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THE NEWS-TELEGRAM. Sulphu. Springs, Taxos, Thursday, March 20,1980-13.
■
Just in time
Sulphur Springs right fielder John Russell (3) slides into second base just in time to beat the
throw in Tuesday's action against Prairiland in Eagle Stadium. The Wildcats staged a come-back
rally in the bottom of the seventh inning to nip the Patriots 4-3. The 'Cats will host Bonham Friday
in a 4 p.m. game that has senior Bobby Beck scheduled for mound duty. Bonham beat the Wildcats
12-7 in the season opener.
-Staff photo by JOHN GOR E
NBC likes McGuire's
style, basketball savvy
An AP Sports Analysis
By FRED ROTHENBERG
AP Sports Writer
AI McGuire sounds like a New
York bartender, which he once
was. He fractures the English
language and often makes a
sham of all the rules of jour-
nalism.
We think he’s the best sports
commentator around today.
Contradiction? Maybe, but
what other color man is so
colorful that he makes you
laugh? What other analyst can
explain basketball with his
heart and soul rather than Xs
and Os? Who else reminds us so
readily that bigtime sports is
really fun and games?
This is not a crusade for more
broadcasters who butcher their
English. It’s merely recognition
that it works for Big Al. He can
pull it off because he’s an
original, the real thing. If you
like McGuire in person, you'll
like him on the air.
It’s that quality which moved
NBC to hire McGuire following
his tearful, farewell per-
formance as Marquette’s coach
three years ago when the
Warriors dramatically won the
NCAA basketball cham-
pionship.
“We made the first approach
to Al,” said Chet Simmons, who
was then president of NBC
Sports. “We were impresssed
by his understanding of the
game. We recognized from his
interviews that he could ar-
ticulate. The humor certainly
was there; the irreverence was
there. Anybody who could ride a
motorcycle across New Zealand
and Australia must be . all
right.”
At first, NBC was concerned
about three men in the booth.
Billy Packer, a cracker jack
analyst, was doing a solid job
with play-by-play man Dick
Enberg. So McGuire was exiled
to a sub-basement studio. If he
had something to say, his face
would appear in a circle in the
comer of the screen and he
would drop his pearls and
disappear.
“When my head would pop
through that circle, I thought I
was talking to the deaf,”
McGuire said.
Eventually, NBC realized
hiding McGuire in the basement
was like parading Charlie’s
Angels around in three-piece
suits. “We realized that Al and
Billy could play off each other
beautifully,” said Simmons.
“Al really deserved to be heard
more than he had.”
Or as Packer jokingly ex-
plains it: “Al would press a
button when he had a brilliant
thought, and the geniuses at
NBC would flash him on the
screen, and he would come out
with a brilliant statement.
Eventually we got him down
onto the court so he could see
what game was being played.
One year, we’ll put him back in
the studio. We’re not gonna tell
him what game is on, and his
statements will still be well
received, but very inaccurate.”
When McGuire began
broadcasting, the NCAA didn’t
like him very much. “He took
the officials apart a lot and said
controversial things,” Simmons
said. “But we never placed any
restrictions on Al. Eventually,
the NCAA realized he's great
for the game.”
There are three more chances
to hear McGuire, this Satur-
day’s semifinals and Monday
night’s NCAA finals.
Teammate loans allow
Hegman to repay bank
DALLAS (AP) — Personal
loans from four of his team-
mates will allow Dallas
Cowboys linebacker Mike
Hegman to repay a bank for the
$10,534 in checks he is accused
of forging, his lawyer said
Wednesday.
Hegman was indicted
Monday on charges accusing
him of writing 27 checks for a
total of $10,534 on the account of
Chuck Mayhew between last
September and last December.
Hegman had shared a Dallas
townhouse with Mayhew while
Hegman and his wife were
getting a divorce.
The indictment accused
Hegman of forging Mayhew’s
name on the checks drawn on
Mayhew’s account at Republic
National Bank.
The loans of $2,000 each came
POMPANO BEACH, Fla.
(AP) - The Texas Rangers
have pledged their unanimous
support for a major league
baseball players strike if such a
walkout is called the
Players Association’s executive
board.
