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GAME EIGHT TODAY:
a. a2B~Fischer, Spassky draw
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (P) -
The seventh game of the world
chess championship ended in a
draw yesterday, leaving Bobby
Fischer with a 4-3 lead over
Boris Spassky.
The *draw came after Spassky's
49th move in the game that be-
gan and was adjourned Tuesday
after 40 moves by each player.
Less than an hour after the
Soviet titleholder resumed play
with his sealed 41st move, both
players decided to call it a draw.
Each got half a point to add to
the previous score of 31/-21/
Fischer, a grandmaster from
Brooklyn, N.Y:, needs 121/2 points
to take the championship away
from Spassky. The Russian can
retain it with 12 points.
After Spassky made the 49th
move, implying a perpetual
check situation, the two players
looked at each other, s h o o k
hands, rose and walked off the
stage. The crowd in the exhibi-
tion hall gave them a round of
applause.
Spassky opened the resumption
of play with a pawn to -king's
rook four. Experts said this
move, which he had sealed in an
envelope at Tuesday's adjourn-
ment, assured Spassky of the
draw. Seven moves later Spassky
was settled into the perpetual
check situation that made the
draw inevitable.
When referee Lothar Schmid
stopped the clock, total playing
time, including the first day's
play, was 5% hours.
The challenger had lost his
psychological advantage o v e r
Spassky Tuesday by playing a
poor end-game which g r a n d-
masters said cost him a win
and two-point lead.
They thought his arrival 15
minutes late yesterday was de-
signed to rattle Spassky, sitting
alone on teh green-carpeted pod-
ium. Fischer took 31/ points
from the last four games. Spass-
ky took only half a point.
Spassky had opened the tame
Tuesday moving his king's pawn
two squares forward. It was the
first time in the match he nad en to him by his body'-ard
not opened with his q u e n ' s Saemundur Palsson. Normally
pawn. - very fussy about what he eats
It was thought this was design- and drinks, the American told
ed to shake the 29-year-old chal- Palsson there was no ice for his
lenger up a bit. It didn't. water.
The game developed into the "But don't worry," he said.
Najdorf variation of the Sicilian "Everything's perfect." Palson
defense - a Fischer favorite said that Fischer was all smiles.
which seldom results in a draw. "Bobby had a great strategic
Spassky lashed out, sacrificing concept by -move 11," said his
two pawns and a bishop to clear representative here, Fred Cram-
the center of the board for an er.
attack on Fischer's king. But Spassky began a slow retreat,
Fischer, at the 11th move, in- perhaps seeing no mate. Al-
troduced an innovation which one though his pieces were scatter-
expert said was beautiful. ed, his queen out of play and
Spassky though for 35 minutes. his king exposed and uncastled,
At this stage, Fischer loped off Fischer refused a queen swap
stage for a drink. This was giv- at the 18th move.
Professional League Standings
Holy frisbee!
Howard Gutowitz, Flint's flying saucer whiz, shows how it's done
during the finals of the State Frisbee Tournament in Flint Tues-
day night. All in all, ten Michigan cities sent their finest flingers to
participate in the competition.
Ccrlson picked
todirec ABA
AmericansLeague
W L f
Detroit 51 37
Baltimore -0 38
Boston 45 41
New York 42 43
Cleveland 36 51
Milwaukee 35 52
West
Oakland 56 35
Chicago 49 41
Binnesota 45 42
Kansas City 44 45
California 40 52
Tesas 37 53
Yesterday's Games
No games scheduled
Today's Games
Detroit (l.olich, 17-6 and Colem,.
8) at Milwaukee (Parsons, 8-6
Ryerson, 2-1), 2, twinight
Kansas City (Splittorff, 9-5 and
son, 2-4) at Chicago (Wood, 15
and Bradley, 10-9), 2, twinight
Boston (Pattin, 8-8) at New Yor
(Stottlemyre, 10-11), night
Cleveland (Tidrow, 6-11) at Balt
(Dobson, 12-8) night
Texas (Paul, 3-2) at California
(Wright, 11-5) night
Minnesota (Blyleven, 9-11) at (0
(Bine, 2-5) night
Natiosal League
East
Pet. GB . W L Pet. GB
.580 -- Pittsburgh 55 33 .625 --
.568 1 New York 49 38 563 5133
.523 5 St. Louis 45 43 .511 10
.494 7, Chicago 46 44 .511 10
.414 14? Montreal 40 47 .460 14't,
.402 15t Philadelphia 31 57 .352 24
West
.615 Cincinnati 55 33 .625 -
.544 6. lHouston 51 41 .554 6
.517 9 Los Angle 47 42 .5280 033
.494 11 Alant a42 40 .462 141/
.435 163 San Francisco 41 52 .441 161/
.411 18 san Diego 33 56 .371 223
Testedy'sGaines
No games scheduled
Today's Games
an, 12- Chicago (Jenkins, 12-9 and 1ooton,
and 7-8) at Philadelphia (Reynolds, 0-6
and Champion, 4-11), 2, twinight
Net- New York (Koosman, 7-5 and Mat-
5-10 lack, 9-5) at Pittsburgh (Briles, 9-3
t and Moose, 5-6), 2, twinight
k St. Louis (Cleveland, 11-5) at Mon-
treal (Torrez, 11-5), night
timore San Francisco (Marichal, 4-10) at At-
lanta (Reed, 8-10-) night
San Diego (Arlin, 8-11) at Cincinnati '
(Billingham, 6-9) night
aland Los g s les (Ost n, 10-7) at Houston
(Foesch, 5-5) night
NEW YORK . ( - Bob
Carlson, a New York attorney,
was named commissioner of
the American Basketball Asso-
ciation yesterday and imme-
diately announced that the
league would add one team for
the 1972-73 season and operate
as a 10-team entity.
Speculation on the new fran-
chise centered on either San
Diego or Minneapolis, with the
California city appearing to be
the stronger contender.
Carlson, 47, was the unani-
mous selection of the league's
Board of Trustees to succeed
Jack Dolph. who announced
his resignation June 2 for
personal reasons.
"I believe that a merger be-
tween the two leagues the
ABA and National Basketball
Association is only a matter of
time and NBA Commissioner
Walter Kennedy will be the
commissioner of the single ex-
panded league," Dolph said last
month.
Carlson, legal counsel for the
New York Nets, an alternate
trustee for the Nets, a member
of the ABA's merger committee
and special counsel to the
league on various legal matters,
said he realized he was taking
the commissioner's job on pos-
sibly an interim basis.
"Should the merger occur, I
hope to go back to my law
firm," said Carlson, a member
of the association of Roth, Car-
lson, Kwit, Spengler and Goo-
dell,
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