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tunaay, January iabs Washington coach looks for a magical ending Heno tiazene-joumai Washington Huskies i7T-u -J UNR will meet Huskies Monday By John SchumacherGazette-Journal The opening scene begins with Marv Harshman gazing out over the Puget Sound, the old man and the sea meeting for one last time. It ends some 2,500 miles to the Southeast, with the 67-year-old Harshman making his exit at the Final Four in Kentucky's Rupp Arena. That was the script making the rounds last fall in Seattle, when the University of Washington's Harshman was preparing for his 40th and final season as a college basketball coach. The plot made sense. Harshman's Huskies reached the NCAA's final 16 last season, and four returning starters seemed to signal a retirement party of epic proportions.

How else could the game's all-time win-ningest active coach (620 victories) bow out? Even the experts seemed to concur, with UPI picking the Huskies seventh and AP and The Sporting News tabbing them ninth in the pre season polls. But the swan song is hitting a few sour notes. Washington, which meets the University of Nevada-Reno Monday night in Seattle, has struggled to a 13-5 start. The disappointments have been many. There was a 71-59 blowout loss at Duke on national TV, a discouraging 5245 Pac-10 defeat at home to Oregon State and a 63-51 upset loss to UCLA in Pauley Pavilion.

"We're maybe one game down. Oregon State is sitting pretty," said Harshman, whose club improved to 5-2 in the Pac-10 after Saturday night's 73-56 victory at Washington State. "It hurt us losing to them at our place." Losing starting guard Gary Gardner, averaging 3.9 assists a game, to grade problems didn't help, either, and left the backcourt dangerously thin. But Harshman still has the wonderously talented Detlef Schrempf, the 6-foot-9 forward from West Germany who goes by such nicknamames as "White Magic" and "Det the Threat." Schrempf, the District 8 Player of the Year and the runner-up for Pac-10 Player of the Year last season, does it all. He can handle the ball like a point guard, pass like an assist leader and rebound with the best of the big men.

"His stats may not be as good (15.8 points, 7.2 rebounds, 4.3 assists), but everybody concentrates on him," Harshman said. "He's our franchise." Don't look now, but the franchise is hurting a bit. Schrempf sprained his ankle against Duke and re-injured it Monday against UCLA. "He turned it against UCLA. I think he's about 80 percent," Harshman said.

"He'll be that way all season, I think. He's just got to bear with it. "We can't afford to rest him." The supporting cast, however, is far from inept. Chris Welp, a 7-foot center from West Germany, 6-9 forward Paul For tier and 6-3 'i guard Clay Damon have all made valuable contributions. Welp averages 13.8 points and 7.8 rebounds, Fortier contributes 14.1 points and 5.9 rebounds and Damon (8.3 points) supplies some outside shooting.

The other starter, 6-3 guard Shag Williams, has started slowly and is averaging just 3.9 points a game. "I think he (Welp) has improved offensively. Fortier played very well early but he's been up and down since league started," Harshman said. "Damon is shooting the ball well. But we'd be a little better off if Gardner hadn't been dropped because of grades." Gardner's departure leaves the Huskies with little depth in the backcourt.

"I thought we were a Top 20 team when we started out. I never thought we were in the Top 10," Harshman said. "But I think we're on a level with a lot of the top teams." If he's right, that script might still come in handy. Jt University ot Washington photo HERR HUSTLE: Washington's Detlef Schrempf averaged 18.9 points and 8 rebounds for the West German Olympic team in 1984. Montana hits jackpot off the field Baseball Giants trade Lavelle to Jays for pitcher Gott TORONTO The Toronto Blue Jays traded pitcher Jim Gott and two minor leaguers to the San Francisco Giants Saturday night for veteran relief pitcher Gary Lavelle, the American League baseball club announced.

