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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Ottis, Theotis Got The Glory, But Green Got The Girl 1 4C July 23, 1980 BIG RED But Roy says he doesnt think his wife could put up with all three of them for an extended period of time. Practical joking was a big part of their home life last year. "I tan't tell you anything you can print," said Roy, "all of them were pretty low and raunchy." So, Green says his good buddies are going to have to fend for themselves this year. "I'm looking for a place now," he said.

He already has found a place with the Big Red. In fact, he probably has three or four places with the team. There is his specialty (not pork chops) klckoff returns and his new full-time Job, strong safety. And he hopes to continue working on klckoff coverage and punt coverage and wouldn't mind returning punts. "I like to get involved In the game," he said.

No doubt Sharon will keep Roy well fed, but can be realistically play two- By John Sonderagger Of th Post-Oteoatch Stiff A year ago, three rookies came to the football Cardinals' training camp with wide eyes and high hopes. One from the East Coast, one from the West Coast and one from no coast. Ottis Anderson, Theotis Brown and Roy Green arrived In St. Louis with the eagerness that accompanies all first-year men In the National Football League. Anderson was the club's No.

1 draft choice from the University of Miami, Brown was the No. 2 selection from UCLA and Green was a fourth-round choice from Henderson State. Anderson and Brown played In stadiums that would hold twice the population of Arkadelphia, home of Henderson State. Ottis and Theotis were accustomed to the wicked ways of the big city. Green, on the other hand, was from the sticks.

Henderson State has an enrollment of 3,000 and the Reddies play In Haygood Stadium, which seats 10,000. The three rookies quickly developed a friendship, based on food, backgammon, television and tomfoolery. At the end of training camp, they decided to share a townhouse apartment. On the field, O.J. Anderson became the star of stars, rushing for 1,605 yards and becoming the NFL rookie of the year.

Brown rushed for 318 yards and caught 25 passes. Ottis and Theotis became St. Louis celebrities and even landed their own radio show. But Roy got the girl. Theotis Brown thirds of the game? "In high school, I never left the field," he said.

"In college, I played defense (cornerback and safety), I was on all special teams and on selected offensive plays was a running back and wide receiver. "I've always been taught that special teams are important. In high school and college, the coaches always played their better athletes on the special teams." Toward the end of last season, Green played some free safety. The Big Red decided to move him to strong safety this season and switch Kenny Greene, who led the team in tackles last year, to free safety. "Kenny Greene Is a hitter, as you know," said Roy.

"I guess they felt I Introducing The, Olympic Turkeys Ottis Anderson Late In the first half, Green took Rafael Septien's klckoff deep in the end zone and peered out at onrushlng Dallas Cowboys. Willard Harrell was the up man and he gave Roy the signal to run. Run, be did. Green flashed up the field, picked up key blocks from Harrell and Rod Phillips and sprinted down the left sideline. In 18 seconds.

Green had gone the distance and It was announced to the world that he had broken the NFL record for yards devoured while running for your life. Al Carmichael of Green Bay went 106 yards with a klckoff In 1956 and Noland Smith of Kansas City went the Olympics FROM PAGE ONE dominating flip-side story to the American-led boycott. After three days of competition in this two-week sports festival, the host Soviets had 10 gold and 21 total medals. The East Germans totaled 18 medals, five of them gold. Hungary was a distant third with two gold and five total medals.

The best the non-Communist bloc could manage was Australia's four bronze and Britain's one gold and two silver. It was a relatively quiet day on the political front. Tight Soviet security has been placed around the Afghanistan athletes, some of whom had approached western journalists about defecting. And the Italian who had protested Soviet laws against homosexuality returned to Italy with his tour group Tuesday after being detained overnight by Soviet police. Vladimir Popov, deputy chairman of the Moscow Organizing Committee, raised a fuss by accusing western nations of delaying their reporters' transmissions from the Games.

Citing communications slowdowns to Italy, Sweden, France, the Netherlands and Latin American countries, via New York, Popov said the problems were being caused 'by the other side." Goodhew carried on in the tradition of great British breaststrokers. David Wilkie, a Scotsman, won the 200 breaststroke at Montreal four years ago, the only swimming event out Of 13 that America's supermen didnt win. Goodhew's winning time of 1:03.34 was slower than the American record of 1 03.08, set this year by Steve Lindquist of Southern Methodist University. Unlike many male swimmers who voluntarily shave body hair from head to toe for added speed, Goodhew didn't have a choice. A fall from a tree when he was a youngster caused a freak nerve disfuncton and his hair stopped growing.

