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CORPUS CHRISTI TIMES Thun Jan 23 1973 4D Board Work UCC Rebounding Makes in Cakewalk for Easy Win Over Tigers By CRAIG BIRD Caller-Times Sports Staff "We finally crashed the boards 54 lead last night let the Tigers get to within one point three times (the last instance being at 9-8) and then never looked back There were no big seining splurges just a steady piling up of points and by the time two minutes were left in t) I in the game the of the teams played crashed the Bill Whitei UCC Coach like Tarpons had themselves a 22-point probably helped trip up Trinity as UCC played a man-toman defense the entire 40 rrinutes the first time this year they had not used the zone "We had eight guys that really played well out there White said "And I think they (Trinity) came unglued when they had to run with One of the few bright spots for Trinity fharh pete Murphy was provided by his son Bob Murphy who collected 20 points on jumpers from 20 to 25 feet Forward Randall Pugh carried the load inside and scored 22 points and collected 13 rebounds King edged closer to the record book last night as he finished the evening with 985 points in just over two years as a Tarpon Barring a subpar performance the junior from New York City should scale the 1000 here Safer- point barrier in the next game last night after watching the Tarpons deck Trinity University 76-62 at Memorial Coliseum don't know where the advantage was but we sure had he said referring to statistics that showeduGC outrebounding the visitors 51-36 en route to its sixth home court victory without a loss The Tarpons are 88 overall while the Tigers are now 9-7 And while the Tamms have won an home games the win over Trinity was the first one White has been able to enjoy very much prior to the final buzzer In the fint five wins three were by one point one by a three-point margin and the other by aeven points In marked contrast UCC grabbed off a Bruce King tallied 24 points to pace the attack and claimed 11 rebounds and five assists to even out his work Julius Howard came up with 22 points and led the team with 13 rebounds Trinity started out in a zone defense but the Tarpons hit die outside shot so well that the Tigers were forced to switch to a mantoman Unfortunately for the visitors UCC then proceeded to the fast break as well as we have all according to White and slowly grind down the Tigers Another for the Tarpons day against Rhode Island College AUSTIN PEAY SCORING ACE 'Fly1 Draws Fans in Droves BALL IN THE FACE FOR ALAN KIRKES Ron Malone (right) tries for possession (Staff Photo by Tom Crabb) away The freshman came through with two free throws late in the game to break a 67-67 tie and get his team untracked Die victory Austin Peays 500th avenged an earlier beating by foe 49ers It improved the record this season to 11-3 Alabama used only six players to beat Florida AH six Finesse vs Muscle In Piney Shootout The shock was beginning to wear off and Don McDonald was able to grin again could really have enjoyed watching them if it been me getting my tail the Texas coach said admiringly after surviving to the surprise of many a horror journey into the East Texas piney woods where he and his Javelinas were ambushed by the Nos 1 and 2 college division teams in all the land Those same two Sam Houston and Stephen Austin have their own Saturday night in Nacogdoches and who is better to appraise the probable outcome than the coaches most recently forced to endure a trip of terror trying to combat the pair of behemoths Both coaches are named McDonald Don of Texas and Vernon of Southwest Texas but their views are somewhat different "To be honest I'd like to see Sam Houston win" McDonald said I just see how they can Stephen is better than it has ever been in attitude playing together better and harder than I have ever seen them And that (Robert) Gords and (Pete) Harris are just Southwest McDonald who described the East Texas journey as facing a double-barrel was not as certain as his counterpart say which is the best team" he claimed "Stephen is extremely quick Sam Houston has awesome height and (James) Lister is the dominating force in the conference in my Depth Class the Difference The Texas coach was in general agreement but pointed out Houston is defensive-minded and has good size They can stay with Stephen on the boards but they have the overall class Sam Houston is the tough hard-nosed type club where Stephen has more finesse and more depth When Sam Houston gets past its seventh man you can tell the difference Stephen plays about 10 men