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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

STGFriday, June 13, 1969


JAMES WECHSLER Murphy leads Open by stroke
AT a fT

Connie Hawkins
may join NBA

rAamatn, Hoover ...
. . Two ofankind
Possibly by the time these lines appear Joe Namath, as some
sports journalist quickly predicted, will have contritely bowed
to anguished pleas and announced that he is selling his contro-
versial restaurant holding to meet the purity standards set by
Football Commissioner Rozelle. I wouldn't know, and in view of
Namath's past fiscal achievements, he can hardly be depicted
as one of our needier cases.
One way or another, he has it made. It is even conceivable
that he has no deep desire to enter further physical torture
on the playing field of Shea (and other stadiums) and welcomed
this invitation to retirement.
The one of many who vicariously shared his glory days, his
decision evokes obvious elements of nostalgia. But it is no occa-
sion for maudlin moaning at the bar. Rather it stirs new ques-
tions about the way we play our games and the exacting codes
of ethics imposed by the so-called sportsmen for whom, to put
it simply, the Namaths are private property as well as public
prizes.
I KNOW THE STORY can be written both ways (as so many
commentators have already done). There is no dispute about the
fact that gamblers tenanted Namath's tavern; in its eternal
vigilance the FBI has documented the point and Namath has
acknowledged it. One can also imagine a circumstance in which
it might be to the advantage of such gentlemen to observe
whether Joe was limping on the eve of a game, or betraying
some other human frailty.
Yet it must be wryly noted that it is also a matter of oft-
publicized record that the director of the FBI is a frequent
visitor to the ractracks where, by his own confession, he has
even yielded to the temptation to place a wager on some promis-
ing piece of recommended horseflesh.
Surely no meeting place of Americans draws a higher per-
centage of gamblers than the track;only a handful of aesthetes
attend for the sheer joy of contemplating the competition.
To the best of my knowledge and recollection, however, no
Congressional investigating committee has ever asked aloud
whether there is any possible impropriety about Mr. Hoover's
association with these professional (as well as amateur) inves-
tors who congregate for these mass gambling exercises.
I am alleging no trace of evidence that Mr. Hoover has dis-
played a special solitiude for any dubious character whom
he encountered by chance on these journeys. But neither is it
contended by anyone that Joe Namath ever deliberately threw
an incomplete pass as a favor to some patron whose business
he valued and who had revealed a stake in the opposition's
victory. In both instances the issue is the company you keep, not
a soul that is sold.
THE THREAT of scandal haunts all athletic establishments
-and other institutions. It is understandable that the owners of
the Jets would prefer that all their employes avoid any hangout
where gamblers gather and attend prayer meetings instead. But
one must also ask whether all owners and stockholders in the
business of sports are entirely cautious about their own casual
contacts or diligent about the identity of those whom they alloV
into their premises. .
Namath has long been a maverick figure; that is much of
his appeal, and what renders him so distinct from so many
others engaged in various forms of play-for-pay. Certainly there
is a matter of money involved in his challenged restaurant af-
filiation, but cash can scarcely be his crucial concern.
The point may seem romantic, but there must be the sub-
dued suspicion that Namath is standing up for the pride and
dignity of a lot of men who are valued chiefly by their owners
for brawn rather than brain and whose fortunes are at the
mercy of capricious injury or sudden decline of skills. He may
even feel it is an affront to hint that he could be bought at his
own bar by some visiting fixer.
AS INDICATED EARLIER, I am not proposing that the
Civil Liberties Union give top priority to the Namath case. After
all, if Namath had not suffered a painful knee injury on the
gridiron, he might be facing a Viet Cong assault in Saigon to-
night. By most standardshe is still a lucky fellow.
But the piety of his detractors is rendered no less spurious
and self-righteous by fortuitous circumstance. It must even be
asked whether some of the sports analysts most critical of Na-
math's rebellion never took advantage of their access to privi-
leged information in making' a small, quiet wager in their
frinedly neighborhood saloon.
This, one must repeat, Joe Namath is not accused of doing,
no matter how questionable are some of those who infiltrate
his restaurant. He deserves at least as much charity as we ex-
tend to our horse-playing FBI chief, on the subject of guilt by
association rather than deed. Such double standards make cyn-
ics of young and old alike.
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KIRK ON BRIDGE:

HOUSTON WP - Bob Murphy,
a brash, well-fed son of Florida
who thrives on heat and pressure,
fired a four-under-par 66 for the
first-round lead as Arnold Pal-
mer's hunt went on and the blue-
ribbon favorites collapsed yester-
day in the sultry 69th U.S. Open
Golf Championship.
"I like the hot weather - it
gets me loose," said the 214-pound
tour sophomore from Jacksonville,
Fla., who corrected his driving
game and carded out five birdiesI
over the 6,967-yard, par 70 Cham-
pions Cypress Creek course.
This gave him a single shot lead v
over Miller Barber, ' the near-t
sighted, balding little tour veter-
an who finished early with a 67.
Deane Beman, a pro of less thant
two years, hit flawless fairwayL
woods at the pins and stringbeanp
Al Geiberger, inactive since thec
Masters because of a stomach dis-c
order, each shot 68.t
Towering George Archer, t h ec
reigning Masters champion, and
Dean Refra and Tom Weiskopf
each had 69s, making it a select'y
exclusive field that was able toa
crack Cypress Creek's rugged par.-
Palmer, his fabulous career tee-!f
tering in delicate balance, showed
flashes of his old-time brilliancec
and fell back into his late puttingf
jitters in shooting an erraticr
even-par 70. i
j He was tied at this figure witha
Bob Rosburg, the veteran pro who
uses a baseball grip; young Dick
Crawford, a two-time collegen
champion, from the University of
Houston; Jack Ewing Jr., a ranks
outsider and Bunky Henry.-
It was a day of frustration and
near tragedy for three of t h e
greats of the game - powerful7
Jack Nicklaus, defending champ-
B iboardVt.
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sports
NIGHT EDITOR:
PHIL HERTZ
ion Lee Trevino and Bill Casper,
pro golf's man of the year in
1968 - all of whom skied to a 74
and will be hard-pressed to sur-
vive the midway cut Friday when
the field will be reduced to the
low sixty and ties.
"I hit every fairway - some-
thing I have never done in the
U.S. Open," the imposing, golden-
haired Nicklaus, a two-time
champion, said. "Jack Nicklaus
could shoot 65 from where I drove
the ball but I haven't seen that
character lately."
Big Jack's round was marked
by two double bogeys. At the 448-
yard 10th, he pitched his second
almost into a creek at the left
and then three-putted from 10
feet, missing from 18 inches.
At the 15th, he pushed his se-I
cond wildly into a clump of trees,
failed to reach the green on his
recovery and then missed a 28-
inch putt for his second six on
a par 4 hole.
The usually voluble Trevino-
"Super Mex," he calls himself, was
more subdued than usual.
"My driver let me down," the
swarthy Latin from El Paso, Tex.,
said. "I didn't know whether my
drives were going to the right or
left. I was lucky not to have a
77."
Casper, who won more than
$200,000 and led all the pros last
year and who only last week won
the $26,000 first prize in the Wes-
tern Open, shrugged his should-
ers resignedly.
"This course is just too long for
me," moaned. "I couldn't reach
the greens."
"I've been in a driving slump,"
he said after his round. "I bet
I've hit a thousand drives in;
practice during the last few
weeks."
With his pretty wife, Gayle, and
six-months old daughter, Kim-
berly, at his side, Murphy t o 1 d
how a shot on the second hole got

NEW YORK, ( - A report
that Connie Hawkins, the Ameri-
can Basketball Association s t a r
who is suing the National Bas-
ketball Association for $6 million,
might jump to the NBA's Phoenix
Suns was denied by a Phoenix of-
ficial yesterday.,
I deny flatly that we have
signed or are about to sign Con-
nie Hawkins," Jerry Colangelo,
the Phoenix general manager told
the Phoenix Gazette. "To the best
of my knowledge. he is still a

Suns, in Phoenix. "I only hope it
is true."
The report is not true," Gabe
Rubin, part owner of the Pipers,
said in Pittsburgh. "And we an-
ticipate having Connie as the star
of our team next season," he said.
The Pipers moved from Pitts-
burgh to Minnesota last year.
An outstanding player in the
1967-68 season, he missed a ma-
jor portion of the 1968-69 season
because of a knee injury.

