Wednesday, March 31, 1971
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Bulls
By The Associated Press
CHICAGO - Bob Love, scoring
17 of his total 36 points in the
final period, lifted the Chicago
Bulls to a 112-102 victory over Los
Angeles last night to tie their Na-
tional Basketball Association
Western Conference semi-final
series at two games each.
The best-of-seven series moves
to Los Angeles Thursday night and
then returned to Chicago Sun-
day afternoon for game No. 6.
Trailing 83-78 going into the'
final quarter, the Bulls caught
fire with Love leading the way,
They went past the Lakers on a
three-point play by Bobby Weiss
87-85 with 9:35 to play and then
rolled on.
Witt the Bulls leading 93-89
Love scored 11 straight Chicago
points to make it 104-93 and
clinch the contest.
Hawks humbled
ATLANTA - Willis Reed and
Dick Barnett combined on five
straight free throws to break a
101-101 deadlock last night and
send the New York Knicks to a
113-107 victory and a 3-1 lead over
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JOEL GREER
I Atlanta in the National Basket-
ball Association Eastern Confer-
ence semifinal playoffs.
The Knicks, defending w o r 1 d
champions, can end the best-of-
seven series Thursday night in
New York.
Reed's free throw with 4:10 re-
maining gave New York a 102-101
lead which Atlanta never over-
came.
Barnett added two free throws
with 3:13 left and another pair
with 2:47 remaining before Reed's
tip-in 40asecond later made it
108-101 and iced it for N ew
York.
Bullets bounce
PHILADELPHIA - The Balti-
lakers,
more Bullets, despite muscle mand-
Wes Unseld sitting out most of
the second half in foul trouble,
routed the Philadelphia 76ers
120-105 Tuesday night to take a
3-1 lead in the best-of-seven-
game National aBsketball Assoc-
iation Conference semifinal play-
off serise.
Earl "The Pearl" Monroe scored
nine points in the last 1:46 of
the second period in an 11-4
rally which enabled the Bullets to
gain a halftime tie at 62-62.
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Warriors withered
MADISON, Wis. - Two crucial
San Francisco turnovers late in
the game helped the Milwaukee
Bucks grab a 114-102 National
Basketball Association playoff vic-
tory over the Warriors last night.
Milwaukee now leads the best-
of-7 Western Conference semi-
final 3-0.
The Bucks frittered away a 16-
point lead as San Francisco surg-
ed to within one point, 94-93. The
two teams matched two pointers
before the Warriors' Nate Thur-
mond came up with a rebound
off the Bucks' basket.
Thurmond's pass, intended to
start a fast break, instead went
to Milwaukee guard Lucius A 1-
len.
Moments later, Joe Ellis stole
the ball, only to have Warrior
teammate Jeff Mullins apparently
lose the lob pass in the lights. Mil-
waukee converted both turnovers
into points and pulled away from
a 96-95 advantage to the f i n a l
margin. f
even
series
Rockets, Haywood settle suit;
Boryla fights for McDaniels
By The Associated Press
The Denver Rockets of the
American Basketball Association
and their former superstar, Spen-
cer Haywood, settled their breach
of contract lawsuit yesterday. A
federal jury trying the case was
dismissed.
Ending litigation that began
last, November, the settlement
frees Haywood of all contractual
obligations to the Rockets and the
ex-University of Detroit star will
continue to play for the. Seattle
SuperSonics of the rival National
Basketball Association, with whom
he signed a contract last Decem-
ber,
Elsewhere, Villanova's 6-foot-8
Howard Porter, most valuable
player in the recent NCAA cham-
pionship tournament, vehemently
denied he had signed to p 1 a y
with the Pittsburgh Condors of
the American Basketball Associa-
tion.
And in Utah, seething Vince
Boryla, general manager of t h e
Utah Stars, vowed yesterday to re-
tain American Basketball Associa-
tion draft rights to All-American
Jim McDaniels "no matter what it
takes."
McDaniels, 7-foot Western Ken-
tucky star, was drafted No. 1 by
the Stars two weeks ago and was
drafted in the second round by
Seattle o fthe National Basketball
Association.
The signing only inflamed a
squabble between Carolina and the
Utah Stars of the ABA. Utah draft-
ed McDaniels in the ABA's college
draft in January.,
McDaniels, however, reportedly
said he would not play in Utah.
Howevr, the Stars had not relin-
quished any rights to him.
In New York, ABA commissioner.
Jack Dolph commented on the con-
fused situation.
"Carolina's action is unilateral
and has not been approved by the
trustees of the ABA nor by me," he
said. "If and when the Cougars
submit McDaniel's contract I will
not approve it."
Returning to Porter, the Con-
dors announced Monday they had
acquired Porter's contract from
the ABA. They would not say when
it had been signed. This immed-
iately revived the report of 1 a s t
January that the Villanova star
had inked a three-year $350,000
ABA pact.
