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Williams, McAdoo Lift JUnicks Fast King-Less Nets "I think Ray Williams has the opportunity to be an outstanding basketball player. And I think Eddie Jordan can be an outstanding basketball player, too." The Nets finished year at 8-26. Knicks (18-15) close out 1977 against New Orleans tonight in Madison Square Garden and open 1978 with Sunday game against Cleveland at Garden. the first period, let the Knicks take three brief leads early in the second, then out-spurted them (with Kevin Porter leading the spurting) 10-4 en route to a 52-47 advantage at the half. Kevin Porter had 12 points and unrelated namesake Howard Porter (who filled King's spot) 11 by this time and Nets' enthusiasts began serious consideration of what everyone of them would have called a major upset.

The Nets kept right on spurting when the second half opened. Darnell Hillman popped in a Jumper, Howard Porter connected twice, and Kevin Porter fed Bob Carrington for a Jumper from the key and suddenly it was 60-47. It was still 7442 (after a pair of Kevin Porter free throws) before the Knicks started whittling the deficit. The chief whittler was McAdoo, who put in a follow-up shot, stuffed a Glen Gondrezick feed, and hit for the final foul shot of the period as the Knicks ran off seven straight to leave it 74-69 at three quarters. In 53 seconds, it was all tied up after Williams' long jump shot and a McAdoo three-point move around Carrington.

There were deadlocks at 76, 78, 79 and The situation reportedly revolved around King's failure to attend the last two Nets' practice sessions, and his late arrival on time for pre-game warmups but not early enough to meet Coach Kevin Loughery's squad rules last night at Rutgers. After the game, King wasn't around to talk about it. Loughery was talking about it. But Just barely. "It was my decision," said the Nets' coach.

"And, really, that's all I have to say." Is King, the team's top scorer (with a 24-point average) and a main reason for its recent comebacking surge (five victories in the previous eight games) still a Net in good standing? "Yes. Definitely," said Loughery. "He'll definitely play in our next game (here Wednesday, against Phoenix.) "Definitely, that is, if he's at our next practice." Amazingly enough, the Nets played so well most of the way that King's absence was hardly (elt. They ran off 10 straight points (six by Jan van Breda Kolff four by Kevin Porter) to take a 23-18 edge 10 minutes into 83 before a Williams layup (thanks to George Johnson's goaltending violation) put the Knicks on top to stay at 85-83. McAdoo (who wound up with 38 points, with 18 rebounds) and Williams (who totaled 19 points) hit for 16 apiece in that breakaway last quarter.

With the Knicks applying the pressure, the Nets turned into their own worst enemies down the stretch. After shooting 21-42 from the floor and 10-11 from the foul line in the first half, they deteriorated to 11-27 and 5-15 in the last quarter. Given three-for-two foul shooting opportunities, both Kevin Porter and Hill-man missed three straight. Given easy feeds under the basket, Johnson let the ball pass through his hands. Given all kinds of openings, the Nets blew them all.

As unhappy as any Net was Rutgers rookie Eddie Jordan, who again scored in double figures (11 points in 17 minutes) but took personal responsibility for Williams' spree. "Losing hurt," said Jordan. "Losing hurt even more because what Ray did was mostly at my expense. "When he gets the ball, I know I can hold him. But tonight he just beat me.

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Asbury Park Stops CBA, Meets Neptune in Finals Sports By ELLIOTT DENMAN Press Staff Writer PISCATAWAY TOWNSHIP It was the most painful evening of Bernard "Sky" King's three months as an employ-" ee of the New Jersey Nets. A fu house of Jammed into the Rutgers Athletic Center last night to see King attempt to ruin the New York Knicks' first official NBA game in the state of New Jersey. They saw the pesky, underdog, last-place Nets surge in front eight minutes into the first period, stay there until 6 minutes were left in the fourth period, and eventually bow to the Knicks, 109-101, only because rookie Ray Williams and veteran Bob McAdoo turned red-hot when they turned ice-cold. But they never saw King get off the bench. And thus the celebrated rookie-of-the-year candidate, the high-priced, 6-7, 21-year-old out of Brooklyn, the University of Tennessee and the NBA "hardship" list, the man who had to clear up a series of brushes with the Tennessee law before be signed on with the Nets, did more to steal the spotlight by not playing than Just about anything he could have achieved by playing.