and except for Gords and Harris you tell one from the McDonald points out that with an all-veteran cast returning from last season when they finished third in the nation the Lumberjacks are so steeped in talent the non-starter list includes Archie Myers a 6-2 transfer from Howard County Junior College who was probably the most sought-after prospect in the nation Harris at 6-8 and 230 pounds is described by the coach as one who the ball plays outside and if he isn't scoring can pick you to pieces with his Gords 6-0 200 play anywhere Sometimes outside sometimes on the wing and it make any Both were sought by American Basketball Association teams after last season being propositioned to bypass their final season of eligibility for a pro contract in the conference was sure hoping take McDonald admits tell the coach concluded I were going to bet take Stephen this week and Sam Houston when they play in Huntsville (Feb That ought to mean then a goody shootout-for-real in a one-game playoff somewhere around March 1 MASAO OHBA NEW HALL OF FAMER Sherituoftmeiei THURSDAY JANUARY 25 1973 PAGE 4D Sports CITY BASKETBALL Six Teams Above 500 Spahn Gives Dad Credit By The Associated Press The Austin Peay basketball gymnasium seats only 2305 and it used to be enough for home games until this year Now they miraculously squeeze 1300 more fans into the postage-stamp arena and the overflow carries into the school cafeteria to watch on dosed circuit television The Mg attraction is foe Fly" Die leading scorer James Williams continued to pack them in and continued to throw them in Wednesday night with 38 points that helped Austin Peay beat North Ckrolina-Chariotte 85-76 yet hit as well as he's going to hit from foe said Austin Peay Coach Lake Kelly Perhaps not but not doing too badly so far He had a 33-point average going into Wednesday game That was almost two points better than runnenip Raymond Lewis of Los Angeles State And his charismatic presence has juiced up dm home attendance The line outside foe gym usually starts forming about four hours before game time And when foe Austin Peay fans finally get settled inside either tandl or I 14 of Ms last four minutes The points in time with Seton Hall The dominated the game at both ends of the court shooting 54 per cent from foe field and out-rebounding Seton Han 5638 Dayton outscored Miami 136 in the second half to take the lead for good over the Flyers Die spurt unlocked a 5535 tie JD Grigsby of Dayton led all scorers with 18 points Gary Meichionni scored 16 It all began in Buffalo during foe Depression "I guess I might be foe world's oldest Little Leaguer" Spahn said with a grin they formed the Lake City Athletic dub team in my hone-town it was the first of its kind Warren's father a wallpaper salesman helped him learn to pitch always said 'Propel the ball don't Just throw it' I was lucky too The Lord gave me a good fastball to get to foe big leagues and foe ability later to throw a lot of different pitches which helped keep mq there a long Spahn pitched two nobitters in the majors but the first one ddnt come until he was 40 years old things are he said one was the best game ever legs gave him trouble throughout his career He underwent operations five times the last in 1970 scored in double figures led by Wendall 17 Florida guard Tony Miller led all scorers with 25 points Providence went on a 16-4 soaring binge midway through foe second half to beat Massachusetts During that game-breaking span Kevin Stacom scored seven points for the Friars St John's took the lead after foe opening minute and had an one who taught me to pitch instead of simply throw the high leg kick foe style ev- 51-yearold Spahn will be enshrined next summer at the Baseball Hall in Cooperstown NY up there with Babe Ruth Ty Cobb and Walter he said Whitey Ford one-time clutch left-hander of foe New York Yankees fell 29 votes short of foe required 284 in his first shot at the Hall By chance he ran into Spahn at a restaurant after announcement "Nice going he said Mickey and I can make it as a two-man entry next Mickey Mantle the old Yankee slugger becomes eligible in 1974 Spahn is bald but athletically trim at age 51 He pitched in foe major leagues until he was 44 and still wings a few in batting practice for Cleveland as the pitching coach I By HUBERT MIZELL NEW YORK (AP) A Hall of Fame twinkle appeared in Eddie 77-year-old He taught his boy how to and now Warren was IforCooperstown "That twinkle was reward enough" said Warren Spahn pitched heroically for (he Braves of both Boston and Milwaukee winning a left-handed record 363 