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DETROIT FREE PRESS 2-D Tuesday, May 13, '75 PROS' CON JOBS STRIP TALENT for Cries Amateur Hockey Help Record 1498 Wins Doubles Rookies Search for Indy Speed INDIANAPOLLIS, Ind. -(UPI) The search for speed ran on Monday in preparation for the Indianapolis 500-mile auto race May 25, with qualifi Nada Beck and George Keller shot so far out in front of the i pack five weeks ago that no one seriously challenged them in the run for the 31st annual Free Press Mixed doubles bowling rhamnionshiD. S-' Miss Beck, a student at Marygrove college, and Keller, who js employed at Essex Brass Co, claimed the title as the tourna- ment ended at Thunderbird Lanes late Sunday night. Their 1498 series, which included 312 handicap pins, was a record for the event, although It was boosted by a new 100 Dcrccui iiaiiuicauuiiiK ajiuwaiice. They took down a $3,000 their averages.

"Miss Beck, who averages 132, shot 180-148-209--537, and Keller, who averages 164, hit 233-203-213-649. junior. It'll help me when I get to the pros." Mark Napier, a high-scoring forward for the Memorial Cup champion Toronto Marlboros, signed a WHA contract early last season when he was just 17. He agreed to play for $1 million over the next five years. It meant a ton of money and a ton of pressure.

"Parents are being led to believe that all kids are in store for a gold mine when they hit the pros," said Danny Summers, the Red Wings' Our Guaranteed Chamois Cloth Shirt Rugged, doubio-llaoctd, 100 cotton super toft, inside and out. Two button-down pockets, nylon-lined collar. Machine wash-. able. Gets softer with each washing, Wear one.

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THE PROS contend fees collected by agents could be better used if the money were put back into amateur hockey. From appearances, being a player agent must be a lucrative profession. Boom Boom Geoffrion, former coach of i the Atlanta Flames, and George Catto, ex-GM of the Indianapolis Racers, have both abandoned the pros for jobs as agents. "All of the players on our team signed up with agents at the start of the season," said 17-year-old Barry Beck, New; Westminster's best defense-man. "I was looking forward to being drafted in the under-age' draft, but I'm not disappointed they're not going to have ii this year," explained Beck.

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'till SThurs. 'lill 9 Order by Phono: 399-8404 American Express Master Charge BankAmericard AT LONG -LAST Lions9 Hand Has His Day BY JACK SAYLOR Free Press Sports Writer It took the good folks of Butler, N.J., awhile to get around to it, but then that was fitting, for it took Larry Hand a little to get going in football, too. What happened was that hometown fans of the veteran 34-year-old Lion defensive end honored their native son with a doesn't pay, it won't pay either. "That's what's killing us," said the same junior hockey official. "Our clubs aren't able to We're losing money, and without financial help from the pros, amateur teams aren't going to be able to stay in business." Already the CAHA has taken action.

Last weekend, it' obtained a court injunction against the WHA's Houston Aeros and received permission to seize the Aeros skates and uniforms. It was the CA-HA's first attempt to recover part of the $200,000 total which the WHA owes for signing amateurs. The result is that hockey has turned into an espionage game at Memorial Cup tournaments. Agents parade their young hockey clients around nearly every hotel in hopes of making an impression on pro scouts. Surprisingly, the scouts treat the agents and players with almost, they don't want other scouts to know which players they are genuinely interested in.

"Geez, look at that kid from New Westminster," remarked a pro scout while watching one of this year's Memorial Cup players hustle through a lobby. 'I didn't think he was that big." "Yeah," said a scout from another NHL team. "But take a look at the high-heeled shoes the kid is wearing." The con went on and on like that for nine days while teams from New Westminster, British Columbia; Toronto, Ontario; and Sherbrooke, Quebec one from each of Canada's three major A leagues com-, peted in the round-robin tournament. ITS BACK IN the hamlets throughout Canada, though, that the GMs, coaches and scouts of professional teams believe the real con is heisted. "Anyone who calls himself a player's agent is getting rich off these kids," claims an NHL scout.

