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PACE 4 Elwood Call-Leader Tuesday January 4, 1972 Grant Co, Tourney (7 laroncs 7 To Open Wednesday By 7VV i if a ir i clash at 12:30 p.m. on Saturdays to open semi-play. The two Thursday night victors will meet in the 2 p.m. tussle to decided the final two teams Jot the 8 p.m. championship game.

Oak HiHvon the. affair last seasorjwhipping Blackford County by four points, 76-72, and County Invitational. The club whipped Wabash by one point and Manchester, 66-59, for the Northfield will bring the longest winning streak into the meet a five game mark. The Norsemen also have tourney's leading scorer in Randy Unger, a 5-10 guard sporting a 24 point average. Madison Grant has been idle since Dec.

18 when the Argylls whipped Indianapolis Ritter for their second straight victory following a setback to Wes Del that snapped a five" game winning streak. Only four teams of the eight involved have won previous titles dating back to 1929. Oak Bennett, Mississinewa and Northfield have titles to their credit. Season tickets will be oh sale at the gates Wednesday night. Officials also stated that single session tickets will be available at the same time.

i K'' school. Rick's mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Cyphers, flank the 250-pound star fujlback while coach Jim Calaway of Tri-Central is pictured in background. RICK CYPHERS, star Tri-Central sports' athlete, is pictured above signing a letter of.

intent to attend Middle Tennessee State next fall: ick will receive a full-ride, four-year football scholarship if he attends the Frazier Puts On MARION Eight clubs from three different counties will go for all the marbles as the 44th annual Grant County Invitational extravaganza opens at the Marion High School Arena Wednesday night. The' field will consist of Blackford County from Blackford County, Southwood and Northfieldr from Wabash County and five 6f si Grai County schools Oak Hill, Mississinewa, MarionBennett, Madison Grant and Eastbrook. Only Marion High School is missing from this county event. Madison Grant (7-2) will ODen the Wednesday night show against darkhoise Eastbrook (5-4) at 6:45 p.m. and defending champion Oak Hill (2-7) goes against Northfield (6-2) in the 8 p.m.

nightcap. Thursday night pairings will put Southwood (2-6) against Mississinewa (3-5) in the 6:45 p.m. game and Blackford County (5-2) against Bennett 1-9 in the second game. Wednesday's winners will DALLAS (UPI) -Da 11 as slipped by Indiana, 102-101, Monday night and the Pacers dropped seven games behind the Utah Stars in the Western Division of the American Basketball Association. Donnie Freeman's 21 points, with 13 of them coming during the wild final quarter, led the Chaps to victory despite a late Pacer rally.

Dallas, down at one point by as many as 15, came back to surge ahead by nine with 2:30 showing on the clock. However, the Pacers mounted a charge that fell but a point short. Roger Brown was high point man for the tilt with 27 and teammate Bob I i chipped in with 23. Lynn Chappell and Joe Hamilton of the Chaps added 18 each to aid the Dallas effort. Pacer Rick Mount hit for a three-point play and a three-point goal in the dying minutes, giving Indiana chance, but his 16-footer at the buzzer bounced off the rim.

Mount, with 14, was the only other Pacer in double figures. game and my parents were watching in Atlanta. Georgia. I wanted to play well but I realized I wasn't. I had only six points at the half." Walt Frazier got a little better as the game went on.

Enugh so that he got a rise out of Bill Russell. That seldom happens. Enough so that he also got one out of Bobbv Fischer. And that simply never happened before. home this Friday to test one )f the state's best clubs in Madison Heights.

We honestly helieve the Pirates willreach the state finals down in Bloomington in Marchthe club is that good and stjlT hasn't reached its top potential. Right now it looks like Muncie Central Michigan City. Madison Heights and any southern school could reach the final four. The New Castle regional on March 3rd-4th, play will be run off on two nights instead of the Saturday two rounds could very well produce the 1972 state champion. Muncie Central.

New Castle and Richmond figure to be the top clubs in this met. Meanwhie, back to Madison Heights. The Bucs have the size. speed, defense and fairly good shooting to make miserable for any club on any given night. Bob Wilkerson is probably one of the "best players, in the state of Indiana.

You won't have any trouble picking 'this boy. uf Friday night. He only jumps center, brings the ball down the floor from the guard spot i Bucs one weak spot and either scores from the outside with a nice, soft shot or tips in the old basketball from underneath. He can do everything with the round So it looks like another long night for our 1971-72 edition of the Panthers. Coach Darrell McQuitty stated Sunday that the locals will make an appearance, employ five men on the floor like the -Sues and play the same rules.