games with 13 seasons of 20 or more victories was almost midnight Tuesday when the call came" he said were at my house in Buffalo NY Suddenly I was in the Baseball Hall of Fame I almost Spahn was an overwhelming Choice with 316 of 380 votes eyes Hf pitch ai headed Amateur Scores from foe Baseball Writers Association of America A 75 per cent approval was needed and he had received 83 in his first year of eligibility emotions flowed and I take my eyes off my he said was the Tennis Upset OMAHA NCb Sandy Mayer of Wayne NJlstrucka strong blow for amateurs here berth with Canoll King or Miller the best bet in District 27-4A and West Oso is given a chance at the District 15-3A title Keith Lewis continued to lead the city in scoring with an 183 average and his teammate Randy Washington moved into second with a 173 average The West Oso player has played in only 15 of the 21 games and consequently was overlooked for most of the However in the past 15 he has compiled a almost unbelieveable scoring performance Perhaps the biggest drop was Stanley move from fourth to seventh He had been scoring over 17 points a game but in foe past two contests he scored only a total of 18 points and his average fell to 156 TEAM STANOINOS mm ore Carroll 4 King II II I Oao 11 I Blufl II 1 12 II TutoiO-MMwav I II Ray 11 Caiaitan i is INDIVIDUAL ICORINO FO FT TP A VO Lawia Milter 24 lit 444 IIS WaMnoton Milter 24 IN SI 421 17 Hartrali Day 24 170 27 417 wiiMawntOM is no to iu Rav 25 IH It 410 KIM 171 410 Minor 22 IS! 40 144 II Flour Bluff 10 111 IS III OKasoar Carroll 24 HI 70 102 Mavfltld WaatOSO 21 130 41 IIS Thomaa Moody 23 145 4S 33S Naslenav Tul-Mid 22 110 S4 2M UmuolWMIOMH 04 14 102 Frantz Carroll 14 12 42 244 Bryant Moody 24 IIS 40 20 Rsboau Caialkn1t 7S 40 110 Crawford Flour aiuff20 ft 20 12 HU 1237 142 11U 1322 1412 10M wo 1131 174 171 172 11 15 15 151 150 14 11 12 12 12 111 11 World Flvweiaht Champ Dies in Auto Accident With Houston and Dallas teams dominating the state tournament for the past six years basketball has been called the sport of the cities in recent years And Corpus Christi teams seem to be proving that theory correct Six of the nine teams in the city are playing 500 ball or better with three sporting impressive records against fairly tough competition Carroll leads the way with a 22-4 record while King is 21-6 and Miller is 184 West Oso has won 13 of 21 games and Flour Bluff has won 12 of 20 Moody is 12-12 Several of those teams still have a chance at a playoff Gym officials said they will hold a wake beside Ohba's body the gym tonight with his family relatives and boxing officials attending Gym officials said funeral services will be held at his home in Kasukwbe about 20 miles ninth of Tokyo Friday They said the Japan Boxing Association's funeral service for the champion will be held at Korakuen Hall site of major boxing matches in Tokyo on Feb 5 Ohba one of most popular boxers won his title in October 1970 when he dethroned Berkrerk Chartvanchai with a 13th round knockout He successfully depended his crown five times the last time on Jan 2 When he knocked out another Thai Chartchai Chkmoi in the 12th round of their fight in Tokyo Since he turned professional in 1966 Ohba had a record of 35 wins 16 knockouts two losses and one draw mm 'Gump' Worsley Retires Wednesday evening when he started fast and held on for a 6-2 7-5 victory over John Cooper cf Australia in a Midlands International Tennis Tournament match Mayer a Stanford University junior withstood a rally by Cooper that carried the Australian from a 34 deficit to a 54 advantage and the brink of a in the evening John Cbnnors of Miami Fla foe professional rookie of the year last season outdistanced Bill Brown of Omaha 64 6-2 In final game topeeeded and two-time champion Hie Nastase of Romania Jaime Pinto Bravo mulled it over for some time I came to the point where I think I can do it Wren Blair North Stars' general manager feels otherwise otherwise "I had no alternative but to reluctantly accept his decision" Blair said after meeting with Worsley Wednesday afternoon told him I agree with that he had just lost some of his timing That mean he's finished If fered to Penn State head Coach Joe Paterno but he rejected it a few days after his squad lost 144 to in foe Sugar BowL Paterno turned down a five-year contract at $200000 annually A Patriot spokesman said the dub would nave no comment on foe reports and that any statement would have to come from Sullivan Notre Dame (6-7) is also on tonight's Chicago Stadium card facing Illinois (7-4) the dub which gave UCLA its toughest tussle to