Ernie Banks Is Optimistic About Baseball This Year MIAMI RALLIES 10 BEAT DENVER HANGS TO LEAD By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

the way the Miami Floridians are playing, they can dissipate a big surplus, then make up a huge deficit and still wind up winning for free.

That's the way they captured their 11th game in 12 starts Sun­day night, hanging onto their one-game lead in the Eastern Division of the American Bas­ketball Association.

The Floridians jumped to a IB-point lead early in their game against Denver and then fell be­hind by 17 points in the final pe­riod before coming back at the free throw line for al09-106 vic­tory over the Rockets in Den­ver.

Minnesota remained in second place behind Miami with a 104-102 decision at borne over Oak­land, the runaway Western Leader. In the only other game Houston downed the visiting New York Nets 133-121.

On Saturday Kentucky tripped Indiana 118-108, New Orleans stopped the Nets 139-131 and Oakland whipped Los Angeles 101-93.

In the National Basketball As­sociation Sunday, Baltimore crushed Cincinnati 126-109, At­lanta routed Sa nDiego 122-92, Milwaukee edged Phoenix 107-103, Seattle surprised Boston 118-116 and Philadelphia slipped by Los Angeles 125-121.

After its roller coaster ride in taking and giving points, Miami wrapped up its victory on four free throws by Andy Anderson and Don Sidle in the last min­ute. The Floridians totaled 14 of 14 from the line in the final peri­od, overcoming Larry Jones' to­tal 34 points, for Denver.

Minnesota became the first Eastern Division team to beat Oakland this season in 21 games by barely hanging onto a 104-96 lead in the final two minutes. Tom Washington scored 29 points for the Pipers.

Steve Kramer, signed by Houston Saturday and compet­ing in his first game since play­ing for Anaheim last year, scored 29 points and led a sec­ond quarter rally when the Mav­ericks hit 16 of 22 field shots to take the lead for good..

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Take it from Ernie Banks: "Everything will be fine in '69-"

Banks, of course, is the eter­nal optimist. And the Sunshine Kid really wasn't thinking about the general state of the game of baseball this winter when he is­sued his annual pronouncement on the Chicago Cubs' pennant prospects.

Or was he? Despite the impasse in the

owner-player pension hassle, with its accompanying player boycott of spring training camps, there were indications from a couple of high places during the weekend that a 1969 season might come off after-all.

Saturday, American League President Joe Cronin declared that AL play will begin, on schedule, April 7, "no matter what."

Sunday night, new Commis­sioner Bowie Kuhn cut short a Florida vacation-orientation trip and returned to New York for today's scheduled pension nego­tiations, saying he believes" a settlement can be reached this week.

Meanwhile, Banks, one of a small group of star-status play­ers who are ignoring the play­ers' association boycott and working out with their clubs, led the Cubs' 20-man contingent through calisthenics at Scotts-dale, Ariz.

And, despite player spokes­man Marvin Miller's insistence that virtually all the name play­ers were "holding the line," chinks continued to appear in the association's armor. •"

Carl Yastrzemski, Boston's three-time AL batting cham­pion, hinted Sunday he might sign a Red Sox contract and be on hand Wednesday for the club's first full scale workout at Winter Haven, Fla. Ken Harrel-son, signed by the Red Sox last summer, said earlier he intends to report to camp.

Shortstop Luis Aparicio, who signed his 1969 pact last fall, re­ported to the Chicago White Sox' Sarasota, Fia., training base and said he'd be in uni­form fortoday's drill.

The New York Yankees re­ported that 37 of the 43 players on their spring roster either have signed contracts or agreed to terms, and the Mets said they were prepared to play their ex­hibition schedule with or with­out established players.

The owners turned down a players' compromise proposal of a $5.9 million pension pack­age last Friday and asked that their own $5.3 million offer, re­jected unanimously by the 24 club player representatives, be put to a vote of all the players. They agreed to another bargain­ing session today but refused to join the players in a meeting with a federal mediator.

The players' negotiators said they would attend the meeting with Frank Brown, regional di­rector of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, any­way.

Kuhn visited the Mets' train­ing base Sunday and took a few swings in the batting cage be­fore flying to New York "to do everything I can to help get the people together."

"My place is in New York in this situation," he said. "That's why I'm going back," I expect to be back in Florida on Tues­day or Wednesday.

"I think there is a disposition on both sides to make reason­able concessions. The whole thing could be solved this week."