Now if we can just talk MH coach Phil Buck into using two brands of basketballs Friday night. We could pump up our offensive basketball with radar air while MH could use the type of basketball that the Globetrotters use when they pull off that injured player's trick. The kind that goes wild when you put it in the air. Former Marion Star Named TopPfayer ARLINGTON. Va.

i UPI (-Davidson forward Joe Sutter, who paced the Wildcats to three victories in four games last week, was named Southern Conference basketball player of the week by conference officials. Sutter, a Marion, product, was nameS most valuable player in the Charlotte Invitational Tournament won by Davidson. He averaged 18 points per game during the week in which the Wildcats also beat conference leader William Mary. The 6-6 junior scored 72 point on 24 of 51 field goal attempts and 21 of 29 free throws. He also collected 24 rebounds and handed out four assists.

The 20-year-old physical cation major also held Virginia Tech's top scorer, Allan Bris-tow, to 15 points in the final game of the Charlotte tourney. Big Show NEW YORK (UPI Bill Russell has seen a couple of basketball games in his time. He isn't easily impressed. Especially by what he sees on a basketball floor. What he saw Monday night at Madison Square Garden impressed him though.

Tremendously. Bobby Fischer, the international chess grand master who meets Russia's Boris Spassky for the world championship soon, hasn't seen as many basketball games as Biil Russell. But he's an even tougher nut to cracks Make Trade MEMPHIS, Term. (UPI) -Memphis Pros fans gave a. frosty reception to the news that three of their favorite Pros Bobby Warren.

Wendall Lad-ner and Tom Owens had been swapped to the Carolina Cougars for Randy Denton. George Lehmann and Warren Davis. However. Pros officials said the deal was made mainly acquire Denton, a 6-10 rookie from Duke who might give the Pros the beef in the center so badly needed. Coach Babe McCarthy and Bob Vanatta.

Pros general manager, said they had little to do with the trade. A. S. Hart, the newly elected president of the franchise, engineered the trade with Tedd Munchak, the Cougars' chair- man of the board have -to do withthjs club -what is good for it now and irv, the future." said Hart. "The general manager, (Vanatta) agreed to the trade.

"He was in the office when we did it." he said. "The coach is not part of the front office. He is charged with doing his job coaching the ball team he has." Public Relations Director Darrell May said the team" figures "we got as good as' we gave." "We needed Denton badly to throw his 240 pounds around to hpln rentpr Govan." said Govan can plav some forward now MVP AWARDS DINNER NEW YORK (UPI)-The sixth annual professional football most valuable player awards dinner, honoring' MVP stars in the. National Football 28 at the Holiday Plaza Inn in' Hempstead, N-j; The dinner will benefit, the Long Island Athletic Club's 5.000-youth athletic program. Clarence Youna Cvtll-Leader Editor The nation's top two clubs in 1971 went about thier business in the bowl.

games in rather easy fashion Saturday afternoon and evening. Oklahoma wasted onlv IS minutes to settle the Sugar Bowl and prove that the Sooners deserve the number wo rating The Orange Bowl game lasted about ten minutes and this old boy switched over channel 8 for the remainder of the 'evening. Billed as the Dream Game', it, turned into a nightmare for Alabama. Nebraska should go down in history as one of the nation's greatest clubs of all time. College that is.

but the Cornhuskers could have made it interesting for the Chicago Bears Saturday night The wins by the Sooners and Cornhuskers prove one thing. the Big Eight Conference has to be rated number one in the nation. Michigan'; 11- 0 mark was marred by a great Stanford comeback and leaves one wondering just where the Big Teh Conference deserves to be rated in the nation's standings. Several years ago the "Big 10 was "number one but Ohio State and" Michigan have gone out to the west coast with perfect marks and come back home with. their tails between their legs the past two vears.

Colorado won the Blue Bonnet Bowl from Houston on New Year's Eve to give the Big Eight Conference 3-1 mark ir postseason play Iowa State lost to LSU in an earlier bowl One thing about this conference. It'll split four bowl receipts and this will enable the schools to dish out a few more football scholarships. The nation's number one offense the Wishbone, just didn't fare too good over the holiday period. Oklahoma ran the offense to perfection but Texas and Alabama should reach back into the chicken plate and pull out another of meat. Penn State ana Nebraska completely stole the show with fine defensive Dlav.

