LOS ANGELES (AP) Friday's funeral service for Chick Hearn will be private, while a public tribute to the legendary Los Angeles Lakers announcer will take place throughout the day.

Cardinal Roger Mahony, head of the Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese, will preside at the service for friends and family at 11 a.m. at St. Martin of Tours Church in Brentwood, Lakers spokesman Bob Steiner said Tuesday.

Although private, the service will be broadcast on KCAL-TV and Fox Sports Net West, Steiner said.

Also Friday, there will be a public tribute to Hearn from 8 a.m to 6 p.m. at Staples Center, where the Lakers play their home games and where the press center is named in the broadcaster's honor.

Hearn, the Lakers' play-by-play announcer since the team arrived in Los Angeles from Minneapolis in 1960, died Monday of injuries suffered in a fall at his home last week. He was 85.

People who come to the public tribute will be allowed to visit Hearn's broadcast booth and sign a guest book.

Each visitor is encouraged to bring a new children's book appropriate for grades kindergarten through fifth. The books will be donated to local school libraries and nonprofit organizations.

In lieu of flowers, Hearn's family requested that contributions in his memory be made to a scholarship fund being established in his name at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

Donations can be made out to the USC Annenberg Chick Hearn Fund, USC Annenberg School of Communications, Los Angeles, Calif., 90089-0281.

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