The commissioner, an attor­ney for the National League be­fore his election to the game's top executive job earner this month, said he couldn't "act as an arbitrator in my position, but I will do everything in my pow­er to help them reach a fair settlement."

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YUMBEL WINNER OF WLDENER, BARBARA WINS

By ED SCHUYLER JR. Associated Press Sports Writer

Two years on the farm and an bat ' s nap, then racing history. That's how it worked for Yum-bel and Barbara Jo Rubin.

Yumbel, an 8-year-old Chil­ean-bred horse who spent two years away from the races be­fore returning last January, knocked form for a loop Satur­day by taking the $137,200 Wide-ner Handicap at Hialeah for a winning mutuel payoff of $94.40.

Then that night at Charles Town, W.Va., the 19-year-old Miss Rubin awakened from an hour's nap in her special dress­ing room in the track infirmary to go out and become the first woman ever to win a flat-track pari-mutuel race against male jockeys.

Still another outsider, Praise Jay, $84.60, made news Satur­day by winning the $87,500 San Antonio Stakes at Santa Anita.

Chilean jockey Fernando Toro got Walnut Hill Farm's Yumbel home by a head over Wheatley Stable's favored Funny Fellow at the end of the Widener's 1*4 miles, timed in 2:03 1-5. Mr. Brogann finished third and Fort Marcy, high-weighted at 124 pounds, was sixth in the field of 11.

Yumbel, who stood at stud in Kentucky for two seasons after being injured in 1966, carried 112 pounds, nine more than Fun­ny Fellow, in winning for the first time in six starts since Jan. 9.

Miss Rubin rode D. Forrest Lawson's favored Cohesian, $2.80, to a neck victory over Reely Beeg in a 6%-furlong race timed in 1:20 1-5.

"I feel so happy," the 19-year-old former exercise girl said. "I was very relaxed. I don't get excited too easily.

Miss Rubin, who failed to get a mount at Tropical park be­cause of jockey boycotts but has ridden twice in Nassau, rode at Charles Town under a tempo­rary license. After she gets an­other mount, West Virginia stewards will review her per­formance and decide whether to issue a permanent apprentice permit

Praise Jay, an Oregon-bred " 5-year-old horse owned by John M. Hudseth and ridden by Mi-quel Yanez, romped over the 1*6 miles of the San Antonio in 1:49 3-5 for a 3*4-length victory over Room, with Vicgray Farm's 3s-tambul n third.

Cain Hoy Stable's Too Bald, Manny Ycaza up, made it two straight in Bowie's Barbara Fritchie Handicap. The 5-year-old mare ran seven furlongs in 1:23 4-5 to win the $57,100 test for fillies and mares by 2V& lengths over Flamingo Farm's Miss Spin, with Victory Mosca's Double Ripple third.

BON MTAYISH'S DEATH TO BRING SAFETY REVIEW

By BLOYS BRTTT

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The death of driver Don MacTavish during a stock car. race here this weekend will bring about a review of safety precautions at the huge Daytona International Raceway.

A speedway spokesman said films of the four-car accident in which MacTavish died Saturday will be studied and a minute in­spection made of the section of the track where it occurred.

MacTavish, a 26-year-old vet­eran from Dover; Mass., was killed when he lost control of his car, spun into the grandstand wall and was struck virtually head-on by a car driven by Sam Sommers of Savannah, 6a.

MacTavish's car actually rammed into a heavy steel wire gate that closes one of five entr­ances that carry spectator traf­fic across the track into and out of the vast speedway infield.

During races, ibese gates are closed and become part of a concrete wall that runs the en­tire length of the grandstand straightaway. Other drivers said Sunday this

is one of several "trouble spots" on the course that they catalog in their minds while racing. "We watch for them," said Bob­by Allison, who drove in the 300-mile race in which Mac­Tavish lost his life.

"They're TO more dangerous than other points on the track, but the one MacTavish hit is probably the worst because it is located at a point where you're at top speed coming off the lourth turn," Allison said.

McTavish, barrelling down the straightaway at about 180 miles an hour, suddenly swerved into the wall, with the biggest portion of the front end of his car striking the wire gate.

The give cf the gate bounced the car back onto the track, where it was fair game for Som­mers, who had no chance to avoid a collision.

Most of the drivers who com­peted in the 800 miles of racing Saturday and Sunday saw MacTavish's crash. Several were of the opinion that the New Englander simply lost control coming off the turn.

