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Flames 9 chances
becoming slim
By BRUCE B. BAKKE
ATLANTA (UPI) — Neither
the Atlanta Flames nor the
New York Islanders were
satisfied with a 2-2 tie Sunday.
But everyone agreed the
deadlock left the Islanders in a
much better spot than the
Flames in their struggle for a
playoff spot from Division 1 of
the NHL.
“I would have been a lot
happier with a win,” New York
Coach Al Arbour said. “But it’s
one less game we’ve got to play
and they didn’t gain any ground
on us.”
“This was the time we were
supposed to beat them, here in
our place,” Atlanta center Tom
Lysiak said. “We let them walk
into our building and tie us.”
And Atlanta”s Eric Vail said
the tie means the Flames will
have to win the rest of their
games to gain a playoff berth.
The tie left Atlanta five points
behind the Islanders.
Vail gave the Flames a 1-0
Spring of ’75 not
good for ex-heroes
By RICK GOSSELIN
UPI Sports Writer
The spring of 1975 has not
been a good one for former
pennant heroes.
First, Baltimore peddled first
baseman Boog Powell, the
man-mountain who had started
in four World Series for the
Orioles.
Then Pittsburgh cut Steve
Blass, bidding farewell to the
guy who won two games
including the decisive seventh
game in the 1971 World Series
to give the Pirates their first
world championship in more
than a decade.
The New York Yankees
followed by releasing Mel
Stottlemyre, the last link with
their glory teams.
Now it’s Mickey Lolich’s turn
to take his lumps.
The Detroit Tiger southpaw,
the last pitcher to win three
games in a single World Series
(1968), has been manhandled by
even the most humble of
batters this spring in trying to
prepare himself for a rebound
of his disastrous 20-loss cam
paign of last year.
Lolich has appeared in six
games this spring and has lost
four of them. The other two
games were no-decisions —
thanks only to the efforts of
some booming Detroit bats.
Lolich was given the starting
Who will replace Wooden?
By JIM COUR
UPI Sports Writer
SAN DIEGO (UPI) - Who
will replace John Wooden as
UCLA’s basketball coach? That
question is even overshadowing
tonight’s UCLA-Kentucky
matchup for the NCAA basket
ball championship.
Wooden, 64, dropped a
bombshell by announcing his
retirement after the Bruins
shaded Louisville, 75-74 in
overtime, in the semifinals
Saturday.
On the eve of the big game of
the season—UCLA vs. Kentucky
—most of the talk centered
around who would be Wooden’s
successor.
J. D. Morgan, the UCLA
athletic director, will make the
decision but he isn’t saying who
he’s considering.
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lead with a first period goal but
then Andre St. Laurent and
Clark Gillies put the Islanders
ahead, 2-1. New York controlled
play most of the game but
great goal-tending by Atlanta’s
Dan Bouchard kept the Flames
in contention.
With five minutes to go
Lysiak tied it with an unassist
ed goal scored while Vail and
Tim Ecclestone were wrestling
the defensemen away from the
New York net.
In the Islanders’ dressing
room defenseman Dennis Pot
vin looked at the game
statistics. “We outshot them 30
to 15. Imagine that. And all we
got was a 2-2 tie,” he said.
“But it’s tough to play
against Bouchard. He comes up
with such great saves. We kept
shooting at him —good shots,
too —but he just kept kicking
them out continuously.”
“All we can do now is win
Tuesday against them and then
win all the rest of our games,”
assignment in Sunday’s game
with Cincinnati and by the
second inning, the Reds had an
8-0 lead. Lolich, whose earned
run average has soared to 6.85
this spring, was pulled in the
third inning in favor of Dave
Leman czyk.
Three home runs later, the
Tigers were back in the game
and finally won it, 13-12, on a
two-run single by Bill Freehan
in the bottom of the ninth.
But Lolich, unlike Blass and
Stottlemyre, is in very little
danger of being cut—simply
because the Tigers have no one
better on their pitching staff.
Joe Coleman is the only other
hurler on the team to have
spent more than one season in
the big leagues as a starter.
Detroit Manager Ralph Houk
insists Lolich will be ready
“when they open the gates” of
the regular season. Lolich will
probably have just two more
starts in Florida to shake his
doldrums before heading north
with the hopes of any first
division finish by the Tigers
riding on his left arm.
