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Maxwell's men
The Houston Oiler's Earl Campbell, left, and the University of after being named the professional and college football players
Southern California's Charles White display the trophies they of the year respectively.
received from the Maxwell Club in Philadelphia Wednesday ap photo
Mediocre Bruins
stun Oregon State
- By KEN RAPPOPORT
AP Sports Writer
This may be an off-year for
the UCLA Bruins, but they still
pack a pretty good punch.
They proved that by flooring
second-ranked Oregon State 93-
67 Thursday night.
“If we play like this, we can
play with anybody,” said UCLA
Coach Larry Brown, whose
Bruins are off' to a relatively
slow start this season with a
mediocre 11-7 record, including
6-4 in the Pacific-10, Conference
and have dropped completely
out of their accustomed place in
the Top Twenty.
Mike Sanders had a team-
high 19 points for the Bruins,
who led the Beavers by as
much as 26 points at one stage.
“Our pressure defense was
the key,” said UCLA’s Kiki
Vandeweghe. “It kept building
and building and forced them
into errors.”
The Beavers were one of
three Top Twenty teams upset
Thursday night, as sixth-
ranked Ohio State lost to
Michigan State 74-54 and No.15
Weber State dropped a 51-45
decision to Idaho.
Jay Vincent scored a game-
high 21 points and grabbed 14
rebounds to lead the Spartans
to their runaway Big Ten
victory over the Buckeyes.
Ohio State guard Kelvin
Ransey finished with only sue
points, ending a streak of 80
games in which he had scored
in double figures.
“I can’t think of one Buckeye
that played well,” said Ohio
State Coach Eldon Miller.
“Michigan State beat us any
way you could get beat.”
Don Newman scored 17
points to lead Idaho past Weber
State, breaking the Wildcats’
18-game winning streak. The
defeat was only the second of
the season in 20 games for
Weber State.
Elsewhere in college
basketball; No.7 Louisville
defeated Tulane 64-60; No. 16
Clemson routed Georgia Tech
76-52; No.17 Purdue stopped
Iowa 70-56; No.18 Indiana
turned back Illinois 60-54 and
No.19 Brigham Young beat
Texas-El Paso 89-81.
Darrell Griffith led a
balanced attack with 17 points
as Louisville defeated Tulane.
The victory was the 17th in 19
games for the Cardinals and
their sixth without a defeat in
the Metro Conference.
Rodney McCray added 13
points for Louisville, Wiley
Brown had 12 and Derrick
Smith scored 10 and led the
Cardinals in rebounding with
nine.
“We won on the scoreboard
but we sure didn’t play well,"
noted Louisville Coach Denny
Crum. “There were just a lot of
little things that seemed to
slip.” He said there were some
poor practices earlier in the
week and pointed out that the
Cardinals “were due a game
like that.”
Phillips confirms
Pastorini rumor
HOUSTON (AP) - Despite
denials by Houston quar-
terback Dan Pastorini, Oiler
Coach Bum Phillips says the
nine-year veteran had asked to
be traded if certain requests
could not be fulfilled by the
Oilers.
Pastorini was quoted in a
copyright story in the Houston
Chronicle as saying "I love it
here but I want out.” Pastorini
later denied a request to be
traded.
Oiler owner Bud Adams also
issued a statement saying
Pastorini had assured Oiler
management that he did not
want to be traded and had not
requested to be traded.
Phillips, visiting in the Port
Arthur area Wednesday, was
contacted by Port Arthur News
sports editor Bob West. Phillips
confirmed to West that
Pastorini had asked to be
traded.
Phillips and Pastorini were
discussing the Oiler quar-
terback’s plan to start drag
racing in the off season and
Phillips’ opposition to such
activity. At one point in the
conversation, Phillips told West
Pastorini said “trade me.”
Phillips returned to his office
Thursday but could not be
reached for comment. A
secretary said Phillips had left
the city until Tuesday.
FOOTBALL
NEW YORK (AP) -
Coaching greats Jack Harding
and Scrappy Moore were voted
into the National Football
Foundation’s College Football
Hall of Fame.
Harding coached at the
University of Scranton and then
at the University of Miami,
where he also served as athletic
director.
