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22A. THE STAR, Feb. 9, 1980 Senate honors champ Steelers on Capitol Hill WASHINGTON (AP) Football fans in Congress Friday they love a winner even if it isn't the home The Senate passed a resolution commending Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers and held a reception that attracted members of Congress from away as California. Sen. John Heinz, who is from Pittsburgh, reception for eight members of his favorite team Chuck Noll.

Congressional aides and their families around the Steelers to ask for autographs. The most popular appeared to be fullback Franco with defensive tackle "Mean Joe" Greene and wide Lynn Swann also attracting considerable attention. The players were dressed in business suits and adult wearing a football jersey was Sen. S.I. Calif.

He sported number "12," the jersey that Terry Bradshaw usually wears. Bradshaw was not object. Hayakawa also was wearing his more familiar o'shanter, a -colored headpiece that the was not padded. "No, but it's protected me from a said. Chilled champagne was brought in to celebrate casion, but appeared to go untouched by the Steelers.

"I'd like to offer a toast," Heinz said. "But since holding a glass, let's give them a hand instead." Also on display was team equipment and uniforms are headed for the Smithsonian Institution to be for posterity. Raiders, LOS ANGELES (AP) Mayor Tom Bradley expressed optimism Friday concerning the possible move of the Oakland Raiders to Los Angeles after a meeting with Al Davis, the general managing partner of the National Football League team. Bradley and Davis met along with Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, Memorial Coliseum Commissioner Bill Robertson and Police Commission President Stephen Reinhardt at Bradley's city hall office. "We just had a meeting with Al Davis to secure a progress report concerning where we are in regard 12 Wireshete: Sen.

S.I. Hayakawa models jersey for 'Mean' Joe Green LA close to agreement to the Raiders moving to Los Angeles, and we think we're close to an agreement," said Bradley. "We feel that this city and this county are very strong on the Raiders coming here. "We feel that this city deserves a football team and we're going to fight to our limit to insure that the city has a replacement for the Rams." The Coliseum Commission filed an injunction earlier this week to block the National Football League rule requiring that 21 of the 28 team owners have to approve a move for it to take place. No decision on the matter is expected until next week.

The Coliseum won't have a pro football For bantamweight crown Pintor, Scandoval square off LOS ANGELES (AP) Lupe Pintor and Alberto expected to be an even money bet to take the title from Sandoval, two fighters who've struggled in different ways to Pintor. make it to the top, will battle Saturday night for the World Since beating Zarate, Pintor has fought three non-title Boxing Council's bantamweight crown. bouts, winning two but losing on cuts to Manny Vasquez in Pintor, the 24-year-old champion who lives in Mexico City, the seventh round of their match last Dec. 29. got his first taste of fighting on the streets of his native Sandoval has won his last four fights, the most recent a village of Cuajimalta.

He eventually graduated to being a technical decision over Catalina Flores at the Olympic on stablemate and sparring partner of Carlos Zarate. Nov. 29. Last June in Las Vegas, Pintor scored one of box- "The way I see it, Pintor's the puncher and I'm the boing's biggest upsets in yea when he took the bantamweight xer." said Sandoval. "Anything can happen in a fight, but I title on a 15-round decision over Zarate, who owned boxing's think it's probably going to end most impressive knockout record.

At Pintor is two inches taller than the challengSandoval, also 24, has toiled long hours, both at jobs and in er. But mysteriously, Sandoval is listed as having a 10-inch the gym, for the big chance he'll be getting when he goes into reach advantage on the champion. the Olympic Auditorium ring against Pintor. "Maybe they got confused changing centimeters to "I've worked hard and sacrificed a long time for this," inches," said Sandoval, laughing. "I can't believe my arms said Sandoval, from Pomona, Calif.

"'This is the payoff. are that much longer than hisk I'd be walking around like a Pintor will bring a 40-7 record with. 33 knockouts into the monkey." scheduled 15-rounder at the Olympic. Sandoval is 32-3, with Pintor will receive around $100,000 for the title defense, 21 knockouts. while Sandoval will get $25,000.

"He's strong and he has a very good hook," said Sandoval A crowd of some 10,000, near capacity, is expected. of the "But I'm faster." Sandoval himself took 1,000 tickets to sell to his relatives and champion. ranked the No. 10 contender, Sandoval is acquaintances in Pomona. Although Borg buries Vilas proved team.

the Super Capitol Hill as far hosted the and Coach crowded Harris, receiver the only Hayakawa, R- quarterback present to tam senator said lot," he the oc- no one is which preserved BOCA WEST, Fla. (AP) Defending champion Zjorn Borg mixed a steady backcourt game with some explosive winners as he advanced to the finals of the $300,000 Grand Slam of Tennis Friday, whipping Guillermo Vilas 6-2, 6-1 in a match spiced with long topspin rallies. The 83-minute victory vaulted the 23-year-old super Swede into Sunday's final against the winner of Saturday's showdown between Americans John McEnroe and Vitas Gerulaitis. At stake will be $150,000, the biggest top prize in tennis. Borg, the winner here the last three years, patiently exchanged deep, looping topspin shots with Vilas, then jumped on any short ball with vicious outright placements.

Vilas, a husky 27-year-old from Argentina, was content to rally defensively from the baseline, waiting for a rare Borg mistake. Vilas started well, breaking Borg in the very first game, which went to deuce three times. But Borg broke right back in the next game, highlighted by an acutely angled forehand cross-court drop shot at 15-40. The Swede then raced to a 5-1 lead, breaking Vilas again in the fourth and sixth games. Vilas staved off two set points in the next game when Borg made forehand errors and went on to win that game after three deuces.

Borg broke back in the next game, however, to win the set 6-2 as Vilas hit a backhand long. tenant beginning next fall because the Los Angeles Rams are moving to Anaheim. Bradley explained that the rental fee for a team to play in the Coliseum is $750,000 a year. He also said that the community surrounding the Colisuem will suffer "a negative impact if the Coliseum doesn't have a football team." "We're here to do everything within our power to insure that that happens," said. Bradley, referring to the Raiders' move to Los Angeles.

"Al Davis said he's ready and willing to come here," said Hahn. "Now we're waiting for a federal judge to -snake a U.S.-Cuba bout grows in importance CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Cuban heavyweight Teofilo Stevenson, regarded by many boxing experts as the best amateur fighter in the world, heads the list of Cubans who will fight American Olympic hopefuls Sunday in a 12-bout card.at the Charlotte Coliseum. With the possibility of a U.S. boycott of the Summer Olympics looming, Sunday's fights could be the only meeting of Cuban and American boxers this year.

If American athletes boycott the Moscow Oympics, Sunday's bouts "would be one of the prime matches of the year," according to U.S. boxing Coach Tom Johnson. The AAU-sanctioned bouts will each consist of three threeminute rounds, and several of the fights will be televised live nationally. The Cuban team flew from Havana to Charlotte on Wednesday and worked out at local gyms. Stevenson, winner of Olympic gold medals in 1972 and 1976, will meet American heavyweight Tony Tubbs of Cincinnati in the final bout of the day.

Tubbs won the world amateur championship in which the Cubans did not compete last October..