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MOPE (AMR.) STAR Hope Star Sports Chicago Bulls are without a home NEW YORK (AP) The Chicago Bulls were without a home court today, while the Boston Celtics, Atlantic Division champions of the National Basketball Association, had only their second sole owner in their 26-year history. The Bulls have played the last five seasons in Chicago Stadium, after playing in the Chicago Amphitheatre in 196667, their first season in the league. At present, they have no lease for next season for either arena. They could play in the Amphitheatre, which holds about 10,500 for basketball, if the league's Board of Governors reconsiders a $5.0 million offer to purchase the club by a nine- man group from Milwaukee and Chicago, headed by Marvin L. Fishman, a Milwaukee realtor.

The Board rejected Tuesday the Fishman group offer to buy the Bulls from Elmer Rich. NBA Commissioner Walter Kennedy indicated that the Governors did not approve the offer because the Bulls were unable to obtain a lease for the Stadium. Tuesday, Fishman said his group had signed a three-year lease with the Amphitheatre, but the Board still turned down the offer. "I'm disappointed by the temporary setback our group received," said Fishman. "1 would like to emphasize the word temporary.

We intend to pursue every legal action to assume our acquisition of the team." Should the efforts of the Fishman group fail, the Bulls could be sold to a group including Arthur Wirtz, owner of the seat Stadium. It has been reported that with the rejection of Fishman, approval is expected to be given to the Wirtz group, which has a 10-year lease at favorable rental terms ready for the Bulls. Meanwhile, the Board approved the sale of the Celtics for $5.1 million to Robert Schmertz, a 46-year-old realtor from Lakewood, N.J. He will be sole owner of the club. The only other individual owner in the team's history was the late Walter Brown, who purchased the Celtics in their infancy in 1946.

He died in 1964, but by that time was co- owner with Lou Pieri. Schmertz, also part owner of the New England Whalers in the new World Hockey Association, is reported as saying he will keep the club in Boston, despite rumors to the contrary. He also is retaining Arnold "Red" Auerbach as president and general manager. Robinson will retire LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) Johnny Robinson, veteran safety of the Kansas City Chiefs, planned to hold a news conference today to announce his retirement from professional football.

The news conference was scheduled at 11:30 a.m., CDT, in the office of Coach Hank Strain on the campus of William Jewell College where the Chiefs opened their training camp Monday to prepare for the coming National Football League season. Robinson, 32, was not present when the Chiefs had their initial get-together. He was being examined by his physician. The star defensive player suffered a groin injury last Christmas Day in the second quarter of the American Conference playoff game between the Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins. The injury was a factor in Robinson's decision to retire and devote his time to business in Kansas City.

Another factor was his age. Robinson, a pro for 12 years, was with the Dallas Texans before the franchise was moved to Kansas City. He is the last original player from the old American Football League on the team. Robinson played college football at Louisiana State. Lambert injured INGLEWOOD, Calif.

(AP) Jockey Jerry Lambert has suffered a broken collerbone in a motorcycle accident, and doctors said Tuesday he may be sidelined two months. I-ambert last month, suffered the injury to his right clavicle Sunday night at Hollywood Park, a track spokesman said. Doctors said rays showed the break to be a serious one. Red Sex shut-out Oakland By KEN RAPPOPORT Associated Press Sports Writer The "Pattin" story unfolded in dramatic fashion at the Oakland Coliseum. Marty the- hero, firing bullets at the Oakland A's.

Two outs away from a no-hitter, the Boston Red Sox pitcher finally surrendered a single to Reggie Jackson before winning the battle 4-0 on a powerhouse one-hitter. "I guess that's as close as I'll ever come to a no-hitter," said Pattin Jackson's hit just eluded second baseman Doug Griffin in the ninth inning. The pitch that Jackson caught was a high fast ball with "something on it." Pattin said he'd throw it again in the same situation. In Tuesday's other American league contests, the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Kansas City Royals 2-1 in 10 innings; the Detroit Tigers nipped the Texas Rangers 6-5; the Chicago White Sox trimmed the Cleveland Indians 4-3; the New York Yankees stopped the California Angels 7-3 and the Milwaukee Brewers turned back the Minnesota Twins 5-4. In the National League, it was Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh Atlanta 5, St.

