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LAKERS STILL LEAD 2-:
Bullets Gun Down LA, 122-115;
M, Hoosiers, and NU: Top Tennis Teams
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By The Associated Press
BALTIMORE -- Bailey Howell
came off the injured list to score
29 points and led the Baltimore'
Bullets to a 122-115 victory over
the Los Angeles Lakers last night
in the Western Division finals
playoffs of the National Basket-'
ball Association.
The come-from-behind triumph
was Baltimore's first against two
Los Angeles victoriet in the best-
of-7 series.
Quick Recovery
Howell, who missed the second
game Monday because of a muscle
spasm in his back, received+
diathermy treatments during thea
day before finally deciding he was
fit to play.
The veteran cornerman sank 10
of 20 field goal attempts and grab-;
bed 17 rebounds before fouling out
late in the game. before West missed one of two
The Lakers again were led by free throws.
All-Star Jerry West, who scored Wally Jones, a 6-foot-1 rookie.
44 points to increase his three- grabbed an important rebound off
game total to 145. He sank 18 of the offensive board and tallied
19 free throws, missing one with another Baltimore two pointer.
8:39 remaining to break a con- Then, after Johnson stole a Los
secutive streak of 31. Angeles pass, Jones made a fast-
Los Angeles jumped off to a break basket to put Baltimore
13-2 lead, but the Bullets rallied ahead 110-102.
to go ahead 63-56 at halftime. An Two more free throws by West
eight-point srting by Los Angeles, preceded four straight points by
including three by West, put the Baltimore's Don Ohl. Ohl made
Lakers back on top 72-71 early two free throws and then dribbled
in the third quarter. through the Laker team for a
Baltimore broke open the tight hard-earned layup and a 114-104
contest midway through the final lead.
period by outscoring the Lakers Baltimore's poor foul shooting+
11-3. kept the team in trouble although
Lead by Two the Bullets outscored the Lakers
Leading 103-101, the Bullets 48-39 from the floor. Baltimore
scored on a foul shot by Howell missed 21 of 47 free throws, while
and a field goal by Gus Johnson Los Angeles connected on 37 of 44.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the
first of a two-part series evaluat-
ing the race for the Big Ten
tennis crown. Next: the remaining
five teams in the conference.)
By JIM TINDALL
For the second straight year
Michigan netters have lost the3
services of only their number one
man by graduation.
This leaves the Wolverines aI
good nucleus of experience to
build around in a conference that
will probably be dominated by In-
diana, Northwestern, and the Wol-
verines. These three appear head}
tnd shoulders above the other
teams ,even though no Big Ten
team is a pushover in any sense
of the word.
The conference has inaugurated Other lettermen of note are vying for the fourts spot with last year's number six man, and
a new system of scoring this year Charley Fitcher, who won the Big Jerry Riessen, a cousin of the sophomore Neil Colvin,
that will see the winner decided Ten crown in number six singles famed Marty, who has a lot of * * *
by a combination of victories in last year along with the third reputation to live up to. The University 6f Iowa doesn't
a round robin series of dual meets doubles titles. In line for the last spot will be have things looking quite as good
and the 54th annual conference Second at Third senior Dick Rist, or either one of for them. Coach Don Klotz has
tournament. Charley Kane, who was runner-, two juniors-Harry Asiel or Dick no seniors on the team at all, and
Each dual meet will consist of up in the number three slot last Shaefer. will have to place his hopes for
nine points-six singles matches season, will be playing the same Coach Riessen was quoted as a bettering of last year's 5-10
and three doubles matches. position this year providing that saying earlier this season that "If mark on the shoulders on Jun-
Points earned by individuals in the McNerny's knee comes around. things break our way the cham- ior Tom Benson.
