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HOPE (Attil.) STAR Jity 14, lift Colts have new owner BALTIMORE (AP) The Baltimore Colts, a team with nressing problems despite havitng the best record in the National Football League during the oast 14 years, has new ownership. Carroll Rnscnbloom, handpicked to revive the Colts in 195.1 after a previous franchise rollapse. is gone and has been replaced by Robert J. Irsay. Completing an unusual swap of franchises Thursday, Rosenbloom became 100 per cent owner of the Ixw Angeles Rams and Irsay the majority owner of the Colts.

Irsay, president of a heating and air conditioning contract firm in 111., currently holds 51 per cent of the Baltimore stock, but the minority ownership apparently is still in rtonbt. At a news conference Thursday. Irsay referred to Willard Keland of Racine, as his partner, but confirmed that the final deal is in a state of flux. The two reportedly wanted to be 50-50 owners when $5 million was deposited with the executors of the estate of Dan Reeves to buy the Rams. Rut NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle frowned on such a split, requiring a majority stockholder.

Whatever the final breakdown of the stock, Irsay has taken over as operating manager of the Colts, who have an imposing 131-54-5 record in the 14 seasons starting with 1958. Despite the record. Rosenbloom and the fans have been at odds for several years. The man selected by the late commissioner Bert Bell to head the Colts' revival, was upset about the failure of the fans to support preseason games and chided the city government for not improving Memorial Stadium. When Rosenbloom hinted he would like to move the team, and then scheduled training camp and three preseason games in Tampa, city and state officials moved to study Colts-Rams are swapped in razzle-dazzle deal IAS ANGELES (AP) Carroll Rosenbloom had owned the Angeles Rams less than 24 hours when he declared, "We have as good or better chance as anyone to take it all." Thus came the indication that the man who swapped the Baltimore Colts for the Rams in a razzle-dazzle deal won't be satisfied with less than a champion.

Rosenbloom didn't say he was unhappy in Baltimore, although the pre-season attendance there had bothered him, but he did say the challenge was greater in Los Angeles. The million deal was more than a little complicated. Robert Irsay of Skokie, 111., and Willard Keland of Racine, bought the Rams. Then they traded them to Rosenbloom for the Colts since the Midwesterners wanted an Eastern team. The multimillionaire Rosenbloom had business interests in Southern California such as Warner Brothers movie studio and after all, the Colts already had won a Super Bowl title.

Rosenbloom said Tommy Prothro would remain as the Rams' coach, saying, "One of the reasons I wanted the Rams is because he's tied up for five years." Prothro, former Oregon State and UCLA coach, was head man of the Rams last year, the first of his five-year pact. He led the club to an 8-5-1 record. The Angeles franchise has been for sale since the death last year of Dan Reeves, the man who brought the club West from Cleveland in 1946. Rosenbloom admitted the trade saved him capital gains tax and intimated he thought the challenges were greater in Angeles. He didn't mention the troubles of Baltimore where he had hoped to have a new stadium.

Rosenbloom indicated there would be no swift hange in the front office operation of the Rams. Don Klosterman, general manager at Baltimore, accompanied the new owner to Los Angeles and appears destined to become the No. aide. for ABA aims expanded league DENVER (AP) Expansion, with quality, was the keynote at a special American Basketbill Association trustees meeting her? Thursday. The ABA.

is aiming for an expanded 14-team league by the 1974-75 season, but Commissioner Jack Dolph emphasized that "there will be no 'B' team markets or owners taken into the league." "They're going to have to make the varsity," Dolph said, echoing comments he made last irnnth when the league dropped the Florida and Pittsburgh franchises. Dolph said the trustees have adopted an expansion program designed to add one or two tMuns in the coming basketball teason, another two for the 1873-74 season and two more in 1974-75. Among cities currently being considered for franchises, according to Dolph, arc Cincinnati, San Diego, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington, Anaheim, Baltimore, San Francisco, St. Paul and Minneapolis.

Officials emphasized that'the ABA will not consider any current National Basketball Association cities for immediate expansion, but only with an eye toward the future. The commissioner said the league "must contemplate any and all action that will make us an independent entity." He noted, however, that the expansion efforts will not detract from efforts to merge with the NBA. At the meeting, which was to continue today, Dolph said there was some discussion of holding another undergraduate draft. The commissioner, who gives up his post in October, said candidates for his job are still being screened, a process that is expected to last at least another two weeks. All-Star leaders are named NEW YORK (AP) Dick Allen.