The team met Wednesday
with Marvin Miller, the
association’s executive
director, and voted 37-0 to back
the strike. The Rangers are
carrying only 37 players on
their major league roster, three
under the spring training limit.
The vote, along with strike
votes taken by other major
league teams, precedes an
April 1 meeting at Dallas-Fort
Worth Airport, where each
team’s player representative
will decide when a strike, if
from quarterback Roger
Staubach, middle linebacker
Bob Breunig, halfback Tony
Dorsett and safety Cliff Harris,
the players acknowledged
Wednesday.
Spencer Kopf, Hegman’s
lawyer, said Hegman has ob-
tained the remainder of the
money from other sources to
make restitution to the bank.
Kopf said the actual payment
has not been made to the bank,
but he said the money is now
available.
Bill Gall, a senior vice
president at the bank, said the
bank itself cannot dismiss the
charge, but he said they would
notify prosecutors if the money
is repaid and would be
“flexible.”
But, that may not entirely end
necessary, would be called.
Miller, who met with the
Rangers prior to their
exhibition game with the New
York Yankees, said he was
unimpressed with the decision
by negotiators for the owners to
drop a proposed salary scale for
players.
“The players were never
fooled by that. We expected it. I
gather the owners think that
with drawing a meaningless,
asinine proposal entitles them
to a reward,” Miller said.
“It’s almost aS if a man who’s
been beating his wife for years
stops and says, ‘Don’t I deserve
a reward?”’
Miller said the next
negotiating meeting with the
owners’ representatives will be
next Wednesday in Phoenix.
Hegman’s legal problems.
Assistant District Attorney
Richard Zadina said restitution
to the bank will not mean that
the case would automatically be
dropped.
Zadina said that even if
Republic National Bank files an
affidavit of non-prosecution, the
case will go forward.
“It’s just like in a bank
robbery. Just because
somebody makes restitution
doesn’t do away with the'fact a
crime has been committed,”
Zadina said, “There are no
plans to dismiss the Hegman
case.”
The district attorney’s office
could, after Hegman makes
restitution, file a motion asking
District Court Judge Richard
Mays to dismiss the charge.
If convicted, Hegman faces a
maximum of 2 to 10 years in
prison and a $5,000 fine.
Staubach said he made the
loan to Hegman in an attempt to
help a friend and teammate out
of a “serious situation.”
“He (Hegman) was in a bind.
Mike’s a teammate and a
friend, easy to get along with
and a good guy,” Staubach said
Wednesday.
“You don’t always know what
happens when people leave the
lockerroom. Mike had
problems. It was indicated to us
if he could get this thing taken
care of, he could iron them
out,” said Staubach, “This was
a serious situation.”
Harris said he made the loan
because Hegman said he was in
trouble and needed help.
“Everybody is entitled to a
mistake. I didn’t want to see
him get into a lot of trouble if I
could help it," Harris said.
Breunig said his reason for
making the loan was simple.
“We’re friends on the team
and I want to help a guy who’s
in trouble when I can.”
Dorsett and Hegman could
not be readied for comment
Wednesday.
Rangers pledge
strike support
*
Virginia nips Minnesota 58-55
in final; Sampson wins MVP
By WILLIAM R. BARNARD
AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - The
Virginia Cavaliers believe then-
victory in the National In-
vitation Tournament qualifies
them as one of the best college
basketball teams in the country
— despite their 10 losses and
fifth-place finish in the Atlantic
Coast Conference.
But with three of the NCAA
championship tournament’s
final four were also-rans in
their own conferences, who’s to
say Coach Terry Holland and
his team are wrong?
"I believe we’re as good as
any team in the country when
we play well,” said Holland
after Virginia defeated Min-
nesota 58-55 in the cham-
pionship game of the NIT
Wednesday night.
“We didn’t get enough time to
jell together during the season,
but we played well in the
tournament,” said Jeff Lamp,
whose four free throws in the
last 19 seconds secured the
victory. “We had our ups and
downs all season and the ad-
versity pulled us together."
I,amp*.who scored 30 points in
Monday nights semifinal vic-
tory over Nevada-I^s Vegas
but was held to nine in the
championship, was referring to
Virginia's season-long struggle
to adjust to highly recruited
freshman center Ralph Samp-
son.