'Cats - Leopards tonight
The Liberty-Eylau
Leopards and the Sulphur
Springs Wildcats will clash
head-to-head tonight in the
Wildcat gym in a must-win
game for coach Jim
Russell’s Wildcats. The 7
AAA race tightens with each
game and Russell’s troops
have not forgotten the 76-75
“upset” coach Willie
Washington’s Leopards
handed to them Jan. 4 in
Texarkana.
The Jayvee game is
scheduled for a 6 p.m. tipoff
with the Varsity game to
follow.
The Wildcats and
leopards are 1-0 in the
second round of district play.
Will Grimsley
★ ★★★★ ★★ ★
Last of originals
unsure of future
By WILLGRIMSLEY
AP Special Correspondent
NEW YORK (AP) - He
rode baseball’s most bizarre
roller-coaster from the
depths to the peaks and back
to the depths again and now
he is hanging in the wind —
hurt, disillusioned, unsure of
his future.
“I’d like to keep playing —
I’m younger than a lot of
guys who are still going
strong,” said big Ed
Kranepool, the last of the
original Amazin' Mets. "I
could do a creditable front
office job - that’s what I’ve
always aspired to. But all I
can do now is wait.”
It was diamond castoffs
such as Kranepool that Lou
Brock had in mind recently
when, discussing the in-
sensitivity of baseball, he
said: “When you leave a big
company, you get a ring or a
watch. When baseball is
through with you, you get a
telephone call.”
Kranepool wasn’t even
accorded that courtesy when
the crumbling Mets decided
they had no further use for
the 35-year-old outfielder-
first baseman who had been
with the team from its in-
ception in 1962 and set many
of the club’s all-time
records.
"I got a terse notice in the
mail that I no longer figured
in their plans,” he said. “It
was a carbon copy at that.
The original went to my
agent, Dick Moss."
Kranepool placed himself
on the free agent market but
neither he nor Moss has
pushed for employment with
another club. They chose to
wait out the impending sale
of the New York National
League club, purchased a
week ago by book publisher
Nelson Doubleday and
friends for $21.1 million.
“I had a good life with the
Mets,” the 6-foot-3, 215-
. pound New York native said,
managing to blot out the
misery of the last couple of
years. ‘‘I love the
organization. I love New
York. Sure, I would like to
remain in some capacity,
but it would depend on who is
making the evaluation.”
Embittered as he is after
being treated like a frayed
dish cloth, Kranepool
refuses to make charges and
name names. *
His loyalty to a Tradition,
however tarnished, runs so
deep that it drowas out ail
the justified venom that
swells in his soul. He did his
bit when the Mets were the
buffoons of basel^ll.. He
refused to join the internal
bickering when the club’s
morale disintegrated and the
Mets fell back into the
catycombs.
As late as the spring of
1978, when the Mets had
shuffled away Tom Seaver’s
lightning fast ball and Dave
Kingman’s home run bat and
when discontent seethed in
the locker room, only
Kranepool’s voice was
raised in defense of the club.
“What kind of gripe do
these guys have?" he said of
the complainers. “We have a
lot of young talent. We’re a
building club. We’ll win
again just as we did in 1969.
Wait and see.”
Krailepool maintains a
stiff upper lip. He lives in
suburban Hicksville, N.Y.,
and commutes daily to an
interim job with a Long
Island collection agency. He
has other irons in the fire but
he is not ready to abandon
baseball.
“I should be goal for at
least two more years of
playing,” he said. “Then
move into the front office. I
have the qualifications.”
THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Friday, Feb. 1,1980—7.
Charmichael, Pearson
r": • ...... .._.................’
lead freie agent choices
. NFlW.YOItK rAPT ~ Wide
receiver Harold Charmichqpl
of the Philadelphia Eagles and
the Atlanta pass catching duo
of Wallace Francis’and Alfred
Jenkins were among the ap-
proximately 140 National
Football League: players who
became free agents today.
Feb. 1 is the deadline for
clubs to make qualifying offers
to players with expired con-
tracts. Those offers -mean a
player's original club retains
the right to match the offer one
of its free agents might get
from another team.
