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Pittsburgh Press, Aug. 27, 1982 B-5 Pitt Ready To Get A Bang Out Of Season MUM "They're it," he said of Cummines and fullback, both Jim Sweeney and Tony By BOB SMIZK, Press Sports Writer ft Tumor Malignant, Kotar 'Guarded' "In watching Yogi," said Fazio, "he seems to have a lot of control and is showing a lot of leadership. But I'd like to see him make more plays. I'm happy with Troy. He's playing very well.

We've had to use Caesar at the other linebacking spot because Rick Kraynak is out It looks like Yogi will start But Troy is right there." And the Panthers are also right where Fazio thought they would be as they prepare to say goodbye to Edinboro for another year and get on with the business of winning a national championship. PITT NOTES Eric Schubert, who handled the kickoffs and long field goals last season, may do all of the place-kicking this year despite the return of Snuffy Everett who kicked extra points and most Compiled by staff members woctors have determined that former New I York Giants running back Doug Kotar, Who remained in 0iiarrfvt vmriitinn at a Daniels. "We can't trade or pick up anyone on waivers. That's who we have to live with. We have to prepare them the best we can.

"Who knows? Maybe in the scrimmage one of them will come out scrambling, wheeling-dealing and do a good job." The picture behind tight end John Brown is less optimistic. None of the candidates for the position caught a pass last season and none has stepped out to take the job this season. "We don't have a No. 2 tight end," said receiver Coach Joe Naunchik." The candidates are sophomore Clint Wilson, who went to camp as No. freshman Pat Schipani of Upper St.

Clair, who has impressed with his blocking; sophomore Bob Lawson," who has been switched over from the defensive back-field; and junior Dexter Edmonds, who was switched from wide receiver early in the week. There appears to be no No. 1 and no No. 2 at center, just 1 and 1A. "Sweeney and Magnelli are both doing a hell of a job and it doesn't make any difference which one of them is in there," said Fazio.

"Neither one of them could play a full game at full strength, that's why it's nice to have both. Both will play." The only other first-team position where some competition for a starting job exists is at linebacker where Jones, a fifth-year senior, is fighting off sophomores Troy Benson and Caesar Aldisert. Magnelli have shown themselves well in the battle to succeed Emil Boures at center (and are tentatively scheduled to share the job), Troy Hill has cemented his hold on Pappy Thomas' old cornerback spot and Yogi Jones has held off the challenge of two sophomores to hang on to the linebacking spot vacated by Sal Sunseri. "Overall, I'm pleased with camp," said Coach Foge Fazio. "We started off on a plane going up and up.

Then we leveled off and now we're going up again. We've been able to spend a lot of time getting ready for North Carolina. We've run a lot of our offenses against North Carolina's fronts." The most nagging problems for Fazio, in addition to the punting game that has improved slightly in the last two days, is finding backups to quarterback Danny Marino and to tight end John Brown. Freshmen quarterbacks Chris Jelic, John Congemi and Rich Bowen one of whom Fazio thought could step up to No. 2 are falling farther behind daily and the job looks to be a battle between sophomore John Cummings and senior Danny Daniels, each of whom completed one pass last season.

"Every day it's getting to the point where Danny Daniels and John Cummings are so much further ahead than the freshmen," said Fazio. "They've both shown a marked improvement over last season." That is not, however, to say that Fazio is totally pleased with his choices. EDINBORO The Pitt Panthers came to this Edinboro College training camp 10 days ago filled with the knowledge that they had a dynamite starting team one that would probably be ranked first in the nation and were merely trying to fill in some spots, like backup quarterback and backup tight end, while getting ready for their Sept. 9 season opener against powerful North Carolina. They will leave for Pittsburgh tomorrow night after a full-scale scrimmage in the afternoon still with the knowledge that they have a dynamite first team one that shortly will be officially named No.

