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section Sunday, June 28, 1981 Who are the best first basemen to play in the major leagues? Lou Gehrig, George Sisler and Jimmie Foxx stand at the top. Page C-4. THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER LJ ryor Savages i I Blackmoore To Keep Title 1' ed the ring, taunting the chal lenger and attempting to throw some punches while both fight ers still wore their robes. Pryor, extending his unblem ished record to 28-0, including 26 knockouts and 20 knockouts in a row, dropped Blackmoore in the first 30 seconds of round 1, land ing a solid left hand that seemed to shock the challenger. Before the round ended Blackmoore went down again, this time from a right hook, and blood was al ready showing under the left eye "I never expect a knockout, Pryor insisted, although the fe rocity of his attack left little room for any other outcome.

"I just take whatever comes. I felt ft5" i he could take a punch, and wanted to go after him righ away and see if I could get to him." Pryor praised Blackmoore for "showing great heart. If he had made it through the second BY TERRY FLYNN Sports Reporter LAS VEGAS Aaron Pryor was an angry man when he stepped into the ring at the Hacienda Hotel here Saturday afternoon, and Guyana's Lennox Blackmoore paid the price. Delivering a savage beating to the No. 1 contender, Pryor retained his World Boxing Association junior welterweight title defense with a second-round TKO.

As has been his style since turning pro five years ago, Pryor rushed at Blackmoore from the opening bell, pounding the challenger with some hard left hooks and vicious combinations. The second round lasted only a minute as Pryor caught Blackmoore with a big left to knock the former British Commonwealth lightweight champ to the canvas for the third time in the brief fight, resulting in a technical knockout as blood poured from a cut over Blackm-oore's eye. "I was mad," Pryor said in the post-fight interview room. "They belittled me as a fighter and a champion. They wanted to make bets that I couldn't win this fight, and then they made fun of my ability." PRYOR'S MANAGER, Buddy LaRosa, mentioned that he and his fighter had been treated less than well from the time they arrived here.

"We didn't know anything about Blackmoore, because we couldn't get any films," LaRosa said. "Then we come here (to the Hacienda's Matador Sports Arena) and get a little dressing room, about half as big as Blackmoore's. Aaron was furious." That fury was evident in the way Pryor went after Blackmoore from the moment he enter round, I think we would have had a war on our hands. BLACKMOORE, WHO went to the hospital immediately after the fight to have a cut over his right eye closed with stitches landed a few punches in the first round, but Pryor said, "I didn't feel them. They didn't have any thing on them because I didn't give him a chance to get ready." One of Blackmoore's man agers, Mike Correia, said after the fight that the challenger's han dlers weren't surprised by Pryor's furious assault.

"I was surprised at what hap pened, but not at what Pryor did, Correia said. "We knew he would come out and try to put a lot of pressure on Lennox, but iJ 1 A. 1 Lennox got off to a slow start and AP Laserphoto never could come back." LENNOX BLACKMOORE covers up to try and protect himself from the persistent onslaught of Aaron Pryor. (See PRYOR, Page C-6) Case Of The Man Named Tony Mason: Pro Or Con Man? Tony Mason will not go to jail. I predict it right here.

You may think he in big trouble. Actually, he's in complete control of the situation. He's on trial in u4 mm Arizona for six counts of theft and 10 assorted other transgressions. If found guilty, he could be spending a few years in prison. That would make it rather difficult for him to resume coaching football, which was his occupation at the University of Cincinnati for four seasons and then at the University of Arizona until he resigned under pressure last year.

Allegedly, Tony used his clout as football coach to obtain fake airline heard a more convincing speaker than Tony Mason. I once saw him take a middling, patched-up University of Cincinnati football team and coax it, cajole it, shout it into a victory over Arizona State. UC had no business winning that game, but after Tony's oratory about mother, the flag, and bravery, Arizona State had no chance. The final score was 14-0. 1 can almost guarantee you that by Tuesday afternoon, a certain Jury in Tucson will be ready to go to war for Mason.

He will have convinced them that while writing up questionable expense accounts is not legal, it is a necessary evil if a school wishes to compete in big-time college football. The crazy thing is, he might be right. That doesn't mean his policies are. The last time I saw Tony Mason was three years ago, at a fancy-pants resort outside Tucson. He had Just completed his first season at the University of Arizona, and I was interviewing him about the school's acceptance into the Pacific 10 Conference.

Tony filled my notebook with consummate skill, telling me that the Pac 10 would upgrade the of A image, and that maybe recruits would no longer come to Tucson thinking they would see dorms filled linesman: "Go ahead and call the penalty on us, but be careful when you start your car tomorrow." Other times, Tony accused opposing coaches of cheating, or sandbagging, or bad breath. NOW, OF course, it is Tony being accused of all the nasty stuff. I knew it would catch up with him some day. Despite recent courtroom testimony that Mason is a well-respected member of his profession, there are plenty of coaches who regard him with significantly less esteem. Ironically, some of those coaches are probably getting away with dirty tricks, too.

College football is a million-dollar industry that is far out of control. Too much money is spent legally and illegally to give alumni their vicarious thrills. People such as Tony Mason must admit that. Perhaps he will admit it, on the witness stand Tuesday. Whatever he says, I am willing to wager spectators will be brought to tears.

