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Ttntoy'MAV 28. 19t7 THE TCNNESSCAH 5C' SEC newcomers feeling their way In spring, it's more work than play 6 ft DAVID CLIMER Sports Writer DESTIN, Fla. The Southeastern Conference Spring Meeting used to be a time for athletic directors to pat backs, bend elbows and compare putting strokes. The business is more serious and more involved now. Also, it seems that officials from the SEC schools spend most of their time introducing themselves to each other.

The face of the conference has changed, beginning with first-year commissioner Harvey Schiller, who is attending his first such event Walking into a news briefing yesterday, Schiller said, "I don't really know what I'm supposed to do. I'm new at this." He isn't the only one. There are new faces and old faces in new places at this annual meeting, attended by presidents, athletic directors, head coaches and faculty representatives. "I've spent a lot of time walking around and introducing myself to people," said Tennessee football coach Johnny Majors. Majors isn't alone.

Louisiana State, for example, is represented by new athletic diredor Joe Dean and new football coach Mike Archer. Former LSU football coach Bill Amsparger is here as Florida's athletic director. Amsparger acknowledges that his toughest assignment this fall will be fielding possible criticism of football coach Galen Hall. The Gators are still suffering the effects of scholarship limitations and 1987 could be a tough year on Hall. Amsparger, though, seems to know how to douse any fire.

"I was a football coach long enough to hear plenty of criticism I can deal with that. I just want to make things easy on Coach Hall," Amsparger said. The continuing saga of prep basketball player Ron Reese has taken another turn. Reese, a 6-8 post player from Franklin, originally signed a national letter-of-intent with Virginia West Germnay's Steffi Graf fires the ball to Csilla Cserapy of Switzerland en route to an easy 6-1, 6-1 first-round win at the French Open in Paris. Lendl survives French opener Graf romps to 33rd consecutive victory; Nystrom tops Kriek McEnroe penalties considered PARIS (AP) Facing the possibility of a suspension and a heavy fine, John McEnroe arrived yesterday for the French Open with the most recent demonstration of his temper preceding him on tape.

McEnroe, who plays his first- round match today against Horado de la Pena of Argentina, was the subject of a special meeting of the Men's International Professional Tennis Council on the stadium grounds at Roland Garros. Fines already imposed will stick no matter what the Council decides. But if officials judge McEnroe's be-: to be severe, they could suspend him for up to a year, and the ban could start before Wimbledon. The MIPTC meeting focused on McEnroe's behavior in the final of the World Team Cup against Czech- oslovakia Sunday at Dusseldorf, --West Germany. McEnroe walked off the court in the third set of his match against Miloslav Medr.

Later, the Ameri-- can said he was injured and had to quit the match. But prior to that, he had had a run-in with chair umpire Rich Kaufman. After McEnroe walked off without any explanation at the time, Kaufman penalized him game, set and match, giving Mecir the victory. Paul Svenllk, assistant administrator of the MIPTC said Grand Prix supervisor Thomas Kahlberg was to report on the incident Monday. Marshall Happer, the Coundl's administrator, had reviewed tapes of the inddent and would investigate it for a few days to determine "if the Incident involved was "aggravated behavior," Svenllk said.

McEnroe would have the right to appeal any suspension. Depending on when the final report was made and if an appeal was filed, a suspen-' sion could be in effect before Wim-' bledon starts June 22, Svehlik said. McEnroe was fined $4,500 $3,000 for leaving the court without remission. $1,000 for being de- faulted and $500 for unsportsman like conduct This would put his total fines for the year at $9,000. McEnroe could be penalized an ad- $7,500 limit for fines incurred over a period of 12 months.

According to the MIPTC Code of Conduct if McEnroe is viewed as engaging in "aggravated behavior," he could be fined up to $25,000 and suspended from 21 days to a year. He also could be barred from year- finals, such as the Nabisco Mas ters, and from participating in '7 awards from the singles or doubles pools. McEnroe said that he walked off the court because of strained calf muscles, "I thought I had simply re- tired from the match," he said before leaving Dusseldorf. Tech but that school released him from the agreement when it appeared he would not qualifyfor admission to VPI. Reese then signed with Tennessee.

