Thursday, April 11, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Thumrsd, Arlm!17 HEMCHGNnAL Sports ofTe D Capital ties series' From Wire Service Reports LANDOVER, Md.-Guards Archie Clark and Phil Chenier scored 12 points apiece in the final quarter, leading the Capital Bullets to a 109-92 victory over the New York Knicks last night and tied their National Basketball Association playoff series at three games apiece. The deciding game of the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals will be played in New York Friday night. The Bullets, who blew fourth-quarter leads while losing the two previous games in the series, took a 68-67 advantage into the final 12 minutes. They spurted ahead 77-69 after 1:16 had been played and were never threatened.x CLARK, AN AGING superstar bothered by injuries all sea-- son and used only sparingly in the playoffs, finished with 20 points-two more than his total for five previous games. Chenier finished with 22. Elvin Hayes led the Bullets with 31 points, giving him 169 for the series. Walt Frazier, New York's leader, again led with 25. * * * WFL claims Jessie BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Ron Jessie, a starting wide receiver for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League, signed with the Birmingham Americans of the World Football League yes- -terd y.- The multi-year contract goes into effect in 1975. Jessie was a seventh-round draft choice of the Dallas Cow- boys in 1971 after playing at the University of Kansas. He was traded to Detroit in 1972. HE HAS PLAYED in every game since joining the Lions and haS been a starter for the last two years. He is the second player from the NFL to sign with the Americans. Ken Stabler of Oakland signed earlier. ANOTHER important WFL signing was made by the Hous- ton Texans. They announced yesterday that they have signed dis- enchanted Dallas Cowboy quarterback Craig Morton to a con- tract for the 1975 season. The Detroit Sharks? DETROIT - The Los Angeles Sharks of the World Hockey Association will be moved to Detroit in time for next season, the club's new owners said Wednesday. Chuck Nolton and Pete Shegena, Detroit businessmen who bought the franchise earlier this year, said a new nickname would be chosen. The team has a two-year contract for home games in the 10,000-seat Cobo Arena, with an option for a third, the owners said. * * * Tennis today,. On the wall of Brian Eisner's office are listed the Michigan tennis teams' goals for the 1974 season. Included are winning the Big Ten and national championships as well as a host of lesser individual quests. Lest the reader be dubious because of the loftiness of these aspirations, the Wolverine netters stand ready to convert all skeptics when they play four home matches in the next five days to kick-off this year's dual meet schedule. "The weather has prevented us from playing much outdoor tennis," the Michigan mentor commented. "It takes us at least a week to snake the adjustment from indoors to outdoors." Michigan only started to practice outdoors on Tuesday. Despite these factors, however, the Blue netters should have no trouble destroying Notre Dame (today at 2:30), Minne- sota (Friday at 3:00), Iowa (Saturday at 10 a.m.), and Michigan State (Monday) in that order. Eisner claims that Notre Dame has been very impressive this Spring," but the logical prediction is that the Wolverines will not be extended by any of them. Coach Eisner has based his lineup on the results of intra- squad matches and for the opener against Notre Dame the Wol- verines will field: Singles-1) Victor Amaya, 2) Peter Fleming, 3) Eric Fried- ler, 4) Freddie De Jesus, 5) Kevin Senich, 6) Jeff Miller. Doubles-1) Amaya-Friedler, 2) Fleming-DeJesus, and 3) Jerry Karzan-Jeff Holman. Traditionally the Wolverines use the Big Ten as a warmup for nationals and this year should be no exception. One of the teams' more interesting goals is to defeat every team in the Big Ten by a 9-0 score and to win all nine individual cham- pionships at the 'conference meet. The magnitude of this alone will undoubtedly provide some excitement to what should be a very predictable string of Michigan tennis triumphs. And if, perchance, these meets convince you of the tremen- dous ability that the Wolverines have . . . well as an old cliche put it, "You ain't seen nothing yet!" In fact, Eisner expects his team to perform well beneath its peak level. . f f ... f n.. J. a {'C.. .{: : :..- .. ........ .... ..._ :::::.tfui :irv .... t. u...'F uu:t.:tu .{nav -. -... 1.. ':: :ff f:'1.-: ... t.. .. V: . . ,a : a.. ::.. :. ,. .........w.: i:.r. }y;q:. .... :-. t'i: -i i ?{.~ .n.: a:!:..ii:i..i.::.i..: . .: ..XXIIIItt y. < may. ?.. rcT f Y ..: c. v d 1.:., wry. ii: y' ..:: .. v ry... t ... gy v.n-.... ..n.. .. :.. :r- .Y.:iivi iYi: ""i.V T' _:u.: + + [i'i .iP:-i: N:[:?.if?: n. 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W o o t i n was reach the Pistons if they would be interested in where he is representing (or obtaining Campy and his older brother represent) Dolphin football play Frank (a former U-D star) in a package arbitration. deal. The NBA hardship draft was Michigan Coach Johnny Orr spoke with years ago mainly to compete w his star yesterday and said Russell told American Basketball Associatio him at that meeting that he knew nothing been raiding colleges in sear about what he read in the Free Press, graduate talent since its incep but that he had indeed decided to apply Some of the stars who played for the hardship category. before their college eligibiiltye Piston GM Coil, contacted at his Detroit Spencer Haywood (now in thel office yesterday afternoon, claimed to know Simpson and Julius Erving. only of the letter he received Tuesday. 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