4~r

V1 11y111V 1C,8U,11G1z .!i~l 4 Hawkins has played out his op-
member of the Minnesota club of hon wih ts ed an hs ot
the ABA." signed a new contract.
He declined, however, the spe- Hawkins had a $6 million treble
cifically rule out all possibility damage suit pending against the
that Hawkins would play with NBA.gHe filed the suit in U. S.
Phoenix. District Court in Pittsburgh in
There was no confirmation of 1966, charging that the league was
the report from ABA or NBA offi- a monopoly and had banned him
cials. for life.
The story originated with radio As a freshman at the Univer-
station WNEW in New York yes- st fIwhsnm a
tesda moring.sity of Iowa, his name was
tesday morning, E p brought into the giant college bas-
Chip Cipolla, WNEW's sports ketball scandals of 1961 by Dist.
director, said he had learned the Atty Frank Hogan of Manhat-
Phoenix team won a coin flip with tan'.
the NBA's Seattle team for the Hogan said Hawkins had receiv-
league's rights to negotiate with ed $210 from New York gambler
the 28-year-old star of the Min- e H
IJnesota Pipers. ,,Hacken, for his "good offi-
Cipolla said the Suns "have ces."
either signed orhare about to In an article last month, Life
sign" Hawkins, a 6-foot-8, 215- Magazine said "evidence recently
pound star forward and center, uncovered indicates that Connie
"I know nothing about this" Hawkins never knowingly associa-
said Walter Kennedy, the NBA's ted with gamblers, that he never
commissioner who is in Honolulu. introduced a player to a fixer, and
"I have no further comment." ' that the only damaging state-
"As far as we're concerned, it's ments about his involvement were
strictly a rumor," said an ABA made by Hawkins himself - as a
spokesman in Minneapolis. He terrified semi-literate teenager
said ABA commissioner George when thought he'd go to jail un-
Mikan and Bill Erickson, the pres- less he said what the D.A.'s detec-
ident of the Minnesota Pipers, had tives pressed him to say.
discussed the report and labeled it "Hawkins, in other words,' the
Associated Prss a rumor. article said, "did nothing t h a t
"I know nothing about it," said twould have justified his being
Johnny Kerr, the coach of the ' banned by the NBA."

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A quarterly University of
Michigan Tae Kwonn Do As-
sociation promotion test in
Korean Karate will be held
Sunday, June 15, 1969, at the
Jewish Community Center, 18-
100 Meyers, Detroit, Michigan.
The event will get under way at
1:00 p.m. The public is cord-
ially invited.
The University of Michigan
Golf Tournament will be held
Wednesday, June 18, starting
from 12:30-2:30. All faculty,
staff and students. of the Uni-
versity are eligible. There is no
entry fee; however, entry must
be made in person at the golf
cour'se.

BASEBALL RO UND UP:
MLain, Brown sent

to

hospital

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By The Associated Press

him rolling. DETROIT - Denny McLain,
"I holed out from a trap-a- Detroit Tiger pitcher, who con-
bout 30 feet--for a birdie," he plained of nausea and a head-
said, "instead of being one over, ache before he pitched nine in-
I was under. That set me off." nings against the Seattle Pilots
He proceeded to play a steady Wednesday night, was/admitted
roun inwhiys demissedonsyto Ford Hospital yesterday for ob-
two fairways and two greens. He vation

ed a five-run ninth with a two-
run homer, his 11th.
Cubs' starter Dick Selma, 6-3,
didn't give up a hit until Sonny
Jackson singled with two out in
the sixth and still had a one-hit-
ter until Hank Aaron followed two
walks in the eighth with his lt7h
homer.

had one putt of 18 feet.

SMAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
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AMERICAN LEAGUE

Baltimore
Boston
Detroit
Washington
New York
Cleveland
Minnesota
Oakland
Chicago
Seattle
Kansas City
California

East Division
W L
40 17
36 19
29 23
30 31
29 3x
18 34
West Division
30 24
27 25
23 28
24 30
24 32
18 35

Pct.t
.702
.655
.558
.492
.492
'349
.556
.519
.451
.444
.429
.340

NATIONAL LEAGUE
East Division
GBW L Pct.
Chicago 38 18 .679
- New York 29 24 .547
8s Pittsburgh 28 29 .491
12 St. Louis 27 30 .474
12 xPhiladelphia 19 32 .373
19 xMontreal 13 38 .255
West Division
Atlanta 33 22 .600
xLos Angeles 31 33 .574
S SanFrancisco 30 24 .556
2a Cincinnati 28 23 .549
Houston 28 32 .467
7 xSan Diego 25 34 .424
x-Late game not included
11 Yesterday's Results
Chicago 12, Atlanta 6
Cincinnati 4, St. Louis 3, 10 inn.
Montreal at San Diego, inc.
Philadelphia at Los Angeles, inc.
Pittsburgh 4, Houston 3
only games scheduled.
Today's Games
Atlanta at Pittsburgh, night
Houston at St. Louis, night
New York at Los Angeles, night
Chicago at Cincinnati, night
Philadelphia at San Diego, night
Montreal at San Francisco, night

Yesterday's Results
Washington 4, Oakland 1
Only game scheduled.
Today's Games
Detroit at Kansas City, night.
Cleveland at Minnesota, night
Baltimore at Chicago, night
California at Washington, night
Seattle at New York, night
Oakland at Boston, night