Now, it appears Reese's grades would make him eligible for Virginia Tech, his original choice. UT Coach Don DeVoe says original decision to release Reese means the Virginia all-stater will be a Vol this fall. "They released him and we signed him It's as simple as that" DeVoe said. The SECs new four-year hookup with the Sugar Bowl calls for more money to the conference in the coming year, with that figure growing in the three subsequent games. The Sugar Bowl will pay about $2.8 million to each of its competing teams this year and the payoff will grow to approximately $3.2 million per team in the fourth year of the contract Dale Brown has expanded his recruiting base even farther.

At this time last year, Brown was pursuing a seven-foot Russian center for the LSU basketball team Now, Brown is chasing talent in South America, particularly in Argentina. Brown even spent several minutes telling Alabama Coach Wimp Sanderson where the talent hot spots in the Caribbean were. While it is not an issue at the meetings here, there is a difference of opinion among officials over a growing move to form a coaches' union, i Eddie Sutton, Kentucky's basketball coach, is a supporter of the move while Tennessee football coach Johnny Majors says he opposes the idea "There are some ideas about it that I like, but I think the best contrad is one between a coach and a schoot" Majors said. "If both of them can live with that contract, then there's no reason to get anyone else or any kind of union involved." stature. You couldn't leave out four SEC teams and go out and play four Division III schools.

It just won't work." Kramer, a member of the NCAA basketball tournament selection committee, said teams should always concentrate on strengthening their schedule in order to get into the NCAA tournament "The number of games you win doesn't decide whether you're invited or not" he said. "The most significant adors are the strength of schedule, victories on the road and other things like that "The stronger your schedule is, the better your chance of getting in the tournament" ANDERSON, Walter Jr. May 21, 1987 at the V.A. Medical Center. Visitation with the family from 7-8 Tues.

evening May 26, 1987 at Mt. Zion B. Church, 304 Cedar St. Funeral service commencing at 8pm. Burial at National Cemetery, May 27 at 11 a.m.

Madison, Tn. Survived by wife, Thomas Sarah (Tommie) Fludd Anderson; stepfather, Jackson Wilkes, Casta-lian Springs, sons, Roderick of Germany, Walter III, Augusta, Darrell, Dereck; daughter, Alama, Denver, stepson, Quickman D. Fludd, San Francisco, eleven grandchildren; one great grandchild; aunt, Pearline walker, Lebanon; uncle, Richard Martin, Nashville; two daughters-in-law, Patricia, Augusta, Zenovia, Denver, host of other devoted cousins friends. D1SYAL FUNERAL HOME 4 Colombo surprised him by rushing the net But Wilander hit back strongly and was leading 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, 5-3 when Colombo retired with a cramp, falling to the court clutching his right leg. Other men's seeds to win were No.

6 Yannick Noah of France, the 1983 titlist and No. 14 Martin Jalte of Argentina. Five other seeded players in the women's draw joined Graf in the second round No.7 Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina; No. 10 Kathy Rinaldi of the No. 5 Helena Sukova of Czechoslovakia; and No.

15 Sylvia Hanika of West Germany. Lendl, who lost only one set on his way to last year's championship, dropped one in the first match of his title defense. The world's No. 1 player, sidelined six weeks this year with a knee injury, labored for long periods, as he was matched for speed and power by the French-based Agenor, ranked 83rd in the world. "That was a dogfight" Lendl said.

"It was a real struggle. I won because he got tired." In a match of long, punishing rallies, Agenor played with more finesse, but Lendl had most of the luck. Serving to save the opening set at 4-5, Lendl doublefaulted, giving Agenor set point When Lendl questioned the call, the umpire sent the service line judge to check the At" SEC basketball coaches want 14-game schedule 1 4-game schedule would benefit the SEC only if schools arranged games with strong out-of-conference oppo-nents. "We put six teams in the NCAA tournament this year on the strength of our internal schedule and the round-robin," Schiller said. "If we go to 14 games, we would have to resub-stitute an opponent that would be as strong as the SEC team which would be left out." When it was suggested that SEC coaches might be wanting to pad their schedule with four weak opponents, Kramer said: "It would have to be an opponent of AP mark of the crucial second service.