The favorite to win the AL
East—Baltimore—was dealt a
dose of humility Sunday when
Jeff Burroughs ripped four hits
and drove in six runs in the 11-1
Texas Ranger win. Two of
Burroughs’ hits were home
runs.
“I want the best man
possible,” was all Morgan
would say. He also won’t say
when he will say, but that’s
likely to be before April 9, the
date high school athletes begin
signing their names to national
letters of intent.
A likely candidate would
appear to be Denny Crum, the
brilliant 37-year-old Louisville
coach who twice in four years
has had the Cardinals in the
NCAA final round of four only
to lose both times to his former
coach, Wooden.
Crum, who has compiled an
86-22 record at Louisville,
played under Wooden and was
a starting guard two seasons.
He was Wooden’s No. 1
assistant for three years before
moving on to Louisville.
Crum, known for his candor,
Vail said in a low voice as he
sat slumped in the Atlanta
dressing room. “It was a big
one today. It just seemed that
we were so uptight. It seemed
that we were nervous. They
were checking us well and just
were on top of us all the time.
We couldn’t get going.”
“We were not as loose as we
should have been,” Flames
Coach Fred Creighton said.
“But we’re not dead yet. We’re
still kicking.”
Now the season for both
teams hinges on the game they
play Tuesday in New York.
“If we can win that game on
Tuesday, it will put us in the
playoff,” Arbour said.
The goal by Vail was his 37th
of the season. The big rookie,
on a scoring tear as the Flames
went unbeaten for the sixth
game in a row, has six goals
and two assists in that stretch.
Lysiak has four goals and nine
assists during the streak.
Dave Parker also hit two
home runs to lead the
Pittsburgh Pirates to an 8-6
victory over Kansas City, Jose
Cruz belted three home runs in
Houston’s 12-7 mauling of
Montreal, and Los Angeles won
its 16th game in 21 tries this
spring by blasting Boston, 7-2.
St. Louis catchers drove in
four runs as the Cardinals
snapped a six-game losing
streak with a 5-4 triumph over
the New York Mets, Minnesota
jumped on Atlanta ace Phil
Niekro for six runs in the fifth
inning to post a 12-4 win over
the Braves, and Bill Robinson’s
sacrifice fly in the eighth
provided Philadelphia with a 3-
2 victory over the Chicago
White Sox.
' Jim Slaton allowed just four
: hits in seven innings as
I Milwaukee blanked Cleveland,
i 6-0, Vida Blue, Lew Krause and
i Paul Lindblad combined to
i whitewash the Chicago Cubs, 5-
0, a squad of Texas Ranger
i rookies knocked around the
New York Yankees, 11-7, and
■ San Diego nipped its Hawaii
i farm club, 3-2.
J Chris Speier drove in three
runs with a home run and a
J single to lead the San Francisco
' Giants to a 9-5 win over the
California Angels.
said Sunday that Morgan had
not talked to him about
becoming Wooden’s successor.
“If I were offered the job, I
would have to consider it,” he
said.
“Any coach who would not
would have rocks in his head.
But I don’t know if I’d accept
it.”
“I have yet to complete what
I want to do at Louisville. I
love it there. They’ve been very
good to me”.
Os Wooden, Crum said, “I
doubt very seriously if anyone
will come close to what he’s
accomplished in basketball.”
Ironically, money might
stand in Crum’s way if he is
offered the post. Knowledgable
observers speculated that Mor
gan might not be able to match
what Crum is receiving in
salary and residuals at Louis
ville.
There was a bevy of other
names being thrown about here
but Crum’s name was the most
prominent in the rumor mill.
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Hlark Cox wins title
ATLANTA (UPI) — English
man Mark Cox defeated John
Alexander 6-3, 7-6, Sunday to
win $12,000 and first place in
the finals of the World
Championship Tennis-First Na
tional Bank Tennis Classic.
It was the 17th win in 18
matches for the curly-haired,
31-year-old, Cox, who now has
won $52,922 in WCT prize
money this year.
“I made very few mistakes
aside from missing a couple of
down-the-line forehands in the
second set. That’s my bread
and-butter shot,” said Cox, fifth
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seeded for the tournament.
