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Pius Risks Perfect Neumann 0 Hits 57 Mark Against Spartans Win Cleveland Record Now 2-32 Skid Continues By VIRGIL PARKER Prep Sports Writer Coach Don Pius Thunderbolts, only unbeaten high school basketball quintet, put their unblemished record on the line against East High at Pershing Auditorium Thursday night to open prep action for the weekend. The boast a perfect 2-0 mark after impressive victories over Nebraska City and Fairbury, while East has the second-best record among the Capital City schools. After early season encounters, coach Paul Spartans are 2-1, Northeast is 1-1, while Southeast and Lincoln High stand at 1-2. like a typically close city race is coming Pius coach Kelley notes, while observing that though Northeast won the state Class A championship last winter, the Rockets faced their stiffest test in winning the Lincoln district, edging both Southeast and East in overtime. just hope we can be a real part of the dog fight for the city Kelley adds.

been very pleased so far. Our kids are playing as a team. They are showing interest in more than just putting the ball in the hoop. interested in playing good defense and winning. Our team play has certainly been the key to our success so Kelley admits that there may be some difference between the quality of the Class competition he has faced to date and that of the Class A city schools.

difference may be mostly Kelley says. the Class team thinks the A club is better, that in itself is enough to make a difference. I just hope we play as well as we can. all I can East opened with a win over then last to Lincoln High before bouncing back with a victory over Omaha Central. Friday and Saturday night games will close out the local prep action until after the holidays.

Lincoln High and Northeast tangle at Pershing Auditorium Friday, while Southeast hosts North Platte in the East High gym Saturday. The four public school quintets will then be idle until Jan. 8, while Pius is scheduled to be in the Waverly Invitational holiday tournament, Dec. 29-30. Huskers9 Passing Jim Wilkinson Pius standout.

Still wagon Top Lineman After completing the fifth of light scheduled Lincoln prac- ices prior to departing for the )range Bowl Nebraska football Bob Devaney observed hat the passing was slightly behind the unning game. because wc worked nside for three days and it is lifficult to do much with the lassing offense and defense he said. Devaney indicated that if the veather was favorable the lornhuskcr might engage in a ittle controlled scrimmage they wind up practice lere Friday. Off the field the Cornhusker continue to carefully itudy film of the 11 LSU be studying these ilms almost up to game )evaney said. set up a in Miami and let the kids tudy them down Devaney indicated the coaching staff was eon- on the latest and working backwards oward the beginning of the ieason.

Grand Jury Hears Renlzel Dallas (ft) Lance Rentzei, Dallas Cowboys football player, appeared before the Dallas County grand jury Tuesday to answer charges of indecent exposure involving a girl. attorney said the star pass receiver waived an examining trial originally set for Thursday in Justice of the Peace Robert court and appeared directly before the grand jury. The 27-year-old football player currently is free on pi.500 bond after being charged vith the felony offense on Nov. 30. Rentzei appeared before the grand jury for about 10 minutes and would make no comment to the newsmen when he emerged.

Court sources said it may be January before the panel act's on the case. New York (UPI) Jim Stillwagon of Ohio State, who plugged the middle of the undefeated defensive line, climaxed an outstanding collegiate career Tuesday by being named Lineman of the Year by United Press International. Stillwagon, a two-time all- America, was an easy winner in a balloting of 19 2 sports writer and sportscasters from across the nation. The muscular 8-0, 210-pound native of Mount Vernon, Ohio, received 44 votes to 24 for runnerup Dinardo, an offensive guard from Notre Dame. Thirty-six players in all received votes, one of the highest figures in the history of the balloting.

Offensive end Tom Gatewood of Notre Dame was third with 16 votes followed by offensive guard Chip Kell of Tennessee with 13 and defensive end Bill Atessis of Texas with 11. just ha'ppy and appreciative at receiving this said Stillwagon. feeling is that if you do something, do it the best you can. I just tried my best and it paid off, 1 guess. I try not to think about what honors 1 might get.

