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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1973
Page
5
Gale Sayers starts as assistant to the Kansas University athletic director and tackles a backlog of fan mail. The former Bears star, once dubbed magical by fans, faces a busy early week at KU as he settles into the role.
Gale Sayers begins a Kansas promotion role in the athletic department shaping mail, speaking engagements, and recruiting. He will join Don Fambrough's staff for spring practice on March 26. Sayers moves into a Kansas office and apartment while studying Big Eight rules, noting improved two point GPA standards.
The Associated Press lists Tuesday results including Indiana 112 New York 107 and Dallas 120 San Diego 115 while noting matchups Houston Buffalo Boston New York Seattle Atlanta Cleveland Baltimore Golden State Detroit Kansas City Omaha Los Angeles Chicago Portland and a Wednesday slate featuring Golden State Boston Baltimore Philadelphia Seattle Milwaukee and Phoenix Indiana appears in a later scoreline.
Billie Jean King won the $6,000 singles championship at the Indianapolis Women’s Professional Tennis Tournament defeating Rosemary Casals 5-7 6-2 6-4. The match featured several questionable calls. Margaret Court beat Lesley Hunt for third place. Court played with a swollen finger from the semifinal.
UCLA remains 23-0 and top of the AP college basketball poll with 36 of 38 first place votes. Coach John Wooden calls the team lousy at free throws after shooting 62 percent, while using guards Curtis and Lee to counter Oregon State’s press. Minnesota, Long Beach State and Marquette follow in the Top 20.
New York AP reports Lee Trevino captures the Jackie Gleason Inverrary purse worth 260000, his first win since September and earning 52000 prize money. The victory moves him within 10000 of Bruce Crampton for leading 1973 money list while Fezler jumps to tenth with 35047.
No games played in Chicago or N Y Islanders today. Scheduled matchups include Los Angeles at Montreal Vancouver at Toronto Chicago at New York Rangers Philadelphia at Detroit St Louis at Pittsburgh California at Minnesota. The slate features Chicago at Winnipeg Alberta at Houston Cleveland at Ottawa Philadelphia at Minnesota.
Kansas high schools start district basketball play in classes 1 A and 2 A tonight through Saturday. McCracken leads 15-0 in 1 A with Little River, Bogue, Lebanon, Grinnell and Norwich as strong 1 A challengers. In 2 A top contenders include Belleville, St John s Hesston, and Lyndon while defending 1 A champion Atwood seeks repeat.
The San Diego Padres seek to lower their outfield fences to boost scoring, especially at home where they lag behind away performance. City officials must approve before any new fencing is installed.
Dallas Chaos beat the San Diego Conquistadors 120 115 to move 3 games ahead of the fourth place West in the ABA. Babe McCarthy praised Red Robbins 36 points in a losing effort while Rich Jones 32 and James Silas 25 keyed Dallas. Indiana toppled New York 112 107 as Mel Daniels 26 rebounds anchored the rally.
Colleges and teams posted scores across a wide schedule, including Dowling 78 over Cathedral 56 and New Hampshire 177 over Dartmouth 66. Notable results feature LSU 78 Tennessee 74, Kentucky 111 Alabama 95, Oklahoma 78 Colorado 68, and Houston 94 Samford 75 among numerous other college basketball outcomes.
Linwood High's Monte Sheets, a senior, finished third in the 167 pound class at the Class 2 A 1 A wrestling championships in Oakley. His high placing marked the best showing by an Eastern Kansas athlete at the meet, which is usually dominated by Northwest Kansas schools.
Julius Erving of the Squires leads the league with a 31.6 point average. Billy Cunningham of the Carolina Cougars paces steals with 183, while Artis Gilmore dominates rebounding at 17.9 and blocks at 2.22 per game. Dan Issel and George McGinnis trail in scoring.
Terrell Texas AP report says E O Doc Hayes 67 a former SMU basketball coach and his wife Kathleen were killed when their car struck a concrete abutment on Interstate 20 near Terrell. Hayes coached SMU 1947 67 winning eight SWC titles including four straight 1955 58.
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