Rockets' owner instrumental in changing Hayes'attitude
NEW VORK (UPI) — Maybe you've heard of a fellow named Bob Breitbard and maybe you haven't, and if you haven't maybe you should because here's a man who did more than maybe save a ball club, he saved a ball player.
The ball player he saved is Elvin Hayes and if you've heard of Breitbard you may figure you see his motive since he is owner and president of the San Diego Rockets who aren't a whole lot now and probably would be much less without Hayes.
Hayes, upset because the lastplace Rockets had dropped their 12th contest in the last 14, was quoted as saying his teammates were "a bunch of losers" and that he wanted to be traded far away from San Diego.
Talks Common Sense
Breitbard and Hayes talked at some length Sunday night. They talked again the next day, and again after that. Breitbard didn't deliver any lectures. All he talked was plain common sense.
"I can't say enough about that
man," Hayes says. "I've never met another human being like him. He doesn't treat me like just anybody, he treats me like a son. He talks to me as if he was my own father. Some of the things he told me I don't think I'll ever forget the rest of my life."
Hayes is sincerely sorry about what happened. He's glad about one thing, though, and that's the attitude of his teammates.
Everything between Elvin Hayes and the San Diego Rockets is fine now. The Rockets are still in the cellar but Hayes firmly believes they are going to get out.
"With all the stuff that was written," he said before Wednesday night's game with Atlanta, "they haven't turned against me. They really care about me, and how do I tell 'em how much I appreciate that? These guys are all winners, every one of 'em, not losers. If they're losers I'm a loser also. I'm not gonna cut these guys down and make myself come out smellin' sweet. If they're dirty, I'm dirty also."
Pilots to stay in Seattle
CHICAGO (UPI)—After weeks of uncertainty and hours of deliberation, American League owners have decided to keep the Seattle Pilots playing baseball in Seattle.
The AL owners came to that decision Wednesday night after two days of meetings, and decided to loan the troubled franchise $650,000 out of the league's treasury with no deadline for repayment.
William Daley, the largest stockholder, said the only difference was that he and his associates, Dewey and Max Soriano, now apparently have a considerable amount of support in Seattle, from ordinary citizens as well as business groups.
The most impressive show of support was from a quartet of businessmen headed by Edward Carlson, a Seattle hotel operator, which bid $9.5 million to take over the team and keep it in Seattle.
The AL owners, in their fourth prolonged meeting over a two-day span, rejected the idea of the Carlson group because they could not accept the philosophy that the team would be operated by a nonprofit corporation which would donate any money it made to various charities.
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Daley said the $650,000 would get the Pilots into spring training and would allow them to pay bonuses and spring contracts.
"I'm not so sure we'll be a moneymaker in 1970 or 1971, but when we get the domed stadium I'm sure we'll be profitable," Daley said.
Clay to keep belt from new champion
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) — Cassius Clay said Wednesday he will not present his heavyweight championship belt to the winner of the Joe Frazer-Jimmy Ellis fight because both men have been quoted in news stories as saying they don't want it.
Clay said another reason he wouldn't turn over the belt to the winner is because of the attitude of the New York Boxing Commission.
"I had a call from the Garden matchmaker, Teddy Brenner, saying the boxing commission would not let me go into the ring to donate my belt," Clay said at his home here.
The former champ said he plans to offer the belt to Central High School in Louisville, Ky., for its trophy case. Clay graduated from the school in 1960.
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Hayes thought back to all the commotion he caused.
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"It wasn't like me," he said. "I felt bad when the stories came out because I think we have a good basketball team and I know we're gonna win, I also feel each individual on the club can be a star so why would I ever call them losers? Look, everybody in the world has said something he didn't mean and was sorry for. I'm sorry about the whole thing and I assure you it's not gonna happen again.
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He has grown some the past week.
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