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12—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, T«xo» Thursday, Jon. 31, 1980.
...district race tightens
Wildcats, Liberty-Eylau to clash Friday night
By JERRYTITTLE
News Telegram Staff
It would appear that three 7
AAA basketball teams are on a
collision course. And the sur-
vivor of the crash will probably
wear the districf crown while
sitting atop the pile of second
and third place finishers who
must be content to scratch their
heads and mutter “what would
have happened if we had done
this instead of that — but just
wait-until next year.”
The Paris Wildcats are, after
all, just a group of talented high
school , juniors and seniors,
capable, though, at intervals
more regular than not-sd-
regular, of resembling a new
NBA franchise team nestled in
Northeast Texas.
i Witness their climb from
seventh last week to sixth place
this week in a state ranking poll
conducted by the Fort Worth
Star Telegram.)
But,.through no fault of their
own, they do possess hut nan
characteristics, and these
qualities do render them
subject to human error, which
means they are not infallible,
which means on any given
night, and so-on-and-so-forth,
(Witness the near-fatal
errant Mike Johason pass with
three seconds left which gave
Uberty-Eylau the tying shot,
forced the game into overtime
arid made Paris struggle to win
95-87 in first round play. Also
witness the Tuesday night
Right reflex, wrong game
Looking like an infielder avoiding a baserunner, Louisville's
Roger Burkman leaps to avoid Florida State's sliding Bobby
Park, Although the play resembled baseball, the game was
actually basketball, and Louisville took the win recently in the
Metro Conference.
AP photo
Pastorini trade
only a rumor?
By MICHAEL A, LUTZ
AP Sports Writer
HOUSTON (AP) - Houston
Oiler quarterback Dan
Pastorini, once again the
center of controversy, says he
doesn't want to be traded —
unless the Oilers don’t want
him any more. '
"I love it here," Pastorini
said Wednesday in response to
a copyright story in the
Houston Chronicle that said he
had asked Coach Bum Phillips
to trade him before the start of
next season.
“There have been rumors
going around that I’d been
traded ... that someone wanted
to trade me," Pastorini said. "I
don’t know what’s going on. I
have no control over being
traded. The Oilers have that
control."
San Antonio
nips Rockets
HOUSTON (AP) - Rick
Barry said “free throws didn’t
mean a thing in that game"
after the Rockets' 118-111 loss
to San Antonio, but the Spurs
would probably disagree.
San Antonio hit 35 of 43 from
the free throw line Wednesday
night in their second win this
year on the Rockets' home turf,
while Houston managed only 11
of 16 charity shots.
San Antonio coach Doug Moe
said “both teams had a chance
to put it away, but we both
played pourly. We’d miss a few
shots and they'd get a few easy
baskets and then we were able
to come back quickly and that
took out their sting.”
After leading San Antonio
most of the first half, the
Rockets took a 55-52 advantage
into the dressing room at the
half and seemed to have game
in hand.
But ex-Rocket John Shumate,
traded to San Antonio in early
January, led the Spurs rally in
the fourth period when San
Antonio moved back into the
lead to stay.
"I always play 100 percent,"
said Shumate, who scored 20
points, "and tonight it just
happened to be against
Houston.”
Tom Vance, Pastorini's
agent, said the idea that
Pastorini had asked to be
traded, started as a rumor.
“A reporter called D4n late
last night (Tuesday) and said
he had heard from reliable
sources that Dan was being
traded,” Vance said. “Dan said
he bad not asked to be traded
but if the Oilers were trying to
trade,Win, then yes, he wanted
to be traded.”
A Chronicle story by Hal
Lundgren quoted Pastorini as
saying "I love it here, but 1
want out" and said Pastorini
wanted to be traded to Ixts
Angeles, Oakland, San Fran-
cisco or Denver before the start
of next season.
’’Dan said if he had to go,,
then he'd like to go to one of
those places," Vance ex-
plained.
"I have not requested to be
trailed," Pastorini said. "I
don't know what the Oilers
have in mind. Maybe they want
to trade me because of
economic reasons. I don't
know."
Vance said he did not know
the source of the rumor but said
, it did not start with the
Chronicle story. “He (Lun-
dgren) was just following up on
a rumor. He’s a fine writer.”
There also were rumors
Pastorini wanted to renegotiate
his contract with the Oilers and
that the Oilers had filed an
injunction to keep him from
purchasing and driving a
dragster.
"Several months ago, Dan
asked the Oilers if he could get
some of the deferred money in
his contract, but that was
months ago," Vance ^aid. The
request remains unresolved,
Vance said.