Rod Carew, Brooks Luis Aparicio, Regale -Jackson, Carl Yastrzemski, Bobby Murcer and Bill Freehan appear virtually certain to be the starting American League lineup in baseball's All-Star game in Atlanta July 25. With only the weekend tabulating to be done before the official starting team will be announced Monday, today's weekly report from the office of commissioner Bowie Kuhn shows these eight far in front in the voting by the fans and in little danger of losing their leads. Allen of the Chicago White Sox leads with 807,896 votes for first base. Carew, of Minnesota, has 632,255 for second base while Baltimore's Robinson has 782.272 for third base and ricio of Boston 491,908 for shortstop. Bobby's protest rejected REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) An appeals committee rejected today Bobby Fischer's protest against his loss of Thursday's world championship chess game by forfeit.

The four-man committee supported the decision of chief referee Schmid to award the game to Boris Spassky because Fischer failed to appear. The decision left Fischer two games down in a 24-game match where Fischer needs the equivalent of 12 victories and a draw to take Spassky's title. Fischer stayed in his hotel room Thursday and refused to play unless three cameras filming the match for movie and television sales were removed from the hall. Since the American challenger lost the first game on Wednesday, referee Lothar Schmid's forfeit ruling gave Spassky a 2-0 lead. Schmid wid the third game of the match would be on schedule Sunday, but the future of the match was very much in doubt.

Schmid said it depends on whether Fischer continues his boycott. He added that the Chess step in at any time and disqualify him. But Dr. Max Ewwe. president of the ontaaiutiMi.

said Schmid was charge the match and must decide how to handle the American. A spokesman for promoter Chester Fox, who bought the movie and TV rights for the match from the Icelandic Chess Federation, said the cameras had to stay because "the whole financial structure of the match depends on it." It was the prospect of movie and TV sales that allowed the Icelanders to offer a record 1125,000 purse to the two players, and Fischer and Spassky are also to divide a share of the movie-TV money estimated at a minimum of 855.000. Fox said Fischer admitted he couldn't hear or see the three cameras, but "he said they bothered him because he knew they were there." Fischer had objected first to the cameras Wednesday night and left the chess board in the sports palace for half an hour before conceding defeat in the first match. Intense negotiations through the rest of the night and all day Thursday failed to coax him from his hotel room. Spassky had arrived meanwhile and was seated behind the black figures before a crowd of about 1.000.

or less than half the capacity of the sports palace. The white pieces, and with them the first move, were Fischer's as the loser of the first game. At 5 p.m., the scheduled starting, Schmid started the playing clock. When the hour time limit for the first move by Fischer passed, the referee declared a forfeit. Spassky was given a standing ovation as he left the hall.

Jivo Nei, a Spassky assistant, called Fischer's refusal to appear "a grave insult not only to the Soviet people but to the whole world." Efforts pay aft far diving champ LINCOLN. Neb. (AP) Don Dun field decided to take the advice of that other car rental company. He started trying harder. The effort paid off Wednesday for the 23-year-old University of Wisconsin graduate.

He won the one-meter springboard title at the National AAU Outdoor Diving Championships. Dunfield piled up 524.61, points for an easy victory over Mike Finneran of Columbus, Ohio, who finsihed second, 30 ooinls back. the feasibility of a new stadium. Trsay was confronted with all the problems at his news conference, and he met them head- on. He said flatly that the team would stay in Baltimore, that he acquired the Colts without any prior agreement on a new playing site, and that he would like to try again with preseason games at home.

Joe Thomas, a defensive line coach with the Colts in 1954, is the club's new general manager. Thomas was credited with building two expansion teams into contenders as per- sonnel director at Minnesota and Miami. Rayford leads Camden tourney CAMDEN, Ark. (AP) Chip Ravford of Camden carried a one-stroke lead into today's sec- nnd round of the 25th annual Onachita Valley Invitational nolf tournament here. League champions (Ark.) photo by Allen Pictured above are the players and coaches of the Citizens National Bank Babe Ruth baseball team which was league champions this year, winning 13 games while losing only one.

Front row (lett to right) L. Banks, C. O'Steen, By KEN RAPPOPORT Associated Press Sports Writer Pittsburgh manager BUI Virdon spent a week in Cincinnati Thursday night. It no doubt seemed that way after the Reds beat his Pirates 2-0 and swept a three-game series of National League division leaders. "The sweep was just one of those things," said Vlrdon.

"You don't expect them but they happen sometimes in baseball." It happened to the Pirates because they just weren't themselves. The normally heavy-hitting East leaders manufactured a paltry total of three runs in the series. But the West-leading Reds had their usual tie plate, 'inft JTO Jtipi'Pitts- 'JfUw-Tl A burgh with seven double plays in the series, including, one Thursday night that helped Gary Nolan pick up his 13th victory of the year. In the other National League games, the St. Louis Cardinals topped the Atlanta Braves 2-0 and the Houston Astros defeated the Chicago Cubs 7-2.