(coach Woody) Hayes says that anything you work hard to get you appreciate more. I owe all my honors to the coaches and the guys I played Other players receiving at least five votes were defensive tackle Rock Perdoni of Georgia Tech, offensive tackle Dan Dierdorf of Michigan, offensive tackle Bobby Wuensch of Texas and linebacker Jerry Murtaugh of Nebraska. By Associated Press Johnny Neumann of Mississippi has stamped himself as a likely contender for the 1971 college basketball individual scoring championship along with Austin Carr of Notre Dame and Artis Gilmore of Jacksonville. Neumann, a 6-6 sophomore, scored 57 points, the highest individual single game performance of the young season, in leading the Rebels to a 109100 victory over Southern Mississippi Tuesday night. Carr, a 6-3 senior, tossed in 54 points in a losing cause as the Irish fell before 106-103.

Gilmore, a 7-2 giant, didn't play, but his 50 points against Biscavne on Dec. 1 ranked as the highest one game output until Neumann and Carr broke loose. Neumann got his 57 points on 20 field goals and 17-18 free throws. Carr threw in 21 field goal and 12-14 free throws for his 54. A turnout of 11,343 at South Bend watched the nationally seventh-ranked Irish fall before the 13th-ranked Hoosiers led by the combined 58-point production of Joby Wright and George McGinnis.

McGinnis and Wright, both 6-7, scored 29 points each as the Hoosiers, down by 10 points at halftime, 53-43, rallied to go ahead by nine points, then survived a closing Notre Dame surge. kids really said Lou Watson. Indiana coach. were down at the end. but they showed a lot of courage for a young club.

Notre Dame got a good lesson on what we can do when we go As for performance, Watson commented said a year ago that Carr was the finest guard I had seen and I changed my mind a North Carolina. No. 20 and the only other team in the Associated Press top 20 to see action, snapped Virginia's six- game winning streak, 80-75. Dennis Wuycik led the Tar Heels with 30 points. Ed Ratleff scored 33 points to lead Long Beach State over Chicago Loyola 84-81 in overtime and Tom Window's layup in the closing seconds gave Kent State a 64-62 triumph over Purdue.

Craig 12-foot jumper with six seconds left accounted for Ohio 81-80 victory over Wisconsin. Russell 39 points led Marshall over Morehead 73-70. St. of New York downed Rhode Island 75-71, Massachusetts overcame Connecticut 74-68. Duke routed Virginia Tech 104-75, Davidson tripped Richmond 67-54 and Manhattan shaded Fairleigh Dickinson 70-68.

All free by a.m. boldfaced for p.m. Wednesday Local Prep Wrestling Pius at East. 7. State Boxing Civic Auditorium, Omaha, College Basketball Kearney JVs at North Platte.

Thursday Local Prep Basketball Pius v. East at Pershing Auditorium, I KLIN'. College Wrestling South Dakota at Nebraska, 7:30. Minnesota Long Cue Career Nears End Baton Rouge, La. king of the pool hustlers for a quarter century, says he is thinking of chalking his last cue.

The pocket billiards matches that last all week with only snatches of sleep are getting to him. And at age 57, not as young as he was back when the folks in Minnesota were so impressed they gave him his nickname. a tough racket, he said in an interview. one of the toughest racket's in the world. no tougher racket on earth.

You got to never lose. about ready to give it up The first time I book a lose, when I By his own admission, they call him for a yet. And when he opens that brown alligator case and slip's out that custom cue, you know he plan to. book no he says in his best New York accent. beat everybody.

I never lost a match. They may think they got a chance but when all over, they got a better chance going to Vietnam with a BB gun than beating For 47 years, has been winning matches, ever since he took on FJric Hagenlacker when he was 10 and 'still went by the name of Rudolf Wanderone. When he was 15, he beat Charles (Cowboy) West, then the world champion. He play in championship tournaments himself, he just sits over on the side and waits for a new champion to emerge. Then his turn.

