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Underdog Knicks Bust Lakers in First Game . By JIM COUR INGLEWOOD, Calif. (UPD- The New York Knicks, a club which struggled during the regular season, may be on the verge of pulling one of the biggest upsets in National Basketball Association history. Playing outstanding team defense and shooting at a 72 per cent clip from the floor in the first half, the underdog Knicks knocked off the Los Angeles Lakers, 114-92, Wednes- day night to take a 1-0 lead in the NBA championship series. \You have to shoot well and play good defense to beat Los. Angeles,\ said New York Coach Red Holzman after his club's easy victory over a team which beat the Knicks four out of five times - during the - regular season. The best-of-seven game title series continues here Sunday at 1:40 pm. PST before moving to New York next for games No. 3 and 4 Wednesday and Friday nights of next week. Bradley-Lucas Lead Dollar Bill Bradley and long- shooting Jerry Lucas led the Knicks' attack with 29 and 26 points, respectively. Bradley was 11 of 12 from the floor while Lucas lobbed in 13 of 21 attempts. Eleven of Lucas' shots were in the 20-foot range. \New York just played a great game,\ conceded Bill Sharman of the Lakers the day after he was named the NBA's . Coach of the Year. \They had great movement and always seemed to hit the open man.\ The Lakers, who set an all- time NBA record of 69-13 before eliminating defending champion Milwaukee from the playoffs, went into the series as 5-2 favorites to get their first league championship. But they were out of the first game after one half. Although Bradley was the Knicks' high scorer, the 6-ft.8 Lucas figures to be Lakers' biggest headache in the series because of his outside shooting. Lucas Presents Problem \Lucas definitely presents a problem for me,\ admitted Los Angeles' 7-1 goliath Wilt Cham- berlain. Lucas had 18 points at halftimé and Bradley 16 as the Knicks, who finished only 14 Track Results a BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPI)-Adios Albert beat Survival by 1% lengths in 2:07.4 to win the $1,400 featured pace at Buffalo Raceway Wednesday night. The winner, driven by George Hawke, returned $5.80, $3.60 and $2.80. High Card showed. The 54 combination - of Staretta© Wick and Trabues Victor paid $17.40 in the daily double. . ‘ A crowd of 3,168 bet $233,056. games over .500 in the regular season, left the court with a 67- 49 advantage. The Lakers closed to within 13 with a pair of baskets at the start of the third period but the Knicks responded with six unanswered points and that was the game. Dave - DeBusschere - came through with 19 points and contributed 18 rebounds. The Knicks wound up outrebounding Los Angeles, 55-44. For the Lakers, Gail Good- rich had 20 points, 16 of them in the first quarter. Chamber- lain picked off 19 rebounds. Los Angeles' Jerry West, who shot only 35 per cent from the field against Milwaukee, conti- nued to have his shooting problems, hitting only 3 for 15. Chooses Dodge MARTINSVILLE, Va. (UPI) -Richard Petty, more than a million dollars driving Plymouths, may be driving his last Plymouth Sunday when he races in the Virginia 500 at the Martinsville Speedway. Petty announced earlier he was abandoning his blue and red Plymouth in favor of Dodges. His maiden race in a Dodge is set for May 7 at the huge Talladega Raceway in Alabama. Petty couldn't have picked a better track for his ymouth swan song that the Martmsvflle who - made . McGee Returns to Nelson Golf Classic DALLAS (UPI)-Jerry Mc- Gee, the erstwhile golf tour rabbit who now enjoys the luxury of being on the exempt list for all tournaments, re- turned today to the course and the tournament where his fortunes took the big turnabout. The - 28-year-old - Ohioan couldn't be happier now that he's back contesting Preston Trail Golf Club's 7,086-yard, par 35-35-70 layout in the Byron Nelson Golf Classic. It was in this tournament a year ago that McGee made a big run at eventual winner Jack Nicklaus and forced Nicklaus to fire a four-under-par 66 on the final day to rack up his second straight Nelson title with a 274. McGee had to settle for a second-place tie at 276 with Frank Beard, but the $11,575 check he won served as a mental and physical spring- ! board which catapulted him to a $52,208 season and the highly sought exempt status. \I love to play here,\ McGee said, \because the course is tough and it seems like I always play well on the tough . courses.