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771 0 Cam i if 0 if 1 1MB 1 UZ)l BY JACK BERRY Don Haskins, who led the University 'of Texas at El Paso to the 3966 NCAA title, will be named the University of Detroit's new basketball coach Thursday, the Free Press has' learned. School officials would not confirm Haskins' hiring, but they have scheduled a noon news conference for Thursday, Haskins himself said in Texas that he was offered a four-year contract at $23,000 a year. Haskins was second choice to Taylor (Tates) Locke of Miami of Ohio, who turned down U-D last weekend. However, Haskins' credentials are impressive; A disciple of Oklahoma State's Henry Iba, Has kins said he had a five-year plan when he was hired at UTEP, formerly Texas Western. He made good on it, producing a national champion in his fifth, year.

Bobby Joe Hill of Highland Tark helped spark that team and was the star of the Miners' championship game victory over heavily-favored Kentucky. Hill was a junior then but was suspended from the team as a senior by Haskins and then quit school. Haskins is a tight disciplinarian and several other players All but Hill were back by the end of the season, however. One of the criticisms of former U-D coach Bob Calihan, who resigned under fire and is concen trating now on his duties as athletic director, was that he was not a disciplinarian. "Haskins is a slavedriver.

He works the kids hard and he isn't the easiest person to get along with during the season. But he's one fine coach," said Mike remberlon of the El Taso Herald-ros(. "When he came to the school, basketball was drawing 300 or 400 a game. They never beat any good teams and they never had an Ail-American. Haskins changed that.

"He had a national champion in five years, an Ail-American and two honorable mentions and they packed in 8,000 to 9,000 people in a building that's supposed to hold Pemberton said. The building is the primary reason for Haskin leaving. UTEP is a state school and state funds can't be used to construct athletic facilities. The UTEP gym holds only 4,300. The football stadium, 'which' seats 30,000, was a joint effort by the city and county.

Neither the city nor county could come up with funds for an acceptable basketball facility. UTEP plays its games in the El Paso Coliseum, which was built primarily for indoor rodeos and is described as "a barn-" Because of that, Haskins was finding it hard to recruit youngsters, especially since strong rival Turn to Page 6D, Column 1 Don Haskins Loach tifh Us XJ? 1 tt 0 hat wo! McLain naian, This time he knocked a delivery from rookie. Larry Bur-chart over the 395-foot marker in left center with Cash on base. It went almost to the exact spot where Cash's bases-empty homer in the fifth landed. It was the first of the season for the first baseman, getting off to his fastest start in memory.

It was the Indians who had the earliest threat, though. Versalles started it by drilling Turn to rage 4D, Column 1 raised his average 132 points in two days. The team's leader in runs-batted-in last season, Northrup had yet to figure in a single run this year. He hadn't batted one in nor had he scored one. The double took care of that.

It followed singles by Cash and Willie Horton and scored both of them. UK STIU'CK again in the eighth with the Indians still reasoably close in a 4-2 game. McLAIN, RARFXY working at full steam, scattering nine Cleveland hits, including a homer by Jose Cardenal. He is now 11 days ahead of his 30-game pace of last year and this summer they may. have to bring Ed Walsh back to be on hand when Denny wins 40.

i Northni, wlm now has five, hits in the, series, got the Tigers off the pad with a two-run double to the corner in left in (he fourth. He entpred from Jim Northrup and Norman Cash as Detroit coasted to an 8-2 decision. Northrup knocked in his first four runs of the season with a double and home run. Cash reached base five straight times and added a single and homer to the 11-hit assault. But it was a defensive gem by Al Kaline that got McLain off Hie ropes in the early going and kept him around for his third consecutive fom-plete game.

Kaline threw out Zoilo Versailles at the plate when he tried to 'score from second on a two-out single in the second. The out kept the game scoreless until the Tigers caught up to Sonny Siebert in the fourth and took the lead. The game also was marked by a footnote to history. Dick McAuliffe hit into his first double play in 591 times at bat during the regular season after a McLain single in the seventh. Mac's last DP, of course, came on his final time up in 1967.