If the offer is matched by his,
original club, the player stays
with Unit team. If the offer is
not matched, he moves, and the
acquiring team compensates
the losing , team with draft
choices. V
The number of choices, and
their location in the draft, is
regulated by the player’s new
salary. •
The player reports offers
back to his old club by April 15
and the old team decides within
seven days whether to match
the offer and retain the player
or let him go for the com-
pensation.
Francis received 74 passes
for 1,013 yards and eight touch-
downs in 1979, Jenkins con-
tributed 50 receptions for 858
yards and three scores, while
Carmichael JcaugKt-52 Jor-iTIL
yards and 11 touchdowns.
Among the others are
multitalented running back
Preston Pearson of Dallas;
Miami quarterback Don
Struck, guard Larry Little and
defensive back Tim Foley;
Denver placekicker Jim
Turner; running back Eric
Torkelson and tackle Tim
Stokes, both of Green Bay;
Seattle offensive tackle Nick
Be bout and defensive end Bill
Gregory; and wide receiver
Isaac Curtis, linebacker Tom
Ruud and defensive end Mack
Mitchell of Cincinnati.
Few of tlie players, however,
are expected to move to other
teams.
Unlike baseball, where
veteran free agents almost
always sign with rival clubs,
football’? free agents have for
the most part remained with
their original teams. The
reason for that is the com-
pensation and right of first
refusal clause.
If no qualifying offer is made
by the original club, it means a
player is a total free agent with
his old club entitled to no
compensation should he sign
with another team.
Players such as offensive
tackle Jim Hanlan and tight
end Jean Fugett of the
Washington Redskins, and
Millionaire Norton
content to watch
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ken
Norton knew when it was time
to quit the ring. The veteran of
11 years of professional
fighting, once the World Boxing
Association's heavyweight
champion, also was wise
enough to invest a large chunk
of the money he made from the
sport.
So when he took off his gloves
for good after Earnie Shavers
knocked him out in the first
round last March, Norton was
able to make a smooth tran-
sition to the world of business
and investments.
“I could have hung around
and gotten hurt, but that
wouldn’t havebeen right for me
or for the image of boxing. I
made the right choice at the
right time,” said the 34-year-
old Norton, an ex-Marine who
broke Muhammad All’s jaw in
one non-title bout but lost twice
in rematches.
“The only time I get the it-
ch,” he added, “is when 1 see a
fight like the one in South
Africa (the John Tate-Gerrie
Coetzee World Boxing
Association heavyweight bout).
Any retired fighter who wat-
ched that had to wonder if he’d
gotten out too soon.”
Such an occasional thought of
a comeback aside, Norton is
doing just fine in retirement.
Of the $10 million or so he
earned in the ring, he said, he
followed a philosophy of “in-
vesting 50 percent, banking 25
pnd blowing the remainder.”
Jack Cohen, a friend of
Norton’s late manager Bob
Biron and a man who is
Lady Varsity loses
while Jayvees win
Coach Angela Hamm’s Lady
‘Cat Varsity basketball team
lost yet another four-pointer,
44-40, to the Paris Lady
Wildcats Thursday night in
Paris while coach Kamilla
Johnson’s Sulphur Springs
I-ady Jayvees won their battle,
34-31.
Hamm’s cagers controlled a
15-6 first quarter edge and were
up by six, 23-17, at the half.
But Paris’ lady ‘Cats turned
the game tempo around in the
second half, outscoring
Hamm’s squad 13-6 in the third
period and 14-11 in the fourth.
The Sulphur Springs Indies
presented a balanced scoring
attack, yet no one broke the
double-digit barrier.
Jill Pearson, Felicia Clayton
and Paula Sims hit for nine
points, followed by Carol Finnie
with seven and Linda Powell
with four.
Finnie was the leading
rebounder with seven.
“These four-pointers are
really tough to lose,” Hamm
said, “but my girls are getting
the experience they really
need.”
Pearson, Powell and Regina
Mclntlre are the only seniors on
the squad and even though this
J
defensive end Jack - Gregory
and running back Doug Den-
nison of the Cleveland Browns
fall into that category. Their
clubs have not made qualifying
offers and they are free to sign
with any of the other 27 NFL
clubs with no restrictions.