1 in the pre-season polls and still looking to fill in spots, such as backup quarterback and backup tight end. Which is all to say that as the Panthers spend their last 24 hours at Edinboro, not much has changed since they arrived Aug. 16, and that this has been an uneventful football camp. It probably says a lot about the quality of the Pitt team that the areas of concern are with backups. When Pitt left here last season there were gaping question marks on the first team, like at tailback and tight end on offense and with almost all of the defensive unit.

The few question marks that concerned the starting team when Pitt first came to camp have been mostly answered. Sophomore Marlon Mclntyre appears to be a worthy successor to Wayne DiBartola at new goals last year, "it looks that way right now," said Fazio. Injuries to Bill Beach and Marc Bailey have moved freshman Bill Callahan of Valley High up to second-team fullback. "They'll have to take it away from him when they come back," said Fazio. Fazio also plans to use Callahan to return kick-offs.

Fazio said if defensive end Chris Dole-man, who sprained his ankle Tuesday, can be back to practice by Sept. 6, he'll be able to start against the Tar Heels Pitt will Practice next Thursday and Friday at hree Rivers Stadium in preparation for the North Carolina game. Expos Serve Home Cookin' To Houston hospital in Newark, N.J., has a malignant brain tumor. i "The pathology specimen report shows a ma-lignant tumor," Jenita McDaniel, an assistant administrator at the hospital of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. "The probable course of treatment will be a form of radiation therapy," McDaniel said.

She said she was unable to elaborate on exactly what type of treatment will be used. Kotar was operated on Tuesday by doctors who found a large tumor they could not remove from the center of his Kotar, 31, of Canonsburg retired from the Giants last month because the separated shoulder -he suffered last season had not healed. Miscellany; Junior middleweight boxer Tony Ayala, with his attorneys and father representing him in San Antonio while he is in California for treatment for an alcohol problem, today was given an Oct 25 trial date on charges of burglary. The indictment returned against Ayala accused him of breaking into a neighbor's house on Aug. 16.

Ayala claimed he was drunk that night and en- tered the neighbor's house by mistake A Florida man confided he was acting as a middle man to supply his friend, professional tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis, with pharmaceutical -cocaine, a tape recorded by an undercover agent disclosed. The agent also claimed in his testimony that the man, Tony Goble, 41, claimed Gerulaitis had been advised about a $144,000 deal to buy pure synthetic cocaine and might contribute $20,000 to purchase a share. Baseball: ne Buffalo Bisons aren't happy with the baseball players the Pirates are sending them, so the farm club is scouting for a new parent team. Bisons' General Manager Don Colpoys said he told Pirate farm director Branch B. Rickey that the team would look for another major-league affiliate fof next season The San Diego Padres placed outfielder Tony Gwyun on the disabled list for 15 days after he broke his left wrist trying to make a catch in Wednesday night's game against the Pirates at Three Rivers Pu-Tzu Town of Taiwan reached the final of the Little League World Series in Williamsport with a 10-7 victory over Rouyn, Quebec, and will face Kirk-land, a 3-2 victor over Wyoming, Mich.

Football: Former Pitt basketball stan- dout Sam Clancy has been placed on the Seattle Seahawks' injured reserved list after undergoing athroscopic knee surgery. The 6-4, 235-pound tight end was Seattle's llth-round draft pick NFL owners yesterday called on a federal mediator to help break their deadlocked contract talks with the Players Association. The owners' bargaining agent, the NFL Management Council, sent a let-' ter to Kay McMurray, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, asking the service to intervene in the dispute. Combined News Services Olympic Stadium may not be humble, but to Gary Carter it's home and there's no place like it. Carter, who belted a pair of two-run homers in the nightcap to power the Montreal Expos to a 5-3 victory and double-header sweep over the Houston Astros yesterday, knows his team plays 21 of its next 29 games at borne.

What's more, he knows how important those games are to the Expos, who vaulted ahead of the idle Pirates into third place in the National League East, five games behind first-place St. Louis. BASEBALL Roundup "The schedule is to our advantage now," Carter said. "It's time to turn our game around." The Expos are still below .500 at home, with a record of 29-31, but on the road they are 39-28. "If we don't start winning our games at home, we might as well pack it up and call it a season," Carter said.