Lavelle, a left-hander, who turned 36 earlier this month, is a 10-year major-league veteran, all with the Giants. He has compiled a 73-67 career won-lost record with 127 saves. Last season he was 5-4 with 12 saves and a 2.76 earned run average. Gott, 25 years old, 6-foot-4, 225 pounds, compiled a 21-30 record in three years with the Jays. The right-hander was 7-6 last sason with a 4.02 ERA and two saves in a roll as a spot starter and reliever.

Also going to the Giants are minor league right-hander Jack McKnight, 23, who spent last season with Knoxville of the Class AA Southern League, and infielder Augie Schmidt, the Jays' first-round pick in the 1982 June draft who, last season, hit .259 in 53 games for Knoxville and .201 in 46 games for Syracuse of the Class AAA International League. THE GIANTS also completed a trade 1984-85 record 13-5 83-84 finish 24-7, reached Final 16 in NCAA Tournament 84-85 re-season ranking 7th (UPI); 9th (AP). Coach Marv Harshman Overall 633-443 (39 years) Washington 236-141 (14 years) All-time winningest coaches still active at Division I level 1. Marv Harshman, Wash 633 2. Ralph Miller, Oregon St 564 3.

Gyitlewis, Houston 562 Key fshpQn players Dettetfirvrpf, 6-9 forward 15.8 Pinta 22 rebounds, 4.3 assists. Called a cMTe Maqic Johnson by Oregon coacho6lteon and a German Larry Bird byiDickjsritale. Mem ber of the West team. Chris Welp, 7-0 cenf 13.8 points, 7.8 reboittds Member of the West German Olym-pic team. Paul Fortier, 6-9 forward 14.1 points, 5.9 rebounds Had season high 9 rebounds against UNR in NCAA Tournament last year.

UNR-WASHINGTON SERIES The teams have met once, with Washington taking a 64-54 victory in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in 1984. timers' candidate and an obscurity in a class that included such highly visible "television" names and faces as Roger Staubach, O.J.Simpson, Joe Namath and Commissioner Pete Rozelle. The election of the five was announced last Tuesday. By virtue of alphabetic precedence, Gatski was the first to speak at Saturday's festivities Namath couldn't attend because of a committment at the University of Alabama, his alma mater. And Gatski made the most of it.

A 62-year-old with a dry wit who teaches history and is athletic director at a school for troubled boys in his native West Virginia, Gatski drew an immediate chuckle from a room filled with fans and families of the four men. "Being first is quite an honor," he said. "Usually, a center is first only when he comes out of the huddle." A LAWSUIT FILED against Washington Redskins defensive end Dexter Man-ley by his former attorney over legal fees must be resolved by the NFL Players Association rather than in court, a judge has ruled in Fairfax, Va. Part of the lawsuit filed by James Kiles against Manley in November 1983 claims $18,080 in attorney's fees. In his ruling Friday, Fairfax County Circuit Judge Lewis H.

Griffith said that claim was one only the players union had a right to resolve. Wire service reports the U.S. because some amateurs have become professionals," Lavrov said. "But after 1984, some of our top boxers left boxing." But intact is the Soviets' big-guy corps that is led by heavyweight Aleksandr Yagubkin, the 1982 World Championships' 201-pound winner, and super heavyweight Valery Abadzhian, the 1981 World Cup champion. Yagubkin took a 1981 decision victory over 1984 Olympics super heavyweight gold medal winner Tyrell Biggs, and Abadzhian lost a close-decision to Biggs in 1982 and dropped a decision to three-time Olympic gold medal winner Teofilo Stevenson last year.

But neither James Pritchard of Louisville, who will faces Yagubkin, nor Nathaniel Fitch of Fort Bragg, who boxes Abadzhian, holds his opponent in awe. "I'm not going to let him come over here and take something that's mine," Pritchard said. "I've been here 23 years. This is mine. I look at him as a good fighter, but we can all go.