Hanlan, who was on injured
reserve with a neck problem
last season, has said he would
not play football in 1980. Fugett,
■ signet! away from Dallas by the
Redskins as a free agent in
1976, was used sparingly after
injuring a knee last season and
did not catch a pass in
Washington’s last 10 games.
Gregory, 35, almost retired
last summer before being
traded by the New York Giants
to his original NFL team, the
Browns. Dennison was signed
in midseason but did not play
for Cleveland.
Too Tall' denies
alleged assault
associated with Norton in many
of his investments, said the
former boxer is definitely a
millionaire,
He said Norton should have
no financial problems “as long
as he conducts himself wisely
over the next few years.”
“The credit,” Cohen said, “is
Norton’s. He has an instinctive
and remarkable touch for
making the right decision, for
putting his trust in the right
people. He was always being hit
on for this loan or that loan,.this
deal or that deal. But he’s never
been a schemer, a guy you can
take advantage of.”
Norton has another
philosophy that says man does
not live on financial in-
vestments alone. Among his
many interests is acting.
While still fighting he made
screen appearances in “Drum”
and “Mandingo.” At 6-foot-3
and 220 pounds, he possesses
the striking features of a
Hollywood leading man and he
is taking acting and voice
lessons.
Should his acting and singing
endeavors fail, he figures he
should emerge better equipped
to speak publicly and to
enhance his own image and
that of blacks and former
athletes.
“I’ve always believed that
anything the mind conceives,
the body can achieve,” he said.
“You have to accept
challenges. If you don’t, the
mind and body become
stagnant and then you’re not
really living.”
By JAMES- R. KING
Associated Press Writer
DALLAS (AP) . -
Professional boxer and former
Dallas Cowboy Ed “Too Tall”
Jones has denied accusations
that he raped a nurse-while she
slept in her apartment.
‘‘He denies there was a
rape,” said Jones’ attorney
Fred Time.
Jones was freed on $2,500
bond after he was arrested and
brought before a city judge for
a magistrate’s warning. He
was not formally charged or
arraigned.
Prosecutors said Jones had to
post the bond because his at-
torney secured a court order
for his release before the police
investigation into the case was
finished.
The accusations are in a
police offense report, in which a
25-year-old nurse claimed she
awoke and found the 6-foot-9
Jones assaulting her.
The report said Jones was
spending the night with the
nurse’s roommate in her
apartment after a birthday
celebration.
Jones, 28, said only “no
comment” to news reporters as
lie left the city jail with Time.
The police offense report said
Jones and a friend had been at
Elan’s, a fashionable Dallas
nightclub, with two women, and
that they all went to the
women’s apartment afterward.
The friehd left about 1 a.m.,
when the nurse said she shut
her bedroom door and went to
bed, leaving Jones with her
roommate in another part of
the apartment, the report said.
The report quoted her as
saying she woke up about 2:30
a.m. from the weight of Jones’
body on top of her.
She said Jones then got up
and walked out of the room,
according to the report.
The woman called police,
who came to the apartment and
found Jones asleep in another
bedroom, the report said.
Officer Robert Holt said
Jones was arrested without
incident at 6:10 a.m.
About four hours later, Holt
said, Jones went before
Municipal Judge Joe Loving
who advised him of his rights
and said he was being held for
investigation of a complaint
alleging second-degree felony
rape. Jones was then released.
Time said the statement in
the offense report “looked
ridiculous — there so many
discrepancies. Imagine a girl
next door being sound asleep
and not hearing a rape.
“We’re conducting an in-
vestigation now, trying to
gather witnesses to determine
what happened. The next step
would be a decision by police, to
determine whether or not they
want to file the case in the
district attorney's office.”
Holmes favored
in WBC title fight
year is not over by a long shot,
Hamm feels next year will be
better.
“They are playing better
each time they take the floor,”
Hamm said, “and next year
they will be able to stay on the
court with anyone.”
The lady ‘Cats host the
Hallsville girls Monday night
with the Jayvee game slated
for 6 p.m.
