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SAPPORO, Japan lt;AP) — Avery Brundage, president of the international Olympic Committee, laised doubts Sunday that the Winter Olympics will survive much longer in theirpresent form.LamentThe 84-year-old president, speaking at the opening of the 72nd session of the IOC, lamented the rising costs and growing commercialism of skiing and figure skating.He said of the Winter Games-“They have accomplished a tremendous humanitarian service by popularizing healthy winter sport and recreation, but they seem to have served their purpose and will find it hard to continue as an amateur event.The IOC session opened amid the controversy surrounding the skiers who have been accused bv Brundage of violating the Olympic code by carrying Commercial names on their clothing and equipment. The committee is c-xpec ted to decide Monday whether they will be allowed to compete in the eleventh Winter Olympics scheduled to starthere next Thursday.FanfareCrown Prince Akihito of Japan opened the session to fanfares of trumpets in the Hokkaido Welfare Hall in Sapporo. But Brundage, while paying tribute to the Japanese for their planning of the Games, was in no mood to skate over the problems which threaten to undermine the Winter Olympics.He said the Winter Games, which started at Chamonix, France, in 1924, had lost their intimate charm.He even hinted that Olympic officials in Denver, Col., who are planning the 1976 Winter Olympics in' the face of fierceopposition from taxpayersrmight be fighting a tough battle.sportses this year—as he says—after 20 years.The Associated Press learned this from good sources in the councils of the IOC, meeting here early tins week before the opening of the XI Winter Games.The suave Frenchman, according to best information, has, moved ahead of bouncy, outgoing Lord KUiamn of Ireland in the back room jockeying lor position in the Olympic hierarchy.There remains another contingency. A strong suspicion exists in the IOC—and in knowledgeable circles outside it—that Brundage, although 84, weaned and bruised by a succession of international disputes, many of which he has lost, might yet be persuaded to carry on.OutlookWhen he announced that he planned to relinquish the gavel at Munich next summer, the hard-headed millionaire fromChicago didn’t say it positively Some in the IOC regard him as the indispensable man.Beaumont and Killanin long have been known as chief contenders to the Brundage throne On official occasions, one sits at the president’s left, the other at his right.Lord Killanin until recently was believed most likely to be the next IOC president, but the Count has come on strong.If wealth is a factor ,as most insist, the Frenchman qualifies,“I can't afford the job,” Kill-LounderUMA//102-89amn says.He is very popular, yet the Asian and African forces havethrown their support behind Beaumont. The Soviet Union and its Communist bloc, pushing for a complete overhaul, prefer Beaumont to Killanin, The Irish Lord is backed by the United States and the West.The vote will come from the 71—member IOC.PRESQUE ISLE — PhilLounder scored 28 points while leading the University of Maine at Augusta to a 102-89 basketball win o\er Northern. Maine Vocational Technical InstituteSaturdayi UMaine now is officially 6-3ion the season and Northern Maine, 5-iO.John Schoppe and Rodney Buck also scored heavily for the visiting Rebels with 19 and 15 respectively. Basil Huff and Armand Sleeper got 32 and 30in order for the losers.NBA resultsMilwaukee 116, Baltimore 112Chicago 109, Detroit 99 Buffalo 99, Cleveland 98 Phoenix 105, Atlanta 103Disqualify Olympic skivrSAPPORO (AP) — Karl Schranz, the former world skiing champion from Austria, was officially disqualified Monday (Japan time) from the Sapporo Winter Olympics.The disqualification was announced by the International Olympic Committee.“The committee has accepted“The expenditure of a million dollars or more for a bob run, when there are only a few hundred competitors in the entire world, is difficult to defend,” Brundage said.Next czar?-SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — A lean, dark-haired French nobleman, Count Jean de Beaumont, will be the next president of theInternational Olympic Committee if Avery Brundage retir-the recommendation of the eligibility commission that Schranz be declared ineligible because he has allowed his name and photograph to be used for advertising purposes,” an IOC spokesman said.The spokesman came out of an IOC meeting to make the announcement. A full press briefing was scheduled later.IOC President Avery Brundage has repeatedly said he has a list of competitors, primarily skiers, who have broken Olympic regulations by receiving payments from commercial firms.Schranz was the only person named in the disqualification statement.VeteranSchranz, 33, is a veteran of the international slopes who was preparing to compete in his fourth Olympics.He made his Olympic debut at Squaw Valley, Calif., in I960, won a silver medal at Innsbruck, Austria in 1964 and figured in an outstanding controversy in the 1968 games at Grenoble, France.There1, in the men’s slalom and final of the Alpine competition, the Austrian recorded a better time than Jean-Claude Killy of France, who was seeking his third title and an Alpine sweep.But Schranz was disqualified for missing a gate on his run.i/g men boost Cony 5Gardiner has a “good big man” in Joe Henry. Although Henry is under 6-4, he’s a gold-plated rebounder and emphasized it during the Tigers’ upset against Rockland District High that rebounded to outpoint Cony, Gardiner does not have balanced height and some in-exrerienee prevails But the Tigers are stout-hearted and off-het their deficits with a “We know you’re good, let’s see you prove it” attitude.The Tigers have opportunity to enter the tourney for the first time in many years but the path is rocky a«d success mustcom® T.nwr#*T5Ce, Conyand Rockland.Hail-Dale High (9-4) is practically assured a return to the Western C playoffs. The Bulldogs registered their most tasty win-of the season versus previously unbeaten Messalonskee High of Oakland. Hall-Dale andHe contended he was distracted by a shadow—possibly that of a policeman—on the course.The jury failed to uphold him and Killy thus joined Toni Sailer as the only man to win the three Alpine gold medals.There was no immediate reaction from the Olympic village.BoycottThere had been reports that Austrian and French skiers might boycott the games if any member was disqualified. However, this possibility dimmed Monday,The Austrians appeared ready to accept the IOC decision.“There is no doubt that Karl is just a scapegoat,” one Austrian official commented. “But it would not serve our purposes to take any team action.”With the move of Killy to pro ranks, Schranz became the most notable and famous of the World Cup Alpine stars. There have been reports that he earned $40,000—$50,000 a year from his ski connections.Schranz never denied this, but contended that he was_ being punished for cHme ofjwhich all athletes are guilty, “The Russians are subsidized by their own government and all international athletes get help from one source or another,” he said earlier this week.
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