Louis 4 in 15 innings; Philadelphia 4, Los Angeles San Francisco 6, New York Montreal 6, San Diego 5 in 12 innings and Houston 6, Chicago 5 in the first game of a doubleheader and Chicago 9, Houston 5 in the second. Using hard sliders and fast- balls as his main weapons, Pattin cut down Oakland batters until the A's last stand. Joe Rudi went down for Pat tin's seventh strikeout to open the ninth. Then Jackson spoiled Pattin's no-hitter. "I guess this is the best game I ever pitched," said Pattin, who received a standing ovation from the crowd of 5,539 when he came to bat in the ninth.

Pattin, obtained in a 10-player trade from Milwaukee during the off-season, won his fourth straight game and improved his record to 64 with the near-masterpiece, fashioned on 117 pitches. Carlton Fisk's llth homer of the season gave Pattin a 1-0 lead in the second inning. The Red Sox added another in the fourth on hits by Carl Yastr- zemski, Rico Petrocelli, a walk Nicklaus has mind fixed on winning By RONALD THOMSON Associated Press Writer MUIRFIELD, Scotland (AP) Jack Nicklaus went into one of the most vital golf tournaments of his illustrious career today with his mind fixed on winning the British Open title and consciously blocking out thoughts of achieving the Grand Slam. Britain's legal bookies have made the 32-year-old American an overwhelming favorite to win his third British crown, over Muirfield's windy links beside the Firth of Forth. After seven practice rounds on the par layout, Nicklaus said: "My game ia in reasonable shape.

I have pretty much made up my rpjnri what I will do when the chips are down." Thousands of golf fans be- tMged the course southeast of Edinburgh as play began for the Wist championship with prize money totaling about The main focus was on Nicklaus, who needs the British title to complete the third leg of the Grand the four major pro tourneys. He already has won the of the Masters and U.S. Open. The British Open and the PGA at Birmingham, next month would complete the sweep. On the eve of the British Open, Nicklaus mused: "The Grand Slam only becomes realistic if I win here.

So I'm concentrating on that." Nicklaus planned to sleep late because he was among the late starters. Defending champion Lee Trevino had a much earlier starting time. The bookies listed Nicklaus as 9-4 favorite, with Trevino second choice at 6-1 and Gary Player of South Africa third at 12-1. Britain's Tony Jacklin, another former titleholder, was a 161 shot while Billy Casper and Arnold Palmer were 20-1. Trevino played only two practice rounds, but was brimming with confidence.

"Of course, I can win," he said- "I wouldn't bother coming here if I thought I couldn't." and a forceout. Hits by Yastrzemski, Petrocelli and Fisk produced another run in the eighth and Boston added its final run in the ninth when Juan Beniquez tripled and scored on a wild pitch. Tom Shopay walked with the bases loaded in the 10th inning, forcing in the winning run as Baltimore halted a five-game losing streak. Reliever Ken Wright, the Royals' second pitcher of the inning, gave up the game-ending walk after the Orioles had filled the bases on a double by Brooks Robinson and walks to Bobby Grich and Boog Powell. The Royals had taken a 1-0 lead in the first on singles by Amos Otis, Richie Scheinblum and Lou Piniella.

The Orioles tied it in the sixth on pitcher Jim Palmer's run-scoring single. Palmer recorded his 12th victory with a seven-hitter. Detroit kept its tenuous one- game lead over Baltimore in the East by beating Texas on Mickey Stanley's tie-breaking home run in the sixth inning. It was Stanley's third homer in the last three games and continued his game-breaking habits. "I'll be happy if I can do as well in the second half of the season with key hits," said Stanley, who has produced 27 RBI despite a sub-par, .230 batting average.

Chicago struck for three runs in the seventh inning on a two- run homer by Rick Reichardt and a solo shot by Ed Spiezio to beat Cleveland. The long ball barrage turned the game around against Dick Tidrow, who had allowed only two hits and struck out 10 until that juncture. Felipe Alou and Ron Swoboda each oirove two runs during a six-run rally in the third inning as New York breezed by California. Fritz Peterson went the distance for the Yankees, allowing nine hits, and boosted his record to 8-10. Joe Lahoud's ninth inning two-run homer carried Milwaukee over Minnesota.