But instead of pointing to where he thought the ball had landed, the line judge said he was not sure, walked back to his chair and the point was replayed. Lendl won it when Agenor netted his return of serve, and went on to win the set. "I missed some Important points," Agenor said. "That's three years in a row I've met a top player in the first round. That's tough." Graf, bidding for her first Grand Slam title, went into her match against Cserepy having won six straight titles and with the world's No.

2 ranking She was far too powerful for a limited opponent but was not at her best often struggling with her timing. But Graf said she was happy with her form. "It was not a hard match," Graf said. "I've been here since Thursday and feeling very good, much better than at previous (Grand Slam) tournaments." The other top women's players, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilo-va, play their first-round matches Tuesday. Kriek said organizers of the leading tournaments should prevent a repeat of first-round pairings such as the one matching him against Nystrom Kriek is ranked 17th in the world, Nystrom 18th.

Earlier, centerfielder Joe Majeski sparked Missouri Southern's 10-1 drubbing of Hawaii-Hilo. Majeski hit a three-run homer in the sixth for the Lions, then added an RBI single in the seventh. It was his second homer of the tournament and just his fifth of the seasoa Missouri Southern's Jim Krull pitched a complete game, a six-hitter, as he upped his record to 6-1 He walked two and struck out none. Ross Nishl, 4-2, took the loss. National champion Texas placed pitcher Shawn Andaya, second baseman Julie Smith and shortstop Liz Mlzera on the Softball College World Series all-tournament team Also seleded were Gene Strang, Fresno Statef irst base; Kris Tip- sns Jury selections made in Bias death case PARIS (AP) Ivan Lendl and Steffi Graf, the favorites for the men's and women's titles in the 1 French Open tennis championships, won first-round matches yesterday in contrasting fashion.

On a sunny, humid opening day of the year's second Grand Slam tournament Lendl, the defending men's champion and No. 1 seed from Czechoslovakia, struggled for three hours, 26 minutes, against Ronald Agenor, a hard-hitting Haitian, before winning 7-5, 7-6, 0-6, 6-3. Graf, the 17-year-old No. 2 women's seed from West Germany, took less than an hour to beat Swiss-based Csilla Cserepy 6-1, 6-1 and extend her unbeaten streak to 33 matches. Meanwhile, two seeded players were eliminated.

Johan Kriek, No. 16 In the men's draw and a semifinal ist last year, met one of the world's toughest clay-court players, Joaklm Nystrom of Sweden, and was beaten Lori McNeil of the United States, the No. 9 women's seed, lost 6-3, 6-3 to countrywoman Lisa Bonder. Sweden's Mats Wilander, the No. 4 seed and the hottest clay court player coming into the tournament had an early scare against Italy's Slmone Colombo.

Wilander, winner of last week's Italian Open and the French Open champion in 1982 and 1 985, dropped the opening set as complete game of the Mideast Regional on Sunday when Oklahoma State beat Texas 7-4, was named Most Valuable Player of the tournament after stranding the possible tying runs on base. Hope, a sophomore, entered the game with one runner on and the tying run at the plate. He allowed a single to Don Wren, then got Ever Magallanes to pop up for the final out "We're exhausted and extremely pleased. Of our seven trips (to the College World Series), this has been the most difficult and tedious," Oklahoma State Coach Gary Ward said. "It seems as if we have done what we had to da I think we will be as good as anybody going to Omaha" In Stanford, Paul Carey drove in three runs, including the first two of the game, and Jack McDowell pitched eight strong innings to lead the Stanford Cardinal to a 9-4 vidory over Oral Roberts in yesterday's championship game of the West I Regional baseball tournament Penn State football coach Joe Pa-terno has agreed to lend his name to George Bush's presidential bid, according to aides and supporters of the vice president's campaign.