"They promise the kids a big pro, contract even before they know if the kid is going to be drafted or if he is good enough to play professional hockey." Rumors are rampant that agents have made bundles negotiating pro contracts for budding amateurs. "There's one guy out in Re-gina (Saskatchewan) who represented three players off the junior team there and made $62,000," said one scout. "I hear there's a group of KING EDWARD it0'0 GOOD YE All RALLY SIZE A60x13 D60xl3 E60xl4 F60x14 G60xl4 L60x14 F60xl5 G60x15 H60xl5 160x15 STEEL RADIALS WHITEWALLS SIZE PRICE BR78xl3 $34.97 CR78x14 $34.97 DR78x14 $34.97 HR78xl4 $47.97 GR78xl5 $48.97 HR70xl5 $49.97 HR78xl5 $47.97 JR78xl5 $49.97 LR78xl5 $52.97 BLEMS F.E.T.$2.10-$3.6O testimonial banquet last Fn day, saluting his 10 years in the i National Football League. More than 300 people turned out to hear toasts and roasts Jrom Joe Barkocy, Hand's high school coach; Lion assistant coach Raymond Berry and a i number of Larrv's hish school I IHVSM 111 it I I.N 11(11 i i 1 1 -m. me routine.

Hann Tiirnrp a if hit nn star seemed rather' unlikely after high school in Butler. In- stead, he took ud brickmasonrv anu accincu iiiuic ajJi iu uc- Lume a cunsLrurjuuu ivtuun. BUT HAND migrated to Boone, N.C., starred at Appala- cnian state ana Decame a Lion mnlrla a a no Uo ramontPrl F.E.T. BY HOWARD ER1CKSON Free Press Sports Bdltor KITCHENER, Ontario No matter where you stopped around town here last week, everybody was talking hockey. In the hotels, restaurants, bars and especially in Memorial Audito-rium the owners, general managers, coaches, scouts and players from professional and' amateur teams from across North America were buzzing about the great ice sport.

They had converged on this city known for its annual "Octoberfest" and the birth-pi a of hockey's famed "Kraut Line" for Canada's top junior hockey tournament, the Memorial Cup. BUT THERE was a very solemn note overshadowing the entire proceedings. Never before in the history of junior hockey has there ever been a major, crisis like the one now plaguing hockey programs for youngsters 20 and under. The amateurs feel-they are being raped by the pros, and their cries for help are going unheeded. Since the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association drafted about 50 so-called under-age players kids 17, 18 and 19 in last summer's drafts, amateur teams across Canada have been struggling for survival "The pros striped us of all our best players," said one junior hockey official who preferred to remain anonymous for.

fear of reprisals by the NHLorWHA. 'When they took away our best players, they took away the excitement of amateur hockey." IT HAS CAUSED a decrease in gate receipts and severed associations between owners of amateur teams and professional scouts. It has also caused a severe shortage of talent available in this year's amateur draft. "It's the worst pool of kids I've ever seen," said Jimmy Skinner, the Detroit Red Wings' director of player personnel. "The talent just isn't there this year.

All the good kids were picked last year." Since 1967, the NHL has de pended on drafting 20-year-olds to replenish their farm clubs and, hopefully, to find youngsters capable of stepping right into the big leagues. When the WHA was founded three years ago, the demand became greater than the sup ply and it drove player sal- i skyrocketing and competition to sign the recruits soaring. Then last year, the WHA announced it would draft kids under 20. And the NHL followed suit. UNFORTUNATELY for the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, which administers junior hockey on this side of.

the border, the WHA failed to pay fees ranging from to $10,000 as the NHL had done for each amateur it selected. Now the NHL has served notice that if the WHA Sandra Keeps Money Lead ATLANTA (AP) Sandra Palmer remained the No. 1 money winner in women's professional golf with $44,291, the Ladies' PGA said Monday. Donna Young's victory in the Lady Tara tournament at Atlanta on Sunday, worth $5,700, boosted her total for the year to $23,035 and from sixth place to fourth in the money standings. Jane Blalock is second with $27,409, and Kathy McMullen third with $25,373.

Others in the top 10 are Sandra Haynie, Judy Rankin, JoAnne Carner, Carole Jo Skala, Sandra Post, $15,836, and Carol Mann, $15,347. GOLDEN SINGLES $5000 IN PRIZES OPEN TO MEN WOMEN GOLDEN MILE LANES WINDSOR (515) 945-5853 mm im E. T. WHEEL BONANZA CO WITH THE PRO STOCK RACING LOOK cations half completed. While some of the cars which qualified last weekend were torn down in "Gasoline Alley," others were on the track making fuel checks.

