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Kentucky Bombs
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By United Press International
If Kentucky is to be prevent
ed from winning its 23rd South
eastern Conference basketball
title, it will have to be done at
Lexington— a highly improbable
srte for Wildcat defeats.
The Wildcats finished their
road schedule Monday night
With a 106-87 victory over Geor
gia at Athens. One of their
three remaining home games is
with Vanderbilt, which moved
into the runnerup spot with an
#9-74 win over Alabama Mon
day night.
The Commodores, 10-4 in the
SEC, are 1% games behind
Kentucky (12-3) and one-half
game ahead of Tennessee (9-4),
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the only other team with even
a long shot at the crown. Vandy
has four SEC games left and
the Vols five.
Tennessee is the' only SEC
team in action tonight, playing
Georgia Tech in an outside
game in Atlanta. Miami enter
tains Stetson in another South
east contest.
Pistol Pete Maravich was
“held” to 34 points Monday
(well below his national- aver
age of 45.2), but Louisiana State
downed Mississippi State 94-83
for the Tigers’ 13th win of the
season. Other Monday night ac
tion saw Mississippi beat Au
burn 57-56 on Ken Turner’s
jump shot with three seconds to
play, and Memphis State upset
Wichita State 67-55 in a Mis
souri Valley Conference game
behind Mike Stewart’s 32
points.
Fifth-ranked Kentucky, with
sophomore Dan Issel bucketing
31 points, overcame a nine
point deficit to down the ram
bunctious Georgia Bulldogs.
Sophomore Bob Lienhard had
33 points for Georgia.
Eighth-ranked Vanderbilt met
Alabama, and managed to come
out on top despite 111 miscues.
Alabama committed j 2 errors. |
Braves To
Televise
20 Games
ATLANTA (UPD—The Atlan
ta Braves have announced a 20-
game television schedule for its
20-station network—two at home
and 18 on the road.
A Braves spokesman said
Monday that the games with
the San Francisco Giants May
21 and the Chicago Cubs Aug.
5, both in Atlanta Stadium,
would be telecast.
The telecast road games will
Include four with St. Louis,
three each with Cincinnati and
Philadelphia, two each with
Pittsburgh, New York, Houston
and Chicago and one each with
San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The games will be telecast in
Georgia, Alabama, Florida,
Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina ana Tennessee.
Georgia, 106-87;
Win SEC Title
Tom Hagan led the Commo-1
I dores with 22 points, while *
Richey, Graebner In
Macon Net Tourney
MACON, Ga. (UPI) — Four
members of the U. S. Davis
Cup team, including third
ranked Cliff Richey and fourth
ranked Clark Graebner, were
included among today’s 10-na
tion field in the opening round
of the Macon International Ten
nis Tournament.
Fifteen of the players in the
24-man field are from nine for
eign countries. Each of the
foreigners represented his coun
try in the 1967 Davis Cup
matches.
Richey and Graebner both
drew first-round byes but will
meet foreign opponents in
Wednesday’s second-round com
petition.
Marty Riessen and Ron
Holmberg, ranked fifth and
sixth nationally by the U. S.
I Mike Nordholz topped the Tide
1 with 20.
Lawn Tennis Association, are
paired against Boro Javanozic
of Yugoslavia and Istzan Gulyas
of Hungary respectively in to
day’s first round.
The tournament will continue
through Sunday. It is being
dedicated this year to former
University of Georgia tennis
star Henry Field who was killed
in an automobile accident dur
ing the 1967 Christmas holidays.
ROOF UNDER REPAIRS
PHILADELPHIA (UPD—Re
pairs on the wind-torn ■ roof of
the Spectrum Sports Arena was
expected to be completed in
time for tonight’s National
Basketball Association double
header. Last Saturday gusty
winds tore a 50-by-150 foot hole
in the roof of the five-month-old
sl2 million building.
BETWEEN YOU'N'ME
He Was 'Guts' Gutowski
And a Whiz in Pole Vault
By MURRAY OLDERMAN
NEAtSporfs Editor
NEW YORK—(NE A)—Bob
Gutowski never was the sort
of guy to burst suddenly onto
the sports scene, though it
may have appeared that way.
A slim, sandy-haired six
footer, he gained a reputation
for being unassuming, quietly
ambitious and fearless.
“Guts” Gutowski, they called
him.