When Orlando Cepeda follow-
Tiger officials said McLain was ed with a single, Phil Regan re-
running a temperature. lieved Selma but needed help in
McLain reportedly became ill the ninth.
Wednesday after eating two slic-
es of cream-frosted. birthday
cake.A'vtod
The Tigers were deadlocked 2-2 WASHINGTON - Jim Shellen-
with the Pilots when McLain was back, making his first start of
lifted for a pinchhitter in t h e the season, got off to a shaky
ninth. Relief pitcher Pat Dobson start and then settled down with
sfinished up and got credit for the aseven-hitter as the Washington
Tigers' 4-3 victory. Senators defeated the Oakland
Less than an hour later, Tiger Athletics 4-1 last night.
utility outfielder Gates Brown was Shellenback, 0-1 after eight re-
admitted to Ford Hospital for lief appearances since he was ac-
treatment of what doctors des- quired on waivers from Pittsburgh
cribed as a severe respiratory in- May 14, got Danny Cater to hit
fection. He had complained over- into a double play with the bases
night of chest pains and was run- loaded in the first inning.
ning a fever.- He gave up three singles, t h e
A Tiger spokesman said Brown last by Rick Monday, for a run
would be in the hospital two or in ths fourth and then allowed
three days. only two hits the last five innings.
Cubs claw Braves
ATLANTA - Al Spangler hit a
pair of two-run homers, powering
the Chicago Cubs to a 12-6 vic-
tory over the Atlanta Braves last
-night.
Spangler gave the Cubs a 2-0
lead in the second inning against
rookie Gary Hill, making his first
Rmajor league appearance, a n d
then made it 7-0 in the seventh
with his fourth homer of the sea-
son, off reliever Gary Neibauer.
Ernie Banks doubled in two
more runs in the third and Paul
Popovich singled in one in t h e
sixth before Ron Santo highlight-

Denny McLain

Detective work gives key to winning play

Father's Day is Sundby, June 15
cool, permanent press
diamond-mesh knit

By LEE KIRK
Many times at a big tourna-
ment, kibitzers are amazed
when a big-name player pond-
ers a hand that obviously needs
only a simple finesse to make.
The expert, you may be sure,
knows all about the finesse. He
is merely trying to find s o m e
play that offers ,better than a
5Q-50 chance.
In today's hand, the declarer
sought and found a play that
offered him a far greater chance
of success.
North-South's bidding was a
little unorthodox -- either of
them could have entered the
bidding on the first round.
South chose to enter the auc-
tion after the opposition found
their club fit, and North, with
six cards in the suit his part-
ner bid, felt that five diamonds
had a chance of being a fine
save over West's five clubs.
West opened the club queen,
and East blew a sure chance to
set the contract when he let the
queen go around. Had he over-
taken and returned a heart,
South would have been doomed,
but even with East's minor

blunder, the contract was far
from easy.
West now had no safe lead ex-
cept the spade, and declarer
won in the open hand. He clear-
ed out trump and spades and
then stopped to take stock ,of
what he knew about the hands.

NORTH
*-K J 9
V-A43
f-A 10 8 5 4 2
4-4

West, with only one spade
and no diamonds, clearly had a
freakish hand with twelve cards
in clubs and hearts. East had
shown up with six spades and
two diamonds, yet he also sup-
ported his partner's club bid,
making it likely that he had
four clubs and therefore only
one heart.
This would leave West " with
seven clubs and five hearts. If
he had had six in each suit, he.
probably would have the hearts
first as East-West were playing
a convention that gave strong
preference to majors.
The normal procedure for get-
ting two tricks in hearts-lead-
ing towards the queen in hope
that East had the King-really
gave declarer far less than a
50-50 (hance.
Instead, South made the un-

common play of a double duck.
He led a small heart from ,his
small heart hand and played
low when West played the nine.
West was endplayed. If he led a
club, South would sluff a heart
from the board and trump in
his hand.
West's only hope was to lead
a heart, which decuarer let ride
around to his queen. Even if
West had ducked and East had
held the trick, he would have
been forced to lead a black
suit, giving South a sluff and a
rough.
To play bridge, you must be a
detective. Each bid and each
trick will give you a little clue.
Taken by themselves, these
clues do not tell you much, but
when you put them all togeth-
er, an obscure play can become
obvious.


WEST
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EAST
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Neither side vulnerable

2, 7

EAST
1A
34
Pass

SOUTH
Pass
3,
Pass

WEST
24
54
Pass

NORTH
Pass
5,

FRIDAY, JUNE 13

6:30 P.M.

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