BV GEORGE CANTOR. Fret Prtst Sport! Writer CLEVELAND Last year Denny McLain was the hottest thing since Dizzy Dean. This year he may make them forget Ted Williams. Not only did he, win his second game of the season Wednesday night, the Flying Tiger also ripped out three singles to raise his average to a nifty .400. And next week he may go after Roger Maris.

MrLAIN HAD lots of help Tiger Team Of All Time Cleveland hitting .188 and has Worries Over For Northrup? BY JOE FALLS Fret Press Sports Editor CLEVELAND Jim Northrup sat on a chair in the middle of the Tigers' dressing room after Tuesday night's game looking down at the floor. lost He looked as if he had i 'S I (r tf a CLEVELAND IDLE THOUGHTS FROM an idle mind (or what else is there to do in Cleveland while waiting for the ball game to Since this is the 100th anniversary of baseball, the fans around the country are being asked to vote for the all-time teams in their towns. So how about this as the all-time Tiger team: IB Hank Green berg 2B Charley Gehringer SS Billy Pvogell 3B George Kell OF Harry Heilmann OF Ty Cobb OF Al Kaline Mickey Cochrane Hal Newhouser Denny McLain 'Only mere modesty prevents lis from selecting the all-time Tiger writer. But how much dough would you pay to see this Tiger go up against the all-time Yankee team, composed of Lou Gehring at first base; Tony Lazzeri at second; Phil Rizzuto.at short; Red Rolfe at third; Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio in the outfield; Yogi Berra behind the plate, and Red Ruffing and Whitey Ford on the mound? You can send in your own selections to the Tigers, in care of Tiger Stadium. We can't wait to see how many votes Chico Fernandez gets at shortstop.

Who says success is spoiling Hank Aguirre? After he pitched those three shutout innings and got the victory out very much and it started bothering me. "Then, the more I thought about it, the worse it got. "I wanted to get some RBIs." Last season Northrup led the Tigers in runs batted in with 90. He got another eight in the World Series. Nobody had to tell him either that this was history, "I'm just not swinging well," he said.

"Maybe this will get me started." ONK GUY who wasn't complaining about his hitting was Denny McLain. But he wasn't talking about it either, Denny got three hits but said: his last friend as well as his last ballgame. "Yeah," he said, "I was getting worried. It's the same thing every year. I want to get off to a good start but 1 never do.

And then it's press, press, press." Northrup had just knocked in four big runs on a double and home run-as- the Tigers evened things up with the Indians, 8-2. Bt'T NOBODY had to tell him these were his first RBI's of the season, and if there is one thing Northrup lives for and dies for are RBIs. "I'd left an awful lot of guys on base," he said in a moment of candor. "I wasn't helping AP Photo BITING THE DUST is Baltimore's Frank Robinson as he dives into third base ahead of the throw to Boston's George Scott. Robinson, who has been a rampage, had two hits, as Orioles won.

Story on Tage 3D. Turn to Tage 4D, Column 3 mi -mmmmmmmm anu even oa.se nit iur uie win- Vl wou'd ke proper to give High nenry a can on me leiepnone. But there was the operator saying: "Sorr-ree, please but Mr. Aguirre now has an unlisted number." Saddest sight in baseball still is Municipal Stadium with all those empty seats when the Cleveland Indians are playing at home. The prettiest sight in ALL sport is the 30th hole at Augusta National Series Win Worth 15 Gs NEW YORK Mi World Series winners in 1969 will receive a guaranteed minimum of $15,000 and losers will get at least $10,000 on the basis of 32 shares for each club.

Joe Cronin, American League president, and Warren Giles, National League president, announced the agreement by which the minimum guarantee for the World Series winners will be $484,000. That would figure to $15,000 on the basi3 of 32 full shares. Aguirre set in a hollow with those magnificent dogwoods surrounding the entire green. It is so still and quiet down there, it seems almost unreal. Too bad they never show this hole on TV.

The players of each of the two clubs losing the division al play-offs will receive a minimum of $5,000 under the new plan. The winners, of course, will go Into the Series. Under the new agreement the first three teams an each of the four divisions will get a ahare of the Series' player pool. 'I (1 ft IN 1HH8, the Detroit Tigers FRI, SAT. ONLY WfeStferA PRESEASON SELLING OF DACR0NW00L TROPICAL SUITS IN 3 -BUTTON WliSnSi 2-BUTTON REGULAR STYLES mfMih fVkl A sPecIal sellin9 of Ving-and- X) -llfM summer April 17, 18 and A Yes, sir, and the selection IhZ probably includes exactly the suit I mSfj you're looking for.