"I could stop him." Pritchard has a 22-3 record with 17 knockouts. Fitch, a U.S. Army sergeant and the captain of the U.S. team, has studied Abadzhian on film, and Fitch says, along with his coaches, he has devised to plan to beat the Soviet. "If I stick to the game plan, I shouldn't have any problem.

If I make a mistake and don't stick to my game plan, this guy could give me trouble. "I know automatically if I don't stop him or beat him badly I won't win the fight. He's the talk of the town. But if he wants something, he'll have to take it from me. I'll be right in his face, giving it to him." PUNCH LINES Abadzhian, a tireless worker in the gym, has a 183-15 record.

The handful of spectators who watched the Soviets work out had to marvel at the way Abadzhian ended his workout Friday. Lying face down on the canvas, Abadzhian had 178-pounder Vitaly Kachanovsky, wearing boxing shoes, walk on his back. The drill lasted a couple of minutes. At times, the Soviets have been billed in Reno as Russia, or the Russians. The chief of the Soviet mission, Alex Gorsky, complained privately to U.S.

Amateur Boxing Federation officials. Russia is only one of the nation's 15 union republics. NFL notebook five posters and is negotiating for a giant product endorsement contract with Muno said. "It doesn't fall in your face," the agent said. "Even a guy like Joe has to be marketed.

We have been fortunate to secure products we wanted to do. We have thrown out the magazine beefcake stuff and all the other crap. That's not Joe, and he's not interested. We want no fast bucks, but quality stuff with long-term contracts." Montana has earned more than $1 million in endorsements and personal appearance fees since the 1982 Super Bowl, but his performance in Super Bowl XIX elevated him to a whole new level of national name recognition and celebrity earning power. FOUR ELATED new members of Pro Football's Hall of Fame were formally introduced Saturday at a news conference that quickly became a game of one-liners centered around money with Frank Gatski, the least known of the quartet, stealing the show.

Gatski, a center for the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions between 1946 and 1957 who played in eight National Football League title games, was the old- U.S. vs. Soviets From page 1B Serik Nurzakov. But Walker isn't bashful about fighting a man, who was second in the 1983 World Cup and has a 7-3 record against U.S. boxers.

Walker, who has a 104-13 record, has never boxed against the U.S.S.R. "I don't think nothing of him. He's just a Russian, that's all. Walker said. "I don't think he's that much of an opponent.

He's awkward." But Nurzakov, who decisioned U.S. 132-pounder Victor Levine in 1983, has a 128-20 record, and a world-wide reputation. "Beating him it would make a name for me," Walker said. "That's what I'm looking forward to. I'm looking forward to beating the Russians good.

I think we will beat them (as a team)." The Soviets hold a 28-6-1 advantage in the team series that started in 1969. Boxing teams from the U.S. and U.S.S.R. haven't met in an Olympics since 1976 at Montreal, but the dual matches between the two nations have been held every year since 1969. Last year on their tour of the Soviet Union, the U.S.

boxers had a 1-1-1 record. After the bouts at Reno today, U.S. and Soviet teams will meet again at Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday. Because of the Soviets' lead in the series, 112-pounder Bernard Price of Muncie, who will face Lernik Papyan today, said an individual victory over a Soviet is noteworthy. "I've been wanting for this a long time," Price said.

"You get a lot of respect when you beat the Russians. People think you ve done it all. It's almost like winning a gold medal." Because of their experience, the Soviets are favored in the dual match, but Artem Lavrov, the Soviet national coach since 1981, is reluctant to take the favorite's role. "It's impossible to say one team is better. I think they are equal teams." The U.S.

team bears no resemblance to the 1984 Olympic Team. None of the 12 U.S. boxers todayfought in the Los Angeles Olympics, and only Levine has faced a Soviet boxer. But it comes extremely close to being the best team of amateur boxers that the U.S. can field.