\ McGee says his game is “slowly; coming back\ after he: was forced into a six-months layoff because he had torn the ligaments in his left thumb that made golf impossible. a McGee-like virtually every- one else-agrees that Nicklaus is the man to beat as the Masters champion goes after a newDodge m us. That's right, you deserve more than that. Why? Because we’r locked into every Dodge we sell. We pride ourselves in providing you with this solid, dependable kind of con- sumer protection on every Dodge we sell. If it ever happens that there is something you would like taken care of, just call, and we promise you good, prompt, correct service. Remember, dependability is not only our slogan, it’s‘ his third Nelson win in a row. \I love fast greens. You can't get 'em too fast for me, but there's not a man alive who can putt on fast greens like Jack Nicklaus.\ 1 e Astros Win Streak at Nine By JOE CARNICELLI UPI Sports Writer A controversial intentional walk was Pete Reiser's undoing Wednesday night as the Chica- go Cubs' interim manager watched his club drop a 54 . telling you right off I won't be decision to the Houston Astros, the Cubs' eight straight loss. The score was tied at 4-4 in the bottom of the 10th inning when Lee May was walked intentionally with two out and no one on. Bob Watson, hitless in 11 previous at bats in the series, then doubled to score May with the winning run and extend the Astros' winning streak to nine games. May's three homers in the last three games prompted Reiser's actions. \He'd hit three mistakes and he wasn't going to hit a fourth one,\ Reiser explained. \I thought it was going to be caught. 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To make it worse, you could even say I'm rooting against the \home'\ team, the New York Knicks. But I'm not really pulling against them or for the Los Angeles Lakers. The guy I'm rooting for is Jerry West. When this NBA thing is all over, it would do my heart good to see him smiling and glowing there on the winning side. I think it would do a lot of other hearts good also. > Jerry West has been bouncing a basketball professionally 12 years now and never has been a member of a world cham- pionship team. Ernie Banks Knows Only someone like Ernie Banks knows how he feels. Al Kaline has a pretty good idea, too, because he waited 16 years before 'he finally knew how it felt to win one. One scene involving Jerry West keeps coming back to me all the time. It was a scene in the Lakers' dressing room two years ago right after the Knicks had won the title in seven games. Jerry West did everything humanly possible in that final playoff series with the Knicks, including sinking one shot from three-quarters the length of the court at the final buzzer. The shot tied the score but the Lakers lost in overtime. They also lost the seventh game and now, even though he had been named the playoffs' outstanding players, Jerry West made a pathetic figure in the losers' quarters. He sat on a bench, his head down and his hair mussed . 'Som¢§ of the other \Los Angelés players didn't care to answer any questions. Jerry West didn't particularly care to either but his characteristic graciousness got in the way. He answered every last question. It's Tough And when he picked his head up you could see the moist film around his eyes. \'Tough isn't it, Jerry?\ someone said to him, not really knowing any other way to put At. \Yes answered weary Jerry West. \Maybe it just isn't in the cards for me ever to be on a championship club.\ Now pushing 34, Jerry West is getting still another chance after baving failed to make it in 10 previous playoffs. Few men in the history of the NBA have taken the physical beating West has, playing as he does, a 6-3, 180-pound toothpick among the bruising 7-foot redwoods. He has played with a broken hand, sprained ankles, pulled muscles and torn ligaments but he always keeps coming back for more, always hoping it will all lead to that one elusive championship. Ballplayers in all sports are notoriously selfish,. Yet, at times, inordinately feeling for a fellow competitor also. Held His Hand When the Lakers lost to the Boston Celtics in the finals for the sixth time, for example, big Bill Russell, who isn't supposed to be overly emotional, tried to comfort West in some way after the last game but found he simply couldn't. So he just held his hand a moment. West understood. Another Celtic player, John Havlicek, was similarly moved by West's tremendous efforts in that same playoff. He came over to him and said quietly: \I love you.\ To understand something like ° that, you would've had to played professional basketball yourself. Playing on the same court with a Jerry West would make it all perfectly clear. \I've always considered him the greatest basketball player . I've ever seen under seven feet,\ says a young man I know from Norwalk, Conn. \The thing that draws me to him is that he seems to have so much class, no matter what he does. Watch him the next time he commits a foul. He raises his | hand and puts it down. That's all.. No show or anything else. He sets a marvelous example for everyone.