"I was playing Tarzan. I hit my upper lip and it affected the whole nervous system," said Goodhew. "It's an integral part of my person now. I dont want any hair. It's a bloody nuisance." Boycotts and political protests In Vs.

N. NJv jr 7 TvY 'X'-'-'' i UPI same distance In 1967. Now, Roy Green had gone 108 yards on Oct. 21, 1979, it was announced. The next day, though, the commissioner's office Investigated the films and decided Green had only tied the record of 106 yards.

Roy has watched his run on film several times and. "It had to be at least 107 yards," he said. "It's no big deal now. I'm happy I scored and It's nice being a co-record holder." It's also nice to go one-up on Ottis and Theotis. sports aren't for him, either, but he would have liked to have had the British flag waving above him.

"I'm still British and I still believe in my country, and that I swam for my country," Goodhew said. "I agree with my federation that politics should be kept out of sports. So it was worth the sacrifice. I made the sacrifice with regret to keep politics out of sport." No swimmer has a tougher time man those who compete in the 1, 500-meter event. The pain of swimming 1,500 meters is said to be comparable to running a marathon.

On Tuesday; Vladimir Salnikov of the Soviet Union became the first man to swim the. grueling distance In under 15 minutes. Viktor Vlasov of the Soviet Union broke the world record by one point in wwnning the gold medal in the three position small-bore rifle event today. Vlasov finished with a score of 1,173 of a possible 1,200. Gymnastics waS in the spotlight today, too, with North Korea's Jong Sil Choe and Romania's Melita Ruhn thrilling the crowd at the afternoon sessions.

Ruhn scored a perfect mark in the vault of 10.0 on her second attempt. Her performance was all the more spectacular inasmuch as she had landed badly on he first try arid gotten only a 9.40. She is a 15-year-old who weighs 92 pounds.Two bther perfect 10s were registered today, by East Germany's Max! Knauck in the voluntary asymmetric bars routine and by Russian Yelena Davydova in the floor exercise. Choe, who was 14 a month ago, is the' youngest competitor in women's gymnastics at the Games. She completed a 2 somersault on the vault the only competitor to attempt such a trick.

She lost her balance momentarily and was weeping dejectedly when she sat down with her teammates, but she cheered up when her score of 9.50 was flashed on the board. In the preliminaries for tonight's 100 backstroke final, Rica Reinisch of East Germany set a world record. Her time was 1:1.50, one-hundredth of a second faster than the mark she shared with countrywoman Ulrike Rlchter. We will match your down payment on any home site in Terre Du Lac. (Up to 10 of purchase price.) Use our money to build your future.

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MOSCOW (UPI) A few athletes will be stretching the truth a bit if they go borne and tell their friends and families they competed in the 1980 Summer Olympic Games. Take the members of the Tanzanian field hockey team. They may have played a couple of games already, but everyone is waiting for them to start competing. They lost their first two games by a combined score of 304 and things looked so bad that a British television network called it "the hottest news in Moscow" when Tanzania's coach announced Tuesday night he would stick with the goalkeeper who yielded all 30 goals. But the Tanzanians are just some of the athletes who got off to rough starts in the first three days of the Games.

The boxers from the tiny African country of Benin aren't doing much better. None of them so far has managed to' last three rounds, and two were in the ring fewer than 24 minutes. "They should have come to the Olympics with little arrows and signs on their shirts pointing 'This Side Up' so we'd know what to do with them when they go down," said one official. Welterweight Pierre Sotoumey could be the Benin team hero. He not only made It through the first round, but survived a knockdown as the bell sounded in the second round and he lasted through nearly all of the third round before his fight was stopped by the referee.