The checks were needed because the mileage they get on race-day is critical, since each car is limited to a certain amount of gasoline. The cars" torn down for inspection before race day and in some cases a car is disassembled twice the last time after the final carburettors tests three or four days before the race. Among cars making fuel checks Monday were those driven by defending champion Johnny Rutherford and former race winners Al Unser and Gordon Jonhcock. By midafternoon, only about a dozen cars had been on the track but maiy more were expected to make practice runs later in the day. Several "500" rookies also were hoping to get up to quali fying speeds, among them Jig ger Sirois ana Biiiy aeon, so far, only three rookies nave qualified and one of them, Al Loquasto, has the second slow est speed among the 28 quali fiers now in the tentative race day lineup.

The time trials, which opened Saturday and contin- Sunday, resume next weekend. And when the tenta tive 33-car starting field is filled, the slowest qualified machines will be eliminated by faster cars. However, the driver or driv ers of the eliminated cars are permitted to regain starting position, if they can, in other previously unqualified cars. Lacrosse Rankings AH Agree CHARLOTTESVILLE (UPI) Hobart, top seeded in the upcoming college division lacrosse maintained the No. 1 spot in the U.S.

Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association's small college coaches' poll announced Monday. In the major college poll announced earlier, Johns Hopkins, 9-0, remained in first place, taking all 10 first place votes. Hobart, 11-1, got nine of the 10 first place small college votes, with Washington College of Maryland, 11-2, getting the other and taking second place. THE UNIVERSITY of Maryland-Baltimore County, 12-2, was ranked third, followed by Towson State, 11-4, Salisbury State, 12-2, and Cortland State, 7-1. The USILA'ssmalI college rankings and the tournament seedings announced by the NCAA lacrosse rules and tournament committee have identical rankings for the top six but vary after that.

Where the USILA coaches rate Roanoke, 9-4, and 7-5, in the seventh and eighth spots, respectively, the NCAA committee seeded Morgan State, 10-4, seventh for the tournament and Ohio Wes-leyan, 8-3, eighth. Only eight teams compete in the tournament. Morgan State is ranked 11th by the coaches and Ohio Wes-leyan is rated ninth. In the major college division, Cornell, 13" -1, is ranked second, behind Johns Hopkins, followed by Navy, 7-4, Virginia, 6-4, and Maryland, 2. Admission is $2.50 for adults and $1.50 for students with an ID card.

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Only nine Lions have ever played more. He also owns the Key to the City of Butler, N.J. now. "He was nervous," Darlene Hand revealed Monday, after returning to the serenity of Orchard Lake. "Larry does things for other people, but he's uneasy having people do something for him.

It was all very nice I was real happy for him." With football's off-season rapidly passing, nobody has yet surpassed the line uttered by one of the infamous "Clarkston That was the group of 88 citizens of that sleeply northern Oakland County hamlet who gathered together last Super Sunday to break bread, sip the grape and, conincidentally, watch the Steelers and Vikings beat on each other. That is, they were the premises were raided. something about gambling paraphernalia. One fan figured he could beat the rap. "Your honor," he deadpanned, "I'd like to plead insanity.

I'm crazy about football." Another was upset with the charge: "frequenting a place of gambling." "What do they mean, 'frequenting'? it's the first time I was ever there." Sad to relate, the judge didn't buy either story. SKINNY HERMAN Weaver, the Lion punter, is even lighter these days he recvently lost his appendix. Among out-of-town Lions dropping in recently for a training Session in Detroit was Gordon Jolley, the veteran back-up offensive tackle. When he went home to Utah he was carting a football with instructions to practice snapping it. New interior line coach Joe Bugel envisions the 6-foot-5, 250-oounder as a possible replacement for center Ed Flanagan, but he may get a trial at guard, too.

The list of celebrity golf outings continues to grow with Lion guard Bob Kowalkowski the latest host. The "Bob Kowalkowski Open" will be played June 29 at Sugar Springs in Gladwin for the benefit of the Leader Dog School. Also on the links agenda is a cystic fibrosis benefit tournament at Hadley Acres on June 8 with linebacker Paul Naumoff the headliner. MADISON HEIGHTS J. RE.

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