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2i D3? THE COURIER-JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1991 Pritchard is set for 'make or break' title fight SPORTS BEAT EDITED BY ROY WALTER Stockton picks Floyd, Beck; Pistons acquire Woolridge Captain Dave Stockton chose experience over power yesterday and selected Ray Floyd and Chip Beck to complete the U.S. Ryder Cup team. By JOHN C. PILLOW Staff Writer There will be no need to inform Louisville cruiserweight James Pritchard what time it is if he loses his bid for the International Boxing Federation world title next month. Pritchard, the IBF's top contender, will fight No.

2 James Warring for the IBF title Sept. 7 at a yet-to-be-determined site in Italy. Pritchard, 30, has been dreaming of this chance since he started boxing 10 years ago. "If I lose," he said, "it's time to get a real job. I'm not afraid to say it.

"I've been in the game 10 years, and my heart is out there. I have waited all these years, and I'm sorry I didn't get a (world-title) shot before now. But that's the way it goes. But when you get your shot and you aren't ready for it, you know what you got to do. "This is the biggest fight of my life.

It's either going to make my career or break it. These guys get it and don't want to? fight having the belt and bein the champ but not making any mon- ey don't mean nothing." Warring, at. 6 feet 3, is abou three inches taller than Pritchard, but that shouldn't be a problem, ac-, cording to Myers. "He's just tall and" awkward. It won't mean much." Darrin "Schoolboy" Van Horror of Lexington, will defend IBF super-middleweight ship Aug.

7 in Irvine, against, John Jarvis. Van Horn, 22, now living in Morgan City, has a record of 46-2-0 with 26 knockouts. Jarvis, 32, is a native of Rich- mond, Va. He is 25-2-0 with 19 knockouts. He is the IBFs Intercon-i tinental super-middleweight champion and the top contender for Vanh Horn's crown.

Van Horn's two losses came in 12c round decisions to Italy's Gian-i franco Rosi. Van Horn won the IBF title when he knocked out Lindelli Holmes in the 11th round May 18. Boxing Council version of the title Pritchard now has. The IBF world title recently was vacated by Jeff Lampkin, according to Bill Brennan, the IBF championship coordinator. He said Lampkin for an unknown reason chose not to make a mandatory title defense against Pritchard.

"Pritchard and Warring make sense," Brennan said. "As of yet we haven't sanctioned the fight, but that's just a matter of receiving the proper paperwork from the promoter." Cedric Kushner, who is promoting the fight, said the IBF will have the necessary forms soon. He said each fighter will get between $80,000 and $150,000, depending in part on whether the fight is shown on cable television. Pritchard is being trained by Doug Myers, a cousin of Pritchard's former trainer, Jimmy Ellis. "If Pritchard gets the title, and he will get the title, we'll fight," Myers said.

"We'll be a true champion. Stockton said he gave no consideration to selecting PGA champion John Daly to the 12-man team that will play Europe's best Sept. 26-29 at Kiawah Island, S.C. "He doesn't have the experience," Stockton said. "I was very impressed with what he did last week, but I Floyd i Beck Everett finds groove, leads Rams past Chargers from referee to line judge in July 1989.

He had more than 20 years experience and received the same pay of $2,000 per game in both positions. Dreith filed a complaint with the EEOC after his contract was not renewed at the end of the last football season. The EEOC said it took the case to court after efforts to reach a compromise with the NFL failed. The lawsuit alleges that the NFL unfairly reviewed the job performance of older referees and that the league forces older officials into retirement or transfers them to less important positions. The league would not comment directly on the lawsuit.

Scratch' PGA champion John Daly from the Indianapolis Colts' roster. Colts general manager Jim Irsay and Black Barons. "The Barons had a good owner, but eventually they were bought by a man in the rackets from Champaign, 111. He ended up in jail. We couldn't get paid.

It wasn't like the big, successful days anymore, with top-notch people, top-notch baseball." Although Robinson broke the color barrier, few Negro League veterans say he was the best among them. "Jackie was a pretty good player but no better than me," Davis said. "Jackie was a football player, you see," said Edsall Walker, who pitched against Robinson while playing for the Homestead Grays. "They advertised him as that. And when they took him, we knew he had a temper, you see; we knew he was kind of cocky.