The Twins took a 4-3 lead into the ninth but Ron Clark opened with a single and then Lahoud unloaded his fifth homer of the year. Petrocelli to have surgery OAKLAND (AP) Shortstop Rico Petrocelli of the Boston Red Sox says he will undergo minor eye surgery in two weeks during the All-Star break. BABE RUTH of this year's Babe Ruth League teams, left to right, are: Bill Freeman, Merchants; Dick Moore, Anderson-Frazier; Mrs. Evelyn Hughes, First National Bank; Wayne Russell, Corn Belt; Cecil CfSteen, Citizens National Bank; and Boyce Parsons, Blevins. Bobby makes blunder; Spassky may take match REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Defending champion Boris Spassky was favored by the experts to beat American challenger Bobby Fischer in the opening game of the world chess match when play resumes this afternoon.

The opener of the richest chess competition in history adjourned Tuesday night after 4 hours and 34 minutes of play and 40 moves by each player. The game was to resume at 5 p.m.—1 p.m. EOT. Referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany will make Spassky's 41st move. The Russian wrote it on a slip of paper and handed it to him in a sealed envelope at the adjournment.

The two competitorsAtheir seconds and chess enthusiasts throughout the world spent part of the overnight break analyzing possibilities for the 11 pieces remaining on the green- and-white chessboard in Reykjavik's sports hall: king and five pawns for Fischer; king, bishop and three pawns for Spassky. The match had appeared headed for a draw until Fischer tried to seize the initiative on his 29th move. The lanky Brooklyn, N.Y., challenger galloped his bishop down a long black diagonal to snatch an unprotected pawn Spassky had offered. A few moves later the bishop was trapped and lost in exchange for two pawns. U.S.

grandmaster Robert Byrne said it was a blunder and commented, "Fischer is going to have trouble making a draw. I don't see how Spassky, can lose." Analyzing the game for The Associated Press, international grandmaster Isaac Kashdan termed Fischer's move "a rare miscalculation by the American genius." He said it gave Spassky good prospects for a win. Svetozar Gligoric, the Yugoslav grandmaster present at the tournament, said, "It is doubtful whether black can save a draw." Spassky, who had the first move, is playing the white pieces, Fischer the black. Fischer has played Spassky five times in the past, losing all three times he played the black pieces and getting draws both times he played the whites and had the advantage of the first move. A draw counts half a point and a win a point in the 24- game championship match.

To dethrone Spa.ssky, needs sian can retain his crown with 12 points. The winner will get $153,125 in prize money, the loser $91,875, and in addition they will di- vide equally an estimated $55,000 or more from film and television sales. Mf It, MM If wlnsMU LINCOLN, (AP) Houston's Cynthia Pottef took the first step toward repeating her iMiprecedefited 1971 grand slam sweep by winning the meter springboard titte as the National AAU Outdoor Diving Meet opened here Tuesday. Last year the petite 22-year- old Texan became the tint woman in history to claim the triple crown, the one-and three- meter board and 10-meter platform championships, in the same meet. "It's nice to win the one-meter again," the University of Indiana senior said, "but the other two are the important events.

"They don't compete in the low board at the Olympics so if I want to make the team and go to Munich I'll have to excel on the three-meter or tower." Air Force Capt. Midd King, the only member of the 19M U. S. Women's Olympic team, toying for a repeat berth, led throughout the preliminary and semifinal rounds. But Miss King, a University of Michigan graduate who is now stationed in Los Angeles, fell to third when the champion and Christine Loock of Fort Worth scored sensationally in the final round.

The Texas gals finished less than one point apart, 446.82 to 446.28. Major league roundup Expos trim Padres 6-5; Braves edge Cards 5-4 By HAL BOCK Associated Press Sports Writer Patience is a virtue to be admired. Everything comes, it has been said, to those who wait. The Montreal Expos and Atlanta Braves found out that the adage applies to baseball, too. The Expos and Braves both struggled into extra innings Tuesday night and were rewarded with National League victories.