Pt. Boro Roundball Champs By FRANK OHEARN Presi Staff Writer STAFFORD TOWNSHIP After Point Pleasant Boro High School had tucked away the championship of the 11th Annual Southern Regional Roundball Festival, Mark Mil-roth was willing to tell the secret of his success. "See this gut from the side," said Milroth, patting a slight paunch on an otherwise well-built frame. "It makes up for six-inches of height." Last night those extra six inches helped Milroth negate 64 Kip Wasilewski of Southern Regional and lead the Panthers to a 52-48 victory over the highly regarded Rams. It wasn't just the extra pounds that turned the trick for Milroth against the big Southern center however.

"My gut helps me block out. We work on blocking out about half an hour a day," said Milroth. Those workouts certainly turned the tide for the Panthers who, shorter in height at four of five spots on the floor, out rebounded Southern on their way to the victory. But the whole game wasn't on the backboard. Point never had the lead until a few minutes into the second quarter when Jim Mazkh popped in a pair of free throws.

The Panthers (ell behind again, 24-19, with two-minutes left in the half before Ma-zich hit twice Tim Dempsey and Milroth once each before the buzzer for a 27-24 Boro advantage at the half. Southern, trailing by five early in the third period, got a lift from Craig Walters and a pair of field goals by Tom Logue, who came off the bench when star shooter Buddy Bailey picked up up his fourth personal foul, to take a 30-29 lead. Southern quickly fell behind again and tied the game only once more, late in the third quarter, 36-36. Mazich, who tossed in eight points in the second quarter to lead the Panther come back, fired In four in the final period, as did Milroth and Dempsey. The Rams couldn't get back into the game in the last period, constantly shooting from long range against the swarming Point Boro defense.

Southern coach Jim Ruhnke even tried to pull his big man (Wasilewski) out of the game to get a (aster lineup in against the See PT. BORO Page B3 IV 0 hA Tfe4 (I it i xd er that he'd probably start in place of King, and he's still considered King's back-up, but he wasn't about to concede that King's presence would have affected the outcome. "Listen," said the ex-Villanovan. "Bernard could have started tonight, played 38 minutes, scored his usual, and it still might not have made any difference. "In fact, they might have beaten us by 20.

"You just can't ever say how much difference one man makes. That's the way it always is in basketball." Knicks' Coach Willis Reed made a point of lauding Williams' play. "Ray's really maturing now," said Reed of the team's top draft choice out of the University of Minnesota. "He's like a floor general. He creates some things.

He gives us a lot of motion. He's been showing the sparks. And tonight the kid does a heck of a job." Loughery pointed to one of many Net logistical problems. "We never get the opportunity to work out here," said Loughery. (Drills are at a gymnasium in a North Jersey warehouse.) "That becomes a problem for us.

But it's still not an excuse for missing them the way we did tonight. Section B- Asbury Park Press, Asbury Park's Frank Smith drives on night in the Holiday Jubilee Basketball mmw 7 -v ,1 mil I Hi lA'lfii amiiiHMiviiir-' 'WMtiim' i Associated Press DRIVE TO BASKET Holy Cross' Peter Beckenback drives past Princeton defenders Frank Sowinski (left) and Bob Kleinert (right) during ECAC Holiday Festival consolation game. Holy Cross beat Princeton, 61-59. See College basketball roundup Page B4. MacLeish Displays Old Form in Win By TONY GRAHAM Press Staff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH Dave Williams promises tonight's Asbury Park-Neptune basketball final in the Holiday Jubilee at Monmouth College will have none of the drama of last night's 51-49 Blue Bishop semifinal victory over CBA.

"For the fans it will be exciting because of the action, but overall it won't be as exciting as tonight's game," said the confident Asbury Park senior after the unbeaten Bishops warded off the Colts for their fifth straight victory. "Neptune will play us tough, but I feel we'll beat them," said the 64 Williams. "We'll beat their press with no problem. We go against it every day in practice." Tonight's game will be broadcast on WJLK AM (1310) beginning at 8:25. In consolation games St.

Rose (Bob Wade, 16 points, 12 rebounds), which topped Wall last night, 60-52, meets Manasquan at 5:30, and Lakewood plays CBA at 7:00. "We weren't looking past CBA to Neptune," said Williams who scored 17 points and had 10 rebounds. "I felt all along they could give us a good game. They were 5-0 so they had to be a good team." CBA was almost good enough to be in the Jubilee final were it not for the play of Asbury Park guard Eric Aeeveda. The 64 senior, in bed all week with the flu, came off the bench to contribute eight points and four assists, steadied the Asbury Park attack, and glued together it's defense which early in the game had been torn asunder by CBA senior Steve Driscoll.