Vance also said a con-
troversy over Pastorini pur-
chasing and driving .a top fuel
dragster had nothing to do with
the situation.
"It’s a standard clause in a
player’s contract," Vance said.
"Sometimes team officials look
the other way and sometimes
they don’t.”
Oiler Senior Vice President
Ladd Herczeg said Wednesday
the Oilers had informed
Pastorini last week if he at-
tempted to race dragsters
competitively, the Oilers would
use all legal means to keep him
off the tracks. t
scare in Mount Pleasant with
the game tied 54-54 with less
than five seconds on the clock.
Paris' Glenn Bennett connected
on a lastditch jumper but amid
the cracking thunder in Brice
Gym neither official could
testify if it occurred before,
concurrent with or after the
buzzer. As a matter of fact, no
one heard the buzzer at all but
Paris was awarded the basket
and the win despite the raucous
partisan protests.)
So, coach Mike Long’s Paris
cagers emerged an impressive
18-1 basketball team instead of
a good 17-2 squad upset by a
fired up Tiger team on “the
given night.”
, .Meanwhile,, the Daingerfield
Tigers are no strangers to the
powerhouse basketball
stratum. (Witness their state
finalist team of not too many
years ago and their district 7
AAA championship team of
1978-79.)
And with the likes of 6-fooWi
all-stater Warren Everett the
Tigers are a constant threat.
(Witness Everett and
Company chipping away at an
18 point Paris lead, cutting it to
three in the third quarter, only
to lose the 7 AAA first-round
encounter 60-52 while Everett
ended the night with 22.)
Relieved and excited, Paris’
mentor Long would remark
later: “Til take an eight point
win over Daingerfield
anytime." ■ ' . “
And anytime Everett is in the
neighborhood it may not be an
uncommon sight to spot a
stranger in the stands with pad
and pencil, wondering to
himself: Is he aggressive
enough? Does-he consistently
block-out under the-basket?
What about his speed? He
certainly has the size though.
(Witness the scout from the
University of Texas at
Arlington who watched Everett
and his Tigers do battle with
coach Jim Russell’s Sulphur
Springs Wildcats Jan. 18 in the
Wildcat gym.)
What he saw was not one of
Everett's better performances
but rather a noteworthy
Wildcat exhibition of the
"classic" sagging zone defense
in action.
The Wildcats closed the door
on Everett (holding him to 10
points) and with a 52-49 win
uver the Tigers established
themselves as the third party in
the collision-course trio.
But before any premature
playoff notions crop up the
Wildcats must step over a huge
hurdle, coach Willie
Washington’s Liberty-Eylau
Leopards Friday night in the
Wildcat gym with the Jayvee
game scheduled for 6 p.m. (It is
the last home Friday night
game on the Wildcat schedule.)
Tuesday night the Leopards
slipped by Hallsville 79-72 .in
Texarkana’ And it’s no secret
by now the Wildcats have
been checking off days on the
calendar, anxious to avenge the
first-round loss handed to them
by the Leopards 76-75 in
Texarkana Jan. 4.
Anyone with more than a
nominal interest in basketball
would enjoy this rematch of two
run-and-gun offenses. (Witness
the likes of the leopards’ Gary
Maxwell and Rickey Don-
nelson, who, given the chance,
would derive great pleasure
from dropping in two more
game-winning free throws with
17 seconds on the clock. Witness
also the likes of the Wildcats'
Ivan Wright and Mik.e Debase,
already with more than 500
Varsity career points and
junior John Russell who needs
just 10 to join them.)
Thij first half of district 7
AAA is history, with each
member of the trio leaving its
mark on the course of events.
(Paris ended the first half at 7-0
while Sulphur Springs and
Daingerfield were tied for
second at 5-2.) But all three
have started a new slate with
one win against no defeats.
Speculation indicates the
second half is without question
up for grabs and Tuesday night
' Paris almost fell victim to the
"given night."
First for '' the Wildcats,
however, comes Liberty-Eylau
Friday night.
A & M stops Bears 59-50;
Longhorns pound Mustangs
By CHARLES RICHARDS
AP Sports Writer
Terry Teagle was pouring
points through the hoop so fast
in the first half of Baylor’s
game with Texas A&M that
Aggie coach Shelby Metcalf
observed, "He just looked
unconscious out there."
But Texas A&M took a 27-25
halftime lead than took ad-
vantage of a Baylor dry spell at
tiic start of the second lialf and
remained unbeaten in South-
west Conference play with a 59-
50 victory Wednesday night in
Waco.
