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4k Zy Vtt fflnitirt 4 Jtepsfcf BUSINESS Oil 5S srcrioN Wed, April 8, 1987 k. PS jpmmimt as MAURY WHITE Dethroned Hagler lambasts 'politics' of boxing By BERNARD FERNANDEZ 1917 KittM-RMdcr Newspapers LAS VEGAS, NEV. Dethroned middleweight champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler said Sugar Ray Leonard fought like "a sissy" and "a girl," but Hagler's most pointed complaints following his split-decision, 12-round loss to Leonard Monday were directed at the city in which the bout was held and the politics of professional boxing. This is the second time in my life that something like this has happened to me. I can't believe it.

It leaves a bad taste in my mouth for boxing." Charles Brotman, a Leonard spokesman, said Leonard had not conceded victory to Hagler at the conclusion of the final round at the Caesars Palace stadium. "Ray is a very polite and thoughtful and generous guy, but he never said he thought Marvin had won the fight," Brotman said. "What he really said was, 'Marvin, you'll always be a champion to Marvin just misinterpreted what Ray said." Scoring the richest fight in history also required some degree of interpretation. Judges Dave Moretti (by a 115-113 margin) and JoJo Guerra (118-110) were of the opinion that Leonard's dancing, hit-and-run style should be given more weight than Hagler's bullish lunges. The other judge, Lou Fillippo, gave the nod to knocking out Alan Minter in London in 1980.

But with the championship belt came more big-money fights and more appearances in Las Vegas, an arrangement Hagler has not always believed to be equitable. Since the draw with Antuofermo, Hagler has fought here seven times. He has won six of those fights, four by knockout. But a unanimous, if unexpectedly close, decision over veteran Roberto Duran on Nov. 10, 1983, only heightened Hagler's distrust of the city.

"It was the same thing," Hagler said. "They tried to take it away from me. "Now this. I can't believe it. You've got to realize, I'm in Vegas.

This is a gambling town." If the fight had been "anywhere else in the world," he said, HAGLER Please turn to Page 2S Hagler, 115-113. Hagler never imagined that anyone could have viewed the outcome differently from Fillippo. In his post-fight press conference, Hagler painted a picture of himself as the aggressor, constantly stalking a fleeing opponent who couldn't and didn't hurt him, whose only goal was survival. "I put the pressure on him, I took his best shots," Hagler said. "If it wasn't for me putting pressure on him, he wouldn't have fought.

He would have laid back. The man was dead on his feet, he was tired. I had to pressure him. "You can't get in there and try to knock everybody out. Any time anybody goes the distance with me, they give it to him.

"I've never seen, for a championship fight, a split decision where the other guy wins the fight. That's not right. If it's a split decision, it should go to the champion. I think he would have to beat me more decisively knock me down, beat me real bad, in order to take the title away. And he didn't do that." Hagler has not held Las Vegas in the highest regard since his first fight here Nov.

30, 1979, when he was the challenger trying to wrest the middleweight crown from Vito Antuofer-mo. Opened Cuts For 15 rounds, Hagler did everything he thought he had to do to accomplish that goal. He battered Antu-ofermo around the ring, opened cuts around both of the champion's eyes. At the end of the fight, referee Mills Lane told Hagler to stand beside him "before I raise your hand." Antuofermo retained the championship on a draw, however, the first in what has become a series of Las Vegas disappointments for Hagler. Hagler eventually won the title, by MARVELOUS MARVIN HAGLER There's more to worry about, fellow citizens, than whether the Soviets are bugging the American Embassy in Moscow, or if one or more television ministers aren't practicing what they preach.

Fishermen face the threat of being declared an endangered species. More, a recent story in the Los Angeles Times offers a clue that the lime may have arrived when the meek have actually started taking over the earth, including, of course, oceans and other bodies of water. Looking back, it may not even have been the first major hint. "SAN DIEGO, CALIF. Lou Wic-zai has accumulated thousands of fish stories in a lifetime of angling, but "My trainer told me not to get too happy because I was in Vegas, and he was right," Hagler said of the moments after the fight.