Allison said he felt MacTavish was driving "over his head" trying to move up in the race.

Daytona Speedway President William H.G. France said that prior to Saturday, 517,889 miles of high speed racing had taken place on the track without a fa­tality. None of five previous deaths at the track came in a stock car race.

Meantime, MacTavish's body was being sent to Needham, Mass., for funeral and burial services later in the week.

Mon., Fob. 24, 1969 CORTLAND STANDARD 'Hit* .11

WOMEN'S GYM MEET — Debbie DeForest of State University College at Cortland, shown performing on the uneven parallel bars, won the award as best all-around gymnast at the New York State Women's Gymnastics meet at Cortland Saturday. The Cortland team won the meet, the first such state competition, with 61.25 points. Ithaca College came in second with 53.1 and Brockport was third with 40.9. Girls from Cornell and Corning Community College also competed. Winners in the var­

ious events were: Free exercise — Debbie De-Forest, Cortland; Linda Stanley, Ithaca; Gail Woyke, Cortland. Side horse vaulting—Marcia Woods, Ithaca; Karen Kirk, Ithaca; Muriel Decker, Brockport. Balance beam — Linda Becker, Cortland; Linda Kohn, Cortland; Linda Stanley, Ithaca. Uneven bars — Carol Hoff­man, Cortland; Debbie DeForest, Cortland; Karen Kirk, Ithaca. All - around — Debbie DeForest, Cortland, 20.0; Karen Kirk, Ithaca, 18.2; Gail Woyke, Cortland, 16.0.

(Ivan Kingsley .Photo)

LANIER, SMITH STAR IN BONNIE AND S.U. WINS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Junior Bob Lanier lobbed in a new 43-point high for himself Saturday while his St. Bonaven-ture teammates contained Niag­ara's Calvin Murphy to give the home team another win, 98-90, over its rival.

The Bonnie zone defense and 6-foot-ll Lanier's effectiveness against a man-to-man defense provided the highlight of upstate college basketball action over the weekend.

But sophomore center Bill Smith's display of shooting ac­curacy against West Virginia— 28 points before he fouled out with four minutes left—did not exactly have the Syracuse fans yawning after the 95-83 win.

In the Bonnie fieldhouse, Murphy, the nation's No. 2 scorer, was held to 20 points, two less than fellow Eagle Steve Shafer, and fouled out late in the second half.

Niagara, forced to play catch­up ball from the beginning, tried to rally, but Murphy was out and the result was their 13th consecutive loss to St. B»n-aventure, now 14-7 for the sea­son to the Eagles' 9-12.

At Syracuse, Smith grabbed a rebound and scored three min-•utas into the game ta give the Orange a lead they never lost, thanks to Bill Finney's 20 points in the second half.

Greg Ludwig had 26 points and Larry Woods had 20 for the Mountaineers.

At Cambridge, Mass., Har­vard came from behind with 8 straight points m overtime

to defeat Cornell, 84-77, fc *ht first time in six years, polling the Big Red down to a 6-6 Ivy League season record.

The Crimson, 3-8 in the league and 7-16 overall, upset 11-12 Cornell despite Paul Frye's 23 points. !

In New York City, seven-ranked St John's shook off stubborn Colgate in the final half and pulled away to a 77-62 victory over the Red Raiders.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti­tute spent its Saturday night trimming Union, 50-47, to "take the Independent College Ath­letic Conference title. B o t h teams had 3-1 conference rec­ords going in and both came out with .500 season marks, 9-9 for RPI and 10-10 for Union.

Scores from Saturday games involving other teams from up­state New York included:

Canisius 76, Xavier 66; Army 71, NYU 64; Fordham 66, Uni­versity of Rochester 57; Hobart 91, St Lawrence 79; St Mi­chael's of Winooski, Vt, 70, Le-Moyne 62; Potsdam 79, Utica 73; Alfred 83, Clarkson 69; New Paltz 72, Geneseo 70.

Cortland 59, Fredonia 57, Al­bany State 73, Southern Connec­ticut 71; Southhampton 84, One-onta 73; Pittsburgh 78, Roberts Wesleyan 68; Monroe CC 76, Morrisville Tech 61; Broome Tech 62, Canton 60; Delhi Tech 105, Keystone JC 88.