Ten of the 12 boxers won 1984 U.S. Amateur titles. "I admit there are some difficulties for a with the St. Louis Cardinals for outfielder Jack Clark. In another deal, the Philadelphia Phillies are sending veteran first baseman Al Oliver to the Los Angeles Dodgers for right-hander Pat Zachry.

Clark will go to the Cardinals for first baseman-outfielder David Green, lefthander Dave LaPoint, first baseman Gary Rajsich and infielder Jose Gonzalez in the five-player swap. All the trades hinge on contingencies which are not expected to block their completion. In all likelihood, they will be announced within the next 72 hours. Clark's switch to Cardinals is all set except for a medical exam Monday. If he fiasses, the deal becomes official; if he ails, he stays with the Giants and the deal is off.

Clark underwent a knee operation last year and played in only 57 games, hitting .320 in 203 at-bats with 11 homers and 44 RBI. In St. Louis, the Globe-Democrat reported Dr. Gordon Campbell, a Giants' physician, said he does not think the results of the physical will keep the trade from completion. Campbell said he has been overseeing Clark's rehabilitation and has not observed any complications from the surgery.

Cardinals physician Dr. Stan London confirmed St. Louis is looking into Clark's health and said the results of the examination should be available sometime next week. wire service reports 139 Elvis Yero, U.S., vs. Vyacheslav Yanovsky 147 Daryl Lattimore, U.S., vs.

Israel Akopkohyan 156 Darin Allen, U.S., vs. Valery Laptev 165 Percy Harris, U.S., vs. Asylbek Kilimov 178 Loren Ross, U.S., vs. Vitaly Kachanovsky 201 James Pritchard, U.S., vs. Aleksandr Yagubkin 201 Nathaniel Fitch, U.S., vs.

Valery Abadzhian rrMMV3. SAN FRANCISCO Just call him Golden Joe Montana, the man whose name is worth a mint. The San Francisco 49ers quarterback powered his team to a 38-16 Super Bowl aIX victory over the Miami Dolphins and walked away with the most valuable player award two facts that could mean millions of dollars for him in endorsements and appearances. "I've been negotiating all day on two big deals," said Larry Muno, Montana's Los Angeles-base agent. "One is for a beverage deal, the other I can't talk about yet.

Both are in six figures." Not that Montana's salary really needs any supplementing. Last year, the 28-year-old quarterback signed a six-year, $6.9 million contract with the 49ers, including $120,000 in incentive pay and another $250,000 for each Super Bowl appearance. But in a sport where even a superstar's career can be over in one painful play, the philosophy is: get it while you can. "Eighty-four was good for us," Muno said. "We did new deals with the Concorde watch people, signed for an Atari deal, a new contract with Schick and a Lake Tahoe time-share condo endorsement." Montana signed a shoe endorsement contract with Mizuno earlier this month worth $1 million over the next three years.

He also is an "adviser" to the Wilson Sporting Goods has signed a deal for 7 Lane Ivarten Gaiette-Joumul )ual meets last 4 years) 3 1984 Soviets 8, U.S. U.S. 6, Soviets Soviets 3, U.S. 3. 1983 U.S.

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4 1981 Soviets 10, U.S. Soviets 10, U.S. 3- The Soviets won the first dual meet in 1969 at Las Vegas, defeating the Americans 6-5. r. a i i mWmVrf'Tvr nm.mmiw" GYM WORK: Loren Ross jumps rope as Eugene Speed last week at the' Eldorado Hotel and Casino in Reno.

The hits the punching bag during a U.S. boxing team workout U.S. will meet the Soviets today in a dual meet. Today's lineup U.S. vs.

Soviets 106 James Harris, U.S., vs. Karimzhan Abdrakhmanov. 112 Bernard Price, U.S., vs. Lernik Papyan 119 Eugene Speed, U.S., vs. Vyacheslav Shulepko 125 Lyndon Walker, U.S., vs.

Serik Nurkazov 132 Victor Levine, U.S., vs. Nurlan Abdykalykov.