Driscoll (18 points) scored his team's first eight points, but was held without a field goal in the final quarter when Asbury Park took command. "I just cooled off in the last quarter," said Driscoll. "I choked on a few shots. They're tough but I'm proud of us," he said. "Williams is unbelievable.

He plays the whole game on top of the back board." Aeeveda nearly turned from hero to goat in the game's final seconds. With Asbury Park ahead, 51-47, Mike Shaughnessy stole an Aeeveda pass. He missed a driving layup, but Pat Driscoll tapped in the shot and CBA, now trailing 51-49, immediately called time with one second left. When play resumed under the Asbury Park basket, Aeeveda, fearful of a five second violation, threw the ball into Driscoll's arms, but the CBA junior was barely able to heave up a wild a semi-hook shot as the final buzzer sounded. "Coach (Nate Bruno) told me to throw the ball far down court, but I tried to do something else," said Aeeveda.

"It was very stupid of me. I should have done what he told me. We came out lucky." "Jo Jo (Walker) cut to the comer and I rushed in and got the ball," said Driscoll. "My back was to the basket and 1 turned about 40 degrees and threw it. If I had turned all the way around time would have expired." "I really wasn't ready," Aeeveda said.

"My mother told me not to play but I was bugging her so much she said 'go ahead and play, do what you have to See ASBURY PARK Page B4 pected to draw more than 60,000 football fans at Stanford, most of whom should know a good quarterback when they see one. The featured passer in this year's East-West cast at Stanford Stadium will be All-America Doug Williams of Grambling, the starting "quarterback on the West squad which also includes one of his favorite receivers, Carlos Pennywell. The other West quarterback is one of the country's best small college passers, Jeff Tisdel of Nevada-Reno. Navy Coach George Welsh has Kentucky's Derrick Ramsey, considered the best runner among the quarterbacks in this year's all-star contest, and Army passing star Leamon Hall. The ghost of Cotton Bowl '70 surfaced yesterday as Texas and Notre Dame traded verbal shots in a lively prelude to Monday's showdown for a probable national title.

Perhaps only football purists recall that this decade opened with the Longhorns protecting their No. 1 ranking against the Fighting Irish, making their first bowl appearance in 45 years. A youngster named Steve Worster, en route to All-America honors, slithered through the Irish defense for 155 yards and Sy, "id an end-to-end rush. It was vintage MacLeish, the MacLeish who scored 49 goals last year and 50 goals three seasons ago. Not the MacLeish who had scored only nine goals this season entering last night's game.

Not the MacLeish who had been skating like he was trying to protect an injured knee. "I had been doing a lot wrong, no question about that," said MacLeish. "I wasn't taking my man. I wasn't skating like I should. I was getting opportunities that I couldn't do anything with." See MACLEISH Page B2 Fri.

Doc. 30, 1977 Asbury Park CBA's Steve Driscoll during play last Tournament at Monmouth College. Pacific-8 in the Jan. 2 Rose Bowl, but the Michigan coach laughingly added that he's quite happy with the Big Ten retaining its status quo. "I've said before that I think it's great for a team from the Northwest to be able to come to the Rose Bowl," Schembechler said yesterday at a joint news conference with Washington's Don James.

"It was turning into a home game for the Pae-8 team," said Schembechler. "But either us or Ohio State coming out here, that's different. We have to travel a long way to get here." James, the third-year Washington coach who has brought the Huskies to Pasadena for the first time in 14 years, said he, too, was quite pleased that a Northwest team his in particular had made it. "As a coach in the Northwest, we think of every season as a march on the south," James said. "We know we have to do well against the teams up there, and hope when we come south that the good teams have some key injuries or have to come to Seattle to play us in the rain." Both coaches said they have been sticking pretty well to their practice schedules See PITT-CLEMSON Page B6 Inside.