Purdue fans had a lot to shout about following the rags-to-riches Miami win over the defending world champion Baltimore Colts Sunday Bob Griese, former Purdue star, hit Paul Warfield with a 75-yard scoring pass and set up the final TD with a 50-yard pass to Warfield to enable Larry Cosnka to score from five yards out to make it 21-0 in the final accounting. This win was no fluke Sunday. The Dolphins completely outplayed the favored Colts from the opening whistle and. in the process, handed the proud club its first shutout defeat in 97 games dating back to Dec. 5.

1963. The newly crowned AFC lamps trom Miami were born that year, became operational in 1956 and until two years age were still bogged down in last place. Don Shula then came to the Dolphins from Baltimore as its head coach and now the southern club rules as AFC champs. The Dolphins' rewards are instantaneous a trip to the Super Bowl to try to prove they are pro football's best and the $8,500 that goes to each member of the AFC titled-winning club. The Colts, the only wild card club to make the championship round, collect $5.500 per man.

Now Miami can add an additional $15,000 per man purse by winning the Super Bowl on Jan. 16. This task may be a little harder than winning the big one over Kansas City two weejis ago and Baltimore. This Dallas club is playing "good sound football and can do so many things better on offense than the Colts and Chiefs. We'll be pulling for Miami in the" big one two weeks from now but we won't feel too bad if the Cowboys win for this club has always been so close qnd on the short end of somanv title games.

The city of Los Angeles claims to be the capital of basketball' and, right now, you can't dispute its claim. The Los Angeles Lakers (who will appear in Cincinnati on Jan. 12) have now won 31 straight while the UCLA Bruins' continue to score easy wins over every foe they tangle with on the college scene. The Lakers will have a big one this week. a match with the Milwaukee Bucks.

LA hasn't met the Rucks during this long 3J-game winning streak arid could find its streak out the window at the Finish: UCLA shouldn't have one bit of trouble during its entire regular: season schedule and tourney pla jrr-The Bruins -should as pros and kicked out of the college brand of basketball. They seem to rum the college tourney every year. The Elwood Panthers return pem on compile lis greatest season mark in the school's history. However, the Golden Eagles lost most of their players off that club and should lose their opener to Northfield. Blackford County, a Central Indiana Conference outfit, appears to have the luck of the draw.

The Bruins should whip Bennett and the winner of the Mississinewa Southwood game to advance all the way to the title game. However, the upper bracket is a dog-eat-dog affair. Madison Grant and Northfield appear to be the class of this bracket but Eastbrook is rated asadarkhorsethreat. Northfield won a tourney title last week, winning the Wabash UCLA Still NEW YORK (UPI)-UCLA, in search of its sixth straight national title, polled all but one of the first-place votes Monday to continue as college basketball's foremost quintet in the weekly ratings by United Press International's Board of Coaches. The Bruins captured 30 first-place -votes as -31 of the 35-member board participated in the balloting.

UCLA wound up with 308 points. 40 more than runner-up Marquette. The Bruins knocked off Texas. 115-65, and ninth-ranked Ohio State. 79-53, during the week to win their own-Bruins tournament and raise their season record to 8-0 The Warriors, also 8-0, took thV remaining first-place vote and finished with 268 points as they also captured a tournamentthe Milwaukee Invita-1 tional with wins over Georgetown and Marshall.

North Carolina rode the Sugar Bowl Classic tourney to the No. 3 position with 242 while South Carolina, upended by Villanova in the Quaker City Holiday Festival in Philadelphia, dropped to fourth with 142 points. Indiana moved up two notches to round out the top five after the Hoosiers emerged as kingpins of the Old Dominion Classic. Louisville, winner of the Holiday Festival at New York, made a long leap from the 13th spot to sixth as the Cardinals to; Washington. In addition, 36 sectional entries were shifted from one tourney site to another, including three-time state champ Indianapolis Attucks from Hinkle hereto Southport, and ex-champ Indianapolis Weshington from Hinkle to Ben Davis 426 Entries The IHSAA said 426 schools, 10 less than last year, were ex pected to enter the big show, with East Chicago Washington cast in the role of defending champion.

The decrease resulted from consolidations and discontinued schools. Three newcomers-besides the consolidations were listed Northrop and Wayne at Fort Wayne and Michigan City Rogers. If the Rogers gymnasium is completed, it will be used for the tourney. Preliminary figures listed the new gym with a seating capacity of 000 compared with 4,950 for Michigan! i Elston. one of five major un-beatens going into this week's action.