If Porter signed with the ABA
last Dec. 16, as has been report-
ed, Villanova's season would be of-
ficially rubbed out. The Wildcats
would have used an ineligible
player. The NCAA would have no
choice but to -take away NCAA
runnerup honors. Villanova 1 o s t
to UCLA in the tournament final
Saturday.
Porter says he hasn't signed
anything with anybody.
"I haven't talked to them (Con-
dors) and I'm not going to talk
to anyone for a while," said Por-
ter. "I'm tired after a hard tour-
nament. ' If the money is there
now it will be there later."
The Stars' ABA rival, the Car-
olina Cougars, announced yester-
day that McDaniels had signed a
multi-year personal services con-
tract with them.
Boryla, a former NBA player,
said other ABA owners had asked
him to let Carolina have McDan-
iels for the good of the league.
But Boryla, slamming his fist
on a table at a sportswriters'
luncheon, declared:
"He can do public relations or
anything else for Carolina, but he
will not play basketball for them."
Asked if he is planning a suit
with Stars' owner Bill Daniels,
Borryla reiterated, "We will take
whatever steps necessary."
Haywood's attorney, Morris
Pfaelzer, and Frederick P. Firth,
Denver's attorney, confirmed set-
tlement of the suit.
Last week the NBA dropped its
action against Haywood and the
SuperSonics but levied a $200,000
fine against the Sonics for sign-
ing the player in violation if its
four-year rule-one that prohibits
an NBA club from signing a play-
er before his college class has
graduated.
The attorneys would not di-
vulge details of the settlement and
U.S. District Court Judge Warren
J. Ferguson, before whom the case
was being tried, dismissed the jury,
TERRIBLE SCRIMMAGE:
Grid offense weak
By JOHN PAPANEK sent for X-rays, and according to
"Terrible, terrible scrimmage," assistant trainer Mike Willie, it
was the way football coach Bo
Schembechler described the Wol-
verines' performance yesterday.
They ran offense against defense
for about an hour, working only
on third down situations.
The offense managed to con-
vert only about one out of every
five third down plays, mostly on
the running of Alan Cowboy1
Walker, and a few passes from
Kevin Casey.
"We have a lousy offense,"
Schembechler said afterward, but
he hardly sounded convincing.
"We're going to have to run the
ball every play." But Bo's soft
voice and hidden smile belied the,
meaning of his words, then he{
added as an aftermath, "We have
a real good defense, though."
Some of Bo's early problems are
beginning to iron themselves out.
The most prominent one is his
search for a quarterback. Casey
has been running the first offense
for a few days and he appears to
be the front-runner, though Sch-
embechler quickly denies it.
He passed well yesterday, hit-
ting tight end Paul Seymour and
wingback Glenn -Doughty for first
downs on a few occasions.
The pre-season favorite for the
job, Larry Cipa, went in with the
second offense, fumbled on his
first play, and spent the rest of,
the afternoon on the sidelines.
The only real upsetting moment
yesterday came about halfway
through the scrimmage when tac-
kle Fred Grambau came off the
field holding his thumb. He was
appeared to be "a slight disloca-
tion or possible fracture."
Another talent search which
Schembechler has been carrying
on is to replace the shoes of de-
parted defensive middle guard
Henry Hill, and he may have
found the man.
Contrasting the image of the
small but tough Hill, Bo has coA-
verted a giant fullback to fill the
defensive slot. He is 6-2, 227-pound
sophomore Bob Thornbladh. With
returnee Fritz Seyferth and 6-2,
241-pound sophomore Ed Shut-
tlesworth battling for the fullback
slot, Bo found another use for
Thornbladh.
"We put him there because we
need him on defense," Bo said.
"It's as simple as that."
Schembechler h a s abandoned
another experiment which had
sophomore Harry Banks working
out in the defensive backfield.
"We decided to give him his
chance on offense," Schembechler
said. Banks is one of the quickest
men on the team.
A contributing reason to moving
Banks back to offense has. been
the defensive play, of converted
wingback Randy Logan. "Logan is
doing a real good job on defense
and we intend to leave him there,"
Bo said.
Meanwhile, if Casey proves to
be a quality quarterback, Billy
Taylor makes it back from his
knee operation, and the defense
gets by without any major in-
juries, everything could be nicea
and rosey come September.
--Day-Terry VMc.arthy
MICHIGAN'S MIKE SALE performs on the rings in one of the
season's earlier meets. Sale is one of several gymnasts who will
be competing both individually and for his team during the
NCAA Championships which are being held at Crisler Arena
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
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AT CRISLER:
Gymnasts. ready for NCAA's
By BETSY MAHON
For the past several months
Crisler Arena has resounded each
afternoon with the sounds of basket-
balls being dribbled and the noise
of a team sport. All this is in strik-
ing contrast to the tranquility that
proceeds the opening of the NCAA
Gymnastics Championships which
begin there on Thursday. It's not
that gymnasts take it easy during
practice; they just do things dif-
ferently.