The American system of justice will have its way, and the jury might indeed find Tony guilty, but I'm guessing it will be terribly hard to lock up a man who if he had to could convince a firing squad to put on blindfolds and give him the guns. allowance at Arizona was too per day when he arrived at the school in 1976, and somewhat more than that when he quit which made it necessary to find other ways of paying for hotels and meals. These charges, naturally, have made people wonder if the same thing was going on at UC. No one there likes to talk about the subject, given the university's recent brush with the NCAA. Tony definitely lived well during his tenure here, so think what you wish.

Often, he would purchase new equipment and worry later how to pay for it. But he won football games. By some miracle (or maybe by other methods) he coached UC into the top 20 of one wire service poll after six games in the autumn of 1976. 1 was travelling with the team that season, and it was one of the more entertaining episodes in my life. Most everyone knew Tony was a snake-oil salesman with a whistle around his neck, but he made the weekends so delectable, nobody cared.

He would pace the sidelines the same way Ralph Kramden paced the kitchen in "The Honeymooners." He baited referees with relish. Once, drawing upon his Italian heritage, Tony shouted at the tickets and turn in $6,000 or so in fake expense accounts during his tenure as Arizona's coach. There's documentation with cowboys and their horses any more. After the interview, we had lunch, a sumptuous and expensive lunch. Tony insisted on picking up the tab.

Or rather, he insisted that the University of Arizona pick up the tab. Tony was eternally generous with his employers' money, both at Arizona and Cincinnati. Ultimately, it would be his undoing. THE REASON Tony Mason finds himself in such a pickle today is that, basically, he tried to live in a mansion when he only had the authority to buy a split-level house in the suburbs. He supposedly billed the University of Arizona for airplane trips he never took, with the help of a friendly clerk at American Airlines.

He claims he needed the money because his expense account of this. Under normal circumstances, you'd say Tony should be seriously considering seeing a tailor about a nice striped suit. But from my experience with the man, I'm guessing that's the last thing on his mind. He is well aware that he still holds the best card in the deck. He goes on the witness stand Tuesday.

I WILL not be there, but I wish I could be. In the 29 years of my life, I have never Borg, Jausovec Win Tiebreakers, Gain Wimbledon Quarter-Finals BY NEIL AMDUR e1981 N.Y. Times News Service WIMBLEDON, England Tiebreaker victories helped Bjorn Borg achieve his 39th consecutive Wimbledon triumph Saturday and also assured Mima Jausovec of a 6-4, 7-6 upset over Andrea Jaeger for a berth in the women's quarter-finals of the $650,000 tennis championships. And while the crowd of 31,473 helped swell at tendance at the All England Club to a first-week record an unseeded 20-year-old American, Tim Mayotte, joined Borg, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors in the last eight of men's singles by stopping Sandy Mayer, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6. "I feel comfortable with the people and the atmosphere," said Mayotte, a national collegiate champion from Stanford, who turned pro last week and is making his Wimbledon debut.

"When you win lot of matches in a row, you feel you can come duel with his friend and long-time practice partner, Vitas Gerulaitis, the top-seeded Borg took two tiebreaker playoffs in their 7-6, 7-5, 7-6 fourth-round match. In doing so, Borg demonstrated that he is sharpening his first serve and passing shots for a serious run at a sixth successive singles crown. BORG'S OPPONENT in the quarter-finals will be Peter McNamara, the No. 12 seed, who also needed a pair of in ending Jeff Borowiak's engaging first week. The scores were 7-6, 6-0, 7-6, and the unseeded Borowiak extended McNamara to 8-6 in the third-set playoff before the 'Australian's punishing serve-and-volley skills prevailed.

Aside from the Jausovec-Jaeger match and Virginia Ruzici's continuing three-set sagas on the backfield courts, the women's draw was a lull before next week's storms. The top four seeds, Chris Evert Lloyd, Hana Mandlikova, Tracy Austin and Martina Navratilova, lost a total of only 13 games among them, and it will be big news if a Lloyd-Austin, Navratilova-Mandlikova semifinal round is not achieved. -( The second week for the men is certain to focus on a possible Borg-Connors semifinal and a Borg-McEnroe rematch of last year's five-set final if Connors does not intervene along the way. Like Borg, Connors ftas not lost a set in four matches. He dropped serve only once Saturday during a 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 victory over Wojtek Fiebak of Poland.

Gerulaitis, the No. 16 seed, had lost 17 matches in a row to Borg. After a shaky, disappointing spring, Gerulaitis phoned Harry Hopman, the former Australian Davis Cup Captain and his one-time mentor, and flew him here from Florida to monitor pre-Wimbledon training. (See WIMBLEDON, Page C-ll) through on the big points." Locked in another challenging Centre Court index Sports Editor JOHN GIBSON Tel. 369-1 9 1 7 After 4 p.m.

Scores 369-1005, 369-1006 (24 hours) BASEBALL C-2-4 BOXING C-6-7 GOLF C9 HORSE RACING C-12-13 OUTDOORS C-10 RADIOTV SPORTS C-8 SCOREBOARD C2 SPORTS BRIEFS OM '1 jf AP Laserphoto CHRIS EVERT LLOYD follows through on a shot during her 6-0, 6-0, 36-minute victory over Claudia Pasquale in the fourth round at Wimbledon Saturday. fc- t. 1.