In other games in a full slate
of league activity, Houston
handed Texas Tech its third
straight SWC defeat 75-63,
Texas drubbed SMU 113-80 as
Ron Baxter broke the Longhorn
career scoring mark, and Rice
nipped TCU 60-59 on Ricky
Pierce’s tip-in with 2 seconds to
play.
Arkansas, which was idle,
fell lte games behind the front-
running Aggies, who raised
their league record to 9-0. In the
past 20 years, only Arkansas’
1977 team has gone unbeaten in
SWC play.
Teagle, the conference’s
leading scorer, scored 16 of his
Will Grimsley
Toomey lauds
Brundage clout
By WILL GRIMSLEY
AP Special Correspondent
Too bad old Avery
Brundage isn’t still around
— he wouldn’t have stood for
the current Olympic crisis,
insists Bill Toomey, one of
America’s most celebrated
Olympic heroes.
"No country would dare
interfere when Avery was
president of the IOC,” said
the former Olympic gold
medalist, world record-
holder in the decathlon and
member of the U S. Olympic
Committee for eight years.
"The movement had clout
then. It had stature which it
seems now to have lost.
People are jerking it around.
Brundage not only ruled the
IOC with an iron hand but, as
a former athlete himself, he
had a feeling for the athlete.
"He knew athletes got
dirty". Critics accused him of
being stuffy and unrealistic
but he had an idealism which
he never compromised. He
was strong and inflexible,
That’s what we need today.”
Toomey, 41, was in
Philadelphia today to un-
dertake a new sports role as
executive director of the
AAU Masters Sports
program, aimed at con-
tinuing competition for
athletes past their prime,
including swimmers over 25,
and track and field
specialists in the 30 to 40 age
bracket.
The project is sponsored
by Penn Mutual Life.
Since 1968, when Toomey^,
outperformed bigger and
stronger rivals at Mexico
City Games to win the
rigorous 10-event test, he has
been active in the Olympic
movement, traveling to
more than 50 countries for
the Peace Corps, doing some
history and English teaching
and serving on ^the
President’s Council for
Physical Fitness.
"First of all, 1 back the
president," he said,
referring to Carter’s threat
of an American boycott of
the Moscow Games if Soviet
troops remain in
Afghanistan. “I don’t like it,
but I think it’s the only
avenue open to patriotic
citizens. Our country gets
priority over selfish in-
terests.
“My feeling is that
Brundage would have
jumped in before this and
made a firm decision.”
Brundage, who served as
IOC head from 1952 through
1972, died in May 1975 at age
87. He left indelible
fingerprints on the Games.
"I recall talking to
Brundage a few years ago
about some of the poorer
countries I visited with the
Peace Corps,” Toomey
recalled.
‘"We’ve got some money
from TV,’ he said. ‘Maybe
we ought to use it to help
them build up Olympic
teams.’ Brundage gave the
Olympics visibility — he
made them an important
organization."
A Stanford graduate with
what he termed mediocre
skills, Toomey worked hard
to master the decathlon. He
went to a psychiatrist to
overcome a fear of the pole
vault bar. He ran, jumped
and threw for hours at a
time.
Once he competed in an
event in Iran to celebrate the
shah’s bifthday.
"I’ll never forget it," he
said. "Everybody was
frisked before going into the
stadium., Once inside, you
couldn't g^t out, not even to
go to the bathroom, until the
shah left.”
Too Tall' booked
in Dallas city jail
DALLAS (AP) -
Professional boxer and
former football player Ed
“Too Tall" , Jones was
booked into the Dallas city
jail this morning in con-
nection with an investigation
of criminal assault.
Arresting officer Scotty
Holt said Jones was arrested
without incident at 6:10 a.m.
at an apartment in Dallas.
Jones, a 6-foot-9 defensive
end for the Dallas Cowboys
before he retired last year to
begin a career in boxing, had
been with friends earlier at a
Dallas night club,
celebrating a doctor’s bir-
thday, Holt saicl.
24 points in the first half.
"Teagle is a great player. All
of our guys wanted to shake his
hand when the game was over.
They really respect him,"
Metcalf said.
"But as fine a player as
Teagle is, I think the best
player on the court tonight was
Rynn Wright. He did a super
job for us.”
Wright and Vernon Smith
triggered the second-half rally
that led A&M to victory. Texas
A&M outscored Baylor 15-4 in
the first 10 minutes of the
second half to put the game out
of reach.
Jim Haller, the Baylor coach,
said his team’s failure to score
on any' of its first three
possessions of the second half
was a setback the Bears
couldn't overcome.
“Those misses were as big a
factor in the game as anything.
In fact, that was probably the
difference in the game,” Haller
said.
The Bear coach said A&M
still has tough games at Texas
Tech and Fayetteville, "but
A&M does what it takes to win.