date this season bowing by only seven points 71-64 in the Sugar Bowl tourney Wooden sent the Bruins through brisk hour workout at De Paul University's gym after deplaning from the West Coast yesterday afternoon To Sign With Pats TOKYO Masao Ohba fresh from a fifth defense of his World Boxing Association flyweight boxing title died in an auto crash here Thursday and his loss was mourned by boxing fans throughout the world Police said Ohba a 23-year-old bachelor was killed when his US-made sports car jumped a road divider at a shaip curve and collided head-on with a 113-ton truck parked on the Metropolitan Highway No 5in Tokyo Doctors said Ohba died of a skull fracture before he could be rushed to a hospital The truck driver police said escaped injury According to initial police investigation Ohba an inexperienced driver was apparently exceeding the speed limit which resulted in the mishap Police said the WBA flyweight champion is believed to have been driving his ivory-colored Chevrolet at a speed of more than 60 miles an hour on the highway where the speed limit is 36 miles per hour Ohba obtained his license about two months ago on Nov 6 1972 police said Akihiko Honda chairman of the Teiken boxing gym to which Ohba belonged said just had a pleasant chat with Nm yesterday 1 believe his Officials of the gym said the champion recently bought a 1973 model of the 5730c Chevrolet Corvette which costs about 116000 in Japan Fighting Harada former world flyweight and ba-tamweight champion said he regrets the tragic death of Ohba He said lost the City Basketball On asScheduled AD city league basketball games will be played as scheduled tonight Bob Kenney of the City Parks and Recreation Department said this morning The games will be at Ben Garza Gym and Coles Junior High gym BUY THE LARGE SIZE AND SAVE V2gal now at new low price BLOOMINGTON Minn (AP) Lome Worsley says his 20-year National Hockey League goahending career is finished But the Minnesota North Stars hoping that the 43-year-old Gumper might change his mind are going to delay in filing voluntary retirement papers with foe NHL office a split said Worsley one of the last of foe unmasked goalies talked it over with my wife tal heart attack In the six i sons at OU Fairbanks has coached five teams to post season bowls foe last two in which the Sooners knocked over Auburn and Penn State in the Sugar BowL His teams have been ranked second in the nation foe past two years Fairbanks has rolled up a 52-15-1 record at Oklahoma The Patriots have been without a coach for almost two months The job had been of favored to rack up their 60th straight victory since 1971 and match the record set by Bill Russell-paced San Francisco from 1955 through 1957 The West Coast wander club 144 this season Saturday afternoon presumably will try for record-breaking No 61 at South Bend Ind against Notre Dame foe last team to defeat UCLA with an 8982 triumph on Jan 23 1971 on foe Irish court Boston television station WBZ-IV The report did not specify whether Fairbanks might have been hired as head coach or general manager Patriots officials have said they wanted one man for both jobs Fairbanks came to Oklahoma in 1966 as an assistant under Jim Mackenzie He became head coach the following spring after Mackenzie suffered a fa MASAO OHBA champion on a highway but 'not in the ring Boxers should not drive a car Fairbanks NORMAN Okla (AP) -University of Oklahoma football coach Chuck Fairbanks said today he will accept the job of head coach and general manager of foe New England Patriots if the National Football League team makes "suitable contractual Fairbanks said he will fly to Boston Friday to meet with officials He indicated he would accept foe post if the written contract terms agree with what club officials have told him "I have not signed a contract with anybody" Fairbanks He said he had not met with President Billy Sullivan in New York and had not met personally with Sullivan at any time He said however that he had held previoua telephone conversations with Sullivan Die report that Fairbanks was moving to the Patriots was aired Wednesday night over UCLA Can Tie Record Tonight CHICAGO (AP)-Top-ranked seemingly invincible Bruins tonight launch an historic two-game Midwest invasion which should gild their already phenomenal dynasty with collegiate basketball's longest skein of consecutive victories Against Chicago Loyola in foe finale of a Chicago Stadium doubleheader Coach Johnny six-time NCAA champion Bruins are heavily The original light Scotch sinceT853 KMU KOKH WtJR-N N00rMSnHM MTUW GMT INtWlU KIO lt.