In October, he waited for four world champions to finish in Johnston City, 111., then broke all of them, pocketing almost $12,000 for his patience. In between Eric Hagenlacker and Johnson City, has played almost anybody and everybody who could lift a stick. played most of the world champions at one time or another and beaten them all, drawn 100,000 people to see an exhibition, served as president of the Billiard Players Association of America, and formed his own billiard supply firm. There was a movie about him back in the 1960s called starring Jackie Gleason as and Paul Newman as Now, is starring in a movie of his own called and just finished shooting his scenes in Baton Rouge last week. NEW YORK (AP) a world of difference between the champion New York Knicks and the hapless Cleveland Cavaliers, but coach Bill Fitch complains that other National Basketball Association teams up for us just like they do for the After all, he says, wants to be the first established club to lose to The Knicks although it was hard to tell during Tuesday lethargic first period, which ended with Cleveland on top 23-22.

Then. Walt Frazier, Dave Stallworth and Mike Riordan combined for a 15-2 burst to start the second period and the Knicks were off and running to a 110-92 triumph. Elsewhere in the NBA. Buffalo nipped Los Angeles 113-111 TCU Gets Pittman New Orleans UP) Tulane announced Wednesday that Coach Jim Pittman, with his team fresh from their first bowl game in 30 years, has quit to take over as head football coach at Texas Christian University. Pittman had been coach at Tulane for five years, a period in which he rebuilt the football program.

Tulane finished with a 7-4 season and defeated favored Colorado 17-3 in the Liberty bowl in Memphis, last Saturday. Dr. Herbert E. Longenecker, Tulane president, said he was sorry to see Pittman go, but appreciated his work in putting the Green Wave in the football Pittman helped bring us back and we intend to build on the foundation he has left he said. immediate task will be to appoint a coach selection committee to go about choosing a head coach who can carry our program Pittman, 45, replaced Fred Taylor, who was fired by TCL on Thanksgiving eve.

He was in his fourth year as coach and TCU was suffering through 4-6-1 season. LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, PAGE 53 in overtime. Chicago trimmed Baltimore 115-97, Philadelphia trounced San Diego 122-CB, San Francisco defeated Phoenix 129-128 and Detroit beat Portland 111-103. In the American Basketball Association, Denver defeated Carolina 126-116 and Memphis shaded Texas 146-141 in overtime.

Cleveland's loss to the Knicks was the fifth in a row and 32nd in 34 starts for the first-year expansion team. The Cavaliers have already had losing streaks of 15 and 12 games and have beaten only their expansion brethren, Portland and Buffalo. not an optimist even when got more bullets than the other said Fitch. Basketball Kentucky State, defending NAIA champion, and Stephen F. Austin, NCAA college division champ last season, head the initial Associated Press college division basketball poll.

No Nebraska teams earned mention. Freshman coach Bob Gaillard has taken over as head coach at the University of San Francisco following the resignation of coach Phi! Yukicevich. Bill Russell and George Mikan were named Tuesday as centers on the National Basketball silver anniversary team. Russell, the NBA's all-time leading bounder. was a unanimous choice of the 10-member board of experts making the selections.

Football Former pro receiver Sonny Randle has been named head coach at East Carolina University. Randle had served as an assistant on the staff of departed coach Mike McGee during the 1970 season. Doctors treating Nate Ramsey, Philadelphia Eagles defensive back who was shot Monday, say they will operate in about two weeks to remove the bullet. Authorities are still seeking assailant. Bradley University a dropped football from its athletic program because of economic factors.

Bradley, 1-8 the past two years, had competed independently in football although it was a member of the Missouri Valley Conference in all other sports. Coif Billy Casper has been named player of the year by Golf Magazine. Joining him on the all-America team are Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Dave Hill, Bruce Crampton, Larry Hinson, Frank Beard and Dick Lotz. Baseball The Baltimore Orioles have sent Roger Freed, the most valuable player in the International League last year, to Philadelphia in exchange for pitcher Grant Jackson, infielder Jim Hutto and outfielder Sam Parrilla. Freed hatted .334 with 24 homers and 130 rbi for Rochester last year.

NU Hitting Torrid .571 basketball team, winner of five of six starts, carries an impressive .571 team shooting mark into this Husker Classic. Leader of the accurate shooting brigade is 6-10 Chuck Jura, who has a .727 mark from the field with 56 goals in 77 attempts. Ironically the Schuyler junior is only 21-40 and .525 from the free throw line. Mike Peterson is connecting at an even .600 from the field on 24 of 40 attempts while Leroy Chalk (.588) and Marv Stewart (.583) also rank high above the .500 mark. Stewart (22.3) and Jura (22.1) are giving the Cornhuskers their best 1-2 punch since the days of Tom Baack and Stu Lantz, the top two A scorers in Nebraska history.

