The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 60

2D THE KANSAS CITY TIMES Tharseoy Navmbar 12 1970 WRESTLING Talk of the Times TONIGHT 1:36 PM KANSAS CITY KANSAS MEMORIAL HAIL TAG TEAMS ATTIC IN TITlt MATCH ST0MPER I RUFUS JONES drftad Tkir belts against ROCK HUNTER A NATURE BOY KIRRY Manning May Use Special Arm Brace Memphis AP Mississippi coaches are considering the use of a leather sleeve to protect Archie left arm if their star quarterback is able to return to the football wars this season thinking in terms of a special leather sleeve that could be laced tightly around the said Frank Kinard interim Ole Miss coach Kinard visited Manning in a hospital here where the Heis-man trophy candidate is recovering from surgery on his broken arm He is a right-handed passer Doctors have indicated that the red-haired athlete might be ready to play in the crucial game against Louisiana State December 5 said he was feeling Kinard said think he was a little uncomfortable Lying there with the arm up in the air is bound to be tiring but he LITTLE BEAR VS BENNY RAMIREZ SPECIAL MUER COX VS THE VIKING PLUS MORE 52 00 S3 00 Also en So oi fXCU SUN0MS Corn 12th Wyondot Mo Manning was injured in Mississippi's 24-13 victory over Houston last Saturday The break was severe and many thought then that it had ended his college football career A A rules forbid the wearing of a cast but other protective devices such as a leather brace are permitted really talked a lot about what we will Kinard said as soon as Archie starts feeling like he wants to get active again you can bet certainly make something available that will offer suitable Richard Daley (left) mayor of Chicago announces the appointment of a committee headed by Donald Graham a Chicago banker Smuicsgo SpOrtS to study plans for a municipal sports stadium I The group will recommend a location and type SOmpieX of structure to be built City officials envision a complex that would house baseball football and basketball teams (Wirephoto) WE WILL BUY YOUR USED CAR GRIFFITH 0LDSM0BILE TWO BIG LOTS 6130 TR00ST 6320 TR00ST La Mesa Calif Wes Fry former general manager of the Oakland Raiders died in his Wes Fry Is Dead sleep at home early yesterday cenu He was 67 NoVIs-dv 511" Sunday Rain Chill Slow Up Cats But Optimism Doesn't Wane By Dick Wade AuoclaM Soort Editor ot Tho Star If Betty Niccoli had her way she would be in New York today fighting for her right to work Instead in Kansas City where she works at fighting You see wrestling is her but one she play in New York There is a long-standing unwritten law forbidding it And it that Betty has a thing about New York She likes Kansas City just fine She grew up here went to Northeast high school But Betty likes money the reason she and the big money in wrestling as in most businesses is in the Big Town a matter of dollars and cents" she says it would kick up my income $7000 a year if I could perform in New York never made over $10000 a year in my seven vears of wrestling Promoters aren't known for paying women big money I wrestle three times a week to make what I and that's all my body can There Are Only 50 Involved There are roughly 50 women who wrestle for a living in this country Betty Niccoli is as good as any of them and the opinion of Bob Geigel one of the best-known men grapplers around It might be worth noting too that Betty is the female champion of Kansas California Minnesota and oh yes the United States She fell heir to the last title when her opponent (Moolah) show up for the final bout in a showdown tournament recently in Lubbock Tex can wrestle in all but five she says why they let women wrestle in those defies reason They give all sorts of excuses but they hold water They say women incite riots but never seen one been in one in my seven years of wrestling say wTestling could cause cancer but never known a woman wrestler who had it It's just that the New York and New York is the one that interests me is made up of eight boxing men They like wrestling period But they keep the men just the So Miss Niccoli has taken legal recourse