The Bush campaign expects to announce soon that the popular Patemo is being named to a steering committee of about 500 people that will hdp organize the candidate's effort In Pennsylvania, said two sources. The sources, one Inside the Bush camp and one outside, spoke on condition that their names not be used. University of Alabarna-Blrming-ham basketball Coach Gene Bartow 52. "Sr 1 4 AP Oklahoma State's Robin Ventura extends his NCAA record hitting streak to 56 games with a single in the Cowboys' championship win over Texas in the Mideast Regional tourney. Tehnessean News Services UPPER MARLBORO, Md.

A jury of seven men and five women was selected yesterday to hear the trial of Brian Lee Tribble, accused of providing Maryland star Len Bias with the cocaine that killed him. Tribble, 24, is believed to have been one of three men in the College Park dormitory room with Bias when the Ail-American collapsed in the early morning hours of June 19, 1986. Bias, the top pick of the Boston Celtics in the 1987 NBA draft later was pronounced dead of cocaine Intoxication, according to the coroner's report The other two men In the room, former teammates David Gregg and Terry Long, are expected to be the prosecution's key witnesses in the trial that Is expected to last about two weeks. Charges against Gregg and Long were dropped In exchange for their testimony in the state's case against Tribble. Pretrial motions and opening arguments in the case began yesterday in Prince George's County Circuit Court Tribble, a friend of Bias' and a former student at the university, Is charged with possession of cocaine, distribution of cocaine, possession with Intent to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

He has pleaded innocent to all the charges. Elsewhere in college athletics: Robin Ventura extended his hitting streak to 56 games and Pat Hope, wlio had already thrown two complete games In the tournament earned the save by getting the final out yesterday as Oklahoma State advanced to the College World Series wjth an 1 1-9 vidory over Texas lnStflrkvll1e.Mlss. 1 thrown his second ARNOLD, Luke Lee Monday May 25, 1987. Survived by daughters, Mesdames Emma D. Watson, Ber-nice Lyons, and Ms.

Emma Arnold; other relatives and friends. Complete funeral arrangements to be announced later. Service entrusted to PATTON BROTHERS FUNERAL DIRECTORS Franklin, Tn. BURRIS, Robert Henry, Sr. Age 77, May 25, 1987.

Survived by daughter, Ms. Barbara B. Kell.y, Columbia, son, Bob Burris, Franklin, sister, Mrs. Hunter Brothers, Fosterville, four grandchildren. Remains are at Williamson Memorial Funeral Home, where services will be conducted 3:00 p.m.

Tuesday May 26, 1987, Paul Brown officiating. Active, Pallbearers; Dr. Dewitt Owen, Harry Nichols, Elvis Caldwell, Danny Davis, Ed Hatfield, Ricky Caldwell, Pete Jones, Howard Simmons, Cecil Peach. Honorary Pallbearers: Hunter Brothers, Dr. James Kennedy, Dr.

Joel Locke and Nephews. Interment Williamson Memorial Gardens. WILLIAMSON MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME, 794-2289 said he will hire former South Alabama coach Mike Hanks as an assistant for next season. "Obviously, I feel that Mike is an outstanding coach and an outstanding person," Bartow said. "We think he will make a fine contribution to our program." Hanks, 34, was an assistant coach at Indiana and Mississippi before he took over the head coaching job at Samford In 1981.

He compiled a 46-38 record there, and in 1984 he was hired by South Alabama. John Bat-rick's two-run triple keyed a five-run explosion in the fifth inning and led Eton, N.C, past Point Park, Pa, 9-2 in yesterday's second losers' bracket game at the NAIA World Series at Lewis dark State College In Lewiston, Idaho. more, Central Michigaa catcher, Lisa Longaker, UCLA, pitcher, Karen Walker, UCLA, outfield; Sam Arledge, UCLA, outfield, Chenita Rogers, Cal State-Fullerton, outfield; Lisa Hankerd, UCLA, at-large; and Shauna Wattenberg, UCLA, at-large. Texas defeated UCLA 4-1 Sunday to win the championship. Eric Stone fired a three-hit shutout and the Trojans swiped nine bases as Seminole, Okla, battered Morris, N.J., 18-0 in the National Junior College World Series at Grand Junction, Colo.

Stone, 3-1, allowed just three singles and struck out nine for third-ranked Seminole, 87-1 1, in a game ended by the 10-run rule after five innings. 4,.