You'll find 1 0 'WMMW h-button Charter Club natural S-feW tXW -shoulder models well as Mont- Xk fel clair two" and tnree-butfon regular 1 Sk f' (iIm styles. 'The fabric, is a. summer- 1 lVV favorite cool, wrinlcle-resis- nt Dacron-and'-wool in'a fin 5 tropical Weave. Choose from sol- 'ds' str'Pes' neat patterns and plaids in an excellent ranoe of A proportioned sizes. No -charge for 'f llmNim i alterations, 1 i II ri lust Ton Long IT WAS INTERESTING to note in that Harris Poll that football now is more popular than baseball.

But it was even more interesting that both sports fell off in appeal last year while auto racing, bowling and golf, the participant sports, all showed an increase. It shows that more people are bowling, golfing and driving the expressways than ever before. But why do they all have to get behind the wheel at five o'clock in the afternoon? What's wrong with baseball? Nothing really, except it takes too Jong to play some games. The Tigers went three hours and 45 minutes to play that 3-2 game with the Indians Tuesday. It went 10 innings, but even a 10-inning game shouldn't take that long.

One reason (or, the main reason): The pitchers just won't throw the ball. Don McMahon was clocked at 43 seconds, 45 seconds and 60 seconds between pitches. That's a little ridiculous. -Don't fret about the Tigers. In a poll of the American League players in Sport magazine, the Tigers were picked to win the pennant by a rather substantial margin.

They were the choice of 183 players. Baltimore was selected by 85 players, Boston by 41, Cleveland by 22 and the Yankees believe it or not by nine players. Not one player thought the Washington Senators could do it. Not even Eddie BrinkmAn. Si'oiV Pulling for Tony Nobody is more interested in Tony Conigliaro's attempted comeback than Herb Score.

Score, now a TV commentator for the Indians, suffered a similar eye injury when he was struck by a line drive off the bat of Gil McDougald of the Yankees. "I think he's going to make Score was saying before Wednesday night's game. "The Red Sox played here last week and I thought he was standing in and taking good cuts at the balls. "You know, the fans are making more out of this than Conigliaro is, It's always that way, when a player-is trying to make a comeback after an injury. "When Tony is up at plate, he's not thinking About his eye.

He can't be. That would mean he's afraid, and you just can't play this game with fear." received $10,936 each for beating the St. Louis Cardinals who got $7,079. The increase in the guaranteed money for the Series makes baseball's post season payoff compare more favorably with pro football. The winners of the Super Bowl get $15,000 each and the losers $7,500.

With the 9B9 each of the two major leagues now has 12 clubs divided into two six-club divisions. The two division winners in ach league will play a nest-of-flve series to determine the loop's representative in the World Series. As in the past, the World Series will be a best-of-seven affair. Under the old rules of baseball, the World Series players were guaranteed a. minimum of $250,000 from the Series to be split 60 percent for the winners and 40 percent for the losers.

The new plan will raise the guarantee to $800,000 for the two teams, $480,000 for the winners, $320,000 for the losers. IN ADDITION, a guaranteed minimum pool of $320,000 was created for the players of the two clubs losing the two best-of-five divisional playoffs. The gate receipts of the World Series will continue to Turn lo Page 6D, Column 1 M. H. Van Berg Van Berg Wins His BY AL COWMAN They kepi, horse owner M.

H. Berg waiting long enough, but he finally came through Wednesday with the biggest winner Of his life No. 4,000. He did it In the fourth race at the Hazel Park Race Course with Time To Sing, the first of five horses he had entered on the nine-race program. During his 32 years as an owner Mr.

Van has won many a bigger race, but few have given him as much satisfaction km winning litis purse did Wednesday. i Time To Sing, three-year-old colt running for a claiming price of $2,500, is typical of the kind of hoMes on which the 73-year-old Nebraakan has Turn to Tage 7D, Column II OPEN FRI. SAT. TO 9 P.M. s'tji I I txcepHons: Birmingham open Sat.

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