"But I tell you something else. Looking back, they couldn't have picked a better man because it worked out perfectly. Can't anybody say any different now." So it was not surprising that the display that honored Robinson also drew the players and their families. But the real attraction, the one that kept them coming back time and again, was the one that saluted their league. Buck O'Neil, said to be one of the greatest hitters ever, grabbed one Kansas City Monarch after another to point out a giant-size team photo BOXING Pritchard, who started out as a heavyweight, has a 29-5-2 record.

The cruiserweight limit is 195 pounds, and Pritchard said it is the right weight for him. "I'm much more comfortable as a cruiserweight," he said. "I've had 18 cruiserweight fights, and I mashed all of them. They are just a little faster than the heavyweight, but the punching power doesn't even compare." Pritchard became the No. 1 contender April 6, when he won the IBF's Intercontinental cruiserweight title.

In that bout, South Africa's Siza Makhathini was disqualified in the seventh round for hitting below the belt more than three times. Warring, 32, of Miami, has a 11-1-0 record. He holds the North American Boxing Federation cruiserweight crown, which is the World NFL for 88 yards without an interception in one half of play. After taking a 17-3 halftime lead, the Rams stymied San Diego's offense, which executed only eight plays in the third quarter behind backup quarterback John Friesz. Friesz completed 6 of 13 passes for 70 yards and was sacked three times losses of 18 yards.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed an age discrimination lawsuit against the NFL yesterday, claiming the league was not playing fair with older referees. The agency filed suit on behalf of Ben Dreith, 66, who was demoted get their day That pride was evident in an exchange Monday between Lorenzo "Piper" Davis, formerly of the Birmingham Black Barons, and Henry Aaron, the major leagues' leading home-run hitter, who got his first taste of pro ball with the Indianapolis Clowns. "Hey, the bat that used to whistle," the 74-year-old Davis said, slapping Aaron on the back and vigorously pumping the younger man's hand. "Whistle just like mine." Although the younger Aaron was a developing player by the time the color barriers fell, players like Davis missed because of age and timing. Aaron got to play for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves.

Davis, invited to spring training with the Boston Red Sox in 1949, made it through the exhibition season but was released as the Sox barnstormed their way north to Boston. The Negro leagues and players like Davis didn't fade into history until 11 years later, finally done in by the flight of top young players to the majors and of successful entrepreneurs away from the segregated leagues. "Guys were coming in who weren't baseball people," said Frank Evans, who played for the Buckeyes, Kansas City Monarchs came the fifth member of the 12-man U.S. team to be eliminated in his first fight, losing 21-7 at 119 pounds to Mexico's Javier Calderon. The judges' punch-count totals differed considerably.

One from Panama gave Calderon a 34-7 punch margin; one from Peru favored Clayton, 27-21. Clayton's teammate, Patrice Brooks, took a 15-2 decision over Guyana's Mark Richardson at 132 pounds despite battling diarrhea for the past four days. Men's Softball: Canada topped the United States 8-3, its second win over the Americans. The U.S. team will play Cuba this afternoon, with that winner facing Canada tonight for the gold medal.

Cuba beat the Dominican Republic 8-1. Volleyball: The U.S. women's team rolled past Argentina 15-7, 17-15, 15-4, boosting its record to 2-1. Wrestling: Brad Penrith, in his first major international meet, shocked Cuban world champion Alejandro Puerto 6-4 to win the freestyle gold medal, one of seven on the night for the United States. Other U.S.

gold-medal winners were four-time world champ John Smith pounds); Bruce Baum-gartner (superheavyweight); Mark Coleman (220); Kevin Jackson Kenny Monday (163); and Townsend Saunders (149ft). Bowling: In the grand final, Patrick Healey of. Wichita, was the men's winner. E. Piccini of Mexico upset Julie Gardner of Huntington Beach, to take the women's gold.

needed someone with experience." Beck won of a possible four points in the 1989 matches, his first in the biennial competition. Floyd, 48, has played on six Ryder Cup teams since 1969 and was the captain of the 1989 team that tied the Europeans. The other members of the American team are U.S. Open champ Payne Stewart, Fred Couples, Hale Irwin, Lanny Wadkins, Paul Azinger, Wayne Levi, Mark O'Meara, Mark Calcavecchia, Corey Pavin and Steve Pate. They were selected from a points list that closed with the PGA Championship.

