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Nixes Olympic Trials He re ii*sBfssssi«|!* Hayes Wants $300,000 Pact IsiuHOUSTON (UP!) - Elvin Hayes, college basketball's player of the year, said he would be willing to sign with son DIoeo of I he National j Basketball Assn. but refused I his services lo the U.S. j Olympics' cause.! Hjivc* said he had not talk-liny os. . .No Olympicsed conlract with the San Diego dub, but already had decided he would ask for a 3-year contract at $100,000 a year.Phone Calls Figured • The Rockets Monday in New York won the right to pick first in the upcoming NBA draft and club officials said they would select Hayes. The Rockets' phone calls to Hayes p r e s u in ably were instrumental in making him decide a gains! the Olympic Trials tu be held April 4-6 in Albuquerque.Hay us indicated he would not consider playing for the Houston Mavericks, the A merit’an Basketball Assn. club that won first crack at him in that league recently in a secret draft.Hayes, Lew Out;INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. bD -The NCAA workouts for the U.S. Olympic basketball trials opened Monday — wilhmiL Elvin Hayes, who had been expected.The 6*fool-8 Hayes of Iluuston, !!M college basketball plavcr-uf-Uie-year, lold NCAA officials the trials would confict with preparations for his entry into pro basketball.Lew Alcindor, 7-1 UCLA star, announced earlier he would skip the Olympics. Alcindor said heHis decision to skip the Olympics did not concern the boycott some Negro athletes have proposed, he said.“I made the decision over the last in weeks,” Iiaycs said. “I need my health in trailing for the NBA* It's my decision.“I only hope the public can understand my problem and that I can make the people of Houston proud of me.1'Care For FamilyLast week he said he wanted to iry out for the Olympic team but Monday said his decision noL to *vasrja3VU UJJ L3V1C1 aLlLr11 I/I |J'£career.f have to look out for myself and mv family (wife Sec 11 AYES, Page C-2U.S. Aces Reportwanted lo concentrate on studies hut admitted the move was an implicit backing of the Negro boycott of I he infer national competition.College plovers will practice at Butler University daily and some will compete Saturday afternoon in the annual East-West All-Star Game. The rest will piny at Evansville Saturday night.Those selected here will go to Albuquerque, N.M. lor the official Olympic Trials April 4-6.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Tue, Mar 26, 1968
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