The 7-foot-4 Sampson,
amazingly mobile and agile for
Wildcat netters share
matches with Terrell
The Sulphur Springs Wildcat
tennis team, tuning up for the
Wills Point Tournament Friday
and Saturday, traveled to
Terrell Wednesday for a dual
match and came away with a 4-
-4 split in the top eight matches.
The. number one Wildcat
doubles teams, boy’s and girl’s,
won with little difficulty but the
singles representatives en-
countered stronger com-
petition. However, Laura
Wilemon, playing in the number
two singles spot, defeated the
number two Terrell girl, Leta
Bitros, 7-5, 6-0, in a strong
showing. The number one
Wildcat girl, Donna Jordan,
defaulted because of an injury
and the number one boy, Dennis
Ballard, lost a tough match to
highly rated Jimmy Laroe, 6-2,
7-6 (5-4). “Laroe is the number
four rated player in our region
and is an odds-on favorite to win
it all,” Wildcat coach Steve
Armstrong said. “But I thought
Dennis had him in that last set.
A win with scores that close to a
player of I^roe’s capability is
nothing to be ashamed of by
The tough die
hard in sports
By WILL GRIMSLE Y
AP Special Correspondent
“I am still physically
capable and motivated — I
want to beat everybody.”
That’s Billie Jean King’s
comeback chant. It comes
from her throat with all of
the fervor of a challenge
from some female Tarzan.
Billie Jean thinks she can do
it all again, and who among
us has nerve enough to doubt
her?
She is truly a sports
phenomenon. *
Now 36 years old, both
knees so scarred from
operations that you could
play tic-tac-do on them,
counted out on numerous
occasions, the so-called “Old
Lady” of tennis keeps
bounding back.
All the young lionesses of
the game are looking ap-
prehensively over their
shoulders as the top women
players vie in New York’s
Madison Square Garden this
week for their richest prize,
the $300,000 Avon Cham-
pionships.
Why not?
Within the past month
King put together tour
victories in Detroit and
Houston, beating Evonne
Goolagong 6-3, 6-0 and
following that with a 6-1, 6-3
rout of Martina Navratilova,
rated the world’s best.
The tough die hard.
Muhammad Ali, 38, is
trying to shed 50 pounds in
hopes of winning the
boxing’s heavyweight
championship a fourth time.
The 41-year-old Jim Kaat is
pitching like a schoolboy in
the Yankees’ baseball camp
in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The
legendary Gordie Howe, 51,
and Bobby Hull, 41, are
playing ice hockey with the
same enthusiasm and daring
as when their bodies were 20
years old.
The ranks of the "Over the
Hill Gang" keep swelling
like an inflated balloon.
Nobody wants to hang it up
any more. Workhorse Phil
Niekro, 40, is just coming off
a 21-20 season of pitching for
the Atlanta Braves. Gaylord
Perry, 41, was a 21-game and
Cy Young winner two years
ago. Both expect their arms
to last forever.
Pittsburgh's Willie
Stargell was a World Series
and National League MVP
last year at age 38. Boston’s
Carl Yastrzemski, 40, and
the Phillies’ Pete Rose, 39 in
April, are just getting their
second wind. Dallas’ Roger
Staubach, 38, and Denver’s
Craig Morton, 37, are two of
the older wonders of the
National Football league.
“People have been asking
me why I don’t retire ever
since I was 24,” Billie Jean
said during a break at the
Garden this week. “I’ll
never forget a comment by
Arthur Ashe a couple of
years ago. He said, ‘Can you
imagine being No.7 in your
profession and people asking
why you don't quit? What if
you were the seventh best
lawyer, doctor or accountant
in the world? Nobody would
think of asking why you
didn’t retire.”’
King said for some
unexplained reason people
pose the “Big 30” as the
competitive life of athletes
- from that point, they're
supposed to start downhill.
“Not so,” she adds.
“Decay starts in the head.
An athlete, physically sound,
should be able to last until he
is 43 if willing to work hard."
Stabler anxious
for Houston duty
By MICHAEL A. LUTZ
AP Sports Writer
HOUSTON (AP) - Quar-
terback Ken Stabler, speaking
in a slow Southern drawl that
fits right in with his new
Houston Oiler teammates, can
list a number of reasons why
he’s happy to be an Oiler.