She has hired a lawyer he has asked for a hearing before the New York commission and she says three times the hearing has been canceled the last one was set for today There is a story originating in New York that she has and help from those associated with the women's liberation movement Betty says know anything about that just something the papers took upon themselves it really gets to me that I can't even have a hearing It's no money out of their (the commissioners') pockets but it sure is money out of mine got maybe five years (she is 26) left in this business and I want to make it while I Her learning years were painful punishing was so bad when I started that just climbing through the ropes was difficult And I was so shy that I always let the other girl make the first move I was a regular Deadly Doright And I got hurt concussions broken noses dislocated shoulder crushed finger blood clot behind an eye But learned I'm more co-ordinated I been hurt bad in three years" Wise Guys Always Show Up There are however problems for a woman wrestler rhe has to be careful where she goes with whom she talks There always is a wise guy around who wants proof that she is skilled in wrestling recognize you and that can be she says I don't go places without a lan (Geigel was her chaperone for this interview) And never been in any bad scenes But had to leave places before there is trouble And I have become a good And never has she had to throw a man work hard at being a says the 5-foot-l and 125-pound Miss Niccoli dress well buy good clothes My hair is short not because I like it that way but because it would be in curlers all the time if it were long like being a woman (and heads turn when she walks through a room) I sure want to replace men in the wrestling business but I sure would like to be paid as well as And statistics (and they include her 36-28-37) support her stand Her best single-match paycheck was $450 Geigel as a male representative of the trade has earned as much as SI 200 for a single work The scotch snob vs the scotehwatcher versity football team through a Rodgers regretted lack of one-hour 20-m i practice work on the kick-off return yesterday in preparation for game Last week the Jayhawks Big Eight football were stung with a Big Eight game here with Oklahoma uni-! lecord-tying 100-yard return by versity Cliff Branch of Colorado i In reference to this foe Rodgers said: only throw the ball 10 times a game unless behind just like us have a balanced attack attack anywhere I would say that they would attack us like Colorado did with a fullback then an option off the fullback all they run really I the triple Rodgers whose club will be bidding for its first victory over Oklahoma since 1964 and its first over under Rodgers worked his club in spite of rain and cold weather i (the weather) definitely bothered us a lot tougher in the said Rodgers the effort was good always fiTi Big 8 Statistics 4 TOTAL OFFENSE I Att Yds Avg) TEAM STANDINGS All Games Pet Pts Opp i Nebraska 8 0 1 944 330 143 K-State 6 3 0 667 170 134 Oklahoma 3 0 625 166 157 Kansas 5 4 0 555 229 221 Colorado 4 4 0 500 230 164 Missouri 4 5 0 444 196 175 0 375 162 207 0 375 165 214 Nebraska Colorado Missouri Kansas State Oklahoma State Kansas lowa State Oklahoma 723 3856 4285 639 3084 3856 741 3213 3570 702 3046 33851 582 2637 3298 620 2939 3266 590 2549 3186' 566 2506 3132! VY TOTAL DEFENSE Att Yds Avg 9 729 2564 2849 9 600 2671 2968 9 653 2796 3106 8 598 2592 3240 8 619 2798 3498 8 660 2878 3535 8 608 2939 3674 9 734 3759 4177 Conference Games Pet Pts Opp Nebraska 5 0 0 1000 210 100 K-Slate 5 1 0 833 117 Oklahoma 3 1 0 Kansas 2 3 0 Missouri 2 3 0 Colorado 2 4 0 Okla Slat 1 3 0 0 83 750 94 75 400 101 130 400 103 102 333 170 142 85 140 77 185 Kansas Slat Nebraska Missouri Colorado Oklahoma lowa State Oklahoma State Kansas Scotch snobs buy a brand because impressed by the name Or because at the moment But Scotch watchers know the really important thing to look for in scotch Age That's why we make an eight-year-old scotch VO And we put Years right on the label So