TENNIS
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -
Unseeded players Johan Kriek
of South Africa and John Sadri
ousted seventh-seeded Brian
Gottfried and No. 8 seed Jose-
Luis Clerc of Argentina in the
second round of the $175,000
Richmond Tennis Classic.
Kriek scored a 3-6, 6-3, 7-6
victory over Gottfried, while
Sadri beat Clerc 6-4, 7-5.
In other second-round
matches, top-seeded 7John
McEnroe breezed by Hank
Pfister 6-1, 5-2; No. 2 seed
Roscoe Tanner defeated Heinz
Gunthardt of Switzerland 6-3.6-
4 and third-seeded Guillermo
Vilas of Argentina eliminated
Ilie Nastase of Romania 7-6,6-
4.
By JACK STEVENSON
A P Sports Writer
US VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -
Italy’s Lorenzo Zanon rates a
very small chance of upsetting
champion larry Holmes in
their World Boxing Council
heayweight title bout Sunday,
but he’s done some things to
improve the image he had of
being a punching bag.
Zanon in 1977 was knocked
out by Ken Norton in five
rounds and by Jerry Quarry in
nine rounds, and then laid off
boxing an entire year.
He went into a physical
training program, running and
doing isometric exercises to
build up his physical con-
ditioning and recuperative
powers.
Under the tutelage of Ruti
Del Vecchio, a conditioner bom
in Philadelphia who moved to
Milan, Italy, Zanon worked to
become more flexible, more
resistant and to be able to use
his brain constantly in boxing
bouts.
Since Dec. 26,1978 he has won
five bouts and drawn in one and
became the European
heavyweight champion, a title
which was stripped from him
because he is in the United
States for his world title
chance.
Zanon stood next to a statue
of former champion Joe Louis
and said he became a boxer
only because it was the only
sport available in Lentate, a
village suburb of Milan.
“I wanted to try boxing, judo
or karate but the gym only had
boxing," he said.
Zanon stands 6-foot-3 and
weighs 210, and some call him
the shrimp of the family.
His father, a steelworker,
stands 6-6 and weighs 245 and
both his mother and sister are
6-1.
Observers think Zanon will
be lucky to last through five
rounds against the quick-
hitting champion, but his
manager, Umberto Branching
thinks otherwise, saying “he
likes the fight but not the
training. He likes to box
technically but not slug it out”
Zanon will earn $125,000 for
his 15-round challenge against
Holmes at the Sports Pavillion
of Caesars Palace on national
television. *
Holmes reportedly will
receive about $600,000 although
there is some debate whether
promoter Don King has put up
that much in cash.
Zanon believes he has quick
hands and will be able to outbox
the champion, whose left jab is
considered one of the best ever
in boxing. Del Vecchio's
program has been to enlarge
Zanon’s neck to absorb the
jabs, a similar strategy used by
former champion Ken Norton
before he lost the WBC crown to
Holmes.
The biggest purse for Zanon
previously was $50,000 for the
Norton fight.
Zanon is 28, two years
younger than Holmes, and has
won 25 of his 31 fights but
scored only nine knockouts. He
has lost four times and has two
draws on his record.
He is the first Italian-born
heavyweight to fight for a
world championship in 47
years, since Primo Camera
won the title in 1933 by stopping
'Jack Sharkey in six rounds at
Long Island, N.Y.
Town supports
■ *
former coach
JACKSBORO, Texas (AP) -
School officials here pledged
support for their former
football coach and athletic
director if he can avoid a prison
term on his guilty plea to
making false statements on a
bank loan application.
A federal judge in Fort Worth
said he would sentence Charles
Wayne “Chuck” Curtis today.
The former coach could be
assessed the maximum penalty
of two years in prison and a
$1,000 fine.
Curtis pleaded guilty Jan. 12
in the misdemeanor counts in
return for dismissal of three
felony counts contained in an
indictment returned by a
federal grand jury in Amarillo
last November.
That indictment alleged
Curtis use<$ property already
pledged a? collateral on a bank
loan to secure a new loan.
"We’re going to stay with
him as long as we possibly
can,” said Tim McPherson, the
Jacksboro school superindent.
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