Examining an Oiler helmet as
he was introduced to the
Houston Oiler staff Wednesday,
Stabler observed, “The last
time I saw one of these things it
was sticking in my back.”
Stabler, obtained from the
Oakland Raiders last week in
exchange for quarterback Dan
Pastorini, also said he liked
what he had seen of the Oiler
fans and heard about Bum
Phillips.
“Playing in the Astrodome is
like going to a party,” he said.
“In other places, they throw
beer bottles and can openers at
you. But when they start
singing that Oiler song and
waving those pom pons, it’s a
different world and I want to be
a part of it.”
Stabler said he had heard
many compliments from
players concerning Phillips’
relationship with the team.
Stabler, who completed 304 of
498 passes for 3,615 yards and 26
touchdowns last season, said
the trade also had rejuvenated
his interest in playing.
“I had thought several times
about hanging them up,”
Stabler said. “But you get to
thinking about it in July and
you’re back. This trade has
me all pumped up again. I
feel like a rookie.”
Dennis and" the way he is
playing since the Texarkana
tournament I still think he has a
real shot at a repeat of the
district championship. But it
will be tough," he said.
Armstrong will take 10
players (four girls and six boys)
to the Wills Point tournament
but he will switch his lineup
around a bit.
Jordan and Susan Reynolds
will not make the trip because
of prior commitments.
Therefore, Armstrong will play
Betty Chubb in the number one
singles spot for this tournament
only.
Following is a complete list of
the Terrell dual match results
with the Sulphur Springs
players listed first.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Girls Singles
Donna Jordan defaulted to l.iaa
Schaeffer. 2-4, 74; latura Wilemon
defeated I eta Hitros, 7-5,6-0
Girls Doubles
Hetty Chubb and Suxan Keynolda
defeated Becrca Snow and Sheri Seller. 8-2.
6- 3, Theresa Shelton and Gail Mrtirady
lost to Michelle Jandrum and Sheri
Phillips. 6-0.6-0.
Boys Singles
Dennis Ballard lost to Jimmy laroe, 6-2,
7- 6 6-4; Brad Taylor defeated Todd
Killian.6-6. Wade MrDanieldefeated Paul
Kincout.6-4,4-6,7-5
Beys Doubles
Jue Hughes and I-ante Uainey defeated
Jeff Moore and Joe Schaeffer. 6-1,6-2, (this
Terrell pair had previously defeated Bret
Btrcher and Jim Sriaro of Pans); David
Holden and Monty Teel lost to Chuck Kama
and Scott Jones. 64,6-2.
his size, was named the NIT’s
Most Valuable Player after
scoring 15 points and 15
rebounds Wednesday night
following his 26 points and 15
rebounds Monday.
“You can't really call him a
freshman anymore," said
Holland. "This was his 34th
game (Virginia finished 24-10)
and that's a lot of basketball. He
has developed into an ex-
ceptional player."
Virginia shot only 38.2 per-
cent for the game to Min-
nesota’s 41.7 percent, leading
Lamp to say, "We won the
game on defense. Intensity
throughout the game and the
tournament was the reason we
won.”
"We had lots of desire and
hustle defensively, but didn’t
have any offensive movement,"
said Minnesota Coach Jim
Dutcher. "We just didn’t move
to the basket strong enough.
Almost all of our turnovers
were on intercepted passes.”
The game was almost a free-
throw shooting contest at the
end. Sampson hit two with 1:31
remaining to give Virginia a 54-
53 lead before Lee Raker in-
tercepted a pass with 1:08 left.
Then Sampson pulled down a
key rebound of a missed
Virginia free throw, forcing
Minnesota to foul again. But
this time it was Lamp, who hit
84 percent of his free throws and
once hit 48 foul shots In a row
this year, who went to the line.
He hit both with 19 seconds
left for a 56-53 lead, then Kevin
McHale made it 56-55 with two
free throws for the Gophers
before Lamp iced it with two
more free throws with two
seconds remaining.
“I’ve been in a lot of 1-and-ls
this year,” Lamp said. “I admit
I was a little nervous, but I was
confident, too.”
Asked if he was glad to see
I,amp go to the line twice in the
crucial final seconds, Holland
replied, "Are you kidding? He’s
one of the best free throw
shooters in the country.”