Other new gyms listed Were North Montogomery, Greens--burg, Jeffersonville, Kankakee Valley and Terre Haute North, Fort Wayne, as in the past few years, will entertain two sectional tourneys in the Allen County Coliseum, where action gets under way Monday, 21. Officials' pointed out 63 of the 64" sectionals will require no school time. INDIANAPOLIS (UPI The IHSAA Mondav nieht announced the following sectional assipfe ment changes for the 62nd annual Indiana high school basketball tourney: Cathedral from Southport to Ben Davis. Alignment Announces Tops totalled 82 points in the voting. Penn made the biggest jump of all, however, leapfrogging from the No.

19 spot to be seventh ranked with 79 points. Long Beach State, Ohio State and Maryland complete the top 10. NEW YORK (UPI) -The United Press International top 20 college basketball teams with first place votes and won-lost records as of Jan. 1 in parentheses: (fifth week) Team Points 1. UCLA (30) (8-0) 308 2.

Marquette (1) (8-0) 268 3. North Car. (8-1) 242 4. South Car. (7-1) 142 5 Indiana (8-1) 82 6.

Louisville (8-1) 82 7. Penn (7-1) 79 8. Long Beach St. (9-1) 63 9. Ohio St.

(7-2) 58 1 I 8 12. Florida Stm (8-2) 44 13. St. John's (8-2) 29 14. Hawaii (94)) 28 15.

(Tie) Villanova (9-1) 25 (Tie) Kentucky (6-2) 25 17.. S.W. Louisiana (5-1) 20 18. Virginia (94)) 19 19. Missouri (10-1) 18 20.

Brigham Young (8-2) II 4V-POI NT FAVORITES RENO; Nev. (UPD-The Dallas Cowboys were established as 4'-point favorites over the Miami Dolphins in the Jan. 16 Supr Bowl Monday by Harrah's Tahoe Race Book. Ritter from Indianapolis to Ben Davis. Washington from Indianapolis to Ben Davis.

Frontier. North White', Tri County and Twin Lakes from North White to Benton Central. Redkey from Winchester to Blackford. Eastbrook from Eastbrook to Blackford. Northfield White's from brook to Columbia City.

Southwestern from Shelbyville to Columbus. South Central and Lanesville from Jeffersonville to Salem. Homestead from Columbia Fort Wayne. Greensburg and South Decatur from Columbus to Greensburg. Waldron from Shelbyville to Greensburg.

Chatard and Lawrence Central frorfk Ben Davis to Indianapolis. Marshall from Southport to Kouts from Chesterton to Kankakee Valley. Lowell, North Newton and Rensselaer from Benton Central to Kankakee Valley. Delphi from Frankfort to Lafayette. Eastern and Morton Memorial from Rushville to New Castle.

Southwestern and Wainwright from Lafayette to North Mont-, gomery. West Washington from Salem to Paoli. Greenfield from New Castle to Shelbyville. Morristown from Rushville to Shelbwille. How, from nen" uavis Attucks from Indianapolis to Southport.

Randolph Southern Richmond to Winchester. 1972 For TV "unbelievable" and Monroe remarked "It's getting so you sort of expect it from him." Oscar Robertsorf, who vainly tried to keep Frazier from getting off his game-winning shot. said. "You can't take it away from him. he played a great game" and Jabbar agreed "he "hit some tough shots there at the end." ffough wasn't really the word.

Bucks Out Front 1 The Bucks were out froit the whole game, once by asmuch as 13 points, and the Knicks never led until Frazier's final shot." it would hit the said the Knicks bearded bacteourt dvnamo who wound up with 31 points for the night. "I had some doubts about that last one because all my shots were a struggle. I was pulling to the left or right all night." Why, because of the pressure? "It could've been." laughed Frazier. "I know the game was just another game 1 in the standings but I was a little tight. Really, I was embarrassed the way I.was,plaving.

I knew it was a national televised IHSAA By KURT FREUDENTHAL INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) The Indiana High School Athletic Association did a shuffling act for its 1972 state basketball tourney and came up with an alignment Monday which has one of eight sectional sites switching. Possibly the biggest change has tne 16 regionals on a two-night I format for the first time in years of the a surprise move, one of those regionala was switched from Huntingbure to Terre Haute All Call-Leader area basketball clubs will remain at their respective sites this season according to the IHSAA site pairings. Elwood and Madison-Grant Will once again join Marion High School, Mississinewa, Bennett and Oak Hill at Marion for the sectional contests. Alexandria, Daleville, Anderson High School, Madison Heights, Pendleton Heights, Highland and Lapel will participate in the Anderson tournament. Tipton and Tri-Central will journey to Frankfort again to meet the host Hot Dogs, Carroll, Clinton Central, Clinton -Prairie and Rossville while Hamilton Heights will participate at Carmel along with the host club, Sheridan, Noblesville, Westfield and Hamilton Southeastern.

