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B4-The PoSt, Tuesday, July 22, 1980 Heat Wave Overtakes Sports Larry Gordon (left), Don Strock and Larry Little all are technically free agents. Since Don Shula became Dolphin coach in 1970, only running backs Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick (1971), safety Jake Scott (1973) and defensive end A.J. Duhe (1977) have missed workouts because of contract disputes. Gordon xIJ 1 Dolphins' May Sit Out Camp In Contract Fight Pott Wirt Strvlctt In Washington, they're waiting for the clay to cool off. In St.

Louis, baseball players are watering their spikes. And in New York, horses are leaving town. The heat wave that has moved into the Northeast after keeping the nation's South and Midwest in its oppressive grip for the last month is having its effect on sports. There have been no reports of the hot weather forcing cancellation of any major sporting events, although practice routines have been changed. The St.

Louis Cardinals of the National Football League, training in the middle of the heat belt in St. Charles, canceled a Sunday morning practice but held a session that night. The Cardinals, like other NFL teams opening camp late last week and over the weekend, are taking their two-a-days in full pads. Three players at the New York Giants' camp in Pleasantville, N.Y., were overcome by the heat at Saturday Defensive tackles Myron Lapka and Phil Tabor were examined at a nearby hospital and released, and safety Tony Blount skipped the afternoon workout after falling victim to the heat at a morning session. New York Mets manager Joe Torre shortened batting practice for his team Sunday in Cincinnati, where the temperature reached 99.

He also benched several regulars. It was 105 when the Mets played in Atlanta. So they welcomed a move on to the airconditioned comfort of the Houston Astrodome. In St. Louis, the adjustment by the baseball Cardinals to the blistering heat has been bizarre.

With the temperature on the artificial surface of Busch Stadium soaring to 146 degrees Sunday, the Cardinals took to dipping their feet in water shoes and all. "You want to cool the metal down," said first baseman Keith Hernandez. "It was hot," added outfielder Bobby Bonds, "a regular inferno." The Washington Star Tennis Tournament was plagued by high temperatures on the clay courts, which reached 120 degrees for the second consecutive day yesterday. On Sunday, Toronto's Greg Haider had to withdraw from his match with Jose-Luis Damiani because of heat exhaustion, and yesterday's matches started late. So far, the heat and humidity apparently have had little effect on sports attendance.

The New York Yankees, for example, drew more than 50,000 fans to their Sunday game against Kansas City as the mercury rose to 101, and even the Cardinals had more than 30,000. Crowds at horse races were also holding their own, with 26,000 at New Jersey's Meadowlands harness track Saturday night and 25,300 at Belmont Park in New York Sunday. "The only thing that bothers a horse player is whether he'll cash a ticket," said Carment Bilotti, a Meadowlands spokesman. The heat was altering training schedules for some thoroughbreds at Belmont, though. "The trainers send the horses out early, before the sun is up," said Chris Scherf, a track spokesman.

Noting that thoroughbreds often get sluggish in the heat, Scherf added that some trainers were shipping their horses to the relatively cool Adirondack Mountains "one or two days early" to prepare for the opening of Saratoga Race Track next week. I i 1 1 rn I I --t 00 NFL Camp Notes 1 1 Poit Wirt Strvicn MIAMI Larry Gordon's agent says the Miami linebacker may sit out the Dolphins training camp an action very few players have taken during the Don Shula regime until his long-standing contract dispute is settled. "I would say right now that we are closer than we've ever been," agent Bob McDonald said of negotiations for Gordon, who played out his option last season. "I would say we're more positive than we've ever been. "Larry still wants to play for Miami.

But if a contract is not agreed to by Thursday, he probably won't report," McDonald said. Terms being negotiated weren't revealed. Gordon, due here with other veteran players this Thursday, wasn't available for comment. "If it comes down to it, I will have to advise him not to report," McDonald said. "If he should go out and practice or scrimmage and get injured without a signed contract, he is the big loser.

"It just would not be good common sense of business for him to risk injury in a situation like that. If we can't agree on a contract now, what are we going to agree to if something should happen?" Gordon, quarterback Don Strock and guard Larry Little all are technically free agents. Indications are that Strock and Little are near settlement on their contracts. Since Shula became Dolphin coach in 1970, only running backs Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick (1971), safety him into his 12th year of professional football. Francis played out his option last year and became a free agent, but the wide receiver did not get an offer from another club.

But he is sa-tisifed that he signed with the Falcons, his agent said. Kansas City Chiefs KANSAS CITY, The Kansas City Chiefs reduced their training camp roster to 53 yesterday when 12 players were waived and one was placed on injured reserve. Two of those waived saw action with the club in 1979. Defensive end Curtis Anderson appeared in six games after being signed as a free agent during the regular season. Running back Wilbert Haslip played in five games for the club.

Both were signed as free agents after late-season injuries depleted the club's running corps. United Prtst International holds it in place to try and beat the heat wave which has enveloped the Redskins' training camp in Carlisle, Pa. AQUA HELMET Greg Dubinetz, a two-year veteran offensive guard with the Washington Redskins, covers his head with a wet towel and 4 Rock'n Roller Shows Soviets Some Color mo now mil mrwt yWMl' wj itiiWiLWiijiuiwn" lVA J) I I BRIEVE which I found that colored hair would draw people to me instead of my having to go to them. I do it for exposure. I want to be seen on TV." Stewart said he had just come from the Republican Convention in Detroit.

