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Z-CKINGSPOSTNEWS Thursday, July Spinks Out For Season ST. IXJUIS (UP1)--Scipio Spinks, hospitalized with a twisted knee suffered in a collision with Johnny Bench, will miss the remainder of the season, the St. Louis Cardinals annoumced Wednesday. Spinks suffered torn ligaments in his right knee and will undergo surgery Thursday morning at Jewish Hospital. The Cardinals' team physician, Dr.

Stan London, said Spinks' knee will be in a cast for six weeks, which will be followed by another six-week period devoted to a type of therapy Which will not include exercise a baseball field. Spinks was pitching against the Cincinnati Reds Sunday and was trailing 5-0 when the Cardinals came to bat in the Spinks, on base with a single, tried to score from first on a one-out double by Luis Melendez to left center field. Third-base coach Vern Benson tried to stop Spinks at third, but the 2-1-year-old pitcher ran past Benson and slid Bench, waiting with the ball at the plate. Spinks was safe because Bench dropped the ball, but Spinks' knee crashed into Bench's shinguard. The Reds won, 6-1.

Spinks has a 5-5 season record and a 2.67 earned-run average and leads the St. Louis staff with 93 strikeouts. The other three members of the starting rotation are Bob Gibson, Rick Wise and Reggie Cleveland. Baker a a Of Speedway MYRTLE BEACH, S. C.

I Veteren race car 'driver Buck Baker Wednesday was named general manager of the Myrtle Beach Speedway. Nick Lucas, owner of Uic half-mile paved oval track, said Baker would assume his duties immediately. "I feel that, after 25 years of driving in various types of competition and with his knowledge of the sport, Buck Baker should establish Myrtle Beach Speedway as one of the 'top short tracks in the country," Lucas said. Buck Says Opening Up Olympics Would Spell End To Movement FISCHER ARRIVES IN ICELAND but matches are delayed again Fischer Offers Spas sky Apology REYKJAVIK (UPL) Bobby Fischer surprised even his own advisers Wednesday by formally apologizing to Russian Boris Spassky for delaying their world championship chess match, But the president of the fnternational Chess Federation ad- mittedhe was in the wrong, too, and said he would ask for a one week postponement. Dr.

Max Euwe announced he would ask for another postponement during a news conference in which he agreed to Soviet demands to condemn Fischer's behavior and admitted that he violated chess federation rules in allowing two earlier postponements. "It would damage Spassky, who is very upset by what has happened in the last few days, if he was forced to play Thursday, Euwe said in announcing that he would seek another delay in the 24-game match. Euwe also said he might even suggest an entirely new match schedule calling for between 12 and 18 games now and the rest later in the year because of a possible conflict with the chess Olympics beginning Sept. 17 in Skopje, Yugoslavia. "The only thing keeping Spassky from leaving for home is his knowledge of what it would mean for the game of chess and for the Icelandic people if the match was cancelled," said Soviet grandmaster Efraim Geller.

The Russians also have demanded that Fischer forfeit the first game of the match to Spassky because of the American's failure to show up for the official opening of the match Sunday. However, the Russians indicated the demand might be just a formality. Geller said he knew "Spassky would not accept that point as a gift," indicating the world champion would decline the forfeiture if it were offered. SOUND OF ENGINES Continued From Page i-C James Hylton is second in the overaJl NASCAR point standings with -1041 (behind Petty). The only Tri-Cities drivers on the advanced entry list were Dr.

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Replying to a direct question during an informal news conference while the trial athletes enjoyed a day off from competition, Buck said flatly that if the Olympic movement follows tennis "that will be the end." "Speaking as an individual and not as the president as the USOC," said the silver-haired Buck, "I think that as a natural reaction the pure amateurs will refuse to compete in the Olympics against the pros." Buck tried to explain his view this way: "The man who competes because he loves the sport would never have a chance against one (a pro) who spends his entire life working to perfecthisphysical skills. He'd know before he started that he wouldn't have a chance and thereby he would resent the intrusion of the pros. It follows that he would quit and without the amateurs there would be no Olympics." Under further direct questioning, Buck was asked how he felt about Iron Curtain athletes, whom many claim are the next best thing to professionals because they are government subsidized and spend all their time perfecting their skills with the ultimate goal the winning of international titles, such as the Olympics. "I just don't believe all those stories," said Buck. "Sure, most Iron Curtain country athletes are subsidized but to say flat out they are professionals, I just don't know.

It's too hard to draw parallels between the United States and Russia, for Instance, because of the great difference in our economies and the way we live." Bob Geigengack of Yale, a former U.S. Olympic head track coach and currently head of the USOC track and field committee, said that the Amateur Athletic Union, of which he also is a member, will continue to fight to open up the Olympics to athletes who are TERMPLAN nel lf ltt .335 E. Contor 247-8176 rtros in one sport and amateurs in others. As an illustration he used Earl McCullouch, a fine hur- dJcr but a pro football player. "The AAU tried to put through such a proposal at the last meeting of the International Amateur Athletic Federation but was turned down," said Gcigengack, "But the AAU feels strong enough about the proposal to try again." Geigengack a i though, that the AAU proposal did not seek to declare all track and field stars as pros, a proposal many athletes in America feel should be presented for consideration.

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