KU now 10th
LaSalle edges up in cage rankings
NEW YORK (UPI) - The LaSalle College Explorers are discovering new heights in their steady climb in the nation's major college basketball ratings
The Explorers, under first year Coach Tom Gola, advanced to the No. 9 position in the weekly ratings—highest ranking of the campaign for the Philadelphia school.
The Explorers pushed their season record to 16-1 Saturday night by trouncing Loyola of New Orleans, 102-65 and the victory enabled LaSalle to climb one notch in the ratings.
Kentucky, St. John's of New York, and Villanova also made advances in the ratings, Kansas rejoined the Top 10 and Davidson and New Mexico State dropped.
Unbeaten UCLA, boasting a perfect 16-0 mark and unchallenged this season, was
the unanimous choice as the No. 1 team for the ninth successive week. The Bruins received all the first-place votes from the 35-member UPI Coaches Rating Board and a perfect score of 350 points.
North Carolina retained the No. 2 rating while Santa Clara, the only other unbeaten team in the Top 10, held the No. 3 position.
Kentucky advanced one position from the previous week and replaced Davidson as the No.4 team. St. John's, seventh last week, climbed to fifth-highest position of the season for the Redmen.
Davidson, an upset loser to Iowa, slipped to sixth. Villanova climbed two notches to No. 7 while Illinois retained the No. 8 position.
Rounding out the Top 10 were LaSalle (9th) and Kansas (10th).
Lady jockeys soon in silks
NEW YORK (UPI) — There's a simple explanation for all the noise from would-be lady jockeys these days.
"Girls no longer are a novelty along the backstretch stable areas," says John Day of the Thoroughbred Racing Association. "They're working lots of jobs and they're good at what they're doing."
"Now they're after the big money—jockey assignments."
The colony of girls on the backstretches of America's racetracks is growing for an obvious reason. Other reliable help often is hard to come by.
Gals dependable
Trainers gnash their teeth in helpless despair when exercise boys fail to show up as promised for an early morning workout. They cuss at sloppy grooms and handlers who show little or no patience with expensive and high-spirited animals. They worry about "winos" or the smokers who could bring a disaster.
"That's why many trainers are hiring girls," says Day. "They're not only reliable but many of them are really good around horses.
"I'd guess there were more than a dozen girls at New York tracks last year and maybe 15 or 20 at some of the other big ones. One New York trainer had three girls exercising his horses here last season."
But the male jocks have been shying away from head-and-head competition with the gals on the big time, though they must know the battle eventually will be lost.
The lads insist the sport is too dangerous. They want no part of an accident in which a girl is injured or worse regardless of whose fault the mishap might be.
Yet, they ride almost daily against teen-aged boy apprentices with neither the strength nor the savvy to control 1,000 pounds of ornery horseflesh.
The first good shot by a gal came in the Bahamas on Jan. 28 when Barbara Jo Rubin, rebuffed by a boycott threat at Tropical Park, turned in a victory in her first ride against male jockeys at Hobby Horse Hall racetrack in Nassau.
She popped out of the gate on top and never looked back, winning a 5-furlong sprint by three lengths on a $2.50 favorite.
Penny Ann Early, also a boycott victim, rode Sunday in a nonbettning match race against California hot-shot Alvar Pineda at Agua Caliente and was beaten by three lengths—but not disgraced—in a 6-furlong event.
Interesting novelty
"That, of course, would be a novelty and create new interest," says Day. "Furthermore, it would be a chance for the girls to show what they can do as professional riders in betting races on a regular basis and not just in one of those occasional powder-puff derbies."
There's no substitute for experience, and no jockey is a good betting proposition until he has proved he can find his way around the track.
A hot apprentice is ok, but if a green boy is up on a horse that looks good otherwise, one usually prefers to pass the race and wait for something else.
Mathis suffers foot injury
RHINEBECK, N.Y. (UPI) Heavyweight Buster Mathis, conqueror of George Chuvalo in a bout Monday night, checked into a hospital yesterday for examination of a foot injury.
The same goes for the gals if they ever score a break-through in New York. They'll have to show some good rides against Cordero, Velasquez and Co., before one of them can carry anyone's two bucks on her back.
Mathis underwent examination at Dutchess County Hospital at Rhinebeck, and was discharged later in the day.
The heavyweight title contender, who won a
unanimous 12-round decision from Chuvalo, planned to come to New York today to have his foot examined by the New York State Athletic Commission.
The Grand Rapids, Mich. heavyweight is scheduled to meet Jerry Quarry of Los Angeles March 10 at Madison Square Garden.
Feb. 5
1969 KANSAN 9
The Packers' executive committee—ruling body of the directors—met over breakfast yesterday. It was believed they had voted to give Lombardi his release to join the Redskins as coach, top executive officer, and partial owner.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (UPI) Only a routine vote by the Green Bay Packers board of directors and a news conference stands between Vince Lombardi and the Washington Redskins.
Lombardi had asked the executive committee to free him from the time remaining on his long-term pact to go to the Redskins.
Lombardi decision tonight
Dominic Olejniczak, president of the Packers, said the board would meet tonight to make the final decision, which would be announced at an 8 p.m. (CST) news conference.
If his foot fails to respond to treatment, an alternate date of March h 24 has been set for the Quarry bout.
After the breakfast meeting, Lombardi left Green Bay for New York City, where he will receive the John Mara award at a dinner tonight—just about the time the decision in Green Bay is scheduled to be announced.
Wilt Chamberlain set a National Basketball Association record March 2, 1962, tallying 100 points in one game for Philadelphia.
ST. LOUIS (UPI) - C. C. Johnson Spink, editor and publisher of The Sporting News, has proposed that the Major League baseball players and club owners submit their pension dispute to arbitration or mediation. Spink injected the name of President Richard Nixon to help.
Spink, in his column, said "Baseball needs a pension umpire." He said, "No matter who is at fault, the situation calls for drastic action to avert a possible players' strike."
Spink proposal calls for 'pension umpire'
Spink said that the present negotiation machinery "is on the verge of breaking down, with little or no progress to show for four months of work."
He said, "At this point, we believe, baseball should turn to some outside arbitrator or mediator to talk sense to both sides and bring them together."
The director of the Major League Players Association, Marvin Miller, has said that 125 players voted unanimously to pass up spring training and the 1969 season, if necessary, unless they reach an agreement with the clubowners on pensions and TV money.
The owners opened their special meeting yesterday by announcing they haven't changed their position.
support the players relations committee's present posture in negotiations now going on, including the insistence there is no relation between radio and TV revenues and the present pension contribution."
Joe Cronin, president of the American League, read the following statement:
John Gaherin, the owners' representative, said he has been in touch with Miller to set up a meeting in New York on Thursday to try to reach an agreement.
Bobby Jones won his first major golf tournament in 1916 when he was only 14 years old.
"We unanimously endorse and
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