You name it, size, speed and
shooting, and they are better
than anyone. They're the top
team in the league. If they have
a weakness, I doon’t know what
it is.”
Texas Tech picked up five
technicals in the second half,
three of them on coach Gerald
Myers.
He got two of the technicals,
and the Tech bench another,
after Houston had outscored his
team 154 to turn a 32-31 lead
into a 44-35 lead.
Rob Williams connected on
four of the six technical shots,
and Bryon Gibson’s jumper
after the ensuing throw-in gave
Houston a 50-35 lead and the
Cougars breezed home.
Baxter surpassed Jim
Krivacs as Texas’ all time
leading scorer early in the
game with SMU on a pair of
free throws. He scored 30 in the
game as Texas cruised to a 50-
35 halftime lead. Krivacs’
record was 1,673 points.
★ ★ ★ ★
By The Associated Press
EAST
Connecticut 8V, Manhattan 66
Delaware 62, Lehigh 55
Drew 80, N Y. Polytechnic 42
Drexel 73, Fairleigh Dickinson 72
Fairfield 55,,.St,, Bonaventure 54
Georgetown, DC 97, Boston Col. 92,
OT
Iona 77, Wagner 73
LaSalle 62, Notre Dame 60
Pittsburgh 75, Westminster, Pa, 44
Rhode Island 86, New Hampshire
83
St.Joseph's, Pa. 72, Buckuell 60
Siena 82, Long Island U. 64
S.Carolina 89, Hofstra 62
Syracuse 93, Temple 77
Vermont 92, RPI 65
•Yale 83, Colgate 68
SOUTH
Alabama St. 101, Spring Hill 74
Baltimore U. 71, VMI 60
Campbell 69, Georgia So 68
Davidson 58, Appalachian St. 48
Duke 82, Wake Forest. 61
E Tennessee St. 54, Citadel 52
George Washington 104, deorge
Mason 79
Georgia 76, Florida 48
Kentucky 64, Auburn 62
LaGrange 64, Georgia SW 59
Louisiana SI. 83, Vanderbilt 81
Louisiana Tech 77, N.Texas St. 65
Maryland 63, Virginia 61 ,
Mercer 75, Stetson 56
Mississippi 66, Tennessee 61
Morehouse 77, Bethune Cookman
67
NE Louisiana 82, McNeese St. 57
SWIabama 66, N.Caro Charlotte
65
S.Carolina St, 94, Texas So, 89
Term. Martin 85, SE Missouri 74
Virginia Tech 68, W,Virginia 64
MIDWEST
Alabama 80, Mississippi St, 68
Bowling Green 77, Butler 68
Case Reserve 82,,Thiel 79
Detroit 68, E.Michigan 63
Evansville 86, W(s. Milwaukee 70
Kansas St, 66, Missouri 64 .
Miami, Ohio 83, Cent Michigan 73
Nebraska 59, Oklahoma 58
No,Illinois 52, Valparaiso 48
Ohio U 67, Kent St. 57
Oklahoma St. 71, Kansas 67
W,Michigan 62, Ball St. 60 ’
SOUTHWEST
Houston 75, Texas Tech 63
Rice 60, Texas Christian 59
Texas 113, SMU 80
Texas A&M 59, Baylor 50
FAR WEST
Colorado 78, Iowa St. 68
Occidental 64, Whittier 51
Metroplex mayors
support boycott
DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas-
Fort Worth area stands ready
to host an alternative Olympics
should the United States decide
against competing in Moscow
this summer, the U.S. Olympic
Committee has been told.
The mayors of Dallas and
Fort Worth met over lunch this
week and agreed to support a
U.S. boycott of the Moscow
Olympics.
Congress has gone on record
against U.S. participation in
the Moscow Olympics while
Russian troops occupy
Afghanistan, and a House
subcommittee said it is ready
to explore other’ forms of
competition for American
athletes.
Mayors Woodie Woods of
Fort Worth and Robert Folsom
of Dallas sent the U.S. Olympic
Committee a telegram that
said their cities have/the
facilities to hold an alternative
competition. /
“Essentially, what I told
them (the Olympic committee)
in the telegram is that we would
like for Dallas-Fort Worth to be
given consideration, that we
have numerous facilities in our
two cities that would enable us
to handle the summer athletic
events,” Folsom said.
Included in the facilities,
Folsom said, are the Cotton
Bowl and Reunion Arena in
Dallas, Amon Carter Field in
Fort Worth, "seven or eight
area colleges, numerous junior
colleges, the swimming
facilities at Southern Methodist
University and Loos
Fieldhouse, the Fort Worth
Convention Center, and public
-schools facilities in both
cities.”
