"Let's hope she doesn't get left out in the cold again," he said. Wright, 6 Olhcr's Sign Halo Pads ANAIIKIM (AP) Clyde Wright, a 20-game winner with the California Angels three years ago, was among seven players signing contracts yesterday, the American League baseball club announced. Wright, IS -11 last year, got a raise, the club said, but no figures were released. Outfielder Bob Oliver and infielder Sandy Alomar also came to terms, as well as young pitchers Dave Sells, Andy I'assler, Sid Monge and Biute Hein-bechiier. The Angels will open their training camp at Iloltville, Calif.

The Scoreboard COLLEGE BASKETBALL Houston Samford 75 Minnesota 90, Northwestern 74 Sam Houston 77, SW Texas 58 Vermont 74, Norwich 47 Kentucky 111, Alabama 95 Wisconsin 71, Purdue 63 Kansas St. 91, Oklahoma St. 7 SE Louisiana 69, McNeese St. 66 LSU 71, Tennessee 74 Oklahoma 78, Colorado 68 Mississippi St. 72, Georgia 68 Auburn 79, Georgia Tech 69 New Hampshire 77, Dartmouth 66 Tennnessee Tech 8S, Morehead 79 Middle Tennessee 87, Austin Peay Mississippi 97, Florida 80 Corpus Christ! 97, S.

Mississippi Marshall 71. Florida St. 59 Michigan St. 87, Ohio St. 83 Illinois 96.

Michigan 89 S.F. Austin 82, Texas Ail 11 AP Wirephoto good deal of the time. Contes- tant in the 21-kilometer event could either ride or carry their bikes up the sleep hills. club's home territory when the club was playing at home, and prohibiting local telecasting of home games without consent of both participating clubs." Other historical footnotes supplied were more familiar: A federal judge upholding blacked out home games in 1953; a modification of the total blackout in 1966 to permit telecasts of other games into clubs' home territories on home-game days; instances such as in 1970 when the Colts fell 16,000 short of selling out divisional and championship games in Baltimore with television available from a Washington station; the lifting of the blackout in Los Angeles once there was a sellout for the i i a i Dolphins Super Bowl game. The NFL pamphlet then went to rhetorical questions and the league's answers: Q.

If practically all NFL games are sold out, why don't you lift the blackout of games played locally A. Practically all NFL games are not sold out. In 1972, 45 per cent, or 82 of 182 games, did not sell out. There were 510,703 unsold tickets for 32 games. Only nine of the 26 teams sold out and only seven did so in advance of the season.

Nick Zapple, counsel for the House Subcommittee studying blackouts, said another way of putting it is that 96.1 per cent of all NFL regular season games were sellouts this season against 95.2 in 1971. Q. Why do you talk about wnat you Clara of Oxnard at a half-way point, Covina High, tonight, while Moreno Valley goes to Mt. San Antonio to tackle San Dimas of the Hacienda League. In Class AAA, Ganesha, which ousted SBHS and Burroughs, has to meet top-seeded Katella (28-1) tonight, so may reach the end of the line.

Garey, which downed Victor Valley, and Tustin, goes to Santa Ana JC to face El Modena in the lower-bracket quarters. In Class AAAA, Mater Dei of Santa Ana nipped Pacific Friday, but runs into Corona del Mar (24-1) tonight and should end its season at 15-13. Fullerton, which edced Ramona, 67-63, plays Long Beach Wilson at Fountain Valley in another 8 p.m. feature. The We would far prefer to be criticized by crowds than to be ignored by empty seats.

This figure substantiates an assertion in the past by Carroll lioscnbloom, then owner of the Baltimore Colts, who told the media at a league meeting that despite winning titles the Colts would have lost money without the television revenue. The figure also enables the fan to estimate the average club's gross income. Q. Isn't It a fact that TV helps promote attendance? A. Yes, it does.

Hut it has been the experience of the NFL that it docs so only if used judiciously The modified lift of the blackout letting other televised games come in when a game is being played at home in effect made the original term blackout obsolete Except when the National Collegiate Athctlic Assn. invokes its blackout rights against a pro telecast invading a college home game are under federal law. Q. You say lifting the local blackout would even hurt the radio stations that carry NFL games. How and why? A.

Those radio stations have invested over 3 million in NFL contracts, and the regional radio networks they support, depend heavily on the stations having exclusive broadcast rights to the local team's home games. Current ratings show up to an 80 per cent audience drop when radio stations have to compete with local home game television Sun-Telegram photo by Mickey Pfleger MATT HOAR Aquinas coach 4 (Continued From 6) experience," she said, "What helps most has been competing every week. It keeps you sharper. I know I feel a lot more confident." However, there's that cloud over the AAU meet late in March at Pittsburgh, Pa. "We were both totally unaware that she couldn't compete because she's a woman on a varsity men's team," Ilodionoff said, hoping that AAU officials will make an exception to the rule.

Miss Kincatle has been disap- Garvcy, Buckner Sign Contracts UJS ANGKI-KS (AP) Infielder Steve C.arvey and infielder-nutfiekler Bill Buckner signed their contracts with the I -os Angeles Dodgers yesterday, leaving just four players unsigned, the club announced. Meanwhile, the Dodger plane landed at Vero Beach, with 14 players aboard as the National League team set up its spring training camp. The first workout was scheduled for this morning. Garvey lives In Tampa, and agreed to terms by telephone early in the day. Then Buckner signed his pact and said he would be on hand for workouts starting tomorrow.

No details of the contracts were announced. Those still not in the Dodger fold are starting pitchers Don Sutton, Claude Osteen and Tommy John and outfielder Willie Crawford. The Dodgers expect to have about 23 players take part in tomorrow's workout, including starting pitcher Al Big Bear Faces Rival Aquinas AAAA (Second Round) Wornlnale (28-0) v. Hoover (274) Crurentn Volley (18-D) North Tormnce (22-o) Pevidena (25 2) vj. St.

Anthony (U 7) It LBCC L. B. Wilson (77 i) vs. Fullerton (IM) il Fountain Veiley Arcedla (M VI. Verbum Del (75 2) Centennial vt.

Glendele (23-3) Corone del Mar (241) vi. Meier Del (15 12) California vs. L. B. Poly, LBCC AAA (Ouartertlnols) Katelle (1) vs.

Ganesna St. Bernard (24-5) vs. Covina (271) NewDury ParK 19-6) vs. Murphy (23-4) Barev vs. El Modena (21!) at Santa Ana JC AA (Quarterfinals) Paso RoDles (19-e) vs.

La Canoda (24-3) Moreno Valley (24 6) vs. San Dlmas (18-4) ot Mt. San Anionic Cohere B'awley (20 7) vs. Artesia (23 1) Santa Clara (11-14) vs Palm Sprlngt (23-i) at Covina A (Quarterfinals) Cnrpinfeno vs. Bishop Diego (l') al Santa Barha'e CC Bishop (IM) vi.

Flllmert (U 10) Aau'nas (20-7) vs. Big Beor Apple Valley Ambassador (19-5) vi. Brethren (22-5) (Continued From 6) 57-47 conquest of Calipatria a week ago, then downed Desert, 87-73, as aU five starters hit in double figures. The Bears nipped Western Christian, 64-62, then ousted Imperial. 67-55, as Lovett hit 20 points and had 15 rebounds.

Notre Dame, which tied Aquinas foe ihe AL title, could have been a third AL league entry in the quarterfinals, but the Titans fell to Ambassador, 55-54, Friday. Ambassrdor plays Brethren tonight and that winner meets the Aquinas-Big Bear survivor in the semifinals March 2. In Class AA, Palm Springs faces Santa.