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Bobby Fischer Competes In Chess Tourney By PhoneU. S. ChampionDenied PermissionTo Visit HavanaBill WinfreyResigns JobHAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Yu-goslavia’s Borislav Ivkov is leading the Capablanca Inter-n a 11 o n a 1 Chess Tournamenthere but the conversation isAs Conditionerabout the invisible man—BobbyFischer, the United States champion from New York.The onetime boy wonder of the chess world was denied permission by the U.S. State Department to come here. So he decided to play anyway from New York, sending his moves via a telephone-teletype hookup from the Marshall Chess Club in New York to the grand ballroom of the plush Havana Libre Hotel.Cuban officials and Prime Minister Fidel Castro were delighted to have Fischer in the 30-day tournament which has drawn some of the best players in the world. Fischer, however, warned that he would withdraw from the tournament if Castro and the Cubans made political capital of his participation.The story was headlined here and the phantom player has become the key figure in the tournament. His match with lvkov was broadcast move-by-move over Havana radio. That 10th round match Friday was adjourned but the Yugoslav won it Sunday night when Fischer resigned on the 54th move. Interest in Fischer is so highhere that a girl working in the tournament's press office said that one afternoon she received 237 telephone calls, 236 of them asking about the Fischer match and the other a wrong number.After 12 rounds, Ivkov is in first place with 10 points. Russia’s Vassily Smsylov is second with SP/2 and Fischer third with nine. Then comes Russia’s Evf-in Geller 8V2 and Holland's Johannes Donner eight.The undefeated Ivkov captured the lead Sunday when, after beating Fischer, be defeated Cuba's Eldis Cobo in 50 moves. Fischer, in his 12th round match, defeated Hungary's Jstvan B i 1 e k in 40 moves.NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Win frey, who established a mone: winning record for trainers 0 thoroughbreds last year, re signed Monday as conditione for the Phipps family effectiv at the completion of the Nev York season in December.Ogden Phipps, speaking fohimself, his mother’s Wheatie; stable and his son, Ogden Mill Phipps, announced Winfre would be replaced by 44-yeai old Eddie Neloy.Winfrey, 49, who succeede Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons oJune 15, 1963, said he resigne to avoid moving his family t Florida for the school year. Tb Winfreys have eight childrei most of them of school age.Horses trained by Winfre last year won a record §1,350 534, with Bold Lad, the 2-yeai old champion colt, earnin §387,471 and Queen Empress best of the 2-year-old fillie; §319,262.Winfrey also has in his stab! this year the leading candidal for the 2-year-old title in Ogde Phipps’ Ruckpasser.Neloy was second to Winfre in money won last year wit earnings of §1,111,772. Gun Bo was his big horse with earnin* of $580,100. He sent out Pass tl Word recently to win the Ne Hampshire Sweepstakes Clasic, richest race ever run foryear-olds.Fred Helzel SignsPro Cage ContractWith Warriors1fSAN FRANCISCO (AP) AIL-America basketball si Fred Helzel from Davids signed a professional contra Friday with the San Francis Warriors.He said he had turned down bid to play in Italy with a tea at Milan. The Warriors h picked him in the National B; ketball Association draft. Hetzel and Rick Barrv of T
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Danville, Virginia, US
Tue, Sep 14, 1965
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