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SECTION Scoreboard2 Baseball4 Preps6 3 Friday, May 17, 1985 teroid Cise Discussion cafle Sef F.M. WILLIAMS at the arraignment Asked what Kreis is doing while awaiting disposition of the charges against him, May said: "He's just living life the best he can. He's not working at this time. He's just in the process of looking for a job." Seaman refused to comment on Wilson's personal life, but the pharmacist no longer is employed at the Corner Drugs in Franklin where he was working when the story broke in January. Wilson was a partner in the now defunct Prescription Shop near the Vanderbilt campus when the alleged distribution of drugs began.

The three defendants, who have remained free on their own recognizance, were indicted for conspiracy to illegally distribute steroids. (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) By JIMMY DAVY Circuit Judge Bobby Capers has given defense attorneys in the illegal steroids distribution case until July 11 to reach a settlement without trial, setting July 8 for formal discussions. The Wilson County judge set these dates yesterday after former Vanderbilt University strength coach EJ. (Doc) Kreis and two others pharmacist Melvln (Woody) Wilson and his former drug store employee Thomas Patterson entered not guilty pleas at an arraignment at the Metro Courthouse. The three were arraigned on a 97-count indictment returned April 19 by the Davidson County grand jury, charging them with illegally distributing steroids to college athletes at three universities.

District Attorney General Thomas Shriver said yesterday he is legally obligated to engage in plea discussions with defense attorneys on July 8. Seaman said he does not know whether the case will go to trial, but said he believes his client is eligible for Consideration of pretrial diversion. And he says he sees no reason why plea bargaining will not come up. Shriver and the attorneys said yesterday that there have been no discussions of the case since the indictments were handed down last month. Neither Kreis nor Wilson showed up yesterday in the sixth floor courtroom, preferring to enter their not guilty pleas through counsel.

Patterson, who worked at Wilson's pharmacy near the Vanderbilt campus, was the only defendant to enter his innocent plea in person. He was forced to make his way through a crush of media photographers, accompanied by his attorney, State Rep. Dick Clark. May explained that Kreis, his client, made the decision Wednesday night not to appear "In the context that we regard this as a serious matter, we are available for discussions on that date," Shriver said. The attorneys may file motions July 1, said Judge Capers, who was called in to preside over the case after Criminal Court Judge Sterling Gray recused himself, citing an acquaintance with Wilson.

None of the attorneys for the three defendants yesterday would say whether they plan to seek a settlement "We're in the process of evaluating the case," said Roger May, the former Vanderbilt football quarterback who represents Kreis. "At this point it's premature whether there will be a trial or not" Jack Seaman, who represents Wilson, says he, like the other defense attorneys, will file a motion of discovery to get the investigative information from the prosecution "to see what evidence they have td support the charges that have been made." 0 ft- I 1 Jmm Tiiii i -T7 111 Sports Scope Tennessee's Keeper ONE OF THE reasons that the Tennessee athletic program has avoided running afoul of NCAA and Southeastern Conference rules all these years is the constant attention it gets from school administrators and the Board of Trust That will be one of the things that the Athletics Committee will focus upon when it meets next Thursday at the Nashville Hyatt Regency in what ordinarily would be a routine annual session to receive reports from athletic directors of the three schools under its control. Tom Elam, the Union City lawyer who has served as chairman of the Athletic Committee of the Board of Trust for many years, says he keeps reading the newspapers and watching television and is appalled at what he's reading and hearing about programs at other schools, particularly at Tulane and Memphis State. "I have no reason to be suspicious that anything is being done wrong at Tennessee! but I'm going to ask that the Board of Trust be appraised of what's being done to prevent similiar abuses," Ham said yesterday. "After all, that's whose responsibility it is to run the university.

"I don't intend to sit here after all these years and not know what's going on." He thinks what he learns will be pleasing. Elam says there's one trustee, Pete Hailey of Sevierville, who is perturbed over the SEC Executive Committee allowing Florida to keep the football championship despite admitting continuous recruiting violations, and wants to be heard. Whether the committee takes a formal stance and informs President Edward Boling that it wants him to make some kind of appeal of the ruling at the annual Southeastern Conference meeting is doubtful. But it is certain to create a bitter debate among college presidents. There is nothing on the Athletic Committee agenda this time concerning the search for a successor to Athletic Director Bob Woodruff, who has to retire in 1986, but Elam says he expects some movement on that in the fall.

