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__sports_ Givens leads Kentucky to hooo crown ST. LOUIS (AP) — Explosive Jack Givens, continually finding seams in the Duke zone, fired in a near-record 41 points Monday night, and Kentucky’s pressure proof Wildcats roared to a 94-88 victory over the Blue Devils in the championship game of the 40th NCAA basketball tournament. The Wildcats, playing under what Coach Joe Hall called the most intense pressure of his six year career at Kentucky, clinched their fifth national title behind a bril liant one-man show by their 6-foot-4 senior. The left-handed Givens scored 23 of his points in the first half to power the nation’s No. 1 team to a 45-38 lead at intermission, then continued his one-man assault on the basket in the second half. Duke was able to stay in the game in the first half by virtue of its brilliant free throw shooting. The nation’s top foul-shooting team made its first 12 attempts from the line and finished with 20 of 21 for the half. Givens sank three baskets dur ing an 11-2 burst as the Wildcats moved into a 66-50 lead with 12:42 left in the game. That moun tainous 16-point lead was enough for Kentucky to withstand a flurry by the Atlantic Conference playoff champions, who fought back val iantly but could get no closer than four points. In fact with a lead of seven points, Hall began to substitute. Then, finding his team’s lead slowly eroding, he had to let his regulars return to the game. Gi vens performance was just three points shy of the record for an NCAA championship final set by Bill Walton, who scored 44 points for UCLA in this same building against Memphis State in 1973. At that time, the building was known as the St. Louis Arena; it is now called the Checkerdome. A crowd of 18,721 gave Givens a standing ovation, roaring his nickname of “Goose" as the bril liant Kentucky forward left the game with 26 seconds remaining. He later returned with the rest of the starters. The Blue Devils made a frantic rally near the end of the game and cut Kentucky’s once-formidable lead to 92-86 after Hall had re moved his seniors from the lineup in the last half-minute. Then, with 10 seconds left and Kentucky’s regulars back on the floor, Mike Gminski hit a 15-foot jump shot to trim it to 92-88. But Givens, Rick Robey and company held to clinch the Wildcats' victory. After Kentucky broke Duke’s full-court press, James Lee, con sidered by many the best sixth man in college basketball, put the finishing touches on the triumph Baseball out of A’s hassle NEW YORK (AP) — Commis sioner Bowie Kuhn said Monday that Oakland A s owner Charles O. Finley’s refusal to accept cer tain non-financial terms for selling his team and having it transfer red to Denver has caused baseball to withdraw from negotia tions. "We are terminating our efforts to work out a solution to move Oakland to Denver," Kuhn said. 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