The NIT has been criticized
as a “loser’s tournament” in
some basketball circles,
especially with 48 teams in the
NCAA tournament this year.
I .amp answered by saying,
“There are only two happy
teams in the nation when die
season ends, and we’re one of
them."
In the consolation game,
Illinois got 25 points from Eddie
Johnson to defeat Nevada-Las
Vegas 84-74.
Rangers get first
exhibition win 3-1
POMPAl^) BEACH, Fla.
(AP) — Gaylord Perry pitched
five shutout innings arid Sparky
Lyle blanked the New York
Yankees in relief Wednesday as
the Texas Rangers won 3-1 to
claim their first exhibition
baseball win of the spring.
The Rangers are now 1-9 in
exhibition play, the Yankees
fell to 5-4.
Lyle, relieving Adrian Devine
with runners on first and second
and one out in the seventh, got
Yankee infielder Gary Smith to
hit into a double play. Lyle gave
up only one hit, a lead-off single
to Roy Staiger in the ninth.
Perry started for Texas and
gave up three hits while
walking four.
The Rangers scored first on
Buddy Bell's fourth-inning
homer to left. The Yankees tied
the score in the sixth on Reggie
Jackson’s lead-off homer to
right. It was the fifth homer
Devine has given up in six in-
nings pitched this spring.
Texas scored in the sixth
after Mickey Rivers led off with
an infield single, stole second
and went to third when catcher
Brad Gulden's thhrow skipped
through into center field. Bell
walked and RiverB scored on Al
Oliver’s sacrifice fly to center.
Bump Wills singled, stole
second and scored Texas’ final
run on Dave Roberts’ base hit to
left In the seventh.
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NCAA Tourney Results
Villanova (22 7)
Marquette 118 81
1 V-illanoua 77 59
Syracuse (26 3)
Iowa |19 8|
...... I Iowa 77 64
Va, Comm, (18 11) I-
N.C State (20 7)
Iona <28 4)
Holy Cross 129 9)
Ilona 84 78
Ged town (24 5)
Tennessee (1710)
________1 Tennessee 80 69
Furman (23 6) ........—.........
Maryland (23-6)
Alcorn A M (27 1)
So. Alabama (23 5) j
Alcorn 70 62
LSU (24 S|
Missouri (23 5)
--. ''' ... ...—I Missouri 6151
San Jose 117 11) ) ' —-----------
Notre Dame (22-5)
Bradley (23 9)
N. Carolina (21-7)
Kansas St, (21 8)
Arkansas (21 7)
Florida St. (21 7)
Toledo (23 5)
Penn (16-11)
Wash. St. (22 5)
Purdue (1847)
LaSalle [21 8)
lK State 71 53
Louisville (28 3)
I Fla. State 94 91
Kentucky (28 5)
J Penn 63 55
Duke (22 8)
l Purdue 90 82
St. John's (24 4)
Va, Tech (19 7)
West. Ky. (21 7) j
Va. Tech 89 85
Indiana (20-7)
UCLA (17 9)
Old Pom, (25-4)
Ariz. State (21 6)
Loyola M (14-13)
tUCLA 87 74
DePaul(26-1)
Ariz. State 99 71
Ohio State (20-7)
Clemson (20 8)
Utah State (19 7)
1 Clemson 76-73
BYU (24 4)
Oregon St (26-3)
Iowa 77 64
Friday, March 14
Philedalphia
G Town 74 71
Maryland 86 75
LSU 98 88
Missouri 87 84
Friday, March 14
Houston
Texas A M 78 61
Louisville 71-69
Kentucky 98 78
4
Duke 52 42
Thursday. March 13
Laxington
Purdue 87 72
Indiana 68 59
UCLA 77 61
Ohio St. 89-76
Thursday, March 13
Clemson 71-66
Lamar 81-77
Iowa 88 77
Sunday, March Ifl
Philadelphia
G Town 74 68
Iowa 81 80
Saturday, March 72
Indianapolis
LSU 68 63
Sunday. March 16
Houston
Louisville 66 55
Louisville 86 66
Monday. March 24
Indianapolis
Duke 55 54
Purdue 76-67
Purdue 68 60
Saturday, March 22
Indianapolis
UCLA 72 68
Clemson 74-66
UCLA 85 74
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