S—The Daily Collegian Thursday. September 20, 1973
E3romo for the promo
On the top of the Chicago Tribune's front
page is a message for anyone who doesn't
already have the word. It reads, "The
World's Greatest Newspaper,'l,right there in
black and white. You know what they say
about fooling all the people all the time.
The Tennis Match of the Century is what
the promoters ofi tonight's Bobby Riggs-Billie
Jean King contest are calling their money
tree, and the ma tchup promises to be the best
Beverly Hills, Liss Vegas and Madison Ave.
have to offer.
Tonight at 8 p.m., 20 million people will
turn on ABC for the show because they have
been told to do so.
Only Watergate rates above the match for
media oversaturation, and the gullible who
still buy all the roller derby type publicity are
dwindling in.nuinber. Indeed, the promotion
is beginning to resemble a heavyweight fight
pitch.
Pity the unsuspecting viewer who stumbles
onto the match. What he has in store for him
is Bobby Riggs,; a flamboyant man with an
ego roughly the size of the Goodyear Blimp
and a lip to complement it. And Billie Jean
King, who yesterday called Riggs, of all
things—a creep, but seems to have
abandoned her better sense to participate in
the match, or at least in the payday.
Don't go away friends, there's lots more
Howard Cosell.
Of all the sportscasters in the country, you
just kfiew it had to be him. And this time even
Howard may be put out to lay a few of his
observations on the fans.
Along for the ride wiht Humble Howard
will' be Rosie (Riggs-is-an-idiot) Casals and
Jack Kramer, a good buddy of Bobby's. One
can envision Howard.in the role of referee
lizy Model, trying to keep Casals and
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in the booth. It couldn't happen to a nicer
fella.
But what goes on above certainly won't
overshadow the tennis spectacle on the field.
Afterall, even the ,Astros were given the
bum's rush for the match and forced to play a
doubleheader last night. That never happens
except in case of rain under the dome, world
war and, now, sexually integrated tennis
matches.
A live crowd of 40,000 should be on hand,
the largest throng to witness a tennis match
in the game's history, and at last word TV
time was being sold to tune of 90,000
dollars a minute.
The winner will take away 106,006 dollars,
about 10 years' pay for a mortal working
sports editor
marl, but ' that . figure probably better
describes the loser's share in the winner
take-all match. ABC forked up 700,000 bucks
for the TV rights.
CBS is mad about ABC getting the match,
so they're on the warpath now and have
decided to run "BOnnie and Clyde" during
the, match, a first-time-on-TV-movie.
Riggs offered to' wear a dress for the
contest, but Billie Jean said it was
immaterial. "For all I care, you can wear
your jockstrap," she said. •
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DeJardin (right) listens as Iry Kosloff announces his firing
Dejardin fired by 76ers
PHILADELPHIA (AP)
Don DeJardin has been fired
as general manager of the
National Basketball
Association's Philadelphia
76ers, who won only 9 of 82
games last season to qualify
as the worst team in the
history of pro basketball.
The firing was somewhat of
a surprise, since 76ers' owner
Iry Kosloff had indicated on
numerous occasions that he
planned to rehire his general
manager. DeJardin's
contract actually expired last
month.
"All the good things I ever
said about him are true,"
Kosloff said of DeJardin. "As
an administrator and in the
business phase, he did an
excellent job. But it keeps
coming back to the
performance of the team and
its record.
"That had to be the prime
NL owners ponder
CHICAGO (AP) The
National League club owners,
asserting that they wanted
more time to study "the
entire situation," recessed
their meeting yesterday on
the proposed transfer of the
San Diego Padres to
Washington, D.C.
League President Chub
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consideration, even though I
can't credit all the things that
happened to him. Most were
due to previous admin
ictrations.”
The 76ers; only half a dozen
years ago the best team in pro
basketball, began to sink out
of sight after former general
manager coach Jack Ramsey
traded away • Wilt
Chamberlain and Chet
Walker, and Luke Jackson
suffered an injury that
virtually ended his career.
DeJardin disposed of Wally
Jones and Hal Greer grew
old. . DeJardin tried to
rebuild with draft choices,
but in four straight years not
one of the team's top
Selections remained beyond
his initial contract.
Kosloff said he has
absolutely no one in mind to
replace DeJardin.
Feeney said another meeting
on the transfer would be held
within a month at his call, but
added that he did not think it
would be during the; World
Series. •
Feeney disclosed the letter seeking the San Diego
stalemate after club owners, franchise by Seattle was
or their representatives, had distributed after the meeting,
heard presentations by owner but was not discussed. It was
C. Arnholt, Smith of the disclosed at Seattle Tuesday
Padres and Joseph that Dave Cohn, a
Danzansky of the Washington restauranteur, submitted an
group which tentatively has offer to Feeney of $l2 million.
purchased the club for a . Seattle was the home of the
reported $l2 million. ill-fated Pilots, who were
Feeney said no vote was moved to Milwaukee one
taken on the transfer and week before the 1970 season.
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"I'll go out after one
general manager," he said.