"These are the games we have to win." In the opener, Andre Dawson broke a 2-2 tie with a run-scoring single in the eighth inning. Reliever Jeff Reardon (7-3) credited with the victory in the opener, hurled one inning of relief to win the nightcap as well. Reardon pitched two innings in the opener, giving up only two hits. Danny Heep blasted a three-run homer for Houston in the second game as right-hander Vera Ruhle dropped his record to 7-10. Astros reliever Press Photo by Donald J.

Stetzer Light heavyweights James Salerno and Robert White will square off tonight at Arena. Boxing Show Seeking Alore Punch On Campus: Kansas has been dered to forfeit three Big Eight wins and a tie during the 1980 football season because of Kerwin Bell's ineligibility after the NCAA Eligibility Committee ruled Bell, a star running back, was ineligible in 1980 and 1981 because he did not meet the 2.0 high school grade-point requirement before making up work in summer school. Wins over Iowa State (28-17), Kansas State (20-18) and Colorado (42-3) and a 14-14 tie with Oklahoma State were declared forfeits. Bell was injured last season and did not play in any conference games. The eligiblity committee also ruled that Bell must sit out the first three games this season and give up another year of eligibility.

Pittsburgh's sports fans also can have some input in that decision beginning tonight. The crowd definitely will have an impact. ESPN middleweight champion Nelson puts his undefeated record (12-0) on the line against Akron's Lewis Jones (11-1-1) in the 10-round main event. Jones defeated the Braddock boxer in. the 1980 AAU regional finals.

Against common foes as professionals, Nelson knocked out James Leftiwich in four and Ricky Davis in five. Jones decisioned both, Leftiwich in six and Davis in 10. Light-heavyweight Robert White (14-3) of Point Breeze battles Salerno (27-2, 21 KOs) of Orlando in the co-main event. Salerno, a veteran at 21 years of age, fought more than 150 amateur bouts and sparred with Roberto Duran at age 15. By age 16, be turned professional for Dundee, who serves as his manager.

Al Bolden (25-14-2) of East Liberty faces former two-time national amateur light-heavyweight champion Jeff Lamp-kin (18-1) of Warren, Ohio, in the evening's other 10-round affair. The crafty Bolden expects to give Lampkin, 16 years his junior, more than merely a strenuous workout. BoBo Haywood (5-1), the fourth boxer from the Braddock club on the card, tries to avenge a split decision loss to Sam Gervins of Columbus in a scheduled eight-rounder. Gervins (15-7) is the only opponent to finish a fight with Nelson. Welterweight Ricardo Bryant of Washington, lightweight Luke Lecce of Bloomfield, and middleweight Mike Pucciarelli of East Liberty all compete in six-rounders.

Bryant (5-2) opposes Ricky Davis (12-6-2); Pucciarelli (4-0) meets Jack Fain (7-4) of Akron; and Lecce (6-0) faces the hard-charging Jim biggest building that they have fought in," Martha said. "We hope this gives them and the local boxing community more reason to become involved. As we go on, we also can interest ESPN and USA cable networks to pick up a card of boxers who really are not that well known. "We can say, 'We'll give you this hockey game or this soccer match, but we want you to take this fight' The Arena will continue to pursue major title fights Pittsburgh is in the chase for Boom Boom Mancini's next bout but such shows fail to provide any continuity in the interest of the sport locally. "If the Civic Arena is going to run profitable boxing promotions, they have to own promotional rights on their own talent rather than buying promotional rights that already have astronomical (guaranteed) dollars plugged into those rights," said Chuck Runzo, area fight manager and tonight's matchmaker.

"Should they pay Don King an exuberant (sic) amount of dollars or should they continue to develop a Silky Nelson?" Runzo indicated that all the local fighters on the card would be interested in promotional ties with the Arena as might Angelo Dundee's prize light-heavyweight James Salerno. "I know that (Bob) Arum is after Nelson," Martha said. "He wants every fighter he can get. I know he's put a lot of pressure on Chuck (Runzo) to tie him up. That's the kind of thing we have to Sirevent because they won't let a kid, ight in your building or they'll make it financially unfeasible.