PRO BASKETBALL The Detroit Pistons traded center James Edwards and acquired forward Orlando Woolridge in separate deals with the Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Clippers. The 7-foot-l Edwards went to the Clippers for 6-6 guard Jeff Martin, a former Murray State player, and the Clippers' second-round pick in the 1995 National Basketball Association draft. The Pistons also traded 6-11 reserve Scott Hastings and their 1992 second-round pick to the Nuggets for the 6-9 Woolridge. "We're looking for a little more speed and scoring ability," Pistons general manager Jack McCloskey said. Edwards, 35, averaged 13.6 points and 3.8 rebounds last season.

Woolridge, 31, averaged 25.1 points and 6.8 rebounds, playing in only 53 games due to a detached retina. Martin, a third-year player, averaged 7.1 points in 77 games last season. He'll add depth to the Pistons' backcourt rotation "if he makes our club," McCloskey said. The Boston Celtics signed guard Anderson Hunt, the only Nevada Las Vegas starter not selected in the 1991 NBA draft. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.

The 6-2 Hunt played for the Celtics in the Los Angeles Summer League, averaging 8.2 points in 23.6 minutes. As a sophomore, Hunt was named Most Valuable Player of the 1990 Final Four, which UNLV won. Last season UNLV lost in the semifinals to Duke, and Hunt declared he was entering the NBA draft after his junior year, when he averaged 17.2 points. Chris Gatling, one of the Golden State Warriors' three first-round draft picks, sign a five-year contract. Financial terms were not announced, but the contract reportedly is worth about $5.6 million, including $4.75 million guaranteed.

The 610 forward, the 16th player selected overall, averaged 21 points and 11.1 rebounds as a senior at Old Dominion. HORSE RACING American Royale, the 2-year-old filly who ran her record to 3 for 3 in the Adirondack Stakes last Wednesday, has been sidelined by a shin splint in her left front leg and won't race the rest of the year, trainer Lisa Lewis said. Lewis had hoped to run American Royale in Saratoga's Spinaway Stakes on Aug. 26. Instead the filly will be shipped Friday to Lane's End Farm near Versailles, Ky.

Lewis expects the filly to rejoin her stable at Hialeah in early winter. Lewis said it is believed that the splint developed in the Adirondack. TENNIS Danilo Marcelino upset third-seeded Brad Gilbert 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in the second round of the Volvo International at New Haven, Conn. "My strategy was to hit slow, don't hit the ball hard, because I know he likes that," said Marcelino, ranked No. 128 in the world.

"He likes when you play hard. He likes to counterattack. If you play slow against him, he doesn't have a winner shot." Gilbert said he "played like an idiot" but scoffed at Marcelino's assessment. "I'll just say he was lucky," he said. Fifth-seeded Goran Ivanisevic outlasted Gianluca Pozzi 7-6 (9-7), 4-6, 6-2 in the second round, and No.

14 Todd Woodbridge, a Volvo International finalist last year, was overpowered by Bryan Shelton, who had 10 aces in a 7-6 (7-2), 6-3 first-round victory. Ninth-seeded Jakob Hlasek beat Canadian Grant Connell 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 in the first round of the U.S. Hardcourts at Indianapolis. "The court was fast," said Hlasek, who won 56 of his 80 service points, including 38 on his first serve. Connell, who had only two break points in the match, knotted the tiebreaker with a winning volley on the 12th point but followed with a double fault and then returned Hlasek's second serve long to lose the set.

Other seeds who won included No. 10 Alexander Volkov, No. 14 Fabrice Santoro, No. 15 Francisco Clavet and No. 16 Christian Bergstrom.