As a high school pole
vaulter in San Diego, he
never qualified for a state
meet. He enrolled at Occi
dental College in Los Angeles
on a basketball scholarship,
never indicating future suc
cess as a track star. He man
aged to clear 13 feet as a
freshman and made it to 14-6
as a sophomore.
But in his junior year, after
learning to keep his legs sky
ward a fraction of a second
longer at the push-off, Gutow
ski finally cleared 15 feet. As
a senior, he sailed to 15-B’A,
breaking Cornelius Warmer
dam’s 15-year-old world rec
ord. He did an encore by
smashing his own mark in the
NCAA championships th a t
year, soaring to 15-9%.
A decade has now passed
since Bob Gutowski claimed
that world record before being
killed in an automobile acci
dent a year later. And names
like Pennel and Hansen and
Seagren have replaced his in
the record books as new
heights are conquered.
Dr. B. H. Culley, Dean of
Men at Occidental and one of
Gutowski’s closet friends, re
calls that Bob was becoming
an all-round man in track and
had the potential for the
decathlon.
“In a dual meet with
UCLA,” he remembers, “Bob
vaulted 15 feet, broad jumped
over 23 feet and beat Rafer
Peggy Scott
Rolls 532
Peggy Scott rolled a 532 series
Monday night in the Griffin La
dies Bowling League.
Ruby Trammell rolled a 175
game and a 514 series. Mary
Turner rolled a 181 game and a
608 series.
Betty Burchfield had the high
game of the night, a 213.
Other highs were:
Betty Johnson, 178 game: Je
anette Hardy, 485 series; Ber
nice Coogler, 163 game and 465
game and 437 series; Mary Bl
anton, 198 game and 510 series;
and Lynda Pryor, 175 game and
447 series.
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SPORTS
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Johnson in the 100-yard dash.
He told me he had decided to
pursue the decathlon for the
1960 Olympics.
“In the 1956 trials, Bob fin
ished fourth and didn’t qualify
for the U.S. team. But Jim
Graham sustained an injury
and gave up his spot on the
team to Bob. Occidental stu
dents then raised enough
money for Graham to go to
Melbourne.”
Gutowski won a silver
medal, finishing second to
Don Bragg. Perhaps Gutow
ski’s most memorable tri
umph came in a summer
meet at Bucharest, Romania.
“The pole vault, as usual,
was the last event to be con
cluded,” says Culley, “and the
stadium was dark as Bob got
ready for his attempt at 14-
11%. He was the last contest
ant to jump and he couldn’t
even see the crossbar from
the end of the runway. So
nearly all of the 47,000 fans,
some of them lining the run
way, made torches out of
their programs. The whole
stadium lit up and Bob cleared
the bar, equaling the Olympic
record.”
It was generally assumed
that Gutowski would become
the first man to vault 16 feet.
“There was no question that
he would eventually break
that mark,” says Culley. “As
for 17 feet or higher, I don’t
know. Some of the glass fiber
pole manufacturers tried to
get him to use them but he
always went back to the
metal pole. Unless he could
have got used to themew pole,
he probably wouldn’t have
broken 17 feet.”
Perhaps not. But he would
have given it a good try.
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College
Ratings
NEW YORK (UPD—The 12th
weekly United Press Interna
tional major college basketball
ratings for the 1967-68 season
with first place votes and
records of games played
through Feb. 17 in parentheses:
Team Points
1. Houston (25) (23-0) 340
2. UCLA (10) (20-1) 324
3. North Carolina (20-1) 274
1 4. St. Bonaventure (18-0) 230
■ 5. Kentucky (17-4) 146
6. Columbia (17-3) 139
I 7. New Mexico (20-2) 136
8. Vanderbilt (17-4) 96
- 9. Duke (16-3) 79
10. Louisville (16-6) 35
Second 10—11. Tennessee 31;
12. Kansas 24; 13. New Mexico
State 15; 14. Princeton 12; 15.
(tie) Marruette and Utah 10;
17. Davidson 7; 18. Army 5; 19.
Wyoming 4; 20. Southern Cal 3.
Third Ward
Wins Game
Third Ward blasted Beaver
brook, 56-10, Monday in the Gr
ammar School Basketball Lea
gue.
Richard Sanders scored 17 po
ints for Third Ward. David Sk
rine made 12. Tony Coker scor
ed six for Beaverbrook and
Mike Thaxton scored four.
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