These, along with the) previous announcement of transferring the four-team grand finale March 18 tolndiana University's spanking-new Asembly Hall were the foremost chances an- nounced Monday night for. the four-week grind opening'on the sectional level Feb. 21. The IHSAA also announced eight site changes on the sectional level most of them rou- Tournament He doesn't fet impressed "about anything. It was different Monday night.

He showed up his first basketball garne in more than five years xand he was impressed, too Others Impressed So were such otherwise cold cucumbers as Willis Reed, Earl "The Pearl" Monroe; Oscar Robertson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. They all paid the highest praise one professional can pay another and all talked about the same man Walt Frazier of the New York Knicks. Walt Frazier played the kind of game Monday night kids like to dream men, too. What's more he picked the perfect time. With the game-nationally televised and a capacity 19,588 on hand, Frazier ran off 13 straight points in the final 2:38, collaborated with Phil Jackson in a vital heart-stopping 20 seconds from the end and wound up receiving one of the most tumultuous ovations ever accorded any athlete at Madison Square Garden for leading the Knicks to a 101-99 win over the Milwaukee Bucks in a movielike finish.

Great!" that's the only way to describe -it," said Biil Russell, on hand to do the color commentary for national TV. "The last time I ever -saw anything like it was in 1958 when Bob Pettit scored 51 points in the final game of the playoffs against us Boston i They (St. Louis) beat us and he, got 19 of their last 21 points." Blinks His Eyes Bobby Fischer blinked his eyes when he saw the Knicks ain 20 seconds from le end with the score tied 99-all. Earl Monroe passed off to Bill Bradley on his left. Bradley gave the ball to Frazier, who neatlv it but, quicklv regained control and began his move with eight seconds left.

Frazier killed five more seconds and then with only three remaining, hje hit with a jumper and the whole place went plumb "You're used complete quiet when you play." Dave DeBusschere said to Bobby Fischer in the Knicks dressing room afterward. "What did you lhey Fischer said, giving the question proper thought before1 answering. "What did you think of Frazier?" someone else asked the blond chess "Extraordinary, Fischer said, much more quickly this time. Fantastic put. inDeBuss- chere.

"He was just incredible at the end." Willis Reed, sitting on the Knicks bench with tendonitis, called Fra'er's performance "I tine. But Huntington, which last year lost its sectional for first time since 1928, regained its first-round show from Eastbrook. Other sectional site changes were Bellmont to Bluffton. Bloomington to Martinsville, Craw-fordsville to North Montgomery, North White to Kankakee Valley. Triton to Warsaw, Rush-ville to Greensburg.

and White-land to Franklin Regional games at 16 sites March 3-4 will be played Friday night at 7 and 8:30. with the title games at 8 p.m. Saturday. Arena Seats 16,642 Games for the semi-state and state finals tourneys, on succeeding Saturdays, were scheduled for noon, 1:30 and 8 The Huntingburg regional was shifted to Indiana State at Terre Haute presumably because the Vigo County city's central location for the district despite the fact Huntingburg's seating capacity of 6,214 is about 1,500 larger than the ISU Fieldhouse Indiana's new arena, with a seating capacity of 16.662, is nearly, 1,700 larger than Hinkle Fieldhouse on the Butler University campus at Indianapolis, site of the state finals since 1946. But transfer of the three-game finals marked the first move from Indianapolis in more than half a century.

rTheUHSAA. also announced seven changes in assignments of first-Tititticr winners to the regionals-Bedford winner from Seymour to Washington, Salem from Huntingburg to Seymour, Brazil from Washington to Terre HauleTClay City from Washing ton to Terre Haute, Switz City from Huntingburg to Terre Haute, Huntingburg to Washington, and Paoli from Huntingburg A mm iff TWO FOR FRAZIER Karetm Jabber (33) ot tht Milwaukee Bucks goes sky-high to block shot attempt by Walt Frazier. (10) of the New York Knicks during their game in New York Monday night. Frazier later scored the winning basket in the game with three McbndnefrwfiheTiifn3Tl5-Toot "Jump'thotrThe" FG gave the Knicks a 101-99 decision over the world champions in the nationally televised game. Both clubs meet again in Milwaukee tonight.

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