Before that he attended the Larry Holmes-Scott LeDoux fight in Minneapolis and the All-Star baseball game in Los Angeles. "I sat behind home plate," he boasted. "I was at Lake Placid, the Super Bowl and the World Series. In the World Series I also sat behind home plate in Baltimore 12 hours on the TV screen." He said he manages to get a ticket some way and then proceeds to the most conspicuous spot and talks customers into letting him sit there. Stewart flew in Saturday morning and attended the opening Olympic ceremony just beneath the torch.

"I came in through Intourist (USSR travel agency). I had no trouble. I didn't wear my wigs I have two until I got here. "There was no hassle with customs. The only thing they took were some little road flares I brought in." He said he already had bought tickets for the swim-.

ming, gymnastics and track and field finals. "The trip cost me about 2,000," he said. "Some of the money comes from residuals from a beer commercial to be shown on TV between August and next January. The other I'll get from selling part of my ranch in Cle Elum." The man in the many-splendored bouffant said the only trouble he encounters in pursuit of his bizarre hobby is in his home state. "In Seattle," he said.

"They let me sit. But they don't let me move around." MOSCOW (AP) "Rock'n Rollen," America's most noted gate crasher, has crowned his achievements by piercing the Iron Curtain to attend the Moscow Olympics, much to the discomfort of the Russian hosts. "I think they're stunned they've never seen anything like me before," said Rollen Stewart of Cle Elum, Wash. "They don't know what to do with me." The slender, 35-year-old Washingtonian confounded Soviet security forces by showing up in front of the Press Center wearing his multicolored wig which looks as if it had been woven from strands of the rainbow. He was dressed in white with red and blue striped shoulders and with religious slogans on the front and back of his shirt.

Horn-rimmed glasses and an Ayatol-lah Khomeini-type beard gave him a sinister look. "I am not looking for trouble my mission is peace," he said. "I am a born-again Christian but I won't attempt to force my views on the Russians. I teach by example." After recovering from shock, two plainclothes officials moved in and ushered him into the nearby accreditation center. "They talked to me and then let me go, I don't think they want to rock any boats," he said.

"But they told me they would be talking to me again." Stewart, who insists he has not missed an important sports event in America in four years, has become something of a fixture on the U. S. scene and a pest to some promoters. He contends he is not a gate-crasher in the sense of the legendary One-Eyed Connolly of another era but is simply a ham. "I had a colored dream about four years ago in IN iff lis' HRII 7 JESiS 'y 1 I Rollen Stewart answers question of Soviet officials From B3' Olympics Jake Scott (1973) and defensive end A.J.

Duhe (1977) have missed workouts because of contract disputes. "I plan to work like hell to get this thing resolved before Thursday," McDonald said. "Larry has a lot of respect for Shula. He hasn't asked for a trade or anything like that." Gordon, a starter since his rookie season in 1976, was voted the club's outstanding linebacker last year by South Florida sports media. Meanwhile, free-agent linebacker Bob Martin signed with the Miami Dolphins, while the National Football League club released another linebacker.

Martin played last year with the San Francisco 49ers after three years with the New York Jets. The Dolphins put Steve Davis on waivers, a spokesman said. Tampa Bay Hues TAMPA Coach John McKay, recalling near-disastrous breakdowns last season, said he'll give special teams special attention in this Tampa Bay Buccaneers' training camp. The Buc coach, whose young team came within one game of the Super Bowl last year, launched the 1980 season on a optimistic note in his first press conference, one day after training camp opened for rookies and free agents. "Statistically, we were fairly decent last year," McKay said.

"But I thought we almost blew the right to go to the playoffs because of special teams. Minnesota blocked three pla-cekicks and a punt and the Bears blocked a punt near the end. Kevin House, wide receiver from Southern Illinois and the Bucs' second draft pick, suffered a shoulder injury in his first practice session Sunday and will be out a couple of weeks, McKay said. The injury was a shoulder strain and doesn't appear to be serious, the coach said. Pittsburgh Steelers LATROBE, Pa.

Pittsburgh Steeler defensive end Fred Anderson broke his right hand in practice at the team's training camp and will be out indefinitely, a Steeler spokesman said yesterday. The injury occurred to the same hand that Anderson broke on the first day of training camp last year, which kept him on the injured reserve list all season. Meanwhile, three rookies quit, including center Ken Fritz, a 10th-round draft pick from Ohio State. The others are offensive lineman Rick Jone of Catawba, N.C. and linebacker Ned Parrish of Lenoir Rhyne, N.C.

Atlanta Falcons ATLANTA Veteran wide receiver Wallace Francis, who set a club record with 74 receptions last season, agreed to terms with the Atlanta Falcons and will report to training camp with the rest of the veterans Wednesday. Francis will sign a contract estimated at a half million dollars over four years, which would take pounds for the jerk maneuver during the competition. Karoly Varga of Hungary tied the world record of 599 points in the prone-position small-bore rifle competition. East German Hellfried Heilfort also tied the record but the judges placed him second on a ter butterfly in Olympic record time of 2:10.44. Irina Kalinina of the Soviet Union won the women's springboard diving gold medal.

Bengt Baron of Sweden won the men's 100-meter backstroke event in 56.53, breaking the domination of swimming events by eastern bloc countries. Daniel Nunez of Cuba won the 123-pound class weightlifting event with a world record total lift of 606.2 pounds. Yurik Sarkisian of the Soviet Union won the silver medal and set a world record of 595.2 systems to work with like we do. So all builders aren't going to be able to help like we can. If you're going to say when, make sure you're talking to people who can do something about it.

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