In American League action, the Minnesota Twins belted the Boston Red Sox 10-0; the Texas Rangers whipped the Cleveland Indians 5-0 and the Detroit Tigers turned back the Kansas City Royals 6-4. Nolan allowed three Pittsburgh hits in the first two innings, but settled down to hold the Pirates off before Clay Carroll came in to pitch the ninth for Cincinnati. "I simply ran out of gas," said Nolan. The performance lowered his earned run average to 1.81, best among National League starters, as he became the league's first 13-game winner. He has lost only two times.

Cesar Gerinomo stroked three bits, including a home run in the fifth off Pittsburgh starter Steve Blaas. The Reds scored an insurance run in the eighth on Bobby "Total's sacrifice fly. Reggie Cleveland mastered Atlanta on two hits and drove in a run to pace St. Louis' victory. Cleveland won his llth game in 15 decisions and enhanced his winning string to seven games.

Cleveland was reached for a single by Rico Carto starting Atlanta's second inning and touched for another base hit by opposing pitcher Ron Reed in the third. Home runs by Tommy Helms and Norm Miller in the ninth inning produced five runs that broke a 2-2 tie and powered Houston past Chicago. Helms first crashed a three- run shot off Cub ace Ferguson Jenkins, then Miller delivered a two-run Job off reliever Dan McGinn. Ray Corbin stopped the hot Boston Red Sox with a six-hitter and Rich Reese ripped a three-run homer and Eric Soderholm a two-run shot in Minnesota's romp. It was only the fourth complete game pitched against Boston since May 29, a period covering 40 Red Sox had won 10 of '12 games before running Hal King's two-run double capped a 'fbur-run first inning and Rich Hand pitched a six- hitter, leading Texas over Cleveland.

Detroit scored five runs in the first inning to give Mickey Lolich a big cushion and the star Tiger southpaw held on to beat Kansas City for his 15th victory, tops in the majors. Super-Mex leads British Open MUIRFIELD, Scotland (AP) Wise-cracking Lee Trevino, sharing the lead after two rounds in his defense of the British Open Golf Championship, said today, "I'm not too happy. I like to be way out in front." Trevino. revelling in his role as the self-styled Super-Mex of golf, had a 36-hole total of 141 along with Britain's breezy voung Tony Jacklin. Both Trevino and Jacklin were one under par.

Breathing down their necks only one stroke back were such golfing heavyweights as Jack Nicklaus, the standout favorite, veteran Doug Sanders, South Africa's always-hungry Gary Player and Johnny Miller, a promising 25-vear-old American pro who set a course record of 66 in the second round. Also on 142. level par over Muirfield's links, were three young Englishmen- Peter Tupling, John Garner and Peter Townsend. After shooting a one-under- par 70 in his second round, Trevino said, "The sunshine caught everyone by surprise. Every guy thought that every other guy was burning up the course.

But none of them was prepared for these they all had been thinking how to play the links in wind and rain." issued this warning to the rest of the fit-Id, cut from 153 starters to the 88 best scorers for the last two rounds: "No matter what the weather does, the scores won't get much lower because we're all getting closer to that trophy. "Nerves play a big part in how it all works out." Trevino announced he was Precedent is set in Colts swap By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Instead of swapping players it may become fashionable to swap franchises in pro football. Carroll Rosenbloom, owner of the Baltimore Colts, established a precedent for such action when he traded the Colts Thursday for the Los Angeles Rams. Also involved in the front office razzle dazzle were Robert Irsay of Skokie, and Willard Keland of Racine, Wis. They purchased the entire stock of the Rams for $19 million, then swapped the Rams for the Baltimore franchise.

"We avoided capital gains taxes by doing it this way," said Rosenbloom. The unique switch of franchises had been approved Wednesday night by Pete RozeUe, commissioner of the National Football League. In the various training camps, meantime, the Dallas Cowboys announced they had acquired wide receiver Ron Sellers from the New England Patriots in exchange for an undisclosed draft choice. Running back Duane Thomas missed his second day of practice with the Super Bowl champions and coach Tom Landry said he would be fined for each day he is absent. using a 40-year-old ladies' wedge that he picked.up in an American golf shop's barrel for something like $4..

"It's ideal for pitching out of these deep bunkers hard fairways," he said. "But I'd never use it in American conditions." Nicklaus gunning for the British Open crown to complete the third leg of never-accomplished professional Grand four major titles in a single "I'm not playing as well as I can and I feel a bit frustrated. "But I have the notion there's some good golf ahead of me," Sanders, who' led up to the 18th in his second round, took a horrendous triple bogey 7 at the home hole but declared cheerfully afterwards, "You've got to take the bitter with the sweet. "I'm not in bad shape. I just went to sleep out there.