every Scotehwatcher can see it Look for the age and be a Scotch-watcher too But more important get a better-tasting scotch 8 Year Old The Scotch 8-year-old Blended Scotch Whisky 868 Proof Imported by McKesson Liquor Co NY NY RUSHING OFFENSE Alt Yds Avg Colorado 8 458 2126 2658 Nebraska 9 521 2158 2398 Missouri 9 469 1960 2178 Oklahoma 8 461 1729 2161 Kansas 9 447 1869 2077 lowa State 8 356 1 220 1525 Oklahoma Stale 8 357 1091 1364 Kansas State 9 379 1096 1218 RUSHING DEFENSE Att Yds Avg Missouri 9 424 1209 1343 Nebraska 9 371 128S 1428 Kansas State 9 Oklahoma 8 Colorado 8 Oklahoma State 8 422 1 807 2259 lowa State 8 481 1848 2310 Kansas 9 517 2368 2631 SCORING OFFENSE Pis Avqi Nebraska 9 330 3671 Colorado 8 230 2 8 8 Kansas 9 229 254 Missouri 9 196 218 Oklahoma 8 166 208 Oklahoma State 8 165 206 lowa Slate 8 162 203 Kansas State 9 170 189 SCORING DEFENSE Pts Avg Kansas State Nebraska Colorado Missouri Oklahoma Kansas lowa State Oklahoma State THIS WEEK'S GAMES: lowa State at Misourl Kansas State at Nebraska Colorado at Oklahoma State Ok'ahoma at Kansas that she asks She got no argument from me Home Ice No Dice PASSING OFFENSE II Comp Att Inf Pet Yds Avg' K-State 153 323 21 474 1950 2167: Okla State 111 225 15 493 1546 1934' Nebraska 124 202 9 614 1698 1887 lova state 104 234 17 444 1329 1661 Missouri 107 272 IS 393 1253 1392! Colorado 75 181 12 414 958 1198' Kansas 75 173 13 434 1070 1189' Oklahoma 50 105 10 476 777 971 PASSING DEFENSE Comp Att Int Pc Yds Avg lowa State 85 1 79 K-State Okla State Colorado Nebraska Kansas Missouri Oklahoma 7 478 980 1225 110 265 15 411 1127 1252 88 186 12 473 1132 1415 476 1155 1 444 107 229 20 469 1386 1540 109 217 16 501 1391 1546 92 229 13 402 1587 1763 116 233 18 499 1448 1810 Bv The Star's Own Service Manhattan Kas Kansas State practiced only 70 minutes yesterday when rain and cold weather hampered the Wildcats Coach Vince Gibson said the Wildcats get much done no really good place to practice inside so we want said Gibson This weather hurt The Wildcats did emphasize pass defense in their shortened drill The have limited foes to four touchdown passes three of them coming against Arizona State early in the season has had good offensive balance they (the Husk-ers) have been effective with a short passing There anything new from the K-State injury camp Oscar Gibson a starting linebacker has been unable to practice this week after spraining a knee last week against Oklahoma State Gibson said K-State been bothered by the championship-game pressure although this is the first time in 17 years that Kansas State has played for a title game have no pressure on Gibson said (the pressure) is all on Nebraska the team playing for a bowl trip ranked No 4 in the nation supposed to At the same time Gibson belittle Kansas chances always played pretty well against Nebraska Two years ago in Lincoln (the won 12-0) showed what can happen for us to win have to shut offense down and not make any offensive mistakes Husker Heals Lincoln Neb (AP) Quarterback Van Brownson sidelined with a sore elbow last week was throwing passes without apparent difficulty yesterday and Coach Bob Devaney said a setback he should be for when the Cornhusker footballers entertain Kansas State Jerry Tagge did the quarter-' backing against Iowa State last week and earned Big Eight i Back-of-the-Week honors This starter Tagge or Brownson has not been named Cold wet weather forced the Huskers to do much of their drilling inside yesterday although coaches took players outdoors for part of the session Shows Zip Bv The Star's Own Sarvica Columbia Mo Missouri football players raced through what Coach Dan Devine called a spirited fast-moving practice last night The 95-minute session was the last tough workout of! the week Devine said has1 been the best practice week of' the The Tigers will slack off with their usual weekending review this afternoon I Devine was pleased with the progress Mike Farmer his injured quarterback is making: He looks a little better every However Chuck Roper who has been manning the helm since Farmer was injured