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SPORTSNOTES Local Men Ready For Safari Race TWO LUBBOCK MEN, Ray Shade and Walte Johnson will compete in the Texas Water Safari in San Marcos next weekend. The canoe race covering 419 San Marcos to Sea called "The 500 of Canoe Racing." It will be Shade's appearance in the race, having placed'as high as one year. More than 50 teams arc expected to It will be Johnson's first race. "I'guess I'm the old of the field," laughed Shade, 50. Johnson is 23.

Eight dams and many logjams provide obstacles throughout the race. "You get In the canoe and stay there," said Shade. "You can't sstop for provisions. You have to load the canoe with the neces- like candy and beef jerky." Auto Racing BOBKV UNSKR I.B1) most of the way and captured the Mays Classic Sunday In Milwaukee. The Albuquerque driver Mark Donohue.

His brother Al won this USAC event year. Donohue, the My 500 winner, finished only four behind the winner. Gary Bettcnhausen finished third with Billy Vukovich fourth rmd Joe Leonard fifth. Unser drove ja turbo-charged Ivagle-Offenhauser. Emerson KItllpaldl of Brazil (he Bjlfilan Oranil I'rlx for Formula I and Increased his lend In (he world driving rlianiploniihlji.

Flttipaldl, In tlio position, averaged 113.335 inpli over one hour and .14 minutes. The win avo FlUtjuihli points In (lie nwe for llw world driving tide. Denis Hiilme follows with ID. Golf CAKOr, PI.AYINC before more than 8,000 ho me town fans, won the Lady Carting Open in Baltimore with a record 67 in this final round. Her hole score was 210, nine under par.

Kathy Whitworth placed second, with a 212 total with the 2U of Marilynn Smith good for third. Miss Smith led after each of Uie first two rounds. Miss Mann picked up S150Q with the victory. The Texas Open Golf Tournament, oldest continuing event on (lie pro golf tour botore It was droppcil two yearn ago, may make a return. Tentative plans colls for (lie PCA's Toiirnitmenl Division to contribute a substantial jmrtlon of the 5125,000 purse.

The Texas Open was first held in JO'U. According to in Sun Antonio, Ilio meet ivlll either Nov. 2-5 or Nov. fl-la, with all profits going to elmrlty. People, Places And Things JOSE NAPOLK3, THE Cuban who has become a Mexican sports idol, will defend his world welterweight championship Saturday night in Monterrey, Mexico, against Adolph Pruitt.

Napoles, now a Mexican citizen, xvil! be making the seventh defense of his title since winning the crown from Curtis Cokes The champ will carry a 65 4- 1 record into battle. Pruitt of St. Louis owns a record of 42-9-2. Bobby Fischer, chess master making one of his rare public appearances, rates the biggest threat to defending champion Hank Greenberg in Die annual Dewars' Sports Celebrity Tennis Tournament, set Monday for Rancho La Costa Calif who meets Russia's Boris Spassky July 2 for the world chess title, has been getting his net game back into shape. Greenberg, former star with the Detroit Tigers won the tourney year ago.

He is the oldest member in the field at CO. Other stars in the field include, O. J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills; Gene Washington of the San Francisco 4Ders Rick Barry of the New York Nets; and Elgin Baylor, former star with the Los Angeles Lakers. Iris navls of I'ompano Bciuili.

sprinted l(, victory In tlic diisli Ii, ll.o six-tenth of a off Hie world record at Canada United States women's track and field meet Sunday In Montreal. The U.S. team unofficially led 88-78 hut no offldiils standings were kept due to ciinrcllnlion of many events because of rain. ABA Demise Claimed Near GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) Another report of the absorption of the American Basketball Association surfaced Sunday night, with the Greensboro Daily News saying the ABA would cease to exist after the I-JBA meetings on June 15-16.

The Dally News, citing an unidentified source, said Carolina Cougars owner Ted Munchak, speaking for the ABA, has been meeting secretly with NBA commissioner Walter Kennedy and they have reached an agreement to allow six or seven ABA clubs to join the NBA. The agreement is to be ratified by the NBA owners at their meeting in White Sulphur Springs, W. the paper said. The Daily News, in Monday's editions, said the A-BA's Memphis, Pittsburgh, and Florida franchises will be dropped. The Denver franchise will be put "on Ice" for several years until a new arena can be built.

The source said the Virginia franchise is heavily in debt to the ABA and may not be ac- cpcted. That would mean that the Carolina, New York, Indiana Utah, Dallas and Kentucky franchises are certain ad- ditions to the NBA. The Daily News source sale the NBA has reached an agree ment wilh its players associ ation which would delete the option clause but require remti neration for players who switch teams. The NBA, the paper said, has several sets of 1972-73 schedule: awaiting the final number ot ABA teams to bo included for the coming season. Munchak, reached in Atlanta said he had no comment on the report.

He did say that he anc Kennedy had been working to "get professional baskctbal back into a business category NMdiy June 5, 1972-LinBOCK AYAUMCK JOUtUl-C-3 I.OSINO TilK RACK Members of the Marist College rowing squad patiently sit as their shell sinks slowly into Lake Onodago, near Syracuse, during Saturday's action in the In- tercollcgiato Rowing Championships. The small college was participating in the meet for the first time. (AP Wircphoto) Crenshaw Captures State Amateur Title SAN ANTONIO (AP) Defending NCAA champion Ben Crenshaw of Austin, who'com- plained about his putting but maintained a one-stroke lead throughout the tournament, won his first Texas State Amateur Championship Sunday with an even par 71 for a 27G total. Only one stroke behind him In second place Tommy Evani of Dallas, who also shot a 71 Sunday for a 277 total. Evans jumped from far behind Saturday with a to threaten Crenshaw's lead.

Tied for third at 200 in the four-day, 72-hole tournament were Tony Pfaff of Austin and "ill Rogers of Tcxarkana. ScotL Stegner of Odessa soared from the pack Sunday with a five-under-par GO for the low of the day, earning seventh place with a 233 total. Defending tournament champion Bruce Liobtke of Beaumont tied for ninth with 285. In fifth place was Warren Chancellor of Sulphur Springs, who carded a 71 Sunday for a 231 total. Kurt Cox of San Antonio placed sixth with a 282 afier shooting a 74 Sunday over the Oak Hills Country Club course.

Crenihaw, a University of Texas star considered one of the top amateurs in the nation, played a scrambling round Sunday. He missed five greens but managed to gel down on all hut. one of 18th par. He hit the trap on 18 for his only 'bogey, giving up a two- stroke lead. Ci-pnsJiaw also garnered only one birdie, sinking a 25-foot put on No.

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