"We were disappointed with the performance of our first three boxers," team trainer Felix Agjaho said. "They were not in good form, although they were fit enough." Another African nation, Mozambique, has been to swimming what Benin is to boxing. Three of Mozambique's" five swimmers already have raced in their strong events. One finished last among 42 competitors in the 200-meter IN CAMP B) In the offseason, Green married his girlfriend from Magnolia, Ark. Theotis and Ottis were groomsmen at the wedding and Roy's brother, Leotis, was the best man.

Roy and Sharon Green are expecting their first child and they've already picked out a name If it's a boy Theotis Jerome. "We'll call him T.J., for short," said Roy. Or Tomato Juice, for long. "That kid's gonna be a star," said Theotis. If the baby is a girl, there Is a strong possibility her name will be Cleotis.

Last year, Roy did the cooking at the apartment. "Yeah," he said, "but they fired me. I only knew how to make one thing and they got tired of it." Roy's specialty was pork chops, canned corn and rolls. Sometimes, he'd top his pork chops with apples. Green cooked the same meal about three times a week until he was kicked out of the kitchen.

Roy and Theotis are working out with the rookies this week at Lindenwood College and Ottis Is scheduled to arrive later in the week. Are they planning the same living arrangement? "That's what Ottis would like because he's crazy abou her (Sharon's) cooking," said Green with a toothy grin. "And Theotis loves her baking. She cooked one apple pie and had him for life." freestyle, one was last among the 25 swimmers in the 100-meter breast stroke and the star of the team finished last in his 100-meter butterfly heat, but had a fast enough time to finish No. 29 in a field of 34.

A Libyan swimmer, Soad Fezzani, won a standing ovation from the fans at the Olympic pool Tuesday simply for finishing her 400-meter freestyle heat. She struggled in more than a minute behind the leaders. The ovation she got was reminiscent of Montreal in 1976 when the fans stood and wildly cheered Haiti's Olmeus Charles as be stumbled to the finish line 14 minutes behind the leaders in a heat. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union won its first Olympic men's gymnastics team gold medal since 1956 Tuesday with an exhibition of precision, power and skill. The Russians, who took over the leadership of the sport from the Japanese by winning the world title last year at Fort Worth, Texas, totaled 293.75 points for the combined compulsory and voluntary exercises.

East Germany took the silver medal with 290.05 points and Hungary was third and won the bronze with 286.20. Observers wondered whether the absent Japanese or the promising U.S. squad could have matched the exhilarating Russian exhibition. "Though I felt Vladimir Markelov and Alexander Tkachev were not at their best In this competition," Soviet Coach Lenoid Arkaev said later, "I don't' think the presence of the Japanese would have had my influence on the gold medal." World champion Alexander Dityatin, who leads the Olympic individual competition with 118.40 points, and relgiung Olympic champion Nikolai Andrianov, who was in second place with 118.15 following Tuesday's voluntary exercises, were the cornerstone of the Russian team performance. finished third, Palmer Fallgren fourth and Dennis Lane fifth.

Golf Defending U.S. Amateur champion Mike O'Meara of St. 'Charles, 111., earned medalist honors with a 9-under-par 135 for 36 holes In the Broadmoor men's amateur tournament in Colorado Springs, Colo. The top 32 in medal play were scheduled to start match play today. Boxing Gary Summerbays retained his Canadian light heavyweight title with a sixth-round technical knockout of Roddy McDonald in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Hockey Craig Patrick, a former member of the Blues and a son of the late Lynn Patrick, a former Blues coach and executive, has been named director of operations by the New York Rangers. Craig, 34, who served as an assistant coach with the gold-medal winning U.S. Olympic hockey team, Is the fourth member of the Patrick family to serve with the Rangers organization. Tennis Second-seeded Billle Jean King was upset by Wendy White, 64, 6-2, in the first round of the $100,000 Richmond (Va.) International tournament. Second-ranked Harold Solomon beat Syd Ban, 6-4, 6-2, in a first, round match in the $175,000 Washington Star International Championships.

The match between top-seeded Jimmy Connors and Tim WUklsoa was postponed until today because of ram. Roy Green am a hitter, too, and they want two hitters in there." Although Green finished second In the National Conference in klckoff returns with an average gain of 24.6 yards and graded out as the Cardinals' best special teams player last season, he spent most of his rookie season In the shadows of his two flamboyant roommates. Green did have one moment out of the shadows. That came Oct. 21 In Texas Stadium.

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