post-season tourney will then be With lettermen such as two- pionship could be determined in Chicago Suburbs
idded to the dual meet total to year veterans Bob and Bill Wham, the first singles match which Benson played for Arlington
determine the champion. and monogram winners Bob Scott could send Graebner against In- High School in the Northwest Chi-
,e and Steve Erenberg to fill in the diana's fine boy, Power." ago suburbs which have produced
Indiana's power-packed confer- gaps, Coach Landin's team has to * * su ch art Riessed
ence champions lost only two b eadda h qa oba-Gpe r such players as Marty Riessen
e o lst be regarded as the squad to beat. Gopher Prospects and Power. Benson played eight
that wound up the year with a 21- IMinnesota Gopher tennis pros- matches last year at the number
Northwestern's Wildcats, even pects look brighted this year than two position and picked up most
2 mark. Although the number with the loss of nationally ranked they have for a long time, Coach of the Hawkeyes' points in the
three and four men are gone, Marty Riessen, can never be Don Lewis feels that his team tourney.
Coach Bill Landin has Dave Pow- counted out especially with the can definitely improve on their
er, runnerup in the first singles likes of Clark Graebner moving up eighth place mark last year, and John Swarups and John Ebert
crown last season, returning. Pow- to fill Riessen's shoes. that they could very possibly end Jo aras in thnmber
er, a junior, won the Illinois stateB who alternated in the number six
title in 1961 and 1962, and he Graebner, By Cirk up i singles spot last year ,and Arden
continued his winning ways at perior play last summer; movedot urLis as fi lettermen stokstad, a junior who was rank-
Indiana. above Riessen in the USLTA mores that "could help out quite ed sixth in Iowa last year; how
Lost Once standings. "Big Clark" has won "J ever, Dave Collison, a transfer
staning. "Bg Cark"haswona bit." The returnees are Jerry student, who ranked two notches
Last year he finished the sea- the number two singles crown Noyce, who played number one above Stokstad is out for the team
son with a 20-3 singles mark, los- for the past two years, and has singles and doubles for the Goph- and, according to Klotz, is an in-
ing his only Big Ten match in the, added the number one doubles ers last year. The other five sophs tegral part of his "youth move-
finals o thofounthet tournam entr phy otos chain-on botrophy. a etoilhisp ocollectionrd w ebothehiyears.n r Care lastill to "up i . foro mrgrabs"Othraccord-se fimenta er"
pion Marty Reissen. Power is cur- Behind Graebner Coach Claire ing to Lewis. Sophomore Ron Oethahs iepaes
rently ranked 35 among all men's Riessen will have two other let- Keith of Minneapolis, who stands otz w hav tesc is sixth
singles players, and 16th in dou- termen in Bill Rice and Tim only 5-8 and tips the scales at
bles by the USLTA. Sheehan. Sheehan's play was par- 155 pounds is the strongest con- man fioin a crop of sophomores
Behind Power is Rod McNerny, ticularly impressive on the spring tender for the slot at present. ohatallhail.from thestateof
last year's number two man; how- tour according to Riessen as he Rosenberg Back The inexperience that has plag-
ever, he has been troubled by went undefeated and nailed down Dave Rosenberg, who weighs ued Iowa for the past several sea-
his knees-a common tennis ail- the second spot, at least tempor- only 140 pounds, played all last sons still appears to be a major
ment. After an operation in Feb- arily. year at number three singles and problem that has to be overcome
ruary, McNerny stayed off his leg Rice was the third man on the number two doubles and should if the Hawkeyes are to better
and was still a question mark as Wildcats' squad that had a 20-2 be in line for the third spot. dtheir showi in a toug confer
the Hoosiers opened their season dual meet record last year. BehindsRosenberg areoChuckoence.
Behind Rosenberg are Chuck ence,
two days ago. Another Riessen Mikkelson, who was co-captain on
The next two positions will be last year's team and played fourth
filled by sophomores. Tom Mans- singles. Also backing up- the top SPORTS NIGHT EDITOR
field, who twice won the Ohio Gophers are Jerry Krause, a 152-
State high school crown, will be pound letterman, Tom Boice also JIM TINDALL
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By The Associated Press
LAFAYETTE - George King,
coach for five seasons at West
Virginia, was named head coach
at Purdue University last night.
King will replace Ray Eddy as
head mentor of the Boilermakers.
In a statement he said that he
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