He has been pushing to have a search committee appointed by President Boling. Meanwhile, what's going on at Memphis State? Nobody knows for sure the eventual outcome of all the investigations that are being conducted, or considered, of the programs there. Everything is on hold until a grand jury returns its findings on gambling, which may take a long time because reportedly the FBI is in the midst of a national probe of gambling. "Everything you hear sounds real bad," says Dr. Roy Nicks, chancellor of the Board of Regents.

"Memphis State has been involved in a lot of rumors." In addition to the grand jury's investigation, which so far has not involved anyone in the Memphis State athletic department, the state auditor is probing some $60,000 in overpayments to athletes that has been admitted by the university. There are two things abundantly clear, neither illegal, but oh, so important There has been an absence of leadership at the academic and athletic levels, and there is a question of who controls the athletic program, the coaches, the athletic director, the president or wealthy contributors. The overpayment to athletes is a violation of NCAA rules. It has been compunded by a claim by four of them that they never received the money. It is also a violation of rules to allow auto dealers to provide transportation to an athlete, and that has been admitted in the case of William Bedford.

The charge that several Memphis State players were paid for work while on scholarship during the academic year, has not been admitted, but if true, that's a violation. There is little doubt that the NCAA is going to investigate these and other charges against the school. If it all stopped right now, Memphis State would be seriously damaged for years to come. Connie Ford, who has directed the New York Police Athletic League track program for many years, collapsed while returning from a track meet last weekend and died Monday morning. Ford was a regular attendant at the Tennessee State Tigerbelle meet here, and was honored for his contributions at the last one, held in April.

He was coach of the Pan American women's team in 1983 and was head coach of the VS. Olympic team in 1968, when Wyomia Tyus and Edith McGuire. of Tennessee State won gold medals. He was a long-time friend of Coach Ed Temple. Ray Mears, athletic director at UT-Martin, will be the featured speaker at the June Dairy Month luncheon at Ellington Agricultural Center on June 6.

Mears, who won 399 games as a basketball coach at Tennessee and Wittenberg before retiring after the 1976 season, is one of the most forceful and entertaining speakers around. Honored guests at the luncheon will be 4-H June Dairy Month Chairmen from across the state. 3 Sounds Fall 3-2 To 89ers By DAVID CLIMER An appearance by minor league pitching instructor Roger Craig seemed to work wonders for the Nashville Sounds' pitching staff last night Unfortunately, the Detroit Tigers don't have any batting instructors to send this way. Nashville got a wild but strong innings out of Rich Monteleone, but seven Sounds hits didn't stretch quite for enough as Oklahoma City posted a 3-2 victory at Greer Stadium last night The 89ers, who swept the Sounds in a four-game series last week in Oklahoma City, scored two decisive runs in a miscue-filled eighth inning, breaking a 1-1 tie and setting up the win. A crowd of 3,146 was on hand as the Sounds lost for the seventh time in eight games.

Leon Roberts went 3-for-4 for -Nashville and drove in a seventh-inning run off Glen Cook, 4-1, but the rest of the Sounds' offense was puny. Tm optimistic that things are going to get better," said Roberts, who is hitting .392. "Some of the guys are pressing a little bit not really relaxing. The hits will come. "Tonight I hit the ball on the nose and got the hits, but some of the balls that other guys hit were right at people.

Like they say, it's a game of inches." The game ended when pinch-hitter Joe Pittman drilled a Dale Mohorcic fastball right at 89ers shortstop Jeff Kunkel, stranding teammates Roberts and Dwight Lowry. "You can't hit it any harder than that" manager Gordy MacKenzie said. But the Sounds were ineffective against starter Cook, who struck out four in 1 innings. Left-hander Tony Fossas relieved in the eighth. and allowed Bob Melvin's bad-hop RBI single before ending the threat In the ninth, Fossas gave up Roberts' third hit and, after a John Harris sacrifice, was lifted for Mohorcic who walked Lowry before retirring Dave Bergman and Pittman to drop the Sounds' record to 12-17.