Sports Neptune Girlt Show Prognra B2 Point Boro Wrjrtlen Lead B2 Middlcrtown S. Bay short Chomp B3 Georgtown ECAC Winner B4 Jertey Man lands Record Fish B5 By GARY DECKELMCK Press Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia Flyers are ready to start the hockey season today. Rick MacLeish has come home. The 27-year-old center scored the ninth hat trick of his career last night to lead the Flyers to a 5-2 victory over the Minnesota North Stars. But far more important than the goals against a team the Flyers were expected to beat handily was the way MacLeish.

scored them. All three came off wrist shots, one after at National Crown Shattered by Cavanaugh's Injury Pitfs Shot The Associated Press The closest the Pitt Panthers got to repeating as college football national champions was one quarter. "In spring practice, we weren't a good team," said Jackie Sherrill, in his first season as Pitt's football boss. "But In the first quarter of our opening game, I thought we had a chance to win the national championship again." That optimism was quickly shattered when star quarterback Matt Cavanaugh suffered a broken bone in his left arm after being knocked to the ground on a touchdown pass in Pitt's opening game against Notre Dame. The scoring pass gave Pitt a 94 lead in game the Panthers eventually lost 19-9.

Cavanaugh missed several games, and never regained full strength. Meanwhile, Florida, capitalizing on three Cavanaugh fumbles, tied Pitt 17-17 and, in the regular season finale, Penn State downed Pitt 15-13, dropping the Panthers' record to 8-2-1. "We played badly In our last game on national TV, and I don't think people got a good view of what our team is all about," said Cavanaugh of the Penn State loss. "I played poorly In situations that could have decided the game." the Steers won a thriller 21-17 in the final moments. Notre Dame would get its revenge, but that's another story.

Worster emerged from semi-obscurity the other day and suggested that Notre Dame, its charisma and tradition and Four Horsemen and Gipper and Rockne and whatever, could go to (expletive deleted). Cheap shot artists, he called 'em. And he suggested that the beloved Irish coach Ara Parseghian, now a television sportscaster of sorts, perfected the art of cheap shotism. Cornerback Ted Burgmeier: "That really shocked me. As long as I've been at Notre Dame, we've never had an attitude of taking cheap shots.

I can't understand why he would say something like that. I couldn't picture a Parseghian team coached like that." Luther Bradley, another cornerback: "I didn't particularly like what he said. I think Worster took a cheap shot at us. I didn't think it had too much class. I can't believe people say stuff like that." Bradley conceded that Notre Dame is a "good physical football team" but, he declared, "We play by the rules.

I really can't understand why he said that." Bo Schembechler said he's happy to see a "new team," Washington, representing the North Carolina State quarterback Johnny Evans, who makes his final collegiate appearance when the Wolfpack faces Iowa State in tte Peach Bowl, is a member of a vanishing breed the triple threat back. "Johnny's one of a kind, maybe the last," said Coach Bo Rein of his senior sig-nalcaUer who runs, passes and punts with equal ability, ranking second in the school's history in total offense, fourth in passing, eighth in rushing and was chosen punter on the Atlantic Coast Conference all-time team. Most Tatupu is a native of Samoa who was educated in this country at USC where he has earned his keep the past four years playing fullback for the 20th-ranked Trojans. He sees nothing unusual about the fact that a Samoan would choose football as a means to get a college degree. "We are using it Just like anyone else to get a college degree," said Tatupu, who will start for the Trojans in the 19th Bluebonnet Bowl against 17th-ranked Texas in the Astrodome.

"Most of the guys (he and other Samoans playing for arch rival UCLA) realize if they are good and strong enough, they can use it to get an education instead of beating someone up in a bar." The 53rd Shrine East-West Game is ex- 1 A certain measure of redemption and a large dose of pride are at stake tonight when the lOth-ranked Panthers play No. 11 Clem-son in the Gator Bowl on national television (ABC). Earlier in the day, the New Year's weekend feast of 10 college football games opens with the Blue-Gray Classic in Montgomery, Ala. Four games are on tap tomorrow Louisiana State against Stanford in the Sun Bowl; North Carolina State against Iowa State in the Peach Bowl; Texas against Southern Cal In the Bluebonnet Bowl, and the East vs. the West in the East-West Shrine Game.

After a day off Sunday, when the pros settle their conference championships, the amateurs come back Monday with the four major bowl games and the national championship at stake. One thing for certain Is that it won't be Pitt, which was sitting on top of the nation one year ago after beating Georgia in the Sugar Bowl to wrap up an undefeated season. "I think the winner could end up anywhere from sixth to eighth depending on how the other bowls go," said Sherrill, who replaced Johnny Majors who left for his alma mater, Tennessee. i.