"But I'm in no rush. Much of
the team's personnel is finally
in the hands of the coach."
Kosloff said that Coach
Gene Shue is not a candidate
for the job.
"The running of a franchise
is a fulltime job," Kosloff
said. "I've been through that
coach-general manager with
Jack Ramsey."
Kosloff also said Jack
McMahon, the team's newly
appointed director of player
personnel, would not be
considered. "He will continue
to work under Shue," the
owner said.
Kosloff did say that he
plans to lean more to a team
rather than a front office
emphasis. "The coach is
going to be a stronger person
in the determination of
talent," he noted.
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The Match
Riggs: Why he will win..
Bobby Riggs will win
tonight buf it won't be
because he shovels in
vitamins by the fistful or
shovels out male chauvinist
platitudes and slogans by the
barrelful.
The dean of the washed-up
athlete set will crush the
confident Billie Jean with his
arsenal of spinners and
bloopers. If not, he can
release his secret weapon, a
credible array of passing
shots and a powerful wide
serve that could catch King
offguard.
But the wily master's best
asset is his own craftiness. He
softened Margaret Court with
his verbal bombast before the
first match and then finished
the job on the court by
expertly picking apart her
failing game.
Although cool Billie Jean
apparently isn't susceptible
to Bobby's psyche tactics, she
may find Rigg's mouth is
Kirig: Why she will win...
If it is indeed possible to
look objectively at the Bobby
Riggs-Billie Jean King tennis
bonanza, scheduled to be
aired tonight, Billie Jean
King has to be tagged as the
sane bettors choice.
There are a variety of
reasons that support such an
unpopular selection.
First, there is all the
baloney concerning vitamin
pills. According to a leading
nutritional specialist, the
whole thing is "90 per cent
nonsense." Riggs can gobble
plate after plate of Vitamin C
and all he's- really doing is
running up a fat pharmacy
bill.
Next, there is the matter of
age. Fifty-five year old men,
especially those who waste all
their energy blabbering into
microphones and reporters
notebooks, are not the stuff of
five-set tennis - contests.
Hopefully, he will have thick
Major League Standings
American League
East
W. L. Pet. G.B.
Bait 89 62 .589
Boston 83 69 .546 6 1 / 2
Detroit 80 71 .530 9
New York 75 78 .490 15
Milwaukee 72 80 .474 17'/2
Cleveland 67 86 .438 23
Oakland 90 61 .596
Kan City 82 69 .543 8
Minn 73 77 .487 16 1, 2
Chicago 73 78 .483 17
Calif 70 79 .470 19
Texas 53 97 .353 36'2
Results
Milwaukee 7, Cleveland 4
California 6, Texas 2 Ist
California at Texas 2nd
Boston 3, New York 1
Detroit 10, Baltimore 1
Oakland 3, Minnesota 0
Chicago at Kansas City
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outdone only by his tennis
skills.
Just about anyone in a
position to know has put their
support and bucks on Riggs.
Penn State tennis coach
Holmes Cathrall came out for
Bobby in July. Cathrall is in a
position to know, since he and
Riggs '`played on the same
tour after the war.
Jimmy the Greek has made
him the strong favorite, and
even Chris Evert has
deserted loyal libbers to
support Bobby.
Meanwhile, the chief oinker
of the male chauvinist pig
club keeps spouting things
like, "The best way to handle
women is to keep them
pregnant and barefoot."
Proving that in this game it
isn't how good you are but
how loud and outlandish you
can be, that determines how
many dollars you'll bring
home.
Bobby will sweep in three
sets; 6-2, 6-2, 6-4, $lOO,OOO.
—Bill Guthlein
treads on his tennies because
King is going to make him
burn rubber.
Also, on the matter of
publicity, if Riggs thinks he
can knock King off balance
before the match even starts "
like he succeeded in doing :
against Margaret Court, well
then he is senile as well as old.
Finally, King has the added
element of seeing Riggs'
"tennis game" in action. One
might speculate she has been
practicing up on her junk
returns, and remember,
Bobby won't be able to sneak
two fast sets by and then head
for the couch.
In Houston, it's a best-of
five-sets contest, so the
quickest he can hope to
dispose of King is three sets.
Not fast enough.
King will win going away in
the fifth set, 2-6, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3, 6-
1.
Rick Starr
National League
East
W. L. Pct. G.Br
Pirates 75 74 .503
Montreal 75 76 .497 1
New York 75 77 .493 1 1 ,t
St. Louis 75 77 „493 1 1 A2 *$,S
Chicago "72 79 .477 4
Phillies 67 85 .441 9L2
Cincin 93 58 .616
Los Ang 88 64 .579 5 1 2
San Fran 83 67 .553 9 1 2
Houston 78 77 .503 17
Atlanta 73 80 .477 21
San Diego 56 96 .368 3712.
Results
Chicago 8, Montreal 6
Houston 8, San Diego 5 tst -
San Diego 6, Houston 3 2nd ;1
Philadelphia 3, St. Louis 2 '!
New York 7, Pittsburgh 3
Atlanta at Los Angeles
Cincinnati at San Francisco