He said he replied to Goody Petro-nelli, "No, no, no, I won it." The dethroned champion said even Leonard told him, "You won it, man." "Then it was all up to the judges. AP PHOTO the 71-year-old retired Navy veteran would rather forget the tale he's telling these days," said the story. "He is recovering from a severe gash on his left arm inflicted by a 60-pound wahoo that Gards storm by Gubs, 9-3, to win opener Sutcliffe's wildness aids five-run St. Louis rally Twins open season with 54 victory Hrbek's single defeats Oakland in 10 innings i MmAl(t "Vni ithnr mm. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

(AP) In the eighth inning, Kent Hrbek lunged anxiously at a 3-0 pitch and grounded weakly to second base. But his grounder managed to drive in the tying run and the whole experience taught him a lesson. "I just had to relax and stay within myself, not try to kill the ball," said Hrbek, whose bases-loaded single to the left-center field wall with no outs in the bottom of the 10th gave Minnesota a 5-4 season-opening victory over Oakland Tuesday night. "I got a good piece of the ball and drove it." The Twins' lOth-inning rally was ignited by center fielder Kirby Puck-ett's spectacular leaping catch of an apparent home run off the bat of Mickey Tettleton in the top of the inning. "I was playing deep because it was late in the game and when it was hit I thought I could catch the ball," said TWINS Shawon Dunston gets Jack Clark out at second and goes for the double play Iowa, ISU players eye Pan Am games CHICAGO, ILL.

(AP) Jim Lindeman, a native of the Chicago area, had family and friends in the stands Tuesday and he felt "I had to show them something." Lindeman, playing his first opening-day game in the major leagues, hit a two-run single, and threw a runner out at third from right field to help St. Louis to 9-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs. "I didn't swing the bat very well, so I had to do something," said Lindeman of his throw that got Brian Day-ett, who tried to get to third after Lindeman caught Leon Durham's fly ball in right field. The Cubs scored a run after that play increasing their lead to 3-0 and had the bases loaded, but John Tudor stuck out Andre Dawson to end the inning. Lindeman's two-run single and another two-run single by Tudor highlighted a five-run third.

Tudor left after five innings, and Bill Dawley allowed only one hit in the final four innings to earn the save. "The only contribution I made was driving in two runs," said Tudor. "Today's winning pitcher should be Bill Dawley. I did not throw the ball well. If I knew what I was doing wrong, I would have changed." Tudor was helped by three double plays, including the one started by Lindeman.

He got Jody Davis to hit into double plays in the first and third innings. Davis had to leave the game in the fourth inning when he was hit in the right hand by a foul tip. He suffered a chip fracture in the little finger and is expected to be out of the lineup at least seven days. Rick Sutcliffe, who did not last three innings, was the loser after giving up four hits and seven walks. "I felt fine," said Sutcliffe, "but I wasn't able to get the ball over the plate." The Cubs got their first two runs in the first inning on a single by Dernier, a double by Ryne Sandberg, an error and a sacrifice fly by Keith Moreland.

By RICK BROWN Please turn to Page 3S abrhbi MINNESOTA abrhbi 5 12 0 Gladden dh 5 0 10 5 110 2b 5 2 2 0 3 0 10 Puckett cf 5 2 3 2 4 0 0 1 Goetti 3b 4 12 0 3 0 0 0 Hrbek lb 5 0 2 3 3 10 0 Brunanskv rf 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 Davidson If 3 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 Bush oh 0 0 0 0 4 112 Laudner Ph 10 0 0 Newman If 0 0 0 0 OAKLAND M.Davis rf Phillips 2b Lansford 3b Canseco If R.Jackson dh Murphy cf R.Nelson lb Teltleton GriHin ss Register Staff Writer B.J. Armstrong and Roy Marble of Iowa and Jeff Grayer of Iowa State were among the 63 basketball players invited to participate in tryouts for the United States Pan American team next month. Also invited was former West Des Moines Valley all-stater Matt Bullard, now at the University of Colorado. Players received invitations in the mail earlier this week. Trials for the team, to be coached by Louisville's Denny Crum, will be held May 14-19 at the U.S.

Olympic zewski, will be facing the strongest competition of the three teams July 8-19 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. The Junior Men, who play July 23-30 in Italy, will be coached by Larry Brown of Kansas. The Pan American Games will be Aug. 7-23 in Indianapolis, Ind. Iowa State Coach Johnny Orr said Tuesday that Grayer is questionable for the trials because he's having ankle surgery this week.

Grayer was BASKETBALL Please turn to Page 4S HOTEBOOXBasketball Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Players who don't make the 12-man Pan American team could be picked for one of two other teams. Also up for grabs are spots on the World University Games team and the World Championship for Junior Men team. The World University Games team, to be coached by Duke's Mike Krzy- Gagne ss 4 0 0 0 Nielo 3 0 0 0 Totals 35 4 5 3 Totals 17 10 5 No outs when winning run scored. Oakland 100 120 000 0-4 Minnesota 003 000 010 1-5 Game winning RBI Hrbek (1).