Promotional contracts definitely are in our Despite the nine-month gap between shows, Martha maintains that the Arena has a commitment to the sport. "The decision already has been made to pursue boxing," he said. "To what extent has not been made. We'll have a couple of events and ultimately it'll be up to the DeBartolos to decide how deeply they want us to get involved." By BILL NAAB Impact will be the key word tonight when fists start flying at the Civic Arena beginning at 6:45. Sure, the impact that occurs when leather pounds flesh should create a stir, but the Kind of which Civic Arena Vice Presideqt Paul Martha speaks could determine the direction of professional boxing in this city.

"We're going to have to wait and see what (attendance) we do this show," Martha said of the Arena's plans for the sport. "This will have an impact on a lot fiat we do." The Arena has done nothing since it hosted Larry Holmes's world heavyweight championship defense against Renaldo Snipes last Nov. 6. That show lured more than 14,000 fans to the Arena, but the momentum generated by the occasion was allowed to slip away. "We tried to come back soon afterward, but we were not going to put on a show in which we didn't have a chance to make a profit," the Arena executive said.

"We never could get anything together that made any economic sense." How much dollars and cents this show makes remains to be seen. A crowd of approximately 4,000 paid must be reached for the. Arena to break even. "I'm not saying that if this doesn't turn out to be a resounding success, we're not going to do it anymore," Martha added. "We'll try it at least three or four times and really find out It won't be a one-shot deal.

We learned a lot from the Holmes-Snipes show: If promoted right, professional boxing will draw here." When the DeBartolo Corp. assumed control of the Arena last summer, Martha maintained that the sport could thrive on a long-range basis here only if Pittsburgh developed its own stars. That potential may exist now with Nelson winning a national TV title and more local young men fighting as professionals than at any time since the 1960s. "We have a lot of young kids on the card and for them, this will be the Bert Roberge (1-2) was the loser in the opener. Houston starter Nolan Ryan fanned seven batters in the first game, whiffing Bill Gullickson in the second inning for' his career strikeout to move ahead of Gaylord Perry and into second place on the all-time list.

ROYALS 5, RANGERS 3 John Wathan's two-run single highlighted a three-run eighth inning as Kansas City moved into a first-place tie in the AL West with California. Bud Black (4-4) got the victory, while Dan Quisenberry worked the ninth inning to record bis 30th save as the Royals won their fourth straight over the host Rangers. ANGELS 10-3, RED SOX 1-4 Dwight Evans capped a four-run third inning with a two-run homer and Bob Stanley pitched 6V3 innings of four-hit shutout relief as Boston won the night game at Fenway Park after dropping the afternoon contest. Brian Downing and Doug DeCinces homered to lead a 16-hit California attack in the first game as Ken Forsch (11-9) notched the 100th victory of his career by scattering seven hits. ORIOLES 12, BLUE JAYS 5 Eddie Murray blasted two home runs, including a grand slam in Baltimore's eight-run third inning, and Rich Dauer and Cal Ripken Jr.

added three-run homers as the host Orioles romped to their sixth straight victory and sent Toronto to its eighth loss in nine games. YANKEES 7, TWINS 2 Lee Mazzilli cracked a three-run homer and Rick Cerone delivered a two-run double during New York's five-run fifth inning as the home team posted its fourth victory in five games. Ron Guidry (12-5) scattered nine hits in eight innings, while Rudy May pitched the ninth. MARINERS 5, TIGERS 4 Manny Castillo's first' major-league home run snapped an eighth-inning tie as Seattle snapped a seven-game losing streak. Dave Revering and Joe Simpson also homered off Detroit starter Jack Morris in the Kingdome.

flack othall- Jeff Turner held 7-4 cen- PasKeiDau. ter Vladimir nitchetlk0 to six points as the United States defeated finalist Soviet Union, 99-93, in the IX World Basketball Championships in Cali, Colombia. Another victory tonight against Australia would put the U.S. in the championship match against Russia tomorrow afternoon The United States beat Cuba, 94-71, to become the only undefeated (4-0) team in the Junior Women's Championships in Colorado Springs. Gall- Carol Semple of Sewickley and Connie Shorb of York met for the Pennsylvania Women's Amateur golf championship at Saucon Valley Country Club in Bethlehem today.