Teams from as far away as Penn
State and New Mexico have been
arriving in Ann Arbor all week and
working out on the equip-
ment which has replaced the bas-
ketball court markings on the floor.
For the most partthe gymnasts are
just testing out the unfamiliar
equipment and going through some
basic routines.
Some squads, like the Wolver-
ines, have had a three week layoff
since their last competition while
others, California, for example,
only qualified for the NCAA's over
the past weekend. Different Michi-
gan gymnasts used their vacation
in a variety of ways. "I took the
first week off," explained Michi-
gan co-captain and high bar spe-
cialist Ed Howard. "Then I spent
most of my time on tricks and
worked on style more than any-
thing else."
"I haven't done anything dif-
ferently," said three time Big Ten
All - Around Champion Rick Mc-
Curdy. "I just tried to improve on
the rough spots in my compul-
sories."
As many as three or fou:' teams
practice at one time at Crisler but
the arena looks more like the scene
of a reunion than a field of com-
petition. There are two prime rea-
sons for this, the first being that
many of the competitors are per-
sonal friends., They met in high
school, while' being recruited, at
various gymnastics camps around
the country, at previous meets and,
in the case of several of the all-
rounders, on the World Games
Team. Many feel that an important
part of the meet is getting ac-
quainted or re-acquainted with
other gymnasts and watching them
perform.
The second factor is that gym-
nastics, by its very nature, is not
a highly competitive sport. Iowa
State star Brent Simmons summed
up the situation, "I'm not really
competitive at practice but when
the competition starts it's strictly
that. I don't actually try to beat
someone. That way you just end up
beating yourself."
Howard concurred, "Other peo-
ple may feel a sense of competition
but I feel tension more than any-
thing else. I'm getting pretty ex-
cited now."
This seeming absence of rivalry
does not mean a lack of enthu-
siasm and the coaches have no
problems getting their squads up
for the championships. Iowa State
Coach Ed Gagnier explained, "I
didn't have to do very much. They
are all super-excited already." He
added a word of praise for Mich-
igan Coach Newt Loken, "Newt
always has his team up for com-
petition like this." Loken said,
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Tigers gain Chance, lose Robertson;
Red Sox acquire Duane Josephson
By The Associated Press
Dean Chance apparently didn't
impress the New York, Mats this
spring - and that may turn out to
be good news for the Detroit Tig-
ers.
The Tigers acquired the one-
time 20-game winner from the
Mets yesterday along with pitch-
er Bill Denehy in exchange for
Jerry Robertson and an unspec-
ified amount of money.
Meanwhile, the Boston R e d
Sox, determined to make a solid
bid for the American League pen-
4 nant, acquired hard-hitting cat-
cher Duane Josephson from t h e
Chicago White Sox yesterday and
promptly announced they are not
through wheeling and dealing.
The Chance deal was the second
trade in two days by Detroit, whlch
wasted little time in bolstering
its injury plagued and otherwise
faltering pitching staff. The Tig-
ers traded rookie infielder Mike
Adams and a minor leaguer to be
named later to Minnesota Mon-
day for pitcher Bill Zepp.
"Chance has been throwing
pretty good," said one-time Tiger
Manager Jack Tighe, now a sup-
erscout with the organization.
"He's not throwing great. 1 he
was, we wouldn't have gk tten
him."
Chance, former Cy Young
Award winner while with the Los
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Angeles Angels in 1964, also is
a one-time Minnesota player. He
had a 20-14 record for the Twirs
in 1967.
After a 16-16 record in 1968
he had arm trouble and had only
a 5-4 record the next season. The
Mets bought him from Cleveland
last September for $150,000 after
the 29-year-old righthander had
a 9-8 record with the Indians. He
was 0-1 with New York.
In 16%/3 innings this spring
Chance. gave up 10 runs and 17
hits and had a 5.63 earned-run-
average.
Zepp will stay in Florida when
the Tigers head North Saturday:
They open the season Tuesday at
home against Cleveland. Zepp, a
native Detroiter who had asked
to be traded to the Tigers, is a
24-year-old righthander who had
a 9-4 record as a rookie with the
Twins last year.
"We've got something else in the
works," Boston player personnel
director Haywood Sullivan said in
announcing the acquisition of
Josephson.
About an hour earlier, the Red
Sox sent 1967 Cy Young A w a r d
winner Jim Lonborg and reserve
outfielder Jarvis Tatum on op-
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tion to Louisville of the Inter-
national League.
The Red Sox obtained the 28-
year-old Josephson and relief pit-
cher Danny Murphy in exchange
for veteran reliever Vicente Rom6
and first baseman Tony Muser, a
23-year-old prospect shipped to
Louisville Monday.
"Josephson will be our starting
catcher on opening day in Boston
next Tuesday," Boston Manager
Eddie Kasko said.
"We'll work him into the line-
up immediately, and I'm going to
try to catch him regularly. I
know he hit the hell out of us
last year."
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