COLLEGES Oval Jaynes, who rejuvenated Colorado State's athletics programs by hiring successful coaches Earle Bruce and Boyd Grant, was named athletics director at Pittsburgh. During Jaynes' five-year tenure, Colorado State increased football attendance from 15,000 to 26,572 per game and basketball attendance from 3,697 to 8,509. Under Bruce, Colorado State won the Freedom Bowl last season, its first bowl game in 42 years; Grant's basketball teams played in the past two NCAA Tournaments. Grant retired at the end of last season, and Jaynes hired former Montana coach Stew Morrill as his replacement. BOXING Challenger Manuel Medina overcame knockdowns in the second and third rounds and hammered out a 12-round unanimous decision over Troy Dorsey for the International Boxing Federation featherweight title Monday night in Inglewood, Calif.

By the seventh round the Mexican challenger had opened a cut over Dorsey's right eye. The eyelid was split in the ninth, and Medina (39-3, 20 KOs) cut Dorsey's left eye in the 10th. Dorsey, making his first defense, fell to 11-4-4 with nine knockouts. PRO FOOTBALL Buddy Ryan, who was fired as coach of the Philadelphia Eagles after last season, will join Cable News Network for its National Football League preview show. He'll join Vlnce Cellini on the show from 11:30 to noon each Sunday between Aug.

25 and Super Bowl Sunday, Jan. 26. BASEBALL A man died after falling about seven stories from a SkyDome ramp during the seventh inning of the Toronto Blue Jays' game with the Boston Red Sox on Monday night. Kenneth Piery, 39, of Kincardine, Ontario, fell to the stadium's ground floor from its top level. He was taken to St.

Michael's Hospital, where he died later. Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. It was back to business for Jim Everett, but he almost was overshadowed by the Rams' running game. Everett threw a touchdown pass and Cleveland Gary rushed for 77 yards in the first half as the Los Angeles Rams defeated the San Diego Chargers 24-3 Monday night in a National Football League exhibition game. "I was glad to get started," said Everett, who didn't play in the preseason opener, a 38-17 loss to Atlanta.

"I wasn't ready for the actual tempo of the game at the outset, but after a few plays the feel was coming back. I'm basically working on my own fundamentals, my drop-back, my footwork." Everett completed 6 of 13 passes Living legends Continued from Page 1 for Major League Baseball. In prepared remarks for an address given at a dinner Monday night, Fay Vincent said: "As the eighth commissioner of baseball, I say to you with sorrow and regret, I apologize for the injustice you were subjected to. Every decent-thinking person in this country agrees. Your contribution to baseball was the finest kind because it was unselfish." Like Fennar, many came to Coo-perstown with family members and friends.

And for many, the visit was their first. "Seeing it for the first time, seeing it with my grandson, that's what makes it great," said Fennar, referring to 28-year-old Tad Fennar, who accompanied him. "My grandfather is a tremendous man, and he still lives baseball, even now," the younger Fennar said. "He lives life as if it is a game, an important game. And being a black man, playing in this league prepared him for life." Fennar and many of his peers still are driven by an intense pride and a refusal to allow their efforts to somehow be diminished by the decades of institutionalized segregation that denied them major-league ex perience and exposure.

US. baseball team rolls 9-5 Continued from Page 1 Oesting, 18, to a gold-silver finish in the 100-meter freestyle. The two teens, Tappin, from Me- tairie, and Oesting, from Mer cer Island, came out waving American flags, the only flagbearers in their group. They established the tone for the youthful team that lasted the whole evening. The U.S.

team set two Pan Am records in the pool Monday: Eric Diehl of Mission Viejo, won the 200-meter freestyle in 1:49.67, snapping the Games record by .22 seconds. "The last 50 (meters), when you're breathing to the left and see the American flag, you can lose, Diehl said. The women's 800 freestyle re lay of Lisa Jacob, Natalie Norberg, Jane Skillman and Barb Metz won in 8:11.47, almost two seconds better than the previous mark. Other winners were Hans Dersch, 23, of Atlanta, who took the 100-meter breaststroke in 1:02.57, just ahead of Puerto Rico's Todd Torres, a swimmer at Louisiana State. Jeff Commings, 17, from Black Jack, won the bronze.