Fight Results MEXICO CITY—Efren "Ala-

cran" Torres, 111%, M e x i c o , s t o p p e d Chartchai Chionoi, 110%, Thailand, 8; Torres won world flyweight boxing cham­pionship.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass.—Al Romano, 144, North A d a m s , knocked out Gabe LaMarca, 144, Arlington, Mass., 12.

Lee Roy Yarbrough Victor Over Glotzbach In Daytona

By F.T. MACFEELY

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sheer determination and skill brought Lee Roy Yarbrough his biggest payoff in eight years of big time stock car racing. But pit crews will de­bate for a long time whether a tire change might have made the difference between the win­ner and second-place Charlie Glotzbach in the Daytona 500 Sunday.

In the background of the me­chanical controversy were two former champion drivers—Jun­ior Johnson, who prepared Yarbrough's 1969 Ford Tallade­ga, and Cotton Ownes, who did the same with Glotzbach's 1969 Dodge Charger 500.

Yarbrough, who was runner-up in both the Daytona 500 and Firecracker 400 at Daytona In­ternational Speedway last year, passed Glotzbach one mile from home and finished a car length in front

"I was going flat out and I couldn't slingshot past him off the fourth turn," Glotzbach said.

Yarbrough, giving his account of the final laps, said: "I actual­ly caught him on the lap before but decided to wait til; the last lap, where he could not gain enough momentum to pass me back."

They waged a two-car duel through the last 100 miles after Donnie Allison—who led 87 of the 200 laps around the 2.5-mile high banked track—brushed the wall and lost some of his speed.

The crucial tire change came 50 miles before the finish. Yarbrough pitted 21 seconds. In addition to fueling, the changed the left rear tire. Glotzbach was in the pit only 18 seconds, just for fuel.

When both cars went into the final laps, it appeared the three-second difference had won the race for Glotzbach, the com-p a r a t i v e newcomer from Georgetown, Ind. But Yar­brough steadily closed in.

After he got past a dangerous situation just before passing Glotzbach, he had the tiny speed margin that brought him $38,950 in prize money compared to $18,425 for Glotzbach.

That dangerous situation cropped up when the two cars overtook a slower one on the backstretch.

"I went past him on one side and Charlie on the other side," Yarbrough recalled. "I just hoped he was experienced enough to look in his rear view mirror and wouldn't just move over the other way when he saw the first car come by."

He was. It was a big double over the

weekend for Yarbrough. He also won the Permatex 300 race for older sportsman type cars Sat­urday and collected $9,225 for that one—a weekend total of $48,205 to take back to Colum­bia, S.C.

HARYARD D. IS WINNER OF CORNEL HEP MEET

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Har­vard took six first places and won the crown in the 22nd Hep-tagonal Track Meet in Cornell University's Barton Hall Satur­day.

Doug Hardin ran a meet rec­ord 8:46.6 in the two-mile to lead the Crimson.

Army, with 51V4 points, placed second to Harvard, which com­pile 55Vi points.

Aerodynamic design of the Talladega model was credited for faster speeds, and Yarbr­ough actually set a race record of 157.950 m.p.h. It wiped out the 154.334 mark set by Richard Petty in 1966.

Ford took the next two places behind Glotzbach.

Donnie Allison of Hueytown, Ala., finished third, one lap back, and collected $13,275. A.J. Foyt of Houston was fourth and got $5,800. Buddy Baker of Charlotte, who started a Dodge on the pole, came home fifth for $10,050.

Defending champion Cale Yarborough of Timmonsville, S.C., was the only driver taken to the hospital. He was checked for foot and nose injuries—with no broken bones found—after his Ford hit the outer wall and rode along the concrete until it ground off the body on the right side.

CSWEGO MATMEN TAKE STATED MEET AGAIN By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Oswego won its conference championship for the third con­secutive time and Cobleskill up­set three-time champion Morris­ville in two college wrestling tournaments over the weekend.

In Oswego Saturday, the host team tallied 127 points in win­ning seven weight classes for the title, their fifth of the last six State University Conference Wrestling Championships.

Gary Lehr of Oneonta won the individual title in the 177-pound class for the fourth consecutive year.

Sunday, Cobleskill, also the host team, tallied 67 points to Morrisville's 63 for their upset win in the Region 3 tournament of the National Junior College Athletic Association. Bob Waller of Delhi was named the meet's outstanding wrestler after win­ning the 152-pound class.

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