Chalk leads the team in rebounds with 63 with Jura close behind at 61, Jura but the Cornhuskers are on the short end of the rebounding statistics with only 220 retrieves as compared to 232 by the opposition. Improved rebounding will be one of the primary concerns for Nebraska coach Joe Cipriano as he sends his club against Miami of Florida in the 7 p.m. opener of the Husker Classic Friday. Unbeaten Colorado State meets Oklahoma City in the 9 p.m. game.

The six-game Nebraska statistics: Player FG-FGA Pet. FT FTA Pet. RB PF TP Ave. Marv Stewart 6 56-96 .583 22-24 .917 9 9 134 33.3 Chuck Jura 6 56-77 .727 21-40 .525 61 22 133 22.1 Leroy Chalk .6 2C-34 .583 15-17 .882 63 13 55 9.1 Mike Peterson 6 24-40 .600 3-5 .600 28 8 51 8.5 Tony ehl 6 20-41 .488 6-9 .666 17 22 46 7.6 Al Nissen 6 12-26 .462 9-14 .643 18 16 35 5.8 Tom Greqory 6 1 0-26 .385 6-14 .429 8 1 0 26 4.3 Randy Watts 4 5-15 333 2-3 .667 3 5 1 2 3.0 Csl Christime 2 1-4 .250 0-0 000 2 2 2 1.0 Bob Munson 2 1-2 .500 0 0 .000 3 1 2 1.0 Curt LeRossiqnol 2 0-0 .000 0-1 .000 8 0 0 1 0 Nebraska 6 206-361 .571 84-127 .661 220 108 496 62 6 6 165-405 .407 90-138 .652 232 111 420 70.0 Maloney Sent to A ngels Cincinnati The Cincinnati Reds have traded their top hurler of the 1960s, Jim Maloney, to California in their second major deal with the Angels since late in 1969. The Reds exchanged the 11- year veteran for 22-year-old lefthander Greg Garrett who registered a 5-6 record and 2.64 earned run average in 32 games in his first major league season in 1970.

Maloney, a fireballing hander, pitched three no-hitters. and posted a 134-81 mark and 3.20 ERA since joining the Reds in 1960. He was the only remaining member of the Reds team which won the 1961 National League pennant. Suffering a ruptured Achilles tendon in an ankle early last year, Maloney only worked 17 innings the entire season. In years before, he was occasionally bothered by arm trouble and missed games.

could see the handwriting on the Maloney said when notified of the deal. no big shock or letdown. got no complaints and say anything bad about the Cincinnati organization. say this: If I had to do it all over still sign with the Cincinnati Cincinnati General Manager Robert Howsam said that Jim Maloney California Bound our need for a lefthanded pitcher so important to us and with the interest California showed in Jim, we felt we pass up the deal but we hate to lose Besides the i 11 Maloney tossed five one-hit games and nine two-hitters. Maloney, who holds the team record for total strikeouts with 1,592, enjoyed his best year in 1963 when he posted a 23-7 record with a 2.77 ERA and 265 strikeouts in 250 innings.

Garrett, like Maloney, has already established himself as a strikeout pitcher. Tn four years of professional baseball, including last year, he has fanned 454 batters in 405 innings. Great Plains Tourney Lures 20 Cornhuskei Nebraska wrestling coach Orval Borgialli will send 20 grapplers into action this weekend in the Great Plains AAU college Wrestling Championships at the Northeast YMCA in Lincoln. The two-day meet will begin with weigh-ins at 8 a.m. Friday and will include sessions at 1 and 7 p.m.

both Friday and Saturday. Nebraska entries are Mike Arthur, Mike Bentley, Brent Boerkircher, Mike Brickeil, Keith Burchett, Len Dickinson, Doug Erickson, Joe George, Monty Halstead, Jim Haug, Russ Kildare, Mark Lattin, Tom Lotko, Larry Lyons, Ralph Manning, Tom Meier, Dan Petri, Jim Reeder, Charles Tyler, and Dave Tvler. Husker co-captain Bob Orta will not compete due to a shoulder injury suffered in Friday loss to South Dakota State. Seven of this Nebraska entrants were place-winners last year in the Great Plains meet Joe George a the runner up at 158. Monty Halstead and Tom Lotko earned third place finishes, and Tom Meier, Keith Burchett, Russ Kildare, and Larry Lyons finished fourth.