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Umpires Phillips, Pallermo, Kaiser, Morrison. A 43,548. jimmy leaped 1 2 feet out of carter the water and slashed Wiczai's arm with its teeth Sunday morning while he was fishing about 230 miles south of the Baja, port of Cabc San Lucas. 'I threw up my arm to the right to protect my he said. 'If I hadn't put my arm up, the fish would have hit me in the "Wiczai estimated that the fish was moving at 60 miles per hour.

The wahoo, which is related to the mackerel, crossed part of the deck and then dropped back into the ocean after slashing a three-inch cut in Wiczai's arm." After a six-hour boat ride to the nearest Mexican doctor, a Coast Guard plane had to be called in to rush him to a San Diego hospital that was equipped with the facilities for proper repair of injured muscles and tendons. A WAHOO is "a large, swift game fish of the high seas." It's also a town in Nebraska, but that has nothing to do with the subject of the moment. While I had no idea a wahoo could fly 60 mph without the help of a motor, the dictionary does describe it as being swift. The surprise here is not that fish bites man, for fish have been doing that for centuries. There are many well-chawed forearms belonging to folk who grope around bare-handed in, say, the muddy Missouri River to pull out catfish.

In oceans, sharks bite off even larger chunks of humans. The shock is that a member of a meek, mild species that for thousands of years has tried to evade man has suddenly turned to seeking him out. And if that isn't scary enough, the wahoo has apparently developed an air force to wage the attack. Was this, you may ask, an isolated happening or freak of nature? Is there any other instance of a traditionally meek, mild critter leaving its normal habitat to come after a human? You bet there is, and it concerns a better known figure than Lou Wiczai. A FEW YEARS ago, Jimmy Carter was fishing a pond in or near Plains, when attending Secret Service agents noted a rabbit was vigorously swimming straight toward the boat carrying the president of the United States.

It was dog paddling, by the way, which obviously was a form of disguise. Because rabbits rarely swim for recreation, it was quickly presumed in the interest of national security that this might be a "killer" rabbit full of evil intentions, rather than a friendly one simply seeking an autograph. And if the would-be boarder had not been repelled with oars, who knows what hare-raising turn history might have taken? If wahoos and rabbits are mutually engaged in some sort of a conspiracy against humans, they're sure to pick up support from other of the meek and the mild. Charlie Tuna should be put under constant sonar watch. Bambi probably requires 24-hour surveillance.

Frankly, I would suggest immediate cessation of the practice of chasing butterflies with nets. The day may be very near when hordes of Mon-archs and moths will swoop in and combine the furious fluttering of thousands of wings to batter some lepidopterist to a pulp. Come to think of it, underdogs aren't acting like underdogs in any phase of life anymore. Syracuse wasn't supposed to have a chance against Indiana in the NCAA championship basketball game, but the Hoo-siers narrowly escaped. Sugar Ray Leonard's chances of beating Marvelous Marvin Hagler were listed as slim and none.

So much for listings. Considering the trend, if Sugar Ray decides to defend his middleweight title against a wahoo, I'll strongly onsider betting on the fish. KDSM-TV wins Iowa telecasts Shorthanded Cyclones start spring practice ST. LOUIS Coleman Smith ss Herr 2b J.Clark lb Lindeman rf Dawlev Pena Pendleton 3b T.Landrum cf Tudor McGeecf abrhbi 3 13 0 2 0 0 0 2 111 4 0 0 1 3 0 11 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 4 0 10 4 110 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 abrhbi CHICAGO 5 12 0 Dernier cf 5 112 Martinez cf 6 12 1 Sandberg 2b 3 10 0 Dawson rf 4 112 Moreland 3b 1 0 0 0 J.Davis 4 2 0 0 Sundberg 5 0 10 Davell If 3 13 2 Durham lb 3 0 12 Dunston ss 0 10 0 Sulclitte Maddux GMallhews ph Notes Mover Lancaster Walker ph 39 11 9 Totals ByDAVERHEIN Register TV Editor KDSM-TV, the Des Moines independent station, has been chosen as the central Iowa television outlet for University of Iowa live basketball games, football replays and coaches' shows for the 1987-88 season. Rasmussen Communications Management which was hired by the Iowa athletic department to produce and market the games, accepted KDSM's proposal over bids by WHO-TV and KCCI-TV.