Perhaps the most encouraging thing for Nashville was the pitching of Monteleone. The right-hander, who entered the game with a 6.68 earned run average, gave up just three hits and, although he walked seven, was seldom in trouble until tiring in the decisive eighth. But it still added up to the sixth loss in as many decisions for Monteleone. However, Craig liked what he saw out of the pitcher. (Turn to Page 5, Column 1) by Side "He'll look at us and well look him," Lenzini said of the post position draw.

"It could a match race. He'll break good and try to outrun Chiefs Crown to the first turn and hopefully get on the rail." Lenzini trained Aloma's Ruler, the 1982 wire-to-wire Preakness winner. Donald MacBeth is back aboard Chiefs Crown, the 2-year-old champion and Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner. Chris McCarron, a top Maryland rider in the 1970s, was brought from California to replace Richard Migliore aboard Eternal Prince. Migliore had said Eternal Prince dawdled at the gate, looking the Churchill Downs crowd.

Brian Hurst Eternal Prince's principal along with New York Yankees' boss George Steinbrenner, defended the rider switch. "The stewards sent me the closeup tapes-and they suggested the rider shifted his weight back on the horse," Hurst said. "He never broke bad before and he'll never break like that again." i I j-ajtju ff Staff photos by Billy Easley Net Loss McGavock's Brian Jones spent most of the day fighting off shots from Memphis University School's Murray Garrott during the TSSAA state tennis finals at Centennial Tennis Center. Jones' only rest came after settling for second place with a 6-3, 6-0 loss. Story on page 6.

enough to land Derby winner Spend a Buck for the second leg of throughbred racing's Triple Crown. Instead, the colt will be seeking a $2.6 million payday in the May 27 Jersey Derby at Garden State Park. Three supplemental entries Hajji's Treasure, Sport Jet and Tajawa at a cost of $20,000 each helped boost the purse. If all 11 go tomorrow, the 110th Preakness will be worth $545,700 with $423,200 to the winner. The previous high gross purse was $346,200 when Deputed Testamony won the 1 3-16-mile race.

"Chiefs Crown wins it as far as I'm concerned," veteran Pimlico trainer Sonny Hine, saddling outsider Skip Trial for the Preakness, said after yesterday's post-position draw. "Eternal Prince has a good position, too, but I don't believe he can beat Chiefs Crown. He hasn't so far." Eternal Prince worked three furlongs yesterday in a swift 33 45 seconds, "maybe a little too fast" according to Lapzlni. JfcAmj-A' if "lHl HI be at Preakness Favorites Will Start Side Preakness Field POS. HORSE JOCKEY ODDS 1.

Southern Sultan Terry 30-1 2. s-Tajawa Cooksey 20-1 3. Chiefs Crown MacBeth 8-5 4. Eternal Prince CMcCarron 5-2 5. 1 Am The Game Miller 20-1 6.

Tank's Prospect Day 6-1 7. Sport Jet Allen 20-1 8. Cutlass Reality Bracciale 20-1 9. Sparrowvon Barrett 15-1 10. Skip Trial Antley 10-1 11.

Hajji's Treasure Judice 15-1 Supplemental entry for $20,000. BALTIMORE (AP) Favorites Chiefs Crown and Eternal Prince will break from the gate side by side, where their jockeys can keep an eye on each other in tomorrow's richest Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. And Butch Lenzini, trainer of Eternal Prince, is confident his colt can redeem himself by breaking quickly. In the Kentucky Derby, Eternal Prince was left at the gate and was never in contention, winding up 12th in the field of 13. Chiefs Crown, who finished third in the May 4 Kentucky Derby after going off as the 6-5 favorite, drew the No.

3 post position yesterday and was installed as the 8-5 favorite for the 1 10th Preakness. Eternal Prince, the front-running winner of the Wood Memorial and Gotham stakes before his Derby flop, will leave from post No. 4 at early odds of 5-2. Tank's Prospect the Arkansas Derby winner who ran seventh in the Derby, was tty third pick at 6-1. The morning-line odds on the rest of the field of 11 3-year-olds range from 10-1 to 30-1 for Southern Sultan, still a maiden after eightstarts.

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