Semple beat Lisa Dine of Scranton, 4 and 3, and Shorb erased Micbele Michanowicz of Oakmont, 2 and 1, in the semifinals yesterday Japan's Masashiro Kuramoto, Australia's Bob Shearer and Ray Floyd shared the first-round lead in the World Series of Golf at Firestone Country Club in Akron with 1-under-par 69s, one stroke ahead of Lanny Wadkins Donna Caponi fired a 4-un-der-par 68 to tie Hollh Stacy for the first-round lead in the LPGA Hendredon Classic in High Point, N.C. Gene Littler held a two-shot lead over Dean Lind with a 1-under 71 in the PGA Senior Tour Shootout at Jeremy Ranch, Utah. r.inAC- Mt Lebanon's Gretch- Local Lines. Rush wiU ace pam Teegarden of Los Angeles in the first round of the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament which begins play next week at Flushing Meadow in New York Melanie Buddemeyer of Penn Hills placed fourth in the 200-meter butterfly with a time of 2:18.68 in the USA-USSR dual swim meetatKnoxville.Tenn.

On The Air: TELEVISION -TONIGHT CFL, Calgary vs. Montreal, 7 p.m. ESPN. Braves vs. Mets, 8 p.m.

WTBS. World Series of Golf (tape), 8 p.m. USA. NFL, Eagles vs. Falcons, 8:30 p.m.

4. Indians vs. Twins, 8:30 p.m. WUAB. Pro boxing, 10 p.m.

USA. Pirates vs. Giants. 10:30 p.m. 2, 6.

RADIO -TONIGHT, Pirates vs. Giants, 10:30 p.m. KDKA. Giambulucca (8-3) of Buffalo. Carl Riskus of Carrick makes his pro debut in four rounds against Tiger Simmons (1-1) of Akron to open the show.

The Eagles Will Try To Fly With A New Defense li'j FOOTBALL NFL Roundup In tonight's other exhibition game, Buffalo is at Washington. Buffalo is still playing without running back Joe Cribbs and wide receiver Jerry Butler, who have been holdouts during training camp. Both Cribbs and Butler have valid contracts, but both want to renegotiate. That process has been stalled by the expiration of the Basic Agreement between the NFL teams and the NFL Players Association. "We need Joe and Jerry," said Buffalo linebacker Jim Haslett, who went through protracted contract hassles himself a year ago before signing.

Nose man Ken Clarke and end Leonard Mitchell have been getting most of the playing time with the departure of Johnson and Humphrey. Carl Hairston and Dennis Harrison are the holdover starters at end. "I miss them, but you have to learn to play without them," Clarke said of Humphrey and Johnson. "It's the nature of the game that people come and people go. We're working on it, and Carl, Dennis and myself are starting to jell.

They have to get used to me being in the middle now. That's what training camp nd the pre-season are all about. Associated Press The Philadelphia Eagles, who have had one of the toughest defensive lines in the National Football League in recent years, have some new faces to greet opposing offenses this year. New, but not necessarily better, and that has Coach Dick Vermeil worried! "I've been a little concerned about what you would call the 'chemistry' of the defensive line," says Vermeil, whose team travels to Atlanta tonight for a pre-season exhibition game. "The offensive line has been starting to assume a much greater share of the responsibility for setting the tempo in practice.

That's always been dominated by the defensive line." A persistent knee problem forced the retirement of defensive end Claude Humphrey, and Pro Bowl nose tackle Charlie Johnson was traded to Minnesota after he disagreed with Vermeil's practice philosophy 1.