Montreal trimmed San Diego 6-5 in 12 innings and Atlanta went 15 innings to beat St. Louis 5-4. In other National League action, San Francisco defeated New York 6-1, Philadelphia tripped Los Angeles 4-1, Cincinnati shut out Pittsburgh 5-0 and Houston split a doubleheader with Chicago, winning the opener 6-5 but dropping the nightcap 9-5. In the American League, Boston shut out Oakland 4-0, Detroit edged Texas 6-5, Milwaukee nipped Minnesota 54, Baltimore edged Kansas City 21 in 10 innings, Chicago topped Cleveland 4-3 and New York whipped California 7-3. The Expos overcame home runs by Derrell Thomas and Clarence Gaston which staked San Diego to an early 5-3 lead.

Ken Singleton had homered for Montreal. The Expos tied it in the seventh on Tim Foil's two-run single. It was still tied in the 12th when Singleton opened with a single. Bob Bailey was credited with a hit when his grounder struck Singleton, retiring the runner. But Clyde Mashore followed with a double, scoring Bailey from first with the deciding run.

Hank Aaron poled his 658th career homer for Atlanta but the Cardinals caught the Braves in the seventh inning, tying the score on Lou Brock's fourth hit, second stolen base, a throwing error by Earl Williams and Ted Sizemore's sacrifice fly. They shouldn't have bothered. The teams battled into the 15th when Atlanta finally pushed across the winning run with the help of two wild pitches by reliever Lowell Palmer. Gil Garrido opened with a single, moved up on a wild pitch and long fly before scoring on Palmer's second wild pitch. The Mets, who are losing ball players almost as frequently as ball games, dropped another of each.

Outfielder John Milner was carried off the field after a collision with shortstop Bud Harrelson in the third inning of New York's game against San Francisco. Milner suffered a neck injury and Chris Speier' popup fell for a double, scoring two runs for the Giants. The Mets, already missing three regular outfielders because of injuries, replaced MJ'ii with catcher Duffy Dyer and in the seventh Speier hit another pop fly which Dyer let drop for an error and two more Giants' runs. Ron Bryant pitched a two-hitter for the victory. It all began in Scotland MUIRFIELD, Scotland (AP) Only in the United States is it called the British Open.

Elsewhere in the world it is simply The Open. This is The Open. The others carry a demeaning prefix. Like the United States Open. Or the Canadian Open.

Or the Tasmanian Open. This is particularly true in Britain, where they blithely ignore the existence of any other open golf championship. It's more particularly true in Scotland. It's most particularly true around Muirfield, which has some considerable claims to being the birthplace of the game. It was in this area, some 16 miles southeast of Edinburgh Castle which crouches on a hilltop in Scotland's capital, in 1744 that golf's first organization was formed, the honorable Company of Edinburgh golfers.

The company, which still conducts the affairs of Muirfield, was organized to play a four- hole course not far from the present site hard by the Firth of Forth on the East coast of Scotland. And they drew up the game's first set of rules, 13 of them. The first rule was: "The tee shall be not more than one club length from the hole." The second rule was: "The tee shall be on the ground." Joe Dey. a noted historian, former head of the USGA and now commissioner of the Tournament Players Division of the PGA, explained about rule No. 1.

"This, of course, was before there were wooden tees. The player would reach into the hole to get a handful of sand and pour it on the ground to form a tee. Now, there was no rule covering uniformity of the size of the hole. So as the day went on and more players went through, the hole got bigger and bigger. "But.

teeing it up one club length from the hole, can you imagine what the putting green looked like?" Today's Baseball By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS National League East W. L. Pet. G.B. Pittsburgh 48 28 .632 New York 44 33 .571 Chicago 42 37 .532 St.