Competition will be in this college weight classes and bouts will consist of three- two minute periods with a half minute rest between periods. Seedings and pairings will he determined alter Friday morning's weigh-ins. we went to Milwaukee to play the Bucks and the weather was so bad only one plane got there all day ours. been preaching ball- handling, that there's no way to get in trouble defensively if we have the ball. So last week against Portland we win the tip and Johnny Warren lays the ball in the wrong basket.

Most teams hold up one finger to indicate a set play. We do it to point which direction Despite New 15-2 spurt, the Cavaliers stayed within range until the Knicks ran off 15 consecutive points late in the third period for an 81-57 bulge. games are al! like instant Fitch said, the same script been following. We play people pretty even for a while and then we have one or two bad spells. If we could get someone to go for 30-minute games in this league be tougher than hell.

going to be the worst coach this year, but got to make damn sure not the worst teacher. got to stay with it and hopes things get turned around. he concluded, was a good trip into New York. We got Artis Gilmore of Jacksonville and Sidney Wicks of UCLA on hardship cases our Then he grinned at his little joke and went off to think about rematch with the Knicks in Cleveland. he said.

George basket with one second left in overtime enabled Buffalo to nip Los Angeles. Led by Wilson and Bob Kauffman, who took scoring honors with 34 points, the Braves wiped out a seven-point deficit in the final 70 seconds of overtime before 30- foot winner swished through as the buzzer sounded. The Lakers, who trailed by 18 points in tne first period, needed a 10-2 burst in the final five minutes of regulation play to force the overtime. Philadelphia built an early 19-point bulge, held off a third period San Diego rally and trimmed the Rockets as Jim Washington scored 20 points and Billy Cunningham and Fred Foster 19 each. Bob Love, in trouble with five personal fouls, sparked a six- minute outburst in the final quarter that enabled Chicago to pull away from Baltimore.

The Bulls broke away from an 88-87 lead with a 16-1 eruption for their fifth straight victory. Love was high man with 37 points and Chet added 34. After 16 ties, Fritz Williams, Jeff Mullins and Nick Jones helped San Francisco build a 13-point lead early in the fourth period and that proved too much for Phoenix to overcome. Jerry Lucas led the winners with 26 points and Mullins had 24. Hernandez To Face Martinez Omaha Art Hernandez, the fifth-ranking middleweight, will make his first ring appearance since a recent trip to Vietnam Wednesday night when he faces Sal Martinez, a Mexican with an impressive knockout record, in the main event of a pro fight card that gets under way at 8 p.m.

at the Omaha Civic Auditorium. Martinez brings a 27-1-1 record into Wednesday bout with the Omahan, who holds fhe North American Boxing ration's middleweight crown. Only three of 30 fights have gone the route with 26 of his 27 wins coming via the knockout route. The main event is set for 10 rounds. The semi-windup also offers an attractive pairing with Vic Brown of Buffalo.

N.Y., going against Harold Carter in an eight-rounder. Brown, who has been disappointed that he gotten a shot at Council Bluffs heavyweight Hon Stander, stopped former Omahan Hon Marsh on a TKO in his last Omaha appearance. last fight here also ended in a TKO win over Omaha heavyweight Morris Jackson. Carter floored Jackson once before the fight was stopped when Jackson suffered a shoulder separation. The preliminaries will pit Dick Pelster of Norfolk against Frank Merriwether in a six-rounder, John Gatus of Omaha against Spider Jenkins of Springfield, in a five-round battle of heavyweights and Dale Hernandez, younger brother of a a i Michigan lightweight champion JoJo White of Mu ke gon, Mich in a six.