WHO had held the Hawkeye basketball rights in central Iowa for the past six years. Officials at KDSM and Rasmussen would not reveal financial details of the winning bid, but WHO station manager John Leifheit estimated KDSM offered a minimum of $275,000 plus a very attractive promotional package. Rasmussen officials said any cash offered by TV stations to secure broadcast rights goes into Iowa athletic department coffers. ball and basketball games next season. That means all Hawkeye games not shown by major networks will be shown by channel 17.

Details of the Iowa TV sports package include live broadcasts of at least 17 basketball games, condensed replays of all 12 football games and the Hayden Fry and Tom Davis coaches' shows. Rasmussen reportedly is trying to convince its network stations to schedule the Fry show late Saturday morning before college football games, and the Davis show and condensed football highlight show on Sunday morning. After the statewide network is established, Rasmussen officials say they will begin the process of choosing an announcing team for the football and basketball games, and a host for the coaches' shows. Announcers are expected to be named by May. KDSM, which operates on UHF channel 17, is the fifth station in what may become a seven-station network that will cover the state.

Other stations officially on board are KWQC-TV (formerly WOC-TV) in Davenport, KGAN-TV in Cedar Rapids, KDUB-TV in Dubuque and KCAU-TV in Sioux City. Rasmussen officials also said two stations in the Mason City-Rochester, TV market are interested in the broadcast rights. There also may be efforts to place at least some Hawkeye games on an Omaha TV station to serve the southwest part of the state. "We are extremely pleased," said Tommy Thompson, general manager at KDSM. "We feel this establishes us as a driving force for special programming." KDSM also will be the central Iowa outlet for Big Ten Conference foot 33 1 9 3 By BUCK TURNBULL Register Staff Writer AMES, IA.

Jim Walden starts to fit the pieces in Iowa State's football puzzle together today with the opening of spring practice. But, compared with the teams he'll be playing next season, his puzzle doesn't have all the pieces. There are only 51 scholarship players on the squad. "The shortness of the numbers we've inherited is pretty well known," Walden said Tuesday, "and there is no use dwelling on it. But it looms large in the overall picture, since it will have an effect on every- ISU FOOTBALL Please turn to Page 2S Totals StLwts.

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MC VEA GETS REHAB. A Texas judge ordered former Kansas City Chiefs running back Warren McVea to enter a drug abuse treatment center as a condition to his probation for cocaine possession. After he completes the 28-day program, McVea will serve out the remainder of his eight years' probation in Houston. WHAT YANKEES? The New York Yankees have assigned the telecasts of 100 of their games to Sports Channel, a pay-cable station in the New York Metropolitan area. But most New York City residents won't be able to see the games.

Most areas of the city aren't wired for cable and won'be for several years. SHOW. GOES ON. Iowa locations apparently escaped the moderate-to-severe glitches in some areas that marred the closed-circuit telecasts of Monday's Sugar Ray Leonard-Marvelous Marvin Hagler fight. Not only were there no complaints, or, as in some places, near-riots, but also the general managers of three of the four places showing the fight (Dubuque Greyhound Park, the Five Seasons Auditorium in Cedar Rapids and Veterans Auditorium in Des Moines) praised the transmissions for their clarity.

"It was perfect," Dubuque Greyhound Park general manager Roy Berger said. "We must have had one of the best spots in the country to watch it." Palmer Auditorium in Davenport also reported no problems. One of the worst incidents occurred at the Rose Garden. Miami Dolphins will have two appearances on ABC and two on ESPN. SAMUELSON TO SIT.

Joan Benoit Samu-elson had planned to run in the Boston Marathon on April 20 despite her pregnancy, but pulled out Monday with a thigh injury. Samuelson set the women's world record since broken and a Boston course record in 1983 with a winning time of 2 hours 22 minutes 43 seconds. MC MAHON PROGRESSING. Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon is progressing so well in his recovery from rotator cuff surgery that is being allowed to throw a football softly. The quarterback has been playing golf and has regained a full rangejif motion in his theatre in Clarksburg, W.Va., where about 800 rioted after the satellite signal was lost.

BECKER BEGS OUT. Top-seeded Boris Becker of West Germany withdrew from the WCT Finals championship in Dallas because of a stomach ailment. As a result, Kevin Curren replaces Becker and Stefan Edberg goes from second to top seed. GIANTS VS. BEARS.

The New York Giants play the Chicago Bears on ABC's first Monday night football game, Sept. 13. Each team will appear four times in prime time, three on ABC and one on ESPN's new Sunday night series. Denver will be on ABC three times and ESPN once, as will the Dallas Cowboys. The imMb jaj'..