“John’s a very gutsy player,
but he appeared a bit lethargic
today, I thought. On the other
hand, I wasn’t tired in the
slightest.”
Cox broke Alexander’s ser
vice at 3-3 in the first set, and
again at 4-4 in the second set,
but needed a 7-3 tie-breaker to
wrap up the victory.
Cox and Cliff Drysdale were
defeated in the doubles finals
by Vijay and Anand Amritraj
of India, 6-2, 6-3.
Cox won his third tournament
victory in four 'outings before
an Alexander Coliseum crowd
of 3,196. Officials said attend
ance for the week was 30,113, a
40 per cent drop from last year.
Atlanta had set a record for a
first year stop on the WCT
circuit in 1973, and recorded the
third highest total (50,000) for a
WCT event last year.
UCLA FAVORED
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) -
Oddsmaker Jimmy “The
Greek” Snyder says UCLA is
favored to win tonight’s NCAA
championship by one point over
Kentucky.
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— Griffin Daily News Monday, March 31,1975
Nicklaus ready
for the Master
By DAVID MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.
C. (UPI) — Next up for Jack
Nicklaus is the Masters and his
renewed bid to enhance his
record for winning “major”
golf championships.
Don’t bet against the “Golden
Bear” winning his fifth Masters
and 15th “major” title next
week at Augusta, Ga. He
appears to be at the peak of his
game.
The 35-year-old Nicklaus won
the $200,000 Heritage Golf
Classic by three strokes Sun
day, his second victory in a
row. He’s only played in six
tournaments so far this year
and already won more than
$109,000.
But the skillful Nicklaus said
he might not have won Sunday
if he had not detected and
corrected a flaw in his swing.
Nicklaus tore up the Harbour
town course, which he helped
design back in the ‘6os, the first
two days with rounds of 66-63.
Then his game went sour (for
him) in Saturday’s third round
when he shot a 74 and he was
still struggling through Sun
day’s front nine.
“That’s when I found out
what I was doing wrong,” said
the only man to win more than
$2 million playing golf. “I
suddenly realized that I was too
loose, too relaxed. I was hitting
the ball too far right. Once I
corrected that, I started hitting
the ball at the stick again.”
Nicklaus, who appeared to be
running away with the tourna
ment when he built a com
manding six-stroke lead
through the first two rounds,
was tied with fellow Ohio State
alumnus Tom Weiskopf at the
start of Sunday’s rain-damp
ened play and was two strokes
behind Weiskopf after five holes
of play.
“For the next five holes, I
kept hitting in bad spots and
wondered if it would be another
one of those days,” said
Nicklaus. “But, after six holes,
I started playing golf.”
Nicklaus birdied No. 6 with
an 18-foot putt and was all even
with Weiskopf again when
Weiskopf, who has not won a
tournament now in 20 months,
suffered a bogey at No. 8.
Nicklaus took a one-stroke
lead with a birdie at No. 11 and
Weiskopf fell two strokes
behind at No. 12 by missing a
three-foot putt. Both birdied the
par five 15th, but when
Nicklaus put a four-iron shot
less than five feet from the cup
at the 17th, it was all over.
Nicklaus actually had a putt
of four feet, four and three
quarter inches at 17. That’s
what they measured to deter
mine that the millionaire golfer
had also won SB,OOO worth of
furniture for being closer there
than anyone else in the final
round.
“Sure, I can use it,” Nicklaus
said with a wide grin. “I’ve got
a lot of children.”
Nicklaus shot a 3-under-par
68 in the final round. That gave
him a four-day total of 13-
under-par 271, a stroke lower
than the previous tournament
record set here by U. S. Open
champ Hale Irwin in 1973.
Weiskopf played par golf
Sunday and wound up at 274.
Charles Coody jumped from a
tie for 14th all the way to third
by shooting a 65 Sunday. John
Mahaffey, with four straight
70s, was fourth and Bruce
Crampton and Tom Kite tied
for fifth at 281. B. R.
McLendon, at 282, and John
Schlee, at 283, were the only
other golfers in the star-studded
field able to break par for 72
holes.
Wind played a big factor in
the scoring on this off-coast
island resort. At times it was so
gusty that it would change after
the golfers took their shots.
“I’m tired of being second,”
said Weiskopf, who has not won
on the tour since the 1973
Canadian Open.