_ The cost of hosting an
athletics extravaganza
shouldn’t be great, he said.
The vast expense to Los
Angeles, in preparing for the
1984 Olympics, is in building
facilities, he said.
"The use of those facilities is
not expensive, however, and
that’s our only consideration,”
he said.
The availability of hotel
facilities gives Dallas-Fort
Worth an edge over other cities
interested in hosting an
alternative Olympics, he said.
"We’re talking about a very
low percentage possibility.
We’re just seeing if there is a
possibility, that’s all,” he said.
BEAUPRE, Quebec (AP) -
Olympic medalist Bill Koch
sprinted over the 15-kilometer
course in 41 minutes, 47.42
seconds to successfully defend
his title at the National Cross
Country Ski Championships.
Senior forward Ivan Wright goes up for two points against an
earlier opponent in the Wildcat gym. Coach Jim Russell's
Wildcats will host the Liberty Eylau Leopards Friday night in
an important district 7 AAA game. The Jayvee game is
scheduled tor a 6 p.m. tipoff with the Varsity game to follow. The
'Cats only registered two first round losses and the Leopards
dished out one of them.
Stall photo by JOHN GORE
Good for two points
Rangers deny
Sundberg trade
FORT WORTH (AP) - The
Texas Rangers have
threatened to trade Jim Sund-
berg, one of the premier cat-
chers in,the American League,
if he doesn’t agree to a new
contract within 10 days, the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
reported today.
Sunderberg’s lawyer says
that if Sundberg does not reach
agreement with .the Rangers at
a meeting with the team’s
executive coifimittee next
Tuesday Sundberg will play out
his option this year and become
a free agent, the newspaper
said.
Quoting a source described
as being close to the
negotiation, the newspaper also
said it appears a power
struggle may be developing
between majority owner Brad
Corbett and Eddie (Whiles,
president of the Western Co.
and newest member of the
team's board of directors.
Readied in Tulsa where he
was on promotional tour for the
Rangfers, Sundberg said,
“There are problems in the
contract now and at this point I
can’t say anything more. I
haven’t signed anything yet.”
Sundberg confirmed that he
and Jim Hayes of Iowa City,
Iowa, his lawyer, will meet
with the executive committee
next week.
Team officials, including
Chiles, executive vice president
Eddie Robinson and club
lawyer Dee Kelly all strongly
denied that any trade threats
had been made to Sundberg.
"If anyone ..thiUks we
threatened Jim with a trade, it
must be a misunderstanding,”
said Robinson.
Although Hayes would not
confirm the newspaper report,
he said there was no misun-
derstanding.
“I’m a trial lawyer. I’m
rarely accused of misin-
terpeting anything,” said
Hayes.
There were reports last week
that Sundberg, who will be 29 in
May, and the Rangers were
about to reach agreement on a
16-year, $5 million package
deal.
Corbett was not available for
comment on the controversy,
but both Chiles and Kelly
agreed with Robinson that
there were no threats made.
"I’m not aware of any threats
made to Jim Sundberg or any
threats made by him to us,"
said Kelly. A source had told
the newspaper that the sign or
be traded message was
delivered by Kelly.
Chiles also denied the threat.
"That just isn't true. We
made no mention of any threat.
He’s our star, the guy we ex-
pect to lead us for the next
couple of year,” Chiles said.
The source told the
newspaper that Sundberg and
Corbett reached an agreement,
one that was initialed by
Corbett, but they learned later
that Corbett apparently did not
have authority to approve the
agreement.
ETSU to host
Spring meet
COMMERCE, Texas — East
Texas State University has
been designated as the site of
the spring 1980 University
Interscholastic League
Regional Meets for 59 schools in
Region II, Class AA, Districts 9-
16, according to ETSU
President F.H. McDowell.
The meets, which will involve
between 600 and 800 high school
students, will be on the
weekends of April 17-19 and
April 24-26. All events^lll be on
the ETSU campus and at Sand
Hills Golf and Country Club.
Dr. Ron Huffstutler, dean of
ETSU's Division of continuing
Education, was appointed
director general of the meets.
Other directors are Dr. Jesse J.
Hawthorne, head of health and
physical education, director of
athletic events, and Dr, Jim
Vornberg, educational ad-
ministration faculty, director
of literary events.
Competition will include
boys’ and girls’ track and field,
boys’ and girls’ tennis, boys’
and girls’ golf, one act plays,
debate, informative speaking,
persuasive speaking, poetry
interpretation, prose reading,
journalism, ready writing,
spelling, typewriting, shor-
thand, number sense, slide rule
and science.
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