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But MSU President D. W. Colvard, after checking with his trustees, receiving a petition signed by 3,000 students and hearing from numerous alumni associations, announced that he would permit the trip "unless hindered by competent authority." Governor Ross Barnett stepped in with a declaration against the trip, but then he drew away from the controversy, saying it was a matter for the college board to decide. The board met, while students picketed with a sign: "Don't discriminate against whites. Let State play." The board voted, 8 to 3, to do just that.

It is not to be deduced from all this that integration is coming swiftly to Mississippi . Proponents of the trip were just more interested in seeing MSU share the glory of a national meet than in what they consider groundless fears that the team would be "contaminated." But at least it was a move in the right direction and—as so often in the past—a move in which sports took the first step.

INSTANT LION

Sport's latest fix has nothing to do with basketball or professional football. It has to do with hunting mountain lions.

Guide Dawson Riley escorted a hunter into the Fort McDowell area north of Mesa, Ariz. a while back. There, waiting for the hunter, was a full-grown lion. The hunter shot him and paid Riley $500, the customary fee for a kill.

Last week Riley admitted in court that he had planted the lion, which he had purchased for $250. He kept it, a bobcat and another lion caged in his backyard until the hunter turned up. Then he hauled it into the mountains and turned it loose. Returning with the hunter, he had his dogs pick up the trail and they soon treed the lion.

Does this happen often, someone asked Robert Beasley, enforcement officer of the Arizona Game and Fish Department.

"What's unusual about it," said Beasley, "is that Riley was caught."

WET GROUNDS

The world's first water-borne stadium may yet be built in Seattle , a city seething with plans to lure major league football and baseball franchises to its environs and still a little heady from the success of its World's Fair.