"And in British championships if you snooze you lose." Gary Collins threatens retirement HIRAM. Ohio (AP) Veteran wide receiver Gary Collins has told the Cleveland Browns he will retire unless he is traded to the Washington Redskins or the New York Jets. The ten-year veteran, who set manv club receiving records, has been hampered by injuries the past few seasons and lost his starting position last year. He announced his decision in a letter Thursday to Browns owner Art Modell and coach Nick J. Staggers, J.

Rhodes, D. Askew, F. Roy, E. Connley, W. Brannon; back row (left to right) Bob Gullet, coach, C.

East, R. Or, M. Cobb, D. Allen, J. Rhodes, coach, T.

Green, M. Gray, and Cecil O'Steen, coach. Not pictured, G. Banks. Reds sweep 3 game series; Twins belt Red Sox 10-0 Hope Star Sports i league roundup National League East W.

L. Pet. G.B. Pittsburgh 48 30 .615 New York 45 33 .577 3 St. Ixniis 42 36 .532 6 Chicago 42 39 .519 Montreal 34 44 .436 14 Philadelphia 28 52 .350 21 West Cincinnati 48 31 .608 Houston 48 34 .585 Angeles 42 38 .525 Atlanta 37 44 .457 12 San Francisco 36 49 .424 15 San Diego 30 50 .375 Thursday's Results Houston 7, Chicago 2 Cincinnati 2, Pittsburgh 0 St.

2, Atlanta 0 Only games scheduled Friday's Games Atlanta (Karelin 2-0) at Chicago (Pappas6-5) Houston (Ray 8-3) at Pittsburgh (Briles 7-3), Cincinnati (Grimsley 6-3) at St. (Wise 9-8), New York (Seaver 11-5) at San Diego (Arlin 7-9), Montreal (Morton 4-8) at Los Angeles (Osteeh 94), Philadelphia (Reynolds M) at San Francisco (Marichal 310). Saturday's Games Atlanta at Chicago Houston at Pittsburgh Cincinnati at St. Louis, New York at San Diego, Montreal at Los Angeles, Philadelphia at San Francisco Sunday's Games Atlanta at Chicago Houston at Pittsburgh New York at San Diego Montreal at Los Angeles Philadelphia at San Francisco Cincinnati at St. Louis Today's Baseball By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS America! League East W.

L. Pet. G.B. Detroit 44 34 .564 Baltimore 41 36 .532 Boston 37 3T .500 5 New York 37 37 .500 5 Cleveland 32 45 .416 Milwaukee 30 45 .400 West Oakland 30 .615 Chicago 45 34 .570 Minnesota 4037 .519 Kansas City 40 39 .506 California 36 44 .450 13 Texas 34 46 .425 15 Thursday's Results Minnesota 10, Boston 0 Texas 5, Cleveland 0 Detroit 6, Kansas City 4 Only games scheduled Friday's Games Oakland (Hunter 1-4 and Odom 7-2) at New York (Kline 8-3 and Ketich 8-7), 2, twi-night Chicago (Bahnsen 11-9 and Forster 1-2) at Baltimore (McNally 9-7 and Alexander 35), 2, twi-night California (Ryan 11-5) at Milwaukee (Lonborg 7-4), Boston (Siebert 7 rT 5) at Min- Cleveland (G. Perry 14-7) at Texas (Paul 3-2), Kansas City (Dal Canton 4-3) at Detroit (Coleman 11-7), Saturday'! Games Oakland at New York Chicago at Baltimore, California at Milwaukee Boston at Minnesota Cleveland at Texas, Kansas City at Detroit Sunday's Games Oakland at New York Chicago at Baltimore, 2 California at Milwaukee, 2 Boston at Minnesota Cleveland at Texas Kansas City at Detroit By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING (175 at bats)- Scheinblum.

KC, Piniella, KC. .320. Bsn, 49; D.Allen, Chi, 49; Rudi, Oak, 49. RUNS BATTED Chi, 58: Mayberry, KC, 47. HITS-Pinielta, KC, 95; Rudi, Oak, 93i DOUBLES-Patek.

KC, 19; Piniella, KC, 19; Rudi, Oak, 19. Bal, Rudi, Oak, Fisk, Bsn, 5. HOME Chi, 18: Cash, Det, 16. STOLEN Tex, 24: Campanens, Oak, 23. PITCHING (7 Kaat, Min, 10-2, .833, 2.22 Odom.

Oak, 7-2, .777, 2.20. NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING (175 at bats)Mota. LA, Cedeno, Htn, Sanguillen, Pgh, .337. Cin, 73; Wvnn. Htn, 61: Bonds, SF, 61.

RUNS BATTED IN-Bench, Cin, 69; Kingman, SF, 58. HlTS-Brock, StL, 109; R.Wflliams, Chi, 105. DOUBIJIS-Bonds, SF, 23; Cedeno, Htn, 22. TRIPIJS-Brock, StL, Rowa. Phi, Sanguillen, Pgh, 6.

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