Amy Shaw, 19, of Mission Viejo, won the 400-meter individual medley in 4:50.39. Brandy Wood, 17, of Lutherville, won the bronze. Boxing: Aristead Clayton be vetoed plans for professional golf s-longest hitter to try his toe at place-, kicking during an exhibition with New Orleans Saturday. "I don't think it's a good idea toi' take the future Jack Nicklaus and open him up to possible injury," Irsay said yesterday. Daly was invited by coach Ron Meyer to join the Colts if' he doesn't make the cut at The ternational tournament at Castlef1 Rock, this week.

Former University of Louisville wide receiver Anthony Cummings was cut by the Chicago Bears yesS terday. Cummings caught threa touchdown passes in Louisville's 34-7 Fiesta Bowl victory over Alabama. The Bears must reduce their ros- ter to 60 players by Tuesday, then to 47 by Aug. 26. in taken during the World War II eraK While many were proud and pleased, the Cooperstown display left others wanting more not onty-'i gloves and other memorabilia but" more representation.

Clinton H. "Butch" McCord who played for the Nashville Cubs and other teams, was upset after pe rusing a display dedicated to' "Women of It featured team owners like Jean Yawkey ancj Marge Schott as well as players, from professional leagues. It did feature Effie Manley, who owned the Newark Eagles. "She should be in there, McCord told several of his peers; "She ran a good team." The others players accompanying McCord nod ded solemnly and moved on. One also mentioned Toni Stone, a second baseman who played for the In-, dianapolis Clowns, the only woman ever to play in the top level of the' Negro leagues.

"She could tear the I glove off your hand, just like a man," William Beverly said. Many of the survivors believe there should be more than 11 Negro league veterans in the Hall. "The way I see it, there should be' I a lot more in here," Bill Cash "I hope this reunion serves to change some minds about that up here. We earned it." Admittedly nervous at the start, Flesch got his first birdie at No. where "things really got to going'! well." After making a 25-footer there, Flesch missed a possible score of 61 by failing on a five-foot birdie putt at No.

5. It was a short-term reversal, how- ever, because he made a 15-foot birdie putt at No. 6 and an footer at No. 8. He opened the back nine with a 30-foot downhill slider with about four feet of break.

"I just had the feeling I would make that putt," he said. Then came a 12-foot eagle at the 537-yard 11th hole after a 1-iron approach shot. He saved par at No. 12 with a 12-footer, birdied No. 14 from 15 feet and missed an eight-footer for birdie at No.

15. "It was probably the easiest putt I had all day. Dead straight," Flesch said. Brumfield, a Morehead State University senior, made birdie putts of' 18, 15 and 20 feet, but he also had three birdies from inside two feet. The other side of the coin was a double bogey at No.

13. Tom Campbell of Shelbyville and Russ Johnson and Tim Logsdon of Louisville recorded 71s, the same as Gilbert. A three-time champion, Gilbert expressed surprise that Flesch was the only golfer to break 70 on a course softened slightly by rain. "The greens are like dart, boards," Gilbert said. "I really' didn't think the golf course played very hard." Several expected to be in conten- tion failed to break par.

Two-time' champion McNamara shot a 75 and Kentucky Amateur champion Stan; Jones a 76. Peege posted a 72. fit Flesch has 62, leads by eight Continued from Page 1 on the front of the green or short, anything but in the water," he said. "I hit a little bit of a flier. It stayed in the air for a long time and then dropped on the green." The putt was straight.

"I just said, 'You might as well knock it he said. Flesch was experimenting with his putting entering the day and claimed he made three different changes in his stance in the first four holes. "I've tried about five different putters and 10 different stances this year," he said. Once he settled in, the two-time Kentucky Amateur champion settled into a zone seldom reached in the State Open. Rob McNamara's 63 in the 1986 Open had been the tournament's best round in many years.

McNamara won that event by six strokes over Flesch, the first of three runner-up finishes. Flesch lost a five-hole playoff to McNamara at The Champions in 1989 and finished two shots behind winner Dave Peege last year. Flesch turned professional shortly after losing the '89 State Open. He played the Asian Tour for a while and has qualified for two Hogan Tour events this year, making the cut once. Otherwise, his schedule has included a number of "barbecue tournaments, state opens and Bogey Hills.

It's kind of a rum-dum tour." he said..