in the Notre Dame game is still slated to start against Iowa State Saturday Gets Cold Bv Th Star's Own Sarvica Lawrence Coach Pepper Rodgers put his Kansas uni i I 1 LAST WEEK'S RESULTS: Nebraska 54 lowa State 29 Kansas State 28 Oklahoma State 15 Colorado 45 Kansas 29 Oklahoma 28 Missouri 13 OFFICIAL MISSOURI SAFETY INSPECTION STATION All MISSOURI STORES ARE APPROVED INSPECTION CENTERS By Ed Fowler A Member of The Star' SDorti Staff The only trouble with the advantage attributed to playing on the home field court or ice is that it makes it especially tough to lose when you have it The Kansas City Blues worked the friendly confines of the American Royal for a 4-2 victory over Omaha defending Central Hockey league champions in their home opener Saturday night They agreed to a man that it certainly was nice to hear a familiar voice or two even if Otis Taylor wasn't there But last night the star of the wide receiver corps not to mention defensive lineman Buck Buchanan was in the crowd Otis proved to be a spectator not a fighter and the Blues dropped a maddening 3-1 verdict to the Oklahoma City Blazers While the fan bantered with Otis whenever a misunderstanding flared on the ice and a player was thrown off the what happens when you fight Coach Camille Henry pulled his hair play well enough to win but we can't said Henry in the locker room after the game If that statement sounds a bit ambiguous think back to your favorite football coach who has said the same thing and you can put it in context missed many chances" Henry said gave them both their chances" The Blues took the play to Oklahoma City playing most of the game on the end of the ice John Adams the goalie was forced to make 24 saves Michel Plasse of the Blues 18 Henry endorsed the performance of Plasse who was selected to start only a few hours before face-off played well We gave them their chance" Henry said The third Blazer goal was scored on a fluke shot from the other end of the court after Henry pulled his goalie in the final minute to put another man on the attack think we didn't play as well as Henry said had a little lapse of about five minutes in the first (period) and another five minutes in the second But I thought they all played pretty well (Norm) had a good game but he missed some chances hate to lose We were playing for third place It was a big 4-point game for us (a loss of two points for the Blues is a gain of two points for the Blazers) You lose at home and you have to win two in a row to make up for tough to lose a close hard-fought one at home Otis Taylor knows that 5 mm A lifj OVIR 200 lNEW USED CHEVYS 6y Nr InnMtali Deliver wai Nil SIMS SALE PRICES ON ALL 71 MODELS 91t I Matcalf Ml 9-3000 1 BILL REIB0LDT GIVES GREAT DEALS AT DeBACKER CHEVROLET 117th A 71 Hi way SO 3-4000 Blues Lose 3-1 Huge Selection of Chevy's New Vega 2300 VAN CHEVROLET 300 JOHNSON DR MISSION KAS HI 2-7B00 TWA HAS THE MOST FLIGHTS TO NEW YORK (7 direct flights and 3 non-stops at 8:10 AM 2:00 PM 5:40 PM) SOMEHOW YOU MORE IMPORTANT ON TWA rink Four times they came up empty Then on the fifth face-off Ivan (The Terrible) Boldirev got the draw Mo-rusky got the puck and with a flip of the puck got the goal Considering the manner in which things were going for the Blues perhaps it was a fitting climax After all if you are going to give one away make sure properly wrapped with a pretty bow nd that the Blues did last An Continued from Page ID the way things went until the Blues pulled wit all stops by yanking Plasse with 61 seconds remaining in the game Even then they had the opportunities but not the goal If there was a weakness to the play it was the inability to get an effective power play in gear Four times Kansas City held a man advantage only to come up with a less-than-effective attack That too is a plus in the 1 a books Five times the Blues gained a face-off in the end of the FALL AND WINTER TUNE UP SAVII ON AU CHRYSLER PROOUCTS NOW MIDWEST DODGE 601 TRUMAN RD MASTER CHARGE HOLDERS WELCOME SHOPPERS CHARGE BANK- AMIRICAR0 Specializing In SPORTS AND LEISURE TIME MCHANDISE nifcjht.