Louis 40 36 .526 8 Montreal 34 43 .442 Philadelphia 28 51 .354 West Cincinnati 46 31 .597 Houston 46 34 .575 AWgeles 41 38 .519 '6 Atlanta 37 42 .468 10 San Francisco 36 48 .429 San Diego 29 50 .367 18 Tuesday's Results Houston 6-5, Chicago 5-9 Philadelphia 4, Los Angeles 1 Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 0 San Francisco 6, New York 1 Montreal 6, San Diego 5, 12 innings Atlanta 5, St. Louis 4, 15 innings Wednesday's Games San Francisco (McDowell 86) at New York (Matlack 8-5) Houston (Roberts 7-4) at Chicago (Reuschel 3-1) Los Angeles (John 7-4) at Philadelphia (Selma 1-8), San Diego (Caldwell 3-4 or Corkins 0-5) at Montreal (Stoneman 8-5), Pittsburgh (Walker 3-4) Cincinnati (Simpson 4-3), Atlanta (Schueler 3-3) at St. Louis (Gibson 8-5), Thursday's Games Houston at Chicago Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, Atlanta at St. Louis, Only games scheduled American League East W. L.

Pet. G.B. Detroit 42 34 .553 Baltimore 41 35 .539 1 Boston 36 36 .500 4 NewYork 36 37 .453 Cleveland 32 43 .427 Milwaukee 30 44 .405 11 West Oakland 48 29 .623 Chicago 44 34 .564 Minnesota 38 37 .507 9 Kansas City 39 38 .506 9 California 36 43 .456 13 Texas 33 45 .423 Tuesday's Results Chicago 4, Cleveland 3 Baltimore 2, Kansas City 1, 10 innings Milwaukee 5, Minnesota 4 Detroit 6, Texas 5 Boston 4, Oakland 0 New York 7, California 3 Wednesday's Games Kansas City (Nelson 2-3) at Baltimore (Dobson 104), Chicago (Wood 12-9) at Cleveland (Kilkenny 2-1), Milwaukee (Brett 5-8) at Minnesota (Blyleven 8-10), Texas (Gogolewski 3-7) at Detroit (Slayback 1-3), Boston (Curtis 5-3) at Oakland (Hamilton 5-3), New York (Stottlemyre 8-10) at California (Allen 2-5), Thursday's Games Boston at Minnesota, Cleveland at Texas, Kansas City at Detroit, Only games scheduled Today's Major League Leaden By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING (175 at bats)- Scheinblum, KC, Piniella, KC, .319. RUNS-Harper, Bsn, 49; Rudi, Oak, 49; D.Allen, Chi, 48. RUNS BATTED Chi, 58; Mayberry, KC, 46.

HITS-Piniella, KC, 92; Rudi, Oak, 92; R.Oliver, Cal, 89. DOUBLES-Patek, KC, 19; Rudi, Oak, 19; Fisk, Bsn, 18; Piniella, KC, 18. TRIPLES-Blair, Bal, Rudi, Oak, Fisk, Bsn, 5. HOME Chi, IB; Cash, Det, 16. STOLEN Tex, 23; P.Kelly, Chi, 22; Campaneris, Oak, 22.

PITCHING (7 Decisions)Kaat, Min, 10-2, .833, 2.22 Odom, Oak, 7-2, .777, 2.20. Cal, 138; Lolich, Det, 135. NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING (175 at Htn, Mota, LA, .339. Cin, 72; Bonds, SF, 61. RUNS BATTED IN-Bench, Cin, 66; Kingman, SF, 58.

StL, 107; B. Williams, Chi, 102. DOUBLES-Bonds, SF, 23; Cedeno, Htn, 22. TRIPLES-Brock, StL, Sanguillen, Pgh, 6. HOME RUNS-Bench, Cin, 22; Kingman, SF, 21.

STOLEN BASES-Morgan, Cin, 34; Brock, StL, 30. PITCHING (7 Decisions)Nolan, Cin, 12-2, .857, 1.93 Blass, Pgh, 10-2, .833, 2.74. STRDCEOUTS-Carlton, Phi, 182; Seaver, NY, 112. Solunar Tables The schedule of Solunar Periods, as printed below, has been taken from Richard Alden Knight's SOLUNAR TABLES. Plan your days to that you will be fiahing in good territory or hunting in good cover during these times, if you wish to ind the test anort that each day has to offer.

Date July Pay 12 Wednesday 13 Thursday 14 Friday 15 Saturday 16 Sunday AM. Minor Major 6:40 7:45 8:35 9:25 10:10 PM. Muwr Major 7:15 8:10 9:00 3:11 9:45 3:55 10:30 4:45.