\ Now you know why I'm rooting for Jerry West. Lemon had - MEDINA JOURNAL-REGJSTER _ THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1972 Tigers Leading Division By VITO STELLINO UPI Sports Writer Billy Martin, who announced last December when Frank Robinson was traded that the Tigers were going to win the pennant, is beaming now with the Tigers leading their division by a game while Baltimore is mired in a four-game losing streak. After the Detroit beat Texas, 8-1, on Joe Coleman's three- hitter Wednesday night, Martin said, \I've said all along that I think we can win the whole thing. We should win 10 or 15 more this year and that's all we need.\ . Weaver, who hopes to pilot the Orioles to 100 victories for the fourth straxght season, figures his team is only in a temporary: slump. \Hitting is part of our trouble. Our team isn't gomg to hit .201 for the season.' Weaver wasn't too thrilled that the Orioles' 5-3 loss 'to Kansas City was called by rain in the sixth inning. \I'd like to know why the game was called,\ he said. Lemon Has the Answer Kansas City Manager Jim the answer. \What's he mad about?\ Lemon asked.. . \It's been raining an hour.\ Most of the time it was only drizzling but the game was called after a 59- minute delay when it started raining hard. Detroit gave Coleman all the support he needed with a five- run fifth inning that featured Aurelio Rodriguez' two-run smgle, Gates Brown's run- scoring single and Bill Free- ' han's two-run double. . Kansas City battered Dove McNally for five runs in the fifth inning just before the rain came. The Orioles came back - with three in the top of the sixth and had a runner on second with two out when the rain came. In the - other American League games, New York topped Oakland, 4-2, Minnesota nipped Boston, 3-1, California fedged _ Chicago beat Cleveland, 7-5, in 10 innings. | NL Games In the National League, San . Francisco beat Philadelphia, 8- 6, in 10 innings, St. Louis routed Atlanta, 94, Cincinnati edged Pittsburgh, 7-6, Houston beat Chicago, 54, in 10 innings, New York beat San Diego, 51, and Los Angeles blanked Montreal 2-0. Gene Michael hit a three-run homer off Denny McLain in the fourth inning to give New York the victory over Oakland. Dick Allen's two-run homer in the 10th inning carried Chicago to the victory over Cleveland. Vada Pinson paced an 11-hit California attack with two doubles and a single in the victory over Milwaukee. Pinson doubled in the Angels' first run in the fourth and scored on Jim Spencer s single. Rod Carew and Steve Braun hit run-scoring singles in the third inning to pace Minnesota to the victory over Boston. foday's FUNNY SPIDER: SHUDDERRUG - Montreal - Philadelphia 3-+; and J 7 [ MAJOR LEAGUE | k AZ STANDINGS J) _ By United Press International National League East W. L. Pet. GB 6 2 .750 ... .6%5 1 .625 1% 556 1% .300 4 .182 5% New York Pittsburgh St. Louis Chicago West & W. L. Pct. GB Houston 9 2 .818 ... Los Angeles 2 San Francisco 5 San Diego 4 ° Cincinnati 3 Atlanta 4 . Wednesday's Results San Fran 8 Phila 6, 10 inns Cinci 7 Pittsburgh 6 St. Louis 9 Atlanta 4 Hous 5 Chicago 4, 10 inns New York 5 San Diego 1 Los Angeles 2 Montreal 0 Today's Probable Pitchers National League -_ (All Times EST) Philadelphia (Selma 0-1) at San Francisco (Cumberland (- 2), 4 p.m. Cincinnati (Gullett ' 0-2) at Pittsburgh (Briles 1-0), 8 p.m. .818 ... 5% - Montreal (McNally 0-0) at Los Angeles (Downing 1-1), 11 p.m. New York (Gentry 0-1) at San Diego (Norman 0-1), 10:30 p.m. (Only games scheduled) Friday's Games Atla at Pittsburgh (night) Cincinnati at Chicago St. Louis at Houston (night) New York at Los Angeles {night) Phila at San Diego (night) Montreal at San: Fran (night) -American League Detroit Baltimore Cleveland Boston New York Milwaukee ~ Minnesota Chicago Oakland Texas Kansas City California Wednesday’s Results Minnesota 3 Boston 1 Chicago 7 Cleve 5, 10 inns California SMilwaukeeJ New. York 4 Oakland 2 Detroit 8 Texas 1 Kan City 5 Balt 3, 5% ins, rain Today's Probable Pitchers __ American League (No games scheduled) Friday's Games Cleve at Kan City (night) Boston at Texas (night) Chicago at Detroit (night) Calif at Baltimore (night) Oakland at Milw (night) Minn at New York (night) Women Vie in North, South Golf Contest , PINEHURST, N. C. (UPD) - Bethy Barry of Mobile, Ala., meets Lancy Smith of Snyder, N. Y., today in a semi - final match of the 70th annual North and South Women's Amateur golf: championship. The other semi-final over the 5,910-yard, par-72 No. 2 course at the Pinehurst Country Club matches Lida Fee Matthews of Portsmouth, Ohio, against Jane 113:190th of Palm Beach Gardens, a Miss Barry, the 1971 women's western amateur champ, ousted Nancy Roth Syms of Black For- est, Colo., 3-2, and Mrs. Robert H. Maclaurm of Savannah, Ga., 4-3, in Wednesday's double round Miss Smith eliminated anoth- er Savannah golfer, young Hol- lis Stacy, 4-2, and Janet Anne . 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